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      vn a cliff -which o ' erhung the huge billo vs that hove Tbeirifhite foam , to tbe-war-waging skies 5 S&fc Britannia consultlBgthe TSarigiiter of Jove , Kebd faction , how best to chastise . 'When Minerva , soft toned as the late on the gale , Said the goes had decreed hence that justice prevail , That Qie millions , "whose pacific arguments Ml , Shall for death or for liberty rise . Whilst contemtf d and despised are the lion and crest , Shan the late lanrell'd Queen of the -stores Boast her millions so leng , so exclusively blessed , So remote from the bondage of slaves ? - Stall her time-serving tools still continue to King , Of her famed Constitution , Lards , Commons , and Kin ? , While a Church and Statemongrel , hermaphrodite thing , That loud long-boasted , lion ontbraves ? Sfeafllioarse'KeptuBfi ' s proud danjbfer , whose menace ¦ was fate . sss == ^

      Deign to plead , but -with seem to be heard , And her famed royal hrufe / by mere monkeys of state , Be audaciously pluek'd by the beard ? Ere that lion should long thus in torpitnde sleep , Or thyself tnnsf degraded , degenerate -srecp , Be thy last crumbling atoms dispers'd through the deep , Kor the tomb of thy memTy be rear'd . 3 feat fell hydra , -which preys on thy heart ' s inmost core , Still around thee "whose coils vilely hang That political tapeworm , from darkness of yore And the law primogeniture sprang . 2 Tow the mandate ol Jove and of justice obey , Spurn the paltry , proud , profligate , impotent sway , From thy blood-yielding pelican bosom away , Plnck the lazy legitimate fan ? .

      Bat the curse that hath donied the children of men , Immeniorfally , near and afar , fcrperstitioh amst die , ere the- mountain and glen , Bid adieu to the echoes of -war ; Ere the blood-ainisiBh'd shore ,, the incarnadined -ware , ThefeB stripes of the tyrant , the tears of the slave . Or those terrors , th&frerst have encompass ed the grave , Cease the V fiss of Ef e ' a being to mar . Hast ttou "heard notthelast ' cryof Poland , anil hast Thou . Dot tjfasn'd , all inactive , to see TTie first peopleon earth by the hurricane blast , S-wept airaj an unaided by thee ? E ' en the all-flaming ^ Iars erimson'd hearen -with a blush On beholdingtlxe Autocrat ' s demonic rush , With his million of carnage-dyed bayonets to rush The Lrare legions , - who died to be free .

      Yet the Poles are immortal ! though victory crown * a ?» ot those heroes to mem"ry enshrined " ; 5 fcey have burst that vile wbVeb , the bandage that bound The more Tecreant part of mankind . Though the tower-shielded tyrant may boast nis defence , jFroia the soldier and slave , cannon , " sabre , and lance , 31 ie declension of Empire -was dated from thence , . Europe ' s parple-rooed ruffian ? shall " find . TVere delusion to deem e ' er that freedom divine , Blessed thy Peer and thy priest-ridden shore , That that cause dear to Poland -was equally thine Whieh bedrench'd her in patriot eore , Is a fact she « xclajm'd as revolting astrne I < J » remember the feats of thefam'd Peterloo ; When on air-cleaving-pinions , like Mercury flew , The celestial of li ^ ht and of lore . Ghahles Davlis . Bolton-le-Moors .

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      THE WORKING MAX'S SONG . ( From TaWs Magazine . ) I am no gentleman—not l > 2 Co towing , soaping throw ] I bear my head 1 more fr ee and high Than titled count or kin ^ . I am no gentleman—not 1 ' . Xo , no , no l And only to one Lord on high " ily head I bow . I am no gentleman—not I ! Xo smooth and painted thinj ! And from my heart without a die , My honest thoughts 2 fling . I am no gentleman—not 11 So , no , no I Our stout John Knor -was none , and why And -why should I be " so ? 1 am no gentleman—not I ! 2 * o cushion'd eraddled thinj >! in * . ay saloon , a butterfly , Some Trax-doll Miss to -wing . 1 am no gentleman—not I . ' - ?» o , no , no 1 2 * o moth , to 3 port in fashson ' s eye A Bond-street beau ! 2 am no gentleman—not I 5 2 ^ * o bully , bra . gart thing 1 - "With jockies on the course to vie , " With bull-do s in the rin ^ . I am no gentleman—not 1 ? Xo , no : The -working man mi ht sooner die Than sink so lovri I am no gentleman—not T ' . Xostar-and-Marter"d tiling ily fathers niched no dignity By fawning to a kin ^ . I am no gentleman not 1 - ' So , no , no ' . And to ihe tra ^ e of honesty ilyiaak I oire . I snnLo gentleman not 1 ! Xo towing serapin > tbinz Z I bear my headinore free and high Than titled counr or iin . I am no gentleman—not 11 Xo , nov no : And tlrmk the felessed God on high That made me so !

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      CAorrcHorc . —The Caontchonc tree occurs very generally as a ^ solitary tree , -although occasionally tw © or three may be found grouped togei ^ ier . It is among the most magniiiceni of Ibreirt trees ; and h second to the Lauian , because that tree admits of indefinite extensisn . Such la the size of the Caoutchouc , that it may T > e distinguished from a distance of several miles by its dense , immense , and lofty crown . The dimensions of one of the largest are as follows : —the circumference of the main trunk , seventy-four feet ; circumference of tie main trunk and the supporters , a hundred and twenty feet ; and of the area covered by the branches , six hundred and ten feet : more than a tenth of a mile ! the estimated height , a hundred feet . The appearance of the tree

      as one approaches the trunk , 13 majestic . It has a natural t € ndcncy to throw out braixhes both from the main trunk and from the branches ^ and these have a strong disposition to cohere with the trunk and with each other . "When the roots are thrown out eiiher from the main trunk or Dear ii , they ordinarily run down its surface , and impart to it- tne picturesque appearance of the most elaborate sculpture . Frequently the Caoutchouc plants itself on -rarioBs other trees , and as soou as it is firmly fixed , casts down its roots to the ground . These according to their nature seek each other ; a-net work is soou formed round the tree ; the reticulations diminish -with the multiplication of the roots , and at length a olid and firm cylinder is formed round the tree

      -which r-eceive the young seedliug , which is eventually stifled in the embrace of the- Caoutcbonc . The juice is procured from transverse incisions made in the large root . The incision reaches the wood and even penetrates it , but the How of juice is from the bark alone . Under the incision a hole is scooped in the <> aTthj in which a leaf fvlded up into the shape of a rude , cap , is placed . The fluid as k issnes is , when good , nearly , of the consistence of cream , and of a Tery fine "White colour . Its excellence is by the degree of its consistence ; and the quality of

      Caoutchouc—which would appear to depeud on its consistence—is readily ascertained by rubbing a few drops in the palm of the hand , -wlicn the Caontehonc rapidly oecomes separated . By koeading this up again , it speedily becomes elastic . Many incisions are made in one tree ; the jnice flows rapidly at first , infc diminishes in a lew moments . It Hows more copiously during the night , lit two or three days a layer of Caoutchouc is formed over the ¦ woond , and the flowing consequently ceases . — Friend in India .

      Pessite Admibebs pbefehbed by the Ladies . I hare remarked , that the generality of my ? Cx prefer those of the other who are of a grave and sentimental torn , proTided always that the gravity proceeds not from dullness , bnt from a reflective cast or the inind , -which increases their Tespect whuc it adds to tke interest they experience . I have known a " paleface and pensive manner make impressions on female hearts that had successfully resisted the attacks of rsudv countenances and exLihraiuig < r ™ tr . fl « v itf , w !« oi of these aareniens being more

      , calculated to amuse thaninterest , arerarcly remembered wlien absent- Women seldom forget the man -whomakes them a £ u bafcjsrely recur tc . himwho ias exciiediheir mini , evesa tbouga aT > rilliam wit may have been displayed in Ms bon moU and good stones . He , tierefore , who would captivate the festiduons taste of h beau sexe must eschew too frequent smiles , eTent&ongh he may have ime teeth ; andmrtsi likewise avoid occasiouing or juomotina the exMbition ^> f those pearlv oruameais m Jier u _ - Tr ishes peTm \ nei : riy to pkase . —Lcdj JJh ^ - ^ ton s Confessions of an ~ £ lderlff Lady .

      Of Asu-miK . —The abilities of man must xall short on one tide or other , like too sxmtr a blanket when you are a-btd ; _ if rvu puli it spun yonr « hGulderg , yoa have " your feet bare ; if yuii turust it dosara upon ~ Tour fcrt , vour ihouldcr- arc uucovereu . —Sir W . lemule . - ' -

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      Law Stcdexxs in TH fi Oj . dk * Tim *—id Coke ' s time , the Courts seldom sat later than noon . The business of a barrister having the most extfc . nsive practice would then leave him ample space for a Tery careful and extensive course of study The cases , too , in Coke ' s day , principally involved questions of real property ; these were rare ; and others , not more important , were trivial ones of defamation of character . Trials on hills of exchange were then nearly unkuown . There were noHoore than two or three reported cases of this description previously to the tune when Coke quilted the beach , few cases then occurred of the kind , which row so incessantly occcpy the attention of the courts . The labour of the judges was light . The course of legal study , in his ume , was rather different from the system at present adpted . A student was thsn usually obliged to be eight years on the books of an Inn of Court before he cffcld be called to the har : five vears longer than bi ^^^

      is at present necessary . Clifford ' Inn , as well as several other subordi : ate Inns , were then , as now appendages to the larger Inns of Court ; and in these it was nsnal for the law students to dwell , and associate together , for the purpose of study and the disputation of doubtful or difficult points of law . The practice has long been disused . I learn from an old manuscript of the time of Henry VIII , that in these Iims a curious system of study was then adopted . "After dinner and supper , " savs the writer , " the students and learners m the house Bit together , by three and three in a company ; one of the three putt £ th fonh some doubtful question in the law to the other two of his company ; and they reason aud argue unto it in Euglish ; " and at last he that putteth forth the question declareth his mind , also showing unto them the judgment , or better opinion of his book , where he l \ ad the question ; aud this do the students observe everyday throughout the vear , except festival davs . " The

      benchers of the Temple had even theu to contend with some unruly spirits . In the tliirtv-eighth year of Henry VIII ., SOih May , they ordered the students not to have long beards . The treasurers of all Inns of Court conferred together on this mighty affair in their full parliament ; and in consequence , it was ordered , by the decree of tho 5 th of Alay , the first and second years of Philip and Mary , " that no fellow of this house should wear his beardabove three weeks growth . " hi the thirty-eighth year of Elizabeth , the students were dWired , by the

      Benchers , not to go into the city with either cloaks or hats , boots or spurs , " except * when they ride but of the town . " The Benchers equally set their faces against gambling . "None of the society shall within this house exercise the play of choife-grotte , or £ lyp- > rrotte , upon pain of six shillings and eightpeace . The students , it seenw , very early acquired ihe accomplkhment of tobacco-smoking ; tor , on the 7 th of IS ' oveuiber , seventh year of Charles I ., au order was issued— " That there be no drinking of healths , nor any wine or Tobacco uttered or sold within the house . "—Johnson's Life of Coke .

      Disser drEECiuryiNG . —The following is a good satire on the manner of speechif ying at public dinners : —After thesentleman whose health is to be drunk in his absence , has given the hint to his neighbour to prepare it , he must retire . ( There is no necessity to specify to the company his particular motive to withdraw . ) When he returns , he will find a full tlass of Aladeria before him , with a cigar across it ; he must then manifest a certain degree of surprise , and call up a smile of satisfaction , being verv cautious that it may not be mistaken for a sneer . ' He must close the eyes for a few moments , as if collecting his energies for an extemporaneous explosion ; his own tact must teach him how long he may trespass upon the patience of his hearers ; be must " then commence it thus : — 'Hem ! " open eyes— "hem !"—look complacently at the president and ditto at the party . ' * Mr . President , hem , and gentlemen—unaccustomed as I am to public speaking , aud unaware of the honour you have done me in my absence—hem—1

      say , done meiu my absence;—hem—I am at a loss to express myself on the honour you have done me in my ab .-ence—hem ! "' Here a slight congh may be introduced to gain time ; what is called a liackiny cough is preferable , as its frequent recurrence is more convenient . " Before I sit down , I shall not be on my part , backward in expressing my thanks—I say , before I sit down . I shall not be , on my part , backward-T-hem 2 Should I live for ages , gentlemen—1 mean those ages that are yet to como—the remembrance , the grateful remembrance , of this hour—this glorious hour—will be remembered in my memory '—( lights tho cigar)— " and , gentlemen , in conclusion , tho reminiscence shall live in my recollection , if Providence—the mercy of Providenceshould spare me till the last day , even when the conflagration of the universe shall display its dreadful burning , and roll its volumes of suffocating vapour over the vast globe , like the fire a id smoke of—of this cigar . '" - J

      A Coivrny Tow . v . —A summer ' s evening in a i retired country town , has something melancholy in ' n . You have the streets of a metropolis , without i their animated bustle—you have the stillness / , of the I country without its birds and flower * . * The readers will please to bring before him a quiet street , iu tho ; quiet country town of C- ~ , in a quiet evening ,. ma quiet Jnne—the picture is not mirthful-two youug dogs are playing in the streets , one old do-jiV watching by a newjy painted door . A Tow ladies of ; middle age move noiselessly alon ^ the ' pavement , ' returning home to tea ; tnev wear white insulin dresses , green spencers a little faded , ytraw . puke bonnet ? with

      , green or cofiVse coloured gauze veils . By twos and threes they Lave disappeared within the thresholds of small neat lipusts , with little railings unclosing little gre ..-n spi . ts . Threshold , house , railing , and plots , earh as like to the other as are those smali commodities called fi nest table ? , *' which " even as a broken minvr m « Hiplic ? , " summon to the bewildered . eye countless iteration ? of one four-lezge-J individual . Paradise-plaee was a set of nest-houses . A cow had passed tlirough the street with a milk woman behind ; two young and gay shopmen , "looking after the gals , " had-. reconnoitred the street , and vanished in despair . — Mr . Jiulver ' s Ernest Maltravrr * .

      The Pew Opener . —Even in the temple , at the very shrine—where meekness , humiliation , contrition of heart , and remorse of spirit , kneel and make . sweet sacrifice ; yea , even there plies thepew-opeuer —the busy servitur of pride—the watchful liauUmaid of distinction—the soft-spoken waiter upon Mammon : yes , in the temple , the hopeful looker-out for sixpences . Pews ' . "What a sermon might we not preach upon these little boxes !—smallabidinji-places of earthly satisfaction •—sanctuaries for self-complacency I—in God ' s own house the chosen chambers

      for self-glorification ' . What an instructive colloquy might not the bare deal bench of the poor churchgoer hold with the . soft-cushioned seat of the miserable siuners who chariot it to prayers , and with their sonls arrayed in sackcloth and ashes , yet kneel in silk and mini vcr . How would the thnmbed , dog'seared , discolonred sheep-cased pravcr-book discourse it with the volume bound in vely-et , clasped -with gold , aud borne toils place by stalwart footmen , powdered especially for the Sabbath . —Heads of ihe People .

      Scotch a > d Choese Music . —The melody of the Chinese and Caledonian pipes is so ex ^ ctlv similar that it has never failed to excite the attention of the Scotch who have visited Chira : and , indeed , the recognition has been mutual ; for when a Highland piper ( who had been taken out in au Indiamaii ) was sent up to Canton , to atteud a meeting of the sons of St . Andrew on the nation al anniversary , the Chinese were no less struck with the picturesque costume of the plaided Gael than ravished bv the strains which proceeded from his instrument . — JJavis ' s ( Jliina . ;

      A W ife ' s Prerogative . —An Irish soldieT once waited on liis comuia ^ diag officer , with what ^ he termed a very serious complaint . " . ¦* ' Another mab , " he said , "had upbraided him that he was not ntarricd to his owu wife , -whom he accused of being no better than she s ' -iouiJ bo , a :: d called her many bad names besides , which he should be ashamed to mention to his Iwaotir . " —Colonel : Well , my good fellow , have y-us any proof tiiat you are legally married ]''—Soldier : " Faith , your honour , I bayc the best proof in the world . "' Here he took on " . his hat , or rather cap , and exhibited a cut scull , saying , " Docs vuur honour think I'd . uj .-after taking " that same abuse from any body but a wife !"—Shij' j i ' i ^ Memoirs .

      Kemarkaijle Changes . —The Swedish city o : Gonenbirrg 35 built principally of stone from Aber deen , and it is a well-known fact that the dustrheaj which was -ivont to graee the top of Gray ' s Inn Lau is now a component part of the city of Moscow , ti which . it was exported as a material for brick-ma kimj , after the confiagration of that city . Create chaiiges tliau these are daily brought about by ou extended commerce . The first mile put of Londoi on tie Kingsland-road is actually macadamized wit ] Chinese 5 tone ; a fact which appears incredible unti it is explained tha * the material was brought over i j the shape of ballast in the ships of tho East Indi ; Company , and disposed of to the road-eoutractor a a cheap rate . In return for this , it is S 2 . id that th Oiiness a . re indebted for a part of the " materials fo their porcelain to ihe English shops , which take ou in a " similar way the fii : e chalk of Noirthfleet ' andit neighbourhood , wliich is found to be particularl wed suited for the purposes of the manufactures c the Celestial Empire . —Mechanic * Magazine . "

      ' Political I nterferesce . Gvvcrnmehts com monly trouble themselves too inpeh' -with the politic of other nations . A prince should turn his back to wards other countries , and his face towards his own just as the proper place of a la- Qholder : s Upon hi own ( -states , and not his neighbour ' s . ' . If Govern men ' s were wise , it would be found , ere long , that i great portion of the cndluss and wtarirome sneees sioc of treaties , and remonstraiiecs ; waba ?? ie ? , a ! liaa-es , xncmorials , aud * itL- ; : i ? s , might be dispcuse ' with—ivith ' fo little incuvcalenco ir . nl ' so "Ihul- ' bcnc ? : f , tiiat the world v ;> ¦¦ ¦ ' - w ^ i . U-p \ i > think t what- "fatal ends they hud ? . r .--n buiyinjr . :: n < l hi >^ nceJlesrly they hati bc-e : ; ii . jun ' ng theuiielve ? .. 1 ihe last century , our ottt . co-::. try iras ^ o much of busv-baiiy , aad had iuvclvc- 'i itself- in snch a mnit tude of treaties , and aliiant-s ,- that it was found , believe , quite impossible to fulhi one wiJhou ! b \ ' the verv act violating another . —Ifyinohd .

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      crim . con . mmpiA . v . ¦; , The Bombay Press of Jnne 17 th , contains a , V >« S reportof the trial , of an action for dama ^ 3 S , br 6 ngii * by Mr . Larkina . against Mr . F . C . Lewis , il'pm cri * miual conversation with Mis : parkins . The guilty parties had eloped from Bombay to Blishire Ui the same vessel ,. and lived together as man and wife .: lie adultery being undisputed , the intereiit of the trial lay m the circumstances which had tempted the wife to abandon herhusband and children . Mrs . Larkins , an ^ nglUhwomanj and the daughter of taptain Andrews , was . young , beautiful , and nocomphshedrjshe attracted much attention , aud led a gayer life , than her husband , who professed to be " serious / approved of . This Beems to have been the only cause of quarrel ; for theMady would iiot give up her parties and her Italiau Mnusiu on Snnoays , and preferred visiting to Dravinjr . Lewis ^ 35 safti 2 a 2 » as 55 is

      appears to be a portrait-painter ; at least wo find him employed in painting Mrs . Larkins . This is the statement of the lady ' s maid : — . 1 left England with Mrs , Larkins , and from her arrival injBombay until she left it I lived ! with her constant * -. I am aware upon what terms sho and 3 lr .-iiarkins were , as 1 had frequent opportunities of observing . Almost immediately after Mrs . -Larkms s return from England , Mr . Larkins behaved with great unkindness to her ; although I heard Mrs . Parkins promise to forego all gaiety in the way he wished Tor .- -His urikindness consisted in tho tyranny he endeavoured to exercise over the mind of his "ft'ife , forbidding her to read any books but those he should select or approve—religious books . Mrs . . Larkins did not read novels ; sho wished to read otherhteraryworks ; Mr . Larkinsc 6 nsidercd all knowledge except that derived from religious books as superfluous .: Mrs . Larkins did hot-. acreo-:-with Mr .

      Liarkius on those points . This causeddisagreeineiits and altercations between them , and I was presoiit at several of theii- quarrelSi Ua such occasions , Mrs . Larkius would so demean herself as to preyeut a recurrence of them ; but Mr . Larkins would insist on Mrs . Larkins giving her opinion . She-aidso ; winch had a tendency to create further discussions ; which generally terminated by Mrs . L . crying and " leaving the room . Neither party resented the opinions they had given . On other than : religious !¦ subjects Jlrs . L . andher husbaudagrccd , butonreligious oues they never did . I remember when Mi-s Larkins had been very poorly all day ; she lay on her couiih in the dressing room , and was conversing of her own family , expressing a wish that Mr . Larkins possessed but half the allectionfor her herbrothorhad . Mr Larlcius observed , that he knew Mrs . Larkius thought him foolnd

      a , a . that he had heard whilo sho was in Jmglaudshe had said she did not caro whether-ho was dead oralivo . Mr . Larkins , when speaking , to her ou such subjects , expressed himself in a Very savage manner . When Mr . and Mrrf . Larkius disputed on religious subjects , he wished to makq her say that she wished to die ; but Mrs . Larkilis ever expressed a wish to live ; Mr . Larkins observing that her heart was estranged from God , and that she preferred living in this sinful world to the enjoyments of a futuro state . For about -half an hour Mrs . Larkins was iu hysterics after she left the room . The discussion was kept up till she left it . " Mrs . Dickmson , wife of Col . Dickinson , thought that Mr . . Larkius . and his lady lived happily together ; and described Mr . Larkins as i *> t particularly austore , though more serious than ho once

      was" Mr . and Mrs . Larkins resided with me for somo time . They did not appear as public professors of religion , ivlr . Larkins was not particularly fond of gaiety , but always entered into anything that was proposed . They certainly lived on terms of' happiness together ; and Mrs . Lnrkins was very anxious about the state of Mr .. " Larkins ' s health . "Thelast time I saw Mrs . Larkins was at her own house' , about a month previous to her leaving" Bombay . I dined and spent the evening there and observed nothing particular in the conduct of either . Air . Lawn was not there on that evc-. ihig . Mrs . Larkilis . I should say , is au accomplished woman , and I think more so than the generality of ladies . Her society % yas courted , aud she was considered an .-ittrantivn

      person , and cousequcutW admVved . Mrs . Larkins sung very well . Never observed anything extraordiuary on Mr . Larkins ' s part when . « hc sail " . Never observed any rude display of temper on Air . Larkms ' s part when ceirtlcmen addressed Mrs . Larkiuis . I regretted that I did not see more of them as formerly . " Mr . George Smith , King ' s evidence , showed that t ? ^ 1- ins aud her seducer , Mr . Lewis , were in the nabit of taking part in religious meetings" 1 had often met AJrs . Larkins \ yhen meetings of that nature were held at- Mr . Larkins ' s house . She invariably attended them , and joined in tho devouonal exercises of the evening ; and it struck nie she entered into them with-pl . uasiire ; 1 know Mr .

      Lewis ; repeatedly met him at Mr . Larkins ' s house ! and was on intimate terms with him . lias met Mr . Lewis at prayer-meetings held at Mr . Farisb ' s and Mr . Larkius s . He was in the constant habit of attcudmg those at tho latter person's house Tlie last ¦• meeting-held at Mr . Larkin .- , b- was on the Saturday before Mr . Lewis and Mrs . Larkins eloped . He was there . The meeting generally aasombled at seven and closed about liine * Mr . and Mrs . Larkius and nivself sometinics took upon ourselves to OXpuund bcripture . The uoi « nan ,, t . joined in the devotional exercise * of that evening : ' - Mr . Larkins ' s nrotive in inviting .. Mr . Lewis to attend these mettmgs , I . understood to be with the view to incite Mrs . Larkins to withdraw herself more from gay society . Mr . Lewis told .-me tho reason why ho courte d religious society was , that he rcceiTed more real kimJliess at iht-ir hands , than from other portions of the community . 1 should say that- 'Mraud Mrs .

      . Larkins lived happily . When ¦ v-isiting .-there , I generally had dinner , and remained during the evening . My visits were not so frequent after Mr . Lewis Vent to reside at Mr . Larkins ' s . Mr . Larkius was not particularly austere with / Mrs . Larkins , and 1 should add that Mr . Larkius was a verv fond and illtlulgent husband . I was invited to " dine at Mr . Larkins ' s the day Mr . Lewis and Mrs . Larkins eloped . 1 arrived at Mr . Larkiu 3 " s house about six o ' clock ^ On entering the dining-room , Mr .. Larkins said—• King , they ' re gone . ' Mr . Larkins was extremely excited , and J then thought he had lost his reason . 1 remained there the whole of the night at Mr . 'Luxkins \ s retiuc-t , and stayed thero for a fortnight . During thattimej most of hisconversatioa was about his wife . Mr . Larkins was very ill for the first three or four days after the occurrence . " The Il j verenJ George Candy

      said' 1 have been on intimate terms with Mr . and Mrs Larkins since December UaT . 1 generally attended a Saturday evening meeting at their house ' and 1 once spent a week there . 1 had suflicieut opportunities of judgi-g that they lived happily together . 31 r . Larkins appeared to be . a kind and indulgeut husband . 1 never saw anything to the contrary 1 here did nbt appear to me that auy kt d of restraint was placed on Mr ^ . Larkins by her husbaud ; she was ever cheerful . 1 have been frequently present at devotional exercises in their company , and ' the part she took in them was not that of a , pevsou labouring under any restraint , in fact , Mrs Larkma always took part iu religious conversation . " Other witnesses , gave . similar testimony . Letters irom Mrs . Larkius to Mr . Lowis were read ; they were written in a very , tender strain . She entreated him , to hasten their departure from tho " inhospitable and never-to-be-uudured residence of Jier husband . "

      The jury found a verdict for tho ' -p laintiff , ' wit ! ¦ 2 , Wm rupees damages ( £ 240 sterling ); the damages had betm laid at 5 U , 0 Ui ) rupees .

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      HIGHWAY K 0 B 13 EIIY AND MURDER ON THE GLAN . V 11 RE-R 0 AD , NEAR COKK . A dreadful murder was committed on Saturday in the above neighbourhood , on die person of a man named Lawlor , a Serjeant of the police , who with another officer had gone to . the assistance of a gcntlenian named Treuwith , v . iio had becu attacked by three robbers , and stripped of his clothes and his money . An inquest was held upon the body 611 Monday , when the following evidence-was given : —" : Henry Ellis , Lsq ., sworn : 1 " am a surgeon . I reside at Glanmire . At about eleven o ' clock on Saturday night , being in bed , I was called up , and apprised that some of the police stationed at Glaiimire had been wounded , and a gentlenian named irenwith

      had been robbed and beateu ^ -iii short , that the constable or sergeant of : the police was killed . 1 dressed and went out . I niet . Mr ! TrenwitU , who resides in the ueiglibourhood of tlie place , who said be had been beaten , but , would go with me to the statiou-house , where , haviug arrived , I found a policoman , named HarforU , suffering under his wounds . L pon examiningvthem" I discovered that he had received six wounds iii the scalp , and a bayoict wound in the hip-noither' of which was mortal , and none of which I hope will prove fatal provided no misma agemeut Jakes place . I was not long 111 my attendance upon Harfbrd when Sergeant Lawlor was brought in upon a door—I-should say his remains , as he was then quite dead . They laid the body upon a table rit was quite cold ; he had been dead , I snould think , an hour . I could do nothing forhim , and I turned my attention to Hartoru

      , wuom i bled . 'Ihe deceased man , whose body I subsequently examined , had received a triansnlar woand over the left eye , as if of a bayoiict ; there vras a similar ore on his vmst-another on the palm of his right , hand . There were six or ei ^ ht' or ten wouudson the scalp ; . they appeared to Tiavo been luflicted by a formidable instrument , being from tiirce to n * inches in length . The effect of . ' these blows was to st * rf .-the blood from his ears aud to rupture the vessels ; ami such .-a' -. rupture-as " I liave Oe . ^ crit ) ed wouid , uo doubt , cause death . It had been « ited by a person preset at the tiinC ;> tbat-the doccr >? etl had broathed . . 1 went fo the body and found it quite-cold aiid . clatiniiy , as-if-jt liad-bien- 'ili-iwn tlirough waier "; - ; with " thc -

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      The poxt witness producisd was Mt . Robert Trentwith . He was couducted into court by some meni-K -f abf ta 8 fannlyv ; The , gentleman appeared to be Wfhi ¦ - S , ?^« His head was covered with . a green tteinanHhw ^ rotut & * Z ^^^ beeirasaisted to the witness ' s « eaf ' ¦ • J ^ P ? ^ ? e excited a nSsJfteSg of ' res ^ " 4 trSR ¥ ^ dnring hia ^ ideace he l" ^ elt ^^^^ Wf of personal suffering ; still there wer . Cvid ^ « ££ tom of much weakness and debility , bei ^ . > TH + he , in au unfeebled tone of voice s eaid I feaicblentown-cottagei near Glautnire , and was onia > way walking homo > n Saturday : iiight from Cork , "t ^ lW >>> ¥ »*¦ W ^ pm eight ^ ine ^ lbck ; -sm ^ imMm ^ iM

      or vvhen , being near to the { town , up from the lower road ; to Silver Spring , I heard footsteps behind me walking quickly ., I thpjlght , the parties : were walk , irtgremarkablY quick , aind I made up my mind they would not be idle if they ¦ overtook ine . ^ I proceeded at a very quick pace , and naving pa&sed Air , Gal-JagliausgateatLotabeg . thesouiidofthefootstepsdied ^ W > a"d I abated my Bpeod . I had hot gone iar , perhaps at Mr . Ureeu s residence , wheni- most unexpectedly I received a heavy blow on the Teft side ol uiy head , which throw me from the side path , and 1 . fell on the ground .: The blow was certainly that of a ; weapon ^ a ; heavy bl udgeon When turning myself I got ¦ ¦ three or four blows successively , all on tho head . There . were three over

      persons me , eaehof whom struck me , I should say , as lie came up . Itliink ; thoy all used bludgeons , having been quite stunned . When a little recovered , I said that 1 couldn t have beeii the person for whom they were looking , inquiring-, at the same time , what they wanted * Ihey said they wanted ¦ whatever I had lhoy , then turned my trousers' pockets inside out and rifted them ; I had fivoor six shillings and a tew keys about me . . -.:.. They-then pulled oftniy coat broke the guard chain of my watclij wliicU they also took ; it was a gold > vatch . I had no particular mark on it . They then took off my waistcoat and black silk cravat , and left mo lying bu tlie i-oad , when one of them saidj" Perhaps his boots are sonio good , " and they retui-h ^ d , and took them

      also , ihey , t ) ien proceeded towards Cork , on the footpath , quito leiaurely . Iu a short iinie I reco--vered myseitVand rail towards Glariinire \ yith a view of getting the aid of the police . A . little before tho turn at tho Metal Bridge I met two of the police . 1 knew llarttbrd . Tiiey vrevo patrollur < r , having their carbines . I told them that I had just bee , n beaten and robbed ; they appeared ^ to bo vciY anxious , aiid rah towards Cork . We soon niot ail outside car ; the 'police turned it , and We got on it . Tho driver galloped : off towards towji —the deceased urging the driver to hurryj saying that it lie overtook the robbers , ho would be Well paid . Wo soon saw three men walking on the footway towards town . We lost sight of them at the turn

      at Mr . Callaghan ' H gate . 1 looked at the gate , and remarked that thcy . niust have eoricealed them-r selves . U 10 deceased ordered the driver to stop , when wo all jumped oil " , and saw them hid in a wicket ot tho gatCj and we immediately ran at them—I following close to the police . Harford had . ' fixed his bayonet to his cariino . I cannot say if tho deceased had placed his bayonet on . The men carae ibrward as we approached . 1 think they wero the first to sti-dco . 1 was attacked by one of them , with whom 1 struggled—he all the time striking me with a heavy weapon . 1 think it was a bludgeon . At this timo ^ the polico and their antagonists were stretched on tl \ e ground . One of the ibrmerV Harford , I think , cried out for mo to assist ; that was out of

      my was tully engaged with niy own an tagonist . Ho didn't succeed in knocking me down , il vo moment we got off the car , the driver and ear disappeared as 1 saw . 1 continued the struggle With my opponent until part of bis coat gave way when getting the power of his arm he knocked me down with the weapon with which he had been beating me . The knockdown blow 1 received on the head ; I was much stunned . When I recovered 1 saw the three men over the policemen , who Were stretched on tho ground . I got up and ran off to the station-house , where , having repprted what had occurred , tho police started instantly for the scene ot

      conflict . The . whole-: transaction ; . at Mr . Callaghan's gate occupied , 1 should- say , something about ten minutes . I was not long at tha Station .-when Hartord ran in ; ho Baid . " I'm just niurdered—send for a doctor at oiice . " ( i How is . theipther policeman V ' taid i . "Oh , he ' s dead , " was tlio reply , "and I got away as well as I could . " The throe men with whom we had . the . struggle at the gate were , 1 have no doubt , tho saiiaft iien by whom Iliad been robbed ; 1 would not swear poKitively : 1 Avas nnich knocked , about , Upon my seeing the men as we approached in the car , 1 said ,. ^ There they are . " Indeed 1 have not the least doubt that they were the persons by whom I had been robbed . I saw a ; flash trom a pani . oi' a gun or pistol .

      ( Hero a blunt sword , broken in two , was produced , which tlio witness stated was similar to one he had seen at the policeVBtatiQM , wlioro it was brought by one of that body . ) 1 got , said lie , a cut across the , back of tny right hand > Vhicli might have been inflicted by a bl ' nht sfrord . 1 saw no person on the road between tho station hoitso and Air . eallaghan ' s gate except the polico and the carman . ' ¦¦¦ : . . - :. ' . -.,: ¦ ¦ •¦¦ ¦ ;' . . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ ; , ¦• ¦ '¦ ; ' : . Mr . Trenwitli's ividoiice closed here , and he , on tfte invitation of theMayor , was conduced to the judge ' s room , where a , magisterial iawstigation was going on . ¦ - ... - ¦¦ . ¦ ¦'¦¦¦ ¦ .-. . ¦¦¦ D r . ' Win , Beamish—I liavo examined tlie body of tlio deccasod , Patrick Lawlor . O « examining the iorohead I found four ' . incised , woundsextending

      , trom , the scalp to tho skull , and about an ineh or an inch and a half in length ; also-a bayonet wound ovei- the left eye , and a little tooiio sido of it ; also anothor iiicisod wound at tlie-back of those already ( lescribed * It was two inclies and a lialf long , and tho skull under it was ¦ ¦ 1 ' ractufed ; tlierc is another bayonet vvoHiid more in front than that just deacribed . Tho tace exhibited several bruise , uoiie of which Were of cciisequonee . The sw 6 rd now . produced ( the . blunt one ) would produtse the incised wounds . Near tlio palm of the hand there was » deep incised wound . ; 1 opened the head , and fVmud extensive extravasjation between the calp and skull over the left puriosteumauil temporal bones . The fracture of which 1 spoke occupied an extent of live or six inches

      . Two of the bones at , the : base of the skull \ vere also , fractured ; . The upper and urnler surface Ot tho brain was very mucli congested , and blood was lodged at its base . The ventricles of tho braiii contained a quantiiy of bloody serum . There were no marks of -violence on the body . 1 have no doubt that the rupture of the brain , " caused by external injury , by blows , produced death . _ The jury returned tho following verdict : — " We hnd and present that tho deceased , Patrick Lawlor , while in the execution of his duty as a constable , was , on the night of Saturday , the 21 st instant , feloiHoittsly and wilfully jmirdcred by some i > erson or persons unknown , on the Lower Glaumu-eroa , d , iu the norih-east liberties pf Cork . "— Vtrk Iieporter .

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      ot £ 5 4 s . 6 d ., for goods sold ahd delivered . ' . Tfc " p lea set up b y- the Itight Hon .: defeudaut Was , not Jh ^ ^^ 13 were . no ^ Qld and delivered , bnt'that tney had been sold and delivered beyoiid a certain ^ c . H e ple ^ cd the ^ atate ^ oflimUations , which SS ^ ? ^ iV ^^ P ^ : ^ 4 not ; stainV : and a verdict for the fuU amount claimed was recorded A similar surt fw £ 2 12 s . M . ^ w aa br 6 ught % a tradesman ,. Mr ^ roome / against the sam e Noble Lord . and a verdict for the plaintiff als ^ ^ JiM ^ ^ & ^ Mm ^^ m ^

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      ^^ ^ U ^ CI-pAL REFORM . Wo submit to ^ tho Britislii'earter vbefollovringdisciosure , rvhich tv ; e find ih : the Sv ^ M Packet , ihe accredited organ o ; f the Dublin Corpori *!'"'* ' / t is a description pf that " P'Uar of the constitutiou- ' *" one of its own bod y :- — - "• "It has been long : know » 3 to the members of tho cor potation that certaiat alden-ien , - entitling ; theniselves '^^ the three C . ' s , ' areleaiued for the purpose of disposing of all the patronage oi ; Ihe ; cori- 'oration , and that no person has been elected a member of the Jboard for inaiiy years without haviug previoiisly bound himself by a pledge to act in concert With . the £ ang of usurpers so soon as he shall attain his bbjecfc in being made a charteredmagistratepf thiseity . - The laction , in its

      present posture , numbers eleven ;' previbus to ttie late election it numbered thirteen , ' being a niajority of the board , tt is theirunifprm practice to meet on the mornings of each day that an election is about to take place , and to state their views of the merits antl 'ibe demerits of the respective ' candidates , after which they proceed to what they call a scriitch—that is ; to vote a * - ' cording to their individual desires . Upon the summing up of , the voting , the whole party is bound to support U 10 candidate for whom there is a majority of the cabal and that candidate is uniformly elected by the board ' upon an uiidurstauding that he will join the fabtioh ! this

      By arrangement it will be seen , that all the patronage of the cbrporatioa hiay be disposed of by seven of the gang , pulling together , aa that ^^ number makes a majority / of the thirteen who are pledged to act together . Although , reduceid to . Tvinio by the secessions arid absentees , they carried tiib electionof town -clerk by seducing two Independents , :. ; vVarren and . Whiteford . It ia a lamentable faot , that these ftiw , say Beyeu , aldermen , usurp all the patronage of the Corporation of BubUn . Is this a state of aftairs that ought to be tolerated ? Is it to be endured that a iProtestant-body , designated as one of tlie . pillars of the constitution , shall exist for the aggrandisement of seven or thirteen

      usurpers * who share its patronage among their relatives rind friends ? If tho ( Common Council- ¦¦ didVits duty ; this : state of affairs could . iiot last .. The Commons slipuld nmteas one man to destroy the power of the t ; augv If such a union sha \\ not take place , the sooner a reform of the corporation shall take place the better . " : .-.- ; ! .. . : . It is for sucli a septemvimie . as this that senators have , been wrangling , and the wheels of legislation have beea almost stopped during the last five years . ¦—Morning Cfitonick .

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      INCREASE OF CRIME . We have elsewhere , and before to-day , expressed ourselves unequivocally as to the New Police Acts , as it works . We will not imagine the effects produced upon the lower classes by ifs continued active admmstration , aud imagine some modern Howard visiting with the most benevolent views ; arid tlfc most purely philanthro p ic motives , one of the prisons crowded iviih- ' -criiiiiiirais consigned to its walls and wheels by its provisions and enactments . Here will he see tho strongest possible evidence of an ihcrease—not of crime—but of crimes produced by tho mutation of character given by law to what were formerly 116 crimes at all . True , tUe . ; Now . Police Act furnishes offences , but it imagines them first . It was enviously said of TomTlnimb— J .

      " He made the giants first , and then he killed them . " The Tom Thumbs of modern legislation have made the crimes , and . tlien denouueed them . However , by dint of iiuiu ^ ,: tread-milling , gagging ^ W ? cr silent ; systern , ) and every other fanciful Whig device for torturing the . poor , we may fairly suppose that in the space of twelve months the people Will . have become duly sensible of the enoruiity of the villainies which coine Svithin the scope and range of the ¦ 'act ' , and that , ; huddled in coriiera : ashamed to show their faces , oy raise their heads under the weight of crime by which they are overburdened , they will shrink , from the kind iniquiries of their humane visitors . Permitted by the gaoler f 0 inveatigate their several cases , the modera Howard , and the goTitleFry , bega ; a their research . ,: ¦;/ :

      ¦ VWretched creature , " says Howard , to a maTJ coiled up ; his head , rcsticig upoa his haads ; through tlie half-opened fingers .. of which tlio huge heavy tears were oosiog— " What crime has brought you to ; this ^" ' .- ' . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ; .: ¦ - . ¦ ;¦ . ' ;¦ .. ; : ; :. !/ ; ' ¦ ¦ . •" ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦¦¦ ''¦¦ " Sir , " replies the suffering martyr , "do cot i 1-() Hire—I have cot power to cxplain-rl know my fault—I am satisfied of tho justico of my senteace aud prepared to bear it : leave- me , Sir , to repei » ta'ice . ' ; : " Unt the crime ! " continues iHowaid ^ ¦ - , If . I must coufess , " sobs the culpiit , I am hore sectenced to the mill for having— -oh ! if I had previously thought what 1 was about" to dp—for havii / g , stuck two large posting bills upoi some boards iu bt . Martin ' s- | a , c . ' ' .- .. ¦ . "And What was your tratlo ? " asks Howard

      " 1 had bee " , " sobs the culprit , "for tliirtv-two years , mai , a «» d boy , a billsticker—what , Sir , is ki-owii in the best spciety as an ' external paijerhanger . ' 1 have in my time , before , my eyes vrerci opened to the vice , stuck . hundreds and ^ thousands of bills , Sir ; but it is past , and I am payinjr the just peiialty of my crime . " ; . ¦ 'And you , " continued ? Howard , speaking to a little boy whose eyes were red with weeping , "what have yon done to deserve this infliction i " . " . Please , Sir , " said the , miscreant—and bno so

      youiig , too— " I was a having whatj before the good laws passed , wo used to call a lark , with my cousin Jem Gibbins , which is a biggercr boy than me , and he , bir—I beg your pardpi ) , SU- —and he , Sir , calledmo a spooney , whereupon Sir-it was in the street , Pir- ^ -1 ups with a stone , nearly as bigagiri as a marvel , and I shies it right at him , Sir , by which reason , Sir , as 1 haye confessed totho clergy which comes to visit us by order of the magistrates , I did mean to hit him—I never shall be able to look up agin . Sir—it ' s that , Sir , for which I am worked on the mill . every day . Sir . " . '¦¦

      " Indeed , " said Howard ; "arid you , sirrali , what is your crime ?' 'All i nad wertc r . ce , '' said a huge unshaven man —his manly chest hcavi . y with agitation— " iay poor wife and seven babbies are all starving , Sir , through hie . " " Vyhat caused your separation , ' said Howard greatly affected . . ; , ' , ' " Inadwcrtenco , as I have jist observed , " said the captive ; : " I . was , in other days , a dustmaa—first man under tke contractor himself , Sir ; but , driven like ,: by my aivxiety , Sir , that , was all , to git what ashes and cindors I could for the coricorn , which I thought was my duty , I committed , Sir , the fault , the crime "—and hero ho struck his bosom passionately— "of ringiiig my bell through the streets . " .

      " Horrible , " said Howard , " your bell 1 " . " That is not all ^ " said , the suffering penitent ; " the Worshipful : Bench cpiifisticated the bell , and warned me ; my bell was sold to pay , part Of my fine , and so it may have passed off ; but , instigated by spmeworserer genus , I went the next day and cried 'I ) ust , hoh ! ' all down Hemming ' s-rbw what-led me to such a act wjio can say ? I was heard in the street—I was heard in the eourt--aud - hero t am , Sir , a working On the wheel , and , as I said beifore , Mrs . G . and . the ' . seven babbies a-starving . " -... ; ; .. ¦ " The crime Was serious , " said Howard . ' . 'iAnd you , " addressing himself to a tall well-looking ladj Wearing a glazed hat with a low croWu aud broad brim , *' have you been ringing a bell 1 " ¦ ' ^ .. :-" No , ttii , " said the lad , " Cam here foi" blavfin'g a liprii i J ' m guard to the coach my tatherhaadtiyeu for these « 5 i > years , and ^ in the dusk , of the autumn eyeniugs-ihe carts are so'thick and the drivers so sleepy ,

      if we : doesiit blow tlie horu to let . ' em knovy We ' re a ^ comiiig , father ' s . rightitt amongst the whole lot on ' Cm . 1 may blow my heart - ' - " out' : anywhere / intlib country , where tho roads is quite clear , and bio win arh ' t o '_ house wiiatsomever , but I did ' nt know I mightn ' t , blow within 15 miles p ' toWu , jist where tho crpwd begins ; however , as I was . giyiug a jolly puff , about a lumdred yards 0 ' the London side of tke lormilestdnc ,: to warn off . a .. cpuple . ot . hbp : \ vaggons aa high as haystacks , oue ; of tb . e gentiemen which keeps the metropolis district jgOOdattd . Ylr . tu-. ousliabbedme ,: and here I am Sir . " ' , -- " -. .- ¦ . . ¦ ' . '' ' " Vpuy conduetj" said Hovyard , "has ^^ be en ¦ ¦ "¦ ' " ex ' ceedjngly reprehensible , young juaii—a week ' s probation on that admirable \ cprrectivej the mill , will probably open your eyes to the enormity ; of jour couduct . And yoiij Sir , " continued the philan thropist— " What horrid crinio have you committed (' ¦ ' ¦'¦ : ¦ ¦ ¦'•" . ' ¦ - .- ' . ' . - '¦ ¦ ' . : ' ' ' ;' - ' - ¦ -. - ¦ ¦ .-:- -

      .-. . " I own my fault , Sir , ' ^ said theman ^ -aperson of superior manners ; " nothing can excuse me : the expiatiou to which I am sentenced will , I ¦ libpe secure my pardon here , and heteafter . In me , Sir ' you behold a victim to inordinate and uncoutrollec passiou j . in . a moment , of frenzy ; , oven while engairec Ufa disoussiou with a . friead- ^ esj Sir , a friend whom 1 have known for years—I was so transported by my domouiacal anger as to tell him that'hia mother ¦ ¦ was .-.-no' geittlemau , ' He would liaye pardoned mo tiieusoot tins most . provoking , language , but in the opinion of the woi-sliipfulbenchi I was far beyond thc ; reach of his forgiveness . " - ¦';¦ \ ' :. ''' .. ' 1 . ani glad , " said ! " How-aid , " to see how . UuiV you appreciate youi- rashness - ^ examples must be maclo lor ;; tho :. good of society .. , . And ydu , Sir , " addressing . another wretch , " why aro you hero t ' Sir , said theyoiuig maii , whose yellowbeard Showed like a stubble in ; September , " my fault is

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      withont ; palliati 6 nMwas cohTicted » i rn » 't *? -i V ^^ m ^ t ^ ing ^^ M ^ I had aone morerljmaiputt bjtof blacking oS boots tp eojto churchin . - I had no time theSJ before ; t 5 utthat , ^ r , ia ^ io excuse , ft trembleS an aspen leaf to think what I ^ ate ^ beeh > guUt y ^ I . hope L ^ l ; be . Wiven .,: tr ieyer Mil shave agia . U .. 1 itvesf to be athousand- ~ it is a- sin ; and I Jjnowft . Off .. ; I ha' no tltoe ito shave Ml the week ,: and I to work , ' added the profane miscreant : iif a ton « whif- ! , a . ji npt partake so entirelypf humiliation a * - it might have done , ^ and I hope I shall bear it . " . AiKHvhat is your crime ; Sir 1 " said Howard to tne next .. ' -.- ¦ :-- - ,- - 7 " . "• . . ¦¦ • : ' : ¦ ' - ' . ~ - : : ¦ . ¦ . - • . ¦ WMmtm ^ sM ^ i ^

      « # 1 - H gudty . , Sir ^ said , the respondent , votbeggingfor amorsel ofJbread , which ; when one -w-staryiffifc : I know is a erime , contrary to the law . ino good gentlemanirho comes to see us here spmetunes lias . - Jent me a book , to shew that appetite is ail the force of imaginaiiei ! , ? nd ; that begging oujht , } ° ^ Mte . a _ capital felony ; V « 6 iveve ^ I . get tod her ^ and ; dpn * t mind the mill much although ply poot wife is . sick in pur garret at ilOniG » "¦ ¦ .. ¦' . ¦ ¦ . .,- ;¦ : '' .- '¦ ' : ¦ = " ¦¦'¦' ' ¦ . -. - - /• - . ' - ' „ ¦¦'¦ " . ' ¦ - ¦ Mr . Howard inquiredif ^ f tQf > v ' > men ^ ere amoiigkt ^ e culprit ? , ; and was ^ nsw « ed In k > afcmatiye . His ^ age , demeanour , and personal charu ^ ter were such as to justify a compliance with his desin . to see S ^^^^^^^^^^<^ he ?^{^ S ^^ WaSl ^ ^ " ^ Lookup , " , said the gaoler . ; ¦ Ihe girl did aa sKe was bid . ;

      u Well , what is your crime I" said Howard lam , quite a ware of it , Sir , ' . ' said the girl ; I will no ^ aMempt to extenuate it . j > was walfang . ' aionir Pall - . mi li hurryiiigidme to my wretched bea-the rain pouted down in torrents ; a gentleman passed me who wascairyiag . an umbrella- rashly , madly m the .. enthusiasm ; of the moment , I ^ spoke U Jiini , and asked him to spare toe a corner of bl » shelter . " : ' - , ; . ' :. ¦ : ' . : ¦" : ' - . ' .. ;; - . -- . \ ' .-.. . :- . •• ¦¦ " ; .. :-i ' ' •' . ^ Abomin able outrage / ' said Howard . - : " i AM I ,, Sir , ; Vsaid Another ; handsome but meianchply ypung eveatute , , " am equally guilty . I walked tip . Regent-street frem my lodgings , on the same night , but finding the rain coming en , 1 walked back again . The law- ^ and' who like ui dare ar ^

      rajgu its justice or its wisdoratr-has made it a crimojbr a , wpman towalk up ; a street : * nd down again , in tho course of the same cvemng : I t ^ ed thoughtlessly , but I am prepared , to endure the punishment I know I have deserved . " ¦ -. ' : ' . ' .-. ' - ;¦' - .-* V ljv saidHoward , turning away with ^ disgust . andaddrossihghimself to thegapleri" Now where a ^ et he bottermost criminals , the drunken gentlemea p tne bell-ringers—the lamp-breakers- ^ aud ¦; the knocker 4 wister 3 T-for all these are crimes of a deen dye under the new . law . " ¦ :

      ; . _ . Oh , Sir , said the gaoler , " w > havn't none of them here . This law—which they call the little Whig . law , in opposition to the Pig-Whig law , which is the real law of the land—makes it optional to pay in purse or in ; person , by Vhich means , Sir as the Gcvernmerit meant , the gemman what has money in his pocket to : pay is never inconvenienced not the least as is—while tlie poor , who have no right to dp nothing but what the Police Act directs , is in course wery properly ; subjected to sich punishment fpr their willauies as the wprshipful Bench orders and directs" . : ¦ ' ..- ¦ " . ; ;

      Goodmprniugi" said Mr . Howard , « ' the case is clear—nothing can be more aatisfalctory ; " and ' away went the p hiianthropist ^ .. perfectly assured that such a state of things was as near perfectipn as Whig-Kadical legvslalipn cpuld possibly produce . — -John Bull . '¦ ¦ ; ¦ - - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - . ¦¦ - . f- - , ''¦ ¦¦¦¦ : ¦¦ : " '

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      LORD MONTTEAGLE'S " qROWNI ^ G" JOB Thomas Spring Rice entered public life nineteea years ago . In Juno 1820 , he was seated , on petition , for Limerick . He was Mr . einning ' s Under Secretai ^ for the Home department in 1827 ; Lord Grey ? s Secretary ofthe Treasury in 1830 ; he filled up the gap in the Colonial Office made B y Lord Stanley ' s resignation in 1834 ; in ^ ihe following" year '" he was made Ghaticollor ol the Exchequer ; aiid now he U Comptroller of the Exchequer , with a retiring Salary —for such it may be called-H ) f £ 2 . 000 a year , and i Peerage ..-- . ' -. " .. ¦¦ ¦¦' , ' ' ¦ - ' ¦•¦• • ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ C ^ : / : ' - .-: ¦ , " -

      It seems to be assumed that Lord : Alonteagle is laid on the shelf—that he is worn putT ^ effete . If it bo so , his flickering flame "flared up" -in a parting puff of extraprdioary vigour . Hia last job was hia greatest . Few could have imagined the Shannpa success . To carry throughVthe Reformed ; Parliament ' a bill fpr enhancing at the public cest the value ef one '? own homestead , requtte < l no common uitrepidU j . But Mr . % ce ; was e ^ al to ' the task , anoTthe fair acres of Shanagoldeh are worth—hpw many additional years' purchase ? Clever and impudent , however ^ as was the Sh annbii affair , it is eclipsed by : the ' < arrangement" which secures to liOrd-Mpnteagle the sinecure place of £ 2 , 000 a year ^ createct to reward . popr old Sir John : Newpprt ' s

      services ; 0 t : half a century . Tho Times -waggishly supposes , that when the office of Comptroller of the Exchequer was first invented and bestewed en the then almest superannuated Irish ; Barphet , Mr . Rico had an eye to the succession ; we acquit him pf that special foresight--his . " eye , "; dpiibtless , rolled over the regions of place in general , and ; his ' . proper ambition soared to the Speakership and -its perquisites , but there he tailed . / : The Ex ^ GhancelJpr of the Exchequer , it : has been said , chose the Cpmptrbllership ivith l something to do , in preference to a retiring pension of the" same yaiue to which he was entitled . * ^ ot enlUled ~ foT th&e was rip pensipn .: vacant when Mr .. Spring llico was torced to make for the

      way - ' new : brevet . Waiiting a sufficiopt income to support the . dignity pf tile Peerage , Lpid Monteagle resorted . to a job . The public , jt seems , are hOt prily charged with the 42 , 000 a-year paid him as Cpmptrpller ef the Exchequer , but with £ l , 000 ' a-year bargained for by the retiring Comptroller , Sit John Newport ; The Times reminds us that Mr . Henry Ellis , formerly Clerk of the Pells , and removed by the Whigs , still receives liis : £ l , 400 a-year ( and thus , for the discnarge of , duties formerly : well remuiierated -by £ 1 ^ 400 a-ryear , the actual payment is ncw i ^ OO . ' Mr . Ellis's retiring pensipn .:. ; .,...:......,. ^ El ^ tOO Sir John ^ ewpprrs ; ditto ....:........,.::.. ; . 1 , 000 Lord Mouteagle'ssalary ........,...... ;; .... 2000

      ' . '•¦ ¦¦ - ' . ¦ ; - - :, .: \ . ;^ ,. :.:, £ 4 , 400 . ; As Under Secretary for the Home Department , Mr . Spring Rice had 2 , 000 a-ycar- ^ having then beea only , seven years in Parliameut . As Secretary for the Treasury , his pay : was i 2 , ? bo : a-year . The Colonial Secretary gets £ 5 , 500 a-year , and the aiari-Cellpr qfthe Excheiiuer thesanie sum ; Mr-Stephen Edward S pring . Rice has obtained -a snug place ini tho Customs ,: Miss Spring Kice has an office at Court . ; Yetj not . satistied with all this . Lord Monteagle saddles the ; country ; with ' an aiuiual payment of il , 000 to Sir John Newport , that he may get a sjiipeureof £ 2 , 00 U a-year , : : ; : ; : . / : : ^ : The grasping spirit of this transaction raises one ' s gorge . Mark Spring Ilice ; recall to mind the man ' s

      career—his impudence and his jobs , and : his official incapacity—thruit out as be has been from the Chan > cellorsliip pf the Exchequer , with his Exchequer I 3 ills" par "to ^ Sis . ' premium '—amidst ^ the scorn , of every financier , East or West of Templc % Bar ; aid theii . reiteot ,: that in addition to " paying hiid liandsdmo salaries ; ibi : ten years ^ you . are saddled with £ 3 , 0 . 00 a year for his C ' omptroilersUip ,- £ l , 00 q a year for his son ' s Cbmmissiduership , and some £ 500 % year ^^ fpr his ^ daughter ' s place at Court ! The Times threatens "Speeches , arid motions , and penal measures ; " Pshaw ! V'The grosser the job , the grcaterthe safetyi Lord Honteaxlc is securer ¦

      so ¦ . . lsr-Lord MejbQurne .: There never-was a" fairer opportunity for jobbing pn ^ t liu-ge scale , thin the present state of parties and' pclitics presents . We . note ' . and shall remember tho offence , butlwith jno expoctatioiibi ; speedy ^^ reparatien or punishmenti The term of politi ca l . prpnigacymusi be ritii biitl The Pieniier rubs his hands and chuckles ; tho thunder of the Times will not disturb Lord Slpateagla in any hour of the day or night ; Dae ' s : . iioi the Leading Joniiml perceVyc , that the Censeryatiyes ; Virtually protect tlie Whig jobberst that the : Radica : ls are submissive ; though sullen ; and the Chartists powerless 1 Where are the avengers of public virtue?— - Spectator . / \ . ' . l ,-: .- . , - > ;\ -. m ; ;>' :. - V ;\; ¦ •• . •'•;; =:-.- * X -. - ' ' : . " •* ' ' t ~\ r * 1 ~^* f f \ m \ * * 1 ) ' fi * r * ' ¦ 1 ' m ¦ — . ^ — : * ^ _ \ _ _ - _

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      • An ; IxbusiAN ; on Fire ' ¦ ' & ¦¦ the West ^ India Jocks . —Loss op Life . -i- ; On ' Sunday : mornint between , the houra of tw < i ^ nd three : ^ : fire'broke out in ^ ie West India Dp < slfe at Bfeckwall ^ board the l > uke if ; Uaretice , a . fihe-baut Xndiainany Captain Hall mast ^ : ( unloaaed ) , afla / Jylukin' tho Export Baarn , ; on the north side oppoSitQ' ; Np :. 3 ^ Y aiehpuse . ihe hre was . discovered bj a watehmdu of th&docks , who in passing along the quay obseryed- smoks overhanging thejvessel , ; and stispeetirig it to'be a fire gave the alarni tp the giiard-hpase ;* JJefofe At » y one boarded the ^ eEsel ; the flakes : bnist : i ^ rtb ! frpm ; the cabms . under the " poop , au < J raged with " snclj violence as tp tlireaten herutter destrnctipn . - - Thxfonlyperson . oii board Vvasra poor labpuring iaiti , who 1 in the absence of the master and : erew : had > clia « j ^ -of- the vessel . He was known to be in -the ship bv the wl

      watchman , ^ ip , ondiscpverhigth ^ i fire , calied put ^ , and ' searched , but cpuld not find him : Thig'circum . - stance lei- to" the supposition •¦; . ' -thair be ; li » d perished , which , unforttUnatcly , proved to be true ., V The engiiies belonging tp the Dock Company were \< ' imin ^ diately ^ conveyed '' tp ' the spot , aud j ; ot into operatioh ; but upwards of : hair an hour ciapsbd before the names were- extinguished . . Tho ^ firemen ; : and dock people then entered tlie cabin , and made Eeatch for the keeper of ilie ivessel' ^' andy " hkd : iiot ' -p ; rococdftd- ' far beforene . wai dispoyered , 'burnt-3111103 ( 5 to arcinder . It i § sapposed that the : unfortuisate mau - had" left a candle toning , ^ fwv retiring to ^ bedyTrhich fell over and set fire to the ; timbers . ' Tlie damage done : is confined tp the ; poop , ; wliich is partially destroyed . The ovTOcra , 'Meisrs ^ £ ^ house , are insured ; ; i ; > :

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      METROPOLITAN TllADE SOCIETIES . [ We have mailo arrangements in London to obtain tho most accurate an < i , earliest information respecting the ¦ p . voc ' eedings- ' o-i- ' tiiose societies which are compelled to coinbiuo for the protectidu of that first of all human property— -the pro-. perty of labour . ] Sthike i \ Nicwcastlk . —A meeting pf the Central Association of London Trades was convened , at the close of thp past week , for . the purpose of taking '" to consideration- tlio case : of tho 400 slipemakcrs , of Isewcahtie , who hri struck for an increase : 61 wages ^ froni 12 c .-tp . i 4 s . por week . The following resolutions we ' vo pa-ssed luianihiouslyv— " At a meeting of seventeon dclegatus , deputed by the several

      trades— "That this , meeting , conceiving tlie cases ot tlie shoemakers of Kewcastle is one - ' . which •• '¦ demands tlio utmost eXoi'tious 011 tho pavt of tho wbi'kin •>• classes , plc'dg ' -es itself to - . assist ; tuoai by every means ni / its power , and calls upon the working classes , of all pans of the country , to cpmo forward and snp-PO " . thpm- iu : the attainment of their just ¦ rights ; ' " — -.,.- . I'liat Ibid meeting torin itself into a coniuiittc ' e of ; he Wiiole body to carry out the objects of tlieresoliitipii , "—Carried . : Tho : average wages of a ladies ' 8 l } Pemaker , in London Varies trom 12 ^ , to Ms . weekly . mt < . vyestley , who headed tho . oppositiori to the bookr binders , has ,: it is considered , lost # 2000 by the speculation . The bookbinders liave fought the hard fight , and at an exbenso of £ 7500 . in eifts . lhans .

      aud contributions , from their brother trades . The COrkcutters , Vvheii they struck , clubbedj aKd ' - pprr - chased . ; a--bDat-Ioad ' .. o' ^ c 9 r , l ^ , -. aud '' set : up . ' for . : tUomr selvesr-tlio masters spoil struck their colours . liieseare not bad examples , vand , followed up , wpi'lrt soon : p ! ace .. the proUtmongers .: in the lurch . The Combination Committee met on Thursday cveuiiu * lor the purpose of repoietin ^ . the progress of the cause of the Newcastle shoemakers . A- depHtatioii waited , -upon ; several of the . trades ; . and tlia host hopes pf coToperatipu aiid assistance ave antMpsittid . ihe local ¦ lawa- pr regulations of . tiip different trades prevent a decisive answer being immediately given . At the of

      request -piir reporter , the . deiegates pf tlie several trades agreed , tp fix their meetingibr Thwrsday , instead of Friddy , everiing .: The seventeen delegates , announced intlic ^ proceedings Of last week , on behalf , of , the -Newcastle sh . ecniakers : out on strike , were from th < i . Cprk . cutfei-s , iiorocebifiinishets , the JBoot . makers of the Western Division , ; tile : Bb . | bt- ' makers of- the City Division , tlieGiWers , tlipLatlios ' bhocmakers of" the Western ^ Division , tlie Cai-penters , tlie CJoiiiyositors , tke Uphoistevtrs , the Silver ^ spoon makers , the Tifcplate-workers , the Uoachwheehvri lu ^ tlie , Ttfilurs , \ tlie Goldbeaters , -tlie btuii-hatters , tlio Ladies '; Slipemakcrs of the ; City , arid oneoi-vtwo other U'tutes . ¦¦¦ ¦¦"¦ -.

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 5, 1839, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1077/page/7/