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      THE HAPPY iHND . Gtjt upsn the calf , I say , Who turns his grumbling head a-way , And quarrels -with his feed of hay , Because it is not clover . Give to me the happy mind , That will STer seek and find Something fair and something kind All the wide world over . Tsx passing good to hare an eye That b 1 wbjb manages to Bpy Sojmb star to bear it company ,

      Though planets may be hidden ; And Mrs . Ere was foolish , " ? ery , Not to be well content and merry , With peach , plum , melon , grape , and cherry "Wlien apples were foxbiddtn . "We loTe rare flowers , bnt suppose "We ' re far from Italy ' s rich tobb , ilarf iFfi then turn op onr nose At lilies of tbe ralley ? Cant we surff at something rtreet ,

      In the " bongb-pots - that we meet , Cried and Bold in city street By " Sally in onr Alley" ? Give Hie the heart that spreads its wings , lite th » free bird that soars ana sings , And sees the bright Bide of all things , Prom Bhering ' s Straits to-Dover . It is a bask that never breaks , It is a store thief never takte , It is a rock that net-ex shakes All the wide world over .

      We hte lo give Old Cars the slip , And listen to the " crank and quip , " At scebl board from rlaent iip , 2 Jo fellowship is better . Bnt he must lack the gentle grace That marts the best of human race , Who cannot zee a friendly face In mastiff , bound , or Better . Oar hungry eyes may fondly wish To revel amid flash and fish , Av& gloat upon the silver dish That holds a golden plover ; Yet if onr table be bnt spread With saveury ckeese and oaten bread , Ba thankfu * if "we ' re always fed Ab "well the wide wuil-i over .

      We may prefer Italian notes Or choose ibe melody that £ » ats About the gay Ttn 6 tian boats , Half wCd in onr extolling . Bat surely nmsic naj be found , When soma rough native harp nnbcund , Saikes"up liie cherries " round and sound , " With English f ol-de-rollics-We may te poor j hni thBE , J jmsss , Our trouble with our pomp is itss , Tor th * y who wear a russet dress May never fear the rumpling . And thosyjh champagne froih never hums Batwetn our fingers and cur thumbs , Ifcki apoplexy rarely comes

      To dine with plain stone Rumpling . Then out upon the calf , 3 say , Who turns his grumbling head away , And quarrels with -his feed ef hay , Because it is not clover . Give to me thB happy mind , That will for ever seek end find Something good and something kind , All the wid » world over . Eliza Cook

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      THE ENGLISH GIRL . She laughs and runs , & cherub thing , And prond is the doting sire To see her pluck the buds of spring , Or play by the -winter fire . Her golden hair falls thick and fair , In many » wavy curl ; Asd freshly sleek is the ruddy cheek Of the infant English girL The years Eteil on , mfi , day by day , Her native charms expand ; Till ha round face beams in the Enxaincx ray , Like She rose « 1 her own bkst land .

      There's smile in hex laughing tane , A darker shade en the curl ; And Beauty makes her chosen throne On the brow of the English girl . She is standing now , a bsppy bride , At the holy altar rail , While the sacred blush of maiden pride Gives a tinge to the Bn « . wy veiL Her eye _ of light is the diamond bright , Her iimceence the pearl ; And these axe ever the bridal gems Tkit are worn by the Ensliab girL

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      SOXG OF THE SESSION . Air— " Green grvxc the rushes , 0 . These ' s nought bnt talk on every ban' ; On ererj night that passes , O ? 'Tis wonderful how membtrs can Bthive bo much like as&ei , 0 ! -loud bray the asses , O ! l « cud bray the asses , O ! While business waits amid debates ; And so the session passes , 01 AH this dfclsy , from day to day , Arrears of work amasses , O ! 3 Jy sum on sum , till August ' s come , When statesmen look like ssses , 0 ! loud , ic

      The income-tax upon our backs , With lfcaden weight is pressing , 01 And Ireland's grief demands relief , The eebtors * wrongs redressing , 01 loud , is . The Poor Law Bill is standing still , TTiiile gentlemen are jiving , O . ' At fists sxd folia , is private broils , Each other « l » pper-dawing , O 1 Xcsd , it Give them their honr to spend at night , In altercation dreary , 01 And England' s good and Ecgland ' axightj 2 £ st gzns all tapsalteerie , O J Loud , ie . Punch .

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      THE ILIXMINATED MAGAZINE-Jraz . Thi ? , on tbe "whole , is an excellent Dumber of onr favourite lls ^ -z-ne . Frcm " The Cbionicle 3 cf GovexEook' r ? e give the foliomvg extracts : —

      THE BETIL A 5 D THE iCTHOB . " I pras at length zionKd ty a sharp knnckle-rsp at my dorr ; and a gentltmnr—as he appeared to me—of great dignity cf manner , entered the room . Pray , Sir , 2 sked wjih growing confidence , for I saw the man could not be absilifi , 'To whom do I owe the honour cf this visit ?*" "As far vaj name , Sir , * replied the stranger , with a nriimrfco : ? ssiie , job know it well , though at present ¦ we will speak to further of it . Tou deal in pen and JEk . I Lava a little job for you . ' S 3 jing this , the stranger laid aside his cloak , and oiiplayed a very btmiiiul ccurt-Mat o ! black . Be must bo a

      cabinet-BJ 3 nii . tr , was my first telitf ; and then I thoight , perhaps a quack-doctor . "D " : a 30 U Eel set Us name ?* ' inquired tbe Hermit . " 1 W fcnswered Cuttltfiih ; " but-his first reply was enJy a tmile , and a gtntle thske of tbe bead . Then he said , Oh ! never mind my name—you have heard cf me , who shall cay how many times V Then he drew himself a chair , and took » Beat by the fire , which , fir lick of fuel , "was fast dying in tbe grate . Seeing Uis , he tcok the ruin of a pokei , for it

      was no nioie , in his hand , end siking , with the blsndfcBt » mile— 'Wiil you allow mi ? ' thrust it among the Cyjcg cinders . Instantasecusiy they blszed np , casting a bnliiint lignt thronj , fcc , Dt the room . Bless me , ' I cried , ' 1 lhcnphV the £ re was out' Whereupon the strangtr , with tfee same sweet jet strange snule , briefly Teiaaxked—• Xothicg l , ke pt kingi' Then nsy viator sgain locked melancholy—apain was silent . At ientth , I observed— ' Ton tiid , Sir , Bomething abontaj ^ b : cf what ebarsetH' A piece of kagz History —<* mertly a little bit of private scandal V Not

      • . that—cot that / £ aid the stranger , with slight easolion . 1 havb-tuffertd ice aoch from the scandal 01 the wcrid ; have too ktodj felt its wic * ed » f « s to ttfiict it tvtc upon a beggtr . The tiulh is , 2 tame heie to hire jcu to pen my cdenee . ' " ' Aia » , £ a 1 ' I cried , what hare you doxe ? The ranger mtrtly sheck his head , and drew a deep , fl Kth . With whst are jen charged V 1 6 bnanoed . " * With every thing / answered my visitor ; that 1 *^ WOJ tbing which-the wcrid calls wicked . ' "At i \ tic Tfords , I lespt frcm my chair . *'' Bst , . S r , taid the strsngtr , ttking & bandker-« " £ f from bis pocket , and paadisg it gently scroas his * Je « , 'Ibu Sir , thcugh 1 do not with to pass mjself cfi *> J » p » u « n pertos , I am neverlbeleBB cruelly alan-• frtd . Xook here , Sir , * and to my astonishment , ruy ^ itor ^ finw B largetolio from bis coat-pocket 'Be » ° od eaonhtorBn year , eye along that passage . "

      " I did » , ~ ftnd read ss follow * . * Whehtap » n & § tid •**« « pos tang $ vntioKt 4 , eofifeutd thai iht Devil **« appeared io htr injhe shape vf s Vack cat ; thai h * rWtta htr-pvtier ever Hi thi * fft ; and upon such pro" **» rte ttcamt a teiieh . This , hoppert *} ai eJewu at ** & , w » iht 2 Vh ofOdcber , in iht fear ——7 , "' 2 > ow , Sir , ' taid the * trar ger , I am' prepared to ¦«»* the fslsthood ef every syllable 0 ! the old vro-Sa & « OTJ . ' *'' Tou prov ? ? ' I cried ; atd thfn It immediately "tte iato my mind that the nnhsppy gtnUeman was "J ^ Hc ; 2 eq list it was his peculiar disorder—dread-. ^ aakoy ^ , to TasHeve hiicself no . other than the Wickta O « s . Then , Six / 1 eaid to my -rlsitor , 'there u to truth in the old Kentlewoman ' * storj ? Yon .

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      were not bargaining with the witch on the night of r " I can prove an alibi , * cried tbe strarger , with some vehemence , ' Oa that very night , I was elogeted with a certain minister cf state , whose name , by the way , I must beg leave te suppress—making a bargain between him and a Noble Duke , for & vacant Garter . And yet , Sir , you must tem&xk the giossness of the libel ; it is therein written that I appeared aB a black cat ; that I visited a wretched old crone in a miserable , degrading dif guise , as though ashamed of myself . In-• famous scandal , Sir J I tell yon , at that very time 1 was in my own person talking to one of the first men of the land ; to a man -of wealth and education .: to one whose eloquence would lead away senates captive ; whose keen logic would split hairs as a bill-hook

      would Bplit legs . It was with him . Sir—with him , the noble and enlightened—that I was chattering the whole of the night ; and yet it ia ret down in that folio that I was wasting precious time , and forgetting what was fine to myself—by masquerading it with some mhmplBh haridan as a black cat . Upon my word , ' said the stranger , with a look of injury—• if men affect to despisa my principles , they might respect my taste . The truth is , they commit all scrtB of shameful deeds , and then lay the temptation upon my shoulders . Be it murder , or be it the robbery of a hen-roost , I am called the -wicked instigator of the enormity , when the assassin and the thief bad nobody but themselves to ihtnk for the evil doing . It is , Sir , upon th * s point that I wish the aid of your pen to set me right with tbe world . '

      The Devi ) , for it was 5 nd > cd his friendfhip who had favoured Cuttlefish with a cal ] , proceeds to relate several other libels npen his fair fame and character for which we caimot find room . Poor Cuttlefish , afraid cf committing himself to so ugly a job as that of writing the Devil ' s vindication , tried hard to excuse himself from the ta&k , but in vain . " ' "Upon my bohI , ' 1 cried with vehemence , 'I had raxher you took it somewbere else ; I shall make nothing of it ; you'll only snfiex in my hands . , ¦¦ « Bnt , look here , ' said the fitnd ; and opening & volnme where a leaf was turned , he read as follows : —

      • The poor child , possessed by the Devil , vomited nothing bnt bits of plass and crocked pins , aud died at midnight . ' ' Observe my note upon this / Baid tbe fiend ; ' at the very time I am set down as iloicg this mischief upon Bome babe or suckling , I was—here I have written it—supping with Pope Leo the Tenth . And * o thrcugbout- Yi < n will find thai my defence consists in a round cf alibis . You will fled—and it ia in such spirit that 1 wish you to enforce the lessonthat what m * n falsely , fraocfully , foolishly , call the instigation of the D svil , the temptation of the Davil , tbe prompting of the Devil , the work of the Davil , is no other than the antics of tkeir own foolish , stubborn ,

      headlong passion . It is thus the repentant pickpocket vows that "was I who crooked bis finger for the theftthe' murderer swears 'twas I who gave him his weapon —the adulterer , that 'twas I isho burned in his Tcins , and mafi& hAm Epiiit off his neighbour ' s wife . All lies —all wilful hyocrisy , fathered upon me , who am determined to put up with the calumny no longer ; and for this reason , I shall be just as Eure of those who do a WroEg , as if I bere tke shame of tempting them to tbe iniquity . I shall have them still , with the proper credit of their coming to me unpressed , uninvited . Therefore , you will immediattlj , from these , end from the other bocks I will bring you , write my dtfence . "

      " Will you have it in a folio ? ' I fsuntingly asked , j- "' Certainly not , ' said tbe fiend ; ' a small pocket book for my money . Let me Bee ; properly condensed [ 'twill mak » two nice volumes . I shall pay you hand-• semely . I will give you a hundred guineas for the j work . ' " I An old adage says : " There are two bad payma 3-I ters , those who sever pay , and those who pay beforehand ; " forgetfnl of this ' wise saw" the Devil allows himself to be outwitted : " ' And pray , ' asked the Hermit of Bellyfulle , * did [ you ever write the book ?" "' Never , " said Cattlefieh with emphasis , ' nete * wrote a single line . ' " < And wby not V inquired the sage .

      " Because , would yon believe it , ' cried Cuttfe-| fish with a roaring laugb , ' because the Davil was i ass enough to pay me fifty guineas for the work in i advance . " ; The article , " Bowie and other Knives" we gave at full length in the Star of last Saturday . The picture therein drawn of American society is a revolticg ' one . The colouring may be as we would fain hope it is , &omevrbat beyond tie truth ; but we fear too much of it is only too tree . This article is mainly valuable for the moral contained in the justificatory reply of the member of Congress— We are both alike , Muter , Britishers and Americans . You make ( he tools to do the murders , and gel a profit on the

      man-ujaclurt . We sell them and profit by the sale . Which is the vrorst ? " What must be our answer , our- paiciully humiliating answer I Why , if we admit degrees in guilt , then is the Arkansas assassin less culpable than the MssEachusseta pedlar who supplies him with tfceimplements for the commission of his bloody atrocities ; while again tbe cunning down-easter 13 le £$£ uil ; y than the respectable V . ) ard Christian ( I ) English manufacturer who for tie sake of filihy lucre employs the skill asd labonr of our axiizana to M make a prt-fit of the crime of marder . " Faugh J how we hate that word M profit . " For its take the "buy cheap and sell dear" men would and do commit every crime that hell itself

      could engender . There is not a lie , a frand , an offence no matter how revolting , to be found in tbe whole list of human villanies , but is hourly committed hy the men of "profk" in tie working of their infernal system of cheatery and wrong . What care they for corruption of morals ; what care they though blackguardism and murdti disgrace the character of an entire nation , so long as they Eell their bowieknives ? The more mnrders the merrier will times be for them ; for the sale of the murderous weaponB will hnJp to £ 21 their pockets and add to the chink of their money-bags . Parsons may preach and moralists may lecture , but while prcni-mongering existB society mast continue a ** den of thieves . * ' ¦

      ** A parting glimpse of St . GilesV contains some interesting reminiscences of that classical spot . Here is the origin of this famous locality : — Vl The f OBBdation of the parish , the chnrch , and of the -neighbourhood , may be derived from the establishment of an hospital for lepers , upon very nearly tbe precise ¦ spot at present occupied by tbe " Rookery . " The choice of the locality was probably determined by the neighbourhood of springs or streams cf water . There is to this day a bath , called Queen Ante's , in one of the streets on the southern tr . ae of Broad-street , the waters of vrhich feave a decided chalybeate taste ; and we know also fiat one cf the springB from the Tye Bonn-e , ran past or near tbe hospital , on its way to London . The fennder of the establishment was

      Matilda , the good , Jearned , and beautiful wife of Henry I ., who , herself a Saxon , with the blood of Alfred in her veins , by marrying a Norman , Ett the example of that intermingling of the two hostile nations , which was so desirable after the cocguesi bad become an irrevocable fact . *• How much is there not suggeeted in this brief notice of the origin cf Sr . Giles's 1 The leprosy has disappeared from the body , but only to enter more deeply into the soul : yet , Where is our hospital ?" u A fair day in Brittany" is far too briefly described . Of a COUDtiy atd people so little known , fuller information than what is contained in this

      account is highly desirable and would , we doubt not ,, be found as highly entertaining . In her " Sketches of Parisian Life , " Mrs . Postans introduces us this month to the " National Guard . " We consider it cot so enlenaiBing as ecme of the previous , sketches . " Tbe Broken-hearted Club" gives ns a langbable tale of the scrapes and misfortunes of a poor fellow who was always getting in to trouble through an inveterate habit of speckmg the truth ! " The Sisters of South WaJsham" is a passable tale ; "hly Quarier ' s Salary" is poor rubbish . " CleanJi-Bess next to Godliness , " may be read with profit by all over-cice and extia-particular bonsewms .

      "Ihe Two Windows . ' by the Eciior , js a fragment leplete with those kindly feelings for the oppressed and manly indignation against the oppressor , which ever distinguish the writings of Douglas Jerrold , and which have made bis name a household word withall who can honour talent when fonnd , as in this cape , champion : zi ? g virtue Jind right . We give the following extracts : —

      THE TWO W 1 SD 0 WS . The Union Workhouse of tbe ancient parish of Herne —how calm and pzstcral is that little nook of K « nt!—has two outward windews . The fabric , built by the inspiration cf tht New Poor-law , was a blind , eyelesa piece of brickwork ; a &aol for * the in-quity and per-VfcKenets of poverty ; a Kewgate for tbelelony of want Tbe chie / s and elders of Parliament had said : " Let us make abiding-places for the poor ; let us separate them , lepers as they are , frcm the clean ; ltt us shut them np frcm the sight of the green earth ; let them sot btbold the woik of the season in tbe budding trees , in their leafy branches , in their red and golden robes ofantnmn , in the gaunt bareness of solemn winter . Let the grass spring ard the field flower blcsscm ; but let net the poor , the unclean of tbe latd , Jock npen the work of

      God . " After this resolve the Union was built ; with inrer windows looking npon walls , and walls turned blank upon the outward world . No crevice , no loophole ptrxnitted captive poverty a glimpse of the fresh face of nature ; his soul , like his body , was bricked up accfrding to tbe statute ; he bad by tbe insolence of destitution offended the bIce&ebs of the world , and be vu doomed by bi » judges to a divorce from the commoMsV sights of earth . Hence , the Union Woikhoua Vvrned ita sullen , unbroken wall o ! brick upon the fields and trees , and the pauper was made to look osly upon paapertem . The freshness a » d lincuriance * t \ natureher prodigal loveliness -was sot for His eyesj he was poor , and even to behold , the plenteousness of tbe teeming earth wsb an enjoyment beyond ii 3 state ^ r * banned delight—a luxury which ' those who paid , for his food , could not properly vouchsafe him !

      At length—for when they themselves know It not , men ' s hearts will vroxk , a Bense of right will sometimes steal upon their sleep—an instinct of goodness will , like Bilver water fronj the rock , gush forth , —at length it Was resolved by the guardians of the poor—guardians

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      of the poor I what a feollness of purpose ahonld inform those well-wom syllables—that the dull . bltod , rqnalifl workhouse should have light ; that its brick walls should be pierced with two windows ; that the fields and trees &hould gladden pauper eyes , appealing to old recollections , childhood thoughts , daily , customary feelings . It was determined that the pauper prisoner should , through the iron bars of penury , bava comforting glimpses of God ' s goodness withont ; that he should , though all unconsciously , make offerings upon the green altar cf the earth ; that his heart should commune in its own unknowing way , with those sweet influences which , coming from God , discourse in some manner to all men .

      Let ub , for a time forgetf dI of state philosophy—for getfnl of the plausibilities of social prosperity that set tha poor apart from the rich and well-to-do , as creatures somewhat different in the real drama of life , although on certain occasions , as it were for form ' s sake , for Christian ceremony , allowed to be made from the clay of the same Eden as their masters—let us behold tb * earth in its freshness , and man its owner in the vigour of his new birth , the heir of an impartial Providence , and the receiver of its glories ;—and then consider him as the taskmaster of his fellow , as the grudging churl that tnetes out light and a 5 r to hisbelpless brother ; and for this sole cause—this one bitter reason—he is helpless .

      A miserable sight—a hideous testimony of the tbanfeiessness of prosperous man—is the rural Union , with its blank dead wall of brick ; a cold , blind thing , tbe work of human perversity and human selfishness , amidst ten thousand thousand evidences of Eternal Bounty . How beautiful is the beauty of G <> & around it ! There is not a sapling waving its green tresses of Jane that does not make the heart yearn with kindliness ; not a field-flower that does not , with its speaking eye , tell of abundant goodness : tee brook is musical with the same sweet truth ; all sights and Bounds declare it . The liberal loveliness of nature , turn where we will , looks upan and whispers to us . We are made the heirs of wealth inexhaustible ; of pleasures deep as tbe

      sea ana pure as tbe joys of Paradise . And our return for thiB , onr offering to the wretchedness of our fellowcreaturej > , is yonder prison , with ita dead wall turned upon the pleasant aspects of nature , lest the pauper captives within should behold what God has done for that world , in which , according to the world's justice , they have nothing . Hence is the pauper treated , in bis blind dungeon , as though there was felonious purpose in his eyesight ; as though , a prisoner in the Union , be would commit larceny on the meads and trees , and all the rural objects that from babyhood have been familiar to him ; doing such wrong to the exceeding injury and loss of the free folks , who , by the blessing of fikill and good lnck , have " land and beeves . '

      We know not a more fantastic tyranny , » more wilful assertion of tbe arrogance of man , than this needless shutting up of his poorer brother in a gaol of povertybarring bis eyes of every comforting otject , compelling him to look only upon that which at every look speaks to his BOUl of his miserable dependence npon bis richer fellow ; which denies to him tbe innocent , unbougbt glimpse of out-door nature , as though the scene was a land of promise from which his beggary had made him alien . Is human want so wicked that it should be unblessed with even a glance at the pleasant things of creation ? Bas tbe pauper , because pauper , no further claim upo . i tba earth , aave for his final bed—the gravel The rustfc Unions , with their forlorn blank wails , cry yes l . If God punish man for crime , as man punishes man for poverty , woe to the sons of Acam !

      The above " extracts " , gentle reader , comprise if the troth must be told , almost the entire of the article . The fact is , that on a second perusal , we were unable to resist the temptation of quoting at the length we have done , and , but for the many demands on our space , would certainly have given the article word for word . We cannot forbear repeating tbe closing sentence ; wonld that it were engraven in characters of flame upon the sky , that all men might read , and the oppressor be turned from the evil of his ways : — " If God punish man for crime , as MAN PUNISHES m * n fob povebtt , WOE TO THE SONS OF ADAM ' "—Amen »

      The " Illustrations" this month , though not numerous , * T 6 most of them good . Among the names of the artists , we notice that of W . Jerrold , a eon . we bclievo , of the Editor , who , in the present No ., supplies the illustration to "The Two Windows . " The engraving is prettily executed , and must afford to the friends of the young artist , the hope of a bright and tucceesful future . We conclude this notice by again expressing our best wishes for the success of this abiy-conducted periodical .

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      Edncation ia so important an agent of improvement ai ! rt . y ' tbatI cannot pass from Jhis discuaaion without giving to it a recommendation wbiob thla subject suggests . It is e » 8 y to see that prosecutions for blasphemy would fall to the ground if a lew verdicts of juries were recorded against them ; and easy as it would be for one Intelligent man to cause this , no mich one is found . If reason conld prevail but a few times over bigotry—if the members of a jury were but educated men—if they could but carry their views from their box to the general interests of truth-Uf in attending to points of law they also attended to the claims of justice , and , in their verdicte remembered equity , the victory over intolerance would be for ever complete . Education

      is invested with talismanfo Importance when wo contemplate the revolutions it might achieve in the jury box . Bad lawB would be enacted in vain if verdicts could not be obtained to enforce them . The intelligent juryman might become the legislator of his couutry . But oppression is nurbred in the arms or ignorance . Trial by jury ia that solitary point where the power of the government is entrusted into the bands of the people . But of thiB , advantage ia aeldom taken by reason of the ignorace which prevails . Trial by jury will not only be the palladium , but the birthplace of liberty , when education ia diffused to every man . We cordially recommend thia pamphlet to the fnonds of free inquiry , wishing for it that large circulation it is 86 well entitled to .

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      Suicidrv—On Sunday morning , about half-past ten , * wo 0 i » n , having the appearance of a respectable roechanic ' fl wife ,, threw herself off .. Westminsterbridge , faear the fourth arch , and perished , attempts having been in vain made to save her by a policeman . She di ' i not rise to the surface of the , water . Aw FUtfi Sudden DBA ? H .- * Un Friday the Mayor of iimerick was entering the Exchange to preside at-9 . meeting which hecalled in compliance with a re 4 uisit ; on to address Mr . O'CoBnell in his captivity , v . hen he was " suddenly tafcen ill , and died almost immediately . Death waB caused bj the rupture of a i blo * 4-v . essei .

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      THE SCOTCH FISHERIES . LETTER III . Mr . EDITOR , —In my last letter I shewed , in contradiction to Mr . Chalmers , that decked vessels cannot be profitably employed in the capture of herrings . The wealthy Stonehaven Company j erred in embarking in that line , evan to the limited { extent of purchasing ; had they gone the length of manufacturing nets and sending out vessels to sea , it would be very difficult to estimate tbe loss which they might hava sustained ; even boat fishing companies will not succeed , because if you store large quantities of nets together as they must do , the nets will moulder into rottenness . It is very different with fishermen : they furnish their distinct quantum , and each man looks after bis own nets , which , he generally bangs in the roof of his house , at a

      convenient distance from ths fire , so as exactly to preserve them . These nets they make and mend in stormy weather , while the wife , or servant- n aid spins this twine . Thus , beyond the cost of hemp , and the bead and ropes , in all about £ l 10 s . they may be said to cost the fishermen nothing , as were they not so employed , they would be idle , and very likely spending their time in public houses , which , with them , is a very general place of resort There has no station on the coast of Scotland done more ; to turn the herrings to a profitable account than Peterhead . Four hundred boats are annually engaged there : of these one hundred

      and fifty-one are sent out by private individuals and companies . I fished at that station three years , and in spite of every precaution , I lost £ 40 , and all by the destruction of nets : nor was I singular in this respect , for the companies which sent out ten or fifteen boats , were equally unfortunate , and many of them have since sold off their boats and nets and given up tbe trade . What madness then would it be for a company to waste their time and sacrifice their : means on a trade which has ruined bo many , and held by the fishermen tbem-BtilveB , ia be attended with such a huge expenee , that they only lay out their money to regain it , er as they express it , " It ' s just twice won money ?"

      The cod fishery on the other hand , presents none of these difficulties , and , upon ordinary industry , you can always insure success : for in an extremely bad season as respects weather , I was one of a crew of seven men , who cleared , after paying ail expencea , £ 171 ; and the master was paid £ i a month , each man £ 2 16 s . besides the very best of victuals , and n good allowance of porter and spirits ; and all this with a vessel of only thirty feet of keel , forty feet on ; deck , and seven feet depth of bold . Daring the period when the herrings are on the coast , the cod fish are so extraordinarily abundant , that open boats , carrying a crew of four men , having each a well-rigged handline with a book , many Mines captare thirty to forty scores , and it not unfrequently happens that boats' crews refuse to be engaged to anything bnt cod fishing , and lay aside their herring

      nets altogether , finding it more profitable , although they throw away their full-sizjd fish at twopence each , and those of an under Bi *» at one penny . It may be proper to mention here , that along the shores of the Moray Firth , as far up on the North side as Tarbet-8888 , and on the South , from Haiiman Scares , downwards , and round Rattery-Head to tbe Buuhan-ness , ending at Cruden Scares , the cpd lie , in the months of August and September , in thirty-five fathoms wator , in such abundance , that with herring bait you may tire yourself taking . The supply is \ constantly the same , and ho you may continue fishing ; until you load your vessel . In the meantime , I know of no vessel employed in the cod fishery , which is sent out by my countrymen between John O'Groats and Holy Island , with the exception of a very small craft scarcely worth notice which goeB out occasionally from Toiie , a fishing village on the south Bide of ! the Dee opposite our

      harbour . Now I really cannot divine thejreason of this ; and I believe no human being on earth [ could do 80 any more than mystlf . Ik cannot be attributed to the leek of jlsh on the coast , for there is positive proof existing Bgtxinst such an assumption . If the two ; Harwich vessela made sweeping profits ia the ytar 1816 to tbe Stonehaven Company , after paying j £ 70 to their owners monthly for the use of each of them , would the trade not pay any other company equally well , if they would abide by that description ef the fishery , and steer clear of the barrel making and herring hambug ? I say it would pay any man , or set ! of men , who could command aa much capital as put I them to sea clear of debt , and p 3 y the ordinary expenses until the close of the season , which ib the only period at which the dried fish can be broutjht to a profitable market .

      I shftil now try and prove this : ; in doing so I shall extend my views Bomuwnat beyond the cod fishery , aa were I engaged in the wane , I would not adopt tbe general eastern practised on board fishing smacks , by throwing overboard all tho b&Hbut and skate except to much aa « erved for a relish to ; the ships company . No , no ; I would keep ail these while I had sals oa board and barrels to hold tbem , aa ^ l when brought on shore they would always fetch something . That there are abandonee of fish constantly on the coast none can deny : bnt least nny ono should be found to doabt , I will state how Mr . Caie succeeds with hia small vessel

      f rom lone . > Mr . Cale ' a vessel is about twenty tons burden ; his crew is fl ? e men ; he towe a sawljof eighteen feet of keel with his sloop to sea , and he generally goes off until he sboab tbe water to tbirty-fivo £ ithorns , when he is about aa many miles from land . When be arrives at that ground the yard is immediately manned , and there is put on board of her 1 , 20 ft fathoms of line mounted with 400 hooks which are baited with baddocks suitably cut for the purpose . { The line ia always contrived to be shot when the halibut and skate are

      considered most plentiful aa when be cornea on suore they fetch the readiest and best markets He pays hie crew as follows .- —for every halibut e . ich man receives Id ; for each skate $ 4 . ; for each ling £ d . and for each codfish ^ d .. Tno QBderaisKd fish } of all descriptions the crew give two for one , and he victuals them while at sea . These prices may seem extremely moderate , and bo they are ; yet It no bappensifrom the vast quantities esnght that tfa * c » w are able ] to reali *» t « 7 «» - ¦ iderabla wagea weekly , and are , on that aoco » t , very unsteady and ill to muter when he is preparing fo » « ea , a oircumBtanM > hich he bitterly complain * of as causing him a deep loss in the course ot the season ; yet still he is doiri ^ well , &nd intends to prosecute the ttado upon a mnch more extended « caj « next Beassn , as he thinks his meanB will then enaWa bfta to do so .

      " Now it nnut appear very clear te , every perBon , that if Mr . Caie sustain himaelf and hia crew by the aid of four hundred hooks , which are never oftener shot than three times a voyage ; there must 1 be no want of fish where he is seeking them , the fishing bank to which this vessel goes ties & S , E- from ( Jirdlenees , the dis-

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      tance about thirty-six mllefl ; bere it ie fifteen miles broad , and the deptb of n-ater is very unequal . I have traversed the greater part of this valuable fisbiDg ground , particularly to the so uthward , and in the months of May , June , July , and 4 ngnst , it alarms with fish to an extent far beyond 0 T&iuStJ eomptehen * sion , and when we consider that this font alone exceeds in surface one thousand five hundred ! miles square , we may well regret that the famishing attains of Great Britain do not partake of its valuable prodoctions . But what need ia there to multiply facts in

      order to prove what no one , possessing the least knowledge of the fishery will deny ? so I shall turn my attention to the description of vessels best suited for the fishery ; the best mode of fishing them , and how I would pay their crews . Also , where the best fishing . stations are ,- and finally , conclude with a few general re-mnrks . These topics shall be embraced in my next communication . In the meantime believe me , Yours , respectfully , .. . _ - John Smart . Aberdeen , June 3 rd , 1844 .

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      Aerial Shaving . —Last week half a dozen of tha male denizens of Thaxted , escorted by a barber with all the apparatus of his craft , ascended the fine platform erected by the sappers and miners on tha spire of their parish chnrch , and there between earth , and air they were comfortably taken by the nose and shaved , to the no small amusement of those who enjoyed the joke below . —Chetmsford Chronicle .

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      Lo . VDON COBN-EXCHAMOE , MONDAT JUNE 10—Tha Stands to-day were rather scantily supplied with samples of English Wheat , yet the demand was in a very sluggish state . The finest parcels of both red and white moved off at prices about equal to those obtained on Monday last , but the middling and inferior kinds were about la per quarter lower than on that day . Tbe show of free Foreign Wheat was good , while ths amount of business doing in it , as well as in bonded parcels , was limited , at barely late rates . About 5 , 000 quarters have been oa hand for home consumption at the 17 s . duty since our last . We had scarcely any English Barief on offer . Foreign qualities at full quotations . Malt at late rates . Tne prices of Oats were supportd . Beans & tfifla dearer ; in Peas aud Flour no alteration .

      London Shithfieu > Cattle Markbt , Monday June 10—The Beef trade ruled excessively dull ; an abatement of quite 2 d . per 81 bs . on last week ' s prices was submitted to . The highest figure realised for the best Soots and Homebreds did not exceed 3 s . 8 < h per 81 bs . The demand for Sheep was unusually heavy , at a decline in value of quite 2 d . per 8 ! bs—the best old- Downs not realising more than 3 s . lOd . per 8 ibs . Lambs at a decline in value of from 2 d . to 4 d per 8 lba , —the extreme price not being more than 5 j . per 8 lbs . Calves at a decline of 2 d . per 81 bs . Pigs had a downward tendency . Borough Hop Market . —The reports from the Plantations state that n » increase of fiy has been observed within the -last few days , yet the bine presents rather an unfavourable appearance . Thia together with the unsually small supply of Hops on offer , causes the demand to rule steady , at fully last week's quotations .

      Borough and Spitalviblds . —The Beason for old Potatoes being nearly closed , there is very little disposition manifested to purchase . Prime qualities , however , being scarce , higher rates hare been obtained for such ; but in all other kinds exceedingly little is doing . . Wool Market , —The publio sales held since onr last have baen numerously attended by buyers ; yefc their biddings have not been to say spirited . By private contract the demand ia inactive at late rates . Tallow . —The demand is very good for the time of year . The home supply- will probably be falling off , owing to the long continued drought . As present * however , the price keep 3 down , notwithstanding the arrival of new Y . C . Tallow will be late , than usual . Towa Tallow is unaltered ia value .

      Liverpool Corn Market , Momdat , Jonb 10 . — Upwards of 24 , 000 qrs . of Wheat , with 650 & qrs . of Bears and 7 t > brls . of Flour , have arrived from abroad during the last seven days ; 4300 qrs . of Oats are also reported from Ireland ; but tbe imports of grain , &c . are otherwise light . The duties are unchanged thia week . Oar market on Tuesday last was numerously attended by both town and country millerB ; a fair quantity of Wheat was Bold at an advance of Id per bushel , and several parcels of Oats and Barley found buyers at 2 d per bushal above previous rates . Oatmeal was in fair demand * and 64 to 9 d a load dearer . Some lots of Egyptian

      changed hands at 35 Vi free , and 24 * per 4801 b 3 in bond . We have sinoe had a good fall of ram , —a change in the weather which has caused the demand to slacken , and at Friday's market the business eeaerally was on a limited scale , at about the prices of Tuesday for Wheat , bat on rathsr easier terns f « Sprint : Corn and Oatmeal . No changa has occurred in the value of Flour Binoe last week , Bichmoni > , Junk 8-We had a fair supply of Grain in our Market to-day , the prices continue much the B ^ me : Wheat sold from 7 s to 8 s 6 d j Oats 23 lOd to 3 * 8 d ; Barley , ii U > 4 j 3 d ; Beana 4 a 9 d to 5 i per busbei .

      M anchesteb Cork Market , Sattjbdat , JtruB 8 . —On WedneEday a moat delightful change in the weather took place , the previous drought and cold winds giving way to very refreshing showerB of rain , which have continued sinoe with more or less intermission ; and our information from all quartera load us to suppose that eneh has been general . During the week a steady consumptive demand haa been experienced for all descriptions of fresh manufactured Floor , without variation , from the previous currency . Oats and Oatmeal , uninfluenced by the favourable change in the weather , were in limited request , but no alteration in value was observable . At our market this morning few transactions ^ cfwred in Wheat , tut thecurrenc yof thw daysennighfe fet ^ gSK RaSBUS S ? eSng having altogether djaappeMea " .

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      THE NEW AGE , AND CONCORDIUM GAZETTE—June . Tbe No . for the present month contains articles on the usual subjects treated of \ u this publication , together with an exposition of the principles and regulations of that eccentric but successful community , the American Shakers .

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      THE CORDWAINER'S COMPANION , Jjtse , Contains several articles of importance to the trade whose interests it represents .

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      THE TRIALS OF THOMAS PATERvSON , THOMAS FINLAY , AND MISS MATILDA ROALFE FOR BLASPHEMY . London : Hetherington , Holjwell-street . Edinburgh : Roalfe and Co ., ISicholson-street . Scarcely a week passes bnt this paper contains evidence of the frightful nature of religions fanaticism , proven by atrocities which are almost daily occurring at home or abr « ad . The week before last our readers were astounded by the information that a large portion of the city of Philadelphia , including several public buildings , churches , « feo . had been given to the flames , and what was infinitely worse , that a number of human beings had been foully slaughtered , and all these horrors the natural consequences of unbridled religious bigotry . Catho lies and Protestants bad embrued their hands in each oihers blood , creating havoc and anarchy , and all for the " Glory of God " . ' Last week in our columns appeared an account of a horrid

      murder committed in the vicinity of Bradford , attended by circumstances of a peculiarly treacherous , cowardly , aud brutal nature ; this too , was brought about under the influence of gloomy and b&y&jie superstition . Since then an account haa reached this country of the trial and sentencing to death of a female in Madeira for the crime of heresy , i . e . not believing in the orthodox creed of the prevailing majority . With sneb " * fantastic tricks , " or rather such damnable doings continually occurring , no wonder that men like Paterson , of benevolent hearts and ardent minds , should array themselves against what they believe to be the cause of these horrors . For this " offence , "—the endeavouring to liberate the masses from the thraldom and consequent crimes of Priestcraft , —Mr . Paterson is now undergoing a sentence of fifteen months imprisonment , which punishment is immensely augmented by the fiendish regulations and murderous discipline to which he is subjected .

      We some time since noticed the first number of the present -work , which is now comple ed , and contains in addition to the defence of Paterson , the defences aho of Finlay and Miss Koalfe . The speech of Paterson is an elaborate , talented , and manly defence of the views entertained by him on the question at issue , and is one of the best ever addressed to a jury in defence of the great right of f rpp . discussion .

      is » extracts we could afford room for would do justice to tbe defence of Mr . Eaterson ; the following extracts are from a " Dissertation on Blasphemy Prosecutions" by Mr . Holyoake , prefixed to the report of the trials : — By free discussion only can truth be established—iu the concurrent or dissentient opinions of mankind is found the best test of tbe correctness t > r incorrectness of opinions , and those to -whom free expression is denied ,

      are deprived of these invaluable aids in the discovery of truth . If Atheists are to be considered responsible to society and to heaven for their opinions , it is of sll things the most unjust that they should be denied freedom of expression . It violates the great principle of justice upon which mankind in all ages have been agreed . To stigmatise Christiass as unjust , may be severity , but can lovers of justice tct bb they do ? May not that religion be justly and successfully called in question which it in harmony with prosecutions for blasphemy ?

      * * It "will be no valid objection to this reasoning to urge that lunch of what is prosecuted as blasphemy , can scarcely be considered ss belonging to the legitimate province of free dlacasaion . . If exclusive selections are to be made of what ia to be prohibited , the same rule 7111 apply to mnch that Christians deem sacred . There ia no security for Christians , but in leaving all opinions free . : Some -will offer the idle objections that blasphemy persecutions sie not chargeable on Christiana—that

      they originate with men ignorant of Christianity's principles . To thiB J make but one answer—There are Christians who understand their own principles—they boaat their number and their power ; let them exercise their influence ! Let them put an end to these proceedings i They know that they are conducted in their name and avowedly on their behalf . If they approve tbem not , they have the pewer to prevent them ; and if tbe ; do not , the world will understand the xe&son why . ? *

      The vilest part of prosecutions for blasphemy is , that they prevent tbe spread of useful opinions as often as they prevent tbe spread of bad ones . The best views and the best men have been among those interdicted by blasphemy laws . In every prosecution , for one man who offers successful opposition , a honored are intimidated . We nave cases in which importance hu been given to sentiments by prostration ; but history is silent concerning those views which have be « n hunted into obscurity , and if sot annihilated , have : bean retarded for ages . It is nndoubtedly mean in an Attorney-General to pursue opinions with tbe law ' s power . Instead of leaving them

      . to reason ' s iE&aenea . It is below the . digfilft . of haman nature so to act—it "is uBwiie—itv is osjusfc-tt , ia all these , and more ; but it cannot fee denied that it ii too of tea EUcceBEful , axd it is on this account . tbtt I ground my strongest opposition to it . . It peuaniea and imprisonment were intffectnal oppositions—if they uniformly promoted -what they are " intended to crash , why there . would be little occasion for regret ^ lt .-ii because truth is retarded , because mean men caa say to . thought " thus far abalt thou go and no . farther , " because the bright fruition of intellect is often -withered by the ban , tkst men- should rise up and terminate these fatal and dugerous proceedings .

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      TRACTS FOR THE TIMES . London : Watson , Paul ' s-alley , Paternoster-row . The following subjects are treated of in these tracts : —! . Foreign Trade versus Home Colonization . 2 . Are Great Britain and Ireland incapable of raising food for their population ? 3 . Can , our Manufacturing System be extended beneficially for the nation ? 4 . Wuuld an increase of Foreign trade ' increase work and uiagesi 5 . On the Organization of Home Colonies . 6 . What good would Home Cs- \ lonies doi These Tracts are compiled , we understand , by Mr . Fleming , Editor of the New Moral World , and are 'highly creditable to that gentleman , containing as they do a mass of information of the most valuable character compressed into the smallest

      possible compass , and sold at a price which in the language of those illustrious puffors , the linendrapers , must defj competition . " These tracts may bo read with advantage by all parties really anxious for real roform : and with the prejudiced it will perhaps be considered not the least of the merits they possess that they are totally devoid of that peculiar ism , of which Mr . Fleming is known as the exponent , — -the subjects treated of being discussed on the bread basis of general principles , without reference to parties . When the Chartist body shall publish

      for the benefit of the lieges some similar compilation , we shall be ^ in to think them more in earnest than thry appear to bo at present . To that party particularly , and the publio generally , wo commend the circulation of these tracts . They will bo found an exoellent antidote to the trash of the League , and the still worse trash circulated by those knaves and idiots , male and female , who infest the streofs of our towns on Sunday , poking their godly noses into every poor man ' s pot , and blighting every seed of life and liberty by the diffusion of their poisonous cant and fraudulent balderdash .

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      A LETTER TO SIR R . PEEL , ON THE NECESSITY OF A PARLIAMENTARY PROVISION FOR THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY OF IRELAND . By Vigilarius . Dublin : Maohen , 29 , Westmoreland-street . The subject-matter of this " Letter '' is sufficiently stated in the above comprehensive title ; the writer professes to be a Catholic and complains bitterly of the exactions to which he is subjected in support of the Church of which he is » member . He emphatically denies that the priests are supported on the

      voluntary principle , unless indeed the levying of "black mail" can be dignified by that title ! He says : " they ( the priests ) will not be satisfied with what we may choose to give them , but what they choose to extort from us themselves" * " " 1 ask , is it to be supposed that when we are neither consulted nor allowed to complain , but are compelled to pay down all that may be demanded of us , that any one will call this the voluntary principle ?" But the writer shall desoribe his grievances at greater length : —

      Now let me tell you how mnch I am obliged to pay each year of my life towards the support of the clergy ; and aa scarcely any two parishes are uniform in tbe regulation of paying the priest ' s dues , I will tell you the regulations of the parish I live in . I am obliged to go up to the altar with offerings sim times each year , on Sundays and Holidays ; I am also obliged to feed a cow for the parish priest , and sometimes a young horse or heifer for the curate ; I have to give a sack of oats , and to have a station at my house ; not to speak of assisting in building and repairing chapels , paying the O'Connell annuity , the sexton ' s fees , &c . Perhaps it may be raid that all this is voluntary : but I will show that it is far otherwise . // / rot ' s * the priest ' s demands , / am a marked man , not only by my own priests , but by every other within any reach of me . I am scoffed at and ridiculed at their

      meetings ; my foibles are all exposed , ( and surely there are none of us without them ) bo that I am despised by tvery body , even by my own friends ; and if any of them can make so free with me , they will tell me I am a fool to be quarrelling with the priests , for that there is no peace for any one who is at variance with them , and no satisfaction to bo got from them . Ami farther , If I should happen to be a man of a small family , living in a lonesome plact > , surrounded by ribbonmeu ; and if I have known another person similarly situated , who was a marked man in a neighbouring pariah , to be moat , unmercifully beaten a few years ago at his own door , so that he was left wofolly maimed and decrepid for life , —if I say . J see all this , will I not prefer paying my wy , ami soXisfying the priest ? But , I assure you . the payment is not voluntary ; the money is extorted from me throuyh fear of like consequences .

      Iu allusion to the efforts of the Times newspaper and other parties in England , to procure a state provision for the Catholio Clergy , and the rejection of the proposed provision by the Catholio bishops , the writer denies that that rejeotion is approved of by the people : — They are effered a state provision ; but tie bishops meet in Dublin , and protest against receiving any . We are no party to the protest , therefore we are not bound in justice to pay tbem . They know that we are obliged to contribute to the maintenance of tbe Established Church , * b well as the people professing the religion of that establibhment , and therefore that we have a double burden to support . And how can they imagine that we can bear those burdens , while others in the same country are hard set to live without tbem ?

      The writer maintains that the priest ' s word is like the law of the Medea and Persians , — Indeed I know no other law so powerful or so arbitrary ; and besides , it is one from which there 1 b no appeal ; for tbe prieat can stand up at the altar , and Bay whatever he chooses , and as much aB he chooses , and no one dare contradict or interrupt him . The following , how truly we know not , curiou&ly illustrates Ihe " rent" question . The writer is epeaking of the agitators : he says—They know that withont tbe assistance of the Catholic bishops and priests , they could have very little influence over the Catholio people of Ireland ; neither " Cutholicrent , "' nor ' . ' Repeal registry rent , " nor " loyal National Repeal Association Tent '' could be collected

      another year . The idea of three millions of repealers pajring one shilling each annually , or in other words , £ 150 000 per annum , would be laughed at as a wild speculation ; in fact , there would scarcely be a word beard about R'peal in Ireland , were it not for the instigation ef tbe Roman Catholic clergy . The Irish people ara too shrewd not fully to appreciate the interested motives of these agitators ; but when they are set on by their clergy , assisted by the agitators and their friends , and when the example is set by many of these the ; are either ashamed or afraid to resist the force of such example * * * * In fact , there would be no O'Connell tribute collected , if the clergy did not exert themselves in each locality to enforco it .

      Daniel O'Connell has repeatedly boasted that his countrymen are the most religious people on the faoe on the earth ; if the allegations contained in this pamphlet are only half true , they must indeed be veritable gluttons to pay bo dear tot their favourites luxury . We cannot at all sympathise with the object of the writer of this pamphlet . We consider one established church in Ireland ( as everywhere else ) one too many , without having a second . If Vigilarius is tired of paying for hia whistle , he must do as sensible folk are learning to do in England ; do without !

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      LAW PROTECTED RUFFIANS . To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle Sir , —The aj ? cresaioas by policemen on the public liberty ate becoming very serious , and these aggressions are committed with perfect impunity . A case brought before Mr . Ballantine on Wednesday , shows the peril to which we ore exposed , not as heretofore by violence out of doors , but by insecurity within our bou 3 eB . A policeman . Hall , No . 373 K , was bronght before the magistrates a few ; days ago , fer misconduct in his office . He was charged with forcing himself into a

      room of a house in which he was a lodger , and of first gtosely abusing a Mr . Chappdl , and calling him thief , searching hta pockets , in which he found nothing but papetB , and ntxt of ordering a Mrs . Miles , who also lodged in the Bume house , to pack up her things , to leave the lodging , and to walk the streets the whole of thai night , it being afc that time ( twelve o ' clock ) impossible to find another place to shelter herself . With his accustomed urbanity he salutes her with the term ef prostitute ; with total disregard of truth , affirms that he knows where she walks—she being a married woman , and having only arrived in London one week before .

      Deeming all this violence , insolence , and carelessness , this compelling the poor woman to walk the streets during a whole night as nothing , he further seizes her friend in the toughest way by the collar , forces him down a very narrow staircase at the risk of his necft , and compels him and Mrs . Miles to go to the station-house , where his monstrous and improbable charge is beard and instantly dismissed . Bat though the charge ia scouted at tbe station-bouse , it does not open the dwelling-house , aud the woman plaintiff ia committed to tbe shelter of the pavement till the next day I The defence was ably conducted by a gentleman , whose 5 » al will probably secure him the patronage of

      this often impeached but seldom punished corps . He rigourouily cross-examined all the accusers , and endeavoured to impugn their characters . His o * j * ct wbb to show that the much injured woman was aa adulteress and the wroDged man her paramour ; bat ho could not succeed in shewing this , neither in convincing the magistrate that it had anything to do with the outrage . He next displayed tha irreproachable character of his client , K 373 , who had not acted ofkiaUy , but only aa a trustee for an absent man , the real landlord , who had given him , ivben afc sea , a pojwer of attorney , ' to act ia a legal way for him , and for ' hia family honour . '''

      Thia document the cotmse ! actually read In court , and it at once showed into what discreet and excellent hands " the family honour had fallen . " Mr . Ballantice , who had twice beard tbe case , and every possible and impossible extenuation of it , severely condemned the policeman ' s conduct throughout-He justly said , " that he should have called in another policeman ; that if be was entrusted to act for the landlord , who was at sea , it was very indiscreet of him to act aa a police constable in his own business . Ths police should keep within the prescribed line of their duties . A gross insult had been put on Mrs . Miles . Taere , was a feeling' for the sex among all men ( with this exception , I suppose ) , and the ; would not compel a female to be without shelter all night . He was very much dissatisfied with the policeman ' s conduct , and there wis no reason whatever for tbe parties being Uken to the station-house . "

      After all this " beau discours" he did not convict . The Commissioners of Police having referred thematter to the magistrate ( being themselves much too tenderhearted to condemn any one in their uniform ) , will not convict , and Hall K , comes off with flying colours , and is now exercising hia mild away , decent language , and constitutional knowledge on hia beat , wltkoui check ox fear . .. Such is police-law , such is the impunity of police * men . Your most obedient , P . Brookes's . Jane 9 .

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      MADAME D jAURSMFONT . TO IHE EDITOR OR THB KORTHEBN STAB . Sir—Iii your colums of the lk sth uJI ; - and ibo ls&-Insfc ., I have seen some biographv" 1 ' notes resPecving myself from a gentleman of this , my uu ^ ' 6 ci ty - With every intention on his part to tender v Qem correct , I find them somewhat erroneous in severs * particulars , no otherwise important , it is trae , tban U *^ fidelity even in trifles is important , if trifles occupy o » at &H < Having swerved from the j * al « , strictly folk w « d to

      this time , of withholding all information regarding rayself , n « t only as of no real importance to the public , bat as calulated to divert its attention from tire principles I have endeavoured to advocate , and the troths it ha ^ been my effort to expound ; having swerved from this rule , it seems befitting that , if I meet the cariosity of the public at all , I should meet it to the beat of my ability . And in truth , at this point of time , and in thia my native country rod city , to decline doing so , might expose me , not unreasonably , to the saspici « n of moroseness or affectation . ;

      When my townsman , Mr . Miles , called on me in tbe manner he has related , and solicited' tbe information which I readily promised , my answers to his inqairres were short and striotly to the points enquired after , To string these afterwards into a narrative would doubtless be difficult ; and as he again applies to me for corrected and fuller information , in toe view ot supplying a biographical notice , as a preface or appendix to such of my works as are current in this country , it appears to me the better war to take ihe pea to hacd myself .

      I do therefore furnish him with a sketch of my pareat-&ge , family connexions and early years , fully sufficient I imagine to satisfy any curiosity with which the publio may honour me . . In doing this , it seems but fair that I should securo to a young bookseller of ray native city and one too ( If report speaks true ) somewhat persecuted for opinion's sake , any little advantage that may arise from its publication . Tbe publishers of my works in London will doubtless appreciate my motives , and obtain from him permission of affixing tbe same to any future editions they may issue .

      But , air , after ibe appearance in your columns of the somewhat imaginative and far toe eulogistic notice already alluded to , not merely ! of myself as a consistent and untiring advocate of trutk and liberty , bat also of such of my works as are known in this country , I feel called upon to express my distent from the unqualified approbation passed upon tbe latter . It i « Beld&m that nn honest enquirer after truth , — and suck I feel myself to have ever been , —has not to correct and to modify bis views more than once , before he can hope to present such as ara unmixed with error . But whenever he discovers himself to have been mistaken , ! imperative is tho duty duty for him to correct bis reading of the book of

      nature or the human mind , ouch has been ever my practise in my adopted country , where , ia subsequent lessons , I have ever endeavoured to amend tha preceding . I leok , Sir , to your liberality to be permitted to explain , through your columns . j an admixture of error , existing in the volume of my lectures known in this country , and , yet more , in my "Eplcuru 3 " or "Few days in Athens . " The explanations necessitated by the subject may be somewhat | long ; but I trust , considering their importance with ! a view (* the safe and virtuous progress of refo rm , will not be found tedious . I shall forward tbe first , ot what may occupy a series , of letters , bo soon as some occupations of a varied and conflicting nature may permit to ma the leisure .

      I beg to subjoin , Sir , tbe assurance of my respectful consideration , F . W . D'Aursmont . Dundee , June 8 th , 1844 . ¦ [ We shall be happy to afford this highly-gifted lady the opportunity she seeks . ]

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      Jura 15 , 1844 . _ THE N OUT Hi ! UN STAR . . JT

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 15, 1844, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1267/page/3/