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Day
30
Month
October
Year
1843
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Cosí of a (neen - The cost oï the present overigu to the country, including her ealary nd thatof ihoseimmudiately about her peron, no one of whotn, from highest to lowest ddicl themseives at alij to public affairs, ís hove two million seven hundred tkousand allars, per year! The revenues of the baby Prince of Wales,"' as Duke of Cornwall, to vhich he is born, are about fifiy thousand dolars, annually, andas Princo of Wales, which e is immedialely '-created," about twenty five lousand more! And you add the pensions f oll the princes and princesses of Royul blood - the children of former Kings' 8c. you have ie gross sum offour and a half millions of ollars a year paid for Royal persona who ender no active service whatever to the coun ry - who are connected with the human race nly by their vices, their amusements, and )erchance, Ly a stinted virtue virhose lauded xercise is a curse to the country by creatina popularity which warraiHs further extravaance. The anual expenses of the Queen nd family alone would more than support all ie inhabitants of Boston and Cincinnati, at he rate of expense at which many thousands f the poor people of Great Brittain now live. 'et on Crawford's motion for a reduction of xpenses containing no epecification, but a mere resolution to reduce, only fifteen out of X hundred and f'fty-eight of ''ihe people' s ommms" could be found at the beginning of ie present financial year to vote for the reuclion, and Hume's efforte againet ihePriness Augusfa's annuity, and the Duke of Cumberland's pension, in June rallied about n equal number of votes. - Coirespondcnce nf Philanthropisl.The Largest Wroiight Ir on Gun in the c World is now being made at the " ley,Forge,ontheHudsonRiver. t teen feet long, and three feet in diameter É at the breech, and weighs 30,000 pounds, or fifteen tons. It is made for Government, and will be placed on board the Princeton steamer, Capt. Stockton, now at Philadelphia. This extraordinary gun is hammered out with a hammer weighing fifteen thousand pounds. It is calculated that the strength and power oï this piece, when finished, will carry a ball of onethird greater weight, and one-fourth increased distance than the best cast iron. gun. - Buff. Gaz. The Punishmcnt for Preaching. - The Attakapas Gazette reports that -a nuraber of negro slaves found closeted together and preaching in some back kitchen of the town, were arrested a few nightssince, confmed in jail and punished the next morning, for being found out of their quarters at an undue hour! Who needs missionaries the more, the negroes or their masters? - Phüanthropist. Benjamin Ralhhvn. - The Buflfalo Gazette says: Benjamin Rathbun returned to tliis city on Tuesday uight, and was yesteday visited by many of our cilizens. He appeared to be in excellent health and spirits, in fact, we never saw him look eo well as he uow appears. Anoilier Requisilion. - The Governor of Virginia has made a req'iisition on Governer Bouck of New York for a negro ranaway uamed Henry, who had absconded,it is elleged, with $600, wbich he had stolen from a young man namod Knowles. From the papers, we are led to infer, that the object is to get pos Bession of Henry as a slave - inasmucu as the story of thetheft is positively contradicted. Mr. Adavis in Cleveland. - A public meeting was to be held at the Coun House in Cleyeland on Saturday evening3 to make the necessary arrangements for inviting Mr. Adams to that city. The cali is signed by the principal citizens of all parties.Englisk JVoh'üity. - Fiftern thouêand dollars a year, were, last June, voted by Parhament to a young lady, on occasion of her marriagp, out of the taxes of the starving pop ulation; for no other reason but that her parents were noble and Jived on taxes before her. And of 658 Commoners, choson by the people, only one man made any manful resistance to the vote. Thus of ïhe nobiliry in Engjand, at the present day, it may be said, that, religión canonizes it; wealth follows il; fashiou bows down to it; law defends it, and aJ) classes and conditions do it homage. An homage which is bhown by the return of 157 members to the House of Commons who have the blood of the nobility in their veins. And, al o, by the increase of the description uf persons, who numbered in all but 59 titles at the accession of James I; to 4 Princes of the blood: 3 Royal Dukes; 21 Dukes; 24 Alurquises; 132 Earlá: 26 Viscounts; 217 Barons; 2 Archbishops; 24 Bishops; in uil 471 titles. Lobelia couldnH save him. - Dr. Samuel Thompson, celebrated as the originator of the Botanie system of medicine, died at Boston a few days since, aged seventy-fivc. He lived to see his system becoming popular in rnany sections of the country. Sweden and Etnanc palion. The King of Sweden has ordered a plan for the emancipation of slaves in St. Jiartholomew, to be laid before the next General Assembly of the Estates. The number of slaves is 595. TaU.- The steeple of Trinity Church New York, is to be two hundred and eighty feet high, that being 50 feet higher tlian othor steeple in the United States, and sixty feet ïigher than Bunker Mili Monument. Father Mathevv says thnt not one in five i ïundred of those who take the pledge, viólate t - and many of those who ('o, would not were i t not for the priests and doctois - the one ng absoluiion to drink beer, and the other prescribing it as medicine. iThe Florida Runuway Slaves. - The seven slaves who escaped in a boat recently,from St. Augustine, and made their way towards the Bahama Islande, it seems, put in to land neo.r the capes of Florida, for provieions. - They went to the house of a Mr. Brown, while none of the family were at home but some small childien. After securing provisions, they made their wny again to the boat. Mr. B. in the meanlitne returned, and gave díase, and ovortaking them, was killed by the neerroes, who escnped. TheSt. Augustine papers declare Ihat it will be the duty of our government to make a rcquisilion upon the government of Great Britain, provided they have made their way to the Bahamas. - Alb. Patriot. Jls Usual. - Mr. Cnrr, of Marylavd, has been appointed minister to Constmtinople; and R. Wïckliffe, of Kentviky, Charge D1 Affaires to Sardinia. The hrathen of Jij rica are better men than many American professed Clmstians! - Look at the following: Slavery Molished. - Extract of a letter from Mr. Frcncb, the American Missionary at Siroor, India, June 15, 1843, to Lewis Tappan, Esq. - "You have doubtless, ere this, been permitted to rejoice in the fact that England has abolished slaverj in her East India possessious. Another interesting item of intellijence has just come to my knowledge which may be new to you. In speaking of Captain Haris' recent embnssy to the courtofShoa, in Abyssinia, Ihe Bombay Times says: 'We read with feelings of admiration, mingled with the proudest gratificaron, the fact that up wards of seven thousand Chrislian slaves were überated from galling bondage at theession of our countrymen, and are now blessig the name of the white man; and that hunIreda of doomed pagan captives, taken in the iloody forays witnossed by the British embasly, were set at large. Brougbam eays: "If a child is neglecled until six years of age, no subsequent education can recover it. If to this age he is in ignorance and dissipation, in baseness and brutality, in that vacancy of mind which such habits créate, it is vain to try to reclaim it by teaching it reading and writing. You may leach it what you choose afterward, but if you have not prevented the fonnation of bad kabils, you will teach in vain. With childre under the age of six years, Jearning - schoo learning - should not be the chief considera tion, bu'. the formation of moral principie." The Editor of Zion's Herald eays, "Slaver has no more constitutional right in the Meth odisl Church than the devil himself, and w are determined to use all befitting measure ta drive it out." To this we respond let al the people say, Amen. Duelling. - The papers notice as chang of opinión at the South, that a gentleman m Abberville, S. Carolina, who had the cour age to refuse a challenge, has had a barbecu given him by his fellow-cilizena asa mark o theirapprobation and esteem. The New York Express says, the packe from that port continue to take out large quan tities of lard, tallow, flour, beef, &c. W een see hay, oak plank, cedar boards oa Sic. going out! Singular Experiment. - The followin experiment performed in England by A Palmer, is related in the London Times In a country where it is necessary to econ omize grain, it will be found of no sma importance. July, 1842, Mr. Palmer pu one grain of wheat in a coramon garde plot. August, he divided it into fou plants, which in three weeks were agai divided into twelve; wliich in September were divided into thirty-twoj which in November were again divided into fifty, and set in open ground. July, 1843, twelve failed, but the remainingeight were healthy. 1 hey were cut dow Aug. 19th, and counted 1,972 sterns, wit in average of 50 grains to the stem, a íbrding a yield of 98.600! Such experiments as these, by showing the almost inexhuastible productivenes of natural agents, are calculated to alla any fears of starvation from excess o population, which may be engenderec by the theory of Malthus. - Pkilanthro pist. "In the best District in Maine.the Whigs undertook to send Luther Severance, o: the Kennebec Journal - a capital choic - but they were defeated for the time. b} those everlasting troublers, the Thirc Party Abolitionists. We trust he will go y et."- N. T. Tribune. lndolcnce. - 'If you ask me,' said Zimmerman, 'which is the real hereditar} sin of human nature, do you imagine shall answer pride, or luxury, or ambition or egotism? No: I shall say indolence Who conquers indoience, will conquer all the rest. Indeed all good principies must stagnate, without mental activity." The Fice Presidency. - The eóitor of the Tribune announces Miljlard Filmore to be ln's first choice for the Vice Presidency, and John Davis ne.xh

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