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      Esglas1vs May-Dai. Theyoaa^ May Moon Was...

      _ESGLAS 1 VS MAY-DAI . Theyoaa _^ May moon was dancing on the lake , Whose water curl'd before the _fresh' nmg breeze , That came across the lawn : 'twas not day-break , And thousands slumbered softly at their ease , Whilst birds reposed amongst the leafy trees , And start were twinkling in the broad bine sky , As if design'd to charm the gaie of Nature ' s eye . Bat , won the air grew colder , and the moon . Was half obscured behind a maatling cloud , _And suddenly the darkness reigns , bnt soon The gray dawn breaks , the sun throws off bis shroud , And bursting forth with brilliancy , then loud The birds their notes sang sweet in every grove , And Nature seemed one scene of joy and love . It was the glorious first of May—aday

      ShaH henceforth shine in Labour's history ' s page , When Fr eedom ' s path was opened , and the Way Was thronged with Labour ' s sons of every age , And slaves made free marched forward to engage Their natural inheritance , to till The land om Labour ' s first estate , " O'Connorville . " The fields were green , the flowers fresh and fair . With dew drops hanging from each silken breast . The sportive lambs and bounding deer , the hare Sped lightly o ' er _ths plains ; amongst the rest The stately swan swam on the pool with snow white

      breast _. Amid such scenes who would not rather dwell , Than be immured within a factory hell t * * * An 3 there be boldly stood the pride of those To whom ha was " a present" made by one Of tyranny's best friends , and freedom ' s foev Betrayer of bis country . He is gone !

      * * * * * * Let Erin weep all hope of glory's gone . Her children might have freed her , . if not mad To spurn the aid of her brave , noblest son _. To glut the malice of a vicious , bad Old man , who pilfered them of all they bad , Then shared the spoil with vile place . huntffif _^ knaves _, And sent bis famish'd dupes to shroudless graves . Bat wbovriH dare dispute the honesty Of brave O'Connor , founder of the plan , That ultimately will set Labour free _. And teach the millions the true _righis of man ! Who have been plundered since the world began By base land robbers , and such selfish hordes As lawyers , parsons , and the factory lords ! Michael _Sessave . Barnsley , May 22 nd , 1847 .

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      Brougham Versus Brougham On The New Poor...

      BROUGHAM versus BROUGHAM ON THE NEW POOR-LAW . Bt Richard Oastler . London : W . J . Cleaver , Baker-street , _Partman-Bquare . At the present moment , when the vaunted •* boon , " acknowledged a failure by its _concoctors and supporters , is undergoing the process of patching and tinkering to prolong its existence , until such time as s Radical Reform of tbe Commons' House of Parliament shall place in the hands of the people the power to utterly sweep it away , —at this moment Mr Oastler ' s pamphlet must command more than ordinary interest , and must commend itself to the perusal of all anxious to arrive at correct views on tbe subject therein treated of . The body of the pamphlet consists of letters addressed to the editor ofthe Horning Post , showing op the frauds , inconsistencies j

      and calumnies for which Lord Brougham has rendered himself so notorious . The "Dedication " to the Duke of Wellington is lengthy and almost filled with quotations from scarce documents showing the real character of the Poor Law , and extractsillus * trative and defensive of the rights of the poor , from Blackstone , Locke , Grotius , _Pufiendorf , Montesquieu , Coke , Paley , Saddler and others . An " appendix " of twenty-eight pages follows , addressed to Lord John Russell . It would have been well for England ' s happiness and for Lord John Russell ' s fame , if " his Lordship" had had the moral courage _toact on the advice contained m this " appendix . " friends of the people and enemies of the Malthusian Poor Law , should read and circulate this admirable defence ofthe rights of the poor .

      Thoughts On The Poor Relief Bui For Irel...

      Thoughts on the Poor Relief BUI for Ireland . By John . Earl of Shrewsbury . London : C . Dolman , 61 , New Bond-street . The argument of this pamphlet is devoted to showing that the Irish Poor Relief Bill will both rain the landlords , and starve the people . The author esti mates the number of individuals in Ireland entitled to _assistance nnderthe new poor law , and possibly _requiring its provisions , at jive millions . On the other hand , "the great majority ofthe Irish landlords are banknipts . ' _'''Two-thirds of the _nettincsmeof land in Ireland goes to the mortgagee , _orencombrancers of one sort or another . " Lord Shrewsbury clearly shows the inefficeney ofthe Poor Law to cure , or even alleviate the evils it b intended to grapple with ; but he shows also , perhaps without intending it , the horrible nature of Irish landlordism , as proved by its frightful results . Some awfuldetails are given of the misery , pestilence , and death , which have ravaged Ireland during the past few months : and an

      exposure is made of the vampire grain dealers , to read which makes one ' s blood run fire . " Never was speculation so rife in every article of human food , and never were the gains of the corn merchant , the hnxter , and the shipowner , so excessive . On one small cargo of maiie from St Michael ' s , twothonsand pounds were realized ! for the very same maize which , in Jane , was to be bought at 6 % . _the-iuarterin London , in January sold at 80 s ; and , singular to say , this same maize is now on its way back to Madeira ; whilst American flour is re-shipping at Cork for Liverpool . " OTrnlydoes Lord Shrewsbury say , "We have indeed paid dearly for this new-fangled doctrine , that government have nothing to do with supplying food for the people . " That doctrine is the doctrineof robbers , who with " Free Trade " on their lips , aspire to the worst of " monopolies "—that of having the exclusive privilege , by means of their capita ] , of trafficking in the food and lives ofthe people If Justice had her due , these miscreants would share the fate of Foulen .

      Ike Evils Of Ireland: Their True Source,...

      Ike Evils of Ireland : their True Source , and only Sufficient Remedy . By the Rev . _Tresham D . Gregg , M . A ., Chaplain of St Nicholas Within , Dublin . London : R . Groombridgeand Sons , Paternoster row . _Jlohmna the Second for once spoke the troth when he named the author of this pamphlet Trash Gregg . What cm exceed in drivelling absurdity the assertion , that the source of the evils of Ireland is "Popery ; " and the remedy , Protestantism ? We will give onr readers one taste of this rabid production : — Host remarkable was the time at which this judgment * occurred . No sooner had the nation set its seal to the

      Act which endowed Haynooth , that Act whereby the government of the day made a national and permanent provision for the supply ofthe "lying legends" and the " superstitious blasphemies" of Popery , and all its moral rottenness for tbe food of tbe souls of tbe people , than a mysterious judgment changed their temporal food into a mass of putridity , and struck down tbe clamorous millions hungering with famine to the earth . But , again , it may be said , why should ths people be visited when the English Parliament was in fruit ! as if the Word of € od did not show us that it has ever been through the afflictions of the people that God Almighty visits ths pride of statesmen . David sinned , and his people perished in thousand * by pestilence , thus touching the King in the nearest part , while be himself in misery exclaimed , " These sheep , what have they done V In effect , through tbe whole Bible we find that the sins of ruler * were visited op-is their people .

      Does not Mr Gregg see the inevitable conclusion to which anv man of sense and feeling must come , if accepting his version of " God ' s Judgments ? " The editor of the JZeasoner and his friends should pass a vote of thanks to the " Chaplain of St Nicholas Within . Dublin . " Let as , in justice to Englishmen , add , that this rabid _Protestant parson , and intolerant denunciator ofthe faith of seven millions of Irish people , is not a " Saxon , " but , by his own statement , an Irishman . Did

      " St Patrick banish all the snakes , And bother al the varmint P WedoabtiJ .

      Flax, The Remedy For Ireland' S Distress...

      Flax , the Remedy for Ireland ' s Distress . London : J . Thomas , I , Finch-lane , CornbilL Whatever _msj be the real value ofthe suggested " remedy" by the author of this pamphlet , it unquestionably bears the stamp of common sense , and is , therefore , a vast improvement on Trash Gregg ' s Protestant panacea . The writer , whose production first appeared in the shape of a letter tothe Times , bearing the _signature of " Uibernicns , " argues that linen is the staple manufacture of Ireland ; that the soil and climate of that country are exceedingly favourable for the growth of flax ; that flax improves the land , if manured with liquid night-soil during the plant ' s vegetation : that Belfast owes her prosperity to the

      linen manufacture , in spite of the annual drain of from £ 6 , 000 . 000 to £ S , 000 , 000 . paid to the foreigner for thesupply ofthe raw material ; and that thissum might , and ought to be paid to growers of tbe flax in the south and west of Ireland . He advises that government _shonld for this vear direct the cultivation of flax , and that Relief Committees should see tothe _emplsyment of small cultivators in this way , which would be much batter than setting them to work at making roads , which will produce no return . The suggestioss cf " Hibernicus" are worthy of the prompt consideration ofthe parties to whom they are addressed . As a " remedy , " they are not worth much , but as embodying one of the many suggested a ' palliatives , " they may not be valueless .

      * The Failure Of Thepotato Crop.

      * The failure of thepotato crop .

      Poland's Regeneration. S3 E ?*** » «5 E ...

      REGENERATION . s 3 _?*** » _« _5 _fr _^ ng editorial article from the _ifatfnffftamifr _;^ of Friday , May 21 st- — _^ we _, PORTUGAL AND POLAND . Polarui is crushed ' neath the heavy roof * nPnn _»^ i _despnasms ; her liberties are _aU _Sged _^ hfr children scattered , and the last remnant of her _nanonahty _, apparently annihilated . . - Cha ? ned \ _wd bleeding ' neath the scourge f tyranny , she now ap _? pealsfrom the injustice ofthe present to ahumaner and more _enlu-htened future , for vindication and _£ sUtution . As a nation , endives _buffn the part , or in tne souls of indignant patriots , driven as exile * to alien _shons _. witb no ennntry _bntthe world to clineto andno patrimc . nybutthathope _, whoseimageri 8 esfrom tne _asbes of their murdered ancestry , and points with prophetic wand to the dawn of a brighter day over tbeir now mined clime . "

      Poland , the weak , the defenceless , is . crushed by the . arbitrary mi ght of banded armies , the Hired tools of _tyranny , the . bullies of thrones , where tight and _freedom are irrevocably banned . Treaties have been violated that the popular cause might receive its death-blow , and Cracow , the only remaining figment of Poland ' s nationality , has been transformed into its tomb . he downfall ef Poland is bnt another instance ofthe weaker right , overpowered by the stronger wrong . Her extinction is a fresh blow levelled at popular freedom : and the same _breefce which bore her expiring cry , also bore the exulting shout of victorious

      despotism to the ears of startled Europe . ' 'Poland ia crushed , at the _expenseof a treaty to which England herself was pledged , and hence the same blow which blotted b » r out as a nation " from the map ofthe world , wounded England ' s honour , impeached her justice , and implied her willingness to give the lie to her own promises , rather than interfere with the oppressor on behalf of the oppressed . And yet England looked on , and met the enormity with a cold and formal protest , that no diplomatiepunctilio micht be omitted , but moved not an arm in defence of the persecuted , evinced no enthusiasm on behalf of oatraged libert * . She grumbled , as in duty bound , and there thematter ended .

      It is true that had England in terfered more vigorously _, she would have assumed the position of champion of a popular and democratic cause , which would no doubt have been deemed a - _» ery unseemly sort of thine by conventional statesmen , and objected to as establishing a very dangerous precedent . The idea of aristocratic power-worshipping England joining issue with despotism on behalf of liberty , and proclaiming her ? elf the vindicator of popular right in the person of Poland ; such an idea , we say , were indeed a somewhat novel one . It is curious to note

      how monarchy limited , standsby monarchy absolute , rather than make common cause with patriots , and masses thirsting after democracy . Not often do we catch " the powers that be" violating diplomatic properties so far as to unite with the people against the King . No ! no ! The King against the people , as often as necessary , bnt the people against the Bans is treason—a black , vulgar , ragged sort of thing —smacking too stronsly of freedom , progress , and " the swinish multitude , " to be thought of with aught else than horror and contempt .

      It is on this principle we account for England ' s want of enthusiasm on behalf of belied and insulted Poland . Eer canse was too ranch of the popular order _, the tendencies of her mind were too democratic for such a proper sort of country to interfere with them . Liberty is all very well in the abstract—our Cabinet statesmen wax warm in its praise , at proper times and in proper places;—that is to say , when and where it is regarded as a very pretty idea , convenient to talk about , but nothing more ; bnt to talk of quarrelling with _, those good and powerful men who sway the destinies of Russia , Austria , and Prussia , on account of their , violation of the last rights held by Poland would have been _vulgar _. horridly impolitic ; and so Polish nationality died , and _England sent a

      formal message to the effect that she did not altogether approve ofthe transaction , bat made no sign of indignation and abhorrence which could ruffle her dignity , or disturb her friendly relations with the reckless despotisms called foreign powers . , But change the scene , and turn from Poland to the [ Peninsula , and note how strangely circumstances alter cases—learn that England , though unprepared I to join hands with a people against a __ despot ; is willing enough to make common canse with a despot against a people . Portugal is at this moment in a state of revolution , —the power of the insurgents appear likely enough to beat down the power of the monarchy;—Portugal sustains to England the relation of an old ally , and hence England flies to the rescue ef Donna Maria ,

      and hoists her flag of intervention in the Tagus . _Naw the insurrection of Portugal has been brought about by the downright treachery and moral recklessness of her Queen;—it is an effort of oppressed , deceived , and insulted millions to rid themselves of a load of slavery which has become too grievous to be borne ; -it is a crusade against tyranny in its most cruel and obnoxious form ; and hence English intervention on behalf ofthe Queen is absolute treason to the cause of popular liberty , and can only be regarded as officious and _unseeraly meddling , nnderthe cover of a policy most antiquated , for the purpose of serving designs most sinister , and altogether antagonistic to the spirit of the English people . Portugal may be an old ally of England ,

      bnt does it therefore follow that England has righteously interfered to conserve the power of a tyrant , and thwart the wishes of her indignant subjects ?—does it therefore follow that England ' s blood most be shed , and her gold expended to repress the rising spirit of independence which menaces with ruin the despotism of the Peninsula , and bids fair to transform Portugal from a shame-brand into an exemplar of the nations . 01 shame , shame 1 on a prostitution of onr national wealth and energy sach as this , — shame on the monstrous inconsistency perpetrated by those , who , though the leaders of a free people , dare to co-operate with foreign despots in perpetuating slavery , and rolling back that tide of popular progress which is bearing tyranny onward to its destined tomb . Why , we may be asked , start forward

      as the guardians of a despotic Queen against an exasperated people , and yet refuse to stretch forth a single hand to vindicate tbe independence o f a people against the usurpations of a despot ? Why should a yonng . crowned virago be sheltered from the storm raised by her own enormities , her insolent disregard ofthe wishes of her subjects , and yet a nation be left in trial ' s darkest hour to the pelting of despotism ' s pitiless storm , uncared for and unaided ? Why!—why because liberty has yet to find a throne in the hearts of England ' s cabinets , —becausepopular independence has yet to win the honour and the sympathy of the advisers of the English throne—because policy and expediency are allowed to usurp the place of justice , —because eternal rieht has still , e ' en in this isle of ours , to cbase into oblivion its opponent wrong . Had the cause of Poland been the canse of rao

      narchy , of antiquated power , of conventional privilege , we are disposed to believe that the sympathies of _Downing-street , had waxed warm enongh to born up in toio a treaty which had been so __ far set at nought by the parties originally framing it . Pity enongh would she have found , had there been some rotten old despotism to vindicate , and some monarchical power to converse . What a wail wonld have gone up from the War-office into the echoing heavens 1 What fierce appeals had then been made to the manly pride and sympathy ofthe nation ! What thundering in ministerial organs—what flaming speeches by cabinet toadies ! How dock-yards wonld have resounded with harsh notes of preparation ! How important the independence of Poland to the preservation of European peace , and the prolongation of that peculiar something , called balance of power !

      But , alas ! for Poland ; her cause was democratic rather than monarchical ; her contest , the contest of the weaker right with the stronger wrong ; her dream , the dream of freedom ; her aim , emancipation from the manacles of serfdom , and the realization of a glorious nationality . The revolutions of Poland have all be < Q naked by one great ruling idea—tbe idea of rait- ngfiro n a colony into a nation , —from a pen of helo t * , d iven to and fro by despotism , into a clime of men , competent to resist such despotism , and hunt it from their soil with execration . And this was the cause why England stood

      coldly by , watching the digging of her grave , and listening to the knell which announced her extinction among nations : —this the cause why for her we had no succour , though to the despotism of Portugal we extend an aid most hearty;—though wise enough to yield to the pressure of popular thought , when it becomes mighty enough to demand imperiously the achievement of reform , we have yet to realise that far nobler and more God-like wisdom , which would render England at once the home of truest freedom , and the vindicator of freedom ' s canse throughout the wide , ever-progressing world .

      We have now before us tbe " First Anual Report ofthe Democratic Committee for Poland ' s Regeneration , " accompanied by an eloquent and dignified address " To the People ot Great Britain and Ireland , " and we have indulged in the foregoing observations for the purpose of again expressing our unfading sympathy with a cause , which we believe to be identified with the best interests of troth , justice , and humanity . Though welt aware of the difficulties with which this philanthropic band will have to combat , we would not have them relax in a single effort , but press on resolutely , armed with a deep and fervent assurance of success . The cause of right , of liberty , of human regeneration , maybe unpopular ,

      sneered at , despised;—bnt there is a power in truth , invincible , and sure , which shall crown it yet victorious , and cause tbe song of freedom to ring in Despotism ' s dishonoured tomb . Men -may persecute the ApostleSi they cannot harm their cause , or bolt out a truth , once spoken , from the memory ofthe world _, jfiid so will it be in reference to Poland and hsr vindicators . Crushed is she now , and they but leaders of a hope most forlorn ; yet despair not , insulted land ! faint not , earnest advocates of the right and true ; for truth and right are ever safe , come what may of wrong and falsehood . The frost and snow wrap in winter ' s pall tbe earth ' s beauteous verdure , and fait nature seems dead ; but when the

      Poland's Regeneration. S3 E ?*** » «5 E ...

      spring ' s rosy smile _appears , that pall departs , and all is life and loveliness again : / and so of , Poland may we say , - the' pall of despotism' hangs ' over her , —her energy seems killed , and her glory' fled ; bnt -wait awhile ; , and awakened by the spring-like , energy of an improved and more enlightened world , she will rise triumphantly above her pall ot degradation / and proclaim herself , a nation once again .

      These Are The Chambers' Tf 1845. ' ¦ ' |...

      THESE ARE THE CHAMBERS' tF 1845 . ' ¦ ' _| Wehave already shown toonr readers the Chambers' of 18474 we now ' refer to the previous opinions of these changeable economists . Whence this wonderful change *! —— .

      IMPROVEMENT OF WASTE LANDS-, : SPADE HUSBANDRY . ( Fromthe Information for the People , No . 72 J [ Continued from ; our lost , ]' First , Whether the cottage farmer with his six acres can raise as much produce , and at as cheap a rate as the capitalist can from any given six acres on his farm ? If he cannot raise so much at so cheap a price , and cannot pay the same proportion of rent , cottage farming is decidedly injurious to the community ; but if he can compete on all these points , - there can be no solid objection against the practice .

      Fromthe foregoing'evidence of Sir John Sinclair , and from what is known respecting spade _husbandry in Belgium and some other continental states , it is placed beyond a doubt that more produce is raised for human subsistence—space , soil , and climate being equal—by small farmers using only manual labour , than by large farmers with horses and ploughs ; and it is certain that the produce is always more accessible to the public than that of large farmers , who , by means of their capital , which is very frequently not their own , but borrowed from banks , cm bold themselves indifferent respecting sales , till , by a fortunate contingency , the prices riee and become highly remunerative .

      Second , How far is spade husbandry available in the shape of paid labour to the capitalist farmer ? We are unable to answer this question from onr own experience , and therefore refer to a paper written by a competent authority oh the subject . This is an eBsay by Mr Archibald Scott of Southfield _, near Haddington , who obtained a prize of £ 100 , which the Rev . C . Gardiner , a clergyman of the Church of England , bad proposed to grant for the best plan ot giving employment to the poor . - ''I-am / quite convinced , " proceeds Mr Scott , " there is but one way of employing the surplus population of England and Ireland , and that is by a judicious introduction of' spade husbandry ., To show that I am not a mere theorist , but a

      practical man , I may mention that I rent a farm from tbe Earl of Wemyss in East Lothian , consisting of 530 Scotch acres ; that I have cultivated land to a considerable extent with the spade for the last three years , and that the result has exceeded my most sanguine expectations . In 1831 , 1 determined to ascertain the difference of the expense and produce between trenching land with the spade and summer fallowing with the plough in the usual way : I therefore trenched thirteen acres of my summer fallow-break in the months of June and July ; I found the soil about fourteen inches deep , and I turned it completely over , thereby putting up a clean and fresh soil in the room of the foul and exhausted

      mould , which I was careful to put at the bottom of the trench ; this operation I found cost about £ 410 _i per Scotch acre , paying my labourers with Is . fid . per day . .-The rest of the field , which consisted of nine acres , I wrought with the plough in the usual way , giving it six furrows , with the suitable harrowing . I manured the field in August ; the trenched got eight-cart-loads per acre , the ploughed land sixteen ; the field was sown in the middle of September . The whole turned bat a balky crop as to straw , particularly the trenched portion , which was very much lodged . On threshing them out , I found them to stand as under : — By trenched wheat per acre , 52 bushels at

      6 s . 9 d . . . . ... £ 17 U 0 To two years' rent at £ 210 s . per acre , . . . , £ 500 Expense of trenching , . . 4 10 0 Seed , three bushels at 6 s . 9 d ., 10 8 Eight cart-loads of manure at is ., 112 0 Expense of cutting , threshing , _andmarketiag , . . . 1 10 0 Front . . . 3 18 9 £ 1 T 11 0 ploughed wheat per acre , 42 bushels at 6 s . 9 d ., . . . - . 14 3 6 To two years' rent at £ 2 10 s . per

      acre , . . . . . £ 5 0 0 Six _furrews and harrowing at 10 s ., 3 0 0 Seed , three bushels at if . 9 d ., " . 10 3 Sixteen cart-loads of manure at 4 s . 3 4 0 Expense of cutting , threshing , aud marketing , . , . . 110 0 Profit , . . 093 . £ 14 S 6 I now saw , that though it might be difficult to trench over my fallow-break during the summer months , it was by no means making the most of the Bystem , as the operation was not only mere expensive , owing to the land being hard and dry during the summer , bnt that it was a useless waste of time to takes whole year to perform an operation that could

      be as well done in a few weeks , provided labourers could be had ; and as in all agricultural operations losing time is losing money , as the rent must he paid whether the land is carrying a crop or not , so that in taking one year to fallow the land , and another to grow the crop , two years' rent must be charged against the crop , or at least there must be a rent charged against the rotation of crops for the year the land was fallow . As I felt satisfied that , by trenching with the spade , the land would derive all the advantages of a summer fallowing , and avoid all the disadvantages attending it , I determined on trenching thirty-four acres of my fallow-break immediately on the crop being removed from tbe ground , and had it sown with wheat by the middle of November , 1832 .

      I may here remark , that I did not apply any manure , as I thought the former crop was injured- by being too bulky . Aa it h now threshed out and disposed ot , the crop per acre stands as follows : — By average of 34 bushels per acre at 7 s . £ 15 8 0 To rent of land per acre ........... £ 2 10 0 Expenses of trenching . 4 0 0 Seed .. 110 Cutting , threshing , and marketing 1 10 0 Profit ...... 6 7 0 £ 15 8 0 The advantages of trenching over summer fallow are , in my opinion , very decided , as it is not only cheaper , bat , as far as I can yet judge , much more effectual . I am so satisfied of this , not only from the

      experiments above noticed , but from the apparent condition ofthe land after it has carried the crop , that I have this' autumn cultivated about a hundred acres with the spade , and the crops at present are very promising . When I first commenced , I was laughed at by my neighbours , bat now when they see me persevering in what they considered a very chimerical project , they are suspending their judgment , and several of them have- made considerable experiments Hub year . I should think there are at least two hundred and fifty acres under crop cultivated in this way this season in East Lothian ; in 1831 , the year 1 commenced , there was not a single acre . I have therefore the satisfaction of knowing that I have been tbe means of causing £ 1000 to he

      spent this year amongst the labouring classes in my immediate neighbourhood ; and I feel confident , that should the season turn out favourably for the wheat crop , and fair prices obtained , their employers will be handsomely remunerated for their outlay . 1 do not say that this system will succeed in every description of soil , as it must necessarily be of some depth to admit of the operation ; but there are few districts where such soil will not be found in sufficient abundance to give ample employment tothe surplus population of the neighbourhood . Now , this is going on in a country where agricultural labourers are better employed than almost any other in Great Britain . The system was not introduced , nor » it persevered in , for the purpose of giving employment to the poor , but entirely for the benefit of the employer . The East Lothian

      Agricultural Society are now offering premium ? for the most satisfactory reports on the subject . I last year received a medal Irnm the Highland Society of Scotland for introducing the system ; and , what I value still more , I received a piece of plate f rom the labourers I employed , as a token of their gratitude . The Bystem , I admit , is only in its infancy ; but I have this year put it completely to the test ; and should it succeed as well as it has done hitherto , it must take root and spread over the kingdom ; and the landed interest in those districts of England where the poor-laws are so oppressive , and still more , the Irish proprietors , will do well to investigate the system , and have it introduced with the least possible delay , that what is now a burden on their estates may become a source of wealth , and what is now a curse may become a blessing .

      This svstem , if it succeed to my expectation , possesses all the requisites you require ; it furnishes employment for the surplus population by substituting manual labour for that of horses—and certainly , if there is a lack of food for both , it is desirab e that the one should give place to the other . It will make bread plenty , as the naked summer fallows of Great Britain will be covered with grain instead of lying waste for a season ; it will render corn-laws _unnecessarv . as we will be then _independent foreign supplies ;

      farmers will be enriched who are enterprising and industrious , and they only deserve to be so ; it will raise rents , by increasing the capabilities of the soil , enabling the farmer to cultivate wheat to double the present extent ; it will raise up a home-market for our manufactures , as the paupers , who are at present starving , or living a burden on the parish , will find employment , and thereby be enabled to procure the necessaries and comforts of life ; it will check the poor-laws , as there will then be none but the aged and the helpless dependent on parochial aid , ' ( TQieeontmtKdJ

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      . ; . ELECTION MOVEMENTS .- \ « B MBN . _ We -6 bserve " in one of the ? abni & country papers a paragraph stating that opposition is threatened to MrBannerman-nothing of thekind is known here . ' ... " " ' * _t i _^™ _, _^^' -Mr SeriBant Byles will be opposed by Lord Nugent at _AyleBbury . . , > i . _y _$ xo I" _tiered , will not be contested , but McUindley will" walk the course" again . ; Athlone . —Mr R . B . Mosse , of London , is a candidate for thb place .

      _BAin . —This city is now embarked in all the bustle and excitement of an election , contest . It had been understood for some time past that the ' present members , Lord Duncan and Mr Roebuck , would be opposed by Lord Ashley , to whom a requisition signed by , a number of electors , chiefly in the Conservative interest , was presented ' about two months since . On Saturday an address was issued , and _extensively circulated throughout the city and suburbs by the sitting members , Lord Duncan and J . A . Roebuck , asking for a renewal of support at the next election ! On Monday they met their constituents , and severally gave a retrospect of their political conduct . On Tuesday , a numerous meeting of the _requisitionists to Lord Ashley ,. and others , was held at the _Assem-% r room , for ; the purpose of meeting his lordship , from

      and hearing him an exposition of his views . Lord Ashley addressed the meeting at great length _, and evidently to its satisfaction . He referred to the circumstances under which heappeared before them , and denied that he was _chargeable with having d * utnrbed the peace of the city .. Fie had been invited to come forward by them , they having to discharge the high and responsible trust reposed in them by electing the person whom the * - believed would best represent their principles in the council of the nation , and give them effect by a steady and judicious course of action . The nob _' e lord ' s address was received with marked enthusiasm , and at its conclusion a resolution thanking him for consenting to come forward was , upon the motion of Gen . Daubeny passed . It is understood that a canvass will be immediately commenced .

      . Birmingham —It is now stated that the friends of Mr Muntz and Mr Wm . Scholefield have united for the purpose of ensuring the return of those gentlemen , to the exclusion of Mr Richard Spooner . Nevertheless , the friends of Mr Spooner ( and not without good grounds for their belief ) express the strongest confidence of success . Bolton is to be contested by Dr Bowring and Mr Cockburn , Q . C .. in the Liberal interest , shonld Mr P . _Ainsworth , the present Conservative candidate , determine to stand again . Bostok . —The Right Hon ; , H . Ellis , who represented this borough in 1820 . will offer himself as a _candi- 'ate to succeed Mr Brown ' rigg in the Conservativeinterest . '•' ' , , .. !

      Bhistoi _,. —The return of the Honourable T . H . Berkeley , the present Whig member , is looked upon as certain ; but Mr W . Friop , the unsuccessful Conservative candidate in _^ 1837 and 1841 ( on the latter occasion by only 55 ) , will again enter the field against MrP . W . S . Miles . .- _, _-, B ; . .. . . Br & dford . — Mr Hardy , the present Conservative member , has addressed a letter to his constituency stating hu intention , on account of his years and infirmities , to retire from the representation of Bradford , at the next election . Colonel Thompson will be a candidate . It is rumoured that Mr Wilkins , the barrister , intends to contest the borough in the Conservative interest .

      BncKtNonAMSHniB . —Mr Disraeli has announced himself a candidate for the representation of this county , in which he has lately purchased a ennsiderable estate . We give the following extract from his " Address : "— "It is now many years ago since , in your County-hall . I upheld the cause of the territorial constitution of England , as the best and sorest foundation for popular rights and public liberty , imperial power and social happiness . The maintenance ofthe agricultural industry of the country is the necessary condition of the enjoyment of that constitution ; and I have , therefore , independently of all other considerations , opposed , during the ten years in which I have had the honour of sitting in Parliament _, every attempt which bad a tendency to

      diminish the numbers and influence of those classes which are directly dependent on the land . Influenced by this principle , I offered , during the recent assault on onr _protectivesystem , a faithful , though fruitless _, opposition to that project . What has since occurred has not . in any degree , changed the conclusions at whicb I then arrived as to the scheme of the late Administration . The temporary high price that is stimulated by famine is not the agricultural prosperity which _L wish to witness ; while , in the full play of _unrestricted importation ; I already recognise ajdisturbing cause , which may shake our monetary system to its centre , and which nothing but the happy accident of our domestic enterprise has prevented , I believe , from exercising a very injurious

      effect on the condition of the working classes of Great Britain . Notwithstanding this opinion , I am not , however , one of * those who wonld counsel , or who would abet , any attempt factionsly and forcibly to repeal the measures of 1 & 46 . The legislative snnction which they have obtained requires that they should receive an ample experiment ; and I am persuaded that this test alone can satisfy the nation either of their expediency or their want of fitness . A domestic affliction precluded me from being present during the recent debates on the subject of national education . It is but fair , therefore , that I should state , that had I been in my place , I should have supported the measure of the Government . I should have ' done so upon two _srounds—firstly , that

      it was a considerable advance in a right direction ; and , secondly , because the tendency of that measure is , not by investing them with any exclusive privileges , but by securing them a fair occasion for their exertions , mainly to place theeducation of the people in the hands ofthe clergy , whom I have ever wished to see in the van of civilization , and occupying their legitimate posts , as guides and instructors of tbe people . Although I have always been of opinion that our constitution in Church and State has been an union far more beneficial to the State than to the Church , which under all circumstances , must exist and flourish from its inherent principle , I shall , at all times , heartily maintain that alliance , since it has become identified with the habits and best feelings of

      the people , and has , for a Ion ; series of years , happily secured to us the blessings alike of orthodoxy and of religions freedom . For these , among other reasons , I thought it my duty to oppose , in 1845 , the grant to the College of _Maynooth , leading , as it invariably and avowedly did , to the endowment of the priesthood of another Church . I see no reason to regret the _oopoBition which I offered to that measure , and I hold it to be quite consistent with an earnest desire to secure to our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects the civil and political equality to which they are entitled . In the great struggle between popular principles and liberal opinions , which is the characteristic of onr age , I hope ever to bo found on tbe side of the people and of the institutions of England .

      It is our institutions that have made us free , and can atone keep us so , by the bulwark which they offer to the insidious encroachment of a convenient , yet enervating , system of centralization , which , if left unchecked , will prove fatal to the national character . Therefore I have ever endeavoured to cherish our happy habit of self-government , as sustained by a . prudent distribution _oflocal authority . For these reasons , I am of opinion that the right of supreme control necessary to the due administration of the Poor Law should be exercised by the chief depository of power in every _coouty , and that the supervision of our parishes should not be entrusted to strangers . It is unnecessary for me to state , that I shall support all those measures the object of which is to elevate the moral and social condition ofthe working classes bv lessening their hours of toil , by improving their

      means of health , and by cultivating their intelligence . These are objects which it is not unpleasing for me to remember I endeavoured , in common with some of my friends , to advance , before they engaged theaftentien of Government , or were supported by triumphant Parliamentary majorities . " Cambridge _Codkit . —A requisition from the freeholders having been presented to Lord John Manners , with which his lordship has complied , settles , we believe , the affair for the county as quietly and as Bnuglyas my Lord Hardwioke and the Duke of Rutland could wish . Tbe future members will , therefore , no doubt , be Mr Eliot Torke _, and Mr Allix , and instead ofthe present member , Mr Eaton , who is labouring under a most distressing malady , Lord John Manners !; being the first return of a member or nominee of the Rutland family as to this town or county since the passing of the Reform

      Act . CiKTBBBnRY . —It is stated that the Hon . G . Smy the and Lord Albert Conyngham will walk over tbe course for this city . _CHRisTCiuracH . —Itis currently rumoured that a candidate on the Liberal interest will be brought forward to oppose our present member , the Honourable Captain Harris , at the next election for the borough . Cuihbrob . —Mr Cardwell has issued an address to the electors of this borough , in which he states that it is not his intention to solicit their votes at the approaching election . Mr Wilson , a former candidate , has issued an address soliciting the suffrage of the electors . * * ¦ -

      Denbigh . —Mr Mainwaring ' s valedictory address appears in the Chester Courant ; also a paragraph intimating that the Hon . W . Bagot will again solicit the votes ofthe electors for Denbighshire . Debut . —The death of the Earl of Besborough has caused a vacancy in the representation of Derby , by the removal of Lord Duncannon to the House of Peers . The Hon . Frederick Leveson Gower , brothorofLordGrenville _, and nephew of the Duke of Devonshire , has been brought forward by the Whigs . Mr P . M'Grath is likely to be brought forward by the Chartists , who are preparing a requisition to that gentleman . ' '"

      Dovbr . —Various reports are in circulation , among which is one that Sir John Rae Reid has expressed his intention not to come forward , and that Government will send down another candidate to join with Mr Rice . Lord Lincoln , Mr Green , the extensiv

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      shipowner , and others , are mentioned as likely to offeron _. the Conservative side . ; but these are only rumours . GRK 8 NocK . -i-Mr . Walter Baine , it would appear , does not intend to . stind again asaoandidate for the representation of this town in Parliament . There _„ _L- r _» n < . aboufc for signature , under the fg ? _W _»!* friends , a requisition to Lord . 2 * _ft' _Pl her _««« Marqiie » of Tweeddale , i ' _l 0 fl 8 _Admiraity j to become a candidate ™ I _£ « ° g _Motion Mr Alexander Dunlop , _ad-SS _^ _JvD ° Pp 08 e _t _Mr r Bah > e on the last occasion , and very nearly _defeated-ium , is again in the

      _HunnBRSFiKLD .-There will be a division in the "Liberal" party on the Education question . At present the only candidate in the field is the sitting member , Mr StansfiemV . IIvj * . —Sir Walter James has published an address , announcing that it is not his intention to stand again for the borough . Mr . Hammer has also given a similar intimation , stating as his reason fer retiring from the representation , that he has been induced to offer his services to another . constituency . ; Ihvkbness Burgh .- —We are enabled to state , upon

      good , authority , that Mr Morrison , tbe present member for the burgh of Inverness , Forres , Nairn , and Fortrose , will not be allowed to go unopposed at the ensuing general election . Rumour asserts that Sir John Macpherson Grant , of Ballindalloch , is to oppose Mr Morrison . Ee is said to be a Liberal . King ' s _^ _Corair . —If the present members come forward , it is quite _[ likely they would be returned ; but should either Sir Andrew Armstrong or Colonel _Westenra retire , ; Mr _Cassidy , of Monastereven , and other candidates , on the Liberal interest , would be in thefieldi

      _Kildarb . — There will be a change in the representation of this , county . The Marquess of Kildare , the son of the Duke of Leinster , comes forward , and his return may be considered quite certain ! Mr Moore _O'Ferrall is canvassing , and if he should be supported by the Leinster interest , his return might also be calculated upon . \ Lancashire ( South ) . —Viscount Brackley , _' the eldest son of our late representative , Lord Francis _Egertoti _, now Earl of EUeBmere , has offered himself as a candidate for the representation of South Lancashire , in the place of Mr Entwistle , who retires ob the dissolution of Parliament . The noble lord comes forward as a Free Trader , and a supporter of the general policy of the Russell Ministry . Leicester . —It is said that Mr Sturge , of Birmingham has been invited to offer himself as a candidate for the representation of the borough , but that the hon . gentleman has respectfully declined the proffered honour .

      Lincoln . —The following is a list of candidates for tho representation of this city at the next election : — I . Colonel : Sibthorp ; 2 . Mr W .: R . Collett ; 3 . Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton ; 4 . ' Mr C . Seeley ; 5 . Mr Weston Cracroft ; 6 . Mr 11 . W . Jones ; 7 . a London Alderman ( who is he ) ? 8 . Mr Beckett Denison ; 9 . Mr , Henry Vincent ; 10 . Mr D . , W . Harvey . <¦ Lothian ( East ) . —Lord Elcho has this week commenced a canvass in East-Lothian on behalf of his son , the Hon . F . Charteris . Another candidate . is expected to appe ? r as an opponent of the game-laws , on which question a powerful body of the tenantry of _Jk'l parties have resolved to unite . Ltmikgton . —Colonel the Honourable G . Keppel will , it is said , succeed to the seat now occupied by Mr Mackinnon .

      Martlebone . —Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart has come forward as a candidate for this borough , on the presumed retirement of Sir Charles Napier .. _MeatA . —A _ ehange in this county is probable . Mr Ford , town-clerk of Dublin , has been called upon by the Repealers , but has hot yet decided . Itis stated that Mr S . Winter , of Tullayhard , will be called upon to stand on the Whig interest . Northumberland ( North ) . —The Newcastle Chronicle states that the friends of Sir Georee Grey have now nearly completed their canvass of the division , and that their labours have been attended with the utmost success . Since this was written , Sir George Grey has published an address to _, the electors , announcing his intention to contest the representation- ' ,. " ; . . Nottingham . —It is reported ' that Mr Feargus O'Connor will contest the borough on the "Six Points . "

      Oloham , it is said , is to be contested by four candidates at the next election : Mr John Fielden , one of the present members ; Mr John Cobbett , barrister , who stood on the death of his father , and was only defeated by 35 votes ; Mr W . J . Fox , of London , Free Trader ; and Mr James Haliday . Oxford .-We hear of no opposition to Mr Wood , who has during the week proceeded with his canvass , and has met with a" most nattering reception in every district that he has visited . —Oxford Chronicle .

      Penrvn and Faimouth . —Mr Mowatt , a gentleman who has already had considerable experience in Parliament , will offer himself as a candidate at the ensuing election . Captain Plumridge will also solicit a renewal of the votes ofthe electors . We learn that Mr Howel Gwynn , who was defeated at the last election , also again intends to offer himself - , and repart says that Captain the Honourable Swynfen Thomas Carnegie , R . N ., _atnresentM . P . for Stafford , contemplates presenting himself to the electors , Plymouth . —Mr Willcock , the Chancery barrister _, who is one ofthe new candidates for Plymouth , in the Liberal interest , paid this town a brief visit in the early par of the present week .

      Qcben ' 8 Corarr . —The Hon . Thomas Vesci , itis stated , retires on account of the state of . health of his father . Lord de Vesci ; and the resignation of the other member . Sir Charles Coote , is also spoken of . Mr Fifctpatrick / who has inherited a large portion of the Ossnry property , and was formerly member for the county , is to start on the Liberal interest . It is probable that Mr _Fitzpatriek and a Conservative will be returned without a contest . Somersetshire . —A Hampshirepaperstates _, "We hear that Mr John Wood , the barrister , is likely to be proposed as a candidate for Somersetshire , on Protestant principles , in opposition to Mr Acland . " Southampton . —We understand that Mr Ccckburn ( Queen ' s Counsel ) will be the Whig candidate at Southampton .

      Stockport . —The Stockport Advertiser says : — "An opinion prevails that one of _thu present members for Stockport , Mr Marsland _, will not again be a candidate . It is said that Mr neald , of Parr _' _s-wood , a _Wesleyan Methodist of moderate politics , will be put in nomination , together with a Mr Gibb , a Manchester wine-merchant . _Ttnemouth—MrG . F . Young , the _extensiveshipowner , and Mr Grey , the private secretary to Lord John Russell , are spoken of as candidates for the representation of the borough of Tynemouth at the next election , in the place of Mr Mitealfe , who resigns . Warrington , as is well known , will be contested by Mr Allcard , in the Liberal interest , and he is about the only gentleman of that neighbourhood who would be likely to cope with Mr J . J . Blackburne , the present Tory member .

      Wakefield . —On Thursday Mr G . _Sandars , the extensive corn factor , of _Alvertherpe Hall , announced himself a candidate for the representation of the borough , in compliance with a requisition soliciting him to allow himself to be put in nomination . Since this was written , another candidate has appeared . Mr G . W . Alexander , of Lonaon , has come forward on the " Liberal" interest . Wbstmbath—Mr Tuites ' resignation has been determined upon . The other member , Mr Chapman , will again be a candidate . Mr John Ennis is spoken of amongst the new candidates . Wexford . —In this county Mr Grogan Morgan , on the Conservative interest , will seek to wrest one of the seats from the Liberals .

      Wexford ( Counti ) _, —The Repealers have named as their two candidates Mr John O'Connell and Mr Sboppard Jeffares , late Major of Wexford . Wicklow ( County ) . —Colonel Acton , one of the present members , retires , after once representing , although he had several times contested the county . There is no talk of Mr James Grattan again coming ferward . Sir Ralph Howard ' _s colleague in the Liberal interest will be , it is said , Lord Milton , who possesses the _sreatest interest in the county , that of tbe immense _Fitztvilliam property , and whose return is represented as quite certain under any circumstances . A Tory opposition is threatened on the part of Mr Hume , of Hume-wood , and a member of the Msnck family , probably a brother of the Earl of Rathdowne .

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      D « ath of John Blanb , Servant to Mr Robert Burns . —Died at Kilmarnock , on the 13 th instant , Mr John Blane , formerly coach-driver , in the 85 th year of his age . By the demise of Mr John Blane , another of those links which connect the poet Burns with the present generation is removed . During the period Burns held the farm of _Mossgiel , deceased was in his service . Deceased frequently accompanied Burns in his visits to the ' Mauohline Belles . ' With one exception , there is now none in Kilmarnock who were personally acquainted with Burns .

      Inhalation of Ether . —At West Ferry , near Gainsboro _' , on Saturday the 8 th inst , an operation for the removal of a cancerous tumour of the breast was performed by Mr Trousdale , of West ButtcrwicK , in the presence of Mr Eminson , jun ,, of Sootier . The patient , in compliance with her own request , was previously subjected to the inhalation of vapour of ether , which was administered by Mr T . Trousdale , of Leeds , from Bell ' s apparatus . She was rendered quite unconscious in seven minutes ; the removal of the tumour was then effected in ahout three minutes , and although extensive incisions were requisite , the patient did not evince the slightest sensation of suffering . After her recovery to consciousness _, she declared that she had felt no pain whatever during the operation . The female is now doing well .

      Within the last year more than 1 , 200 _tailorslaaded at New Y « rk from England . The exportation of corn from the Austrian do minions has been prohibited for five months .

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      Desertions , prom the Household Regiments .-Many desertions have recently taken place front the 1 st Life Guards and the Oxford Blues . . The deserters have , it appears , sailed from Liverpool to America with the view of joining the Mexican army , a belief being entertained ; that English cavalry _soliliers will . ; receive . commissions . It is said that Mexican emissaries are tampering with the British soldiery . Ether . —We learn , from the Medical Times , that within two months 211 operations upon etherised patients have been performed in the Paris hospitals . King Hudson . —We find from the Railway Gazette that " my lord the king" sways an iron empire of 1 , 031 } miles in length , with an annual rereo . ie of £ 2 184 832 . When all the lines m the Hudson empire are complete , it is expected that the revenue will be five millions . .. ' . ¦ _ . v

      The _Troop 3 in the Northern , District . —\ Ve understand that Lieutenant-general Sir Thomas Arbuthnot . the general commanding the -nortnern district , which includes not onJy the northern counties , but Staffordshire , has recently issued orders to the troops under his command , not only in this town , but throughout the district , to hold themselves in readiness to march on duty , at a moment's _^ notice . Sir Thomas has . likewise , ordered strong piequets , of both cavalry and infantry , to be mounted , both by day and night , at each of the barracks in this garrison , to be in instant readiness , should their service he called for . —Manchester Guardian . Removal of the Excise Office—The Excise-Import Office has been removed from the premises in Lower East Smithfield _, near St Katharine ' s Docks , to Tower Hill , where in future the business of that department is to be conducted .

      Destruction of Spanish _Carlists . _—Letters from Barcelona of the 18 th state that , on the 15 th . Col . Baxecos surprised the . band of Tristany , and killed twenty-two of its men , Tristany himself was captured , and conveyed to Solsona , where the Captain-General caused him to be shot .

      Curious Projkct for Retaining Smithfield Mark ** . —A scheme is now on foot for excavating beneath the whole area of Smithfield market , in order to form abattoirs . The plans are nearly completed , and , we understand , will shortly have to be brought before Parliament . A depth of not leas than twenty-five . fret is talked of , as capable of being applied to the purpose of slaughter-houses , and without any want of sufficient drainage or light . The cattle being driven into the market during the night will be slaughtered on the spot , and thus , the projectors think , obviate the main objection to _thepresenfclocality . Mr Andrew Moseley is the architect employed . —The Builder , Plunder . — A package has arrived in the East

      India Docks , addressed to Lord _Hordinge , the bovernor-General of India , containing a bedstead and hangings , and also a quantity of Indian armour ; the former of which is a present to his Excellency , from the Maharajah Dhulip Sine , and the latter having been taken in the late engagement with tbe Sikhs ; the whole of which will be _delivere-1 , for or on account of his lordship , by the special directions of the Lords of the Treasury , duty free . _Makylbbonb Election . —Mr David Salomons has resigned his appointment as returning officer for the borough of Marvlebone . consequent on his having

      become a candidate for its representation , in the room of Sir Charles Napier , at the ensuing election . A Scotch Munchausen—The editor of the _Inverness Courier inserts the following paragraph , as if it were ah ordinary piece of news , which his readers would have no difficulty in believing : — "Lastmonth a person ofthe name of _Macleod , residing at _Rosohall , while out shooting , was so fortunate as to kill twelve wild ducks with one shot ! In 1846 , the same person accomplished a feat which , we dare say , few others have done—he killed two large eagles with one shot ; and in March last , at one _discharge , he shot two swans . Sixteen birds thus fell at three

      shots . " A Contrast , —The top price for . white wheat at Gloucester market this week was 13 s . fid . per bushel , with a tendency to rise . The top price in this week last year wes Ys . 3 d . per bushel , with a tendency to fall . Don Henry . —The marriage of Don Henry of Spain with Donna Elena de _Castella y Skelly Fernandez de Cordova , was celebrated at Rome , on the 6 th , by Mgr . Canali , Patriarch of Constantinople , delegated by the Pope .

      The Jews' Sabbath at _Kenigsberg . —A letter from _Kcanigsberg ( Prussia ) of the 16 th , says that the proposition which has been so often made to the Jews , and as often refused , to celebrate the' Sabbath on Sunday , instead of Saturday , has at last been accepted by 700 Jews of that town , who form the great majority of the Israelite community , " The measure is considered one of great importance , especially in commercial operations . Jewish Congresses in Germany . — The Bavarian government has just given permission to the Rabbis of Bavaria to take part in the Congresses of Rabbis held in different parts of Germany . In conaeqner . ee , the Bavarian Rabbis will be present at the Congress of Jewish theologians , which is convoked for the 16 th Juneat Manhezm , in the Grand Duchy of Baden .

      , Insects . — A correspondent of the Jlfancftesier Guardian says , if those whose houses are infested _, with cockroaches and crickets would pour a little strong vinegar down the crevices and holes where they conceal themselves , they would find that they would not be further troubled with them . Increase of New York . —It has been ascertained that 1 , 910 new buildings were erected in this city during tbe lust year , and that a much greater number is already under contract for the present year . Method in Madness . —In the first illness , when

      Willis , who was a clergyman , entered the room , the king asked him , if he , who wasa clergyman , was not ashamed of himself for exercising such a profession . " Sir , " said Willis , " our Saviour himself went about healing the sick . " "Yes , " answered the king , "but he had not £ 700 a year for it . "—Diary _oftheEarlofMalmesbury . Dons . — A correspondent of the Albion suggests that in a time of scarcity like the present , all dogs , except really useful ones , and " especially those sinfully-pampered ones "ladies' pet dogs _. should bo destroyed .

      The Heat on Sunday . —On the afternoon of Sunday last the thermometer rose to % degrees in the shade . —Liverpool Times ' Awful Visitation !—On Tuesday notices of intended application to be admitted attorneys of the Court of Queen ' s Bench on the first day of Michaelmas Term next , were given by 168 articled clerks , making , with 168 admitted this Trhvty Term , a total of 324 attorneys to be added to the roll . Libut .-Genkral Sir Thomas Pearson . —This digtinguished General Officer died on the 21 st inst _., at his residence , near Bath , in the 66 th year of his age ,

      and after a _military service of 61 years . Thomas Moore the Poet , after passing nearly & week with his old friend Mr Corry , returned to his own cottage in Wiltshire , on Wednesday . During his stay in Cheltenham he appeared to be , considering tears , in good health , and was in tolerable spirits . On two or three mornings he was early on the Montpellier-walk , and seemed always sensitively alive to the influence of music ; and while listening to some of his own . sweet airs , played by our excellent band , was obviously much affected . —Cheltenham Looker-on .

      The Fine old Mansion , Ragley Hall , the next neighbour almost to the archbishop ' s palace , and within sight of Littlemore , the late scene of Mr Newman ' s transition state , has been taken , says the Oxford Chronicle , for the purpose of being converted into a monastery . The Oak has Won . —When the ash tree opens its leaf before the oak , a wet summer usually follows ; and when the oak tree opens its leaf before the ash , a dry summer usually follows . The oak is first this year . Mackarbl _, WEYMOUTn—300 , 000 raackarel were caught in thejwest bay , Weymouth , May 24 ; there would have been 50 , 000 more , but for the net having given way , from the great weight . The Cape of Good Hope . —Advices received from .

      the Cape of Good Hope to March 27 , describe the measures about to be taken by tbe new Governor as being vigorous , and likely to bring tho Kafirs to unconditional terms , and to enforce the surrender of the stolen cattle , & e . Glasgow Pie Iron Trade . —During the past week there ha 3 been very little business done in this mar ket , and prices have declined . Count D'Orsay has presented his statuette of O'Connell to the Committee of the Central Relief Society in Dublin , with the moulds and necessary apparatus for taking oasts . He writes to s » y that he makes the committee a present of the copyright of the figure , and transmits the models in the hope that the sale of the casts will realize a sum which may assist in relieving the distress ofthe mow—Globe .

      CniLD-MuRDERiN Covbnt-Garden . —An adjourned inquiry into this very mysterious and singular case was resumed before Mr Bedford . Thejury consulted together for about half an hour , and then ; retinned into court with a verdict of " Wilful murder against Anno Cleveland and a person named Hill , alias 1 Dolly . '" The coroner immediately issued his warrant for tho apprehension of Cleveland , who will of courso at present remain under the surveillance of the police , at her own bouse . The other accused , it will be recollected , is in custody .

      A Milkman ' s _Cowssawr . - _$ _German had made a fortune in Philadelp hia by selling milk , lie started home with two bags of sovereigns . On shipboard he counted one bag of treasure . A mischievous monkey was watchin" his operations . As soon as it was replaced and " tied up , and the other bag emptied , Jacko snatched up the full one , and was soon at the masthead . He opened the German ' s bag , and , after eyeing tho pretty gold , he proceeded to drop one piece upon tho deck and another in the water until he had emptied the bag . When he had finished , the German threw up his hands , exclaiming , " He must be the dy vol , for what came from the vater he does g ive to the vater , and what came from the milk ke gives to me . "

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 29, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_29051847/page/3/