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      thk Satagh Statb .- —Voltaire hiring read Kou « se * n ' i paradoxical eulogy of the »* vaj ? e state , with dry ironj remarked , that it was so seductively wrhteo t that it reallj tempted a man to walk on all four ? after reading it . JIabch op Irtkixect . —A poor woman , said to be nicety years of age , waB waiting outside the doors of the Cheltenham Theatre two hours before their opening , having walked eight miles to see Jane Shore . Mrs . M'Gibbon , who was to hare enacted the heroine , deeming such devotion to the drama BU < JU : e * s , asked her dresser , who narrated the cir-« nni « iwjee , if the poor creature had her intellects .

      * 1 don ' t know , ma'am , ' said the girl , " she ' s gotten fummui tied np in her pocket handkerchief . " GiAd Mal a-pbopos . —A milliner ' s apprentice , about , 10 wait upon a Duchew , was fearful of com-• aitiing some error in her deportment . SEe therefore consulted a friend as to the manner in which the phould consult this great personage , and was told that , on going before the Duchess , she was to tav her Grace , and bo on . Accordingly , away went the eirl , and on being introduced , after a very low eonesy , she said , "For what I am going to receive , the Lord make me truly thankful . " To which the Duchess answered , Amen !"

      A Wag , in the pit of Covent Garden , a few nights ago , when it was excessively crowded , having no eat , played off an amusing joke on the audience . * Lord Cardigan is in a private box , " he exclaimed , 1 insist that he shall leave the house 1 " The pit Tore u > see the notorious Peer ; the wag edged him-¦ elf into a seat , and was comfortable for the remainder of the evening . Lord Cardigan , it is almost unnecessary to add , was not in the house . A mkkk Mattes op Taste . —It is stated in a recent American paper , that a bill had been passed by 144 to 92 , by the Legislature of Massachusetts , the object of which was to repeal that portion of . the marriag * act prohibiting the intermarriage between blacks and whites . According to the paper , the ¦ lessure was advocated on the ground that such marriages , when they did occur , were " matters of taetf , as much as the choice of a black or while ribbon for a bonnet . "

      A Hopefitl Babb . —A fellow had grown so tall that he ooold not stand out of doors , and said to . be o thin in the faoe , that there could but one person teok at him ai a time . Use is Etbrtthikg . —An elderly gentleman tra-TBllmg in a stage coach was amused by the constant flit of words kept pp by two ladies . One of them st last kindly enquired , if their coaver ? ation did not mske his head ache 1 when he answered , with a gnat deal of naivele , "No , madam , I have been married twenty-eight years . " Thb Poet Campbell is stated to have calculated that a man who shaves himself every day , and lives to the age of threescore and ten , expends daring his life as much time in the act of thaving as would have sufficed for learning seren languages .

      u Who shall decide when doctors disagree ! In the Lord ' s house the doctrine laid down is , " Thou ¦ hall do no murder ! " In the House of Lords the -fecommesdaiian is , " Murder » wir , and welcome —Vne more the merrier . " Truly a perplexing anomaly . Littlb THI 56 S amuse weak minds—hence 'the amusement some people derive from speaking and speculating on the astonishing precocity of the Anglo-Gar man infant .

      A . B . C . —TO BB SVNG OB SAID HI ALL KATTOHAL SCHOOLS . Aia—A teas an archer . A was Parses Albebt , to Britons most dear , B was a bishop , with thousands a-year ; C was a courtier , who wanted a pl ' ace ; L > was a D . D ., and had a red faoe ; E was an earl , of the high Tory crew ; P was a fiddler , and rich as a Jew ; G was a gambltr , high in the State ; H was a horse-jockey , equally ^ reat ; I was an iun-keeper , fat once , now lean ; J was a jumper , and jumped for the Queen ; K was a king , with small work and great pay ; L was a lab ' rer , on sixpence a dav :

      M was a minister , eho *« for his birth ; K was a nobody , raised for bis worth ; 0 was an oScer , plastered with kce ; P was a parson , all goodness a ? . d ( jrace ; Q . was a queen , far renowned for h-r stable ; Jt was a Radical , willing , net able ; S was a singer , Italian and rich ; T was a tradesman , and died in a ditch ; U was an usher , and carried a stick ;* V was Vak Ambckgh , the joy of Q , * een Vic ; W was a Whig , whom we'll leave in his glory ; X ihe ex-Premier , who strove for victory ; Y vras a Teoman of the true Torv sort :

      Z was a zaay , attached to the Court . * For instance , Usher of the Black Rod , Gold Stick , & . c Query—Has Lord Hill ' s office any toaiogy with that indicated by ibe gilded stick adopted as a signby nightmenand chimney-sweepers ? Gsb op oca daily contemporaries , speaking of the " int-eresting situation" of the Qaeea , " congratulates th « country on the au ? piciou = event . " "What there is for congratulation , we leave that mnltitudinocs personage , John Bail , to determine ; for our own parts , we look upon every fresh Royal charge as a charge that can be ill afforded in these limes , and as an . additional abridgment of the comforts of the labouring classes !

      A Fresch author aptly remarks that the English people boast of their independence it home , but practise it abroad ; and this upon the principle of giving freedom to tie blacks in the West Indies and enilaviDg the whites in England ! Immediately on the arrival of " the Royal West Pennard cheese" at Buckingham Palace , the Queen ligr . ifled a wish as soon as she had seen it , t * have a Welsh rabbit made of a portion of it , in tbe hope that it . might assist in certain conceived notions relating to a future Priuce of Wales ! Xisgs and Queens have a divine right to indulge in superstition .

      The Joke played off npon the Lord . ilayor by . Melbourne at the Mansion-house baaqnet , the other ' day , has been much commented upon both east aid west of TemDle-bar . Everybody knows that " the j fronhv Lord Mayor keeps what is called aa oil shop ,: and deals largely in every description of thing usually , ] Joli bv tradesmen of the kind , so that when tie . "Premier called his civic lordship his " worthy aixij excellent friend , " some doubt arose in the minds of macy whether the noble Viscount was oot availing himself of the privileges of free trade , to attesap ; an opposition in the article of soap . ' know that the exteasive

      It mcst be gratifyingCto alterations now in progress at Cumberland . -lodge , for the accommodation of Prince Albert s brood mares and Lunters , are progressing much to his Roval Hieness's satisfaction , and that M breeding in all its branches" is likely tt > go on under the Royal e ^ e most protperously . Tfle Hon . CoL Anson and Cwlbnel Wemyss have just reported to the Prince after careful inspection , that all the Royal mares in the Royal stud are in an "interesting » tua . tion . " A good womas called on Dr . B— , one day , in a creat deal of trouble , and complained that her soa Had swallowed * ppnny . * Pray niaiam , " said Ae doctor , " wssh a counterfcu V - ^ o btr , certaialy nov" was the reply . " Then , it will pass , of course , rejoined toe facetious pijaciac .

      A Fit —We yield entire assent to the . position , that no reward can be too great , from either man or woman , for a fit at once close and easy , a boot tha ; j aatuSes the pride without a pinch . Poor Petrarch , j it is well known , lamed himself from his pmchings j to look well to Laura . What Homer says of the , well-booted Greeks , it would be needless to advert to What Horace tays about larKe-looking feet , every scholar knows . It was one ot the greatest eomions of Laxariilo de Tonnes to be free from all responsibility as to the look of his upper leather * . ( How the hearty rogue langhed at the incapacity of bootmakers and the vanity of byot-wearers , whom te counselled to have their feet fairly " pared" without much ado !) Nero ' s solitary friend was the shoemaking slave who fitted well ; and we never had a doubt that it was he -who , in return for the Emperor ' s grateful kindness , strewed his tomb with flowers . Hear what our own Gay says , in lines that are made for this weather :

      « Let &xm , well-hammered soles , protect thy feet Thr ough freezing snowe * , and rains , and Boating -Should the big last extend the aboe too wide , S * eh . stone will wrench the unwary step aside ; The sudden turn may stretch tae iwelling Tein , The cracking joint unhinfe , or ankle fcprain ; And when too short the modest shoes are -worn , You'll judje the seasons by your shooting corn . Truly , an awful method of jndging the seasons . On the other hand , old .. Chaucer paints the reverse of

      the picture in these sootning lines ; wmen may os ¦ aid to carry to their highest point the merits and advantages of an accomplished shoemaker . The « od of love is giving sundry recommendations to the poet , and among the first is a due attention to the appearance of his feet : " Of shoon and bootes new and fair Look at the least thou nave a pair And that Uwy fit so fetouriy [ properly ] That these rude men may utterly Marvle , atth that they sit so plain [ elosej Hg-ff THE ! COUB 05 AUD OFF AGAIK . "

      How perfect the definition of an exquisitely perfect pair of boots ! The tortured street-walker of Gay marvels , as the light-stepping dsady of Chaucer passes him , how ever those boots " coae on aud off again I * Id referring to this passage , Mr . Devlin justly chaxacterize * it as descriptive ot the perfection of the trade , and concludes that the art of the old poet's time is aluoet hopeless of achievements in the preeeaVwhen certainly , notwithstanding all the late improTements , it is only the best darer why is the teft wewer . —Emmminer .

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      THE FIRST FACTION-FIGHT OF THE SESSION : ' IN FOB ANOTHER YEAH . " The fifth week of the aeation is over : what haai > een done . The first four weeks were eharacteriud by listless idleneu . In the course of that time the House of Commoni held fifteen meetings , averaging somewhat lew than lix hours each , counting from four o ' clock , the nominal hour of meeting . The Committee sittings hare scarcely begun yet Pairing has been frequent , and the unannounced absence of Member * still more frequent . The slovenly manner in which the routine bnsineu of the House is conducted renders it

      impossible for even Members to say what progress has been made in the indlspensible work of the session . One or two Committees have been named , one or two bills have been introduced , one or two have been allowed to be introduced . Four weeks have been wasted by our Beprasentatrres since their meeting , much in the same way that boys waste the first hour or two on returning to * ehool after the holydaya , listlessly fingering their dictionaries , maps , and copy-book * , unable to muiter courage to resume their task * . Our overgrown schoolboys of the Legislature hare evidently no very hard taskmaster over them : the public ij but an indifferent pedagogue .

      On Monday last the scene changed . " Oh , then and there was mustering in hot haste . " For four successive evenings early and crowded sittings were protracted till far in the night . Speeches of immeasurable length were delivered . Members of both parties gathered within the House to cheer their friends and hoot their opponents ; and out of the House—in the daytimelooked as suspicious as blacklegs calculating the longodds . The most unenlightened might tee that the btuinen of the session had began at last The business of the session?—true , the business of the partisan ! within the House : but the business of the people , haa it begun yet ? or when begun , will it receive the same attention ? * * * * The bosinew ot the people has nut begun yet Thii anxious week haa been , after

      all , nothing more than the first faction-fight of the session . The speeches during the debate on the Irish Kagutration Bill do not seem to indicate any nearer approximation of parties . They consist chiefly of the staple material— " yon , who now say thit , formerly said that" But they were little more than ebullition * of personal rpleen . Shell pecked at Graham , and Peei at Russell , after this fashion ; but these were single combats . There vras nothing of the hurling of a personality by a whole party against a whole party , which used in 1830 and 2835 to be effected by the cheers m masse which accompanied a homewfcrust . The prevailing tone on both sides was more guarded than formerly .

      The Ministerialists seemed to have an awkward consciousness that they hold their seats on and around the Treasury-bench oa sufferance , and the Opposition that a premature storming of that citadel might be dangerous . Meanwhile , the Whigs are in high feather . While the debate lasted they were anxious and gloomy , bat now they are smirking and Bhaking hand * at every corner—" We are in for another year . " When that yeftj is at end , pcrh&ps the chapter of accidents may again befriend them : why damp the joy of the present by gloomy conjectures as to the futuru ? For one day tha dismal word " dissolution" has not been pronounced . But the people ' s business has yet to begin : when will H begin !—Spectator .

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      formidable fry the flourishing atato of her finances , and these she waste * and weakens the more she extends her army and her military expenses . The French are beginning to feel this , and they will feel it moK and mere each day . Their Ministers bare announced to them that railroads , canals , public works , and improvement * most stop . The greatest difficulty is experienced about a loan . Without the war-cry , France would have got money from England to complete her railroad * . and public works . Now , the will not get a maravedi , whilst capital of her own she has comparatively none . She has ample revenue , but nothing more , and she must probably re-establish the odious tax upon boissotu , which was taken off by popular acclamation in 1830 .

      The effect of the present idle war-cry in France will thus be to fling the country back some twenty years in every path by which nations progress . Fortunate , indeed , it is , that as nations advance in wealth , civilization , and real power , military efforts become more irksome , more enorous , and more intolerable . To the Russian serf , or the Bohemian peasant , the conscription is no great evil . To the Norman peasant it is death . The mortality amongst French conscripts from mere nestalgre Is enormous , and that tax on man ' s life and time has bees doubled in France by late events . The French , too , must feed and pay their army better , if they intend to keep one . The mortality of Franca soldiers in peaceful garrisons is double the mortality of civilians . They talk of employing soldiers on public works j bat a French soldier is not able to do half the work of a French peasant , because he is underfed . Such « r system cannot endure ; and thn French will find even the keeping up of their present arm ; a much

      more expensive thing than they have hitherto found it In the smaller states of Europe , the mania of directing all attention and effort to military preparations ia even more conspicuous than in the larger ones . The King of Piedmont , for example , has doubled his army , and has showed a great deal of spirit When Austria proposed to cecupy the puses of the Alps , Charles Albert declared he would oppose by arms the entrance of the Austrian army , and he spoke in defiance to France . In Spain , also , the great question is the army . The revenue of that country is about 550 millions of rial * ; the army alone requires 466 millions of rials to support it ; yet thu Government gives little hope of being able to reduce the force . The press of Madrid has taken up tha question , aud one writer seriously proposes settling a portion of the army on some of the waste Government land * , and forming military colonies , as Sweden did with such success , and as Russia is doing . —Correspondent of the Emiminer .

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      DISSOLUTION OF THE HUDDERSFIELD POOR LAW UNION . The following report was communicated to us last week , but , in consequence of the many demands on our space , we were compelled to delay ite insertion until this week , and we call the attention of our readers to the fads adverted to . In the Bastile Room , at Hudderafield , at a recent meeting , Mr . Pitltthly deemed it his duty to call the attention of the Board to certain circumstances connected with the present method of doing the business of the Union , both as it affects the ratepayers , and also the victims of the system . He said , at the argent de&ire Of a nmnerous body of ratepaying inhabitants , I have of tea been urged to brine forward the motion

      which has just been read from the notice book . I bring this motion before you with greater confidence , because the subject vhich has just occupied the attention of the Board , must have impressed you all present with a firm conviction that even so far as you have gone , you have involved yourselves in the greatest difficulties , added to the ruinous additional expenditure which you find it impossible to meet , while some townships owe large amounts to the Union of Huddersfleld . They had , in order to get money , been driven to the alternative of signing cheques , or things called cheques , at twenty-eight days' date , thus breaking the law , and defrauding the revenue ; and surely that was » strong reason why we should destgt , and revert to

      that good old law , the forty-third of Elizabeth , which could be c&rriad out with justice to the rich as well as to the poor . He brought forward that motion with the greatest pleasure , because he knew that ninety-nine ont of every ' one hundred of the inhabitants of this place were mest anxiou * for th « consummation of the subject of this motion , snd that the ratepayers of the different townships might have tb « management of their own money and their own poor ; because tbe poor were in a state of aiirra . Knowiag , *» they did , tbe cruelties which wero inflicted on tbe poor in Basliles , they , feeling that the pressur * of the times was drawing them nearer to a suite of pauperism daily , and with the prospect of a Bastile before tkeir eyes , had a just alarm .

      Because tbose aboiies of nnsery and woe wen a constant terror t » the liaM , the lame , the Mind , a » d tbe impetent , and horrifying to every one ftotfessiag one partJele of mercy or beaavolence . Beeause whew the law is in f * ll force , if aay starring family dare to apply for relief tbey have mo- alternative , but mviet submit to go into the house , and be tor » asunder fr * ni' every family tie ; . and their Iktla furniture is eithsr taken bj the landlord foi rent , o » sola by the TJnion . and placed to the general fund , and whea , it they an able and fortunate enough to get work out , they ha" » e no horae to whish to return , and so becosie houseless wanderers , houseless vagrants , liable at aay moment to be eenl to the treadmill , and thus the pvor artisans of England' are driven to madness ,- desperation , and despair .

      Because -we have befbre us-tie ease- of the Eon workhouse , where a Ml-v . Gentleman , t » hiB honour , bod taken up tbe defence of th » poor , and exposed and punished tiie perpetrators of orueities-not so great aa had b » tn souuted when brought before this Board . Because the gate * -of the poor-houses-are shut against tiie rate-payers , and-the sazne houses- which formally were houses of refuge are turned 1 by tha-new and hellish scheme into the wcxst of prisons . Bj ntferriag to evidence tai-en before & committee of tbe Pe «» ot England , it would be seen that the inmates ot a Bastaie after the- surgeon of the hoaee had aemonstrated with the Guai-li&na , that they ( tha ( Suardiaasj had told aim . ( the aurgoon ) that he hud no-right to interfere with the dietary , tiiat his ; duty wa » to atteadi to those that

      were sic& only ; pad in thisowirse did . those Guardians go forward , until disease aarived atsaoh a height that they themselves dtvred not to enter t&e house , for fear of infestion , until fehey had gruelled them , contrany to the reraonstrancM-of the surgeon , and crammed them together , 'with & * a and eteo seven in one bed , aart tbe gTuel ran tb . r 0 u 5 hitb . em as-thsy walked across the Shot , anil while tbej stood at their niaais- ; and in bed the evacuations wuse to the extent of eight and ten ia one nigut , waits ilere was ao one t » « iean them , and they lay ia an ind&seribable juddle , and died off like rottea sheep :. so tout , by this -wholesale new system of murder , the j rid themselves of numerous paupers , a * ¥ l reduced the-expenditure by uiijn than « £ i , « uo , and this Msaa clearly the intention » f the fr&ittera of the Bill .

      Mr . p . then gave » ther exli&sts frum the evidence , of Vhe toast appalling nature , during th » reading of which he > was intersapted by the Chairman , who bogged Mm to iWsist ; botcever , he continued f ~ j soiuh time longer to give the frien < ls of the system some specimens of its . working , -alien he concluded by saying , "This is what 70 a are bringing upon us—this is -what the people are alarmed will be tbuir fate—tuia is What tbey deplore as the fete which their fellow creatures are now enduring ; and , therefore , I feel it my duty to bring tbose cases before you in order that you may not plead ignoranoe , a&d tbat you may have an opportunity to refute myasguments . Another , ant ) a local reason is , that constant complaints are being made tbat justice is not equally meted eut in this uuian ; that one township

      bears the burden of another township ; that we appoint most unfit persons to fill various offices , and in one instance , you appointed an officer without any credentials , or the production of any , or without any proper reeommendation ; without even seeing him , and when he came to perform the duties of his office , it was discovered that he was actually insane , and had not been in his office many days when he fell down In a fit , to which he had been subject , and had to be wrapped in blankets and packed off to his mother at Sheffield . I state this in order to show more clearly that you are in a worse position than we ever were under the good old law , for under it I defy you to show one single instance where a lunatic was placed over the sane inmates of a workhouse ; under the old syBtem there never was any

      difficulty to find sane and active officers to place In such situations ; but now the thing had changed , and such individuals scouted the officers and tUe system also . The inconvenience to the paupers , who were really able , and the misery to those who were unable to come from the distant parts of the union , to have these cases heard before the board ;—in some instances eight and as much as twelve miles to be buffetted b y the understrappers , and sent back again with empty bellies , and without even being permitted to go before the board . The guardians too had complained heavily of the great individual expeuce and inconvenience of attending every week at so great a distance , and the great additional expence incurred by what was generally called establishment charges , namely , rents , salaries ,

      and other burdens which were making those who were the staunchest supporters of the bastile scheme wince , and many had been converted . by the impositions effected by the triune king ? of Somerset House ; and this , too . while they were compelling old persons from seventy to eighty years ef age , all but blind , and bodies diseased , to labour on the highways for the mere pittance they received for breaking atones on the highway * , lit . P . implored them to desist from their ninou * course , and save themselves from the ruin , which , if they did not retreat , must come upon them . He then moved "That tbe so-called Hudderfield Poor Law Union be divided into thirty-four unions , and be named according to the designations of the thirty-four townshi p * which form the Huddersfleld Union . "

      Mr . Batley moved as an amendment , " Tbat it be taken into consideration that day six months , " which being seconded bj Mr . Bull Briggs , en a show of hands being called for by tbe Chairman , there appeared for the amendment , seven ; for the motion , eight The Malthusian crew looked unutterable things , aud Batley moved that the votes be taken down , and told the Chairman that it he would vote and give hi « casting tote , it Would just turn it the other way . Tiie Chairman declined to vote , but would take the votes down , but the confusion was such , that he left the chair , saying that he could not

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      doibusineat la such a state . He was stopped on his way , and pressed into it again . Mr . P . said the Chairman not h aving voted In the first instance , and having given bis decision , could not Tote on the question at all ; thevotes were taken down as follow * : — For the motion . For the amendment . JfeatraL Mr . Pitkethley Mr . Cockill * Mr . MaxBeld Mr . Whitworth Mr . Bull Briggs Mr . Little wood Mr . PeppletoQ Mr . Bottomley Mr . R . Wrigley . Mr . Pojtson Mr . W . Batley Mr . Clarke Mr . J- Batley Mr . Stevenson . Mr . Tinker Mr . Senior . Mr . Sykes .

      It was then moved that the votes be added to the resolution , and that both be transmitted to the Commissioners forthwith . Mr . Joseph Batley had a notice on the books for the giving up of Burley workhouse , and for the enlargement of Almonbury worthouse . He said he would postpone his motion , as he understood that the peeple of Aldfflonbury would not lay out the money , and he did not think the state of their finances would justify them in any extra outlay . Truly that is the case , when they cannot have their cheques discounted without breaking the law , and defrauding the owners by drawing a bill at twenty-eight days' date , and falsely calling them cheques . * When tbe names were to be taken down , he wanted to vote for the motion ; this was not allowed !

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      ZiEEDS * Election of Auditors , &o . —On Monday last , theaonual eJecion of Auditors , Revising Assessors , and Ward Assessors , for this borough , for the ensuing year , took place , when the following were elected : — Auditors . —Mr . Matthew Jehnson , WoodhouBelane , merchant ; Mr , John Beckwith , Hanoverplace , short-band writer . Revising Assessors . —Mr . John Hope Shaw , Albion-street , solicitor ; Mr . Edward Bond , Springfield place , Eolicitor . ^ ^

      WARD ASSESSORS . Mill Hill . —Mr . James Gilston , Merrion-street , woollen-draper ; Mr . Thompson Clarkson , Briggate , tallow-chandler . West . —Mr . Thomas Tennant , Little Woodhouse , gentleman ; Mr . Thomas Tilney , Wellington-street , stonemason . North West . —Mr . Edward King , Grove-terrace , wool merchant ; Mr . John Leadman , Queen-square , gentleman . North . —Mr . Thomas Simpson , North-street , painter ; Mr . William Mawson , Camp-road , stationer . North East—Hit . John Mawson , 'Burmantofts , manufacturing chemist ; Mr . Edward Walker , Burmautot ' iB , maltster . Eatt . —Mr . Hontio Wood ^ Hill-house place , solicitor ; Mr . William Hey wood , Wheeler-street , pawnbroker .

      Kirkgate . —Mr . William Kettlewell , Kingston-) lace , draper ; Mr . William Middleton , St . George ' sterrace , solicitor . South . —Mr . HutchinBon Gresham , Hunslet lane , pawubroker ; Mr . Thomas Robinson , Chapel-allerton , solicitor . Jfumlei . —yir . Samuel Walker , jun ., Chapel-street , maltster ; Mr . Stephen Chappeii , Leeds-pottery , Hunslet ; earthenware manufacturer . Holbeck . —Mr . Roger Shackleton , Holbeck-lane , corn miller ; Mr . William Greaves , Holbcck-laue , chemist . bratnley . —Mr . John Watte , Bramiev , gentleman ; Mr . Johu Walker , Armley-moor , cloth manufacturer . Headingley . —Wlr . Edward John Teale , Queensquare , Leeds , solicitor ; Mr . George Howaon , Headiugley , gentleman .

      SHEFFIELD . —Payment of Wage * jk Stuff . —At the Town Hall , Sheffield , a few days ago , Mr . Thos . Gatley , of that place , file manufacturer , appeared to answer to three inforniatioiSs preferred against him by his workmen , for paying their wages in goods instead of money . The first ease called upon vrasthat of Wm , Rhodes , who deposed that he was obliged to set up seven shillings * ut of every pound he earned to pay for stuff . On she 4 th of JEf ovember last , ho was obliged to take three and a half yards of woollen eloth , fov which Gatley aalud 40 b , per yard , but agreed to take 353 . per yard . Khodes afterwards sold the whole piece for 3 & ., which it was sworn was its full worth . A solicitor attended for Gatley , but he could not shakathe complaiaant ' e evidence . Mr . Luke PaUreyman , 9 olioitor , for the complainant , gaid he should press t « r a

      convictkra in each of the three casus in which information had boe » laid ; he c » uld bring , forward similar informations fr » m every man in Mr .. Gatley ' s employ , but , it' he wouJd promise to relinquish the p > aotice r no farther informations should be laid . Air- fciatJey said ke was not so old a manufacturer as many others , but ho had his-ajee and ears about Wm , and he had been led into this course by the example of others . It w » not hi » own inclination , for he had always detested the t-j&tena . Whea his woikmen consented to part payment ) in'stuff , ho made three propositions to them ; iirst r that they should set up to the debts they w * ed hist one-third of their wages ; or that he should stint the in ; , or that part of tkenx should , be discharged . He had erred through a fueling of oompaseien foe his men , not desiring , to throw them out o £ employment ,. and he was sorry he had rendered himself amenable to a , law that ke was- not ,

      aw » r » of . —Mb .. Bagshawe : The lUegaJuy of the paymentof wag « a in goods could scarcely be uuknown to a , man with his- eyas and ears ope » and it is an extraordinary circumstance that the cloth you charged . 35 s . a yard should be worth only -lls » Qd . — Mr . Gatley said he was not a dealer ia these things , and eharged according , to tha price they cost him . Mr . Falfreyjnan said he could have proved , in , one of the other cases , a conversation . with , the defendant , hewing that he was not ignorant . —Mr . Bagshawe said the plea of ignorance would not be entertained . They oould not supposa that any master could be ignorant on this subject . —Mr . Alderson concurred in this . —Ma . Bagsbawe said , if th&defendant would shew them , his iavoices iioia tiie manufacturers of

      Leeds , ha thought they would net justify the ouVsageous price he had charged . —Mr . Gatley said he did not buy from manufacturers . He made exchanges with hawkers . —Mr . Bagshawe : Don ' t you get it from regular houses I—Mr . Gatley 1 iMever . —Mi Bagshawe £ Then , for anything you can teil , you man be buyiug stolen goods * and may get them cheaper still . —Mr . Gatiey wiahed to speak again . —Mr . Bagbhawe said , I think you had better not , — Mr . Gatley said he had understood that when workmen had agreed to . take gouds ,, it was not contrary to law ^ —Mr . Palfreyman— If you say that you made a contract with them to take goods , youtaro liable to another penalty . —Mr . Bagshawe said , Mr . Alderson concurred with him iu thinking that their decision in this case was one of importance , and as Mr .

      Gatley might not have understood the law , they felt bound , in justice to aU parties , to impose such a penalty as should mark their opinion of the offence . In the case they had heard , they imposed a penalty of i . ' 10 and costs , and in each of the others of £ 5 . Mr . Gatley would understand the law now , and he hoped would not again transgres , for if another conviction took place , the minimum penalty would be £ 20 . After the evidence that ; the cloth charged to the man £ C 2 j . 6 d ., was only sold lor 33 s ., ( Mr . Aldersou : And was worth ao more , ) they felt called upon thus to deal with the ease . —Mr . Palfrey man requested the Benoh to say how the penalties should bo disposed of . —Mr . Bagshawe : Considering it as a public offence , the whole must go to the treasurer of the countv .

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      Fatal Effects of a Fholic—In the evening of Wednesday the 24 ih , a party was drinking together at the public-house , at Old Roinney , when a bet was laid about running 20 rods . Two of the party , named Randall and Huggett , accepted the bee , and proceeded to execute their task . The goal was a lighted candle iu a lantern , which ia a frolic had been first placed j or afterwards removed , to the opposite side of a pond . Both Randall and Huggett ran into the pond , when the former unfortunately found a watery grave and the latter was extricated with some difficulty . On the following day an inquest was held on the body , and a verdict Of " Aooidental Dealb . " recorded .

      Successful Insubrection in a Workhouse . — Last week eleven men , who had been previously convicted of insubordination in the Cambridge Union , were brought up to the Petty Sessions for judgment . A man , who was considered to be the ringleader , having been previously sentenced to twenty-one days ' imprisoment , the Yice-Chairman of the Guardians , a Mr . Lirett , begged to say , that "though the Guardians were determined to suppress any thing like a spirit of insubordination with promptness and

      rigour , they were at all times ready to hear any just cause of complaint , if made ia a proper manner ; as a proof of which he would state , that now the complaint had been so made , the Guardians had petitioned the Commissioners ( without whose sanction they had no power to make alterations ) for an increase of four ounces of rice-pudding for their diuners , and also one « uace of bread and one ounce of cheese . The men , after being cautioned by Captain Purcha s in . a ; very able and feeling manner were discharg « d IL !"— Weekly pitpatch .

      Attempt to Rob the DubLik Bah « . —Very considerable excitement was created on Thursday , the 25 th ult ., in consequence of a rumour which gained genera ! credence , that the Bank of Ireland had been robbed the night before . It appears that a daring attempt to do so was made . The strong doors of one of the iron safes were found broken open by some person , who , it is supposed , managed to secret himself in the office during the day , bat there were inner doors which resisted the efforts to force them . An investigation has been held , but no light was thrown upon this affair , which is involved in mystery .

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      It ha 0 . £ ¦¦*( rumoured in Paris that the Frenoh Cabinet wa » disposed to offer its meditation to arrange the M' £ * ° d dispute with the United States . Oz » a * d afteb ftfrndaj , the Tat of March , the foot toll at Waterloo b&a& wiU be one halfpenny o ^ y * Thk Goldsmiths' Compan y £ >?• sent a . donation ot ten pounds to the poor box of # Tery P <> "oe office ia the metropolis . Mb . Whittib HABVEr . —It is reported > h » t Mr . Whittle Harvey haa intimated his intention of retiring from the office of City Commissioner of Police . THE / Right Hon . Sir Joseph Littledale , Knight , has beem sworn of her Majesty ' s most honourable privy council . The Chamber of Peers has again gone over the law regulating the labour of children in manufactories , which was discussed and almost passed last session .

      The general committee of elections have appointed Match the 18 th , for choosing from panel No . 1 , the select committee to try the Sudbury election petitions . Thk Colossal Likeness of the Dufee of Wellington , for the equestrian statue to be erected opposite the entrance to Hyde Park , is said to be cast from a gun taken at Waterloo . A Petition to the Court of Common Counoil , praying for aid to the widows and orphans o \ Captain Hewitt and the crew of the Fairy , was referred to the finance committee amidst acclamations .

      The Provost , of Eton vetoed the permission given by the head master to the two sens of Count Bathyany to study at Eton College , on the ground that they are Roman Catholics . Military deaths in France are represented as 22 in 1 , 000 , while civilian- deaths were only 13 j in 1 , 000 . The mortality of soldiers in Africa is spoken of as 7 & in 1 , 000 , but this must be incorrect , for it is known to be infinitely greater . The Hertfordshire magistrates met to appoint a chief officer of the rural police , pursuant to their former resolution for its adoption . An adjournment sine die was , however , carried by 51 to 41 , which virtually rescinds the whole proceedings .

      Robbery by a Servant . —A young man named Miles , has been committed to trial for robbing his employer , Mr . Richard Dunn , tailor , Golden-square , London . He had taken goods to the amount in value of forty or fifty pounds . ' A plan of the Emperor Nicholas has been mentioned for modifying the Russian system of making nobility and rank depend on official place ; and of creating a higher noblesse , with entails , &c , founded on Janded property . A hint has been thrown out to some independent member of the House of Commons to move in Parliament for a return of the expense to the public of the performance of the farce enacted in the trial of Lord Cardigan .

      From the establishment of the Apothecaries ' Company in 1815 , to the month of August , 1849 , the sum of £ 67 , 980 has been received by it as fees for licences to practise , b # ing at the rate of £ 2 , 600 a year . The Courier Suiste asserts that a woman was caugnt up by a hurricane in the canton of Uri , one day last month , and earned through the air a space of two leagues . H « r body was found 6 ome days after with all her bones broken '

      There is now pending in the Arches Court a proceeding against the Rev . Mr . Bruder , perpetual curate of Thames Dilton , charging him with intoxication generally , and on specific occasions . The arguments are expeoteu to occupy some days . We were shown , a few days 9 inco , some writing paper , with maker s name , and dated 1842 . Persons drawing op documents of importance should be careful not to use any post dated paper , as it may lead to unpleasant mistakes in future . — Cheltenham , paper .

      Chartism . — -It appears from a summary of the number of Chartists now in prison in England and Wales , or who had been from June ,. 1839 , to June , 1840 , that it amounts to 443 . Amoag the number there is one surgeon , ene barrister , od » schoolmaster , one magistrate , and about half a dozes licensed victuallers . T 11 * iate failckb mi Dubli {( . —The Dublin papers state that the liabilities of Alderaan Peryin , the particulars of whose night have already been alluded to , are variously estimated at from £ IGQ ; W (} to £ oO , t ) 8 fr—the latter , it b supposed , being nearer to the mark . — Globe .

      A G £ i * ait * v order ba » be » i > isiued from the Horse * - guards fer supplying bible * and prayer-baoks to tbe soldiers i » fcha army . The supply , however ,, is to be eonfined to those who earn read , and wb » actually apply for tfeeao , and eaeh naan ' a name i » to b « distinctly written in the first page at the orderly-room , s > r by the schoolmastei-tierjeant , with tbe- date of iaaue annexed . The Tjoahes frigate , which has- been lately converted to a convict hulk , and fitted up at Beptford , got aground on the * ' sliV close to the whasf , and was laid en her beam ends , with 300 convicts on board . The eld convict ship-, whiek has for so many years lain in the same place ,, has been lately broken

      Fhmmv mhwi ^ o e o ' clock , a dhkbolical attempt was made in the town of Hammersmith . It appears thai some blackguards—supposed to be of " ¦ thebetter sort " —affixed a maroon , to the shop door of a * bookseller , which they contrived should explode whan they , had loft the place . It shattered the door , and demolished nearly 40 squares of glass in theehop and other windows . John Frost ' s . Cbll . —The MoMnouthshina Beacon states that an inquest has been held on a pensioner , who died in Monmouth Claol , from , fright at being oonfiaeiin the cell where John Frost was inprisoned . He told the cook of the prison he should never see him again * befone he was locked up for the night . Tho verdict of the jury was given in accordance with the facts ..

      Tux German bapess mentiea a discovery of Pm > - fessor Dieufenbach , which . is exciting general attention at Berlin . He haa diaccwenftd a method for the cure of stasamering , by an incision of the tonguewhich is 6 &id to have been in all the instances , in which he has operated , completely successful . According to the Professor , slammer ing proceeds from the-difficulty of applying ' the tbngua to the roof of the mouth , and his remedy of course consists k the removal of the impediment .

      A Deckitsr . —A cheesemonger * named Luke , of Church-street , Bethnal Green , London , was recently brought up at Worship-street Poice- » flke , for obtaiuiug money and goods to the amount of £ 13 , from a young woman named Charlotte Eslan , under false pretences . His pretences were that he would marry her , but he has since married another female . His letters to the young woman were read up . He was ordered to repay the young woman the amount she had advanced to him , by monthly instalments .

      Extraordinary Suicide . —On Tuesday , the 26 th ult ., C . C . Lewis , Esq ., the Coroner for Essex , held an inquest at the Swan , Romford , on view of the body ot Thomas Brown , aged fifty-eight , late ostler at tho above inn , who committed suicide by cutting his throat with a pruning knife a few days before . Nervous depression as t * his prospeots in life , it is proved , caused him to commit the melancholy act .

      Loss of Life bt Fire . —By returns from tho city of Westminster , and the eastern division of Middlesex , it appears that during the last twelve months no less thau two hundred and forty-five children have been burnt to death in those districts , chiefly owing to their parents leaving them alone in a room with a fire in it . The greater number were the offspring of the working aud poor classes of society , whose business takes them from their hoiues .

      The Standard , following out its plan of rejecting the " alien" part of the House of Commons , the Irish Members , fiud 3 that Ministers have a British majority against them of thirty-two ; while the nominal majority was swelled by five of " the tribe of Grey , recent deserters" from Lord Stanley ' s side , Lord Listovrel , " woo occupies a worse than doubtful seat , " and the Tory equivocal , Mr . Baring Wall . ' . ' - Stabbing with the Knife . —Jane Hedditch , a Frenchwoman , was brought before Mr . Jardine , at

      Bow-street , on iriday , for final examination , charged with stabbing and wounding Thomas Day , a waiter , with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm . It appeared that the waiter had endeavoured to prevent the prisoner ' s husband from turning his ( prosecutor ' s ) brother ' s wife out of a room at the Red Lion public-house , Houghton-street , Clare-market , when she ( the prisoner ) stepped up to him and stabbed him in the bowels . She has been committed for trial .

      Desperate Ruffianism . —At Union Hall Police Office , on Saturday , J » hu Elliott was charged with committing a violent assault on Henry Blawer , under the following circumstances . The complainant stated that about three weeks ago , his wife eloped with the defendant , after Bellingihe whole of the furniture to a broker , and abandoning her children . On the following day complainant met his wife and her paramour together in the street , and immediately went up for the purpose of giving him into ousted . ; for being concerned in stealing his furniture . The

      defendant , however , instead of making any reply to the charge , immedately commenced a most violent attack on the complainant , whom he beat » . ' oout the head and face until he fell from exhaustion , his ( complainant ' s ) wife being a silent spectator of ' the illtreatment to which he had been subjected . Evidence was given , that the complainant ' s head and face were very much out , owing to the maltreatment inflicted by the defendant , vvbo was fined £ 3 , and in default of payment COjr . miUed for twenty-ene days .

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      A * a xatb meeting in Cork , Mr . Kernm * Secretary to the General Temperance Society S that they had eight Roman Catholic ^ relate ^ r rolled , 700 of the Catholh clergy , and of E ^ lation altogether no . t lees than 4 , 647 , 000 . w * Distress in a Christian Country so caued At Hatton Garden police office , within thelast fe ^ days , two young ' men , who were nearly naked »«• chargedI with vagrancy . A police constable , No 11 ? N , BMd-that on Friday morning the prisons accosted him on his beat , and implored him to tat them into cuBtody . He told them they had iW mitted no offence which would justify hmTT Complying with their request , when one ofthu defaa . d&nt 8 said that begging wa 3 a crime in the eve ^ Sp the law , and he and his unfortunate companion m ttv ArH&telv ^ tanned a laHv * nr ! < mntlA _ .- » _

      who . ™ they solicited alms . Witness immediatel , took' them to the station-house , and procured tor them 8 o : me nourishing food , of which they stood greatly in need . They were both in a very dream stale of health . In answer to Mr . Combe , one of K defendants sa . 'd , that he had been a patient in sT Thomas ' s Hosp . 'tal , and was disoharged as incurabl * he had also been m Whitechapel Union Workhouse * from which he had absconded beeause he hadn < j enough to eat . For jseven weeks he had been kin * about the streets , but was now no longer able to wander about . The other defendant said , that thtM months ago he left Norwich in search of emblo * . ment , and he had since been in the open air seeking for food MrCombe said he really did not

      . know what to do with the prisoners—a prison cert&ialv was not a proper place for them . The unfortunate defendants here , in a heart-rending manner , supplj . , cated the magistrate to commit them to prisoa . Mr Should , the clerk , humanely suggested to the worthy mag istrate that they might possibly be procured an admittance into Greville-street Hospital , if applies tion vv" « re made to the honorary secretary , the Ret Mr . Packman , whose ears were always open to thi wants ol the poor , and who was ever ready to alk . viate theh' sufferings . Mr . Combe agreed that thai would be ti ° most humane course , aud he requested Inspector Ja . rvi . 8 , of the G division , to accotoptn * them thither , and to supply them with some cleaa apparel . The . defendants , with tears in their eres

      expressed their latitude . On arriving at tht W pital they were K * n » edJ » tely attended to , notwith . standing the mstitu ' ° is crowded , and the fimoj very low . It w »» rtk ' ted that the house surgeon w « of opinion that one t f the defendants would most likely have to remain under bis care for a long . time . Charge op Bkja * t a . ^ d Seduction . —At La * beth-street police office , oa Saturday , Joseph Norrig , a shoemaker by business , ai d a ranting preacher by profession , who has been in t ^ stoaj for weeks past charged with the twofold off * <» *» duotion and bigamy , was placed at the bar , before the Hon . G . C . Norton , for final examination . From the evidenc e of a young womannamed Green it appeared that

      , , she went to live with the prisonCT and his seeond wife . The prisoner at first expres * 'da great kindness for her , and taught her to read . ^ er Bible ; but shortly afterwards he began te * solicit her faToorj , and she consented to his wishes . S * m time ^ fter tbe improper connection commenced , It e discarded his second wife , and went to live with c * . 'Bplainut » t lodgings he b » d taken for her , out lu ' soon got tired of , and desarted , her also . While \ n . ^ S 'ntn him , she had learned that he had married tht" second wife , though his first was living . The j « . isoner , when asked-what he had to say to tbe charge , slid that there was one part of the evidraee wbio . ^ b « wished to contradict . On a former occasion , ft m-

      plainant had stated that she was not aware that . on ( the prisoner ' s ) first wife lived in adultery wiih » man , named Warner , in Baker ' s-row , Whit « eh » pei Now , the fact was , that the first place he and Green went to was tbe residence of his first wife m * Warner , and they had stopped there for two days . The night they removed there , they all four—namely , bis first wife and Warner , and Green and himselfslept upon the same bed ; so that it was ridiculous on the part of the witness Green to swear that el » was not aware of the terms upon which h » forawr wife lived . Indeed , his first wife was then present , and he felt satisfied that neither she nor Green could deny this fact !? Mr . Norton committed the prisoner for trial . „ .. ¦ > .

      Death through Actual Starvation . —Dbsa&ot the Bastile . —On Friday an inquest was held before ; Mr . Wakley , M . P ., at the Three lingi Tavern , Clerkenwell-close , va view of the'hoijot Elizabeth East , aged 33 , whose death was occasioned through accuai etarvation . Martha Danietey 1 miserable-looking object , deposed » iiat Bheliretiit Cock-yard r Turnmill-street , Clerkenwell ; deceased lived is the same house , and had been cohabitioz with a » an named Holmes . Deceased used to mB lucifersy and Holmes went about bone-pickiDj ? which was also- witness ' s occupation . On Monday afternoon last , deceased askea witness to go ana sell for her a cap and apron , whieh she did , and got : 2 d for them , with which , at deeeaied's-request , sh »

      bought a small quantity of tea , and made a basinful for deceased . 0 a Tuesday morning witness asked deceased , who was then lying on a mattress , how she was , to which she only replied , "' Oh , dew . * Witness saw hei ao more alive , aad about thie * hours afterwards was told tbat she was dead , which she found to be the fact . Witness dkl not know whether deceased had ever applied for relief from the pari . ah , hat was aware tbat she recaived none . Deceased was in great distress , oftentimes went for days together subsisting only on a little dry bread and pump , water . She could never ears . more than 2 s .-a Week , and did not comslain . of illness . Edward Holmes stated tbat he obtained a living as well a * he could . He bad known deceased foe the last

      four months , during which time she hid now and then lodg « d with him . Ab « ut three -weaka agob » told her she must shift for herself , and she went away . Be saw » o more of her till Friday last , when she cam * back to him . He- advised her r as he had often dose- before , to apply to-the workhouse ; bat she said ^ . " Oh , no , no ! I'll not go the workhpow while I can scrape a few halfpence by selling congreves . " Deceased had aothing to eai that day , nor at any tine previous to her death , she having no moaeyvand he not hating any thing to give her . The man , who rented the room , the last witness , and deceased ( when she was there ) all lived together . Mr . Wakley— " Is it possible ! Thsa aow isit that all you people , being m the same reoa , could see this jtoor woman starvi » gt " . Witness— "Why , Sir , We ate obliged to so akout our own business , * ud

      forage for ourselves . I did not consider that she had any legal claim upon me . " Mr . Wakley remarked that it was a very Melancholy case . As far a » they could learn , the deceased had had but a basin of tea from ihe Friday till she died . The deceased had been starved to death without any person being legally accountable . He considered the conduct of the witnesses to \» exceedingly disgraceful , and could not discover the meaning of Euoh a frightful state of society . Workhouses , since tie passing of the New Poor Law Aot , hadbecoue as much dreaded as the Inquisition was in Spain . —The Jury , having expressed their full concurrence in what had fallen from the Coroner , returned the followingverdict : — " That the deceased died from exhaustion , consequent on starvation , arising from her not having made application to the parish for relief , and from her refusal to go to the workhouse . "

      Sheffield Trades' Unions . —A numerous me « Mg of delegated , from the various trades of tho town , was held on Wednesday evening , the 24 th , at Mr . Mo 8 e ! ey ' s > the Old London 'Prentice , called by public placard , in consequence of the apprehension that Mr . O'Connell was preparing to propose some measure in Parliament to restrict the rights ofjM working classes to combine . Mr . Kirk was called to the . chair , and stated that they had two objects in view , namely , to clear themselves from any stipn * that might attach to Trades' Unions , in consequence of the recent proceedings at Ashton , and to vindicate the right of working men to associate for their own protection . Mr . Wardle proposed— " That it was the opinion of the meeting that it was necessary for the industrious classes to watch with vigilance any measures proposed in the Legislature to restrict their right to meet for the protection of their labour , generally their only property ; at the same badto

      time they protested against any resort being acts of violence , of any kind , for that purpose . Mr . Harrison suggested that a previous resolution was needed . He thought they should declare their conviction that it was their right to associate . He wotila move— "That the meeting was of opinion that it vr « the inherent right of the workmen to form and support Trades' Unions , as the only protection for their only property , their labour . " Mr . Makin seconclea the motion . Mr . Harrison did not oppose Mr » Wardle ' s resolution , but thought that his was necessary prior , to it . Mr . Wardle had no objection to tne passing of Mr . Harrison's as the first resolution . » was put and carried unanimously . Mr . Whi tewy . of the table-blade grinders , moved , and Mr . T ajwr and Mr . Broadhead seconded and supported _ w » motion read by Mr . Wardle . Mr . Gill support ^ the resolution . He held the opinion that all claw * identified with production bad the same "**!*! £ All other classes had a separate interest . If »»• " * were lower wages , it did not benefit the « " / " % ' The competition reduced his profits alBO . B u > £ mere consuming classes , neither employers nor

      ployed , were benentted by t&e compeuuu « - -r _ producers . Mr . O'Connell was living on large » j » ing business . It was a neoessary busuiew , »" liable to great losses , but he had the * d ™ nt * ge w issuing worthless paper , while the country must 1 ** tbe loss of the metallic currency . While , t berefore , the unproductive eonaumer was benetttea 1 the reduction of prices , the producer was not w * r fitted . The resolution was carried Hn » nim 0 D ^ iJd committee was then appointed , and it was rew that Y report of the proceedings of the !»«? "" * < ,. forwarded to Mr , Ward , M . P ., KqT& S > 3 fully to watch any proceedings which Mr . u ^"" ^ might adopt respecting Trades' Unions . » ndW ' , form the committee of them . It was also jrew ' that the report of the meeting be transmittea w leading journals of the manufacturing districts . . the speakers disclaimed any desire to keep « W P ceeding 8 of their respective Unions secret .

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      FRANCE , JLJTD XH » WAKLIE 3 : AR 3 k * J < GE . 3 LENTS O » THE € OKTlIfE > 'T . It most be a subjeofe of surprise , as . well aa regret , to-. Snd that the result of five and- t"weniv years' peace ba » been to proUace in almost every European state a nior * milit&ry orgaoizition than ka » ever hitherto taken place in modern timas . The v « ar whitii lasted from 17 fci to 1815 ins so favourable to < the French daring the greater part of that time , and t&ek reverses -weie owiag to causes- » o easily traced to- mismanagement and tae personal obstinacy ef their « ii * f , thtA instead , of ( iesiv Ing from , tiie result . of that atruggle a conviction thai H ie unwise and impassible tern them to dominate ovtr the rest of Europe , or extend their empiro beyontt tbe limits Siied by their own race and tonifm , vhb French

      remaia ,. on the ccntriry , ia the convictioa that ifc requires no gigantic effort , & » d no more than s > ta > ppy combiaation of eircmnstaEces , to permit their recovering tisir ascendancy and e » iiTe , at least on 80 & . Another , and so unsuccessful war , can alone convince the French of tie impolicy or hopelessness of th . tsa schemes ; and asotiier -war is , sooaier - or later , inevitable . The laager this we * is put off , the better , in our opinion . For the true rival aad ant&goniai of Franoe iB Germany ; and Germany gains more in strength and f -wealth , uni \ j and n&tieo&l spirit , in ten years , than the I French c&a gain ia tweDty . Tearing the last tea [; years the 6 « nnaas have -made the progress of half a I century . They have shot far beyond the French is i communications fcefcween different parts of the couafcry .

      In comtaerci&l ideas , ir&sdom . aad unity , tbej ka-ye also gone beyond tia Trench . Tbe superiorits of the German i » ce is BndoD " bted as to physical BtrengUi . In one leajfect RiiBBi » tras got the start of all OttiM conntries , and set them , it is to be feared , a fatal , at least a most momentear . example . Russia , in order to make up for her exifuJ ty of territory , makes soldiers of her entire population . T # be sure she bus managed this so as to interfere as little as p » ssible -with the time that professions , commerce , and other civil avocations require . Ir . some cases one yeav , in others two years ' actual service in the camp snmr es . Bat out of a population of 14 , 000 , 000 , Russia b- as a paid army of 120 , 000 men , wbich , at the sound « of a trumpet , can be raised to 550 , 000 men .

      With such an example on her frontier , and with such a military organisation possessed by a power which holds the greater par > . of the provinces that France desires to recover , ir . was but natural to expect , the moment military id eas and a military party came to prevail in France , tb . at something like the Rufsian system would be introd ' aced there . Accordingly , Marshal Soult has introduced it . A few fact ' i will enable one to appreciate better the advantages and disadvantages of the new military organissaon «* France . Toe thirty-three millions of French gave , aJ-xrat ten years back , about 288 , 000 young men of tfrenty years of sge , and consequently inscribed on the lists of conscription . Of these , in 1831 , about 80 , 000 were rejected as unfit , from physical causes and ¦ Want of height , to make soldiers . Thus , if the portion of the male population , aged twenty , be divided into even parts , two-ninths are rejected a * unfit , two-ninths

      taken and made toldien of , and three-sevenths left to civil occupation * . Of the 80 , 000 actually levied , not more than 65 , 000 become soldier *; but 5 , 000 are to be added for voluntary enlistment * and re-engagemestB ; and about 3 } par cent- for each succeeding yeir i * to be deducted . The term of service being for eight years , one-bsdf being sent home as a reserve after four years , the result will be that France , after eight yean' duration of her new system , will have an active and paid army of 430 , 000 men , with a reserve of 120 , 000 . M * T » h « . l Soult , indeed , ipeaka a * if the whole 80 , 000 lived and became soldiers , and as if there were no deduction * . This would make 320 , 000 troops receiving pay , and 320 , 000 in mem ; bat with the deducti » nj that the French statistical accounts fchem » drei indicate , their army will not be more than ia above indicatednay , it will not be so much , unless the mortality of mili tary in Algiers can be put a stop to .

      One result of French armaments will doubtless be the extension of the landtcehr system to South Germany . The States of Germany , independent of Austria and Prussia , keep up and can furnish a military force equal to Russia ; whilst Austria , with its thirtyfive million * of population , could , with facility , as far as numbers went , triple its present force of 300 , 000 men . France , therefore , need not , and cannot , claim Europe by the number of bayonet * . She U far more

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      REMORSELESS OPPRESSION : INFANT LABOUR IU FACTORrES . We have long deplored the fate of the unfortunate children doomed to the toil and tortures of tho factory system . The evidenoe taken befere the Select Committee , in 1832 , for regulating infant labour in factories , shows that Mr . Sadler ' s statements in the House of Commons relative to the pernicious effects of the factory system upon the health and habits of vhe children of the p * or , were not only exaggerated , but fell far short of the melancholy truth . It will appear incredible , hereafter , that such a system , notwithstanding the boasted civilization and morality of England , could ever have existed in the very heart of this Christian land , and that the sufferings which ic inflicted upon so

      many thousands of the most helpless of oar fellow-creatures should have been so long unnoticed , while British philanthropy flew t ® all quarters at the globe— travtn- ; ing oceans and deserts—braving the hurricane aad th pestilence to release the captive from his **»*'"»_ to strike the scourge from the hand of remorseless oppression , and vindicate the insulted rights of humility . When tbe children of Israel were oppressed th » taskmtsters were strangers to the lineage and religwo of their victim ; bnt in Christian Englmrt tbe oppressors and the oppre ? s ; d are of the ont race— -tbe one natioaof the sain * colour and the same ereed ^—both the robjects of a free state—both believers ia a rsligios of mercy . ' Bat eapidity creates tyrant * as poverty niaiesslaves . The wars wbi ^ h ambition cames prodace dreadful calamities to mankind . Ihe sordid spirit of accumulation do *» set destroy m&akkid indeed by t&e bayonet and grape shot , but it has its exterminatics

      weapons , and , thocgi less speedy , m no less tare in its destructive process . The- inflicti * u of physical inv firmity aad moral debasement upon -myriads ef the infant pjor of England , is among the deplorable result * for which the couDsry has to thank the uplolders of that system , who would sacrifice tbe eomforte , the health , th * morals ot a whole people , to enVMo & few individua l * to become possessed of riches which they will not diftse and cannot enjpy . Possibly tiie very persons wke- annually destroy in this conntry ammnber bt children by the premature sod unwholesome- labours of our factories , woold shuddor on reading an aocoont of Carthaginian sacrifice of ehildren to Molech ; . yet ia what do-dor infanton % ring > to Jtfamnjon differ from the P&gnn oblations of the yosng ar . di innocent upon the alt&ra ef an angry deity ?—in what , save toe mode vnd instrumentality by -which * e-sacrifice i& performed , and tbe more protracted nature of tiie sufficing ?¦—Wttklv Diipatoh *

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      g THE NORTHERN STIR . . ' . ' '

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 6, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct369/page/6/