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There's none fears now to sow, boys!
When each is free to grow, boys!

A harvest for his own.

Pile up the sheaves, boys! ho, boys!
A harvest for our own.

The harvest winds are singing-
'The reapers' feast is come';
And merrier songs are ringing
From glorious voices, bringing

The last rich burthen home.
Toss up the last sheaf! ho, boys!
The harvest work is done.
We dared our hope to sow, boys!
Our toil hath help'd it grow, boys!
The harvest is our own.

And again the grain we'll sow, boys!
And future harvests own.

THE EXILES.

Come to us, Exile! return to thy home again :
Come to the heart of thy Country, now free:
Martyr who hoped and who toil'd for us! come again,
Now we have made thy land worthy of thee.

Many a hope hast thou sown for this garnering;
Many a tear for its growth didst thou rain,
Smiling thy sorrow through: shine on our gathering!
Come to our harvest-home! haste home again!

Martyrs whose blood was the track that we trusted to!
Exiles whose lives have been martyr'd no less!
Rise from the tombs where the Tyrants had thrusted you;
Come in your glory our triumph to bless.

Thou who hast taught us the way to our victory!
Thou who wast first in the fight against odds!
Shall not our triumph recall what it owes to thee?
Scarcely our triumph: thine rather, and God's.

Come to us, Exile! return to thy home again:
Come to the heart of thy Country, now free:
Martyr who suffer'd and hoped for us! come again,
Now we have made thy land worthy of thee.

The Happy Land!

THE HAPPY LAND.

Studded with cheerful homesteads, fair to see,
With garden grace and household symmetry:

How grand the wide-brow'd peasant's lordly mien,
The matron's smile serene!

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Where in the golden sheen of autumn eves

The bright hair'd children play among the sheaves; Or gather ripest apples all the day,

As ruddy-cheek'd as they.

O happy, happy Land!

O Happy Land!

The thin smoke curleth through the frosty air;

The light smiles from the windows: hearken there

To the white grandsire's tale of heroes old,

To flame-eyed listeners told.

O happy, happy Land!

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MONARCHY IN THE GAZETTE.

The Cologne Gazette publishes the following pretty schedule of Despotic and Constitutional Government, under the head of the PUBLIC DEBTS AND STANDING ARMIES OF THE EUROPEAN STATES. We only alter the calculation from dollars to pounds sterling.

Great Britain (without the colonies) Debt £800,000,000: army, 129,000 men; fleet, 678 vessels, with 18,000 guns.

Spain.-Debt, £216,000,000; army, 160,000 men; fleet, 50 vessels, with 721 guns. Austria.-Debt, £180,000,000; army, 270,000 men (war-footing, 518,208 men); fleet, 156 vessels (including gunboats), 600, guns.

Russia.-Debt, £122,000,000; army, 700,000 men; fleet, 175 vessels and 440 gunboats, 7,000 guns.

The Netherlands.-Debt, £121,000,000; army, 50,000 men; fleet, 125 vessels, 2,500 guns.

Prussia.-Debt, £30,000,000; army, 121,000 men (war footing, 492,000 men); fleet, 47 vessels and gunboats, 114 guns.

France.-Debt, £221,600,000; army, 265,463 men; fleet, 328 vessels, 8,000 guns. Belgium.-Debt, £27,000,000; army, 90,000 men; fleet, 5 vessels, 36 guns. Portugal.-Debt, £26,500,000; army, 38,000 men; fleet, 36 vessels, 700 guns. Papal States.-Debt, £20,000,000; army, 19,000 men; fleet, 5 vessels, 24 guns. Sardinia.-Debt, £20,000,000; army, 38,000 men; fleet, 60 vessels, 900 guns. Naples.-Debt. £26,500.000; army, 48,000 men; fleet, 15 vessels, 484 guns. Bavaria.-Debt, £13.000,000; army, 57.000 men

Denmark.-Debt, £3,000; army, 20,000 men; 33 vessels, 1,120 guns.

Saxony.-Debt, £7,500,000; army, 25,000 men.

Turkey.-Debt, £6,500,000; army, 220,000 men; fleet, 60 vessels, with 800 guns. City of Hamburg,-Debt, £5,650,000; army, 1,800 men.

Grand Duchy of Baden.-Debt, £5,500,000; army, 18,000 men.

Hanover.-Debt, £5,061,000; army, 21,000 men.

Wurtemburg.-Debt, £4,650,000; army, 19,000 men.

Greece.-Debt, £4,000,000; army, 8,900 men; fleet, 34 vessels, 131 guns.

Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.—£1,600,000; army, 4,700 men.

Grand Duchy of Tuscany.-Debt, £1,600,000; 12,000 men; 10 vessels, 15 guns.

City of Frankfort.-Debt, £1,160,000; army, 1,300 men.

Duchy of Brunswick.-Debt, £1,130,000; army, 3,000 men.

Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt.-Debt, £1,000,000; army, 42,000 men.
Electoral Hesse.-Debt, £1,000,000; army, 11,000 men.

City of Lubeck.-Debt, £1,000,000; army, 490 men.

Duchy of Saxe-Weimar.-Debt, £660,000; army, 2,000 men.

Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.-Debt, £660,000; no army; no navy.
Duchy of Anhalt Dessau and Koethen.-Debt, £600,000; army, 700 men.
City of Bremen.-Debt, £500,000; army, 500 men.

Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.-Debt, £420,000; army, 1,200 men.
Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen.-Debt, £410,000; army, 2,400 men.

Duchy of Nassau.—Debt, £330,000; army, 3,500 men.
Duchy of Parma.-Debt, £300,000; army, 5,000 men.

Duchy of Anhalt-Bernburg.-Debt, £250,000; army, 300 men.
Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg.-Debt, £250,000; army, 1,000 men.

Norway.-Debt, £250,000; army, 23,000 men; fleet, 160 vessels, 560 guns.
Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.-Debt, £200,000; army, 600 men.
Landgravate of Hesse Homburg.-Debt, £140,000; army, 350 men.
Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.-Debt, £42,000; army, 540 men.
Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.-Debt, £10,000; army, 450 men.

Danubian Principalities.--No debt; annual tribute to Turkey, 3,000,000 piastres; army, 6,800 men.

Servia. No debt; tribute, 2.000,000 piastres; army, 3,000 men.

Sweden. No debt; army, 34,000 men; fleet, 340 vessels, with 2,400 guns.

Duchy of Modena.-No debt; army, 3,500 men.

Principality of Lippe-Detmold.-No debt; army, 820 men.

Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.-No debt; army, 800 men.

Principality of Reuss.-No debt; army, 745 men.

Principality of Lippe-Schaumburg.-No debt; army, 430 men.

Principality of Waldeck.-No debt; army, 520 men.

Principality of Lichtenstein.-No debt; army, 60 men.

Switzerland.-No debt; army, 69,500 men, a small number of whom only is in actual

service.

Republic of San Marino.—No debt, and no army.

Think to what

Making a total of near upon £2,000,000,000 of royal debt, and an army of 3,185,376 fools to keep the bankrupts from their deserts. excellent purpose Europe has been divided.

HISTORY OF THE MONTH.

(From September 22nd to October 22nd.)

REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION.

As our friend's

One of our friends writes to us, giving as a reason for little care for the Republic, that there is so much else to take up attention.' name is Legion, we print here some portion of the reply to him.

I am disappointed at your account of organization. I had thought that the men of -were more—what shall I say?-more practical. The organization that can serve us, which I am anxious to see established, is a power (not a mere arrangement for occasional talk), a continual influence of one member upon another, for the perfection of the life of each and to knit them together as a party. This is why I have laid so much stress on the 'family' meetings. Meeting once a month will do next to nothing for this. I know you have Polish Refugees to care for, work to do with the Friends of Italy. Neglect

neither! The first is so immediate a duty that I would, if need were, postpone for it even our Republican Organization. The second can not involve so much time as to supersede our own work; and those Englishmen are but half-friends of Italy, who are not at the least as earnest in working for England. The best help for Italy (not therefore to withhold other) would be a republican party here. But neither of these duties can excuse our home-duty, and, least of all, on account of lack of time. There is not a fanatic religionist who does not spare some hours, generally a whole day, in every week, for the vaguest hereafter contingency; and has, besides, his class-meetings, and his missions to subscribe to and to collect subscriptions for. The narrowest-minded sectarian finds time for all these things, from the poorest personal motive,-and Republicans talk of meeting once a month. Friends! it is not by considering Republicanism as one of our many duties, and one not of very direct importance, that we shall succeed, We must hold it the one grand aim and hope and business of our lives. We must make our whole lives subservient to it. Short of this, all endeavours' at organization seem to me but foolishness, a very loss of time. But such earnestness might breed pains. And if the Republic is not worth painstaking, why trouble ourselves at all about it? I find Mazzini, whom Friends of Italy' would help, so earnest; and indeed I know not what duties God has required of him, which he has not laid upon every one of us. But Mazzini is convinced of his faith; and some of his admirers are not so sure of that for which they admire him.

THE LAST OF CHARTISM.

We are not pleased to have to speak of failures, even failures of our own foretelling. Yet, as honest journalists, we are bound to record the utter prostration of Chartism. For, what else is it but prostration which is betokened by the following extracts, or rather abstract, of two months' progress, as reported in the Monthly Circular of the Chartist Executive?

Bermondsey-This year, one hundred names on the books, but as the Circulars are for bonâ-fide members, you had better not reserve more than sixty for us,' Bingley.-Thirty-one paying members.'

Bristol. Fifty-four members.'

Exeter. Not twenty paying members, but a great number calling themselves Chartists.' Glasgow. On the books 159 members.. You may expect a remittance shortly.' Limehouse and Ratcliffe.—' Ninety-five: of which thirty-five are paying. In conclusion, I feel certain, if our members like to be energetic we may have five-hundred members before the next six months.'

Newcastle-on-Tyne, North and South Shields, Sunderland, and Blyth.-"Total 112,' Staley-Bridge.-'28 good paying members.'

Bradford.-'60 members, but only 30 good paying.'

Greenwich.—The principles spreading far and wide; yet strange to say, the work still falls on the few. We have enrolled seven new members this last week.' Hoxton. After six weeks' existence, above forty members all paying regularly and actively at work. Enclosed is one month's subscription.'

Newcastle-on-Tyne.-11 members since last month.

Victoria Park.-'Three weeks ago I lectured in the Bonner's Fields on the necessity of a Charter Organization, to eight or nine hundred people, mostly working-men: 21 gave in their names. 25 cards have been taken out,'

The above is all the progress reported in the Circulars of August and September. A muster-roll of 742 Chartists in all, including paying and not-paying. There is also a list given of 53 localities, in which there may be Chartists, whose

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