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      GOD HELP THE POOR . God help tie poor , who on this wintry mom Come forth of alleys dim , and courts ooseore I Sod help yon poor , pale girl , who droops forlorn , ind meeklyier affliction doth endure j God help tfes outcast lamb ! she trembling stands , " JUI "WEi her lips , and frezsn iei her hands ; Ha snaken Byes are modestlydowacast ; - Bar night-black hair sire&nia on toe fitful blast ; Her bosom , passi ng fair , la half reveai'd ; And , O ! so cold , the snow lies there congeal'd ; Her feet benmnb'd , her shoes all tent and worn : God help thee , outcast lamb , who stand ' st fsrlorn 1 Gad help the poor !

      God help the poor ! An infant * feeble - wail Comes from yon narrow gateway ; sad , behold , A . female crouching there , bo deathly pale , HoddliBg her ciuld , to screen it &oia the cold ! Hex feature scant , her bonnet eraah'd and torn ; A this shawl doth hex baby dear enfold : And there she bides ; he isthless gale of morn , Which almost to her heart hath sent its cold J And now she sudden darts a ravening look , JLb one withufcw hot bread cornea past the nook I And , as the tempting load is onward borne , Shs -weeps- God help thee , iiaplesj one forlorn I God help the pooT j

      God help the poor J Behold yon funish'd lad ; 2 f o shoes , noihose his wounded feet protect ; ' With limping gait , and looks so dreamy aad , ¦ He wanders en ward , stepping to inspect Each window BtorM ^ with articles of food . He yearns iut to enjoy one cheering meal j O ! to his hungry palate , vianda rude Would yield a zest the famish'd only feel ! He now devours a crast of mouldy bread ; "With teeth and hands the precions "boon is torn , Unmindful of the storm which round his head Impetuous sweeps . God help thee , child forlorn God help the poor l

      God help the poor ! Another have I found , A boWdamTTenerable man is he ; Sis alozzebed list with fsded crape is bound ; Hi » coal is grey ,, and threadbare , too , I see j - " The rafie 'Binds" seem ts " xnoek ids hoary hair "; His Bhirttets boeom to the blast is bare . Anon £ e tarns , and e * Bt « wistful eye , And with Kant napkin wipes the blinding spray ; And loeks again , as if he fain would spy Friends he hatb feasted in his better day : Ah ! some are dead , and some have long forborne To know the poor ; and he is left forlorn i God help the poor J

      Gad help the poor , who in lone valleys dwell , Or by fax hills , where whin and heather grow > Theirs is a story ssd , indeed , to tellj Yet little cares the world , and less 'twould know , About the toil and want they undergo . The wearying loom must Save them up at morn ,-They work till wom-ont nature will hsve * l eep ; They taste , but are not fed . The snow drifts deep Around the fireless cot , and blocks the door ; The night-storm howls a airge Across the moor . And . shall they perish thus , oppress ed snS lorn ? Shall toil ftnrt fMnina hopeltSB Mill ba horn * ? 2 ffl J God irill yet ante , a ^ d help the roos . l SAUCE ! BiiiPOfiD

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      WHAT ABB BEPEATERS ? " Ti ^ al * what are Repealers ?"—ilT So * AlB— ¦ " Tipperory , OP * Kiiuoss whoTe given their gage , my boy , Biercs war with oppression to wage , my boy TiH Erin-once more Shall * T » vnft as of yore , The land of tilt htto and sage , my boy ) Tke Isnd was all Europe ' s pride , my boy , Its glory and fame were wide , my boy ; And Roman and Dane , Wio cfiary tiie chain , Bj tlVB XWOld Of its heroes < Ji& 4 , my boy . '

      Her chiefs wsx'd faithless and prond , my boy . And discord ' s hoarfe voice grew lond , my bay ; And , record of shame , The Kzsnger then came , And liberty laid in her shroud , my boy I That land red rapine lsng swept , my boy , And mercy and truth long sltpS , my boy ; O J could yon bat know Such tyrants—such woe , Touryonnij eyes wiiii mine had "wept , my boy Hat in the despots' despite , my boy , The millions arise in Hieir Blight , my boy ; And swfar by the tears , And blood of past years , To trrftst from that despot their right , my boy J

      They are banded , and firm , and true , my hoy , Besolved to die or to do , ujv boy ; The young and thWald In the cause are enroll'd , A-ni IVe sworn -you one of t ^ em , too , my boy ! Ere thi » tow be unsafe in thy keeping , boy ,. 3 tlay your father bemoan year sleeping , boy , "Where green willows wave Above jonr yoszz czave , Aud none to console his weeping , my boy 2 NaiioTi

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      I * For " Papa" read F-Mhek . Surely the Editor of fise Nation wts in a £ t of tfce " befeadasical" when he pat ssch -a mDfcsop "word into the menth of his poetic " Young Hannibal" Q

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      A POPULAR HISTORY OF FRIE 3 TCRAFT , abridged from Wilium Howitt's work- London ; C 3 eave Shoe-lane , Fleet-street . This 13 a new eclt < in of & work which has been some rears before tbe pnb 3 ic s and which to our certain ktowlecge has been prodncdve of no small amount of good In laying bare the enormities of priestly domination and ccrrnption ; and awakening thetoolonx blinded masses to the real nature of a 41 craft" whish lor ages upon aijes has been employed and perpetuated to ieep mankind in ignorznes and BlaTery .

      As is expressed in lie title page , this work is an abridgeiEeEt of the fs ^ ed to Hittory ofPriescmft " imtten by WiLnim Howiti , a tame whicb , when the historj of ihe pre ? eni times = hal 3 come to be ivritten , must shine conspicuous on the hiEtoric page , as that of one of ihe eniixhieiiers and benefactors of the human race . Bet theagh an abriagemem , the pal > - Ifeaiion before us contains the plih and Epllii of tlie larger Trork of WiUaia Howiit , -ffMcii from the comparatively high price at which it was necessarily pnbliEhed Tras placed bejpnd the reach of the working clases . Ail who can a&rd to pnrchase the larger and complete Trork wil : of coarse do so i but those who cannot , wiB find an ttis abridgement an excellent substitute . The followiag extracts will tell a tbousasd-fold rcore in favour of the work laan anything -we ccuid j .-eru

      PAGA ^ f raiESTCRl&T . " When we TrCoEeet over Trbat an immense extent of ccuncry , and throndi what a number of ages , idolatry extended itself , -what a terrible sun of miseries must we E = e to have beec iLflicttd on our race , by the diabolical Zisl asd cupidity of priestcraft J From the temple of Bufifih arid Jacstmaih in India , to the stony crcles of DruidiEm in Earope ; Irum the SDowy wastes of Siberia and Scandica ,-Fia in tbe north , to tile most BOnthern lands in Africa and America , tbe fires of Moody deities have Jtjoieed the dtmoniac priest * , and eonsnmedthe people . *

      " The Bnbridled sensuality of the pssan worship added greatly to its attractions and power of mischief . The Assyrian Baal was made the scape-goat of the Benscality of the pTitsts , who , uBder the pretext of providing a Bacrifise of btauiy to the deity , selected the most loTely women > i tfce nation for themselves ; a species of detestable deception vfcich seems to have been carried on to an enc ricous exteas in ancient times , as the Grecian stories t 6 = tny . When tbe AE ? yrian was melted in the BabyU . iKan enjplre , ibe srgies of the . temple of lljiittaj tfce Babylonian Tarns , were in-¦ i&motis a » K > ve all others . Ettry woman was bound to present btrself before tbe ttajple occe in her lifg ; and th tifc Eutiait to jrostitution with whoever first chose her . The price of her fchame was paid into the trtes Try , to swell the revenues of the priests . "

      " 11 we turn to Europe , we shall find that whatever was the" . lame , the language , or the government of the different countries , the religion -iras eascctialiy the aine . Ti ^ ere was , first , an order of priests ; secondly sn order t" * mfiitary uoDlej ; third'y , a mbjogited muliitnaei snd institutiens , the spirit of which , is ttat of » l-. Tpr- / iag the lower orders from all place and authority , , anu \ systematically dooming them to an u&al ? terablelitaie of i ' errile depression . " " Tbe priests o / tenunited the Eacerdctal and sovereign power in their own" persons j and where this was not the case , they «•*¦* tised a power superior to that of kings . They iiflicte ^ & **>* & * & penalties , exacted Abe . meet abject snbmissio . ' * . * nd as tbe pretended interpreters ofr the divine w , ^ ^*» d wren to demand , in the name of heaven , the I ' Sood of ilnAs . TbUtheyob '

      temed . " ^ ; " Thegreat and long-hidL ^ i continent of America tii , wheBjoiBCorrered ,- found V > have been subjected to ftp ayn < ft fmp ? r ^ titiorfj the bl ^ bc dominant spirit of priesthood , and the same terrible ^ sterns of worsbip . " « Of their bloody sacrifices the" SpaJBish "writer * are ; fulL Fear i » described to have r « en the soul of the ' Mexican * worehfp . They never appri' * &ehed their altars without Mood , drawn from their own Jbodies . Of all thai oferiDgi , xnr - they wers zmmeron ^ human esc i rifipop were deemed to be the isoet acceptable . Every ] captive taken in war was sacrificed , with horrid : cruelties , a * the temple- the head and heart bdog tfe- / voted to the gods , and the body Bpprbpriatdd to the Tank * by -wtwia . the csptiTe hii be « ii taken ,, to f « rtj

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      himself and his friends . Tbe prevalence of these horrid rites counteracted all the hnms ^ izing arid softening effects of all their social institutions , and their progress in the « rts . Their manneia became more ferocious as they advanced , until the barbarity of their actions greatly exceeded those of the savage state . " " The priest-ridden condition of Egypt 1 b known to ill readers of history . Lord Shafte&bnry calls it , * the motherland of superstition * . * So completely had thB priesthood here contrived to fix themselves on the shoulders of the people , so completely to debase and stupify them with an abundance of foolish veneration , that t&e couBtry swarmed with temples , gods , and creatures , which in themselves most noxious or loathsome , were objects of adoration . "

      " Thepopular theology of Greece , though it had tbe same origin as other mythologies , assumed , by passing through tbe glorious minds of Hesiod and Homer , all those characters of grace and beauty which they conferred on their literature , their philosophy , and all the arts and embellishments of life . " But beanttful as tbe system was made to appear by the embellishmcnta of their immortal poets , the Grecians celebrated the same mysteries , offered the same human sacrifices , and were contaminated by the same Phallic abominations , as all tbe other pagan nations . "

      " In India , priestcraft assumed its most determined and fearlrss air . In other lands , it placed Itself in tbe first rank of horror and jjowej . In this it went a * fcep farther . Its chains appear to be indissolubly rivetted on the mind ol this mighty empire . The perfection of its craft and the selfishness of its Bpirit nre exhibited in millions on millions bound in chains of the uu : st slavish and soul-quelling castes , and tke servility of a subtile religious creed . India has its triad of gods , its doctrine of metempsychosis , its pnetice of Ibe Phallic licentiousness , its horrors of human sacrifice and

      selfimmolation . We need not specify the bloody rites of Jaggemath , the b&rbarons bnixing of widows , or tbe unnatural immolation of children . Throughout continental India , we have ap example ct prietscraft in iU most decided , undisguised , subtle , and triumphant character , at once in full Sower and fall fruit ; in that Etote at which it has always and everywhere aimed , but never attained elsewhere . It has here stamped itself on the heart-of a great nation , in its broadest aud most imperishable style ; in all its avowed despotism , its seiflihcess , imperturbable pride , and cool arrogance of fanatical power . "

      "The avarice of the sacerdotal tribe in India kept pace with the same passion in the priesthood of otber parts of the world . Immense quantities of wealth were made to flow into thsir coffers . Their pagodas were adorned with the richest metals ; the altars and sacred vessels of the temples were of massy gold ; and their statues , numerous and large , were made of the same material ; or that next to it in value , silver . " " Mr . Orme ( in his History of Hindostan ) -tells us : — that the Brahmins slumbered in the most luxurious repose in their splendid pagodas , where the numbers accommodated were astonishing ; that pilgrims came from ail par ts of the Peninsula to worship at that of Seringham , but none without an offering of money ; that a large part of the revenue of the island is allotted for the maintenance of the Brahmins who inhabit it ; and that these , with theii families , formerly composed a ¦ mul titude , not leBs in number than forty thoueaiid souls , Enpportfed ¦ without labour , by the liberaiuy of superstition .

      *• Having thns Ee : 23 d the reins ot unlimited power , the Priests had enly to command and niake an empire of slaves . And such was their course . Tiie Brahmin wielded boih tbe empire and thB monarch . He stood in the p ; ace of deity ; the will of heaven was thought to iesna b om his lips , and his decision was reverenced as the flat of deEtiny . In fact , the Indian Government is justly considered as a theecracy—a theocracy the more terrible , because the name of God was perverted to sanction and support the most dreadful species of despotism—a despotism which , not content with sur-jugating the body , tyrannised over tbe prostrate facultibs of the enslaved mind . " A snort chapter on " The Jewish Priesthood " follows , and men , under the head of * ' Tbe Poposb Priesthood , " is given a capital unmasking of

      CHKISTlATf PKlKSTCfiATT . from which we can only fine room lor the following extracts : — " Having thus prostrated the human mind , they lorded it over the people with insolent impunity . The Bann was adopted , &nd its terrors becuxe felt throughout Christendom . Was a king refractory—did he refuse the pontincial demand of money—bad he an opinioa of his owa—a repugnance to comply with papal influence in his affairs ? The thunders of the Tatican were launched against him ; biB kingdom was laid under the bann ; all people were forbidden , on pain of eternal damnation , to trs ^ e with his safcjects ; all churches were shot ; the natien was on a sudden deprived of all exterior exercises of its religion ; the altirs were despoiled of their GrEEme-iU ; tbe crosses , the

      reliqnes , the imeges , seu the nslnes of the saints were laid on the ground ; and , s& if the air itself might pollute them by its contact , the priestB caief ally covered them up , even from their own-approach and vtnerution . The use of bells entirely ceased in the churches ; the bells thuDselvea were rtmortd horn tfce steeples , saa laid on tie srotrnd , with tfce ether sacrcJ ntensiis . MaFs was celebrated with shut dcors . and none fcnt tht prlbStB 'Sere admitted to the Loly institution . The clergy rtfuifed to nijsrry , bapl r =, or bnry ; the dtad were c ^ st into ditches , or lay pu ' -ref > in £ on the ground ; till tbe superstitio'cs people , looking on thtir children who died withont baptism , as g < ne to perdition , and those dead withont Christian feurial , as seized on by the devil , lose in rebellions fury , and obliged the princs to submit and humble hioucif before the proud pritst of Rome . "

      " But the most potent and frichtfnl engine of the papacy , was the Inquisition . Its history is one of the most awful horror that can affright tbe human socL Its holy tffice—itecfficeBof mercy , ssthpy were called in that spirit of devilidi abuse cf Christianity in which they were conceived , were ppeedily to be found in various countries of Europe , Asia , and America , but diBtingaished most fearfully ia S ^ id ; Tceir horrors havb bdfcn made familiar to the publift mind by the writer * Of romance , especially by Mrs . Batciiffe ; but all the powers of romance have not beea able to overcame the reality . Spain has always gloried in tbe supremacy of her iniguisitJon . She has strenuously contended with the Pope fer iV ; and has deemed it bo great an honour , as to parade the auto-da-Je , as one of the most fascinating sptctaeles . Her kings , her queens , ht-r princes ,

      sad her Eoblea , have assembled w : th enthusiasm to witness them . So great a treat did tbe Spaniards formerly consider them , that Llorente states , that on February 25 ± , 2550 , oce was celebrated by the inquisitors of Toledo , in which several pers&ns were burnt with some tEffiges , and a great number subjected to penances ; and this wes performed to en ' . er t -in the new queen Elitibeth , daughter of Henry II . of France , a girl of thirteen years of age , Rceu » tom « d in her own country to brilliant festivals raited « o her rank and age . ' So completely may priestcraft biat&lfz * £ ¦ nation , and so completely has this devilish in ^ titutien stamped the Spanish character , naturally ardent and chivalric , with gloomy horror , ttas bota 111 create and Iiimborch ro > present ladies witnessing the agonizng toitares of men and women expiring in flames , with transports of delight "

      " We have not Fpace to detail the Btroaties committed by this odioas institution , iimborca hts given the following vivid summary of its operations : —• In countries where tbs irqaisition has existed , ' . the bare idea of its progress dumped the most ardent- mind . Formidable and frf-oeioue as tbe rap 3 < sions tiger , who from the gloomy tbieket surveys his unsuspecting prey , until the favoured moment arrives in which he KJ » y plunge forward and eonsuHiiaate it 3 dcstiuetion , the inquisition meditatss in secretar-J : d silence its horriBe projects . In tbedeepeat seclusion tbe cslnmniaJorpropoDnds hia charge ; with arxions vigilance tlie cieatuieB of its power regard its uahappy victim . Not a whisper is

      heard , cr the least hint of insecurity given , until at the dead of night s imud of savage monsters surround the dwelling- They demand an entrance . Upon tbe Jnqciry , by whom is that required ? tbe answer is the ' holy office . In an instant ail the ties of nature appc-ar as if dissolved ; and either through the complete dominion of superstition , or the conviction tbat resistance would be vain , the master , parent , huBband , is resigned . From the bosom of his family , and beieft of all domestic comforts , he enters the inquisition honse ; its ponderous doors are closed , and hoped excludedperhaps for ever . Immured in a noisome vault , surrounded by impenetrable v . alla , he is left alone ; a prey to all the sad rtflec-. ioc 3 of a miserable outcast . If be

      venture to iEQT ? ire the reason of bis fate , he ifi told , that silence and secresy sie here inviolable . " * ' Lst ever ? mm who beiitatta to set b * iB hand to tba destruction of state lelvgir-BB , lcri on this picture of nil enormities that can disgrace our nature , and rtflect that such is the inevitable tendency of ail priestcraft . Is it said we see nothing so bad dow . ' And tshy ? Because man has got the upper hund of bis tyrant , and keeps him in awe—not because the nature of priestcref t is altered and yet , let ns torn hnt our eyes to Catholic countries , Spain , Portugal , Italy , and the scene is lamentable ; and even in our o . n country , where fre 8 institutions check presumption , and the press terrifies many a monster from the light of day—we behold things which make our heaito throb with indignation . "

      The " Second Part , " and by far the larger portion of tEe work is taken np with an exposure of toe * English Church" and the " Church of Ireland . " This most important portion is far too lengthy for tis to dip into ; T ? e musi , iefer t&e reader to . the work itself , promisiDg Mm that he will . find each revelations therein a * trill exhibit in its fMt W character of the 6 elf-sty 2 ed " Poor Jlan ' srChurca (!) We may observe , that » t ibe commencement the writer denoonoes all priests . leeaute they are vriciis : whereas at lie close he appears to denounce with the state

      | priests only when they are connected . Tons this appears inconsistent . Waving all qnestioEs as to ftetrntlis of particular creeds ,, we proclaim it as our convic&in that any body of men Bet apart for the offices of a priesthood , -whether paid by the state or by the TOluntary offiscw « B-of «»« "flocks" ( fit Tictims for shiarers . \ is a ^ , evil —a enree . K men conTinced of tfcfl truth of their respective creeds would pay their adoration as each tbtugbt proper , each / or himself , not interfering with his neighbour , it vroold be well : but sulow pf the existence of a priesthood , no m&tter wnttoer

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      voluntary or state paid , and yon have ihe cockatrice ' s egg , which , in due season will produce its terribJe brood of giant crimes against humanity . All priests must have been originally supported by ihe voluntary contributions of their dupes ; and mail ' s history tells the hideous result . The author appears too to be greatly in love wiih " American Christianity" where ; the " voluntary By stem" flourishes J but , what ia the truth % Why that there is wore priestcraft in the United States ; that is , that the priests of the several sects have a greater influence over the minds . of their followers than even ia this country . Even in that land of " civil and religious liberty , " there have been " prosecutions for

      blasphemy" ! And it ia a well known fact that no priests are more venal than those of the States , prostitntiug their powera of mind , and the oii ^ hly influence they wield through their " crift" to the upholding of that accursed system of slavery , by which the American , atmosphere is poisoned , and her boasted liberty rendered a cruel and disgusting mockery in tho eyes of all rational men and true democrats . That " American churches" are "the bulwarks of American slavery" is " as notorious as the sun at noon-day . " What do we infer from this ! That priestcraft is now what it was in the days of Socrates : and that to destroy

      the power of 1 the priest you must annihilate his " craft . " Still , despite these objections we can most cordially recopEcnd this work as an excellent one for young beginners . " Having read it , the reader will be nearly sure to ask as we have done , when closing tho volume : " how is it that the priests of all ages have been enabled to acquire and maintain iheir terribly-used power ? " Such question can only be solved by inquiring into the systems of belief which under so many names they have expounded . If the reader gets so far , there is no fear but that he will " progress , " until be understands fully " the History of Priestcraft" with all its frauds and falsehoods , horrors and crimes .

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      PROGRESS OF SOCIAL REFORM ON THE CONTINENT—NO . 11 . GERMANY ASD SWITZERLAND . fThe following ext racts are from a continuntion of this interesting snbj ^ cfc , in the New Moral World of Nov . 18 th , 1843 3

      iVTHER A . VD THE MUNSIER ANABAPTISTS . Germany bad her Socia ! Reformers as early as the Reformation . Soon after Luther had begun to proclaim church reform and to agitato the people against spiritual authority , ihe peasantry of Southern and Middle Germany rose in a general insu « eoticn against their temporal lords , inther always stated his object to be to return to original Christianity In doctrine and practice ; tbe peasantry touk exactly the same standing , and demanded , therefore , not only the ecclesiastical , but a ! so the social practice of primitive Christianity . They conceived a state ; of villainy ami servitude , such a « they lived under , to be inconsistent with the doctrines of the Bible . They were oppressed by a set of haughty barons and earls ; robbed aod treated like taeir cattle

      every day . They bad no law to protect them , end if they had they found nobody to enforce it Such a atate contrasted very much vmh the communities of early Christians , and the doctrires of Christ as laid down in the Bible . Therefore tht ? Atuse and began a war against their lords , which could only he a war ofexter . mination . Thomas Mur . zer , a prtacher , whom they placed at their head , issued a proclamation , fuJl , of course , of the religious and superstitious nonsense of tbe age ; bnt containing also among others , principles like these : That according to tbe Bible , no Christian is entitled te hold any property ¦ whatever exclusively for himself ; tba ; community of proptrty In the only proper etate for a society of chriatiaas ; that it is not allowed to any good cbriBtian , to bave authority or

      comtnana over other Christians , nor to bold any tffice of Government or hereditary power , bat on the contrary that , as all men are equal before God , bo they ought to be on enrth also . These doctrinrs -were nothing bu , conclusions drawn from tbe Bible and from Luther's own writings ; hst the Reformer was not prepared to go as fsr * 8 the people did . Notwithstanding the courage he displayed a ^ Rinst the Bpirirual authorities , he had not freed himself from tbe political and ECCial prejudices of Ma age . He believed as firmly ill the right divine of princes and landlords , to trample upon the people , as be dirt in the Bible . Besides this , he wanted the protection of the aristocracy and tbe

      protestent pnnces ; and thns he wrote a tract against the rioters , disclaiming not only every connectien with them , but al « o extorting the aristocracy to put them down with the utmost severity , as rebels against the Inws of God . " K » ll rbt-m lifee do ^ s I" he txclaimed . Tee whole tract is written with Bnch an animosity , nay , fury and fanaticism agninut the people . tb » t it will aver fonu ablstupon Luther ' s character ; it bliewa that , if he began his career as a man of the people , he was now c-ntirely iu tbe service of their oppressors . The insurrection , after a most bloody civil war , was suppressed , ai . d the peasants reduced to their former servitude .

      MODERN COMMUMSTS . —WEITLING . It was among the working class of Germany that Social Reform has been of iate made again a topic of discussion . Germany having comparatively little manufacturing industry , the mass of the work ins classes is made up by handicraftsmen , who previous to their establishing themselves as little masters , travel for s me years over Germany , Switzerland , and very often over France alfa A great number of German wortmtn is tons continually going to ami from Paris , and must ot course , there become acquainted with the political and social movements of tbe French worth , g classes . One ot these men , William WeitHng , a nativo of > l 3 dgeburg in Prussia , and a simple journeymen tailor , resolved to establish communities in hiB own conn try .

      Tuib man , who Is to be considered as tbe rounder of German Communism , « fter a faw years' stay in Paris , went to Switzsrlanti ; and , whilst be was working in some tailor ' s shop in Geneva , preached bis new gospel to his fellow-workmen . He formed Communist Associations in all the to ^ ns and cities on tbe Swiss side of the lake of Gtneva , most t > f the Germans who worked there becoming favourable to bis viowa . Having thus prepared a public miud , he issued a periodical , tbv « Youno Gentralion , for a more extensive agitation of tbe country . Tiiis paper , although written for working ir . uu only , and by a working man , has from its beginning been superior to most of the French C «

      uimuaiet publications , oven to Father Cabefa Poj-vlaire It fiilOWB that iU editor UlUSt hav ^ wo * k «* i very hara , to obtain tnat knowiedge of history and politics , which a public writer cannot do without and which a ntglected education had left him deprived of . It shows , at ths same time , that Weitling was always struggling to unite his various Ideas and thoughts on Foc ' wly into a complete system of Coinrcunism . The Young Generalion was first published in 1841 ; in the following year Weitlinjj published a work : Guarantees of Harmony and Liberty , in which he gave a review of the old social system and the outlines of a new one . I shall , peTbaps , some time give a few extracts from this tKOk .

      Kavin ? tbtis established the nucleus of a Communist party in Geneva and its neighbourhood , he went to Zurich , where , as in other towns of Northern Switzerland , some of his friends bad already commenced to operatsttpon tb-s minds of tbe working men . He now began to orgai ^ zs his party in these towns- TJiiiier tbe name of &icgir . g Clubs , associations weie formed for the discussion of Social re-orgaaizatiou . At the same time Weitlint ; advertised his in ' -en'Jon to publish a book , — The Gospel of the Poor Sinners . But here the police inteifcred with toe proceedings .

      ARREST OF WEITLING—PERSECUTION AND PROGRESS . In Jane last , Weitling was taken into custody , his papers and his book were seizad , before it left the press . Tiie Executive of the Republic appointed a committee to investigate the matter , and to report to the Grand CouDcil , the representatives of the people . This report has been printed a few months since . It appears fnom it , that a great many Communist associations existed in tvery part of Switzerland , consisting mostly of Gernvm working men ; tnat Weittfug was considered as the leader of the party , and received from time to time reports of progress ; that he was in correspondence with similar associations of 'Germans in Paris and London ; and that all these societies , being composed of men who very ofttn changed their residence , were so many seminaries of " dangerous and Utopian doctrines . "

      Bending eut tattir clrter members to Germany , Hungaria , and Italy , aud imbuing -with their spirit every workman who came within their reacb . The report ¦ wis drawn up by Dr . B ' . untscfcli , a man of aristociatio and fanatically Christian opinions ; and the whole of it therefore is written more like a party denunciation , than like a calm , official report . C-nnmunism is denounced as a doctrine dangerous in the extreme , subversive of all existing order , and destroying ail the sactfcd bonds of society . The pious doctor besides , is at 5 lo&s for words sufficiently strong to express his feelings as to the frivolous blasphemy with which these infamous and ignorant people try to justify their wiclrod ma revolutionary doctrine * , by passages from the Holy scriptures . Weitling and his potty are , in this respect , jost like the Icarians in France , and contend tbat Christianity la Communism .

      The result of Weitling ' s trial did very little to satisfy the anticipations ef the Zurich Government . Although Weitling and his friends were sometimes very incautious in their expressions , yet the charge of high treason and Conspiracy against him could not be maistained ; the criminal eourt sentenced him te six months' imprisonment , and eternal banishment from Switzerland ; the R ! embers of the Zurich associations were expelled the Canton ; tbe report was communicated to the Governments of the otb&r Cantons and to the foreign ambaaaies ; but the Communists la other parts of Swit *

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      setland were very little interfered with . The prosecution came too late , and was too little assisted by the other Cantons ; it did nothing at all for iba destruction of Communism , and was even favourable to it , by the great interest it produced in alt countries of the German , tongue . Communism was almost unknown in Germany , but became by this an oMecc of general attention , * * PHILOSOPHlCAt COMMUNISM . Besides this party thtre exista another in Germany , which advooates Communism . The form&r , being thoroughly a popular tarty ,: will no doubt very soon unite all the working classes of Gsrmnny . The party w&icn I now iefe * to , is a phUosophica ' l one , unconnected iu Ita origin with either French or English Communists , and arising from that philosophy which , for tho la » t Hf « y years , Germany has beefl so proud of .

      THE HEGELIANS . The political revolution of France was accompanied by a philosophical revolution in Germany . Kant began it by overthrowing the system ofLsibnitzian metaphysics , which at the end of last century was introduced in all Universities of the Continent . Fichte and Schelling commenced rebuilding , and Hegel completed the new system . * * The Young Hegelians of 1842 , were declared Atheists and Republicans ; the periodical of the party , the u German Annals , " was moro radical and open than before ; a political paper was established , and very soon the whole of the Geiman liberal press was entirely in our hands . We had friends in almost every considerable town of Germany ; we provided all the liberal papers with the necessary matter , and by this raeaus made them our organs ; we inundated the country with pamphlets , and soon governed public opinion upon every question . A temporary relaxation of the censorship of the press

      added a great deal to the energy of the movement , quite novel to a considerable part of the German public . Papers , published under the authorization of a government censor , contained things which , even in France , would have been punished as high treason ; and other things which could not have been pronounced in England , without a trial for blasphemy being the consequence of it The movement was so Budden , so rapid , so energetically pursued , tbat tbe govenuaent as well as the public were dragged along with it for some time . Bub , this violent character ot tbe agitation proved that it was not founded upon a strong patty among tho public , and that its power was produced by the surprise and con&tetmtion only of its opponents ; The governments , recovering theli senses , put a stop to it l > y a most despotic oppression of tbe liberty of speech . : Pamphlets , newspapers , periodicals , scientific works were suppressed by diEins , and ( he agitated state of the country soon subsided .

      THE COMMUNISTS . The princes and ruk > rs of Germany , at tbe very moment when they believed to have put down for ever , Republicanism , saw the rise of Cu . 'mnuniiia from the ashes of political agitation ; and this new doctrine appears . to them even moro dangerous and formidable thun that in whose apparent destruction they rejoiced .: Ab early as autumn 1842 , some of the party contended for the insufficiency of political change , and declared" their opinion to be , that a Social revolution based upon common property , was tho only atate of manSina agreeing with their abstract principle * . But even tbe leaders of the party , such as Dr . Bruno Bautir , Dr . Feuerbach , and Dr . Ruge , were nci then prepared for this ducided step . The political paper of the party , tbe Rhenish Gazette , published some pap ' . M

      advocating Communism , but without tbe wished-for effect . CainmuriiBtn , hewever , was such a necessary cousequenoe of New Hegelian philosophy , that no opposition could keep it down ; and , ia the course of this present year , the originators of it had the satisfaction of seeing one republican after the other join their ranks . Besides Dr H « bs , one of the editors of the now suppressed Rhenish Gazette , and who was , in fact , the first Communist of the party , there are now a ( treat many others ; as Dr . Ruge , editor of Geiman Annuls , tbe scientific periodical of the Young H < . yenana , which has been suppressed by resolution of the German Diet ; Dr . Marx , another of tbe editors of the Rhenish Ga-*; Ue ; George Herwegfa , the poet , whose letter to the King oM > rn 83 ia was translated , last winter , by most of tbe English papers , and others : unu we hope that the remainder of the Republican party will , by-and-by , come over too .

      CHARACTER OF IHE GERMANS . The Germans are a , very disinterested nation . If in Germany principle coicee into collision with interest , principle will almost always silence the claims of interest The same love of abstract pr i nciple , the same disregard of reality and self-interest , whicbhave brought tbe Germans to a state of political nonentity ; these very same qualities guarantee tbe success of pnHosophictl Caicmunism in tbat country . It will appear very singular to Englishmen , that a party which aims at the destruction of private property , is cbiefly mmin up by those who have property ; and yet this is the case iu Germany .

      PROGRESS OF COMMUMSM . Thus , philosophical Communism miy b considered for ever established in Germany , notwithstanding the efforts of the governments to keep it down . They have annihilated tbe press in their dominions , but to no effect ; the progress patty profit by toe free press of Swifz ^ tlaud and France , and to « ii publications avu as extensively circulated in Germany , m if they were printed in tbat country itself . All persecutions and prohibitions have proved ineffectual , and will ever do so ; the Germans are a philosophical nation , aud will not , canfiot abandon Communism ,, as soon as it is founded npon souud philosophical principle *; i ; li !> 0 / if it is deprived as an unavoidable conclusion from their own philosophy .

      Notwithstanding the persecutions of the G ° rrnan governments ( I understand tbat , in Berlin , Mr Jgar Bauer is prosecuted for a Communist publcatiou ; and in Suttgart another gentleman has been committed for the novel crime of " Communist correspondence !") notwithstanding this , I say , every necessary step is taken to bring about a successful agitation for Social Reform ; to establish a new ptniodic&l ; and to secure too circulation of all publications advocating Communism .

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      j Wuriuin . —In the northern circuits a virulent and fatal disease exists among the cattle . One farmer has lost nineteen milch cows and a fine bull . The disease is iniituniation of the ( heart , of which the cattle die within eight hours after they are attacked . The crimes of horse and sheep stealing have been Considerably on the increase lately In Sussex , and several farmers tuve been great sufferers . Chinese Language ij » France—With a prompt wisdom aud taady foresight a royal ordonnaaco has been issued in France , establishing a professorship of tke Chinese language in fche school of the living oriental tongues , and appointing M . Bezia to the ofeait . Surely tbe study of the Chinese ought to ba sedulously pursued in England . Young men intended for mercantile pursuits would do well to think of it .

      Knitting AND ShirtIng— It is in contemplation to establish societies for the distribution of prizes to farmers' wives and daughters , for proficiency in shirfc making and atockingj knitting , and otiiut accomplishments more useful tliau pr ' z ^ d in those degenerate days . j Horse Ma . ncrb .- ^ M > . Whitley , a writer on the application of geology ( to agriculture , states that a carcase of a horse is equal to at leas ? ten times its weight of farm yard manure , ! and would prove much more valuable to the farmer , if converted into a composi , than if &aid for t&e kennel . Ratapia—derived from res raki fiat . let toe matter be ratified . When the ancients concluded a bargain , they were in the habit of opening the best wine in the cellar , and as they quaffdd the nectar , of pronouncing the words ; the last two of which , with a tr'fltrjg change , are now used to designate a iiqueuro composed of brandy , sugar , and fruits .

      Lead Mine . — -A valuable lead mine has lately been discovered on the estate of Mr . Cole Hamilton , couniy Tyrone . We bave seeii a specimen of the ore , which is the sulnhuretof lead , atid may produce , peril ; . ; 8 , Seventy per cent of the pure metal . This is much a ? ove the usual overage , andj we hope tbat it may prove a mine of wealth to tke country as well as to the possessor . — Dublin Literary Journal ,. MOTHERS . —How little do wo appreciate a mother ' s tenderness while living ! How heedless are we iu Childhood of all her anxietiea and k-ndneas . But when sho is dead and gone ; j wher . the cares and coltiness of the world come withering on our hearts ; watm we team how hard it is to find tiue sympathy , how few love us for ourselves ; how few will bofri&ad us in our misfortune ; then it is we tuink of the mother we bave lost . \

      Glasgow Umtersity . —The election of Lordfcctot for the Glasgow University tcofe place on Wednesday , lord Eglinton and Mr . Fox ftlauie were the candidates . The latter was elected oy a large majority . The Ameuican navy conEists of t * m ebips of the line , all built and nearly finished , fourteen fr- ' gates of the rlrut-clasa , two . of tbje second , seventeen sloops , eiiibt brigs , nine schooners , ami six steamers ot' war carrying immensely long guns . . " Jacks the Lad !"—Iltft my old friend twuting hia hemp ( who made me a bow at partii . « thai would have done no diacrcditi to the Court of Luuis Ie Grand . )

      and strolled again U > jthe harbour , wiiere I saw La Feine Amelia—the pleasure yacht of the Queen ol F .-ance—a beautiful little schooner of moat elegant bhape , alt satin-wood and gilding , manned by somu of tho finest aad tno 3 t sailor-like looking fellows I ever saw . Oue of her ctewj called out to an English sailor , on the quay , who was ; eyeing the craft with a critical and somewhat contemptuous air . " I say , metisfeaire , you Quin , has she a ship ' s lifccaeos ? " " My Qie 3 Q ?' sa : d Jiick , " Vy , I shid be ashamed of her M 'jesty if Btaed spit in such i thing . "—A Tiip to Havre dc Grace — Illuminated Magazine ,

      To Prevent Beeb . from being turned bt Thunder . —Having ascertained tfait it is perfectly good , draw off entirely in pint pots . Then having collected an equal number of railway navigates , diotribute accordingly . This will answer in the hottest summer . —Punch . f ¦ .

      War . —In a speech of a Bechuano chief , he says—What is war f War builds no towns—plants no gardens—raises no children—has no joys . What is war ? It is the world ' s destruction—it breaks in pieces the hearts of mothers , and causes the orphan to inou ( Q > Prejudice—I remember a man coining to me with a doleful countenance , putting himself into many lamentable postures , gaping a 3 wide as he could , and pointing to his mouth , as though he wouid say be could not speak . I enquired ; of his companion what was the matter ? And was informed , " he had fallen into the bands of the Turks , who hart used him in a barbarous manner , and cut outj his tongue by the roots . " I bulieved him . But when the man had had a cheerful cup , ho could find hia tougue as well as another . I ri fleeted , how is it I could so readily believe that tale ? Tbe anawwc was easy—V because it waa ' . old of a Turk . " — John Wesley . \

      iwo Children Burnt to Death . —Mr . Payne , City Coroner , held two inquests on S-iturtlny , in the board-room of St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , on the bodies of two children , of the respective ages of three and four years , who met their deaths by accidental burning , during the temporary absence of tbair parents from home . Verdict , " 5 Accidental deuth . " Nunnertc . —The Catholics rtk > about to establish a nunuury iu Nottingham ; and ha \* f » taken spacious premises in P irliatntnt-straet for the purpose- The nuns are to be of the order of th « ¦ ' S » 8 tbfs of Charity , " and several of them ura shortly expected from thu neighbourhood of Birmingham . MILB 0 R 0 UGH TUlLrJoE , TUB IIURDERESS . —This MDhappy woman , on whom sentence of deatfi was passed by Mi Justice Erskine , at the Hereford Summer Ass'Z 98 . 1 H 42 for fchu mnrder of her infant has had her sentence cotn . uu eit to tcivuspurtutVon t ' oi 1 fe .

      Dreadfvi . Accident . —On Saturday evening on I inquust was held at the aign of tbe Green Gate , in the City-road , before Mr . Barker and a jury from ihe neigh- ' < - bourhood , on the bo < iy of James Hurren , ' ageu 67 , who i carried on business as a wholesale clothier in Worm- ' wood-street , Bisbopsgate , As Jamea H . airrod , pnrter to ! Mosais , C . ttor and Woids , lineucirapers on Finabury ., pavement , was standing &fc h . is employers' door at j half-pafit eight O ' clock ion Friday eveniu ^ , be savr a ! cart laden with two tons of brewer ' sgraius , and drawn ' by two horsL's , who were ia a galiop , coming at a rapid pace from the City-road towards Chisweli-street , fel- j luweti in the rear , at th » distance of tight or te « yards , j by the driver , who was endeavouring to overtake it ., ' At this moment ? hu ii ^ ccia 9 erl was crossing thd end of CiiiavreU-street for Fiuihurysquate , when the horsea j turned shurp . y into the street ; the deceased , eeuing them coming a ; , ainat iiiui , hesituted , as if about to tuto - back , and held up bi 3 huiida to st . ip the horses ; but ho '

      Wiis instantly knocked < Jowq , and the near wutii went I over the middle of his body , crushing in his ribs . He j was raised from the ground by the witness and otbor , persons and carried Into { the shop of Mr . Alfred Mid- oietoj ) , a surgeon in Fiosfoury-phce , on his passage to which he movetl sligbily , but expired the moment he ! got there . Richard Gubby , tho driver , in the Bar vice of ] air . Divis , a cowkeepev in Hosier-lane , Srailbflold , now j came up , and Was taken into uuafcody , by policeiaan Hainsa , 155 O , the hor ^ ea nud sart b-Jing slopped and taken to the greenyard . } CK > bb / aitC 3 tqutinCly under-Went an csaminaticn at Worship-street Police-court , on the charge of manslaughter , but an inqusnt uot having been held on the boily , and the ev ' . denct ; not being complbte against him , he w . sruuiand-uu for further examination . After several other witnessaH had been examined , the Corouat charged tho j jury , uad after hi ' . i an hour's deliberation they returiied a vtrdic of " Accidental death , caused by tha oatt going over the d . iceiaed ; but that there was no evidence to show how that cart wv . s

      put ia motion . Civilisation of the ! ^ Greeks —The Times having assoriod that " the Greeks had made more rapid progress ia education , civilisation , and wealth , toan could have been reasonably expected , " a corrtbpondtsnt , who spent the inoniha of February and March last in that couatry ^ canfii'ms the assertion : — " I can especially beat witness to their progress in education , and their extraordinary love of learning . I shoil never forget hearing Professor OsoptcWa lecture on Grecian antiquities , in Greek , and to Greeks , in tha university of Athens . Not that I understood much ot what he said ; but it was tha deep and ea ? or attention of the Immense audience of ali ugea ana classes , old and youn « , from the veteran wai-rior witbhis white

      moustache , down to mere boys—rich anl poor ; from gentlemen of the modern school , and chieftains in their picturesq « 8 dresses , down to tbe bare-footed peasantmany taking notes , and jail intelligently listening—it was that which surprised and delighted ma . And I ¦ was told that this was fthe case wrtfi ail the puWic leciures , which are operi to every -body gratuitously . If . it be a G . rman professor lecturin * . of csui-se in Greek , on German nietayhysics , it is just the watcethere they all are taking note ? , and doing their utnost to get something rroui it j I venture to say , that taey will soon bo one of the beat educate *' , people i : ; Earppt ., taking them as fl body . There are several booksellers ' shops in Athtns , rull of the clinics and a rising moilorn literature . They have pagtz ' -acs and sei ^ ral newspapers admirably conducted . "

      The DcG .-The dogs : by tha Nils dnak wh . le running , to escape ths crocodiles . Watn ttiorse oi Now Orleans wiah to cross the Mississippi , thej oaik at the river ' s edge to attract tlie all-gators , who are no sooner drawn from '> -heii- scattered hattats and concentrated on the spot ; than the d , gs set oft at lull speed , and plnnge ia tbejwater higher up the stream . An Esquimaux do « , that was brought to this conntry , was givea to artifices which are rarel y seen in the native Europeans , \ fho 3 e subsistence does not depend on their own resources—strewing hia food round him , anrt feigning sleep , in order to allure fowls and rats , which , he nevor faileu to add to hia store . —Blair ' s History of , the Dog .

      MARATHON . " Great king remember Athens 1 " From this day Thy crouching slaves , each morn , snail need no more To bid thee think of heir . By the seashore , Of Marathon the flashing sunbeams play On golden arniB , the pomp of tby array , The gorgeous ranks that Ditfs leads to war . Hark 1 drowning in their battle sbout the roar Of the Z& . jaxn , fiercely ( to the fray . With fiery speed , rush , ^ t ' wards their glittering foe , The iron tanks of Athens : on they pour Like ocean ' s billows when the north winds blow . Thy Persians , lifce their ; foam , are swept before The charge . Rejoice , thou everlasting eea , Ye heavena lift up yourJvoice , . ttie ewtla is fte « . r

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      ^^ .. ^ ap ^ m ^ M—THiiifiTSiBTitfiTit t'V , ni'JJ 3 BmM * T ?^* m " ^™ A Whale in the Downs . —Daring the l&Bt jveefc oue of these monsters of the deep baa been visiting out coaijt iu search of herrings , its favourite food , and waa distinctly seen on Sauday morning in theD 3 Wcsv Bending up its natural funnialns . Yesterday it was hpsh off Daver from the shore , and some mea who were ia a boat , just as it was approaching , bad a narrow eetfapQ of an upset ; but they luckily got on board a g-Jilot , which was passing at tbt- time , and saved tbemaelves from a watery grave . The ftnsy giant is Buppw .-a to bs upwards of sixty feet , in length . The herring ti-hery ia progressing very slowly on this part of the c-ast . — Duver Telegraph .

      INSTANT DEATH FROM SWALLOWING A PEA . — On Tuesday List , the inhabitants of Kirfcalady were thrown iuto a state of extieni © excitement by a report that Anne Henderson , a due girl of about six yeura of age , waa suffocated by swallowing a paa . It apf-eaw that she waa playing with her class-mates , arid wuilafe ruaning somewhat smartly had thrown a pea iuu > her mouth , whicb unfortunately entered the wiiu . jnpe . Every assistance waa rendered , but it became tvu ovi « deat that trie tide of life was ebbing fast , and that ib « insigtuflcant pea was not too iusignificantto prove th-j instrumeui of death . Her distracted patents we * e swvrcalj on the spot ere she who waa only five minuea lic ' ona all life find hawaless <; le © was numbered wsth the voad . Drs . Smith and Young arrived on the spot not Jong after the occurrence , but could do nothing . The bttex gentleman yesterday made an incision in the windpipe , and found the fatal pea had lodged there ; it baa not descended very deep . It was a boiled one , and of a

      very small size . —Scotsman . Economy . —Economy should be practised in all things , bur , more particularly in matters of mec iae . The restoration to health has generally b-. eu parchased at a costly price ; and certainly if li-. » lth could not bo procured at any other rate , a < , uy price should not be an object of scruple . But where is the wisdom , where is the economy in sp » adin « vast sums on a phyetoian ' s attendance , viieu sound hoalth . and long life may be ensured by the cheap , safe , and simple remedy of Parr ' s Life i'dls . Robbert at Halstbad Chukch . —On Thurs-lay morn ; tig some persons broke into Halst&ad Church » and broke open several boxes containing small sums of money , which thoy took away . A panel at in © back of the altar was also forced down by ihem . their search being evidently for the communion plate .

      Iieal H £ U 3 iSM .-rAn extraordinary instance of presence of mind , lately occurred a : the quarr < e , in the Ross of Mull , ArgyiesUire , now wrought fur cho pier in connexion with the Skerryyore iighihonsa by th n Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses . On the 17 th ult as Mr . Charles Barclay , the foreia u . of the quarries , was engaged in removing a sphii .-x- of § tona from the face of a block often tons w . sjhfc , which lay on au iEclined iedga above him , the blitok slid forward and enclosed his leithand , which « as brui 3 ed iu such a manner that two of his noddle finger ; - * were destroyed , and tke sharp poiuts of rock came in contact at the palm of the hand , so thai it waa fieid completely fast , as in a vice . Ja : ais dreadful situation , Mr . Barclay ' s great presence of

      miud . and Strength of nerves proved tha rae , a . a * of saving his life aud those of tho men that were along with him . The first impulse of the men was to fetoh a lever to raise the sioi : e and liberate the prisoner ; and had Mr . Barclay ' s presence of wad deserted him , or had he fainted tinder the excruciating torture he endured , this rash purpose woild hare been executed * and the stone vould i : ; iva launched him forward and crushed him and his com rades beneath its mass . He , however , was enabled to direct their proceedings with a wonderful decree of composure , and , after fruitless attempts to raise the Wock . Mr . Barclay resolved to cut out the stone

      ronn-J his hand as the only means of escape . Thia painful operation occupied abont twenty minufcea , during which time the tortures he endarea did no * prevent , his working with the remaining hand ia effecting his liberation from his exraoruinary captivity . Mr . Barclay aftorwarda walked without assistance to tho noiKhbouring village of Bunessan , two miles off , where Dr . Diarmid , a gentleman who had lately returned from the Arctic expedition . under Ross , removed the shattered bones . - Next day Dr . Campbell , who acts aa surgeon to the Serryvore works , arrived from Tyree , and conveyed his patieut to the barracks at Hynish W ' orkyard , where he is fast recovering .

      A M ubjuin . —As a proof of the alar rain 2 nature of the disease among cattle and of its extent in our neighbourhood , we may state—and we have tho statement on unquestionable authority—that , in a district of eight or ten miles round Derby , the loss of cattle from this cause has been something like £ 2 , 000 within the last year or fifteen monihg . Of course , the whole loss cannot be ascertained ; but we have seen a lift of 227 head of cattle lost by the disease during this time , belonging to farmers re * siding near us , which , valued at £ 8 eaoh , is pretty nearly this sum . —Derby Mercury .

      Wonderful Delivebt . —A man , named Mrteaell , who resides at I Imiuster , having been suspected of stealing some geese , at Ctn'lliagton , ths constables were despatched to search his house , having gained admittance , they found Mrs . Mitchell , according to her own account , in a very delicate condition , in fact , on the eve of confinement . Medical assistance in this casa , as in all similar cases , was required and , of course , soon obtained . On the arrival of the doctor the good lad ; was assisted to turn out and stand up , when , as if by magic , and to tho astonish * moat of all present , not excepting the doctor , » h © was delivered of two very cleau picked geese . The business was soon over , and the patient immediately became convalescent , and was euabled on Monday , ( prepared , we presume , for another confinement though of a very different nature , in company with her husband ) , to pay a visit to the honourable bench of m . agi 8 crates at Chard , to receive their congratulations oa this wonderful delivery . —Sherbome Journal .

      War Against Knowledge !—Serial publications of a literary and scientific nature caunot uow be sent by post , without the full charge , even if etamped . Au experiment was recently made Which sets the question at rest . A new literary periodical , printed 00 a stamppd eheet , similar to the regular news * papers , passed through the post effioo for two successive webks , when its transmission was interdicted , the Postmaster-General conceiving that the privilege derivable from the stamp is to bo considered as applicable only to newspapevs . "—[ A . wise and jdst Government would aid the circulation of knowledge , and the consequent mental culture of the people 6 y every means at its command . Our Government is neithor ; hence it trammels by stamp a « c ° , post-office regulations , &c , the circulation of mind's productions . Bui we " Will war

      With all who war with , thought ;" and to the brst of our power aid in the annihilating of a' * oygtem" which u lov «« h darkness rasher tSaa 1 light , " and keeps in ignorance the eaalaved *' " ¦ many , " 1 as the only means of upholiiag the ** privileges" of i the tyrauo" few . "—E . N . S . ] j The Queen ' s Visit to Sib R . Peel . —It is her I Majesty ' s intention to honour Sir Robert Peel with a vigit at hia residence at Drayton Manor on Tues' day , the 28 th inst . Her Maje-ty will proceed from ¦ Windsor Castle to Watford , and thence by railway 1 to Drayton Manor , to remain t'll Friday , the 1 st of December , when her Majesty will go on a visit ! 1

      to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire . Oa j Monday , the 4 ih of December , the Queen I will honour the Duke of Rutland with a visit at Belvoir Castle , and return to Windsor Castle on tho 7 th . Her Majesty will be acconij panied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert ; and j we learn that her Majesty the Queen Dowager has signified to Sir Robert Peel her intention to join the ' f toyf . l party at Drayton Manor on the 29 ih . inst . ; so that the Premier will have the distinguished , honour of receiving iu bis house at the same time his Sovereign and her illustrious Consort , and her M :. josty the Queen Dowager , with their respective fiuitds and attendants . — Standard .

      A Brace of Fools—Duel . —A hostile meeting took place on the saud near Haverfordwest , oa Tuesday ss ' nnight between Captain B——y , au officer who very gallantly distinguished himself in the wars in AagfiaHistau and Scinde , aud a Mr . T . J a , in consequence of some language spoken by th-2 latter highly derogatory to the moat illustnou 3 pun'uaage ia ihe rtaUn , in the presence of . the captiin , who resented it by a peraoaal atiackvipoa the uibloyivl subjeot , and a meeting ensued , ia which Mr . J -a was very severely injured , ao much so ii at la . life is dispaired of .

      Mela . ncholy Affair . —Oa Tuesday , a rumour ob ; ained extensive circulation in Maryleboue thai Mr . Joseph Hume , M . P ; , had on Monday made an attempt to commit suicide , by precipitating himself frosa one of che windows of . his residence , Bryanston-Mj-aare . During the latter part of that day and the whole of yesterday tne house of the Hononrable Mem oer waa literally besieged by the calls of hia political as well as psreonal friendB . The raniour , as regards Mr . Hums himself , proved erroneous ; but an occurrence had taken place of an equally serious and afflicting character to the Honourable Geatleman's son-in-law , Mr . Charles Gubbins , who is the brother of her Grace the present Duchess of St . Alban ' s . Oa M&nday morning ' , shortly before five o ' clock , the screams of Mrs . Gabbins awoke

      Sit , Joseph Huma and his family , » n <* It Was then discovered that the unfortunate gentleman had thrown himself from his bed-room window i on tho third floor , on to the pavement . Haying been conveyed iufco the house in an insensible state , Dr . Arnott . olBed ' . oid-Equare , iir . Liston , and 6 ef ? eral other euttiuent . memburs oi the medical profession , were sent for , and promptly arrived , when it was discovered that Mr . Gubbras has sustained a coinpound fracture of one of hia thighs in two plapesr , and that bis other leg was broken . Mr . Guobins was visited two or three times throughout yesterday by his medical attendants , and bnt very faint hopej are entertained of his ultimate recovery . J 3 » - « £ event has thrown the family of Mr . Hume and his Graca the Duke of St . Alban's into a state of great affliction , j

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      Pbogbess of Literature ik Italy . —Daring the year 1842 there have been printed in Italy 3 , 042 books ( the number printed in 1841 was 2 999 ) : of these 3 , 042 1768 , or about three-fifth ? , were published in tho Lombardo-Yenetian kingdom ; of the retaaiader , 508 appeared in Piedmont ; 235 in the grand duchy of Tuscany ; 216 ia the papal states ; J 74 in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies ; 19 in the duchy of Modena , and 11 iu the &ta . te ot Lucca . Of these works a considerable portion were translations .

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      B ^ P'Qwine a press engagements we have beeu unable even to look at the works noticed last week as received for Review . We will bring up arrears next week . Publications Received— An Essay on the Tragedy of Hamlet j" Temperance Herald , " &o . &c .

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      "A NIGHT WITH BURNS . " The following under tho above head is from Ainsworth ' s Magazine . A certain Andrew Homer of Carlisle , took it into his head that he was a poet . He wrote , and he would print . To carry hw laudable . design into execution , he touk a jiuruey to Glasgow , and agreed with a printer and publisher . I a returning from Glasgow he found himself upon an evening in the ancient town of Ayr , aud in the common room of 'he inn he forgathered with some halfdozen " ranting , roaring , dashi / ig young feJJows , foud of their glass and their , joke . " " The night drave on with song and clatter ; " and at lsist Andrew was induced to lay a wager thai he would beat a " poet lad" who lived near hy . The poet lad was introduced , and—bnt we wiil iefc tha writer tell the rest : —

      " An epigram was the subject chosen , because , as Andrew internally argued , ' it is the shortest of all poems . ' . In compliment to him , the compauy resolved that his own merits should supply the theme . " He commenced—* In seventeen hunder thretty nino' — and he paused . Ho then said , ' Yo see , I was born in 1739 , [ ihe roal date was some years earlier ] so I mak" that the commencemenV " Hi then took pea in hand , folded his paper with a conscious air df authorship , squared him ^ olf to the table , like oue who considered it no trihVeven to write a letter ,, and tlowly put down in good round hand , as if ho had been making out a bill of parcels , the line—• Iu seventeen hunder thretty-nine ;' but beyond this , after repeated attempts , he was unable to advance . The eeooad lino was ihe Rubicon he could not pass .

      ¦ ' At last , when Andrew Horner reluctantly admittod that he was not quite in the veiu , the pan , ink , and paper , were handed to his antagonist . By him they were rejeoted , for he instantly gave the following , viva voce : — ' In seventeen hunder thretty-nine 4 Tbe Deil gat stuff to mak' a swine , And pit it in a corner ; But , shortly after , changed his plan , Made it to something like a man , Aad called it Andrew Horner . ' " The subjoot of thia stinging atanza , had the good senso not to be offjuded with its satire , cheerfully paid the wager , eet to for a night ' s revelry with hia new friends , and thrust his poems between the bars of tho grate , when ' the sma' hours' came on to four in the morning . As hia poetic rival then kindly rolled up the hearthrug , in a quiet corner of the

      room , to serve as a pillow for the vanquished rhymester—tfcen literally a carpet knight—the old man , hotter prophet thaa poet , exclaimed , ' Hoot , mon , but ye'U be a greater poot yet !' " Answer , 0 nations , whether the production was fulfilled ? In a few months after , a volume of poems was published from tho press of John Wilson , of Kilmarnock—the author was a peasant by birth , a poet by inspiration . Coar 3 e was the paper on which these poems were printed , and worn waa the type . But the poems themselves were of that rare class which the world does not willingly let die . The fame of their author has flown , far and wide , throughout the world . His genius and his fate have become ' at once the glory and the reproach of Scotland . * That aathor was the same who , in a sportive mood , made an epigram upon poer Andrew Horner . His name was ROBERT BURNS . "

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 25, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct956/page/3/