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      MY MITHER ' S KIST . It ' s nae to get a grander hame That I maun flit the mom—Maun quit the sward which first I trod—The Weld whaur I was horn . The comforts o' its cozy hearth "Will a' be sairlv miss'd ;—This only remnant gangs wi me , My ain aold mither ' s last Uert to hersel ' , my infant hopes On this anld box were built ; Ana now , though mauitood marts mv brow MyheartEeslithelytuTt * ' Ihe haml ttat spares iwt made me heir-Far sooaer than I wist—{ Pmuch ; but nought that pleased me mair Than this—my mitfceTs Just I mina my merit ' s first

      reward—Though sma ' , yei 01 how dear-Was gi ' ea me fiae the wel-naincd purse That aye lay hoarded here . ' Man ' s meed o ' praise I ' ve got since syne—By Fortune ' s hand been blest ; But nane prized like that ae bawbee Trae out my mither ' s lost 1 kent nae wish but what I thocht Its stores could * vcd supply : "We lang had lost a fethei ' s love—A husband ' s industry ; Tet woman's ever eidsnt hand , ¦ ffi ' naeanetoasdst , Held aye the fangs o' misery fer Jrae aff my mither ' s Mst

      And sae its nae what ' s in it now—Though ( hat be a' iny store-That links me to the auld oak kist , But for its worth of yore . I doubt this heart will ken nae mair A joy of sic a grist , As when a bairn I ' ve danced me roan * , Or ok my mither ' s last . H . B . K . Eiotburgk Weekly Register .

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      ESSAYS ON NATURAL HISTORY , Ac . Bv C Wjteetos , Esq . London : Longman and Co Paternoster-row . ( Concluded from the 2 \ oriJtem Star of June lilt . ) Our first extract this week describes a singniqr COMBAT BETWIXT TWO H 4 BES . On Easter Suuday . iu the afternoon , as I was proceeding » ith my brother-in-law , Mr . Carr , to look at a wild duck ' s nest in an adjacent wood , we saw two hares fighting with inconceivable fury on the open ground , about a hundred and fifty yards distant from us . * * * * Westaid in the wood some ten minutes , and on nearing it we saw the hares still in desperate battle . They bad moved along the hill-side , and Hie grass was strongly marked nith their down for a space of twenty yards . At last one of the sylvan warriors fell on its side , and never got upon its l « rs again . Its antagonist then retreated for a yard or so , —stood still for a minute , as if in contemplation ,

      and tnen rushed vengefully on the fallen foe . This retreat and advance was performed many times ; the conqueror strikes its prostrate adversary with its fore feet , and clearing off great quantities of down with tuem . In the meantime the vanquished hare rolled over and over again , " out could not recover the use of its legs , although it made several attempts to do so . Its movements put iou in mind of a drunken man trying to get up from the floor , after a hard night in the ale-house . It now lay still on the ground , effectually subdued ; whilst the other continued : ts attacks upon it with the fury of a little demen . Seeing that the fight was over , we approached the scene of action , —the conqueror hare retiring as we drew near . I took up the fallen combatant just as it was breathing its last . Both its sides bad been completel y bared of fur , sn < l large patches of down had been torn from its back and belly . It was a well-conditioned buck hare , Tragfcing , I should suppose , some seven or eight pounds .

      ¦ TEE BOB 1 S . Pretty cock-robin , the delight of our childhood , and an oigwt of protection in our riper years . Wherever there is plenty of shelterforhim . liis song maybebeard throughput tfct entire year , even in the midst of frost and snow . Li thi vlwle catalogue of British birds , cock-robin is the oaly « ae vtliidi in his irilu state can be really considered fcrniliar -nith man . Others are rendered tame by famine ana cold weather , and will cautiously approach the spot where food is thrown for them , but the robin will actually alight upon your table , and pick up crumbs on your own plate . TThen I have been digging in the pleasure ground , lie lias come and sat upon ray spade ; and by every gesture proved his confidence . You cannot halt for any

      moderate tune in the wood , but cock-robin is sure to approach , and cheer you with an inward note or two ; and on such occasions he has more than once alighted on my foot This familiarity is inherent in him , and not acquired . I am not acquainted with any other wild bird that possesses it . In Italy this social disposition of his does uot guarantee him from destruction by the hand of man . At the bird market , near the rotunda , in Rome , 1 have counted more than fifty robin-redbreasts lying dead on one stall . " Is i : possible , " said I to the vender , "that you can kill snd eat these pretty songsters f * " Yes / ' said he , with a grin ; * and if you will take a dozen of them home for jmit dinner to-day , you will comeback for two dozen tomorrow . " It is the innocent familiaritv of this sweet

      warmer which causes it to be such a favourite- with all tanks of the people in England . Sobody ever thinks of doing 5 t an injury . " Thafs poor cock-robin ! don't hurt poor cock-robin , " says the nursery-maid , when her intuit chaige would wish to capture it . Sirs . Barbauld has introduced i-oei-robin into her plaintive story of Pity ; and , nhen we study the habits of this bird , and see that his intimacy with us &T surpasses that of any other known Pild one , we no longer wonder that the author of that pathetic ballad , the Children in Vt Wood , should have singled tut the redbreast amongst all the feathered tribe , to do them the la £ i sad act of kindness . They had been barbarously left to perish , and had died of cold and-want Cock-robin found them , and he is described as bringing laaves in his mouth , and covering their dead bodies with them : —

      " Their pretty lips wiiu blackberries Were all besmeai'd and dyed ; And when they saw the darksome night They laid them down and cried . " No burial these pretty babes Of any man receives , Till robuwedbi easts , painfully , Did cover them with leaves . " This ballad has something in it peculiarly calculated to touch the finest feelings of the human heart Perhaps there is not a village or hamlet in England that has not heard what befel the babes in the wood ; and how poor cock-robin did all in bis power for them when death had dosed then ? eyes . I irish it were in my power to do only half as much in favour of some other birds as this well known ballad of the ChUdren in the Wood has done for poor cock-robin .

      ¦ Mr . "Wjuerxon has an excellent chapter x » a Waste Lands , inwhich he manfully denounces the wholesale robberies committed on the poor by the aristocracy in the enclosing of the common and waste lands of of the country . " Heath Common , " a p lace which our own eves hare feasted on , in the ncij ; kl « ourhoo « efffakefieid , being threateiswl with an inclosuiv Act , Mr . Wateriox addressed and imblished the Mowing Protest to tie inhabitants of the town : —

      HEATH COMMON . WakefioiJ , —once Merry Wakefield : —wl . y art thouso BO longer ? What envious hand hath smote thee , and changed thy garland of roses into one of rue and wormwood ? Formerly thy fair face must have beamed with many smiies : forthonwert known throughout the land by the name of "Merry Wakefitld . " * And very uic-rry must have been thy days : for thy merchants were prosperous , thy people happy , and thy prison anpty ; ay , so empty , that time was when not oue single captive could be found within its walls . There was Westgate CojEuior . open to thypeople and to all the worldbesides , sad the Oatwood too ; and here it was that thy merry sons and daughters came to dance , and sing , and to drive dull care arcsv . But these once-famed rural haunts for

      ttinfc and gli-c are now no longer thine : the iron hand of Private interest f « li heavy on them ; and they were lost to ft « for ever . Oh , bow cruel and unjust it was , to sever froai : bee those delightful walks which the foresight and iood £ ens _ - of our ancestors had apportioned for thy welfare arid loft at Shy command I AIL an h now changed for the worse : and sad and sorrowfci have the scenes become , which were once so bright siid joyous : and woeful is the appearance of the avenues « hith lead to once Merry Wakefield . Ob one of them there frowns a Bastile so huge and ^ nible , aisd so appalling with solitary cells , that in vicn-^« she sou ! of man recoils within him , and he begins to doubt if he is in a Christiau country . Things were TVA «• in tlie soce-ov days of once Merry Wakefield .

      . tta ano&er is seen a widely spreading structure , peopled f ftcse ivfcom sorrow , and misfortune , and want , and ^^ theaness . have deprived of the choicest gift of Heaven * ' fflaa . \ ve vcafl in their countenances the mournful Wstory of taeir sad destiny , and we fancy that we can ^ ° * eu . say . " Yonwould have seen no sights so sor-^ " * S as these in the gonc-by days of once Merry Wake-. J- ' o&tLha avenue we behold unsightly piles of build"¦^ -ofasaries high and spacious , —but the workings of wiuch are diametrically the reverse of those erected by * oe * cilt :: t 3 oseph in ancient Egypt And in passing over pi ta ' s Bria ga . we see a gem of olden architecture , now ™ ouiaeria- into aust , unheeded and untenantcd , and ltI > hs v . iadows broken . 'Tis said to have been en-«* ed for iUasSj for uje sonjs of the slain at the great ^ Wfin the neighbourhood . Some years ago it served 2 * wantk g-Jiouse ; but probablv the pressure of the ^ s drove the buyers and sellers from its polluted walls , p . * TOe kept so pure and bright in the gone-by days of ""« Merry Wakefield

      . vafi dd ' ~ ° nce Men ? ¦ Wa kefield !—these sad inno-Bat fr t °° plailil y teU us that all is not right within thee . r * a » ^ of sorrow fc not J £ t fiBtd UP ; another bet be * T ' sUU aw ^ thee » '^ wiU be a final blow to r ^* reajainmg rur al sports which are now within thy Heath Goaunon b to be enclosed : Then adieu ,

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      -S ; SS : ° * ^ «^ rides , Common * ^ I ^^ T * * " **** " Ms of Heath SK ^ r ^ W-sss : aSsir-ftasaastt S-rjasss-sssft * ! : HsSr ^ sssitfiars Sid ^ nt * eneara PP ro ^ of thU greatand unfW I I' formany a ^ valk do I take on Heath stongers to my own domain ; and it is on Heath Cammm that I always expect to hear the first son- of the cuckoo sweet harbinger tf returning spring . ° ' ., ^ Senator .-whieh God forbid , whilst Peel ' s CbaSftoT ^ ^' - " *** ^ >* - ^

      I 25 ? : T once ^ "i" Wakefi eld l-fere thee well ! W ^ S * hand hl the P ^ ected enclosure of Su 2 rr r ^ ougu poor charieystuart **** ~ uld come back , and were to give his royal sanction THE DTQtG SV : Ak . fableofrrf ^ ^ djin e Swan seems tobea feble of remote antiqrf * . Ihavelongheenausiousto find out upou what grounds the ancients could possibly attach melody to an expiring bird , which neither toymrth nor in nper years ever shows itself gifted with the power of producing a single inflexion of the voice that can be pro naunced melodious . * * # Once I had

      an opportunity , which rarely occurs , of being with a swan mits last illness . Although I gave no credence to the extravagant notion which anti quity had entertained of melody from the mouth of the dying swan , still I felt anxious to bear so * e plaintive sound or other , some soft mflejaon of the voice , which might tend to justify that notion in a small degree . But I was disappointed . orKfrV \ - 8 reat fevourite ' and had been the Et mL ^ J * 1 * toe out of mind - Those who spend ™ f ? ^ C 0 Unfr y ' aad pay attention to theordinary Xn 7 ^ ^ ^ ""^ ^' cha ° ee «» them whenever their health is on the decline . I perceived that the plumage of this swan put on a weather-beaten appearance , and that the bird itself no longer raised the leathers of his wings as he pas 3 ed through the water

      before me . Judging that he was unwell , I gave orders that he should be supplied with bread and boued potatoes . Of these he ate sparingly , and in a day or two he chan-ed his quarters , probably for want of sufficient shelter from the wind . Having found his way down to the stables , he got upon a small fishpond there , out of reach of storms . I rom this time henever fended for food , but he continued to take a little white bread now and then from it . y hand . Atlasthe refused this ; andthenhe left thewater for good and an , and sat down on the margin of the pond , with evident signs of near approaching death . He soon became too weak to support his long neck in an upright position

      . He nodded , and then tried to recover himself , and then nodded again , and again held up his head ; till at last , quite enfeebled and worn out , his head fell gently on the grass , his wings became expanded a trifle or so , and he died whilst I was looking on . This was in the afternoon , and I had every faculty of watching his departing hour , for I was attending the masons , some thirty yards from the pond to which the swan had retired . He never even uttered his wonted cry , nor so much as asound to indicate what he felt withni . The silence which this bird maintained to the last , tends to show that the dying song of the swan is nothing but a feble , the origin of which is lost in the shades of antiquity .

      There is an excellent chapter on "FreshAir . " from which we give the following extracts : —

      SLEEPING AT INNS . Beds have vast attractions ; beds , to wit , of down and roses . But we are not told who has slumbered there the night before . In &ct , we never ask the question . Miue hostess assures us , that they have been well aired ; but she does not mean that they have been aired by the noondays healthy sunbeams . She gives you to understand , by saving that the bed has been well-aired , that , in fact , it has coustantly been slept upon by a succession of travellers , of whose health , or the want of it , not the slightest mention is ever made # * * # A person , on whose veracity I could depend , and who seemed to have scrutinised thegeneral state of dormitories with a considerable degree of attention , ouce told me , , that he had not passed a single hour in bed for fonrteeu years . He said he was

      his own master in that respect , and could suit himself as he thought fit . He added , that his aversion to eutcr a strange bed was extreme . He did not know who had been there before him , or whatimpurities might belurking in the region of the feather bed , or whether it had been aired by Phcebus or by Bacchus ; aud that the possibility of getting into a damp bed acted upou his nerves more terribly than did the operation of Sir Robert Peel ' s ineometax . " Andhow do youmanage , " said I , " without a bed V "Uncommonly well , - said he . "My apprenticeship , " continued he , " to the hard floor only cost me a fortnight , aud after that all went right" He then informed me that the advantages which he bad acquired by abandoning the bed for ever ware incalculable . He said that so long as there was a current of fresh air in the place where he

      laid him down to rest , he was excellently accommodated for a fair spell of sleep . Travelling had no longer any nocturnal terrors for him . Whilst others were anxious about the paraphernalia of their bedrooms , and peevish when tilings were not to their liking , he stood smiling on , pitying their distresses , and happy with the thought that he could stow himself away for the night in a niomeut , from bad bugs , bad breaths , andbad bedding . " And you will never more sleep in a bed ! " said I . " Never , " said he , with a smile of contentment on his face . " Nature has accommodated herself to me , aud I to nature . What more can I wiib V He ceased on saying tute . I entered fully into his fellings ; and ere I retired to rest I thought if Are had more of fortitude and less of self-love things would go better with us , both night and day , than they do at present

      SICE BOOMS 4 ND SLEEPING BOOHS . If we turn to a sick room , we are apt to surmise that the doctor in attendance uever ouce takes tue state of the lungs under his serious consideration , except in cases of apparent consumption . Although he has learned from anatomy Hint jiurc air is most essential to tliem , still lie allows his patiett to be in a tomb , as it were , walled round with dense curtains , where the wholesome breeze can gain no admittance , and where the foul vapours issue from tlic feverish mouth , and return to it , aud from thence to the lungs , which are barely able to perform their duty . The windows are constantly shut , and the door most carefully closed , by wbicli mischievous custom the lungs have no chance of receiving a fresh supply of air from without , and at hist the patient sinks in death , for want of it . If

      those in typhvs fever were conveyed to an open shed , screened on one side against the blotting wind , with a sufficiency of clothes upon them , very little physic would be required ; for the fresh air would soon subdue the virulence of the disease in nine cases out of ten . Then . , a person finds he cannot sleep at night : if he would oneu the window , and take a few turns iu the room , there can be no doubt but that sweet sleep , ptac ' idisslme somue Deorum , would return with him arm in arm t « bed . Wonderful is the degree of heat which is generated by the human body , when prostrate ou a soft bed . Those parts of the sheets which do not come in contact with it , will , of course , retain their wonted coolness ; and then , if the person becomes restless in his sleep , and rolls over upon

      them , he runs a feir risk of contracting rheumatic pains scarcely ever to be removed . Should a man ever have the terrible misfortune to pass the night in a damp bed , he would be much worse off than if he had been condemned to lie on a pismire's nest These little tormentors would merely blister him , perhaps even with salutary effect : but the humid bed would cause him damage often beyond the tower of art or nature to repair . I trust we may safely conclude that , when the soft and dov / ny preparations for the repose of the night have been completed , we do wrong , very wrong indeed , to exclude the night air from our apartments . That we can absolutely do without it , is certain ; but that we should do better with it , is equally certain .

      Mr . Wateetos has a good word for the rooks , whose destruction it appears has , or had , been determined on by the wise men of the north , the farmers of Scotland . Mr . VT . shows most conclusively that instead of being enemies , the rooks are the best Mends the farmers have in destroying the myriads of insects on which those sable gentry mostly feed . The concluding chapter of the work is " On Tight Shoes , Tight Stays , and Cravats . ' His arguments on the two first of these fashionable absurdities him been enforced times without number , but his war against Cravats is something new . His arguments , vre think , are unanswerable . CHAVAT 5 .

      What iu the name of hemp and bleaching , has a cravat to do with the throat of a man , except at Tybuin 1 The throat is the great thoroughfare or highway for the departure and return of the blood from the heart to the head , and back again ; and we all know that pressure on the vessels which contain this precious fluid may be attended with distressing and even fatal consequences : so that when a man falls down in a fit , the first attempt at relief on the part of the bystanders is to untie his cravat . Indeed , the windpipe , the veins , and the arteries located in the neck , may be considered as life ' s body guards , which will not allow themselves to be too severely pressed upon with impuuity . When we consider how very near these : naiu channels of life are to the surface of the throat , we wonder at the temerity of the man who first introduced the use of cravats as a protection againstthe weather , or as an ornament to the parts . When he was about this roguish business , whv did he stop short at the neck ? He might just

      as well have offered clothing to the nose and cheeks . If these last mentioned parts of our mortal frame can safely accommodate themselves to the blasts of winter , or the summer ' s sun , surely the throat might be allowed to try its fortune is the external air . especially when we see this important privilege conceded to females in even- rank of life , and of the most delicate constitutions . If any part of the human body be allowed to be uncovered in these days of observation and improvement , certainly the throat of man has the best claim to exemp tion from the punishment which it undergoes at present . However , we are not quite so outrageous now-a-days in some things as we were * hen I was a lad . I remember well the time when cravats of enormous height and thickness were all the go . 'Twas said that these jugular bolsters came iuto fashion on account of some unsightly rose-buds having made their appearance a little below the ears of a dandy . This may liave been scandal for aught I know to the contrarv ; but certain it is , that the new invention spread

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      11 $ ^^ Sthe ° rTn ^ > T ^ i * ^ «*™<» W Si » '*"^» " - ^ -sjf-asw . its sr ?^ EF : &t « = f- "Sfctt = s cravat , and twisted it until I was within an ace of beine strangled Just as all was appare . itlv ovei Stn me I rt !! ~ - /' 5 * «« i * kneeT '

      ^ <> . my as helayu Ponuie , full aga 5 nstlli ' stomVcbTan ^ tS . im o * . Away he . vent , carrying with him my hat , and leaving rue his own , together with his knife and tventv wiresnares . Icannotpossiblyunderstandwhy westronc and healthy men should be doomed by fashion to bind up our necks like sheaves of cm , and thus keep our jugular veins iu everlasting jeopardy . I know one , Z-5 ? l *\ Sh 6 ffield Wh ° scts this arable fashion nobly at defiance , and always appears without a cravat How I revere him for this , andhow I condemn mS S ± ^ l fT f r Uude t ° ^ v his example ~ T ^ land - tortoise ^ eu ^ na , although encased m a nearly impenetrable armour , have their Tl ^ Ifd ? ed ' aIone is the only being to be found in the whole range of animated nature who goes with a ligature on the throat .

      « i ? i ? T ? a ! Mt mtmia 4 es * l »* t this will be the last fehJitn fT -n eforeth ( J Public as an wtt or . FW ^*^ - Y dl , recoiasillertl » s ^ termination . * roinsome things he has written we dissent : but it is our conviction that few can read his works without becoming wiser and better from their perusal . We hope it will not be long before we shall have the pleasure of again introducing Mr . WAtERiosto our readers .

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      DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAstreet L ( md 9 n : Pmch Office , 92 , Fleett ^ S * ! " ! 016 th jf excellent number of this truly and deservedly popular Magazine . The only exceptions we haye to make are , ° tlmt the portion men of the Editor ' s story of "St . Giles and St . James , is too-brief to satisfy the reader ; and that there is too little of that lightheading which , without damage to the serious and mighty objects sought to be advanced by Douglas Wold and his colabourers might , we think , advantageously occupy a portion of this work . Of course we do not desire that a solitary page should be given up to mere sickly sentimentality and absurd romance ; but , eschewine these , it yet appears to us that tales of wit and fe i ^ **™ the of

      ^' - ^ . ' ,, * a purposes this Magazine without detriment to its more serious contents . We suppose that something of this sort is intended by the " legend" of "The BMop ' s Knock " m the present number ; but we cannot speak verv highly of its execution By-the-bye what has become £ , * . ^ t and Fiddle Moralities ? " We hope the Editor will resume them . i * L a ! iy . i i ° f 1 > ead « 's , disappointed and disheartened at what he deems the slow or doubtful progress of good principles , is inclined to despair of the tuture , let him take up the present number of this Magazine , and we are certain he will not lay it down again if he has once thoroughly perused it without finding his hope abundantly revived . There have been , and are unfortunately , too manv causes to in-J - _ . * —— ... w ^ j vw 1 UUU 1 VMllOtO W ill " duthe

      ce simple suffering son of toil to despair of a better future , and deem the struggle for justice hopeless He sees arrayed against his " order" a government the most potent in the world , backed by a powerful aristocracy and priesthood , and the still mightier band ot the " Kings of Gold . " The section ot the middle class at war with the aristocracy are not less at war with the people and opposed to their enfranchisement . The public journals-so powerfu tor good or evil—are almost entirely devoted to the one interest or the other , that of ruling feudalism or rampant capital , to the exclusion of , and in opposition to the interest of labour . Lastly , division and black-hearted calumny , caused and promulgated by men whose one idea appears to be

      "Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven , " have brought discouragement to the ranks of the patriots , and disgrace on their name . The friends of freedom , therefore , contemplating the strength and resources of the system against which they war , the yet widely existing ignorance of the masses , am the treacheries of pretended friends , may be excused if , sometimes they feel inclined to waver in their belief in the pi-ogress and future triumph of their principles . Yet are the grounds for hope—nay , certainty of future triumph , —many and indisputable .

      fake one only : the new literature of the age , of which tlus magazine may be regarded as the type . The number beforei us , from beginning to end , page upon page , proclaims the wrongs of the many , or vindicates their rights with an ability seldom excelled , and an earnestness never exceeded . The editor ' s story of " St . Giles and St . James" proclaims in every chapter the truth which erewhile society refused to listen to , that " circumstances make the man : " that the babe "born in the castle" would , if placed in the situation of his brotherinfant " whelp'din the cottage , " become of necessity the victim and the slave of the demoralizing influences which from the cradle to the grave surround the offspring of the lowly ; while , on the other

      hand , the child of the poor man , if exposed to the luxuries , frivolities , and falsehood of " high life , " would of necessity exhibit through his existence the natural results of such training . From these facts the reformer and philanthropist will deduce the conclusion , that an equal educational guardianship of all the children of the commonwealth , accompanied by a more equal apportionment of necessary labour , and distribution of the products of labour , are tliG only means by which the vices incidental to both poverty and luxury may be annihilated ; and society , being purged from social outcasts and useless drones , may become an intelligent , free , virtuous , and happy community . The " Mummery of Medicine" is an exposition

      much needed of the quackeries of the medical tribe , more particularly their custom of " wrapping up their prescriptions aud inscriptions in dog-Latin . This is an imposture—aliumbug , which it is high tune was put an end to ; and we are glad that this magazine has opened fire upon this time-honoured but mindexploded fraud . " The Law of the Land" is a powerfully-written and truly political article , exposing the rapacity and tyranny of the landlords from the earliest period to the present time . " Man and the Criminal" is an article of the highest order of merit , whether we regard its design or its execution . We would that we could place it in the hands of ever } member of the community . Societies formed for the purpose of reforming our criminal code and abolishing death-punishments , would do well—first obtaining the sanction of the parties concerned—to renrint

      this article in the shape of a cheap tract . " The Hedgehog Letters" are as spicy" as ever , and must give the bigots the belly-ache to read them . " A History for Young England" is by no means the least important portion of this magazine ; and the revelations of the past contained in this history are , we think , nearly certain to lead the veritable ' " Young England" to look forward to the future , instead of backward to the past for the golden age of political purity and social justice . Lastly , even the critiques at the conclusion of the number all " breathe a purpose" of the right sort . That on Mr . © 'Israeli ' s new work is the most philosophic , and indeed , in every sense . , the best on the subject we have yet seen . We have no room for extract : hut we must perforce give the following from the critique on

      Sybil : — Vf ith aVl the sections of party that divide the country he [ Mi-. D'lsraeli ] is well acquainted , but has devoted his principal attention to the Chartists . Of them he may be said to be the historian ; nor has he unfaithfully narrated their proceedings . With their energy he sympathises , and feels for their wrongs—or at least he exposes them . He has evidently made himself intimately acquainted with their tenets and their proceedings , and has a just notion of their powers and capacities . And it is

      an instance of his political sagacity to endeavour to turn attention to a party who must exercise , ere long , a powerful efiect . not only upon the social state of England , but upon the corresponding classes of other civilised societies . The grand contest of the universal man against wealth , or , iu other words , of the wants of humanity against the privileges of a few , must , in a generation or two , come to issue . All things proclaim it , and few can retard it . Indeed by many the question is narrowed to this simple point : —In order to improve the condition of mankind , is it necessary to alter the laws or to alter mankind ? Or

      again , does the amelioration of mankind depend upon having good laws , or does the having good laws depend upon the having good men ? The Chartists say , " Let us make good laws , and we shall have men us they ought to he . " Ontheotherhand . sayth-. YoungEtiglanders , "Make men religious and virtuous . :-. i : d the rest will follow . " Who will gainsay thai this Magazine is even of itself a hopeful and unmiainkeable sign of pro gress ? For the instruction : ir . d gratification of the friends of freedom , and for the more extensive propagation of the principles to which they are wedded , we heartily recommend to our readers the support and circulation of this excejlent publication .

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      TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE-Juse . Edinburgh : Tait , 107 , Prince ' a-street . 4 Tait for this month opens with a lengthy and eulogistic review of Lord Brougham ' s " Lives of Men of Letters and Science who flourished in the time of George the lhird . " Who ' s to decide when reviewers disagree ? Let any one read this review in Tait , and then read the notice of the same work in Jerrold ' s Magazine for this month , and he will be cancelled , we fancv , to after all betake himself to his lordship ' s book before he can hope to form a ju » t conclusion as to its merits . Probabl y , the exact value of the work and the just estimate of the intellectual powers of its author will be found to lie somewheremidway between the high-flown eulogies of the writer in Tait and the

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      SsS - hS emnati 0 ? , ? of tll <> ™« c ^ Jenold aSsvsftss tcrofSiLhl , } sll 01 ' , ttale ' thech ^ ic-& * s ^ s & a £ i !"« on Copenhagen of whicl the historian was an S witness , as he filed at that time a government office under the Danish crown . "British A « mS ;«« 1 |

      Sinde" is an able and just article . There are ; me reviews and other articles we have not read S iSSW ? " " Literary Register" of a work Z II A 3 fi ench ln Wtn , we give the following sketch of the unconquerable Arab , a man dear to the S i w l 0 ver of f rccdom aild hat <* of mmom ^ lS-onrf ° ¥ r " ^ -speaking for i as !» ^

      ABD-EL-KADEB . I eWedTo 52 M nOr ? : Fr ° that l had "cart , } Tit ? bloodthirsty barbarian , alwajs ready SflSS ^ Cxpectations ™ false indeed . * Abd . el . Kader , s twenty-ei ght years of age , aud very . mall ; his face , s long and deadl y pale . his large back eyes are soft and languishing , Ms mouth small and dell-¦ TAS ZT Mther aquUine ; hls bear ( 1 is"Un , but jet black , and he wears a small mustachio , which cives a martial character to his soft and delicate face , and he comes him vastl y . His hands are small and exquisitely formed , andhisfeet equally beautiful . The care he takes of them is quite coquettish : he is constantl y washing them , and paring and filing his nails with a small knife with a beautifully carved mother-of-pearl handle , which he holds all the while as ho sits crouching on his cushions with his toes clasped between his fingers .

      Hi 3 dress is distinguished by the most studied simplicity ; there is not a vestige of gold or embroidcrv on any part of it . He wears a shirt of very fine linen , the seams of which are covered with a silk braid terminating in a small silk tassel . Over the shirt is a haick , and over the hoick two white bernouses ; the uppermost garment is a black betnouse . A few silk tassels are the only ornaments about his dress ; he wears no arms in his girdle , his head is shaved , and covered by three or four skull-caps , one within the other , over which he draws the hood of his bernouse , Abd-el-Kadev's father , who died about two years ago . was a marabout called Mahadin , who , by means of his fortune , his intelligence , and his character for sanctity had acquired very great fame and influence among the Arabs . ¦

      The Sultan is said to be a most tender husband ; and his conduct proves the truth of the report , for he has not a single concubine . His wife is very pretty ; her tall slender figure is seen to great advantage under the graceful folds of her haick , which is girded round her middle with a red worsted cord . The Arabs usually like lavge fat women , but Abd-el-Kader's taste is different . Though often absent from his wife for three or four months at a time , his attachment to her remains unchanged . Even from the banks of the Ouet Mina he frequently sent hev

      presents of fruit , butter , honey , and other rarities . Ho has had one daughter by her ; and though it was asserted that she was delivered of a boy on the very day ou which the French entered Mascara , I do not believe it ; for if Abd-t' 1-Kader really had a son , I am sure the Arabs would have told me so . During the night the thirty negroes keep watch ronnd the tent , that nothing may disturb the repose of Abd-el-Kader and his wife ; and during their absence from the camp a guard of foot-soldiers supplies their place around the Sultan ' s taut .

      ihis number , take it for all in all , is an interesting one . Ihe extracts from Lord Brougham ' s work will be welcomed by those to whom the original book may not be attainable .

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      WADE'S LONDON REVIEW-Juxe . London : On- and Co ., Paternoster-row . This is rather a dull number of the London Eeviciv . Most probably the " melancholy month of May lias had anything but a vivifying influence on the writers while preparing their matter for the presentnumber . Theprinci palartiolesareonthe"Woolwich Royal Military Academy ; " " Late Alterations of the Debtor Laws ; " and an article on the celebrated French writer , Mostaigue . This last is the cream of the number , and forms a fitting companion-piece to the notice of Rabewis given in a former number . We hope there will be more—many more similar sketches given . They cannot fail to be instructive and

      interesting to those readers who have not the advantage ot being able to pevuse authors other than those who have written in their own mother tongue . The heaviness of the present number , which concludes the first volume , is likely , we understand , to be remedied for the future . " A portion of future numbers will be dedicated to tales , poetry , and dramatic notices , accompanied by occasional illustrations . " The new volume ( commencing on the 1 st of July ) is to open with an Oriental Romance , which will be continued in succeeding parts . These changes , it spiritedly carried out , will , we doubt not , prove beneficial to this Bcvuw , which , even at present , is one of the cleverest publications of the time .

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      MRS . CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES . CAUDLE , WHILST WALKWG WITH HIS WIFE , HAS BEEN BOWED TO BY A YOUNGER AND EVES PRETTIER WOMAN THAN MRS . CAUDLE . If I ' m not to leave the house without being insulted Mr . Caudle , I had better stay indoors all iny life . "What ! Don't tell me to let you have one night ' s rest ! I wonder at your impudence ! It ' s mighty fine ; I never can go out with you , and—goodness knows ! it ' s seldom enough—without having my feelings torn to pieces by people of all sorts . A set of bold minxes ! Wiat am I ravinq about ? Oh you know very well , indeed , Mr . Caudle . " A pretty person . she must be to nod to a man walking with his

      own witc l Don't tell me that it ' s Miss Prettvmanwhat ' s Miss Prettyman to me ? Oh ! You ' ve met her once or twice at her brother ' s house ? Yes , I dare say you have—no doubt of it . I always thought there was something very tempting about that house—and now I know it all . Now , it ' s no use , Mr . Caudle your beginning to talk loud , and twist and toss your arms about as if you were as innocent as a born babe —I ' m not to be deceived by such tricks now . No ; there was a timoawhen I was a fool , and believed anything ; but—I thank my stars!—I ' ve got over that .

      "Abold minx ! lou suppose I didn't seo her laugh , too , when she nodded to you ! Oh yes , I knew what she thought me ; a poor miserabl e creature of course . I could see that . No—don't say so , Caudle I don ' t always see more than anybody else—but I can't and won't be blind , however agreeable it might be to you : I must have the use of my senses . I ' m sure , if a woman wants attention and respect from a man , she'd better be anything than his wife . I ' ve always thought so ; and to-day ' s decided it . " No ; I ' m not ashamed of myself to talk so—certainly not . A good , amiable young creature , indeed ! Yes ; I dare say ; very amiable , no doubt . Of course , you think her so . You suppose I didn't see what sort of a bonnet she had on ? 0 a very good creature '

      , And you think I didn't see the smud ges of court plaister about her face ? You didn ' t see ' em ? Very likely ; but I did . Very amiable , to be sure ! What do you say ? Imadc her blush at my ill-manners ? I should like to have seen her blush ! ' Twould have been rather difficult , Mr . Caudle , for a blush to have come through all that paint . No-I ' ra not a censorious woman , Mr . Caudle ; quite the reverse . No ; and you may threaten to get up , if you ' likc-I will speak , I know what colour is , and I say it was paint . I believe , Mr . Caudle , / once had a complexion ; though , of course , you ' ve quite forgotten that : itlunkl once had a colour , before your conduct destroyed it . Before I knew you , peonle used

      to can me the Lil y and Rose ; but-what are you laughiM ; at ? I see nothing to laugh at . But as I say , anybody before your own wife . " And I can't walk out with you but you ' re bowed to by every woman you meet ! What do I mean bv every woman , when it ' s only Miss Prettvman ? That ' s nothing at all to do with " it . How do I know who boYl f $ l oxl y hm l ' not b . ? Everybody , of course . And it they don't look at you , why you look at them 0 ! I m sure you do . You do it even when I ' m out with you , and of course you do it when I ' m awav Now , don't tell me , Caudle—don't deny it The fact is , its become such a dreadful habit with vou that you don't know when you do it , and when you don t . But I do . *

      • ' Miss Prcttyman , indeed ! What do you say ? You won't he still and hear me scandaUse that cxl C < S STTxl ° ' , course ' y ™' ^ ke her ISVv " ' For how is she toknow i- ° «' niamed ? \ ou ' re never seen out of doors with your own wife—never . Wherever you go , vou co alone . Of course people think you ' re a bachelor . What do you say { lou well know you ' re not ? That ' s nothing to do with it—I onl y ask what must people think , when la never seen with you ? Other women go out with their husbands : but as I ' ve often said , I ' m if 5 ?* ° ^ WOfflan . What are you sneering at , Mr . Caudle ? Ibw do Ihioiv you ' re sneering ? Donttell me : Iknow well enough , by the manner of you . "No ; you never take me out—and you know it . , No ; and its not my own fault . How can you He ; there and say that ? Oh , all a poor excuse ! That ' s

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      ftjPjw alwavsay- You ' re tired of asking me , indeed , because I always start some objection ? Of course I can t go out a figure . And when you ask me to go you know very well that my bonnet isn't as it should be-orthat my gown hasn'tcome home-or that 1 can t leave the children . -or that something keeps me indoors , \ ouknow all this , well enough before you ask me . And that ' s your art . And when I do go out with you , I ' m sure to suffer for it . Yes vou needn't repeat my words . Suffer for it . But vou suppose I have no feelings : oh . no , nobody has feelings but yourself , les ; I'd forgot : Miss Prettvman perhaps—yes , she may have feelings , of course . . A " as I ' ve sai ( l . I daresay a ' pretty dupe people tlunk me . To be sure ; a poor forlorn creature I must look m everybody ' s eyes . But 1 knew you couldn't be at Mr . Prettynian ' s house night after night till eleven o ' clock —and a great deal you thought of me sitting up for you—I knew vou couldn't be there without some cause . And now I ' ve found

      tv t . PM > t mind your swearing , Mr . Caudle : t > I -7 . i-i waan't a woraan who ought to swear . But it s like you men . Lords of the creation , as vou call yourselves ! Lords , indeed ! And prcttv slaves » m n f of tlie P « e&tuves who ' re tied ' to vou . but 111 be separated , Caudle ; I will ; and then I'll take care and let all the world know how you ' ve used me . \\ hat do you say ? I may say my worst ? Ha ! dont you tempt any woman " in tluit way-don't , , VV ? - * wouldn't answcr for what I said . Miss Prettyman , indeed , aud-oh yes ! now I see I Isow the whole light breaks in upon me ! Now , 1 know why you wished me to ask her with Mr . and Mrs . Prettyman to tea ! And I , like a poor blind tool , was nearly doing it . But now , as I say , my eyes aieopen ! And you'd have brought her under my own roof-now it ' s no use you ' re bouncing about in house wher 3 ' e ht her int ° theveiy "Here , " says Caudle , " I couldenduveitnolonger wUChHdi ^ -l ^ WCnt mid SlCt > t S ° meLv

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      The Political Tinker . —Most of our readers wil be familiar with an old fellow , who goes about bellowing and shouting in the capacity of a political tinker . His anxiety to get a job nia ' kes him sometimes very noisy , and unfortunately he is seldom entrusted with repairs that he docs ' not make a much larger hole than the one he has been employed in . stopping . The old tinker is said to have a very sharp eye to the " tin , " of which in his time he has re- . ceived large quantities . He sometimes uses a good deal of soft solder , of which lie gave a curious instance the other day , when trying to patch up a sad r « * H ' etf - V kettle of n " sh belonging to Lord Lllenborough .-iW .

      A Siiakey Teer . —We understand that poor Brougham accuses Punch of an attempt to write him down . His fidgetty lordship must be in a very nsr-JS ^^ VS ^**™ 10 *** Deeds not Words .-T 1 ic members of Conciliation Hall are so earnest tor a dissolution of the Union , that they have got up a tplit among themselves . — Ibid . Re-conciliation- Hall . —Since the affecting scene at the Repeal meeting , where there was such violent weeping , Mr . O'Connell and Mr . Davis have been called the Irish " Thiers party . "—Ibid . '' The Disowned . "—It seems that "Youug

      Ire-, laud" is like Mrs . Sarah Gamp ' s Mrs . Harris—quite an imaginary personage . Mr . O'Connell assures us he doesn t know any such party , and it is equally " unbeknown" to Mr . Davis and everybody else . We think , after this cruel desertion of" Young Ireland , some member of the Repeal Association oughfc to he taken up for deserting his own offspring ; and we say this the more feelingly , as we are inclined to think favourably of the little fellow , since lie haa been so universally disowned . But perhaps he haa been sent a-begging" by his parent purposely , that ne may learn the value of imitating the Liberator S 3 early as possible ibid .

      • ¥ m ER WoOD--We saw advertised the other dav , in the Times , a " Mahogany child ' s chair . " We have heard of wooden-headed boys who won't or can't Jearn at school ; but we should be curious to see this mahogany child whose chair is announced for sale in tiie public journals . —Ibid . A Bargain . —A Call to be DisrosEn of . —To any ot the : Irish members who have any fear in crossing the Channel , it is particularly recommended . Apply in person to Mr . Joseph Hume , or by letter to the berjeant of the House of Commons , who , upon being favoured with a member ' s address , will bo happy to oblige him with the " call" at his own residence . — Ibid .

      Akecdote of the late John Tawell . —A gentleman recently arrived from the United States , where the circumstances attending Tawcll ' s case had excited much attention , has communicated the following characteristic trait , which was well known some years since ( when it transpired ) amongst the commercial circles of New York . Tawell , in the course ot s peregrinations , had occasion to visit the capital ot Philadelphia , where Rowland Steplicnson , under an assumed name , carried on the business of a winemerchant , one of his sons ( the eldest ) living with him as an assistant in business ) . The Quaker had imported on speculation a quantity of Australian red wine ( a new article ) which iie was anxious to

      intro-, duce amongst the Yankees , and Standish ( Rowland Stephcnson ' s assumed name ) , was recommended to him as a likely man to promote his views . TaweL whose address ivas highl y prepossessing , was offered dinner by the young Stephenson ( his father being momentarily absent ) , in order that the business might be leisurely discussed . On his return home , the exbanker , who had learned the previous history of his . visitor , expressed his repugnance to sit at table with , a man who had suffered an infamous punishment ; , and ordered young Rowland to dismvite his guest , as he would not contaminate himself by familiarly associating with a returned convict . Tawell , who in an adjoining room , overheard the conversation .

      quietly entered the apartment where the two Stephensons were discussing the matter , and walking demurely up to the elder one said , "Friend Rowland , thou remindestme of an occurrence which took place whilst I was yet a youth , and which I will narrate to thee . There was , iu the year 1795 , a wealthy and influential man of London called Weston , who , not contented with his large gains as a banker , must needs commit a forgery , » y which he ruined many hapless families . He , however , was caught and condemned . On the day of his execution , a wretched youth , one Colin Rccolet , was doomed to die also , for

      having had in his possession a forged one-pound bank-note . They were on the gallows . The hapless youth in his dying agony tendered his hand to his tellow-sufterer . But the rich and haughty banker proudly turned away , and drew apart as far as his ¦ bonds permitted , deeming it beneath him to notice oc permit any familiarity with one so lowly . Friend Rowland , had thee and I met formerly , as might possibly have occurred , in a situation like that I have described to thee , I should undoubtedly have bade thee an eternal farewell with the same composure and pity I now feel in quitting thy abode . " Saying which the beavered Quaker stalked solemnly out of the house . [ Weston and Recolet were hanged in

      Political Definwioss . —It has rested with Mr . A . B . Hope to give a new definition of Conservatism ; he has designated it "the prodigal heir of thrifty .. OT ? - Tms ceil tainly is not bad in its way . lhnfty Toryism" took especial care not to allow a farthing to escape from its rapacious clutch , especially as far as pampered Protestantism and the Church was concerned . Conservatism is no doubt very prodkal m giving the benighted juveniles in training lor priests the means of getting better brogues and breeches , and education .

      Ax Ingenious Toy for Ascertaining the State of the Weather . —Walk to any of the entrances to the mclosure m St . James ' s-park , and look for the gatekeeper in the green coat ; should this personage be discovered standing outside his lodge chattering with a pretty nurse-maid , you may be assured that the day is fine ; should lie , however , be seen in the interior of his box , reading an old newspaper , we recommend you to put up your umbrella ; It is raining smartly . —Great Qun . Father Mathew ' s Principle . —To such an extentdoes Father Mathew carry out his principle tha £ he has cut a man because he was called a " rumfellow ; " and a person in his neighbourhood stvled " Old Tom , " to oblige the great apostle of the pump , has changed lus mm . —Ibid .

      Another Long Parliament . —From an announcement in the daily papers by an experienced sportsman , that grouse will be very scarce this season , we may safely anticipate that Parliament will not break up very eaily . —lM'tf . Babefaced Robbery . —Amongst the novelties submitted to public inspection at the Anti-Corn Law Bazaar at Covent Garden is a monster sheet of tissue paper , a mile long . This is downright swindling , as the "League" has evidently yet two more miles to account for ! We call this very free trade indeed . —Mi . A New Custom-IIouse . —The anti-Maynooth peopie arc placarding the walls of the metropolis with " Rome , Hie great custom-house of sin ! " According to these people Peel is unmindful of his duty . — Ibid .

      \ eby Bad Indeed . —A countrv gentleman passing down Ludgate-hill , the other day , was struck with amazement on beholding Harvey ' s shop , of which the front has been raised as lugh as the second floor . "Ah ! " cried he , shaking his head , how dreadfully London has become when shoplifting is earned on openly to such an extent . —Ibid . Jonathan ' s Complaint . —It is rumoured that the principalreason Miss Texas hesitates taking Jonathan for better or worse is Ids being subject to tic dollar-ism . —Ibid .

      Short and Sweet . —Once tipon a time , as all love stories begin , a young gentleman of rank and wealth laid siege to the heart of the daughter of the famous Colonel Crockett ; and finding favour in the eyes of the lad y , he wrote to the father requesting his permission for the immediate union . The following characteristic reply was promptly acted upon : — " Congress Hall , Washington . —Dear Sir , —I received your letter . Go a-head!—David Crockett . " A "Scene" in the Lords . —For a place of real public amusement give us the House of Lords . It eclipses every other in this metropolis . For the true fun , the "rale thing , " as Paddv savs , it " bates

      lianagiier . liatty s clowns arc elumsv producers mirth compared to the cowmettcd actors in "the scenes m the circle" at the upper house in St . Stephen » . Par exemple , Monday night , when the " iron Duke" moved the Maynooth gr ^ nt , that sagacious specimen ot hereditary wisdom , bight Newcastle , interrupted his Grocery asking him in a tone and manner worth y of the Barons that startled King John at Runnymede— " If the Queen knew anything about the matter V The Duke , unheeding , goes on with his speech . Newcastle—I say , my lords , I require an answer . 1 he Act of Succession , the Brougham—Hold your tongue .

      Newcastle-I shall not . You must answer me before you go on . JP % Irol i , t <> Hlenborough , at his elbow ^ What ' s all this about , eh ? ' Ellenborough audibly whispers , winks at Brougham who bounces up and exclaims-I'U not stand ff [ 11 not sit here , or stand here , and allow any man to deny that we have a right to enter into , to S tmue , and to close any discussion , of anyJ&UL »« l . on any subject whatever . » tr ^^* ^ Newcastle rises , but he P ^^ rtn ^ j ^ - sssi ^ S-

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      IUS T The Illuminated Magazine , the Colonial Magazine , and Traveller ' s Magazine , will be noticed in our next . Publications received : — " Days and Nights in the East . " " Chronicles of the Bastile , " Part 18 . " The Orphan , Part 8 . " Address on Education , L » JD > - Smiles . "

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      Scotch SQUATTERs . ~ Thetcrm " squatters" is verv ambiguous . In America , it designates a ragged ras " - cal without a cent in his pockets , and with a rifle or woodman s axe in his hand . In Australia it designates a young Oxonian or retired officer of the army or navy , possessed of stock to the value of some thousands . In Scotland , it seems to designate a person very differently circumstanced from either of the preceding . Among other glens of the far north which have been cleared is one that is called Glencalvie . Here , according to the account given by the peonle themselves , 90 tenants and cottagers with their families have been turned out of doors . A journal ot the country denies that this is the case , because , me truth is , that the district in question—namelv .

      ixiencaivic , was let to only four tenants ; the other occupants of the glen squatted there as cottars under ' tenants- " This denying the existence of 86 out ot 90 families , on the plea that only four of the 90 are leaseholders , almost equals in coolness the logic ot Cooper s negro- " Him no man , rnassa ; him onlv tailor . In an Englishman it might have passed tor ignorance , but it is difficult to imagine a i ' ei'thslure bcotchman unacquainted with the fact , that m the north of Scotland the cottar is designated the tenant , and the leasehold farmer the " tacksman . " But it is with the novel use of the epithet " squatter that we have to do . The Scotchmen who " squat under tenants" are men who have followed their fathers and grandfathers for unknown generations in the occupancy of their huts and kail-yards . Their

      lammes are ot older standing in the district than those of the tacksmen , or in ninety-nine cases in a hundred , of the lairds . The uninterrupted tenure ot their dwellings-devolving from father to sencontinued from year to year without a lease—is a practice which had its origin beyond "thememorv of man . " It is the custom of the country—the unwritten law of the Celts . The Scotch squatter is no clandestme intruder upon the soil ; he stands in the p lace ot his forefathers , and the act which ejects him 18 a T tyt ^ novation on the customs of the country —a forcible change in a mode of tenancv , sanctioned by the " use and wont" of ages . The " landlord has a right—due notice being previously given—to resume the occupancy of his own land * , or transfer it to another tenant . Nayit is for the advantage of

      , the whole population that the old system should be changed . But some forbearance may be claimed for simple ignorant men called to venture on a new state ot being . It is hard to give them au odious nickname because they do not see at once that what directlj ; increases the landlord ' s rent will indirectly oeneht themselves . —Spectator . Hide and Seek . —The Prcssc furnishes us with the fallowing amusing story . — " About three weeks ago a young and pretty woman went to a maison-dc-sante and asked to be taken in as a boarder . She stated to the director that she was in good health , and required no medical treatment , but wished only fora retirement from domestic annoyances . She was received , and for a week lived alone in the- apartment which she had engaged . One moraine a eamnffo

      stopped at the door of the house and a young man , elegantly dressed , alighted . Obtaining a private intei-view with the director , the visitor informed him that the lady who had lately become his guest was his wife , who , in a pet arising from a trifling matrimonial quarrel , had left her home , but that , feeling he was in the wrong , he had come to seek a reconciliation . The worthy director could not resist such an appeal , and ,. showing the penitent up to the lady , leit him with cordial wishes for his success . nitlun an hour the parties came forth with countenances radiant with smiles , and , haviV paid the account , took leave of the director , with manv thanks ior his kind attentions . Some days after their departure another carriage drove up ' , and a gentleman , neither so youne nor so attractive ns fl > . «

      nrst , entered , and asked for the same lady , saying that she had misbehaved herself towards her husband , and deserted him ; but that , in COllSicleiVitiOll ot hor youth and inexperience , he , the new visitor , had succeeded in inducing the husband to forgive and take her back . 'But , ' replied the director , 'the quarrel is alread y at an end . The husband has been here , and they went away together in perfect harmony . ' The well-meaning friend was peHcctly astounded . On recovering himself , he explained that the lady , who was married to a tnanrnwh older than herself , was importuned by a younger lover , and had iled to avoid him , but had no doubt yielded at last

      , and that it was with him she had quitted the asylum she nad sought . Again several days passed , when the director , who had been much afflicted at the idea ot having done evil instead of good , was walking along the Boulevards , and met a servant in the same uvery as that worn by the footman who came with the first carriage . Resolved to repair , so much as in mm lay , the mistake he had committed , he had the sen-ant arrested and taken to the Prefecture of Police In consequence of the information extracted from him , a commissary , with assistants , was sent to the house in which the fugitives had taken up their abode , n e are ignorant of the last act of this serio-comic melodrame . "

      Scotch Fisheries . —A company is proposed to be established at Dundee for prosecuting on a large scale the deep-sea fisheries on the east coast of Scotland . As Aboriginal . —A native bov named " Joev" recently made his escape from Flinder ' s Island , and being met with in the bush by some of the police , was conducted to the chief station in this city . There he lias remained for several days ; he is fed by the policemen , and seems quite happy and contented , lie can speak English so as to be understood , and runs about the ofticesa favourite with all . "Joev" is about tlm-teen or fourteen yeavs of age , thick ' set , and lias a hne open countenance . He is a ' good specimen of a race nearly extinct ; he seems highly susceptible ot improvement and instruction , and we hope something wil be done for him b y the humane . —// oia « rouin | Cowlt > .

      New Bill on the Law of Debtor and Creditor . —Ihe new bill , founded on the report of the select committee appointed to inquire into the operation of the Act of last session with respect to debts not exceeding £ 20 , contains , only four clauses . By the preamble it is declared to be expedient and just to give creditors a further remedy for the reeoverv of debts due to them . It is proposed , that if any person is indebted to any other in a sum not exceeding £ 20 , besides costs of suit , for which sum any judgment shall have been obtained or any order for pavment thereof from any court of competent jurisdiction , it shall be lawful for the creditor so obtaining a iudgment or order to obtain a summons from any Commissioner of Bankrupts for the district in which such debtor shall reside , or shall have resided for one calendar

      month before the date of such judment or order , or from any Court ot Requests , Court of Commissioners , or other court for the recovery of small debt ? . The debtor may be examined as well as the creditor , and an order made for payment of the debt by instalments or otherwise ; in case a debtor shall refuse to disclose his property or his transactions respecting tlie same , or respecting the contracting of the debt , or shall not make answer thereof to the satisfaction of the commissioner or court , or shall appear to have been guilty of fraud in contracting the debt , or of having wilfully contracted it without reasonable prospect of being able to pay it , or of having concealed or made away with his property , in order to defeat his creditors , or if he appears to have the means of paying the same by instalments or otherwise and shall not pay the same as ordered , then the

      debtor may be committed to the common gaol of the county . An order may be made for payment out of any salary , pay , or pension , of more than £ 50 a year . No order of imprisonment is to be for a longer period than forty days . The power of the Act of last session . 7 and 8 Victoria , cap . 96 ) is to extend to all cases of balances not exceeding £ 20 . It is not requisite for a debtor or creditor to employ either counsel or attorney in making applications or taking any proceedings under this Act . Should the measure pass as it is framed , a creditor may summon a debtor , and if he resides in the city of London , and in the opinion of the Court of Bankruptcy comes within the categorv of offences mentioned , he may be committed to Newgate for forty days ; or by a C ' ourt of Requests , if resident in Middlesex , to the House of Correction The bill was presented by Lord Broueham .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 14, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1319/page/3/