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      HHHE READERS of the Northern Star u X particularly requested to read carefully & following aocouut of the BENEFICIAL EFFECT , of PARR ' S LIFE PILLS , in Leicester » nd tk Neighbourhood : — The following facts have been mentioned to Ml J . F . Winks , the Agent for PARR'S LIFE PILLS , in Leicester , who has preserved the name and residence of each of the parties , which he is re&dj to produce : —

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      The Hartford ( U . S . ) Courier says , there is an editor in that city whose ideas are so lofty that he is obliged to chase them up to the garret , in order to catch them ; and then they often escape through the Seattle , i A Cokxectioct Jos-4 THA > y in taking s walk with Ms dearest , came to a bridge , when he honestly said , after paying h : » toll ( which wa 3 one cent ) , " Come , Snkc , you must pay your own toll , for just as like as not I shan ' t have you arter all . " A Toet Totek , celebrated foriiis stupidity , having been chared with committing an assault at an election , the magistrate summarily dismissed him , ¦ with the remark that ho was not . going to disobey the decalogue , which declared , " Thou shalt not oommit a-dull-Tory . " Campbell , the poet , lately received a request from » vonng lady to write something " original" in her album . He answered as follows : —

      u original something , dear maid , you would win me To write—but how shall 1 begin \ For I ' m sure 1 hare nothing original in me , Excepting original sin . " " Ah . Pollt ! " exclaimed the Queen , " Albert is such a dear creature , you don't k " now . " " So I am told / ' rejoined Poll , " the dearest creature in your Majesty dominions . " -

      EPIGRAM OS HISS AXSE BREAD . M Toast any girl but her , ? said Ned , W'iih erery other flutter—I'll be content -with Annie Bread , But won ' t haTe any Hut her . " —American Paper . How to see toch Wat . —Mr . Mackecz ' e told me several aaecdoi . es ; one of Lady Yarmouth . She was at a largo dinner , seated at no great distance from a rich clergyman , and some bishopric having iust fallen in , ht carelessly expressed a wish that ne wero so lucky as to be named to it . " Do you expect n P -aid she to him . '' No , indeed , 1 do not , " he replied ; " I fear I am not so fonunate . "" What say you to a bet ! " said she . " I'll bet you fire thou .-a ' nd poiinSs that you will get it . "— " Done , " said tue clergyman ; and soon after he had the vacant see . —Siri 7 iburne' ' s Courts of Europe .

      * The Gardem-h s Privileges . ' —The question was once asked by a very beautiful woman— " Why i 3 a ^ axdeuer tae mo ; i tx . iraordin . iry man in the world !" The reply given vras as follows : — " Because do man has more businc-s on earth , and he also chooses good Grounds for what he does . He commands his Thyme ; he is nia ; ter of the Mint ; and he fingers Penny-royal . He raises his Celery every year , and it i 3 a bad year indeed that does cot bring him in a Plum . He meets with more Bcug ' as than a minister of state 5 he makes more Beds ^ than the King of Fr&ace , and has in them more genuine Roses and Lilies than are to be found at a country wake . He makes Riking his business more than his diversion , but it is an advantage to his health and fortune , which few others find : his wife , moreyvtr , his enough

      of Hear ;' s-ease , sad never wishes for Weeds . Disorders fatal to others never hart hiin ; he walks , and bustles , and thrives most in a consumption ; he can boast of more BleediDg-htarts than Ton can , and has more laurels than the Duke of Wellington . Bat his greatest pride and the greatest envy of his companion ? is , that he can have Yew when he pleases . " East to g et Rich . —Nothing is more easy than to grow rich . I ; is only to trust nobody , to btfriend Done , to get every thing , and save all we get ; to Etint ourselves and every body belonging to us ; to be the friend of no man , and have no man for our friend ; to heap up interest upon interest , ccut . per cent . ; to be mean * , miserable , an 3 dt ^ pised for some twenty or thiriy years ; and riches will come as sure as disease and disappointment .

      We ails too apt at times to blame others for mismiEaginunt , saying that , if we had bem in lhcir places we would co ; havs done so and so ; when , there can be no manner of doubt ,-j-f vre had been in their cases , we -should have done jusj the same . Before piling a vote of closure on those unfortunates it is necessary that we no : only make ourselves acquainted with all the circucstmces of the ease , but that we be also exercised wiih the same feelings . So Tery different a conclusion are those apt to come to , whose minds are at liberty , to what those are whose judgments are bnribenedTvr . h the care of tec matter , and fear of the result .

      The Chinese . —The representations of these remarkable people and theis country upon porcelain , or " chiDa , " have been usually condemned as illdrawn and faimless , bu : unworthily so . Lord Jocelyn , in his account of the Chinese expedition , observes , *¦ Since I have seen many ef the houses aDd temples of the Chinese , the- pa . ntiEg 3 on the olJ China imported into England , struck me as the bes » delineation of the building ^ - ^ "i figures of the ^ e extraordinary people ; and i ; is wonderful Low correct the ? are in the main features . "

      Jyvixs Supssstitio . v . —From a paper jus-t printed by crier of the Houie of Commotis , it appears vi-at there are no fewer thsn 641 atieucfafits upon the idui at JuEgercsui ! Among these aTe luu coiks , _ 0 keeptrs of the wardrobe , and two persons to pain : the eyebrows , &c . Individuals are also appointed to watch the slumbers of the idol , the time wiu-B it atrakes , & . ¦ :. < fcc . A Lawiie ' s Faith . —My brother and I were Eubposaaed as witnesses upon a trial a : Warwick . The attorney promised to reimburse the expmce . the contenders being poor . My brother and irvseif ¦ wen t in a chaise . We won the cause . I was obliged to bear ail tbe expence , and never received a shilling . So much for the faith of a lawyer . — William Button ' s Life .

      YtfiT Tkxte . —The tie which binds man to his brother man is older than the annals of England can reach ; and vriil endure when the-nanies of Peel and Ru £ = eil shall be alike forgotten ^— Times . The DiTiL ajiosg the Painters . —In 15 G 1 , a ¦ work was priuvei entitled , " The Anatomy of the Mass , " and it contained 170 pages , accompanied with errata of fifteen pages ! Tae author , ( who was a monk , ) in an . advertisement prefixed to the errata , stares , that the devil , to ruin the fruits of his work , emp-ojed two Tery malicious frauds , by first drenching the manuscript in the keunel , redacing it to a most pitiable state , and rendering some parts aitoge : ber illegible , and tHen obliging the printers to commit suca numerous blunder ? , never before equalled in sj small a work ! To combat this double machination of Satan , he was obliged to re-peruse the book , and to form this singular list of the blunders of printers working tinder the influence of ihe devil . The Last Amkkicaxism , —A famous physician practising in Pennsylvania , having prescribed a strong dose of nitre to a pitiem la-bouring under a « evere cold , it caused so profuse a perspiration ¦ daring the night , that he was found drowned ' the next morning .

      Egg Nog—Hjst Jclep . —The Exchange Hotel , 8 , Broad-street , is making itself famous for its egg nog and mint juleps . They began on the juleps yesterday , and the way the article went was a cauuon to sinners . The peculiar quality of these delicate liquids is the aromatic Savour they possess as they pass the panting lips . They ara both truly the nec ' . ar of the gods . —American Paper . A Good Moa > i > G ' s Woek . —The followingis from a communication of one of onr Borneo correspondents , lately received by as : —On a morning of last October . Mimo of S ^ pang took -ftis feoe and cothineneed his usual operations . He toiled bet a ftvr minutes , when his instrument came in contact with something of unusual size and re jistance . He took

      • up the rock of offence , * hd , giving is a passing -glance , threw it aside ; but while t-qiiing away , t ; s ibonghss returoed to the -discarded stone , when a remembrance ef its ueu ? se 1 heaviness arrested his 1 attention . He again save it a more strict Bcnuiuy ., by washing , rubbing , &c , -tnd having concluded ' worth pre-erviag , delivered it to the Kung-si . After a few day 5 , the latter brought i ; to Sambas , and sold it to the Sultan for 2 , 000 Java rupees . The rock of offence proved a mass of . gold , " weighing between three and four catties . —Singapore Free Press . T * e . Pej . vtec— " I pity the printer , " said my nnele Toby . " He ' s a poor creature , " rejoined Trim . How so ! " saidaay uncle . - " Because , in the first placef' continued the Corporal , looking full at my uncle

      , ' because fee must endeavour to please every body . In the negligence of a moment , perhaps a small paragraph peps upon hiffi ; he ha-ssly throws it to the compositor , it is inserted ^ and he " is ruined to all-irfteots and purposes . " " T < k > much the case , Trim , " -caid my n * cle , with a deep sigh % " toomuch—the—case . " "An ' , please your honour , " continued Trim , elevating his voiee , and striking into . an imploriBg attitude , " as , please year hosaur this is not the wiio ' e . " "Go on , Tr im . * ' e » id my uncle , feeliugly > " The printer , sometimes , " pursued the Corporal , hits npon s , piece that pleases hire mightUj , aad he thinks it cannot but £ 0 down with bis subscribers ; but , alas J six , who caaealeulate the human mind < He inserts it , and it is all over with him . The / forgtre others , but tbej cannot forgive ft printer . He has a host to print for / and every ona

      sets up for a eritic . The ? pretty Miss exclaims , * Why don't he k ' its as more poetry , marriages , and bon-mots 1—away _ with these stale pieces . ' The politician cl * ps his specs on his nose , and runs it orer in search of a violent invectire ; he finds none ; he takes his speca off ^ folds them , stieka them ia his pocket , declaring the paper good for nothing but to barn . So it goes . Every one rhinks ' ii oaghi to be printed expressly for himself , as be is a subscriber ; and yet , after all this complaining , would you believe it sir , " said the honest ^ Corporal , clasping his hinds beseechingly , " vrould you believe it , sir , there axe some subscribers who do not hesitate to cheat tke printer out of his pay ! Our army swore , terribly Ik Fiauders , bus they never did any thing so bad * a tbt » t J" "Never !"_ said uncle Toby , em-i pb » ticaliy . —American paper . j

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      HOUSE OF LORDS- —Fridat , April 23 . Petition * were presented by the Date of Argyle and the Earl of Zetland on the subject of lay patronage in Scotland , and by Lord Denuian for the abolition of church-rates . In answer to the Marquis of Salisbury , The Marqui 3 of Nokmasbt said he was extremely unwilling to put off the Drainage of Buildings' Bill &nt in order to meet the wishea of the Noble Marquis , he wonld consent to report it pro forma , and defer the further consideration till Tuesday next , for the purpose of introducing a clause to extend its

      provisions to Scotland . In answer to Lord Lyndhurst , Tbe Marquis of Normanby said it was not intended that Mr . V ; zird should hold conjointly tbe offices 6 f solicitor to the Home-office and secretary to the bankrupts in Chancery . In answer to the same Noble Earl , Lord DuNCANJtoji said he was not aware of recent claims ¦ whi ch had been made against the owners of mines -which "were submarine , but he would make inquiries on the snhject . Adjourned .

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      HOUSE OF COMMONS , Fbidat , Apbil 23 . ilr . Alexander , the new member for Antrim county , took tbe oaths and his scat Tbe North Midland Railway Bill , the Chard Canal Bill , and the Clifton Bridge Bill , were BeTerally read a third time , and pissed . Mr . Fox Maule moved that further proceedings on all bills for the recovery of small debts be postponed till the 10 th of May . Alderman COPELaND opposed the motion . Parties had gone to a gre&t deal of expence in bringing these jueasures before Parliament ; they had been for several years waiting for a general bill , which appeared to b « as remote now as ever , and they had no alternativo but to proceed with these local bills . After some discussion the House divided , when tbtre appeared—for the motion , AO : against it , 39 .

      Mr . Licas gave Botice that on Tuesday he should move for leave to bring in a bill to authorise the stoppage of the wages of labourers in Australia , to the extent of one-fourth , in repayment of the expence of tiifcir passage to that colony . Mr . E"wabt gave notice that on the 10 th of May he should move for leave to bring in a bill for the better ruanajjt ment of lunatic asylums . Ou the motion of Lord Teignmouth the second reading of the College of Maynoutix Bill was postponed till the 29 th of May .

      The House went into Committee on the Administration of Justice Bill . On clause 7 , which related to the transfer ul the funds belonging to snitora from the Court of Exchequer to the Court of Chancery , Sir E . Svgdes c ^ jsct-ed to the clause , on the ground that it would diminish the emolument * of the Acconntant-General of the Court of Chancery , a great portion of which " was derived from the commission he received on the transfer and deposit of stock in the public funds . The Solicitor Ge . neral thought that it was injudicious to mix up the question of the emoluments of the accountant-general with the transfer of funds belonging to the suitors to the proper court .

      Mr . C . BVLi-EH said it it was clear , from the discussion that had taken place , that the Accountant-General eked out his salary ly receiving a portion of the coinmission paid to the broker for tfce preference given to that broker . He tnuied , after that had been stated , that the House vruuid no longer permit a public officer to be paid in so discrutiitable a way . \ Hear , hear , ) Jf his salary was insufficient , let it be increased in a propar and legitimate manner . Mr . Briscoe thought it extremely proper that the Accountant-General should be paid by a commission npon the . < uais invested in thu public funds . Mr . 0 Co ^ yFLL suggested tbut the Court of Chancery should appoint a broker of its ovrn at a nxeil salary .

      LirJ J . Kvssell was not aware , until the discussion had taken p ' . aco . of the manner in winch the Accountant-GcnerAi tras paid . He shoulii be glad to attend to avy svg ^ eAions made by the Hun . and Learned Gentleman present , to put an tnd to such a system . The clause was then agreed to . On clause 19 , for appointing two additional equity judges , Sir E . Si'GDEN thought one new judge would be enough until they had ascertained how the system ¦ worked . He thought the appointment of five tquity judges in all , ¦ vrhilv tuere were only three common law courts , would le . id to great inconvenience and cuufusion-Mr . PemherTijn concurred in much of what ha ! fallen from the Right H < ju . Gentleman , but he was not di&posed Vo ODT-use the clause .

      Mr . C . Bvlller would support tho clause , because he looked upon the treasure as one of u serious of beneficial ahcrations . Tfce Hon . and Learned Geatiemar , qu .-t-. 'j several cases to show the iujury and less that hid been inflicted upon suitors through the protracted and expensive nature of the pr * cejiiings in the Cj'artof Chancery , and the result of which in practice ¦ was found to be the compromise of 60 out of every luO suits . In answer to Mr . Aglionby , The attorney-General said he understood that some alterations were contemplated in the Six Cierks " Office , and he ^ ro uid r . d d , that the Lord Chancellor , ¦ srith th ; EssiJtrace t-f some of the roost tminent meu in the profession , was preparing a series of regulations ¦ which vrould be found inoit Wuefic : al to the suitors in that court and the public

      Some discussion took place on the clause for fixing the salaries of the two new judges at i' 5 , 000 per aunuin each . Mr . Pemberto > " suggested that the salary should be £ 6 , 000 . Mr . Hume said £ b , i < OQ per annum ou ^ ht to purchase the services of any latryer . The Government had been reproached with extrava ^ aLCt ; , and now it ¦ vi-as proposed to increase tbe expenses of the country . The clause was then agreed to . In answer to Sir E Sugd ^ n , LordJ . Russell said he did not think it would be expedient to iutr ^ juce any legislative measure to prevent Masters in Chancery sitting in Parliament . On clause 50 being rea ; l , the object of which was to grant compensation to the officers of the Cuurt of Exchequer who might be affected by the Bill , . Cha . ncellor of the Exche ^ deb niovf-d the introduction of a clause in its stead to exclude Mr . Scarlett , "who had recently been appointed to the offiee oi" a Master in the Court of Exchequer , from corn per , saticn . Mr . Pejiberton said , if compensation were not granted to all tbe pet sobs affected by the Bill , i t would be rejected elsewhere . LordJ KtsSELL said ho should never consent to any transfer of the right of that House to originate money clauses to the House of Lords . After a lengthened discussion the clause , amended so as to include Mr . Scarlett , was carried by a majority of 73 to 70 . The Honse then resumed .

      In answer to L . ird Manon , who inquired ¦ whether it was intended to make any reduction in the number of convicts on board the hulks , which had been doubled within the last two years , Lord J . Russell said he fully concurred in the recommendation of the Transportation Committee , and also in the spirit of the resolution of the Noble Lord , and it was the intention of tbe Government to carry the recommendations of that committee into effect as soon as it was practicable . Sir K , Peel saiu the question "was one of the greatest importance , more especially now that the system of capital punishments was being done away with . He hoped it "would meet the immediate attention of the Government . The House then went into Committee of Supply , and a vote for £ 21 . 627 J ) -n ) vras taken . Court of Chancery ( Irdindi Bill was read a second

      . Adjourned at a quarter before one o ' clock . Monday , April 26 . Sir G- Strickland presented a petition from Saddleworth , with 6 , o 00 signatures , taking notic * of the declining state of our nianufactnres , and praying for a revision of the import duties . Tbe Hon . Member presented the following petitions : —One fromHuddersflelii , complaining that chaplains were appointed to Poor Law Unions and paid * t the espenje of the ratepayers , ibis practice operating as an indirect mode of extending the Established Chorea at tbe expense of persons who did not I > elong to it ; one from a place in the West-Bidin . ? of Yorkshire ., U : e name of which was not aadibiy stated , praying tur a repeal of the Corn Laws ; and one from the Guardians of the Todmorden Union , curcplaiuing of the expenses to wiiich parishes were subjected in defraying the charge of vaccinating the children of tfce pocr .

      Mr . CimiSTOPHEB presented s petition from a Board of Guardians in the city of Lincoln , p-sying that they might be invested irith a discretionary power to grcni cst-door relief in certain caser ; and another petition complaining of the arbitrary powers of the Poor Law ComroL'sioneis . The gtett and long expected busiaeu was tbe committee ea the Irish Registration < aad Qaalifi ( ution ) Bill of the Government Tfc © Speaker hiving It ft the chair , Lord Howjck rose to more an amendment ipon the flrrt eiaaee . He laid it down as a principle , that the basis of the county franchise ia not occupation , fcut property ; tbe £ b 0 tenant ' s franchise in Engla nd being no real exception from that principle , « ince £ t V )

      renting is itself * a evidence of considerable capital The beat franchise for an Irish county roter woaJd , he thought , be a rating on a certain amount beyond ' all charges and the rent specified In the lean . The tenants' temptation to put their values unreasonably high for the sake of their votes , irould be countervailed by their desire to avoid paying too heavy a rate . The excess on which ho would propose to require a rating , in order t * confer s franehue , would be an excess of £ 5 beyond the rent and other charges . The " beneficial interest of £ 10 , " contended for by Mr . O'Connell , after the deductions which that member professed to allow , would not bo unfairly represented by thia £ 5 rating . There were Bome persons , not included in ta& £ 3 leaseholders' teat , whom

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      thia £ 5 rating would admit : those , for instance , who paid a very low Tent for a property not rateable in all at so much as £ 8 , but yet yielding to the holders a profit of more than £ 6 beyond that low rent But as he -was aware that -on the other band there would be many voters whom the £ 8 leaseholder ' s test would admit , but whom his £ 5 property rating wonld exclude , be was disposed to move also another change , admitting a htsge class of voters—a ckange which wonld substitute , for the Government proposal of a rating on a lease at a low rent , a propoBal of a rating at a higher rent , but without any lease . The circumstances of Ireland , however , were so

      different from those of En $ Iand , an < t her general wealth so far inferior , that the English £ 50 franchise would be too high for Ireland . What the proper amount would be he was not yet prepared to state ; but it should be an amount which wauld give a constituency at least as numerous as that which existed immediately after the Reform Act All be should now ask of the House would be merely to consent to the principle . He then moved to omit those words at the end of the first clause which abrogate the beneficial interest franchise created by the Reform Act , for the purpose of enaWrig him , in the second clause , to define that beneficial interest by the £ rating propounded in the earlier part of his speech .

      Lord Mobpeth Baid , that though the proposals of Lord Howick might have been unobjectionable if moved as additions to the franchise provided by the Bill , they would not be eligible as substitutions for that franchise . He believed that the test proposed by the Government was the most advisable , and by it he was prepared to abide . Mr . C . Wood observed , that Lord Howick ' si object was to avoid that sweeping difcfranchisement which the Bill proposed to inflict on all the existing vottrs , many of whom the new test contained in that Bill would not reinstate ; and the amendment proposing to omit the words of disfranchisement would leave certain classes of the present voters still in existence , ¦ without preventing Ministers from afterwards adding their own new qualifications also . He then showed the result which , according to the returns , the plan of an £ 8 rating would produce : it would disfranchise no less than one-sixth of the £ 10 voters in fourteen of the Irish unions .

      Sir C . Grey opposed the amendment , which he said was much more thau a verbal matter . Mr . C . WOOD added a few words ; after which , Lord Stanley rose . He agreed with Lord Howick that an undue and unnatural diminution of the ? Irish constituency , from the amount intended by the Kefonu Bill , was uot to be permitted . It was assumed that t ueh a diminution had already takea ptivce . Mr . O'Connell , however , had expressed his opinion during the progress of the Reform Bill , that it would not bring the numbers up to 30 , 009 . There was so great an excitement on the first registry after that Bill , and so little

      opposition , that tho numbers amounted to 52 , 000 . They still increased , nominally , till tho octennial period j and then , pf course , they wera reduced by the striking off of many thousands . Yet at this day they were between 40 , 000 and 50 , 000 , exceeding by many thousand persons the numbers which the Reform Bill was framed and expected to yield . "VV h « n he should see an alarming diminution of the constituency , [ he should gladly co-operate with Lord Howick for the redress of that evil ; but he would not , because sonfo gentlemen declined to grant leasts of their property , consent to inundate the constituency by letting in voters without any property whatever .

      Mr . O'Connell instanced several counties in which , though registration had been stimulated by contests , the nurnber of voters was , in his opinion , unreasonably small in proportion to their population . Lord Howick called himself a well wisher of Ireland ; but he would better have evinced his good wishts by'moving to restore the 40 s . freeholders , than by aiding the opposition as he had just been doing . Ljrd J . Hcssell sai-1 , that when the Legislature had taken up this subject , therd was a very general feeling that before it dealt with the question of registry it ought to settle the question of franchise . He had thought £ 5 the proper amount ; he had given way to the proposal for £ 6 , in tho hope that this important matter might thus be settled , consenting to endure , for so great an ubjoct , the taunts directed against the Government He had been anxious to retrieve the error committed by a great party , who had preferred

      their own triumphs to tho tranquillization of Ireland ; tnit it now appeared that his hope was to be thwarted . He did not consider thi- amendment to be much more than a question of wording ; but ho was not disposed to concede it , because it would introduce inconvenience into subsequent clauses . He cited some of tbe printed returns , to prove the Inefficiency of Lord Howiek ' s proposal fora £ 5 test . It was of no use to talk of future redress for the evil of excluding the Irish from representation : tho present was the time to remedy that Uefect . If it were intended to disfranchise them , that should be done openly and expressly , and not in this indirtct and tortuous way . England ^ he was persuaded , wished to see them honestly ami fairiy represented , and not ? itfrauded of their rights . You could not , without exciting great indignation , withdraw the franchise bestowed upon them , and take a step which would justify an angry spirit in

      Ireland . i Sir K . Peel said tho Noble Lord had done what be usually did when his case was peculiarly defectivehe hud made a general declamation on popular rights , to raise a cheer behind him ; and , under the cover of that cheer , he had retired from further diseussion , and fancied he had made a successful speech Referring to the expectations entertained by the trainers of thu Keforra Bill , and by Mr . O'Connell hinjBoif , with respect to the numbers of the Irish constituency , he showed that these cumbers did now Tar exceed all those expectations . But if the numbers were really diminished , what were the remedies proposed ? In thirty-twu Irish counties , the Government proposed the samu

      uniform franchise which belonged t- » the borough ; exciuding property , and giving everything to occupation . If property were excluded from the county franchise ia Ireland , how ceuld it be retained in England ? Ana what confidence could be placed in the legislation of a set of Ministers , who , after taking time to deliberate throughout the recess , had brought forward such a measure as this , suddenly changing , two or three days ago , their £ 5 to an £ 8 qualification ? He vindicated , by reference to the testimony given in 1825 by tho leading Catholics , the dufranchisement of the 40 s . freeholders under the Relief Bill ; and concluded by strongly declaring his opinion that tha conduct of Ministers on this question had disentitled them to the confidence of Parliament .

      Lord HOWICK said , his object was not , as had been Fuggesfced by Ministers , to restrict the franchise , but to enlarge it . He wished to preserve tbe » ld principle of a property qualification , aud to add other qualifications also . S ! rR . Peel corrected some errors in Mr . O'Connell ' s statements by rufurtnee to reported passages of that Member ' s speeches : in the cturse of which quotations , a good deal of laughter was raised by the perusal of some ' A . Mr . O'Counell ' s old invectives against his present allies . Lord J . IU'ssell and Lord HOWrCK mutually explained—if a little conversation , rather bitter than otherwise , can bs called explanatory . The House then divided , and defeated the Ministers by a majority of 21 : the numbers being 291 and 270 . A little discussion ensued as to the next day of sitting .

      Lord J . ItUSSELL proposed to adjourn till Monday ; but to thia delay tho House would not consent , and Wednesday was finally fixed .

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      ^ » , , LABOUR ; ITS STRUGGLES , AND ITS REWARDS . The general notion in London has been , that the country labourers are ignorant creatures ; thai they have no sentiment at all relative to political rights and libertiui ; that , like cattle , they know when they are hungry , ami that their risings ami committing acts of violence resemble , inpolut of motive , the feelings which animate cows or oxen , when the-y break out of a barren field to get into a rich paituie . Such , too , arothe opinions which out JliuLUrs ami Members of Parliament have entertained towards these producers of the food an ' d the wool aud the wood of the country . Proceeding upon

      these opinions , they have adopted schools without number , and the distribution of millions of pamphlets , the main object of all which has been , to persuade the labourers that God never intended anything but potatoes for them to eat , and that it is grievously sinful in them not to be content with such Uiet , though they see the fields and the meadows covered with corn and with cattle , created by their oun labour . IthasaUobeea fashionable , amougf-t even the working classes , to look upon the country labourers , particularly those here in the South , as being totally ignorant with regard to public matters , and as being utterly unable to bo made to understand anything about the political causes of their misery ; and of course r . ot knowiug the least in the world about Parliamentary Reform .

      Such opinions were never entertained by ma for any one moment of my life . I from my childhood have known the country labourers well ; and , in conversation as well as in writing , I have always maintained , that they well nnderetoo-J the nature of their wrouijs and the causes of their misery ; and that tbe day would come when they would endure that misery no longer . Xow , then , for tihe circumstances connected with this petition , which I have spoken of above . In the month of September , or early in October , 1830 , when scarcely a petititn had recently been sent up for Parliamentary Reform , the labourers of thu parish of Wonston , Bullington , and Barton Stacey , ( the

      . whole three containing a population less than one ] thousand five hundred soul * , ) met at the hamlet of Sutton Saotney , where they agreed to a petition to Hie King , and subscribed two or thr&e pence % piece , to pay , % e expenoea of a man to carry it and present it to the 1 oiigat Brighton , where the King then was , Them&n c > osea to go « n foot this distance of sixty mites , was j Ok 'eph M&eon , of ^ Bullington , of whom I shall have to say * gaod deal by-and-by . rj Repetition veas signed by 178 labouring men of the i »* rishes of Wonston , Bullington , and Barton Stacfcy . 1 TVhtJ x Joseph Mason arrived at Brighton , he went to the re ^ ence ef the King , expecting , and justly expectiDg U > exercise his right 'to petition th « Kiag !' !

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      In this only be was in error ; that is , thinking the right exist ©* , and -was something real aad not a sham . Instead of being permitted to petitloa the King , he was told that which is contained in the following copy of a note sent to him by Herbert Taylor , to help to pay whose enormous salary he had been working all his life-time : — " Pavilion , Brighton , October 21 , 1830 . " Sir , —I have received your letter of yesterday , inclosing the petition which you have been deputed by certain persons belonging to the working and labouring

      classes of the parishes of Wonston , Barton Stacey , and Bullington , near Winchester , to present to the King , and I beg to acquaint you , for the information of those who have signed this petition , that the Secretary of State for the Home Department is the proper and official channel of such communications to his Majesty . I therefore return the petition to you , and "I am , Sir , " Tour obedient servant , "H . Taylor . " " Mr . Joseph Mason , Bullington , Hant 3 . "

      To come to London , and then to go home , was another hundred and twenty miles , or thereabouts . He , therefore , went to a gentleman at Brighton , whom he know to have been born and brought up at Winchester , gave , him the petition , and the insolent note of Herbert Taylor , in order that the former might be sent to the ^ Secretary of Stato . Tl . is gentleman sent tho two papers to his brother , who lives in London , and he brought the papers to me , to know how he wan to get them to Peel . After looking at the papers , and hearing the whole story , I saidi' Give me the petition : Jet it not be disgraced by being hawked about in that manner a time will yet come when Englishmen may petition something other than Herbert Taylor and Peel' When Joseph Mason was drawing up this sensible petition , &n < i when he -waa tramping a hundred and twenty miles

      on the business of presenting It , he little thought of that eondemnation to death , and that transportation and slavery for life , to which he was to be sentenced in about two months from the day on which he presented himself at the palace of the King ' s most excellent Majesty' at Brighton ! He little thought , that being one of a crowd who extorted a few shillings from a farmer or a parson , and of which he neither extorted nor took any part , would be to commit an act of ' highway robbery , ' for which he should be dragged from his wife and family , condemned to death , and sent into slavery for life J Such , however , was the result ; and the Englishman who can hear the story without feeling his heart swell , and feeling the blood boiling in bis veins , deserves to perish from hunger , and to be feod for the fowls of the air .

      Jn about a month after Joseph Mason ' s failure to get his petition to the hands of ' his most excellent Majesty , ' those risings for increase of wages , which had begun in Eist Kent , had extended themselves into Hampshire , and they finally reach * d the parishes , in about the centre of which lies the hamlet of Suttan Scotney . Of the part which this petition-carrier took in these risings , I shall have to speak by-and-by ; but first let us see who and what he was . His parents had , for generations , been labourers ; he was born in one of these parishes . He had a brother whose name is Robert , who was not married . Joseph was married and had one child . They lived in the parish of Bullington with their mother , who had been a widow a good many years , and who found , in the great and skilful labour

      of her sons , in their rare sobriety , in their great industry and excellent nmral character , safe protection from want , from all need of parochial relief , and from all those miseries which are the lot of mothers who have children of a different description . " Besides the work which these two young men did for the farmers in the neighbourhood , they rented a piece of ground , consisting of about three acres and a half , which they cultivated mornings and evenings , and at times when thoy had no other work . They kept a cow , fatted a pig or two , anil , therefore , as there was but one child in the family , they were a great deal better off than the labourers in general . Therefore , it whs not mere hunger that induced them to take a part in the risings . They were induced , even if voluntary , to do it from a

      sense of duty towards their poorer and more unfortunate neighbours . The object of the risings was , not to commit acts of violence on anybody , and no acts of Violence were committed ; not for the purpose of committing acts of plunder , for no acts of plunder took place ; but solely for the purpose of obtaining a sufficiency of food and of raiment , and of fuel to make life bearable to those whose labour produced all the food , all the raiment , and all the fuel . Yet , for taking the mildest and most inoffensive part in these risings , these two excellent young men were , under the Special Commission which Grey advised the King to give to Vaughan , Parke , Alderson , Wellington , Deiiman , Sttirges Bourne , and Serjeant Wilde , condemned to death , AND TRANSPORTED FOR LIFE !! !

      In order to do justice , as far as I am at present able , to all the parties eonoernad , I will here refer te an account of the trials in Hampshire , as afterwards published by the Curate of the parish of Stoke Charity . I wip draw no conclusions myself , and offer no opinions ; but will simply state the facts as published iu the account of the trials . Joseph . Mason , aged 31 ; Robert Mason , aged 22 ; were first indicted for what they called robbing one C . illeniler , Sir Thomas Baring's bailiff . There were six others indicted along with them ; there were a thousand persons or more in this rising ; but , H 3 far as one can ju'fge from the report of tha trial , the whole burden of thu inquiry was about the two Masons . The jury , bowever , acquitted them both . In their defence , both of

      them denied ever having touched any money ; and both said , that they were pressed by the rest of the people , and compelled to go with them ; aud there was no evidence brought to show that this was not true . Having escaped hero , they wet 8 almost instantly clapped into another indictment ; and the next day were put upen their trial for robbing W . Dowtlen . Here Joseph was caught , but Robert escaped . On the same day , however , he was claimed into another indictment , when the Reverend James Jolliffe , curate of Barton Stacey , swore , that he was robbed of Jive shilliwjs , and that R ) bert Mason was one ef the robbers . This parson swore that he gave the five shillings out of fear . Uobert Mason said , in his defence , that he had not taken the money , nor participated in it : that he

      had bet-n compelled to go along with tbe rest ; and * that ii the lawyer who had saifl so much against him had been in the road , with a smock-frock on instead of that gown , aud a straw hat instead of that wig , he would now bo standing at the bar , as he was ; that an honest man he had always been ; an honeat man he still was , and an honest man he would ever remain . " Mr . Wm . Wickbam anrl Mr . Janus Wickham , the two priucipal landowners in the neighbourhood , pave him , as they beforo had given his brother , the best of characters . Mr . Enos Didams did the same ; the jury most strongly recommended him to mercy ; but , like his brother , he teas condemned to DEATH , AND TRANSPORTED FOB LIFE !! Always when these Masons ware tried , ap came the story about the Brii / kton petition ' . —Cobbclt .

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      LORD CARDIGAN'S HUMANITY : UNLUCKY TOM MA . CAULAY . Coleridge in one of his works expressed regret that the science of casuistry had fallen into neglect—that branch of moral inquiry to which huge touies were devoted by the divines of tho sixteenth » nd seventeenth conturies . Jeremy Taylor , he complained , was the last of the casuists . Hud Coleridge survived till this time , ho might hava bailed with delight the reappearance of a casuist in the Whig Secretary at War . Mr . Mucaulay ' s exposition of the case of the Earl of Cardigan to the House of Commons was a mastor-piece in this liHe . The conduct of the Earl was analyzed with the utmost subtility : tha possible , the probable , and the huprobabla motives to his whipping Private Rogers by

      ¦ way of a voluntary at the close of divino service , were all reviewed in detail . On the whole , Mr . Macaulay inclined to the opinion that the Earl was to blame j but he arrived at this conclusion with characteristic diffidence , and expressed it with tho hesitation of a man who , having studied under Sir Roger de Coverley , knows " much may be said on both sides . " But Mr . Macaulay has come an age too late . Suiauel Taylor Coleridge is no more , and with him tho admirers ot casuistry havu died out So decided is Ihe aversion to casuistry in this age , that even the Downing-street journals have taken up the cry against the luckleaa wight who has attempted to ro-establish that brauch of study . The Globe protests that Mr . Macaulay ' s conclusion is erroneous , with much more confidence than

      it declared the rumour that Lord Belhaven is tu be superseded in the office of C-jinmiswouer to the General Assembly to be uufoundod . The Chronicle rouudly asserts that " Mr . Mac . iulay went out oi his way to volunteer a tribute to the humanity of the Earl of Cardigan ; " and that " Mr . Macaulay ' s statement was either irrelevant or untrue . " Tho Chronicle does not pretend to decide which ; and as tho two qualities are not incompatible , delicately leaves it to be in rred that the statement may be b ' oth . The Chronicle is at the pains to marshal a formidable array of figures in opposition to the decision of Mr . Macaulay : and , after mature deliberation , we rather incline to the opinion that the Chronicle Is in the rigkt . To only one of the Chronicle ' s conclusions do wo demur—" Hia laboured tribute to Lord Cardigan's humanity , and his questionable endeavour to shelter his Lordship's indecency under precedent , in order to weaken the feeling which

      his outrageous conduct was calculated to excite , was altogether unworthy of Mr . Macaulay . " For " unirworthy" we would read " worthy . " The question with regard to Lord Cardigan ' s humanity Is , we admit , nat an easy one : no microscopical inquiries are . His friends mot , " No man in the Eleventh Hussars has been punished with the huh since 1839 "—vrgal , hi » Lordship ia humane ; it was sheet humanity that made him in such a hurry to punish Private Rogers—he was anxious that the poor fellow should have it over . On the other hand , Lord Cardigan ' s adversaries aay that " it is understood Lord Cardigan received instruction from head-quarters to diminish the severity of his punishments ; " and Sir Charles Dalbiac is said to have recorded hi « opinion that " Lord Cardigan's connniund had been characterised by unnecessary harshness . " So , possibly , the hurry with Private Rogers may be owing t ^ his Lor dship ' s long abstinence from the infliction of

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      punishment having made him hungry to get a man whipped . Lord Cardigan seems to be like pitch—he defiles every man who handles him . Last week , a sentimental journalist expressed apprehension that "the connection with Lord Cardigan might prove fatal to Prince Albert ' s peace . " Thia week the connection with Lord Cardigan has opened the mouth of the Downingstreet journals against their own Secretary at * War ¦ the little dogs and all , Tray , Blanche , and Sweetheart , how they bark at him ! " Having reteendied an un from tke Chronicle ' s worthy , we must transplant it to our own lucky , and use in future the designation unlucky Tom Macaulay . Exiled from Windsor , " and carped at by the Globe and Chronicle , it is dear that his planet has passed its culminating point- — , " The day of his destiny ' s over , And the star of his fate hath declined , " *^ "I - It only remains to be added , that" Even wo , the story hearing , With a sigh can cry poor Tom !" —Spectator . '

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      EXECUTION OF BARTHOLOMEW ! MURRAY FOR THE MURDER OF MR . AND MRS . COOKE . AT OVER PEOVER .

      Chester , Saturday Night . —The last sentence of the law was carried into effect upon the body of this wretched culprit at the City Gaol this morjniug . From the time of his apprehension in Ireland and his commitment on the charge , which at the last .. assizes was brought so clearly home to him , his conduct nod been uniformly good . The order for the execution was forwarded from the Secretary of State ' s' tffice , and received by the city sheriff , W . J . Ltller , Esq ., on Sunday . The announcement of its arrival made no alteration iu ttie habit or manners of the unhappy youth . He was locked up every night in the condemned cell by himself , and is said to have enjoyed up to Thursday night , sound and unbroken sleep . Oa Friday morning the holy sacrament was administered to him by the Rev . J . Carberry .

      Ho then appeared quite resigned to his fate , and deeply impressed with the urgent necessity of making his peace with God . On Friday afternoon he expressed a wish to see the prisoners who up to the day of his condemnation had been confined in the saroe yard with him . He bado all an affectionate adieu . Between eight and nine o ' clock in the evening be was revisited by the Raman Catholic clergyman . He then undressed himself , got into bed , and t . tkiog his prayer-book ju his hand , with the exception of some short intervals , read the contents with marked < Uvotion throughout the night He dressed about four o'clock , and partook of a hearty breakfast . The reading of tho usual morning prayers soon after commenced , the culprit , ^ in au audible voice , joiniBg in tho service , and repeating word for word after the clergyman . The county

      authorities next conducted Murray to the lobby adjoining the outer gate of tbe castle . Ho was there handcuiFed , and the city sheriff and his officers being announced as waiting for the culprit at Giover ' a Stsne , the city baundary , Mr . Dunstan conducted his prisoner on foot in that direction . A strong body of the city police , armed with cutlasios , attended to keep- buck the crowd . The unhappy man walked by the side of the priest , still repeating the prayers . Hia ' step was remarkably firm , and the gazo of a crowd , of some thousands did not appear in the least to affect him . Ou the arrival of the county procession at tho boundary , a black railed cart , without springs , provided by

      the cfry authorities , was in reidinets to convey the culprit to the city gaol . He waa lifted into it by Mr . Hill , the superintendent of the city police , and'Mr . Haswell , the governor of the city gaol , and manacles having been fixed to his legs , the Rev . J . Carberry took a seat in the cart by the sido of the culprit , both ruling with their backs to the horse , whicbj after the true Tyburn style , was led by the hangman , a practitioner from Staffordshire . The governor of s the city gaol headed the procession , and the sheriff , under sheriff , and a large body of officers brought up the rear . The crowd was exceedingly dense , and the police constables had great difficulty in keeping them baok , so as to make a passage for the cart .

      The procession reached tiie gaol as the clock struck five . The cart was taken to the back door of tue prison , aud Murray ' s manacles having been removed , he was conducted through the chapel , in which his coffin ; made of plain undressed deal , was lying , to the cell at the foot of the fatal platform . The sight of neither the coffin nor drop appeared to affect him in the least . ' On entering the coll he directly knelt down and continued his devotions . At half-past nine o ' clock a second breakfast ^ raa provided . Murray merely took a single cup of tea . About ten o ' clock the Rev . W . G . Eaton , the county prison chaplain , p : ttd tho unfortunate man another visit .

      After shaking hands with him , the reverend gentleman said , ' Well , Murray , how do you feel ? Wliat is the state of your mind at present ? " The answer to which was , " Quite composed . " Tho chaplain then asked , " Are you prepared for tbe awful change bo shortly about to take place ? " Alurrny replied ,. ; " Yes , sir . " ' Do you feel perfectly resigned to yojirfatu ?" " Yes , sir . " The reverend chaplain then tendered his services to the unfortunate man , who , through Mr . Carberry , respectfully < leclined them , at the same time thankiog the reverend gentleman for his kind offer . and the general attention shown to him during his lengthened imprisonment in the county gaol .

      At length all being prepared , and just as the unfortunate ? man was about to be conducted to tho drflp , the Kev . Mr . Isatoii feelingly appealed to him in the following words : — " Bartholomew Murray , I have obtained the permission of Mr . Carberry to . ask you a solemn question . The religious exercises to which you have been subject must have very deeply impressed your mind , and as you are about very shortly to appoar in the presence of God , I do not require you to answer unless you do it in sincerity and truth . I sthe sentence , for which you are now about to suffer , just of unjust ?" Murray at or . ce replied , " I have no declaration to make . " He was then conducted to the drop , and having ascended the scaffold with a firm step , he tnelt

      with Mr . Carberry on the drop . After a few minutes spent in prayer , the executioner proceeded to adjast the rope . His pastor then administered the sacrament of extreme unction , and , turning round an'ishakiug hands with Murray , said , I am now about to leave you , " to which h « replied , in a firm voice , " I am satisfied , God be with you . " These were his lost words ; in an instant the drop fell , and he died without a perceptible struggle . He was in the nineteenth year of hi 3 age . The body , after hanging the u ^ ual time , was cut down and placed in a coftin . At night it was privately removed to the Castle , aud , agreeably to the provisions of the Act of Parliament , interred within the precinets , without Christian burial . ¦

      Srojn the circumstance of there having been no public execution in Chester since April 19 th , 18 ' , on immense concourse of spectators were collected together on the city walls . At the moment of the execution , twenty-five minutes past twotoe o ' clock , the crowd was exceedingly dense . Fortunately , no accident of consequence occurred .

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      The Swell , the Costermo . nger , and tiie Donkey . —At the Maryleboae Police office , ou Saturday , Joseph Holden , an elderly man , with a serio-comic cast of countenance , was brought up , charged under the following curious circumstances : —It appeared , from the evidence of a gcntlemaa named Tufnell , that a few days ago , as his pt . as ' ton was standing in Great Marylebono street , a donkey , bsJonging to defendant , started off with the cart to which it was harnessed , and dashed violently against the vehicle of complainant ; the wheels became locked together , and oil defendant being told by complainant that he was ia fault for leaving his donkey and cart tinattended , he poured out a volley of the grossest abuse , which caused a considerable crowd to assemble . Mr . Hardwick ( to defendant)—What have

      you to eay to this ! Defendant—Ty , please yer honourable Vorship , I did ' nt blow up the gin'lonaau at all , not by no means votsumdever , and ven I aaid b—t your eyes , aud be d—d to you , I vos a speechefying to tiie ass , and no other mortal man living , s'help me tatur ; my donkey ' s a werry ' spectable Mid veil-conducted ass , my Lord , aud I never kuowed him to gallop off in this here vay afore ; I looks upon tho hanimal as von of my own family , aad ven ho dies I shall uever get another like him for love nor money . The defendant here rubbed his eye with his frock sleeve , and " wiped away a tear . 'V > He was fiued 10 s ., which he speedily paid , and on quitting ihe co \ m , said , " if there's a more betterer- conducted ass than mine in all London then my name aint Joe Holden , aud that ' s all about it . "

      How to Livs By a Loss . —At Marlborough-street police-office , ou Saturday , John Lewis , a ra # ged , bat exceedingly intelligent-looking little boy , about eight years of age . wus charged with begging in the streets , and practising the following deception . A police constable of the G division stated that as he was passing Greek-street , Soho , he saw the defendant crying most piteously , and complaining that he had lost a sixpence in the kennel , and that when he went home nis mother would beat him for losing it . Several persons , believing the boy , soon made up his loss by setting a penny subscription on foot , and the moment he got the money ho disappeared . InJialf an hour afterwards the same policeman saw the boy again sitting on the step of a door in Compton-street . He was then crying as before , and attracted a crowd of persons about him to whom be was relating that he had lost some of bis mother's money , and that . it

      had beeu knocked out of his hand by another boy , who had struck him on the head . This tale Was also believed by the bystanders who were proceeding to give the boy money , when the policeman convinced them that he had trumped up the story , questioned him , when he admitted that his account about losing the sixpence was all '' sham , " adding that hia mother hsd sent him to beg , and threatened to give him a thrashing if he returned home without money . The boy , in answer to a question from the magistrates , said , that he never got more than two bob , and if he did not get any money ; his mother gave him a clout on the head , but ho did nof mind that . The mother , who had been called into the office , said that she was a widow , aad in great distress . The magistrate told her that if she was in disttessshe should appJy to tbe parish authorities . The mother said she vouM d $ so , but she h » d T « 7 little hopa of secc < 83 . - . :

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      How to Accomplish aix that » b a * . My rule w deliberately to consider l . cW ? * ' mence , whether the thing is practicable If J > not practicable , I do not attempt it if ;» vl " < H ticable , I can accompliah it , if I give fufficient L ^ o it ; and ^ hawig begun , I never rtbp-fflffi ffl is done . —Dr . Hunter . r » M » « i

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      Christened at Yeovil Church , by the R » J Robinson , on Wednesday , tbe 14 th fort Ikw ' ^ KJ ^ daUghter of Wm - Tocktrl Elizabeth his wife . * * Born March 4 th , and duly registered Win-Foargns O'Connor Carroll , eon & tomJ ?* William Carroll , oordwainer , No . 3 , AuK / ft " Cumberland-street , Manchester . ¦ ° »* Born on the 2 nd of January , and chri ^ i ... ! the 21 st of February , by the Rev fti Helen Agnee O'Connor Vincent , dauehter ' or * T ander and Margaret Chalmers , of the'rJr ' Coffee-honse , Portobello , near Edinburgh ^ Christened at the Collegiate Church on S «* i the 24 th of March , Ann O'Connor and fi ^ twin daughters of John and Ann Lee of iu ^ Chester . ' **»

      On the 28 th of March , Agnes , the wife nf tl . Walker , of Sheffield , was delivered of afine ° & ter , which was baptised at the parish rhii » Air ' duly registered Eliza O'Connor Frost Walto ? " * On Tuesday , the 10 th of March , Elizabeth a wife of George Doig , of Bedlington , was ut& 2 hvered of a son , who was duly registered nLs Ftargus Doig , on the 28 th of March . ^ " 9 Grace , the wife of Henry Burnett 13 & ><• * . street , Bradford , was delivered of a son on 3 last , which has since been duly registered EmT . Frost Burnett . " ««» In January last , Mary , the wife of George IV ' M'Do « a g F ! y WWCh ^ *» «* & « 8 : ^ Tuesday , April 13 th , the daughter of John a Celia Moore , of Trowbrcdge , was duly resist ^ Celia Frost Moore , in honour of the exiled o ^ Ti JohnFro ? t . KWig Sl Eliza Frost , born November 4 th , 1839 , chrisfej at the parish church , Dewsbury . ^

      Jane O'Connor Frost , born at Stockport \ R \ u March , 1841 and duly registered ; daughterJf . G « m and Hannah Hall . ™ On Thursday week , Elizabeth , wife of Mr . G «>« Walker , tailor , Woodhouse Carr , near this t < m gave birth to a daughter , who has been dulv ren tered Harriet Feargns O'Connor . ^ Mr . Henry Hunt , of the Friars , Leicester , recejfl had a eon christened Feargns , after the incarcerifi patriot now in York Castle . On Tuesday , March 30 , 1841 , Mary Ann Benfe the wife of John Bentley , of Millbrid ^ e , was aaie delivered- of a son , who has since been 4 ' registered Feargus O'Connor . ^'

      Born , at Loughborough , April 9 th , Mary O'Ca nor , daughter of Joseph and Sarah Lester . Born , recently , William Feargus , son of Will ™ and'Olive Priestley , of Longhborough . Jane Frost Hemingway , daughter of John ttr Martha Hemingway , of Calver , neaT Bakewei ) * j duly registered ou the 15 th instant , in hoflour i that noble patriot , John Frost . On the 22 nd of April , at Leicester , was dulyregfe . tered , Mary Ann Frost Knight , the daughter i Samuel and Eliza Knight , of Eaton-street , in honou ? of that bold and unflinching patriot John Frost , Ea the peoples'friend and tyrants'foe . . . '' ? Oa Sunday , April 4 th , the daughter of John ami Charlotte Steward , was christened by the R « t , ft Benfather , Hannah Feargus O'Connor Steward , ^ Sprowsby Church , near Norwich . The Reir . Gentl *

      man said—Is Feargus O'Connor so endeared to yos , that you must have this child named ifteThia Yes , Sir , and not only to me , but to tnodsandt And does the father like Feargus O'Coniw ! Certainly he does . And is Feargus O'Conwi superior to tho Bible lido not know what j « cnean . I say , is Feargus O'Connor superior to tb Bible 1 I do not know what th » name of Fearp O'Connor has to do with the Bible . Then I ski not name your child . That you can do as ja please about ; but if you do not , there are otha that will . I suppose , Sir , we may name our childn as we like ? I do not know that you may ; I this if you refer to tha Bible you would not have tla child named Feargus O'Connor . With these woii he took up his book , and said with a sn « i " Hannah Feargus O'Connor , " &c .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 1, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct377/page/6/