... t THE practice of War is not only congenial to r depraved human nature, bat it has obtained a kind of E consecration from the illustrations it has afforded of valour and patriotism, and from the lofty genius of the ,t poets and historians who have sung or recorded its e achievements. By these means the work of wholesale destruction has been strangely surrounded with a halo x of glory that ...

... s. I r r rb- v! -12- * 1 71 _ ._ d THE allied forces of Protection held a grand yeas 7, field-day in Drury-lane Theatre on Tuesday, under eolo r their commander-in-chief, the DUxE OF RICumOND. queE is They opened their campaign against Free Trade, and, cons L. after proclaiming open and mortal war, they put their was Squadrons and battalions in motion, with drums beating govT e and colours ...

... V FRANCE. Palrs, Friday Mforning. La Patric announces that SKI. Ledru Rollin has been a arrested onl tire road to Lyons. oh iieso Tire ilonilecrr publishes a proclamation tthciie s o Paris, signed by the President of the Council and other t ministers, announcing that in consequence of the conduct 1 Of thle assarcliists, Paris is declared in a state of siege, as the only oreans of sa ingte ...

... Walk0. CAUTION TO MASTERS OF VESSELS BRINGING ti PASSENGERS FROM IRELAND.-TIiO Cardiff Guardian says -Jasper Travers, master of the James, of j Kinsale, appeared on Thursday the 24th ult., at the , Town-hall, Newport, before the Mayor, and T. r Hughes, Esq., to answer an information for having b carried forty passengers more than allowed by his Y license from Uarinashery, in Ireland, to that ...

... raise jactrolpolto. HEALTU OF LONDON DURINO TfX WaEEKj PNDINO Juvx 1O.-The mortality of tile metropolitan dis- trihts, which in the previous week was rather above the average, has fallen last week to 012 deaths, or fifty-one less than the estimate founded on the weekly mortality of former springs. Taking four principal roups of fatal eauses, namely, the tuberculan, iseases of the nervous ...

... I HOURS OF LABOUR- IN FACTORIES.- I DEPUTATION. P1 On Thursday, the 17th inst., a deputation of mill. PI owners from Manchester, Carlisle, and Glasgow st waited upon Sir G. Grey, Lord J. Russell, and Lordi Ashley, with a view of recommending the introduc- ci tion of an Eleven Hours Bill. A report of the ei proceedings of this deputation appeared in the t Daily News, and the consequence was a ...

... L ETTEP $ TO THE WORKING CLASSES. XLIX. Words are things, and a small drop of ink Falling-like dew-upon a thought, produces 'That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. e1raow. THE TRAITORS TRIUMPHANT BROTHER PROLETARIAWS, n The hopes I hardly dared to cherish when I f last addressed you have vanished; and the ;apprehensions of evil I entertained have been , rbut too faithfully ...

... WYbr latropaiot. IIEiLtri OF LONDON DURING Tim E W EEruii.-The 59 deaths reistered in the week exhibit a satisfatory decrease of t;S on the weekly averageof flie springs. The orntality from the zymotic or epidemic class of diseases continues to fall, the deaths in last week hiting been 209-thosein the preceding week 233,; tie aorago is 19S. Scarlatina has now de- clined rather below the ...

... TO THE TRADES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELA XD. fF om No. I of the DeonocratiG Rceidd June, 1849.) FoLLOW Mav,-As the great fundamental princi- In plei ot truth and justice- apon.which political and e'M social institutions ought to be based, are becoming wi dailv better understood aun *ng the na ions oftiht con- ur . .tinent. i t is (of the bighest impcrtancetblat every al 3wotkig man in ttli3 ...

... THE KIRRDALE CHARTIST PRISONERS : AGAIN. Se- I-d TO THrE EDITORI OF THE NORTHERN STAR. s. Sia,-In your Sar *of Saturday last, there ap- e, peared two letters originally emanating from Kirk- De dale Gaol; One signed Mark W. Norman, the at other hearing the signature of Daniel Donovan. le These letters have already caused great excitement ls and much unpleasant sensation in the minds ofthe ...

... A public meeting of the Miners of this district was held on Saturday last, at the Scaffold-hill, a place well known to the popular party in Northum- herland, whose generous proprietor has invariably allowed the working classes to meat and discuss their grievances, whether of a social or political character, a privilege they will appreciate, seeing that in times of excitement every means are ...

... After a short recess, the House of Com- mons re-assembledonThursday, andproceeded, in a hum-drum sort of way, to dispose of the hum-drum. business before it. The highest statesmanship of the present Ministry is to do nothing, and the highest ambition of the Le- gislature is to help them to do it. In reviewing the business disposed of, or in progress, at the Easter recess, we showed how few and ...