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PRICE 5d

IWe ask for no protection from anybody
abroad, we ask for protection from robbers at
home. What the thieves call paying an indein-
( nity, is giving up the road. But let us lay this by,
1 against the time when the landowners are begging
for removal of the bounty on foreign corn; or we
, never shall have the impudence to use the argu-
ment. But remember always, that a Govern-
ment is pitted on establishing the principle.
" There is so much in all this which smells of fraud
and force that we have little time to notice mere blun-
ders. Else, what a lecture might be written to these
ignorant writers, for the sake of their ignorant readers,
on such an axiom as is contained in the passage, ' A
heavy land-tax would not be felt by industry !' If a tax
of four shillings in the pound were assessed upon the
landowner, would he discharge no servants, domestic or
predial ? Would he and his family leave no chasm in
the industry of the cabinet-maker, the coach-maker, the
tailor, the mercer, the bookseller, and a hundred other
tradesmen, and (through them and theirs) in the in•
dustry even of the coarser manufacturers."—A.
" Blunder" in your own pocket. If you were
to propose to encourage thieves, for the sake of
the thieves' expenditure, would not you be told
directly, that the expenditure of the money by
the honest men was just as good as by the
thieves ? And so it is here. Either the Govern-
ment that expends the land-tax after it is taken,
or the honest classes who are relieved from taxa-
tion if that process is pursued, will spend the
money with just as much advantage to the rest
of the community, as if it was filtered through the
pockets of the landed thieves.
" We only doubt which is the greater villany,—to
speak aid write these things with an expectation that
they will actually do their criminal work, or to speak
and write them in the cowardly persuasion that better
men will take care they shall come to nothing."—B,
Rob Roy banning against those who will
finally put down him and his. See if you are
not ground-email, when the gods get you into I
their mill at last.
Surely, if there be truth in history which tells
us that a certain degree of rottenness has always
preluded a fall, it is impossible that a Govern-
ment whose existence is pitted on the main-
tenance of such enormities as these, can keep in
place. Anybody may see, that as arlborough
once said before an action was well begun, "They
must go off, they must go off." Let us, then,
take heart of grace, and see only to taking care
that we make a better "bob" of it, when we
" bob it again."
But there is another reason for hope and ele-
vation at this moment. The kettle which was
tied to the tail of the Charter under the title of
Chartism, has burst, and out rolled a Bubble
Company. The plan was not the rude
one for the division of lands, which the
carelessness of its preachers sometimes left
it to be taken for ; but something more
curiously unreasonable. The assertion might
seem to savour of the discoveries which
come from time to time front Ultra-Protes-
tantism in Ireland, if the evidence was not here

in print tio back it. The use to be made of poli-
tical power when it is gotten, is to be to take a
Hundred and Twenty Millions sterling of the pub-
lic money, on the slender pretext that a Parlia-
ment is to see to the division; twenty
millions are to be given to the land-
owners for the lands for which nobody
will give anything now; and the remainder is to
be served out at the rate of a hundred pounds
a-piece to the privates of the force, and they are
to pay rent and interest for this land which *ill
pay nothing, afterwards if they like. Indivi-
duals will naturally look for increased advantages
in proportion to their services; and Wliigor Tory
Commissionerships are hungry pickings, com-
pared with what may be looked for from this
job of jobs. Of course these new landowners are
to feel no interest in removing the Corn-laws;
but on the contrary, to screw them up as long as
another drop can be extracted from the national
cow. Hence the hatred with which opposition
to the Corn-laws has been received by the ex-
pectants.

For this plan, comparable to nothing but one
for taking the public money to buy the rotten
herrings which the present fishermen can make
no use of, commercial and manufacturing industry
is to be stopped by law, and a Chartist-made
famine inflicted upon all except those who
are living on the strength of their hundred
pounds. For this the labourers were taken
under the
._musquets of the soldiers at Newport
and left there, and the good sense of the work-
ing classes diverted from the finest opportunity
ever presented them of raising themselves in
political importance. The han of the land-
owners is visible in the whole. The plan
is not for advancing the Charter, but for making
any advance towards the Charter impossible ;
' you may tell it to the marines, but the
sailors will never believe you. Not that the
landowners absolutely calculated on setting up
their new allies in power, though at the
worst, twenty millions for their unsaleable
lands was not so bad. But portions of the
working men were to be encouraged to play
"lower orders" for the aristocracy's benefit, and,
like the negro of the American stage, dis-
play the character in , every light which
could be opposed to the emancipation
of their class. They were to make everybody
their enemies, and themselves ridiculous in the
doing. They were to exhibit the grotesque spec-
tacle of men exclaiming against class-legisla-
tion," and proceeding to demand one of their
own, the first step of which was to be to
take a hundred and twenty millions from
a struggling public, by a bolder sweep than
has ever been attempted by any class but
one. Theyiwere set upon working over again all
the exploded fallacies of the landowners, and
adding new ones of their own, discreditable equally
to the intellect and to the virtue of the working
classes whose name they were to take. But
while they were thus driven against the stone
wall of every man's enmity and every man's
interests, they were to perform the service to
their lords and masters, of staving off the de-
molition of the system of monopolies by which
the oppressive aristocracy support themselves
upon the public. They might have gone
on longer if they would have let other
people alone; but when they apply foul
terms to men for daring to preach anything but
this which they never have consented to nor un-
derstood, they force inquiry into the basis of
their Rotten Herring Company. The Charter
for ever; but down with the scheme for sack-

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27 .
This Almanack, in its humourous embellish-
ments, is the ne plus ultra of grotesque extrava-
gance. Throughout, George Cruikshank show
that his powers of comic illustration are unim-
paired , and—to use the language of Peter Pas-
toral—that he is still "as fresh as a daisy." The
work appears just at the right season, when all
grave, harsh thoughts of business are for awhile
hid aside, and people are hungering and thirst-
ing for opportunities of laughter. To enter into
any minute, serious notice of the' Comic Alma-
nack" is absurd, for who can criticize a broad
grin ? Enough to state that those who have a.
gratified to
theirtaste forile heart's
fca(cet ttieoun
content
wlivl le herem iii
jbuest briefly hint
at a few of the leading embellishments, and then
make its
represents
its own Niay with the'
illeuabvleic.th,e,
07errthek to nad
andl
a party of Bacchanals who ar
a lean, pensive scholar, noise over their cups, making an awful
poetical turn of phi?, infinitely ley to the disgust of
a meditative and
pursue his solitary ' • • - tl.
appears in studies, in the room mime i.
ately beneath. What ' -
Who is endeavouring to
though, an air of sullen resigna-
tionscholar !ti e countenance of
is
th ' the helpless
lug, so re-' •
resigns himself to inexorable circum-
stances;e sees that remonstrance
indig-
nantunavail-
Briton, he condemns the eyes of his drunken
in 'the true
disturbers to perdition, as spirit of an
is very plainly evi-
denced in his countenance. " Ringing a Belle"
shows a marriae party, standing at the altar,
the two leading members of which are about
to he converted, by the mysterious inter-
Position of the parson) into one flesh. The
bride is crying, of course—for all English
brides make a point of crying, God knows
why or wherefore !—and the countenance of
the officiating priest is lit up, as is natural, by a
lively anticipation of his fee. As for the bride-
groom, lie looks the fae simile of an ass, and
stands bolt upright in his new tights, just as if he
had swallowed a ramrod, which had not yet di-
gested. The scene is replete with sterling comic
humour. lii the plate entitled " Valour and
Discretion" we see a squadron of those brave and.
chivalrous warriors, the city train-bands, march-,
ing figth to battle against an enemy, who, how.
ever, making his appearance somewhat unex.-
pectedly, the valorous Cits run off the field with
marvellous rapidity, as if they were so many
lawyers flying from the hot pursuit of Satan.
There are several other embellishments, but
those which we have noticed are the cleverest,
and are accompanied by lively literary expla-
nations.

ing a hundred and twenty millions of the public
money to begin with.
For this advance, the Giver be praised. It is
another step towards the movement sensible
men contemplate.—Yours very sincerely,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, Dec. :25, 1841.

LITERATURE.
NOTES OF A HALF-PAY IN SEARCH OF
HEALTH. 2 Vol.. Aftuiden, London. 1841.
The author of these volumes, though he shows
himself to be a bustling traveller, having wan-
dered through Circassia and Crimea, and
made
his way into the interior of Russia, yet adds little
to our stock of available knowledge of these
countries, for Spencer, Bell, Longworth, Itaikes,
and a host of other travellers who have recently
produced works on the subject, have exhausted
nearly all that could be said respecting the do-
mestic habits and military tactics of the high-
spirited Circassian tribes, the manners of the
Crimean chiefs and peasantry, and the social
peculiarities exhibited at Moscow and St. Peters-
burgh. The utmost that can be said in praise
of these volumes, is that they are neither heavy
nor prolix, but read off lightly and pleasantly
enough, though they contain scarcely one single
fact likely to impress itself' on the reader's re-
Collection. Perhaps the most useful portion of
them is that wherein the author describes the
character and hardships of the Russian army,
though even on this subject we have been already
supplied With copious infornmtion, in a work on
Russia, that was noticed at length some months
ago in The Sun. All travellers, whether friendly or
otherwise to the military system pursued with
such undeviating strictness by Nicholas, seem to
be agreed on the fact that nothing. can surpass
the oppression and uniform discomfort to which
the Russian soldier's life is subjected. His
pay is but three-quarters of a farthing
per diem, out of which he is actually obliged to
buy his own blacking, and candle with which to
grease his moustachios! When employed on
public works, he is supposed to receive about
threepence-Wfpenny; but he gets very litt'e of
this; and even after he is superannuated, he re-
ceives no pension on discharge. His food is of
the coarsest and cheapest kind, usually peas,
salt cucamber, water-melons, buck-wheat, rape-
oil, and black bread. Discipline is kept up by
extreme measures, and the cane is used at plea-
sure. " I once saw a captain," says our author,
" inspecting his guard near the quarantine at
Odessa, strike one of his men a blow on the
face with his fist, and seizing him by both his
ears, shake him until he pulled him out of the
ranks; the man's cap then fell off, and the officer
ordering a corporal to pick it up, jamlied it
down on his head with another blow. The whole.
system is carried on in the same tyrannical mid'
overbearing manner. The Russian soldier mesis
with very little kindness or consideration to
soften the misery of being imperatively drivel
into the service." One cannot wonder, after
reading an account like this, that the ranks of
the army are considered by every Russian, high
or low, as the Ultima Thule—the tie plus ultra
of hardships and degradation. Of Russian hos-
pitality, of which we have lately heard so much,
we are told that the accounts are greatly ex-
aggerated. The generality of the higher classes
are not hospitable in the real sense of the word;
but show attention to strangers, more with a view
to their own amusement, or to show off their own
importance by patronizing them, than from any
kind feeling. We close our notice by the author's
remarks on this subject :
Shortly after my arrival at Odessa, a large public din-
ner was given in honour of the marriage of the Grand
Duchess Marie. I mentioned to a Russian acquaintance
that I intended going, when he told me, that in compli-
ment to the occasion, I ought to appear in uniform ; I
did so, but though the military governor, Count T., ten
general officers, and a numerous staff, were present, I
found that, neither from motives of ordinary civility toa
stranger nor any " esprit de corps," as military men, did
they show me any more courtesy than if I had been lost
amongst the crowd in plain clothes ; on the contrary, I
was left to find a place for myself at a side table ; this
was the more surprising, as I was known to the Count,
who, on entering the room, had condescended to stop as
he passed to ask me for the English receipt for making
ginger beer!!! Such incidents come in amusing con-
trast with the descriptions I had received from my Rus-
sian friends in Italy of the urbanity and hospitality of.
their countrymen towards foreigners, and their partiality
for the English.

A letter cif introduction, as in any other country, will
procure the stranger a dinner, and, as there are no inns
in the steppe, a bed also, if he has an invitation to any
house on the track ; but it is quite a mistake to suppose
that Russian hospitality exceeds that of any other nation,
or that it proceeds from the same motives. A lion will
alws find keepers ; but if the traveller be an unpre-
tending individual, he will not only be unnoticed, but,
from the want of protection, be subject to frequent an-
noyances, in the public offices snore particularly. The
acquaintance, therefore, of some person holding a high'
official station is absolutely necessary to ensure it, for it
is certain to be required in a few monthS', perhaps even
a few weeks', residence.

Hospitality, so called, is exercised according to the
eclat which it produces. General L. N. is a striking ex-
ample of this fact, and, from the contradictory points in
his character, is by no means a singular specimen of a
Russian noble. Though immensely rich, he sees no one
at his table, and will go the round of all the tailors in
the town to cheapen a waistcoat ; but when the whim
takes him his conduct is marked by unbounded prodi-
gality. A company of French players came to Odessa
❑nder the management of an "aneienne tunic of the
General's; the whole corps were entertained during their
fortnight's quarantine at his expense ; a band serenaded
them every evening, and his carriages were sent to the
Lazaret to convey them to their hotel at the expiration
of their imprisonment. This freak could not have cost
him less than twenty thousand roubles. His speculations,
for they must gamble in some way or other, are nume-
rous, and wholly devoid of common sense ; one day he
buys a schooner of thirty tons, fir built, and a most
wretched craft ; he is then a merchant, and has a ship,
"it est dans le commerce." A few months after he has
some excellent.scheme for exporting hareskins, or rags ;
then comes a sugar refinery, or a factory for stearine can-
dies or cloth. He has racers that never win, wears ear-
rings, and keeps a mesmerizer, who invariably atteirds
the General when he is bilious. This beuistone was onto
a non-commissioned officer in the Piedmontese army, but-
finding it safer and more profitable to kill by magnegsm
than the sword, he has taken to this profession, and be-
tween his patron and his aunt, picks up a good income.
The lady was, in early life, the mistress of Alexander,
and had great personal attractions ; she is now fat and
a devotee.

AN ADVENTURE.—A Frenchman, originarfe
of the name of Seves, began his career in the Fr. . I
navy, and thence changed to the artillery, where'., - tar
tained the rank of captain. Being with Bonapatu.7' 2 01)(
Moscow expedition he was taken notice of by N in tke
received from him an appointment as one of his ey, and.
camp. In the "hundred days" he served alt• aides-de-
aide-de-camp to Grouchy and to Ney. Du. ernatcly as-
twibere he was em-
sequent imprisonment of the latter he we, p croisn:tbedhe.sulbie-.
an attempt for the Marechal's escape, ar
vestiontion, became included amongst t..,_.d, avoiding in-
pricorEeststrinogpealniasso...
111:,istghaelfine:tirnegeelivieedherheetili rankof
in-
passed almost immediately into Egy (An!
aftle'rf:a-rd-;,
ployed by the Paella in organisir „,..,
on
tem, a body of Marnelnkes.
(B!aemy,pagiaglnnedo,fittlit:
saMiodr,ebay
occasions, and SOW time conduct on several,
metanisni, was on the sit.iae day- created Paeha.—Hui
Expedition to Syria, der's
The Chanctlin bf the Exchequer,
by the Hop, J. be,w, MX , left accoripanied
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at lft wort; yfo_
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