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      The Following Beautiful Song, Or Rather ...

      The following beautiful song , or rather the second , third , and fourth stanzas of it , appeared in a late num-• _feer of the Nation . The author happens to be a friend of ours ; andawarethat the son- ? appeared imperfectly in the Nation , we now give it entire . The song commences with the stanza previously omitted .

      YOUNG KATE OF GLENKEEN . By the hanks of the Barrow residing Are girls with the dark raven hair , And where the Blackwater is gliding , The maidens are faitMil and fair * . Bnt of all Erin ' s pure-hearted daughters , 111 tell you fhe one who is queen , She dwells hy Agirey ' s bright waters , The lovely Young Kate of Glenkeen . She is pure as the dew-drops that cluster Round the heath-bell that blooms on Slievemore Ami her eye hath the diamond ' s lustre That studs the grey breast of Bengore : Then her voice , the soft south is not sweeter , "When _breathing o'er spring ' s robe of green , And Errigal ' s fawn is not fleeter Than lovely Young Kate of Glenkeen .

      The snow I have seen freshly fallen On Slemish' s top as I stood ; The wild rose I ' ve seen on Slieve Gallen ; Just cleaving its emerald hood ; And that snow from , the cloud newly driven And that rose of the mountain so sheen , Are the colours that nature hath given The cheek of Young Kate of Glenkeen , Tis sweet when the sun is saluting The "heights of the misty Knocklade —• 'lis sweet when bis first ray is shooting

      Through lonely Gieneullen ' s green shade ; But O « there's an hour that is sweeter _. When the star ofthe evening is seen , And its bright twinkle tells me 111 meet her , Thelovely Young Kate of Glenkeen . CcatE-w

      Notice. ¦ Jgr We Regret To Have To Annou...

      NOTICE . ¦ _jgr We regret to have to announce that unavoidable drcurni'tances compel us to again postpone the "Feast of the Poets " to the second or third Saturday in April .

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      J-Imcffs Letters To His Son. Bv Douglas ...

      _J-imCffS LETTERS TO HIS SON . Bv Douglas J-EKHOtD . London : Orr and Co ., Paternoster-row These admirable satires on the crimes and frauds , tiie falsehoods and hypocrisies of " civilised" life , are a reprint from the pages of our old friend Punch . The author's style aud talents are by this time so -well known to our readers , that it would be superfluous io do more than give his name . " We may , lowever , add , that these letters , appearing as they did at a time when Punch -was not so well known as now , will in all probability be new to a large number of Mr . _Jerkoed ' s admirers . To all _Buen we strongly recommend the book . Though any extract for which-we can afford room can scarcely give the reader a better idea of the good things in this book than would a single plum the richness of a Christinas pudding , we must nevertheless give the one plum , -refemng * our readers to the book itself if they -would revel in the sweets of the entire feast .

      PumJt advises his son as to his choice of a profession He reviews the church , the law , the healing art , the army , and tbe professions of labour ; all these be rejects : all these be advises his son against , and in Conclusion urges upon him io take up

      the _raorassiox of " nothing . " Again , then , I say it , my son , be Nothing ! Look at the _flourishing examples of _Nothing about you ! Consider the men in this vast metropolis , whose faces shine ivith the very marrow ofthe land , and all for doing and being _Kothjug ! Then , what ease—what unconcern—what perfect dignity in the profession ! Way , dull-brained ,-hornhanded labour , sweats and grows thin , and dies _co-osump iare , _tvhilstNothiug-gets a tedder tinge upon its cheek , a -thicker wattle to its chin , and a larger compass of abdomen , there are hundreds of the goodly profession of "Nothing , who have walked upon three-piled velvet from their nurses' arms to the grave : men , who in the most triumphant manner vindicate the ingenuity of the human mind for enjoying and possessing every creature-comfort of existence ; not even a conjuror , nay , sometimes not even apo 3 ice-magistrat « i can discover how they get it .

      # * * Tou "Win , in your progress through life , be called upon to wonder at the discoveries of Galileo , who swore that the world moved round the sun—and then , or I mistake that the sun moved round the world- you will hear a great deal of Homer and Shakspeare , who shaped out "Worlds upon paper , and begot men and women with drops of ink : folks will talk to you upon the discovery of the circulation of the blood , and other gossip of the like sort , demanding your admiration , tout homage , for what they will call the triumph of human genius . Fiddle-dc-dee ! "What should you care how the world moves , or whether it move at all , so you move well in it f As for Homer and Shakspeare , the first was a beggar , and for the second—- for the great magician , who , as people wfll cant to you , "has left immortal company for the spirit of man in its

      • weary journey through this briery world—has bequeathed scenes of immortal loveliness for the human fancy to . delight in—founts of eternal truth , for the lips of man to drink , and drink , and for aye be renovated with every draught—he , this benefactor to the world , could not secure a comfortable roof from the affections and gratitude « f men , for fhe female descendant of his flesh , who withered from the world , almost an outcast and apauperi Z _« m , thc man who can Uvea long and jovial life upon "Nothing , has often { by some strange wizard-craft ) the wherewithal to bequeath to his heirs . As for literature and science—tales of fairy-land , and the circulation of the blood—be it your care to make Jfotbing your Ariel ; and for your blood , heed not how it passes through your "heart , _st > that as it flow , it he enriched with the brightest and strengthened with the best Be a successful _Nothing , my son , and be blessed . '

      The Orphan; On, Memoirs Of Matilda. Br E...

      THE ORPHAN ; on , MEMOIRS OF MATILDA . Br Eugene Sce . ParisII ., III ., rV ., Y . London : T . 0 . _Xewby , 12 , Mortimer-street , Cavendishsquare . This is another of the many pomilar works SO tastefully " sot up ' ' by the enterprising publisher whose name stands at the bead of this notice . The first part we noticed some time ago . In thc parts before mis commenced and _ continued the extraordinary narrative of the heroine , whose confessions form the -aubjeetmattcTof-fliework . "We must decline giving an opinion on tins famous novel until ihe whole is before us , beyond observing , that so far as the narfative has yet progressed itis sufficiently exciting and interesting . We bad marked a lengthy extract for Insertion which we are compelled to omit through ¦ Want of space . The Orphan is published in monthly . shilling parts , trathfully and beautifully illustrated by Robert Osciksiianil

      Therese Eijxoyer- Or, The Masor House Of...

      THERESE _EIJXOYER- OR , THE _MASOR HOUSE OF TREFF-HARTLOG . Bl _EroEsu See . London : Cleave , Shoe-lane . Our acquaintance _withtlie "viOrks of Epcene Scb is , as yet , too limited to warrant us expressing , nay , even forming an opinion on bis merits as an author , and the tendency of his -writings . Certainly we bave risen from the perusal of bis Therese with feelings of disappoutment . The style of the author is fascinating in the extreme , and there are scattered through the volume passages of poetical beauty truly _captivate ; yet , in spitu of all , we are shocked" and pained atthe conclusion the author _brings ns to . What good end he could have had in view in the production of such a work , wc are at a loss to imagine . To us it appears to be a work just fitted to make thc superstitious , and the _sicfelr-sentinientaJ , si ' dl more hope less fools than thev mav alreadv be . Of course we

      speak of ihe work as a whole : there are passages suggestive of moral lessons emial ioanythin « rwe have ever read . Let us particularly notice chapter xsi ., entiiled "TheAttie . " In this chaptcris described , in touching , nay , even sublime simplicity , the sufferings Of the industrious poor—and that accompanying " soul of goodness , " wMch , animatmg _tt _^^ children of labour , prompts them to feel for the sufferings of others , inducing them to succour thc ¦ wretched , atthe expense , to themselves , of a depri vation of the commonest necessaries . We wouldfain have given this chapter , but it is far too lengthy for the space we have at command . Beautiful and good are niany portions of this work , but what avails this , "When the denouement , on which , necessarily hangs the moral of the whole , is both fiightfhl and unsnggestive ( so far as we can see ) of any good conclusion .

      _« . * _^ denouement is of no negative character ,- on the contrary , we are made to see positively , and plainly enough , the triumph of villany , and the Mretrievable ruin of virtne . We may be told that _Euoese See paints Ms _charactcis and depicts Lis Scenes to { ft * Ufe ; and that the " poetic justice " awarded by authors to their ideal characters , good and bad , is at best but pleasing fiction . It may be w _ir _?^? ' ' ~ _we _beUereit-reallvisso , —that the Worn of ldeiga very - different world to that which J > oets and novelists dream of . We are conscious that in the world of stern realities it is too often the Kate's

      and -fte Mthola £ a the virtuous and good , and not the Ralph Nickleb y _' s , the base and villanous , who come to a-oaserable end ; itis not always so , bnt is so too often : yet no one would wish that Dickers iadwntten his excellent work oilier than he has done . We fency it is something more than mere national prejudice which makes as cling io the English rather-Qian the French hedonist . It is only justice to the publisher to say , that this edition is-weB got up . The illustrations are numerous and good , and the _jirint excellent . Its cheapness is _astonishing ; the work , complete , may be had , we _telieve , for _eigUwn-pcnce .

      Therese Eijxoyer- Or, The Masor House Of...

      THE GAZETTE OF VARIETY : A MISCELLANY OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE AND AMUSING LITERATURE . Yol . II .-London : Cleave , Shoe-lane . Our readers may remember that the first volume of this publication received our unqualified approval , and we have now much pleasure in wearing testimony to thc worth and value of its successor . The second volume is more than equal to tho first . It contains nearly 500 large octavo pages filled with matter not only readable , but no inconsiderable portion of the choicest description . It may be necessaiy to add , that the Rlustratcd Family Journal , the first number Of which we noticed two ' or three weeks ago , is the successor of the Gazette of Variety , or rather a continuation of the Gazette , with new attractions ; and such attractions as are not to be met with in any similar publication .

      The Edinburgh Tales—Pari Ii.—Conducted N...

      THE EDINBURGH TALES—Pari II . —Conducted _nr Mrs . _Johnsioke . Tait , Edinburgh . These delightful tales become more and more interesting . Of the three contained in this part we confess to having , as yet { from want of time ) , read only the first—Governor Fox , with whose eccentrici ties we have been greatly amused . Wehnow nothing we have read for a long time past , even the professedly comic , so well calculated to " set the table in a roar , " as Mr . Richard Taylor's narrative of the strange doings of the intolerant , yet withal liberal _. Governor . He is the very personification of old English prejudices , feelings , and , we will add , virtues ; and we can promise the " new generation " rare entertainment from an acquaintance with his vagaries . We give an extract .-

      —We were now at the most ticklish time of the warnear its tremendous close . The funds were tumbling down every day ; and in one of the few anxious days that preceded the hattle of Waterloo , I saw the Governor arrive very early from Rochester , on foot ! in a plight that I shall not easily forget . He came directly to my lodging . He had been on the road from midnight . On foot ! Ay , and why not ?—Is it for beggars to ride a-horseback , sir * Don't you see how those d—d stocks are

      tumbling down . Let Master Pitt look up now , I bid him , to his Act of 1797—his paper rags . Not but that 1 could weather it for myself , if the trifle widow Walpole intrusted to my management , were once secured in hard gold . Thank God , I can handle a pickaxe , a spade , or a skull oa the Thames yet ; but a widow , and a gentlewoman , cheated , or bubbled in trusting to Stephen Fox!—all she had scraped up for seven years , to give Ned his schooling , without being beholden to these Northamptonshire Dons , her husband ' s relations , who have neither conscience nor howels . It is enough to drive a man mad .

      You have not invested Mrs . Walpole ' s slender funds , I trust ? Ho ! roared the Governor , save in those blasted English funds : down one-fourth , Friday , down one-sixteenth , Saturday , down one-eighth , yesterday . The vitals are eaten out of old England by subsidies , loan-contractors , and Jew-jobbers . I hare walked up to London , sir , with tliis hazel-stick in my hand , and a couple of clean shirts , and my prayer-hook , in this bundle , to begin the world again . Can your landlady let me have any dog-hole of a garret at 2 s . 6 d . a-week , or so . I can't promise more at first . I have written to Bamboo to take the lease of my box , which he always longed for , and Sam off my hands . An idle man has better chance of a job about London , where there are so many coal-lighters , and so forth , thau down

      yonder . Governor Fo . v , you amaze me ! Amazed to see an old man , a fool , and a beggar ha ! ha . ' ha!—from having been a credulous idiot ! There was something terrific in his laugh ; hut Governor Fox was too firm-spirited long to give way to this wild mood . Have I any claim to Chelsea , or Greenwich , think ye ? —My pipe is what I shall miss the most—no luxuries now . I hope the Lord will call me home , however , before old age and frailty drive Stephen Fox on his parish , with all his cousins grinning at the Governor . In the mean time , can your landlady let mc have a garret 1 I must have my billet settled for the night , before r look about me . I can make my own bed , buy and cook my own victuals , wash my own shirt , and keep my place clean myself . You con answer to her , I suppose , that I am a sum of sober , regular habits , who attend Church , and pay my way as I go . —I can surely make my bread , werc

      it but selling mackrel—what tho deuce should I let down my heart for ? * * * But having secured my billet for the night I must he off to my broker . I have written to him by every post : —always down , down , down . Last night he rather advises selling . If I have one five guineas , ay , or fire shillings , of reversion , after paying my just and lawful debts , by Jove , I'll hoard ! I'll lock ' em in my old sea-chest , which I bought when a hoy at Halifax , for a a dollar and a half . It can now hold all my worldly goods—J must send it up cheap by the wagon . —But I must be off : the broker , that puppy Pantague , urges selling out to-day . Nest mail will bring us down , perhaps , a whole per cent . —perhaps ten , or Wow us out of the Trater altogether , —who can tell ? who can tell ? If I had taken Cobbett ' s advice and warnings now , and laid up a few guineas !—Where is there a Cockney scribbler among them , with their Times and their Chronicles , ever showed how fast this country is going tothe devil , so satisfactorily and clearly as the old sergeant ?

      I accompanied the Governor to his destination , though he assured me there was no danger of leaving hhn alone . Your turtle-feeding Aldermen may go after their lost plums , to feed the great fishes . I will neither drown like a blind puppy , nor hang myself like a nigger in thc sulks . I can work , sir . There was already an unusual buzz iu the Streets . I held the Governor fast by the arm , to detain him a few more minutes from his broker . * * * I held him the faster ; men , hoys , women , were now all _hurx-ying to and fro , or collecting in groups , with eager Speech _andanunateJUoohs , OU every side - carriages and horsemen hurried along , some east , some west . News certainly had arrived ; express came hot after express ; hut no balletin had yet been sent froin Downing-Street to the City . A dreadful defeat , it was whispered about , had been sustained by the Allies , —the ruin was total , —of Europe , and of Governor Fox . The morning papers were all doubt and mystery .

      Let me off , man , —if I don ' t sell out to-day , I may hang myself at night , for I never can face "Rochester . They'll be at twenty-five to-morrow . "We shall have Trench Assignats for old _EngBsh guineas , by Jupiter ! " We had something like a struggle when he offered to break off . "Remember , I protest : * * * Hark It was the roll of a distant gun : —another , and another . The Governor was a little deaf eren then , on one side Of the head ; hut when the rejoicing boom rolled majestically up the river from the Tower guns , there was no longer doubt . The exulting shouts of the gathering

      multitude—the outburst of all the bells in London , told the same tale : —a splendid , a decisive victory ! The newsmen blew their horns . " Three per cent , better already ! Hey , Governor l" was my rising cry to the now stunned capitalist , —stunned but for five seconds . AVe went along and heard the first confused tidings of the Field of Waterloo . Eighteen or eight-and-twenty thousand human beings had there bitten the dust , —what an image is that homely one of mortal agony!—and London was in a frenzy of joy , and the funds up , I cannot tell how much , in one hour . "What histories were that day in men ' s faces ! The Edinburgh Tales have our hearty recommenda tion .

      Vagher's Parliamentary Companion. London...

      VAGHER'S PARLIAMENTARY COMPANION . London : Vacher and Sons , 20 , Parliament-street Tliis appears to be a very useful Utile work , containing correct lists ofthe House of Peers and House of Commons , the places the latter represent , the town residences of both , with other useful information . To ensure accuracy , the _Comfmnion is published monthly .

      Good! A Proposition On The National Debt...

      GOOD ! A PROPOSITION ON THE NATIONAL DEBT—Bv Ltjke James _Hassabp . Mr . Hansard ' s " good intentions" almost disarms criticism , still we shouldbegladif , for his own sake , he would surround his propositions with less of mysticism , as he would then have a far better chance of being understood than he now has . Here—so far as wc can understand it—is his present scheme , viz .: — to create in Government notes the sum of £ 872 , 920 , 3 _7319 s . Cd ., in payment of the National Debt , and for thc relief of the national burthens : these notes to pass as currency , and to be accepted by the people as the representative of the value of a national Government . This proposition has

      appeared , in substance , a thousand times before ; and however " good" Mr . Hansard may consider it , those _wholtnow anything ofthe question of currency , know what the effect that such an amount of " money" (?) would have on all contracts , prices , and debts . The remedy would be _ivorse than the disease . The National Debt must be "liquidated" in another and far different manner . Mr . Hansard ' s proposition is simply the spoxge , wrapped up in a heap of " Government notes . " Now , if we are to use the sponge , let us at aU events do it _ojienly . We have had bitter gibes and jeCIS for th 6 ' * _m _^ b-coloured repudiators of Pennsylvania ; " but their practice was honesty itself compared with that of Mr . Hansard .

      Twiddle's Yorkshire Miscellany And Engli...

      _TWIDDLE'S YORKSHIRE MISCELLANY AND ENGLISHMAN'S MAGAZINE . No . III . London : Brittain , Patemoster-row . The first number of this magazine was noticed by US on its appearance ; the second number _^ never reached us ; and the present number , which we should have-received in January , only came to hand last week . There is some good readable "matter in this number , including several poetical pieces of a fair average merit . From this qualified praise we must , however , ' except a simple but pretty poem by that truly clever man Job *** Cruciilet _Pbiscej a production his well worthy of well-eamed ' _popularity . The poem is too longfor extract , otherwise we should have been tempted to transfer it to our columns . ' _^ _Mw _% n _^ _wvv _^^ yv _» - _*^> i _^

      _Ejoobatiox . —One thousand and eighteen emigrants , shipped by Messrs . Harnden and Co ., sailed from Liverpool for the United States , in the Governor Davies , Cambridge , _audYoitelbire , on the l _& h , lGih , andlSth inst .

      Twiddle's Yorkshire Miscellany And Engli...

      A BOWL OF "PUNCH , " FRESH BREWED . " r-ARTHis" J _* OB THE CALLOWS . Newsvender _.- — " Noiv , my man , what is it ?" _Bor . — " / vonts a nillustrated newspaper with a norrid murder and a likeness in it . " When the miserable man Tawell heard the deathshriek of his victim—when he hurried from the cottage , leaving a corpse upon the floor—the iniquitous effect of his crime was , bv no means , wholly developed . He fled a murderer ; blood was upon his head ; and conscience , like a fiend , crying to him . But the evil—the enormous evil done to society—was not wholly accomplished . The traders in blood and horror—the butchers of the press , for truly they are sohad to stimulate and feed the curiosity of society with pictorial illustrations of murder—ana the world was to be familiarised with atrocity . And then came the disgusting , degrading exhibition on the days of trial . A well-dressed mob . iostline and _elbowinc to look

      upon a murderer—to listen to tho most sickening details of hypocrisy and crime—as a matter of agreeable and healthful excitement . The tears that trickled down " the innocent nose" of Mr . Fitzroy Kelly when , wrestling with his swelling heart , he touched upon the domestic history of the prisoner , were to the audience much more delicious , more exciting too , than the emotion of any other actor—say the highest —at a play-house . Well , the murderer is convictedis sentenced to be killed by the law . The law hangs the assassin as a punishment and an example : as an expiation of a wrong suffered by the dead—as a wavnning to thc living . Now , what a mournful , miserable blunder is this publie killing of a man for the _alleged purpose of teaching the saeredness of human life ! We subjoin an instance of the great moral good—by way of example—to be obtained from the punishment of death . The following is extracted from the Morning Post : —

      The exasperation of the inhabitants of Gravesend , where the parents of the murdered Sarah Hart reside , is so great against Tawell , tliat parties hare been already formed to go to Aylesbury to he present at his execution . How greatly must " the parties" be edified ! Will they visit Aylesbury , awe-stricken , to beadmomBhed by a terrible ceremony ? Why , no . The parties will be pleasure-parties . And for their exasperationthen" virtuous resentment—we have little doubt they will compound between that and a little agreeable excitement . The pleasure-vans of Hampton-court will , it is our belief , not contain more jovial merrymakers than the gallows-vans of Gravesend . In what a serious , teachable frame of mind will these pilgrims congregate before the gaol of Aylesbury ! By the -way , it _appear that the worthy denizens of the town were about to be defrauded of one of their most valued immunities . We give the subjoined from the Times ;—

      In the town of Aylesbury , for ages past , Friday has been the execution-day ; and great surprise , if not dissatisfaction , has been expressed by some of the inhabitants , because Tuesday had been named . The last man who was hanged at this town suffered for murder about eight years ago , prior to which no such penalty was paid for many years ; yet the townspeople say , " We always hang on Fridays , up there , facing the Town-hall , with a scaffold we keep oa purpose . " Thus , when a hanging can be had , tho Aylesbury people will have it on a Friday ; even as , doubtless , they stickle for pancakes on _Shrove-Tiiesday . Poor Sarah Hart ! Miserable victim ' . Nevertheless , we question if her death by the hand of a murderer may be considered as so great a social injury as that inflicted by the execution of the assassin . On one hand we have a fellow-creature murdered—onthe other a multitude brutalised . Tawell growing grey at Macquarrie Harbour , woidd do far less evil than Tawell hanging at Aylesbury .

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      Field-Garden Operations, For The Week Co...

      FIELD-GARDEN OPERATIONS , For the Week commencing MoMaig , April 1 st , 1844 . [ Extracted from a DiabT of Actual Operations on five smaU farms on the estates of Mrs . Davies Gilbert , near Eastbourne , in Sussex * , and on several model farms on the estates ofthe Earl of Dartmouth at Slaithwaite , in Yorkshire , published by Mr . Nowell , of Farnley Tyas , near Huddersfield , in order to guide other possessors of field gardens , by showing them what labours ought to be undertaken on their own lands . The farms selected as models are—First . Two school farms at WiUingdon and Eastdean , of five acres each , conducted by G . Cruttenden and John Harris . Second . Two private farniB , of five or six acres : one worked by Jesse Piper , the other by John

      Dumbrell—the former at Eastdean , the latter at Jevington— -all of them within a few miles of Eastbourne . Third . An industrial school farm at Slaithwaite . Fourth . Several private model farms near the sameplace . The consecutive operations in these reports will enable the curious reader to comoare tha _clim-ate and agricultural value of the south with the north of England . The _Diabt is aided by "Notesand Observations " from the pen of Mr . Nowell , calculated for the time and season , which we subjoin . " Can you keep a pig ? You will find a pig the best save-all that you can have about a garden ; and he will pay you well for Mb keep . "— Tne Rev . M . W . Kyles' Lecture . Noib . —The school farms are cultivated by boys , who

      in return for three hours' teaching in the morning give three hows of their labour in the afternoon for the master ' s benefit , which renders t / _lC schools SE 1 _TsuppoRma . We believe that at Fanily Tyas sixsevenths of the produce of the school farnkwill be assigned _\ to fhe boys , and one-seventh tothe masteP . who will receive the usual school fees , help th boystg . cut _tivate tlieir land , and teach them , in addition to reading , writing , & C , to convert their produce into bacon , by attending to pig-keeping , _tvhich at Christmas may be divided , after paying rent and Iwy , amongst them in -proportion to their services , and be made thus indirectly to reach their parents in a way the inost grateful to their feelings . ]

      SUSSEX . Moxdat— WiUingdon School—Boys harrowing , and drilling ground for white carrots . Eastdean School Boys digging , sowing oats and tares mixed , carrying manure , planting potatoes . Piper . Assorting potatoes . Dumbrell . Digging , heifer carrying manure . Tuesday—WiUingdon School . Boys sowing white carrots . Eastdean School . Boys digging , clearing weeds and stones , and rolling for barley . Piper . Weeding wheat . Dumbrell . Digging , heifer carrying dung . Wednesday— WiUingdon School . _BOVS haiWWing ail ( l rolling gl'OUnd for Peruvian barley . Eastdean School . Boys carrying tank liquid to the mangel wurzel and carrot around , weedine- tares and wheat .

      Piper . Weeding wheat . Dumbrell . Digging , heifer carrying manure . Thursday— WiUingdon School . Boys sowing Peruvian barley . Eastdean School . Boys digging for barley , _P lanting potatoes , weeding tares and wheat . Piper . locing wheat . Lhmbnll . Going a journey . Fridav — WiUingdon School . Holyday . Eastdean School . Holyday . Piper . At church on Good Friday , and says " he _has never setn a bad one -yet . " Dumbrell . Good Friday . _Satuedav— WiUingdon School . Boys rolling wheat . Eastdean School . Boys thrashing and clearing oats , chopping the straw , clearing out pails , piggery , and school room . Piper , Digging , ground after turnips . Dumbrell , Harrowing peas , Tallow , and wheat , clearing away rubbish .

      YORKSHIRE . Slaitfiwaite School . Eleven to thirteen boys occasionally at work , preparing ground for oats . James Bamford , sowing and harrowing oats , spreading manure , removing clay , sowing peas and beans , mixed together , for soiling cattle . 0 . Varley , digging for oats , mixing cow and privy manure together . John Bamford , forking up , beating the soil fine , picking the couch grass roots .

      COW-PEEDISG . WiUingdon School . Cows fed on white turnips and clover hay . Dumbrell ' s . Cows stall-fed with turnips , mangel wurzel , and straw . One cow and heifer fed with turnips , carrots , and straw . The Farmers finding- their To . vgues . —At the _Winnerworth Farmers' Club the other week a Mr . Brotherton _, in proposing the toast "Success to Agriculture , " thus delivered himself amid the hearty plaudits of his brother farmers : — "Of the _advan tages of combining thoorywith practice in the cultivation of the land , few _pereons now-a-days will have the hardihood to dispute . But , great as the advantages to be derived from the application of science to thc art of farming may be , unless preceded by other

      considerations , they must , to you , as tenant farmers , be comparatively useless . I am aware that in most ofthe fanners' clubs which have been established m different parts ofthe countiy , great anxiety has been evinced by certain parties to exclude the discussion of what they call " obnoxious subjects , " such as rents , leases , and game . ( Cheers . ) I think it perfectly right that these things should be discussed . These are times when _farmei-s must speak out , not only about guano and drilling , but about land agents . land valuers , and game preservers—and indeed it would be no compliment to a landlord to suppose that he would wish you to keep silence upon those topics which affect the privileges and just rights oi your occupation , and more especially upon those grievances which it may be in his power to alleviate or remove ; for if it be desirable to discuss the

      expediency of the introduction of a new " drag" upo n the land , surely it is equally desirable to discuss the propriety of taking an old one off it , and one too which is much more obnoxious than feven the new one is beneficial . ( Cheers . ) If it be desirable to introduce a new presscr on the land , is it not equally so to remove those older pressers which operate upon the fanners ' pockets rather than on his land ? Tke first of these obstacles to improvement upon which I shall offer an observation is the tenure ofland , and upon this subject I will quote the opinion of one who is much better entitled to your , consideration than any unsupported opinion of mine on such a subject could _possibly be—I mean Mr . Low , the Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh , who , in a work just published , " On Landed Property and the Economy of Estates , " says , " Not even the ac-

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      cumulation of capital , to the degree of stocking th _« tarmsof the country , will avail for giving to agriculture the means of successful cultivation and improvement . The owner of this capital must have the means of employing it with advantage , by security ol possession , by the privileges required for the proper management of his business , and by that fair and lenient exaction upon his industry , wliich will enable him to employ hia capital with a profit . " Now , gentlemen , is not this perfectly true ( hear , hear ) ? And yet there are not a few landowners who seem to think that it tenant-farmers can pay their rents and just rub along , they have no right to _expsct more . Tell a landlord—of course there are exceptions , but the exceptions prove the rule— that any particular tenant is making a profit , and he will im _* _mftri ; _Uv . _thjni-# tvv

      _ — * ———« — _M «* j _t * a _«***» _" | and not unfrequently act upon the thought , that the farm has been let for too little rent . Now let us see what has been the effect of these notions amongst the landowners of England . Upon this point Mr . Low says . _*—In the finest parts of England funds have been progressively accumulating for stocking the farms to a degree unknown in any other country in Europe ; but the essential conditions having been too often wanting , of security of possession , and a beneficial connexion between tho landlord and the tenants , agriculture has remained comparatively fixed , while every other branch of industry has been advancing . " Compare this stationary state of agriculture with the progress of other branches of British industry . Mr . Low says : —" The manufacturer of cotton , of wool , of iron , has the assurance that the

      machine which he constructs and improves for the purposes of hia trade is his own , and that the more perfect he can render it the more profitable will the use of it become to him . The farmer who lays out capital on the great machine on which his all depends •—the earth which he tills—has often no such assurance . It is tbe property of another , who in the end will profit by all the improvements which the skill of a temporary possessor can make upon it . The manufacturer receives directly the profit of his stock in trade ; the farmer must share those profits with another , who undergoes no part of the labour and risk ; his industry is fettered by conditions _imnosod upon » o other class of traders ; and the inconvenience or obtaining returns for a present expenditure more slowly than in any other profession are frequently

      aggravated by the uncertainty whether he will ever have the _power of recovering the capital advanced . " We hear a great deal about " mutual confidence , " "tenures , " "tenantrights , " and so forth . Listen again to Mr . Low : — "The only fitting security for a man who has capital to employ in the cultivation and improvement of land is a written covenant , subsisting for a definite and adequate period . Tenancy at will , it must be apparent , so much extended over the richest parts of England , is in no degree an adequate substitute for theleaso , insuring to the tenant his right of possession for a determined period . Habit , indeed , may reconcile the tenantry of a country to such a species of tenure , anda kind of confidence may arise that a tenant will not be capriciously dispossessed , nor an unfair advantage taken of his expenditure : but this

      confidence , however great , is notto be compared , as the means of inducing men to expend capital on land , with that sense of security and _indupendence which is the soul of industry and _' exertion . It is impossible to divest the tenant-at-will of the knowledge that every improvement which he makes upon his farm gives it a higher valucto another , and adds to thc means of raising the rent against himself . "—Who ean doubt the truth or the justice of these remarks ? We now come to the subject of rents ; and upon this point the Professor observes : — " The tenant who takes land , and the landlord who lets it , should so adjust the rent , that the tenant shall be able to bear the pressure of deficient crops , or of low prices arising from favourable ones ; and no prudent man ought to contract for a rent wliich wiR not allow him to meet

      that contingency of his trade wliich arises from a fluctuation in the amount and price of his commodities * * * . The landlord who would secure a prosperous tenantry , and improve his estate , must not trust to his per centage or bounty on an audit day , but must place his tenants in the condition whieh will enable them to fulfil the obligations under which they engage in virtue of a fair and well-considered covenant , " These remarks have evident reference to corn-rents , and upon this subject just allow me to state the relative positions in which English and Scottish farmers are placed to each other ; the Englishman paying a fixed money rent , the Scotchman a corn-rent , _Yfc "will take _, a farm of 200 acres at 2 Ss . an acre , money price , which , fanned upon the five-course system , will , I suppose , have about 40

      acres of wheat in each year . Adopting the general notion that wheat must pay the rent , then it will require at least two-thiras of the wheat crop upon the forty acres to satisfy the landlord for the rent of the whole farm . Let us now see how a corn-rent will bear upon landlords and tenants . Tho English landlord asks , as I have before supposed , 25 s . an acre for his 200 acres , and the English tenant accepts the offer . The Scotch farmer , on the other hand , bargains with his landlord to give him four bushels of wheat , or half a quarter of an acre . Now , supposing that these bargains aro entered _inti * _. with wheat at 50 s . a quarter , as long as this price continues , all parties , both Scotch and English , stand upon the same footing , paying 25 s . an acre rent . But let us suppose tliat wheat falls to 40 s ., how will matters be then ?

      Why , the English farmer will continue to pay 25 s . an acre , whilst tho Scotch farmer pays 20 s . —a difference , be it observed , of £ 50 upon the 200 acres , or of 25 s . an acre on the 40 acres growing wheat ! Ten shillings a quarter is , however , by no means tllC limit of the fluctuation io which the fanner is liable . In 1835 the average price of wheat for the whole year was under 403 . a quarter . At that time the tenantry of England held their farms at a rent calculated upon the understanding that wheat was to sell for 60 s . at least , which price it was believed the Act of 1828 would secure . We all know the distress which then overtook the English farmers , as proved before the committee of 1836 . But we also know that tho Scotch farmers , paying corn-rents , who were _ex-amined before that committee , gave a very different account of

      their condition : and one of the most intelligent farmers in the county of Haddingtonshire has since stated that he cleared more money from his farm in 1835 than in any year since . ( Hear , hear . ) And the difference in the state of things in England and Scotland was caused by the difference in the _tenns of renting ; for whilst the Scotchfarmer paid £ 400 to his landlord , the Englishman paid £ 600 . In fact the English farmer is now _paying three times as much rent for his land as his grandfather paid about TO years ago , whilst hia wheat is actually selling under the price of that period . ( Cheors . ) Now , gentlemen , these are facts which demand very serious reflection at your hands , and I tliink these farmers' clubs may be made very useful instruments in leading to a right understanding both upon these and various other topics in

      which your interests are concerned . English Sheep . —It is worthy of remark how steadily the sheep of England have increased , both in number andweight , as the breed has been improved , and the mode of supplying them with food better understood . In 1698 , Mr . Gregory King calculated that there were in Great Britain 12 , 000 , 000 sheep ; in 1741 , the number increased to 10 , 640 , 000 ; in 1774 , according to Arthur Young , the number was 25 , 589 , 754 ; in 1820 , Mr . Lucock estimated them to he 2 G , U 8 , iG 3 ; in 1634 , Mr . _M'Cullochstated them to be 33 , 000 , 000 , and the value of then * wool £ 7 , 000 , 000 , _* and not onlv have they during this period thus nearly trebled in number , but they have atthe same time nearly doubled tlieir average weight . In 1710 , according to Mr . Davcnant , the average weight of

      black cattle was only 3701 b ., of calves 50 lb ., of sheep and lambs 48 lb ., butit'jsnow calculated by Mr . _Touatt that the average dead weight of the cattle sold at Smithfield is 656 lb ., of calves 1441 b ., and of sheep and Iambs 90 lb . ( " Youatt on Cattle , " p . 257 . ) In 1732 , the number of sheep and lambs sold at Smithfieldwas 514 , 700 ; these had _increased to 1 , 047 , 310 in 1835 , and 1 , 354 , 320 in 1 S 43 . Warming Cottages . —The last subject to which I shall advert is a simple method practiced in the north of France for warming cottages . In that part of France the chimneys and firc-placea arc usually placed in the walls which separate the apartments ; this is done ivith a design of heating the adjoining room , and is eftected in a cheap and easy manner . In tho wall which separates the kitchen and the

      room , a square opening is cut before the fire-place ; the wall on each side is sloped outwards into the room to cast ihe heat about the room from a square piece of cast iron which is well fastened in the opening with mortar , to prevent the smoke from entering . From . the great temperature that the plate acquires , a stream of warm air is continually passing . off from it into the apartment . In many cases a wooden press is placed More the iron plate , with folding , doors , which serves as a warm closet to dry or air clothes , and also to prevent more warm air than is requisite . By this simple contrivance a small cottage , consisting of two apartments , is kept comfortable at the expense of one fire * . furniture Is preserved from damps , beds aired , and clothes dried , when the same could not be done out of doors . — Fanners' Gazette .

      Tussac Grass . — The Marquis of _Dowashh-e communicated the following result of Mr . Slacker ' s attempt to introduce the cultivation of the Tussae grass into Ireland : —I think it will be interesting to your lordship , and perhaps to others interested in ¦ such matters , to know that I have succeeded in getting about eighteen or twenty plants of . the Tussae grass from , a very small quantity , of the seed given me by the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland . One ' might perhaps be deceived in regard to the' plant , as its appearance is not known ; but , havinggive n _^ a few seeds to different . gardeners , and the

      , same plant having made its appearance in each case , I think it may confidently be considered to haye been produced from the seed . I am not botanist enough to describeit accurately , but it seems to me . to divide in the stem something like the grass commonly called Spritt ; but when the leaves part , they seem inclined to grow long , narrow , and pointed ; in some degree resembling the leaves of a pink , but in miniature , for none of the plants are above an inch high . Having only ventured a few seeds at the late season I sowed them , I am in hopes to have great success with the remainder .

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      Graham ' s Parliamentary . Mistake . —Sir James Graham has brought ono good bill into the Housenamely , the bill to abolish the payment of fees to clerks ofthe peace and magistrates' clerks . This bill is thc one white spot in Graham ' s official life' . and , like one white hair in a black cat , spoils what would otherwise be all of one colour . —Punch . Foundation of the Lokg Debates . —On ascertaining the foundation of Parliament , some " skeletons with veiy _longjaivs" were found . How strange that the members of that and the present period should have been distinguished by the very same feature !—Mi . _IiHfAiiiBLE Test . —As there is a quantity of bad money about , we cannot caution our readers too much against the risk oftendering any suspicious coin . The best way to try its value is to offer it to the Lord Mayor , and if is returned to you , you may he sure it is bad Poid .

      The Iknocbncb or _Makik & Monet . — A night or two since , Peel quoted with admiration the axiom of Dr . Johnson , that " very few men are more innocently employed than iH the accumulation of property . " Struck by the profound beauty of this truth _, we understand that several tradesmen are about to have it written in letters of gold above their doors . Among those about to adopt it we have heard the names of Moses and Son , Momson and Co ., and several distinguished keepers of marine stoves . — Ibid . Fanct Portraits of Messrs . Plumptke axd _Spoonek . — Thc following little burst of bigotry occurred the other night in Parliament on the part of two worthies , named respectively Spooner and Plumptvc . Their names are singularly appropriate ; Spooner

      meaning something more than spoon , while the Plumptre produces fruit of a very common and stony description . The _Mowing were substantially the terms in which these two curiosities of the " collective wisdom" debated the question of Sunday railway travelling : —Mr . Plumptre referred to the practice of excursion trips on Sundays . Hundreds and thousands of persons were frequently carried into towns and suburbs on the Sabbath , to an extent which , in a Christian countiy , it was fearful to contemplate . Mr . Spooner earnestly concurred , and expressed his pious horror at such a " desecration of the Sabbath . " Mr . Plumptre added that it was quite homd . He had sometimes , as he wasriding by in his carnage , seen several people walking about on Sunday , breathing the country air , who must have

      come down by the railway . He ( Mr . Plumptre ) really shuddered at the impiety . —Mr . Spooner fully concurred . Itwas the " pleasure trains" he particularly objected to . Business trains might be necessary , for pecuniary interests might be at stake ; but pleasure-trains , for a parcel or people who only had recourse to them for relaxation , were an abomination , which in a commercial—he begged pardon , he meant to say a Christian—country we ought not to tolerate . —Colonel Sibthorp said , that if they stopped railways they ought to stop omnibuses on Sunday . —An Honourable Member asked thc gallant Colonel whether he would also stop all the clocks on the _Sabbaths-Messrs . Plumptre and Spooner having turned up their eyes and held up tlieir hands in an attitude of horror , the subject dropped without any attention being paid to their recommendations . —Ibid ,

      Aid for the Light-fingered . —A curious mechanical hand is daily exhibited at the Polytechnic . Its extraordinary powers have , we understand , excited thc admiration , among other lady visitors , of Mrs . Tyrwhitt and Miss Osborne . The curiously felicitous movement of the fingers in seizing an article elicited a thrill of applause from tho coterie . The Asti-Railroad Mania . —Sibthorp says that there is no truth in the fact (?) that there is such a thing as a civil engineer . They are all thc greatest vagabonds , he declares , that the whole world can produce .

      TARIFF ITEMS . " Take the duty off lard ! ? Take the duty off grease ? If you do 'twill hetuwd—Our rents will decrease . ' " Sir Rohert _, however , with nonchalance whistled , While the hair of the " fanners' friends" awfully bristled ! " Leader" not a Leadeb . — "What are the Westminster constituency about ! The deputation concerning _improvomentsi in that city , which went up , the other , day , to the Premier , was headed by Captain Rous . The old Leader was not in the body at all .

      SAYINGS AND _DOIKOS . A flat _discrepanc _* - we note Between the Premier ' s speech and vote , The " Health of Towns' BiU" he commends , And owns that , to effect its ends , E _& ch house should hare free light and air _in't ; But , notwithstanding this , he don ' t Take off the window-tax—and won't ; Isn't Joseph Surface here transparent , ' Simple—very simple Diet . —Mr . Currie , the komo _neopathic decioi-, whose . successful treatment of his patient with aquapura is recorded in the report of a late coroner ' s inquest on the body , has since had an audience with Sir James Graham at the Homeoffice , when an interesting conversation took place . Sir James Graham asked the learned doctor whether it was really true that he had kept his patient several days on cold water ; and being assured that it was

      the fact , and that the system was capable of general application , the right honourable gentleman immediatel y gave him an important office in the Poor Law Commission . Sir James Graham observed that it had hitherto been the system of Poor Law Guardians to throw eold water externally upon applicants for relief ; but that to use so economical a fluid internally , as the staple of nutriment , was a happy thought worthy of this inventive age . _—threat Gv . n 7 A _Rotai , File . —As many persons , more particularly those from the country , have set their wits to work to guess the use of the long spike which protrudes skyward from the centre of the bald pate of the Duke of York's statue , they arc hereby informed tliat it has been considerately placed there ( not as a lightning conductor , as generally supposed ) for the creditors of his highness to file their bills upon . — Ibid .

      _Astoxishiso •¦; Coolness . "—During the recent terrific conflagration near Greenwich , some firemen were actually observed seated in tho midst of the blazing manufactory coolly mending then * hose , Verv tiuE Pact . —The testy lodger at Mrs . Tomkins ' s says that the baby down stairs is a crying nuisance . A Rational Inquiry . —The House of Commons has now for some days resolved itself into a committee of u Ways and Means •"• but everybody is asking what it means by its ways . We should say that many of its members' means ought , to place them above some of their strange ways . How to get a " Watch . —First policeman to second : " What ! beeu in the force three months , and haven't got a watch ?"—Second policeman to first ; "I haven't been on night duty yet . "

      The Galvanic Ring . —That lover of science , Lord Brougham , has , like a good judge , given a fair trial to the galvanic ring , and has ( the guinea being paid ) certified to the eflect that the rapid twitching of liis nasal organ has much abated since he wore one therein . — Bill Sykes states that his hand was so much swollen from exposure to the weather thac he could not get it into a moderate-sized gentleman ' s pocket , but since he has worn the ring he has been enabled to insinuate it into a lady ' s reticule . He does not , however , attribute this to any virtue tho r ing may possess , or any svmpathy between" fhe ring and himself , but thinks the effect may be accounted for—although he cannot account for the possession of the ring—by attributing the abatement ofthe swelllti / _v _t /* _-titi-rt . A _* t / i * f- t \ ¥ + n / i * mi «/» * yn 4 " _lnn'iniy fta /» -i _-nniH ¦ _frt-i * *

      the prigging : of a piece ot beef , he assures us , gets rid of warts and hunger , and he does not see why a swelling may not be got rid of by the application of a stolen ring A celebrated staymaker at tho West-end is about to take advantage of the principles evolved in the galvanic ring , and stays are forthwith to lie lined with copper and zinc , with , for safety sake , a brass tag to the laco as a conductor . —Sheets of copper and zinc must be shortly introduced as bed furniture , or this new scientific cure for all diseases will haye been treated but as a half dose for voor suffering credulity . "Why not likewise provide for the inner man ? Ostriches have now their galvanised iron , why not man his galvanised sandwich ?•— Great Gun .

      _I'lUME-OLOOT * OR , PARLIAMENTARY LcOXOilY . —We have been favoured with the following account ofthe intention of the member for Montrose to move for the subjoined returns : —1 . A return of all the cats , both toms and otherwise , includingtheir kittens , and what number to each cat , doing duty or being kept at the various Government offices , with a view of ascertaining the quantity of cheese-parings and skim-milk consumed bv that class ' _ofstateemufoj / es . 2 . Areturn of the number of minutes per night of Parhament sitting that each member ( with the exception of liimself ) is in his senses , and of how many speeches ( if anv ) are made during that same period . 3 . A return of himself for Montrose , at any and every new election , whether anv other candidate be or be not better ofthe honmember

      qualified , [ f _ldiu is a lectio touch . ' s Scotchmodesty . ] 4 , A return ofallmembers to their respective homes ( as many , at least , as have any ) during the Easter recess , with a view that the country in general may be permitted a Uttle recreation after reading the late dull and heavy debates . 5 . A j return of all the Penhsy lvanian bondholders who have been paid their dividends , to ascertain whether those remaining unpaid stand in any proportion to the unpaid Greek bondholders of former days . [ This return to be made . without prejudice . !— Great Gun . A Question ! - —" Papa , the Temperance men say they put logwood 'in port wine . Is that what dyes your nose so red *? " . ' ¦ Nonsense , my son , go to bed . " The Pledge . —An itinerant blind and teetotal fiddler , whose wife also is a teetotaller , having his _mmty-second child _presented to him by the midwife , the other day , exclaimed with dolorous facetiousness , "What ! the pledge again ! how often must I take it ?"

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      Seamen ' s Wbo . vgs . — The Merchant Seamen ' s "Fund —The following memorial to tlic Board of Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations , adopted by thc Ship-masters , Mates , and Seamen of the Port of Glasgow , iii public meeting assembled , has been forwarded to us for publication : — That vour memorialists have perused the report ot the select committee on the Merchant , beamens Fund , and while they acknowledge the desire evinced bvthe members of that committee to pay oveiy attention to their claims , and those of their brethren ot tho united kingdom , yet that committee , as the _memorialistshuniTily conceive , have omitted some important matters , the adoption of winch lias been very generally insisted on in petitions and memorials irom the principal ports ofthe united kingdom : and your memorialists are fullv nersuaded that the omission

      of . tho said claims will " have a direct tendency to diminish thc satisfaction felt for the concession at other claims , and leave a door open for complaints ill future . Your memorialists beg leave to make the following suggestions -. —That whereas a number of the native-born seamen of these realms take service in colonial vessels , thereby forfeiting their claims on the Merchant Seamen ' s Fund , the memorialists _susgest that all moneys paid by , or appropriated to , the reUet of seamen abroad , be consolidated and made common with thc general fund in the mother countiy and if no such fund exists in the said dependencies , the seamen so serving shall be entitled to relief from the home fund , provided always that the seaman contli . bute his monthly payments regularly to thc Merchant Seamen ' s Fund ; the neglect of such payment to inoi whatever iic

      volve the forfeiture may nave contributed to it at a previous period . And that , whereas a number of native-born seamen ef these realms take service under a foreign flag , your memorialists would suggest that the same privileges should be granted to such seamen as to those sailing under a British flags , provided always that such countries arc at peace with Great Britain , and that such service is strictly confined to the mercantile marine of said countries That your memorialists respectfully submit , that when the Act 4 th and 5 th William IV , was enforced , a great number of old seamen were obliged to contribute for a longer or shorter period to the Merchant Seamen ' s Fund , who , in the course of nature , could not contribute for ft sufficient time to enable them to rate as full members . For this hardship no remedy

      was applied by the aforesaid Act ; nor does the fifteenth clause of the report of the select committee meet this difficulty ; and your memorialists pray _that your honourable board do reconsider the said clause , and make such amendment thereon that aged seamen or their widows shall receive such pension andgra _* tuity as they may injustice be entitled to . That your memorialists respectfully submit , that in case of seamen serving in her Majesty ' s navy , or ( in the event of hostilities ) in private ships of war , the chances 01 accident are immeasurably extended , and bear no comparison with the _casualties common to service in the mercantile marine . With a > iew , therefore , of keeping the Merchant Seamen ' s Fund exoner . i / ed from the responsibility in the event of hostilities , the memorialists pray that , in any clause relating

      _toservice , in public or private ships of war , it bo distiictly provided that the widows of those lulled or drcivnea m the services aforesaid , or such persons as bycasualty are disabled in such services aforesaid , stall in no caso receive relief from a Fund applicable mly to seamen serving in a peaceable occupation . That a gratuity be awarded to the wives ot such sounen as may be captured in the merchant seamen ' s service _. That your memorialists respectfully subroi / , that a majority of Riggers , Rope , and Sail Maters , & c ., who have been at sea long enough to _entitfc them to be full members , and to receive beneft from the Merchant Seamen ' s Fund , in the event of accident , would gladly continue the payments of their monthly duties while employed on shore , if tie Act would allow them , Your memorialists ave c _^ hisam-. of the

      fact , that many neglected seamen , whetrom mnrmity were unable to continue at sea , have forfeited their claims upon the Fund , in consequence of working on shore in one or other of these capacities . The memorialists humbly suggest , that a certificate be granted to everv seaman , at the time he pays his money , on the principle that has been alreac _' y laid _liefore the select committee on the 2 Gth day cf June last , by one of our bodv ; and the memorialists are also of opinion , that that part ofthe report by the select committee , whicli proposes to exclude all widows under the age of forty-five from participation in thc benefits of the Fund , is unfair as regards the parties concerned ; inasmuch as the widow of forty . fivc has generally a a family so far advanced _towards maturity , that they are able to give their mother _v-ery efficient assistance ' ,

      whereas , in the case ofthe widow of thirty years , more or less they , are very often encumbered with a young family , the care of which presses severely on the young niothev * \ preventing her , through sickness and other causes , from making those efforts for her own and her children ' s maintenance which she might do under more favourable circumstances . The _memorialists are further of opinion , that all widows , and children of ship-masters and seamen , who have paid seven full yoars to tho Merchant Sfiamon _' o Fund , should be supported by that fund , no matter by what death , violent or natural , their husbands or fathers may have died . Taking this view of the above-mentioned clause , the memorialisis pray that it may be reconsidered , and reconstructed in such a manner as may secure to the young vidow with a family some

      participation in the benefits derived by the fund . Your memorialists observe , that , in the report of the select committee nothing is said regarding the seamen having a voicein the election of their trustees The complaints against this irresponsible body were general , and have Aeen alluded to in all the petitions and memorials presented to your _honom-able board , and to the honourable the House of Commons , on the subject of the Merchant Seamen's Fund . Your memorialists aeknowlcdge"with gratitude the liberality ofthe select committee , in recommending to her Majesty ' s Government to free the Merchant Seamen ' s Fund from the enormous expenses entailed on it by its present mismanagement ; yet your memorialists would most vcspcett' ttUy submit , that much

      abuse may he perpetrated under the new Act , it the ship-owners who contribute nothing are permitted to recommend to her Majesty ' s collectors whom they please as proper objects for pensions or gratuities ; while theseanien _, who contribute three-fourths , ara refused a voice . Your memorialists therefore humbly pray votir honourable board , that the power oj election be vested solely in the ship-masters , an * such 8 _(« men as may , by then-payments , rank as MI memlors , viz ., such as have contributed for seven year ? to the fund . Also , that an account of the general 1 income and expenditure , and ot the particulars of income and expenditure in each port , be furnislied annually . —And your memorialists will ever pray . — Abchd . _M'Intosh , Master-Mariner , Chairman ; J . S . Fildes , Secretary .

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      BA 5 KR 0 _P 18 . ( From Tuesday ' s Gazette , _Marchioth , 1845 . _J John Ch'risp , Great Tower-street , wine-broker—William Hodges , ICing ' s Head-yard , Duke-street , Bloomsbary—Samuel Hay , _Mydineton-sb-eet , Clerkenwell , watch-manufacturer—Thomas Overend , _"Walcot-square , maltster—William Elworthy Jarman , Exeter , confectioner—Charles Martyn , Durham , linen-draper—James Jones , Chester , _fellmonger—Matthew Coffee , Liverpool , victualler—John Riky , Liverpool , merchant—William _Itediard , Wellington , Shropshire , coach-proprietor—Benjamin Hobinson _, Burton-upon-Trent , draper . I > ECI , ii * _iATlOS-S OF 1 « VII > END 3 . 6 . Nowton , Seaham Harbour , Durham , hosier , first and final dividond of 3 s lOd in the pound , any Saturday , at tho office of MrBate " Ssweastle-upon-Tyne .

      . , T , Worsley , Stockport , Cheshire , hosier , final divHend of ls Of d in the pound , any Tuesday , at the office of Mr , Hobson , Manchester . J . P . "Davis , _BroTniey , Kent , _innkocpor , first and final dividend of l | d in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mv . Follett , _Sauibrook-court , _BasinghaU-street . D . Hart , Cambridge , perfumer , first dividend of 8 d in the pound , any Wednesday , at the office of Mr , _roUett _, 8 ain _« brook-court , Basinghall-street . T . Robinson , Leadenhall-street _, tallo . w-mcrchant , third dividend of | d in the pound , any Wednesday , at thc office of Mr , Follett , _Sambroolt-couvt , Basinghall-sboet .

      DIVIDENDS . April 18 , T . J . B . Isaac , Topsham , Devonshire , shipowner —April 10 , J . Norbury , Macclesfield , Cheshire , innkeeper —April 15 , n . D . Watkins and J . Innes , Manchester , lead * merchants—April 15 , A . _Wyse , _* N . Baker , and \ V , S . Bentall , Newton Abbott , Devonshire , bankers—April 15 , B . Allinson , Whitehaven , ironmonger . Certificates to be granted , unless cause be shown to the contrary on the day of meeting , April 11 , 3 . "W . "Robaou and J . Bavrow , St . _AiuvVplace , Limchouse , patent pump-manufacturers—April 17 , C . Sneezum , Wynyatt-street , Clerkenwell , licensed victualler —April 18 , W . Chandler , Miuories , chemist—April U _, Si Allinson , Whitehaven , Cumberland , ironmonger—April 17 , J . Whitlow , Manchester , laceman . _pahtnebships dissoivtd .

      j Newman and J . R . Watt , Watling-street _, City , _Stationers—R . audit . Walker , Blueritts , _Lancasliii _* C , COtton « spinners-D . Myth , A . Hamilton , and W . _ITv . _Jgs , Little Britain , feather-dressers ; as far as regards W . Hughes—N . Reyner and W . Clegg , Oldham , Lancashire , cottonspinners—B . Ginger and H . Tisdall , Bedford , _^ yers-K . Aspland and . S . Collins , _Jirowniow-street _, HolDorn , printers-. * . Sims and J , ilyett _, Framiloac , QlOUCCStershire , . _barge-oivners-F . Otter and T . Oldinan , Gainsborough , Lincolnshire , attorneys-W . B Morgan and J P . Bond , Angel-court , Throgmorton-st reet City , stock brokers-W ., G ., aAd T , C . Idmett , Maidstone , woollen _, _drkpers ; as'fa ' ras regards W . Edmett-J . and B . _Iiunn and R . G . Cunningham , _Staleybridgc , Cheshire , smiths ; as far as regards R . G . Cunningham—J- Bnce and 3 Burton , Exeter ,, coach-proprietors—J ., Clarke and 9 Boyce , _Peevrlafie _, Great _Tower-street , City , wuie-coopers-J . _' and N , Wright : Morpeth , Northumberland , _iron-mer

      chants—W . Clark , W . Anderson , and J . 5 . Humble , Mickley Colliery , _Horthumberland , coal-owners ; as far as regards 3 . 3 . Humble—S . Ellis aud M . Noton , Salford , Lancashire , _ironfounders—J . Mcllor , jun ., arid J . Green , Mytholm . Bridge , Yorkshire , scrihbling-nuners—D . Sil . vanus and A . Shore , High-street , Whitechapel , drapers—T , and F . Wright , Brighton , music-sellers—J . and F « Alexander , Chippenham , Wiltshire , grocers—T . Arden & _nl T . Fannin , Liverpool , salt-propr ietors—W . "Hood and O . V . Ridout , Holborn-hill _, City , rectifiers—W . Evans and ft . liberty , Piccadilly , linen-drapers—C . Mason and J . Holt , Manchester , paper hanging-manufacturers—G . Jenkinson S . Hughes , andT . Tillotson _, _"Braufctd , _Stable-keepers—0 . 3 . and H , Y . East Sackville-street , Piccadilly , drapers—J . _i jun ., and J . Ilardman , Wakefield , _Y R . L . Lee , W . Haigh , and Co ., Woraack brokers .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 29, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_29031845/page/3/