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Etterature. NOTICE. Notes on Vie Nobility, No. I.: Sketch of the Ilistory of Me House of Russell. By David Rosa, 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 w e ll, f or no t h av i ng sooner di rec t e d attention to it in our columns. Mr. Ross's sketch of this elustrious 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 mad 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 Rouse of Russell are very valuable. We may remark, en vassant, that there are few subjects upon which Englishmen generally are more imperfectly irtformed 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 cinder 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 moot interesting study. • VARIETIES. THORWALDSEN.—His life was s continued triumph fortune and victory waited on him, and art was recognised and reverenced in his person. The life of this happy one —this triumphal march—may he painted in words, as with e.olours. 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 head His eye This is the 'Kin'g of Denmark, Harald Hildetand. sparkles—his head is proudly raised—for the mighty . got - is have sworn to him that, aftCr many centuries, one of his descendants shall stretch out his sceptre from the North Cape to the southernmost point of Europe— far towards east and west—and his name shall he re corded in the book of nations. See the next scene! Centuries have rolled by, and it is our own age ; a poor boy, with a little red cap on his golden hair carries an earthen pitcher, slung by a cord, through one of the narrow streets of Copenhagen—he is bringing dinner to bis father, who works in the dock-yard, carving rude figure-heads for the ships. But observe this child ! he is the youngest of King Harald Hildetand's race, and in him the promise shall be fulfilled. But how ? The third scene will show. The boy has become a man—the yellow hair white—but it hangs upon his powerful shoulders in rich profusion ; around stand noble marble forms—Jason with the golden fleece, the Graces, the Holy Apostles ; it is the King of Artists whom we see—the scion of Harald Hil detand—the poor boy, who now as a man stretches his sceptre in the realm of Art, over the countries of Europe —it is BErtel Thorwaldsen. It is not the imagination of a poet—it is reality—which has furnished the subject for each picture.—Translation from the Danish of H. C. Ande;sen, in Dublin Unive;:sity Magazine. " GOOD" CHILDREN.—In contradistinction to the sub j ect of naughtiness, there is a word we have alluded to before, which we must inquire a little into,—one oftener taken in vain than any other in infant education, and which, in our infant recollection, was the enigma of the little vocabulary. We mean that magic word good. In children of sense and principle, the vagueness of this term is most distressing ; implying, as it does, first one thing and then another, and nothing long. Sometimes a strong exertion of the will; sometimes a total abeyance of every faculty ; now a dryness in the atmosphere, which keeps their hair in curl ; and now a letter by post, or a hamper from the country, which puts their mother in a good hu mour. With us this word is associated with very mixed feelings. Certainly it was a pleasure, as all rare surprises were ; but still it always brought nervous misgivings, and fearful lookings forward to a long future, in which more would be expected from us, and less on our part likely to be fulfilled ; for how were we ever to be sure of being good again, when we never knew how we had con trived to be so in the present instance ? From our own recollections, however, and much subsequent observation, we should say that he real maternal beau idiot of the term consists in a keen power of discrimination between the value of a stuff gown and a silk one, accompanied by a general constitutional slowness of circulation. And a reference to foreign languages confirms this view. The French synonym is sage, wise ; the German, artig, polite ; neither of them in the least childlike, but both corre sponding with the quality implied. Every wise child must know the difference between stuff and silk, and no polite child would ever think of trampling it under foot. That's why stories of good children, who are always prudent, prim, and precise, are so distasteful to children of any promise at all. They feel the misnomer, and their natu ral instinct rises against it. Parents give themselves much trouble and their children much, torment in trying-to enforce this many-headed term ; but 'they may rely upon it, iR nine cases out of ten, a -gooxl,,opaas honourable, naughtiness is a far better thing. Where there is really a pood child, let us watch and pray, for it is a fearful gift to a • parent's heart. We have known one--meek, loving, patient—the unconscious pattern of every Christian vir tue, with a conscience too tender for us weak ones not to offend. Oh ! what would we have given for more of those qualities which others take so much pains to repress ? She was good, if you will—goodness personified—too good, alas ! to live.—Fraser's Magazine. SAMSON'S DEATH.—The time at last came when the daughters of the Philistines did rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised triumphed. Both with his first and second wife Samson showed himself peculiarly alive to the force of female importunities ; and apt to give way before the exhibition of female distress. In the former attempt to extort a secret from him, it is , said that his wife lay sore upon him—in the present attempt, that his soul was vexed unto death. It looks a marvellous infatuation —the effect of melancholy weakness—that he should have been thus got the better of in the face of former palpable designs to give him up unto the Philistines—evincing the blindness of passion, and holding forth a most impressive lesion 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 condition, whether of the strength which he had naturally or of the extraordinary visitations and gifts which he received of supernatural strength when the Spirit of God came 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 --ithdrawn And this strength was made the instrument . great and signal manifestation—a triumph Jver idolatry—a vindication of the supremacy of the one at the last of a 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 ng in blind old Samson to make sport of him ; and pro ortionally to this, one feels a certain wild and natural atisfacton in the avenging ruin which he brought upon s, even though himself involved in the common t fell upon all—both men and women— ,. ing the savage spectacle. Thus fell one of noted of the historical personages whom Scrip- )n tha -has transmitted Downward to futu.ro es. Dr. Chalmers' Daily Scripture Readings. SOLDIERS AND MA N UFA CTURERS.—Mr. Cobden is eased to be especially bitter upon the " horrid trade" He characterises it as barbarous and and would be rid of it at all risks. Now, set ang aside the idiocy of his remarks, there is a monstrous of ingratitude in this language of the free-trade epos- Had it not been for our arms, where would our mar ' If we had succumbed to France instead if 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 ' , ere our exportations of calico ? Hindostan is an ac country, and British arms have opened up the mar • and arc these commercial evils ? Really to attempt enforcing a point owes everything to the e'er- kets have been 9 of China it is throwing way langua Commen as this Lions and protection of that military power which these 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 eiean by characterising the honourable profession of a Soldier as a damnable trade ? Does he intend to disgorge "4 contempt and contumely upon the graves of those who e field of battle fighting nobly for their king and Are we now to be told that the names which aYe written in our annals, and embalmed in our me letestable and odious as those of homicides If it hes come to this, and if public scorn nan who can conceive and country aeutitnents, then indeed we may be net deMoralisation has partially done its work, and ' , lean ethics of Manchester are henceforward to nation. Not damnable nor horrid, unless 'nm be so, is the profession of those who -d 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 acqnani 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 recognise the existence of an imperishable soul within the tender 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 sal, 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 der, who is now chuckling over .his living cargoes on the --- 4 —"areoes for which he is indebted to the are drawn tE ightened legislation of Mr. Cobden and his liberal con_ crates I Are these the men who are tko revile and tra * our army ?- Faugh ! The leprosy of mammon is In them, and our nature recoils from-thei r breath.— alliask THE SONG or DEBORAH AND BAR/M.-Ith' 19.0110 the noblest effusions of ancient poetry, and of poetry ae to music—sung as well as recited. The willing help the people is an homage rendered to those who did (fife( themselves—for we find an exception made against certniat of the tribes. I cannot imagine anything higher thanthif state and sublimity wherewith this Ode of cerebration i/ ushered in, and the effect of God's presence, or at least the manifestation of his forthputtings and hit power,4e . depicted. The song begins with a reference to God i .niaz4 terposal in former times. There is a differened of opinion; whether the reference is two-fold, embracing !loth Goifisi appearance for his people when they first enterdd the Holy.. Land, and the descent on Sinai— or whether :there be reference to the latter only, for which some countenance is derived from Deut. xxxiii. 2, which is most intelligahle 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 deli 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 beautifally 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 et-, ample, to the country or neighbourhood where She lives.: The ode proceeds in the highest of all poetical strains to its conclusion. The stars in their courses fighting against Sisera is a truly sublime conception. Aleroz was probably• some town which refuses its quota of auxiliaries. Nor can we imagine anything more picturesque, more . Ossisaic. than the representation of the ladies looking out; for the return of their lord—while the blessing given upon Jaez 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 iu this effusion. It were strange now for women of rank to describe,•as here done, the spoils of the war ; but, making allowances for all that appertaineth 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 heart-stirring poems that has come down to us from ancient times.—Dr.. ONO titers' Daily Scripture Readings. t AN,AMERICAN SPORTSMAN:-Dr. Isaac Hamberlin, a worthy min and old citizen of this county, came to his death, a few days since, in a most shocking manner.. One day last week, Ilamberlin, with two other gentlemen, left Satartia for a bear hunt, and proceeded to Lake George, where it forms a junction with the Sunflower river. A short time after they had landed from the Unit, the dogs entered the cane and immediately struck a trail, and Dr. Hamberlin followed them but a short distance, when he came up with them and a very large bear in the thick cane. Dr. Hamberlin fired at him, the ball entering his head at the upper part of his nose, without doing much injury other than to infuriate him, and he turned and made at Dr. Hamberlin. The doctor endeavoured to get out of the animal's way, but the cane being very thick lie could run but slowly, and had run but a short distance when the bear overtook him, seized him by the thigh, jerked him to the ground, and completely stripped Dr. Hamberlin's leg of flesh and muscles. By this time the dogs again seized the bear and got him off. Dr. Hamberlin then attempted to rise but could not, being so badly torn. He then got out his hunting knife, the bear left the dogs, and attacked Dr. Hamberlin the second time, and tote him very riuch. This tune Dr. Hamberlin succeeded in cutting one or two gashes in the throat of the bear, but not deep enough to do him any material injury. The dogs again diverted the attention of the bear from his victim, and he left Dr. Hamberlin and engaged with the dogs; but in a few minutes the bear came at hira. a third time, when Dr. Hamberlin made a stroke at him, but the bear seized the knife by the blade, wrenched it from Dr. Hamberlin, and threw it some distance from him, and seizing Dr. Hamberlin's arm mashed it into a jelly. By this time the cries of Dr. Hamberlin brought one of his companions to the rescue, and he, seeing the awful situation of his friend, fired, and struck ti..e bear in the neck, which caused the beast to leave his victim and take to flight ; but another of the company coming up it as opposite direction encountered the bear and shot it. Dr. Hamberlin had his wounds tied up and was then carried to the boat, to be taken immediately to Satartia, but he expressed his unwillingness to return without having his formidable antagonist with him. His desire was gratified and he and the bear were taken to Satartia, where eri.inent medical aid was brought to his assistance, but he died p a the fourth day, after suffering during the time the moat excruciating pain. The bear was very large, though poor, weighing 3-101 b. with his entrails out.-1 azoo 21st of January. INSTINCT IN ANIMALS.—At the meeting of the Lite rary Society last week, Dr. Warwick, who was intro duced by a member, narrated some curious facts with re spect to animals. When he resided at Dunham, the seat of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, he was walking one evening in the park, and came to a pond where fish, intended for the table, were temporarily kept. He took particular notice of a fine pike of about six pounds weight. which, when it observed him, darted hastily away. In so doing, it struck its head against a tenter-hook in a poet (of which there were several in the pond, placed to Pre vent poaching), and, as it afterwards appeared, fractured its skull, and turned the optic nerve on one side. The agony evinced by the animal was most horrible. It rushed to the bottom, and, boring its head into the mud, whirled itself round with such velocity that it was almost lostto ,the sight for ,a-short irAtergul, . it then plunged about&lie pond, and at length threw itself completely out of mi r water on to the bank. He (the Doctor) went and /exa mined it, and found that a very small portion of the brain was protruding from the fracture in the skull. He care fully replaced this, and, with a small silver tooth-pick, raised the indented portion of the skull. The fish xe mained still for a short time, and he then put it again into the pond. It appeared at first a good deal relieved.• but in a few minutes it again darted and plunged about until it threw itself out of the water a second time. A se cond time Dr. Warwick did what he could to relieve it, and again put it into the water. It continued for save ral times to throw itself out of the pond, and with the as sistance of the keeper the Dr. at length made a kind of pillow for the fish, which was then left in the pond to its fate. Upon making his appearance at the pond on the following morning, the pike came towards him to the edge of the water, and actually laid its head upon his foot. The Dr. thought this most extraordinary, but he examined the fish's skull, and found it going on all right. He then walked backwards and forwards along the edge of the pond for some time, and the fish continued to swim up and down, turning whenever he turned : but • being blind on the wounded side of its skull, it always appeared agitated when it had that side towards the bank, as it could not then see its benefactor. On the next day he took some young friends to see the fish, which came to him as usual; and at length he actually taught the pike to come to hira at his whistle and feed out of his hands. With other per sons it continued as shy as fish usually are. He (Pr. Warwick) thought this a most remarkable instance of gratitude in a fish for a benefit received, and, as italwitys came at his whistle, it proved also what he had previously, with other naturalists, disbelieved, that fishes are sensible to sound. BABYHOOD AND CHILDHOOD.—The nursery is a WOW , 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 mysterious state of being before the deluge 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 io sorrow," as if it heard from afar the growing jar of this earth,—incognisant, to our apprehension, as it lies pis sively there, either of this world Qr that, yet stamped by that very smile and sigh, as the being who stands myste riously between both ? But the noise and uproar linye been too much! The round lustrous eyes are wide open, which, like the eyes of the Divine Child in the Sistine Madonna, seem to look at nothing, in gazing beyond all things ; and baby is seated on nurse's knee. There it sits, the little stranger, who dwelleth so calmly amongst us, without speech or movement, though brothers and sisters are screaming and running around it, lookincr'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, 7 —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 Inaoce4.- glum : " Why so stately, maiden fair, Rising in thy nurse's arms, With that condescending air, Gathering up thy queenly charms ? the round, round, portly form, moving slowly to and fro, hie 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 spoon 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:iti 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 a our short years over its head, and it is a boy all over. The reign of dignity has been succeeded by that of impudenc e . Noise and movement are now his chief element. Up the chair and down again. If you take him up he kicks!aud . struggles; the more comfortable you try to make him the less he likes it ; restlessnees is his rest. If he is not talk ing to you, he is talking to himself—stamping, hammer ing, rattling, clattering ; whatever can make a noiseis plaything to him. Like another Nero, he wishes all the bells in the house had but one string, that he might ring,: them altogether. N o thi ng b ut sleep can quiet him, ilia then, if the truth were known, he dreams of bangtoti doors! Mischief and courage have begun together ; he'd horns take a dog by the tail or a b u ll b y the ;' screams, to be held upon a coach-horse he can't stride, and kicks this.. animal to make it go faster; is all ready to tire oft' a gas. , and roars because you will not let him ; struggles awsi from the maid to run after the she?p ; tumbles down"; Is picked up with a mouth full of gravel, and a " Never'ub peace with you, Master John is held double tigheby the maid all the way home, with an admonitory chuck, now and then, which almost dislocates his shoulder, bait manages to put his feet into the puddles for all Oise! Bless the child ! he is all right in his start for life, sa d' plague and pleasure alike he will give.—Ft ram . , , mag; TUE FISIIHRS AT THE EAST Or SCOTLAND.—Dia boats that were at sea all morning return about noon. and then the women who gathered the bait are really with their creels to carry the fish to the shed to dress them. In the first instance, the fish must be partedf. However large or small the take may be, the fish are divided in lots, each man having his lot determined by nit of ballot, Suppwe f for elailiele, that the crew cost.... TIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. r sists 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, 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 de c id e w hi c h i s hi s l o t . Th ere i s no dispute 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 out of which the boat may be repaired so long as she 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 again ; and, in prospect of winter, a club of six or eight persons is formed, and a sum of money sub 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 —lioyg's Weekly blYillictor 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 j many left the place, but it seems that as many persons as the number mentioned in ou r l a st e diti on —namely 10,000 jor 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. 4- At two o'clock, or a little after, a great number of the Volice took up their position in different parts of the Isquare, and proceeded simultaneously to clear away the iFrowd, who resisted the rather summary way in which ifhey began to put their orders into force. In facr the :teople—and it is right to state that a vase num b er o f th em el.q young men and boys of the labouring 'claw's—did not lish the interference of the police, who in order the ietter to accomplish their object, smote with too much iolence right and left. They were assailed with the most iscordant yells, and we saw several stones thrown at hem. Some were severely punished ; and the truncheon irf one was wrested from him and thrown into the basin smidst cheers. A little boy was struck so violently across thehead by one of A division, of whose violence a great many complained to us, that he fell, and the blood flowed tram beneath his cap. A young man was knocked down tike a bullock by one of the same division, and carried off ror dead. I It is right to mention that the tempers of the police Were sorely tried. When we saw them strike, they did so trial 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 seen committed. Between thirty and forty men and boys nave been taken into custody for assaulting the police in ;he 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 Frith a stone ; he received also a severe wound at the hack Of his head, and was obliged immediately to go to the turgeon of the force. Aliout three o'clock that portion of the palings of the elson monument nearest the National Gallery were torn own, and a number of men and boys got on the plinth $ the column. Two or three persons who stood on the margin of the basins were pushed in out of sheer fun, and ilid not escape without a severe ducking. Police constable 4S A had his eyes severely cut, and the police are more or less injured. The greater portion of the police were withdrawn at tvalf-past five o'clock, and as soon as they went order was in a great measure restored. .4.-We have seldom seen a mob more inveterate against he 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. ue fierce rushing to and fro of large knots, of people sed by the police, now closing upon them, then strug gling fiercely, and shouting with all their might, with the bitons striking away in all directions, had the appearance 4of a formidable riot, looking down upon it from the steps 4f St. Martin's Church. The club windows, and in fact civery available spot from which a view of the conflict Ould 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 ,f3t 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, an Tuesday, Mr. Jardine was occupied the entire (lay disposing' of no less than ninety charges arising out of the.disturbances, which cainsisted of assaults upon the police by boys resisting them in the execution of their duty, throwffig stones and other missiles, and other acts of violence and resistance. DREADFUL RIOTS IN SCOTLAND.---TRE MILI TARY CALLED OUT. (Frons oar Second Edition of Tuesday la t.) : the unemployed operatives in GlasgUW were last week in rather an excited state, and assembled very tiro numbers on Friday, to be addressed by one of the ading chartists. They, however, separated peaceably ; but it will be seen by the subjoined copy of a letter which Flikv been received by the master of the Exchange News r ›tti m, in this town, that their peaceable intentions have apt been of long continuance. - • Extract from a initiate letter dated Glasgow, Monday evening _ . The city is in great confusion and excitement. Sere r4l. shops broken into and gutted, by the unemployed, vibe are marching about with guns, &c. The gunsmith's i dks p i n Ex c hange-square, and the gOldsmith's shop i n nuelianan-street are forced in ; the former is cleared of its contents, and the windows smashed. All shops are *bed, and the streets crowded. Several shots we re fiied in Buchanan-street a few minutes age." • , TThe following despatches contain the latest .iiitelli- Oque GLASGOW, MONDAY, 4 P.M t.'! ♦ chartist riot i 3 at this moi►ient taking place in this 64. The mob are breaking open the guns►niths' si lo " . Ill* one next our ethos is now being pillaged: The cry DOwn with the Queen !' The mob is .COMposed of 1000 persons. Two policemen shot." . . " lIALF-PAST '"The city is now quiet, but from the number of guns adolen it is feared that there will be fresh outbreaks during the• night. The military are posted in Varidui .PFP. an d ailarge body in the Royal Exchange. The shops of j evr _ ei t lers and gunsmiths have all been more or less pillaged. 41,business is suspended." ; • "EDINBURGH, 11 O'CLOCK, P.m. " 150 dragoons have jest left for Glasgovr. The mob are increasing. They are pulling up the rails on the Pais. 14 and Airdrie railway. 600 of the 71st foot 'have just test for Glasgow." . .The turbulent mob renewed their-hostilities on Tuesday afternoon, though all appeared quiet when our last de sictatches were published. The riots were recommenced *id Bridgeton, by an attempt to Stop a mill which was at work. Eighteen eirmed out-pensioners were on the spot, 100'haying- boen ordered to fire, an old man was 4hot through the head at the corner of Muslin-street. A younger man was also shot, and three young boys, who chanced 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 mer, 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 fin, whe❑ 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 military. 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 fryn 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. SECOND EDITION. Standard Office, Ten o'clock. [ADDITIONAL ADVERTISEMENTS.] BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL. THOMAS BERRY HORSFALL, ESQ., MAYOR, PUBLIC NOTICE. T HE Mayor has received the following LETTER : " Liverpool, 13th March, 1848. St am directed to represent to your Worship the great inconvenience to the Merchants, Brokers, and others frequent ing the Exchange Room and the Area of the Exchange Build ings, by the large Assemblies of Persons for some time past, and greatly increasing the last few days it is felt as a very se rious interruption to business. Your Worship's attenti on is, therefore, requested to the circumstance. And the Committee further request that the Area may be protected, for the use of the Mercantile body, to which it is exclusively appro priated by Act of Parliament. " I have the honour to remain, " Sir, respectfully, your most obedient servant, " HARMOOD BANNER, " Chairman of the Committee of the Liverpool Exchange Buildings. "To the Worshipful the Mayor, Thomas B. Horsfall, Esq., &c. &c." In reply, the Mayor has assured the Exchange Committee that he will take measures to carry their wishes into effect. NOTICE IS HERi.:BY GIVEN, That no MEETINGS of Persons, similar to those which have been holden during the last few days, will be permitted ; and Orders have been given to the Head Constable to DISPERSE all Persons who shall hold similar Meetings on the Area of the Exchange. ... THOMAS B. HORSFALL, Mayor, Town-hall, 13M March, 1848. BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL PUBLIC NOTICE. THOMAS BERRY HORSFALL, ESQ., MAYOR. THE MAYOR and MAGISTRATES having ob served that a large number of Persons have for several (lays past ASSEMBLED on the EXCHANGE and in the neigh bourhood thereof, Do HEREBY CAUTION all well disposed PERSONS to ABSTAIN from ASSEMBLING in the STREETS and PUBLIC THOROUGHFARES of the BOROUGH. Many Persons attend these Meetings as mere Spectators, without any intention of taking part with those who may have other and evil designs, but the Mayor and Magistrates remind all such Persons that by so acting thty encourage the dis affected, become responsible for the acts of the crowd with which they mingle, create alarm in the minds of many peacea bly disposed Persons, and expose themselves to injury and punishment in the event of any active Measures being resorted to by the Authorities for the preservation of the Public Peace. THOMAS B. HORSFALL, ➢fayor. Town-hall, 13th March, 1848. KINSALE ELECTION. CLOSE OF THE POLL. B. Hawes.... Lord Chinton At the Repeal Association yesterday, the Earl of Mil town took the chair, having joined the association in ful filment of a pledge given by him to do so, " if justice was not done to Ireland." THIRD EDITION. Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—Tms D.Y. The news from here, of apprehended disturbances, sent to London by telegraph yesterday, together with the state of French financial matters, still further depressed prices there. This has been followed by a further decline here, with more sellers. The quotations of this morning's meeting of our Stock Exchange were as follow : _ _ _ Caledonias,`i9a. East Lancashire new, 62 dis. London Stock, 130 130#; new 4-shares. 21 2i pm. Sheffield Preference, dis. par. Midland Stock,.loo, i-shares, 53 dis. North Stafford, dis. Dover, No. 4, 31 3 dis. Berwick, new, tg pin. New castle l'reference, pm. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE-THIS DAY The arrivals into this port, during the week ending yesterday contain a fair supply of Wheat, 0,, nn a o , tmeal, with a moderate quantity of Flour from i 1 eland, and several narce!s of Grain coastwise; the imports from abroad, forming m• rely 9857 qrs. of Indian Corn, 5177 barrels or ,orn and 1117 barrels of Flour exclusively from the United States, having none recently in from the continent of Europe. Although we had a good attendance of buyers at this day's market, and the prices of Wheat were rather above those of Friday, they scarcely reached the currency of this day week, and the business done was only moderate. American Flour at late prices; sack Flour in rather more -Id the turn dearer. dalt, Beans, and Peas remained unvaried. slow request, and id. per 451bs. cheaper. Oatmeal late prices. orn was rather talities of white -ly supported c Teal 6d. lower request, an Barley, NI Oats in supported ian the best quo yellow near Indian Al easier t were 1 ur last :o purchase to-day, and while s. cheaper: prime qualities of quotations. tact r 5- .A cno ,P 2° X n G :40 o &Inn! Aritsrrilanp. 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. Thorn, 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 lie had of being obliged to receive parish relief. EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.—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 X 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. ' ' On Saturday evening a sumptuous banquet was given to Sir H. E. F. Young, at the Albion Tavern, Aldengate 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 ScnooL.—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 FOR A 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.--OH 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 LIFK.—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, arid 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, bo'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 LATE ROBBERY OF THE :MESSRS. BOWRING. RECOVERY or 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 Cwmnant-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 is said, to_ £6O, tied up in a Niadkerchief,. EXTENSIVE FLOODS.—During the last few days, ow ing to the very heavy rains, floods 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. HULL.—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, and 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 Sur r ey, an d other noblemen and gentlemen of rank and influence, were sworn in to act as special constables. The cattle and corn markets at Norwich were attended on Saturday by a Russian nobleman, Baron Firks, who is exceedingly interested in agricultural pursuits, with which he is la rge ly engage d f or t h e government inCour land. The baron spoke of wheat being at this time, in Russia, the same price as our own, and barley about fiT ibillipgs a gnarter March 14, IS4g, CLEANINGS FROM THE IRISH REPEAL PAPERS, seditious braggad oc i o , th e D u bli n N a ti on a nd the ti's oc h !'he two candid a t e s f or supremacy i n the utter a ,, Ti r e "..o . Irishman, continue to run a neck and neck race, anxious, apparently, to be the first to reach the t_i tio r goal, which is shrewdly suspected to be a governln secution, with the honours of martyrdom, rather ro ia what they ostensibly seek,—an opportunity of CO weapons with the loyal Protestants of their own " k h e • or with a British force. Up to the present vi, i ee : the United Irishman has had the best of it. 11 ` 9 c i t y table suggestions for gaining possession of the o p , Dublin, slaughtering the military sent against t e l le Zlitis lace, broken-b o ttli ng th e i r h orses, — a mo d e of f r ool with that useful quadrupet, 1 somewhat differen t tu rf , the " bottling " practised amongst our nw r ; C O' men,—and annoyi ng their rt4ers by salutes ° „g bf ney pieces, crock er y, c h a i rs , f en d ers, e cc . • 11u Fre fair hands f rom c h am b er windows, threw all th e vious ravings of his opponent into the shat, e 'itstife i of the Nation, h owever, is sufficiently of an iii to character to ena bl e hi m to profit by the ex,a n3r o ost sublime phrenzy set him by his o pp onen t, ana;!, 01 0 ingly, this week treads closely upon his heels. " 5 ".04 not ourselves ve n t ure t o awar d t h e pa l m o f su periors either; but shall confine ourselves to furnishing s a jj , specimens, and leave the reader to form his ovn J o ke! ment. As to the elder journalist,—lest offence b e 0 1 at the expressio n , we h a d b e tt er state, i n t h e langl l ," „,,e 0 Cassins, " we said an elder, not a better soldier• turn to Mr. Duffy's paper, the Nation, first. 1 01 1 , Under the he a d o f " th e fi rst step "— w hi c h step is evidently one towards the complete separt t the Ireland fro m th e B r iti s h emp i re — t h e Nat i on sa ys Rbil people " will meet on St. Patrick's Day to conside r steps should be ad o pt e d f or th e pro t ect i on o f the L'.o I and the soil of thi s coun t ry i n any emergenc y 15 dr I the present state of European politics may give rise; .9 t o after a volley o f i m p reca ti on aga i nst G reat B r it a in, cause of all the suff er i ngs o f I re l an d , procee d s to sts' " We believe that a NATIONAL MILITIA and a NA Coif:twit. have become essential to our v er y existence.' For what are a NATIONAL MILITIA and a NA TI°' COUNCIL wanted ? We quote again War is imminent. Hit come, England cannot holdrcic from it, whatever be her interest or her will. And he b o ttY this Irish soil, her enemies may choose to fix their , e de ground. It is their clear poli c y ; h er s t a t esmen o f old sisal' scribed this island a s th e b ac k d oor i nto E ng l an d ; an d lie mies know it is the weakest point in her cordon. rOSI ta "If they come, England cannot defend us. Her olfa„ - sj io 0 are unguarded; her colonies are held by military Pos s 'aitY and not a regiment dare she draw from them ; Chartist 001 tion, inflamed by the discontent of the Irish in England, B°ol her domestic peril nearly as formidable as the dangersoll. without. She can ill help herself ; us s h e canno t helP„ t „ie_c i And if she conk!, we dare not trust th e li ves o f our Prop r her care. After the t rag edy we h ave b een w i tness ing last two years, it would be murder in the sight of 11 "1„ - 0,t e d million of the Irish people lie buried b enea th th e Lisp cause we trust d their defence to Engl an d. Th e y dien' o iet? and famine. Another million may die defenceless a s io prr under the swords of a foreign soldiery, if we d o n ot ta ;4 0 cautions in time. The natural and only a d equa t e precast a NATIVE MILITIA, Or NATIONAL GUA RD." d i We are told how the nati v e m iliti a oug ht t o b e arn i or " Some sound militariauthorities hold that the bulk °f fir e tional militia ought to be armed simply with the pik e ' A tl 4 anus are over valued. In pitch e d b a ttl es , it i s calculaLr' s poti o i not more than o n e man f a ll s i n ever y s i x h un d re d mu sket 0 in skirmishes a still smaller proportion. But in a clif`cli t pikes, whatev er f ron t ran k h o ld s i ts ground against I"eittP Certainly our militi a o ug ht no t t o re l y exc l us i ve ly on 05, , weapon. The national gen i us , so vehement and impeton hibits itself with grea t es t e ff ect i n a charge; and f or thai vice your pike is the tool." Bravo ! " Y ay.. .our pike is the tool." Of course, ' m it for the enemies of Great Britain, " who m a y c hoose;dof the battle ground on Irish so il ;" of couyse not inei l Irish patriots for their own purposes. A t 1 We have also suggestions as to the d re s s t o be vit e llf a national militia, which is to be "very plain." No - l o so frippery" —" a frieze body coat, of a dark e ° ,o t d h o e w no organisation i ce sa n t t i o r e n . " of breeches of ticken or corduroy, a plain wool hat, brS i l or buskins of any strong leather, in one piece and IV T th h continues : d „ t.. "This is the first step ; the second follows close o°o National Assembly has been the sure resource of all si re nations. nations. Philadelphia; Paris, Dungannon are the cate r' the various a v r a m ri s o r u e s qu c i o r r e p d s a . reTdhees cirLbeedijor of its history." Again, of course, REVOLUTION is the sermon p . reael iej o o Onr journalist has been ki n d enoug h t o f ur nish 0 %01 a key to the real meaning of his various diatribes' o l osit shape of an imaginary description. of things an he j ate wish them to be, contained under the h ea d " Seceoe* tr od of the Irish Revolution." We give a few extracts this choice production : re .it e .: "Tranquillity is entirely restored. The b a rricades /b elt moved. Business begins tobe resumed universally. Bid er hernian Bank has , put up a notice on 'Change that its ni, je rr„, recommence to-morrow. Mr. William M ur phy has ten public loan of £lOO,OOO to the Provisional Government d • boot; men are everywhere employed repairing the streets an i i 0 0 ' which suffered in the insurrection. Th e l arge man sion! A If ; phen's-green last occupied by the English chancellor sis.:i i il _ A lish archbishop have been opened as hospitals for the We"; Or" and patriotic ladies attend them in little hands reliev e "oil• second hour. The orange and green cockade is worn t he sally, and no words can express the joy that prevails is fe' i pita! of our Free Nation." biatO 0 Who the Mr. Wm. Murphy may be who is thug If of sa "the second week the Irish Revolution," Nvela° pO in prospective. as ready to l e nd u p on such seeioril He must be a boiled specimen of the name (IliberniCe) implies. ' ' "u 9, 1(1 .../ We have several pleiSinetiSlts - furnished Ann , ti'' respect to the generosity with which Lord Claren` w o ol English judges, the archbishops, and other o fficials fe ee' be sent home ; some talk as to the honours to be coot psi . upon those soldiers of the line and police, vill ° o o " fraternized with the people;" at hint or two a s e onl. capacity of Messrs. O'Gorman and Meagher, to 10 0 0 into commander.in-chief and general, and some tlt t 101 the fortification of the country. The tenant rig' A m be established, and various other things to be do ne ' t bo" tan now for a piece of Blarney for the loyal protes 04 of Ireland : : ire of "Hogan, who ha s just returned to Ireland, has been a l- Oiled, by the commissioners of the fine arts, to cominenc,ekeit,P4 delay, an equestrian statue of Sarsfield; it is to be iP;;hica,:d potato kind, .6. by side, with William the Third in College Green (!) pao' the government have ordered to stand in honour of protestants in Ireland.( LP) • Uch t ended William will feel, we suspect, rather queer in s ; ten- e pany. A lot of other trash follows, which, if 1 11 . r 51, 1 1,, to be a history of what Irish nationality will do, !' va llu i• conclusive as to the fact that, by that same oa ti° ,t Ireland will have gained littl e o f common sen se. _ o de - Bnt, it may be as k e d, h ow i s t hi s new an d i n der nation to carry on its government ? Listen : b y IbiPt "It is decreed, that as the bulk of this nation live vid e nr cultural labour, it is essential to the public safety to Py a , '",4 an immediate settlement - of the tenure of land; anu,; o t is,.o mission, consisting of six tenant farmers, and six pat" t he - 4 lords, with Mr. Sharman Crawford as president, shal l ti basis of tenant-right and valuation for Ireland. fur I er,o2 absente ther directed to report up on the property 0 . yo 0 the improveable wast e land s with a view to divide tht tri " the unprovided people." —your Fitzwilliams, Devonshires, & c . We don 1 ",, of b ob A truly pleasant idea for some of your liberal 8 19 4 e b li oLe ever, envy the parties to whom the apportionln e tpat r estates in question may be entrusted. The thou" o f Ire representatives of the "ould kings" and nohlegoe, land who would have to be passed over have mor it el queer notions as to the morality of shooting an ar e atA who may, unluckily for himself, have undervalue ge claims. nd But we must turn to the United I r i s hman ti, arifi Mitchell, its editor. This gentleman, the recent ;:(4, trations of whose pen, it will be remembered, were,"„ t ; before the notice of parliament by Lord Stall u e W,„/ thought proper to address a letter to the Lord Li V .l dr o f the leading features of which are his giving the i it o est r to Lord Lansdowne, and addressing an humble req s eo be favoured with a government prosecution• r rt e tstil rility of this Mr. Mitchel is scarcely worth Voile The would-be felon tells us directly that lie is '' 9 9 lican ;" and, by implication, that he is a be r° : g le O . burthen of his raving is an attempt to Pers il ife ll o i fellow-countrymen that the insane promise o f the r i c 01 Republican provisional government, to ensure 09 0 y/er„,4 good wages for every individual,' is within th e P o 0 9- 1 the Irish revolutionists. He affords us, besides , 0 0 10 important document—a copy of the lying add re 00 from Ireland to the French government. W e t:lo extract or two from th e l a tt er ?nos / l oya l docume)o4eiot "It is now known throughout the world that we a nd. O iS. millions of our population last year by famine, fever,' rScj F . gration ; but it is not known that this famine, far o :',fler - SI I effects than the ravages of any war, was purpoag Vit rage and destroy us by the English . government, in th e tti; of extirpating our ancient name and race." for t i ; Prime encouragement this—tin excellent refor' ol gt thousands distributed by the British government c ilov nished by private charity f or th e , relief of Ir:/sh .1 Now for a sample of Irish loyalty "Citizens of Paris—Men . of France, accept our coeofwitforl Lions—accept our friendship. L e t no man , no inat t t bat,; o 4, is, or what his pretensi ons are, l ea d you to b e lieve . FfiCiff,; men are ready, for eve n th e b r ib e o f repea l , to figh , L gi p r,, T i t battles again, or shed their bl oo d to p ro p u p h er he"- swor No; men of France, no. We will let the British 1, !der or toothless jaws, erect his mane, and roar in impotent 7 , or ikti the blood-stained monster • expires —cursed by the % fi r 4 io 001 crated by mankind—ere we stain ourselves by a g i liari!otTe . under the murderous Union Jack against any. 0 , 8 „ or d er less against you, who have generously led the van 1 ." 0 , 1 "01 14 0 ; tyranny, and restoring man to hii original elevaq e e , 0 1 1,0 halting the glorious principles of.' Liberty . , e.qiish i n o r . 1 . ternity,' and showing an example to all nationa,,t" ...A . O can resist a determined people. -,- . ot VI, " Men of France—ln us you shall fi nd friends, n w e -c we hail your republic as the saviour 'of Europe, -- ,* ( l-- - ' O , the morning star of liberty, the hope of the oppress ror of tyrants—the avenger of mankind. co A 8 "Citizens, in conclusion, we again offer you our I rtte,ool Bons on your noble victory ; yet so: deeply do we fee r o t Ptf‘i Batton of our present position, ouncountry a begg i .' 'aX-..at of of every nation in Christendom, her people subind t bl d 4 to be decimated annually by st arva ti on , at the 0 011 1 0 .:0, foreigners!—the men who profess to be leaders . o ,ta! a a,',.. systematically sacrificing the' Welfare of the people t oar 4 ,4 petty, private interests ; so keenlydo 'we feel this ` a r t cliio 7 that we would not presume to congratulate the ni„T e rtv ,0 tors of Paris, could we not sincerely avow a tint' u* ~, , 0 to profit by their nobleexarnple,. , ati"d r " Frenctur en, when such a detertniloation 5y1a1,, 1 4 :, O r c d aiiimate Ireland, and Aire •dignity to her coifs' .AA A despair of the sympathy of France ?". tha t 1 9 1 ‘ il A pleasant invitation !- We fancy, however' to 1 1 will have something more important to do tba° safc•ty to aid such rebellious madmen. OPENING OF THE INEW TUTION.—On Saint David's Day the town of ei be t s r exhibited a scene of exciteme n t th a t w ill doubt';, in grateful remembrance for ages yet to eo'ijoir_ n fjj early hour the inhabitants were roused from di7 d ,i hereby merry peals of bells, and, as the rnern i ' l , l l t, the excitement increased, the shops were ', 6 ,7,4 01 01j business was suspended ; the streets were VT, COVr i inhabitants of the town and visitors frolu_, t ;rel.: 0 0 01 1;1 who were anxious to participate in the pie.: it or, day appointed for the opening; of the ap ( l'dea,/le ander the presidence of the Venerable Arc'' of:Affi late Rector of the Eninburgh Actnica: t Yito iitency *lc D,rjd acquiremvntel it ip tufmtra Ma i Ti Tri Glas GrSaAvlsoLnED lork_c o Prtha— Therega Ap t -4 lvt 41t .) 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