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      The Bells. By The Tote Edgabjlpoe, Am^^ ...

      THE BELLS . By the tote _EdgabJLPoe , Am _^^ 5 _^ _mat _S | e _^^ _a dyibrCteUS Intheicy _air _ofnig _^ , ' iv ? fL h _^ _? i- Seem to twinkle ~ m a crystaline delight : Keeping time , time , time , Li a sort of Runic thyme To _thetabulation that so musically wells _^ _J _! W \ . _^ llS , bells ! From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells .

      Hear the mellow wedding-hells , Golden hells ? "What aworld of happiness their harmony foretells ! Through the balmy air of night Uow they ring out their delight ! From the molten-golden note 3 , And all in tune , "What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens , while she gloats On thc moon ! Oh , from out the sounding cells , ¦ _Vvtatagnsh of euphony voluminously weli 31 How it swells !

      How it dwells On the Future ! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells , bells , bells , Ofthe hells , bells , hells , bells , Bells , bells , bells—To the rhyming _andth _^ chiming ofthe t « l \ 3 _* . Hear the loud alarum bells-Brazen hells ! "What a tale of terror , now , their turhulency tells Ia the startled ear of night t

      Mow hey scream out their affright . ' Too much horrified to speak , They can only shriek , shriek , Out of tune , In a damarous appealing to ihe mercy of the fire , In a madexpostulation with the deafandfrantiefire leaping higher , higher , higher , "With a desperate desire , And a resolute endeavour 3 f ow—now to sit , or never , By the side ofthe pale-paced moon . Oh , the bells , bells , hells ! What a tale their terror tells

      Of Despair ! How they clang , and clash , and roar ! What a horror they outpour On the bosom ofthe palpitating air ! Yet the ear , it fully knows , By the twanging And the clanging , How the danger ebbs and flows ; Yet the ear distinctly tells , In the jangling And the wrangling , Sow the danger sinks and swells , By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells— Ofthe bells—Ofthe bells , bells , hells , hells , Bells , bells , bells—In the clamor and the clangor of the hells !

      Hear the tolling ofthe hells-Iron bells ! "What a world of solemn thought their monopoly compels ! In the silence of the night , How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan . And the people—ah , the people—They that dwell np in the steeple , All alone ,

      And who , tolling , tolling , tolling la that muffled monotone , Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone—They are neither man nor woman—They are neither brute nor human They are Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls ; And he rolls , rolls ; rolls , Bolls A paean from the bells ! And his merry bosom swells

      With the _pasan ofthe bells ! And he dances , and he yells ; Keeping time , time , time , In a sort of Runic rhyme , To the pawn of tho bells—Ofthe hells : Keeping time , time , time , In a sort of Runic rhyme , To the throbbing ofthe hells—Of the bells , _belia _, bells—To the sobbing of the hells ; Keeping time , time , time , As he knells , knells , knells , In a happy Runic rhyme , To the rolling of the bell 3—Ofthe bells , bells , bells ;

      To the tolling of the hells—Of the hells , hells , hells , hells , Bells , bells , bells—To the moaning and the groaning of the hells

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      The History Of Ieelaxd. By T. Wright, Es...

      THE HISTORY OF _IEELAXD . By T . Wright , Esq . Part XVII . London : J . and F . Tallis , 100 , St . John-street , This Fart narrates the history of events during the last year of the reign of Charles I . The intrigues and double-dealings of the "Royal Martyr , " in pursuance of his-svretched poliey of cheating all parties—English and Irish ,

      Puritans and Catholics , & c , & c ., unfolded in this ¦ work , must strike the reader with disgust , and induce the reflection that never baser prince existed , or was more righteously punished . The subject of the engraving in this Part is the first meeting of the gallant and accomplished King Cokmac with the fair Eithxe . Of the beautiful illustrations which accompany this wort , this—thus far—is the gem .

      -G-Tke ' Reformer's Jlmonaclc And Politi...

      -g-Tke ' Reformer ' s _Jlmonaclc and Political Year Book for 1850 . London : Aylott and Jones , 8 , Paternoster-row . This Book Almanack—published wider tlie _sanction ofthe _National Reform Associationcontains a vast mass of p olitical information , well selected and admirably arranged . Besides the usual contents of an almanack , the reader will find a fall account of the Honse of

      Commons , together with a capital abstract ol the doincrs of our _misrepresentatives in the session of 1849 . The Ministers are exhibited witli « all their blushing honours thick npon thein . " Out system of taxation ; " " Our Fi g hting Establishments ; " the " State Church ; « Woods and Forests ; " " _National Expenditure- " " Taxes on Knowledge , " & c , to ., are laid bare , and the enormities connected therewith exposedin the pages before us . _W e g ive the following extracts :

      _msnors " _talaces axd the took cixrgt . _WTiv is lie Church of England to be nothing but a collection of _teSirs and bishops _2-the Eight _^ _v- _Jrves _t _^ e _i-alace , and Lazarus in orders at the gate , doctored £ _rf _^^ a coWor _ted bv mimhs ! -Rev . Sydney Smith . _^ _SifcafedtaWngc _- are ofthe Chun-iris taking care of & e bishops . —Ibid . - _vThen complaint is made of the scandalous abuses _Mistm _" in the State Church , we are told that they _SeWS _abused and _nrebidden to wait and to work & _GhurchRcformh-asthoug _hthej-upexists iur vU

      porters of an institution whicn mc u .., ment ofthe upper classes , and the maintenance of their political power , would ever suffer it to be so modified as to make it less subservient to its real , though unavowed , purpose ! The achievements of the Ecclesiastical Commission—which , after having existed for about fourteen years , as a large annual expense , has at last been condemned as a failureaffords Striking evidence of the delusiveness of aU promises of reform in the Establishment so long as it remains such . That body was appointed in 1830 , to receive the surp lus revenues of the richer , and apply them to the poorer bishops ; and also to apply the proceeds of suppressed canonrics and other "sinecures to the increase of poor livings . 3 fr . Horsman stated , in 1847 , that up to that time they had thus received from the first source £ 157 , 000 , and from the second , £ 194 , 000 ; total , £ 351 , 000 . And how had tbis large sum been expended ? "When the Commission was established , there were in England and Wales 3 , 508 livin » s with incomes nnder £ 150 ; and 4 , ( 500 , without fit residences for thc clergy _, ¦ _"i— _fnimnissionershad augmented just 63 G livings Xiie \ jv AOl /

      - _.-. m nverai'in'I SO * * . " c « u . u , ; at an expense _^^ J _^ _Ltting sixty-nine and defrayed _^ _P _^ °£ 40 l 037 ; while in _proprsonage S , amountuigU » _« _^ _^^ tbe _£ dir . g , erecting , _ajgjjj _* th had expended palaces of _"S _^ _S _^ S had been applied affJSr _' _fs _. _'Si _^ -w _**** _' *

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      himself , he must borrow on the mortgage of Ms living , and pay the interest out of its proceeds . So once was it with the bishops—but they being members Of this samo ChuVch-IUforming Commission , have scorned to resort to so vulgar an expedient , and have had recourse to the surplus Episcopal revenues instead . The following are the sums which have heen lavished on the estates and palaces of these successors of the Apostles—these servants of Him who "had not where to lay his head . " Bishop of Lincoln £ 52 , 703 „ Rochester 25 , 527 „ Gloucester 22 , 897 „ Ripon 13 , 689 „ "Worcester 7 , 000

      „ Oxford 6 , 469 „ Exeter 3 , 500 „ Bath and Wells ... 4 , 000 "i ll it be believed , that in the first two ofthe above dioceses alone there were at the time 315 , and m the eight dioceses 532 benefices worth less than £ 100 a-year , and no less than So clergymen whose incomes were under £ 50 a year , or less than three shillings a day , eight of the number receiving as little as thirteen pence , and one actually hut six pence halfpenny a day ! But the details of this expenditure furnish still stronger proof of the wastfulness with which our

      Ecclesiastical funds have heen administered , under the new Church-Reforming % i » ie . Thus , when the episcopal residence for the diocese of Rochesterwas changed , the Ecclesiastical Commission sold the old palace at Rochester for £ 1 , 600 , when they might readily have got £ 2 , 000 ; and then gave £ 25 , 55 / for an estate and liouse at Daubury , not worth more than , at the lowest valuation , £ 10 , 600 , and at the highest , £ 17 , 400 . Tlie conduct ofthe Commission in providing a palace _*? _i- the Bishop of Lincoln , is thus described by the Daily News , which by its diligent and faithful exposures of ecclesiastical and electoral corruption , has earned the gratitude of all Reformers : —

      " The Rishborne estate consisted of about 1 , 500 acres ; it was offered to the Commission for £ 62 , 000 , who refused it at that price ; on their refusal , it was bought by the very servants they employed ; and by those servants one-third of it was re-sold to the Commission for £ 40 , 000 . _Xor was this waste of money all . The Order in Council authorising the purchase by the Commission of onethird of the estate at this extravagant price , stated that in the opinion of the Commission the purchase would be beneficial to the see , because there were on the property Aouse , oJEccs , and _oudmtWings , which would afford a jit and convenient ' residence for the Bishop of Lincoln , and his successors . Yet no sooner had the purchase money been paid than the

      Ecclesiastical Commission found that' the house , offices , and outbuildings , ' were unfit for a bishop ! Nay , more , they actually spent £ 13 , 302 on them , of which they paid £ 5 , 000 out of tho episcopal fund ! First they paid £ 40 , 000 for the estate , because it had a fit house on it ; then they spent £ 13 , 000 because it had not a fit house ! And all this selling and buying of estates , pulling down and building up , was , notwithstanding the fact that there was in the city of Lincoln a bishop's palace , a running lease of which might have been had for £ 1 , 500 , and that a small expenditure on it would have made it an excellent residence even for a bishop !"

      Tery similar was the course adopted id the case ofthe see of Gloucester , where £ 11 , 000 was given for an estate with a house upon it , for the repair of which house , while the Bishop himself asked but £ 3 , 000 , the Commission expended above £ 12 , 000 . The palace at Ripon was to cost but £ 10 , 000 , but the Bishop cried , * ' Give , give , " until the bill ran up to £ 14 , 611 . So also the Bishop of Oxford ( well known hy a certain cognomen ) , obtained £ 3 , 500 for his palace , on the condition that he was to provide whatever additional sum might be required , and yet ultimatel y succeeded in - wheedling the Commission out of further grants ( for gardens , conservatory , & c ., ) amounting to £ 3 , 000 .

      To complete the case against both the Commission and the Bishops , it is only necessary to give a few particulars respecting the incomes of the latter . The men for whom palaces are thus provided are , in addition , in receipt of incomes , in some instances equal to , and in many far exceeding , the salary ofa Minister of State , Their dishonesty ( to call it less is to trifle ) in making a return of their incomes , and expected incomes , has been pretty well exposed . The late Archbishop of Canterbury , in 1831 , returned his at £ 22 , 000 , though he had himself the year before represented it to be only £ 32 , 000 . His future income he _reckoned as £ 17 , 060 ; in 1843 , it was found to be £ 21 , 000 . The Archbishop of York ' s income , instead of being £ 10 , 000 , was found to be

      £ 14 , 550 . The Bishop of Durham , who was to have hut £ 8 , 000 , pocketed in one year no less than £ 26 , 000 ; and strangest of all , the Bishop of London , who , in 1831 , returned his income at £ 13 , 029 ; in 1843 , returned it at the smaller sum of £ 12 , 400 , present and prospective , notwithstanding the immense increase in thc value of his estate at Paddington—an estate , which , it is calculated , will ultimately yield as much as £ 100 , 000 3 It was upon these returns , under-estimated in nearly every case , that the future incomes ofthe bishops were settled , and yet even that arrangement has been departed from , tho rich sees being made to disgorge too little by £ 20 , 000 a year , and the poorer receiving too much by £ 6 , 000 a year !

      It is not difficult to discover the rationale of all this . The Ecclesiastical Commissioners , in 1 S 41 , contrived to obtain a clause in an act , which confined the application of the sums arising from reduced bishoprics to episcopal instead of to general Church purposes . The money has , therefore , been scattered right and left among thc bishops , lest the largeness ofthe surplus should suggest the idea of dividing it among the poor elergy . And the continuance of this distinction between the two funds is stoutly contended for ; for , says the Bishop of London ( before a Committee of Inquiry ) : — " In the first place we want provision for more bishops . And I should say , that if the funds were sufficient , we want provision for those officers who are of great importance to the bishops , as assistants

      to him in the execution of his duty . .... I think , also , that . . .. we ought to appropriate the surplus to the maintenance of Colonial Bishops . I am not , however , prepared to say that there might not , at _fome / _utiirc time , he furnished by the same fund , some assistance toward the augmentation of poor benefices . " His lordship's known shrewdness also suggested another reason why the episcopal revenues should not be thrown into a common fund , which was , that " the parochial clergy would be thought , of course , to have a much larger interest ; it would be conceivedlas so much deducted from tliat which ought to go to tlie augmentation of small livings ; " and " there would be a ' loudcr demand for the means of creating additional benefices than endowing additional bishoprics '"

      This unblushing avowal of the crafty , calculating greediness of the episcopal bench , throws light on " the policy and entire proceedings of the bishopridden Ecclesiastical Commission , who have but enacted over again" The good old law , the ancient plan , Thatthey shall keep who hare the power , And they shall get who cau !" The bishops , as a body , stand convicted of hypocrisy in bewailing the spiritual destitution of the people , while they are themselves rolling in riches , to which they cling withunrclaxing grasp ; and the idea of purifying the Establishment by reform within , is demonstrated to be " amockery , a delusion , and a snare !"

      COST OF _COIIBCSTIBLES . The quantity of gunpowder tobe kept in store , exclusive of that consumed in foreign stations , is 170 , 000 banels , which is equal to the consumption of the last two years of the war with France ! The _averaTe annuafconsumption is 12 , 000 barrels , the cost of which is about £ 45 , 000 . The number of ball cartridges manufactured in each of the last three years exceeds 6 , 500 , 000 , and the number of blank cartridges has varied from three to five milstores

      lions . Monevis also as lavishly expended m in tho colonics as at home , there being , for instance , in Canada , at the present time , stores of the estimated Take of £ 650 , 000 . And the stores thus accumulating are constantly becoming unserviceable or obsolete , and it is distinctly intimated that " even when the change of armament shall have been completed , it must be expected that further improvements will repeatedly be introduced , and that thc store of many articles will thereby be rendered useless !"

      "We " observe that in the list of tho House of Commons the party designations are set down as " Tories , " " Conservatives , " "Whigs , " " Radicals , " and " Liberals . " " Chartist " finds no p lace in the list , Mr . O'Connor is numbered amongst the Eadicals , " who /' we are told , " are for practising what the "Whi gs only preach . " "We believe that Mr . O'Connor would be very sorry to practise many things preached by the Whigs . In our opinion the preachings aud practising of that faction are both inimical to the public Avelfare . Next year the editor ofthe Heformer ' s Almanack would do well to improve his definition of "Radical , " or , otherwise , introduce the name of " Chartist" as the designation of a true and really radical reformer .

      Rourieeism. —The Works Of Chahles Fouhie...

      rOURIEEISM . —The works of _Chahles Fouhieb , the French Social Reformer , are of great interest to' whoever would understand the workings of continental Europe , in which the ideas propounded by him , mingle as a most important _element . _No doubt also those works contain some practical suggestions that may he of use to tbis country , in the _jnrestfeations of the _ques tions that are p ' ressiug

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      upon its notice ; as Colonial Empire , Public Education , Public Health , the Peace Question , Finance , and many others , of which the fertile genius of Foubiek has treated with great originality . There is , however , a neutral aspect in the works of this earnest writer , which may more actively commend him to the English student viz : his philosophy of human nature . On

      this ground he stands alone , —apart both from the schools of Germany and England . It is a philosophy and a method , exclusively built on history and dail y life ; in a word—on Society : on man , not as abstracted by the metaphysicians , but as stamping himself , now and heretofore , on this real universe ; standing to his fellows in the relations of friend , husband , kinsman , ' and fellow citizens . Fourier looks

      at every subject from a new point of view ; his path becomes most suggestive ; and it cannot fail to be a boon to England , to add a knowledge of his works to those of other great philosophers . The style of Fourier in this work is distinguished _^ three quahties , each sufficient to entitle it to the esteem and consideration of all enquiring and truthful minds . It is

      remarkable for that manly honesty and unscrupulous bluntness so conspicuous in our own Cobbeit , yet without ever betraying the author into bad taste ; it is moreover distinguished by a racy humour and caustic sarcasm that remind ono strongly of Swift , and by that lucid transparency which constitutes the peculiar g lory and excellence of French writers on philosophy .

      We hear with pleasure that it is proposed to publish by subscription , Fourier ' s Philosophical Treatise "On the Passions of tho Human Soul . " The work has been translated by the Rev . John R . Morell , and is already in the press . We understand that subscribers may send their names and subscription to Messrs . Walton and Mitchell , Printers , 24 , Wardour-street , Oxford street , Loudon .

      Mr. Ciurles Dickens's Letter On Executio...

      MR . CIURLES DICKENS ' S LETTER ON EXECUTIONS . TO THE EBIXOR OP THE TIMES . Sin , —When I wrote to you on Tuesday last I had no intention of troubling you again ; but as one of your correspondents has to-day expressed a reasonable desire that I would explain myself more clearly , and as I hope I may do no injury to the cause I would serve by stating my views upon it a little more in detail , I shall be glad to do so , if you will allow me the opportunity . My positions in reference to the demoralising nature of public executions are—First , that they chiefly attract as spectators tho lowest , the most depraved , the most abandoned of mankind , in whom they inspire no wholesome emotions whatever .

      Secondly , that the public infliction of a violent death is not a salutary spectacle for any class of people ; but that it is in the nature of things that on the class by whom it is generally witnessed it should have a debasing and hardening influence . On the first head I must appeal again to my own experience ofthe execution of last Tuesday morning ; to all the evidence that has ever been taken on the subject , showing that executions have heen the -favourite sight of convicts of all descriptions ; to the knowledge possessed by the magistracy and police ofthe general character of such crowds ; to the police reports that are sure to follow their assemblage ; to the unvarying description of them given in the newspapers ; to the indisputable fact that no decent father is willing that his son—that no decent master is willing that bis apprentices or servantsshould mingle in them ; to the indisputable fact that all society , its dregs excepted , recoil from thein

      as masses of abomination and brutality . ( That there were not more robberies committed at tbis last execution was not the fault of the assembled thieves , whose numbers on the occasion the Home Secretary may easily learn from the Commissioners in Scotland-yard , but the merit of the police , whose vigilance was beyond all praise . ) On the second head , after a passing allusion to the hardening influence which familiarity even -with natural death produces on coarse minds , I must again refer to my own experience . Nothing would have been a greater comfort to me—nothing would have so mucb relieved in my mind the unspeakable terrors ofthe scene , as to have been enabled to believe that any portion of the immense crowd—that any grains of sand in the vast moral desert stretching away on every side—wcre moved to any sentiments of fear , repentance , pity , or natural horror , by what tbey saw upon the drop . It was impossible to look around and rest in anv such belief . With

      every consideration and respect for your suggestion that the concourse may have been belying their mental struggles by frantic exaggerations , I am confident that if you had been there beside me , seeing what I saw , and hearing what I heard , you could never have admitted tlie thought . Such a state of mind has its signs and tokens equally with any other , and no such signs and tokens were there . The mirth was not hysterical , the shoutings and fightings were not the efforts of a strained excitement seeking to vent itself in any relief . Tlie whole was unmistakeably callous and bad . As the

      ferocious woman who was charged the same day with threatening to murder another in the midst of the multitude , proclaiming that she had a knife about her , and would have her heart's blood , and be hanged on the same gibbet with her namesake , Mrs . Manning , whose death she had come to see—as she had her evil passions excited to the utmost by the scene , so had all tho crowd . I believe this was the whole and sole effect of what they had come to seo , and I hold that no human being , not being the better for such a sight , could go away without being the worse for it .

      To prevent such frightful spectacles in a Christian country , and all the incalculable evils they engender , I would have thc last sentence of the law executed with comparative privacy within the prison walls . Before I state how , let me strengthen this proposal with some words of Fielding on this subject , to whose profound knowledge of human nature you , I know , will render full justice : — " The execution should be in some degree private . And here the poets will again assist us . Foreigners have found fault with the cruelty of the English drama in representing frequent murders upon tlie stage . In fact , this is not only cruel , but highly injudicious ; a murder behind the scenes , if the poet knows how to manage it , will affect the audience with greater terror than if it was acted before their eyes . Of this we have an instance in thc murder of the King in'Macbeth . ' Terror hath , I believe , been carried higher by this single instance than by all the blood which hath been spilt upon the stage .

      To the poets I may add the priests , whose politics have never heen doubted . Those of Egypt , in particular , where the sacred mysteries were first devised , well knew the use of hiding from the eyes of the vulgar what they intended should inspire them with thc greatest awe and dread . Tlie mind of man is so much more capable of magnifying than his eye , that I question whether every object is not lessened by being looked upon , and this more especially when the passions are concerned ; for those are ever apt to fancy much more satisfaction in those objects which they affect , and much more of mischief in those which they abhor , than are really to be found in cither . If executions , therefore , were so contrived that few could be present at them , they would be much more shocking and terrible to the crowd without doors than at present , as well as much more dreadful to the criminals themselves . "

      From the moment of a murderer being sentenced to death , I would dismiss him to the dread obscurity to whicli the wisest judge upon the bench consigned the murderer Rush . I would allow no curious visitors to hold any communication with him ; I would place every obstacle in , the way of his sayings and doings being served up in print on Sunday mornings for the perusal of families . His execution within the walls of the prison should be conducted with every terrible solemnity that careful consideration could devise . Mr . Calcraft , the hangman , ( of whom I have some information in reference to this last occasion , ) should be restrained in his unseemly briskness , in his jokes , his oaths , and his braudy . To attend the execution I would summon a jury of twenty-four , to be called the Witness Jury , eight to be summoned on a low qualification , eight on a higher , eight on a higher still ,

      so that it might fairly represent all classes of society . There should be present , likewise , the governor of the gaol , the chaplain , the surgeon , and other officers , the sheriffs of the county or city , and two inspectors of prisons . All these should sign a grave and solemn form of certificate ( the same in every case ) that on such a day , at such an hour , in such * a gaol , for such a crime , such a murderer was hanged in their sight . There should be another certificate from the officers of the prison that the person hanged was that person , and no other ; a third , that tliat person was buried . These should be posted on the prison gate for twenty-one days , printed in the Gazette , and exhibited in other public places ; and during the hour of tho body ' s hanging I would have the bells of all the churches in that town or city tolled , and aU the shops shut up , that all might be reminded of what was being done . I submit to you , with the law so changed , the public _ragttvEOuld ( as is right ) know much more of the _Ji _^ . _l _\\\\\\\\\\\\\\___^ ns tremendous punishment than they

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      know of the infliction of any other . There are not many common subjects , I think , of which they know less than transportation ; and yet they never doubt that when a man is ordered to be sent abroad lie goes abroad . Tlie _detail ofthe commonest prison m London are unknown to the public at large , but they are quite _satisfied that prisoners said tb be in this or that gaol arc really there , and really undergo its discipline . Tlio " mystery" of private executions is objected to ; but has not mystery been the character of every improvement in convict treat _, ment and prison discipline effected within tho last twenty years ? From tlie police van to Norfolk Island , are not all the changes that mark tlie treatment of thc prisoner mvsterious ? His seclusion in

      liis conveyance hither and thither from tho public sight , instead of his being walked through the streets strung with twenty more to a chain , like thc galley-slaves in Don Quixote , ( as I remember to have seen in . my school-days , ) makes a mystery of him . His being known by a number instead of by a name , and his being under tlie rigorous discipline of the associated silent system—to say _nothing of the solitary , which I regard as a mistake—is all mysterious . I cannot understand that the mystery of such an execution as I propose would bo other than \ _# 1 ciunax t 0 a 11 these wise regulations , or u y ' u e bo _anythiug in this objection , wo should not return to the days when ladies paid visits to highwaymen , drinking their punch in the condemned cells of Newgate , or Ned Ward , the London spy who went _\ _ipon a certain regular day of tlie week to Bridewell

      " to sec tbe women whipped . Another class of objectors I know there are , who , desiring the total abolition of capital punishment , will have nothing less ; and who , not doubting the teariul influence of public executions , would have it protracted for an indefinite term , rather than spare the demoralisation they do not dispute , at the risk of losing sight for awhile of their final end . But of these ! say nothing , considering them , however good and pure injntention , unreasonable , and not to be argued with . With many thanks to you for your courtesy , and begging most earnestly to assure you that I write in a deep conviction that I incurred a duty when I became a witness of the execution on Tuesday last , from which nothing ought to move me , and which every hour ' s reflection strengthens . I am , Sir , your faithful servant , ClIAIiLES DlCKEXS . Devonshire-terrace , November 17 .

      ^ " I'Unisiiment Of Death; A Public Meet...

      _^ " _i'UNISIIMENT OF DEATH ; A public meeting was held on Monday _nis-ht , in the large room of the Bridge House Hotel , Southwark , to promote the abolition of the punishment of death . __ Thc room was well filled on this occasion , a considerable proportion of tho audience being females . Charles Gilpin , Esq ,, took the chair ; and there were also on thc platform Mr . Ewart , M . P . Rev . n . Christmas , Messrs . John Scoble , Charles Wordsworth , John Robertson , John Meredith , < fcc . The Chairman began the proceedings by alluding to the recent execution , which he said was the government scheol of moral instructio n , taught by the hangman Calcraft . There were thousands who spent the night around the gallows . There were _wost-end pupils , too—a scandal to the sex they

      disgraced—ladies , that crowded to this school of moral instruction . The advocates of the gallows said that a great moral lesson had been taught . He said that humanity had been outraged , religion disgraced , and God mocked . lie proceeded to denounce the conduct of the chaplain ofthe gaol in administering the sacrament to at least one unrepentant criminal , and the conduct of the daily press in circulating every minute particular relating to thc conduct of tho criminals in their last moments . Ho then alhided to the views lately published by Mr . Dickens , which he called advocating assassination , instead of public execution . Against the views of Mr . Dickens he placed those of a man fully equal to Mr . Dickens —Douglas Jerrold , who , in a letter written to him

      ( tlie Chan ; nian ) , had expressed his opposition both to female executions and to capital punishments altogether . He also read letters from Mr . Cobden and Mr . Bright , who , though thoy had not attended this meeting , wore yet in favour of the views of its promoters . He then called upon a gentleman who , he said , was the leader of tho cause in Parliament , Mr . Ewart , M . P ., who said he rose to move the first resolution—that capital punishments were opposed to the spirit of Christianity—that they did nut answer tlieir design of repressing crime—that their effects were grossly demoralising—that they sometimes caused the destruction of the innocent by judicial process , and at other times favoured the guilty , thus promoting the crimes which thoy were

      intended to suppress , and that , therefore , they ought to be abolished . He began by paying a tribute to the generous and disinterested exertions in this cause of the chairman , Mr . John Thomas Young , Mr . Thomas Batty Wrightson , and other members of the Society of Friends . He then stated that the occasion of holding tho present meeting was , that they had lately beheld in this neighbourhood the interesting and instructive spectacle of a public execution . The natural question to be asked was—what good has it done ? The Tery advocates ofthe gallows admitted that the recent exhibition had spread moral poison throughout the community . There had , therefore , been no moral good effected ; and who could say that religious' good had been

      effected ? Tlio whole religious principle involved in the word " repentance" was outraged , unless they could arrogate to themselves the right of saying tbat men should repent within fourteen days . He declared his utter repugnance to private executions as an evasion of the main question . He was against thc general principle of executions altogether , whether public or private . He called upon them as Englishmen to take their stand on general principle . As an Englishman he abhorred private executions . It might be that the jury which had been proposed to witness the executions would be hononrable men j it might be tbat the Home Secretary and the sheriffs would be honourable men ; that might be , but still the principle of

      publicity was an integral part ofthe British constitution , and ought not to be abandoned in any institution whatever . Even if this principle were adopted , they would not he private . They could not exclude tbe representatives of the press ; and they would report all those sanguinary details which now disgusted every right-thinking mind . He further objected to private executions , because it would shift the responsibility from the Home Secretary to this hidden jury . Besides , the present government were opposed to private executions . Some years ago Mr . Rich , tlio member for Knaresborough , proposed a bill for private executions , when Mr . F . Manic , on the part of the government , recommended Mr . Rich to withdraw his

      proposition , as there was not thc least chance of its passing . He objected to capital punishment because it was an imitation of the crime which it professed to punish . ( Hear , hear . ) This was tho main argument , and one ofthe most striking against capital punishment , lie would put tlie question to tlie Home Secretary—suppose the punishment wore delayed for a year , would you execute it then ? ( No , no . ) No , lie was certain it would not have been executed . But he said every punishment ought to be so clearly comformablo to reason , that it would bo as acceptable two or three years afterwards as at the time . It was plain , therefore , that capital punishment was carried out on the principle of revenge —( loud cheers)—a principle which was

      abandoned by Blackslone _, and demonstrated to be unsound by Beccarin , Filanghieri , and other jurists ( Cheers . ) Another objection was , that the punishment tended to eclipse tho atrocity of the crime , and to turn the criminal into a martyr . He reminded the mooting that it was formerl y the custom for warrants of execution to receive the sign manual of the Sovereign . But ho believed that such was the repugnance of our present admirable Sovereign —( cheers)—to sign these papers , that it had been found absolutely " necessary to introduce a bill transferring thc signature from tho Sovereign to ono of her Ministers . Such was tlie progress of public opinion acting upon our gracious Sovereign . Then with respect to the Judges . A commission was

      lately held on this subject , and the Judges were all asked their opinion on the question . Lord Denman and Mr . Justice Maule gave no opinion . The late Justice Coltman was against capital punishments . Mr . Justice Wightman thought capital punishments might be dispensed with . Chief Justice Wilds thought there wcre strong objections to the practice . Mr . Justice Crampton , of tho Irish bench , gave no opinion . Mr . Justice _Tcrrin was decidedly against them , and Mr . Baron Richards was also against them . He believed Mr . Justice Talfourd -va _' s also against them . He could state further , that he had lately received a letter from a clevgyman in Lancashire , proposing that the effect might be tried of abolishing capital punishments for a period of seven years . ' Now ho ( Mr . Ewart ) thought that in tbis case a seven years' lease was equivalent to a perpetuity . ( Hear , ' hoar , and laughter . ) Ho concluded by urging upon the meetins- the necessity

      ot perseverance in this eause , for which he anticipated a speedy and a full success . The Rev . Henry Christmas ( of Zion College ) seconded the motion . He said their opponents rested their argument on the passage in Scripture , "Whoso sheddcth man ' s blood , by man shall his blood be shed . " But they misunderstood the passage , which merely meant that he who shed man's blood would draw down upon hiin tho indignation of God and excite the wrath of his felloW'Creatures ; but there was no command to take the man and hang Mm up to a beam . Besides , we must take Scripture examples as well as Scripture precepts . Cain killed a man—Moses killed an Egyptian , and hid . him in the sands , looking carefully about all the time to see that no policeman was watching hiin . ( Laughter . ) Simeon and Levi killed thc inhabitants ofa whole town in cold blood , but he did not hear of any of them being hanged . ( Hear , hear . ) lie had been interested in hearing the opinions of thc judges , and he had now to speak of

      ^ " I'Unisiiment Of Death; A Public Meet...

      the opinions of the body to whieh he belonged—a body who were slow to move and when they were in motion , moved slowly , But they wouid all come round in time . Ho had had correspondence with some thousands of clergy : ho had received replies from 500 or COO of them , the far greater number of wliich were favourable to the immediate abolition ot the punishment of death . Tlieir learned and excellent Primate gave no decisive opinion , but thought it waB well worth the attention of thoughtful imnds . Tho Bishop of Winchester also thought the question would be thc better of being well ventilated . ( Laughter . ) The Bishop of St . David's and the late Bishop of Norwich were both decidedlv m favour of immediate abolition . This was a treat advance on tho state of public opinion twentv years ago , and he had no doubt that feeling would increase till this and all othor Christian and social reforms were accomplished . ( Hoar . )

      Mr . ' Wordswortii , ( barrister , ) supported the motion . He commenced on the expression used by Sir George Grey , on tho discussion of this subjectlast session , that the mass of those attending executions were themselves deeply imbued with crime . What a comment was that upon the thousands who attended the execution on Tuesday last , more especially upon the west-end folks—thc people who ordered the champagne breakfasts and tho ladies with the opera glasses ! ( Hear , hear . ) To show thc advance of public opinion on this subject , he stated that at the accession of George III ., in 17 ( 30 , there were 160 crimes punishable b y death ; at present thero wcre only the cases of hi gh treason , murder , and ono or two others . After stating several instances of capital punishment for _triflinc

      offences—among others , the case of a man who , within the present century , was hanged in Essex for cutting down a cherry-tree , value 5 s . ( Hear , hear . ) The Chairman put the resolution , which was unanimously agreed to . The Rev , Mr . RicnARO , ( Independent minister of Marlborough Chapel , Kent-road , ) moved the second resolution—that a petition , founded on tho foregoing resolution , and signed by tho chairman on behalf of the meeting , be presented to parliament by the representatives ofthe Borough . Ho compared the spectacle of the execution to the gladiatorial exhibition of the Romans , with this difference , that there the miserable wretches hai weapons put into their hands , and had a chance for their lives , while

      the convicts of Tuesday wero brought out pinioned and blindfolded to be butchered to make an English holiday . [ A gentleman in the room : "That is misrepresenting the object . " ] His friend said he was misrepresenting the object . He was not misrepresenting the effect . ( Loudeheers . ) He hoped , however , tliat enlightened public opinion would be combined to say that the people of England would endure the gallows no longer . ( Cheers . ) Ho was quite aware that all superanuatod prejudices found their last resource ih the House ot Commons ; but he was satisfied that if the people were only united they would force their opinions even upon the narrow intellect and the hardened heart of that assembly . ( Cheers . )

      Mr . John " Robertson seconded the resolution . Mr . John Scoble supported the motion . This resolution was also carried unanimously . The Chairman here stated he was requested by Mr . Ewart to explain that , on referring to the opinions ofthe judges , he quoted the names of those _judges only wbo wero in favour of abolishing capital punishment , or who gave no opinion on the subject ; but it must be obvious that there were several judges whose names were omitted , and who were against abolition . But he had the authority of Lord Nugent for stating that he had spoken to tho members of tho Bench , and he found that tho majority of those now on the bench were favourable to abolition . ( Cheers . )

      Mr . A . B . Stevens moved that the members fer the Borough be requested to support the prayer of the petition . Mr . Webster ( of tho Chancery bar ) , seconded tho resolution , whicli was carried unanimously . Thc CnAiRMAM stated that he had reason to know that Sir William Molesworth was favourable to thc abolition . Alderman Humphery voted for abolition in 1840 , but ho was sorry to say he voted against it in 1819 . ( Hisses . ) Thanks were then voted to the Chairman , after which the meeting separated .

      Royal Polytechnic Institution. This Popu...

      ROYAL _POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . This popular establishment of science and art continues to be a favourate resort of the public . Lectures aro given daily by thc Professors of this Institution on various subjects , comprising electricity , chemistry , and many other themes , all discussed in a highly popular and interesting manner . Science is here garbid in a most delightful and instructive form , giving the pleasure seekers an opportunity of amusement , and at the same time much excellent and useful information . Tho lectures delivered by Dr . Bachhoffncr aro of a most delightful and instructive nature , which are rendered more pleasing hy the numerous experiments exhibited by the learned Doctor , aided as he is by thc

      gigantic hydro-electric machine ; the power of this contrivance must be scon to be appreciated . Mr . Ashley is now engaged in giving a series of lectures on " the Chemistry of Food . " Tho present subject of tho lecture is the familiar article of food milk , as the object to wliich the lecturers remarks wore principally directed , described and showed by experiments , thc beautiful discovery of the artificial formation of butter . It is by such facts being brought forward , divested of unnecessary technicalities that wcbecomeacquaintcd with the leading points iii that most _interesting ot all branches to man , tho _science of animal chemistry . The art of photograp hy has received great improvement of late , by the industry and application of Mr . Beard junr . ; to suci ) perfection is the colouring brought ' that thoy equal a highly furnished minatuve .

      The Arctic Expedition. The "Investigator...

      THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION . The "Investigator" and the " Enterprise" have arrived in the port of London , and have undergone official inspection . The ships were found in a good state of preservation , and the men in excellent health—quite recovered from their Arctic fatigues . Accounts of the progress of tbe ships on their voyage of discovery have appeared in the papers ; one of them a full report by the commander , Sir James Clarke Ross , to the Admiralty . We glean the leading points;—The vessels _.. entered Port Leopold on the 11 th September , 1818 , and landed three months ' provisions for each ship at Whaler ' s Point , intending to press forward next morning . But weather indications induced Sir James Ross to continue where lie was , and be frozen up there in preference

      to a worse berth . The ice had settled round him on the 21 th , The crew cut a canal forty feet wide and two miles long , * io a good , safe berth ' ; and there the ships took position for the winter , 200 yards apart . Thc winter was spent in the old mannerin alternate teaching , games , nnd lively occupations ; reading , writing , and arithmetic were taught by the schoolmaster , and a " youngster from Greenwich School , named Grunsell , taught navigation . " Scores of foxes wero caught , and turned into " twopenny postmen , " by putting copper collars round their necks , stamped with the names and positions of the ships , and the localities of the provision depots : these foxes range enormous distances , and some of them would probably be caught by Sii John Franklin ' s party if it still held out anywhere ,

      Detached parties" were sent out in April , and on the 15 th May tho principal expedition under Sir James Ross set out . It went to the westward about 100 miles round tho coast of North Somerset , from Capo Cleavaneo to Cape Bunny , and thence 110 miles farther : here the party erected a cairn and buried cylinders , dating them loth Juno , 1819 . They could see _fortylmiles further , and there was no probability that Franklin ' s ships had penetrated in that din'ction , at least during that season . Sir James Ross regained his ships on thc 23 rd of June . A second party , under Lieutenant Robinson , went along tho western side of Prince Regent ' s Inlet to Fury Point , and thence to Crenwell Bay , about twenty-five miles further . A third party proceeded to thc north shore of Barrow ' s Straitsas far as

      , Cape Hurd , and thence to Leopold ' s Island . A fourth party set off eastward , across the ice , from the eastern nameless shore of Prince Regent ' s Inlet . They gained " the Peak , " a remarkable hill marked in Parry ' s chart . All those parties . reared cairns and left cylinders . The ships were out out of tho ice about the Gth of August , and entered open water on the 28 th , intending to go to Melville Island ; but the wind suddenly came on hard , and _brought the ice round them so fast that they got packed in a floe , which took them , whether thev would or not 210 miles to the west coast of Baffin ' s Bay . Thev escaped from this dangerous _priion on the 25 th

      Sentember ; stood across the Bav , and made Sanderson's Hope on thc Greenland coast , near _Upernavick , the Danish settlement , on the 3 rd October . On tho 18 th they rounded Cape Farowell , and on the 29 th thc Orkneys . Some incidents are narrated . A bear walked into Captain Ross ' s party , and surveyed them with cool inquisitiveness : guns were levelled , and the bear was wounded in tho head ; lie scratched his ear , and walked off with an air of " superor contempt . Another boar was seen to slide on his haunches down a cliff of 700 feet high , steadying himself with his forepaws , and most "judgmaticallv , " as the sailors said .

      Lwo Bad Leg S Cubed By Jiphioway's Olf-T...

      lwo Bad Leg s Cubed by _JIphioway ' s _Olf-TOOT and I ILLS , after Moue than Seves Veaiis' Suffeuinc—Mrs . Elizabeth Humphreys , of York-street , Hull , had been most painfully afflicted for upwards of seven years with ulcerated sores in both _U-gs . Her sufferings , at times , were dreadful . She had tried almost every remedy and received the advice of several of tlie first surgeons in _Voitelih-e , yet all failed to effect a cure until she used Holloway ' s invaluable Ointment and l'ills , tho astonishing power of which soundly healed every wound . She is now in the enjoyment of thc best Of health , and enabled to walkabout with case and comfort .

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      Condition* Of The Mvssks.—If The Bulk Of...

      _Condition * of the Mvssks . —If the bulk of tho human race are always to remain as at present , slaves to toil , in whicli they have no interest , and therefore feel no interest " ; drud g ing from oarly morning till late at ni ght for bare necessaries , and with all the intellectual and moral _dcflcicnccs which that implies ; without resources either in mind or fueling ; untaught , for they cannot be better taught than fed ; selfish , tor all their thoughts aro required for themselves ; without , interest or sentiments aa citizens and members of society , and with a sense o injustice rankling in tlieir minds , equally for what they have not and what others have ;—I know no what there is which sliould make , i person of any capacity of reason concern himself about tlie destinies of the human race . — . Win Mil .

      A Wise Thought . —William Taylor , ( or " Wiliio Harrow , " as he was commonly called , ) heing visited on his death-bed , at Dundee , by a _clergyman , was askca if he was prepared for another world , '" Deed , " sir , said Wiliio , "I dinnu Icon if I need trouble mysel' muckle aboot it ; for if the folk thero arc like thc folk hero , they'll pay unco little attention to a piiir body like inc . " The _Sr-nixa of a watch weighs' 015 ofa train ; a pound of Iron makes 50 , 000 . Thc pound ' _^ f st eel costs 2 d . ; a single spring 2 d . ; so _^ that 50 _, i . » . ) 0 _produces £ 115 .

      'fire Rich asd the Poon . —The patrician bride drives through the land with the proclamation of four horses , and white favours , asking . the manyeyed world to stare at her blushes ; while the plebian maid goes at the dusk ofthe day , with unostentatious modesty , to her new-found home , at once installed mistress and wife ! Again we ask , which is thc better taste—display or secrecy ?—Eliza . A couple OP 1 Ci ? : os . —Mr . Macaulay observes , in

      his History of England , of Charles I ., that , "ho neither knew how to refuse a petition gracefully , nor to repel an undue assumption with real supe _« riority ; " and of Charles II ., that , "ho never gave spontaneously , but it was painful to him to R'fusc . " Pnoi'Esson Beuends , my teacher at the University , said to me— "Study tho works of groat thiukers ; and you will learn that every one who does not like living in thc furnished _lodging ' s of tradition must build his own house—his own system of thought and faith—for himself . _"—ZschoH-e .

      We have ever found that blacksmiths , by conversing with them , arc move or less given to iron-y , and somewhat addicted to vice . Carpenters , for the most part , speak _plaue-ly ; but they will chisel , when tliey can gut a chance . Not unfrcqucntly they are lores , and often annoy one with their obi saws . _Capiais _Beaufort saw near Smyrna , in 1811 , a , cloud of locusts forty miles long and 300 yards deep , containing , as he calculated , one hundred and sixty-nino billions . At tue present rate of increase the population of tbe United States in the year 1900 will be 101 , 481 , 755 persons . Pigs' knees , feet , and heads are now exported from New York to Liverpool in large quantities .

      THE BUCK SLUGS . The Gods aro theirs , not ours ; and when wo pray For happy omens , wc their price must pay ; In vain at shrines th * ungiving suppliant stands , In vain , we make our vows with empty hands . _Pehimps Very _FrxE , but Rawer _Obsc-uke . — Now that I know women so well , and tbat their masks are only veils , that heighthen their intellectual beauty as much as they guard it—now that I see hotter than a hundred others , that if tbe female ) heart is as poetic as the head , and that it lias little move to give to tho earth than sighs and wishesthat their May of life , instead of bcin _£ like ours , as

      beautiful as that of Prance , is like a German May , cold and frosty ; that like tho nightingale thoy must collect the wool from the thornes , from which , in a thorny edge , they must prepare thoir nest , what should a poet do more with the pen , than offer thorn , not pitiful German flattery , but morning dreams and gentler sighs than they can extract from life . If I spread for one only a rainbow over the cloudy morning of life—if for one heart only I bad drawn tho ange ! of love from his cloudy _Piirnnssus to hear away the angel of death , I havo lived and written enough . —Life of Jean Paul F . _llichter .

      A New Titi , e which Might be Claimed bt many of mE English Aristocracy . — Some years since there was a young English nobleman figuring away at Washington . lie had not much brains , hut a vast number of titles , which , notwithstanding our pretended dislike to them , have sometimes tho effect of tickling the ear amazingly . Several ladies were in debate , going over tho list . " He is Lord Viscount so and so , Baron such a country , " tfce . " My fail' friends ( remarked tho gallant N . ) ono of the titles vou seem to havo forgotten . " "Ah ! ( exclaimed they ) what is that ? "Ho is Barren of Intellect , " was the reply . —American paper .

      Men and brethren , be not deceived , there is no divine right in these robbers and assassins whereby your souls and bodies shonld be placed ab their disposal . A cow was recently killed at Wakefield , and in tho stomach were found a couple of shoe soles . Education . —A science succinctly summed up in thc exhortation of the American philosopher : — " Bear up your lads liko nails , and then they not only go through tho world , but you may clench ' em on t ' other side . "— Thomas Hood . A Q . uken Bee will lay 200 eggs daily for fifty or sixty days , and tho eggs arc hatched in throe days . A single queen bee has been stated to produce 100 , 000 bees in a season . " The sum of £ 300 , 000 and upwards , " says Dr . Farre , " is paid yearly in this kingdom for quack medicine—a . sum " far exceeding tho united incomes of all the hospitals and medical charities in the metropolis .

      The _JudoeInd the Suitor . —A _Tersian merchant , complaining heavily of some unjust sentence * of the lower court , was told by the judge to go to the cadi . " But tiie cadi is your uncle , " urged the suitor . "Then you can go to the grand vizier . " " But his secretary is your cousin . " " Then you may go to sultan . " " But his favourite sultana is vour uicce . " " Well then go to tho d-1 . " " Ah ! that is still a closer family connexion , " said the merchant , as he left the court in despair . All are bor . v equal ; no one in coming into thc world , brings with him a right to command . Only by making the few uneasy , can the oppressed many obtain a particle of relief . Some female spiders produce nearly two thou _, sand eggs . Leweniioek reckoned 17 , 000 divisions in the cornea ( outer coat of the eye ) of a butterlly , each one of which , he thought , possessed a crystalline lens .

      A _surr-ERLESS hero . —On the morning of tlio day ofthe battle of Brandy wine , Hunt , who was called the "high priest" by the army ( being seven feet ) , had scarcely commenced praying to his regiment , when the firing- began at a distance , rendering brevity necessary . He therefore concluded with these words— "Itemcnibcr , brethren , that those who die in the battle sup with the Lord , " and then turned and marched off—when an officer said"Parson , aro you not going to battle ? " _>' o , Colonel , I am not" he replied , "forthe Lord knows I never eat supper . "

      Indian Jugglers . — Ono ofthe men , taking a large earthen vessel , with a capacious mouth , filled it with water , and turned it upside down , when all tho water flowed out : but the moment it was placed with tho mouth upwards it became full , lio then emptied it , allowing any one to inspect it who chose . This being done , lie desired that one of tho party would fill it : his request was obeyed ; still , when he reversed the jar , not a drop of water flowed—and upon turning it , to our astonishment , it was empty . . . . . I examined the jar carefully when empty , but detected nothing which could lead to a discovery of tho mystery . I was allowed to retain aud fill it myself , still , upon taking it up , all was void within , yet the ground around it was perfectly

      dry , so that how thc water had disappeared , and where it had been conveyed , were problems which none of its was able to expound . The no .- * ' -. ! employed by the jugglers on this occasion * w _* -. i the common earthenware of the country , vc ; _- , v rou _^ l . dy made ; and , in order to convince us that it ! r . d uoi . been especially constructed for the purpose o' > "ding his clever deceptions , he permitted it to be broken in our presence : the fragments were then handed round for tho inspection of his highness and the party present with him Tlie next thing that _engaged out attention , was a feat of dexterity altogether astonishing . A woman , the upper part of whoso body was entirely uncovered , presented herself to our notice , and taking a bamboo twenty

      feet high , placed it upright on a flat stone , and then , without any support , climbed to tho top of it with surprising activity . Having dono tlus , she stood upon one leg on the point ofthe bamboo , balancing it all tlie while . Round her waist she had a girdle , to which was fixed an iron socket : springing from her upright position on the bamboo , she threw herself horizontally forward wirh such exact precision , that the fop of the polo entered the socket of tho iron zone , and in this position she spun herself round with a velocity which made me giddy to look atthe bamboo all the while appearing as if it were

      supported by some supernatural agency . She turned her legs backwards , till thc heels touched tho shoulders , and , grasping the ankles in her hands , continued her rotations so rapidly , that thc outline of her body was entirely lost to ' the eye , and she looked like a revolving ball . Having performed several otlici * feats equallextraordinarysh * slid down tho elastic shaft , balanced it upon her chin , finally projected it a distance application of hor hands woman , and by no means son , which , I concludo , rajah , though he applauded give her a . pi-oof-of his threw her a few rupees , perfectly satisfied . —IXc

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      y , - - and , rising _JLilL _^ ¦ _" •'• _tlmrwi _ntCui _^ M _^^ nd < R ) '« i h % A _^ _9 u _£# ho . _SjtO j _.- > _Vitirli _^ elul _^ lV _jgj prepossessing , iff . her * 5 brr _# _Q was _tfirf-: rca 9 pn ! , tli _# _.-ttuo - _^^ her Ulextority ) _-did '' . npt' » x N Iihera ) itf . '~ * We , Uiowp \; ei ; i ; _, _^ with ?; which she appeared tf _QriemV _' _Mwal- _,. ¦ J \ % _fy ' _¦!• vVi " : _^ _- : - ' \ % nd , _risingJoul _^ ho air , _, _tlmMipolfMjiplJfMrid ice mm lixn \ _m _& x _% _^ _he 5 . _^ T _^ _Vi _^^ el _^ iy a prepossessing , _'frherp _^ rr _fc _Q as tfio -reason' tliat- ' . 'tUe '; ' m d h « r ! de _* xt 6 iit ' y _,--didr . "P _^ s _ibcntli ' ty ' . ' - - _Wc , Uiowfixe \ v _, Qt vitli ?; which -she appeared tf _h'ie ' _utali-Mnital .. ¦ -: •' ' _$ _& ' - ' i i ' .- < ¦ ' ; ' ?

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 24, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_24111849/page/3/