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Tununt 16.1847. _The Northern Star. Q
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THE NEW YEAR'S S 0 N 8 OF OUR EXIL *
BT E « SEBT JOSES . ¦ What messages from England ! What news of blithe r che . r ! What promise for the exile « What better hope . New Year ! 0 Eng land ! then my country ! What dost thon there afar I Dost dream of Eastern victories , And truth-de'troymf irar . Dost vault the preu'churcJ-oome Above the househ-ss heac ! And , sending atons /?«•?« . peny thy children bread ! t churches wive the soul
U r death ' s dim second birth ; Bat why not build the cottage To save that soul on earth * Post pay for costly prifons . The sums , that , better spent , Would render prisons needless , Bv making hearts content t Art rearing cruel scan " -Ids , Thy cruel laws to aid , Where cr / mtwit * may hang The friwi'KiJthey made 1 Dost hold this earth a bauble , Thy golden grasp may span ! That title ' s more than virtue , And monev more than maa !
Post think , that slaves shall truckle For ever lo ihe blow ? Ki'e , nature ' s God , and rouse them ! Tp , man ! and thunder—No ! What messages from England X What news of blither cheer ? What promise for the mourner What better hope , New Year f I ' ve been to long an exile , My hear t is sick and sore With panting for a quiet grave On England's hallowed shore . I could not sleep here soundly . By this cold foreign sea , With the clank of chains above me , That once were bound on me !
Oh . Call me back to England i Where ' er ye rector roam . My dear—dear friends in England , Oh ! Take ma—take me home !
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DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE . —Jascaut . London : Punch Office , So , Fleet-street . It is only an act of kindness to the editor of this magazine to inform him of what he seems to he totally unaware of . that dissatisfaction is very generally expressed by his readers at the slovenly manner in which this publication has been for some time past conducted . The readers will hardly be restored to good humour by reading the following notices : — It it due to the reader to inform him , that tbe writer of" A History for Young England" has abruptly brought bis labour to an imperfect close . It has bien deemed expedient—to avoid all future disappointment and the discomfort of future apology— " to discontinue the Illustrations . " There is something very Yankee-like about these notice * . What next ? Something like the following would be quite in keeping with the above : —
" To save the publisher the trouble and expense of printing , and the purchaser of tho magazine the trouble of reading the quantity of matter heretofore giv- n , it has been deemed expedient to reduce the number of pages from ninety-six to forty-eight . It is due to the reader to add that the price of the mamine will remain a » before— One Shilling . " Of course , Mr . Jerrold is at full liberty to take his own c onrse , but one thing is certain , that if the course pursued for some time past in relation to tbis magezine , is not abandoned for a better , the sense tf the public will be made known to the propriet' . is in a manner anything but pleasant , because the reverse of profitable . The thirty-fifth chapter of St . Giles and St . James contains some excellent writing in the shape of running comment by the author , but the story itself makes but ' . plow progress . Again the promise
is held out to the impatient reader that future chapters will" accelerate the conclusion . " This number contains the commencement of a new story , which " will be concluded within the present year , " entitled , "The Dreamer and the Worker ; " intended to furthar " illustrate the principles upon which the magarine was originally put forth . " " Women in Germany" contains some revelations concerning female _ education , waltzing , smoking , and day-dreaminej in Germany , not very flattering to our Teutonic friend * . " The Pharisees of the Rail" is a slashing attack on the Sabbatical bigpt « who have pnt a stop to Sunday travelling on tbe G ' assow and Edinburgh Railway . No . 4 of " FaMe * for Polish Fellows , "showing "How Rays became Thornbacha" is well told and might be read with advantage by the ultra-peace men . We give the following extracts from the article
entitled—IHE PHARISEES OF THE BAIL . Galloway , Glasgow . Sia . — 'Tis Sunday morning—the people here call it Sabbath—the word Sunday not being esteemed sufficiently holy by the Jew-hating community , by which I am surrounded . The bells , in a dozen steeples , are keeping up a deafening jingle-jangle , as though—Hcavn kno w * how many gigantic trangles were performing a grand tlaritari . I don ' t pretend to understand the theological distinction between the sounds produced by bell-metal and human lips ; but I presume there is a
wide line of demarcation , inasmuch as I have been jravely frowned upon by Saunders , the head-waiter , for breaking out into half-a-doxen unconscious bars of " Maritana , " over my cookies and Finan Haddie . Indeed , Saunders , who has just despatched his "morning , " in the ibnpe of a goodly glass of whiskey—an operation which he will repeat , probably every half-hour , till further notice—nas kind enough to inform me that" siccan like p ;> ngins oa were nae fit for the Lord ' s Day . " Whisk . y drinking , however , is , in honest Saunders ' opinion , a " gan ? ing-on ' ' quite fit and properfor any day , Saturday or Sunday .
Dismayed by my friend the waiter ' s theological scrupulosity , I sauntered from the breakfast-table to the windew , it vtas a foggy , dismal morning , and the good folks of Glasgow , who thronged the pavements on th « ir way to tbe several churches , free and established , which mutually "deal damnation" upon each other with very great energy and perseverance , every Sunday morning , looked us dismal and foggy as ths weather . Mnsirg on these inconsistencies of my respected friends north of the Tweed , and respectfully declining Saunderso & rof a " seat under that precious Sauut Jabea Mac ' whaekit . whose oat-pourings had a' the smeddum o ' Gospel gr 8 ce , and nane o' the vain arrogance o' hunun learning , " I « jk « d for the time- bill of the Railway to Idhiburjh . " You "il h « e forgotten that there ' s nae Sabbath trains U > U 00 , " responded Saunders .
"Xo Sunday trains ! You don ' t mean to say that the wool * communication between Glasgow and Edinburgh —between the twogrear cities of Scotland—two of the greatest cities of the empire—is entirely interrupted , for tirtnty . f . nr or thirty hours , every week V " Ay . but I do , though , " said Saunders . " Gudebe praised , that has g'iea us the grace ! Uucklc need there * a » o ' t . I wadna be surprised if the rot i * the potatoes was to stop wi * the Sabbath trains " U « c was a fill Edinburgh within fifty miles of me , and yet inaccessible . My butrness there was of the last importance : life and death , in fact , might hang upon my presfn ; e or absence . The welfare and future prosprcts of whole families depended upon the signature of certain
papers by a hand long enfeebled by sickness , and now dail y eij ected to be paralysed by d « aib . What was to be done t y stage-coach—no conveyance : the high-road had beoi , so entirely cut up , the inns andpost-h < 'Uses so utterl y deserted , that the difficulties In the way of procuring post-horse * «« re quite insuperable . The Railway tom- any bada monopoly of conveyance . They possessed tneonl j means by which transit was possible . They had oltanei certain powers fremthe legislature for the ^ emo tion of traffic and intercourse , and these powers " >« used for tbe prevention of traffic and intercourse . * < rarinenaar » a to make laws for Edinburgh and Glassy * . F . ur men dared to prescribe to their fellow-men "e man aer in which they should keep the Sabbath . * « w men dared to enslave four hundred thousand . *« nr men dared to brand , with every term of theological ^ ncour , oil wh » atUrr . pua to perpetrate the odious £ ¦ of thinking for themselves ; thinking boldly , think ffi fresh ; ano Scotland has submitted , at least for the IfS'tnt , to this Thinking Scotland—educated Scotland
1 ati > lii ttnt Scotland , you have allowed the foursab-, *»>*! n , onarchs to reign over you , to force their dogmas ° * n row throats , and you call jourselns stilia liberal ^ enli ghtened people ! T * » * fa ] i 7 f < ur Scotch Popes ara issuing their bulls , and "''" nuting their edicts , triumfhing over the fres ei « roT c . mmonsense sad reason ; reviling the creeds , i _ » lan « ruig the motives of all who attempt to stand J t ' - ' . r t , wu jightu and those of society . How long ' ! ll !! th « r reign last ! How long » hall these particular " ^ 1 ' avi , their day 1 Their overthrow is no doubt fast . ttt rfij . . ijij ^ senge 0 j ^ unkind is arming and marshal-:. "? ' !*< if against them ; but until the decisive moment
" ' 'WA , be content , Scotsmen , to remain what you f " ~ -t ' ''fleets of the mingled pity and derision of the ^ ' 1 'M „„ i . « -e content t 0 be tyrannised over by f our . . ''''" " y Il . iectors ; be content to baud yourself over IC ' y " :, ? oul ' * ° - Wackaddtr «> nd C" . ; though ^ ¦''•** »; U dmth ( . mite jour frinids , dare not to stir ; i " J . ' spiritual d ; cta ; ors—crouch and obey ; keep \ ' "' "'' ' yuu are "rdtred—attempt U think or act J ' -ui .-ilit s at jour peril—lurk in your crowded Glas"t .-U- _ your loathsome Edinburgh closes : the Ul "ry air—the bright tuushine ef the nr » t day of the
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PUNCH . PtetLXVl . Londoa : 85 ,. Fleet Street . for lb 47 ; which , take it "for all in all" we are £ 2 ? * 1 ° rStte , Wen hi ? h ! n iU prede SST ' . J Eart ? 0 Bclude « the eleventh volume , 2 l « - jf ^? ' cq , l tI t 0 some of the earlie ; volumes , is decidedly an improvement on the tenth .
Tip People's Journal. Part Xii. London: ...
Tip PEOPLE'S JOURNAL . Part XII . London : G . Bennett , Fleet Street . Thisjpart which concludes the second volume , is disfigured by outrageous pufferies of Macrcady and * Henry Vincent , Esq . " The latter of these is verywell known to our readers , so well known , that a word from us respecting his tquiruhip would be altogether supeifluous . As regards Macrcady , the " great tragedian ' s" merits certainly entitle him to something more than common-place compliments , but the praise lavished upon bin , thick and slab , by
his friend , the Rev . W . J . Fox , is rather too much of a good thing ; ^ moreover , Macready's eulogist seeks to exalt his favourite by depreciating the merits of the mighty dead , a most offensive mode of flattering the living . The other contents of this part mostly comruaml our approval . We give the following extracts from an article by Win . Ilowitt , who , as our readers are aware , lias recently disconnected himself from ( his publication ; the article we quote from appears to have been the last of his contributions to the People ' s Journal .
TBS POET FBEILIG 1 ATH IN XKGLAND . The King of Prussia on ascending the throne excited the liveliest hopes of the nation . At his coronation he voluntarily promised his subjects a free , representative constitution . He proceeded to invite into his capital the most learned men , and placed them as professors in the university there . Jfot men learned merely , but distinguished for their political liberality , were amongst thoss thus invited and established . He went the length of inviting several of the seven prcftisors of Gottlngen who bad been expelled for refusing' to sanction the King of Hanover ' s destruction of the Hanoverian constitution . Amongst these were the Brothers Grimm , so well known here by their Children and House Tales - , but still better known in Germany as most learned philologists . Xo wonder that these acts excited the most colour dtt rote expectations in tbe mind of entire Germany .
It is now needless to say how miserably have all these hopes been shattered ; how utterly has this worthless king falsified all these promises . To this hour he has not made a single advance towards the establishment of a free constitution . It was toon seen too , that his invitation of celebrated men of liberal mind to his capital was not to enable than to diffuse their liberal sentiments , but to niurrle them more completely . * » » » Xmongtt tbe literary men on whom the King ot Prussia has attempted to put the muzzle is Ferdinand Freiligrath . He is but one amongst many who hare been obliged to flee from Prussia to escape a dungeon . Paris abounds with such literarv refugees , who , nnder a more genial system , would h « ve been at hjrne amongst the most useful subjects , and greatest ornaments of their country .
The wily king was anxious to get Freiligrath into his net He was full of power , and capable of doing infinite damage to the cause of despotism . He therefore took big usual course with him . and endeavoured to stop his mouth with a lump of pudding ; in other words , to Freiligrath ' s great astonishment , without the most distant idea of such a thing , without the slightest solicitation or expectation , presented him with a pension . Tbe pension once given , however , it became speedily obvious what the object of it was . ' Tbe poet was speedily called upou to notice that now scircely a single poem of his of the raest sober kind , and on the roost indifferent subject , could appear in the literary journals without being mutilated by the hand of the cenxor , and sometimes could not appear at all . Alarmed at this ominous discotery , high-minded and sensitive of Ms honour , he saw that , this permitted , would soon force upon lira tbe charge of having sold his independence for a pension . An occasion soon offered to test this matter . He had sent some small poems to the
Cologne Gazette ' , they were suppressed by the censor . He demanded au explanation , and appealed against the decision of the local censor to the High Court of Censor ship ia Berlin . To decide whether one particular poem mi ^ 'ht see the light unmutilated , the High Court of Censorship held its sitting in Berlin on the 13 th of February , 1841 , iu which no less grave and dignified personages than tbe Actual Privy Upper Counsellor of Justice and Secretary of State , the President Boraemann , and tbe members Privy Upper Counsellor of Justice , Zettwach , Privy Upper Counsellor of Justice , Goeschel , Privy Upper Tribunals' Counsellor , Ulrich , Privy Government ' s Counsellor , Aulicke , Actual Counsellor of Legqtion , Graf ven Schlieffen , Professor von Laaicolle , and Privy Finance Counsellor , Von Obstfelder , sat in deep deliberation—on what f—to consider whether this poem might , without danger to the State , be published entire ; and decided that it could not , without the omission of tbe two following lines : —
" The Tartar vulture tore the rose of Poland Before onr eyes , and grimly left it lying . " Tbe forbidden lines were pronounced a iibel on the king ' s brother-in-law , the Czar of Russia . Tbe poem , of course , appeared without those two lines in Prussia ; but was immediately published with them in Hamburg . Freiligrath instantly threw up his pension , and shortly afterwards published a volume of poems called his GUuhen't Bekaniniite , or Confession of Faith . In th 5 s boldly , warmly . yet not intemparately . 'he proclaimed his deep sympathy with his Fatherland in its enslaved condition . Before its publication the prudent poet took the necessary precaution of stepping across the frontitr into Belgium . The event proved that tbe caution was well-grounded . An immediate order for the suppression
of the poems , and the arrest of the author was issued by government . Spite of this , 5 , 000 copies of the work wera almost immediately dispersed throughout Germany , and the sale of tbe work has since continued to be great . The author retired with his accomplished wife to Brussels , where he resided sometime . But here he found himself not safe from the long arm of Prussian influence . A Herr Heinxen , who had been obliged t >> flee from Prussia to Paris for a similar cause , was , while living there in tbe utmost quiet , ordered , through tbe influence of the Prussian ambassador , to quit France in eight and forty hours . He came to Brussels , and with him
Freiligrath concluded to seek an asylum in Switzerland , Within six hours of his quitting Brussels another German , singularly enough of tbe same name and residing in the same street , was arrested for Freiligrath by mis . take . From that period , 1844 , till recently , Ferdinand Freiligrath has been residing at Zurich . But exiled by his patriotism and deep sense of honour from his native land—for enter any part of Germany , and by tbe articles of tbe German Confederation he must be delivered up to Prussia—it has always appeared tome that the only genuine heme for such a man in such a position was England . I have , therefore , never ceased to press upon him to establish himself
in—The Inviolate Island of the brave and free . He has now done it , and the event has justified tbe soundness of the advice . Here he has been received with open arms , not only by the large body of his own countrymen—abody in London of great wealth and enlightened character—but <» ur own countrymea . Ferdinand Freiligrath is a man as practical as he is poetical . He was > arly educated in the first continental bouses to commerce , and he has wisely resolved to devote his businets hours to the strenuous pursuits of business , and his leisure moments only to literature . VTith connections already secured to him by his countrymen that insure an honourable iadependence , with a mlud at ease , and his person in safety , there is no doubt but those moments will produce in the course of years the best guarantee of an extended fame .
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MACKENZIE'S MONTHLY RAILWAY TIME TABLES . ADVERTISER . & STRANGER'S LONDON GUIDE . This nse / nl publication improves on each appearance , and is really a wonderful pennyworth . This sheet may be had at the publisher ' s . 111 , Fleet Street , and also at all the rail » aystations . All perrons travelling by rail , or visiting London , should not fail to possess themselves of this most necessary companion .
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RHYMES AND RECOLLECTIONS OF A HAND LOOM WEAVER . Bt Wiluasi Thom , of Inverury . Third Edition . London : Smith , Elder , and Co ., 65 , Cornbill . So recent as last . April , we devoted some columns of two successive numbers of this journal , to a review of Thorn ' s poems ; it is , therefore , unnecessary that we should now say many words more than merely announce a net ? edition of the poet ' s works . This edition is cheaper than the one reviewed last April ; and , consequently , more within the icach of the ? lass to which Thom belongs , for whom he has written , and on whom his talents reflect so much honour . While costing less , this edition is ia every respect equal to its predecessors . To say nothing of the beauty of the
" Rhymes " and the pathos and eloquence of those " Recollections , " in which the poet has so faithfully pictured his own sufferings , and so forcibly exposed the wrongs of his order—to gay nothing on these subjects , on which we have before so folly commented , we may say that the volume is got up with great taste . It is printed with great care , on the best paper , with the best of type , Excellent portraits oflhe poet and his son *• Willie" face the title page . Tbe binding is appropriate and neatly executed Altogether it is a charming book , equally worthy of the table of the mansiou and the cottage , the rich man ' s library and the poor man ' s book shelf , and earnestly wejrecommend it toour readers . We select the following pieoe , which we believe has not before appeared in our columns : —
THE J 1 ITUIBLII 1 HIES . When i'ithtr bairnies are hushed to their hame , By i-. ur . ty , or cousin , or frecky grand-dame ; Wha Stan ' s last an lanely , an' naebody cairn » 'lis ihe puir doited loonie—the mithtrless bairn
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The mitherless bairn gangs to his lane t > d , Nane covers his cauld baek , or haps his bare head ; His wee hackit heelies are hard as the sirn , An' litheless the lair o ' the mitherless bairn I Aneathhis cauld brow , sicean dreams tremble there , 0 ' hands that wont kindly to kame his daik hair ! But mornln * brings clutches , a' reckless an' stern , That loe nae the locks o' the mitherless bairn 1 Ton sister , that sang o ' er his saftly-rocked bed , Now rests in the mods whaur her mamraie is laid ; The father toils sair their wee bannock to earn , An' kens nae the wrangs o' his mitherless bairn I Her spirit , that pass'd in you hoar o' his birth , Still watches his wearisome wand'rlngs on earth , Recording iu heaven tbe blessings they earn , Wha couthilie deal wi' the mitherless bairn !
O . ' i . ' speak him nae hiirshly—he trembles the while—He bends to your bidding , and blesses your smile ! In their dark hour o' anguish , the heartless shall learn That God deals the blow for the mitherless bairn ! tar Julian Harney will bo happy to supply the admirers of the poet with copies of th <& new edition , at the price stated in tbe advertisement ( see 2 nd column , 4 th page . ) Apply to J . U ., at the A ' ortliern Star cilice , 1 G , Great Windmill Street , llaymarket .
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Death of a Young Female from Lock-jaw . —On Wednesdav Mr . Bedford held an inquest at St . George ' s Hospital on the body of Sarah Winckworth aged 19 . who died from lock-jaw , occasioned by frightful burns . The deceased was in the servico of Mr . Layton , Grove House , High-street , Putney . On the afternoon of Monday the 28 th ult ., she was sitting by the kitchen fire , when her master's child , a « ed two years , began sercaming violently , a book which it had in its hands having caught fire from deceased's gown , on to which a spark had fallen .
Deceased having placed the child in safety called loudly for assistance , Mr . Layton and his brother met her running about ir . great agony , all her clothes having been burnt oil'her person with the exception of her stays and under garment , which were then in a blaze . The fire being extinguished , she was immediately conveyed to the above hospital , where she was found to be shockingly burned over both arms and back . She went onfvery favourably until Saturday last , when alio was sei & : d with tetanus , under which she sunk , and died on Sunday evening at 8 o ' clock . Verdict , " Accidental death . "
Sviciox at Watbrloo Bridge . —An inquest was held before Mr . Carter , at the Hero of Waterloo , Waterloo-road , on the body of William Jervis , aged fity-five . Deceased had been a furniture broker in Melina-place , Waterloo Bridge-road , but in consequence of pecuniary embarrassments he sold his business , and lately had been acting as servant to the purchaser . The change in his ci . cumstances , together with some domestic differences , the chief of which was his separation from his wife , had such an effect on his mind that he was at times deranged . On Friday last he took leave of his daughter in a manner more affectionate than usual , and the next dav he was found drowned at Waterloo Bridge . There were several injuries to the head , but those it was proved were caused by his jumping off the hi idge and falling against one of the buttresses . Verdict , " Temporary insanity . "
Fatal Railway Accident . —A terrible accident happened on Saturday last at the works of the Oxford , Worcester , and Wolverhampton Railway , near Worcester . This line of railway , which has now been in course of construction for several months , runs eastward of Worcester , and at about the distance of a mile from that city is a short tunnel , about . 300 or 400 yards long , passing under Spooner's er Rainbow-hill . To carry on the excavations in this tunnell two shafts have been sunk , and it was at one of these shafts that the accident happened . The soil it appears , is removed from the tunnel by the use of large windlasses , and skips , or large buckets , men
being placed at the mouh of each shaft to receive the skips as they are brought up from below . On Saturday one of the men while engaged in the work of drawing a skip upon the platform placed for it * reception , got on his wrong side , and was in a moment , before a helping hand could be held out to him , forced off the platform into the shaft , and falling to the bottom with his head upon tho rails laid below for the purpose of assisting the removal of the soil , was literally dashed to pieces . The poor fellow must have died instantaneously , for on being picked up it was found that ( to use the expression of one of his follow-workmen ) there was not a whole bone i » his body .
Melancholy Death or Mr . Touatt . —On Tuesday Mr . Mills , the Deputy Coroner for West Middlesex , received information of the death of Mr . Youatt , the celebrated veterinarian , who committed suicide under the following melancholy circumstances : —It appears that the deceased gentleman was in the 70 th year of his age , and resided with his family at No . 1 . Osnaburgh place , New Road . The deceased had for a long period of years kept up an excellent establishment , but latterly , however , he , by heavy pecuniary losses from unfortunate speculations , became somewhat embarrassed , and which at length resulted in a morbid depression of spirits , which at times was io perceptible that his friends apprehended he was of unsound mind ; but , generally after an attack o melancholy he would become so cheerful aud rational as entirely to remove all previous fears with regard
to bis state of mind . He never exhibited the slightest symptoms of ailing- until Saturday last , on which morning , between eleven and twelve , he went out , complaininc of a pain in his head , and rather low spirited . He , however , returned at 12 , and then retired into his room , wherein he remained undisturbed until about two , when the maid servant proceeded to his apartment to announce the dinner , but receiving no answer , and the door being partially open , she stepped in , and saw him sitting on a couch . Thinking he was asleep , she advanced further , and , on approaching closely , discovered that he was dead . The alarm was immediately given , and Mr . Porter , the medical attendant to the family , was summoned at once , who , on his arrival , pronounced life to be wholly extinct . There was a small bottle , as well as a cup , by his side , on the table , which had evidently contained poison .
Iatal Poucb Atfrat . —Bishop Stortfoiid . —An inquiry took place at the county gaol last week ,, on the body of a prisoner named John Serle ,, aged 47 , Who dhd from the effects , it was alleged , of a cutlas wound inflicted by one of the police , in apprehending him on a charge of robbery on the 22 nd of last month The evidence contained the subjoined facts : —On Sunday morning se'night , a policeman named Bygrave and another , who were on duty in the town , discovered three men , whom they knew to be bod characters , hurrying to the churchyard with something concealed in a sack , which ono of them was
carrying over his shoulder . They were overtaken and found to be the deceased and his sons , two young men . The latter managed to jump over a hedge and escape , leaving their father and the policeman Bygrave , scuffling . The deceased who was a power tui man , fought desperately . The constable had previously drawn a cutlass , and fearing he was getting the better of him , he made ( to use his expressions before the Jury ) a chop at his arm , but unfortunately struck him on tbe head , and inflicted a severe cut . Notwithstanding the wound , the deceased etill endeavoured to get away , till he became exhausted from l as of blood . The officer then
convc-yed the deceased to the nearest surgeon , who dressed the wound , and eventually * he was removed to the county gaol . It seemed that the rural police had been deprived of their cutlasses for nearly a twelvemonth , but when the order was issued the constable Bygrave was not in the force . He had since joined , and had possessed himself of the weapon out of the station house in the town , where there were several kept . Mr . Davis , the surgeon of tho county gaol , attributed deceased death to erysipelas , but he was
unable to say positively whether the erysipelas Had been brought on by the wound , or from constitutional causes . After a lengthened investigation , the Jury returned a verdict , " That the deceased died from erysipelas , " adding , they were of opinion that the constable acted wrongly in using deadly weapons , when he knew the deceased , and could afterwards have obtained assistance and taken him into custody , the more particularly when he was forbidden by the laws of the police force to carry any weapon of the kind .
Thb Punch Anecdotes . —We think it was Lord Brougham who , upon being asked whether O'Connell made much money by his eloquence , said" Why , sir , he coins money—he makes bank-notes out of the very rags of his countrymen . "— " It ' s all nonsense , " exclaimed Sheridan ; " members may deliver speeches , but it is the reporters who make them . I have often been surprised , on waking up in tbe morning :, to find myself a great orator . Every reporter is an Orpheus , who , by playing tho literary lyre , extracts music out of the veriest sticks aud stones . —BonavcLtute , in his World of Words , says , " i'he reason there are so very few female orators is because , a woman , when once she begins to talk , never knows when to leave off . "— " It was mooted a
twelvemonth hack to have the new frescoes in the House of Commons painted in wax . " You had better not , " said Sergeant Murphy— "the Irish members , with their eloquence , will melt them all . " —Shell learnt every one of his speeches by heart . He relierscs them always at home to a collection of old parrots , whom he has taught to say , hear , " " order , " and to whistle , scream , crow , and make all sorts of deafening noises . The interruptions ho receives from thetu in the course of his speech , as he gets energetic , gives him confidence , he says , for the House of Commons , as he imagines , when he addresses the members , that he is only speaking to so many parrots . He has given each ol them a different name , but we will beTgenerous and uot repeat one .
A Yankee Juitv . —In his late work on the United States , Mr . Featherstonhftrigh says , that in all trials for small debts in the townships of the northern states , when the magistrate asks the jury , " Gentlemen , who do you find for ? " the foreman auswctM , " We find first for ourselves ! " which is sixpence tor each of the jury at every trial .
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A Pat Reply . — A conceited coxctmb , with a very patronising air , called out to an Irish labourer , "Here , you bogtrotter ! come and tell me the greatest lie you can , and I'll treat you to a jug of whisky-punch . " " My troth ! " retorted Pat , "an ' yer honours ' a intieman . " Live Widows—The celebrated Rajah Rnmhobbledehoy was asked when he returned to India what he thought of England , " Oh , it's a very fine country , " replied the Hindoo Rajah , " spoilt by a number of live widows . " Dirtt Smnis . —Counsellor Rudd , of the Irish bar , was equally remarkable fur his love of whist and the dingy colour of his linen . " My dear Dick , " said Curran to him ono day , " you can't think how puzi ' ed we are to know where you buy all your dirty shirts . " .
A YANKEE EPIOKAM . "Give mc a kiss , my charming Sal , " A lover said to a blue-eyed gal . " I shant , " says she " you l ; izy elf , Screw up your lips and help yourself !" A Family is Good Repair . —An advertisement appears in a provincial paper , of a house to let , suitable for a small family in good repair . " A Rhm ' un . —If you saw a woman trying to pick your pocket what Roman General ' s name would ym call out ? Ce »* ar ( seize her . ) KoniN « 0 ! i Cuusoi ' s ltjuoiojf . —Why do you sup-Sose that Robinson Crusoe was an Episcopalian ? iccause he kept good Friday . Smoking Ladies . —The North American copies our suggestion that ladies might keep their mouths out of worse business , and adds :
' True ; but it will unfit them for better employment . —A woman ' s mouth should be " semper paretus "—always ready to be kissed , for it stands a sort of vidette over the breast-works , and is generally attacked the first , and often very suddenly . A soldier would be as useless with damp priming or a ' wooden flint' as a wwnan with her mouth deformed into a chimney or a smoke flue . " As to kissiug , we think tobacco in any shape a perfect antidote to it . What 1 A delicate rosebud of a mom h to be poisoned by being brought in contact with an animated tobacco-box—a living segarholder ! Faugh !—New York Tribune , IIq & riblr !—Tub Close or the Battle ot thb SvjTLW . —Whether with a view of preventing the
victors from following them across the river , or more probably with the design of cutting all hepes of retreat from the Sikhs , and thus ' . oUi ^ i ng them to fight , one of the boats lrom _ the centre of the bridge had been let loose and the passage by it totally cut off . In one dense mass , of thousands , the discomfited Sikhs had no alternative but to take to the river breast-high ; progress was necessarily slow , and their pursuers had ample time to give them volley after volley , while the horse artillery mowed down those at the greatest distance with murderous grapa . The river was covered with dead and dying ; the mass of the , former actually forraerl a bridge in the middle of the stream , while , as the musket and grape took effect hundreds were seen raising their heads for an
instant , and then disappearing forever . The fire on a retreating foe in the field of battle is at all times injurious ; but when that foe not only turns his back but is intercepted by a deep stream of water , he becomes a sure aim , and tho carnage committed by his pursuers must be deadly beyond conception , and such it was at Sobraon . None . were spared , for they had spared n « ne . All shared the same fate . In the whole annals of warfare , no parallel can be found to the carnage at Sobraon , even when a battle has been fought under circumstance which gave every possible advantage to tho victors . In rain did the Sirdairs ( among whom was the brave old Sham Singh Attareewala , who died nobly ) endeavour to rally the flying Sikhs . Onwards they rushed , death and destruction following them , and tbe deep waters of the Sutlej ready to engulph their dead
bodies , or finish what the musket and grape had half performed . Five days after the action , and when the walls of the entrenchment had been nearly levelled with the ground , the sandbank in the middle of the rivea was completely covered with dead Sikhs ; and the ground on the left bank , and within the entrenchment , thickly strewed with carcasses of men and horses . Then all was quiet ; the Europeon soldiers had been carefully covered with earth , and at one spot near the dry bed of tbe nullah , no fewer than twenty-seven soldiers of the 1 st European Light Infantry lay interred in a single grave . The Sikhs had returned for their dead , and the Commander-in-chief generously allowed them to carry off the body of Sirdar Sham Singh , and other ticrsons of note ; but the task was found irksome , and hundreds of Sikhs were left as food for the jackal , the doj , and the vulturcs . «~// Mfon / of th « Sikh by W L . M'Gregor .
EDITO *' s SOllLOQTJV . To write or not to write * that ' i the question . Whether 'tis best to taUe up the pen After a iltepy dinner of baked beans , To alb it , scratch your pate , and feel for brains , And clip-. and clip—and clip The better thoughts of otheis ! We pause for counsel ! Joe , hand the settlors I POS 1 TIVB A . VD COVPARATIVB LSSS 0 . V 8 IN GRAMMAR . The thing a porter wears round his hat to carry parcels is a hwt , but a certain amphibous animal is an otter . Tuere ' s a fruit you're fond of called a jig , but an image is a figure . Hamlet's father was summoned by a coek , but the best arithmetician of his time was a Cocker . An attempt to poison yourself is & rask act , but a slice of fried bacon is a rather .
A showery day is damp , but the refusal of a young lady to marry you is a damper . A . sovereign short of weight is light , but a boat for the conveyance of goods is a lighter . What you attach to a window ia > blind , but a Hash of lightning is a blinder . A stiff old lady is prim , but a child ' s spelling-book is a primer . A cracked head is a tore affair , but a skylark is a « wrer . When the heat is at one hundred decrees it is a warm day , but a saucepan is a warmer . A chesnut horse is a brown animal , but a baker ' s oven is a browner . A tall handsome man is fine , but a magistrate is a finer , A man who runs swiftly is fast , but a person who abstains from eating is a faittr , A man perfectly healthy is eound , hut there is a man on board a man-of-war who is a eoiwufer .
JAKDAKT . By the Author of " Rural Sonneto , " " Ignen dt Centra , " Hurdy as yon fresh bays upon bis brow , "With the blown Lauristinus interweav'd—Ere yet the husbandmen resume tbe plough , Or festive days by labour are retrieved ; Io , January leads the young New Year Happy in welcomes , and with hope elate ; Though , round its form , cold winds and clouds career , And barren would appear its first estate . Now—if the weather freeze , or dry the ground , Manures are carted , and the routes repaired : In forest haunts , the woodmen ' s strokes resound : For speediast produce , gardens are prepared ;
While , here and there , just peer above the soil Signs of the life wherewith vait Nature's womb doth toil — Uood ' s Magazine . Iiush Corporate Amzsities . —The following scene took place at a special meeting of the Dublin corporation last week . The new Lord Mayor ( Alderman Staunton ) presided for tbe first time ; and , having complained of the non-attendance , and consequent neglect of duty by members of the council , his Lordship notified his intention of carrying on the business of the corporation , as far as he was concerned , with punctuality , and , if it was the opinion of the majority of tho house , he would then vacate the chair . " Here , " says the report in one of the morning papers , —
Some bye-play having eccurred between Alderman O'Brien and Mr . Reynolds , the latter announcing that he would not permit the former to lecture him , and the former saying he would not be dictated to , tho motion was put and curried . The Lord Mayor vacated tu * chafe . awviC-uncivit tao Meetings would be h eld for the future at I o'clock . sAlddrman O'Brien ( addictsing the reporter ! , )—I hope he gentlemen of the press give anything of ihli dision , they will publish the whole of it . r , Reynolds—As you assume a dictatorship on every g else , you want to dictate to the press . Reporter of the . Fr « Dian '» Jomiwt . —The press will be dictated to by any one , Mr . Reynolds . r . Reynolds—I ' m suro of that .
Iderman Butler—I hope , my lord , there will be an dA to these thingt . If Mr . Reynolds Is to bully every ember of the corporation in this manner we mutt call * ° r protection from your Lordihip . I know that I would ot permit Mr . Reynolds to bully me as he hat done Ald trraan O'Hrien . If Alderman O'Brien chooses to allow Mr . V ynelds to bully him iuthis manner , I would not p ermit it , Mr . ll- 'yiiolds—Except when I bullied you about the sale of the knives and forks to the corporation . Alderman Bultcr—No , Sir , No ! You dare not bully me when I was present the other day—you , and that d—d old carpenter ! Mr . Foggnrty ( running down tho room and facing Al . German Butler )—What , do you moan me 1 Alderman ButUr ( facing in his turn)—Yes , oldFogr . rty—the d—d old sinner . Mr . Fogarty—Eut'SVhatt
Alderman Butler—Yes , you infernal old sianer and room-keeper ! I'd kick you in a minute , you ruffian ! {( Vies of Order . ) Mr . r ' ogarty—Would you moit me like a gentleman f Would you appoint a friend , and \ weuld mtotyoul Alderman Butler ( shaking his umbrella)—I'd jooaer kick you than blow your brains out , you ruuian . Alderman Butler here left the council , and thus ended the scene . The ' J—d old sinner" intends bring ing the" worthy " alderman into thir tjui-en ' s Bviich , and Mr . Reynoldsis to move a votu of eut & urc in the corporation upon the conduct of the umbrella-shaking functionary .
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Curious TiiKFi . —In the neighbourlioed of Lincoln the manes and tails of horses have lately been frequently cut off by thieves , for the purpose of selling the horsehair . Rice . —A compiny has been formed at Paris for the purpose of growing rice on a large scale in tho salt marshes of the southern department of Fiance . > VOLVEs .-Co ! d and hunger have so emboldened the wolves in Belgium that one was killed a few days XLTf £ cS Stati 0 n atLi ^ 'n th e very Imha RDMEH .-The American General Scott has been supplied with an outht oUndia rubber camp equipage . Aktiqons Wedded to Esculapius . —It is said Miss Helen Faucit is ab ;> ut to be married to a physician at Dublin .
Advance in the Pnicu of Spirits —On Saturday last nearly all the licensed victuallers , according to previous agreement , advanced the price of " cornspirits" twenty per cent , for all over-proof , and ten percent , for under-proof spirits . A Job ton Teetotallers . —A plan has Veen published at the Hague for draining tho Zuydeizee . The expense of this gigantic undertaking is reckoned at 64 , 000 , 000 ol florins ; about £ 6 , 000 , 000 sterling . A Triumph for Tret tallers . —The floor of a new temperance-hall , just opened at Cirencester , is mainly composed ol the staves of demolished beer barrels—part of the property of a defunct neighbouring brewery . _ Free Trade . —La Preae asserts that the adoption of free trade by France would deprive 3 . 600 Fveneh ships of employment , and make the English and the Americans universal carriers for the world .
Eoos . —Ihe scarcity of eggs has never been known so great as at the present time . At Sunderland , for the last three weeks , they have been sold at 2 s . 6 d . to 3 s . a dozen , and in some cases a shilling has been demanded and paid for three . The Adelpiii Thkatke is about to be rebuilt on a larger scalc . adjoining properties have been purchased for that purpose . What's in the Wind?—We understand that returns have been made , by order of government , from
this and other counties , containing very full and detailed information , relative to the £ 10 householders . From this fact it is , wo suppose , that a report has origirated ot certain wild schemes which niii . isteri are said to have in contemplation respecting household suffrage . For ourselves we cannot believe them capab ' e of such madness . It is very possible , however , that there may be some coquetry with the rato paying clauses of the Reform Act , such as to call for the determined opposition of all who seek to preserve peace and public order . —Brighton Gazette .
The Universities . —A rumour exists that among the projects of Government which the present Ministry have under consideration , is that of sending a royal oommis'jion of inquiry to both the Uaiversities . —Morning Post . The poor rates of Manchester in 1835 amounted to £ 20 , 854 a year . They amounted in 1845 te £ 64 , 000 . This advance is doubtless attributable in a great pegree to the immigration from Ireland ; and if a reverse in trade to a greater extent than at present take place , Lancashire will become a second Mayo . Public Overs . —It is said that a company is about to be formed in London for the erection of public ovens , on the same principle as the baths and washhouses . The labouring poor will then be enabled to make their own broad , as pans and other requisites will be provided . and the baking performed at a trifliua expense .
Wonderful Shoes . —A Dutch officer asserts that he has invented a species of shoes which will enable a man to walk and run on the water , aud if upset to float on it . The shoes arc attached lo an apparatus which covers the entire body , leaving it the free use of the arms , and the apparatus is said to be shotproof . Several experiments have been made , aud arc said to have proved sue cssfiil . Tub Pope —Negotiations are said to ho going on between the pope and most of the other princes of Italy , with a view to closer alliances than have hitherto existed . Whale Fisherv . —The first ship which ever left England for the whale fishery , was one of only thirty tons burthen , with twelve men , commanded by Silvester Wyet , from the port of Bristol , in the year 1594 .
The Sultan . —The Princess of Servia has received pom the Sultan , as a present , his portrait set with illiants . This is said to be the first instance of a vesent being made by the Sultan to a female Christian vassal . Green Peas . —On Friday , green peas , imported from Holland , and warranted by the sellers to possess the same flavour as those gathered in the middle of summer , were sold in the streets of London at Od . tha quart . Travelling for thb Million . —A general conveyance company proposes to establish railway omnibuses io run to all the metropolitan stations , for the conveyance of passengers and parcels at a penny amile ; and it intends to start with 500 omnibuses and a stud of 4 , 000 horses .
Spiritual . —A strong remonstrance having been presented to the bishop of Loudon , against the impropriety of storing malt and spirituous liquors U vaults under churches , that prelate has intimated his intention to take steps to prevent those vaults from being used for such purposes . " U . NEAST L 11 STIIH HeAD THAT WEARS A CROWN . " —It is said that there is always a light in the King of the French's sleeping room , and that two pistols ar « plactd on a table near his bed . Good The officers and men of the 3 rd regiment of Foot , which is now quartered in Dublin , have contributed a day ' s pay for the relief of tho distressed Irish . The AccuRSED . ^ Sin ce the titne of Louis XIV ., who succeeded his father Louis XIII . there has not been a single instance of the crown of France descending directly from father to son .
Lots op Moons . —In the present year there will be 13 full moons—two in January , not cue in February , two in March , and one in each succeeding month . Mesmeric Hospital , —The government of Bengal has established a mesmeric Hospital at Calcutta , which is to be placed under the charge of Dr . Esdaile . Wolves . —The Livonian papers mention many instances of wolves attacking both men and cattle . The district of Dorpat « as the most infested by the ravenous beasts .
Provisions from the United States . —The New York . Devonshire , Glasgow , and Marmion , from New York , and Magnolia from New Orleans , which were reported at the Custom-house , Liverpool , on thelOlh inst ., bring 1900 G barrels flour , 5 , 100 bags and 10 , 032 bushels Indian corn , 1 , 907 barrels Indian corn meal , 130 barrels and 200 boxes biscuits , 91 tierces rice , 35 packages butter , 2 , 023 'packages tierces , 3 , 095 packages lard , 85 Jbarrels pork , Co clicks beef , and 16 boxes bacon . casLioiiTNiNo at Sea . —By a letter received from the mate of the schooner E ! i « . of Mevagissey , it appears that on the 19 th ultimo , two days after leaving Leghorn , on her passage , during a storm , of thunder and bightn ' tng , the master , John Whetter , was struck by Ihe electric fluid , and expired twenty minutes aitor the accident .
The Weather Abroad . —It appears by a letter which a contemporary has published , that even in Genoa , so much resorted to by invalids for winter quarters , on account of its mild climate , tharo has been extremclv severe frost , and all the adjacent heights , and even the shipping in the harbour , were covered with snow . The orange and lemon trees , and almost all the produce of the gardens , have been destroyed . Lord Jobn Russell and the Family of Hood . —From Lord J . Russell ' s letter to the friends of Mr . Hood's family , it appears that the continuance of
the pension lapsed on the death of Mrs . Hood is impossible , * fact which his lordship states with a kind expression ol regret . It is to tho last degree disgraceful to tho country that the fund available for such purposes is a pitiful £ 1 , 200 a year , which is now full . " It is true , " his lordship writes , " a pension caw be granted , if any portion of the £ 1 , 200 remains undisposed ot ; but that is not at present the case . The whole sum ha < been already . bestowed , and any grant 1 should recommend for the children would be illegal and void . Until June next the crown has not the power to grant any pension on the civil list . —Globe
, Death in Mildank Prison . —On Monday , Mr . Bedford held an inquest at tho Milbank I ' rison , on the body of William Gillespie , aged nineteen . The deceased was received into the prison on the 80 th of March , 1846 , having been convicted at Edinburgh on the 2 oih of the previous month of robberv , and sentenced to seven years' tnuisportatl n . He remained iu go ; , d health aud spirits li 1 the 17 th ult ., when , being suddenly seized with inflammation o ! the chest , he w * b removed into the infirmary , where ,
gradually sinking , he died on 1 hursd / iy last , death being found on a post mortem examination to have resulted from disease of the lungs and pleura . Verdict —Natural De « th . The Removal of the Almosrt in Westminster . —A step has been taken towards the Westminster improvements , and in the most notorious part of tho line , namely , the Almonry , Wes ' . mineler . Eight or ten houses have already been pulled down by order of the " Westminster Improvement Committee , " aud others will , no doubt , shortly follow .
Wonderful . —Leeuwenlioek mentions that animated insects , of which twenty-seven millions would only be equal to a mite , arc seen with a mircoscope . —[ Did Leeuwonhoek count the twenty-seven millions 1 } A Ni ; w E . nthJuVCB to St . James ' s Park , — For the accommodation of the public a vi-ry ! mudi < ome portico and flight of stone steps are now being constructed at tho north end of the priviu « . < gardens of Buckingham Palace , as an cut ranee I' .-r lpot-passciigcrs from Grosver . oi-place on to Ci > n . "titiition-hill . Don Mioukl . — The Aujabcrg Gazette states from Rome , that Don Miguel , the pretender to the Crown
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of Portugal , had been attache . ! there by jI ' ihki , lugas ho was about to quit the capital lor a countiy residence . Death of Mr , Ckipps , late M . P . for (' ieercester . —We have to record the demise of MmU er veteran legislator , Joseph Cripps , Esq ., late , \ 1 . ; ' . ;" or Cirencester , who died on the 8 th inst . at Asln : ioft , near that town , accd 81 . The Oldest Mv . mbkr . —The Right lion . Charles Watkins William Wynn , M . P . forMontgomenshire , is now the oldest memb' r in the House of Coim-: ons . He was horn in 1775 .. and hits hcen in Parlia ucnt during the last fifty years . Take Care of your Pockets . —One hundred nnd thirty-one gentlemen have given the rcgu ' ar liHlce of their intention to apply , on the last day . ;' tl , e present term , to b » . admitted to practise as attorneys in the Court of Queen's Ih rich .
A Lady Buuncd to Death . —An inquest wib kid on Monday by Mr . Mills , in the broad-room < .- »' the Royal Free Hospital , Gray's-inn-road , on the ho . ty of the late Mrs . Lucy Le ^ ge , aged , 45 , a lady > > independent fovtunej residing at Dr . Cnnnin Join ' s , 31 , Sidmouth-Ktri-ct , Regent-square . The un : » rtu-I'ato lady was arranging her hair before a hiirror over the fire place , wImi , having been s' -iz' -d v ' r . h 11 fit , she fell across the fender , and her c ' nilies catching fire , s „ e waa S ( , dreadfully hurried that she expired on the 6 th instant . Vcrd et—Accidental death .
A Curious Circumstance—On Sunday numing , a cat being dispo * ,., | to walk on the surface ni " the ! rM . ; n river , at Wisbcaeli , came to a place w litre the ice was broken , and fell in . She snon suec-cded in rescuing herself , but va , immediately fn-z-ti to the ice by tier feet . A number of spai-vows then surrounied her , and , in their actions , seemed . <> sav — " rou cannot catch us now . " The cut , ni ; h all her natural propensity fur ieeding upon these little tormentors , kept turning her head , witl . or . t . however being able to move from the spot , urn if .-nine persons succeeded in liberating her from hi r comfortless position . "
Robbery at the South Eastern Railway—On Monday morning , information was received a t tho Sotithwark police station , that the counting house of Messrs . Chaplin and Horn , railway carriers , near the luggage warehouses at the BrickJsvcr ' s Aims station , was broken into on Sunday ni » ht , " aud robbed of seventy pounds in gold and silver , and three cheques of a small amount . Magisterial Resignation , —Mr . Malt by has sent in his resignation as magistrate of Marlbonmahstreet Police Court , and he is to be succrcdvd bj Mr . Bingham , from the Worship-street Police Court .
Defalcation of a iax Collector . —Mfr . Green , hou ? e agent , of ilampstead , win was tax collector for the Kentish Town district , has abacontted ; and there is a deficiency in his accounts to the amount of A' 1 , 700 . His surities have been culled upon to make good the deficiency , and one of them , a most respectable carpenter and builder , in H ;»« ipst « id , has iu consequence been reduced to a state of bankruptcy . East Worcestershire Election . —On Mhnday Captain Ru-dilon , Conserrative , was elected without opposition in the place of J , Barneby , E-n , deceased . The Ty . ne . —The Newcastle Guardian says that the entrance to this river , at Tynemouth B . ir , is daily becoming more dangerous , and that large vessels are continually being wrecked upon it , or get so seriously injured as to be afterwards worthless .
Astonishing : —Ihe town ot Keswick hasbeenjust Sighted with gas , and one astonishing circumstance which the local press has chronicled is , thrd tha tradesmen of the place have had introduced into their shops . The New Reformation . — The reiki n of M . Ronge ( German Cacholicisrc ) meets with great favour at Hamburg , where the number of converts is diiily increasing . Among otheis a young and promising actress , Madame Fehring , has embraced the new faith . She was under an engagement to appear at Vienna , for two years , under a penalty ol 31 , 200 francs ; but her passport to that city h-is been refused , in consequence of her change ef religion .
Sexmdle . —Sir Culling Smith , one of the chkf representatives of the Dissenters , s iei > kiug of tho prohibition of Sunday trains , says , " I will « t or . ee hay , that while I myself possess a carriage , and eoi . sider myself entitled to make use of it on the Sabbath , I do not think it improper that a poor man should make use of a railway carriage on that day , " Death of Geurok Byno , Esq ., M . P . —lVc regret to have to announce the death of Mr . Byng , one of the members for the county of Middlesex , lie exp ired on Sunday afternoon , at his scat , Wrothautliall , in the county of Middlesex . lie was born ia Lotidotigon tlie ISthof May , 1764 , and had , therefore , attained the great age of 82 . Though he married in early life Harriet , the eight daughter ol Sir Willioin Montgomery , Bart ., yet he leaves no issue . He represented the county of Middlesex upwards of fifty j tan . Death of Lord Edward Fitzalan Howard . —
Accounts has reached town annoncing the demise of the above nobleman , who died suddenly , from congestion of the brain , ontue 21 st ult ., at Alexandria , where he had only arrived a tow days previous from Malta and a tour in Greece . The deceased was third son of the Duke and' Duchess of Norfolk . Parliamentary Changes , —The alterations in tha House of Commons , since the assembling of Parlia « ment last January , have been very extensive , for as many as 34 new members have been within that period added to the representative branch of the Legislature , or rathor have entered it to fill the places previously occupied by thirty-four other gmtleniea
who , by death or retirement , occasioned that number of vacancies . The following is a list of the places which have sent new members to Parliament : —Nottinghamshire North , Lancashire South , . St . Albans' , Buckingham ( twe members ) , Westminster , Sussex East , Rutlandshire , Dorsetshire ( two members ) , Suffolk East , Notiinghamshire South , Ripou , Cloa « mel , Chicestcr , Selkirkshire , Worcester , Cork , Carlow , Mayo , Molton , Yorkshire West , Liuhlield , Ren « frewshirc , Cashel , Dundalk , St . Ives . Richmond , Bridpart , Kilkenny ( county ) , Newark , Northamptonshire South , Midhurst , Gloucestershire East , East Worcestershire , and North Lincolnshire .
The Irish Poor . —The number of Irish paupers now daily in receipt of food and soup at the parishoffice , is nearly i 000 . This time last year there were about Liverpool twenty-five recipients of tha same class . Slug-Fence . —To repel tho slugs and ( mails from his carnations , Mr . Sharp , of the Whichever Gas Works , encircles the rim of each pot with a pieoe of horse-hair rope , partially cut across its strands . The bristles start forward and present a cheuaux de frits which neither slugs nor snails can surmount . " It ia very durable , may be used to protect any plant , aud is rather ornamental . Pears . —A gentleman oi Keswick has , within tha last fortnight , plucked several pears , as largo as walnuts , from a tree in his orchard ; and , though the weather at the time was remarkably cold , with hard frost , the untimely fruit looked as fresh and healthy as if it had been produced at the proper
season . Risk or tub Thames . —A correspondent of the Builder states that he has noticed for nearly half a century , a regular and gradual rise in the waters of the Thames . American Whisky . — An export of whisky was made from New Orleans early in December lor the Liverpool market . Winter in Si'ai . v .--A heavy fall of snow , a very rare occurrence at Madrid , took place in that capital on the 1 st instant . More Dhvil ' s Work .. —An American has proposed to make cannon balls of a peculiar competition , which , igniting by concussion , supersedes the neces . sity of Ilea ; ing the ball in a furnace . Italian Literature . —There are 205 periodical publications issued in the various states of Italy , but only a small proportion of them ever allude to political affairs .
Extraordinary Aoe . —A Jamaica paper mentions that a black man lately ued at Spanish Town , at the extraordinary age of 142 years , lie had been ia good health until a fortnight before his death . Fatal Effects of Gis-drinkino . —A child eleven years old , at Eastwood , Essex , died a few days sinc « from having drunk about hall a pint of gin ' from a bottle which it found . A New Locomotive- —It is stated that Mr . Stevenson has invented a three , cylinder loi-umotive engine , of which the power is so great that it starts off like an arrow from a bow . A Veteran . —At the Bristol council-house , an old man , who stated his age to be 111 years , was last week complainaHt in a case . He appeared hearty , and has a sun , SO years of ago .
Gigantic Human Bones . —A Stockholm p ^ per states that human bones of gigantic size have lately been found in Sweden , near some fossil remains o £ the elk . New Zbalanb Cemn . — Copper ore has been found in eowulerabu- quantities m New Zealand , and several shipments of it have been sent to En ^ aiid , where some has already arrived . The Navt . —We have reason to believe that the present Board of Admiralty is making , or has made an arrangement , by which a large force of able seamen can upon emergency be drafted into our uhips ia a few hours . —Exatitiner . A Mexican Amazon . —The American papers mention Vlw , ;< t the battle of Monterey , a troop of Mexican 1 / Ji . oora was commanded by a woman named Uos Amadw , who is said to have led her men with great gallantry , iu a charge which , caused considerable iosa t" an American regiment .
Gar at Glut r * r Wild Fowl . —Such is the great quantity ol wild fowl in the metropolitan poultry markets that , on Wednesday , wild ducks were sold at Is . n couple , teal at lOd . a pair , and snipes at 4 d . each ; woodcocks at lGd ., and woodpigeo * vs a » 6 "d , and 6 d . each ; partridges were as low as K ed . ft brace , am ! hares ( which are in low condition , ) Is . each ; wild rabbits are a complete drug , and hampci > were sold tit f » d . ami od . each ; ployeivj sold for 3 d . each .. The Greatest Stand ever made for Civilization , — Tho inkstand . —Tiw Mm m the Moon .
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