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      OU > PAEE'S I . 1 TE PILLS . rPHE READERS of the Northern Star aw ¦ L particularly requested to read carefully tha following ap . count of the BENEFICIAL EFFECT 3 of PARR'S LIFE PILLS , in Leicester and th « Neighbourhood : — The following facts have been mentioned ( 0 Mr . 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 ready to produce : — A J . C , Oxford-streetALeicester , aped 44 , had

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      The Hartford ( U . S . ) Courier say 3 , there is an ipditor in that city whose ideas are so lofty that he is obliged to chase teem np'to the £ 3 iret , in order to catch them ; and then they often escape through the scuttle . A CoysEcncrr Josathas , in taking a walk with h . 13 dearest , came to a bridge , when he honestly said , after paying his toll ( which was one cent ) , " Come , Sake , you nrasi pay your own toll , for just as like & 5 not I shan ' t have you arter all . " A Tout Voter , celebrated for his stupidity , having been charged witii committing an assault at an election , the magistrate snmmarily dismissed him , Trith the remark that he wa 3 not going to disobey the decalogae . which declared ,: " Thoa shalt not commit a-aoU-Tory . " Campb fj . l , the poet , lately received a request from a young lady to write something " original" in her album . He answered as follows : —

      " An original something , dear maid , you would win me To wrhe—but how shall T begin ! For I ' m sure I have nothing original in me , Excepting original sin . " " Ah , Polly I" exclaimed the Queen , " Albert is such a dear creature , you don't know . " " So I am told , " rejoined Poll , the- feafeit creature in yonr Majesty ' s dominions . "

      EP 1 GRA 1 I OX MISS AN 5 B BREAD . " Toist any girl but her , " said iNed , With every other flatter—I'll be content with Annie Bread , But won ' t hare any but Tier " —American Paper . How to see Yoca Wat . —Mr . Mackenzie told me several anecdotes ; one of LadyYarmouth . She was at a large dinner , seated at no £ xeai distance from 3 rich clerirrmaa , and somo bishopric hariaij just fallen in , he carelessly expressed a wish that he were so lucky cs to be named to it . " Do you expect it ! "' said she to him . " No , indeed , I do But . '' he replied ; " I fear I am not eo fortunate . " — M "Whai say you to a bet f said she . " I'll bet you fire thousand pounds that you will get it . " — " Done , " said the clergy-can ; and soon after he had the vacant see . — ¦ iirint / ur / Le ' s Courts of Europe .

      The Gardeatr s Peivtlegfs . —The question was once asked by a very beautiful woman— " 9 »* h y 13 a gardener ttie most extraordinary man in the world V The reply given was as follows : — ' - Because no man has more business on earth , and he also chooses good Grounds for what he does . He commands his Thyme ; he is master of ihe Mint ; and lie fingers Penny-royaJ . He raises his Celery every year , and it is a bad year indeed that does not / bring him in a Pium . He meets with more Boughs than a minister of state ; he makes more Btds than the King of

      France , and has in them more genuine Roses and Lilies than are to be fouud a ; a country wake . He makes Raking his business more than his diversion , but it is an advantage to his health and fortune , "which few others find : his wife , moreover , has enough of Heart's-eose , and never wishes for Weeds . Disorders fatal to others never hart him ; he walks , and bustles , and thrives most in a consumption ; he can boast of more B : efcd ; 3 g-he 3 rts than yon can , and has more laurels than the Duke of Wellington . But his greatest pride and the greatest envy of his companions is , that- he can have Yew w ' aeu ha pleases . "

      East to get Rich . —Nothing is more easy than to grow rich . Iv is only to trust nobody , to befriend none , to get every thipjj . and save all we get ; to etint ourselves and every body belonging to us ; to be _ the frienu of no man , and have no man for our friend ; to heap np interest upon interest , cent , per cent . ; to be eh an . miserable , and ch jprsed for some twenty or ihiny yrars ; and riches will come as sure as disease and disappointment . We ahe too apt at time 3 to blame others for mismanagiment , saying that , if we had been in their

      places we would not have done so and so ; when , there can be no manner of doubt , it we had been in their case 3 , we should have done jast the same . Before parsing a vote of censure ou those unfortunares it is necessary that we no : only make ourselves acquainted wkh ail the circumstances of the case , but that we be also exercised with the ssme feelings . So very different a conclusion ar * e those apt to come to , whose minds are at libtr : y , to what those are whose judgments are burthened with the care of the matter , and fear of the result .

      The Ciiinfse . —The representations of these remarkable people and their country . upon porcelaiD , or " china , "' have been tisuaiiy condemned as ilidrawn and faithless , but- unworthily so . Lord Jocelyn , in his account of the ChiEe ? e expedition , obfrervt-s , " Since I have 5 een many si the bouses and tempies of the Chinese , the paintings on the oli Ciiiiia imported inio England , struck me as the best delineation of the bu . ld ; n 5 . s an j hVdres of these extraordinary people ; and it is wonderful hew correct they are in the main features . " Ixdia > " Superstition—From a pjper just printed by order of the Houie of Corneous , it ap >> ears tLat there are no fewer than 641 attendant upon ihe iri'jl at Ju ^ geraatii ! Among these are ! G 0 co-.-ks , " 20 keepers of tie wardrobe , and two persons to pain : the eyebrows , &c Individuals are also appointed to wa : cb the * ' -nmbers 0 ? the idol , the time wlits it awakes . & :. & ::.

      A Lav . -te 2 ' s Faith . —My brother and I were subpoenaed &z witnesses upon a trial a : Warwick . The attorney promised to reimburse the cxpuice , the contenders being poor . My brother and mys-.-lf went in a coaise . We wou theca . use . I was obii ^ d to bear ail the expecce , and never received a shiliiu ^ . So much &r the faith of a lawver . — WUiiam HuitWs Life . TtBY Tars . —The tie which binds man to hi ? brother man is oilier than the annais of England can rt-a-ih ; and mil endure when the nam ^ -s ol 1 ' eci and RusieU sh&Ii b-.- al : ke forgotten . —Times .

      The Di-viL among the Pki > "teks . —In 15 G 1 , a work vras priutci entitled , "The ALatomy of th- - - Mas ? , '' aad is contained 170 page ? , accompanied with errata of fifteen pages 1 The author , < who was a monk . ) in aa advertisement prefixed to the errata , j-Uies , that the devil , to ruin the fruiis of his work , emp ' oyed two very malicious frauds , by fir ? : dreEchin ^ : h ? manuscript in the kennel , reducing it to a most piti ^ b ^ e stite , and rendering ? oae parts altogether illegible , and then obliging the printers to corntci : such numerous blunders , never before equalled in so smill a work ! To combat this double mich ' . natioa of Satan , he was obliged to re-peruse the book , s . ud to form this singular list of the b ' . aadir ? of printers working under the influence of tbo devil .

      The Last Americanism . —A famous prsysician practising in Pennsylvania , having prescribed a strong dose of nitre to a patien ; labouring under a severe cold , it caused so profuse a perspiration during the night , thai he wa 3 found drowned the next morniDg . r Egg Xog—Mi . vt Jclep . —The Exchange Hotel , 8 , Broa-i-itreet , is making itseirfamous for iu ej : g nog and mint juleps . They beran on the juleps yesterday , aud tha way the article went was a eauion to sinners . The peculiar quality of these delicate liquids is the aromatic ilivour they po ^ cs ? as they pa--s thejjamin * lip .-. They aro both truly the cec ; ar of the gods . —American Fap-zr .

      A Good Mokmng s v \ ohk . —The feilowiagis from a communication of one cf our Borneo corre-pondent * , lately received by us : —On a morning cf last October , ilimo of Sepjag took bi ~ hoe a : id commenced his usual operations , lie tci ' . ed tut a few minctv ? , when his irLstrutiien : C 3 me ia contact with eome : ] :: " ^ of unusual siz- ; 32 a reiir' . unce . He took np the rork of cnencr-, asu , g ; ri ; : g ii a passing glance , threw it aside ; but Trhiie to : iiig away , Ms lLoci : b' 3 rriuriied to tbj discarded Hone , wntn a remembrance of its unuvasl heaTinei .- ! arrested his aitestion . He sgiin save i : a more s ' . riot ccraiiriy , by washing , rutb \ iig , &c , and hdviag c . a-iiuced " worth preserviug , delivered k : o the ituu ^ -si . After a few days , the isuer br . ' -nghx i : to Samba ? , and so " , d it to th . ' Sabs a for 2 , 000 Java rupees . The rock ci offence proved a mass of gold ,- vreigklru between three and four catties . —Singapore Free Pri . &s .

      The Pe . ixtev- — # 11 pity the printer , '' said m ? ¦ uncle Toby . " Hl- ' s a pr . or creature / ' rejoined Trim . *• How so V said my uncle . "Because , in the first place , " continued the Corporal , lcokirg full at my uncle , " because he mast endeavour to plea-e evtrv body . In tbe negiinecce of a moinfu :, pt-raaps " a small paragraph p-y ^ s upon him ; be hastily throws it to the compositor , u is inserted , and ha is ruined to all intents and purposes . " " Too d ' aca the ca _? e , Trim , " said my uncle , with a deep . si ;; 3 ; " toomuch—the—case . " "An' , please your honour , " continue-i Trim , elevating hi 3 voice , and striking into an imploring attitude , " a ^' , please your honour this is not the whole . " ' Go on , Trim . " said my uncle , feelingly . "' The printer , sometimes , " pursued tht-Corporai , " hits upon a pic-ce that pleases hiis mightily , and he thinks it cannot bat go down with his subscribers ; but , alas ! tir , who can calculate the human mind ! He inserts it , and it is all o ? er with

      him . They forgive others , but they cannot forgive a printer . He hs-s a host to print lor , and every one sets up for a critic . The pretty Miis exclaims , * Why don ' t he giro us more poetry , marriasee , and bon-mots \— away with these stale pieces / The politician clips his speca&n his nose , and runs it i over in search of a violenFinvective ; he finds none ; j he takes his specs ofi ^ folds them , sticks them ia his : pocket , declaring lie paper good for nothing but to ; biirn . Sa it goes . Ereryjone thinks h ought to be ! printed exprebily for himself , as he is a suoscriber j i and yet , after all this complaining , would you ; believe it sir , " said the honest Corporal , clasping his ' , hands beseechingly , " would you believe it , sir , there are &onn subscribers who do not hesitate to cheat the printer out of his paj ! Our army swore terribly in Flanders , but they never did any thing so bad as thaTr li Xtycr 1 " said uncle , 'loby , emphatically . *— American paper .

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      HOUSE OF LORDS . —Friday , Apsil 23 . Petitions were presented by the Duke of Argyle and the Earl of Zetland on the subject of lay patronage in Scotland , and by Lord Deniuan for the abolition of church-rates . In answer to the MarquU of Salisbury , The Marquis of Normanby said he was extremely nn willing to put off the Drainage'of Buildings' Bill ; but in order to meet the wishes of the Noble MarquU , he would 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 Lyndburst , The Marquis of Noiuiasby said it was not intended that Mr . Vizard should hold conjointly the offices of solicitor to the Ho » e-ofnee and secretary to tee bankrupts in Chancery . In answer to the same Noble Earl , Lord Dencasnon said he was not aware of recent claims which had been made against the owners of mines which were submarine , but he would make inquiries on the subject Adjourned .

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      HOUSE OF COMMONS , Frida y , Apbil 23 . Mr . Alexander , the new member for Antrim county , took the oaths and his seat The Xorth Midland Railway Bill , the Chard Canal Bill , and the Clifton Bridge BUI , were severally read a tinTii time , and passed . Mr . Fox Maule moved that farther 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 great deal of expence in bringing these measures before Parliament ; they had been for several years ¦ waiting for a general l > il ) , which appeared to be as remote now as ever , and they had no alternative but to proceed with these local bills . After some discussion the House divided , when there appeared—for the motion , 40 ; against it , 39 .

      Mr . Lucas gave notice 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 extern ot one-foarth , in repayment of the expence of their psssage to that colony . Mr . Ewart gave notice that on the 10 th of May he should move for leave to bring in a bill for the better maaagtineiit of lunatic asylums . Oq the motion of Lord Xeignmouth the second reading of the College of Maynooth Bill was postponed till the 19 th of Mar .

      The House went into Committee on the Administra tion of Justice Bill . On clause 7 , which related to the transfer of the funds bclunging to suitors from the Court of Exchequer to the Court of Chancery , Sir E . Svgde . n objected to the clause , on the ground that it would diminish the emoluments of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery , a great portion of which was derived from the commission he received en tbe transfer and deposit of stock in the public funds . The Solicitor General 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 . iiv Li . tR said it it vras clear , from the discussion that had taken p ' , that the Accountant-General eked out his salary by receiving a portion of the commission paid to the broker for the preference given to that broker . He trusted , after that had been stated , thst the House would no longer permit a public officer to be paid in so discreditable a way . ( Hear , hear , ) if his salary ¦ was insufficient , let it be increased in a proper and legitimate mai . ner . Mr . Beiscoe thought it extremely proper that the Accountant-General should be paid by a commission upon tbe euius invested in the public fur . ds . Mr . OCo . n . nfll ingested tUat the Court vf Chancery EhoulJ appoint s bioker of its own at a fixed salary .

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      > Jr . C . Bvi . L 1 . kk -wouVi tupport ttie clause , because he looked upon the n : fasure as v :: e vi a Serious of Wntftcial alterations . The Hon . : iml Learned Gentleman quoted several cos ' s to show the injury aiul loss laat lud been inflicted upon suitors through the protracted and expensive nature of IE- - - ] : receedings in the Cj ^ rt of Gkai-cery , and the result of which in practice vn > s found to be the compromise of CO out of every J 00 snits . In answer to Mr . Aglionby , The Attoiinei-General said he unieretood that 5 onie alterations were contemplated in tlie fc'ix Clerks ' OSce , and he would aid , that the Lord Chancellor , vrith the assistance tf some of the most tmineut men in the profession , waa preparing a series of regulations which would be fonnd most beneficial to the suitors in that court and tbe public

      Some discussion took place on tbe clause for fixing the salaries of the two new juiigts at ^ 5 , 000 per annum each . Mr . Pemberton suggested that the salary should be £ ti . 0 GO . Mr . Hume said £ 5 , 000 per annum ought to purchase the services of any lawyer . The Gvivurmuent had been reproached vrith fcxtravaeai-ca , and now it ¦ was propos-jii to increase the expenses of the country . The clause was then agTetd to . In answer to Sir E Sudden , L jt ' 1 J . livsSELL said he did not think it would be expedient to irjtroducu any legislative measure to prevent Masters in Chancery sitting ic Parliament . On clause 56 btfing read , the object of which was to trant compensation to tte officers of the Court of Exchequer who might be affected by the Bill ,

      The Cuancellou of the EXCHEQUER moved the introduction of a clause iu its stead to exclude Mr . Scarlett , who had recently been appointed to the vfo-i-s o : a Master in the Court of Exchequer , from compensation . Mr . PriiDERTO . v sa . H , if compensation were not granted to all the persons affected by the Bill , it would be rejected elsewhere-LordJ . KV 55 ELL said he should never consent to any tranifw-r of tbe right of that House to originate jncney clausfes to the Hoiise of Lords . After a lengthened discussion the clause , amended so as to include Mr . S ; ar ! ett , was carried by a majority of 73 to 7 o . The House then resumed In answtr to Lord Mahon , who inquired whether it was intended to make any reduction in the number oi convicts on board the hnika , which had been doubled within tbe la * t two years ,

      Lord J . Rlsseul sud hs fully concurred in tne recommendation of the Trar . 5 p 0 rta . ti 0 n Committee , and also in the spirit of the rssolution of the Noble Lord , and it was the intention of the Government to carry the recommendations cf that committee into effect as soon as it was prcieiicabie . Sir R . Peel said the qius ' . ton was one of the trreatest importance , ruore especirJiy now that tbe system of capital punishments was bsing done away with . He hoped it would meet the immediate attention of the G- 'Vernmeut . The H-jn . se then went into Committee of Supply , and a vote for £ 21 . , 000 > fas taken . Court of Chancery ( IrtUnd , Bill was read a second thae . Adjoarned at a quarter before one o ' clock .

      Monday , April 25 . Sir G . Strickland presented a petition from Saddlevrcrth , with fi , -0 si ^ natnr . s , tiding notice of the declining state of our manufactures , and praying for a revision of the import duties . The » Hon . Member pre > sentfed tbe fjli owing petitions : —One fromHaddersneld , complaining that chaplains were appointed to Poor La * Unions and paid at the espease of the ratepayers , this practice operating as an indirect mode of extending the Eitablisied Cbtirch at the expense of persona who dij not belong to it ; one frem a place in the West-Riding of YorksLire , the name of which was not audibly seated , praying f jr a repeal of the Corn Laws ; arid one from the Guardians of the Todmonlcn Union , complaining of tie expenses to which parishes were fcui-jv-cted in defraying the charge of vaccinating tiie ciiMren of the poor .

      Mr . CuristopHEB presented a petition from a Board of Guardians in the city of Lincoln , praying that they might be invested with a discretionary power to gran : out-door relief in certain cases ; and another petition complaining of the arbitrary powers of the Poor L ; vr Coniinissioners . The rreat and long expected business was the committee 0 : 1 the Irish Registration ( and Qualification ; Bill of the Government . The Speaker having left the chair , Lord HcwiCK rose to move an amendnitnt upon the first clause . He laid it down as a principle , that the basis of the county franchise is not occupation , but property ; the £ 50 tenant ' s franchise in England being no real exception from that principle , since £ » 0

      renting is itself aa evidence of considerable cspiUl The best franchisa for an Irish county voter would , he thought , be a rating 03 a certain amount beyond all charges aad the rent specified in the leas « . The tenants" temptation to put their values unreasonably high for the sike of their votes , would be countervailed by their desire to avoid paying too heavy a rate The exces 3 on which be would propose to require a rating , in order t « confer a , franchise , would be an excess of £ 0 beyond the rent and other charges . The " beneficial interest of £ 10 , " contended for by 3 Ir . O'Connell , after tbe deductions which that member professed to aliow , would not be unfairly represented by this £ 5 rating . There were some persons , not included in the £ 8 leaseholders' test , Ttbom

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      this £ 5 eating would admit : thoae , for instance , who paid a Tery 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 £ 5 beyond that low rest B * rtas he was aware that on the other band there w < mld be many voters whom the £ 8 leaseholder ' s test would admit , but whom bis £ 5 property rating would exclude , be was disposed to move also another change , admitting a large class of voters—a change which would substitute , for the Government proposal of a rating on a lease at a low rent , a proposal of a rating at a higher rent , but without any lease . The circumstances of Ireland , however , were so

      different from those of England , and her genera ) 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 would give a constituency at least as numerous as that which existed immediately after the Reform Act All he should now ask of the House would be merely to consent to tbe principle . He then moved to omit those words at the end of the first clause which abrogate the beneficial interest franchise created by tbe Reform Act , for the purpose of enabling him , in the second clause , to define that beneficial interest by the £ i rating propounded in tke earlier part of his speech .

      Lord Morpeth said , that though , tbe proposals of Lord Ho wick 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 ' a object was to avoid that sweeping disfranchistment which tbe 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 £$ rating would produce : it would disfranchise no less than one-sixth of the £ 10 voters in fourteen of the Irish unions .

      Sir C . Gkey opposed the amendment , which he said wns much more than a verbal nutter . 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 Keform Bill , was not to be permitted . It was assumed that such a diminution had already taken place . 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 , 000 . There was so great an excitement on the first registry afterthat Bill , and so little

      opposition , that the numbers amounted to 52 , 000 . They still increased , nominally , till the octennial period ; and then , of course , they were 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 Ileform Bill was framed and expected to yield . Whin he should see au alarming diminution of the constituency , he should gladly co-operate with Lord Howick for the redress of that evil ; but he would not , because some gentlemen declined to grant leasts of their property , consent to inundate the constituency by letting in voters without any property -whatever .

      Mr . O'Cojsnell instanced several counties in which , though registration had been stimulated by contests , the number of voters was , in his opinion , unreasonably small in proportion to their population . Lord Howick called himself a wellwisher of Ireland ; butbe would better have evinced hU good wishes by moving to restore the 40 s . freeholders , than by aiding the opposition as he had just been doing . Lord J . Hussell said , that when the Legislature bad taken up this sul ject , there was a very general feeling that before it dealt with the question of registry it ought to settle thy qtusUon of franchise . He had tbougU £ b tbe proper amount ; be hail « iven way to the proposal for £ s , in the hope that thi 3 important matter might thus be settled , consenting to endure , for so great an object , the taunts directed against the Government He Lad been anxious to retrieve tha error committed by a great party , who bad preferred

      their own triumphs to the tranquillization of Ireland ; I'Ut it now appeared that his hope was to be thwarted . He did not consider thii amendment to be much mora than a question of wording ; but ho was not disposed to concede it , because it would introduce inconvenience into subsequent clauses . Ho cited some of the printed returns , to prove the inefficiency of Lord Howick's proposal for a £ 5 test . It was of no use to talk of future redrtas for the evil of excluding the Irish from representation : tho present was tha time to remedy that defect If it were intendd to disfranchise them , that should be cloue openly and expressly , and not in this indirect and tortuous way . England , he was persuaded , wished to see them honestly anil fairly represented , and not defrauded of their rights . You coukl mit , without exciting great indignation , withdraw the franchise bestowed upon them , and take a step which would justify an angry spirit in Ireland .

      Sir R . Peel said the Xoble Lord had dono what be usually did when his case was peculiarly defectivehe had made a gene ; al declamation on popular rights , to raise a cheer behind him ; and , under the cover of that cheer , be bad retired from further discussion , and fancied he had mado a successful speech Referring to the expectations entertained by the framers of the } ltf onu Bill , and by Mr . O'Connell himself , with re-. ' ¦ pt'ct to the numbers of the Irish constituency , he showed that these numbers did now far exceed all those expectations . But if the numbers were really diiiiiitishfed , wi ; at were the remedies proposed ? In thirty-two Irif-h counties , the Government proposed tho sanw uniform francbise which belonged t # the borough ;

      excluding property , and giving everything to occupation . If property were excluded from tho county franchise in Ireland , how c&uld it be retained in England ? And what c . nfidenco could be placed in tho legislation of n Pet 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 , thtir £ 5 to an £ 8 qualification ? He vindicated , by reference to the testimony given in 1825 by the leading Catholics , tbe disfranchistnient of tb « 40 s . freeholders under the Relief Bill ; and concluded by strongly declaring his opinion that the comluct of Ministers on this question had disentitled them to the confidence of Parliament

      Lord Howick said , his object was not , as bad been suggested by Ministers , to restrict the franchise , but to enlarge it . He wished to preserve the « ld principle of a property qualification , and to add other qualifications also . S . r It . Peel cirrecttd some errors in Mr . O'Connell ' s statements by reference to reported passages of that Member ' s speeches : in the c » urse of which quotations , a good deal of laughter was raised by the perusal of tome of Mr . O'Connell ' s old invectives against his present allies . Lord J . Russell and Lord Howick mutually explained—if a little conversation , rather bitter than otherwise , can be called explanatory . The House tfcen divided , at . d defeated the Ministers by 3 majority of 21 : the numbers being 21 ) 1 and 270 . A little discussion ensued as to the next day of sitting .

      Lord J . Russsll proposed to adjourn till Monday ; but to this , ilelay the 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 be&n , that the country labourers are ignorant creatures ; that they have no seKtinunt at all relative to political rights and liberties ; that , like cattle , they know when they are hungry , am ! that their risings and committing acts of violti-nce resemble , in point of motivo , the feelings which animate cows or oxen , when they break out of a barren field to get into a lich pasture . Such , too , are the opinions which our Miaiite ; s and Members of Parliament have enteitained towards these producers of the food anil tbe wool ami the wood of the country . Proceeding upon these opinions , they have adopted schools without

      number , and the ( . llsttibution 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 , ami that it is gritvously sinful in them not to be content ^ ith s uch diet , though they see the fields and the meadows covered with corn and with cattle , created by their own labour . It has also been fashionable , amongst even tho working classes , to look upon the country labours : s , partieu ' . iirly those here in tho Souta , as being totally ignorant with regard to public matters , and asbfciua utterly unable to be made to understand anything about the political causes of their misery ; and of course not kuowing the least iu 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 ia writing , I huvu always maintained , that they well understood the nature of their wronys and the causes of ( heir misery ; and that the day would come when they would endure that misery no longer . Now , then , for tbe circumstances connected with this petition , which I have spoken of above . In the month of September , or early in October , 1830 , when scarcely a petition had recently been sent

      up for Parliamentary Reform , the labourers of the parish of Wonston , Bullington , and Barton Stacey , ( the whole three containing a population Ie 83 than one thousand five hundred souls , ) met at the hamlet of Sutton Scotney , where they agreed to a petition to ( he King , and subscribed two or thrse pence a piuce , to pay the cxpences of a man to carry it and present it to thu King at Brighton , where tho King then was . The man ckoaentugoon foot this distance of sixty miles , wa ? Joseph Mason , of Bullington , of whom I shall havs to say a geod deal by-and-by .

      [ Tbe petition was signed by 178 labouring men of the parishes of Wonston , Bullingtoa , and Barton Stacey ] When Joseph Mason arrived at Brighton , he went to the residence of the King , expecting , and justly expecting to exercise his right 'to petition the King . ' '

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      In this only he was in error ; that is , thinking tbe right existed , and was something real and not a sham . Instead of being permitted to petition the King , he was told that which is contained in the following copy of a note seat to him by Herbert Taylor , to help to pay whose enormous salary he had been working all bis life-time : — Pavilion ^ Brighton , October 21 , 1830 . " Sir , —I have received your letter of yesterday , inclosing tbe 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 tbe King , and I beg to acquaint you , fot 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 , " ifour obedient servant , •^ H . Taylor . " " Mr . Joseph Mason , Bullington , Hants . !' To come to London , and then to go home , " waa another hundred and twenty miles , or thereabouts . He , therefore , went to a gentleman at Brighton , whom he knew to have been born and brought up at Winchester gave him the petition , and the insolent note of Herbert Taylor , in order that tbe former might be sent to tbe Secretary of State . This gentleman sent the two paperB to his brother , who lives in London , and be brought the papers to me , to know how he teas to get them to Peel . After looking at the papers , and hearing the whole story , 1 said , * Give me the petition : let 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 np this sensible petition , and when be was tramping a hundred and twenty miles on the business of presenting it , be little thought of that condemnation to dtath , and that transportation and slav « ry for life , to which he was to be sentenced iu 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 wbich he neither extorted nor took any part , would be to commit an act of' highway robbery , ' for which he should bo dragged from bia wife and family , condemned to death , and sent into slavery for life I Such , however , was the result ; and tbe Englishman who can bear the story without feeling bis heart swell , and feeling tbe blood boiling in his veins , deserves to perish from , hunger , aad to be food for the fowls of tbe air .

      In about a month after Joseph Mason ' failure to get bis petition to the bands of hi 3 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 Sutton Scotney . Of the part which thiB petition-carrier took in these risings , 1 shall have to speak by-and-by ; but first let us see who and what he was . His parents had , for generations , been labourers ; be was born in one of these parishes . He bad a brother whose name is Robert , who was not married . Joseph was married and bad 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 mvral character , safe protection from want , from all need of parochial relief , and f from nil those miseries which are the lot of mothers who have children of a different description . Besides the work wbich these two young men did for the farmers in the neighbourhood , they rented a piece of ground , consist , ing of about three acres and a half , wbich they cultivated mornings and evenings , and at times when they had no other work . They kept a cow , fatted u pig or two , and , therefore , as there was but one child in the family , they wore a great deal better off than tbe labourers in general . Therefore , it was 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 unfortunato neighbours . The object of tbe risings was , not to commit acts of violence on anybody , anil 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 tbe mildest and most inoffensive part in these risings , these two excellent young men were , under the Special Commission which Q-ruy advised the King to giva to Vaughan , Parks , Alderson , Wellington , Denuian , Sturfres Bourne , and Ssijoant Wilde , condemned to PEatii . AND TRANSPORTED FUR LIFE !! r

      In order to do justice , as far as I am at present ablo , to all tbe parties concernod , I will here refer te an account of tbe trials in Hampshire , as afterwards published by the Curate of the parish of Stoke Charity . I will draw no conclusions myself , and offer no opinions ; but will simply state the facts as published in the account of the trials . Joseph Mason , aged 31 ; Robert Mason , aged 22 ; were first indicted for what they called robbing one Cal lender , Sir Thomas Baring ' s bailiff . There were feix others indicted along with them ; there were a thousand persons or more in this rising ; but , as far as one can judge from the report of the trial , the whole burden of the inquiry was about the two Masont . Tbe jury , however , acquitted them both . In thtsir defence , buth o

      them denied ever liaving touched any money ; and both said , that they were pressed hy the rest of the ptople , and compelled to go with them ; and there wa 3 no evidence brought to show that this was not true . Having escaped here , they were almost instantly clapped into another indictment ; and the next day were put up » n their trial for robbing W . Dowden . Here Joseph was caught , but Robert escaped . On the same day , however , he was clapped into another indictment , when the Reverend James Jolliffe , curate of Birton Stacey , swore , that be was rolled of Jive shillings , and that Robert Mason was one of the robbers . This parson swore that he gave the live shillings out of fear , liobert Mason said , in his defence , that he had not taken the nioney , nor participated in it : that he

      bad betn compelled to go along with the rest ; and ' that if the lawyer who had said so much against him bail been in the road , with a smock-frock on instead of that gown , and a straw bat instead of that wig , he would now be standing at the bar , as hs was ; that au honest man he had always been ; an honest man he still was , ami an honest man he would ever remain . " Mr . Win . Wickham and Mr . Jamts Wickbam , the two principal landowners in the neighbourhood , gave him , as they before had given his brother , the best of characters . Mr . Enos Didams did tho same ; the jury most strongly rtcommemied him to mercy ; but , like his brother , he mis condemned to DEATH , AND TRANSPORTED FUR LiFE !! Always when these Masons waro tried , up came tho story about the Brighton petition . '—Cobbett .

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      LORD CARDIGAN'S HUMANITY : UNLUCKY TOM MACAULAY . ColeriJgd in one of his works expressed regret that the science of casuistry had fallen iuto neglect—that branch of moral inquiry to which huge tonus were devoted by the divines of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . Jeremy Taylor , ho complained , was tbe last of the casuists . Hiid Coleridge survived till this time , he might hkVd hailed with delight the reappearance of a ca . sui 8 t in the Whig Secretary at War . Mr . Macauiay ' s exposition of the case of the E ; irl of Cardigan to Ihe House of Commons was a nuwter-piecrf in this line . The conduct of the Earl was analyzed with the utmost subtility : the possible , the probable , and tho improbable motives to his whipping Private Rogers by way of a voluntary a <; the close of divine service , were all reviewed in delu . il . On the whole , Mr . Macaulay inclined to the opinion that the Earl was to blame ; huh he axrivod at this conclusion with characteristic

      diffidence , and expressed it with the hesitation of a man who , having stuitied under Sir Roger de Covorley , knows " much may be said on both sides . " But Mr . Macaulay has come an age too lute . S . unuel Tajlor Coleriiige is no more , autl with him tho admirers of casuistry have died out So decided is tho aversion to casuistry in this age , that even lha Downing-street journals hfffe taken up the cry against tho luckless wight wholiasattempted to re-establish that branch of study . The Globe protests that Mr . Macaulay ' s conclusion is erroneous , with much more confideuco than it declared the rumour that Lord Bduaveu is to bo superseded in the office of Commissioner to the General Assembly to be unfounded . The Chronicle roundly asserts that " Mr . Macaulay went out of bis way to

      volunteer a tribute to the humauity of tUe E « l of Cardigan ; " and that" Mr . Macjiulay ' s statement was either irrelevant or untrue . " The Chronicle dots not pretend to decide which ; and as the two qualities are not incompatible , delicately leaves it to be inferred that the statement may be both . The Chronicleis at the pains to marshal a formidable array of figures in opposition to the decision of Mr . Maeaulay . and , after mature deliberation , we ratLer incline to the opinion " tuat the Chronide is in the right . To only one of the Chronicle ' s conclusions do wo demur—" His laboured tribute to Lord Cardigan ' s humanity , and bis questionable endeavour to shelter his Lordship ' s indecency under precedent , in order to weaken the feeling wh ; cii his outrageous conduct was calculated to excite , was altogether unworthy of Mr . Macaulay . " For "

      unworthy '' we would read " worthy . " The question with regard to Lord Cardigan ' s humanity is , w « t admit , nat an easy one : no microscopical inquiries are . His friends say , "No mau in the Eleventh Hussars has been punished with the lash since 1839 " — argol , hia Lordship is humane ; it was sheer humanity that made him in such a hurry to punish Private Rogers—he was anxious that the poor fellow should hav 9 it over . Oa the other hand , Lord Cardigan ' s adversaries say that "it is understood Lord Cardigan received instructions from head-quarters to diminish the severity of his punishments ; " and Sir Charles Dalbiac is said to have recorded fcis opinion that " Lyrd Cardigan ' ^ com mand had been characterised by unnecessary harshness . " So , possibly , tbe hurry with Private Rogers may be owiag la his Lordship ' 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 ba like pitch—he defiles every man who handles him . Last week , a sentimental journalist expressed apprehension that " tbe connection with Lord Cardigan might prove fatal to Prince Albert ' s peace . " This 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 retrenched an un from tke Chronicle ' s worthy , we must transplant it to our own lucky , and use in future tbe designation unlucky Tom Macaulay . Exiled from Windsor , and carped at by the Globe and Chronicle , it is clear that hia planet has passed its culminating point" The day of his destiny ' s over , And the star of his fate hath declined . " It only remains to be added , that" Even we , the story bearing , With a sigh can cry poor Tom !" —Spectator .

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      EXECUTION OF BARTHOLOMEW MURRAY FUR 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 tbe City Gaol tnis morning . From the time of his apprehension in Ireland and his commitment on the charge , which at the last assizes was brought bo clearly borne to him , his conduct had been uniformly good . The order for the execution was forwarded from the Secretary of State ' s i . ffice , aud received by the city sheriff , W . J . Leiler , Esq ., on Sunday . Tbe announcement of its arrival made no alteration in the habit or manners of the unhappy youth . He was locked up every nigbt in tho condemned cell by himself , and is said to have enjoyed up to Thursday nigbt , sound and unbroken sleep . On Friday morning the holy sacrament was administered to him by the Rev . J . Carberry .

      He then appeared quite resigned to his fate , and deeply impressed with the urgent necessity of making bis 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 same yard'with biin . He bade all an affectionate adieu . Between eight and niDe o ' clock iu tbeevoiiiug be was revisited by the Roman Catholic clergyman . He then undressed himself , got into bed , aud taking his prayer-book in his band , with the exception of some short intervals , read the contents with marked devotion throughout tbe night . He dressed about four o ' clock , and partook of a hearty breakfasr . Tee reading of the usual morning prayers soon after commenced , tbe culprit , in an audible voice , joining in the service , and repeating word for word after the clergyman . The county

      authorities next conducted Murray to the lobby adjoining the outer gate of the castle . He was there handcuffed , and tbe city sheriff and his officers being announced as waiting for tbe culprit at Giover ' s Stone , the city beundary , Mr . Dunstan conducted his prisoner * on foot in that direction . A strong body of the city police , armed with cutlasses , attended to keep back tbe crowd . The unhappy lain walked by the side of the priest , still repeating the prayers . His step " was remarkably firm , and tbe gaza of a crowd of some thousands did not appear iu the least to affect him . Ou the arrival of the county procession at the boundary a black vailed cavfe , without springs , provided by

      the city authorities , was in readiness to convey the culprit to the city gaoL He was lifted into it by Mr Hill , the superintendent of ths city police , and Mr . Haswell , the governor of the city gaol , and manacles having been fixed to his legs , the Rsv . J , Carberry took a seat in the cart by tho side of tlio culprit , both riding with their backs to the horse , which , after the true Tyburn stylo , was led by the hangman , a practitioner from Staffordshire . Tiie governor of tue city gaol beaded the procession , and the sheriff , un / Ier sheriff , and a livge body of officers brought up th « rear . Tbe crowd was exceedingly dense , and the police constables bad great difficulty in keeping them back , to ixa Iu make a passage for tbe cart .

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

      After shaking hands with him , the revereud gentleman said , " Well , Murray , how do you feel ? What is the state of your mind at present ? " Ttie answer to which was , " Quite composed . " The chaplain then asked , " Are you prepared for tbe awful change so shortly about to take place ? " Murray replied , " . Yus , sir . " ?• Do you feel perfectly resigned to your fate ?" " Yes , sir . " The reverend chaplain then tendered his services to the unfortunate man , who , through Mr . Carberry , respectfully declined them , at tbe same time thanking tbe 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 ba conducted to the drop , the Rev . Mr . Eaton feelingly appealed to him in the following won ! s : — " . Bartholomew Murray , I have obtained the permission of Mr . Carberry to ask you a solemn question . The religious exercises to which you hava been subject must have very deeply impressed your mind , and as you are about very shortly to appear in the pretence of God , I do not require you to answer unless you do it in sincerity and truth , is the sentence , for which you are now al'out to suffer , just or unjust ?" Murray at ouce replied , " I huve no declaration- to make . " He was then conducted to the drop , and having ascended the scaffold with a firm step , he knelt

      with Mr . Carbtvry on the drop . After a few minutes spent in prayer , the executioner proceeded to adjust the ropo . His pastor then administered the sacrament of extreme unction , and , turning round and shakicg hands with Murray , said , " I am uow about to leave you / ' to which he replied , in a firm voice , " I am satisfied , God be with you . " These were his last wortli ; in an instant the drop fell , and he died without a perceptible btruggle . He was in tuo nineteenth year of his age . The body . ^ tfter hanging the usual time , was cut down-and placed in a coffin . At night it was privately removed to the Castle , and , agreeably to the provisions of the Act of Parliament , interred within the precinets , without Christian burial .

      From the circumstance of there having been no public execution in Chester since April 19 th , 1834 , an immense concourse of spectators were collected together on the city walls . At the moment of the execution , twenty-five minutes past twelve o ' clock , the crowd was exceedingly dense . Fortunately , no accident of consequence occurred .

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      The Sweil , the Costermonger , a . nd thk Donkey . —At the Marylebone Police office , ou Saturday , Joseph Holden , an elderly man , with a serio-coono cast of couateuant'o , was brought up , charged under the following curious circumstances : —Ic appeared , from the evidence of a gentleman named Tufnell , that a few days ago , as his phas . on waa standing in Great Marylebone-streei , a dockey , belonging to defendant , started off with the care to whicli it was harnessed , and dashed violently against tho vehicle of complainant ; tho wheels became looked together , and oa defendant being told by complainant that ho was ia fault for leaving his donkey and cart unattended , he poured out a volley of the grossest abuse , which caused a considerable crowd to assemble . Mr . Hard wick ( to defendant )—What have '

      you to say to tliis ! Defendant—Yy , please yer honourable Vorship , I did ' ut blow up tho gin'lemau a , t all , not by no means votsuaidever , aud ven I said b—t your eyes , and bo d—d to you , I vos a spcechet ' yiug to tho ass , and no other mortal man living , b'help mo tatur ; uiy donkej ' s a werry ' spcctable and veil-conducted ass , my Lord , aud I never knowed him to gallop oft in this here vay afore ; I looks upon the hanimal as von of my own family , aad ven he dies I shall never get another like him for lovo nor money . Tho defendant here rubbed his eye with his frock sleeve , and " wiped away a tear . " " * He was lined 10 a ., which he speedily paid , and on quieting the court , said , " If there's a more betterer conducted ass than mine in all London then my name aiut Joe Hclden , and that'a all about it . "

      How to Live by a Loss . —At Marlborough-street police-office , on Saturday , John Lewis , a ragged , but exceedingly intelligenii-iookinglittle boy , about eight years of a ^ e . was 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 s-aw tho defendant cryiug most piteously , and complaiiiiiig that he had lost a sixpence in the kenuel , and that when he went home Ilia 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 he disappeared . In half an hour afterwards the same policeman saw the boy agaui sitting on the step of a door in Conipton-street . Ho waa then crying as before , and attracted a crowd of persons about him to whom he was relating that he had lost some of ln ' s mother ' s money , and that it

      had bceu 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 stcry , questioned nim , when he admitted that his account about losiug the sixpence was all ' sham , " adding that hia mother had Btsut him to beg , and threatened to give him a thrashing if he returned home without nioney . The boy , in answer to a question from the magistrates , said , that he never got more than two bob , and if ho did not get any money his mother gave him a clout on tho head , but bo did not mind that . The mother , who had been called into the office , said that sho was a widow , and in great distress . The magistrate told her that if she wa 3 in distress she should apply to the pau . 'h aiujiorities . The mother said she would do s , but she had Tery liit-lo hope of succ S 3 .

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      How to Accomplish all that we'Aim ** My rule is deliberately to consider before I en * "" mence , whether the thing is practicable . If it kI not practicable , I do not attempt it ; if j ' t be n ticable , I can accomplish it . if I give snffioient'SS to it ; and , having begun , I neyer stop till the S is done . —Dr . Hunter . ttU 5 8

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      ¦ " * w ^ . Christened at Yeoxil Church , by the rW w Robinson , on Wednesday , the Uth inst . Mahlia « . O'Connor Frost , daughter of Wm . Tucker- ^ 3 Elizabeth his wife . Ma Born MaTch 4 th , and duly registered . Will ? . * . Feargus O'Connor Carroll , son of Margaret « 2 William Carroll , cordwainer , No . 3 , Austin ' s Conrt Cumberland-street , Manchester . . ¦ " *•> Born on the 2 nd of January , and christen ^ «« the 2 l 8 t of Febrnary , by the Rev . Mr . ffiP Helen Agnes O'Connor Vincent , daughter of Alex ander and Margaret Chalmers , of the Teetotal Coffee-honse , Portobello , near Edinburgh . Christened at the Collegiate Church , on Sund »» the 24 th of March , Ann O'Connor and Mary £ 3 * twin daughters of John and Ann Lee , of M « n ' Chester .

      On the 28 th of March , Agnes , the wife of DjtM Walker , of Sheffield , was delivered of a fine daorii ter , which was baptised at the parish church ud duly registered Eliza O'Connor Frost Walker ' On Tuesday , the 10 th of March , Elizabeth th » wife of George Doig , of Bedlington , was safely de ! Jivered of a son , who was duly registered Geor « FearguB Doig , on the 28 tb of March . ™ Grace , the wife of Henry Burnett , 13 , Rnfonn street , Bradford , waa delivered of a son on Sundi ? Jast , which has since been duly registered Emanw ! Frost Burnett . w In January last , Mary , the wife of George Flyno of a daughter , which has been registered Ann M'Douall Flynn . - Tuesday , April 13 th , the daughter of John inA Celia Moore , of Trowbridgo , was duly registered Celia Frost Moore , in honour of the exiled patriot John Frost . '

      Elizi Frost , born November 4 fh , 1839 , christened at the parish church , Dewsbury . Jane O'Connor Frost , born at Stockport , lGth of March , 1841 , and duly registered ; daughterofGeore * and Hannah Hall . 6 On Thursday % veek , Elizabeth , wife of Mr . GeortB Walker , tailor , Woodhouso Carr , near this town gave birth to a daughter , who has been duly regis ^ tered Harriet Feargus O'Connor . Mr . Henry Hunt , of the Friars , Leicester , recently had a son christened Feargus , after the incarcerated patriot now in York Castle . On Tuesday , March 30 , 1841 , Mary Ann BentW the wife of John Bent ' . ey , of Millbridge , was safely delivered of a son , who has since been duly registered Feargus O'Connor .

      Born , at Loughborough , April 9 th , Mary O'Connor , daughter of Joseph and Sarah Lester . Born , recently , William Feargu 3 , son of William and Olive Priestley , of Loughborough . Jane Frost Hemingway , daughter of John and Martha Hemingway , of Caiver , near Bake well , was duly registered on the 1 . 5 th instant , in honour of that noble patriot , John Frost . On the 22 ud of April , at Leicester , was duly registered , Mary Ann Frost Knight , the diughtf-r % f Samuel nnd Eliza Knight , of Eaton-street , in honoat of that bold and unflinching patriot John Frost , Esq . the peoples' friend and tyrants' foe .

      On Sunday , April 4 th , the daughter of John and Charlotte Steward , was christened by the Rev . Mr . Ben ^ ather , Hannah Feargus O'Connor Steward , at Sprowdby Church , near Norwich . The Rev . Gentleman said—Is Feargus O'Connor so endeared to you , that you must have this child named after hunt Yea , Sir , and not only to me . but to thousands . And does the father like Feargus O'Connor ? Certainly he docs . And is Feargus O'Connor superior to the Bible 1 I do not know what you

      mean . I say , js Feargus O'Connor superior to the Bible 1 I do not know what the name of Fearpis O'Connor has to do with the Bible . Then I shall not name your child . That you can do as you please about ; but if you do not , there are others . - that will . I suppose , Sir , we may name our children as we like ! I do not know that you may ; I think if you refer to the Bible you would not bave this child named Feargus O'Connor . With these words he took up his book , and said with a sneer , " Hannah Feargus O'Connor , " &c .

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      6 THE NORTHERN STAR .

  • 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-ncseproduct853/page/6/