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      LOVE EACH OTHER . Oh ! that men would lore each other , With a spirit earnest , real : And would look on man as brother , Seeking out Ma lasting weal . Were men kind no more would sadness Leave its gloop upon the brow ; But a Boring of joy and gladness Would each kindred heart o ' erflow .

      Lore brings rest unto the weary , Healing up each spirit-wound ; Bring ing sunshine to the dreary , Breathing sweetness all around . Love can make life ' s ills more even , — Places in the human breast , A Bweetantepast of Heaven , — Making man so richly bleBt ! Bitter words wonld ne ' er be spoken , Strife wonld soon from earth remove , And hearts never would be broken , If mankind would only love ! Men should dwell in love , uniting Hand in hand , and heart with heart ; In each others good delighting—Fellowship willioy impart .

      Oh ! that men wonld love each other , And that man conld feel like man ; For if man lov'd man as brother , Earth wonld Eden soon regain ! Sheffield , Feb . 24 th . John Book

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      History of the American Revolution . By GEOBGE Bancroft . Vol . I . London : Bentley . Mb . Bancroft has established an undisputed superiority as the historian of the United States . In thought and feeling he is thoroughly American ; while , at the same time , his work is pervaded by a cosmopolitan feeling , which results from the cultivation of an enlarged knowledge and genial sympathy with the history and the straggles of our common race . As befits the narrator of the progress of anew

      community , his style is adapted to the nature of the incidents related , and without ceasing to be strictly historical and accurate , Bwells into something like the dignity and the feeling of the epic poem . The influence of the vast lakes and wild savannahs , the mountains and prairies of the great continent , is vividly felt in every page , and coloured by the light reflected from a richly stored mind and fine imagination , the dullest incidents become pictorial , and full of dramatic effects .

      The new volume just issued is , however , wrongly named . It purports to be Vol . I . of a new book ; whereas , it is in reality , the fourth volume of his * History of the United States . ' It commences with a brief review of the state of affair * in 1748—the point at which his former volume left ' off—and then carries on . the narrative to 1763 , two years before the first stamp act was passed , and twelve years before the war actually broke out . In reality , therefore , the history , so far as it has gone , is not a history either

      of the Revolution , or of the United State 3 , but of the Colonies which afterwards rebelled , and were formed into United States , and traces the incidents -which led to thatresulfc . The inaccuracy of the titlefor which , perhaps , Mr . Bancroft is not responsibledoes not , however , affect the work . His volumes have been pronounced by all those best entitled to pronounce a judgment , to be remarkable for the amplitude and accuracy of their references , and for the conscientious care with which the most obscure and recondite authorities had been verified .

      From a work like this , it is evident that our space will not permit as to take more than a mere sample . In making a selection , we present a complete storyone of the numerous instances in which the rule of Great Britain in other countries has been marked by the greatest disregard of all justice and humanity , and which , there is reason to fear , mayyet be tracked by an avenging Nemesis . With nations as with individuals , evil doing entails retrioution . This illustration of British rule is the story of the unhappy people of Acadia , onexrf the north eastern of the English settlements . Mr . Bancroft presents us with a graphic and touching description of the virtues and the happiness of this obscure people , before Engliah policy converted their simple annals into a dark and painful tragedy , which may well takeits place beside the massacre of Glencoe .

      Mter repeated conquests and restorations , the treaty of Utrecht conceded Acadia , or Nova Scotia , to Great Britain , let tue name of Annapolis , the presence of a feeble English garrison , and the emigration of hardl y five or six Englishfamuies , were nearl y aUthatmarked the supremacy , of England . The old inhabitants remained on the soil which they has subdued , hardly conscious that they had changed then- soverei gn . They still loved the language and the Usages of their forefathers , and their religion was graven upon their souls . They promised submission to England ; bat such was the love with which Franco had inspired them , they would not fight against its standard or renounce

      us name . Tbongh conquered , they were French neutrals . For neawy forty years from the peace of Utrecht they Lad been forgotten or neglected , and had prospered in their seclusion . So tax gatherer counted their folds—no magistrate dwelt in their hamlets . The parish priest made their ittords and regulated their successions . Their little dis putea were settled among themselves , with scarcely an instance of an appeal to English authority at Annapolis , inepastures were coTere d with their herds and flocks : and dikes , raised by extraordinary efforts of social industry , shut out the nvers and the tide from alluvial marshes of exuberant fertility . The meadows , thus reclaimed , were covered thenchest

      by grasses , orfields of wheat , thatyielded fifty and thirty fold at the harvest . Their houses were built in clusters neatly constructed and comfortably furnished , and around them all kinds of domestic fowls abounded . With the spinning-wheel and the loom , their women made , Of flax from their own fidds ,- of fleeces from their oto i « ° ^ ' - * " £ ¦?¦ but 6 nffic « ent clothing . The few foreign !^ aMC 3 T - J rerecoTetedcouW » e obtained from Annapolis or Lomsburg , in return for furs , or wheat , or cattle . th ^ hlT * heA ^} an happy in their neutrality , and in ThPvff T - » Ch they drew from their native land . wprJnf I med f t were . one great family . Their morals to fl . 2 ^? affec * P nritF- I * w w aa sanctified and calmed oytne universal custom of earl y marriages . The neigh-Hours of the community would assist the new « . ™ i » ?/ .

      raise tneir cottage , while the wilderness offered land . Their SSJ ^ i" ** " ^ . which had begun on ? tnVfnVSr * " ?!! » company , with a monopoly of The transfer of this colony from French to English rule could not fail to be productive of some untoward results . The native priests feared the introduction among them of heretical opinions—the British officers treated the people with insolent contempt . * Their papers and records , ' says our historian , ' were taken from them' by their new masters : — Was their property demanded for the public service 1 " ttwyxrerenotto be bargained witn for the Davment' *

      The order may still be ; read on tie Council records at Halifax . They must comply , it was written , without making any terms " immediately , " or " the next courier would bring an order for military execution upon the delinquents . " And when they delayed in fetching firewood for their oppressors , it was ' told them from the governor , " If they do not do it in proper time , the soldiers shall absjwtel y take their houses for fuel . " The nnoffendin" sufferers submitted meekly to the tyranny . Under pretence o « . earing that they might rise in behalf of France , or seek snelter m Canada , or convey provisions to the French garrisons , they were ordered to surrender their boats and their nre-arma ; and , conscious of innoc jnce , they gave up their o-irges and their muskets , leaving themselves without the means of flight , and defenceless . Further orders were auerwards given to the English officers , if the Acadians Behaved amiss to punish them at discretion : if the troons

      were annoyed , to inflict vengeance on the nearest , whether KrXth /' ^ " ^" aD Cje fW aD ey ° ^ There is no reason to believe that these atrocious orders were not executed in the spirit in which they aad been conceived . But worse remained to come : — The Acadians cowered before their masters , hoping forpearance ; willing to take an oath of fealty to England ; ' uiueir single mindedness and sincerity refusing to pledge tnemselves to bear arms against France . The English Z , maste of the sea , were undisputed lords of the sinnv * COttld exerci 8 e clemency without apprehen-™ . JOt a whisper gave a warning of their purpose till Tin ,, ripe for execution . But it had been " determined that . u « r the ancient device of Oriential despotism , ' « at the French inhabitants of Acadia should be carried * ay into captivity to other Darts of the British Hnminions .

      th » , France remembered the descendants of her sons in » ~ noar of their affictipn , and asked that they might have lftj ; remove from the peninsula with their effects , BrirtJ ?!?* lands to the English ; but the answer of the f ^^ iater claimed them as useful subjects , and re-Qf Mi the liberty of transmigration . The inhabitants Britilsfc « s and the adJM » nt country pleaded with the Worn ; - oaicers f <* therestitutionoftheirboatsandtheirguna ij ^ g fidelity , if they could but retain their liberties , ena . !* , , StDat n the want of arms , but their consoi-^ Should engage them not to revolt . " The memorial , " ^ d insnf ^ ' ® , ! COO » e » l » "« ^ ' 6 % arrogant , insiduous , sufamigdi , £ ^ memorialists , at his summons , came « ff Dmri - Sdife * - " Yon want your canoes for carryknawTr B 8 to the enemy ; " said he to them , though he * » o enemy was left in their Ticinity . Guns are no

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      , of JO" goods , " he continued , « n by the laws of England all Roman Catholics are restrained from having arms , and are sub ject to penalties , if arms are found in their houses . It is not the language of British subjects to talk of termB with the Crown , or capitulate about their fidelity and allegiance . What excuse can you make for your presumption in treating this government with Buch indignity si to expound to them the nature of fidelity ? Manifest your obedienoe by immediately taking the oaths of allegiance in the common form before the Council . " The deputies replied that they wonld do as the generality of the in-WOltants should determine ; and they merely entreated leave to retura home and consult the body of their people . The next day , the unhappy men , foreseeing the sorrows that menaced them , offered to swear allegiance Mooaditionally . J . __« . _* « ¦ • . _ ' _

      But it was now too late . The savage purpose had heen formed . That the cruelty might have no excuse , it happened that while the scheme was under discussion letters arrived leaving no doubt that all the shores of the Bay of Fund y were in the possession of the British . It only remained to be fixed how the exportation should be effected . ' To hunt them into the net was impracticable , artifice was therefore resorted to . By a general proclamation , on one and the same day , the scarcel y oonscious victims , " both old men and young men , as weu aB all the lads of ten years of age , ware peremptorily ordered to assemble at their respective posts . On the appointed 5 th of September , they obeyed . At Grand Pr 6 , for example , 418 nnarmed men came together . They were marched into the

      church , and its avenues were closed , when Winslow , the American Commander , placed himself in their centre , and spoke :-- " You are convened together to manifest to you His Majesty s final resolution to the French inhabitants of this nut province . Tour lands and tenements , cattle of all kinds , and live stock of all sorts , are forfeited to the Crown , and you yourselves are to be removed from this his province . I am , through His Majesty ' s goodness , directed to allow you liberty to carry off your money and household goods , an many as you can , without discommoding the vessels you go in . " And he then declared them the Bang ' s prisoner . Their wives and families shared their lot : their sons , 527 in number , their daughters , 576 ; in the whole , women and babes and old men and children all included , 1 , 923 souls . The blow was sudden : they had left home

      but for the morning , and they never were to return . Their cattle were to stay unfed in the stalls , their fires to die out on their hearths . They had for that first day even no food for themselves or their children , and were compelled to beg for bread . The 10 th of September was the day for the embarkation of a part of the exiles . They were drawn up six deep , and the young men ; 161 in number , were ordered to march first on board the vessel . They could leave their farms and cottages , the shady rocks on which they had reclined , their herds and their garners ; but nature yearned within them , and they would not be separated from their parents . Yet of what avail was the frenzied despair of the unarmed youth ? They had not one weapon ; the bayonet drove them to obey : and they marched slowly and heavily from the chapel to the shore , between women and

      children , who , kneeling , prayed for blessings on their heads , they themselves , weeping , and praying , and singing hymns . The seniors went next ; the wives and children must wait till other transport vessels arrived . The delay had its horrors . The wretched people left behind were kept together near Ihe sea , without proper food or raiment , or shelter , till other ships came to take them away ; and December with its appalling cold had struck the shiverieg , half-clad , broken-hearted sufferers before the last of them were removed . "The embarkation of the inhabitants goes on but slowly , " wrote Monckton , from Fort Cumberland , near which he had burned three hamlets , "the most part of the wives of the men we have prisoners are gone off with their children , in hopes I would not send off their husbands withoutthem . " Their hope wasvain . Near AnnaDOlJs .

      ahundred heads of families fled to the woods , and a party was detached on the hunt to bring them in . " Our soldiers hate them , " wrote an officer on this occasion , "and if they can but finda pretext to kill them , they will . " Did a prisoner seek to escape ? He was shot down by the sentinel . Yet some fled to Quebec ; more than 3 , 000 had withdrawn to Miramichi , and the region south of the Eistigouche ; some found rest on the banks of the St . John ' s and its branches ; some found a lair in their native forests ; some were charitably sheltered from the English in the wigwams of the savages . But 7 , 000 of these banished people were driven on board ships , and scattered among the English colonies , from New Hampshire to Georgia alone ; 1 , 020 to South Carolina alone . They were cast ashore without resources : hatmg the poornouse as a shelter for their offspring , and abhorring the thought of selling themselves as labourers . Households , too , were separated ; the colonial newspapers

      contained advertisements of members of families seeking their companions , of sobs anxioug to reach and relieve their parents , of mothers mourning for their children . The wanderers sighed for their native country ; but , to prevent their return , their villages , from Annapolis to the isthmus , were laid waste . Their old homes were but ruins . Iu the district of Minas , for instance , 250 of their houses , and more than as many barns , were consumed . The live stock which belonged to them , consisting of great numbers of horned cattle , hogs , sheep , and horses , were seized as spoils , and disposed of by the English officials . A beautiful and fertile tract of country was reduced to & solitude . , There was none left round the ashes of the cottages of the Acadians but the faitful watch-dog , vainly seeking the hands that fed him . Thickets of forest-trees choked their orchards ; the ocean broko over their neglected dikes , and desolated their meadows . *

      Nor were the . woes of this ill-treated people ended . — Relentless misfortune pursued the exiles wherever they fled . Those sent to Georgia , drawn by a love for the spot where they were born as strong as that of the captive Jews , who wept by the Bide Of the river 3 of Bab ylon for their own temple and land , escaped to sea in boats , and went coasting from harbour to harbonr ; but when they had reached New England , just as they would have set sail for their native fields , they were stopped hy orders from Nova Scotia . Those who dwelt on the St . John ' s were torn once

      more from sheir new homes . When Canada surrendered , hatred with its worst venom pursued the 1 , 500 who remained south of the Ristigouche . Once more those who dwelt in Pennsylvania presented a humble petition to the Earl of Loudoun , then the British Commander-in-chief in America ; and the cold-hearted peer , offended that the prayer was made in French , seized their five principal men , who in their own land had been persons of dignity and substance , and shipped them to England , with a request that they might be kept from ever again becoming troublesome by being consigned to service as common sailors on board ships of war .

      Well may Mr . Bancroft say : — ' I know not if the annals of the human race keep the records of wounds so wantonl y inflicted , so bitter and so perennial aa fell upon the French inhabitants of Acadia .

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      A Letter on the Defence of England by Corps of Volunteers and Militia . By Sir C . J . Kapieb , Lieutenant-General , &c . London : Moxon . At a time when so many people are babbling , ' not of ' green fields , ' but of 'invasion and n ational defences , ' our readers may like to know what the straightforward and plain-spoken conqueror of Scinde has to say on these questions . His Letter' is nominally addressed to members of parliament , but really to the of the

      gentry country at large . Without discussing any political or general questions , the old General assumes at starting , that there may he an invasion ; and then , leaving the regulation of the army to the Commander-in- Chief , he proceeds to discuss the dress , the arms , the instruction , and the tactics fit for Volunteers—a far preferable body to Militia , whether local or general , in case of the landing oi an enemy . It is needless to sav to those at all acauaintpd « irt

      the vigorous and slashing style of the late Coromander-m-chief of the Indian army , that there is no oeatirjg about the bnsh , or striving after « fine writing , ' in his racy pamphlet . He speaks with the authority of a practical soldier ; and if we are ever reduced to the stern necessity , the supposition of which has called forth his ' Letter , ' perhaps we could surrender ourselves to no more trustworth y guide . As to dress , while the General clingsto the red coat for the soldiers ' the Volunteers may be clad as they like ; their own "shooting jackets and leathern gaiters" will

      be the best . The old warrior also adheres to the musket and bayonet for the soldier . -and for still betterreasons than retaining the scarlet . The Volunteers , again may use what weapon they are most ™ S ? L 77 f Ij * " *** " * " that it carriTa musMoalh ior there must not be two sizes of ball fortfie small arms of the army . This is imperaorS ^^ Jff ^ ATj ^ jai * 2 s r pany consisting of one hundred mfTtul * each cora " U two lieutenants ; Sf uS ^ y ^ V ^ Sk man carry two small cartrid geSs ' 2 s ? J * . LfS

      a girdle round tne waist , ho that one mav W . r 7 ; = jT rZL a ^ sasaarfss Get some old soldier for your adiutant ?« + n , « K ««„ not a long course of drill , but jusSkinJ ' " viz 1 ° ' 1 . To face right and left by word of command ' 2 . To march in line and in column 3 . To wan * and daw files as light infantrv , with'W port $ " '' r i . To change front in extended and in dose order 5 . To relieve the skirmishers . orae . 6 . To form solid squares and « rallying iq mm . " 1 . To form an advanced guard . * *"""*• These seven things are all that you reoute ; do not lei any one perBuaoe yon to learn more . .

      Letyour practice at a target be conttant Also habituate your corps to take long marches of from fifteen to twenty miles , with your arms and ammunition on ; and also in running , or what is called " double quick time . " TheBe

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      must be arrived at by gradually increasing from small dis . tances . No single man , much less a body of men can make these exertions without training . Also suba ' crine for premiums te those who are the best shots DovK exclusive in forming your corps ; take your gamekeepers as your comrades , and any of your labourers tha ? S enrol themselves : a gentleman will find no braver or better comrades than among his own immediate neighbour * and tenants . Should you require to throw up ? K 2 E work , they will be more handy with the spades and nick axes than yourselves .. " ywn-Sir Charles has evidentl y no sympath y with the snobbishness of exclusive Stock Exchange or middle class rifle clubs . Here are the old veteran ' s instructions for volunteer tactics : — Well , suppose an invading army landed : it would be opposed , in whatever way the Duke deemed proper with the regular troops , ready and eager , in onta V > f Wn "

      —where , when , and how , it is not for me to discuss hi f we can suppose the regular army aSBembled to encounter the enemy , he being armed with " minie rifles" <«« mit « rifles , " and " revolving rifles , " and the Devil knowsS terrible weapons ; and our soldiers armed , as of old with the long tried muskets and bavonets ; the Duke at S head , the eneny in front , and firing with as yetuuwJ min « rifles at two miles' distance , and we , I WDnoaB ^ K lying down bebind ' any little rise of the ground " or wffij bank , their long balls whizzing harmless over ! our heads ' while our now called useless artillery would I thinT ti J out a way to make the minie riflemen unsteady and « n »; r fortable as they came on . ' ° y and uncom " Well , there we lie till they come oloser ; and wh « n m « 0 O enough , and a good deal of their ammunition SSd then the Duke would begin business . Now youVeXZ not being drilled to this sort of work , wouldI be iffi ^?

      , you would come into it after a while , but at jbnyaawnSii be in the way . « Then , where should we ber ^ you » , 1 ask . Why . far away , clear of the regular troops , and S ting round on the enemy ' s flanks and rear , to be sufe " your men in swarms , creeping as close to him 58 evervnu Oau , hiding in ditches , behind banks , riaing grounds wLrt ? 40 .. 60 that his artillery could not ' do ymfTg LuSh ft as ours could do his minie men ; beoauge you need not ™ - twice , his must ,, while you were pitching your shot into his columns : yon have mime rifles , you know , as well as he & « " 1 ? d those among you who have onl y nwfcotB would just get closer to him , that ' s all ; and , as •« Punch " has no well expressed it in his " Sharpshooters' Chorus , " Up trees , behind hedges , ' mid rushes and sedges From thickets , and brakes , from church . tower and houBe-toD Let each hand he ready , determined , and steady Unerring of aim , at invaders to pop ,

      The enemy must all the while , as I have said , keep movmg on towards the Duke , who waits for him very patiently in one of those terrible positions of his , against which his enemies have a hundred times broken their heads The enemy must move on-he is an invader ; he cannot sit down and do nothing ; he is like the man in « The New J ale of a Tub . Mustn't stop to eat ! mustn't stop to weep ! Mustn't stop to drink ! mustn't stop to sleep ! No cry ! a o laugh ! n i reat ! no grub ! &c , &e » He mm keep continuall y marching and fighting . If he halts to drive you off , you retire , seldom meeting him in close fight , but always ping athim he cannot catch you he goes back-tfi «» again you follow him up as he advances against the regular army , you keeoin * an ino «* » nt « ,. ;„ ,.

      mto his back ; hundreds will fall under your galling and unerring aim-his hospital increases-he must leave guards : you are in vast numbers , a few thousands of you close and then you may occasionall y rush , in overwhelming numbers , upon these guards , make them prisoners , and be off again out of reach . His convoys , too , are coming up ; you gather upon and destroy them , carrying off his food and ammunition . His columns will send out detachments to plunder ; they are weak and wearied , for you , dividing yourselves m watches , as the sailors say , keep up your sbarp-shooting night and day ; some resting and feeding

      wuueoinersngnt , lor you must take advantage of your vast numbers . The enemy gets no rest . If fie despises you and moves on , merely sending a few skirmishers to keep you off , you gather in closer and thicker , and your fire becomes more terrible ; his skirmishers gave way , his celumn is forced to halt , and send a large force acainst you , —you are off ! Again , other portions of you take charge of our own convoys ; and finally , should the Duke think it expedient to fight in an intrenched position , you would , at his command , pour into intrenohments where no manceurerinie is required—nothing but courage ; and there you would be as good as any regular soldiers , for you would have only to shoot down the enemy as he oxtne on , or knock the brains out of any that got over vnnr intrench .

      ments ! Then , again , if his men straggled on his march , you would shoot them or make them all prisoners , and every hour you would become more expert and more daring . In short , you would leave the regular soldiers nothing to do but the one stern job of figa ing the battle ; and a very tou ^ h one it would be , without doubt . But England and her young Queen would be in the soldiers' hearts , the very victorious Duke at their head ; and the second edition of Waterloo would , if possible , be greater than the first I ¦ Sir Charles , it will be seen , knows what he is writing about . War is no holiday pastime with him ; and , in the subjoined instructions , there is still more of this practical spirit shown , as well as a carefulness about property , and an anxiety to prevent unnecessary waste , characteristic of the « old soldier ' : —

      I now come to the fourth subjeofc on which you should support the efforts of government ; and that is to register all your means , such as spades , pickaxes , felling axes , barrows , carts , horses , in every town and village ; so that , should an invasion happen , and the Duke orders such and such positions to be intrenched , the engineer officer might find every magistrate at his post , with a written report of how many tools of each kind he could supply , how many workmen , and in how many minutes or hours they could be collected ; though , in such details , to count by hours would not do when it is possible to effect matters in minutes ; therefore should matters be prepared . Those positions stiould also be secretly made knowu to magistrates as early as the Duko thinks it proper so far to divulge them , that the proprietors of neighbouring woods may mark the trees they could best spare to be cut down for abatis , instead of their timber being hewn in haste and at random , making unnecessary waste without any immediate advantage to the

      pnuiic , ana even great loss ; for confusion is always extravagant in war , as in all things else ; in war it produces loss of life and loss of time ; the economy of both , during a campaign , being among the most important means of securing victory . b With such preparations in their memorandum-books , magistrates would throng round the Engineer officer , like so mauy staff-officers ; and each , receiving his orders , would in the shortest possible time collect men and tools in masses , and , on the points designated , abatis would be formed , and parapets be thrown up like magic . If the « Prince President' ever does venture upon an invasion , it is pretty clear that he will have a hot reception .

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      Loss op a Tine Brig and Nine Hands —Messrs . Peacock and Elliott , of North Shields , received information on the 20 ' . h inst . by letter from the only one of the crew saved of the total loss of the Providence brig , betonging to them , with the master and hands . The Providence was ooming from Liverpool laden with salt , and nn the previous Thursday morning had got off the Durham coast , when sh « was overtaken by a severe gale of wiud . Finding it impossible to get into the Sunderland Roads , he ran for the Tees , and at twelve o ' clock at noon , while attempting to enter that estuary , the vessel struck on the bar , and unshipped her rudder , which left her quite unmanageable ; in half an hour the sea hart blown up the decks , which , obliged the crew to take to the rigging . They had not long been there when the master was washed into the sea and was drowned . The vessel then began to roll over , and a tug steamer came down tthe assistance

      o of the distressed msrinera . the men on board the steamer attempted to throw a line to the Beamen on the rigging , but from the violence of the storm thsy were unable , to catch it , and the boat was obliged to leave * them in their sad predicament . By three o ' clock the vessel had rolled over snd immersed the poor fellows that clung to the rigging in the sea . Four of the seamen and an apprentice lad , of the name of Robert Large , got into the main tosi , where they remained until another steamboat came to their assistance . Large crawled along the rigging , and was able to jay hold of a liae thrown to him from the boat . He fastened it round his body , and was hauled through the sea on to her deck . The other four poor fellows were drowned . The lad was taken to Middlesborough and properly attended to . The name of the master lost is M'Lean . The other portion of the crew were shipped at Liverpool , snd their names are unknown to the owners .

      Collision in the Channbl . —Brighton . —On Saturday last , soon after daybreak , the crew of a fishing-boat , the James and Harriet , belonging to Mr . W . Tattersall , of Brighton , while mackerel-catching , discovered a vessel of 160 tons burden , lying on her beam-ends , and apparently deserted . SheVoved to be the Adela , laden with between 300 and 400 casks of wine and 100 pieces of brandy , and she had on board the regular ship ' s papers and a considerable sum of money . She had evidently come into collision with another vessel , which ran into her with great violence amidships , and ripped up four or five planks . Mr . Tatteraall , the owner of the boat , leaving another of his boats with the

      vessel , at once made for Shoreham-harbour , and engaged the assistance of the harbour steam-tug . On returning in the tug to the vessel , he found her in possession of the revenue cutter Active and a trader . The commander of tho Active had taken the papers and the cash ; and the whole of the salvors assisted in towing the derelict vessel into the harbour at Newhaven . The finding of two vessels abandoned at once is a most unusual thing here ; but on Sunday morning some boats belonging to Mr . John Andrews fell in with a Swedish vessel , timber laden , and named the Dedalus , off Worthing . She had also been in collision . A dead body was found on board , and that is all the authentic information that has been received ,

      A Knightly Pair . —It is expected that the honour of knighthood will be conferred ® n Mr . Goldner , whose services in furnishing her Majesty ' s navy with fresh meats are not less eminend and praiseworthy than those of Sir 0 . Barry in providing for the convenience of the two Houses of Parliament . It may , indeed , be justly said , that Barry is the Goldner of architecture , and Goldner the Barry of canisters . In the House of Commons we see , if not a preserved assembly , yet undoubtedly a House iu a very pretty pickle . —Examiner .

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      DRURY-LANE THEATRE The project , . of awakening the charitable smypathiea of the public in behalf of the sufferers through the loss If th » Amazon by means of a dramatic and musioal entertainment has deservedly proved far from successful . A sort of ill luck seemed to attend the undertaking . "Romeo and Juliet " had been originally announced for Monday night , but some mischance befell Mr . Anderson , . and the " Hunchback , " with Mr . Cooper as Master Walter , was aubstituteu . Nor did the miscellaneous concert which followed manifest any attractive power . A thin audience scantil y occupied a large edifice .

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      FOREIGN REFUGEES AND ENGLISH TRAVELLERS . The following is the text of the despatch addressed b y Prince Schwarzenburg to Count Buol-Sohauenstein , Aub . trian Minister Plenipotentiary in Eugland , to which reference was made iu the House of Commons on Monday evening : — „ , „ . Vienna , Feb . 4 , 1852 . Lord Granville has had the goodneBs to communicate to your Excellency the despatch which he addressed to the Earl of Westmoreland , under date of the 13 th of January last , in answer to the protests f reclamations ) which you , M , le Comte . were charged to present to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty against the tolerance accorded In England to the revolutionary proceedings fineness revolutionaires ) of the political refugees who have found an asylum in that country . 1 'he first part of this document ( Lord Granville ' B despatch ) turns on the high value which the English people attach to the right of asylum , and on the motives which hinder the British Government from thinking of ( songer a ) restraining that right , ny pregeutinK an alien hill to ParlinmRnt . °

      Vi e do not feel ourselves called upon to enter upon a controversy on the arguments employed in this part of the despatch of Lord Graimlle , since we have never denied to England the exercise of the rigfct of asylum in itself , any more than we have pvetended to dictate to the British Government , which itself is the most competent judge , the means which it should emrloy to obriate the flagrant abuse of this right . All that we have demanded of the British Government ( and we shall not cease to demand it ) is , that it shall bo manag « ( fairc en soire ) that the political refugees to whom it accords an asylum shall not be allowed to pursue , under the shadow of the hospitality which they enjoy , machinations epenly hostile to the States of the comment , and especially to Austria . Lord Granville has been so good ( a bien uou ' u ) as to offer us , on this subject , an assurance that the British Government would not Only regret , but Would loudly condemn , all attemntBOn ttiepavtoi the refugees to excite insurrection in their original country ; that it would continue to watch { snrnilkr ) the conduct of suspected refugees , and would seek , by all legal means , to hinder them from abusing—to the detriment of Governments in friendly alliance with Great Britain—the hospitality which . the EasUsbUma soc « m « oy »\\ accord to them .

      The Emperor , in noting down ( enprenant act ) these assurances , has pleasure in tbence deriving a hope ( aime aypuiser Vespoir ) that the British government will henceforth know how to make more ample and rigorous use than it has hitherto done of the legal means at its disposal , and which it appears to judgo sufficient to enable it to fulfil its international duties with regard to the proceedings of the refugees . At any rate ( touUfois ) , while waiting till these dispositions of the Bwtisu government are followed bj deeds [ soient mimes d ' effet ) , the almost unlimited liberty of action which the refugees hitherto en . joyed in England , with regard to the revolutionary plots that a great number of them does not cease hatchi g against the repose of the States of the continent , imposes upon us , on our side , the duty of taking some measures of precaution , tending to guurd us against the annoyances ( inoonuenient ) and dangers of which that liberty is the sourer .

      The Imperial authorities will henceforth receive orders to ' redouble' their vigilance \ ii ' , h regard to travellers coming from England , and to execute strictly in relation to their passports tho existing rules to which formerly , under the empire of other circurastances , it had become a habit to make frequent exceptions in favour of British subjects . The Imperial government , moreover , reserves to itself the faculty of taking into consideration ulterior measures , if unhappily the need of them still makes itself felt . Your Excellency is charged te read and give a copy of this despatch to Lord Granville . Receive . &c .

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      Rational Reform Association . —The following circular has heen issued in reference to the Reform Conference , now fixed for the 2 nd of March : — " Dear Sir , —Respectfully referring to our circular letter of the 1 st of January last , I beg to inform you that the Council of the National Piivliimentary and Financial Reform Association have fixed the period for the meeting of the Conference for Tuesday , the 2 nd of March , and , by their desire , I have earnestly to request the favour of your presence at this important meetin * . The Conference is open to all members of parliament who have voted for Mr . Hume ' s motion , or otherwise concur in the principles of the National Reform Association ; gentlemen elected by associations or committees who have adopted those principles , and deputations from any body of reformers willing to attend and afford information on the

      vital subject of Reform of Parliament . The important questions for consideration will be—1 . What means can be adopted for securing to the utmost possible extent the constitutional rights of the people 2 . How far the bill before parliament is calculated to carry that object into £ ffeofc . 3 . The course to be pursued to obtain for the voter the independent exercise of the franchise . The conference will meet in St . Martin ' s Hall , Lone-acre , and will oommence at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon . It is extremely desirable that immediate steps should be taken by the friends of Reform , whether members of the National Reform Association , or of other classes of Reformers , to appoint representatives , whose names should be furnished to the Secretary as soon as the nominations are made . Requesting your immediate attention and co-oporation , I am dear sir , yours truly , Joshua Walmsley . "

      Embezzlement at the British Embassy at Paris . —The Marquis of Normanby , on the occasion of his recent visit to Paris , was astonished at receiving a number of tradesmen s bills , for which the money had been regularly paid as the supplies came in , and the astonishment of his lordship was the greater when on examination it was found that many of these bills were for articles which had been sent into the embassy a long time ago . The tradesmen who brought forward their claims were soon convinced from an inspection of the books which , had been kept under the superintendence of the Marchioness of Normanby , that the money had been drawn from her by the house steward , an Italian named Salvator , who had been in the service of the marquis and marchioness for eighteen years , and he was immediately summoned to wait upon his master , and explain his oonduot . Sulvator , who , when ordered to the presence of the marquis , was quietly at breakfest on some

      choice oysters , the digestion of wnich he was facilitating with a bottle of the best Rhenish wino from the cellars of the noble lord , was compelled to admit that he had received the money to pay . the tradesmen ' s accounts , but that having been unsuccessful in some speculations at the Bourse , he had used it for his own purposes , and had quieted the tradesmen by giving them is own promissory notes , many of which he had renewed from time to time in such a way that , if they had not been excited by the announcement of the retirement of the marquis fromthe embassy , the fraud might have continued for a long time without detectlon - J T el nw ney nisaP , ropriated by Salvator is Bind to exceed SO OOOf . The noble marquia felt disposed to pardon the offender on account of hs long service , but some of tho tradesmen had already informed the police of -what bad taken place ,, and Salvator . was , therefore , arrested , and sent to the prison of the Concergerie . —Odlitmani

      I'atbw Livr AMKNDMBNT . -Lord Brougham ' sjnew bill on the Patent Laws , ordered to be printed by the House of Lords , has just been printed . It contains fifty-eight sections . It is proposed to empower Her Majesty to grant letters patent for inventions . Certain commissioner ! arc to be deemed commissioners , and they are to appoint oxaminers , make : rules and . regulations , and to repS annually £ &S ? $ * ^ e tl ons Provisionall y registered are to be protected under the new act . An appeaf is given Jtoja S thfn ^ nt T mt 0 the Lord Chancellor By' one J . VW , « a of common law may grant in-S naVaVe « nH SnngOment of P atent - ^ Ke stamp autieB payable under the act nm a \ v / r , ;„ „ Dnv , QH ,, in an .

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      The max who hung himself wijh a chord of music has been cut down with a sharp « a 3 t wind . Con . —What was the difference between Noah ' s ark , and Joan of Arc?—One was made of wood , and the other wag maid of Orleans . . ^ o tiittxBss . —Somebody says that politeness is like an . " "• cushion ; there may be nothing in it , but it eases our jolts wonderfully . thft \! r £ remains unsung , " as the tom-cat remarked to » wiok-bat , when it abruptly cut short his serenade . cioua nf L 0 VE i 3 at ° "ce the most delicate and the raosttenaaothing oTeSS ^/ if mCre nOtbiDg Wi " W 0 UU < 1 [ t > bUt the I ?™ . 01 * Oflice avenue has arrived at a point at which reached und e 7 SUl d U rat exceedsthe WgheBt amount wer Pftnv Ul 0

      A . r . ^ » ' Magazine -. ° w , RTI 8 EMKNT " * Evangelical t , ibZ . ssr ?' " « -Si «™»» i > . ft- * aK . a- » » 'i' » &t The Post Office , on and after the 1 st of March , will convey more books or papers than one in a packet and anv o 7 attter ° * ' ° Kable ' * be not ^ ^ e naS Moderate Speed is a sure help to all proceedin gs—when those things which are prosecuted with violence of endeavour o v desire , either succeed or not , or continue not . —Bishop Hall , ' *

      Curses . —Mrs . Harris says it is not as much trouble for a " miss" to take care of sick people as some folks imagine . The most of them don't want anything , she says , and when they do they don ' t get it . " Tiub . — - " There were three hours-and « a-half lost by you thia morning , " a superintendent said to a tardy teacher . I was only half-an-hour late , " he replied . — " True , " said the superintendent , "but then there were seven scholars waiting all that time for you . " Life is a field of blackberry bushes . Mean people squat down and piok the fruit , no matter how they black their nngers ; while genius , proud and perpendicular , strides fiercely on , and gets nothing but scratches and holes torn in us trowsers . The Mormonite population of the territory of Utah is credibl y estimated at 300 , 000 . During the last fourteen years , oO . OOO persons have been baDtized into the sect in

      weat iiritain alone , and 17 , 000 haveactually emigrated from this country to the Zion of their hope . A Churchman ' s Toast . —At a tithe dinner in Somersetshire , the chairman ( the rector ) requested an influential farmer sitting near him to propose a toast . The following was his response : — " Confusion to the black slug that consumes a tenth part of the farmer ' s produce ! " The chair was soon vacated ; tho feelings of its occupant may be easier imagined than described . A CoMpiiMENT .- " I owe you one , " said a withered old LtBlebs to a lady the other ni ght at a party . " For What 1 "

      said she . — " Why , for calling me a young gentleman . "— "If 1 did so , was the rather ill-natured reply , * ' I beg you will not regard it as a compliment ; for , believe me , though an old man , you may still be but a young gentleman . " Anagram . —The following anagram on the well-known bibliographer , William Oldys , may claim a place among the nrst productions of this class . It was written by Oldys himself , and found by his executors in one of his manuscripts : — " In word and WILL I AM a friend to you , And one friend O LD IS worth a hundred new . " A SIX-LINE CHRONOLOGY OF HSGL&Kd ' s CROWN . Two WilliamsJHenry , Stephen , Henry , Dick , John , Hal , three Edwards , Richard , three Hals , quick ,. Two Edwards , Dick , two Harrys , and a Ned , Mary , Bess , James , and Charles , who lost Ms head , Charles , James , Will , Anne , four Georges and a Will , And Queen Victoria , who is reigning still .

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      ADELPHI THEATRE . Miss Woolgar , whose absence from this house has caused a serious gap in the company for some weeks past , reappeared on Monday night as Plioibe in - ' Paul Pry , " and received a hearty welcome . She seems perfectly recovered from her indisposition , and her acting of the character is marked by the same fascinating liveliness as ever .

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      OLYMPIC THEATRE . Miss Sarah Lyons , who has already performed at Sadler ' s Wells Theatre , made her first appearance here on Monday night as Juliet—& character in which she achieved some Buceess when she first played it . Miss Lyons is said to be a pupil of Mrs . . W . West , and the peculiarities of her style sufficiently warrant such a presumption . Juliet was , in many respects , well chosen for the debut of this lady , her appearance being youthful and interesting , and her voice not unmusical , but the amount of tragic power she displayed was only sufficient to justify the belief that she is better adapted for the performance of less important characters than Shakspeare ' s heroines . Miss Lyons was very favourabl y received , and was greeted with encouraging plaudits through , out . Mr . Henry Farren was the Romeo .

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      ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . Mr . J . H . Pepper , the chemical professor to the eatablishtaent , _ is now delivering here a lecture on the allotrophic conditions of oxygen , called ozone . Its formation was shown in three ways : —Firstly , by treating air with phosphorous , half covered with water . Secondly , From the oxygen derived from the voltaic decomposition of water . Thirdly , by electrifying air , as in the electrical aura . Each of these processes eliminated ozone , ' proved by the action of the iodide of potassium and starch test , and also by its powerful bleaching agency , and from indigo . The destruction of ozone by red heat was also demonstrated in a very beautiful experiment , devised by Faraday ; and the learned lecturer concluded the discourse by explaining , that the chief interest of the study of ozne , was in consequence of its being , no doubt , employed in the grand process of nature . This curious agent would seem to be connected with the healthiness of the atmosphere , as during the prevalence of the cholera , no ozone could be perceived in the air , whilst afterwards an excess of this agent appeared to promote epidemics , such as influenza , &c . An excess or deficiency of ozone were therefore both to be depreciated , the precise balance only being conducive to health . Ozone was a disinfectant , and destroyed noxious and putrescent exhalations . In town it waB absorbed , and could not be appreciated ; whilst in the country it existed in the atmosphere , producing , no doubt , that difference which every one understood , so far as health was concerned , but which analysis , in all its delicacy , could not establish .

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      EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH . Motto for a Monthly Nurse . — " Children must be paid for . " The Question of the Day . —What shall we havefot dinner ? ( See Hansard , Feb . ith . ) The Newspaper Duty . —Not to speak the truth when it is likel y to prove offensive to a foreign despot . —1 h Prime Mnister of England . The Bar Militant . —The lawyers are about to form themselves into a rifle corps , for which they are well fitted by their peculiar practice , and their quickness in discovering the objects that are worth powder and shot . Cloth of the Coarsest Nap . —Louis Napoleon-seems to attach so much importance to the coats of his senatorial and other lacqueys , that his government may be called Co ( a )( erte of Despotism .

      The Breezb in the House of Commons . — "We are sorry to perceive that the difference between Mr . Barry and Mr . Reed about ventilation , has actually amounted to an exchange of blows . _ Scents and Sensibility . —The Parliamentary whippersin are astonished that the St . Stephen ' s Pack don ' t run better together , cowwdemg how very Btrong the scent lies in the new house . . Naval Appointment . —We are sure everyone will be glad to hear ( excepting , perhaps , the Lords of the Admiralty ) that Sir Charles Napier has been appointed to supply all the rigging for the British Navy . _ Question for those whom it may Concern * — Considering the number of our troops , should you call the Duke of Wellington the Commander of the Forces-or of the Weaknesses ?

      A Nice Man for a Large Party . —Though Lord Palmerston may have been snubbed by his former colleagues , the nnprecedentedly long list of illustrious persons present at his soiree the other niglit , Bho ' ws that if he has no considerable party in the country , he can get together a very strong party in town . Preparations for . War . —Great excitement , we understand , has been created in Paris by the announcement , that . Lord John Russell is about to fortify the bulwarks of the British Constitution with additional defences , in the shape of a large number of five-pounders . Night Charges . —At an Hotel : Two Shillings . —At a Station House : Five Shillings . —N . B . If you sleep at tho latter , you avoid the fee that is usually given to the Boots and Chambermaid , and have nothing to pay for wax candles . — Our Fast Young Man .

      A Pious Fraud . —A correspondent writes to complain of the French authorities having seized a mince-pie he had dispatched to his children in a copy of " Punch . " We do not sympathise with the sender , who deserved to lose his pie for having made our publication the medium for containing any matters at all minced . Rapid Passage . —Mr . Mike O'Leary ( of Bunbill Row ) started from the St Martin ' s end of the Lowtber Arcade at five minutes to twelve , and reached tho Strand end at precisely twenty-three minutes to one . This is supposed to be the most rapid passage on record . It is but fair , however , to state that Mr . O ' Leary was accompanied on the occasion by a couple of spirited bull-dogs . Unwholbsojib Legislation . —It is luoky that most subjects of importance to the nation are well ventilated out of Parliament before they are discussed in it . The atmosphere of the new House of Commons is so stifling , that it threatens to smother all debate . Under these circumstances , it may be poor consolation to reflect that Parliamentary orators no longer waste their brcatli , because all the air that issues from their lungs is breathed over again .

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      Very Consoling . —During a steam voyage , on a sudden stoppage of the machinery , a considerable alarm took place , especially among the female passengers . " What is the matter ? what is the matter ? For Heaven ' s sake tell me tho worst ! " exclaimed one more anxious than the rest . After a short pause , a hoarse voice from the deck replied , "JS otuing , madame , nothing ; only tbe bottom of the vessel and the top of the earth are stuck together . " Postage Stamps for the Romans . —The Roman Government have sanctioned the introduction of postage stamps for the prepayment of postage on letters . Tho stamp is about tho size of the English postage stamp ; and on it is a representation of the tiara and keys , tbe badge of papal dignity and power . Pride . —A proud man is a fool in fermentation , swelling and boiling like a porridge pot . He sets bis feathers like an owl , to swell and seem bigger than he is . He is troubled with an inflammation of self-conceit , that renders him the man of pasteboard , and a true buckram knight . He had given himself sympathetic love-powder , that works upon him to dotage , and transforms himself into his own mistress , making moat passionate courc to his own dear perfections , and worshipping his own image . All his upper stories are crammed with masses of spongy substances , occupying much space ; as feathers and cotton willstuft cushions better than things of more compact and solid proportion . —Minghrolce . 1

      What s _ the use of living ? " says a dyspeptic writer ia the" American Union . " " We are flogged fur crying when , babies—flogged because the master is cross , when schoolboys—obliged to toil , sick or well , or starve , when we are men—to work still harder , and suffer somothing worse , when we are husbands , and , after exhausting lite and strength ia the service of other people , die and leave our children to quarrel about the possession of father ' s watch , and our wives to catch somebody else . Such is life . " An Unreasonarle Proposal . —An Irish labourer , who

      was in the employment of an English gentleman , residing in Ireland , was on one occasion about going to a fair , held annually at a neighbouring village , when his master endeavoured to dissuade him from his design . " You always , ' said he , " come back with u broke n head ; now , stay at home to-day Davby , and I'll give you five shillings . "— " I ' m for ever and all obliged to your honour , " replied Darby , "but does it stand to rason , " added he , flourishing his shillelagh over his head , " does it stand to rason , that I'd take five shillings for the grate balin * I ' m . to get to-day ?"'

      THiNK .-Tlinught engenders thought Place one idea upon paper—another will follow it , and still another , until you have written a page . You cannot fathom your mind . There iVa well of thought there which has no'bOMOin . Th& more you draw from it the more dear and plentiful it will be . If you neglect to think yourself , and use other peop'e ' a thoughts , giving them utterance only , you will nevr know what you are capable of . At first your ideas may come in lumps-home y and shapeless ; but no matter , time and perseverance will arrange and refine them . Learn to think , and you will learn to write-the more you think , the better you will express your ideas .

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      —¦ Fsumnag , 28 , 1852 . THE NOR THE R N S . T ' A R . """ " ' ^ Mii ^ J

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 28, 1852, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1667/page/3/