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      H Oteb Head ajtd EiES m Debt . "—A hitter in Kew York giTes a definition of the common phrate w over head and ears in debt . " He says in his advertisement , it means a man . who hasn ' t paid for his hat . BrmDESca . —A man . gets along faster -with a sensible married woman in hours than with a young girl in whole days . It is next to impossible to make them talk , or to reach them . They are like a green ¦ walnut ; thtr § are half a dozen outer coats to be pulled off , one by one and slowly , before JOU reach ike kernal of their character . Idleness . —The worst vices springing from the worst principles—the excesses of the libertine , and the outrages of the plunderer—usually take their riae from eariy and unsubdued idleness . Parr ' s Discoveries on Education .

      O » d Axsweb . —The elder folks were talking of the races , when one turned to a listening child and and said , "Did you ever see a rarer , Bobby !" ** Yes , " was the answer , " I haTe seen the csindles run- " A Det Rcb . —The late R « y . Mr . Walker of Dundonald , who \ f ^ s as well known for hi 3 piety as his ready taleni for repartee , bad , in his youth , been a sergeant in the army . One day as he entered the Prcibyterial court , he was addressed by a clerical brother , who was notorious for bis ardent and constant attachment to his bo ' ule , with , — " Come away , captain—if you had still been a soldier , what situation would you have given me in your compan y ? As I lire by the word of my mouth , at any ratej 1 think 1 wonld hare made a capital fifer Y' u No , Do , '' said the clerical wit , that would nerer have done , fox the pay wonld not have been half enough to have kept your vchis ' . le teet . " -

      > . 3 to > -: shi > 'g —A Western Editor went off in a fit of hysterics a lew weeks since , at the sight of three men , who unceremoniously entered his office and requested the iiberty of paying for a year ' s subscription to the paper . Ths America * Characieu . — " We are born in a hurry , " says an American , " we are educated at full Bp « cd . We mske a fortune with the wave of a wand , and loose it in like manner , to re-make and re-loose it in the twinkling of an eye . Our body is & locomotive , travelling at the rate of ten leagues an hGur ; our thoughts are as a high-pressure engine ; our life resembles a shooting star , and death eutprises us like an electric stroke . "

      Pctestt 5 s an enormous eril . By poverty , I underssand the state of main possessing no pernanent property , in a country wh&re wealth and luxury have already gained a secure establishment . He , then , that is to oorn to poverty , may be said , under another ram * , io be born a slave . —Godwin . Bishop Otter ' s ' Pastoral Addresses , " announced among the new clerical work ? , include , it is said , some au-.-encnate advice to the clergy as to the best mode of securing the " loaves and Jisbcs , " — good things which tae whole clericalhost are in starch of , though bat few of the number b . 3 ve the wit to succeed in their attempts .

      O . v T 3 E dat that Sir Robert reel dined at the Hojal table , the minatare carriage . built for the Princess Rvjal became the subject of conversation it was much extolled for its lightness and elegauce by Lord Melbourne , who bad seen it , and who , addressing himself to Sir Robert , said , " Peel , I ' m sure wiii approve of it ; lei me recommend you to go and see our ' rurn-out . '" "I shall be only too happy , " promptly rejoined Sir Robert . A Dl'tchmax asd his wife were travelling ; they S&t down by lie roadside exceedingly fatigued . The wife =:. gr ? ed , " I wish I was in Heave */ ' The husband replies , ~ I wish I was at the tavern . " " Oh , yon old rogue . " savs she , " you always want to get the be ? : place . " Yi . XKF . KiSH . —A Tmi . Ti died in Kentucky so tarnation tall ;' aa : n took two clergymen and a boy to preach his funeral sermon .

      Ths Bishop of London is a plain-gpoken individual . When heTead the account of the Visitation proceedings at York , and the sentence passed on the Dean , hts emphatically , bat rather -nnclerically , remarked , that " ihe Dean was a d—d fool , inasmuch as he noi only sinned simoniacally , but suffered himieit to be found out afterwards . " The last must ceriainiy appear in the eye 3 of a BUhop the worst of foiliea . " 'Tw is fffiOG from me , " as the chicken said when he lest his head . " 1 am the greatest woman in the world , Poll , " remarked her most gracious Majesty ; o the learned parrot . " How very deceptive the eye is sometime ; . '" rejoined the ironical bird .

      It ts briieved that the silver stolen from the plate room m Vviudsor C * s : k was immediately run into bars , to prevent its being identified . ' May . not this lead to the probability of its forming , by this time , a portion of the current coin of the reilm ? " I meak , Polly , to take you to the German company / 7 said the Queen to the learned parrot . " Pray do not , " rtjoined Poll , 1 see quite enough oi " German company here . " * The CcrBT xewsmajt , by a slight literal mistake , * ta :-cd an Tnursday , that " the bells rang a merry peel oil h ? r Majesty ' s arrival . '' Merry " Peels" in connection with her Majesty have been somewhat scarce . We recol . ec ; bus one * ' Peel , " and that was anv thing bu : a merry one .

      Free Trade to thb Lawtebs . —A man from the eoumry applied to a respectable solicitor for legal advice . After detailing the circumstances of tb » .-ca = p , he was asked if he had stated the facts exactly as they occurred . " 0 ay , sir , " rejoined the applicant , " I thought it best to tell you the plain troth ; you can put the lies to it yourself . "

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      Descuiptios oy a Republic ** President . —Mr . G . Combe , the phrenologist , thus describes General Harrison , whom he saw last year at his residence at Kyrth Bend , about a quarter of a mile from the Ohio : —He is now 67 , rather above the middle statore , si-jider , audgtoops considerably . His temperament is nervous and bilious ; his head Is long , of full average height , but not remarkably bioad . The anterior iobe is above an average , both in length , from iront to back , and height ; and both trie observing and reflecting organs are well developed . Tae bead is obviously flat in the region of a ^

      quishueEcs ? . The moral region seemed to ¦ present an avers i-- development . His eyei 3 vivacious , and his couniisance i » highly expressive of thought ; indeed , Ms whole appearance is much more that of a literary or scientific man thin that of a military commander . His Lab . iaiion presented unequivocal indications of bumble fortune ; indeed , it may bs saiJ , without the ieist feeling of disresptct , of poverty ; yet his mauatr and appearance were those of a man of the ¦ world , who was familiar with the best society , and who , in the retirement of his farm at North Bend , Teudned the polish and appearance of ft gentleman .

      Ths East MaIi . —There is no human being walks through this life in a way more peculiar to himself than the easy man . The hopes and fear 3 , j jys and anguish , which worry and harrass the rest of mmkicd , are unknown to him ; be came into this world he knows not how—he jos ; s through it just because he ? ee > other people doing so—he eats and drinks , sleeps sound ; y , and die 3 easily—and when he is bnried , the sexton , as he stands in the half-filled grave , sticks his spade in it for a moment— and takes mnffl The easy man is generally of middle stature , stout , with cheeks having a kind of roughness , like a fowl with the feathers off , rosy , however , and streaked like a winter pear . There is usually a little watery saliva at the earners of his mouth , and in coM weather his proboscis has a drop hanging from it Jike a diamond in the nose of a Persian

      queen . Ke wears an everlasting dra& = great coat , pern leather gloves , and a h&i slightly turned up behind . His trowsers in summer—they are a very j old pair—are usually too short for him , and display ; glaring white worsted stockings ; his hair appears , to obey no sort of arrangement , and he was never ; seen mii an umbrella iu his life . He sp ? : iks aiway 3 1 in a kind of cosy whisper , aa if he was CGuversing i with his wife under a eoverlit—he has a look of ; naiversal benignity , and brsatb . es hcaTilj through 1 bis nt > -e . Ha is fond ef using the word " Sir , " and ( Kicks it into his sentences oftener than other people , i He tites off his h * t in hanks and attorney ' s offices , and has a guise of inoffensireness which nobody c * n ' misiike . '

      How to rsAD Manktxd . —If masters fully understood the ienn ^ nce which even the slightest personal attention produces on the mind 3 of their workman , thty would be more lavish than than they are of a simple acs of justice which can cost them so little , and would profit them so much . Treit a man like % friend , and yon soon make him one ; treat him like a rogue , and Ms honesty must be much greater tb , * n your wisdom , if he do cot soon justify yonr suspicions I In no way are men so easily led—often , it is true , so blindly Jed—as through the affections . Thanks to the benign arrangements of a merciful Father , the afftjctioB 3 are the only part of our nature the cultivation of which man cannot neglect , however much be may often pervert them . Every man

      comes into the world surrounded by objects of affaction . The filial and parent *! tie is one which binds : rich * nd pdoralike 7 and is often Jlie stronger in tht poor , because it is almost tie only domestic blessing ^ hich they can truly call their own . Hence it is , that men too are quite inaccessible to reason , are easily led by the affections ; and no wise man will neglect to nse , especially when xt is for the mutual benefit of all , this powerful and universally prevailing instrument . The next stage to the tie of parent and ehUd , In tbe progress of society , is that ot master and servant ; and it is for the interest of both to j earry into 'their relations with each other a 3 much j as possible of the kindly feeling which hte beea nursed in the bosom , in ccildhood , by tbe domestic ' freiide . —Tbe Mew . Mr . Parkinson ' s Pamphlet \

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      THE SECOND "SETTLEMENT" OF THE CHINA QUESTION . The Dogberries of Government are load in their self-felicitations about the news by the overland mail , " There is no country in the world , " sayB the Ch'onide , " in which a Minister is more frequently tried than in England by the unjutt test of the results rather than the principles of his policy ; and we think we may say with -confidence , that there hare been fetr Ministries that have stood the test more triumphantly than the present . " It must certainly be a great subject of congratulation to Ministers to know that their foreiga policy meets with approbation—when tried bj an unjust test . "

      The Chronicle has thuB dexterously and Judiciously sought to shelve " the principles" of the quarrel with China . There is so much of truth in the pithy axiom announced by that journal that Ministers are in this country most frequently tried by the " unjust test" of their success , that were their success in China beyond dispute , there would be nothing remaining for all who question their principles , but to ent-er a protest—an appeal from the people in the intoxication of success , to the people become sober again , and called upon to pay the bill , under the influence of a headache the consequence of their debauch—and drop the controversy for the the present . Honesty is the beat policy ; and a less restricted intercourse with China , purchased by an opium war , might have its advantages materially neutralised by the fraud and violence which procured it .

      But even the success may be questioned . The Chronicle tells US— " The wrongs of our merchants have been redressed ; the position of our trade immensely benefitted ; increased facilities given for carrying it on iu future ; and our diplomatic- intercourse fr « ed from those offensive and humiliating forms , so long a source of serious embarrassment between the countries . " And all this , we are asrared , has been astained " in a single campaignat an incredibly email expenditure either of life or means . " Let us contrast this magnificent verbiage with the meagre abstract of events upon which it rests .

      " The irroDgs of our merchants have been redressed . " By " wrongs of our merchants , " we suppose the writer means the seizure and destruction of the opium . How have they been redressed ! " An indemnity to the British GoTernment of six millions of dollars , pa . 5 a . ble in six . yearly iaat&lments , " is said to have been promised by the Chinese Commissioners . This is not repayment to the merchant : it is a contribution towards the payment of the expense incurred by the British Government in fitting out the expedition . " Tae Plenipotentiary has published ofiiMaiiy his intention to urge the opium-indemnification claims upon the British Government , wjih ine concurrence also of the Governur-General of India . " It is uBcerraia yet whether tho opium-merchants at Canton are to be indemnified for their losseB ; and it they are , it is to be at the expense , not ot tho Chinese ( iovernment , but of the British people .

      ' The position of our trade immensely benefitedincreased iacilitiesgiven for carrying it on in future . " The clauses " said to be stipulated" in " the preliminary treaty signed officially by the Plenipotentiaries" are—" cession of the island of Hong-Koni ? to the British Crown , " and . " ihe trade of Canton to be opened ten days after the Chinese New Year . " That is to gay—the British have now in Hong-Kong , an island thirteen leagues to the eastof Macao , a right of property similar to that which the Portuguese have long had in the latter island : and iliat the trade with Canton is to be rc-opened , for anything ihat appears to the contrary , exactly on the same footing on which , it was totmerly conducted . Hong-Koug is granted mi rely as a fief of tbe empire—as private property : and the terms upon which trade is to be conducted are left for afternegoc : at ; on—to furnish matter for Palmeratonian protocols .

      " Our diplomatic intercourse freed from those offensive and humiliating forms , " ice . The statement from China is— ' Direct cticial intercourse , on an equal footing between the two countried . " Th : s 3 undoubtedly & gain , if real : but the politic Chinese may dispense with the form of " pin" and yet keep the representatives of the British Crown as much at arm ' s length as ever . This admission on the part of the Chinese , that Great Britain is cot a tributary but an independent state , may place certain Consular and Diplomatic appointments at the disposal of Ministers—entail additional expense ou the country , and furnish Government with increased means of corruption—and yet leave our mercantile iawre ^ s in China exactly as they were .

      Auu all this has been purchased with an Incred ; bJy . small expeuditure either of life or of means . " Before we admit this , we must know the exact value of what has been gained , Expeuditure is lar ^ e or fmall iu proportion to the return obtained for it . But we would say that , prima facie , the expenditure of life in the Chinese sValcheren of Chusan has noi been small ; and that tha Chinese contribution of six millions of dollars ( only £ 1 , 500 , 000 6 ter ! ing , taking the dollar at as high a value as 5 s . ) towards the expellees of the expedition , will fall far short of the expences already incurred .

      In short , the result of the whole transaction seems to be—That the Directors of the East India Company , ( vsho have a monopoly oi the opium grown in their terrkories , ) and some British merchants resident in Canton , having for some time carrieu ou a lucrative smuggling trade in opium , the Chinese Govercment seized their stock on hand at Whampoa ; that iu consequence of this , the British Government fitted out a fleet and army , which took possession of a town in Chusan , battered down two or three Chinese forts , lost a great many men by sickness , and frightened the Chiurse Gorernmont into cedins to cur Queen a barren island near the mouih

      of the Cauioa river , pronuaug to treat English diplomatic agents with civility , and undertaking to pay by instalments , in the course of six years , a portion of the expences of the expedition ; and that the Govern or-General of India is to endeavour to persuade the British Government to indemnify the Canton merchants , lor the purpose of enabling them to pay the East India Company , oat of the taxes raisea in Great Britain , and to defray the surplus expence incurr » d by the expedition , o \ er and above the contribution of the Chinese Government . Lastly , even this settlement has not yet been ratified by either Government .

      The Whiu organ 3 must be sadly at a loss for somtching to bras of , when they make such a hallooing about this trumpery affair . —Spectator .

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      ^ Ox MoyDAT anqtherhonse fell down in High-street , St . Giles ' s . No life was lost . A > ui ! ber of qnarrymen , who had been employed at Bullock , six miles from Dublin , have been taken off to Faris , to work upon the fortifications . Me .. Abijah Pope , of Juniata , has been found guilty and fined 22 # dollars for an assault and battery on Philtmon H . Mann . This statement is headed * ' dope ' s Es 3 ay on Man . " Moke Absurpitt . —It 13 currently reported that Mr . Hawes was so shocked ou hearing a parcel of urchins cry " Hot cross buus , " on Good Friday , that he is determined to put a stop to it by legislative interfereuce . "While thkbk has been a slight increase in the quantity of malt used in the distilleries in England during the last year , and only a very slight decrease ia Scotland , the falling off in Ireland has amounted to nearly one-third .

      It 15 siated , on the authority of a letter from St . Pc - . ersburg , that the Russian army was about to be reduced by 4 ' . ' , 000 or 50 , 00 ft men . The samo paper announces that the agitation in Serria still cc / nviuued . Snreau . YG . —The mate of a foreign ship wa 3 fined 40 i ., at a London police offi . ee , on Saturday , for smuggling & box of cigars , which was also confiscated . Fcriocs Driving . —A reporter , named Clyatt , hio been held to bail , himself in £ 50 * , and two Enreiies ia £ 250 , to appear to answer tho charge of having run oTer a child , in Bridge-street , Blackfriar ' s Road , London . Ihe child is not said to be out of danger yet .

      Highwat Robbert bt a Retvr-ved Transport . —James Porter , a returnea transport , was sentenced to transportation for life , at the Central Criminal Court , on Saturday , for having committed a robbery upon a young lady , near the Edgewareroad , in iebruary last . An Unprofitable Customer . —A tall hungrylooking man walked into a cookshop in London Wall , London , a day or two back , and , after consuming plate after plate of meat and vegetables , very coolly told the eating-housekeeper that he had no money in his pockets , and asked would they give him credit for a month ! He was taken b » fore the magistrate * , at the Mansion House , on Saturday , but wa 3 discharged on giving his address , and promising payment in a week .

      The Poor Law made Mubdeekk . —On Saturday at the Criminal Court , London , Harriet Longley , who drowned her child in the New River , to which act she was driven by her destitution , and the refusal of the Poor Law officers to relieve her , was tried , and found guilty of murder . Sentence of de&ih was passed upon her , but the Judges said they wonld record hen case to her Majesty , in order to save her life . Rstu&mng F&OM Tbakspobtatiok . —At the Central Criminal Court , London , on Saturday , George Quids , alias Giles , was indicted for returiiicg front transportation . It appeared that the prisoner was capitally convicted in this Court , in the year 1832 , and that his sentence was subsequently commuted to transportation for life . An officer apprehended him a few days since in a public-house . Mr . Baron Guruey sentenced him to be imprisoned six mouths in the House of Correction , and afterwards transported for life .

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      Ibish Railroads . —At langth the subject of railroads for Ireland ia taken up in good earnest ; a number of £ ngli » h capitalists hare come forward with the necessary funds , and they are to be secured by the government in a certain per centage on their outlay . We understand that the Messrs . Baring stand at the head of the list . —Waterford Chronicle . A Lusps Nature . —On Friday , the wife of a weaver , named George , wh » resides in Rose-lane , Spitalfields , was delivered of a male child , which has excited the greatest curiosity . The child is a mere trunk , witnost arms OT thighs , out is in exoeedingJy good health , and likely , in the opinion of the medical attendant , to do wall , performing the offices of nature perfectly . The trunk appears as if nature never intended to give thighs or arms in this instance .

      We regret to mention that a quondam writer in Arbroath , who commenced business some years since as a merchant and importer of green oloth , absconded last wek , leaving debts and liabilities , as estimated by Borne , to the amount of upwards of £ 100 , 000 . Few of our manufacturers but have sustained heavy losses , and many in the neighbouring towns of Forfar , Kirriemuir , and Dundee , have also suffered by this nefarious transaction . —Montrose Review . Justices' Justice . —It appears by the Nottmgham Review that the two labourers who were sent to prison by two Mansfield Justices for the serious offence of loitering , i . e . standiug upon a causeway , looking out for a job of work , which we noticed at the time , have undergone their severe sentence of a month ' s confinement ! We think the punishment inflicted upon these men was an outstretch of the law , and we hope the two merciful Justices who committed them will have to account for it . — Weekly Dispatch .

      Skeleton sold in Covent Garden . —Amongst the numerous lotJ sold by Mr . Edmund Robins , in Covent Garden , on Tuesday , was the skeleton of HoHoway , the murderer of Mr . Steele , on Houuslowheath , in the year 1802 . It was knocked down to a surgeon for 3 # s . [ The presumption afterwards was that Holioway , and Has ? gerty , who was executed with him , were innocent of the offence for which , they suffered . —Londtn paper . Life preserving Hat . —A day or two ago the natives of Dover were much asmeed with the exhibition of some fishermen swimminif about in the

      harbour buoyed up by White ' s life-preserving hat . Mr . White , who is at present resident in Dover , gave the men a hat each , on condition that they would jump into ihe water to prove its efficacy in saving life . The hats which kepi their owners above water without the slightest exertion , are of the ordinary mnke ; and the space above the head being filled with air , they make the person having hold ot them float like a cork . Tkey aTe not kept on the kead , but held over the chest or under the chin . The hat is fastened with a cord or riband to the wearer , and go equipped he may go to sea without fear .

      Juvenile Vagrancy . —There exists a Society whose object it is to reform and provide for destitute children , juvenile beggars , and infant piokpockets . It iB very slenderly provided for ; nay , its continued existence is doubtful , for the want of patronage . Of the importance of crushing crime in the egg , no reflecting person can doubt ; and were this system of suppressing vermin vigorously acted up to , society would be relieved from continual depredation ; the gaols would be depopulated , the hulks thinned , and tho horrors of crime and punishment mitigated to a m « st heart-rejoicing degree . Well , this most rational and humane plan is one that has never been adopted by our Government , has been scarcely sanctioned by the wealthy and

      enlightened public , and in the instance of thia society is left to straggle , and starve on its way to failure and extinction . All this time the Legislature is providing laws against crime ; the Executive is devi-ing prisons at home and at the antipodes , establishing armies of police , and legions of magistrates , justices , and juries . What a spectacle of blindness ! Crime is left to grow strong , to spread , to fecundate , and overrun the land—and then is the time chosen to contend with it ; when all that it is possible for a man to do , ia just to keep it under—to prevent it from overshadowing and suffocating every

      growing and green thing . " Catch your thief young . " If this maxim were acted upon , and the wholo force of a preventive society wera direetrd to this object with full powers aud means , the change effected in London , in ten year ? , would be magical . Tho blood boils to see f ^ ch objects neglected , and at tbe same time to read of tens and hundreds of thousands squandered upou patching up old churches and chapels , and other ruin . « , whose sole merit is , that they wero built in a distant time of barbarism . When wUl the scales drop from the eye- ; of society \ When will it cease to be deluded and diverted from its true interests!— Weekly Dispatch .

      Longevity in Russia Explained . —A statistical economist , who kno \ V 3 nothing of the internal arrant : ectcn : s ot the province , must be sadly puzzled f > account for the extraordinary t-nacity and vigour of the vital powers , the healthful influence of the elim * te , and tho astonishing greatness of the average duration of human life in BepsaTabia . Tile problem is , however , easily solved , when the contrivance oi the civic autho'itied to increase the numbers within their muir . cipal jurisdiction is understood . A refugee appears and prays to be enrolled as a Mesuechaninlha . t is , a citizen of the town . He 13 at first told , " That is not a matter of course , friend : you have no passport , too ; but wait awhile , and we wiil see what can be don « for you . " The refugee waits until one of the civic community dies , and then he is

      summoned to appear again before the Red Table , in the magisterial office . Now the business proceeds thus : — " What is your name ?"— " Ivan Grifcshov . "" What age !" - " 25 . " " Well , young man , attend to what 1 am going to say—Mitrophan KaJenko died yesterday , aged 50 ; if you wish to be a citizeu , you must take upon yourself his name and his age ; then we will allow you to be substituted for him , aud will give you his certificate and other documents . " Ivan Goitshov joyfully consents , and becomes all at onco a respectable citizen of a very respectable age . The departed MitrnphanstiHlives underthismetainorphosis on the civic register , and , probably , after two or three other renewals of his existence , dies at the patriarchal age of 150 . We need , therefore , no longer marvel at the frequent accounts of deaths iu Russia of persons exceeding 100 years oi" ago . —German

      paper . Peter the Gbeat and Peter the Little . — souk account of oliver cromwkll ' s helmet . — At the London Borough Court of . Requests on Saturday last , Peter Crump , a diminutive knight of the bodkin and shears , standing some four feet six iu his high-lows , appeared betore tbe Commissioners as defendant in a case in which Solomon Levy , an elderly member of the " pepliah , " was plaiutifi " : the sum iu dispute boing 7 s . 6 d . Solomon Levy , the plaintiff , was a dealer in old curiosities , residing in ti . e neighbourhood of the New Cut , and he cultivated a Joug gr « . y b ^ ard , resembling a mop . " I vash shwst a shuttin up ma shop , yer vartships , " said the Jew , '' when I bheed dis man come up , de vush for vhat he took . ' Mind de vinders , ma tear , ' I shays to him ; ' All right smouchy , ' he ahaye , and

      den he valks into ma shop , and auoder vonfollered him , and begun pulling wa goots about , yer vartships , and atervarda dey set to vurk a singing , and disturbed all ma neighbours . " Commissioner—1 suppose they wtre tiied , aud wanted to rest themselves . Jew—Not a bit of it , yer vartships , not a bif of it ; dey vauted to deshtroy ma goots ; de little von put on Oliver Cromwell ' s helmet , < uid de oder Napoleon ' s jack-boots , and vash a marching otf vid ' em , but ma shou Ishaac , who's a goot lad to his ouid fader , sthopped ' em . Commissioner—Indeed ; but how do you kuow that the helmetand jack-boots belonged to tiie celebrated characters you have mentionedl Jew—Not a doubt of it , yer vanships , not a doubt of it—I ' ve got de papers vhat shall prove it

      to all de vurld . Commissioner—Now I think there are a g « od many doubts ou the subject ; but 1 dare say if a- person wanted the entire cross , you could furnish it to them at a cheap rale . What happened after their adventure with Cromwell ' s helmet and Napoleon's boots ? Jew—Yer vartshipa , de little von ( the defendant ) vash a lookiogat a picture , vhen he poked his finger through it , and sphoilt it . Da subject v ^ sh Peter de Great making a pair of shoes . The Commissioner said it was strange the defendant ' s fing * r should have gone so easily through a picco of canvas . Solomon explained that it was not au oil painting , but merely a print coloured over and varnished . Its value he estimated at 7 s . 6 d . Commissioner Cto the defendant )

      —now , what nave you to say about Peter tho Great ? Peter the Little—Please yer vorship , I'd tuck a drop too much the other night , and was goiu' home along with my mate Bobby , wot works on the same board with me , when this here old Jew lays hold ' eu me and pulled me slap into his shop . Commissioner-He says you tried to walk off with Oliver Cromwell ' s helmet ; how came you to do thati Peter the Little-Gammon , yer vorship j I tried it on , and jist walked outside to see how I looked in it , that's all . Commissioner—Well , how about Peter the Great ? Peter the Little—There was a great hole in it before I touched it at all , and that artful old dodger wants to victimise

      me for what 1 didn ' t do . Solomon— S'help ma Cot , yer vartships , it vash him vhat tore it . Peter the Little—Here , Bobby , step forrud , ' cause you seed Peter the Great with his eve out . "Bobby , " a long , lean , Schneider , with a scratch wig and a cock in his eye , was then sworn to give evidence in behalf of " Peter the Little . " Commissioner—What do you know about this matter ? Long Bobby—I saw the pistur in the first instance , and one of the eyes was poked out . Jew ( lifting np his hands )—Lard have marshy upon us , That a lie . The Comnussionersj after a short consultation , returned a verdict for the defendant . Solomon Levy packed up the remains of " Peter the Great" aud left the

      Court , swearing in Hebrew with great volubility , followed by "Peter the little" and his friend " Lous Bobby . " &

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      MiiTSR 9 ' ExECUTioNBa . T-An extraordinary sensation was excited in Bridgnorth , on Sunday last , by Constable Edwards apprehending a man drunk and disorderly in the streets , during divine service , and who was surrounded by a crowd that kept Bhottting , "Jack KetchI Jack Ketch ! " The man was conveyed to the lock-up , and on his person was found a letter from Mr . Dawson , the Governor of Shrewsbury Gaol , in which were these words : — " March 31 . Sir , —You had better come over immediately : the execution takes place on Saturday . To Thomas Taylor , cutler , ( Gentry-street , Siourbridge . ' * There was another letter in his possession , and in which was the 35 s . he received for hanging Misters : he had the clothes of Misters in a bundle ,

      tied up in a filthy old apron . Numbers visited him in the lock-up on Sunday from curiosity , and to examine Misters' clothes . The report of our correspondent enables us to contradict the report of Mister ? being shabbily dressed . His coat was a good fine broad cloth , with velvet collar ; his waistcoat of satin , richly flowered ; his trousers of striped kerseymere ; his shirt of fine Irish cloth , but with no risible marks of blood on it , as had been stated . His entire suit was in accordance with that of a gentleman . The stockings were marked with the iuitials " A . C , " the same that Mr . Cooke gave him

      at Ludlow . On the evening of Sunday , as the spirit of Sir John Barleycorn evaporated , and left the professor in this peculiar line of life (*) compos ^ he deplored his indiscretion , wishing himself safely located again with his wife and family at his Stourbridge tinkery . Large sums , wero offered him for different articles of dress belonging to Misters , but he declinad to bargain for any portion of tho precious wardrobe . On Monday , lie was had up before the magistrates , and sentenced to be heavily fined in the sum of sixty pence . He is said to bare a retainer for four jobs in perspective , at Gloucester and other places . — Ten Towns' Mestenger .

      Principles of Puseyism . — Though the public journals have , for some time past , devoted so much of their attention to " Puseyism , " the principles which constitute that creed are not generally known . It is one of its leading doctTines that the authority of the church is superior to that of tho sovereign or the state , and that consequently tho legislature has no right to interfere in ecolesiastial matters . The Puseyites maintain that all children baptised by the church are converted at their baptism , and that there can be no saving repentance for sine after persona havo reached the years of maturity . They admit , however , that there may fee a reconversion by means of the Saorainents . They repudiate everything of an evangelical nature , and place the whole essence of

      religion in the observance of external forms . They are great sticklers for fasts , and attach greater importance to them than to the Sabbath-day . They deny the right of the common people to read the Scriptures , unless they have first read the Common Prayer-book , and are prepared to interpret the Scriptures by it , instead of interpreting tho Prayerbo » k by the Bible . They also set up tradition as a aur « and infallible guide in all matters of religion , and view tho Bible as subordinate in authority to it . Puseyism regards the Virgin Mary as in one sense divine , and consequently worthy of worship . The Puseyitca further main tain that departed saints are

      to be prayed to , and that prayers are to be made for them . They believe , in other words , in a modified form of purgatory . Their opinions on the subject of transubstantiation are substantially the same as those of the Roman Catholics . They look en all beyond ihe pale of the church with a harsh and uncharitable eye , and though they do not g » so far as to eay that uo Dissenter can be saved , they assert the right of the church to compel conformity to her ritual . They do not disguise the fact , that if th < sy were armed with the requisite civil power , they would exercise that power for the purpose of extinguishing dissent . Such are tho leading principles of " Puseyism . "

      FnioHTFUL Accident to a Passenger on thb Eastkrn Counties Railway . —On Sunday evening , about twenty-five minutes before eight o ' clock , a most frightful accident occurred on the Eastern Counties Railway , by which a passenger , named Joseph Loveil , living at 2 , Swallow ' s-fiardens , Chamber-street , Goodman ' s-fields , wa 3 so much injured it is supposed he cannot possibly survive . The Itomford train , on its w&y to London , arrived at the station in Devonshire-street , Mile-end , at the time above-mentioned , when Lovell , who had been riding hi 0110 of the _ third-class carriages , alighted , and was in the act of stepping across a platform with a stick in his hand , upon which he was leaning , when , owing to the greowy stato of tl \ e platform , from the rain which fell in tha afternoon , he suddenly slipped , and

      his stick breaking in half , he fell backwards on the rails of the line . At this instant a policeman called out " All right , " and the train Ftarfced , and a violent shriek was immediately afterwards heard ; and it was then found that the engiue and carriages had parsed over the unfortunate man . He was picked up apparently lifeless , and a litter being procured , no time was Jost in conveying him to the London Hospital , where the tuffdrer was attended by Mr , Luke , the house-furgeon , and several other medical gentlemen , aud on examination it was ascertained that } j ! 8 left leg was literally crushed to pieces , and the toot of his other leg also severely injured . It was deemed expedient to amputate the lt > ft limb , and that operation was immediately carried into effect in the most skilful manner . No hopes were entertained of the uiiturumate man ' s surviving .

      Attemied MuKDKti . —At the Assizes recently held at Taunton , llichd . Royuon , was indicted for having attempted to violate aud murder Elizabeth Veal . It appeared that tho prosecutrix , a young woman , niiicteen years of ago , was on tho turnpike road leading from West Harptreo to Chepstoke , on the 12 ih October last , when tho prisoner followed her and threw her down , and then cut her throat . The evidence did not show clearly tho prisoner ' s objec ? iu the assault in the first pjpee , or the attempted murder- A surgeon , who met tho girl staggering along the road » n the evening in question , deposed that he examined her throat , aud found a wound three inches long and half an inch deep . The young woman identified the prisoner shortly after the

      occurrence , at an iun near the spot , to which the surgeon took her . The Jury found the prisoner guilty on this and corroborative testimony , and judgment of death was recorded against him . [ This case forms a strange contrast in its result with that of Misters . Misters was executed for having cut the throat of his victim , who recoTered ; Roynon is found guilty of an exactly similar offence . What rul ? governs the decision of Judges \ The law at Ludlow and the law at Taunton are two different things . Tliis species of haphazard aud uncertainty iu tho administration of tho law has , wa think , a most decided tendency to encourago rather than discourage crime . If hanging Misters might be bupposed to deter those who are murderously inclined , we should argue that the sentence of

      Royuon to transportation for life will diminish its proposed effect , and encourage that disposition to risk ihe chances , which feeling the criminally disposed are prouc to indulge in . It must : not bo inferred from this that we think lloynon should be hung but that if Ac , was not hung tor his offence , Misters ' execution was a legal murder . If crime deserve punishment in proportion to its atrocity , or , in other words , if the example exhibited to the public should be severe in proportion to the extent and intensity of the offender ' s cruel misdeeds , then like should be administered to like , © r we have injustice dealt out somewhere ; and , in a case like that of Misters , it amounts , as we have said above , to judicial murder . ]

      Caution to Borrowers from Loan Societies . — At Maryluboue Policy Office , on Saturday last , Mr . Deckes , the chairman of , aud a solicitor ( whose name did not transpire ) connected with , the St . Mai ylebone Loan and Discount Society , holding its meetiutiS iu Great Portland-street , attended before Mr . Hardvvick , at his ( the magistrate's ) request , in consequence of a communication made to him by Lord" Kadstock , a few days ago , relative to a loan of £ 11 having been granted to a person named ( as we understood ) Perrott , and on which £ 20 expences had been incurred . Lord Kadutock was present on this occasion , and there were also in Court several other highly influential persons connected with the parish , who seemed to be much interotedin the

      inquiry . The gentlemen of the society made a statement to the effect , that tho loan was granted in June last , and that it was not until after there were tan weeks payments in arrear , that the matter was placed in legal hands , with a view to tho recovery of the sum due ; but prior to this course being taken , ten letters had been written to tho borrower , and two to the surety ; the society was always ready and willing to be as lenieut as possible , but if parties neglected to keep their payments good , they ought noi to blame those who had . advanced them money tor endeavouring to obtain the amount dae t « them . It further appeared that the Sooietys' Act possessed no controul over them whatever . Mr . Hardwick was awaxa that he had no power over them under

      the Act which had been alluded to , but he thought it was only fair and right that those who borrowed sums of money , and who were , of course , supposed to be necessitous persons , should be made fully acquainted with the fact , that in the event of thare being any defalcation in payments , they would be liable to be arrested upon their stamped notes , and put to considerable expence by Buch proceeding . The borrowers , in most cases , no doubt , imagined that by obtaining mouey from the society they were rendering themselves liable only to the expence attending proceedings before a magistrate , as was

      the case with ether loan societies , and he ( the magistrate ) observed , that if the contrary was known , and that a man had the remotest idea that the debt could at once be put into a lawyer ' s hands without any magisterial interference whatever , there would , he apprehended , under such circumstances , be very few applications for loan ? . The Chairman and solicitor remarked upon tho fairness with which the business of tho society was uniformly transacted , and , after a few observations , which we could not distinctly hear , from the magistrate aud Lord Radstock , the latter , and the two first named gent lemon , who had attended as requested , quitted the Court . — London Pap *

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      Hard Sweabino . —At the Pontefract Sessions , on Wednesday last , Sir Gregory Lewin , addressing tbe Jury on the improbability of the prosecutor identifying a quantity of hay , which had been stolen , Baid that some men ' s consciences allowed them to go so far , that a witness in America once distinotly swore to a goose ' s leg after it had been made into a giblet pie and cooked . —Doncaster Chronicle . Thb Pabsohs" xQim . —On Friday considerable excitement was created in T ^ nemouth garrison , by the vicar of Tynemouth refusing to allow the body of John Larkin , a private in the 95 th regiment , who had died in the early part of last week , to be interred

      in the Castle burial ground . The deceased was a catholic , as most of the depot are , and during his last moments received the consolations of the catholic priest . The corpse was consequently interred in the iNewCometery , nearly the whole of the depdt attending , under the superintendence of a captain , the band playing the " Dead March in Saul , " until they reached the cemetery . where the procession was met by tbe Rev . T . Gillow , who preceded the body to the grave , chaunting the funeral requiem . It is in contemplation by the catholics of Shields to bring the affair before the authorities . —Newcastle Chron .

      Railway Accident . —Last Week , an accident , unhappily attended with the loss of life of one individual , and the serious injury of two or three others , occurred on the Birmingham sod Gloucester railway , by the blowing out of a plug from the boiler of one of the bank engines , on the inclined plane near Bromsgrove station , by which Mr . William Creuze , the engineer of locomotives , was so dreadfully scalded that h © died in about twenty-four hours after . Two or three other persons , who were on the engine and tender at the time , were also more or less injured , but they are all in a fair way of recovery .

      True Love in Spain . —A letter from Madrid , March 25 , says : —The daughter of one of our Spanish grandees having bec » me enamoured « f a corporal of the Gastadores of the R # yal Guards , her father , the Condo de , anxious to please his daughter , applied t * Gen . Espartero , requesting that ho would promote the man to the rank of a commissioned officer , but upon the lucky grenadier beiug made acquainted with what was intended for him , he replied , " That he felt greatly flatteredj but Doing determined to marry a young servant girl he was much attached to , he declined all and every honour intended him . "

      THB B . OBBERT n Windsor Castlb . — Ona HUNDRED Pounds Rkward . — The following has just been issued : — " Whereas divers valuable articles have been stolen at different times from her Majesty's stores at Windsor Castle—a reward of £ 100 will be paid by the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty ' s Treasury , on conviction of the offender , to any person who will give such evidence as shall lead to the ctnviction of tho person or persons who stole the said articles , or who feloniously received the same ; and her Majesty ' s pardon will also be granted to any person ( not being the actual thief or receiver ) who shall gire the like evidence . —Whitehall , April 12 , 1841 . "

      At Chkster Assizes , Bartholomew Murray , who is only eighteen years of age , was charged with the murder of Mr . and Mrs . Cook , at Over Peover , near Kuutsford , in Cheshire . Mr . Cook was au old man , in very good circumstances . The prisoner was engaged with a number of Irish labourers ia haymaking near the town * , and while there he made various inquiries concerning Mr , Cook's wealth . The aged couple were murdered in their beds , with an axe , in August last ; and the murderer stood for some time over the eervant-girl as she lay in bed , to

      murder her also if she waked . Though terrified , she succeeded in feigning sleep . Two bits of paper were afterwards found in the house , which contained names that ultimately led to Murray ' s detection : they were parts of a written character which he had exhibited before the murder . He waa proved also to become auddunly possessed of a large sum of money , the actual spending of which was proved nearly to the full amount of money taken from Mr . Cook ' s house . The Jury returned a verdict of " Guilty , " and sentence of death was pronounced .

      M Abscondment" only " Absence ! " —A few days ago , the disappearance of Mr . Abbott , one of the official assignees , being part aud parcel of the newfangled bankruptcy system , was noticed in the Bankruptcy Court as " ab 6 condment , " and inquiries were made by the Commissioners touching Mr . Abbott ' s unceremonious departure ; but , as if that mode of speech sounded somewhat too harshly upon city ears , softer phraseology is adopted in an advertisement issued yesterday , summoning the attendance of assignees , solicitors , and creditors " affected (!) by the absence of Mr . Abbott , " &c . Absence of " Mr . " Abbott ! Really we are becoming a very refined people ; and no doubt the next accounts from Windsor regarding the " absence " of divers valuables , will be duly recorded as the transfer of various superfluities from royal to democratic hands , whereby the reciprocity system mu 3 t be extended and strengthened .

      Determined Acr of Suicide . —On Sunday morning last , at Chudleigh , a man named Samuel Tuckett , of that place , about thirty years of age , put au end to his existence in a most determined manner . It appears that he first cut his throat with a , small clasp knife ( an instrument of this description being picked np near the spot in which he was found ) , aud then hung himself to a beam in a stable belonging to his toother . Whilst thus suspended , it is supposed he must have beon kicked by one of the horses , marks of this description being found on his person . His mother first discovered the body , but life was extinct .

      No ACCOUNTING FOR TaSTE . —FOLLOWING A PlG Driver . —At Guildhall on Saturday , a pretty little girl was put to tho bar charged by her mother , who appeared to be in deep affliction , with having proposed to run away with a Smithfield drover , named Bill Scroggins . The mother said that she had a large family of children , all of whom were exceedingly affectionate and obedient except Sarah , who was about sixteen years of age , and who degraded herself by associating with the drover . —The alderman : Do ' es he intend to n ? arry her ?—The mother She thinks so , but he has no notion of anything of the kind ; he wants to make her like the unfortunate poor creatures about the streets . —The alderman What ! will she condescend to be the trull of a

      common piR-driver t—The mother : She does not know the misery that awaits her ; and how wretched her father , who is sick , and I am on her account . ~ -The alderman : What have you to say about thia filthy favourite of yours , and about causing such distress to your poor parents ? The pig-driver will never marry you , if you wish to be the wife » f such a fellow . Sarah : He will marry me . He has promised me . —The mother : He was heard to swear that he would not marry the finest woman in the kingdom . ( Laughter . )—The alderman : What ! this drover , covered all over with mud and dirt?—A person in the crowd : Yes , your worship , he says he has no mind to marry any on ' em , as he can get 'em without going to that trouble . ( Laughter . )—The alderman ( to tha girl ) : It is quite evident his object is to destroy and laugh at you . I hope you w » ll consider the deplorable condition of your poor parents , and shun the fellow . I shall order his number to be

      taken , and deal with him in such a manner as will make him . remember what he has been about . —The mother : She says that she will run away with him , whatever we may do . The drover is twenty-eight years of age , and does not care about our sorrow . — The voice in the crowd : ' Pend upon it , Bill will have his way if he can . He is not to bo ' timidated . He says , a womans a woman , high or low , genUe or simple , and I'm blest if he don ' t act as sich . He's a reg'lar bad un artcr the women , and no mistake . ( Laughter . )—The alderman : I shall certainly look after him . In the meantime , the obstinate and mean-spirited girl shall be locked up by herself in the Compter . —The girl looked ashamed , but expressed her belief that Bill meant nothing hut what was strictly honourable , and said that if she thought otherwise 6 he would never keep company with him again . —The alderman : When you'd think of anybody for a husband , look a little higher than a pigdriver at any rate .

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      THE UNCHRISTIAN NEW POOR LAW BILL . FZtOSPECTS OF THE RATE-PAYERS IN SICKNESS AND POVERTY . On Thursday evening , an inquest was held by Mr . Higgs , at St . George ' s Hospital , teaching the death of Hannah Robinson , aged M . The Jury having viewed tho Txxiy Of the deceased , which presented a ghastly spectacle , Anna French deposed , that she knew the deceased , who rented the one-pair back room where witness lodged , at 39 , Gilbert-street , Grosvenor-square . She was a married woman , and her husband is a porter . About three o ' clock in the afternoon of the 22 nd ult , witness was sitting by the ore-side when she heard a

      noise like a dog howling . She opened tbe door , and observed smoke rising up tfie steira : on looking more carefully , she saw that it proceeded horn the deceased , who was sitting on the stairs " all in a blaze . " Witnets immediately called to another lodger , named Morris , when , by their combined exertions , the flames were extinguished . They looked in the deceased ' s room when they noticed the table-cloth on fire , which waa approaching the bed-clothes . Mr . Ledbitter , a surgeon , of Oxford-street , was sent for directly , who gave the woman a draught , when , at bis request , the deceased was brought away immediately in a cab to the hospital .

      By the Coroner—There was a large fire in the room . The deceased was quite an invalid , and I bad not seen her out of bed for some time before , as she was labouring under a paralytic stroke . By a Juror—Sbe waff partly'dressed . Her husband was out at the time . She could not speak sufficiently plain for u to understand bow the accident happened . I presume that she had got up to pit the kettle on , or to tiarow up the cinders , when her clothes caught fire . The witness , Morria , sqid that Bhe discovered several cinders in the deceased ' s i apTon . The whole of her clothes v ? ere burnt off ths tight side o { Uer body .

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      Thomas Tarrant , house surgeon , deposed that tt » deceased was brought in on the 22 d March , about ferno ' clock in the afternoom . Her right arm , side « m ? right aide ot tbe head were sefereJy burnt , and ' ww . affected by paralysis . She lingered till the 2 d hJunt when she diedrfrom the efi % ct » ot th « sceident W By the Coroner—Her speech was so indistinct thtt t could sot make out how it happened . ' Baldwin , one of thV beadles « t St . Geoige ' s rorkh hero informed the Coroner that the husband wavi ^; sent , and wished to speak a word to him on the anhW The Husband—I applied , sir . to the parish to wsth » into the Infirmary , but the overseer Mi he could do nothing except I came in as well . The Coroner ( to the Juryj-r-I think it ia part of yon * inquiry to hear this man , as the woman ' g death mirt hare been partly occasioned by aot being looked if toT The Jury—Certainly . * _

      The husband ( who was a fine hearty old man ) wat then sworn , and stated that his name was William Kobin&on , his age 64 , and that he lived with his wife it No . 39 , Gilbert-street He called himself a porter It was at the work-house , in Mount-street , GrosTenor square , that he made his application , when he saw M * Rowed , the assistant-overseer . By a Juror—He offered me some bread , when I told him that was a poor consolation for a poor sick woman that wanted advice . , «« u The Coroner—There is such , a system now gDW 0-in these workhouses , that illness is thought nothing of . There was a case in St Margaret ' s workhouse , where they gave a man five shillings to get rid of him and hit family , and would not -then without his carrying an infant in a dying state about the street , for four or five hours together . Their plea was ,. that if they let him out with his family , they would see no more of him afterwards .

      The Foreman—Did you tell the overseer how helpleu your wife was ? Husband—Yes , and he said there wag the workhouse for her and me , but there was no infirmary . The Foreman—But I say there is an infirmary . The Coroner—Is this man treating the poor this way at his own discretion ? Coole ( one of the beadles)—I should say , sir , that he acts under his regulations . A Juror—I think this is a case that ought to come to the knowledge of all the rate-payers , bo that they may see , if they come to poverty , what they may expect I The Coroner—If the woman had met with that can her state required , this case would not have happened , A Juror—Some rauresenUtion must be made to the proper authorities of this case , as the poor woman waa not fit to be left alone , and the husband could not afford to pay to get her looked after in his absence .

      By the Coroner—I left her in . bed , whtn I -went out between one and two o ' clock , as , I did not know when I was like to come home , and the poor soul had nothing at all till I did come home . By a Juror—As well as I could understand her , she said she was putting some cinders upon the fire . \ could not say what she wanted a large fire for , excep t she wanted to put on the kettle , which she sometimes tried to do , if she thought her niece was coining . The Foreman—Did she know that you applied about the infirmary ? Husband—Tes ; and she said she would like to go there to be taken care of , and she often said , " O Lord " , what can I do here . " ' By a Juror—She was sefaed with palsy about two months ago in the night time , and lost the use of one aide , and neTer recovered . I applied four times to the overseer , and the same answer was given .

      Baldwin , the beadle—I suppose , g « ntlemen , this was a doubtful case , and tho oyeraear refused it under some of the rules . Several of the Jury—It is most shameful . Husband—The first time I applied was about a month ago , when she got worse , and I never sawhei up and dressed after , except her niece was coming . I am willing to work , and can get a living myself , for I paid 3 s . 9 d . a week for our lodging . I told Mr . Rowed the same , and said as I could get ray own living out of doors by hard work , why should I come in » He said , " I don't care , I will not take her except you come in , as . I will not be a party to separate man and wife . " I said to him , Well , if you won't separate us out of doors , will you sep » rate us when we come in ? " and he said " Yes . " ( Laughter . ) The poor old fellow thea shed tears , saying , ' If the poor old soul had been taken care <* f , this would not have happened . "

      A Juror—It wa 3 a trick to keep them out altogether . the Foremon—We wish , Mr . Coioner , to express onr opinion in the strongest manner possible , for it appears their own beadle , Mr . Coole , visited this case , and still the woir . an was neglected . ¦ The Coroner—Pid the beadle come to yeur place ? Husband—Yes ; Mr . Coole cam « , and saw how helpless she waa , and I told him sometimes I waa out in eighteen hours together , and there was no one to gi ? e the poor creature anything till I came home . By a Juror—I left her between one and two t'clock , v > hen I fried some cork , and we had that and some turnip tops ; then I lifted her into bed . I-almost always lifted her in and out of bed myself . I have paid rates and taxes myself in a respectable way for twenty-five years in the parish . I formerly lived in Thomas-street , Oxford-street , and have lived about the neighbourhood for forty years .

      A Juror—I am afraid there will be no attention paid by the overseer , except Wb have him before us . The Coroner—We can admonish him in our verdict The Foreman ( io tbe Coron $ ij—Yoa . onght to write to them as well . The Coroner—I suppose I had Better write tO the yestry generally on tbe subject A Juror—No ; to the Board of Guardians . The Coroner—Are there many of the Guardians ? Baldwin ithe beadle !— There ia a certain quantity called the " poor board , " which , with the churchwardens and overseers , amounts to about twenty-two . TtlQ vestry altogether consists of 1 * 0 persons . A Juror said he thought it unfair to condemn the overseer without hearing his defence . ¦ The Foreman—It is not finding fault with this overseer exactly , but with the shameful system he is carrying out . ( " Hear , hear . " from the Jury . )

      The Coroner ( to the beadle )—Shall I call them the " poor board , " or the " guardians of the poor !" ( Laughter . ) A Juryman—Not the latter , certainly . The Jury now consulted together , when aferdistol " Accidental death" was returned j to which a Jarynian submitted the following appendage : — " That this Jury cannot separate without expressing , in the strongest manner , their abhorrenee of such a system of oppression to the poor , and '' hope , that no similar case will be refused attention by the overseer or relieving officer in future . " The Jury appended this to their verdict , and separated on the understanding that the Coroner was to write ' a sharp letter , " in addition to enclosing the verdict , to the Poor Law Board of St . George's , Hanover-square .

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      THE REVENUE . The Revenue accounts have been published for the year and quarter ending the 5 th April . 1841 . They do not present very satisfactory results : there is an aggregate decrease on the year of £ 309 , 280 : on the quarter , it is , £ 70 , 154 . One principal decrease is in the Postoffice ; and in that depawnent alone it amounts to £ 833 , « 00 on the year , and £ 27 , « M on the quarter The Ministerial journals explain away this rather startling tolling off in the last quarter : the receipts for the corresponding quarter of the previous year , they

      say , were swelled by arrears of postage at the fourpenny rate , wcich were not paid in till that time , and by exacting more prompt delivery of monies then due from the deputy-postmasters : now , it is necessary to leave large balances with the deputy-postmasters , to enable them to meet the demand on account of money orders , the business in that branch of the Post-office having largely increased since the reduction of the commission . There is the reverse of a falling-off , it 18 said , in the number of letters passing through the Post-office ; aud that ia the true test of the change . to

      An attempt is made by the Government organs gloss over the declining revenue , by sinking all allusion to the additional taxes imposed last year by Mr . Baring . The facts of the case are as follows : — Decrease on the year ending 5 th ot April , 1841 , ... £ 3 « 9 , 289 Decrease on the Post-office ... ... 833 , 00 » Apparent increase on the year 25 £ 528 , 72 * But the Chancellor of the EiS&equer imposed new taxes , or increased old ones , whose conjoint amount be thus estimated : — Addition to Assessed Taxes £ 276 , 000 New survey on ditto ... 150 . Customs and Excise ... 1 , 426 , 009 Spirits ... ... .. . JS ^ m

      Real decrease on the year ... £ 1 , 813 , 280 The whole amount ot these additions did not , however come into operation equally throughout the year : to get an accurate view of our financial prospects we musi confine our attention to the

      quarters-Decrease on the quarter . ' ... £ 70 , 900 Decrease in the Post-office 27 , 000 Apparent decrease on the quarter £ 43 , 0 «« But there must be added to this , one fourth of the addition made to ear taxation , amounting to ... 580 , 909 Real decrease on the quarter— ... £ 623 , 090 Bomach tor Mr . Baring - * , per centages and additional duties which were to make tip for Postage-cheapeni ng , and supply the income wanted to meet tbe increaseo expenditure . In despite of the temporary aeaistance'ne will gain by laying hawJs upon tbe s »™^ . /~ ° * deposits , it is to bethought the Chancellor will naw difficulty in raising the wind to mee t-past' f **™ and future expenses . We- look forward to the Budge * with some curiosity . —Spectator .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 17, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct851/page/6/