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      inconvenience , or cxpunsc , as it saves iil ' ry limes its cost in other means of euivj . t Testimonials lVom jmi-ti's of unquestionable respectabi hty have nt tested tiiat it sujicrsocUs nu-diviuu ofcvi'ry de « fcrintion in th .- ctftciuul ami pmmtvncnt removal of indigestion ( dyspepsia ) , constipnli ii , anil < li : irr ] ice : i . nervousness , biliousness , liver cimpl .-iint , flatulency , distension , palpitation of the heart , nervous headache , deutheaSj noises in the head ami enrs , pains in the clivst , between the shoulders , and in almnst every part of the bodv , chronic inflammation and ulcoration of the stomach , " angina pectons

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      The ' lath Duke of KoRTiiUMBEiuJND . —Jfc i understood that i . rrangcnients are ia progress fotf ereulinw a public monument to the memory of th 9 late Duke of Korthumberlanil ; niid ^ St . Paul ' s Church . Mnwicls , the last public act of piety and liberality on the par : of his grace , has beeis selected as tho most appropriate place lor such memo . ial .

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      d Faggot of French Sticks . By the Author of' Babbles from the Brannen of Nassau . ' 2 Vols . London : Murray . Etertthixg connected with France has at the present moment a more than ordinary interest , and hence although Sir Francis Head deals with old and not new French sticks , his book is likely to have ' a run / After the lapse of thirty years he found himself again in Paris , in the spring of this year , in search of an occalist , though by the use he made of bis eyes during his three weeks , we are incliued to think there cauuot he my much , the matter with them .

      A great part of the contents of his two bulky volumes is composed of materials hy no laaaiis either rich or rare . ' In faci , all seems to have been fish that came to his net ; aud he unites in charming obliviousnessof the fact thai the guide-books had already anticipated his information as to the streets of Paris , ths public conveyances , and the public sights ; hut then Sir Francis ia a ready writer , and his stvle has a certain attractiveness of its own , so that the ' auld things look amaist as weel as new * in his pages , and he has in some cases really presented them in a new aspect , from his mode of looking at them . The * Old Man' carried with him some letters of

      introduction , but he never used them , resolving to rely on himself and French politeness , or rather liberality to strangers . If or was he disappointed . Except in a , Sew eases , where exclusion was the rule , —as in the military educational establishments , and the barracks , which last are closed in compliance with the soldiers' dislike to he Bhown 'like wild beasts , ' —the application and passport of the traveller procured him free admission and full information everywhere . To places that were closed Sir Francis used his name or his influence ,

      for he got Ministerial orders of admission , and was favoured with a seat at the President's dinner table ; in return for which he has written to the ' Times' a letter , in praise of the iustice , benevolence , and disintereBtednesB , and high-mindeoness of M . Bonaparte I The ' Times' supposes that these epithets are used ironically . But , then remember that Sir Francis was in search of an occalist , and could hardly be expected to see things in their true li g ht , under * the influence of the lig hts , the cookery , the wines , and the fascinations of the diiiuer " table of the Elysee .

      In preference to extracting any of the light gossipy matter with which the volumes abound , we prefer to g ive our readers an idea of the training of that military power , under the dominion of which France has jast fallen . We stand in the face of an ominous future . How soon the troops , who have butchered the people of France in order to p lace Louis Bonaparte at the head of a thinly veiled despotism , may require to have work cut out for

      them away from France it is impossible to say . But employed they mast be ; and all the probabilities point to the renewal of that menaced invasion from Boulogne , which wore than forty years since converted the adult male population of this country into volunteers . If attempted , it will be a much more feasible and practical scheme than when tried by his uncle ; and it may therefore be as well for us to have a notion of the foes we shall have to

      conteud against . "Wherever Sir Francis Head went , he found everything admirable ; whether he went to the barracks , where the soldiery are trainedto what we should call the military schools , where the mass of officers are instructed—or totheEcole d'Etat Major—where the most promising are initiated into the higher branches of military science , as well in theory as in practice , to qualify them for staff appointments as well as for command . It is

      possible , as is often the case in France , that tlie theory may be better than tho practice , aud that Sir Francis Head , according to his natural habit , exaggerates the good as well as the evil . But there ia no doubt about the efficiency of the French army , no doubt that there is a thorough system , and as little doubt about certain facts . This method of exercising soldiers in gymnastics in the barrack military school , available for military purposes as well as for giving suppleness to the limbs , is only

      one branch of the training . After passing through a large park of artillery and of pontoons , I entered the gymnasium of the Ecole Militaire ; a large open court , containing , besides all sorts oi sfcraage-lookbg hieroglyphics , a ioug lofty gibbet , with a ladder at each end , comraurilcating with the beam , from which were hanginw fourteen rope 9 ; up which soldiers were hauling themselves until they approached the beam , fceneath which they proceeded horizontally , by unhookinw the fourteen ropes frem one set of rings to another " . In another direction , one or two soldiers were ascending the lofty « dl that surrounded the court , by inserting the points of their fingers and toesin ^ osHgbt crevices that had been purposely mato by the abstraction < jf the mortar . In front of another Bart of the wall , men were vibrav . ngor uk

      swinging , by means of ropes attacneu u > . summit . In the centre , under the command of two <} $ eers on dutr , several men were performs ™"* Wich really astonished me . Some , witlv great agiJitr and in Tariona ways , vaulted on and over a sort of wooden horse ; others , kneeling on u , turned orer in the air like mountebanks , in another direction , on a poie about sis feet from tne ground , was seated a soldier , who , ^^ bout . Y ^ Mi-it with his hand , raised his foot up loft , ¦ ma then rose up . Prom a small moveable BCafioWlBg . e ; ght feet hi « h , several soldiers sprang forwards ? adthen backwards on a lump of loose sand beneatn . 4 - - * o or three lumped in this way fr .-m the top oi Ino gibbet , fourteen feet high . Just before 1 enisred this armn »« inm fiw tha cornnd time * I had

      ^ anene . 1 , within the Eeole Militaire , to meet ^ oio nd Tv ' i who so gauantlv distinguished nim-« M in India , on Lord lfardingc ' s staff ; and as we ^ 'Jemly took much interest in the feats we were j " : , ^ , the two officers on duty called together ***»*» of tiw uwa . Eishtwere made to stoop ,

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      with their shoulders resting against each oilier and , while they were in this position , three or four Oi their comrades , one after another , running quickly along a spring-board , not only jumped over . nem , but , making a summerset in Hie air Jnndod very cleverly on their feet ; and the officers , seeing we were somewhat astonished , increased the num " ber of stoopers from eight to fourteen , over the wtiole of whom two or three men , following each otherm quick succeesiou , making a summerset in the air and landing lightly on their feet ., ran on as » no such parenthesis in their lives had occurred . From one of the officers I ascertained that all the soldiers under thirty years of age within the Ecole Alilitaire were required to perform gymnastic exercises twice a week for two hours at a time , but tuat after the age mentioned their attendance ceased to be compulsory . TtYltV * 4 l «« u _ 1 1 J _ . -

      The candidates for commissions in the Line are subjected to a similar training in gymnastics , as well as in all the minutlje of drill , &c ., at the same time they are exercised in their peculiar duties as officers . ^ On entering the Champ de Maw , at about two 0 clock I found two companies of the eleves going through various manoeuvres in the presence of a Chef de Battaillon , who , in uniform and on horseback , held in his hand the notes of duties fer the " ^ j ^ but the words of command were given by the e ? e ves , who are iaught—seriatim—to act the parfs of all ranks , from a private up to that of the Chef de Battailion who superintends them . They are also , for an hour or two every day , made first to trace on the ground , and then practically to

      construct , field-works ; and accordingly , some were employed in finishing one , the parapet ef which , fourteen feet high , was surrounded by a ditch sis feet deep . Among the works they liad completed , J observed with great interest several orens for campaigning—" fours de csmpaigne "very ingeniously constructed beneath the Burface of the ground . Adjoining to these they had been taught to construct , for the purpose of cooking , boiling cauldrons , &c ., " en bivouac , " holes , from which little subterranean flues , as if they had been burrowed by a pole , ran for the admittance of air , and for the exit ot smoke . At the further end existed a small park of nine pieces of artillery , gabions , fascines , several sheds full of spades , pickaxes , &c , a yard containing shot and shells , and a powder magazine .

      _ Beyond the Champ de Mars , in the long practising ground I have described , I found a butt and three batteries , one of which , with four embrasures , five hundred and fifty yards from the butt , had lately been made by the eleves . We now walked up to a party of them in heavy marching order ( with their knapsacks on their backsj employed in practising with the new muskets and with fixed bayonets at a target , distant three hundred and thirty yards . Some fired at it

      erect ; others , by bending down on their right knee , and then placing their left elbow on the left thigh , obtained a rest apparently of great use . The recoil of the musket in the hands of these young men was tery violent indeed ; and yet , by the report the officer superintending them showed me , it appeared they had , at the distance above named , struck the target ( six feet six inches high by nine feet three inches , made to represent four men standing together ) once in ten times , which , he observed to we , was about tbe usual average .

      Each elere , or candidate for a commission in the Line , during the two years he is at the establishment of St . Cyr , is required to fire per annum , at various distances , twenty-eight balls for musket ? , and the same number for carbines , " musquetons " for cavalry , and pistols . A record is kept of every bullet that hits the target , and at the end of the yenr , a prize , consisting of a pair of pistols is awarded to the best shot ; besides which , the best thirty are assembled to fire in presence of the Genera ) , who givea a second pair of pistols to the beet performer before him . During the second year only , each subdivision fire—from distances of five hundred and fifty , six hundred and sixty , and seven hundred and seventy yard 3—two shells from mortars , one from a howitzer , and nine shot from cannons ; aud , as in the case of small-arms , a pair of pistols is awarded to the best marksman .

      "At a considerable distance off , in tho open country , I observed several of the young men very intently occupied in walking together in groups and then suddenly stopping . On reaching them , 1 was introduced to tho officer ( the adjutant of artillery } in charge of the party . The object of the instruction wa 3 as follows : the officer pointed out to them a tree about two hundred and fifty yards off , and calling to them hy their names ( in the French regiments of the Line the men are called by their numbers ) , he inquired of each , before all the rest ,

      what he considered was that distance ? and recording in the book he held in his hand the answer , he repeated seriatim the same question to every one , until all their replies were put down . The precise distance was then measured with a chain by two of the ( sieves , followed by all the rest . As soon as it was ascertained , the officer , calling around him the whole of bis party , announced it to them ; and having done so , he read out loud the name ( Monsieur ) , with the distance he had estimated , and in like manner that of every ono present ; several had guessed it within ten yards .

      Promotion is awarded to merit , and not famil y influence or wealth , as in our army . Let us now see the effect upon the soldiers at a review by the President , to which Sir Francis was invited to accompany him . As each company rapidly advanced , their appearance was not only astonishing but truly beautiful . Although , according to French regulations , they bad come to the review not only in heavy marching order ( knapsacks and greatcoats , ) but laden with camp-kettles and pans for soup , &c . ( they are not

      allowed when reviewed to leave anything behind , ) they advanced and passed with an ease and lightness of step it is quite impossible to describe , and which I am sensible can scarcely be believed unless it has been witnessed . In this way they preceded the cavalry , who were at a trot ; and as soon as the last company had passed the President , the . band and tambour-major , who had never ceased dancing for an instant , accompanied by the two white halfshared poodle dogs , darted after them , until the -whole diappeared from view .

      On expressing my astonishment at the pace at which they p assed , I was assured by two or three general officers , as well as by the Fcesident himself , that the " chasseurs a pied" in the French service can , in heavy marching order and carrying everything , keep up with the cavalry at a trot for two leases ; indeed , they added , if necessary , for a couple of hours : the effect , no doubt , of the gymnastic exercises I had witnessed , and wnictt 1 lad been truly told by the French officers supennof

      tending them were instituted for the purpose giving activity and celerity of movement to the troops . The chasseurs a pied are armed with the new internally grooved French carbine , the extraordinary range Of which I have described ; and as their fire is deadly at a distance more than three times greater than tbat of the Eng ish ordinary musket , iheir power of speedily advancing , and , if necessary , os speedily running away , all added together , form advantages which , it is submitted , are worthy of the very serious consideration

      of the Bntisn nation . A hundred thousand such men are now concentrated in Paris , and three hundred thousand are in other parts of France ; a large numher of whom could he placed in a few hours on the shores of the Channel . It is a grave question what naral force we have at hand to oppose a passage if attempted , and what military means we have to resist an army if it managed to land . "What number of men of war and war-steamers could be concentrated in eight-ana-forty hours at Portsmouth ? What number of regular troops , or men who had ever been trained to arms ,

      could be thrown upon any g iven point of our Southern coast at a few days' notice i Of course it is easy to say that the President , Consul , Emperor , or whatever heis to be called , has no wish to involve himselt in foreign wars , and that he has quite enough to do at home . To this it may be replied , that the acts of the ruler may not depend upon his wishes but his necessitiea ; while he has shown clearly enough that no restraints of law , morality , or usage , will he allowed to stand between him and any personal object . Lord Palmerston may speedily have to make up his mind whether we shall wait to be

      attacked , or remove the contest from our own doors hy aiding the oppressed peoples on the Continent , and giving the despots work at home .

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      Bronterre O'Brien ' s European Letters . r < os . I . and II . London ; Watson . Q , ueeu ' a Head-passage , Paternoster-row . The aut hor of these ' Letters , ' which are intended to l > e published weakly—' or ofteuer , if need be '—requires no introduction , from us . His principles and peculiar opinions are , perhaps better and more widely known than those of any other popular leader ; and in the programme of the subjects to be included in them we find not a single question of political or social , of home or foreign interest , omitted . Louis Kossuth forms the subject of the first letter . One half is occupied by a letter

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      to the illustrious . Hungarian , in which Mr . U Lnen very freely reviews his career avd ?[ : eeches in this couutry ; and the other he If oy a spirited biogra phical sketch . Much has been said iu our columns about the treatment of Mr . O'Connor at Copenhagen Fields and Highbury B ; irn . Prom the following extract it would appear that ' tho bon . memler for Nottingham was not the only mauvais svjel with which the ' respectabilities' were afraid of coining in contach Addressing M . Kossutb , Mr . O'Brien says : —

      Though I had some share as a public man and aa one of the " General Committee" in getting up the Metropolitan Demonstration fur you on the 3 rd ult ., I have been given to understand { darkly , it is true , for the explanation dared not be open ) that 1 was one of the parties to whose presence at tho demonetration you thought proper to enter a caveat with the managers of the Managing Committee , who " managed" the whole affair . Yes , sirj whether true or false , the report lms gone abroad , and ia generally credited , that Feargus O'Connor and Bronterre O'Brien were two names specially objected toby the friends who surrounded you . It may be so ; it m , iy not be so . This , at least , is

      fact , that ; Feargus O'Connor was , for some hours , excluded from the great room in Copenhagen House , on the alleged ground that Kossuth had objected to his presence , lest he might obtrude himself upon the public , or upon M . Kossuth himself , during the demonstration . The managers of the Managing Committee had no such fears of me . Besides , being one of the " General Committe " they could not well exclude me . They did , however , the next worst thing—they refused point blanTc to perform tho ceromony of introducing me to you , although I hud several times expressed the wish when you were disengaged , and asked only the have formality of presentation . I knew not , nor did I even suspect , the cause at the time . I suspected , indeed , from

      Mr . Thornton Hunt ' s awfully-reserved , and ultradiplomatic manner , that there was a " screw loose" somewhere . It is now plain enough—the affair was from first to last a miserable Whig-radical affair , in which the people and their true friends were oply considered as accessories necessary t o swell the pageant . I was upwards of one hour endeavouring to prevail on the " managers" to admit Mr . O' Connor before the arrival of Mr . Reynolds . In Tain did I point out the indecency and folly of attempting to exclude him . Mr . Reynolds bad a newspa per , with money to back it : I had neither . Mr . Reynolds was therefore successful when I failed . This shows the character of the management—the character of the proceeding .

      But Mr . O'Brien does not ascribe any personal blame to Koasuth . He says : — -- ¦ Understand , then , that I acquit you cheerfully and at once of any design to insult either Mr ; O'Connor or myself . I acquit you , also , of all intention to vilify Chartism , or to deal cavalierly with the Democratic party , when you studiously and afiectedly declined fraternisation with the working classes of this country . I do not , as many Chartists do , impute your conduct either to aristocratic morgue , or to a mean ambition to pay court to the middle and genteel classes , with a view to the promotion of your own future ends . I believe you to be infinitel y above such paltry calculations . I ascribe your caution and your reserve entirely to the exigencies of your position . I believe you

      could not have done otherwise than you have , douej with advantage either to yourself or to what was due to the sublime cause you so grandly personate . The fault was not in yourself , but in your position , in the influences which brought you to England , and in the public opinion which prevailed while you were here , and which will prevail till the working classes are emancipated , liad you fraternised with such men as O'Connor and myself , or with the Chartists generally , or even with the working classes generally , you would have done us no good , while you would have irretrievably damaged yourself with tho " respectability" of the country , and thereby missed the only chance you had Of operating upon thecontinent through the organs of public opinion , whiou I need not inform you are exclusively devoted to the men of rents and profits ,

      Kossuth's tact and ability in popularising democratic principles and opinions amoug the middle classes , are thus lauded ;— . You sou ah t to make them the embodied expression of » Sritisti opinion which should tell forcibly abroad against reaction and absolutism . In this methinks you have been greatly successful . The Democratic truths you have interspersed amidst your bourgeois , " Constitutional " harangues have , through your tact and versatility , found a vent which has conveyed our principles to millions of minds at home- and abroad , that , but for you , could not have been approached . For , had you not

      p itched your voice to the bourgeois key , had you not gilded your democratic pills with rich constitutional varnish , and talked of free trade and new markets , as well as of municipal and other popular rights , your voice would not have been listened to , your p ills would not have been swallowed . Yea , had you appeared amongst us simply as a democrat , or one of the red republican school , our newspaperfolk would have let you drop from their hands like a hot cinder , and not a lord nor merchant nor corporation in the kingdom would hava taken any more notice of you than they wouM of a discarded footman out of place , or of an old broken-down trader who had been three times in the " Gazette . "

      It was not in these speeches , however , that —according to Mr . O'Brien—we had the real sentiments of Louis Kossuth . It was m his replies to the French Proscrits and the Friends of Italy , in which he * came out nobly , and in his true character . ' You declared youvself emphatically in favour of those great principles which form the very essence and basis of popular government , viz : — 1 st . The ri ^ ht of every people to govern themselves , free of interference from other peoples or governments . 2 nd . The mode of government to bo a democratic republic based upon Universal Suffrage . 3 rd . The necessity for municipal institutions , to secure good local government , and to counteract the tendencies of all governments towards centraisatioc .

      To these you added a fourth principle without which the others nrould be only a theory , viz . — " The universal brotherhood of nations and solidarity of their peoples , " in virtue of which each shall feel itself bound for all and all for each . Your endeavour to carry out these principles in Hungary will eternalise your memory . The second " letter is addressed to ihe Chartists , and treats of the necessity of the people understanding their social rights , and of the present state of affairs in Frauce . Ob the first ; Mr . O'Brien , after protesting his continued adherence to the principles of tbe People ' s Charter , says : —

      It is on social rights that the real freedom and happiness of a people depends . Without liberty to produce and to distribute freely amongst themselves , by equitable exchange , whatever descriptions of wealth a people may deem desirable for their well being , they must ever remain paupers . or slaves to those who may control their labour , i ' o a people so conditioned , political rig hts are illusory . It matters not to them who are their rulers , or under what form of government they live ; their

      destiny depends upon other 3—upon those who can give or withhold employment at pleasure , and who ( as at present in EngSand ) may force them , on pain of starvation to accept what wages they choose to give . To offer such people political rights , while you withhold their social , is to mock them with the shadow while you withhold the substance . To be of any use at all to them , the franchise must be available to restore to them their social rights . But if vou leave them in ignorance of thosenghts , or

      tell them beforehand they have none but what anillords and capitalists may afterwards choose to allow it is like inviting them to a magnificent banquet with the condition that they are not to touch the viands . Nothing , it is clear , but mortification and mischief can come of such a course . The disappointed people are either repelled from the banquet table in the first instance , for presuming to approach too near-orthey are , . at a subsequent period , forcibly expelled from it the moment they attempt to taste of the good things promised . In either case , antagonism and vengeance are the metinn nf social rights , nre paratonly to the struggle

      for political power . ' Before you ask a slave c ass to agitate foi a share » n the g owrnment-b 6 f 6 i » yoftneitethemto contend with the ruling [ dawe . for equal political rights and P » Ille 8 e 9 T ^ them clearly what you want power for and show their ruler / , at tho game aime , that what you look for is what they cannot , as honest men , re > use In a word show the unenfranchised poor that the social rights you go for will ensure t heir social happiness , without invading the acquired possessions of the rich ; and show the monopolising rich , on the other hand , that those samo social rights of

      will but fortify them in the secure possession what thoy already have , by se parating it trora what they ought not to havo-vJZ , the power to add more in the future to what they unjustly acquired by bad laws in tne past . An Honest rich man will be content witii wnat ue has already got , in addition to whatever he may hereafter add thereto under just laws made by tne whole people . An honest poor man only seeKsto live by his own labour , and , if prudent as well as honest , he will gladly leave to the rich man the treasures of the past , on condition of being al-

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      loved the benefit of his own '' resources for the fiiture . I know no other means of reconciling the paH with the future—of reconciling the richts of labOUl with the alleged ri ghts of property . These extracts will give our readers a taste of the quality of Bronterre ' s letters . For a vigorous and racy condemnation of tho usurper : in France we refer them to tho letters themselves , which , from their low' price , are withiu the reach of all who feel interest in these questions .

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      THE STBEET TRAFFIC-OP LONDON . The appearance of our great thoroughfares during ten or twelve hours of every day is one of that peculiar kind of facts which is not likely to be effaced from the . memory of any person who has seen tho stato of things to which it refers . Until very lately the magnitude of tho traffic through Temple Bar , for instance , or across London Bridge , has been rathor a , subject for vague wonder thanasUtistically ascertained result , The uncertainty , however , ia now removed , and we can speak of the marvels in the precise language of arithmetic . Mr . Hay wood the surveyor of the City Sewers Commission , has had Occasion to institute some inouiries connected

      with street pavements , and the traffic which passes over them , and from the tables of his report wo will gather , for the instruction and amusement of Our readers , a few facts . Suppose , new , that at eight o ' clock in the morning of the 8 fch of July , 1 S 50 , a ourious person had tnken his post in front of Child ' s Banking-house at Temple-bar , he would have seen pass by him in the course of the first hour , or up to nine o ' clock , vehicles of all kinds to the number of 311 ; during the next hour the influx of City people would have raised the number to 526 ; and in the hour from ten tooleven o'clock the number Would have become W 4 ; by twelve o'clock it would : have reached 757 ; by one o ' clock 091 ; at two CCA , At . three tho tide again turned , for then

      the City was sending forth tho swarms it had swallowed up in the early hours of tbe day , and the result was 791 ; at four it was 737 ; at five 738 ; at six 671 : at seven 537 ; at eight G 14;— and adding all these figures together , the mult is & total of 7 , 741 vehicles in twelve hours , or on an average of 645 per hour , or more than 10 vehicles a minute ; and if we suppose that the value of each vehiolcand its contents should be £ 50—certainly below the truth—that would give us £ 500 as the magnitude of the peripatetic wealth emerging every minute from beneath Temple-bai . At London-bridge , however , the results are on a much more imposing scale We will again suppose an observant spectator to have stationed himself midway on the bridge , on the 23 rd of July , 1850 . Boring the hour from oighfc to nine o ' clock in the morning CSO vehicles of all kinds would havo passed him ; during tho succeeding hour the number would be almost doubled ,

      aay 1 , 121 : from ten to oleven o ' clock there would be a further increase to 1 , 332 , which appears to havo heen tho maximum numher of tho twelve hours observed , with the exception of the hour from four to five o ' clock , when the result g iven is 1 , 344 . We observe in these maximum figures the samo law as at Temple-bar—namely , the immense increaseof traffic at the commencement and termination of the City business . The total of tho twelve hours ' traffic on London-bridge was 13 , 099 vehicles , or an average of 1 , 091 per hour , or 18 per minute . These facts are curious , but they are also useful . They warn u 9 that unless we adopt vigorous measures to improve our facilities for street transit , we shall before long create nuisances and impediments of the most irritating and costly description ; for in a metropolis like London , whero time is money , it will never do to spend an hour every day in vain efforts to force a passage over London-bridge , or through tho congested arch of Temple-bar .

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      iJSS ™ is a round about fool ) a ( oQl ia cimm-WoMAN ' .-Some one says poetically that woman is the melooy of the human duet . Jokks . —Thou , canst not joke an enemy ; nto a friend , but thou mayest a friend into an enemy . A Djfficulti-. —It is a difficult thing for a . woman four feet three to marry " bsneath herself , " ] Bt her try ever so hard . Emigration ; . — The present rate of emigratior from the United Kingdom to America arid Australia is 930 persons every day . Pedbstrunism . —A Misb C . C . Cushman , ol iNew York , has undertaken , at St . Louis , to wall ; oOO miles in 500 consecutive hours . An Ihish Caution-. —An Irishman cautions the public against trusting his wife Ellen , because he was never married to hp . i-at all nt nil .

      1 he Mind . —Suffer not your niind to be either a drudge or a wanton . Exercise it ever , but overlay it not . —Bisnop HALL , '' Tight Lacing . "— " Doctor , do you think tight facing is bad for the consumption ?"— " Not at allit is what it lives on . " The doctor ' s reply was wise as well as wifty . " Good - Luck . "—For some complaints , a little good luck is the best medicine in the world . Low spirits take their rise not so often from a bursting heart as fro m a collapsed pocket-hook . VV oNDBRS . —If a womman gets a new gaan home tni'oo t dress macker and sho duzzant find onny folt we it , it s a wunder . If a womman hczant hur huzbands dinner reddy When he CUms to it , and Sho duzzant say at thave beon olterin t ' chereh clock , it ' s a wuncfer . If a womman macks sad bread , and sho duzzant say at it a owin tut yistit ' s a wunder .

      , it a womman happans ta be neidindoaf , and sho bezant ta put hur hand into hur poekit for smmat , its a wunder . ' \ i a womman happens to be up-stairs , and a Wunde UZZant ** b 6 g 8 ar CUt " rSppin at d ° f it > S If a womman happens to let hur huzhand go we a hoyle in hiz stocking heel , an onhiztellin hur on it , she duzzant say at hez dun it we puliin it on . it ' s a wundor . ' If a womman , when shooze blackleadin t'huvah of rainge , anhurnoaze duzzanttickle , it ' s a wunder —Bairmla Foaka' OJncnack , A Poser . — "Father , do folks raafee clothes out of peas ?"— "No , foolish boy . Why do you ask that question , Cimon ?"— "Why , 1 heard a sailor talking about his pea jacket . " — "Go and tell your mother to bathe your head In cold water . "

      Good Advicb . —It is an excellent rule to bo observed in all disputes , that men should give soft words and hard arguments—that they should not so much Strive to vex as to convince aa enemy . — Bishop Wilkins . A Pettifogger . — " Landlord , give mo a glass of brandy , l ' vg just told the truth , and want to get the taste out of my mouth . " Thus exclaimed a pettifogger , as he rushed from the bar of justice to that of the tavern . A Similk . — "My brethren , " « ud a Yankee preacher , descanting on the difficulties of the sinner , " it is an easy task to row a skiff over Niagara Falls , but a tremendous job to row it back again . " A HouftiBlB Business . — Matter Butcher ; "Did you take Old Major Dumbledore ' s ribs to No . 12 ?" —Boy : "Yes , sir . ' MasterButcher : "Then , cut Miss Wiggles ' 8 shoulder and neck , and hang Mr , Foodie ' s legs till they ' re quite tender !"—Punch .

      Dwarf Apples . —A Scotch paper says that in a seedman ' s shop at Kirkaldy there are now two dwarf apple trees , one of which is only twenty-one inches high , and the other only twenty-four inches high , the first having seven apples upon it , and the other three . Sir E . Bulwkh ' s New Play . —The editor of the " Southern Press" ( California pBper ) is severe as well aB facetious in relation to the new play by Bulwer . He says , " Sir Edward Bulwer ' s muchtalked-of play , Not so Bad as we Seem , is Not so Good as we Expsetecl . " Attack of a Wor . F . —In France , while a train was passing on the St . Florentine and Tonnerre railway , a wolf suddenly sprang upon the tender , and attacked the 6 toker , who had the presence of mind , however , to repel the aggressor with his shovel . The wolf fell upon the rails , and was cmshed in an instant .

      Price oj ? Beeu . —The "high price of beer" has been amusingly but vigorously assaulted by the " Morning Chronicle . " Correspondents on both sides have g iven estimates of cost , which make out , on the one side that the brewer gets no less than lo » . 9 d . profit per barrel ; and on the other side that he loses 3-i . 6 d . per barrel . Goon Advice . —A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather . To make a sick man think he ' s dying , all that is necessavy is to look half dead yourself . Hope and despair are as catching as cutaneous complaints . Always look sunshiny , therefore , whether you feel so or not . Nice Distinction . — "I sells peppermints on Sundays . " remarked a good old Jady , who kept a confectioner ' s shop , "because they carries ' em to church and eatsVem , and keeps awake to hear the sermon ; but if you want brandy cherries you must come week days . They're secuiar commodities . "

      Mrs . Partington . on reading an account of a schooner having her jib-boom carried away in Plymouth Sound , one night last week ; wondered " why people would leave sech things out o'doors o' nights , to be stolen , when there was so many buglers about filtering everything they could Jay their hands to . " The Coal Duties . —The sum total raised for public works and improvements in the metropolis , out of the coal duties , since 1 TG 6 . is upwards of £ 3 , 738 , 067 ; of which sum £ 1 , 117 , 3 : 15 haa been expended for improvements within the City ; £ S 07 , 500 lor those without the City ; and £ 1 , 813 , 221 for those or" a general character .

      Wealth is not acquired , as many persons suppose , by fortunate speculations and splendid enterprises , but by the daily practice of industry , frugality , and economy . lie who relies upon these means will rarely be found destitute , and he who relies upon any other will generally become bankrupt . — Waylakd . A Centiufugai , Pump . —Mr . Hall , ofSpalding , has completed a very pretty moJel of what he styles " a safety centrifugal pump , " which he is about to exhibit before the great brewors at

      Burton-on-Trent , by special invitation . The pump is a very small one , and tvei ghs onJy about Mlfoa . ; it will throw 1 , 800 gallons of water per hour . Males and Fumamss . — A small map ef England has been published , hiiring those counties marked black in which the proportion of females to males exceeds the average , which is 103 to 100 . There are six or seven counties in which the ladies predominate , to wit , Middlesex , Surrey , Norfolk , Cornwalli Devonshire , and Wiltshire . In Yorkshire , the proportion is 100 to 102 .

      Absence op Mind . —Mr . Imlach , late minister of the Muirhouse , near Dundee , was remarkable for his absence of mind . In his prayer , one day he said , "O , Lord ! bless all rank * and degrees of persons , from the king on the dunghill to the beggar on the throne . " Then recollecting himself , he added , " 1 mean from tbe beggar on the throne to the king on the dunLhill !" Trues in the Crystal Palace . —From a report just made by Mr . Taylor , the gardener to whose care the trees in the Crystal Palace were entrusted , it seems that the old elms under the glass shade , so far from being injured by their novel confinement , have increased in their branches from six to seven feet , whilst the elms in the park have made , on the average , onlr one foot of shoots .

      Mortalitt Notabima . —A further and important increase in the mortality is an indication that the public health has suffered to a considerable extent from the coldness of the weather . The deaths registered in London , which in the last week of October were 861 , and in the first two weeks of November increased to 989 and 1 , 022 , rose iu the week which ended last Saturday to 1 , ] 32 . Matrimony . — " Will you take this woman to be your wedded wife ? " said an Illinois magi&trate , to the masculine of a couple irl \ o stood belore him . ' — "Well , squire , " , was the reply , " you must be a green un to ask such a question aa that ar . Do you think I'd be such a plaguy fool as to go to the bar hunt , and take this gal from tbe qniltin' frolic if I wan ' t conscrtptiously certain and determined to have her ? Drive on with your bi 22 iness . "

      London Omnibuses . —There are 3 , 000 omnibuses in London and the suburbs , which carry not less than 300 , 000 , 000 passengers yearly , an amount equal to one-third of the population of the world—employing 11 , 000 men , and working a capital of £ 1 , 000 , 000 , with an annual expenditure of £ 1 , 700 , 000 , and paying to the revenue a duty of £ 400 , 000 . or as much as all the stage coaches in the empire contributed before the establishment of railways . A Horse without Hair !—An extraordinary phenomenon , in the way of "horse flesh , " » s brought to town yesterday afternoon by the steamer Gordon . It is a mare , captured on the plains of Venezuela by a party of American hunters , headed by the vrell-known travellers , Juan Percy , and Captain Hall . She is 15 J hands high , of great beauty and symmetry , and without one particle of hair on any part of her body ! The skin resembles I ? : < lia rubber , and is as soft almost as velvet . —Savamiak

      Reporter . Thank God for your Reason . —An individual , as lie was passing along the streets of London , was accosted by a ( stranger with the question , "Did you ever thank God for the use of your reason ?"— "No , " was thfi reply ; I never thought of doing it , "—" Well , ilo it quickly , " rejoined the . stranger , " for I have lost untie . " £ or years after reading the account of the above occurretce , we have no recollection of ever kneeling in prayer without rendering distinot and express thanks to the Father of Mercies for the continued possession of this inestimable blessing .

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      TOO POOR TO PAT . , ff £ r c so poor when baby died , * \ nd mother stitched his shroud , rt-e o thers in their hunger cried , Vi « l « sorrow wild and loud ; -fte tfere so poor we could not pay -Ihc tun " c : in T ilim away < I see is still before my eyes : — " jt Jies upon the bed , A Ud wothcr whispers tlirongh her sighs , — «• The little boy is dead . " K little box of common pine jlj 3 coffin was—and may be mine ! -fhev laid onr little brother out , A nd wrapped lm form in white , jlnd , as they turned his head about , We saw the solemn sight ; £ ad « "ep i aa little children weep , ^ nd Ki ssed the dead ono in his sleep ! fle looked our last upon Ms face , And s * id our l * st " good-bye /' "While mother laid him in the place Where those aro laid who die : The sexton shoved the bos away , Because we were too poor to pay ! "We weie too poor to hire a hearse , And could ' ct get a pall ; _ ind when we drove him to the grave A waggon held us all ; 'Twas I who drove the horse , and I Who told my mother not to cry . "We rode along the crowded town , And felt so lone and . drear , And oft our tears came trickling down , Because no friends were near . The folks were strangers , Belfiah men , "Who hadn . ' t lost ahaby then ! TFe reached the grave , and laid him there , With all the dead around : There was no priest to say a prayer And bless the holy ground . So home we went in grief and pain ; But home was never home again ! And there he sleeps , without a stone To mark the sacred spot ; Hut though , to all the world unknown , By us ' tis ne'er forgot . "Wd mean to raise a stone some day , J 3 ut now we are too j = oor to pay ! J . F . New fbri Tribune .

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      The Monthl y Digest . By E . B . Lotell , Esq ., Barrister . Londou : "Wildy and Sons , This admirably compiled analysis of cases in the various Courts must be of immonse service lioth to the office of the Attorney aud the Chamber of the Earrister . The law student will also find in its clear summaries valuable assistance ; while the consolidated index of points and names of cases enables the prac titioner to find any particular case at once , without looking through each number .

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      Refokm of tub Law of Partnebship . —It is t be regarded as very fortunate that bo much atten tion has bemi directed during tho last twelve or eighteen months to the discussion of the principle of Limited Partnership Liabiliiy , or as it is called on the Continent—Partnership en , Commandile . According to the present English laws of Partner * ship every member of a firm , whether active or passive , so long as he does not advertise his retirement in the " London Gazette , " is liable for tho engagements of the concern to the whole extent of his fortune ; and under the influence of such a law there cannot be any wonder that partnership engagements in this oountry are regarded with

      c-x-treme dislike and suspicion as a means of employing tho roaources of persons who look to the investment of their capital as a principal means of support . The consequences may be seen on all hands . Men of enterprise , ingenuity , and character—but destitute of capital—cannot enter on tho career whioh would be most beneficial at once to society and to themselves ; and on the other hand masses of capital aro reduced to a state of compulsory unprofitableness . In all countries , but especially in old countries , one of the most important ends of nil commercial legislation should be , to unite in tho most complete manner the capital and the enterprise of the community . There is strong reason to believe that our present law of

      partnership imposo 9 a formidable bar to tho accomplishment of this great result . The commandite princi p le would remove that bar . A commandite partnership would limit tho liability of what are called tha " sleeping " partners to the amount of their declared interest in the affairs of the firm , —the acting or managing p artner remaining liable , quite properly , to the whole extent of his fortune . Great care and ingenuity would be required in framing the act of Parliament under which the commandite system might be introduced into this country ; but difficulties of that kind are not greater than obst acles of a similar nature which aro surmounted every day . In the meantime , those of our venders who feel mi interest in tho

      subject may rofer with great advantage to tho Reports of 1 S 50 and 1 S 51 , by Mr . Slaney ' s Committeo , on the " Savings of the Middle and "Working Classes . "—Athenamm . An Amkihcan Outhaoe . —Tho " Opelouaag Gazette , " of the 29 th ult ., gives the following account of an outrage in the parish of St . Landry : — " On last Friday night , between the hours of ten and twelve o efock , one , Dr . J . VV . Hopkins , of Plaquemine Brulee , entered the housos of John D . Moore , eighteen miles from this place , in our parish , accompanied by a negro , armed with a double-bavrelied shot gun . Hopkins attacked Moore with his

      pistols and bowie-knife , Moore being unarmed seized him and threw him down , and was about to wrest from him his bowie-knifo , intending to use it in defence of his life , when Hopkins called upon the necro , asking why he did not ahoot him . Upon which the negro rep lied that he could not shoot without killing both . Hopkins then said , "Shoot anyhow , " * Mooro then sprang to the negro , seized the gun . and was about to take it from the slave , when Hopkins , ¦ who bad raised himself from the floor advanced towards him with his pistols and bowie-knife . Moore thon endeavoured to make his Gscane through his back door . Hopkins pursuod

      him , and fired without effect . . Hopkm 3 then returned into the house , demanded of Moore ' s wife the keys , and bade her give him John Lyons money the father-in-law of both Moore and Hopkins ) . She replied " they had none of John Lyons money . He took the keys , searched the house , and found sixteen dollars in tho press . He then turned to her and said he would leave no witness against him , that he intended to kill her . He took her by the arm , and endeavoure d to turn her round , in order to shoot her in the back . Ho then fired-she ball

      threw up her arms for protection , and the struck her hand , nearly cutting off two ot her lingers ; it then struck her abdomen , which luckily it fflanced , and did not penetrate hor intestines or bowels . The monster then mounted his horse and fled . There are now sis men m pursuit of him . We learn they are on his track , and will doubtless arrest him . Ho is a man of slender form , about five feet nine or ten inches in heieht . and light blue eyes . It is reported here that Hopkins fled from Virginia for killing a man .

      AFoRMiDAiaB Tobacco Pipb .- » A « one of her MnWa lookers ™» wending his way home to Oxton , near Birkenhead , the other evening , he was stopped by a g ieantic robber , who demanded hi 3 money , foe officer pulled out . a hugQ pipe , which the robber mistaking for a pistol , took to his heels and fled . , . .. ri , ., Coals at Hww oiu > .-The authorities of the city of London , acting under the powers given by the words surreptitiously introduced into ths Coal Ac , have made a charge of Is . per ton on all coals mtraduccd into Hertford and other p laces within twenty milts of London , measuring as the crow flies . The price of coals in Hertford is , therefore , Is . per ton higher than at Ware . There is no longer y hope of redress , except hy an appeal to the justice ot l arlmr oent-- J / ertfonU / ercunf . ? tr

      . _ „ __ Rkvkxue Sbkobm . —The Customs authorities have adopted some regulations with a view to uniformity of practice , and for enabling a mom efficient oheck to be exercised in the examination and audit of all accounts relating to seizures for breaohofthe Customs laws .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 20, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1657/page/3/