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VOL. IL—No. 83. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1851. Price 6d.

larrnoyante of Protection converted by a hasty stage come on the subject of the Gladstone letters, placed penitence into Free-trade, are proofs of the fact. by the side of that fact ! The Austrian " stick " Mtwx nf tl) t Wnk. Only it is possible that Disraeli will find that he and the Croatian bayonet are triumphant in Tus- ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ m * is no more than leader of a troop, not general of an cany; and Lord Palmerston writes a rude letter to Louis KossUTH has arrived at last, and landed army, next session. Poor Coningsby! Castelcicala, which issues into print in the suspicious on the shores of England, immense acclamations Protests against the awards of the juries appointed columns of the Augsburg Gazette, on the barbarities from the Isle of Wight to the Hebrides ensuing to judge the articles exhibited in Hyde-park are of Naples. Acute apprehension of the theory of at Southampton on rather numerous. Medals are declined ; grumbling compensations ! Austria is strong in the strength thereupon. Great shouting , the quays there, and a rush of fervid Englishmen, takes portentous shape ; occasionally reasonable, as of Russia. Naples is weak, has a sea-board ; and anxious to extend the strong hand of welcome to in the case of Claussen and the Musical Jury ; but besides, is infinitely valuable to Palmerston , because him who at present represents most vividly the oftener unreasonable, as in many cases. The she attracts upon herself so much odium. He ob- cause of European Nationalities. Kossuth. is Claussen invention obviously deserved either tains popularity by snubbing her Government, but Palmerston, in come. Spite of the efforts of the Austrian jour- a prize for originality, or no prize at all ; and it is the barbarities of Naples continue ; nals, of the Times, well backed by the organs of inexplicable how the Council came to reverse the denouncing them, has only given one more proof of the Foreign-office and of the Liberal Conser- decision of the jury on musical instruments, certainly his sincerity to admiring, confiding, soft-hearted smaller scribblers and dastards, composed of men prima facie among the most Liberals. vatives, of sundry In the occult the swell of welcome has risen higher and higher capable. But the singular result of the controversy So it is with the Egyptian Railway. , as towards the Pole, the heart is that the Constitutionnel has been labouring hard province over which his lordship presides, much is all the week ; and Here, of England throbbed towards Southampton on to show that fair play has not been dealt out to done, the results of which no one can foresee. Thursday and Friday. The Madrid arrived ; France. This is merely carrying out an old tra* however, are clearly two facts. Egypt is opposed Ko8suth came ; and in the eyes of Europe the ditionary policy of the Constitutionnel, always to Turkey ; Palmerston steps in to mediate ; Turkey, murder of Batthyany, the massacre of Blum, the forward in depreciating perf ide Albion. It is a whose right to interfere ought never to have been dastardly assassination of Hungarian liberty, were dynastic prejudice. But the generous Rtpublique, questioned, must give way. But the railway is not tried and sentenced to everlasting infamy by the always fair towards us, is highly pleased with the yet made. t approval the large Cape news is disastrous. Lord Grey has so voice of the Freemen of England. It is enough. awards, and quotes with grea : On one side we behold the journalism of the proportion which medals given to French, bear complicated affairs, the Governor has so m s- Foreign-office and of Russia, and on the other the towards those bestowed on British exhibitors. We munaged his business, both military and political English Nation and the Chief of Hungary—the register this fact the more readily because the that the Colony is utmost ready to " separate.' vast idea of Nationality and the sacred person of Constitutionnel is the tutelary genius of Bonapartism The two important meetings which we chronicle the Exile for conscience and patriotism. The and the party of Order, while ha Republique is are evidences of the spirit of the colonists. They meaning of all thia is, that England, not the Republican. distinctly point to self-government as the want of ' England " of the Foreign-office, is the ally of The Constitutionnel is also the hero of another the Cape ; the resolutions are standing impeach- Hungary, and not the ally of Austria ; and that the cause : knocking down England with one hand, and ments of Ministers and solemn warnings to Eng- English People are prepared to espouse the cause backing up M. Bonaparte with the other ; this, too, land. That we do not put down the Kafirs is dis- of National Independence as opposed to Imperial is traditional. How the said Bonaparte will extri- honourable ; but that we have not kept faith with Absolutism. With the Union Jack and the Star- cate himself from bis embarrassments is not clear. the colonists is a crime. Probably the next flag Spangled Banner on her aide, the rescue of Hun- Having declared that he desires the rep«al of the seen on the wnters of the Thames will be the gary iB only a question of time ! law of May '31, he has drawn down upon himself banner of the Cape of Good Hope ! Save the inchoate itation, there is but two species of attacks ; one for unfaithfulness and When Mr. Adderley and Sir William Moles- Reform ag worth to give our colonies the ri hts of one purely national queation on foot, and that is perfidious ambition from Orleanist, Legitimist, and propose g freemen tne cry is raised— Oh, you want to only the ghoat of one. Protection, like Jack Fusioniat ; the other for insincerity and desire of , " dis- Scroggins in the old song, comes back in dreary personal aggrandisement from the Republicans. He member the Empire ! " But is the policy of plight, haunting agricultural meetings. Protection cannot form a Parliamentary Cabinet. Granier do Molesworth so likely to dismember the Umpire as comes back, and breathes a damp, unearthy in- Cassagnac, Emile de Girardin, Alphonse de Lamar- the policy of G rey P It is bad faith, oflicial spiration into the Granbys and Bookers, and tine, La Guerroniere—these are not exactly the men tyranny, bureaucratic government—it is these throws a wholesome tecror into the Hardwickes, to command a majority ! The eminently practical which dismember empires. waking , portentous, Girardin has seized hold of the occasion, and fought Ireland, like the Cape, is a region of warfare— them falter, and utter large y oracular nothings. Lord Granby, at Waltham,.ia stoutly for the repeal of the law ; but then, ah del ! only in the land of St. Patrick ink is more freel confident in the old he has also advocated revision. Forthwith, instead shed than blood. The progress of tenant-right of many things ; confident " instinctK of the remedy" ; confident that Mr. Disraeli has not given of adopting both cries, and impelling the move- doctrines has alarmed the feudal up in a con- ment, tho Republicans have shown nothing but ex- Lord of the Tower of Garron. He threatens his Protection. Mr. Booker in likewise what is worse, a fiding mood ; confident in tho reversal of the ver- citement and vexation. We do not blame them ; fanners with his vengeance, and, dict we only point out their mistake. Why not havu deprivation of their actual rights, if they attend of '4(i ; while tho fiery and decisive Hard- . The tenant- wioke, oscillating between Disraeli and Gran by, taken the President at his word, fairly compromised meeting* of tenant-right leaguers him with tho party of Order, roused all France by farmers protest with " indignation," as well they confounded by both, utters a speech at Saffron The seemingly Wuldon decisive supporting authority, obtained universal Huttrage, might. But it matters little. , in which you expect something mon cher Prince will not at every sentence, and you get—empty speculation, a ('onstituent,and abanisfor real Republican, Institu- chivalrous lettcrM to " dreariest tions ? JLdon Faucher expires as ho has lived— liberate Abd-el - Knder, nor will the " ukase also uncertainty, In fact, Disraeli has done of Garron , put down tenant-right for Protection as a war-cry for any possible political decreeing martial law in two departments ! from the Tower part Mr Matthew Hill has been delivering once y ; and the ghastly merriment qf Qcanby, the Austria has possessed herself official ly of the mi- charges to vulgarit litary power of Tuscany, and no one protests. more one of those clear and admirable y of Booker, the indecision of HVdwicke, grand jury oil the pOT&XUOn of tuo lachrymose ebullition of Delaware—-a comtfdio What a force does the note of Lord Palmerston be- the Birmingham 1'1'owrt EomouJ I 1006 W&t VLt&il t V* [Satur day , I Cher and country, but of bis race. Your name remem- With an expiring effort at tyranny the , Sir, is with crime, which have won for him honourable under martial law by a household word; we talk of you to our children and » y great con- the Nevre are declared the tale of your patriotism as we gather * brance. The plan of Mr. Hill is worth decree countersigned Leon Faucher. Agitation per- round 0Ur practicable only prologue to hearthstone. sideration. We think it would be vades the country. Men feel .that the "We with a sweeping amendment of the Vagrant Acts, begun. " do not need to remind you that such struecle the drama of 1862 has already that you have been engaged in, are never ultima? and extensive industrial employment for the poor j foremost in Continental unsuccessful ; we look forward with T the French affairs stand out hope to the day wh the latter measure has not entirely escaped news, and there is nothing of importance from else- your expectations and those of your countrymen willI lj attention of Mr. Hill. Then might the system of where. That Austria should finall y, by decree, be realised, and we pray that you may not only be Boar 1! retributive punishment, so degrading, essentially have virtually subjugated Tuscany is not worth till then, and that you may be permitted to share in th estroyed, and long commanded there. high rejoicings that such a consummation will occasio vicious, and unphilosophical, be d calling news—she has but that you may enjoy, meantime, that Meanwhile, German affairs are in much the same position. happiness whip}! a preventive system be established. you of all men have a right to, which can alone Hill's scheme might be 17th instant publishes secured by the consciousness that you h with great caution Mr. The Augsburg Gazette of the have noblv3 dnone applied to very well known thieves. Naturally the following :— your duty. (Signed) very is jealous of all restrictions on the following note to " Given at the Court-house, in Leeds, on the «wu20th dayrio e Englishman " Lord Palmerston has addressed of October, 1851." personal liberty, even the personal liberty of sus- Prinoe Castelcicala, the Neapolitan Ambassador at pected criminals. London :— The other resolutions were moved and seconded b tt t sir, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt Mr. William Bruce, Mr. J. L. Prentice, Mr. David CONTINENTAL NOTES. of your letter of the 9th instant, accompanied by a Green, &c. One of the closing resolutions was continues. The pamphlet, entitled, " The Neapolitan Government and that Kossuth be respectfully invited, as earl The ministerial crisis in France me to forward a y as President, to form a new Ministry under Mr. Gladstone," of which you request possible, to visit Leeds. At the close of the meeting efforts of the copy to the representatives of Great Britain at foreign each were Billault, have, it is understood, entirely failed. y with three cheers , at the call of Mr. William M Courts. I beg to state, in reply, that I cannot compl Heaton, enthusiastically given for The reason assigned being that M. Billault was not contribute towards the circu- Louis Kossuth seems your request, not wishing to Joseph Mazzini, and Victor Hugo. ' certain of the support of the Left. There lation of a pamphlet which, in my opinion, is not credit- now to remain only two courses open to the .Presi- able either to its author or to the Government it attempts The American Ambassador has signified his inten- dent ; either to abandon the lofty position he has to defend, nor to the political party of which it makes tion of being present at the banquet ; but Mussurus assumed as the arbiter of parties, abandon his itself the champion. Bey, the Turkish Ambassador, has declined to be promise to obtain the repeal of the law of the 31st " * I feel myself called upon to declare that Mr. Glad- present. In spite of the efforts of the Times, Post of May, and shrink back into the exulting arms stone's letters to Lord Aberdeen offer the melancholy and Chronicle, to depreciate the private and public of Faucher ; or, to form an extra parliamentary picture of a system of illegality, injustice, and cruelty, character of the Magyar chief, every day of this week transition. To all appearance he will which is scarcely credible in the present age in a Euro- has brought fresh accessions. The Westminster Ministry of received from adopt the latter course, although M. Faucher is re- pean country. The information I have meeting, at the Hanover-square rooms, under the President would various sources has led me to the conclusion , that the dency of Sir de Lacy Evans, has kept ported to be still bragging that the portrays. presi up its ive way. Many lists of probable English writer has not exaggerated the evils he character for outspoken popular sympathies. reflect and then g On the contrary, the object of the author appears to Tho Ministers have been circulated. Some of these con- abuses which, if Committee, meeting at 10, Wellington-street, Strand, and not one, have been to call public attention to tain the most improbable combinations, thev had lasted longer, would have undermined the has met with great success. of doing the of all we have yet seen, looks capable foundations of the Neapolitan Government, and would, The Polish 'Hunganan-Ref ugee Committee, com- rough which would fall to its share. sooner or later , have led to those violent explosions posed of gentlemen of Newcastle-on-Tyne, have Eeally, the conflict has been without the which follow a protracted system of aggravated injustice. summoned a public meeting in the Lecture-room, , vexation, ill-temper, not a little The Neapolitan Government, moreover, is under a delu- Newcastle for Tuesday ni ht next, the 28th JElysee. Bage assertions , g instant, have been displayed by the leading sion if it supposes that a tissue of unfounded to bid the illustrious Kossuth welcome to Eng ferocity, mixed with gross attack upon poli- land, journals of the reactionary party. The fusionist- and hazarded denials, and to invite him to visit this district. Every effort tical parties, will render it any essential service or aid it legitimiste Opinion Publ ique, conducted by the I may add is being made to make the demonstration worthy of has made no show in the object it has in view. In conclusion, vigorous and frank Nettement, that the pamphlet of Mr. M'Farlane contains direct and the occasion ; and, judging from the well known of hiding its disappointment and wrath at the indirect avowals which, in~despite of him, confirm rather sentiments of the public of Newcastle, we may confi- complete change of policy projected by M. Bona- than remove this conviction. dently calculate on an enthusiastic response being parte, and ridicules with keen sarcasm his pretension "* committee's appeal. «• " * I am, &c, Pai-merston. made to the to be the saviour of France. . The glory of the An address will be adopted to be presented to France," Nettement writes, "is reserved* •aviour of KOSSUTH IN ENGLAND. Kossuth, expressive of the esteem in which his cha- not to pride and ambition, but devotion.'* racter is held and of the sympathy entertained for JL'Assemblee Nationale taunts Louis Bonaparte with Rise of Public Feeling. his cause by the inhabitants of this district. Reso- personal ambition as the spring of his conduct, and The interest felt in Kossuth's arrival among us has lutions will also be moved, acknowledging the courage threatens him with the terrors of a majority which not diminished, though that desired event has so of the Sultan in releasing him and his companions, knows how to act with energy and power. La long been delayed. Since we last wrote, the citizens notwithstanding the threats of the Austrian and Rus- Guerroniere, in the Pays, exclaims with solid gra- of Glasgow have sent an address to the Mayor of sian Governments, and thanking the Americans for vity, " Revision and abrogation ! these are the two Southampton , for presentation to Kossuth ; Bradford, sending a vessel to remove them to such place as they inseparable terms of the policy -which the new in council assembled, has forwarded a similar docu- may choose to go. Ministry ought to sustain before the Assembly." ment ; from Bath emanatee another, the list of signa- The Refugee Committee have addressed Kosauth But while the Bonapartists and the Lamartine- tures being headed by the noble name of Walter the same. The Girardin school of politicians support the President as a body. The refugees have done Savage Landor. former in English, the latter in German. The re- in demanding both revision and abrogation, the enthusiastic meeting was held land as their beloved National and the Siecle denounce both the President, A very large and fugees bid him welcome to Eng last Monday evening (October 20) in the Court-house, and honoured chieftain. They assure him that, the policy, and its supporters. Louis Bonaparte will passing an address to Kos- of the sincerity ot even if successful, the man of the re- Leeds, for the purpose of whatever doubts he may entertain always be, suth. The meeting was called by the Mayor, George lish Government towards Hungary, he may actionists and the priest party, writes the National. the Eng his Goodman, Esq., on the requisition of a considerable rest satisfied that the English People appreciate The majority, afraid of civil war, would of its , the Mayor being pre- his struggles, lnis own accord have repealed the law, if the Pre- number of inhabitants ; but labours and sympathise with vented attending the meeting by another engagement, testify from the kind and hospitable recep- sident had not taken the initiative, says the Siecltt. they can landed Mr. Councillor Carter was called upon to preside. tion they have everywhere received since they This latter thought seems at the bottom of the courae The first resolution, moved by the lleverend W. They declare that whenever the courso democratic journals. They are in England. pre- pursued by the de- GueBt (Independent minister), seconded by Mr. demands again their servicee, they are cidedly annoyed to find the President proposing any- of events and uo Joseph Kershaw, and supported by Mr. Councillor pared to leave the country of their adoption, thing half as sane as a repeal of the law. lie cannot , was the following : — for their country s and tno be sincere they assert : they would rather have Kettlewill battle, as in times past, watched with deep interest Continent's freedom. snatched the Buiiraee in 1852, they think. " That this meeting, havin g New- the noble strugg le which Kossuth and his copatr iots refugees that were sent to the noise of the tray ring the voiceB Out of the twelve unem- And above all carried on for the maintenance of liberty in Hungary, Liverpool, there are now only two of two men Emile de Girardin and Granier de Cas- castle from nen. , and having mourned the circumstances which led to their Their conduct during their residence sagnac. With great force and indefatigable zeal, y the Sultan of ployed. de feat , and their subsequent detention b has been moat commendable. Girurdin sustained the President—demanding the Turkey under the influence of the Gover nments of Austria 1851 laws of May 31, and the revision have now obtained that •' Newcast le-on-Tyne. Octobe r 14, repeal of tho and Russia , rejoices that they HBFU Constitution by a Constituent Assembl liberty of which they were so unju stifiabl y deprived , and THH NEWCABTLB-ON-TYNE H0MO A11UN ^ of the y " GOVBUNOK ^ elected by universal suffrage. Not only lias he especially expresses Its gratification that Ko«sut h has COMMITTEE TO U)UI8 XOBBUTH , lA'B him attacked tho reactionary party day after day, determined to visit this country, and Welcomes HUNGARY. , j| heartil y, and with all affection , to the shelter of its hebpectbd Sib»"~:^ but he has defended himself from the National, ttie " Honoured and much m j jvoU Sidcle, the Hepublique, and a host of ultra-Democratic shore s." with deli ght your deliverance from capt ivity, ana provincial journals. CassBgnac has written in an The following address, to bo signed by the Chair- hearty welcome to Eng land. r »nt c exulting strain, doing battle on one hand with the man on behalf of the meeting, was then moved by " We watched with the moat intense *' J[ J iM heroic strugg le for your country 's freedom. *™ _ reactionary presB, and on tho other denouncing Mr. William Heaton, seconded by Mr. W. Brook, powe > continuance we did what alone was in our f anarchy in the most royal manner. and supported by Mr. Councillor llobson : — sympainy • we publicl y efcpr eBsed our sincere ^' „_ The position of parties, uh far as we can gather, for ?"»' is this :-—Louis Bonaparte, sincerely or insincerely, " TO LO1JIB KOSSTJTH , LATE OOVKKNOR OF HVNOAIir. cause , and offered our earnest pray erfl " re# inhabitant s of Leeds , an- Our means and not our will, prevented us ««""? thnt desires the repeal of the obnoxious law and " Honoured Shi ,— We the , tiu nembled for the purpose of present ing to you a con- " With grief and Badn ess we received the njj revision ; in thin he is supported by Lainurtine, open oPP" 8'" V gratu latory addrCHS on your liberation from imprison- treachery Tind conaummate d what BBfP ty; Girardin, Veron ; ho that he will bo reduced ment and arrival in thin country, approach you with ut not . fleet. Yet we felt thankfu l for V^ V^tZ * •« to form an extrn-ParliaihOntarv ministry. This potentate in whose domln.o«s y t|l0 once t he profoundest respect and the siuccrcdt affection. an d to that , in < policy has upset tho calculations both of the h, your lum we offer our prof ound «?k n0 wled« " the We watched , wit the deepest intercut and anxiety, asy , v 1 . a rree « r |Ud republicans, tho Orlcanintri and the constituti onal calm and di gnified manne r in which he « " traditionary nob le strugg le for the maintenance of pera« stttor«. [Legitimists. The Party of Order, in faet, is in com- libert y in Hungary j we heard , with great regret, of your Tindicti»e fury of your relentless - n()t have been d< lea" , . plete disorder, as they feel, in Bptte of their brn- betraya l and defeut ; wo nympathised with you in your " Illustri ous Patri ot! you ^ ^ noble nati on is ubd i«- Vttdo, that tho President and tho People would he too long and uniustiiiiible imprisonment , and rejoiced to dishono ured ! Your !* fa«n" ;, {/ in the hour of conquered ! Wo h»ve undying ,ook strong for them. Tho ltepublioans aro enraged, bo- your liberation ; und now , wit h the utmost grati- but not , an ^ we power of truth and ri ghteousness tA tho sincerity of the President, doubt titiulion and c)clight , give you a ri ght hearty Ktig lieh hcrent wh« n y« u eauso they doubt welcome to our native land. An exile for a lime from forwa rd with confidence to the time hi* motiTfJfl.mottiytifl. suspsuspect coups d 6tat, suspect treuHon of enab led to again *c8unl0 hi* your own countr y, we are delighted to giro you honour Hungary will be uu. *¦ .% ,/ all kiildrf;r0 , an d thoug h attempts have been pl»c« umuiiK cheer , . }f fug a^4v ftomfWmi them.the Einilo de Girardin openl y ae- made to le»H« 'ii our esteem for you " Till then we bid you bo of good detfr . ing W&Y by uttuckH of which it in cttpecttsecra ' tttotoWtltotoWpreferringpre a bloody to a pacific solution. we are ub humed that they are writt en in our language , is anything In tliia world rea lly grea t , jii aft)r iSo they do not alto/ thoir we regard you none the Ichh an one mination of a nation advancin g, wit hout ^ " BT^ " ta They \wasatma*b^ uc

< \¦ vV :M l iT ¦ Oct. 25, 1351.] ®!> * &««»**? 1007 and the exiles glory outside, the freedom within wounds nor its days without rest, nor its shore as the Madrid came alongside, , unwithered by the neither its What was tremendous, and in their blighting ringer of centralization. (Cheers.) Wrren I Sts without sleep, and which says within itself, beheld Kossuth, first read the French constitution liberty are worthy of many anxiety they nearly pushed each, other into the , I foretold that great is all that ? Justice and and glorious French nation should yet have to go through toils ! ' . , .. water. Repeated rounds of cheering broke from the because it did not other proof of our affection— Hurrahs " and many storms, abandon its fatal princi- « Pardon us for saying that, as a crowd, mingled with the Hungarian " , ple of centralization , and because it is only in y cause, we have for the Ia3t five months Eljen Koasuth ! " Handerchiefs— municipal for your hol s, wild shouts of " institutions freedo m can be developed. ( Cheers.) That gustained twelve of your companions in arm lhey are white, red, and every colour, were waved in a perfect i3 my conviction." of the 260 who landed at Liverpool from a portion cloud, and it seemed as if the band of his compatriots He expressed his firm conviction that Shurola, in March last. You -will be as glad to hear as bodity. the greatness they are happy and contented would carry off their chief of England was the consolation of the oppress we are to inform you, that , and preceded by a band of ed, of their adopted home. At length he landed whom she was the protecting elder brother :— in . . . .. music the American and English ensigns waving in " Should it be compatible with your arrangements, it , " There is one thing that is a prominent feature iu a source of devout pleasure to welcome front, mingled with the Hungarian colours, was would be to us house. The your race,—a result of no small importance in. our you to Newcastle-on-Tyne. Our townsmen would rejoice driven in the Mayor's carriage to his struggles, — that the sentiments of this race ar e at having the privilege of seeing, face to face, one whose bells rang, the crowd cheered, Kossuth. bareheaded spreading over the world , and that it is not the least name is with us- a Household Word. stood bowing at the back of the carriage. On of the glories you call your own that the people " Believe us to be, honoured and much esteemed Sir, reaching the house of the Mayor, Kossuth appeared of England appear to be resolved to take the " Everywhere, and to the end, yours unalterably, at the balcony, and spoke as follows:— lead in the new direction of the public opinion of the " Alex. Guthrie, Chairman. lish. Seven weeks world , out of which the highest blessings will flow. Jos. Cowen, Jun., Secretary." " I beg you will excuse my bad Eng " back I was a prisoner in Kiiitayah, in Asia Minor. Now The generous sympathy of the people of England for my ling but not broken In an appeal to the public of Newcastle, on behalf I am a free man. { Cheers.) I am a free man because bleeding, strugg , down-trodden , ,native fol- elorious England chose it. {Cheers.) That Eng land land— (loud cheers) —is one, but not the only one, mani- of twelve refugees maintained there, we find the festation , bjr which England shows she is ready to accept paragraph :— As it is a subject attracting chose it, which the genius of mankind selected for the lowing " resting monument of its greatness, and the spirit of this glorious role of the elder brother of humanity. some attention just now, it may be stated that sympath y, (Cheers ) This country, though it has not to fear any ? Baroness von Beck' freedom for his happy home. Cheered by your Lekawski knew- the pretended which is the anchor of hope to oppressed humanity, with direct attack on its own liberty, still knows that its wel- in Hungary. Her secretary has been attempting to greatness, and your hap- fare and prosperity , founded as they are, on the continued ' Lekawski the view of your freedom , your prove that she was a veritable ' Baroness. piness, and with the consciousness of my unhappy land development of your genius and industry, cannot be en- saw her at Szygeth. He inquired who she was, of in my breast, you must excuse for the emotion I feel— tirely independent of the condition of other nations. The Prince Woronucki, who was giving her instructions (cheers)—the natural consequence of so striking a change people of E ngland know that in neither social nor poli- relative to a journey she was about to take into and so different circumstances. {Cheers.) So excuse tical respects can it be indifferent whether Europe be free the position of the enemy there, me for not being able to thank you so warm ly as I feel, for or groaning under Russia and nor satellites ; the people of Galicia to ascertain land are conscious of their glorious position—it and he said she was a spy in the employ of the Hun- the generous reception in which you honour in my unde Eng knows garian National Government." serving person the cause of my country. { Cheers.) I that, while it conserves its freedom , it cannot grant the only hope God Almighty may for ever bless you and your privilege to Russo-Austrian despots to dispose of the The letter is signed by Mr. Joseph. Co wen, a fate of Europe, but must have its weight in the balance ; and glorious land. Let me hope you will be willing to throw gentleman of intelligence and trustworthiness a ray of hope and consolation on my native land by this of the destinies of Europe, or Eng land would no more it is issued by a committee of unimpeachable charac- your generous reception. ( Cheers.) May England be be an European Power. (Loud cheers ) And it is this ter. Lekawski is the officer under whom the Polish ever great, glorious, and free!— (cheers) —but let me knowled ge which is the source of hope and consolation Hungarian refugees arrived at Newcastle from Liver- hope, by the blessing of Almighty God, and by our own to my oppressed country, as well as to all the fellow- pool. The conduct of the refugees at Newcastle steady perseverance, and by your own generous aid , that nations of Europe; for by the princi ple on which your reflects the highest honour on the " cause they have England, though she may ever remain the most glorious freedom continues, and on which your happiness is espoused. spot on earth , will not remain for ever the only one founded, and by your generous sentiments , we are The proprietor of the Belle Sauvage Hotel, Lud- where freedom dwells. ( Great cheering.) Inhabitants assured that, let the people of England once throw their has generousl of the generous town of Southampton ! iu shaking hands weight into the balance of the fate of Europe, then they gate-hill, says the Morning Advertiser, y will never assist despotism , but freedom— (cheers) —not offered to provide accommodation , free of charge, for with your Mayor , my best and truest friend (here M. Kossuth turned round to the Mayor and shook hands injustice , but right; not the ambition of a few families, Kossuth. and his companions, numbering from 60 to but the moral welfare anddi gnity of humanity. (Cheers )" metropolis. with his worship energeticall y, amid much, cheering), I 70, during their stay- in the have the honour t o thank you, and to salute , with the Animated by the expression of British opinion that THE LANDING AT SOUTHAMPTON. deepest respect, you , the inhabitants of the industrious , Hungary would yet be free, he freely exclaimed that, The Madrid was signalled at Southampton about noble-minded , enlightened , and prosperous city of South- " seeing them entertain that hope and belief, was two o'clock on Thursday, and a crowd of people of ampton. (Loud cheers.y almost like victory itself." all classes rushed down to the pier and the. docks to Kossuth then retired, Madame Kossuth stepped " I hope the Almighty will grant, before I leave this greet Kossuth. Wearing his insignia of office , the on to the balcony, and was loudly cheered ; the country and cross the ocean , and go to the young giant, the Mayor went instantly on board , and found the long- children were brought forward, and fresh shouts younger brother of your mig hty race, and thank him for expected hero, his wife, and children safe and well. arose. Before leaving, Kossuth called for " Three the generous protection bestowed on me, and entreat his Taking the hands of the gentlemen introduced to him cheers for our Gracious Queen , God bless her ! " he brother ly hand for the future of Europe and of my own country, that I shall see established in full activity by the Mayor in both his own, Kossuth exclaimed, exclaimed " God bless her ! " now I feel I am free. I am free when I touch and spread over these g lorious isles, some of those "Ah , The hero then sought a few moments rest to fit mighty associations by which you carry the triump h of your soil." him for the fatigues of the meeting at the Town-hall. every great reform and of every great princi ple in your The Times reporter describes Kossuth as follows :— Among the strangers assembled in the hall were Mr. constitution. (Loud cheering ) 1 hope to see some of those •• He stands about five feet eight inches in height, haa George Dawson, Mr. Charles Gilpin, Mr. Pulzsky, associations lending its attention to the solidarity of the n slight and apparently not strongly knit frame, and is a Mr. Wj'ld, M.P. The Mayor is said to have made independence of Hungary, with the hope that the peace of little rouud shouldered. His face is rather oval ; a pair an energetic speech in presenting the address of the Europe and the future of these g lorious isles will take for of blueish-grey eyes , which somewhat reminded me of City to Kossuth, warm and affectionate and respectful its aim to g ive a practical direction to the sympathy of O'Connell's in expression , well set beneath a full and towards him, and not afraid as some Englishmen are the peop le for my poor down-trodden country—that the arched brow , give an animated and intelligent look to of using the word national. When the address had people of Eng land will look upon my unhappy land , and his countenance. Hin forehead , high and broad , is Kossulh said that they will reduce to a ruling princi ple that sentiment deeply wrinkled , and time has just begun to grizzle a been read by the Town Clerk , , of the public spirit of Britannia , which evidentl y shows head of straight dark hair, and to leave a bald spot be- " Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen of the municipality of the itself to be read y to accept the solidarity of the hind. He has not got the true Hungarian nose, but it town and borough of Southampton , excuse me, an un- destiny of mankind , and especiall y of the liberty of Europe is a fair well-formed feature,—such as a French passport pretending stranger , for not being able , in your own lan- itself. ( Cheers.) 1 thank you for the generous wishes you ¦would describe as may en; a thick mustache nearly guage, duly to express the warmest sentiments of thanks have bestowed on inc. To me life in itself is not of value— covers his mouth , except when he speaks or smiles, and and gratitude for the honour of your generous welcome, but onl y so much as I can make some use of it to the unites with beard and whisker in a full flock of dark hair and for those generous sentiments which you , Mr. Mayor , liberty and independence of my own country, and to the falling down from his chin. The portraits are singularl y were pleased to address to me. (Cheers.) I was alread y benefit of humanity (cheering and applause) ; and , unlike him in eith«r person or expression. Whether from before my arrival bound by lasting gratitude to the town thoug h I have to decline all praises bestowed on my own his recent captiyity or from constitutional causes, there is of Southampton for numerous tokens of the most hi g h- personal character , as I am conscious I have nothing dono somehow an air of lassitude in his look, to which the minded sympath y with the cause of my dear native land , but only that which 1 considered my own simple duty fati gues of his voyage not improbably contributed. Alto- and of protection to its exiles ; and being prepared to be , while I atn sorry my modest faculties could not gether he gives one the idea of a man of thought rather for the honour of this occasion , you w ill excuse a equal my devotion to my native land , still I take this than of a man of action ; there is a speculative air in his few words, I may say, inspired by your presence , expression as an encouragement to go on in that way face, mingled with some dogree of melancholy, which and said to you without any preparation. (Cheers.) which I took for the aim of my life , and which I hope the ¦would mark him for a visionary or theoretical enthuaiust It is, indeed , an honour to be welcomed by the peop le of blessing of the Almighty and the sympath y of the people rather than for & great leader or a soldier. He was very Eng land in this noble town. It is the highest gratifica- of England , and of all generous hearts over the world , plainly attired in a dark green frock-coat with » little tion to me that it was the munici pality of the first town I may help to carry to a happy issue. (Cheers.)'* «ilk braid »t the back and edges, and wore a common , had the honour to meet, which receives me in such a low-crowned , squajre , felt hat. Madame Kossuth , who generous manner. It is not on this day only, but from A few more eloquent and grateful words, with seemed in dclicato health , stood beside her children , my early youth , that this glorious country h;id a mighty warm allusions to the (iueen, and M. Kossutli sat Francis and Louis , boys, and Wilhclinina , a g irl , the share in ray destiny. ( Cheers.) 1 was used to look down. Then the meeting rose to its feet, and the eldest about eleven , the youngest seven, and was drcsaed on England as on the Book of Life, which had to cheering lasted several minutes. " Three groans" «s simply as her husband." teach me and tho nations of Europe how to live. were given for the Austrian tyrant ; nnd afterward s As the vessel entered the dock, the orowds at the (Loud cheers.) Through three centuries , the House of the Mayor, giving a sketch of ita history, presented pier heads cheered loudl y, and M. Kossuth, with Austria has exhausted against Hungary the arts to KoHsuth the flag worked by Home Hungarians in uncovered gment. There of open violence and of secret intri gue, nnd it New York , which has ho long head, bowed in acknowled was our munici pal institutions which still among been in the Custom- were, perhaps, 800 or 1000 persons stationed jit these , house. points the most arduous circumstances , conserved to Hun- ; but opposite the mooring-ground of the gary Home spirit of public life and some part " Kossuth took the flap;, pressed it to his bosom , and Madrid , the whole quay-wall wnu thronged, and of constitutional liberty ( Laud and continued cheers .) said with energy— ' I receive , Gentlemen , this (lag , as some 2000 or .3000 persons wen; collected there, fore- It was at the tune when this fatal Kickne.sH of political the moat valuable truti t intrusted to the peop le of Hun- most among whom were the refugees. As the vessel feeling to centralize every power , and to tutor tho people gary, and I swear to you , whatever be; our fur, cowardice was proceeding to her moorings, a boat, in which into ibis notion of political wisdom —when this fatal and ambition hIkiII never tarnish this ifajj .' WereMr.Cro.skey, the AmericanConsul.M.l'ulzrtk y nnd Hickurss , I nay , spread over the Continent , and made " Great cheering and app lause , after winch M. Koumith Madame Pulzsky, boarded her. The meeting between its way even to my own country, ho that it became handed the flag to Mr. Croskey , the American Consul." *"« latter and the KohhuiIi family was very warm almoHt the fashion , and almost a mark of intelli gence , to The address of tho working men of Southampton «»d tender. M. KohhuUi pressed Madnmel'ulzsky to hiu bend towards the doctrine of centralization , that 1, my was presented to KomhuI.Ii , and a suitable repl y re- iieart, while which slowly humble Hclf , with a few friends who stood by me, strug- incident hero occurred , his uyoH filled with tears, g led against this i.torm—against turned. A rather amusing »<>Ued down his cheeks. M. Pul/sky saluted Madame those mulling waves more illustrative of I'higlish freedom than many moret lvosauth most ulz.sk coming over tin- Kp irit of Kuropc , because 1 regarded , warmly, and «he and Madame 1' y and I ever shall regard , munici pal public life as a public pretentious things. «ew into each othor a arms, kissed each other and for the Times.' Groans ac- v«:nt in benefit , without which there is no practical freedom " A Voioe : ' Three groans turns. M. l'ulzsky, too, was deeply affected, whatever (loud cheers), and for tho Iohb of which I think cording ly, amid which lno children were then embraced, ana a general all Ministerial exclaimed : Now, remember wo are all «hakin responsibilities and Parliamentary pri- " Tho Mayor ' K of hunds then took place. This little hcciio vilege but a pitifu l equivalent. ( Cheers.) In this land Kng lishmeii lieie ; and remember , when the press takes Vouched all tho bybtundero, but tho onthusiaBm on is Btcu the iineut fruilu of this conquest of libejty : the up uny question you arc always the better for tUoir 1008 ST Ii r fttaftMt t* [Saturday, under Major Kyle, tea together, the Reverend opinion. Don't talk of groaning at the Times, I'll tell men of the Forty-fifth Regiment, E. R. Lwken M?.., you what is much better. Let us give three cheers for while patrolling near the Sevenkloof Mountains, was called to the chair. ' •"*••& ( Kafirs and Hot- the Queen.' Cries of * Bravo I' and then three loud had a sharp conflict with a body of The Chairman said it gave him great pleasure tn cheers forthe Queen)." tentots, losing one man killed and three wounded ; preside at this festival, and he was happy erable loss, in to learn Three cheers, -with one cheer more for Louis Kos- but inflicting, as was believe d, a consid that the prospects of the society were brighter th suth and the cause of Hungary ; three cheers for both killed and wounded, on the enemy. Another they had ever been previously. No great under «• cheers for the skirmish took place near the Debe Neck, on August taking can be carried on without meeting Madame KossUth and family; " three Forty-Fifth Regi- tnZ* mayor ; cheers for Mr. Gilpin, who spoke ; cheers 19, between Captain Vialls, of the obstacles ; but if their faith in the principles of as»o! for Mr. George Dawson, who spoke ; and then a final ment, with about 70 men , and a number of Kafirs, of ciation was firm, and their hearts good, these obsta cheering dispersion of the crowd. Decidedly one of whom several were shot, with no loss to Captain cles, instead of preventing their efforts, would the most brilliant and hearty receptions ever given Vialls' detachment. stimulate them to greater exertions, and carry them A detachment under Lieutenant-Colonel Burne, forward to complete success. There by England to an Exile. The banquet will take is something place on Tuesday next. Second Royals,, encountered a body of Stock's, cheering in the idea of harvest-home; and when we Seyolo's, and Botman's Kafirs, with a number of see that such a number of friends have assembled at Hottentots, on the 1st of September, near Commit- such a distance from bur estate, to PROSPECTS OF THE KAFIR WAR. celebrate with re- tee's Drift. Several desperate charges, it is said, joicings the gathering in of our crops, we are conl By the Birkenhead we have accounts from the were made by the men of the Second, who, though vinced that they take a deep interest in Perhaps this is the our movel Cape down to September 12. unused to this kind of fighting, are stated to have ment8. And when the pioneers of the society most disastrous mail which has yet reached us from displayed great spirit. Two men of this regiment in Wales hear of our present meeting, papers before us contain- they will the seat of war. We have were killed (one sergeant and one private), and five be encouraged in their labours. I expected that ing accounts of the movements of the troops, the in- wounded ; of the Royal Sappers and Miners, one there would have been some written , his devastations within the statement of cursions of the enemy was killed and one was wounded ; in the Cape Corps the farming operations to lay before you ; this it frontier, the utter inefficien cy of the governor's move- and Armstrong's Horse, two men were wounded. seems will not be the case ; but from friends ments to protect the colony, and the almost un- In the whole, three men were killed, and eight (or, who have visited the community this River Sovereignty. autumn, we paralleled state of the Orange according to another account, twelve) wounded. The learn that the land has been much improved, and " Accounts from the frontier are as gloomy as dead and wounded were sent to Port Peddu, and the that the crops have been the best in that part of ever," writes the Zuid Africaan of August 25, and detachment returned to King "William s Town. On the country, with the exception of . those upon no change for the better occurred down to the latest their march the Kafirs are said to have attacked them the model farm near Cross Inns, where they have date. " The enemy, whose absence is lamented by again. more capital and more labourers than you have at the troops in Kafirland , prosecutes his devastations The reported incidents of farm burnings, cattle present. The Reverend Chairman then went on to within the colony, without let or hindrance, invading liftings, surprises, murders, and general devastation, show that the doctrine of cooperation had made great the parts which have hitherto escaped his fury, and are endless. Of course wherever they are fairly progress since he last met them on a similar occasion, spreading murder and pillage all around. caught the Kafirs get thrashed ; but their predatory even in countries where it might have been least ex- " Kafirland is no longer the seat of warfare. The guerrilla is extremely difficult to be adequately met pected. He referred particularly to Russia and frontier districts are actuall y in the enemy's posses- by regular troops. Spain, and gave some interesting particulars of what sion, whose advantages appear to increase every mo- Political aspects are not at all encouraging for was doing in those countries. He then urged the ment, without any means being available to quell his Ministers. A meeting was held on the 12th of friends of the society to complete the building fund, ardour or to check his progress. The most serious August, in the Clanwilliam District, and several and thus enable the Directors to send more labourers apprehensions have been realized and the most awful strong resolutions passed, the firs t four of which we on to the estate. He had great confidence in the prospects are visible in the distance. subjoin. Directors of the society, and was particularly pleased: " The force sent to Somerset at the eleventh hour, •' That we are, and under all circumstances will re- with the truly social, give-and-take spirit which per- has not been able to stem the atrocities of old main, faithful and loyal subjects of the British Crown , vaded the meetings of the Congress which he had Macomo, or to expel him and his bands. The whole steadfast and submissive to the laws, ever living for the the honour to preside over in the early part of this district has been ravaged by him, and the colonial peace and quiet of the country ; but that we shall adopt summer ; for he could truly state that, although forces, composed of not less than 1800 men, have re- all constitutional means to maintain our rights and liber- there were many differences of opinion as to points of turned exhausted and dispirited. The indifference ties as British subjects, not only as regards ourselves, policy, yet he never heard men express their views displayed in reference to the protection of the Colony, but also with the view of handing the same over as the with greater moderation and consideration than on is beginning to produce its baneful effects, and along best legacy to our children ; that we shall do everything that occasion. In conclusion, he apologized for the in our power to obtain without delay a free and un- the whole frontier line not a farm has escaped either shackled Constitution , with a Representative Assembly absence of Mr. Thornton Hunt, who was prevented the torch or the steel of the victorious enemy." and Legislative Council, in accordance with the Sixteen from being present, owing to his being engaged in In the British Sovereignty beyond the Orange Articles drawn up by the independent members returned preparing a worthy welcome for the Hungarian Hiver matters did not wear a more favourable aspect. by the united voice of the people, and which members so patriot, Kossuth. ( Great app lause.) He then read The Dictator of that region, Major Warden , de- nobly resigned rather than violate the sacred trust which the following extract from a letter which he had nounced the people of the two Basuto chiefs — had been placed in their hands ; that the seat of Govern- received from Mr. T. Hunt:— Moshesh and Molitsane—as enemies, on the 5th of ment must remain in Cape Town, as it was when this " The doubts hanging over the arrival of Kossuth will August, and called up ail male inhabitants, capable Colony was ceded to the British Crown ; and that no prevent my joining you at Leeds. I need not say hovv separation of provinces should take place until we shall I regret this. But I shall not be missed on Monday. of bearing arms, to assemble without delay, intimating service— martial law would soon be promulgated by have obtained free popular representation , after which The town which has done so much for social also that each province may assert its rights ; and that we cannot which has a Redemption Society and a People's Mill— her Majesty's High Commissioner. The greatest allow ourselves to be unjustl y accused and slandered , by which has men of Egglestone's working zeal, Hole's confusion appeared to prevail there, and it is a re- the term dogged indifference, used by the Colonial philosophical grasp, David Green's missionary enthu- markable fact that the denounced Chiefs and the Secretary at Cape Town , in his letter to the Secretary siasm, Holmes' statesmanlike sagacity, cannot miss a Dutch farmers, inhabitants of the Sovereignty, were for the Colonies, and therefore desire to submit to the stranger as yet little known to it, especially when the decidedly averse to hostilities, declaring that not the Supreme Government in England, and the nobleminded respected President can speak for nine at the gathering- slightest difference or cause of discontent exists be- portion of the British nation , that our apparent back- Mean while, in preparing a . welcome for the Hungarian , tween them. wardness arises from an absolute impossibility to leave am I not helping a grand application of our princi ple— What the consequence will be of this ill-judged our farms, where we are nearly all without any servants the Concert of Peoples—the true protection for popular proceeding on the part of the irresponsible ruler, to assist us, and where our wives and children of the freedom ? Plead that valid excuse for one, with our it is not very difficult to determine. The farmers, most tender ages, have to assist in raising the necessaries friends." (Applause.) unwilling to be v sed as mere soldiers for the main- of life, and to perform the most menial offices ; and that After the secretary had read letters from W. we are still Buffering from the ruinous effects of the last Charles Kingsley, tenance of a policy in the regulation of which they unfortunate Kafir war, during which we turned out in Scholefield , Esq., M.P., Reverend appeared to be firmly resolved rather and Mr. George Dawson, regretting that they could have no voice, such numbers, and were kept in a state of inactivity for interest to put up with the greatest sacrifices than to a period of live months, exposed to every species of an- not attend the festival, and expressing their interfere against their will in a conflict which noyance and privation, without any good result having in the operations of the society, Mr. D. Green ad- they consider most dishonourable ; whilst MosheBh, sprung therefrom." dressed the meeting at considerable length upon tho equally repudiating all desire to wage war, has The remaining resolutions indicate an equally blessings of communal life. made the solemn vow, in case of attack, to defend E. Vansittart Neale, Esq., next addressed the determined spirit, menace exclusive dealing, ab- meeting his cause for years in succession, which was held to stinence from ardent spirits if needful , and a weekly meeting. He commenced by telling the mean nothing less than an implacable hatred dis- honestly, that he was not very sanguine as to the levy to sustain the agitation. Altogether a very doctrine played in a horrible war of retaliation. formidable string of resolves. success of Communism. He believed in the With respect to Sir Harry Smith, ho was exe- of Association but was afruid that Communism was cuting exactly the same kind of profitless manoeuvres Not less energetic were the merchants and In- an exaggeration on the side of union ; that the prin- as on July 20, when the lost muil left ; that is, he habitants of Bloem Fontein. At a large public ciple as wished to bo carried out by the Redemption ¦was engaged in Bending out troops to traverse meeting the conduct of Major Warden was highly Society, was not elastic enough for human n»tur.c' British Kaffraria in various directions. Since that censured. The resolution asserted " that the pro- He knew that there were successful communities m time the same system of operations has been con- ceedings of the British resident against the Chiefs to establish anu and Molitsane up to tho present period, America, and believed it poesible , tinued with little variation. Patrols have been Moshcuh , carry on one or more communities in this country passing to and fro in KufTraria, occasionally crossing do not appear to be based on principles of justice and but he doubted that ever common property wouia the boundary into the colony, while the dopredu- equity, that there was a predetermined resolution on become a general practice amongst men. Notwi tho part of tho British Resident, based on strong the s >- of the enemy have been carried on with as Diaiiuiiit jiin uuiciuiiuu win*, wlvj promoters^*.w*»-«- of > t tions standing Ins difference with tho «« much activity and huccchs hh ever, in sp ite of the prejudice against these tribes, not to do justice to ciety in this matter, he had so much sympathy efforts of the colonists and Home detachments of Moshesh and Molitsane ; that the disturbed state of the whole idea of Association, that he was glad to met the troojis to check them. tho country is principally owing to tho injustice on with them, and to have the privilege of adaressi k specimens of these operations, take the fol- the part of the British Resident, in not complying them- He had much more confidence in tho immeaiu As with Moshosh's request for a strict investigation, and inoveI lowing :— success of that part of the cooperative t))(; the British Resident's determination to root out spreading so rapidly in this country ^ Lieutenant-Colonel Michel was sent, on the 7th of Molitsune without giving him a hearing ; and that which i» w about 900 men to cloar the cooperative stores. Ho could sec no way l>y ^ August, with a force of the proceedings of the British Resident towards the ho easily, rea j t Fish Kiver UuhIi , between Trompetter' H the working classes especially could extensive colonists wore imprudent and arbitrary, and, there- and surely reap all the benefits of association. _J and Committee's Drift, where a number of mnrauderH fore, injurious to the welfare of tho country." could st - themselves. Colonel Michel tra- this means, without any sacrifice, they hod established adulteration , and get goou iw < ^ versed theso fftHtneHBCB for five days, and destroyed themselves against incon , tho enemy. On one oc- HARVEST HOME FESTIVAL OF THE at a reduced price, thus increasing their several of the locations of expenditure, lie was n»i J > j during u night movement, the enemy fired REDEMPTION SOCIETY. diminishing their d casion, A fcntival, in celebration of the third know that tho friends of the Redemption &°citiy from an ambush upon his column, and killed two harvcHt-homc wished *»«'" c Levy ; but tho aasnilanta of the WoIhIi community, took place in tho Music- organized a store in Leeds, and /f l men of the Clanwillium success. He then pointed out the great »d b wero beaten off, with, as was believed, considerable hall, Leeds, on Monday evening, October 20. the JJ"" rai About 400 persons, interested in tho progress of co- which resulted from the existence of £ loss. nnd went on to chow tuot, "J About tho middle of August a detachment of lfiZ operation, ossemblod. After tho company had taken Agency " in London \ Oct. 25, 1851.] gCftg JLtAtltt. 1009 active agitation in and around New- aTe not among those -who have been * honourably men- people connected with the various stores ex- notice of the tioned. the each other, as, for in- townards, for extended Tenant-right, and havin g ' " dianging their produce with following people of Leeds exchanging their woollen many vassals in that quarter, has issued the These are not all, but they are sufficiently Btancl the " characteristic of the general run of cloths for groceries with the cooperators of London, " general order :— protests. ereater advantages might be gained ; and, instead of " MEMOB ANDXJM FOR OFFICE. merely having cooperative stores they might have " Tower of Garron , October 13. THE VON BECK MYSTIFICATION. , &c, and be always sur e of a cooperative cloth-mills " Understanding there is to be a Tenant-league meet- To the Editor of the Leadek. market for their produce. That , by means of a central ing at Newtownards, I hereby make known to the tenant- of selling their manufactured goods that those who think proper to Sra,—Will you oblige me and the friend3 in Bir- aeency, instead farmers on my estate, ham with whom I acted in the affair for money, and buy ing teas, &c , of the merchants of attend, or take part in such meeting, shall never receive ming of the Liverpool for money, thus allowing the hereafter the tenant-right always hitherto en- soi-disant Baroness von Beck, by inserti ng the London or from me , the ori ginals of mere dealer to obtain a large portion of the profit, j oyed and granted to them by my ancestors and myself. accompan ying statement which , directl y with the great tea-houses of « Vane Londonderry." signed by the parties making them, I also forward to they might deal century feu- necessity for publishing them, China, export their own manufactures, and import This elegant specimen of nineteenth you ? To show the I The same with coffee, sugar , and all dalism has met the resistance it deserved. The New- preface them with some extraots from the Refutation, their own teas. ished b articles of foreign produce. He concluded by alluding townards Tenant-right Committee met on the 14th , collected by Mr. Derra, and publ y Mr. pub lished in the Quarterl y Review, Dr. William Moore in the chair, read the " Vane Bentley. We are very desirous that the whole truth to an article lately has been to us and said that it was evident to him that the writes of Londonde rr y " proclamation, and unanimously of this sad affair should be known—it article, not being able to answer the arguments adopted the following sturdy resolutions :— a painful matter ; when we received the " Baroness" the with hosp itality, we believed we did right; when we of the Socialists , had been compelled to have recourse " That this committee have heard read with surprise to abuse. The writer had done what gentlemen of and indi gnation the foregoing manifesto ; that they dare committed her to the police, we believed we did s) profession were often accused not doubt its authenticity, and cannot but regard it as ri ght: the evidence in her favour when first she his (Mr. Neale' , they against her of doing when they had a bad case to defend, worthy of Lord Londonderry. At the same time came to us seemed strong, the evidence blackguard the plaintiff's counse l, take leave to consider the issuing of such a_ circular as at last seemed stronger. Whether Mr. Derra has namely, abuse and infringement of the free action and civil rights of his or indeed any person who took his part. (Applause.) an told a '* plain , unvarnished " tale, I must leave you tenant-farmers, which they recommend them to resist to determin e, when you have read the following The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. with spirit by attending, universally, the meeting of bell Arandall, papers. I am, Sir, yours truly, Beed, of Epworth , and Messrs. Camp , Tuesday next ; and the committee submit that these George Dawson. and Henderson, of Leeds, all of them expressing proceedings on the part of landlords amount to such an their satisfaction with the kind and honest manner invasion of the liberty of free men as to call loudly on On p. 6 it is said of Mr. Derra " that he was requested in which Mr. Neale had stated his'views, and also the Government and the Legislature for such a tenant- to step into another room , as there was a gentleman stating that they had unlimited confidence in. the ri ght measure as will put an end , once and for ever, to there who wanted to speak to him. Derra immediately success and ultimate adoption of Communism by all such acts of attempted despotism. obeyed the summons; but no sooner was he outside and nations. " William Moore, M.D., Chairman ." the door shut, than he was seized by two policeman, After a vote of thanks to Mr. Neale and the There were upwards of sixty tenant-right farmers hurried along the passage, and thrust into a cab, which was in waiting. All his demands for explanation as to Chairman , Mr. Neale in his respose, said he had no present when these resolutions were passed, a large intention to discourage them by his previous re- majority of whom were tenants of Lord London- the nature of the charge upon which he was arrested rather urge them to go on in their were treated with contempt and insult." marks. He would derry, eays the Banner of Ulster. " The Baroness and Kaszonyi were still in the room , own way ; as they would all find that the most in- knowing nothing of what had befallen Derra. About fallible corrector- of mistakes is experience. The THE EXPOSITION PROTESTS. ten minutes or a quarter of an hour after his removal , speeches were interspersed with songs, glees, &c, and Mr. Richard Peyton approached the Baroness and po- at ten o'clock dancing commenced, an d was kept up Those long lists, enumerating the awards of the juries, litely offered her his arm , intimating his wish to speak with spirit and decorum until one. which, occupied the dail y journals last week, have to her in private. She accepted his support , and left the been the subjects of endless comment. Protests were room , when the same scene was played over aga in. She to be expected , and protests have come forth. We could not speak Eng lish, and it is easy to conceive the PROTECTIO N IS DEAD, BUT GRANBY LI VET H ! signalize two. The Chevalier Claussen exhibited a terror of a hel pless woman thus dragged from the midst Whether the great rent-extracting process, Pro- machine for preparing flax and manufacturing linen of a social assembl y where the very moment before she tection, be dead or not, it is clear that the Marquis of of a novel construction. The invention seemed to had been treated with all possible respect and attention ; Granby is still extant ; and that what there is of him have many advantages. Obviously it was, as a dressed as she was for an evening party, and infirm in great health , suddenl y, and in. ignorance of her alleged crime , flourishes vivaciously. Mr. Disraeli may have given new invention, either good for nothing or of carried off to prison. " up Protection, Mr. Henley may despair of getting up value. It is certainly not perfect ; but it is less im- perfect than existing methods, and supplies some ad- Compare with this the evidence given on oath by a case for reversing the verdict of 1846, but , at all Mr. Stephens , Chief Superinten dent of the Birming ham events , the heir of Belvoir will stand fast to the old mitted requirements—to state only one, the carrying with agriculture. Police , on the occasion of the inquest. It is as follows thing. The Waltham Agricultural Association met on. of manufacture in conjunction (quoted from the Birmingham Mercury of September 6). on the 17th instant , and dined under the presidency The Chevalier has, however, been awarded onl y a of the Marquis, who was the stump-orator of the prize medal, or kind of very honourable mention, and "A warrant , signed by Mr. James James , was on Fr iday this he has declined to accept, we think with great last p laced in his hands for the apprehension of deceased , evening. The show had not been so good as usual, by false pretences and nor the attendance of farmers so numerous. Rumour reason. It seems to have been an error of judgment on a. charge of obtaining money , on the part of the jury. New inventions are seldom in consequence , between eight and nine o'clock t h e same maliciously asserts, that very disagreeable communi- night , he proceeded in company with Sub inspector cations have of late been made frdm the Lord of perfect ; but here was a more than respectable be- Sand y, to the house of the last witness (Mr. H. W. Belvoir to his tenant vassals, and th at , notwith- ginning. Claussen's machine has been one of the Tyndall). The deceased was called into a room appro- standing agricultural distress and f ree trade, a rise notorieties of the season, and for originality deser ved priated to her use, an d the nature of the charge was in the rent is contemplated. The remarkable one of the highest prizes. explained to her throug h an interpreter , Mr. II. Peyton. things to be noted, however, at this meeting are, The next protest is that of the musicians. This For a moment afterwards she seemed surprised , but soon that the Marquis of Granby, one of the preux of" is a singular case, quite different from that of M. recove r ing herself , she put on her attire and walked the Country Party, declared unreservedly for Claussen. Here we find that the decision of the readil y to the car. " the " remed y he had already advocated " ; that he jury appointed to award the prizes for the best Mr. Step hens having detailed her treatment in the made ghastl y merriment musical instruments—a jury composed of men like ni ght , the Coroner observed , " The evidence of Mr. out of the assertions of the hens clearl y proved that the deceased had been sub- press , that Protection was dead ; and that he laboured William Sterndale Bennett, the Chevalier Neukomm, Step and Sir Henry Bishop—reversed by the Council. jected to no unnecessary degree of restraint , but had hard to prove that Mr. Disraeli has not given up been treated with proper care and attention. " Protection. This we take to be indicative of a split There appears to be great reason in this protest, and the conduct of the Council remains among the in- On p. 8 of the Refutation Mr. Derra says :—"At in the country party, and to show that the Marquis length the morning began to dawn upon this night of of Granby is not in the confidence of the honourable scrutable mysteries. misery. Tho violence of the tempeat that raged within member for Bur.k«. With respect to other protests hero are samples. me began to ab ate : I coul d think of my position with But Herefordshire has also spoken as well as Mr. Loseby protests against three out of four council something like calmness. I sat down upon the wretched Granby. A great hope of the party, Mr. Booker, medals having been awarded to foreigners in the bench that served for a bed , and tried to comprehend the opened his lips at a meeting of tho Agricultural section of Horology, on the ground that his own im- circumstances of the last few hours , and to discover , if bociety of provements give this country " an undoubted claim, possible , the cause of my captivity . Whilst reflecting that ox renowned county. lie spoko ori with great coarseness, and in a style which we hop e to the merit of having ginated the chief improve- upon these subjects , my attention was attracted by a low even Herefordshire ments effected in chronometers and clocks within the mournfu l sound , which seemed to proceed from the cell farmers are not prepared to adjoining that in which I was confined. I had been tolerate. But he also, like Granb last century." Mr. J. 11. Pape declines the prize y the Great, is awarded to him, as he objects to prize giving. He aware of this noise all night , thoug h I was so distract ed confiden t of a reversal of that policy under which with my own passions that it did not excite my special they suffered." Mr. Cornewell wishes it to bo distinctly understood that he does not Lewis and Sir Robert any blame the jury. notice. It sounded like the voice of a human being in £nce, were there also, it is true, and of course the in way distress . I approached the partition and listened agricultural mind " of Herefordshire had to listen " On the contrary, " he writes , " I ought to be satisfied atte ntivel y, and soon distinguish ed the voice of the to .t ree-trade doctrines and Free-trade advieo. to find myself in the same position as Messrs. Droadwood unhappy liaronesa. She was groaning weakly, and lnese two phenomena—the Granby in Leicester- and Collnrd , who made a disp lay of good and beautiful pra y ing that some Christian would give her a glass of shire, and the Booker in Herefordshire—holding instruments , worth y of their extensive cBtubliuhmonts , cold water for Christ' s Bake ! and send her a physician , oy faBt wheroas those of my important new invention *), which I the corpse of a buried criminal injustice, modify a as she wa» dying. She spoke German , and , therefore , little the estimate which muBt be formed as to the had intended for tUo inhibition , wer e not comp leted in was not understood ; but I heard a rough voice cry to attitude which the Country time. " her several times to be quiet. I begged the keeper very Party will assume next moving ly to allow me to go out of my cell for a few ¦CBBion. Granby, and Young, and Booker, and M. Guilleress exhibited " lentils " and he is not uo iiulwer (if the much aa mentioned ! minutes ; he did so, and accompanied me himself. I la«t be elected), will, no doubt, show looked into the Baro ness' s cell ; she was sitting upon the "gut at\mh tho irregulars Medals the head of , and Disraeliand will find him- " ," he nays , " are given to ' rolls of side of the bed. I was astounded at the change which ^* u lifeless cause a mutinous tobacoo ,' and snu ff,' unern » without reproach , althou gh ho may enough. " to the wall , aga inst which sh« supported herself whilst he tlmuti whic h I wa« standing. ¦ i«¦ ,, f«»* »» n landlord. Tho county of Down Messrs. Crawford and Lindsay, of Bunbridge, H ho crawled to the door , outni.le not one of tho Irelund, get « I urn falsely char ged with being no barones s,' she said , " rebellious " Catholic counties ; no prize for linens and ttheetingH. They 1 impostors. ' (On p. (5 , Hhe wan _„,. nant-nglit U(lvocatCH of Ulster cannot be termed comp luin that their urticles were not even examined. and t hey say that wo aro r ter H Sti U dragged away in ignorance of her alleged crime.) Her iiX T , ' tlu;y ro «tro»K f<* Tcnant- " All the Irinh linens that have gained and wild , and ahe nobbed convulsively 1 d by Shnrn >»» Crawford" League, medula bear voice was alter ed Th« nini - and the traces of examination . Tho constitution of the jury we when she uttere d these words. She then cried out , <1U1H of Jondondowy, forgetting that it is knew was against our ysician—I am dying—a little water t a «otnot Uiotl. eleventhi interests ; of course, wo have not • Send mo a ph , but tho nineteenth, century, taking beea awarded a j oed*l, and happy aro we to add that wo little wutcr I for Jcuua ' aak* I' 1010 &t) t QLt&ilt t* [Satcrd ay, BIRMINGHAM. rallel ? And does it not show that our treatment oT^T* " The keeper, Joseph Yeates—let his name be recorded MATTHEW HILL AT le/actors is better calculated to with honour—was kind enough to procure her a glass of M. D. Hill, the Re- confirm them in -i Great praise is due to Mr. doing than to withdraw them from crime ? It will bph water, which she had prayed for in vain in her own corder of Birmingham, for his consistent exertions served that I speak of the general language for nine hours and a half. I then returned to Xast year, m working of our svatpm to prevent rather than punish crime. That there are many exceptions to the rule I am irUA7" nay cell, to await the investigation , which I was informed he put for ward, it will believe. u l0 before the town his charge to the grand jury, " ° would take place at eleven o'clock, be remembered, a theory . on this subject which magistrates." public, and consider- Having established this position, he points out th attracted great notice fro m the « startling fact that for many years we 6 INSPECTOR GLOSSOP S STATEMENT. able discussion in the press. He proposed to hold have been era "I am inspector in the Birmingham police force. I dually mitigating the severity of our criminal ' and reside in restraint known malefactors who could be shown code am the governor of the prison in Moor-street, crime as a calling, of our criminal administration, and lessening ' in the house attached thereto. On the night of Friday, on sufficient evidence to pursue periods of imprisonment. Not onl th the Baroness although by their dexterity and good fortune they y this, but those the 29th of August last, a person called colonies set apart as penal settlements, have von Beck slept in a room in my house, and Jijli zaoetn had been able to elude the proof of any specific actually ht. On the same Quarter Sessions, refused to admit more convicts into their limits Taylor was with her during the nig offence." At the opening of the And these two facts, taken in night Constant Derra was in one of the cells of the on the 18 th instant, Mr. Hill again recurred to the connection with for a p erson in that cell to hear , sustaining and the system of retributive punishment, lead prison. It is not possibl e subject, and delivered another charge the belief that henceforward to what passed in the bedroom where the female pris oner elaborating the views he took last Michaelmas. He considerable addi- slept that nio-ht. On the next morning (Saturday) she , that he had carefull y tions will and must be made to the number of and was attended to by was bound to say, he observed convicts roaming at large, not onl was removed to one o( the cells, considered all the objections which had been urged y unreformed, but I saw her there about nine o clock. hardened and educated in the practice Mrs. Beaumont. against his plan, that he had weighed the arguments of crime Seeing that she was ill , I inquired what she would like Having no colonial outlets for our convicts Nothing.' However I gave her on both sides, and taken into account some general with to have. She said , ' confirmation of his limited terms of imprisonment, it is obvious that some brand y. Mrs. Beaumont had previously taken her facts, and that the result was the cell. After speaking views embraced a speculative there must be a permanent augmentation among us some tea. Derra was in the next original views. Those of liberated convicts. He does not advocate to the female prisoner, I went to him and asked him who opinion and a practical proposal : — tran- know. I asked him if he sportation but points out the inevitable consequence ehe was. lie said he did not My speculative opinion was, that all persons living to her. He said he had, bu t did " of its stoppage while the country adheres to the had heard me talking without visible means of support , and who, in the belief punishment not know her ; and asked me what sort of a woman she are main- system of retributive . This will require ¦ but if I of witnesses acquainted with their way of life, was. I told him. He said he did not know her, stated calling, ought some special remedy, and what is the remedy Mr. would tell me. I told him I taining themselves by crime as their would let hi m see her he to be called upon to prove themselves in the enjoyment Hill proposes ? could not do that , and left him. The bed on which the further I propose that every person who has was a good feather bed, of some honest means of subsistence ; and 1 " been convicted female prisoner lay in my house such proof, they of a felony or of a misdemeanour implying ht. Derra had in his cell a good submitted that, in the absence of fraud (as and had clean sheets thatnig should be bound to give sureties for good conduct ; and obtaining goods under false pretences, knowingly passing mattress, p i llow, and rug, and- a good bedstead—exactly security, they themselves to sleep on. again , that failing to give satisfactory base coin, and the like) shall be liab.e to be dealt with as the same as our constables have limited period. This follows :—If after the expiration of his imprisonment October , 1851.— George should be committed to prison for a —Dated this 17th day of was my theory." under his conviction he shall be brought before a magis- Glossop." persevering The ground of this theory was that professional trate charged with still in crime, it shall be SERGEANT BEAUMONT' S STATEMENT. the duty of the magistrate, if the witnesses by were well known to the police, and that evidence " I am sergeant in the police force of Birmingham , marauder* of general conduct satisfy his mind that the charge is and head turnkey at the prison in Moor-street , Birming- with, such knowledge at its disposal society was not esttblished, to call on the prisoner to show that he enjoys ham. On Friday nig ht, the 29th of August last, I re- onl y justified but bound to use it for the general pro- the means of honest subsistence either from his property, ceived Constant Derra at the prison , and locked him up tection. So far theory. His practical proposal he hi« labour, the kindness of hi3 friends, the bounty of the in one of the cells of the prison. I had charge of him had limited in its application to convicted criminals charitable, or from his parish. Should he succeed in until'he was taken into the police court on Saturday for several obvious reasons. Conviction established adducing this proof, he is to be discharged. Should not taken morning. He did not leave his cell until he was the fact of criminality ; but in the majority of in- such proof be forthcoming, he is next to be called upon into the court , except between six and seven o'clock oti probability that to give bail for his good behaviour. Supposing him to when he was taken to the end of the stances there was no evidence nor Saturday morning, abandoned their evil course. " In- answer this demand, he is to be still entitled to his dis- corridor , on to wliich his cell opened , to wash himself. the convicts had " there be ?" charge. But in the event of his failure, he is then to be He said nothing to me about having heard any groaning, deed , asks Mr. Hill, " ho w should held to bail on his own recognizances, and his case to be nor did I hear any m; self; ar.d he did not have any com- The administration of the law proceeds on the prin- the assizes or sessions, when if a verdict ' " sent to a jury at , munication xcith any other priso ner. Soon after seven ciple of retribution. The criminal is convicted of a given pass against him , he is to be imprisoned for a term to be o'clock on S.-.turdav ru .rnin a Mrs. Taylor brought a offence, and has measured out to him a given length of fixed by the law, but capable of diminution by the judges female prisoner, who wa.j called the Baroness von Beck, punishment. It is true that during his term of confine- before whom he is tried." to me, and she -.vis \ i\m i ::: one of our cells. She asked ment we take some steps to reform h im , wliich are more me for some s.j - r:r. ir: i I recommended her to have some or less adapted to attain that end. But his detention is Mr. Hill thinks that this proposal " sufficiently tea instead, aa i a;v vl: ' -. i : ' ¦ ;<:nie tea for her. The walls neither in the first instance regulated by an estimate of guards the accused against the danger of being de- dividing the eel. x- r f . u.r -..tm. xiwhts thick. TLere was the time required for that purpose, nor is there any prived of his liberty on fallacious grounds." Indeed, ^ ' ' ' no prisor.er in ora -f; . -' r..: =¦. :•¦;; ..; i'ij -ining to thri t which power to continue it until his reformation is effected. the species of objection to which he thought his pro- Derra oecui: :;¦: :-z ' . ii -? " .. h -;2'J h of August. D^trd afflicted with a moral disease, but the posal most obnoxious was that it offered " too many " - - • ~ The prisoner is the 17th of < .• :¦£ :«" Beaumoxt, Sergeant." priso n cannot be considered in the light of a hospital for chances of escape to be practically efficient for the administration of m;.-;. ;.y..\.i: mint 's statement. its treatment without exposing the restraint of criminals. 15ut this objection has not ' ant J. criminal justice to ridicule. For what should we think On the contrary, it has been urged " I am the wife oi Ser^j - Beaumont, and am in the infectious been advanced. prisoners at the Birming- of an hospital fo r the cure of a malignant and Hill' provides too little protection habit of atter.diiip; ou female ore malignant or that Mr. s proposal ham prison. On S ir urduy morning, the 30th of August, I disease (and surely no disease can be m against possible injustice. Mr. Hill admits that no -miile prisoner called the Baroness von more infectious than crime), if the r ule of its governors attended upon a f. is cured , but a court is infallible, that no touchstone of testimony From between seven and ei g ht o'clock until was to keep the patient, not until he be Beck. according to a principle of re- has been discovered, and that innocent men may eleven o'clock , when she died. I toolc her some tea and week, a month , or a year, more gulation quite irrespective of his condition at the time of convicted. But these are general objections no toast about eig ht o'clock , but she declined to take it ; she and care ful gave her water his dismissal, and making it altogether a matter of acci- applicable to his scheme;than to the ordinary asked for water , and I gave her some. I or whether he thinks that the and did all I could to sooth and comfort dent whether he is relieved of his distemper, administration of justice. Indeed, very frequentl y, n througho ut the laud. open to these her. In the next coll to that in which she was there was he is sent forth to spread infectio trials he proposes would not be so not see or As long, then, as punishmen t is measured out on the charges as trials lor specific offences. Mr. Hill drew a young man called Constant Derra. He did once con- communication with her .—Dated the 17th of retributive principle, so long an individual a vivid and touching picture of the Frome violation have any juat and unavoidable October 1851.— Elizahhtii Beaumont." victed must remain an object of and murder : — , icion ; and the class to which he belongs may rea- susp this juri sdiction TVl ltS. HMZ M1KTJI TAYLOlt ' S STATEMENT. sonably be selected fo r any experiment which the welfare " Gentlemen, the cry in g necessity of -V from ¦ ¦ J J^ -^j %J *J ^_# Pk^ K V> t* «^ B B — ^ —^» ¦ w~- ~ - ¦ -. . — — — . - refrain • loyed at the prison in Moor-street, Bir- instituted." sop^ ^^ presses itself on my mind that I cannot " law emp of the community requires to be have elapsed mingham , to attend on female prisoners . On Friday adverting to it once more. But few days There is good reason to believe that criminals since the part of England in which I reside (the county nig ht, the '29ih of August last, I passed the night with , who was called the Baroness von Beck , pursue a career of depredation for long periods with of Somerset) was the Hcene of an appalling outrage a lad y prisoner , horror. A in a bedroom in the (Governor ' s house ,- it waa on the floor impunity ; and Mr. Hill finds the reason for this in filling the district with indignation and punishments old was left by her parents alone at above the room in wliich Mr. Ulonaop, the governor, slept. the fact that " our present system of girl, fifteen years , at The bed on which the prisoner lay was a Rood feather bed. offers great facilities, not to say inducements, to a their dwelling, during their necessary attendance hbouring market at l-'rome. On their return There wan another bed in the room , but 1 sat up all nig ht , training to crime." Mr. Hill powerfully illustrates the neig noor, as the prisoner scorned ill. She often moaned , but not our home they found her dead body stretched on the his view by an ingenious comparison between " day—in a house loud enoug h to be. heard even in the a djoining room. I criminal*" and " that nn.I ilalitilcd in blood. In the onen present mode of proceeding to from others of the hamlet, and near to usked her frequently to have some water , but she always wish is xiot to deter but not distant l» '¦ la the morning, about seven o'clock, 1 asaisted which we pursue when our a. main road—had this unhappy girl lost her refused, " ence her to drcKH , and took her down stairs to one of the cells. to stimulate and encourage. in the defence, and alas ! in the unauccessful de| . ,., (I the care of Mrs. Beaumont the wife of is our treatment of our children in their edu- The panga of death were sharpened by * I left her there in , " What her purity, luae £ sergeants Whilst 1 was with her the did not cation ? l)o we not give them uhort and easy lcasona at cruel ignominy of violation. How much 1ch» one of the . ol iu, see any one, except myself , and Mrn. Beaumont, and the lirtit, lest they should be diagubted with learning at the had been her late—how much less bitter the grief tlie of October 18.51 .tii outset and no clone their minds against the lessons of bereaved parents—had Bue been devoured by a oeub turnkey.—Dated 17th , .— IZiaxa iii' , their i Tjlyi.ok." their touchers ? And do vre not augment their ta«ka prey ! Her image Would then have dwelt in ^ JOKitt'Il YUATKH H NTAT15MKNT with the growth of their strength, and in proportion as mory unsullied by those revolting associations ot I'" . led Ji0 " I am a constable in tlie Birming ham police force ; on practice addH to their ability for mental application ? Do tion with which it will now for ever be ininK • . c their progress ac- all our HympathicB c Saturday, the UOtli of August lust , 1 was on duty at the we not, in nhort , graduate the rate of convict then , 1 ask, to exhaust 11( JVloor- stroet , from seven o'clock in the morning cording to their powers of action and endurance ? Well, we to liuve no thoturUt for the myriads o< l '<> ' ^ prison in htli» [h until after eleven o'clock . 1 went round the cello in the then , let ua now consider our trcutment of criminals. faithfu l subjects exposed to the same ing I • of 1 found in the lirat a lad y, who I was told When the juvenile oilender first present** himself at feeling the want of protection, «-be comlort»i " courtm my dut y. deep ly itm was the Baroness von Heck. She was ly ing down on the the bar , we g ive him a bli g h t imprisonment , just lives is oftentimes dotUroyed by the perpetual inuttrens ; she was dressed ; tdie seemed ill . Mrs. lieau- enough to acciiHtom him to short neparationn lrom hurasbea their mindB ?" ht her utuno tea ; after this site illusion inont soon after broug , hia companions, and to dispel the wholeiioine evils fl'^in frequently for water. I always t>ave her some which had made the gaol a place of four , because it But, ho sny.s, those who fe;ir great . ,il(.e asked me m tlll! water whenever slu: asked , und 1 saw MrH. Beaumont was a place of mystery. On the next occasion he re- propoHiil advocate the ubo of iireurma llir hhw inspector (ilossop take her a muiiiH longer ; but he han become practised in pritum life, property ; u remedy he ^"^"""V ' take her water. 1 of life and a 1 tum lass of brand y . In the next cell was Mr. Derra ; 1 spoke and bears coniiucment far better than he would have more dangcroiiH to society tliun the; pructic.u .^,0 K for water and 1 gave it him , done but. for his former lefmon. Thin proccus in repeated wiiulH U H ^ to him • he frequently asked of hiH own proposal. Yet lie: uj> ! iu uh he alHO had pen , ink , and paper K ivui to him at Iiim from tim«' to time, while tlie moral which the wretched tlu: obvious admission that with tlio '' .j ,ut Haroticss was ; he did not with ui{ request • lie asked me how Die crenturc draws from bin alternations of cotiliuemcnt and present state wo must protect ouraelvcH f™»a taken into the p ublic office. freedom is, not to refrain from ollriiding, hut to com mit leave his cell until he was burglara uh wo beat can. hiH r.-ll , and (Sei cant Beaumont look (illciU 'c h in such a manner uh shall least expose him to the iit 1 then unlocked M i f the lnw w» » . him out: he passed Hie cell where the Baroness wan , rir.lt of detection ; and , moreover , that when at length " Neverthelefls , gentlemen , 1 „„,. uny a word to me detected he ought to hear hi» privations widi as much oi ruiiiiuiH to renmin at large, them) l>ar i>ui but he did not -speak to her ; he did not known will » ^ ^ groaning, and hv did not ask me contempt ami Uefiu nco uh he can command ; coiiboied by dies perhaps cannot, and moat certainly ' lhoj » f about, having heard any aec that any Jluroncss —Oclobtsr M>, 1861. —J oHUi'H thfl prospect of restored freedom , and the hope of better penned with ; yet. who dueu not ' avi iUJ0Jf, to take him to t/to . defective, «veu byW»i Ykjvtku." fortune in future, in not thi«, gentlemen, a fair pa- trial, however ru * &**&**? lon universal ? The President was raised Norbury, Esq. The ceremony infinitely to be preferred ? I have now, gentlemen, I suffrage shall'not be was performed by the ia to the objections to his high office by the people ; and he, at the least, is Reverend Lord Wriothesley Russell trust shown that my plan is not open The Honourable ' been raised against it; but I cannot con- only consistent when he attempts to secure to them that Victor A'exandrr . Master of Kinnaird, which have ey won for themselves by the revolution. eldest son of Lord and Lady Kinnaird clude without (parodoxical as it may appear) avowing right which th , died at Rossie than disconcerted at these If France be determined to have a republic, let the people Priory, on the evening of Saturday , the 18th instant. He that I am f ar more gra tified limit; and do not let any was eleven years of age, having been objections. They prove how deeply Englishmen are enjoy it to the very utmost born in 1840. for the liberty of the Government, or faction, interposeits weight and authority Died on Tuesday evening, at the rector's lodgings, imbued with instinctive reverence republicanism aged seventy, John Radford , D D. Dr. This, like every other sentiment, may be car- to lessen those blessed privileges which liadfofd (says a subj ect Let the principle contended for be fairl y worked correspondent) entered college in 1800 and took the ried to an unwarranted length. On the question before confers. , passing been so treated ; but I for one will out,—let the system of popular sovereignty be carried on degree of B.A. in 1804 his examination under vou I think it has not have the farce the shortlived system of the statute of 1801. He ever bear in mind that personal freedom is the surest in a truly popular manner,—and became and that hostility to any exhibited to the world of a republic with one half of its Fellow of his college in November of the same year as a foundation of our other liberties, . native of Yorkshire , was tutor for nearly thirty interference with it challenges my respect, even when it population disfranchised." year3, a reasonable jealou sy. If, then, Advances " and succeeded the well known and eccentric Dr. Tatham , exceeds the limits of In an article on the " Repayment of as rector, in 1834. on calm consideration , my proposal shall bo found by the the advocate wittily says, " To be sure, the Times, as of reflective men unwisely to infringe on that Milesian verdict usual, kicks up a row, and abuses Celt and The railway from Mestre to T reviso was opened on the noble privilege, none will rejoice more sincerely than its bent. The drollery, by the way, of myself that I have not been taken at my word. to the top of 14th instant, Field-Marshal Radctzky assisting at the who will have saved me from making Lord Lucan a Milesian, or Lord Sligo a ceremonies , with all his staff. Grateful shall I be to those Brown, and the the life long sorrow of having inflicted injury where I thorough Celt—the latter being a A book and printseller at Pesth has been airested and iiad humbly hoped to suggest an important benefit." former a Bingham ! " sentenced to eight days ' imprisonment for having in hia been pitched possession portraits of revolutionary personages. Another '• The liberties of the Continent have bookseller is now under examination for a similar offence. PUB LIC OPINION. below the prescriptive standard of the Holy Alliance, left Eng land for Brussels. light," The Count de Thomar has Courier, that lugubrious of country and for the present appear in very hopeless p It is stated to be the Count's intention to proceed to The Macelesfield sa s the L v pool Alb on in a sensible paper on the contains the following startling announce- y i er i , Portugal as soon as the Cortes meets. papers, Continental press :— onp that it is so ment. People say " See the Bay of Naples and Yes ! they are all of Family; we find Macelesfield Courier and take " That which for the nonce seems to render the future from the Corriere Mercantile ofGrnoa , of the 17th instant, die," we say, read the most disheartening is the unanimous hostility evinced which announces the arrival of the Duke of Leuchten- to your bed :— against the chief instrumentality by which not only berg, at Naples, on the 7th . ' " The Prince," says the " Many people think it impossible that England should political freedom has been won but advances made in correspondent of that journal , in a letter dated the 10th , ever again hold the rank among the nations which tt once every line of civilization. The popular sentiment, that " arrived in the French steamer Languedoc, and held, or which many think it still holds ^ It must be con- the " Liberty of the Prrss is like the air we breathe, alighted with his suite at the hotel of the Russian Em- fessed that it would be a most desirable thing to persuade without it we die," seems reversed in the councils of the bassy. At one o'clock he waited on the King, who re- foreign countries to abandon war at a time when, accord- despots ; and instead of coupling a wholesome vitality turned his viait an hour afterwards , dressed in a Russian ing to the Times, two millions out of two millions and a with its exercise, they associate their own humiliation. uniform. The Duke was likewise visited by all the other half of the inhabitants of London and its neighbourhood members of the Royal Family." are fed with foreign corn. The inhabitants of London A lad y of considerable beauty, and still young, died a are bound , on pain of starvation , to do all they can to PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP. few weeks ago, says the Constitntionnel, at the Batig- induce Government to submit to every indignity rather nolles. As she had lived alone, the Juge de Paix of the nothing of its honour, Royalty nbideth at Windsor Castle, whence the than defend its rights—to say Queen and her children walk forth in the Home- district took possession of her furniture and her effects, ¦which some hold cheap. If the impossibility of review- " on behalf of the heirs. Amongst other things was a Trade measures involves the impossibility park and slopes," enjoying the fine autumn prospect, ing the Free Gran- rather large collection of richly bound books. On open- of preventing the degradation of England, we can only while Prince Albert goes shooting with Lord ing one of the volumes, the Juge de Paix found a will ; say we are sorry for it, and content ourselves with adding ville. Altogether a pleasant contrast to drives through in a second there was a second will, and in nearly all the the Moslem expression of pious resignation : ' It is the the Pass and among the craigs of Ballater, and deer- others there were others. Each of these wills was of a will of God ! "* stalking. different date, and each constituted a different person The Northern Whig touches gracefully upon the Bloomerism. is appearing at various places, notably universal legatee. These legatees were all young topic of last week, the provincial visits of the Queen , next week at Hanover-square-rooms, where a men—officers of the army, advocates, shopmen, artists, with the tour Bloomer ball is to be held. This is a " great fact." actors, students, architects , and ph ysicians, in short, of comparing the progress of Elizabeth and of almost every class of society. of Victoria; ending with this question :— So is the cost of a ticket a large sum. But "it is every profession , low vulgar Bloomers " out of the Inquiries having been instituted , it was ascertained and pageants, and necessary to keep " Of what value were all her pomp, recincts of fashion ; low vulgar Bloomers— that the lady had married eight or ten years before, Queen , weighed in the balance sacred p parade, to the maiden le with no read and not prepared but being of a romantic disposition , had soon with one hour 's enjoyment of the domestic felicity that that is, peop y money, violated her fidelity to her husband , and having bri ghtens the existence of her successor ? Elizabeth and to get into debt. abandoned him, had indul ged openly in intrigues with, Victoria—what a suggestive contrast ! The sixteenth It is now pretty freely circulated that at the late council every young man who struck her fancy. Her rela- century and the nineteenth—the times, of a surety , are only three numbers of Lord John Russell's Cabinet sup- tions with each were, however , of short duration , wondrously changed. Does any witless mortal linger ported his new Reform Bill proposition . The other owing to the fickleness of her disposition ; but having, yet, who, comparing the present with the past , would members were opposed to any new Reform Bill at all. it appears , a sort of monomania for making wills, wish for a return to those old troubled" boisterous days ?" This division in the Cabinet has caused great conster- she regularl y drew one up in favour of every new nation.—Morning Hera ld. lover. Each will thus set aside that which preceded it, The Nation commences a page of brilliant leaders The Earl of Westmoreland , who reached Vienna on pointing out a but the last of all was valid. The Jud ge de Paix caused with an article on the Famine Debts the J4th instant , hnd a interview on the 15th with Prince the person named in this last one to be soug ht for, and way towards Irish landlord rehabilitation :— Schwarzrnbsrg. The Russian minister , Meyendorf , gave lie turned out to be a young artist without fortune. He • ' Now, if the Irish landlords had common sense they a grand dinner in Lord Westmoreland's honour. All was watinl y congratulated on his good luck , and calcu- would see that all this lies be fore them—and that the the chiefs of embassies were invited. lated on being p laced in comfortable circumstances f or only way of dealing with it is by making fair terms with Dr. Ofiile. is appointed to succeed Dr. Kidd , a3 Reg ius life , the lad y having - an income of .'50,000f. a year . But a their tenants at onee. It is not the Consolidated An- Professor of Medicine at Oxford. fewdays a^o the husband presented himself and destroyed nuities Hate that is driving the people to America — thnt A new " People's Hall " was inaugurated at Col- all the aitist 's hopes , by producing his marriage contract, is only the last straw on the camel's back. People chester , on Tuesday week. The chief speaker waa which established him inheritor of all his wife might would readil y pay any rates , if there were no rents. Professor Airy. leave at her death. Hut the caincl aforesaid mig ht quite as readil y pass The beautiful porphyry vase contributed to the Great which through the j>rovrrbial difficulty of a needle 's eye, as a Exhibition by the King of Sweden and Norway, Mr. Powers , the American scul ptor, whose Greek tenant live liable , with heavy and unjust taxation , to all formed t-o conspicuous an ornament in the Swedish de- Slave funned such a point of ulti action in the Great the irresponsible and ex pensive burdens of Irish land- partment , has been presented by his Majesty to Prince Exhibition , is now engaged on a statin; of great beauty lordism. \Vhen the landlords say Tenant Right arid a Albert. and of great, allegorical interest , both as regards his own 1 Hill of Particulars,' wo will open our ears very wide to The Office of Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine country and the prospects of the world at large. It re- them. Now then , ppeak up, gentlemen 1 " of Lancaster , which has recently been vacated by the presents California , under the form of a beautiful female Solicitor-General , has been conferred by the Chancellor figure, of the Indian type of feature , pointing with a Commenting on Mr. Hume s Edinburgh Kpeech , of the Duchy on Richard Bethell , Esq., Q. C. the Leeds Times quotes the passage wherein Mr. divining rod to a muss of auriferous quartz , which ia The election of a representative in Parliament for thin wkilfull y dispesed so as to form the support of the statue. Hume says that he docs not wish to extend the boroug h (Bradfor d) took place on Tuesday, when Mr. suifrage but an a ri The voluptuous beauty of the fi gure, the smiling expres- as a boon , ght: — Robert Milli gan , a Liberal , was elected without opposition , sion of her face , and the richness of her cap, bracelets, " On that princi ple the people's party in the house of there being no other candidate. and armlets of native gold , are sufficient to awaken the Commons oug ht to take their stand ; and , while refusing At his audit , held last week, the Honourable It. II. enthusiasm of these who , through avarice or through, no offer which will g ive an expansion to the suifrage , Clive returned ten .per cent, to his Shropshire tenantry, having also been returned by him at adventurous spirit , leave nil in m arch of the tempting providing it be an honest and not a fraudulent expansion , a similar allowance metal ; but here, indeed , we may say " all ia not gold their business should be to proclaim that such conces- the rent day in April last. The Knrl of Powis has cent, on his that g litters"—the too often deluded hopes of the adven- sions can be onl y regarded as stages in advance , not as likewise made a similar abatement of ten per turers and the " deceitfulncHH of riches " are well the terminus of the on^vard movement towardB full estates. typified by a hunch of thorns , which the enchanting; politic al emanci pation . Sir Horace St. Paul, Bart., high sheriff of Northumber- California holds behind her back in her ri ht. hand , and land , ban offered , by public advertisement , three prized , which in the first burst of admirati on are^ not. visible to " Parliamentary l teform, what in it to be?" is the of 100 guineas each , for Essays- on Temperance. This home topic of the 1' restart (lunrdian. Let those who the gaze of the dazzled spectator. — Carresjx,ndentof Daily " i.s the sheriff who so, in such " nhabby " slate, met Mr. News at Florence . support the Htate contro l the state " exclaims the and who wan accused by the Union of dis- , Baron Phu t, We Jir.ve picked up the following curious specimen of Writer :—¦ loyalty ; beeau.se his Clarence wan not very brilliant , his ! the lengths which the good genius of Puff will lead astute " We are not afraid to admit that the adoption of thin harness only plated , and the sole attendant a foot man t raders :—• princi ple involves the advocacy of uni verbid suffrage , and Mrs. Fanny ICcmhlo was thrown from her hxir.se at " 4.1, New-ut (•-street,, I.on.l.m , October II , IH.r>l. never will political ri g litcounneHH be fulfilled until Bri g hton , on Thursday week. The shock wan great , but n he courageously gave the rending announced for that " Dear Sir ,—T he demand for pork lias been veiy good univc rmi l (suffrage, in conceded . In tin; mean time, this week , and it« value is still lls. per <:wt. if kiiiuJ I "«cI however , we inuti t. devoir our attention to what, is evening. y wort h delivered Lecture on Temperance in pood quality. l'4'gs are nhort. in nupp l y, b ut. onl probable of attainment , and therefore we concur in the. Dr. Li'^h a the u HiiduYii ad- Gnat. Room , Kxeter-hall , on Mondiiy, to a liirge au- />s. 5M . and Oh. per himdn d ; hut I looic for M'i naud now be ing made by the National Reform Asso- vance if the weather would alicr to « keen /rout. ciation ' d ience. MiH . 'l'iaecv , an American lad y, habited in the , f ur hotis< lurid (iiiH r.-ige. With thin must be Butter sells very ulow and pi ieoi arc by no means firm. HKKoc iiited Bloomer cost tune, appeared on the plat form. , t he ballot , ami what in our opinion i« equall y The ' Inhibition Paluce , ' as if. in termed , closes to-day, niipoj tiuil , tin 1 .uloption of compM-hi MHive « leetornl diu- lSloomerism appears in various parts of London ; in nioimtrous pests thut the Dean-street Theatre at the llorim a nd thin will end one of the most trict. n , in lieu of the nrriieiit scutterred and i.solat«th , at the Church of the Hol y Trinity, Broin p to" . Sundries ...... 13 511 between coast and count ; and it is, therefore, hoped that, Auguatua l'emberton Gi pps , Kmi., to Helen , onl y daug hter ol tin) Travelling expenses of the Hecretary to Man- no interruption will urine to continuous and successful lau ; Kevercnd George Crookahuuli , of Ohi gwoll , JiBB« x . and nit'c o chester, Liverpool , Ac...... 500 telegraphic intercourse, when arrangements at present of Bir Fitzroy Kelly. .. On the 10th at Uyvreil St. Andrew 's, Sir ICdwar d BIack«u . Writing ...... 150 pending arc completed. , w of the .Newspaper Slump Abolition Baronet , of Matfen , Northumberland , to France * Vone , >v»< »» Debts JJy the screw-steamer Arno, which arrived at tins port Newport , Isle «>i Committee ...... 46 1G 10 last week , we hud transported to our atioreu of the late William Henr y Old . Um|., M.I' , for froin Italy Wig ht , and daug hter of the Into Hir Willia m Lorainc . Baro nei. Balance in hands of treasurer .. .. 9 11 4 an interesting refugee, in the uhupc of u inert: boy, On the 21 at at All Saint *' , Fulham , William Knott eHloid . dung »ler Bixteeii years of age (wIioho nume, for obvious rcamum , GrcMon . Kh< i. ( late Fift h Fuuiliura). to Annie second ij £208 1G 0 we ure not permitted to mention), who literal ly hud to M ajor-General Hir John F. Burg ojiiu , K.C.K., lnHpuc toi -Ucnui" " run hia country to huvo hit; neck." Half an hour before of Fortilicaliouu. Examined and found correct , October 13, 1851. P FJVTIIS . BaruHbury-park , Islington. the Arno left Leg horn , he was broug ht, on board , eon- , (Samuki.. IIakuinon , On the Kith of Ootoher , at Frimley-pa rk , near Ha gnhot ImJ¦ Xayi.ok, Curry-lane. ceuled in u Hack , and placed for .safety amongnt the pro- of Jo hn 'lekull , '¦" I • P. A. vi.iioiiM in the la zaret. GriHclda Tekell , aged H«vrnty-th ri:« , wil> . The pcrnon in churgc of " the w i.ster of Karl Hl anhope , and luti t biiivivi ng irrand dnug hter parcel " paid itti pattHuge money to Ktiglaiid , nud Uiuh Hint Karl of Chatham. ,,, . ,,,,,...1, JVIIS C KLLA N KO US. far wan all Captain H unim knew in Cleveland Colonel William ; - about the mutter at On Iho 14th . Hi Hlai nton , . u<». . Parliament was further prorogued on Thursday, at n the tuuu. On getting clear of the port , however , it late of Jill DnigooiiH , wec.ond mm «>t ' the late air Tliomutt ' of Hullolli llaronot. Council held at. Windnor , until January 1T>, 18/>2 . turned out that " the Hack ," like many of Uioh« occa- o f Henar.ro , i n the county . Hom.uiuiu,i,m( ,,,rab lo Privy On t ho ir>lh , a t her Heat , KiiHt<:om l>« , the Ri ght .Seymour and .Nurl (Jranvillc were B worn of the sionally dropped into the Jlo.sphorutt , contained a haiii.sh ne. l*>rd Kleauor A-nen , l.)o«-a K «:r Counter of ISiu lui.g « Richard Kinderaley and Mr. James living frui tful ; and a dark -eyed boy made hi* ap- ht, r ol the late If-vew I Privy Council Mr. Latel y, a t H.ith . France . » " ¦ PaliiMTNton (officiating for hir oi the vcKHel . Ilia only clcdentialK were an appeal Frodttliam HodHon I' r lncipal of ltnr/.enone College , O x her Majenty by Viscount . Honoura ble Via (J . Grey, Home Secretary), and received the. honour of to the nyinp ;it hicH of human nature in a.stsi titing a follow On the lHih , a t Kocin J' riory, lh« creature in rief visit to Eng land — boroug h mentary •1 stati ng his , w hen they were encounte red b y t he keeper s quali ficatio n ; points to many shortco mings view ; which is, to procure the establish - an d watchers , ti ght in number , who , antici pating the pay iiitf ment of a grea t Association to support tho cause of encounte r m tho scheme of the Association ; an d discusHca llungar , were ai l armed with Hails made puiposel y for y. Ho desires this country to enforce tho t heir u«e. The result of the fra y was that one of the the bold tone that charac terizes the language of •octru iQ of non-interven tion, fully and hon estly-r- k««»ers was killed and several wounded. Home ainoni f t hem as " chaff " which will not catch " 1014 0t) t 3Lea S£t* [Saturday,

birds. What then ? What we said in the brief their organization more complete. Prussia, which ing after them makes the Republicans shrink old to carry from comment that Mr. Harney attacks was, that the was playing a game of its own, and tried appearing in Europe. But the Atlantic has now almost out that game at the outbreak of the revolution , been too completely bridged for that precept Association proposes to give the suffrage to the to bf» everybody—to everybody who is rated, by himself has heen fri ghtened and driven back to observed. Europe will appear first in America had grown if or his landlord, to the poor—everybody who can " Holy Alliance." The Pope, who America appear not first in Europe. The keen- out " rate- somewhat independent, has heen wholly subdued sighted Republicans discern that fact. They give his address. Nothing is said ab !, Tuscany will paying clauses " ; and most of us are rated to the to Austria, and has become Ghibelline not wait for their " Government "—They never poor, whether whether we p ay the rate or not. has lost its moral independence both of Pope and do. They already anticipate the arrival of Kok. Now, we should be glad to see the suffrage given Emperor. Hungary has lost its independence, suth with enthusiasm ; and the enthusiasm wiil to " almost everybod " We should prefer and is a mere Austrian province. Schleswig-Hol- not abate when he is among them. They y. is now to b alread are explicit and unqualified universal suffrage j but we stein, which had become Germanic, e y providing for money contributions. Will prefer a suffrage of six-sevenths to a suffrage of one- incorporated with Denmark j the Duke of A ugus- their young men be wanting ? If they come, will As to the other items tenburg bought off; and, by a process which con- it not be as easy to organize them into a Legion seventh in the population. Denmark is of the Charter, we should get them more easily solidates the Sclavonian Monarchy, as to bring them disorganized ? and if they are or- than with the present*. made the grateful client of its patron Russia. ganized, with a General at their head and the starl with an extended fr anchise spang Therefore we support the six-sevenths franchise. Thus the important power Prussia, and the out- led banner waving over them, will not their While the Chartist Conservatives are denouncing lying provinces of the Hol y Alliance, are brought place on the field, of glory be known ? When the the Parliamentary Reformers for not commanding together, and made more handy for the approach- Democracy of the world is ranged against the success which the Chartists are still further from ing struggle. _._.. - .. . „, Despotism of the Families, will the Republic inister s called, imitate the Bureau of England attaining, it is curious to notice hints that the " England," as our Foreign M i , and shrink fro m olizers are getting up some mild agitation has helped to bring about this result, so favourable its chivalrous duty ? The Republic never shrinks. Whig-id lis l Lord John with a harmless " pressure to Absolutism. By shouting " Independence " Nor do we believe that the Eng h people will to supp y the fro m without," and to decoy the easy agitation- through the mouth of Lord Minto in Italy, continue to do so. A time is approaching when led the Italians into swayed public into leaving real movement for the English Government inveig Monarchy will he tried. May it not be found Sardinia had wanting in this country ! Our colonies purpose of supporting Lord John and his shadow. trusting it ; and there it ended : only are mur- muring strangely on this subject. There But the very confusion and suspense into which been seduced into being " constitutional" and ex- is not from hearty one of them that has not some practical all parties are fallen are to us signs of hope. clusive, and had been withdrawn grievance and Sicily had to allege against the Government in These " movements " are proofs that the public accord in the national councils : Downing- street—not one ; some grievance at once an conscience feels the necessity of accomplishing some been diverted from setting up a republic by the indig- dom—which nity and an injury. More troops are wanted advance, if it could but make up its mind what to proposal to set up an independent king for ieri. The the Cape. Alread has a new " star-spang do. We are in favour of all who do make an ad- was dropped into the hands of Filang y led licence in the banner" appeared in the Thames—the flag vance—who really go forward. We ^,re biased in Foreign Minister gave to France a , of the cupation five Australian States. At a time when Monarch favour of the wayfarer who manfully makes way, shape of a formal " protest" against the oc y the Pope s when America is seen aiding rather than of him who says that, if he could only which restored Rome to the Pope and i brought to trial, Prussia the Peoples against the official oppressors that get the seven-leagued boots, he would do the whole to Austria. England so discountenanced to drive farm the civilized world for the benefit of the journey at a stride. Our objects include matters in her liberalizing procedure, as to help which the orthodox Chartists of the old school her back to the Holy Alliance. England first families, are not the colonies likely to urge the les upon the Government in used not to take into the account—we desire the supported Schleswig-H olstein, and then Denmark. interests of their Peop Every week renders such a fullest and fre est amount of political power for the That same England , by the Pacifico sally, had Downing-street? blind reliance on Russia. juncture more probable. Already the Cape is whole People, we promote the right of every man frightened Greece into land is now setting the Pacha of calling for " more troops ." Will it be convenient to a subsistence by labour guaranteed on the land That same Eng the Sultan—the Turk to send them in 1852 ? Will the English People and property of the country, we strive to promote Egypt against his master and is disliked by Russia. be content to see colonies given up in a panic ? that perfect freedom in spirituals which would de- who released Kossuth e s," poli t ical a nd financial , Will not the English People rather say, Let us velope true Catholic religion administered through A word to " r former o e and for reforms have a Government strong in will, strong in a real Church of the nation. For the day—day after who are calling f r retrenchm nt that do not involve the overthrow of existing popular confid ence, strong in the alli ance of the day—we are with those who really move on. We Governments. The system which enables the Peoples. Such a Government would be a blessing estimate politicians in part by their success—one act thus together, is rendered to England and to Europe. And it is lo be had, real test of merit. And in the desire for action , we Absolutist powers to y the one link of Diplomacy— if active politicians will only set to work t he do not undervalue vigorous language, or a hearty an effective whole b t at e a which we suffer to carry on its influences lhal must call it into bein^r. spirit of fellowship. h d p rtment ! The system demands for Let us not be misunderstood. The pen that operations in secresy s oc u s a armies and national debts ; PROGRESS OF ASSURANCE. writes these words is held by a hand that will not it pr ed re t nding the Five Powers alone sustain armies amounting abandon the active politicians of the working- THE MUTUAL riUNCIPLE. millions of men, and national debts amount- classes while their best organization lasts. The to two Promoters of Life Assurance have but lately to £1 ,000 ! Our debt was incurred Charter Association has done much, and its ma- ing ,300,000 seen the importance of popularising the system. mainly to set u that system ; our army is kept up chinery is too good to be broken up. It ought still p Th ey have discoursed learnedly, and brought chiefly to maintain the system of governing to do good service in organizing the action of the a fri ghtful amount of figures and logarithms Europe by bureaux. And we are told that it is People. But we have less faith in any statute, to bear upon the subject, but that which is conducive to " peace " and if ceconomy " to dis- even in " the People's Charter," than in that in- really important has been neglected. The simple countenance the nations that rise against such destructible and indefeasible Charter, the spirit of reversionary princi ple of Assurance has been, in a .system ! Now we nay that princi ples dear to the People. We have little respect for politicians modern times, expanded to meet the wants of lishmen—that Knglish princi ples—princi ples whose words are larger than their achievements ; Eng the assurer while living ; tables have been formed of freedom, nationality, sound (economy, and we have little agreement with politicians who tell for the endowing of children, for securing an ex- the true alliance of nations, can never he en- the People that they ouyht to have the Charter ; pected reversion, in fact, to meet most of the pecu- forced until we break down that system. We also since we believe that a People united and resolved niary contingencies of life; while the surplus funds, a ffirm thai Knglish princi ples are about to be nan have whatever it demands. It is not the instead of remaining a clog and fetter to the exertions maintained in Europe by the patriots, and that Charter that we desire, hut the power to exact the of the association , are suffered to flow in various the conduct of our Government will again be Charter ; and for that power the People must look channels of beneficence. But it is in vain that directed to sustain the power of Absolutism whicli to themselves. They will not find it in criticisms all these advantages are devised, if the people are oppresses the Peoples to lax them, and taxes them on the shortcomings of other less speculative but not made acquainted with them, or if from want ol to oppress them. Thus will the Government of more active politicians ; they will find it in the understanding they mistrust their application. L»c England act so long as the People of England hearty spirit of mutual faith and good will that Assurance only requires to bo understood to ne permit it. used to animate Englishmen in national enterprises. universall adopted, and we hope to see the day Why then do we hope ? Ueeause there are y when the Assurance of men's lives has become as many signs of a growing strength in the Peoples ; 1 nninh a matter of course as the insurance of their TIIK CAMPAIGN Ob 18S2. because the idea of a real alliance of the Peoples goods. Tmc progress of events confirms us in the belief has heen seized by their l eaders themselves. houses and Assurance meets that Absolutism and National I'leedom are syste- Kossuth is acting with Ma/zini—Hungary will be Every endeavour to popularise the ineana aticall taking sides for a allied with Ital The President, of Fiance evi- with success full y commensurate with m y new and not distant y. lias ap- lhal, has the best adopted. The series of articles which struggle; Absolutism is, for the moment, dentl y feels (hat a national policy of <>ur gaining ground and consolidating chance of success ; and even if he have not the peared in the. Leader has induced many i ts forces ; that, that tliey the Kng lisli («<)verniiicnt is guilty of complicity heart, to carry out. such a policy, his late pro- readers to insure then; lives, who confess in their alien- lliat rcconsolidation of A bsolutism ; but that new ceedings have hel ped to mark the fact. Kven in should not have neglected the duty if at an earn . powers have been practicall y called into bein<(, England , override!) as it. is b iiidi flerentisin , sel- lion had been called to it popularly y undurstandinK « with every promise of a victory for I he Peoples. fishness, and a timidity new to the history whicli period. It argues well for the of the »Y»lc" The reader will sha re the interest, with which we comprises a Cromwell and a Wellington , we cannot tho people;, as well a.s for the success ' to the import- i glance at the newest evidences of this coming repress some of the old sp irit , whicli h ursts forth that they arc becoming aroused inquiry lias ^ counter movement. to inert the Governor of 1 lungfliy even before ho of Life Assurance. A spirit of " information, Vl 11 ^¦ The position of that confederacy which is best, a rrives. evoked : the people require ° the intentional expressed by the embodied policy of Austria and I t. is so in America. The idea which we have want of this information, and interested persons it is ^ KusKin , has greatly improved since I H-lH. We thrown out , of an American Kr^ ion taking its statements of some inquiring for the IK S ' ' ^ antici pated no .success for the Peoples until they place in the battlefield of Km ope, has not feared that many, while ; «lt«i ., by iIIim .-sh or should he united : they were not united in I H-l H , fallen upon an inattentive public. It. is can- HufeHt oflices, may be precluded did not succeed . The A bsolutist powers vassed with animation. We antici pated no from taking advantage of any. and they Mutual Sy«u were united , t hey remained united—-far more so in little opposition to it. It. was adverse to the Our opinion on tin, safety of the are 18 ^ truth than they seemed to be; and by favour of old traditions of the Republic ; (<> the pre- has frequently bee n nnked. There ""J "^,. poison (he reaction since IH'I H , they have succeeded in cepts handed dow n by the fathers of its policy , in the country endeavouring to »"' ' 0 , and tin* drawing (h eir confederacy closer and rendering Washington and Jefferson. The habit of think- of the people againat Mutual Oflices ' Oct. 25, 1851.] gp» ftfa&tt , itself to the general busines* of Life This is not a very encouraging state of things presume the inquiries have arisen. Briefly, then, office applied noble gentlemen Assurance, and the comparative mortality between for the in Downing-street ; nor we might reply, all assurance systems are safe. for the tax-payers ; nor for the financial reformers, is a palpable swindle—and there is the Temperance and General sections has been Unless an office 5 per cent, in favour of the former. whom it must make insane in the prospect of a little chance of such a thing in the present day, rather more than deficit ; nor for the Colony. watchers would be ready Here, then, is another Mutual Office which started when so many interested after ten years' operation And to whom do we owe this bloody imbroglio ? expose it—it offers safety to the assured. without sixpence, and Ministry infirm to ital of £5Q,00O. There was, indeed, a To Earl Grey, to a and purpose- Should it fail in its pecuniary expectations,—which has a cap less, to the lack of good sense and good faith in y possible except from some vil- guarantee fund of £10,000, which still exists. again is scarcel has been touched, and the men who float on the surface of affairs. And bad management,—the announcement But not one farthing of it to England of this lanously entailed upon the Society the expense what will be the cost Ministry ? would be made that the business of the new office if has only Let England look to it—Will she lose the Cape, or y some other of the legal document securing it. The class in- would henceforth be transacted b career neces- keep the Ministry ? office of standing, and the premiums would thence- terests of the Association in its earlier sarily restricted its operations, and these soon found forward be paid to the office making such an an- general PEOPLE'S INSTITUTE IN nouncement. Assurers, therefore, would lose a more extended field by entering also upon T HE to Life Assurance business. The Temperance depart- WESTMINSTER. nothing ; they would merely be transferred institution for another office. But the object of every new office ments are, however, still kept distinct from the The proposal to erect a new It is general. In this Association no probate or legacy popular discussion at Westminster is one of the is to obtain what is called its " average." to a we have seen for ad- well known that out of a given number of persons duty is chargeable where sums are handed most auspicious plans that widow or children, and all disputes are settled by vancing Social Reform among the working the probability is that so many will die within a working stated period. An Assurance-office to secure itself, arbitration. classes. Nor needs it be only among the therefore, seeks to obtain its " average,'* that is, An investigation of the affairs of the company classes. lives as has lately been made by Mr. Hardy, the eminent The object is, to erect a hall for public discus- such a number of premiums on Assured morals and will provide for the agreed payments of those who actuary, who, in his report, states :—" The society sion of •* those great questions of com- is now, in my opinion, established on a secure and politics which so deeply concern the welfare of die. This " average" obtained, an office is in mercially safe. When an office on the old system permanent basis, and I can conscientiously pro- society" ; the site is to be a plot of ground the profits, so nounce it to hold out every reasonable prospect of Upper Tachbrook-street, near the Westminster is purely proprietary, the whole of y in pos- vast as to amount to several millions, are the affording great advantages to those who join it." Improvements ; the ground being alread property of the shareholders. The modern Pro- It is most gratifying to know that these are the session of working men. The cost is estimated at Companies dilute this monopoly of profits results of prudence and forethought, and that the £J O00 ; the money to be raised in shares of £1 prietary ghest by returning a bonus to the assured ; and it is attempt to introduce among the humble classes of each. The trustees are persons of the hi worthy of observation that when a company pro- society the blessings of life assurance, has proved respectability, comprising Mr. Charles Lusning- poses to return a bonus it always does business so eminently successful. ton, M.P., Mr. Lawrence Hey worth , M.P., and enough to secure its intention. The only question Mr. Thomas Buncombe, M.P. ; the treasurer is much per cent, it will return. Success may Mr. Vansittart Neale, with whose high-minded is how THE CAPE TRIUMPHS. sentiments our readers are so well acquainted. be said uniformly to attend Life Assurance, and war up to no wonder when we consider the extent of the field. Startling is the result of the Kafir It will be observed that the plan has in it the 12th of September. Sir Harry Smith occupies nothing that is sectarian or exclusive—i t does not The more modern Proprietary Companies are British Kafrana, and the Kafirs occupy the Colo- ermed mixed," as they blend the fancied ad- smack of the bigotry of " Progress" any more t " nial Frontier ! than it does of the older bigotries. For the infor- vantages of a Proprietary with those of the Mutual The process of holding British Kafraria is principle. Many of these provide that in a certain mation of closet men, who will smile at promis- simple. Governor Smith scours the t erritory in cuous " discussion" of subjects that still await number of years the shareholders will be paid off ections, by proxy, with patrols of troops. and the Association become Mutual. all dir further elucidation at the hands of accomplished These patrols are a kind of " military promenades," investigators, we may remind them that discussion But though there are many advantages in the with fi ghting, but without concert. Sometimes, has two functions—the elucidation of the truth, *' mixed " principle, theoretically and practically as on the 29th of July, under Lieutenant-Colonels and the dissemination of the truth. Learned men the Mutual principle is unquestionably eafe. That Michel and Evre, they capture a few hundred discuss the truth to discover it; it then needs a popular periodical. Chambers' s Journal, states :— head of cattle, and catch some small band of , discussion, as it were, in the public market place, " We do not hesitate to declare our conviction Kafirs in the bush, killing the same. On another where the " nobility, gentry, and public in that the mutual system is the only one which the occasion, as the 9th of August, Lieutenant-Colonel genera l ," exchange old ideas for new ; and the public at large is concerned in supporting'." -Michel , with a larg e force, traverses an extensive marketers will not part with old notions until they Without quite going the length of this at present, bush for five days, with what result?—Two of his have gone throug h a good deal of chaffering. we are certain that eventually all assurance offices men killed in an ambush. Major Kj le leads forth There are always political salesmen and marine will be mutual associations. The whole practice 152 men of the Forty-Fift h Regiment, engages storcdealers for the purchase of old ideas. of assurance has its rise in the mutual princi ple. in a sharp con flict with a body of Kafirs and The various institutions which have sprung up It consists in making that which would crush one Hottentots : result , one of the troops killed and among the working classes have done much to man, to be borne by a number of individuals. It three wounded , and considerable loss believed to familiarize their minds, not only with new ideas, dilutes the risk till none remains. A fire happening have been inflicted on the enemy. Lieutenant but with the process of accepting progressive ideas in one man's house may prove his ruin. But if Burne, with a detachment of the Second Royals and developing their own faculties. Many art a thousand men subscribe together to indemnify (new to the work), in marching along- near Com- audience in London and the provinces exhibits a him, neither lie nor they feel the loss. And this is mittee's Drift , on the 1st of September, encounters candour and activity of mind which would do credit the principle of all assurance, whether carried out a strong body of Kafirs who will not get out of to professional inquirers. But many of these in- mutually or by a proprietary. In the former case, the way. A dashing conflict ensues—the Second stitutions keep up a precarious existence for want the assured indemnify each other ; in the latter, Royals desperately charging several times : result, of sufficient support or a sufficientl y broad basis some one, not of their own body, indemnifies them. troops said to be repulsed , four men killed, and in the original plan : others are too (small for the The safety of the mutual system may be further twenty-seven wounded ; detachmen t marches real wants and capabilities of the districts to which shown from its operation. We have the report of back to King William 's Town, the Kafirs attack- they belong, liven large provincial towns are in an office which started in 1835 on the mutual ing them again on the march. this predicament—nay , even the largest , Man- princi ple. It had a guarantee fund of £200,000 : In the latter part of July, Mnjor-General chester, for example , or Birmingham. £10,000 of which were called up and banked. In Somerset made an effort to expel Macomo from Now it occurs to us as a beneficial plan, that the five years a meeting of its assurers was convened, the Waterkloof , and failed. Reports state that supporters of mere local institutes should combine when a return of fifty-two per cent, of their pre- Somerset has been " moving between Somerset for the construction of district institutes, like that miums was declared , the £10,000 were repaid to and Albany districts," with little or no result. So at Westminster. London might be surrounded the guarantees, and still there remained a sufficient it is everywhere, with the exception of a few Hinall with district institutes , which would absorb the reserve in the bank. From the day of this asso- fi ghts ; great marching and counter-marching, smaller local institutes. The Mechanics' Institutes ciation opening its doors, the premiums were suffi- " sweeping round the Amatola," provisioning of Yorkshire nre - united on a plan which leaves cient to meet all the current expenditure and forts, driving off cattle, traversing the Bush, run- each free, and yet secures many advantages of liabilities. Not one farthing of the £10,000 was ning into ambushes and escaping therefrom ; combination. They exchange suggestions of im- ever drawn . Tho association has subsequently, soldiers fi ghting like devils—but the war making provements. They offer uncommon facilities for every five years, returned fifty-two per cent, oil no advances towards a satisfactory conclusion. In the engaging of superior lecturers who can make it ((premiums : it has now a reserve fund of £800,000, fnct, if reports are true, the net result of all is, a round of lecturing at more profit to themselves and it proposes henceforward to return bixty-four that Governor Smith has written home for 10 ,000 and lens cost to the institutes, than where the en- per cent, on all future preTniumB. troops. gagements are separate and scattered. The same I'ho progress of other nssociationH of more In the Orange River " Sovereignty " —a new plan might be adopted for these discussion insti - modern date exhibits similar advantageous resultB. district on the north-east—matters are still worse. tutes in London , and it might even include the In 184o, " The United Kingdom Temperance and Minor Warden held , a meeting of chiefs on the provincial inntitutes. To take the example of (General Provident Institution " was established on 2JHh ofJunc. The natives had been quarrelling Westminster, there in more than one institution in tho M utual Princi ple. Temperance Societies had very much, and robbing one another. Major the district that might very well convey its forces been formed , and it was thought by many en- Warden wan culled on to intervene. He did 8o ; to the Westminster Institut e, if the promoters of lightened individuals that total abstainers were resolved, that the next morning the offenders, the new scheme could agree upon a fair and free froln the in lluence of many caused which MoHhesh and Molifrmne , should lie attacked. libera l basis of union. The little association in operate unfavourably to health and long life among Attack made on the MOth of June ; result—Major Upper George-street , Chelsea, a host of highly in - tho general population. Colluded data proved , Warden and his forces repulsed with loss. telligent persons, ought to find a place more that peculiar ad vantages with respect to the Meanwhile the Kafirs within the frontier rush suitable to its re public charit ies, fr om mistaken to under t heir thin unveiling may bo hig hl y Protestant j but we OM-on oiuy refused to -send tin- children c ¦ml that this was the root, from which emanated ' K*et to nee any reli gious xeal take such a form . care to the cot ton mills, unl ess lin y wen- received A all true and valuable ideas respecting humanity— ' sur edly tlle book will be greedil y devoured by tho».e at the ages of si.v, srren , or eujhl ; and Mr. Dale whos have little Protestanti sm in their thoug hts. Tho the one idea with which, to be true, all other ideas wuh und er the necessity of accep ting them at those Societ y f« r tho Suppressio n of Vico might legitimately must be consistent. ageK , or of stopp ing the mills. Man y of the pond er thea© consider ation.. Acting upon thia jdea, in six months, he had the children became dwar fs in bod y and in mind. ' ] 1018 igh population was the defective and false character of tne *> b practical comprehension of the genius i given by the ignorant workpeople to their children , ? '• His (Owen's) theory was that, while he made a political system, the maxims he delivers come. ^ , therefore, commenced an establishment for manufacturing population more virtuouH and happy, ho tho weight 01j . i and he could also render them more productive to their em* with the authority of history, forming their characters fro m hn early a period as and tho sanction of the Crown. du<"j yic. plovers ; and in thin respect ho certainl y fulfilled his enco, ot he could obtain control over them from their engagements. Dentham had every reason to be satisfied which is the principle of tho Cabinet «""• f th0 building wan pted with dignity as a rui . parents ; but before the necessary with the pecuniary results of his investments of money toria may be acce for tne " finished , bin new partners objected to its intheNu w Lanark-mills. "— I$i*ntiia. m 'h MkMoikh , 1813. Ward of Walbrook ; and he who asks halt arrangements with regard to the manu- truth, no more foreign "*^ ^_ completion , and iiisimetl that, as they were mere " I found the nition of a political regaracu gup they had no- facturing part excellent , and even beyond my expecta- English precedent, cannot bo justly w cotton-spinners, working for profit, tions. — Jouunai. or W. AI.I.KN , 1814. any unusual oru B . visionary improvement " porting his cause by Ward oj Wal thing to do with tho |- " The people are peculiarl y decent and respectable.'* appeal.—Addren to tho Elector * of the of the character of the population. Robert Owen — New Stat. Account of Scotland , Lanarkshire. * Ij O Blond. _ m his own brook, by Hobert ^__ — replied that he could only proceed X On the 24th of December , 1814 , the articles of part- — . « He- govern the people and conduct the nershi p wore signed by John Walker , Joseph Vox. drunkenneBMjor a yearor twop^- ^. way to any case of the ?»ar ^ establishment ; that, if his partners were dis- Joseph Foster , Miohael Gibus , and William Allen, ana (the master of the workpeople) has » , ,„**• he would again forwarded to Hubert Owen for signature. ¦toady , rellgiou« man, and his t^formatton . satisfied with his lneaHures, Allan, 1818. fix a price for it which ho would either give or § " The minister at Lanark said, ' he was not awaro oif factory.' " —Life of William ¦¦ Oct. 25, 1851.] ®!l* »*«&**? 1019

they also startle us with what look like the antici- with rage, and leaving no doubt that he inte nded to pations of our latest discoveries. Thus, amidst inflict a most severe chastisement. The poor little %'tttntntt. urchin ran for his life, and well he might ; for one much that is preposterously wrong, Dr. Scott blow of the Nubian s whi rvitics are not the legislators, but the judges and polict p, wielded by such a of literature. They do not make laws—they interpret and mentions that Plato " conceived the formation of muscular arm, must certainl y have crippled him. So try to enforce them —Edinburgh Review. body began with the spinal marrow, desperate were the boy's efforts to escape, now darting the human up the street, and then wheeling Tound which then became covered with bones, and the and round is pleasant to communicate pleasant news, and that the chase became quite exciting.causing every one It bones with flesh ; that the bonds which unite the h only pen glides over the paper with unusual anima- to stop and look on, thoug one dared to interpose. our soul and body are in the spinal maifow, and that This amiable exception was a Turkish lady, who, as it hastens to announce that Charles tion the seat of the reasonable soul is in the brain, just as the boy was sinking from exhau stion , dre\v is about to issue a new work. Upon him towards her, and threw her robe over him. This Dickens continuation of the spinal marrow, and delighted ears that sound will fall ! To how which is a was like casting down the king's gage, in the days what is as a chamber prepared for the divine seed." of jousts and tournaments ; and Oriental chivalry many thousands it will make the first of every With very slight modifications modern embryology forbade the Nubian to advance. After a few month a day of expectation ! Thackeray,, as we moments , he turned sullenly away, like would endorse that passage ; yet we know that it ' hesitation a told you long ago, is to present us with his new baffled tiger, and the boy was set at liberty. Thus, was mere guess work with Plato. We have only work all at once ; three volumes, not twenty even here, the ministering gentleness of woman , and yet a to continue the passage to see how little scientifi c makes itself apparent, and her influence is felt and numbers. To a smaller class of readers acknowledged." : pleasant news, that knowledge there was as a basis for his views. class not small, it will also be A LITTLE SHOPPING. Niebukr, under the direction of Chevalier " That part of the soul on which depend gene- a Life of " Strangers attract little attention, and I walked Bunsen, is on the eve of publication. rosity, anger, and courage, he placed near the head, i. e., in the about here alone without exciting any observation ; No lack of winter reading ! Besides the works between the diaphragm and the neck, but when accompanied by an English lady, she became chest or heart, agreeably to Pythagoras, and he just named, and those already on our table, there is the centre of all eyes, and I have no doubt the old taught that the lungs were made to surround the Turks were much shocked at such a public exhibi- Herman Melville's Whale tempting all lovers heart, in order to refresh it and calm the violent tion of an unveiled lady, though I overheard them amusement ; there is Kaye's War in Ajf- likening her' to a beautiful full moon, and making of movements of that department of the soul which hanistan , likely to be an extremely important other flattering remarks on her charms. g therein had its residence, by the freshness derived book ; there is Broderip's Leaves from the Note " But though not stared at, the moment I accosted partly from the air respired , and partlyfrom a por- any of the merchants, they replied to me in the kind- Book bf a Natura list to seduce all readers—and tion of the drink which descended to the lungs. est manner, and I was invited to sit on the divan, many other books we cannot stop to name. and smoke the best pipe, whilst gold filigree coffee- Another department of the soul, the seat of the cups were despatched for the thickest coffee, whieh Char les Lamb, in one of his exquisite essays, appetite and desires, is placed between the dia- made its appearance in the most complimentary speculates on the effect of some other organ chosen phragm and navel." quantities. My host s did n ot talk much , and were very laconic in their replies to my questions as to the in lieu of the heart as the source of emotional feel- state of the nation. They inq uired affer our ladies, ing. He pictures a gtntleman addressing a lady THB BLUE AND WHITE NILES. but had I made any such inquiry of them, they Khartoum and the Blue and White JVile*. By George Melly. thus:— 2 rols. Colburn and Co. would have deemed it an unpardonable liberty. They 11 me, Madam, to make you a tender of were, however, very communicative about their Allow One is never tired of reading books about the children, and, from what I could learn , they all had my hand—and liver ! East. The very names of the cities, rivers, and a beautiful daughter at home. I went sometimes Imagine the destruction of sentiment ! Imagine monuments have a magic in them, calling up, as with the dragoman, and sometimes alone, when , in- Julia passionately offere d Henry's fortune and they do, the charming associations of The Arabian deed, I was best re ceived, thoug h I could on ly con- diap hragm ! Yet if Julia were a Greek instead Nights, recalling the delightful visions and romances vers e b y signs, and this amused them much. But I h agm an of childhood :— soon picked up a few words , and at once the word of a Saxon, she would accept the diap r d * taib,' good , on which I told an old Turk it was the liver, avec empressement. For in those regions did " When the breeze of a joy ful dawn, blew free only word wanted there, as all was * taib.' lie im- intelligence and tenderness. Do In the silken sail of infancy. mediately set to work unlocking ease after case for the Greeks locate The tide of time flowed bark with, me, we not read in Anackeon how the poet sleeping my amusement, displaying among other preciou s The forward-flowing tide of time ; thin gs, t he most rare s li ppers , which I was afterwards quietly is aroused by a furious knocking at the And many a eheeiiy summer mom told were worn by lad es in bed. They were one door : getting up, he sees a little damp Boy, who Adowu tho Tigris I was borne mass -of pearls , and cost about £40 a pair. I was By lJagilat 's shrines of fretted gold has been " wandering through the moonless shown handkerchiefs of the Parisian open work, in High-xca .lVd gardens green and old ; every stitch of which was a pearl, rendering the night," upon whom he takes pity, admitting him True Mussulman was I;and sworn, , akes article entirel y useless ; and mouth-pieces of amber to his fireside ; the Boy, dried and warmed t Yov it was in the golden prime were produced , vary ing in price fro m £100 to £1,30, up his bow (for the Boy is Cupid), bends it, aims Of guod J Iaroua Alraschid." the value being thus raised by diamond?, mounted in at Anacreon, and shoots him in the centre of the To hear about Cairo, Thebes, the Nile, I psamboul, the gold rings between the joints. the Pyramids harems, Nubians, —heart ? no—th e liver ! , dancing tf irls , der- "I was lu ver tired of this old man, and I saw him vishes, and mysterious magnificent Pachas, we v< ry often. He always addressed me as the ' Cnvag hi ,' Txvvei $e k x l {*£ rvirrei would willingl y listen to. the dullest speaker t hat a word which [ had atfir>t suspe cted to mean ' dog of Mtcro v vj-nzp. ever had anything to say on that subject. Mr. a Chii-uimi ,' but was subsequentl y persuaded , meant IUus' iious stranger.' He never seiMned to is Liver-sick, George Melly is a very pleasa nt speaker, and his ' expect Henceforth Anacreon Liver-weaFy, me to buy anything , which , indeed , I never did , but ! work is, therefore, perfectly welcome, lie writes broken-livered lain , .strai ghtforward way, was content to see others do. A lud y, very richl v in a p of what he actually dressed , came to him one day, and negotiated for a As to the diaphragm, we learn from Dr. Scott's saw, paint.: unambitious pictures with agreeable Lectures on the History of Medicine, publishing in pair of pearl sli pper.-;. She bt gan !>y talking of all ease, indul ges very little in rhetoric and rhapsody, Horts of things, and then offered ab >ut one-third of the British Journa l of Ilomccopatliy, that the is meritoriously abstinent in sham historical learn- the price named. lbe lu«k turned to me, and a " membrane Separating the chest from the abdomen, ing and in political or philosophical speculation, long smoke ensued , when he came down a fourrh , now called diaphragm, was formerly called (ppeyeq, and is altogether an unaffected, gentlemanly com- and she came up after another interval , to withi n, being supposed to be the seat of the understanding panion, who, without impressing you as a profound about £G of his last offer, nnd then she went olF wivh. thinker or brilliant writer, tries to make the slippers, having blood the best part of an hour . or prudence a docti ine controverted as early as the you nee , Home faint picture of what he himself saw. We While the negotiat ion was in progress, I offered her time of Hippocrates, or at least of the author of the found it light, agreeable reading, and recommend my seat , but t»he did not seem to have the least id< a work De Mar bo Sacro ascribed to him." The you to try it. of what I meant , and stared at me with her beautifi-1 but expressionless eyes, as if sh e thou ght me ex- reason for locating intelligence in the diaphragm Mr. George Mclly set off from Trieste in Sep- tremely restless." seems to have been that in sudden joy or grief, " it tember, 1850, with his father and mother , brot her VlHlT TO TUB URUVIRH EB. starts and sister. H aving two ladies with them, made and manifesto uneasiness." As to the Brain, *' I witnessed a curious relig ion)) ceremony at tho no suspicion of its preeminence existed j not only their expedition a more serious matter, no ladies collego of Dervishes. Entering a large conrt- having previousl yaid I was its capital function unsuspected, but even by y ventured so far into Nubia as found between twenty and thirty persons seated on Khartoum, where- the Blue and White Niles branch cane divans, smoking pi pes, and apparentl y waiting Aiustotlk it was regarded as a sort of HiiperiluouH o ff. Their success will encourage followers. Mr. tho time appointed u\i\m for commencing the .service. A of earth anil water, without blood or sensation , Melly cannot resist lingering by the way, and re- young boy oilVred me a seat, nnd invited ino to tako and quite different from the spinal marrow. It is cording his experiences in Alexandria and Cairo ; a pi j>e and some coflV e, ho unlimited and ho spon- sometimes said to refresh or temper the heat of the and, trodden as thene citieH have been by touristH , taneous are Eastern hospitality and courtesy, dis- played even heart—an expression , as Dr. Scott remaiks, which, they Htill present a sort of freshness to the reader. to utter Htrangcrs , in the most puhlio We shall cull from these pages- a f ew illustrative places. After a considerable interval we all took off >f undertitood metap horica lly, is not far from the our hIiocb extracts , having the reader's amusement in our , and entered a Hpacioiu ; hall , ri.-ing to ji t nth. eye :—¦ dome of great heig ht , nnd hung round with iiniven. buckU .TH, and wore aeuted in What curious reflections arc suggested by hucIi Till! HHIKl.I ) OI ' OI'.NTI.KNliHH . hows. Five l)ervinli Kng , are told, w;ih that hIic would \w. able to procure a Stoekliardt alone, but by all ehemint.n we believe), Th! Metamorphose* of Ovid. Literally translated ¦ f and KxplumiUons, l>) « l y of grciiKc: for her hair ! and Mr. Melly although it is know to be a compound of Nitrogen I'roso, with copioiiH Notea ' fl , **> historical learning. He hat* not crammed for compound bodies with compound. The exception, variety of packaged, und find them trustlu of »uoh We arc grateful to him for it. Hut we however, Hcems to point to the couoliiflion that the Bcieiirioimly rendered. The utility ol * '* his book. bold attemi M take the opportunity of one brief paKJsage, to elements we are accustomed to regard as simple are needs no unforo.-meiit. It was a will a series ; bucc-uhh Iiuh i the muler u. piquant bit of erudite in rcalil ^y com pound ; it points aim) to this further Mr. Boliu to offi* such , »et before The notes arc numerous ^ archaeology on the subject of Mcinnon'H statue. conclusion that all the varieties of elements are but timized his attempt. 'H passage recalled to uh Leimiuie'N varieties in the direction of force . If cyanogen to the purpose. u ,|d 8oIl . Mr. Melly Royal Exhibition Companion. J - explanation, and wo will briefly Htato it. comports itself towards other hodicu in a manner ,/ 1, »,, ,.ttCh admirable ThinThiH ihi« a collection otof uihuwdistinc *t jIlandlx *« . j>ul)i,c Mclly BiiyH :—" Kvery morning, if we arc to similar to that of chlorine and other Metalloids— »^ h u» Mr. devoted to one of the " Sights," ,, ,^' We»t- believe the teutiinony of ancient writers, Memnon « if it i« guHeoiiH , and forum with hydrogen an acid Galk-neH, tho low* riHiiig a« oth«r elements do HuildmgH, Public ^l^otu^ Btutue greeted with a melodious welcome tho , and if, like them, it unites St. Paul b, tho ^ ut with metals minister Abbey, «» and at night lamented hin netting, #m»K {oxidizes them, ho to Kpeak), forming Hampton-court, Chelsea Hospital, &o. , , int. «un protocyanidcN «¦ I utterance to a hoiuhI replete with melancholy and pereyanideh—does not this indi- lhe price of one, pmny for thirty-two ,«.«£ at . And that is nil ; he dom not cate that in the constitution of Cyunogen the mole- The utility of «uch handbooks is ^"^l^Zraey, aadneHs." cular forces speculate on tho matter, docn not vouch oven are in u line of direction t>iiiiijur to that much, however, will depend "^^^ "i pUuco. yure not competent to iorm «» "I for tho fact. Wuo ibis wound, ft« commonly iu O* n i und of that we uro Oct. 25, 1851.] Mtf t %,t**9V* 1021 greatest men whom the world knows nothing ofj THE USEFUL AND THE BEAUTIFUL. might have risen to command a reputation—might Part I.| ^Drtfnlt D. senates, attacked in leading have been cheered in It is a saying, not without some repute, that the articles, undergone all the delights and penalties of beautiful requires more encouragement w_ Bhould do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful for than the Goethb. fame, and have secured names in future histories, the useful the Useful encourages itself.— useful, because encourages itself. In and slabs in St. Paul's, instead of unknown monu- thinking of this subject I have had reasons solitary country church- to CARLYLE ON STERLING. ments in obscure and doubt it, and some reasons also for asserting, a very yards. More than .one of those brilliant open- What the mind he looks up at a house, inhabited by friends opposite apophthegm. seizes upon As ing careers was destined to end so. And suppose as a truth may nevertheless be false ; we grasp at or relatives only a few years since, what a strange ? It is the old que- place often receives ! It it had ended otherwise what accords with our principles. One man to shock the revisitor of the comment of cui bono ? Why not sleep in seems yesterday that your friends lived rulous save himself will seize a wooden block, but another scarcely Bonchurch, like Sterling ; or Clevedon, like that may see fit to choose a piece of iron as more like to there—were smiling to you out of that window— ifted friend of Tennyson's youth, other side of yonder door were hands out- beloved and g swim well, being filled with air. Sometimes a dis- on the over whom the poet has erected his splendid In tant deduction from our principles is greedily stretched to meet you, dear faces, the warmest wel- Westminster, where Buller the Memoriam, as well as at caught hold of as a kind of inspiration. It is come ! You have perfectly in your memory titled statesmen, sinking just at the voices and laughter, the cheery fi gures lies among like the refined product of a machine contrived to sound of the threshold of honour ? It is not the genius, or the it is beautiful, and round the table, the smiles of the children, the work up certain raw material, success, or the failure of these young men, all is at first surprising; but we soon learn the steps fl avour of the wine. Now you look up and the life and called away un- of love or friends at the outset of of the process, get accustomed to them, and begin windows are hlack and blank ; the lamp timely, that much avails now. It is said of Buller p that used to he lighted there for you is even to find fault with the result. But we do not friendsh i that he was gentle and kindly, truth-telling and life of other out, never to shine more. There has been a death so readily seize on results of the loving; of Tennyson's friend, that he was, in the men, if they have fed on different food from us. of your friend, or your friendship. Where are itaph carissimus, dul- garden wall ? touching words of his ep , It requires more information of a different kind they, the faces that looked over that cissimusj of Carlyle's, that he was generous, Where are the flowers that bloomed last summer ? to know that iron may swim. There are facts to faithful, affectionate, manly, and tender. Suppose be known which are not wanted to understand the Reading Mr. Carlyle's book will give to many h a score of editions, his as this we his poems had run throug floating of wood. people still among us such a sensation novel had been a masterpiece, and what then ? and describe. Here are the friends who were with us What smells sweet and blossoms in To encourage the beautiful seems to call for talk of former years comes what more ? " only yesterday ; the the dust " is the love and honesty of the man, of our assent at once, we feel the need of it so back again. George IV. is just dying, and we are much. Let us imagine ourselves in a dreary part " in place which the biographer speaks out of his own fond beginning to welcome the " Sailor King and faithful heart. When the latter's turn comes, of Germany, where Goethe might be; or let it be of " the first gentleman of Europe" ; the July revo- in our own England, in a district neglected ; or ham too, and he takes his place in the Biographie Uni- lution is breaking out in Paris ; the Birming the writer of the article, *' Carlyle, let it be in an active district in Lancashire, where Union is menacing the capital ; Waterloo verselle, Political Thomas," will take into no small account this people have increased as rapidly as some of the is not a score years old, and the warriors of that le than about lower animals ; we see everything wear a cheerless strong and hale, and garrulous after work. It tells even more about Carly day are still Sterling. When the universal biographer comes aspect. There are dirty bricks chiefly visible, dinner ; your place is taken to go home by the of man he was ? this blackened with smoke, the sky tinged of the same What a distance since that time, and to inquire, What manner mail coach. public Accuser, this Executioner of Shams, this colour, at the very best somewhat grey ; each man how near it is ! A generation has risen since then, living in his little dwelling, the same size and shape of ung Hudson-Statue Smasher, and ruthless trampler of young men ardent and generous, yo her w ll doubtless, as his neighbours, of which the boundaries are so y to leave mothers' homes and live, on windbags—he (the Biograp ) i , women read turn to the life of John Sterling, and will find painfully distinct, where there is no room ap- love, suffer, be happy in their own. With the sad- parently for fancy, but marked with a lonely kindness of fresh affection, Mr. Carlyle herein recorded with what a true and simple, and ness and loving nature said Carlyle, I homas, circumscribed ness even to the daily work, which ust departed friends of his and others, most kind and speaks of j was endowed ; how faithful his regard towards his never fails to begin at the ringing of the six who were living with us, and playing their part in o'clock bell, except when something still worse y yesterday ; and who are as far re- frien d ; with what gentle care he soothes and watches the world onl him ; how hefondles his memory ; and now and anon interrupts it. moved from it now as the subjects of any other The eye looks around for the beautiful. It seems the Ninevites. fights round it when assailed : telling hia story "in a tombstones : as the Druids or , very swift and immediate," but to be thoroughly neglected; the useful is taking has swift scribbling "Who, that lias gone througii tlie world, only the more charming for its honesty, and because care of itself. Then there is a dreary undrained not thought, with a wholesome scrutiny of humilia- the swift and immediate manner is surely the best country, a series of fiel ds, not protected or orna- tion it may be, or with a pang, bitter but consola- in this case, where the rhetorician finds his best mented by trees or by inclosures, a mere place for tory, of his own success or failure ? A man wins, effects in nature, and in speaking artlessly, rapidly, growing food on, with a hut rising abruptly from and can't but own to himself that a hundred of his and of a full heart. the ground, a mere covering for the workman when comrades, his equals, his betters, have struggled Besides the main fi gure of J. Sterling, the book it is damp. Such places are seen in great numbers, harder and got no place : he loses ; empty, loud hundred sketches and portraits, in the and travellers who search for scenery, pity the in- hing where he gets no hearing ; contains a quacks are triump Carlyle manner, of Sterling's relatives and friends, habitants. The useful has built the house and tilled small pretenders are lifted up, and he in the crowd people known in their time, and but just sli pt away the ground, it is a sister of necessity so thoroughly unnoticed. In a man of generous heart his very into the past. Coleridge returns, and his misty does it encourage itself ; whilst the beautiful is en- good fortune should serve to make him humble ; Umbra crowns Highgate-hill: Sterling's father tirely lost sight of as a thing too high to be attained. , to stake and lose with good as to aim and miss (Carlyle's " Captain Whirlwind "), the old original Indeed , I remember being struck with this very feel- humour, to be unfortunate and yet in charity with Thunderer of the Times it would appear, lives again ing in the fields which nurtured the early manhood those who win, is an immense, ennobling task , ghtsbridge and reigns in Printing-house- of Goethe himself. There was a small, ruinous town silent con- in Kni bringing with it its private reward and square, wielding the famous bolts, that " of late with the ghost of its official importance seen through sciousness of victoiy. And how many a comrade o'er pale Britannia cast " and that banged once the broken windows of untenanted buildings, look- must every man have known, who has been just with such a deadly uproar. Torrijos sallies from ing down on its dull streets. The inhabitants struck upon the heels of Fortune—within a length of Somer's-town to have one more struggle for Spain, one as living alone, supporting their lives by some winning the race—the favourite at the start—highly and to be shot at the Parade at Malaga ; Sterling is encouragement only of the most necessary arts of life. trained, full of blood, and eager, with admiring in Cornwall with the Buller family, amidst the The countrywoman working in the fields, a brown backers and a crowd of friendly reputation !—the woods of Morval, and the flowers and sunshine of mass, having little of the beautiful, and seeking struggle comes, and a slip or a strain, a previously Who knows what new inhabitants little of its appearance. When the beautiful and unknown and Polvellaw. weakness, a bolt from the course, le that beautiful, tranquil country, in place of the desirable are both gone, why do men live ? the favourite is beaten ; and behold a thousand peop fl those dear and familiar whom we knew ? The stranger in Huch places sees nothing to admire ying pigeons arc carrying the news over the or to hope for, and ho looks at dull villages with country that Mr. Nemo s Outis has won the cup. ' FULL-MOON NIGH T. melancholy. We can only look on those as happy Sterling's life is the history of one of the high- mettled (from ookthk.) in whom there is some visible sign of a life of hope, losers. The contemporaries of his youth somo appreciation of beauty or of excellence, expected the greatest things of him. The legend Lady, say what mean tho.se whispers ? to of hia What plays lightly on th y lip ? whom work haa taken a higher form than au abso- genius, no doubt, exists at the Cambridge lute necessity. University still, where ho Kpoke the most eloquent Ever art thou lisping there, amongst the men of his time ; leaving their uni- Sweetly as when wine you sip. Again, when we go to the great working-places versity for the great city, their young tmcccsHor» Tlunk'ttt thou to those cherry-sintera, of the world, to the miuoH of coal or of metal, and looked out after them from the academy, expectant To allure another pair ? how beautiful, from contrast, does a fine city appear till these great geniuses should begin to move the 1 will kins him ! kiss him ! said I. or a nice park ! yet thene cities and parks are rarely world. made, but the mine everywhere nourishes, because There came no news of any such revolu- See " «t thou, in tho quivering twilight, tions. This man was not Prime, Minister, nor (j the useful, as our proverb would say, needs no en- that loader littering hhines euch hi finch and bou^h ? couragement. of the Opposition. Who remembers down m star on Htar ; now the name fj young Cambrid ge Sparkling f ew of the rreat througii hushes emeralds low Every village, too, has its shoemaker, but speaker of JH'2<)-30? Only a few hundred men .And f!; , ha , or their gardener Thousandfold-carbuncle-bright — ve their artist or their poet who were lads of that day, and having heard , cvon, or wiseman, who will teach them a higher perhaps, the chief public men since, have heard no Idit th y spirit still is Car. and more beautifu l life . The best builders in the one like S , of Trinity. Sterling was said to be I will kiss him ! kiss him ! said I. town may draw the plan of a church after the model even greater than the great S . One laug hs at Thy beloved, far, in tasting, of a barn ; but there will be workmen enough to using Huch an epithet about an unknown lad in a .Like- tin e, lady, bitter-sweet inferior work beiii skilfully done. blue- ; finish it well , the tf college, gown. Hut for circumstance, but for Feels a strange, unhappy blins. There may be no schools, a damp church , a Physical obstacle, a < Ukwu»« of th« brain , or the 'Neat.h the Full-moon here to meet, crumbling steeple;, ami cracked bells ; hut there heart, or the lungs—tho want of a patron— too supp ly of potatoes at the shopH Uttle Has he promised to he hasting, will he a good , money or too much—too fastidious and deli- And the [/lighted hour is this. and beer at some of the houses. Now, let a cate a training and culturo, perhaps—many of these I will kiBH him ! kiss him ! may I. S. new- family come into the neighbourhood, let i 1022 8E f) £ yLt tiLtlt t* [Satu rd ay,

them fit up the fine old mansion, let the beautiful and of poetry, and of war, and-fif emotion, and daughters show themselves in the village, the church aspiration, and despair, and every Other feeling of €ht flrta be repainted, the road be made more picturesque, which man has been capable, has been found result of knowledge, then the spirit of the meanest changes, the beautiful unfit to produce all the THE BACHELOR'S EVENING becomes satisfaction, and happiness wanted. Every power . has got encouragement, and the useful I am, as you are perfectly aware only a necessity. has become corrupt, and died disgracefully, be- , a Bachelor curse before its fall, in the A fact for which I trust I am sufficientl y thank' meanings ; coming an evident ful ! The word beautiful has various various countries which have typified each. Greece Nevertheless, without indul ging in imbecile amongst some it is the highest point to which the would not make glorification of rny state, I am too haughty a proved sufficiently that intellect philo" soul can attain in any direction : this is a sense a nation happy, having tortured itself into an sopher to shirk the truth when it presents itself which, although far from being the original one is utter weariness of truth and of falsehood, and I scorn to deny that there are some trifling disad ' a true and genuine sense, and may be called the Rome and other na- vantages connected with the lonely grandeur the power lost the object of living. of intellectual or final sense. In this sense tions before and after showed that glory could my condition ; e. g. I very often don 't know where of the beautiful has always been great when not neither make men nor nations happy, got at the to pass my evenings. The study? Oh yes, the deteriorated , the diff erences have existed in the wretchedness than could be re- study ! What, after a whole day spent with the idly over expense of more Fathers, change of direction. When we look rap moved by benevolence or by power. And Sybaris or in prosecuting researches into the nations an d their histories, there is a melancholy was not the only place which showed that luxury Coptic Drama, you propose that I should regale pleasure in observing that they have always been did not produce happiness, n ot even the supply myself with books ! Now, if I had but a Partn er ruled by some ideal power to which they have paid most satisf ing to the eye and to the of rny life (and copyri ghts), there would be a quiet of all things y cozy fi reside at which to gracefull obedience more or less blind. A melancholy senses generally, failing as they do in making up a y unbend my delight we may truly say, because it is at the same harmonious whole. mind , and unbutton my straps. If I did but time piteous to see what a poor idea they often know what Teriullian, with savage sagacity, calls set up of their extreme limits of perfection. It is It is a favourite and well known topic of histo- " the very bitter pleasure of children— Liberorum enough for us here to know that when the meaning rians, the enervation of society when the love of omarissimA volnptate !" (those fathers had such of the word beauty is the highest thing for which the beautiful begins ; prosperity is attained by discernment !), what evenings would be filled with we look, then it has had power to move mankind work ; those who care not for the beautiful, who enlightening their young minds and setting them when the useful and all other things have failed. work for the real and the useful, subdue by a well- copies in round text ! If! ah if! The hope of every nation is towards a something known and natural law those who dwell in refined This isolated condition causes me to drift about beautiful, the wish lying at the foundation of every emotions, or in emotions of taste, which may be the world like a weed— man's wishes -is towards something beautiful ; our refined or merely vague. Great nations, like great " Torn from a rock on ocean's foam to sail predecessors sought it with painted bodies, in men, have begun in energy and poverty, and the Where'er the waves or tempest's breath prevail." beautiful has been sought as a relaxation after wisdom and hopes of a Druidical faith, and our Sometimes the waves wash me into a ball-room, more energetic ancestors sought it in action and in labour ; it is an end to be looked for, but we must sometimes into a theatre, and sometimes, as now, fame, and in the hope of a happy heaven, whilst be cautious how we think we are ready for it. When there seems no resting-place for the drifting weed their life seems to have moved on with true and a nation has began to ornament itself and forgotten —nothing but shoreless sea " Water, water, every- wholesome excitement as far as it went. Age on the useful, the fall must surely come. Let us not where." Parties have not begun ; theatres are age went by, and their hopes did not diminish, seek, like the children in the Pilgrim' s Progress , to closed. Where is the bachelor mind to recreate although faith upon faith fell before time. There have all our toys now, and nothing afterwards. If a itself? was still the great wish of mankind, fervid within man thinks he has attained, he has still to think of his I thought of this the other night when wandering them, taking some shape or other of the beautiful ; neighbours ; and if one class has attained, it must aimlessly about. I passed down Oxford-street ; but the treasures of the usefu l under their feet lay think of the others ; and if one nation has attained, the Princess ' s 'was closed ; I continued my way like so much earth, merely ground only to prevent it must think of foreigners. As long as seven- down the Haymarket—the Theatre Royal and the them from falling into the abyss which its absence eighths of mankind are unprotected in some respect, Opera st ood under the dim stars silent, joyless, would cause. So that the elements of civilization it is not for any class to be idle and give themselves dreary ; I sauntered past the Lyceum—it also to-day, the .tools wherewith we conquer mankind, tip to happiness. First, because the evident ten- stared at me with a blank and stony fron t, and I and convert savages into men and slaves into free- dency of man is to progress, of classes to rise, of swept past the g igan tic portico of Old Drury, men, were mere matter to fill up space absolutely the poor to work, and of the active to discover ; which looked like a ghostly theatre. Closed, all unconnected with ideas. and they that are idle will he swept away as surely closed ; The sounds of mirth, the clapping of as the iron horse drives over the flesh-and-blood Men seem to have stood on this earth as strangers-, hands, th e stamping of feet , the sobs of agony, the horse that comes before him. Secondly, because quiet trickling of tears—all silent. No crowd and not viewed it as a part of themselves, as the what we now think is a position which admits of rest, material out of which they and their ideas were to rushes over the benches to secure good seats and is not so ; but our attainments are feeble, an d we for half an hour sits be fore that green curtain in be worked. The mind very easil y sees t he ab- must move further forward. The beautifu l is the eji expectation ; no cracked voice announces stractl the simpl beautifu l it is a passion Efer y and y ; limit of-our wishes an d our capabilities in any di- "¦ Oranges, apples, ginger beer, bill of the plaaay !" of man in fact, and he did not know and does not rection—the very acme of all work ; and to have at- y read over iind know how to attain it . Me hp.s tried the whole no juvenile visitors tremulousl tained that is more than we Can ever say. There is over again the bill of play, as if to divine some- realm of emotion , and is dissatisfie d; he sees great no rest allowed to man, and he is always resting ; t hing of the rare pleasure in store for them. Be- ends before him, and is disappointed that he does seeking for beauty when he is working in the ashes, hind" the curtain struts no heav y, middle-aged, not attain them. The great end was almost as well and ly ing down in ecstasy when he is covered with y stup id fat her of a family, thrown into the seen in early times as now with our great learning, perfectl mud or dust. The beautiful is constantly beguiling " villain " line, because his voice is ravenlikc and and in some nat ions much more clearly seen ; as our us, driving us on onwards when we should he still , his legs arc band y ; no aspiring unders trapper learning abundantl y proves to us. The propagation or keeping us absorbed when we should be work- thinks himsel f kept in the background ; no solemn of religion lias been a, passion with many nations , and ing ; it attacks us as children , and is our constant mediocrity relat es his experiences in the green- its success has always been great from the intense pursuit until we learn by painfu l necessity, that the room. The passion , the rant , the strut , the stamp, love which man has of abstract perfection ; but he usefu l must be encouraged , and then we follow it the animal spirits , the mechanical fun , the " gag, has determined to hit the end at once, and like the as little as possible, unless it be really with an ul- the " business," the genuine admiration of each child he seizes at the moon. The road to knowled ge terior view of obtaining the beautiful by its means. other (when not rivals), and hearty sympathy m is tedious ; to communicate instantaneousl y with But even this is onl y in energetic men and nations. each other's success, the intense belief they have distant persons was an old enough idea, but to do We may trul y say in this respect, that the whole in themselves, and the devotion of their whole it was the result of a long series of discoveries, gnorance or some kind of wicked- make Behind tlie leading world lieth in i lives to their art ,—these, which which apparently were to no such end . ness. To civilize man an immense amount of work Curtain a stud y, are now lied A few mice course There is a sameness as well as a loftiness in the is to be done, but his object is always to bo com- about the dark stage. Silence reigns. No aims of all men ; the end is alike, from the idle no x- , v4%a & a x ¦ ¦ ¦ K^im*nat»* l r _*--- successes , a«i*v- >'^ ^ % * *. * r ill fortable; nations have wanted glory, or fine towns * no vanities , no heartburnings^ , dreamer about paradise on earth, to the active and men respectability or fine bouses. JKvery man .spa les, no rouge ! l"e pursuer of pleasure upon it; and from him who failures, no wig/s, "<> ng tlie has carried out this more or less, and rest from their dull , blank stare of the stony walls expresses looks only to heaven , to the man who works steadily one in society has closed. « at what lies before him. If labours is the constant object of every lifelessness within. The theatre we look at the hi gher that enjoyment may be followed . This state of invites no crowd to ni g ht l y enjoyment. I'.ist i literature of all nations, we see this very clearly; in l«issiiij, » things is a very plague in .Kurope ; it is a producer doors the crowd hurries —though , » the poetry of all times and places can be admired of the most appalling vice in some, and the most strange associations will arise. The door oi even now, and the eloquence of (ireece and Koine lamentable weakness in others ; it makes the young season is over, h<> vv to us , whilst, theatre , oven when the H( are eloquence the preacher .still makes stumble in their path , and the old incapable of using awakens dormant , memories of happy < lay ^. but a poor approach to Isaiah , and Watts is hut a have attained to form good hts surpassing . » " representative of David. When the position they in- antici pated pleasures , of deli g poor looking at fluences over themselves or others. It produces ci pation ! We grow old , fastidious , Itf 'nti ; "'" men in this point of view, we are inclined to think proud and selfish kings, that, would rather build emotion the scene o ^ everywhere the name ; their emotions never pass without men arc are , , . only; and when we .see them forts and rei gn over beggars than have a former delights. repetitions making smaller purse and a less splendid palace. This It , we are read y to lose 1'jtilh in the val So I mused as I wandered. H"'"/^"'^ in no advance ue love of elegance, and luxury, and idleness—all my beloved M'.«" ' of life, in the existence of any thing worth living lor me that. I bad neg lected d the results of the name emotion of the soul, not recording (he fact, that these lll(;al1^ in man . Itut when we look on him as oik; to be a v u.e that artistic love of beauty, without which man (.|O,(,, their doers for a while. What Im»£ civili zed, we rise at once into, another field oi thoug ht, .1 would be rude and unlovel y is still one of bis lost ! In taking a .survey o! each season and the modern man becomes a (superior being, columns ^ greatest curses, because it lias been ou t of its pen mig ht have filled severa l y putting fool ; ho the love of beauty Iiuk made him loae the to cadi an appiopnate ( ,1(; distributed a» ittt distance. steps that he thoug ht to be gaining. critical laurel leaf, t ogether will, a liint . p van fc. been a step, production of " works of an <' !« The whole realm of the past ban only (7b bt: continued.) int..re man b unluHH we call it a failure ; the realm of metaphysics dency," and similar councils winch the time is past ; the whole world, that he had been apprised of it. The the public officers compelled the peasants to sow the invariably follow ! But Moscow, that holy city of the rotten remnants of potatoes, and then ascribed their closed ; and I cannot get up an conaagration of theatres are Russian people, being naturally ascribed to the not coming up to the unfavourable weather. A revolt of apotheosis now. . the whole nation from its lethargy ; the exasperated peasants ensued, which was crushed, said, in a enemy, awakened Meanwhile the Bachelor Mind is, as I the "iant awoke in all his vigour, and from the con- and the peasants pacified, by grape shot and the somewhat objectless condition as to its evenings. fines' of Siberia even a year- afterwards, multitudes of mighty knout. * * * # There is the Olympic, it is true, but one can't go volunteers arrived to avenge , the object of their It will not be difficult to perceive, from what we every night there, with the best of intentions ; idolatry. have recorded, that the Russian People is ap- is the AdelpU ,—but that theatre, never a There were now, in consequence of this war, proaching, in its revolutionary tendencies, the point there hout the whole of maturit}', towards which it is impelled , b fav urite of mine, alway s plays the same pieces numerous free corps spread throug y the worth ire, which, especially in the Governments of diabolical system of oppression and corruption pre- for °an indefinite period. Sadler' s Wells is emp hout the vast empire of Russia. whole, un less dinner parties Moscow, Twer, &c, actually refused to resume their vailing throug It is, visiting. But, on the that they had won moreover, evident, that the future Russian revolu- shortly, I shall grow into a misanthrope. socca«-e labour, loudly declaring commence fr eedom on the battle-field. In spite of those tion will not only be political—a mere change of Vivian. their in which, if the commotions being subdued, still since 1842 , the re- dynasty—but a social revolution, in- bellions of the peasantry have become permanent. surrection be successful , the present order of things Every year gives birtU to a dozen of them in the will unavoidably be replaced by the reign of purely (Surnptntt femrirnt n{ various districts, and they have acquired already such democratic institutions. that, whilst formerly only single com- The martyrs, who, in 1826, died on the scaffold for dimensions, democratic republic in This T>age is accorded to an authentic Exposition of the munes and districts used to rise, the insurrection now the idea of establishing a Opinions' and Acts of the Democracy cf Europe : as such once several governments, for the people Russia,—th ose hundreds of victims, who, for having ¦we pose any restraint on the utterance ot embraces at do not im to being everywhere penetrated with the same tendency, shared their faith, have been transported to the opinion, and , therefore, limit our own responsiDiiity pi ivate soldiers, the authenticity of the statement. take up arms at the first news of an insurrection in a mines of Siberia , are incorporated as neighbouring district. The greatest savageness, but deprived of .all promotion , in the Transcaucasian revolting peasants, who, in (Concluded from our last, p. 975.) also the most exalted heroism is displayed in those army,—tho continually popular insurrections. In tho rebellion which broke their untrained minds, kill and destroy all that em- The frequent rebellions and risings of the pea- princi le of democracy—and the tendency out in 1S31, on account of the cholera, 200,000 bodies the opposite p Bants* are the best testimony to the social Novgorod and Pskov, exiles in foreign lands, who, like all Bakoonin, cherish have reached a much peasants were in arms in of her fermentations, which once independent Republics, now governments of republican principles, aresymptoms justificatory of our higher degree than is dreamt of in other countries , which authorize us to infer ¦ with the the Russian Empire. They killed all th e landowners, expectations ; symptoms, who only see the surface, glossed over no that the state of mind prevailing among the Russian great protest of the agri- officers , and functionaries, in the coolest blood, Imperial colours. The first their friends or foes. It nation, well known by the autocrat, must have pre- against their oppressors was the insur- matter whether they were cultural people so ap ned, that a landed proprietor remonstrated vented him from pushing his armed hordes towards rection headed by Poogacheff, from the year 1773 h pe a common with his revolted peasants, that he bad always been the heart and the west of Europe, in order to execute to 1775. This insurgent, who was but to restore throughout Europe the kind and just to them, and why, then, did they wish his plans, viz., 1 Cossack, under the mask of the resuscitated Peter III. gn ng in Warsaw.' His well-known clear* times an enormous army, to kill him ? " True," replied an old peasant, with *' Order rei i collected three different but we have sworn to kill all the sightedness forbids us accusing him of mere delay in took several fortresses, conquered Kazan , and ad- tears in his eyes ; " sectarians nobles without exception ; consequently, you must carrying out his liberticide d esigns ; he knows too vanced from the Ural to Tambor. The w ll that '62 will be too late, that the progressive Castles were burnt down, die. But, as you have always been kind to us, you e formed his main strength. " Another peasant gave spirit of the age, which undermines "all absolutism, of dead nobles and functionaries marked ihe shall have an easy death. mounds ipe, that he might not, in his last will thenbe too extensively spread and deeprooted , road he had marched through. U pwards of 100,000 him his tobacco-p The in- moments, be deprived of his favourite enjoyment. and that all remedy, even that of the k nout, will prove people lost their lives in this rebellion. of no avail. habitants of Mosco w anxiously avvidted his arrival , In the Government of Simbirsk , about nine years and Catherine II. trembled on that throne (she had ago, a 3'oung peasant was executed, for having been Yes ; it will be too late, and we earnestly hope that stained it with the blood of her husband) even when the ringleader of such a revolt. The whole commune even the Tsar's continuousness, to which, as it would acheff was already defeated and taken prisoner. accompanied him to the scaffold, singing hymns, and appear, he was forced to submit, in order to at least Poog , will be He was, of course, executed ; but his memory, as uttering lamentations. " Never mind, friends," ex- save his own ship from the threatening storm the hero of the people, still lives : the people h-.ive claimed he; " lam not the first, and shall not be the unavailable, as her crew, too, will then be of ripe age ; speak wi-h pride of the Poogachef- last ! " and, as such, being guided by the compass of an en- never ceased to " , join the other Euro- sheena " ( the time of Poogacheff) . Five or six years ago the peasants of the Govern- lightened and emancipated mind After the conclusion of this sanguinary insurrec- ment of Simbirsk burnt their villages down with pean nations in their efforts to establish the reign of tion and the execution of all the ring-leaders, the their own hands, at the same time accusing the Divine justice in lieu of iniquity, the sovereignty of merel despotism of a few people kept quiet until the year 1812, which, was the nobles as having been the incendiaries , y to the Peoples in lieu of th e abject dawn of a new era for Russia. A Democratic party avenge themselves on the Tsar's contemplated eman- families, and follow no other idea but that which tho of nobles entered into negotiation with Napoleon , cipation of their serfs. motto " God and the People " conveys. purposing to free the people by his ;tid from the yoke We thus nee that in Russia, not only the abolition of a fearful slavery ; but this magnificent opportunity of serfdom , and jicrsonal freedom, are the mooted of acquiring a real grandeur was rejected by the point?, but also a claim upon the soil. The peasants Conqueror , and the Russian Democrats turned the reason about this matter quite openl y; th ey never (iDrpnnafimm af tljt ffrajile, popular insurrection , organized in his and their own say, " the ground of our master : but our soil." The POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. people's favour against him. They succeeded in character of the future Russian revolution is thus enticing ltastopchecn , the governor of Moscow, to pointed out in advance as a socia l one, and , in fact, it NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION. lay the ancient capital in ashes ; a compliance which is embodied in the character of the People, and in institutions. The soil belongs to The executive met as usual on Wednesday. The Alexander chastized with his disgrace, as he never their communal Secretary reported that the monthly circular was forgave him that deed , albeit he feigned before the the commune ; individuall y the peasant is but the usufructuary of it; the righ t of inheriting only regards read y. A letter was read from Mr. C. 1\ Nicholls, frequent never the land ; and every twenty olliiijull y informing the executive that be had been * The best proof tha t these rebellions are moveable property, elected on the Parliamentary Reform Association ; are the following provisions Nicholas has made in the or twenty-live years it undergoes a new distribution. even with the best int ention, upon and stating that he thought himself bound to notify laws since 1842 : — To encroach , as he had been nominated for the vacancy these communal regulations would be fraught with the fact, in. II. General Duties of the l*easants. the executive, and the pol icy of the step might bo 1. Obedience to Laws. great danger to the landlord ; nay, it would be his In this anxiety for the improvement disapproved, lie also stated that he accepted the All pea«ants arc bound by oath to an inviolable fidelit y death-warrant. election with pleasure. to the sacred person of his Imperial Majesty the lim- of their condition , in that readiness of revolting, all peror (vol . xii. § 171) , and vol . xiv . $ 180). None of the peasants, without distinction , whether those of Christian Socialist Office, 183, Fleet-street, them in to be » worn as a mask ; where, with tho ineetingH of peasants cannot lake p lace . In case of fire , name of(iod upon the; li ps, the heart i» set upon tho immdulion , or other huc Ii calamities , alarms can lie. Government sonic pot.utocs lor seed ; hut the pota- toes, owing to the interfc rence and speculation of the attainmen t of rank or wealth , and the only (Jod really given , but only witli the consent of the re sponsible ctiiu- the god of thia world." i' inuuul authorities tho Ap- contractors, were transformed into rotten ones, and worshipped is " — rom Wcat- ( Ibid. vol. xii. $ 18(> , and f or October, panage Itegultttioua of 1813, vol. iv. 6 29). tho pooaautu rcluaed to put them in tho around : but minater llevieio ¦ *024 Cf> £ %r$ *&9V* [Satu rd ay, I have said you are wrong in treating your adver- with, the Moderate patriots in Paris, you wri-IT"" saries with contempt, in deeming them weak in claiming that Italy had only one national part? v°* number, irresolute, destitute of all influence and were organizing a national association which shoVS hold on the people. Were Italy the sole mistress of set aside the •• rather narrow views of Youne ItaK >» her own destinies, I grant you that you and De- and adjourn all questions not immediately beari mocracy might probably prevail ; but if the question on our great affair , the war with the foreigner. WhLf is how to wrench Italy from the foreign grasp, I do made you change your mind a month later ? '"Wh think that you will have enough to do to face French the Parisian riots of February. You thought that and Austrians, even if the Aristocrats an d Moderates Democracy had at last won its final battle for Fran are ranged by your side—to say nothing of the event and Europe ; that no state was any longer possible of their remaining inactive, or of the less probable save only a republican one. To a man who had but not impossible contingency, of their deeming brooded on democratic ideas till they had become a themselves entitled to choose between you and the weakness, a generous one if you will, but still a foreigner. weakness, to a man who for a few weeks drank in all Mazzini, you have made frequent and earnest the intoxication of that over fi ckle and ever-specious appeals to the Republicanism of the Italians. In pedantic French nation, and felt that its rulers—his 1833, you thought you had won over all the privates own personal friends—who held the destinies of the and non-commissioned officers of the Sardinian army, world in their hands, certainly, the Bight of his own tott CntrariL by enlisting them in a vast conspiracy against their countrymen, busy with a comparatively tame and superior officers and their King. I do not think you uneventful war, timidly intent on avoiding all topics [In this department , as all opinions , howb vhr kxtrkh k , with much satisfaction, nor do of discussion, hesitating in their choice are allowed an expression , thb edito r necessaril y remember that epoch between holds hi msbl7 responsible for nonb.] I remind you of it by way of taunt or upbraiding. elective Monarchic unity under Charles Albert, and But it ought to convince you that it is not true that Guelph, federal Democracy or Theocracy under Pius There is no learned man but will confess he hath much honour, consistency, disinterestedness are always IX., must, indeed, have presented a mean and pitiful profited by reading controversies, his senses awakened, you go down towards the spectacle. and his judgment sharpened. If, then, it be profitable fox found in proportion as him to read, why should it not, at least, be tolerable foi lower orders of society—not true, even in corrupt " What do these dotards mean ? ' you said. "Wh y his adversary to write.—Milton. Italy. All moral worth is buoyant and its tendency should Italy saddle itself with King or Pope ? The is upwards. If education has done nothing for the era of monarchs and pontiffs is at an end. The TO JOSEPH MAZZINI. more favoured classes, how can you lay so much hope plenitude of the time has arrived." You said, or London, October 6, 1851. on its miraculous effects on the less fortunate ones ? thought so—and sat down at Milan doing nothing, as You must not take the Italian people for what it you assure us—for I will believe you, and not those Friend and Brothek,—Were I to offer my own who contend that you were plotting, dividing le," I should say, in the should and could be, but for what it actually is ; for , dis- definition of the word " Peop that brutified , priest-ridden rabble which looked organizing all the time—doing nothing, as I believe, abstract, " People" are all the working members of and waiting that that silly farce of mock the community. Rabble are all who live in idleness, passively on the martyrdom of the Boudiera, and royalty gence of luxury, or of beggary ; more lately enabled the same Bourbon of Naples to should be at an end, when the earnest game of whether in the indul carry on his work of reaction, the people who cried Democracy should run its course. for two-thirds at least of human mendicity are the came. The Royal war gence. " Viva la mia morte !" even whilst the so-called Well : your own turn was consequence of self-indul Aristocrat and Moderate Poerio, Dragonetti, &c, at an end, that of the Peoples begun. The People But, in our particular case, where no community, had waited too long, however, to be able to make no country exists, I call People all who feel , would have died to give it life. " " Conciliation, Mazzini, in Heaven's name, conci- good the ground that the Toyalists had lost. In Lom- or may be made to feel, the want of such an exist- , the People could ence ; all who are, or are capable of becoming, liation ! Does it not strike you, as you review the bardy, and against the Austrians past, that not one of your revolutionary attempts, do no war. It, therefore, turned against the Italian ?' Italians." , Mazzini, to know nothing If I were to ask you in what bosoms the national such as they were, was ever directly aim against the Governments. I protest foreigner ? The attack on Savoy was a work half of of your actual share in the Tuscan and Roman revolu- feeling is chiefly harboured and cherished in our am inclined to think that ill-fated land, I believe you could hardly deny that spite, half of vengeance, against Charles Albert. tions. In my own hear t I it is to be found almost exclusively where some From 1833 to 1848 you turned all your means to dis- you had nothing to do with them. Till those revolu- turb the slumbers of the petty tyrants of Rome and tions broke out they raised a republican banner. It degree of cultivation has fitted the mind and heart ge and head for its reception. Of the vast mass of our rural Naples. Against Austria Proper you never as much was a necessity for you to acknowled as lifted up your little finger . It is true that Pied- them. I am not even aware how far you sticceeded population there is hardly one to whom the words " only convey any meaning. The mont, Rome, and Naples were looked upon as the in giving them an impulse of your own. I " country" and " Italy" outworks of Austrian ascendancy : that an attack know that at Florence your upright, truly patriotic lower classes in. the towns are either very indifferent intentions were frustrated by the stubborn, unprinci- on the subject , or have been taught to look to revo- upon our miscalled Italian despots was a blow at the forei gn tyranny that upholds them. Still you must pled ambition of Guerrazzi. Guerrazzi, one of your lutions for other results besides the emancipation of , Mazzini ; the Young Italian," par the country. Genuine, unalloyed patriotism I find have felt that the heart of Italy was at Milan, and own creatures " genera- you would have directed all your efforts to that excellence ! Unable to effect anything, I will not no where in Italy, except among the rising yourself by the say like unit}', but like good understanding and co- tion chiefl in schools and colleges, the vast majority quarter, had you not weakened , y alienation and repudiation of all upright and ge- operation between the two only Italian states that of whom belong to the cultivated classes. These are happened to be at seemed under the sway of your own ideas, you le and in their rear we may count as many nerous patriots, whenever they our peop , variance with your very narrow political and social searched Rome. I will not tell you, because it of the working men as may be aroused by their words , what I think would nave been y their example ; and not only is it creed. would sound harsh or carried away b I know not, Mazzini, whether I more love or more the fate of the Roman republic and of yourself, had in this class and no where else that we must look for to run your own career but their generous instinct dread you ; for Heaven ha3 given you the power of you been left alone—suffered the people of Italy, doing great good for your country, and the equal undisturbed. But the French came to attack you, prompts them to be " Italians," and nothing else. and give your soul genius, and the good genius of It was this class, as you may learn from one of their faculty of inflicting incalculable evils upon it. What has the people ever done for you ? What Italy ample field to shine forth in all sublimity. organs (the young volunteer Dandolo) , that drove The French, Mazzini ! only think, the French ! the Austrians from Milan, and pursued them to their can you reckon as the achievement of pure Demo- s before cracy in Italy ? You will quote the defence of Rome. Those wh,ose drunken cries had six month fortresses in March, 1848. Both you and men that made you lose eight of Italy in a vain faith in the were supposed to belong to your party, such as But what fought at Rome, I stoutly contend, was not nationalism driven to '• brotherhood of Peoples and solidarity of nations. Cattaneo, De lioni, &c, have endeavoured to repre- republicanism. There was and immortalized of a mere popular despair, the cruel disenchantment of ill-conceived The French extinguished you—ay, sent that event as the result you Republican movement. The testimony of young hopes, indignation against French fickleness, perfid y, * . against and un-reason, hatred of priestly ruLe, a generous But you say the fratricidal expedition Dandolo flatly contradicts such a statement ; and Rome was not the work of the French nation. It there is an air of truth in his narrative which it is desire to utter a loud protest against the conspiracy correctness of of all Europe against Italy. It was not the people, will take another letter to examine the impossible to resist. The revolution was purely my views of the national : it had no other definite object than to turn it was not the Republican faction , that fought at that assertion , and to give you " brotherhood of Peoples and solidarity of nations. the Austrians*oat, and all classes of people equally Rome. I have spoken to hundreds who distinguished Maiuotti. contributed to its success, that class which was best themselves in the foremost ranks of the combatants L. calculated to it by the advantages of education very who cared not a pin for political forms : young Dan- naturally taking the lead. dolo tells us that the Manava legion etoutly refused THE CHURCH AND THE PEOPLE. You have said it a thousand times. The Italians, to lay aside the cross of Savoy they wore on their Kast Burnt, October 20, 1851. by a native instinct, and by all the association of the belts, in spite of the gibes and jeers of paltry dema- Sin,—In your paper of the 18th instant, you have past, are a llepublican people. Perhups they are gogues who made more noise in the mum square, put a question to me. more anti-monarchical than really democratic ; but forsooth, than on the walla of the town. I beg to refer you, for an answer to that question, Mazzini , you know it well, it was Italy that published— Why should never mind what they are at heart ! You have to a pamphlet of mine lately (ls added that the youth and people of Milan in 184H fought at Rome as well as at Venice, Brescia, and the Bishops continue to sit in the House of I/0 T ' ¦were all eager for the Republic ; but hero you have Ancona. I do not mean to Kay that the Italians, if Masters. Third Edition. And especially to pp. «» <> «• the mouthpiece of the Manava and other legions of properl y consulted , might not exhibit a decisive ten- I am sorry that I have no copy to send with tiua dency- towards Republican imtitutioiiH. Nay, in Lombard volunteerH , who, both at the time they letter. bet were fighting the AuBtriaiis on the Alps and at the Borne divisions of Italy, as for instance at Rome, no You will see in that pamphlet that I have not j time they wcro fi ghting the French on the Tiber, other possible government seems to suggest itself. unmindful of the fact that the Church of *-"B lB"" But 1 contend that all honest Italians consider finch which consist kept themselves jea lounly neutral in all merely poli- had " other duties than those coi tical questions, as they felt that any diHcuasion on questions an of secondary importance, and evince adhering to formal religion , and in wcttling the such eubjectH could only be unreasonable and mis- everywhere the most salutary dread of their pre- troversy about prevenient grace." chievous, whilst the great national contest was pend- mature dincuH.sion. Your obedient servant, C koiujb A. Dknison. ing. , The revolution of 18-18 began at Milan and ended I do not believe that by starting any ot the groat at Rome. It Htnrted upon purely national princi ples, Ti l l': l'OWElt OF EDUCATION. cither a 1 >emocratie or a and painti weie taken to give it a political turn. It Social questions, by raising Jj KTTKIt HI- Social banner, you could add a wing le man to the wiw generoiiH , unanimous at the outtict ; it was din- 4 , IS-' 1 - . There arc; many— gnteed by hcuihIuIouh diHHeiiH ioiiH at itH close llrig hton , 8«!p tc;ml>«r ranks of the Italian combatants . the whom you do wrong to despite —who would with- 1 1« through fear of the ill-blood and dinsion that within «u ^c .^ inevitably Allow me, once more, to sum up the chief events of fact , requiring only for itfl solution the ° _- inert) broaching of nuch questions must external percepttion give riao to. of that year. In January you were Bhaking handu of our powers of internal and Oct. 25, 1851.] &&* '%ta*tt. 1025 unfortunately is sadly neglected in intelligence and moral feelings have been com- detail is seized on by the friends of Absolutism, and an exerciae which , will resist almost, or tortured into wilful, malicious falsehood systems of education, or we should not now have paratively well developed and calumny, our entirely, without an effort or temptation which will as and injures the progress of Liberalism and constitu- to discuss this point. and evil conduct in tional Government. I am, Sir ascertain whether we determine, or have power certainly produce a vicious will , yours respectfully, To been less favourably educated. S. A. S. to determine, by a free will, how we shall feel, or one who has or what we shall like or dislike, or love or Again, to ascertain whether we determine, or have whom formation of our character hate, let ua, aa I have said, appeal to facts ; let power to determine, the whether we can make ourselves dislike or hate by a Tree will or independent power, if we appeal to Cmraittrrial lifuir^ us try aracter of every indi- or despise one whom we like or love or esteem ; or facts, we shall find that the ch vice versd . We shall find that we are not able to do vidual is produced (as well as his feelings, con- MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE. unless some sufficientl y powerful motive-cause is victions, and will) by the operation of natural and Saturday. so that we do not deter- produced within us, either by some altered state of constant laws. We have seen Consols have thi s week varied slightl y, closing on our own physical or mental constitution or character, mine for ourselves by an independent power what we Monday at 97|, rising to 97i g on Tuesday, receding on or by some change in or in relation to the object of shall feel, or believe, or will, or do; but that our Wednesday to 97J to j, and rising again on Thursday to our feeling ; and that if this sufficientl y powerful feelings and convictions and will and actions are at 97± 1. The closing price yesterday was, Consols , 97| 4. cause is produced, we do not possess any independent all times determined by the present state of our con- have been Consols, from circumstances The fluctuations of the week . power or free will by which we can prevent the stitution and character, and by the 97 h to 3 ; Bank Stock , from 212 to 213i; Exchequer change of feeling ; and, therefore, that our feelings which influence us at the time; and facts demonstrate Bills, from 51s. to 55s. premium. character, or the develop- are not produced by an independent will, but are the that the formation of our In the Forei gn Stock Market yesterday the bargains results of causes which are themselves produced by ment of our natural powers and tendencies, is the of the day comprised—Danish Five per Cents., 102$ ; antecedent causes in a natural or necessary order of result of the feelings, thoughts, wills, and actions Portuguese Four per Cents., for the account, 32j ; sequence. which we are thus caused to have and perform from Russian Five per Cents., 114$; the Four-and-a-Half per To ascertain whether we determine, or have power the commencement of our existence—from the in- Cents., 101 J; Spanish Five per Cents., for the account , to determine, by a free will, what we shall believe or stinctive and unconscious movements of our early 20f; Spanish Three per Cents., 38f ; Venezuela, 32 g and disbelieve, let us again appeal to facts. Let the infancy, even before birth, to the conscious and more 33: and Dutch Four per Cent. Certificates , 89| and 90. himself believe the creed of developed and complex, but no less necessitated, ope- Christian try to make FOB, THE PAST WEEK. the Mahomedan, or the Protestant to make himself rations of our more advanced physical, int ellectual, BRITISH FUNDS believe the creed of the Catholic, and vice versd , &c. and moral powers and tendencies. The original (Closing Prices.) strength of these powers and tendencies The individual who makes the experiment will find qualities and Salur. Mond. Tues. IVedn. Thur?. Frid. that he is not able of himself to produce a change of are made for us ; the external means by which their Bank Stock.... 213 213 213 214 214i 214 ? growth are influenced during early infancy 3 oer Ct. Red 9GJ 9GJ 964 96| 96| conviction ; and that unless some sufficiqntl y powerful action and .. 96* 96| y some physical or are made for us, altogether independently of our 3 p. C.Con.A ns. 9~J 97^ 97J 97J 97? cause is produced within him, b 3 p. C. An. 1726. — mental change, some new evidence, or some new will : and when we begin to become more active or 3 p. Ct. Con., Ac. 97| 9»j 97| 91\ 97J 97* can be powerful, and to exercise a will to some extent in the Cent. An. 98 97| 97| 98J perception of evidence, no new conviction 3* p. 97* ¦¦ 9* produced ; and that if this sufficientl y powerful cause process and in the choice or formation of our circum- New 5 per Cts. ¦¦ • •¦¦ —— , this will, as we have seen, is determined, not Long Ans., 1860. 6 6j 7 7 7 6 is produced, he does not possess any power by which stances Ind.St. 10ip.ct. 262 262 2624 26' 268* he can prevent the change of conviction. He will by an independent power within us, but by the con- Ditto Bonds .. 56 p 56 p 51 p 61 p 62 p 63 p thus discover that his belief or disbelief is not pro- stitution and character which have been previously Ex. Bills, 1000/. 44 p 54 p 51 p 51 p 55 p 53 p " but is the result of causes produced in us and the external circumstances then Ditto , 5j , u«, that which in the end prevailed, had become the affect him from his cradle to hia grave." It ia evident , and 27; solicitors , Mr . Dod ge, Liverpool ; and M ctmra , strongest ; and in many cases we shall find that it however, that the writerof this article is in the general Motte ram , Kni ght , and Knunet , Birmingham ; ollicial had become the strongest in opposition to a previous predicament of having little or no idea of the appli- assignee, Mr. Val py, Birming ham—R. Tll.l., Ht. Helen ' s, strong desire and determination to resist and repress knowledge. Worceste rshire , grocer , November 1 , and 24 ; solicitors , Me«r». cation of this Rea , Worceste r ; and Messrs. Wrig ht , liirmiiigtiam ; oflicial it. Or when the determination to resist or repress Having now sufficientl y explained the preliminary ass ignue , Mr. Christie , Birming ham — K. Caiuns , Newport . an inclination has prevailed, we shall find that it did part of the subject, I will proceed in another letter to Monmout hshire , corn merchant , November (J , December U; bo solel y- because it proved to be superior in strength point out this application. Hknry Thavis. solicitor s, Mr. Addition , Gloucest rr ; and Messrs. Abbot and to the Lucas , Bristol ; oflici.il nspignee, Mr. Ilutto n , Bristol—J. 8yk.e« , opposing inclination ; thus demonstrating that jun., So werby. Yorkshire , tendealer , Nntemlicr 3, December 1 ; the power of resisting or repressing our inclinations solicitors, vlr. Bagster Walbrook-buildiiiga ; Mr . ButcliflPr , (which ia in fact an opposing feeling pro duced within IS THE KING OF TltUSSIA A PROTESTANT ? Soiveiby-b rid gfo , near Halifax ; uud Messrs. Courtenay and ~ r us, as all our feelings are produced, and not, as ha s Manchester , O ctobe r 2\. lH. )l. Coinpt on , Leeds ; oflicial assi gn ee, Mr . Hope , Leeds—J. Dovk , article entitled Is the King of Prussia Leeds, cur r ier , November 7, December 8; aolicitor , Mr. Kluic- i been Bupposed, an independent determining power or Sin,—In an " kleton , Leeds , official assi gnee, Mr. Hope , Leeds—J Dhan'H , free will) decides our will and conduct, only when a Protestant? " I find an allusion to the Koman Liverp ool . chemidt , November 3, December 8 ; Holicitor , Mr. and while it is stronger than the feelings to which it Catholics of Hamburg. It is there stated that this l' eel , Liverpo ol; oflicial a^oignee , Mr. Morgan , Liverpool. j s opposed ; and that when the strength of these city has not seen an officiating Popish priest since Friday, October 24. latter feelings is increased so much as to become the thirty years' war ; I cannot say whether the city Bankru pts.— E. Evans , l'addingtoii- grecii , nurseryman , to> greater is blind or not , but in the year 1833 I attended high siirrie ndi-r , November 4 , December 1 ; volicitoru , MeuHrH , I.ink- than thut of the resisting feeling, these feel- later , Charl otte-row , Maiibion-h«»u»« ; and Mr. Mous , Moorguic - lng8, which previously, while they wore the mass in the Kleine Michaelia Kirche, and when 1 stref t ; oflicial anHi gn ee, Mr. JoIiiihou , UaBing hall-Htreet— F, vreaker, had been kept in subjection by the other, was in Hamburg thin summer I looked into the same Ca.stki.i.I , Bury-rourt , bt. Mary Axe. merchant., November 7, become the determining power, and decide the church and biiw a Roman. Catholic clergyman going December if ; Holieitors , MeuttrH . Oliverson and Lavie , Krude - oon prayera appointed lor rick' u-p lacc. Old Jewry ; oflicial aBHignee , Mr. (Jrooin , Abchurcli- duct. The supposition, therefore , that we pos- through the regular course of lanc—11 . Hhoomk , Haymarket , victualler , Nove mber 4 , •*»» an independent power or free will by which we mass. The whole article in which this statement waa Deceuiber i) ; solicitor. Messrs. Finher and Cooke , <«ray ' u-inu- can reHiHt and control our inclinations at will , has made, seems to me to be built rather upon exaggerated H(|U;uc ; oflic ial assi gnee, Mr. Edwards , l/i cderick' s-pluce, O'd arisen from in rumours than on any solid foundation of fact, and I Je wr y—J . B. Davih , Dalby-terruce . City-road , dea ler in Jewel- the nonperccption of the manner lery, November II . Decenib.r2; solicitors , M*hhi-h. Van Suiidau "Which our feelinga and will or decision to act are pro- would earnestly recommend true Jiihcralu to bo and dimming. King-street , C lieupnide ; official asH i ffiiee , Mr , duced, and of the fact that the resisting power cautious before they place implicit confidence in such (jnioi n , Abcliiirch-laiKi— K. W. CHKli nii.l., Ita mrtfal o. cab inet- (which, has been supposed to be a free or self formed reports. J tcuclion is rampant, enough without paint- maker ; November 11 , Deccmlx-r Z ; ««Ji«it oi a , Messrs. Liny is and Lewia El y-p lace . Ilo lborn ; official unm^nee . Mr . lul - Wl i» and ing it blacker than it is, and the cause I bclicvo your . T. AucodK. , ") a feeling produced in us by intern al wardH . Sani hrook-coiirt , Ilas iiig haII-«U -««t — W. external causes as much rh the power or feeling by correspondent to have at heart will not be benefited Manchester , hotel-keeper . November 7, Novembe r Jl ; "whic by anonymoiiH accusations that careful examination Holic.itorH Meaur *. Coope r ami Hon . and Mr. Htreet , Man * U it i« opposed ; and that the relative strength . Ma of the two in the will not be able to confirm. 1 do not write this note c lu-Kter ; oflicial atmigm.o . Mr. Maokmwii. . nchester- contending feelinga is determined J. Howard Macclc ^-ld. u ilk manufacturer . Novembe r 7 ami ¦arne in any way to load your readers to uupnouu that . and haw Mucc U-a- manner ; the rcHisting power or feeling pre- 2H - H«llr.itora . Me»H.H. I!ro«:K I.'l....«(.« IJ ^ . vailing only ho long as it in the strongest, and being Jesuitical intri gues art) not being vi gorously carried lleld - and Mrti ttrn . Sinter und Heeli*. Mm.ch« *tt ;r ; olliclal nmu •iHBiirue i) Mr Lee Ma ncheste r—J. MauBuiin IK . Ex Dcoouibiu J ; . •jul necessary causation, subject to the sumo un- y recommend I' xeter - ofllcinl MByignce. Mr. llirtzel. Eiistti r—J . C. Bkaton " November & •fcangmg laws of God hs the formation of our (separate all who write upon Continental politics to be very Mart ock . Somersetshire glover . . Dowwuber »; foelinga . Henco it la that the Individual whoso careful in their etatomonta. Any incorrectness of BolioiU>r«. Mr. Ming, Burgo-yar d, Um>Klerib.ury j a.ad, Mr. 1026 Cft* & taitt* [Satur day, Brutton , Exeter; official assi gnee, Mr. Hir tzel , Exeter—E . T^HE GREAT WESTERN November 7, by AND Foi^; TEAGUB .jun., East Dean , Gloucestershire , grocer , T7NAMELLEDJCi Mr . BEAItD , 85 , KINGDAGUERREOTYPES WILLIAM- STBEKT . ,CITY ; -*- OF DEAN COA L COMP ANY. " ^ ^ T December 8; solicitor , Mr. Smith , Newnham Gloucester; official , 34, PARLIAMENT-STREET ; and the 11O\ AL POLY- CA PITAL, £25,000. assignee, Mr. Hutton ,' Bri stol—M. Lkes , Halifax , woollen GENT- STREET ; also 31, TECHNIC INSTITUTION , RE In Shares, of jEI each—paid- up. manufac turer , November 10, December 2; solicitors , Mr. Saw- RPO OL. Ranken , CHUR CH-STREET , LIVE Provisionally registered pursuant bridife . Wood-street , Cheapside ; Messrs. Craven and Mr. R. BEA RD has recent ly introduced an important improve- to 7th and 8th Viet ,.„,» ,, Leed9; official Temporar y Office-No. 3, Brid ge-stre et Halifax ; and Messrs . Courte nay and Oomptom , ment, by which his Daguerreotyp e Miniatures are enamelled , , WestminUe?' * assi gnee, Mr. . Hope , Leeds—J . Y. Smith , Newcastle-upon-Ty ne , secured from that susceptibilit y- to tarnish and TRUSTEES. * Messrs , Chater , and thereb y shi pbrokei " , November 4, December 2 ; solicitors , become obscure d , which all others are liable t> ; the colours Colonel Salwey, M.P., Egham -park , 8ur rey Newcastle-upon -Tyne ; and Messrs. Bell, Brodrick , and Bell, depth of tone , and permanency of an James Har mer . Esq., Ingress-park , Greenhi the Mr. Baker , K ew- also attain the brilliancy, , Kent Bow Churchyard , Cheapside ; official assignee , oil painting -. This Company is formed for the purpose of costle-upon -Tyne. work ing » n Oa, ^ INSTRUCTION. Field , situate m the Forest of Dean , Gloucestershi re anH1 1 ii * A MUSEM ENT AND — the present Pro prietors under a grant direct from' lhp n b? MESSRS. BAILEY AND MOON. XJL The public are admitte d , without charge , to the British comprisin g- an area of about one hundr ed and n East India Company ' s Museum , fiftv Api-p* and* TT ANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS. Museum , National Gallery , contains five Seams of Coal , of fifteen feet in thickness th London Missionary Society's Museum , and to the Splendid Ex- which it is pr oposed to work , whi ch will prod uce ° J-.H. THE BLOOMER BALL , on view fro m 8 in the niorninp till. upwarduPwar dg of* will take place at the above hibition of Art and Industry, three million and a half Tons of Coal . Under distinguished Management , at Benetfink and Comp an y' s Emporium for Furnish- rooms on Wednesday, the '9th instant. Tickets (including a 8 at night , One of the Seams allud ed to produces Cannel Coal «*¦ - r ing- Ironmongery ", 89 and 90, Cheapside , London. The splendid of i. rechcrchG supper and refreshm ents), l.)s. each , may be obtained there is a large consumption in the Gas Works of London j stock comprises every vatiety of Electro-p lated Wares , C hande - other places. on app lication at Messrs. Bailey and Moon 's, Carlton Library , Tea-trays , Cutlery, I ron Bedsteads , The other two Seams are alr eady in greatdZ, ". lace. It is most respectfully in- liers , Lamps, Tea-uvns , both in the Provincial and Forei gn Market s ; lar| e 12, Regent-street , Waterloo-p Bat s Fire-iron9 ; in short , every requisite either for quantn i ' timated that no lady can possibly be admitted except in h , Stoves , bein# consumed by the Steam Engines of West Glouce B tm-.K - the Mansion or the Cottage . the Cotton Mills and Gas Works of Bristol 1 ** Bloomer " attire. Gentlema n in fuil evening dress. Dancing establis hment you cann ot be deceived , because every , and the Iron p to commence punctua lly at Ha lf-past Ten o'clock. Adams ' s At this naces of the surroundin g districts. Immense suppl ies -£" arti cle is marked in plain fi gures, and at such prices as can be shi pped from Ly (Almack' s) full band will at Lend. The supper and refreshments sales are so enormous as to dney, under the well-known title of "For p Withers , of Baker-street Portman- offered onl y by a house whose gross Wall' s End"—a coal equal in quality to the best * •will be provided by Mr . , enab le them to sell the best articles at 10 or 15 per cent, ltss than Newcastle. ¦quare. the kingdom. That we can furnish a man- Specimens of the various Seams of Coal from the For est of any other house in Dean have been sent to the Exhibition in sion, is demonstrate d by the continued patronagt of the nobility Hyde-park bv Mr- OPU LAR PROGRESS AND SECULAR Atkinson , one of her Majesty ' Deputy Gavellers of the ¦ Meeting will be holden at the »nd gentry ; and to prove that we can also suit the necessary and * Forest EDUCATIO N.—A Pub lic in a more humble sphere , The nature and capabilities of this Coal Field have Ion ? been Vauxhull-road (opposite Regent-street), in judicious economy of those moving kn own , and in the immediate nei Lecture-room *. we are enabled actually to furnish an eight-roomed house for , ghbourhood , made avail able support of the Westminster and Pimlico Peop le' s Institute , Hitherto , the want of Railway Communication has kept the purpose of aiding POPULAR PROGRESS and £5, and the arti cles, too, of the best quali ty and workmanship. pro^ formed for the incredible ; but as we are the largest buyers ductions of this Field out of the Lond on M arket. The difficulty SECULAR EDUCATION , on Wednesday Evening next , This may appear of transport is now obviated ; a Branch of the Grea t o f iron goods, to »ay nothing of those of our own manufacture , Wester ii October 29, 1851. The chair will be taken at Half-past Seven Railway, *ix miles in extent , is about to be carri ed thro ugh this C. Lushinjjton , E»q., M.I' ., one of the in London , we c»n do it, and subjoin a list of the requisites :— for Ei ght o' clock , by 0 10 6 very Coal Field , and will pass close to the intende d Pit' s Trustees. Thorn ton Hunt , Ernest Jones , and other popular 1 Hall-lamp M outh. advocates are p led ged to attend. E. STALL WOOD , Src. 1 Umbrella-stand 046 1 Bronzed Dining-room Fender and Staudards .. 0 5 6 This Compa ny will, therefore , be »ble to afford the means of 1 Set of Polished Steel Fire-iro ns 0 3 6 supp lying- with the best fuel , and at a cheaper rate than ever vet LOUIS ROSSr , HAIR-CUTTER and 1 Brass Toast-stand ...... •• •• 0 16 offered , not only Lond on , with its Foundries , Gas Works , and COIFFEU R, 254, Regcnt-street . oppos iteHanover-square , 1 Fire-guard .. .. •• •• .. •• 016 Steam Mill*, but also the Towns and Villages on the line of the inventor of the TRANSPARENT HEAD-DRESSES and 1 Bronzed and Polished Steel Scroll Fender .. 0 8 6 Great Western Railway. Amongst the places which can be so PEUU KES, the Hair of which is singly attached to a thin , 1 Set Polished Steel Fire- irons , Bright Pan .. 0 5 C supplied may be named , Gloucester , Cheltenham , Stoneh ouse transparent fabr ic, ren dering the skin of the head perfectl y 1 Ornamented Japanned Scuttle and Scoop .. 0 4 6 Stroud , Brinscombe , Cirenceiter , Tetbury, Swindon . Farrin gdon ' visible ; and being attached to a foundation constructed on geo- 1 Best Bed-room Fende r and Polished Steel Fire- Wantage , Abingdon , Oxford , Woodstock , Walling ford , Newbu ry) metrical princip les, renders them superior to all others hitherto irons 0 7 0 Goring, Pangbourne , llasingstoke , Reading, Hi gh Wycombe , Invented. 2 Bed-room Fende rs , and 2 8ets of Fire-irons .. 0 7 6 Great Alarlow , Maidenhead , Egham , Windsor , Slough, Uxbrid ge, £ Sole proprietor of the CELEBRATED PERUVIAN BALM , Set of Four Block-ti n Dish Covers .. .. 0 11 6 Colnbrook , and the Port of Southampton with its lar ge fleet of •which is unveisa lly approved and admired. This BALM , con- 1 Bread-grater , 6d., Tin Candlestic k , 9d 0 13 ocean steamers. taining neither ardent spirit , pungent essential oils, nor other 1 Teakettle , 28. 6d., 1 Gridiron , Is. .. .. 0 3 6 FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. injurious materials , cleans the Hair expeditiousl y, render * it 1 Frying-pan , It., 1 Meat-chopper , It. 6d 0 3 6 bea utifull y brig ht , and imparts to it the delicate fragrance of GREAT WESTERN AND FOREST OF DEAN COAL 1 Cof feepot. Is., 1 Colander , Is...... 0 2 0 COMPANY. Flowers. The Hai r when washed with this B»hn soon become* 1 Du*t-pan , 6d., I Fish-kett le, 48 0 4 6 pleasant ly soft, and luxuriant in growth : and althoug h by im- 1 Fish-slice , 6d., 1 Flour-bo x, 8d 0 12 Gentlemen ,—I request you to allot me Share s in the properl y employing injurious extracts to clean it, the Hair may 1 Pepper-box 004 above Company, ana I agree to accept the same, or any less hav e been rende red harsh , or tu rned gre y, it will soon be restored 3 Tinned Iran Saucepan s 0 5 0 number that may be allotted to me, to pay the sum of £1 per to its Natural Colour and Brillianc y bv using the PERUVIAN 1 Ov.hI Boiling-pot , 3s. 8d., l Set of Skewer *, 4d. .. 0 4 0 8hare , and to sign the Deed of Settlement when the same shall BALM. 3 Spoon8 , 9d., Tea-pot and Tray, 3s. .. .. 0 3 9 be read y for execution. Name Toasting-fork 0 0 6 Address rpHE AMERICA.—A valuable newly invented , Business JL very small , powerful WAISTCOAT POCKET GLASS , JE5 0 0 Referee the size of a walnut , to d iscern minute objects at a distance of Note. Any one or more of the art icles may be selected at the Address of Referee from four to five miles, which is found to be invaluable to above prices. And all orders for j£5 and upwards will bo for- Dated this day of Yachters , Sportsmen , Gentlemen , and Gamekeepers . P rice warded free to any part of the king dom. Note , therefore , the To the Provisional Directors of the above-mentioned Company. 30s.; sent free. —TELESCOPES. A new and most important addre.-s. BE NETF INK and Co., 89 and SO, Cheapside , London ; Prospectuses may be obtained of, and app lication for the re- invention in Telescopes , possessing such extraordinary powers , and if you are about to furnish , an d want to buy economicall y maining - shares addressed to the Secretary, at the offices , aa that some, 3J inches , with an extra eye p iece, will show dis- and tastefu lly visit this establishment. above ; or to the Solicitors to the Company , Messrs. Coombeand tinct ly Jupiter ' s moons , Saturn 's ring, and the do uble stars. ~ Nicoll ; Messr s. Lind and Rickard , stockbrokers , 3, Bank Cham- They supersede every other kind , and are of all sizes, for the CENTRAL C0-0PEBATIVE AGENCY, bers , Lothbury ; and of the following- agents :—Bristol : Henry waistcoat pocket , shooting, mil itary purposes , &c. O pera an d INSTITUTE D UNDER TRUST . TO COUNTERACT THE Dayrell , Esq. , stockbroker , 0, Clare-street. —Gloucester : O. P. Race-Course Glasses , with wonderf ul powers ; a minute object SYSTEM OF ADULTERATION AND FKAUD NOW Wilkes , Esq., solicitor. —Liverpool : Messrs. Lowe and Sons , can be clearl y seen from ten to twelve miles distant. In- PREVAI LING IN THE TRADK , AND TO PROMOTE THE stockbrokers. —Pl ymouth : J. B. Wilcocks , Esq., Barbican. — valuable , newly invented Preserv insr Spectac les ; invisible and PRINCIPLE OF CO-OPE RATIVE ASSOCIATION. Windsor : Henry Darvill , Esq. , solicitor. all kinds of acoustic instrume nts , for relie f of extreme deaf- Trustees—E dward Vansittart Neale , Esq. (Founder of the Insti- By order of the Directors , ness.—Messrs. S. and B. SOLOMONS , Optic ians and Aurists , tution); and Thomas Hughes, Esq. (one of the Contributor! >. HENRY CAPPER , Secretar y. 39, Albrmarle-street , Piccadill y, opposite the York Hotel. Commercial Firm—Lec hevalier , Woodin , Jones , and Co. Central Estab lishment—7 6, Charlotte-street , Fitzroy-sq, London. is a nut w liicl i , besides farinaceous sub- Branch Establishmen ts—35, Great IMary lebone-street , Portland- PPLICATIONS OF GUTTA PERCHA.- C^OCOA DOMESTIC , &c—Soles for Boots and Shoes , Lining J stance , contains a bland oil. The oil in this nut has one place , London ; and 13. 8wan-street , Manchester. A instituted for a period of 100 years. for Cisterns , &c , Picture Frames , Looking-g lass Fram es, advantage , which is, that it is less liable than any other oil to The agency is Soap Possessing these two nutritive substances , Cocoa i3 are to counteract the system ot adulteration and Ornamental Mouldings , Bowls, Drinking Cups , Jars , rancidity. Its objects Dishes lUnifS, become a niorft valuable article of diet , more particularl y if, by fraud now prevailing in the trade ; to deal as agent * for the , Vaiti , Ornamental Ink-stand *, Noiseless Curtain the farinaceous substance can be so purchasing the articlei for their consumption , and Card , Fruit , Pin , and Pen Trays , Tooth-brush Trays , Shaving- mechanica l or other mcaiid , consumers in Drain wnl incorporated with the oily, that the one will prevent for the produce rs in selling- their produce ; to promote the brush Tr«ys , Window-blind Cord , Clutheb ' Line , perfectl y Soil Pi pes, Tubing for Watering Gardens , &c , Lininj for the other from separating . Such a union is presented in the progress of the princi ple of Association ; to find emp loyment for Bonnets , Watch Stands , Shelly , and Lighter Stan ds. bUU- Cocoa prepar ed b y JAiM KS EPP5 ; and thus , while the delight- cooperative associations by the collection of orders to be exe- lOar guarantee to the customers. GICAL—S p lints , Thin Sheet for Bandages , Stethosc opes , ful flavour , in part dependent upon the oil , is retained , the whole cuted under especial CIIKM 1CAL will agree with the moHt delicate stomach. A commerc ial firm, acting - under the permanent control of Trumpets. Bed Straps , and Bed pans for Invalids. preparati on —Carboys Vessels for Acids &c , Si hons Tubing for convey ing JAMES KIM'S , Iloimropathic Chemist , 112 , Great Kussell- trustees , has been found the safer and more acceptable mode of , , p , Oils , Acids . Alkalis , &c , Flasks , Bottles , Lining for Tnnki and tri-ct , Bloomsbury, a nd 82 , Old Broad-streot , City, London. carrying - out these objects according to law. The agency con- rump • tru stees contributors subscriber * and a Funnels. MANUFAC TURING—Buckets , Mill Band*, sists, therefore , of , , , , Kou nu K A M T (> INDIA, C II I N A &c.— partners hip. Buckets , Felt Ed ging, Bosses, Shuttle Buds , Washen , commercial Bands and Cord FOll OFFIC ES , STParticular * of the regular Monthly Mail Steam Conveyance The cap ital require d for the wholesale and retail business . Breasts for Water-Whecls. &c—Wafer Holders , Ink-stands , Ink-cups , Pen Tr ays . Cash and of the additional linen of communication , now cat-tblbrieil having beeu supp lied b y the founder and the first contributors , , Bowl*. Washing Basins , &c . Tube * for Convey ing Mesmige* l>y the IViiiniular and Oriental Hteam Navi gation Company with no express call in made at present , either for contributions or A(»K'- ital will b« further increased after the Canvas for coverin g Books, &c, and Plan Canon. the East , Jitc. r The Company book passe ngers , and receive pood s subset iptioim. The cap Lining wf eU ay heretofore for CEYLON , MADRAS CAL- public have been made acquainted with the objects of the in- CULTURAL— Tubing for Liquid Manur e, »ml i>ar< . Manure Tanks ELEC TRI CAL See.— CUTTA , PENANO , SINGAPORE , ami HONG KONO . b y stitution , and have experi enced its mode of dealing -. , Traces , and Whips. Coveri n g- for Electric Telegrap h Wire Insulating Stools , Battery their strainers , start ing from SOUTHAMPTON on the 20th of Customers , after three months ' regular dealing -, are entitled to . Meda llions. or about the ICtli of according to the amount of their trans- CelU , and Klectrot ype Moulds. OUNAME NTAI ^- every month , and from SUEZ on the month. a bonus , to be fixed Carved UJ K , Our of the Company ' s lirst-clanH vleameri vrill also be de- actions b y the council of the agency, consisting of the trustees Brackets , Cornices , Mouldings in imitation of Rosewo.d , See, and Picture Frames. USES ON SII Il' BOAllU spatched from Southampton for Alexandria , as an extra shi p, on and partners. 'i.iuwp «i». of Novembe r next , in combination with an extra Kteauier , expenses , salaries , profits , and bonuses Life Buoys . Buckets . Pump Buckets , Hand Speaking the 3rd After payment of all Cells , >lll to leave Calcutta on or about the 20th of October, I' asfeiigcrs returned to contribut ors , uubsciiberu , and regular customers , Drinking (;up« , Waterproof Canvas . Life Boat 1. . , ,i Pump ing Water from , Houn d and 1 wiaii" may be booked , and goods an d parce ls forwarded by tlieac extra the general profit " are to be accumulated , part to form a reucrve the Hold to the Deck l i|>e» n to or from SOU I'll AM PTON cooperative associations. Cords . Lining for Boxes. MISCELLANEOUS— Suction ateamei . ALEXAN DR1A . A DEN . fund , and purt to promot e Tubin g lor vt CEYL ON . MADRAS , nnd CALCUTTA. Business transacted wholesale aiul retail. Subscribers , Coope- for Fire Engines , Buckets , Communion Tray a . tilution PervonB , llolU " « BOM BAY.—Th o Company will likewiav despatch from Bombay, rat ive Storei . Working Men ' s Asiociations , Regular Customers , . Hearing Appuratua for Deaf ' Mi .ra Staves, Life Preuervern , Railway ConverM ation Tubtf tj. W> ¦bo ut the Idt of November next , an d of every alternate month and the Public supp lied. &c «c - Cap«, Thread , Sec Official Seals . &<: ., Powder Flanks . there after , a fi rut-clasft ¦team-nbi p for Aden , u> meet there the The Agency intend hereafter to undertake the execution of . Wh arf- roa d ,^»i <:<>i n|iaii\ ' H shi ps lift ween Calcutta and Suez ; and at Alexandria all orders for any kind of article! or prod uce ; their oper ations The (iutta Percha Company. Patentees . 18. one of the Company 's steam-s hip* will receive the puuBrii ^ei n , for the present are restricted to GUOCERlKtJ , WINES , and road . -- parce l s, and giuxls , ami convey them to Southampton , calling ITALIAN ARTI CLES , aa a sI'I'.cimun of whut can bo don * with N C b at MultuFand Gibraltar. the mipport (»(' cooperat ive customers. T it I M O N I Ah A L L I A passengers , par cels , and goodu for HUM fra med and printed to enable any number of MA ESTABIJ SIIK ).)j£» But HAY and KuIch have hern ASSOCIATION. (LEGALLY Hi j WlWTK ttN INDIA will l>e conveyed throug hout from South - familien of ull cla«neH , in nuy district of London , or nny part ol d ucted by it comm ittee of gentlemen of high atuu ding the mail steamers , leaving - Southam pton ,, themselves into " i' rieurily Societies (including legal profess ion of grea t ««» ' ampto n in M the L'Oih the country, to form " for tv«> members of the bow J w of October , nnd the i:ni i ru|Jondiiij( ve 'Hi ln from Hue/ , to Aden , enjo) ing the benefit of Coti peial ive Store y. To be senl by pout on princi ples of equity and honour with inviolable At w hich latti-r port a w (<- .»i n-nlii j» of (he Compan y will be in to parties forwarding four ulampti . both «exen, . . f ffl . waiti ng to emba rk mid convey them to Mombay. Parliculaia of the nature and olijocm of the Central Coopera- The uj Htcin of introduction adop ted by this ^>rie}J " „<, „ Passeng ers for Itonibuy can aluo proceed t»y thin t' oinpa ny ' s tive Agency, wit.li a Digest of the Deed of •Settlement , a re lo be all other associations I|OM C fro m t he many objection! ) " L. ' t(, the ¦ teamerM of tJ»e ~"Jth of the month lo Malta , t hence lo Alexand ria found in t he printed report of a nu-etin ^ held at the Central Ollico alike app licable to all claauoa of society, lioin t'>" V , and from Hue/ , by the Honourable b y her Maje.sly' s stea mers of l h<* A gency. 'I' o be tte nt b y poat. to partiew foi warding 4 utainptt. peuuiint. . I r() ' n ul.i-ameiu. , a f iri F ust liiiiu i Comimnv A IihI of urticlcH with the wholrnalc priccM for Coopera tive This ABHoclation has been many years in opera tion . —MALTA— On the UOlli and li'Jth of Storm ^ ^ MKIUTE KRANKAN. , and u attending it the nmiiiif{ei ii deoxUj " ^ ,|iuUi inop On the "'Jth of the niiMith . be unit b the great siicu-hs h IIIJ ,... " mC rveiy moiilli. CoiiHlaiit l* y pout on payment of one poutagn stamp for the Whole- quarterly meeting to extend ill. publicity throug Alexundi'iu -On the x'fil.h of ihe month. sale Lint , a nd two for the Catalogue. of the preHH. 011 1'Olt I'lHJAL. — Vi go, O por t o, Lisbon , Oiuliz , Particular )*, Rules , Lint , and Cut:tlogue will miicnU •SPAIN AND be forwarded im- being in daily COI "" ' u (iibiallar , on tlic7t .li , 17th , a nd '7lh of the month. mediatel y on recei pt of ten pottta ^" lUiinip n. The conlliloiitial necreUrie.i , it.lyi oi. anil ~ nesn» in all poHllioi iH <» ° ov)) ,-y N. JJ Kie.un-n hi ps of the Company now p ly direct lietween A ll coiiiuiui iiciilionu to be uddreHMi-d to MM . Lcchcvulier , with pei ao nu of both m , . giiiiiauteo u ki»e«:.ly arrangement to the b.tUH iuo "< Calcutta , Penan;,' , Ki ujfaporn , and llony Kong, and between Hong Woodin , JoiieH , and Co., at th« Cmilial-oHi cc , 7(i, ChurloUe- stieet , KiU roy-txiuure. ¦j)plieunt. ¦'" Kong and Hhaiig hue. wiui- .1, i»..i- intPit *•»« and tariflnof the Coinpnny ' a recent ly •„ • ORDK KB I' OR THE ASSOCIATIO NS OF Tlio proHpeotus contaiuin tr every intMHKU{; e» , &<;., ujip ly at the MAKERS . TAI LORS , S IIOKMAK ' KKH , N EKDlV WOM KN — (eitber real oi lietltioiiH in lli«> hi-hI ^' .j ^j i UN. p Heeietu ry UUW""^ 1 * Coinpiin y 's Oilier *. VZi., Lcudoiihull-atieet , London , and Oiicntul- CAN 1JE 8KMT THROUGH Til K ACiliNCV . AND Yill.ls lumtatro ut.iui|iu . b y the chief JtM>gn- cro»H LonUW »» l»lucc, Bouthuinp Lon. RECEIVE IMMliDIATE ATTENT ION. liaq., 10, Chiohy»U'r-i>lttco , , Oct . 25, 1851.] , - .«**¦ **«*«*? 1027 A CARD . : METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and ; -^TERVOUSNESS, and all its attendant miseries COLLET, late of the Royal Italian GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE 80CIETY , 27, Regent- ; »n* d"tre ».8in* "ympt oins, positively CURED , without DOBSON Waterloo- place, London. the£ leasi t inconvenience or danger to the Opera , Covent Garden , Teacher of Singing. For Terms street , most delicate constitu- C• , or s Teaching, in DIRECTORS. tion , by a new and infallible remedy; guaran teed to effect a per- nf MtMicaTL ectures , Private Lessons Cla* fect cure in the most inveterate case " app ly to C. D. C, 20. Great Coram-st reet, Samuel Driver , Esq. Thomas Littledale . Esq. ; even in cases of complete Tow <£ Coun try, Edward Loroax , Esq. prostration of nervous energy its success is Bruns wick-square. John Griffith Frith , Esq. ¦ , certain Dr Henry Peter Fuller , Esq. Samuel Miller , E«q Alfred Beaumont M D., M.R.C.6., and Cone uUing Ph ysician; John P.ilk Griffin , Esq. Edward Vansittart Neale, Esq. having long used it in his private practi ce withou t a single in- ~ life assurance, Sir Thomas N. Reeve. stance of failure , begs to--offer it to the Pubj ic fro m ~7tke general Peter Hood , Esq. g-ain ; and will . benevo- ANNUITY and FAM ILY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIA- Capt. Hon. G. F. Hotham , Tt.N. William Studley, Esq. lence rather than send it carriag e free , with full M London. ¦ directions , upon receipt of 7s. 6d. in postage Btamus adclr p**pd TION , 23, Pall-mal l, ~ l nnrt • Life Assura nces, Annuitie s, and Endo wments. Three-fourths , Strand The sum usually charged at the age of 25 to assure £1000 in Pr ospectuses , post free , to him at 6, Beaufort-street , London . granting Bonuses at stated of profits divided amongst the assure d.— such Offices as adopt the principle of on application. F? FERGU SON CAMROUX , Manager. ~ inter vals , will, in the MITR E, assure near ly £1400. Here is an EAFNESS — SINGING in the EARS.— IMM EDIAT E BONUS of what requ ires more than twe nty INDUSTR IAL BRANCH OF THE D Extraordinary Cures are effected dail y, in cases long since years to attain In other cases. PROVINCIAL LIFE pronou nced incurable by the Faculty. Even in cases of total Endo wments gra nted on liberal terms for 8chool and College NATIONAL deafness, which have existed a lifetime , a positive cure can be Premiums , Marriage Portions , &c. ASSURANCE SOCIE TY guaranteed without pain or operation , by a newl y discovere d Education , Professiona l Parliament 7 and 8 Vic., cap. 110. Oct 1851. WILLIA M BRIDG ES, Actuary and Secretary. Incorporated by Act of . and infallible mode of treatment , discovered and practised onl y With a Guarante e Fund of Fifty Thou sand Pounds. London. by Dr. FRANCIS , Physician , Aurist , 40, Liverpool -street , *" Chief Office , 34, Moorgate- street , JBank , King 's Cr oss London. Dr. F. has app lied this new treatmen t ECIPROCAL LIFE ASSURANCE TRUSTEES. , COMPANY , Esq. in the presence of and on several of the most eminent medical R Joh n Hinde Pa lmer, Esq. I Thomas Winkworth , men of the day, who have been utterl y astonished at its mag ical 52, Great Coram-s treet, Russell-square. William Anthony Purnell , Esq. | John Poole, Esq. effect. All martyrs to these distressing complaints should im- Capital—£ 100,000, in 80,000 Shares of £5 each . DIRECTOR S. mediatel y consult Dr. Francis , as non e need n ow despair , how- Deposit , 109. per Share. William G. H. Baines, Esq., Kensington. ever ba d their case. Hours cf consultation dail y from Eleven till the Compan y will form a fund for Stephen Broad , Esq,, Rye-hill, Peckham. Four , and Six till Nine. Country patients , stat ing their case One-tenth of the profits of str eet Without , and Sydenham. relief of aged and distressed 8haieholde rs and Members , their William Carr , Esq., Bishopsgate- by letter , will receive the means of cure per post , with such. the John Crop p, Esq., Oakland-hous e, Clapham. Widows aud Orphans. Cheap3ide , and Highgate. advice and directions as are guaranteed to render failure im- TRUSTEES. Josep h Davison , Esq., Friday-street , possible. Grego ry, Esq.. Cheapside. Moseley, Esq., B.C.L. Wellingtou T. A. Kni ght , Esq. I J- John Poole. Esq., Gutter-lane . Cheapside , and Highbury. CURES FOR THE UNCURED ! B. Marshall , Esq., M.A. I Reverend C. Owen , M.A. William Anth ony Puinell , Esq., Oriental Club , and Lee , Rent. F. C. 8key, Esq., F.R.S. AUDITORS. HOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT. — An extraordi- This Company is establ ished for the pur pose of bringing the James Hutto n, Esq., Accountan t. Moorgate-street. nary Cure of Scrofula , or Kino's Evil. benefits of Life Assurance within the reac a or all classes, and H enry Chatteri s, Esq., Accountant , Gresham-st reet. Extract of a Letter from Mr. J. H. Allida y, 209, Hi g-h-street , with this view its details hav e been most carefully consider ed , William Henry Furnell , Esq., Accountant , Old Jewry. Cheltenham , dated the 22nd of January, 1850. go as to afford every facility and advantage consistent with PHYSICIAN. To Professor Hollowa y. safety. Three-fifths of the Profits being annually divided among Henry Letheby, Esq., M.D., Professor of Medic al Jurisprudence , "Si r ,—M y eldest son , when about three years of age, was af- those members who have paid five annual premiums. London Hospital. flicted with a Glandular Swelling in the neck , which, after a The Business of the Company embraces Assurances , Annuities , SURGEONS. short time, broke out into an Ulcer. An eminent medical man and Endowments of every ki nd ; also Annuities payable During Thomas Olliver Duke , Esq., Kehnington. prono unced it as a very bad case of Scrofula , and prescr ibed for Sickness ; Assurances of Leaseh old s, Copy holds , and other Thoma s Carr Jackson , Esq., Hamilton-p lace, New-road. a con siderable time without effect. The disease then for four Terminable Intere sts ; and Gua rantee Assurances for the Bankers— Commercial Bank of London. years went on graduall y increasing in virulence , when , besides Fidelity of persons in places of Tr ust. SOLICITOR. the ulcer in the neck , another formed below the left knee , and a SPECIAL ADVANTAGES TO A86URER8 ; Edward Kelly Harr is, Esq., 58, Lincol n' s-inn-fields. third under the eye, besides seven others on the left arm, with Policies will be granted for any sum as low as £5. SURVEYOR. a tumour between the eye3, which was expected to break. No Policy Stamp, Entrance Fee, or other charge , except the Henry Annesley Voysey, Esq., Guildford-street , Russell-square. During the whole of the time my suffering boy had received the Premium. Mana ger— J. W. Sprague , Esq. consta nt advice of the most celebrat ed medical Gentlemen at Policies indisput able , except in cases of actu al fraud. The Directors of this Society, in addition to the ordinary Chelten ham, besides being for several months at the General Diseased and Declined Lives assured at equitable and mode- business usually transact ed by Life Assurance Societies, have Hospital, where one of the 8urgeons said tha t he would ampu- rate rates. formed a distinct Bran ch for the Indust rial Classes , embracing tate the left arm , but that the blood was so im pur e that, if that Premiums may be paid Quarte rly or Monthl y if desired . every system of Life Assurance , and for that pur pose have caused limb were taken off, it would be then even impossible to sub- Half the Premiu m, for the first seven years , may remain extensive tables to be prepared , combining the interests of every due the disease. In this desperate state I determined to give unpaid. • class of Assurers , in a manner more comprehensive than has your Pills and Ointment a trial , and , after two months ' perseve- Every further information may be had on application to the hitherto been atte mpted by any similar Society. ra nce in their use, the tumour gradu all y began to disappear , and Actuary and Resident Director. The system of Life Assurance hitherto pro pounde d , although the -jiscbarge from all the ulcers perceptibly decreased , and at admirably well adapted to the means and circumst ances of the the expiration of eight months they were perfectly healed, and ROFESSIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE middling and higher classes of society, nevertheles s is not avail- the boy thoroughly restored to the blessings of health , to the able to the ever -varying conditi on of nearly nine-tenth s of the astonishment of a large circle of acquaintances , who could P COMPANY. the Industrial Admitting, on equal terms , persons of every class and degree to people of this great commercial coun try, viz., testi fy to the truth of this miracu lous case. Three years hav e Classes. now elapsed without any r ecurrence to the malady, and the boy all its benefits and advantages. . per week , Capital—Two Hundhbd and Fifty Thousand Pounds. Ninepence per Mouth , or the C09t of one pint or beer is now as healthy as heart can wish. Under these circumstances Chairman—Major Henr y Stones , LL.B. will secure £'20 to the wife and family, at the death of a man I consider that 1 should be tru ly ungrateful were I not to mak e Deputy Chairman— Jam es Andrew Durham , Esq. aged 25 next birthday ; or . you acquainted with this wonderful cure , effected by your medi- With upward s of Fourteen Hu ndred Shareholders. One 8hilling and Three Pence per Month will secure to a per- cines, after every other means had failed. J. H. Aluday." son of the vsame age the sum of £25 on his attainin g the age of Sold by the Pr oprietor , 244, Strand (near Temp le Bar), Lon- There are two important clauses in the Deed of Settlement , by y should he die which the Directors have power to appropriate ONE-TENTH of 60, or the same sum would be paid to his famil don , and by all respectable Venders of Pate nt Medicines through- the entire profits of the Company :— before attaining that age. out the Civilized World , in Pots and Boxes, at Is. l^d., 2s. 9d., NON-FORFEITU RE OF MON EY PAID. 4s. _6d., 11s., 22s., and 33s. each. There s a very considerable 1st.—For the relief of aged and distressed parties assured for cause be unableto meet the payment 1 five years ' premiums , their widows and 8hould a person from any saving ir. taking the larger sizes. life, who have paid of his Premium , he will not lose the benefit of the Assurance , N.K.—Directions for the guidance of Patients are affixed to orp hans. value of the Policy will admit , and distressed original proprietors , but will be allowed, as often as the each pot or box. 2nd.—For the relief of aged to charge the amount thereof on his Policy ; or , assured or not, their widows and orphans , together with unable to continue the Assu- DR. CULVKRVVELL ON NERVOUSNESS , DEBILITY, AND per annum on the capital originall y invested Should a person be altogether 5 per cent, rance , the Sums paid will not be forfeited as in other Offices , as INDIGESTION ; also on Urinary Derangements , Consti pa- by them. he will be granted , by the Directo rs , anothe r Policy of lees tion , and Hoemorr hoid8. Is. each ; by post , Is. Cd. All policies indisputabl e and free of stamp duty. alread y paid, and exonerated extremely moderate. amount , but equivalent to the sums TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. Rates of prem ium from any futu re payments. WHAT No extra charge for going to or residin g at (in time of peace) , " Abstine ntia multi curantur morbi. " The Rates of Premium for Deferred Annuities Endowments A popular exposition of the principal causes (over an care less Australasia—Be rmuda—Madeira— Cape of Good Hope—the Bri- for Children, and every other information may be obta ined of % ^ tish North American Colonies—and the Ma uritius. feeding, &c. of the above hara ssing and distressing comp laints , the Secreta r y, at Oie Offices of the 8ociety, 34, Moorgate-street , with an equally intelli gible and popular exposition of how we Me dical men in all cases remunerated for their report. Bank , or of any of the Agents. Assurances granted against paral ysis, blindness , accident s, In- should live to get rid of them ; to which ia added diet tables for ^ ever y meal in the day. and full instructions for the regimen and sanity, and every other affliction, bodily and mental , at moderate GRATlB l—A BOON TO TUB PUBLIC I rates. GRAT 181 observance of every hour out of the twenty-four : illustrated by A libera l commission allowed to agents. Just published , Nthe 147th Thousand , numerous cases , &c, Annua l premium for assuri ng JEIOO , namel y:— ERY MAN HIS OWN DOCTOR! Vols. iJ and 3, companions to the preceding- , Age—20 £1 10 9 I Age—10 £2 13 6 EVA popular Medical Wor k , devoid of all technicalities. THE ENJOYMENT OF LIFK. | HOW TO BE HAPPY. 30 £1 19 8 I 50 £3 18 6 Sent post free on receipt of four postage stamps , by Dr. " Jucuiule Vivere. " Prospectuses , with tables and fullest information , may be had G utiibib , 6, Ampton-stre et , Gray's-inn-road , London. IV. at the offices of the Company, or any of their agents. " Your book has been an incalculable blessing to me." DISORDERS, CONSTIPA- will inBUre your book an ON URINARY Applications for agencies requested . II. Mahtin , Welwyn, Herts .—"I T ION, and HAEMORRHOIDS ; their Obviation and Removal. EDWARD BAYLIS , Resident Manager and Actuary. circu lation in this neighbourhood. It has only to be immense 23 atern oster-row ; Mann , 39 , Cornhill ; and the Offices , 76, Chuapsid e, Londo n. read to be apprec iated. " Reverend R. Bino , Colne y.—" This book Sherwood , , P y written for the million ; the details of Author , 10. Argy ll-place , Regent-street: consultation hours , ten appears sxpresBl to twel ve; evenings , seven till nine. EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, symptom s. &c, are as plain a» an ordinary spelling-book. " Established by Act of Parl iament 53 G et). III., and Regu - Kent Heral d. A NE W MEDICIN E. lated by Deed Enrolled in the High Court of Chancery, &, LUXURIANT HAIR , Crescent , New Brid ge-street , Blackfriars. DO YOU WANT BEAUTIFU L AND SPECIFIC CAPSULE —A form WHISKER S, MOU8TACH1O8 , EYEBROWS , Eio. 1 FRANKS'S DIRKUTOHS. of Med icine at once safe , sure , speeil y. and pleasant , espe- The Hon ourable John Chotwyn d Talbot , Q.C., Chairman. HE Immense Public Patronage bestowed upon cially npp licable to urcthrul morbid secretions , iu ul other uil- Walte r Ander son Peacock , Esq., Deputy Chairman . T Miss ELLEN GRAHAM'S NIOUKRKNE , during the laat ments for which copaiba and cubeba are commonl y administered. Charl es Biiehoff, Esq. Cha rles Thoa. Holcotnbe , Esq. seven years , ia sufficient evidence of its amaz ing properties in Each Capsule containing the Hpecilio in made of the piucHt Thomas lloddiiigton , Esq. Richard II arman Lloyd , Esq. reproducin g the human hair , whet her lost by disease or natural Geliitinr , which , encased in tin foil, may bo convenientl y carrie d Thom att Devas, Ksq. Joshua Lockwood , Esq. decay, preventi ng the hair falling off. strengthe ning weak hair , in the pocket , und , being both clastic and plcaHuiit to take , Nathan iel Uould , Ksq. Ral h CharlrB Pr ice, Esq. and checking gtcyness. It is guaranteed to pro duce whiskers , affords the greatest facility for repeating the <1ou<-h without in- p without fail. It is Hobert Alexander Gray, Ksq. William Wybrow , Ksq . moustachi os, fee , in threo or four weeks , termissiin on—a desideratum to persons travelling, visiting, or m- elegantly seente d; and sufficient for three months ' uho will be ga^ed business , as well aa to those who object to fluid medi- AUDITORS. twenty -four posta ge-stam p*, by Ju nos Oasgoine Lynri e, Esq. | Thos . Godfrey Sambrooke , Keq. sent post- free , on recei pt of cines, being unobjectionable to the moat tj uaceptible Htomuch. it Us Kllen Gra ham . 14, Hand-court , Holborn . Londo n. Unlike Prepared onl y by OKOKGK FRANKS , Burgeon , ut hitt Labo- l'HYSICIAN. all other preparations for thu Ha ir , it is free from artiticial ratory, 90, Bluck friars -road , London , whero they may bo bud , Geor ge 15 Welbeck-strcet. ( Lcith Roup ell, M.D.. F.R.8. , ^ colouring an d filthy greuBincBB . well known to be so injurious nnd of all Med icine VcnclcrH , in boxes , at ^h. J»1. and 4s. (id. each , ' suhokonm. to it. or sent free by pontut ;tn. and .r>a . each. Of nhoin , aluo , may ho James Saner , Esq. , M.D., Fiusbury-square. Gk nuink Testimon ials. —" I had been bal d for years ; your had , in bottlcti , at 2n. '.Id., 4s. (»<1., and llH.euch , Willia m Cooke , Esq., M.D. . 3U. Trinity-square , Tower-hill. Nionkmno has quite rest ored my hair. " —Henry Wutkina , FRANKS'8 SI'KCIFI C SOLUTION OF COPAIBA. Actuury and Secretary—Char les Jeilicoe , Kaq. Colnuy, Herts. " I have used your Nioiikrene thr ee weckn , and form you that u full moustach e is growing. " — TKSTIMONIAI.H . The Asnured have received from this Company, in satisfaction am happy to in From Josep (iret> President of the Hoyiil their clai jLl OCO. J. Ha mmond . Naas , I reland. " My hair warn turning K n-y h Henry n . Knq. , F.R .S., •' ms , upwards of .'-SSO. and 1 have new hair grow - College of HurgcoilH , London ; Henior Surge on to St. Tbomiiti 'a The Amount at present A»uur«d is £3,600,000 nearl y, and the rapidl y; it has effectually cheeked it, llege, l .on niitn u admire d under polioiee for the wliolo term of lifo. an elll< -ii <-lorih r. nie.ly. and one The Hur p luu loss 20 perties being adm it-abl y adapted to infant' s ha ir. warrant my Hinting, tha t it irt IHvini on is Quinquennial , and the whole . which does not produce the U Miial uiip W-iiHU iil ell.-ctu oH-opaluu. P«-'r cent. onl y, is lives antm rcd are permitted in tinin of pence to Ift , lH- r> . " n any country, or to pnaH by sen (not being seafaring persona minuteo to any uhadc , front light auburn to jut black , so natural " Linc.ohi' B-inn I'ieldM , A pril ''- ,. , J )h Ksq., K.R. 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