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      THE BETTER HOPE . bt xbwest jokes . A child of the hard-hearted world was I , And a worldling callous of heart , And eager to play—with the thoughtless and gay , As the lightest and gayest , a part . ¦ With a rich old name , and 3 passionate thought , The brig htest or darkest to span j But a struggle to fight—for my natural ri ght , Of a place in the homes ef man . Hy father ' s house , in the lordly square , Was cold in its solemn state , A *> d tbe sculptures rare—on the walls 50 "bare Looked down with a quiet hate .

      My fathers hall was a dark old spot , With a dark old wood around , And large quiet streams—like watery dreams On tho verge of a haunted ground , And the flwel ' ere were filled in that solemn place , With the trance of a sullen pride ; For the scutcheoned grace—of a titled race Is the armour the heart to hide ! © h ! The eye sees hut half , through a blazoned glass , The smile of the sunshiny earth , " And a laugh cannot pass—through a marbly mass , But it loses the pulse of its mirth . AadI thought : there beyond in the broad , laughing world .

      Men are happy in life ' a holiday ! And I passed one and all—through each oldfashioned hall , And wandered away and away ! The trees , they shrunk back—on my venturous track , Old trees that my childhood had seen ; And the mansion looked dun—in the light of the sun , Like a grave Its long grasses between . But alas ! for the change of what might have been fair , And the gloom of what should have been bright ! The wind weltered by—like one great swelling sigh , And the noonday was darker than night . Tor a giant had risen , all grisly and grim , '"

      With his huge limbs , loud , clattering and vast ! And he breathed his steam-breath—through long channels of death , Till the soul itself died on the blast . And fibre and flesh he bound down on a rack , Flame-girt on a factory-door ; And the ghastly steel corse—plied its horrible force , Still tearing the hearts of the poor . Like a wine press for mammon to form a golddraught , It squeezed their best blood through its fangs ;

      And he quaffed at one breath—tbe quick vintage of death , While it foamed with humanity's pangs . Oh ! then I looked hack for my cold , quiet home , As the hell-bound looks back for the grave ; Bnt I heard my soul cry—who hut cowards can fly , While a tyrant yet tramples a slave ! Then I hound on my armour to face the rough world , And I ' m going to march with the rest . Against tyrants to fight—for the sake of the right , And , if baffled , to fall with the best .

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      THE ARISTOCRACY OF ENGLAND . A HISTORY FOR THE PEOPLE . Bx John Hamfben , Jan . London : Chapman , Brothers , 121 , Newgate Street ; Effingham Wilson , Royal Exchange . __ This is a roost important book The reading public have" lately been startled with the " Revelations of Russia , " "Revelations of Spain , " « fcc ., hut this work contains revelations of the history of England so astonishing as to render it a question of serious doubt whether the worst governed country on the lace of the earth has ever been made to endure sufferings and horrors such as England has passed through , and which are detailed , or rather sketched , in [ the work before us . Verily "truth is stranger than fiction , " the revelations contained in this relume prove that .

      The author , whoever he is , has read English history to some purpose . We" have heard " some of the " more nice than wise" critics complain that the author ' s language is coarse , and not sufficiently refined for this fastidious age . The fact is our author calls th ngs by their right names ; if he has a scoundrel to describe he introduces him to the reader by his right name , that of " scoundrel . " . Now we cannot say this particularly shocks us , quite the contrary . We remember fie great enemy

      of corruption and villainy , Gobbetx , and we are glad to find that our author dares to imitate that great Englishman in boldly denouncing the vultures of rapine , and the carrion crows of corruption , in that language which is alone applicable to them . Indeed we think , had the author of ihis work called Uroself "William Cobbe « i junior , " instead of "John Hampden , " he would have given himself a title which weuld have well fitted him , and which be might have worn without any disparagement to ihe illustrious original .

      The author of this work is evidently a free-trader , but he is " a free-trader and tomciMng more" Thur at the very outset , in his preface he says : — "Time will show that cheap bread alone will not enable us to remedy all the mischiefs . Our debt is eighthundred millions : our annual taxation fifty millions ; and these will lie as an incubus on our manufacturing exertion ? , and on the cheapness of everything in Ensland . Let the people remember that aristocrafic corruption , and the sources of its corruption , still remain in the state ; that the root of the mischief is still there ; that thefrancTdse is still restricted to a few . " Aye , that * s the root of the evil ; John Hampden , junior , has there hit the right nail upon ihe head .

      We might claim John Hampden , junior , as a Fraternal Democrat , for he heads his first chapter with "God has made of one blood all the nations of the earth , " a truth , which , if understood by mankind , would have prevented the majority crouching be-BGfttfl th / feet of the usurping minority , and prevented the shedding of those seas of blood which have flowed over the soil of every country on the face of the earth—blood ignorantly and madly shed to gratify the devilish lusts of the brigand few . This work consists of nearly 350 closely-printed pages , every page occupied with an account of some act of fraud , rapine , murder , or other kind of sconndrelism committed by our rascally aristocracy . Jn the limits , therefore , to which we must confine ourselves , we can merely give a few extracts as specimens of what the reader will find by wholesale if he will buy the book and read for himself .

      Everybody knows that the English aristocracy pride themselves on being descended from the ruffians " who came in with William the Norman . " Who the Normans really were , and the sort of scoundrels which composed the army of William , is admirably shown in the following extracts : —

      teg sormass . "Wew , in fact , a swarm of the most desperate and needy adventurers ; "« ra < = cal rabble" of vagabond thieves and plunderers . They were not , in fact , one-half of them , wliat they arepretended to be , —Xormans ; but collected by proclamation , and by lavish promises of sharing in the plunder of conquered England , — vultures fro-a every -wind of heaven rushing to the field of British carnage . Wfe shall find that , allowing the claims of such families as now an trace a clear desccHt from these men —and these are very few indeed—even such of them as were Normans , were of the lower and more rapacious grade . The great Tultures fleshed themselves to tbe throat with the first spoil , a „ d returncdhome , while their places were obliged to be repeate-U y supplied , through renewed proclamations , and renewed offers of the plunder of the Anglo-Saxons , from the stiU hungry tribes of knights who were wandering and fighting anywhere for bloodv bread .

      Our proud nobles are forsooth descended from the p . 1-lant and chivalrous Xormans . They will be descended from them and them alone . There is not a soul ef them thatmU claim the honour of descent from the Danes Oh no ! The barbarous and blood y Danes , they are a scandal and abomination 1 They are thieves , pirates plunderers , and savages . Nobody is descended from them except some plebeians in the North of England , and except that the rabble rout of the common people are contaminated with their Hood . And yet , who are the Normans ! ' Whv , the Banes I

      Ties ! the proud aristocracy of England , such of them as have any long known descent at all , are actually descended from the Danes I They are the legitimate issue of this bloody and barbarous people that nobody wishes to acknowledge as ancestors . The Danes , driven from Eng land , fell on the shores of France , and amid the distractions of that kingdom , laid Paris in ashes , and seized on that district which thence received from these Xorth - menuers or Normans , its name of Normand y . Hire , though settled too comfortably for their deserts , they never ceased te keep an eye on the far richer prize of England , from which , for their cruelties and fiery devastations , they had been chased away .

      After the battle « bf Hastings , and the death of Baarld , William made his way through the country pillaging , plundering , burning , massacreing and destroying like a very devil . . We pass over the long history of these atrocities to come to the crowning horror , his devastation of the entire north of Enslaud , and extermination of the whole of the inhabitants . The descriptions of 'his laying waste of tbe north of Eujlaad by all the eld chronicler . ' , Normans and iVeiu-Ii as -. veil as English , are most horrifying , at the same time ii ; .. t llure is nothing in history more thoroughly proved . The- Conqueror is said to have been humiii ^ in ! he fou-. st Of Ucaa . vhtn news of disturbances in the north was

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      brought to him , and on which he swore by the splendour of the Almighty , that he would exterminate the whole of the Northumbrians , and never lay his lance in rest till he had done the deed The implacabl y Danish and savage nature of his mmd is shown in this , that though it required tune to march northward , and to put down all the disaffected people , he never departed from his diabolical purpose , but after he had enforced submission , he sent out his whole army in exterminating columns to scour the whole country , and destroy man and beast , town and tower , before them . This array of human fiends , of what nn old Norman calls a host of « Normans . Burgolouns , thieves , and felons , " went on in a fury of carnage over all Northumberland , burning towns , villages , houses and crops , and slaying men , women , children , and cattle , with indiscriminate rage . Monasteries and churches were laid in ashes ; amongst them Jarrow , famous as the former brought him . anrt nn trMnt , i , « . . __ ..

      residence of the venerable Bede . The monks and clergy of Durham fled for security to Holy Island . When the rumour of this terrible work of destruction spread , the minds of men were stunned as it were with the horror of it . From Durham to York , a space of sixty mile * , the whole country wa § so thoroughly desolated that not an inhabited village remained , and William ofMalmsbury , who wrote eighty years after this period , says , that fire and slaughter had made a vast wilderness there which remained to that day . From Durham north to Hexham , from the Wear to the Tyne , the remorseless Conqueror continued the same infernal process , Ordcric Titalis describes the "feralis occisio , " the dismal slaughter , and says that more than ahundred thousand victims perished . " It was ahorrrible > pectacle , " says Roger Hovenden , "to sea on the high roads and public places , and at the doors Of houses , human bodies eaten by the worms , for there remained no one to cover them with a little earth . "

      The author of this work proves beyond douht that the boast of descent from the Norman conquerors , that is thelfirst horde of ruffians who came over with Willianvis all fudge . These were destroyed , or driven out by William and his family , or voluntarily abandoned the country after they had glutted themselves with the spoil of the unfortunate English . He proves that where our present aristocrats can really show anything like descent from the brigands of the Norman time , that they are really descended from a spawn of miscellaneous ^ nameless , obscure , unhung ruffians , who followed in the wake of the first horde . De Foe in his Trne-Born Englishman gave the same , account of the " pure , high-blooded " rascals . We quote from that once famous satire : —

      The great invading Norman let us know , What conquerors in after times might do ; To every musqueteer he brought to town , He gave the lands which never were his own When first the English crown he did obtain , He did not send hie Normans home again ; No re-assumption in his reign were known : Davenant might there ha' let his book alone . No parliament his army could disband , He raised no money , for he paid in land . He gave his legions their eternal station , And made them all freeholders of the nation

      He eanton'd cut the country to his men , And every soldier was a denizen . The rascals thus enrich'd he eaWd them Lords , To please their upstart pride with new made words And Itoomsiay-Booli his tyranny records . And here begins our ancient pedigree That so exalts our poor nobility : 'Tis thatfromsome French trooper they derive , Who with the Norman Bastard did arrive : The trophies of the families appear ; Borne shew the tword , the bow , and some the spear Which their great ancestor , / orjooW , did wear ; These in the herald ' s register remain , Theirnoele mean extraction te explain ; Tet who the hero was , noman can tell , Whether a drummer or a colonel ; The silent record blushes to reveal Their undescended dark original . Ilereis a picture of

      THE FAMILY OF THE C 0 SQUEK 0 R . In the affections of his own family William was not more happy than in those of his people . He was obliged to arrest his turbulent half-brother Odo , and imprison him during the remainder of his reign . His eldest son Robert , was almost continually in rebellion against him for possession of Normandy , and showed more disposition for a dissolute life , and for the company of guzzlers , jngslers , danceis , lewd women , and gambltrs , than for any rational pursuit His second son , Richard , was gored to death with a stag in the New Forest , where afterwards a son of Robert also was killed , and his third son ,

      William Rufus , —a judgment , as the people believed , frem God for his atrocities there . His latter days were embittered by the wrangles and jealousies of his two youngest sons . . William and Hmry , which showed him horrors in perspective : and in his las ; moments these sons forsook him , as did allhis followers , to secure what he had left . " Barons , priests , anddukes /' sayshisown secretary , " mounted their horses and rode away almost before he was dead , to serve their interests with the living . The minor attendants rifled the apartments , and even carried off the royal clothes ; and the body was left almost naked on the bare boards for a whole day . "

      This is a melancholy unveiling of the motives which keep up the farce of a royal state . But this was often the case in this family . Bums was left in the forest where he fell till an old charcoal-burner picked np his body , and carried it , like the carcase of a beast , in his cart to Winchester . There , the next day , the body , all covered with blood and dirt , and still lying in the man's cart , was carried to the cathedral , and buried . Henry II . suffered similar neglect at Chinon , where he died . The desertion of nobles and attendants which occurred to his greatgrandfather , the Conqueror , was acted again ; so that it was with difficulty that anybody could be found to wrap his body in a winding sheet , and carry it toFontevraud for burial .

      The character of Rufus . as drawn by the old chroniclers , is that of rapacity and the most infamous dissoluteness , which spread throug h his whole court . He was at war , first with one brother and then with another . Henry Beanclere , his successor , was a man of the mest cold and unprincipled cunning . A more striking proof of this could not be given than that he not only usurped the rights of bis elder brother , Robert , and making him pri . soner , confined him for life , but destroyed his eyes with the application of a basin of red hot metal . What puts the crown to this diabolical deed is , that this same good nstured Robert had , on one occasion , when Rufus and he

      were in arms against this Henry , and had shut him up in the castle of Mount St . Michael , in Normandy , refused to suffer him to die of hunger , as Rufus would have done , but sent him wine and food , saying— "Where shall we find another brother when he is gene ! " Scarcely less horrible was his allowing the eyes of two of his granddaughters to be put out and their noses to he cut off , by one of his own officers , for which their mother , his osvn daughter , attempted to murder him . Well has the family of the savage Conqueror been styled the family of Atreus * nd Thyestes . There seemed scarcely to be a spark of natural feeling , much less of natural affection , in it .

      The history of the aristocracy from the time of the " Conqueror , " to the time of the eighth Henry , is one of the most horrible records of hellish crimes to be found in the annals of the human race . Occasionallv the head of all these assassins , the king , exhibited in his own person the quintessence of all the roiscreantism of his baronial grandees , this was preeminently shown in the person of

      THE INFAMOUS JOHN . This John crowned all the villainy and crimes of his family , and became the most contemptible and diabolical scoundrel that ever wore a crown . There is no portion of his life which is not covered with infamy . Treachery and rebellion to his father ; treachery and rebellion againu his brother and kin ?; stirring up foreign powers and assassins ayiinst him , marked his earlier progress ; and the character thus acquired was amply maintained by becoming the undoubted murderer of his nephew , the Prince Arthur of Brittany , the orphan son of his elder brother , Geoffrey , and true heir to the crown , who , there is every reason to believe , perished , by his own hands . Shakspeare has stirred the blood of ages against him , by his description of the burning out of tbe eyes of this orpkan and unprotected youth ; but not even the powers of that marvellous dramatist , could add an atom to

      that load of contempt and indignation which his own and succeeding times heaped upon the head of this royal monster . Tiiere is no crime against heaven or humanity of which he was not capable or of which he was not accused . He scorned all the bonds of family honour and affection ; he defied and outraged all those of social life and of government . He led amongst the most infamous companions the most infamous existence . He defied his nobles , and trampled on their privileges . He stripped his subjects with a robber ' s hand , and let loose on them the most diabolical horde of wretches that ever afflicted this much-enduring nation . He gratified his lust by tearing wives from their husbands ; and , as we have seen , when the barons and people attemp ted to bind him by the Charta , he marched from place to place , all over the kingdom , with men whose very names are a horror ; * and , to the very day of his ignominious death , carried through this devoted realm , fire , murder , anarchy ,

      and desolation . In a chapter devoted to the history of the struggle for . Magna Charta , our author incontestibiy proves that the glorv of wringing that measure from the tyrant John , hitherto monopolised by the aristocracy , belongs really much more to the people than to tne nobles , who without the people had been nothing . It was during the rei-ms of Richard IT ., Ilcnry v . and Henry VI ., that the feudal aristocracy attained the hemht of their insolent domination . Their

      fullblown pride , however , proved their ruin . Having the whole- of the country in their possession , they now strove to effect the ruin of each other , each and all being bent only upon getting possession of the lands and titles of his mother baron . Hence the endless plots , intrigues , rebellions , wars and massacres which render memorable these reigns , the whole terminating in the lone and frightful civil war between the partisans of "York and Lancaster . " We give an extract illustrative of the horrible butcheries in the WAUS OF THE U 0 SES . Opposed to the Yoikists and Warwick was the queen , * Such as " Falco without Uowcls ; " " . Maukon the Woody ; " "Walter J ' ueh , the Murdeter ; "Sottim , the Merciless : " and " Gcdcscbal , the Iron-lieart .-d !"

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      rather than the poor feeble-minded king ; and Margaret had spirit enough to have propped her husband ' s throne , had her conduct been as unimpeachable as her heart was bold . But her bloodthirsty disposition completed the popular hatred which her shameless amours had begun . She had with her the Dukes of Somerset and Buckingham ; the Earls of Northumberland , Devon , Pembroke , De Roos , Stafford , and Shrewsbury ; Lords Clifford , Dacre , Beaumont , Bgremont , Audley , Sudely , and many others . Of these , the greater part fell in the battles of St . Alban ' s , Bloreheath , Northampton , Wakefield , Mortimer's-cross , Barnet , and others of those .. „ . _« .. ;_ .. —j » - ....

      bloody and monstrous battles in which quarter was refused , and the contending parties seemed fired with a more than infernal animosity . The Earl of Warwick made it a standing rule to give no quarter to the noblei of the opposite party , and this lopping gyrtcm , by which he hoped speedily to deprive the Lancastrians of leaders , was soon retaliated on him and his friends . His father , Salisbury , was taken after the battle of Wakefield , and beheaded at Pontefract . The Duke of Tork was killed in that battle , his second son , the Earl of Rutland , a boy of twelve or thirteen years old , was met on the bridge , by Lord Clifford , and brutally murdered .

      Warwick himself perished , with his brother , Lord M-mtacute , in the last horrible battle of Barnet , where Edward put in practice the bloody rule which he himself had taught him , of giving no quarter ; Warwick fell , the just victim not merely of his reckless ambition , but of his implacable and sanguinary policy , little in accordance with the fine character which Hume has drawn of him . But , iu the meantime , Warwick had set up Edward IV ., and puUcd him down again , had made Clarence a rebel against the king , his brother ; had set up Henry VI ., whom he had before dethroned ; had entered into a league with Margaret , whom he had pursued for fifieenyears , and who had pursued him with so much hatred that she had even sent his own father to

      the block ; had not only married his oldi-st daughter to Clarence , while Edward had no son , in the hope oi Clarence thus succeeding to the throne , but had again agreed to come forward for the support of Henry VI ., and married his second daughter to Prince Edward , the only son of Henry and Margaret , so as to secure to hia posterity the throne on that side ; and , finally , fell fighting against Edward IV ., for whom he had broken up the peace of the realm , cut off ruthlessly so many of the chief nobility , and such thousands of the people , and for the king whose throne he had overturned , whose life he had so thoroughly embittered , and on whom , and his only son , he eventually breught bloody murder , thus annihilating his line for ever .

      * # * # But the aristocratic ambition had , In fact , laid suicidal hands on itself , 'Be ; ides the battles we have mentioned before the accession of Edward IV ., there followed that accession the still bloodier ones of Towton , Hedgeley Moor , Hexham , Edgecote , Erpingham , the second battle of Barnet , and Tewkesbury . In the battles and on the block during the lone course of this contest , fell the Duke of Tork , his son Rutland , three successive Dukes of Somerset , the Dukes of Exeter and Buckingham , three Earls of Northumberland , tho Earls of Salisbury , Devon , Wiltshire , Shrewsbury , Pembroke , Rivers , Warwick , Montacute , Worcester , Leeds , Audley , Beaumont . Egreraont , Bonvill , De Roos , Hungerford , Cromwell . Save , Wenlock ; SirsKyrirl , Grey . Woodville . Lisle , Audley , Rose , Clifton , Cary , Trcshaai , Owen Tudor , who are more particularly named , besides a whole host of others ; in the battle of Northampton alone , SOOknights and gentlemen falling ; and six barons being beheaded with the Earl of Northumberland after the battle of Towton .

      Of the people it is calculated that not less than 100 , 000 were sacrificed . In the battle of Towton alone fell 58 , 000 ; in tbe last bloody battle of Barnet 10 , 000 ; at Edgecote fell ofYorkifts alone 5000 ; in the first battle of Barnet 2003 ; and of the Lancastrians alone at St . Alban ' s 2000 ; at Mortimer ' s Cross 3600 . But besides , the private murderous crimes were numerous and mo t revolting . In the beginning of Henry VI . 's reign , his uncle the good old Humphry of Gloucester was priv te ' v murdered . King Henry was privately murdered as is believed by Edward IV ., or by the

      hands of his brothers Clarence and Richard of Gloucester . Henry's only son Edward , a stripling , was stabbed in the presence of Edward IV ., as again said , by Clarence and Glouccst- r , the latter murden-r afterwards marrying the youth ' s vidow , Anne , daugther of Warwick . As foully had Edward his own brother Clarence murdered in the Tower , according to tradition , drowning him in a butt of Malmsey . Scarcely was Edward himself dead , when his own brother , the infernal Gloucester , had his two sonr—two innocent boys—smothered in that old slaiiKhttr-house the Tower .

      For a more extended account of these horrors , and an exposure of the unnatural intrigues , and sham' -fiil indecencies of the royal and aristocratical brutes of this period , we must refer the reader to the work itself . The reign of kingly despotism now commenced , and continued to the time that the hypocritical Charles was made a head shorter . The bulk and the greatest feudal aristocrats had perished in the wars of the Roses . The cold-blooded , avaricious tyrant , Ilcnry VII , contrived , under various pretexts , to chop off the heads of many of the survivors

      at the same time confiscating their estates to the crown . His son , the horrible and ever to be execrated Henry V 1 IL , destroyed almost tho entire of the remaining members of the old aristocracy . With one or two exceptions they well merited the destruction which fell upon them . They showed themselves the vilest panderers to the brutal tyrant on the throne ; for instance , the Duke of Norfolk presided at the trials both of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard , ( two of the King ' s wives ) both his own nieces ' . We give two extracts , illustrating the character of

      THE ROTAL nLUX-BEARU . It has been admirably said of him , "that he spared no man in his vengeance , nor woman in his lust , " Of his six wives , two he divorced , and two he beheaded to make way for fresh ones . One escaped him by dying soon after child-birth ; and one had a hair-breadth escape for her neck . Before the divorce of the first , he had actually married the second , On the morning of the execution of this second , the beautiful Anne Boleyn , whom he moved heaven and earth to obtain , ho went to hunt in Epping Forest . As he sat at breakfast , he listened for the signal gun which should announce her death . On hearing it , he started up joyfully , exclaiming — "Hal it is done ! the business is done ! Unouple ths dogs , and let us follow the sport . " In the evening he

      returned gaily from the rhase , and the next morning got married again . This Lady , Jane Seymour , died , as we have said , a natural death , and his next , Anne of Oleves , the unlucky Flanders mare , being a great horror to him , he tolerated but about four or five months , and took a fiifth , Catherine Howard . As ho could not enjoy the decapitation of Anne of Cleves , he celebrated his marriage with Catherine Howard by cutting off the head of his minister , Cromwell , as well as that of Lord Hungerford , and burning alive three heretics , and hanging , drawing , and Quartering three deniers of his supremacy—a very suitable mode of celebration of such a marriage by such a king . He wound up his honeymoon as characteristically with hanging the Prior of Doncaster , and six others , for defending the institution of the monastic life .

      In one year he was tired of his wife , and within two years and a half from their marriage he had her head off , with that of Lady Rochford , at the same time . The marriage of his last wife , Catherine Parr , he may be said to have celebrated in his usual way ; for Catherine being agood Protestant , during her honeymoon , that is only sixteen days after their wedding , he burat three Protestants alive in Smithfield . He was a monarch of so lusty a humour , that he did not fancy himself properly marriedwithout he amused his people with the fallen head of a wife , a minister , or with the flames and cries of a few heretics . Between the accession and the death of this monster , " some thousands of individuals" were executed . Lord Surrey , the brave poet , was his last , victim ; at the time of his decapitation , the royal wretch was breathing his last . Here is an account of his last moments : —

      The picture of the Bluff Harry , iu his last year , is a fine example of what a loathsome piece of carrion pure blood may become . " The most wretched being in this wretched state of things was the king himself , whose mind and body wore alike diseased . In the absence of other pleasures , he had given himself up to immoderate eating ; and tie had grown so enormously fat , that he could not pass through an ordinary door , nor could he move about from room to room without tho help of machinery , or of numerous attendants . The old issue in bis leg had become an inveterate ulcer , which kept him in a constant state of pain and excessive irritability . It was alike offensive to the senses , and dangerous alike to life and property to approach this corrupted mass of dying tyranny . The slightest thing displeased him , and his displeasure was a fury and a madness ; and nothing on earth could give him a wholesome , agreeable feeling . How his last wife Catherine Parr , escaped destruction , appears almost marvellous ; she was mora than once in imminent peril .

      In the reign of this royal devil , commenced the rise oi the new church-plundering aristocracy , ; but of this disreputable gang wc must defer saying anything until our next number .

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      TIIE MUSICAL HERALD . Part 4 . London : G . Biggs , 421 , Strand . This part contains la choice selection of musical compositions , and well-written and interesting articles on "Old English Plays , " "Sacred Music , " " The Beggar ' s Opera , " "Scottish Music , " & c , & c . ; also biographical notices of Haydn and Ma dame Camporcse . This publication is a boon to tiie lovers of Music , and well deserves their support *

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      ¦ . ! ¦<> PUNCH . PartLXlI . London : Punch Office , So , Fleet Street . Both " OM Ireland " and " Young Ireland " are accommodated with a well-merited flagellation in this part of Punch . The " begging impostors" of Buckingham Palace who want £ . 150 , 000 to enlarge their wry small and inconvenient premises are exhibited in their proper characters as "cadgers . " \ Ye wish this exhibition could teach the Royal paupers modesty , but wc very much fear that they are incorrigible .

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      7 mv AS J t Eft 1 il 0 LD ' s SHILLING MAGAFleeUtrS * L ° nd 0 n : FuncKm ™> ® > oi ™ + bsenceof " -GiIes and st - James , " we are sorry to see an announcement that "the writer has to plead indisposition in excuse of the omission ot ins story , from the present number . " The place of the editors story is , however , well supplied by « an ower true tale , " from the pen of Wmaai IIowiTT , illustrating , by the veritable history of veritable personages , the mournful truths of Goldsmiths "Deserted Village . " The atony is prefaced with the following excellent observations , which will speak to the hearts of our readers . -nnnA . n ... _

      BOBDBRT OP THE LAW ) FROM TUB EXGXISH PEASANTRY . It is a fact , that , within the last mo hundred years , almost every acre of land in this country , except the large entailed estates of the aristocracy , have quite changed hands . There is quite a different race and class of men now living on all the small possessions of land , or on what has been formed out of those small possessions ; but the greatest and most rapid and striking nitrations of this kind have taken place within the last fifty years . The French Revolution , in fact , introduced an English Revolution , which , if it did not shed so much blood on the British seil , it thoroughly altered the title and holding of property , and pressed the blood as per . fectly out of thousands of oppresgedliearts .

      That possession of small portions of land by the people , which now so strikingly distinguishes the people of the Continent from those of England—nhich makes , indeed , property so different a thing there and here—would seem at one time to have been almost as general here as any where . If we still go into really old-fashioned districts —into those which the modern changes have not yet reached , where there are no manufacturers—into the obscure and totally agricultural nooks—we see evidences of a most ancient order of things . The eottages , the farm houses , the very halls are old ; the trees are old , the hedges are old ; everything is old . There is nothing that indicates change or progress . There is nothing , even in furniture , that may not have been there at least five hundred years ; there is much that induces you to believe that eight hundred years ago it existed . In com . mon labourers' cottngrg , before tho late rags for old English furniture , which led the London brokers to scour the

      whole empire , penetrate into every nook , and brjng up all the old cabinets , hall tables , old carved chairs , carved presses and wardrobes , and retail them for five hundred percent ., besides importing great quantities of similar articles from Holland , Belgium , Jind Germany , I haVe myself seen old heavy ample arm chairs , with pointed backs , in which one might imagine an Alfred or an Edward the Confessor sitting , with the date in great letters on their backs , of 1300 or 1400 . There are plenty of houses so ancient , that In the roofs and' woodwork the ends of the groat wooden pegs with which their framing is pinned together are not cut off . But without , how old is everything ! The trees are dead at top and hollow at heart ; there are ancient elms and oaks standing , whose shadow is said to have covered their acre of ground , but

      which have now neither head nor heart ; huge hollow shells , so capacious , that whole troops of children play in them , and-, call them their churches ; and whole flocks of sheep or herds of cattle seek shelter from the summer sun under them . These old villages too , are lost , at it were , in a wilderness of ancient orchards , where the trees produce apples and pears totally unlike any now grown in modern plantings . The villages are surrounded by a maze of little crofts , whose hedges have evidently never been set out in any general enclosure , for they do not run in regular squares and straight lines , but form all imaginable figures , and with the line of beauty go waving and sweeping about in all directions . They are

      manifestly the effect of gradual and fitful inclosure from the forest in far-oft times , many of them long before the Conquest , when this dense thicket and that group of trees were run up to and included as part of the fencing . These old hedges have often a monstrous width , occupying nearly as much in their aggregate amount as the aggregate amount of the inclosed land itself . They are often complete wildernesses of stony mounds , busheSj and rank vegetation . The hawthorns of which they are composed are no longer bushes , but old and wide-spreading trees , with great gaps and spaces often between them having ceased to be actual fences between the old pas . tares , and become only most picturesque shades for the cattle . In the old crofts still flourish the native

      daffodils , and the snow-white and pink primroses , now extirpated by the gathering for gardens everywhere tlse . such , there is no doubt , were our villages generally all over the country formerly , and for at least a thousand years . The whole country seemed to lie in a long and sunny dream . So little did population seem to increase , that rarely a house was built . The army and the distant towns took up the small surplus ef people that there was . So little did the land seem wanted that the forests and wastes lay from age to age unchanged . Every man had his little plot , or could inclose it for a small acknowledgment , and the rural race lived on with little exertion and

      no care . The first shock to this state of things was tbe IMorma . lion . The breaking up of the monasteries at once turned a vast amount of monks and nuns on the country , nearly destitute of means of existence ; and a still vaster amount of poor people , who had to be supported on the third of the church revenues , given expressly for the poor . These , suddenly deprived of all other resources , were converted into a monstrous mass of beggars and thieves , that overrun , from the days of Ilcnry 8 th to those of Elizabeth , the whole land , and bade defiance to constables , stocks , and gallows . Never were there such swarms of miser ; and vice and terror known in England , even in the fiercest heat of the civil wars . Henry himself hanged , of these wretches , his thousands annually , without at ' all

      sensibly diminishing the misery or the terror . This , however , was only the pressure on one side of the case : that on the other was as great . The people , greedy courtiers , gamblers , commissioners , and speculators , who got hold , -by a variety of means , but seldom by any honest ones , of the church and abbey lands , rose , or wished to rise , into the ranks of the aristocracy . They weuld have their halls , their parks , their chases ; their children would no longer follow trades ; they , too , must be provided with land ; and hence came the growing jealousy of all encroachments by the poor on waste lands—nay , the violent disposition to encroach , on one plea or another , on the small proprietor . Then , in fact , began those scenes so well described by Goldsmith iu his " Deserted Village . " Every one of these « oui homines would have an establishment like the ancient aristocracy ,

      " The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake , his parks extended bounds , Space for his horses , equipage and hounds ; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth ; His seat , where solitary sports are seen , Indignant spurns the cottage from the green . " But when we had discovered and civilised new countries , so far from giving relief in this respect , the grievance was rapidly augmented . Those who emigrated were chiefly those who had no land here ; those who stayed were those who had it and wanted more . With colonisation and improvement , manufactures increased , and this gaveadditionnl population and higher value to land . The story of Auburn was acted over and over , more frequently , every succeeding generation . But after

      the French Revolution broke out , and the flames of war spread all over Europe , then how did this system progress at home ! Every inch of land became a lump of gold . Forests and wastes were inclosed , but went only to the rich . The selfish absurdity by which the rich managed to claim every inch of waste land , on the plea that it was held by feudal tenure from the days of the Conqueror , and therefore belonged to the lord of the manor , came richly into play ; as if by their pieces of parchment these men could justly hold in fee all Eng . land : as if they had not by ages of neglect and iion-occupancy forfeited every pretended title that theyonce might have had to wastes that never had been delved or ploughed since the days of Adam . But this was recognised by the rich as law for the rich ; and " unto him that had was given , and from him thathad not was taken nway even that which he had , "—the custom of turning his cow and geese upon the waste .

      "Well : but it had been tolerable had the mischief stopped here ; but it did not . Such was the value of land , and such the number who had niittlc money by trade , by manufactures , by government contracts , tfcc , ifcc , that the pressure on the smell proprietors became like an overn-wingflood , and in a great measure swept them from the faco of the earth , and English poverty became what WC see it now—the most fri ghtful poverty in existence . The poverty of the Continent is the poverty of men who have all their little portions of land andnothing more . They and theirs by industry can with frugality

      live on this land . It is a constant support , a constant shect-auchor ; and though they have poverty they have no fear . That horrible condition of total destitution , of total dependence on the employment by others—the total dependence on the labour of their hands—which , when that employment is not given , drops them at onco into the bottomless pit of pauperism , and makes the lives of millious one great heart-ache , one great agony of the vultures of necessity and uncertainty gnawing at their vitals , is only known in the midst of this land of luxury aiid unexampled wealth .

      With what monstrous strides has this great English Revolution stalked on since tho impulse of the French Revolution , which gave a tenfold life to our manufacturing and to all sorts of jobbing and speculation ! The men who had made large sums by government contracts , stock-jobbing , lotteries , corn dealing , and by the legal operations whiclAll these things brought into piny , wenall looking out for lauded investments , especially in oldfashioiu'd places , where land was still cheap ; and where , therefore , a large tract could be purchased for a trifle , and a great house be built and a park laid out . In many cases , nay in lew , could these swelling follows lind a piece of earth large enough for them , and soon began to oast greedy pyes on all the little inclosures around them ; and in a wonderfully short space of lime did their great Aaron ' s rod of money manngc to swallow up all the rods mid roods of their'lessej- neighbours . Oh , many a piteous tale of huge oppression , chicanery and violent or treacherous wrong , could the history of these tilings unfold ' .

      For the story itself ( "Sampson Ifoo'cs , and his man Joe Ling , " ) wo must refer . our readers to the magazine . Tho other contents are good readable articles , but do not call for any comment .

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      THE ALMANACK OF THE MONTH . < Septero her . London : Punch Office , 85 , Fleet Street . The fun " grows fast and furious " in this month ' s number . "The Lord Mayor's Visit to Oxford , " " The Constant Reader , " and " Voices from the Crowd in Fleet Street , " a > -e capital specimens of the sublimely ridiculous . Gilbert a Beckett ' s parodies " of Charles Mackay ' s poeius are really " rich and ¦ aey . " .

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      Lord JOHN Russeil has taken a residence for the season near Rickmansworth , Hertfordshire , and the same is now being prepared for the reception of his Lordship and family . ( Neighbour to the Chartists at O'Connorville !] Lonn Pakmohe . father to the Right Hon . Fox Maule . Secretary at War , has given the sum of £ 1 , 000 towards the infirmary for the Relief of the Sick Poor at Arbroath , North Britain . The Damnable Gamr Laws . —In the year 1843 not Jess than 4 529 persons were convicted of offences against the Game Laws , had suffered fine or imprisonment ; from 1833 to 1844 . inquests were held on ( he bodies of forty-one gamekeepew , and in not less than twenty-six cases verdicts of wiifnl murder were returned .

      Answkr to a CnALLKxoE . ^ Throughsome mistake , a gentlemen in the South of Ireland led off tbe dance at a country ball out of his turn . The peiwon appointed to tho post of honour challenged the intruder , and received the following reply . — "Sir , I cannot understand why , because 1 opened the ball at night , a ball should open me in the morning—Yours , < fco . " March op Shopociucy . — "Assistant / Mike " shopman , " having been common and low , a Lincolnshire establishment has dubbed its young men " coadjutors !" Rights of Women . —Tho Indian Examiner says , that females hold nearly one-fifth of the votes in the East India House — that they generally vote at the

      ballots , and never attend at the debates . Westsiinstrr Bp . idck . —The work of dilapidation upon this old and dangerous structure has been carried on during the week with great rapidity . A large portion of the masonry down to the parapet over the arches , on the east side , has been removed . The intended new bridge is the topic of conversation in most parts of Lambeth . It seems the bridge is to be carried over the Thames in a new line , diverging to ennnon-row , and the opening into Parliamentstreet will face Charles-street . According to this design more site will be given to the Housea of Parliament , and the noble buildings which distinguish Westminster will be seen to greater advantage .

      Military Brutalitt . —There are cases on record , in the office of the Judge Advocate , wherein delinquent soldiers have been sentenced to receive thm thousand lashes ! Mr . Srnuir , M . P ., for Derby , has accepted the stewardship of the Chiltren Hundreds , which was preparatory to his appointment as Vice-President of the Railway Board , an office created by t ' . c Railway Commissioners Act . A Large Gathering of the Protectionists in the East Riding of Yorkshire is said to bo in contemulation during the Parliamentary recess , at which Lord George Bentinck , the Marquis of Granby , Mr . Disraeli , Mr . Hudson , and other leaders will be present .

      The Governor-General of India . —We understand that , whatever doubts may be entertained as to the successor of the present Governor-General of India , there is none whatever as to the fact of an early vacancy in that high office being all but certain . We hear that the latestletters from Lord Hardingc express his fixed determination te re ! ire into private life as soon as it can be djno without detriment to the public service . Traveling . —In 1717 . thejourney from London to Worcester was performed ( "if God permit" ) , by Eliz . Winslow and Thomas Wingficld ' s stage coach , and able horses , in three davs . —Old London Paper ,

      Freak of Nature . —Among a litter of pigs , a few days ago , from a sow belongim to Mr . Joseph White , Btslow , was one presenting a n osfc extraordinary appearance . It had one eye , and that a large one , in the middle of the forehead ; it had a natural mouth ; four " wattles" on one side of its head , and one car much larger than the other . Over the eye was n round trunk , about two inches long , nad the thickne s of a man ' s finger . It lived some time , but was lulled by the sow laying on it . Coins Focsd — During the excavations in Saltergafe , Chesterfield , a shilling , of the reign of Edward VI ., was discovered amongst the mould . Tho coin is in a perfect state , and contain ? on the obverse the full lace and bust of the King and on the reverse the arms of France and England quartered together , with the well known legtnd " Posui Deum Adju torem Meum . " Several coins of later date have also been found ,

      Lvscn-tAW Ladies in Michigan . —On Friday morninjr , the 10 th of July , between the hours of one and two , about forty ladies , from the village of TJtica , Michigan , secretly assembled , proceeded to a bowlingalley , armed with axes , hatchets , hammers , die , and completely demolished it . They had viewed this insidious foe to their domestic peace for some time with an anxious and a jealous eye ; and , having waited in vain for some legal proceeding against it , determined for once to take the law into thetrown bands . They went at it with much spirit nnd energy , hacked the bed of the alley , tore down the walls , raxed the roof to the ground , and finished with trampling upon

      and breaking the roof to pieees . The building was eighty feet long , and this work of destruction was accomplished in a little less than an hour . Hop Picking . —On Saturday and Sunday , the leading roads in Kent were literally thronged with persons from London wending their way to Maidstone and other hop districts . From the metropolis alone upwardslof 8 , 000 are annually employed in hop nickinfr , who " , from their abstinent manner of living whilst engaged in the occupation , generally manage to take home a comfortable competence , in the same manner as the Irish reapers on their return home from the harvest in this country .

      Rapical Patbiotism—Tub wai the English Peb-PLE sMosET / sSgiMKDEBBD .- —A Letter from Cannes , says : — " Lord Brougham and Mr . Leader have just afforded us a spectacle quite unusual in thiscountry . It may be remembered that three years back these ecntlemeH purchased the fine forest of La Croix de Gardy . The whole of it has since been surrounded with a high wall in the English styler nnd fourteen stags , as many does , and a number of young fawns have arrived here from Sardinia , and are to ho immediately let lose in the forest . They were under the care of six keepers , in handsome liveries of

      maroon coloured velvet , with gilt buttons , bearing his lord ? hip ' s crest . A r ack of hounds arrived here from England three months back , and everything for a hunting establishment is to be sent to Paris , It is said that a number of sporting men from England arc to arrive lure this year . Indeed this place is becoming quite an English colony . On every side are springing up handsome habitations , built with English money , combining British comfort and Kalian elegance . " Elopements . —Last week two young ladies , one from Penrith and tho other from Clifton , eloped to Gretna with two " navvies . "

      Shocking Cool . —Most people have hoard the story of the Irishman who , on being awakened one night with tho intimation that the house was on fire , coolly turned hinweif , and as coolly replied , "It is nothing to me , I am only a lodger . " The anecdote has been generally looked upon as a joke , but the following incident may prove that it may have been no joke after all . One day last week , as the stage coach was being rapidly driven past a small village between Ayr and Maybole , a child , apparently between four and five yc . ; rs of age , was observed playing iu the middle of the road , unconscious of

      the approaching danger . Tbe driver , having given the alarm without effect , succeeded in pulling up just in the nick of time . A woman , who was observed lazily vesting herself against the wall o ? a house , and looking upon the whole transaction with the utmost composure , while every person on tho coach was painfully alarmed , on being asked by the indignant driver . why she had not rushed to the rescue of a child in such imminent danger , replied , with a look of surprise , and in tones of innocent simplicity , " The bairn ' s no mine . " Improbable as this may appear , it is nevertheless a fact .

      The Suicide of Sir Justinian * Vekb Isiiam , Bart . The inquest on the remains of this unfortunate gentleman took place on Thursday . It appeared from the evidence that the death of deceased ' s father , which occurred about eighteen months ago , greatly affected him , and during the last eight months his spirits became more depressed . Ho avoided society , and his manners were exceedingly eccentric . He had recently purchased a quantity of musical instruments , comprising a piano , violins . flittcs , fiagcolots , and cornopeans , which was considered somewhat remarkable , as he could play but little on any of them . He also bought a stock of boots and shoes , amounting to upwards of 100 pairs . No letters or papers were found to show that the deceased contemplated suicide ; but the evidence went to show that his mind was deeply affected . The Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity . " The body was removed to Lampton Hall for interment in tho familv vai . lt .

      kiniiDALE . —Attempt to Burn tub Gaol . —A prisoner in Kirkdalc Gaol a low days since set lire to the lodge in which the wardens ' of the gaol slept , and , but for a timely discovery , tho prison might have boon entirely destroyed . The object of the incendiary was to get transported . Another Fatal Accidknt at Lonoton . —On Wednesday a most lamentable accident occurred at Mr . Sparrow ' s , Gould Street , Coal-pit , Lmigton . Some boys were playing together on the pit-bank , when the clollics of one of them , named John Ford , about eight years of age , became entangled with the chain attached to the engine drum , which , in revolving , drew the child with great force against a portion ot the niacliinerr , and crushed his hcclc and one arm in a frightful ' manner . The unfortunate boy survived

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      the accident only atout two hours . An inquest was held at the Three Tuns-Inn , before W . Hardin' ? Jisq .. ami a Verdict of " Accidental Death" returned . i he Ocean . —Thedeopest part of the ocean which has been sounded , , ' s one mile and sixty-six feet in ucptn . it we suppose its medium depth to be two miles , the water in it would cover all the dry parts Of the oarth-if . t could be spread over them-tothe depth ot about 81 , 680 feet , or six miles , Hampton Court Palace . —The late fine weather has caused an unprecedented number of visitors to this interesting place of public recreation , and on the lowest average for many Sundays past the numbers who have availed themselves ef recreation in its ngroo . ible domains , have not been less than from tire to six thousand . The price of grain is still increasing in the north of France . The Echo de Lambre et Meuse attributes this rise to speculators hoarding up large quantities in their granaries .

      Ah Advbktubb , —In tho beginning of last wedr , a sloop employed in the herring fishery left Wick with a cargo of herrings for a curer in Kirkildy . On Wednesday afternoon the vessel was hove to off tho Aberdeen coast , about ten miles south from Buclmn Ness , where the captain took the small boat , and , accompanied by a hoy , vent on shore to vis-it some friends , leaving an individual named Roper , belonging to this place , in charge of the vessel during his absence . In tho mean time , the breeze , which was northerly , began to freshen , when , in order to avoid danger , the man who was left on board of tha aloop Stood out to sea . The wind , however , still kept

      increasing m strength , while the sea , was becoming more bmsterous , in consequence of which the seaman found it impossible to regain the coast to tako the captain and boy on board . Thinking it the aafest plan—hazardous as the attempt wb in his unaided condition—to proceed on the voyage , he did sn . and arrived at Kirkald y in perfect safety , having been sixty hours on deck , during which time he had run a distance of 130 miles . The captain has since arrived at Kirkaldy , happy , no doubt , to find his vowel , wlncn he had last seen on the Aberdeen coast wj . 'h a solitary individual on board , safe in harbour . — Witness .

      Witchcraft jk Scotland . —The following extra , ordinary statement is from a report ( just printed hy Parliament ) on the state of prisons in Scotland ;—" The connection of ignorance with crime is shown in the present report by the general low state of -. flucation among the prisoners , already descibed . and br some special cases . In particular I would refer to the following , in the report on the Dingwall Prison , and to the subjoined notice of a late riot at liunr fermline : —W . G ., aged twenty-four . I live ne * . Tain , and am a fisherman . I am in prison for assaulting a woman named M . M . She is about sixty years old . I assaulted her because she was "l > witehing" everything I had . " She prevented ro « from catchins fish , and caused ray boat to be upsot . " The other fishermen said thev should have no chance of catching any herrings while I was with them , nnd

      they would not let me go out with them . M . M . is 'known" by all in the neighbourhood "to W a witch . " She ha « been seen ahundred times " nnllcing the cows in tke shape of a hare , " though I never saw her do so myself . People believe , in my neighbourhood , that if any one " pets blood from a witch " she can do them no harm , and that is the reason that I cufcM . with my penknife ; but I held the knito so that it might go into her as short a way as oossibie . All I wanted was to get blood I was net the first parson who wanted to draw blood from her . Those vv ho advised me to cut her told me that if I did nut * 1 ie would drown me , and the rest who were in the boat nith me . as sure as any man was ever drowned . It is hard that I should be put in prison , for the Bible orders us to punish witches , and there , was r . ota man on the Jury who did not know M . to hi a witch . "

      Anecdotes op Barri . vgton , the Famous PiokpocK . ET . ~ -At one of the music meetings in St . Martin ' s Church for the benefit of the Leicester Infirmary , I noticed a tall , handsome man , in a Fc- ;> rlet coat , with a gold but ' on-hole in a black collar , the fashion of the day , raovimr with a gentleman-like air . This person proved to be the notorious Barrington , the pickpocket . In eoing up the middle aisle he was invited into the Mayor ' s pew , and sat between Miss St . John and Mr . Ashby of Qucenby , our late member oi Parliament . One of the plates wa ? held at the door by this lady and gentleman , and when Mr . Barrineton laid his guinea upon the plate , he was kindly thanked by his new acquaintance , nnd passed on with a graceful bow . The gentry who held the plates retired into the vestry to add their

      eontribntions , and when Mr . Ashby would have p !;> red his ten guinens on the plate , to his utter astonishment they had flown from his pocket . After considerable amazement , the mystery was explains ! by one of the company remarking that Miss St . John ' s pocket was turned inside out , nnd that the gentlemen who sat between them had helped himself to the subscription he had put on the plate , and somef liing else besides . It is said that lsarrington facilitated his operations by instruments , which ho had made for i hat purpose . I recollect a circumstance of this kind . He waited on a surgical instrument m » ker and ordered a pair of scissors of a curious form . A few days afterwards he called for them , liked them , and paid two guineas which the maker charged . After he had left the shop , the cutler's wife said , " My dear , as tliegentleman seemed so much pleased with ' , the scissors , I wish we had asked him what

      use they were for . He might recommend us . Do run after him . " The cutler tramped out of the shop , and overtaking the gentleman , hoped he would excuse him , but would lie tell him what use he intended to make of the scisscrs ? " " Why , my friend . " said Barrin « ton , catching him by the button of his coat , and staring him in the face , " I don't know whether lean tell you ; it's a greai secret . " " O . pray do . Sir , it may be something in our way . " Upon which , Barrington pressing hard upen his shoulder whispered in his ear . "They are for pick in ? of pockets . " In the utmost consternation- the scissors maker ran back , and the moment he got into the shop '' My dear , " he cried , ' * will you believe it , they are for picking of pockets . " " Yes , my dear , " cried the wife , " what is the matter with your clothes ?" The cutler looked , and presently discovered that the scissors had extricated the two guineas he had just received for them . —Gardiners' Music and Friends .

      Plague on Board an Emigrant Ship . —The following melancholy intelligence has been received at Lloyds ' , by the last mail , brought by the Iliberiiia , relative to a friahtlul fever having broken out on board the Elizabeth and Sarah , emigrant ship , belonging to Killala , Captain O . Simpson , master , by which upwards of forty-six of the passengers had f . illcn a sacrifice . The notice in question runs thus : — " Quebec , August 0 . —The barque Elizabeth and Sarah , Simpson , bound from Killala , with passengers , has arrived off the Basque Islands , and is reported to have lost a great number of the passengers

      also the commander , a contagious fever having broken out about a week or ten days after the ship quitted Killala . " There were sixteen other cases oi fever , said to have been brought on by bad water and the filthy state of the vessel . The Quevcc Mcr ~ cury , of the 8 th of August , confirms the above . It states that the vessel had been eight weeks on her passnge from Kallala ; and also that forty-two had died on tho passage , and that tho captain and two more passengers had expired since her arrival at the Basque Islands . It mentions not whethcrany medical assistance had been sent to the relief of the unhappy sufferers .

      Fire in * [ Iolborn . —Wednesday afternoon , between the hours of four and five o ' clock , considerable alarm was created in the neighbourhood in consequence of the great volume of smoke which issued from the rear of Mr . Sparrow ' s , tea , coffee , and pepper dealer ' s establishment , 95 , Ilolborn , and which extends into Dean-street . Tho fire originated in the wood work at the back of the cylinder , while coffee was being roasted . The speedy arrival of two engines from the London Fire Establishment fortunately prevented the spreading of the flames , and therefore the damage to property was very trilling .

      Serious and I ' atal Accidents , —On Wednesday morning , whilst waiting on the pier at Hunger-ford Bridge , for a conveyance down the river , Mr . James Mitehel , a solicitor ' s clerk , was thrown off the barge into the river . Ho was standing too near the margin , and the swell of the water , occasioned by the Princess steam-boat passing at the moment , caused the accident . Mr . Mitchel attempted to swim back again , but was driven by the water with great violence against the keel of a steamer . It was with the utmost difficulty that he was enabled to swim clear of tho numerous steam-boats on the river : but having done so , he succeeded in reaching the opposite shore , after remaining in the water very nearlv ' twentv minutes . On the same day , between eleven and .

      twelve 0 clock , a lad , aged twelve years , employed as . an errand boy to a tradesman in the Walworlh-road , Cambcrwcll , was knocked down in tbe Newington . causeway , by one of tho Peckham live omnibuses ,, and , in consequence of the iiijurieB sustained , lie w < 181 conveyed to St . Thomas ' s Hospital . On Tuesday evening , about nine o ' clock , a vouth was drowned in . the river , near tho Thames Tunnel Pier . The decased , it apepars , together with a waterman , wasi proceeding up to London Bridge , when , throuch thei darkness of the wight , they ran foul of a heavily laden coal barge , nearly opposite the Thames Tunnel Pier , the boat half turned over , throwing the boy into the water . The waterman succeeded in saving ' his own life .

      Teuhu-ic Fire . —On Sandav morning , between one and two o'clock , a ybry destructive fne broke out in the large looking gfoss manufactory belonging to Mr . Folctti , situated in Bateman's Row , Curtain Koad , Shorcditch . The fire commenced in the lower floor , and owing to the combustible nature ot the slock-intrade , they extended with more than ueiial rapidity . Tho cosines of the Brigade , West of England , and County ' Companies were prompt iu their attendance , and as soon as a sufficiency of water could be obtained , they set to work , but floor after floor fell a prey to the fury of the flames , so that by three o ' clock tho whole of the stoclc-in-trnde was destroyed , and tho factory completely gutted . The total loss must be very considerable .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 5, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_05091846/page/3/