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pleased to be e of soldiering. He characterises it as barbarous and damnable, and would be rid of it at all risks. Now, set ting aside the idiocy of his remarks, there is a monstrous deal of ingratitude in this language of the free-trade apos- Ha,d it not been for our arms, where would our mar kets have been ? If we had succumbed to France instead of humbling her at Waterloo—and we presume that Mr. Cobden would have preferred the former alternative, since he thinks that the Duke should now be preaching forgive ness for the past—where would have been our trade, and where our exportations of calico ? Hindostan is an ac quired country, and British arms have opened up the mar kets of China; and are these commercial evils ? Really it is throwing away language to attempt enforcing a point so clear as this. Commerce owes everything to the exer tions an" t-ich these protection of that military power w purblind theorists complain of; and were our armaments abolished to-morrow, we should look round us in vain for a customer. And pray what does the arrogant upstart mean by characterising the honourable profession of a soldier as a damnable trade ? Does he intend to disgorge his contempt and contumely upon the graves of those who fell on the field of battle fighting nobly for their king and we now to be told that the names which and embalmed in our me lions as those of homicides ___ come to this, and if public scorn elm the man who can conceive and ter such ignoble sentiments. then indeed we may )untry we have writ in our aaories, are dc le and and of -r( .. Reve that demon that the mean et alisation has hics of Manc -7 --- rtially done its work, and stcr are henceforward to le nor horrid, unl influence the nation. Not darnnao., justice and freedom be so, is the profession of those who have drawn the sword in the service of Britain, and died for the maintenance of order, liberty, and religion. Other trades there are far more liable to such epithets, but with these, thank heaven ! we have but little practical acquain tance. The trade of the greedy taskmaster, who rears in fants for his mills, and grinds them to their task until the sinews shrivel up and the limbs are warped into early de crepitude—of him who will not ise the existence of an imperishable soul within the ' ten e l r framework of the children whom he makes the victims of his avarice—of the advocate of long hours, because thereby he may keep his human machinery under the complete control of exhaus tion,—the trade of that man, we say, though it may be tolerated in a Christian land, is but one shade less horrid, and not a whit less damnable, than that of the slave-tra ier, who is now chuckling over his living cargoes on the -cargoes for , which he is indebted to the Id legislation of Mr. Cobden and his liberal con- Axe these the men who are to revile and tra ' Faugh ! The leprosy of mammon is a coast federates attire recoll upon ther Wao.kwoo4 TI LIVP,RPOOt STANDARD. Etterattirt. NOTICE .totes on the Nobility, No. L : Sketch 4f the History of the House of Russell. By David Ross, of the Liverpool Chronicle: London : W. S. Orr and Co. We owe an apology to the author of this little work, and to our readers as well, for not having sooner directed attention to it in our columns. Mr. Ross's sketch of this illustrious house—illustrious for the talent, heroism, vir tue and patriotism which have belonged to its members from the remote line of its first founder to 'the present day—displays great genealogical research and historical and biographical knowledge. It is written in an excellent and impartial spirit; and conveys to the reader, in the compass of a small volume, a store of interesting informa tion, which could only be gleaned by him from the pe rusal of many bulky records, some of which are beyond the reach of the mass, whilst the compilation from them of the details sought for would involve an amount of time and labour which few have at their disposal. The plan of these "Notes on the Nobility," which we observe are intended to embrace the history of some of our most emi nent families, is an excellent and a happy one; and we look forward with great interest to the continuation of the series. The notes appended to the Sketch of the House of Russell are very valuable. We may remark, en passant, that there are few subjects upon which Englishmen generally are more imperfectly Informed than the history of our great ancestral houses, connected although some of them have been so intimately with the renown of our country, and with the institutions under which we live. Mr. Ross's unobtrusive, though most valuable labour, will go far to remove this reproach; and may even urge the enquirer to a further pursuit of a most interesting study. VARIETIES TUE .SONG OF DEBORAH AND BABAS. — This is one di the noblest effusions of ancient poetry, and of poetry set to music—sung as well as recited. The willing help of the people is an homage rendered to those who did offer themselves—for we find an exception made against certain of the tribes. I cannot imagine anything higher than thq state and sublimity wherewith this Ode of celebration is ushered in, and the effect of God's presence, or at least the manifestation of his forthputtings and his power, is depicted. The song begins with a reference to God's in, terposal in former times. There is a difference of opinio4 whether the reference is two-fold, embracing both God% appearance for his people when they first entered the Holit Land, and the descent on Sinai— or whether there be a reference to the latter only, for which some countenance is derived from Dent. xxxiii. 2, which is most intelligible on the supposition that the approach o'.' the Divine glory to Sinai was from the east. However this might be set+ tied there is soon a transition downward to more recent ' times—to the days of Shamgar, who effected a like delii verance to that which called forth this song of celebration ' —when the Philistines overran the land and forced the people into skulking-places. The inhabitants after thiS had to retire from the unwalled and unfortified villages till the days of our illustrious prophetess —so beautifully designated as a mother in Israel, and which is still felt and applied as the most characteristic description which can be given of a venerable matron full of faith and good works, and a signal blessing, by the influence of her exi ample, to the country or neighbourhood where she livesl The ode proceeds in the highest of all poetical strains te its conclusion. The stars in their courses fighting against Sisera is a truly sublime conception. Meroz was probably some town which refuses its quota of auxiliaries. Not can we imagine anything more picturesque, more Ossianic; than the representation of the ladies looking out for the return of their lord—while the blessing given upon Jaet indicates a Divine command, or at least a strong and urgent sense of patriotism in her mind—else it were. the revolting barbarity of an Amazonian. Both the cruelty and licentiousness of the age break forth in this effusion. It were strange now for women of rank to describe, as is here done, the spoils of the war ; but, making allowances for all that appertained' either to the country, or to the period in the history of the world, this must be confessed to be one of the most elevated and heat t-stirring poems that has come down to us from ancient times.—Dr. Chal mers' Daily Scripture Readings._ THORWALDSEN.—His life was a continued triumph fettune and victory waited on him, and art was recognised and reverenced in his person. The life of this happy one —this triumphal march—may be painted in words, as with colours. To represent the whole in painting, we should • sketch three scenes. The first is a Danish beech-forest, where the king stands before an altar of rude stone blocks, surrounded by the priests, with a thick gold circlet on his AN AMERICAN SPORTSMAN.—Dr. Isaac Hamberlin, a bead. This is the King of Denmark, Harald Hildetand. worthy man and old citizen of this county, came to his His eye sparkles—his head is proudly raised—for the death, a few days since, in a most shocking manner. One mighty gods have sworn to him that, after many centuries, day last week, Hamberlin, with two other gentlemen, one of his descendants shall stretch out his sceptre from left Satartia for a bear hunt, and proceeded to Lake the North Cape to the Pou th ern rn ost point of Europe— George, where it forms a junction with the Sunflower ter towards east and west—and his name shall be re- river. A short time after they had landed from the boat, corded in the book of nations. See the next scene ! the dogs entered the cane and immediately struck a trail, Centuries have rolled by, and it is our own age ; a poor and Dr. Hamberlin followed them but a short distance, boy, with a little red cap on his golden hair carries an when he came up with them and a very large bear in the earthen pitcher, slung by a cord, through one of the thick cane. Dr. Hamberlin fired at him, the ball entering marrow streets of Copenhagen—he is bringing dinner to his head at the upper part of his nose, without doing his father, who works in the dock-yard, carving rude much injury other than to infuriate him, and he turned figure-heads for the ships. But observe this child !he is and made at Dr. Hamberlin. The doctor endeavoured the youngest of Kin g Harald Hildetand's race, and in him to get out of the animal's way , but the cane being very the promise shall be fulfilled. But how ? The third scene thick he could run but slowly, and had run but a short will show. The boy has become a man—the yellow hair distance when the bear overtook him, seized him by the white—but it hangs upon his powerful shoulders in rich thigh, jerked him to the ground, and completely stripped D profusion ; around stand noble marble forms—Jason with Dr. Hamberlin's leg of flesh and muscles. By this ti m e the golden fleece, the Graces, the Holy Apostles ;it is the the dogs again seized the bear and got him off. D. King of Artists whom we see—the scion of Harald Hil- Hamberlin then attempted to rise but could not, being so detpnd—the poor boy, who now as a man stretches his badly torn. He then got out his huntin g knife, the bear sceptre in the realm of Art, over the countries of Europe left the dogs , and attacked Dr. Hamberlin the second —it is Bertel Thorwaldsen. It is not the imagination of time, and tore him very ranch. This time Dr. Hamberlin a poet—it is reality—which has furnished the subject for succeeded in cutting one or two gashes in the throat of the each picture.—Translation from the Danish of H. C. bear, but not deep enough to do him any material injury;.. Andersen, in Dublin University Magazine. The dogs again diverted the attention of the bear froth " GOOD" CHILDREN.—In contradistinction to the sub- his victim, and he left Dr. Hamberlin and engaged with ject of naughtiness, there is a word we have alluded to the dogs ; but in a few minutes the bear came at him a before, which we must inquire a little into,—one oftener third time, when Dr. Hamberlin made a stroke at him, taken in vain than any other in infant education, and but the bear seized the knife by the blade, wrenched it from which, in our infant recollection, was the enigma of the Dr. Hamberlin, and threw it some distance from him, little vocabulary. We mean that magic word good. In and seizing Dr. Hamberlin's arm mashed it into a jelly. children of sense and principle, the vegueneSs of this term By this time the cries of Dr. Hamberlin brought one of is most distressing ; implying, as it does, first one thing his companions to the rescue, and he, seeing the awful and then another, and nothing long. Sometimes a strong situation of his friend, fired, and struck ti.e bear in the exertion of the will ; sometimes a tote' abeyance of every neck, which caused the beast to leave his victim and take faculty ; now a dryness in the atmOsphere, which keeps to flight ; but another of the company coming up it .an their hair in curl ; and now a letter by post, or a hampe r opposite direction encountered the bear and shot it. Dr. from the country, which puts their mother in a good hu- Hamberlin had his wounds tied up and was then carried ' moue. With us this word is associated with very mixed to the boat, to be taken immediately to Satartia, but he feelings. Certainly it was a pleasure, as all rare surprises expressed his unwillingness to return without having his were ; but still it always brought nervous misgivings, formidable antagonist with him. His desire was gratified and fearful lookings forward to a long future, in which and he and the bear were taken to Satartia, where eteinetit more would be expected from us, and less on our part medical aid was brought to his assistance, but he died On likely to be fulfilled ,• for how were we ever to be sure of the fourth day, after suffering during the time the most being good again, when we never knew how we had con- excruciating pain. The bear was very large, though poor ' *rived to be so in the present instance ? From our own weighing 3401 b. with his entrails out. — Yazoo Whig, recollections, however, and much subsequent observation, 21st of January. ' we should say that the real maternal beau ideal of the INSTINCT IN ANIMALS.—At the meeting of the Lite term consists in a keen power of discrimination between rary Society last week, Dr. Warwick, who was intro the value of a stuff gown and a silk one, accompanied by duced by a member, narrated some curious facts with re a general constitutional slowness of circulation. And a spect to animals. When he resided at Dunham, the sett reference to foreign languages confirms this view. The of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, he was walking ' French synonym is sage, wise ; the German, artig, polite ; one evening in the park, and came to a pond where fish, - neither of them in the least childlike, but both corre- intended for the table, were temporarily kept. He took sponding with the quality implied. Every wise child must Particular notice of a fine pike of about six pounds weight, know the difference between stuff and silk, and no polite which, when it observed him, darted hastily away. In o child would ever think of tr a mpli ng ,it under foot. That's doing, it struck its head against a tenter-hook - in a poit why stories of go o d c hild ren , who are always prudent, (of which there were several in the pond, placed to ere prim, and precise, are so distasteful to children of an y vent poaching), and, as it afterwards appeared, fractut*l promise at all. They feel the misnomer, and their natu- its skull, and turned the optic nerve on one side. The ral instinct rises against it. Parents give themselves agony evinced by the animal was most horrible. It rushed much trouble and their children much tormentin trying to to the bottom, and, boring its head into the mud, whirWd enforce this many-headed term ; but they may rely upon itself round with such velocity that it was almost lost to it, in nine cases out of ten, a good, open, honourable the sight for a short interval. It then plunged about the naughtiness is a far better thing. Where there is really a pond, and at length threw itself completely out dl' the good child, let us watch and pray, for it is a fearful gift to water on to the bank. He (the Doctor) went and exe- a parent's heart. We have known one—meek, loving, mined it, and found that a very small portion of the brain ; patient—the unconscious pattern of every Christian vir- was protruding from the fracture in the skull. He card- ! toe, with a conscience too tender for us weak ones not to fully replaced this, and, with a small silver tooth-pick, offend. Oh I what would we have given for more of those raised the indented portion of the skull. The fish re- qualities which others take so much pains to repress ? mained still for a short time, and be then put it agaiki She was good, if you will—goodness personified—too into the pond. It appeared at first a good deal relieved, good, alas ! to live.—Fraser's Magazine. but in a few minutes it again darted and plunged abo4t SAMSON'S DEATH.—The time at last came when the until it threw itself out of the water a second time. A sa tianghters of the Philistines did rejoice, and the daughters cond time Dr. Warwick did what he could to relieve it, of the uncircumcised triumphed. Both with his first and and again put it into the water. It continued for seve second wife Samson showed himself peculiarly alive to ral times to throw itself out of the pond, and with the ag the force of female importunities ; and apt to give way sistance of the keeper the Dr. at length made a kind Of before the exhibition of female distress. In the former pillow for the fish, which was then left in the pond to its attempt to extort a secret from him, it is said that his wife fate. Upon making his appearance at the pond on'the lay sore upon him—in the present, attempt, that his soul following morning, the pike came towards him to the edge was vexed unto death. It looks a marvellous infatuation of the water, and actually laid its head upon his foot. Tile —the effect of melancholy weakness—that he should have Dr. thought this most 'extraordinary, but he examined been thus got the better of in the face of former palpable the fish's skull, and found it going on all right. He then designs to give him up unto the Philistines—evincing the walked backwardsand forwards along the edge of the pond blindness of passion, and holding forth a most impressive f - ' the fiF" • lesson to beware of it. The secret came out at last: God had charged his mother before that he was born that no razor should come_ upon his head—making this the eonditior, streng th which he had naturally or of the extraordinary visitations and gifts which lie received of supernatural strength when the Spirit of God same upon him. He gave up his conscience and his vow to a perfidious woman, who on his locks being shorn off began to afflict him—a process which I cannot distinctly understand. At all events, his strength did depart from him ; and he, when he awoke out of his sleep was un conscious thereof ; but the Philistines, in obedience to the call of his treacherous and cruel wife, were upon him, and the Philistines prevailed. And merciless was the advantage they took of their success—putting out his eyes and binding him with fetters, and forcing him to grind in a prison -house.— : l know not if there be any natural con- nexion between the growth of the hair and the recovery of strength. Samson may have repented of his infidelity, and the temporal chastisement of his loss of strength been withdrawn. And this strength was made the instrument at the last of a great and signal manifestation—a triumph over idolatry —a vindication of the supremacy of the one only and true God—and, finally, a most picturesque and characteristic termination to the career of a great hero. One recoils from the barbarity of the Philistines in bring ing in blind old Samson to make sport of him ; and pro nortionally to this, one feels a certain wild and natural the avenging ruin which he brought upon ugh himself involved in the common all--both men and women— atisfact'c kis enemies, even Destruction that fell upo the most noted of the historical personages whom Scrip ture—so full of them—has transmitted .:ownward to future ages. Dr. Chalmers' Daily Scripture Readings, . Lor some time, ana ,n continued to swim up anti down, turning whenever he turned : but being blind on the wounded side of its skull, it always appeared agitated when it bad that side towards the bank, as it could ndt then see its benefactor. On the next day he took some young friebds to see the fish, which came to him as usual; and at length h e ac t ua lly t aug ht th e p ik e t o come to hi m at his whistle and feed out of his hands. With other per sons it continued as shy as fish usually are. He (Dr. Warwick) 'thought this a most remarkable instance of grat'4-- ude in a fish for a benefit received, and, as it always came at his whistle, it proved also what he had previously, with other naturalists, disbelieved, that fishes are sensible BABYHOOD AND CHILDHOOD.—The nursery is a won derful world, and all that therein is ; but Baby is the greatest wonder of all. That little separate thing in the world,—uncommunicating with others, unremembered by itself,—that royst-' state of 1 --• before the dell ..erious s, aeing 4, eluge of memory sets in, lying there, like a hermit in its cell, as if gathering strength in passive contemplation for the world's encounter. Who says that a baby does not think or feel ? Have they never seen that strange smile break ing " through clouds of infant flesh," and then passing away, as if it caught for a moment the harmonies of heaven ? Or have they never heard that stranger sigh— the first spontaneous language of one who is " born to sorrow,"- as if it heard from afar the growing jar of this earth,—incognisant, to our apprehension, as it lies pas sively there, either of this world or that, yet stamped by that very smile and sigh, as the being who stands myste riously between both ? But the noise and uproar save been too much ! The round lustrous eyes are wide operi, which, like the eyes of the Divine Child in the Sistine Madonna, seem to look at nothing, in gazing beyond all tnings ; and baby is seated on nurse's knee. There it us, . without speech or movement, though brothers and sisters are screaming and running around it, looking so serenely content, as if he knew how little either could weigh in the balance with its own deep repose. There„is no model like a lovely baby for true queenly dignity,—the wide open gaze, the hands slow movement, the proud drawing up if the usual etiquette be transgressed, —re minding us of the beautiful lines in the Lyra lanocen tiu 772 :- " Why so stately, maiden fair, Rising in thy nurse's arms, With that condescending air, Gathering up thy queenly charms 7 the round, portly form, moving slowly to and fro, im bedded in lawn and fine linen. And then, when a few months older, the truly royal impatience of opposition, the autocratic air with which the a goon and rattle are dashed down, the haughty stare if some monitory voice exclaim, " Baby, baby !" and then the celestial smile, as if to for give you for having been angry with her. We have dubbed the baby feminine. Babyhood seems so, with its beauty, its softness, its helplessness, and its waywardnesS, —ladylike in each of its attributes. But look now at that little swaggering urchin, with scarcely more than two of our abort years over its head, and it is a boy all over. The reign of dignity has been succeeded by that of impudence. Noise and movement are now his chief element. Up the chair and down again. If you take him up he kicks and struggles; the more comfortable you try to make him the less he likes it ; restlessness is his rest. If he is not talk #n you, he is talking to I.:— - hammer- annself—stamping, mg, rattling, clattering ; whatever can make 'a name is plaything to him. Like another Nero, he wishes all die bells in the house had but one string, that he might ring them altogether. Nothing but sleep can quiet him, and then, if the truth were known; he dreams of bknging doors ! Mischief and courage have begun together`; he'll take a dog by the tail or a bull by the horns ; screams to be held upon a coach-horse he can't stride, and kicks the animal to - make it go faster; is all ready to, fire off a gun, and roars because you will not let him ; struggles away from the maid to run after the sheep ; tumbles down, is picked up with a mouth full of gravel, and a " NC ver no peace with you, Master John ; ' is held double tight by the maid all the way home, with an admonitory chuck, now and then, which almost dislocates his shoulder, but manages to put his feet into the puddles for all that ! Bless the child ! he is all right in his start for life, and plague and pleasure alike he will give.—Fraser's Mao. THE FISHERS AT THE EAST OF SCOTLAND.—The boats that were at sea all morning return about noon, and then the women who gathered the bait are ready with their creels to carry the fish to the shed to dress them. In the- first instance, the fish must be partql. However large or small the take may be, the fish are divided in lot;, each man having his lot determined by a sort of ballot. Suppose, for example, that the crew con. Isists of six men, the fish are parted in seven lots, one for each man and one for the boat. Each fisherman chooses a small stone, conceals it from his neighbour, and puts it, along with the others, into the lap of one of the women, r . who is bound in honour not to look down while this pro cess is in progress.' The woman then lays a stone on each lot, and as every fisherman knows his own stone, he is at no loss to decide whi c h i s hi s l o t. Th ere i s no di s p u te in this mode of apportionment, and it has this particular advantage, it prevents disappointment when at any time one or two fishes of more than ordinary value are caught. The seventh lot is for the purpose of maintaining a fund 1 out of which the boat ma y b e repa i re d so l ong as s he is fit for sea, and a new one built when the old one is wrecked or useless. When the fish are carried to the shed, all hands set to work to dress them. They are, however, generally cleaned and salted, or cured, by the women, as many only being preserved in a fresh state as may serve to supply the neighbouring market or the nearest farmers. In the evening, and for the first half of the night, the men go to rest. The women now bait the lines, or rather the hooks on the lines, all of which had been carefully exa mined and made secure by the men in the afternoon. In this employment every one has a part to perform. For sixteen at least out of the twenty-four hours of good sea-going weather, the fisherman's family are busied with something or other, and when the prevalence of bad wea ther interrupts the usual routine, the time is spent in making nets, mending lines, and preparing stock-fish for ,the south markets. This description applies to what is called home-fishing, which is conducted mostly in winter. In the early part of summer, some five or six boats' crews man their largest boats, and, accompanied by several of their daughters, proceed to the Western Islands to pursue the cod and ling fishery. When at the Lewis, or the Harris, or at the islands of Tiree or Skye, these fishermen pay a small sum of money, or a certain number of fish, for the use of one or more huts, as circumstances may require. The islanders have little or no communication with them, and as their time is fully taken up either in catching or curing the cod, the six weeks occupied in this way are spent in comparative isolation. Having dried the codfish on the rocks, they are carefully packed in the boats about the middle or end of June, and carried to Glasgow, where they are sold. The money thus obtained is chiefly laid out in the purchase of clothing, coal, and fishing-gear, all of which are to be had of better quality, and at lower prices, in Glasgow than nearer home. Pass ing through the Forth and Clyde canal. the boats return in the beginning of July. This is a merry time for the villagers, when all has gone well during the season. Every preparation is now made for the herring fishery, ' which is carried on at various points on the east coast. To some one or other of these the fishermen now resort, . taking with them, as in the former case, some of the women to cook and wash for them in their lodgings. In prosecuting the herring fishery, the men are at work all night and the women all day. This fishery continues for six or eight weeks, and in fair average seasons yields good returns. The usual stipulation is to fish for two hundred crans or barrels, at a certain fixed sum for each barrel ' caught. At the rates paid to the fishermen by the curer last year, one boat's crew would receive for a full fishing £230. On the faith of this, the fishermen often contract debts, however, which they can seldom pay when the fishery fails, and hence the practical advantages of the system are in no respect to be compared with those which result from the other modes of fishing either at the islands or at home. In September, the fishermen are in their own cottages a ga i n ; an d, i n prospec t o f w i n t er , a club of six or eight persons is f orme d, an d a suns of money sips scribed, in equal proportion, for the purpose of buying what they call a mart, that is an ox or fat cow to be killed and salted as winter provisions ; the marts are ge nerally purchased at one of the autumn fairs, and in one day they are all slaughtered. A stranger entering the village on this occasion would almost fancy that he was amongst a set of savage barbarians, every strand being filled with blood, and the women carrying hither and thi ther creels full of beef and offal. In dividing the marts, the same mode of distribution is practised as in the case of 'parting the fish on return from sea. During the dark season, the salted meat is used alternately with fish ; and as every fisherman calculates on growing a few bolls of potatoes, the ground for which he obtains from the near est farmer in return for his fish-offal, there is generally no want of good wholesome food all the season through. —Bogy's Weekly Instructor. RIOT AND DESPERATE COLLISION WITH THE POLICE, IN LONDON. (From the Sun of Monday.) When our reporter returned from Trafalgar-square to The Sun office, shortly before three o'clock, for the pur pose of framing the report of the Income Tax meeting, which appeared in our last edition, he was led to believe that the people would quietly disperse : indeed, a great many left the place, but it seems that as many persons as the number mentioned in our last edition—namely 10,000 or 12,000 remained, apparently with no settled purpose. No expressions, as far as we were able to ascertain, escaped the crowd that remained after the termination of the meeting, from which one might judge of the settled purpose which they had in view. He heard one man cry out—in French—" Death to Guizot," " Long live the Republic," but he seemed afraid that any one should observe that he was the utterer of such sentiments. . At two o'clock, or a little after, a great number of the police took up their position in different parts of the square, and proceeded simultaneously to clear away the crowd, who resisted the rather summary way in which they began. to put their orders into force. In fact the people—arid it is' right to state that a vast number of them were young men and boys of the labouring class—did not relish the interference of the police, who in order the better to accomplish their object, smote with too much violence right and left. They were assailed with the most discordant yells, and we saw several stones thrown at them. Some were severely punished, and the truncheon of one was wrested from him and thrown into the basin amidst cheers. A little boy was struck so violently across the head by one of A division, of whose violence a great many complained to us, that he fell, and the blood flowed from beneath his cap. A young man was knocked down like a bullock by one of the same division, and carried off for dead. It is right to mention that the tempers of the police were sorely tried. When we saw them strike, they did so with unnecessary force, and seemed altogether to have lost their tempers. Many respectable persons with whom we entered into conversation, agreed in opinion that if the police had not interfered, no acts of violence would have been committed. Between thirty and forty men and boys have been taken into custody for assaulting the police in the execution of their duty. Some of them are severely wounded about the head. A great many were taken to the Charing-cross Hospitals to have their wounds dressed. Inspector Baker, 19 A, had his eye-lid severely cut with a stone ; he received also a severe wound at the back of his head, and was obliged imtnediately to go to the surgeon of the force. About three o'clock that portion of the palings of the Nelson monument nearest the National Gallery were torn down, and a number of men and boys got on the plinth of the column. Two or three persons who stood on the margin of the basins were pushed in out of sheer fun, and did not escape without a severe ducking. Police constable 48 A had his eyes severely cut, and the police are more or less injured. . . . The greater portion of the police were withdrawn at half-past five o'clock, and as soon as they went order was in a great measure restored. We have seldom seen a mob more inveterate against the police. Had they not mustered in such large num bers some must have been killed, for there were bitter cries of " Throw them into the basin." The people were exasperated at being struck with their truncheons. The tierce rushing to and fro of large knots of people chased by the police, now closing upon them, then strug gling fiercely, and shouting with all their might, with the batons striking away in all directions, had the appearance of a formidable riot, looking down upon it from the steps of St. Martin's Church. The club windows, and in fact every available spot from which a view of the conflict could be obtained, were crowded. On Tuesday and Wednesday, mobs of the lower orders again assembled in Trafalgar-square and the neighbour hood of Charing-cross. They were composed of the low est class, and of boys from sixteen to eighteen years of age. The police were, however, on the alert ; and though many windows and lamps were broken, and the streets kept in continual confusion, no further outbreak took place. At Bow-street police-office, on Tuesday, Mr. Jardine was occupied the entire day disposing of no less than ninety charges arising out of the disturbances, which consisted of assaults upon the police by boys resisting them in the execution of their duty, throwing stones and other missiles, and other acts of violence and resistance. DREADFUL RIOTS IN SCOTLAND.-THE MILI TARY CALLED OUT. (From our Second Edition of Tuesday last.) The unemployed opratives in Glasgow were last week in rather an excited state, and assembled in very large numbers on Friday, to be addressed by one of the leading chartists. They, however, separated peaceably ; but it will be seen by the subjoined copy of a letter which has been received by the master of the Exchange News room, in this town, that their peaceable intentions have not been of long continuance. Extract from a private letter dated Glasgow, Monday evening:— " The city is in great confusion and excitement. Seve ral shops broken into and gutted, by the unemployed, who are marching about with guns, ticc. The gunsmith's shop in Exchange-square, and the goldsmith's shop in Buchanan-street are forced in ; the former is cleared of its contents, and the windows smashed. All shops are closed, and the streets crowded. Several shots were fired in Buchanan-street a few minutes ago..". The following despatches contain the latest intelli gence " GLASGOW, MONDAY, 4 P.M " A. chartist riot is at this moment taking place in this city. The mob are breaking open the gunsmiths shops. The one next our office is now being pillaged. The cry is, Down with the Queen !' The mob is composed of 1000 persons. Two policemen shot." " HALF-PAST through the head at the corner of Muslin-street. A younger man was also shot, and three young boys, who (lanced to be near the place where the people were as sembled, were shot, but were still alive. The excitement amongst the working population from the mills, who by this time were collected in crowds, was very great. Soon afterwards a troop of cavalry entered Bridgeton at a can ter, and were received by the populace with great cheer ing. In the midst of the display, one of the dead bodies of the men who had been shot was carried down Main street on a deal board, supported on the shoulders of six or eight men, and followed by a concourse of mourners, who ever and anon shouted " A military murder !" The dragoons at once made way for the passage of the mourn ful cortege, by taking the other side of the road, so that the body and its followers passed without interruption. The cause of the disaster was, that a number of boys had, in the first instance, commenced throwing stones at the out-pensioners, that one boy was made prisoner for so doing, that the crowd effected his/rescue, and that Police captain Smart gave orders to fire, when five individuals fell after the first discharge. By the evening the excitement increased to such a de gree that the shops and warehouses were closed. Large bodies of military parade the leading localities in all parts. The banks and principal public offices were guarded with The police-offices of the city were, towards night, crowded with prisoners to the number of 100. Upwards of sixty guns and other weapons were taken from the rioters, and on the persons of the prisoners were found quantities of cheese, butter, ham, barley, as well as pow der-flasks and powder. During the greater part of Tuesday night the mob re mained in the streets, but they were quiet. Every thing was quiet on Wednesday, and business proceeded as usual, though the town was in a state of excitement. A man named Campbell, one of the persons wounded on Tuesday, by the fire of the pensioners, died on Thurs day, in consequence of the injuries then received by him. This is the third death which has now resulted from the fatal collision between the populace and those armed for the preservation of the peace. On Tuesday an attempt at disturbance was made in Edinburgh, of the same kind as that of Glasgow. The Riot Act was read, and the military obliged to be called out before the mob dispersed. The town, at the latest intelligence, was quiet, but considerable mischief was done to property. About a thousand street-lamps were broken. About fifty persons have been apprehended. On Friday, a body of colliers paraded the streets of Air dree, about ten miles from Glasgow. They seemed dis satisfied,. and evidently meant to create a disturbance. They were joined by one or two agitators from Glasgow. LEITH.—A chartist meeting took place on Friday. The following paragraph from the placard will show the cha racter of the proceeding Working men—To you espe cially we say come forward and hear what republican France is now doing for the good of the sons of the soil." The building was densely crowded ; but the people con ducted themselves throughout in a very orderly manner. Etntral Louis Philippe is in his 75th year. The Rev. Mr. Thomas, formerly of Exeter College, Oxford, has been admitted into the Romish Church. During the year 1847, 27,093 men enlisted in the army, and of these recruits 7,760 were afterwards rejected as un fit for military service. DEATH OF MR. THOM, THE INVERARY POET.-Mr. Thom, the poet, whose genius and misfortunes are so well known, died a few days back at Dundee in penury. A brigantine, supposed to be the " Earl Gowrie," Wa terford, was totally lost in Swansea Bay, on Sunday week, and all the hands perished. From a return, ordered by the House of Commons, of the number of persons flogged in the navy, in 1847. it ap pears that the number was 860, and that the total number of lashes inflicted was 26,288. An old man named Sutcliffe was found drowned in the canal near Wakefield, last week. He had several times attempted to destroy himself on account of the dread he had of being obliged to receive parish relief. EXTRAORDINARYBIRTII.-Mr. Samuel Parkhouse has, on his farm at Dry Drayton, a ewe which produced five lambs on Monday last. The whole of the progeny, as was to have been expected, are since dead. _ _ William Pinnock,. of Throcking, died a few days since from lock-jaw, brought on by Alfred Bush, another lad of the same place, throwing mortar in his eyes in play. It appeared to have been accidental on the part of Bush. The Norwich Post states that the trade of that city is now more brisk than it has been for many years ; and such is the demand for fancy nets. which cannot be made by the power-loom, that the number of hand-loom weavers is not sufficient to meet the demand. By a return just printed, it appears that on the sth ult. the dividends due at the Bank of England and not de manded, amounted to £965,983105. 7d., of which £858,291 15s. 9d. had been advanced to the government under three acts of parliament. The present aggregate amount of imported grain in Gloucester is estimated at 48,385 qrs. wheat; 1010 qrs. barley, 11,279 qrs. oats, 8178 qrs. beans, 1270 qrs. pease; making a total of all sorts of grain of 70,022 qrs. ; against 24,040 qrs. at the same period in 1847. The Morning Post says that Don Miguel, of Portugal, declined visiting her Majesty's Theatre, on Thursday, out of respect to Louis Philippe, who, although he had done him all the harm he could, was still a near relation of his mother. ot. Saturday evening a sumptuous banquet was given to Sir H. E. F. Young, at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate street, London, previous to his departure for Port Ade laide, the seat of his new government of South Australia. Sir Henry's appointment appears to have given the great est satisfaction to all parties. BURGLARY.—The house of Mr. Thomas Newlove, at Warthill, near York, was on the night of Monday week broken into, and a couple of old guineas, eight sovereigns, and about £6OO in Beverley, Bridlington, and York notes, were stolen. £lOO reward has been offered for the dis covery of the offenders. It is not perhaps generally known that. the tri-coloured flag, as now hoisted at sea on the French packets, is not arranged as formerly, blue, white, red, but is changed for blue, red, white ; on coming into harbour, the old one replaces it, as if the new one was not recognised by our government. RUGBY SCHOOL.—We deeply regret to announce the alarming illness of the talented head master of Rugby school, Dr. Tait. The rev. gentleman has suffered most severely from rheumatic fever, which has brought on in flammation of the lungs, and but slight hopes are enter tained of his recovery. _ . LOOKING OUT FORA STORM.—The New York Herald, of February 20, states that agents of Louis Philippe were in New York, investing property for him in case his family should, after his death, be driven from the throne of France ; and it was estimated that his ex-Majesty had 1,000,000 dollars invested in houses and American stocks in anticipation of some outbreak in France. EFFECTS OF PASSION.—On Friday week a fellow named Edward Jarvis, in the employ of Mr. Gooch, of Cowlinge, Cambridge, unexpectedly approached a valuable pony, tied up in the nag stable, and it slightly kicked him, when, possessing himself of the broom handle, he got into the manger, and after striking it several times about the head, with another blow felled it dead upon the spot. The miscreant has absconded. MELANCHOLY CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Saturday week, the Rev. W. Slater, teacher of Walnev School, went to Biggar, a village on that island, to spend the day, in cele bration of a marriage that had taken place. He returned the same evening, and was accommodated with a lantern, it being then dark, and proceeded along the sand,. and we are sorry to say was lost in the attempt, for his body was afterwards found upon the sand. A few days since, while a shopkeeper in. Edinburgh was pumping whiskey out of a cask at his door, he incauti ously placed a light so near the aperture as to set fire to the liquid. On observing the flame, he hastily closed the bung in the hole to extinguish it, when both ends burst out with a loud report, knocking down and seriously injuring a boy who was standing by, and spilling a con siderable quantity of spirits. A lamentable instance of ignorance and superstition occurred at a village in Bedfordshire, a few days ago. With a view of testing, by a charm, the faithfulness of their sweethearts, three young women had torn the heart out of a torn cat when alive, stuck it with pins, and burned it ; they were properly arrested for their inhuman barbarity, were heavily fined, and, in default of payment, now lie in gaol. SERIOUS Loss of LIFE.—On Monday, in the celebra ted Benton Quarry, about four miles from Newcastle upon-Tyne, the quarrymen were engaged in blasting the rocks and a considerable explosion having been effected, they were removing the fragments in the usual manner, when suddenly, and entirely unexpectedly, a large mass of stone, with its capping of shale and earth, gave way, and descended like an avalanche on the men below. Eight were killed, and several others very severely injured. A few days since, while some excavators employed in the construction of the aqueduct of the Bristol water works, were blasting rocks in the parish of Litton, a large piece of rock struck the brim of a man's hat with such violence as to drive it forty feet into the air. The narrow ness of the escape however, failed to disturb the imper turbable phlegm of the excavator, who coolly turned to his alarmed comrades, and observed, " A miss is as good as a mile, be'ant it ?" During the last few days, some druggists in Derby have received notices of exchequer processes, to recover from them heavy penalties, for having sold unstamped medi cines, although such medicines were not patented. Per sons have been sent to purchase pills and mixtures, to cure some named complaint, for which twopence or three pence has usually been paid ; and whenever the box or bottle containing the preparation was without a three halfpenny patent medicine stamp, legal proceedings have been immediately instituted. THE ENGLISH WORKMEN EXPELLED FROM FRANCE. —On Tuesday, the Mayor of Portsmouth received instruc tions from the Secretary of State relative to the disposal of the people brought from France. His worship* is directed to pass such persons to their own homes at the government expense. A number left on Monday, and nearly all the residue on Tuesday, for their respective des tinations, with food and money, by the Brighton and South Coast Railway. The poor creatures seemed very grateful for the kindness. _ _ "The city is now quiet, but from the number of gun s stolen it is feared that there will be fresh outbreaks during the night. The military are posted in various parts, and a large body in the Royal Exchange. The shops of jew ellers and gunsmiths have all been more or less pillaged. All business is suspended." "EDINBURGH, 11 O'CLOCK, P.M. " 150 dragoons have just left for Glasgow. The mob are increasing. They are pulling up the rails on the Pais. ley and Airdrie railway. 600 of the 71st foot have just left for Glasgow." The turbulent mob renewed their hostilities on Tuesday afternoon, though all appeared quiet when our last de spatches were _published. The riots were recommenced in Bridgeton, by an attempt to stop a mill which waS at work. Eighteen armed out-pensioners were en the spot, and having been ordered to fire, an old man was shot THE LATE ROBBERY OF THE :MESSRS. BOWRING. RECOVERY OF THE SILVER. -Mr. C. • Bowring. we are informed, has had an interview with the convicts, Lloyd and Mahony, respecting that portion of the stolen pro perty which, up to the time of the conviction of the men, had not been recovered, and has succeeded in inducing Mahony to inform him where the money had been se creted in Cwmnaut-gwyn wood ; and so accurate was the description given by the convict of the spot, that Mr. Bowring. on his return from Swansea, rode over, accom panied by one of his . men, and - without the least difficulty, discovered the - hidden treasure, amounting, it i 3 said. to 4:60,, tied up in fl . handkerchief. The cattle and corn markets at Norwich were attended on Saturday by a Russian nobleman, Baron F irks, wh is exceedingly interested in agricultural pursuits, with which he is largely engaged for the government in Cour land. The baron spoke of wheat being at this time, in Russia, the same price as our own, and barley about five shillings a quarter less. EXTENSIVE FLOODS.—During the last few days, ow ing to the very he av y ra i ns , fl oo d s have made their ap pearance about Reading to an alarming extent, and ex ceeding those for many years previous. All the meadows along the banks of the Thames, as well as places adjacent to the Kennet, are covered with water to a considerable depth, and many bridges and roads are rendered impassa ble ; in several parts the grounds are completely swamped. It is feared, also, that no inconsiderable portion of pro. perty is lost, from having been washed away ; though, at present, no loss of life has been heard of. Hum--A. meeting of Chartists assembled onThursday, when a chartist lecturer, named Kidd, and others, ad dressed the meeting in praise of France and republicanism, and in special denunciation of our aristocracy. The people were called upon to arouse from their apathy and to imi tate the noble conduct of the French people, and so en franchise themselves and their posterity. Hard words, much noise, enthusiasm for everything French, and de precation of everything English, were the characteristics of the meeting, which broke up in perfect satisfaction with itself, and without any de facto outrage against the rest of the world. GROSS IMPOSTURE.—On Saturday last, John Dawson, an able-bodied Irishman, about 30 years of age, was charged at the Glasgow Western District Police-office with stealing a halfpenny-worth of bread from a baker's shop in Main-street, Anderston. On being brought to the office he declared that he committed the crime from being out of employment, and consequently in a state of starvation; but, having been minutely searched, there was found on his person six sovereigns, one Irish pound note, one shilling in silver, anti 21d. in copper. Bailie Brown, on hearing evidence, sentenced the fellow to 60 days' imprisonment.—Edinburgh Witness. IMPORTANT MEETING.—On Thursday night a public meeting of the most influential inhabitants of the parish of St. James's, London, was held in the vestry-room of St. James's Church, presided over by the churchwarden of the parish. The meeting was addressed by the Earl of Eglintoun, Earl De Grey, the Hon. F. Byng, and Mr. D'Eyncourt, M. P., when the following resolution was unanimously adopted :—" That they should assemble on the first alarm, and act in conjunction with the police in suppressing any disturbance against the public peace." On Friday the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Surrey, and other noblemen and gentlemen of rank and influence, were sworn in to act as special constables. The affairs of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, are at last in a road towards settlement. The dispute between Alderman Gibbs and the parishioners having been referred to Mr. Justice Erle ; he has declared the select vestry to be ex tinct, and has suggested that the costs of both sides should be paid out of the parish funds. At a meeting of the vestry last evening a resolution was carried, that the suggestion of Mr. Justice Erle be acceded to, in as far as the parish agree to pay 5501. to Messrs. Flight and Rock, and the like sum to Mr. Alderman Gibbs, towards his costs, upon his assigning the parish trust property to fourteen new trustees to be appointed by the parish. A committee was then formed to carry out the resolution and report ; and the meeting was adjourned. MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND.—The village of Twigworth, near Gloucester, was, on Friday last, the scene of a murder. A milkman residing there, named William Hall, in a fit of drunken fury, murdered his wife, by kicking her in the abdomen in the presence of her four children. An inquest was subsequently held on the body by the district coroner, and a verdict of " Wilful murde r against William Hall was returned. He was fully com mitted for trial at the ensuing assizes. An unfortunate accident, which may have a fatal termination, resulted from this deplorable affair. A young man, named Hobbs, who rode into Gloucester for a medical man, was thrown from the horse he rode, and fractured his skull in the fall. He is now lying dangerously CASUALTIES''AT SSA.—A boat has been picked up at West Kerby, with " Arrabella" on the stern ; also a corpse with a lever watch in the pocket, supposed to be the master of a vessel sunk during the night. The Lady of the Lake which arrived here to-day took up the crew of the " Agnes" of Glasgow, from Callao to London on the 27th of February, in latitude 42, longitude 24, the vessel having been thrown on her beam ends, in a hurri cane came on the 23d, her pumps being choked and in a sinking state. The United States from New Orleans to Liverpool, took off the crew from the Fair Play, from Philadelphia to Barbadoes. The Ulbane from Lisbon brought the crew of the Catherine from Ibrail to Constan tinople, abandoned, dismasted, and in a sinking state. At Newcastle, G. Thompson, 23, was indicted for the wilful murder of Philip Wallace, at Bywell, on Christmas Eve. The prisoner and the deceased were poachers, and on the night in question they had a most desperate battle with the gamekeepers of Mr. Beaumont, who had with them a large dog, half bloodhound and half Newfound land, used for the purpose of tracking. poachers. During the battle, Robert Surtees, one of the keepers, got de ceased down, and held on in defiance of the blows he re ceived from the prisoner, who at last discharged his gun at the keeper, who contrived to twist himself out of the way, end the contents of the gun entered the body of the pri soner's comrade, and caused his death shortly afterwards. The prisoner was convicted of manslaughter, and sen tenced to 15 years' transportation. CnARACTERISTIC.—Mr. Waddington, surgeon, of Margate, having written to the Duke of Wellington as Warden of the Cinque Ports on behalf of the sailors of Margate, with the view of getting some of them employed as pilots ; his Grace returned the following answer:— " London, February 23, 1848.—F. M. the Duke of Wel lington presents his compliments to Mr. Waddington. He has received his letter of the 22d instant The Duke knows of no impediment to any native or inhabitant of Margate who can produce the usual testimonials of charac ter and conduct, particularly in relation to habits of tem perance and sobriety, who thinks himself qualified, coming forward to be examined as to his qualifications for being a pilot ; and, if found upon examination to be really quali fied, such a one will undoubtedly be appointed; otherwise certainly not—Joshua Waddington, Esq." THE MAMMOTH.—As the labourers employed on the Stour Valley line were lately excavating in the parish of Lamarsh, near Sudbury, they discovered, about 14 feet from the surface, embedded in gravel, the head and tusks of a mammoth, or fossil elephant. The tusks broke when they attempted to remove them, but the teeth were taken out tolerably perfect ; and, with the fragments of the tusks, are now in the possession of Mr. Fulcher. The teeth are about 10 inches long; the tusks, when whole, measured 11 feet in length, and the breadth between them, was 4 feet. On two or three of the teeth the enamel is as fresh as if they had not laid in the earth a month. Teeth of the mammoth have also, at different periods, been discovered in the grounds of R, Allen, Esq., Bal lingdon-grove, and also in those of W. Baker, Esq.,. Brunden-hall. OPPOSITION TO LORD MORPETH'S PUBLIC HEALTH . BILL.—On Tuesday a public meeting, called by the Mayor, in compliance with a requisition presented to him . from between twenty and thirty gentlemen, was held in. the Leeds Court House, " to consider the measures to be adopted with reference to the Public Health Bill now in parliament, and introduced by Lord Morpeth." In the absence of the Mayor, owing to his having to proceed to London the following morning, as a deputation from the town council, Mr. Ald. Luccock was appointed to preside. The attendance was tolerably numerous, though the Court House was by no means crowded. Amongst the assembly was a number of women. The speakers ob jected to the bill principally on two grounds—first, because it carried out the system of centralization, and next, because of the large expenditure of money which it would require in order to carry out its provisions. POPULAR LOYALTY.—On Tuesday night, Drury-lane Theatre, which has been fitted up similar to our Amphi theatre, was opened by the French Equestrian Company, and when the performance of the first night was over and the musicians were preparing to leave the orchestra, a loud cry for " God save the Queen" was raised ; but the musicians, apparently not understanding the summons, went on packing up their instruments. The indignation became general ; and the musicians, who seemed to be suddenly enlightened, struck up the anthem just in time to save a " row." Then came a cry of " Hats off;" and some men not complying with this request had the satis faction of seeing the adornments of their heads pitched into the arena. A shout of "encore" followed the con clusion of the anthem, which having been repeated the bulk of the audience gave a hearty cheer on the strength of their victory over obtuse fiddlers and obdurate hat wearers. THE KIRTON MURDER.—Lincoln Castle, March 8. — (Before Mr. Justice Maule.)—Joseph Travis, of Kirton in-Lindsey, was indicted for the wilful murder of Charles Copeman, of Blyborough, farmer. A great number of witnesses were called in support of the counsel's state ment, which consisted entirely of strong circumstantial testimony, a great number of which facts led very forcibly to bring the crime home to the prisoner, the principal ones being that, a small piece of a penknife blade was found in the blood in the place where the deceased was found, and the other part of the knife, was discovered about twenty-five yards from the body, and which knife was proved to have belonged to the prisoner ; and the tracing to the prisoner's possession on the following day nearly the same amount of money as had been taken from the deceased, it being shown that on the evening of the murder he was borrowing small sums. The jury, after an absence of one hour and a half, returned a verdict of Acquittal.—The trial lasted the whole of the day, no less than thirty-seven witnesses being examined. THE RABY PARK MURDER.—On Wednesday, at Dur ham assizes, three poachers, named Thompson, Dowson, and Oldfield, all young men, were tried for the mur d er o f John Shirley, the Duke of Cleveland's " whipper-in," on the 2nd of February. The trial lasted the whole day, and the Duke of Cleveland was on the bench all the time. At the close of the case, the jury found Thompson and Dow son guilty, and acquitted Oldfield. His lordship, in pass ing sentence, said—" You have both been found guilty of the awful crime of murder, committed without the slightest provocation, upon an individual who had never injured either of you. You were not content with shooting him —not content with wounding him—not content with leaving him in a state of weakness and pain —but con tinned beating him till you left him upon the ground half dead. Whan he called out for mercy —so to speak—when he called out to his companion, for God's sake, to come to his assistance, or he could not survive many minutes, you must have heard that cry from the wounded man upon the ground, yet you still went on beating him, and showed him no mercy. I find I can hold out no hope of mercy to you—to you the day of mercy is passed. I see no ground of distinction between your cases. I wish I could see any ground for distinction. I can hold out no hope to either of you," The prisoners maintained throughout the whole of the day the utmost composure in their behaviour, and scarcely-evinced (Thompson in particular) the slightest symptoms of emotion when the awful ientoo 9f the law was passed upon them, larch 14, 1845. CLEININGS FROM THE IRISH REPEAL PAPERS. The two candidates for supremacy in the utterance 4 seditious braggadocio, the Dublin Nation and the Uri Irishman, continue to run a neck and neck race, ear .A anx ions, apparently, to be the fi r st t o reac h the dewy" goal, which is shrewdly suspected to be a government Pro' secution, with the honours of martyrdom, rather thao what they ostensibly seek,—an opportunity of crossing weapons with the loyal Protestants of their own C or with a British force. Up to the present week, be .` the United Irishman has had the best of it. His table suggestions for gaining possession of the City of Dublin, slaughtering the military sent against the lace, broken-bottling their horses,—a mode of deau"s_. with that useful quadruped somewhat different fin: the " bottling " practis e d amongs t our own rr men,,—and annoying their riders by salutes of ney pieces, crockery, chairs, fenders, &c., flung fair hands from chamber windows, threw all the Pr e ;„ l vious ravings of his opp onen t i n t o th e shade. P. of the Nation, however, is sufficiently of an i m itafir of character to enable him to profit by the example j , sublime phrenzy set hi m by hi s opponent, an d , ac cr' l ingly, this week treads closely upon his heels. We OIL not ourselves venture to award the palm of superiority'" either ; but shall confine ourselves to furnishing a i fy ; specimens, and leave the reader to form his own ment. As to the elder journalist,—lest offence be 10/ at the expression, we had better state, in the languag,,a Cassins, "we said an elde r , no t a b e tt er soldier. "6 turn to Mr. Duffy's paper, the Nation, first. Under the head of " the first step"—which said fir st , step is evidently one to war d s th e comp l e t e separa tioar s Ireland from the British empire —the Nation says that E t people " will meet on St. Patrick's Day to consider vrT.'; steps should be adopted f or th e p ro t ec ti on o f th e libert ie s and the soil of this country in any emergency to the present state of European politi cs ma y g i ve r i se ;' 311 U after a volley of imprecation against Great Britain, as cause of all the sufferings of Ireland, proceeds to state • " We believe that a NATI ONAL M ILITIA an d a NATION COUNCIL have become essential to our very existence." For what are a NATIONAL MILITIA and a NATIONAL COUNCIL wanted ? We quote again : "War is imminent. If it come, England cannot hold from it, whatever be her interest or her will. And here, r this Irish soil, her enemie s ma y c h oose t o fi x their bit, gromid. It is their clear policy ; he r s t a t esmen o f o ld h a ve scribed this island as the back door into England; and heretic' mies know it is the weakest point in her cordon. "If they come, England cannot defend us. Her own CO are unguarded; her colonies are held by military possessii:g! and not a regiment dare she draw from them ; Chartist stP,r, tion, inflamed by the discontent of the Irish in England, no% her domestic peril nearly as formidabl e as th e d ange rs lr°l without. She can ill help herself ; us she ca nno t h e lp' atZ t i And if she could, w e dare not trust th e li ves o f our peeP";be her care. After the tragedy we have been w it ness i ng fOl A last two years, it would be murder in the sight of Heaven• h „ million of the Irish people lie buried beneath the I r i s h soil z.'',; ( cause we trust, d their defence to England. Th e y di e d of and famine. Another million may die defenceless as 81 1, under the swords of a foreign soldiery, if we d o no t t a ke P cautions in time. The natural and onlyadequate precaution - a NATIVR MILITIA, or NATIONAL GUARD. We are told how the native militia ought to be a nneal., "Some sound military authorities hold that the bulk of tional militia ought to be armed simply with the pike. arms are over valued. In pitched battles, it is calculated not more than o ne man f a ll s i n every s i r k undredmuske t th° 0( in skirmishes a still smaller proportion. But in a charg e , pikes, whatever front rank holds its ground against it, T„ e g Certainly our militia ought not to rely exclusively on weapon. The national genius, so vehement and i m p e tuouk.„ hibits itself with gr ea t es t e ff ect i n a charge; and for that 5"" vice your pike is. the tool." • Bravo ! " You r pik e i s t h e tool. " Of course, thtsm for the enemies of Great Britain, " who may choose to the battle ground on Trish soil ;" of cou , se not invited ui Irish patriots for their own purposes. We have also suggestions as to the dress to be worn 171 a national militia, which is to be " very plain." No "Pe frippery" —" a frieze body coat, of a dark eolow, breeches of ticken or co r d uroy, a p l a i n wool ha t, brogne' i or buskins of any s t rong l eat h er, i n one piece an d l a J down the centre." Th e arms requ i re d are d esc ribed; the organisation of th e var i ous corps. Th e ineenalF continues : A "This is the fir s t s t ep; th e secon d f o ll ows c l ose upon itlid National Assembly has been the sure resource of all strugB,4l nations. Philadelphia, Paris, Dungannon are the catch" w of its history." Again, of course,. REVOLUTION is the sermon preach Oar journalist has been ki n d enoug h t o furnish ill ' t ir a key to the real meaning of his various diatribesrlt u la shape of an imaginary description of things as he wish them to be, contained under the head Second Mi l s of the Irish Revolution." W e g i ve a f ew ex t rac ts 'P . this choice production.:-- re M "Tranquillity is entirely restored. The barricades s,, Ilv moved. Business begins to be resu m ed un i versa lly. I.' o o bernian Bank has put upa notice on 'Change that its disc° e ilt recommence to-morrow. Mr. William Mu r phy h a s tende!: 4l ,. public loan of . 1 100,000 to the Pr ov i s i ona l G overnme nt. O v o ei men are everywhere employed repairing the streets and I ?°te' which suffered in the insurrection. The large mansions roc phen's-green last occupied.by the English chancellor and del; lish archbishop have been opened as hospitals for the Wolin el et . and patriotic ladies attend them in littl e b an d s re lieved e if et. second hour. The orange and green cockade is worn LT, cr sally, and no words can express the joy that prevails iu th pital of our Free Nation:" ore d Who the Mr. Wm. Murphy maybe w h o i s thus litT 4 . 0 in prospective, as ready to l en d u p on suc h secur l lo "the second week of th e I r i s h R evo l u ti on, " we knocr bit He must be a boiled specimen of the potato kin& as name (Hibernice) implies. We have several • ple as i ng t ra i ts furnished,ll-4 ' tba respect to the generosity with w hi c h L or d Clarendoe_%o English judges, the archbi s h o p s , an d ot h er o fficials a te be sent home; some talk as to the honours to be confelp ,n upon those soldiers of th e li ne and police,. who " fraternized with the peopl e; " a hi n t or two as 1- L s elr capacity of Messrs. O'Gorman and M eag her, to be In to into commander. in-chief and general, and some talk to the fortification of the country. The tenant right 1 01 be established, and various other things to be done. t off now for a piece of Blarney for the loyal protestant of Ireland : rted "Hogan, who has just returned to Ireland, has been iast ru i t ign g by the commissioners of the fi n e ar t s , t o comme nce, 1 : 4 pa' delay, an equestrian statue of Sarsfield ; it is to be 00,4 t 1 by side, with William the Thi r d i n C o ll ege G reen (1) government have ordered to stand in honour of the protestant: in Ireland.( ! 1) h William will feel, we s u sp ec t, ra th er queer i n sue- pany. A lot of oth er t ras h f o ll ows , w hi c h, if iet e lber to be a history of what Irish nationality will do, is 11,01 , conclusive as to the f ac t th a t, by th a t same nation Ireland will have gained little of common sense. ad Bnt, it may be asked, how is this new and indepe° nation to carry on its government ? Listen : set " It is decreed, that as the hulk of this natio n li v e ..ide fo• cultural labour, it is essential to the public safety to pro" cot'" an immediate settlement of the tenure o f l an d ; lot" mission, consisting of six tenant farmers, and six Pa„t. tr 4 lords, with Mr. Sharman Crawfo r d as president, sba".;hey basis• of tenant-right and valuation for Ireland. further directed to report upon the property of absent the improveable waste lands, with a view to divide the the unprovided people." I,4eate' A. truly pleasant idea for some of your liberal_ ll -- - h oie —your Fitawilliams, Devonshires, &c. We don'tt,si ever, envy the parties to whom the apportionment ni of estates in question may be entrusted. The thouSarior representatives of the " ould kings" and nobles ; 1 0 land who would have to be passed over have mart e ; 0 0." queer notions as to the morality of shooting an arn,. l .A who may, unluckily for himself, have undervaln' claims. , But we must turn to the United Irishman 6 " e te 41 Mitchell, its editor. This gentleman, the reeen - 0 0¢' trations of whose pen, it will be remembered, were br poi before the notice of parliament by Lord Staal e 4'o o ; thought proper to address a letter to the Lord Lie. u 'dire e , the leading features of which are his giving the lie ot , to Lord Lansdowne, and addressing an humble req" „ s or be favoured with a government prosecution. Tb e t ,tiot rility of this Mr. Mitchel is s carce l y worth itlucvl'o- The would-be felon tells us directly th a t h e is a .1- Th b li a ca rt n h e en ' annfd, his s y ra im vi p n l g ica i t s io a n n , that he isto pe ah rs era usv • te : c ; Fa li fellow-countrymen that the insane promise of tbe it Republican provisional government, to e n sure ic er d er ge good wages for eve r y i n di v id ua l, i s w ithi n the r t the Irish revolutionists. He affords us, besides, 5e 11 , 1 d important document—a copy o f th e lying addres AA from Ireland to the French governmen t. We •',„o extract or two from the latter most loyal docurne n io st "It is now known throughout the world that we 11 d , e it/ millions of our population last year by famine, fever , pc to la gration ; but it is not known that this famine, far w°, e re„, i i rule effects than the ravages of any war, was purposely ude rage and destroy us by the English government, in the the of extirpating our ancient name and race." for c e Prime encouragement this—an excellent returned )",„ thousands distributed by the British governmen t ais i tre" nished by private charity for the relief o f Iris' 1 0 , Now "Citizens fora soaripalrei so— Men tions—accept our friendship. Let no :, to otte hat is, or what his pretensions are, lead you to believe t il ti giv,tf; men are ready, for even the bribe of repeal, to 4 1, ,t,,.,fi battles again, or shed their blood to prop up her 5!`„" . Of' AP . No; men of France, no. We will let the British 11 ,°" 0 ,16 toothless jaws, erect his mane, and roar in impede ' . o ld , tio: the blood-stained monster expires —cursed by the " . 0 OP;i0; crated by mankind—ere we stain ourselves by ag 9 lo:l,, i ' o tit . under the murderous Union Jack against any I)9 ' u pPyr less against you, who have generously . led the van 0.; tyranny, and restoring man to his original elevat.l l Z, lishing the glorious principles of Liberty, equal' r ternity,' and shewing an example to all nations, that q tr can resist a determined people. t foe it "Men of France—ln us you shall find friends, O we Pit e to we hail your republic as the saviour of Europe, -- ,,,j---fr the morning star of liberty, the hope of the oppres.' ror of tyrants—the avenger of mankind. 0 0' "Citizens, in conclusion, we again offer you oul, th e i l eg t iv Lions on your noble victory; yet so deeply do we 'l e t„oie Nation of our present position, our country a hegg.obla os of every nation in Christendom, her people sub nia"„osi o n to be decimated annually by starvation, at the s oielp o nt foreigners!--the men who profess to be leaders to o' o o 4 - - m a c s e n e , p tnooar coorrAlipe, systematically sacrificing the welfare of the people tie gr,s e o ' lO ll petty, private interests; so keenly do we feel tins t cli' io st that we would not presume to congratulate the T e - t c ,11i tors of Paris, could we not sincerely avow a firm to y ahc profit by their noble example. L O llO4 profit by their noble example. Frencrur en, when such a determination i-a l f its, ce animate Ireia3d, and give "dignity to her coon ,-.‘ r oP,r despair of the sympathy of France P" t iot r i #l , ` A pleasant invitation ! We fancy, howev'er , „ tor ' will have something more important to do tha n safety to aid such rebellious. madmen. 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