Latter-day pamphlets : and, Tales by Musæus, Tieck, Richter : translated from the German

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LATTEK-DAY PAMPHLETS AND TALES BY MUSÆUS, TIECK, KICHTER (COPYRIGHT EDITION) Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, London & Bunoay. CONTENTS. PAOB OCCASIONAL DISCOURSE ON THE NIGGER QUESTION . 1 I. THE PRESENT TIME 29 H. MODEL PRISONS 65 HI. DOWNING STREET 94 IV. THE NEW DOWNING STREET ..... 124 V. STUMP-ORATOR 158 VI. PARLIAMENTS .190 VII. HUDSON'S STATUE ........ .220 VTU. JESUITISM THE NIGGER QUESTION. [Precursor lo Latter-Day Pamphlet*.1') OCCASIONAL DISCOURSE ON THE NIGGER QUESTION. The following' Occasional Discourse, delivered by we know not whom, ann of date seemingly above a year back, m.y perhaps be welcome to here and there a speculative reader. It comes to us, — no speaker named, no time or place assigned, no commentary of any sort given, — in the handwriting of the so-called " Doctor," properly "Absconded Reporter," Dr. Phelim M 'Quirk, whose sin gular powers of reporting, and also whose debts, extravagancies and sorrowful insidious finance-operations, now winded-up by a sudden disappearance, to the pies of many poor tradespeople, are makingtoo winch noise in the police-offices at present J Of M'Quirk's composition we by no means suppose it to be ; but from Al 'Quirk, as the last traceable source, it comes to us ;— offered, in fact, by his respectable unfortunate landlady, desirous to make-up part, of her losses ic this way.

To absconded reporters who bilk their lodgings, we have of course no ac count to give : but if the Speaker be of any eminence or substantiality, and feel himself aggrieved by the transaction, let him undei'stand that such, and such only, is our connexion with him or his affairs. As the Colonial and Negro Question is still alive, and likely to grow livelier for some time, we have Ac cepted tbe Article, at a cheap market-rate ; and give it publicity, withont in the least committing ourselves to tlie strange doctrines and notions shadowed forth in it. Doctrines and notions which, we rather suspect, are pretty much in a " minority of one," in the present era of the world ! Here, swro cn-n-ii, are peculiar views of the Bights of Negroes ; involving, it is probable, pc-ulisir ditto of innumerable other rights, duties, expectations, wrongs and disappoint ments, much argued of, by logic and by grape-shot, in these emancipated epochs of the human mind ! — Silence now, however ; and let the Speaker him self enter.

My Philanthropic Friends. — It is my painful duty to addivs* some words to you. this evening, on tlie Rights of Negroes. , T.tfe- ' First printed in Fraser'. Magazine, December 1849 ; reprinted (tw bore) iii the form of a separate Pamphlet, London, 1853. LATTER-DAY PAMPHLETS. [Deo. ing, as we hope we do, au extensive survey of social affairs, which we find all in a state of the frightfullest embroilment, and as it were of inextricable final bankruptcy, just at present ; and being desirous to adjust ourselves in that huge upbreak, and unutterable welter of tumbling ruins, and to see well that our grand proposed Association of Associations, the Universal Abolition-of-Pain Association, which is meant to be the consummate golden flower and summary of modern Philanthropisms all in one, do not issue as a universal " Sluggard-and-Scoundrel Protection Society," — we have judged that, before constituting ourselves, it would be very proper to commune earnestly with one another, and discourse together on the leading elements of our great Problem, which surely is one of the greatest.