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      rnVTERSATION BETWEEN BAN ANDHIS * SON JOBS . John . Bear Father , —I fear that delusion is gone , That the era of plunder is over and done , The Hall of pure hnmbag is corer'd -with shame . Its Knig hts of free booty are spoil'd of their game ; This time bade you know my exertions were great , To crush free discussion and hinder debate , Vliic Ji allowed to take place would bring to the light The&eds we're most anxious to bury iu night . The peopl * I'd Wind , and th' exertion hast cost jjc manT hard knocks , while my temper I ' re lost , jfaintaining a cause which every day grows worse ; ^ draining I mean on old Ireland ' s scant purse , yorBoff there is searely enough to afford The < 5 »> 8 S we keep barking a bone from our board . Das .

      Sear John . I allow there are gronnds for your fears , Bat still well dissemble , and make what appears Xbe worst prove the best in a lucrative way , Tiion ; b foes may insult us , and say we betray The ris ^ ts ol old Erin—th e cause of Rep e al ; B ut little we care what their spleen may reveal , Vor thoug h wa ' re not free like others to tell , JIappy we ^ ee * flaTe a country to sell * The patronage of Whigs' bribe , pension , and place , The price of our treason is flung in our face ; Bat no matter— . 'tis sweet , and Whiggism ' 6 our Mend , «• Repeal" was but started to -work the same end . Be 11 still praise the Whigs , base , brutal , and bloody While up at the Hall we play " Punch and Judy . "

      John . 0 ! Sire , nnequall'd in scheming and cunning , yea cover unerring , the game you £ ee running—Ton convert to advantage whatever is borne In the smoothflowing stream or the whirlpool' s turn . I know yon ' ve secured Whig favour and pelf , Sang births for your sons , whom you love as yourself Sat can we keep these , and the people still cheat , Xne rent gather still and "Young Ireland" defeat ? ( tr must we submit ts make peace with a gang TVhom I wish it were possible for me to hang 1 Dak .

      The young spawn of Ireland , TebelHons and Tain , Discarded , as felons must ever remain , ' We could sot succeed in our schemes with such eaie . If thwarted by them and their bothering ways , It was the best plan to get rid of such folk-Such daring free spirits would not bear the yoke . They cay that the country is leagued on their aide ; But no matter how true , it must be deuii d . There are those in the country who firm yet remain , Who r-alously straggle to prop up our reign—Who hoodwink the people and make them believe , "We ' re honest and true , and we ne ' er deceive .

      Jons . Your tact and invention can wonders produce , A suggestion of mine may be also of use , That' moral machine' which has done us such good In f xpelnng the HaH * that fiery young brood Sight be work'd 'gainst the people— 'twill puzzle their brains . With influence mesmeric 'twill cast them in chains ; Then easily we'll make thsm to serve our owa ends , Iu collecting the reat and supporting our frisnds , Das .

      Tour advise is most shrewd and well to be known , TR use it , I think , in a case of my own . And now that we ' re talking I'll tell you a fact—I fear tsat e ' relong I'll be decently whack'd . Placing , of course , in discussion reliance , Teirgus O'Connor has bill me nefiimce . This stern denouncer to confront I'm afraid . He'll dishonour your daddy and ruin our trade . Ihe ' moral iorce' engine we'll level'gainst him , | And then there ' s no doubt but his jacket well trim . The apparatus we'll faEhiou the best iu this realm , And engineer Tox shall be plac'd at the helm , 111 fire on the people , and howl till I ' m hoarse , 'Gainst Chartist , torch , dagger , and ' physical force , ' "While Tom plays the engine , and shouts with an aatB , Be at him ye whore- « ons—ye ' renot worth egg-broth . And then there ' s no donbt butre'll flee us of course Or a sousing 'hell get from c < A' moral force . * P . Shttb , Killaloe , Ireland ,

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      SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE . No . xxvi . OUR CHEER . BY ERNEST JONES . Hurrah ! for each gallant defender , Who stands like a man for the right , With—'' The Charter ! and never surrender V While yet there ' s a foeman to fight , 3 Tan-worship let freemen despise , And leave it fur tyrant and slave ; But honour is due to the wise . And glory the right of the orave J We'd envy not those who inherit The paradise priests never knew , If justice were rendered to merit , And all men were given their due . Then , if ye scorn treason and fear , And value faith , courage and honour , Catne , Chartists , asd join in a cheer , For DTJXC 02 IBE and FEARGDS O'CONNOR

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      THE FAMILY HERALD . Parts 41 , 42 . London : G . BiEgs , 421 , Strand . It Is Impossible in a mere notice to give our re-ak-is anything like an idea of the rieh : store of information and amusement contained in the two parts before us of the Family Herald . " Let those read now who never read before , " and they willJearn foruanEelvs ? : , thevalnab ' eKturna penny a week will Lring them , "Martin the Foundling , " by EuEtcc Sue , romances , tales , moral essays , poetry , fami'y : receipte , science , art , statistics , r iddles , wit , Curious ? . nd clever answers to correspondents , and , lastly , ' -leadiag articles " such as no one but the Editor of the Famil y Jkraid can write , all combined , prcseut a distracting variety of instruction and entertainment b ? yond our ability to describe . We give t « e following extracts fiv-in an article by the editor , on tbat subject interesting to every one : — BOOTS A XD SHOE S , ASD TEXDER FEET . T ? e have no corns upon our finjers , nor bun : onsupon our sliouifiers . "We are not afraid to touch a hard substance with our hands , nor even to encounter a justle in he street with our arms . Eut how vesy cautiously all tos fiflerly and most of the yoaug people avoid any collision wfch their little Toes ! "Take care of my corns , " says the matron at her needle , when she sees her son or daughter about to placeasto ;> l or chair close beside her . Tile Ttrry touch in agony . Why should the foot be reduced to so very low and pitiful a condition , when it is the main support of the body ? It reminds one of the agricultural labourer who siands at the very bottom of ie social scale , upon whom all society depends for subfistenct-i « na who . notwithstanding all this , is the most oppressed and afflicted nn mber of the community .

      Ox ail parts of the body , the feet have made the smallest progress in the arts of comfort . The stocking is the only luxury wluch distinguishes the modern from the ancient ' oot covering . Even the Greeks and the Eonians lad s ~ o -3 . The Roman senators were Wellington bofits . They vsvre a ba £ ge of senatorial distinction , and came more thsnialf way up to the knte . * # * The richest and the pooreft amongst us experience the miseries of a leather shoe . Sotntthues we are so pinched , that we are fevered all over- —w « can neither walk nor at . 3 S « m zheladies cannot rest ia their pews atdirine service for the celling of their corns . Sometimes they dip off : i slipper tlioe . but when t ; : ev have a boot they

      are in " peifcct agony , " as they call it , and can neither utter th ; responses , « ay amen to the prayers , nor listen to tie sermon . They can do nothing but think of the xaso ?]! y shoemaker , who has taken them ia once more , and persuaded them that the leather would Etretcb . At other times we are not punched , bat the solcr . are not properl y cat , and they wear to one side . The shoe points outward more than the foot ; the foot gets twisted in walking ; the great toe has nothing to rest upon , and the wLole foot and ankle are inflamed with the awkwardness of the position . TiVe thec rail against the ignorance of the whole trade : They don ' know even how to catas « L- »

      The shoemaker will warrant anything . Hewillwar-I a slice to fit which will not go on . They have such a balit of asserting the perfection of every shoe they Jnale , that ibey forget themselves at times . We remero-*** , ° a < 5 ne occasion , using ali lur strength to no purpose to pull on a boot that we had bespoken , and , after trineing the perspiration to the forehead with the useless effort , we » avt it up an 3 trithdreW ; aut the last word that toe b 33 tn . aker gave us was , that he had no doubt in his ttiad limit was an excellent St . It iva 3 impossible he conlo fail , tiitrc's the measure , what cou'd be more cor-TttTS P-riinjis he ilmusrlit we esaid swell out ' at plea-S" * , " ie an auibifu . usfroz . AYe know not , but he ¦ fr&nld uoteouless tbuilie had niaSe a blunder . It is Very stV ! o ! : s tbatyeu can get a ^ o b .: Ots alike , one is al-¦^ s ysloustror broader than liis oilier ; but the mak « r fells jtu that this is inu . o = > sib ! e , for they are nnile ou " £ * 3 i-c Izit , ue nu-ans a |> 2 i « " of lasts made fdlows . ¦ B « t ^ js ; , ; alerc QC . ] usj oni jou mny n-. ske a large flioe ^ 3 a ia < h ] i ^ g , ; saaie ; t . a little more stretch .

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      ing of the leathen in one cane than the other makes all the differenceyou complai n of , and then when the leather u relieved from thepjessure , it gradually runs to it . natural wze . The atretching of leather is a favourite theory of the shoemak . r , wher . with he comforts his customers and promotes the cultivation of corn , and bun-Ta 7 . ^ Dere r trust to the tr « " ¦ 0 » V call fte streteher . You may as well trust to thestretchingof an Indtan rubber garter , which will stop the dr . culation of your Wood for ever , before it give way even one quarter of an inch , which it will not recover when the force is removed . When your boot is too tight , you get it put on th » tree , and it feels much easier , when you try it on again . Away , you walk , quite relieved and S «« nf fhtt laittttAn «« t ¦ ' jka >^ - . ' n . ¦ . 2 . ¦ ' ''

      overjoyed ; but in a few hours you are as miserable as ever . Perhaps your foot has swelled , says the bootmaker , put it on the tree all night . You have it put on the tree all night , and it comes home comfortable again ; but the comfort is of short duration , and you find , to your sorrow , that though leather will stretch if you force it . it will also unstretch when the force is withdrawn . It is better to trust to the unstretching of leather . The shoemakers understand this too , Therefore , when the shoe is too large , they say it will close upon the foot , the leather will contract . They are right , it does contract , more surely than it stretches , and much more comfortably to the poor feet which it encases .

      The ladies are particularly fond of having small feet to show , and will endure almost any punishment merely for the imaginary pleasure of being thought to possess them . They will be squeezed , andpincbed , and tormented for a month , raiher than for one second of time an unshapely figure of a foot should chance to petp out from beneath the drapery in which they are enveloped . Only look at the soles of a woman ' s shoe , and you may see the reason why she is always , in large town * and cities , and in high life , so bad a pedestrian . Woman is formed by nature to walk as man , and she docs walk as well in humble life . She tramps barefooted to church in Scotland for miles without a sigh or groau , and sits down by the burnside to wa 8 h her feet and put on her stockings and shoes before she enters the sacrefi pile . It is then 6 he begins to limp and halt , then that she stows symptoms of pain in walking .

      It was so once , but fashion is gradually diminshing the number of such rustic scenes , and bare toes are becoming almost a rarity . But bare toes were good toes , —the toes that could walk five or six miles to church and back again , and think nothing of it . Whereas half a mile is too much for a shod metropolitan dame , with hard corns ou the outside of her toes , and soft corns between them . There is little doubt that tightness of shoeing has incapacitated womaa for walking . * * # # The fashion of wearing thing * to fit close , is a most uncomfortable fashion for all parties . It is a most

      troublesome fashion for the tailor and the dressmaker , and it is particularly troublesome to the public , as the slightest deviation from a good fit is a source of great annoyance when the clothing is tight . The loose dress that xvquires no fit is convenient fur all parties , and is by far the most picturesque and dignified . The shoemakers of large towns have escaped many of the troubles to which the fitting trade is liable , by making for the shops and not for the customers . The fault lies , not in the workmen , but in tbe masters or cutters , , as a body of man . require much instruction , under smart discipline , in the art of boot and shoe making .

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      THE PRACTICAL BAKER . London : Cleave , Shoe Lane . This little sixpenny publication professes to teach the art of managing and manufacturing all sorts of brea < l : also the methed of preventing sour bread . With this portion of Mr . Read ' s book we shall not meddle , but we feel ourselves bound to give the following extract illustrating the

      WRONGS OF THE OPEKATIVE BAKERS . In the first place , the poor operative baker , or rather slave , is obliged to reverse the order of nature , by seeking rest when he should be receiving mental and moral improvement ; and when the rest of his fellow-mortals retire to receive nature's balmy and restorative cordial , sleep , be has to commence operations for the next day ' s : slavery : surely man was never ordained for this , and that , in a civilised country , professing liberty and freedom . Such a stubborn fact is , however , undeniable , nay , daily practised in this huge metropolis . The clock strikes eleven ; the shops are nearly all closed , the lively bustle oi the day is over ; lights appear in the different chambers , for the pnrpose of rest ; all nature courts repose ; hut the poor emaciated baker is either demanding admittance at his master ' s door ; or with hurried footsteps endeavouring to reach it , so as to commence his toil and continued round of slavery , having previously walked perhaps two or three miles , the distance from his resilience .

      We will suppose tbe sponge to be ready at the time of his arrival so as he may commence operations , but this isnotalways the case , he is often obliged to wait , sometime an hour or more , before it has " turn'd the second time , " when he has a laborious part to perform , which is termed " making dongh ; this is in general done by two persons , the second and third hands , whilst the foreman is preparing for another hatch . I have seen two persons make sixteen and eighteen bushels of dough at one time , which is three sacks o < flour , and very frequently two sacks or two and a half , this iast is very general . To have an idea of this part of the business , a person should picture to himself a man , or two men , beinjr elbow deep in a large thick mass , lifting and turning it from side to-side , in doing which

      they are obliged to employ the whole of their strength , he may tlien form some opinion of making dough ; this operation lasts from half to threeparts of an hour , when it is pasttwelve o'clock , at which time , if his circumslancss permit , he will partake of a little refreshment , and then lie on the boards for two or three hours whilst the dough is proving , frequently tliis is the only rest which a baker obtains for six consecutive nights . Saturday being the only time he can enjoy rest like other men . J > ut the foreman cannot obtain the short rest which his helpmates have on each night . He is obliged , at int ervals , to attend to the heating of tbe oven and prepare it for the batch , and on him rests the responsibility of every thing being in due time , therefore he has constantly to be on the alert , and to awake those under

      him when the dough , is sufficiently " forward" to be taken from the trough , which being done , it is weighed off in pieces tbe required weight , moulded , or made into a square or round form , and placed in regularrotation on the boards . When the whole is disposed of in this manner , the oven is swept out and made ready to receive it , each of those pieces which are previously weighed is again moulded , or shaped to the desired form , and set in the oven where it remains to be baked ; during this time he has to make his rolls , cottage bread , twists , < tc , : md also perhaps make another piece of dough preparatory for tbe second ; the whole of this must be done uhilst ilie bread is bakiug . The batch is now to ue " drawn , " that is , taken out of the oven , carried into the shop and duly arranged ; the oven is again

      heated for the rolls , &c , to be baked , nor must they fail of being in the shop by eight o ' clock or a quarter before , or the consequence to the man is , that he is probably discharged * t the expiration of his night ' s Slav , ry without any previous notice . There is no time now for the baker to get his breakfast he roust " make time" to get it whilst the batch was bnkin £ ; he has customers to supply with hot rolls , or else a heavy load of bread is on his head to supply some chandler ' s shop . By the time he returns from this excursion , there ie another lot of dough ready fur a second batch , which has to undergo tke same process as before . In the interval which follows , h- has to fetch , attend , bake , an-i carry home dinners to their respective onwrs , when if there is not a third and fourth

      batch iu preparation , he may get a chance of having a comfortable meal ; if otherwise , he has scarcely time to swallow one in this case ; that is , if there are three or four batches , he may probably leave work by seven or eleven o ' clock , it is often twelve , especially Saturdays , "hen he has the last mentioned number . This statement principally affects the " underaeller ' s" men , which is the low-priced baker ; but with men in the employ of the fu ! l-i . rieed baker ; it is somewhat different , for instead of having three or four batches p « r day , they may occasionally have two , and the remainder of the day you may see them pacing the streets of London with a large basket of bread thrown across his back , and often another hanging on his arm . Amongst the trade persous so employed are tinned donkeys , and Christian ponies , certaiuly not inappropriats namet . They may mnnage to have finished their rounds by fonr or five o ' clock , and in some instances by three ,

      when , after his return , he has to prepare for his next daj ' s labour , and uttendto the dinners of thosefashioaable customers who dine late , whilst occasionally through the fiay , or after he has returned from his rounds , he has to amuie himself with the manufacture of s few small good * , when it is likely he may leave work by five o ' clock ; should be after this wish to see any friends or hare any amusement , he must do so at thecxpeuscof his rest . This is often the case , and many never lie down in a bed but once in a week , sleeping only on the boards . Sunday is no better . In London , the mass of the people being either too poor , or being otherwise nnable to cook for themselves , the wfcfelit of duty of roasting meat falis to the bnker . While oiw part of society is either dasliini : along in carriages , or walkiBg to church , and another part is idler remaining at home in a comfortable state of donietiicaiiou , or perhaps taking the air in the parks , the poor wretch of a baker is hard at work in his

      den . Pretty considerable hot work this . No rest even on Sumlavs . till half tile day be done . At four or five o ' clock , he has to set his sponge for the next nay ' s , but more properly the same nUht ! iii < 3 m'xt day ' s labour . After the stat : nunt which is now given , many persons « iii naturally sr . y , he is well paid for this excessive toil they will li' » w « . ver liml it the reverse ; neither is there any ex : ra pay for the Sunday portion of his labour , except iu some few instances the master allows him a siKiier . Tliu general rate of wages given is . for a fore-: n : ; i ! , £ 1 to £ l 10 s . ; second hand , 10 s . to £ 1 Is .: third ha : ; d , 10 ? . to Us . besides what bread they may require ,

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      and tha two former invariably has ( if married , ) a loaf per day for their family , and a half er quartern of flour on Saturday . This is certainly not sufficient for days and nights of actual toil , whereby every domestic comfort , rational amusement , recreation , and even health is sacrificed ; working , as they are doomed to be , in a close unhealthy atmosphere , most frequently under ground , without any ventilation or free current of air to take off the carbonic gas which is engendered by fermentation . This he inhales , and the consequence is he soon becomes'a prey to disease , premature old age creeps on , by the time and often before he has reached the prime of life . You seldom see journeymen bakers of any advanced age about the streets of London . I have known many instances of healthy young men from the country being obliged to return to their native place , attar becoming a victim to this infamous svstem of slavery , so productiva of disease , and which ba 3 eventually carried them from the laud of the living . ¦ ' . ¦ ' . ' ¦¦"•¦ - •¦?• *'

      The above is a frightful picture of white slavery . Why do not the Exeter Hall philanthropist ? open their mouths and their pockets , and raise their voices and exert their energies , to reform this horrible system of oppression ? They " compass sea and land " to find objects of sympathy , yet they are blind to this enormous oppression under their rery noses , and which even their morning ' s hot rolls should sufficiently testify to them . We have not room to quote Mr . Read's sng"est : ons for the doing away with the worst part of slavery—night-work ; but there can be no doubt that the suggested better system might be carried out with injury to no one , and immense benefit to the journeymen bakers . We hope the operative bakers will arouse themselves , and insist upon an amelioration of their condition . We recommend this little book to our readers .

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      TIIOMAS PAINE . From the Manchester ( N . H . ) Democrat . Ton Paine . We perceive that some of our newspapers are for making a hero of Tom . and immortalising him . Toor fellow ! his immortality , in no stnse of the word , is to be envied . The above paragraph we find in the Exeter News Letter , a paper that professes great sympathy for those under the bonds of oppression . Yet it is ready to sneer at the memory of a man who did more towards the universal freedom of his kind than any other man that ever lived ! " Tom Paine , " that " poor fellow ! " did more to effect the " glorious Revolution" than any other man of those glorious times . Washington led our troops to battle , but who prepared the minds of those troops for battle ? Who prepared the minds of the people for the change ? Who proved to them that the people were the

      sovereigns—the source of all power ? In one word , who was it that procured that Revolution in Opinion in our country , that preceded the Revolution in Government ? Who , but " Tom Paine ? " His works — "Common Sense" and "The Rights of Man "have done more toward liberalising the acts of Government , and disseminating among the . people a knowledge of thoirown riiihts , than any other works ever written before or after our Revolution . And how much soever we regret his anti-religious works , from the bottom of our heart we pity the man who , in this land of equal laws and equal rights , can deliberately have it in his heart to sneer at the memory of Thomas Paine . True he wrote against our ivHgion and its farms—but still , had it not been for his political writings , we much doubt whether we should have had any religion at the present time , except as it bad existence upon the Statute Book of England . — Young America .

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      Scandalous Outrage . —A most wanton outrage was perpetrated at the chapel o ( Broughton on Puruass , last week . Some miscreants smashed seventy panes in the windows of the edifice . The large window just above the altar suffered the most injury , no less than twenty-five squares being broken . Not satisfied with having broken the windows , tliey next proceeded to attack even the mansions of the dead , and threw down four tombstones and one headstone ; and , in fact , the chapel and the burial ground attached to it presented much the same appearance as they mifilit be supposed to have done had they been visited by a tornado .

      Fires asd Probable Less of Life . —On Wednesday morning , shortly after two o'clock , the premises be'ongingto Mr . J . II . Munday , oil and colourman , situate at 5 , Duke-street , Back-road , St . Geor » e ' sin-the-East , were discovered by the police constable on the beat to be or . fire . An immediate alarm was spread , and the inmates havinsr bpen aroused from their slumbers , they succeded in effecting a safe retreat , when the fire was extinguished . A boy narced John Mahony , five years of age , whose parents reside at Vine-street , Miiibank . by some means got in contact with the fire in the room , and his clothes speedily became ignited . His screams brought several persons to his assistance , when the flames were found mounting over the child ' s head . They were extinguished as early as possible , but not before the poor boy was frigbfully burnt over the b ; idy . He was taken to the Westminster Hospital , where he remains without the last chance of recovery .

      Manslaughter from Reckless Driving . — On Wednesday evening , an inquest , adjourned from the previous Thursday , was resumsd and concluded before W . Payne , Esq ., City coroner , at Guy ' s Hospital , on the body of Thomas Roberts , aged 33 , a liarnesB-maker in the employ of Mr . Wlieatley , the omnibus proprietor at Greenwich , who was killed through the reckless driving of a man named Thos . Henry Lankford . On Monday , the 9 th instant , the deceased , who had been supping with some friends , was standing in the road way , near the railway terminus , Greenwich , between eleven and twelve o ' clock at night , conversing with some of the party , when a tilted cart , belonging to Mr . T . Henry Lankford , an egjr-mercliant in the Borough , passed along at a

      rapid rate , knocking the deceased and another person , named Maloney , who was with him , down . An effort was made to stop the cart , but the driver , owin £ to the rate at which the horse was going , was enabled to get off . A day or two after , however , the cart was seen in the neighbourhood ot Deptford , and identified as the one which < aused the accident , and Mr . Lunkford also identified as having been at Greenwich and Woolwich on the same day with the vehicle . The deceased , who at the time was the worse lor liquor , having been seen by a local surgeon , was brought to the hospital , where lie died the next day from fracture of the skull . The Coroner having summed , the Jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against Thomas Henry Lankford , " who was committed to Newgate for trial .

      Extensive Forgeries . —The post master at Barnett who has absconded after having committed forgeries on the Post-office by means of fraudulent Post-office Orders , is said to have carried off not less than £ 4000 in this way . Fall op a Railway Bjudgis . — Three men were killed last week by the fall of a railway bridge near K tiding , on the ISerks ami Hants line of the Gicat Western Railway . A verdict in each case was returned of ' * Accidental death , " Initnot without some strong remarks from the Jury on the culpable neglect with regard to the erection of bridges on this line , as no l ess than four lives have been lost , am ! other accidents occasioned .

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      Horsb . hadish for the Million . —Among the enormous benefits of free trade is a trcmenduous influx of Jl orse -radisli , which is arriving daily by ship-loads at ijw ^ ustora . house . Getting the horse-radish ia one step towards getting the roast beef to eat with it . inis is like a friend of ours , who has got a banker ' s nook , and now wants nothing to make it complete out a large balance . —Punch . Good . — ' Get up , husband , ' said a lady to her liege lord , the other morning , ' daylight is breaking . ' Let it break , ' said he , ' ifc don't owe rae anything . ' Cause of Irish Suffbiu . vg . —Some one attributed the wants of Ireland to absenteeism , a resolute punster declared that the misery of the Iri 6 h arose not from absent-tec-ism , but from absent dinrierism . Dagukrrotyfk . —A woman ' s heart is the only true place for a man ' s likeness . An instant gives the impression , and an age of change and sorrow cannot entice it .

      Liberality of Louis Pniupre , —The Canterbury Journal . states that a French brig , lying at Erith , is i ? i . KJn a car g ° ° t ' 4 , 000 barrels of gunpowder , of Jinelish manufacture . It is , however , the intention ot Louis Philippe ( a certain event occurring , ) only to borrow the same ; as lie hopes to be able to return the gunpowder to the English , with the additional compliment oflead . —Timch . Cure for Rats . —Well , he was down in the country , and his money ran out ; and the landlord of the inn charged him 3 s . for a damp bed , and 3 s . for a poor breakfast , and when he looked at the bill he wasanmed at it ; but he was more amazed still to know how to pay it . So he called up the landlord , — " You ' ve rats in the house , " said he . " Oh I ' am

      about ruined by them , from the slaughter-house over the way . " " Why don't you banish them ? " " I'll give you a gold guinea , " 9 aid he , " if you'll tell me how " Done ! " aiid my father . " You may risk your , existence there won't be one in the neighbourhood , slaughter-house and all , in a week . " The innkeeper was like to go out of his wits with joy . "Then , " said my father , " nothing like doing business , di « - charee that bill and give me the balance . " He got the 153 . and the innkeeper was all mouth and ears . " " The first rat that comes , " said my father , " chajge him 3 s . for bed , and as much for breakfast , and as soon as he gets home to his companions , and the thing pets wind among them , they'll never frequent the house more !"

      The Earth brlonos to all . — " The earth is the habitation the natural inheritance of all mankind , of ages present and to come ; a habitation belonging to no man in particular , but to every man ; and one in which all have an equal right to dwell . "—John Gray . Tub Ancient BritonsJ lived In communities , forming villages in the woods , during the summer , for the purpose of hunting and pasturage , as their chief food was flesh , milk , berries , fruit , and leaves ; and in winter ibey moved to more mountainous districts , as being healthier and drier . Some writers have thought the natives ate raw meat , exuding the blood by pressure : others , that it was baked amid headed stones

      The huts in which the people lived were of a cone form , and covered with boughs , grass , mud , clay , or turf . They had chairs and stools : skins and their mantels served ; for bed clothing . Wooden bowls , platters , and articles of common pottery , formed their domestic utensils . The dead they buried with their most appreciated articles , from an idea of their wants in a future statf : sometimes the body was burnt and the ashes deposited in urns . —Mackenzie ' s History of England . A Brotherly Difference . —A provincial paper says " There is a sensible difference between the letters of Mr . Grantley Berkeley and his brother . " It is ? he only thing , then , in the difference between them that is sensible . —Punch .

      Qualifying for a Robber . —Cartouche , the notorious French robber , who flourished in 1789 , being told that a young man was desirous of becoming a niember of his band , took him under examination , and , asking him where he had served , was answered , ' Two years with an attorney , and six months under an inspector of police at Paris . " " Then , " said Cartoclie , with transport , "I shall consider it the same thing as if you baa rode all that time in my troop . " And the youas ' man took rank accordingly . A Dutch Wedding . —The party consisted of some twenty or thirty persons—bride and bridegroom both : n deep mourninsr , the latter In black gloves—little children who would not be kept still on their little bench , but" lounged up to the ! knees of the older

      people and gave just as much trouble , as if they had been at home—men who sate or stood as they pleased , with their hats on or off , as seemed good to them . The civil part of the ceremony had been transacted elsewhere : so we crae in but for the exhortation . This was delivered by a comely pastor , who arriving in his cocked hat , hung it up in the pulpit ere he began to hold forth ; and realty to judge from the time he took , and the energy he bestowed on the subject , cannot have left out one duty great or small . For three mortal quarters of an hour did his homily last . Let me not be irreverent , however . - —there was one kindly creature in the party , of the tearful class whom the exhortation entirely succeeded , ana who wept herself into something like hysterics . The bride and the bridegroom sate still , and looked , I ruustsay

      dogged , rather than submissive . Both were singularly plain—I say singularly , because I have rarely seen so many handsome , well-grown men , and fair women , as since I have been in Holland . The servant of the sexton' ? house , through which , you must pass into the church , was worth the whole party put together as a picture : an elderly woman , with a clear waxen complexion , deep gray eyes , soft dark eyebrows , and white hair , vary neatly arranged within the wirestiffened border of a rich lace cap ; her clean dimity jacket , with a gay calico handkerchief by way of apron , making up a capital painter ' s figure , as she stood looking through the gcieen , and criticising the whule performance , methought , with a shrewd and professional expression of countenance . — People ' s Journal .

      Umted States Soldikhs . —( By J . G . Whiter the American poet . )—They look out with honest citizen faces under their leathern vizors ( their ferocity being mostly the work of the tailor and tinker , ) and I doubt not , arc atiliis moment as innocent of blood-thirstiness as yonder worthy tiller of the Tewksdury hills , who sits quietly in his waggon , dispensing apples and turnips , without so much as giving a . glance at the procession . Probably there is not one of them who would hesitate to divide his tobacco-quid with his worst" enemy . Social kind-hearted , psalm-singing .

      sermon-hearing , Sabbath-keeping Christians ; and yet , if we look at the fact of the matter , these very men have been out the whole afternoon of this beautiful day , under God ' s holy sunshine , as usual at work as Satan himself could wish , in learning how to butcher their fellow creatures , and acquire the true scientific method of impaling a poor forlorn Mexican on a bayonet , or of sinking a leaden missile in the brain of some unfortunate Briton , urged within its range by the double incentive of sixpence | per day in his pocket , and the cat-o ' -nme-tails on his back \—People ' s Journal .

      A Great Comfort A tremendous log on the 3 rd rendered the Wellington Statue quite invisible . Si-earing for Posterity . —During the delivery of one of those tedious and interminable speeches which are sometimes inflicted upon the llouseof Representatives in America , as well as iu oh own House of Commons , a member , who had eccupied the floor for several hours , was called io order , on the ground that his remarks were not pertinent to the question before the house , "I know it , " said he , " 1 am not Bptaking for the benefit of the house , ha for posterily . " "Speak a little longer , " said John Randolph , in an under tone , " and you will have your audience before you . "

      Honet . — " Why does father call mother honey ?" asked a small boy of his brother . " Cim ' r , think , Sam , ' ceptits becos she ' s got sich a large cowib in her head . " Novel Race . —Great excitement prevailed lately in New York , in consequence of a match " for speed "—which came off there in the course of the past month , between a gentleman and his * ' running accounts . " The gentleman beat the accounts hollow —so much so , indeed , that he couldn't stop himself again , eventually ran " clean out of sight , " and entirely disappeared .

      Waxtkd an Interpreter . —One W . W . Broom , who has often victimised us before , sends us a paper covered with blue marks , which he evidently intends us to read . We want old Cobbctt again , who used to admonish his correspondents to learn to write before they began to contribute . An editor of an Lie of Man paper has some correspondents who take birds , deep their feet in ink , and make them walk over the paper , and then dispatch it as an article to the editor . Mr . Broom , we suppose employs one of these claw-footed amanuenses . A gentleman skilled

      m obscure calligraphy , and who lias voluntarily devoted great attention to Mr . Broom's MSS ., reports that Mr . B . intends astounding things about next spring—the particulars cannot be made out—but we hereby inform all almanack compilers , that something excruciating is in contemplation , it'hicroglvpliicscau be trusted . N . B . Mr . Broom will please- to observe , that no paper from him cau in future receive attention , unless plainly written . He must take ' six lessons !'— The licasoner . [ We hope some—not : v few of our " correspondcHts" will profit by the above hints .-ED . N . S . I

      Tin : same in Scotland . —The Americans arc so inquUitive- that Dr . Franklin tells us . when he travelled in America ami wished to . vk his road , he found it necessary to save time by prefacing his questions with' My name is Benjamin Franklin , I am by trade a printer , I am coining from such a plp . ee , and am going to such a place ; and now tell me which is my road . " Sib CunisToriiEK IIawkixs , Bart . —The late worthy baronet of Trcwitlicn , who possessed immense estates and great borough influence , was well known for his parsimonious habits ; and the following quaint lines , written by some facetious person on thti wallet his demesne , are still remembered in Cornwall : — A large jiarlc with no deer , A latgu cellar with no hvuv , A large house with no cheer , N , 15 .- —Sir Christopher lluwkins lives here .

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      .. _ , ! , »¦> .- «¦¦ - - — -- * v--- 1- ' " M •*¦ *• ' ¦< w ^ * w *" J' ¦¦ II . HJI » iji . h . i , Cost of thb Leeds Police Forcr . —The cost incurred in the maintenace of the Yirco , during the year ending August last , was £ 6 . 678 103 10 d . Captain Warner ' s "Loko RaKOE . . —Tho PoH says that a trial ot this destructive engine has been made . The greatest secrecy as to the focaZeofthe experiment was observed , and none but the inventor , Colonel Chalraer , and two or three other individuals , were present . It is said the experiment was quite successful . Funeral op mi ! Author of ms Word " Teetotal . "—On Sunday , the remains of . Richard Turner were intered at Preston , ground having been purchased for that purpose through the exertions of a few zealous friends of the temperate cause . William Llotd Gaurisox , tho anti-slavery lecturer , left Liverpool for Boston recently .

      A Historical Character . —Died , " in August last , in the vicinity of Baton Rouge , says the Boston Mail , Madiime Majocohi , wife of the witness in the famous trial of Queen Caroline , of " nonmireenrdo" memory . Majocchi found England _ too hot for him after the trial of the Queen ; but it was not known to what part ot the worid he betook himself . By the above we presume he is still living in the United States .-A Public Gain . —The late Times calculates that the profession will lose £ 80 . 000 per annum by the operation of the new Small Debts Aot . Thk Diamond Mines in Brazil , of which so much was said ^ some time ago , turn out to be not worth the working . Coming Events Cast thkir Shadows Before . — It is rumoured that there is again ; i probability of an increase in the royal family .

      Early Ctnswo ( if Sunps . —The linen and woollen drapers and hosiers of Halifax have commenced closing their shops at seven o ' clock in the evening . The Gun Cotton- and the Boahd op Ord . vancb . —The Board of Ordnance has rejected the proposal for the use of Schonueiu ' s gun cotton in the British army . The " Oldest Inhabitant" of the town of TCnaresborough—Mr . Matthew Pearson—breathed hi * last on Thursday , in the one | hundred and fourteenth year of his ai ^ e . He could well rememb er many curious incidents in connexion with the Scottish Rebellion iu 1745 , and maintained his faculties to the very last . The Mayor op Lekds . —It is not true that Mr . Luccock has been re-elected Mayor of Leeds . The new Mayor is Charles Caxcoignc Maclea .

      Suakspkre ' s Desckxdasts . —A Nottingham paper saj's : — "There is now living in the village of Bee 9 ton , the wife of a mechanic , a daughter of the late Mr . William Hart , and sister to Mi . Thomas Hart , of Tewkesbury , lineal decendauts of Siiakespere . Notiii \ g and Nobody . —Last week two lads were carried before the Mayor of Hull , chared with disorderly conduct . One of them described himself as being " nothing , " and the other as being employed by " nobody . " Mi 8 Lktoe . —An experienced agriculturist mentions as a caution , that it misletoe , when rejected from ita p hwj ? in the house , be thrown , as is & frequent custom , into the foul yards , the cms will eat of it , ami the consequences will be that they will slip their culves .

      Great Phinti . vg Press . — Messrs . Drydon , the celebrated engineer * , aro now employed in the construction of a printing machine for the Times , warranted to produce twelve thousand impressions uer hour , or the almost inconceivable number of upwards of three sheets per second !' Rocks Blasted by Explodixg Cotto . v . —A letter from Stuttgaid of the 2 ml November says : "On Thursday last experiments for blasting rocks in the tunnel of Laupen were made with exploding cottou , and were eminently successful .

      Nkw Application of thb Elkctmc ' 1 elp-orapii . — On Thursday a workman left the Chesterfield station in a railway carriage , taking his day ' s dinner with him , but on reaching his destination , he left his beef , potatoes , and cabbage in the carriage , [ laving coininunicated liis loss to the station clerk , the telegraph was set to work , and the answer ¦ quickly obtained , Rfating that the dinner waa found , and that it would be . sent back by the next train . Surrey Zoological Gaudkks . —Extensive alterations have commenced here . A new entrance , with Gothic lodges , a terrace walk 300 feet in length and 25 in width , with fountains , statues , < bc . As Aged Bird . —A magpie died on the 5 th of this month , which has been in the possession of Mr . James Ilagger , of Great Chesterford , for nineteen

      years . Felony by a Bankrupt . —On Saturday a reward of ; £ 50 was offered for apprehension of Francis Sydor , a grocer and draper , carrying on business at Wells at Fakenhani , in Norfolk , and Ilitchin , in Hevtfordshiie . who is charged with felony , he not having surrendered to be examined by the Commisasioncrs under a fiat in bankruptcy . Crewb has been made a port town . Public Works . —The number of persons employed on public works in Ireland , for the week ending 8 c ! i Now , was 150 . 208 . Thomas Moore , the celebrated Irish poet , is much recovered—L . merick Chronicle .

      A Rich Robbbr . —Last wcck , Charles Dnnnellnn , who has been convicted and sentenced by the magistrates ef East Ham for stealing cabbages , was discharged from Ilford gaol , where were found upon his person 1 bag containing £ 95 in gold , another haying £ 21 6 s . in gold and silver , and also Bank securities for £ 5 oO . The Bey op Tunis is on a visit to France . Shortening the Hours of Labour . —Messrs . Bell , the proprietors of extensive potteries at Glasgow , Have consented to shorten the hours of labour from 11 to 10 hours a Jay . Foreign Potatoes . | The arrivals of potatoes from nbroad during the past week , have included French , Russian , and Spanish potatoes in large quantities . Thk Railway to Bradford running from Bletchley , on tho London and Birmingham portion of the North Western Railway opened this week .

      Establishment of an English Journal in Rome . An English newspaper has just been started at Rome . It is entitled the Roman AdoeHisar , and apears onco a week . The editor is a Mr . Hemans , but the proprietors appear to be all Italians . Australian Bisuomics . —Thedioccseof Australia is to be divided into three , by the erection of two new bishoprics , one at Melbourne , for the district of Port fhilip , and the other at Morpeth , for the northern division of New South Wales . Sanitary Condition of the METRoroLis . —Tlie Committee of the Health of London Association are persevering with their inquiries into the sanitary condition of the metropolis . Tub Price op Gin is likely to be raised , in consequence of the distillers having made three advances , amounting in the whole to one shilling a gallon .

      Westmixster Bridgk is to be re-opened for light carriages , omnibuses , « fec . The present structure will not be removed until tue new bridge is completed . Death of a Pugilist . —On Sunday morning Edward Neale , the celebrated pugilist , & % u& 51 yeai's , expired at his ro > idence , the Rose and Crown Inn , Norwood , Surrey . Captain Sir Edward Parry , the celebrated Polar voyayer , is to succeed Captain Carter , as superintendent of liaslar Hospital . Boh Carlos ia residing at Genoa . General Reduction in Steam-boat Fares . —On Tuesday , in consequence of the competition existing on the river Thames , the fares of nearly all the steamers underwent a permanent and very extensive

      reduction . The fares are now , consequently , between Gravesend and London , Cti . each person ; between Woolwich , Greenwich , and London-bridge , 3 d . and id . , between the latter- pier and Chelsea , 3 d . ; and between Lundon-bridge and Nine Elms Railway station , 2 J . ; a similar fare is also all that is charged for conveying passengers between iluntgcrford-market and Chelsea . Other boats ran during Tuesday between London and Westminster bridges ut the extraordinarily low fare of one halfpenny each person . Horrible . —A French papsr states that a butcher at St . Etienne lately sold his wife , to whom he had been very cruel , and then wanting her back , deliberately murdered her purchaser . Hydrophobia . —No death 1 ' rom hydrophobia has been registered in London during the last three

      summers . Madkmoisblle Rachel has contributed 1 , 000 francs towards the rel . ef of the sufferers by tho late inunda tion in France . Good Suooeution . —The Westminster Review contends that the penny ( stamp should bo removed from newspapers , and placed upon a wrapper or envelope , franking those required to be sent through the post . Neouo Astkonomi . — " I say , Baz , " said a negro to a compeer , " where do dat comet rise at ? " " Him rises in de 40 th meridian ob do frigid zodiac , as laid down in the comet almanack . " " Well , and whe . v do him set , Baz . " " Set , you black fool , him don ' t sot dowhere . When him get tired ob shining , him creep into him hole .

      ' IIjcki Time for Women to Study Politics . —Bo » aparte once at u party placed himself directlj before a witty and beautiful lady , and said very abruptly . " Madam , I don ' t like that women should meddle with politics . " " You are very right , General , " sho replied , "but in a country where women are beke . 'ulul , it is natural they should desire to know the reason . " Tuk Ways op Womkn . —Young girls from fourteen to seventeen , are foiid of aping the wciunic iu their dress , aad are partial to long shawls , which give the T'umg tilings a matronly appearance . When they bw- ciitne women in reality , they arc rather too apt to go upmi the opposite tack ,. and to assume the dress and airs of the girl .

      Taking it Easy . — "When a strain treats me with want of respect , " said a poor philosopher , "I comfort mysisli' with the riliectioii that it is not aiyiioU that he sli ghts , but ray old shabby coat and s = h ; ihh ? hiit , which , to cay tho truth , have no partienii' . r c ' . aiiu to idwution . So if my liat and coat choose to fret it , let . them , but it is nothing to me . " Collo quy . — The following colloquy took place between an inquisitive gentleman mid his butcher ljOy . _« What are your politics ? " said the s - « ntiCwau . " Tlu . Queeu's , sir . " '' What are tho Quuuu a .

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      " Moin , sir . " "What ' s your name ?" . " My name , " said the boy , " is the same as father ' s . " "Ami what w his name V said the gentleman . " It is the same a ? moin . " "Then what are both your names T " Whpy they are both alike , " said the boy : The gentleman turned , on his heel , and the boy shouted " Anything more , sir ?" As Old Defaulter . —Mr . O'Connell has been P * atcd again as a defaulter in the city of Dublin , inc twelvemonths ' . billho ^ ave f or Repeal has becmiK ! due . und been sent back marked " No effects "

      lluswiiot the first by many which has been dishonoured m a similar way . The honourable gentleman uas been endeavouring to renew the bill , but his credit is so shaken , that he lu » great difficulty in inducing people to accept anything . —i > unc / i . Tub Sufferkrb . by ma Destruction of the Garkick Tiikairs . —The most generous sympa b y ia being exercised towards the performers of the late Garrick Theatre , by their professional brethren at the City theatres . Benefits in aid of the fund collecting for their relief have taken place , while others are about to come off ,

      Tup : Cholera has extended its ravages from Persia to Bagdad . In that city about one hundred victims to this disease were , by tho last accounts , perishing daily * Fourteen hundred persons in all hud then been carried off . Fishiso —The fishing by the long line along the cost of the Cuningham district of Ayrshire and off Arran this season , has been au average one compared with former years . Canada is shortly to be annexed to the United States by magnetic telegraph wires , the contract for a line from Buffalo to Toronto being taken at one hundred and twenty-five dollars a mile—4 , 000 dollars tho entire distance . A Steam-Boilkr burst at Serel in Canada . Several persons were badly scalded , and five , including a fireman and stoker , have since died .

      Recent Galhs have done much damage to the shipping in Canada . Fatal Accident near Hyde Park , \ on Tuesday morning , a young lady was knocked down by one of the Brentford omnibuses . She was taken t « St . George ' s Hospital , in the immediate vicinity , but life was fouhd to be already extinct . Suicidb at Brighton . —On Monday evening , a young woman , decently attired , and appcrtmtly about 23 years of age , drowned herself by jumping off the pier . The Akmi- is Canada . —Lieutenant-General Sir Benjamin D'Urban will , it is understood , according to the present arrangements , proceed to Canada as commander iu-cluef , in the room of the Earl of Cathcart . Bal AIa ^ ue in a Cavers . —A Bal Masque took place on Monday evening , in a cavern 180 feet below the surface of Blackheath , supposed to have been constructed bv the Danes .

      The " Light op all Nations . " —The little that was lately seen of the sun has entirely disappeared within the laat few days . An alarming rumour prevails that he has been totally " used up" by tho Daguerreotypes . —Punch . Gold vkrsus Stkel . —The tool which "the Emperor Napoleon used to coerce Spain was the swoi d , Alas \ it is now—blunt!—Punch . Suicidb with Gun Cottos , —An account is srivfin , in a French journal , of a gentleman committing suicide by cramming his ears full of the cotton and igniting it with his cigar ! Thk Prince of Saltikoff , from Russia , has arrived in town akd purposes to make u tour through the country .

      Employment on the River . —At a meeting of the coal porters and coal whippers , held on Monday , in the Temperance Hall , Waterloo . Road , one of the speakers said that there were 2 , 000 men enga ^ . don the coul barjres along the river , whose wages varied from £ 2 . to £ l los . a week . The Duche .-is of Mdrlborough ' s recent game-killing feat at Blenheim is likely to become ike subject of : _ n Investigation before the Magistrates and Commisioi 3 fs of Assessed Taxes . It is stated that the JDuuiicss is about to be charged in double duty for killing game without a certificate , and that she is alsn charged with an offence ngainst the game lawa in having killed jgamc , not being authorised by a certificate so to do .

      A Young Giant .-If old Frederick of Prussia could but revisit this Serrestial globe , where , by his tyranny , he contrived to make so many of his fellow creatures miserable , he would , we doubt not , endeavour to kid iap a certain youth in Kirkby Ireleth . This lad , whose name in John Harrison , and who works at the sdifce quarries , is only 15 je . irs of age , and yet ho weighs 13 stone , and stands six feet two inches high ! There is so much sickness and distress in Liverpool that the payments for the support of the poor are from £ 70 to £ SO a week more than they were at this time last year . MoiiE ExpLosio . vs . —Tliere has been discovered a kind of explosive paper . Tho Berkeley Brothers , in the letters they have written to one another , have certainly availed themselves of this discovery . — Punch .

      liits Cheap Omxibus System . —A number oi omnibuses ye * tu - dny started from between the Bank and Brom |> t-. > n , at the extremely low fare of 2 d . j being considerably less than one halfpenny per miie . A gentleman , complaining of the scarcity and proportionate insolence of female sorvauts in Port Philip , mentioned that eight of thes ? " helps" were married out of his service in the same number of months . —Port Philip Patriot . Australian Superstition . —On the demise of one

      ot the tnbe , his arms , war instruments , and personal property , are placed , at sun down , on a funeral pile with the body ; a circle is then described around the tomb , within which no one is allowed to intrude but the priest ; who , when the a etciug sun proclaims the approach o (' c % 'emng , places a lighted torch in the hand , at the s ; ime moment igniting the pile ; he waits till its flickering' light vanishes ; his eyes are then directed to heaven , and on beholding the " " first " star in the sky , he exclaims , 'There he goes with his fire-stick ["—Hodgson ' s Reminiscences of Av . s

      tvnlin-Public Abattoirs , or Slaughtering Houars . — It is intended to apply during the ensuing session for an Act for tho erection of slaughterhouses for cattle , sheep , and pigs , on the mirth , south , east , and west of London , at such localities as may be contiguous to the existing taiUvnys , and adjacent to established markets , and ua i he most extensive scale , so' as to afford ampi <> accommodation . The Poles . —A grand ball and concert , in aid of the Poles in this country , was held in tne Guildhall on the 18 th instant . Mr . Templktos &as returned to London after a very successful tri p to America . iVlns . Loveh , wife of '? . ff . Samuel Lsver , died on Tuesday morning , in Baker-street , after ; t short illness , leaving two daughters to lament her loss . Mr . Lover is in America giving his Irish Evenings with great success .

      Loxdo . v axd York Railway —On Wednesday , the cuttings tor this line commenced with extraordinary activity at tho north end of Barnsbury Park and Islington . A . v Uglt Customer . —A creature very similar to the ouranti-outans . ' , but bigger , bolder , and more manlike , is said to exist in the " mouutains beyond Westernport , iu Australia Felix . Insurrection of Young Scotland . —Fifty-two boys have bcenexiit'lli-di ' i ' iiin George Ileriot ' s llospital at Eiliburjjh for insubordination . . DBATH 3 axd iiiiiTiid . —The deaths registered in the metropolitan district during the week enriin ? Nov . 14 , were i—Males . 4 ( 57 : females , 449 ; total 910 ; being below the average both of the last five years , and five autuius . The total number ot births during the same period ivcro : —Males . W 9 ; finales , 600 . The Trade with America . —There are now ninety packet-ships trading between New York aud Europe ; fifty-two of them sail to Liverpool .

      L'inn Tkyxham , who is a "Plymouth Brother , ! proaches when in town in a small chapel in Rawstorn-stroot , Islington . Deserters . —In a recent number of the Port Phili p Herald , more than two columns are filled-with notices of desscrtion from the O'Jfch regiment . TuiAi , for Whickcu-att . —A Baltimore paour of September , reports the acquittal of Matilca Coi-dery , churned with practising witchcraft and conjuration in that city . Public B . vrns and Wasuhousesis Wokcswtkp .. — At an adjourned annual Rieetinjr of the Wereester corporation , hold at the Guildhall , Worcester , on Monday , Mr . Aiwwsimth brought before the . council , a motion for the establishment of public baths and wnshhoses for that city , which was unanimously agreed to .

      Palafox . the old ftarngossa " war to the knife loader , has been dismissed from the command of the Queen of Spain ' s body ^ utmls : his presence made the French ambassador uncomfortable . Pkinck Ai . bkijt Drumc . —A country pilper flutes that at a late agricultural dinner , Prince Albert was drunk with enthusiasm . Kino Leitud has becemo very unpopular in Beigium . Variouscarricaturt-s had been published since his return in ridicule of him , which have greatly ah » noyed his Majesty . ' 1 ' ut . kot ' y oi / r trust in Pkisces . "— The 7 AiM Advertise represents this maxim to be as applicable ? to Kins . ; Hudson as to Louis Philippe . . ^ Madamf . Auchakd . —The nurse of tho King ot Rome , tlie son of Napoleon , died at Lagny on tue 15 th inst . . „ ,. ¦ " nimoro Cl

      Present Polk . - The n ^ VI * r says . Hint President l « Jk ii «« l » l " w ""^ «> W as hi ° '\ * -Accniinp to the Rev E , Monlgcmiv * Sunday rail . vay travelling ia atmospherical bl l ) oL « -it « said ih . it 17 . 000 sacks of sawdust aro nnnuiiMv consiim < : d h ? London tor stuffing doils .-w ; . - Aloijiiox helm ™ Maltuus .-Iu ten years Moris . >; i p-. id for Gc . Yeviuyi <; : it stamps io * . his pills I'SOO . CIOO . ¦ \ ccnif . XT from M'VOhvnery . —On Wednesday , a Im hii'l thru ; <¦( ii' - fibers jammed off by the maoiiiuL-ry a !• l : io VjiK Saw Mills , Westminster . - iuiiu .

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      TO 3 UCHELET , ON HIS "PEOPLE . " so . xxvn . I praised thee , ilichelet , whom I saw At Reasen ' s feast , by Right and Law . iluit then , -when Discord ' s Toice bath ceased . And when ihe faggot fails the priest , All present Frenchmen , like alS past . Cry for a lap ef bloofl at last I WALTER SAVAGE LlKSOB .

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      THE HAND-BOOK OF GRAMMAR : FOR TIIE USE OP TEACHERS AND LEARNERS —By G . J . Holyoake . London . J . Watson , 31 , Queen ' s Ileadpassage , Paternoster-row . We shall best in brief terms explain the nature and object of this work by quoting the author ' s explanation : — The Hand Book of Grammar , which i * & Sequel to ' Practical Grammar , ' and designed for the ' uee of Teachers and Learners , ' is founded upon the principle so well laid down by Dr . Borrow : —

      ' Precepts have no vehement operation upon the fancy and do aoon fly the memory . But example , like a picture exposed to sense , having the parts orderly disposed and completely united , contained in a narrow compais and perceptible at one glance—easily iarinuates itself into the mind and durably rests therein . This is the mostfacile , familiar , and delightful way of instruction . ' The ' Sequel' contains 300 questions deduced from ' Practical Grammar , ' to enable teachers to exercise their pupils , or , as the case may be , the pupils to exercise themselves .

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      MACKENZIE'S MONTHLY RAILWAY TIME TABLES ; ADVERTISER , AND STRANGER'S LONDON GUIDE . The above title explains the leading features of this publication ; but we should add that it also contains a list of steamboats ; cab fares ; railway omnibus offices ; theatres ; places of amusement ; excursions ; pasport offic ?; holidays at public offices ; monthly fairs : Po ^ t- ' . ffice regulations ; monthly fashions , Ac . The whole is printed on a mammoth sheet for ONE PENNY ! What , traveller , or visitor to the ' great metropolis will bo without * ' Mackenzie's Railway Time Tables" after this announcement ?

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 21, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1393/page/3/