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      THE BETTER HOPE . V % WITC 6 T JOKE * . A child of the hard-hearted world was I , Ana a worldling callous of heart , And eager to p lay—with the thoughtless and gay , As the lightest and gayest , a part . "With a rich old name , and a passionate ( bought , The brightest or darkest to span ; But 8 struggle to fight—forray natural right , Of a place in the homes ef man . My father ' s house , in the lordly square , Was cold in its solemn state , A"d the sculptures rare—on the walls bo bare , Looted down with a quiet hate . My father ' s hall was a dark old spot , TVith a dark old wood around , Avi large quiet streams—like watery dreams On the verg 9 of a haunted ground .

      And the 4 wel- « rs were filled in that solemn place . With the trance of a sullen pride ; Tor the scutchconed grace—of a titled race , Is the armour the heart to hidel Ohl The eje Fees Irat half , through a "blazoned glass . The smile of the sunshiny earth , " And a laufb . cannot pass—through a marblj mai « Bat it loses the pulse of its mirth . Aadl thought : therebeyondinthehroad , laughing world , Men are happy in life's holiday ! And I passed one and all—through each oldfashioned hall , And wandered away and away !

      The trees , they shrunk hack—on my venturous track . Old trees that ray childhood had seen ; And the mansion looked dan—ia the light of the sun , Like a grave its long grasses between . But alas ! for the change of what might have been fair , And the gloem of whatshonld have been bright ! The wind weltered by—like one great swelling sigh , And the noonday was darker than night . For a giant had risen , all grisly ftndgxim , " "With his huge limbs , loud , clattering and vast ! And he breathed his steam-breath—through long channels of deaili , Till the soul itself died on the blast .

      And fibre and flesh he bound down on a rack , Plame-girt on a factory-floor ; And the shasflj steel corse—plied itshorrihleforoe Still { earing the hearts of the poor . like a wine press for mammon to form a gold , draught . It squeezed their best blood through its fangs ; And he qaaffed at one breath—the quick vintage of death , 'While it foamed with humanity ' s pangs . Oh ! then I looked back for my cold , quiet home , As the hell-bound looks back for the grave ; But I heard mr soul cry—who but cowards can ny , 'While a tyrant yet tramples a slave i

      Then I bound on my armour to face the rough world , And Tm going to march with thereat , Against tyrants to fight—for thesake of the right , And , if baffled , to fall with the best .

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      THE ARISTOCRACY OP ENGLASD . A HISTORY FOR THE PEOPLE . Bt Jobs Hampbex , Jun . London : Chapman , Brothers , 121 , Newgate Street ; Effiugnam "Wilson , Royal Exchange . This is a most important book . The reading public hare * lately been startled with the " Revelations of Russia / ' "Revelations of Spain , " Ac ., but this ¦ work contains revelations of the history of England to astonishing ss to render it a question of serious doubt whether the worst governed country on the face of the earth has ever been made to endure sufferings and horrors such as England has passed through , and which are detailed , or rather sketched , in ' the work before us . Verily "truth u stranger than fiction , " the revelations contained in this volume prove that .

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

      of corruption " and villainy , CoBBErr , and we are glad to find that onr author dares to imitate that great Englishman in boldly denouncing the vultures of rapine , and the carrion crows of corruption , in that langoase which is alone applicable to them Indeed we think , had the author of ibis work called himself "William Cobbed , junior , " instead of "John Hampden , " he would have given himself a title -which -w&nU have well fitted him , and which he might have worn without any disparagement to the illustrious original .

      The author of this work is evidently a free-trader , but he is " a free-trader and something more . " Thu ? at the very outset , in his preface he says : — "Time will show that cheap bread alone will not enable ws to remedy all the mischiefs . Our debt is eight hundred millions ; our annual taxation fifty millions ; and these will lie as an incubus on our manufacturing exertions , and on the cheapness of everything in England . Let the people remember that aristocratic corruption , and the sources of its corruption , still remain in the state ; that the root of the mischief is still there : that the franchise is still restricted to a few . " Aye , that ' s the root of the evil ; John Hampden , junior , has there hit the right nail upou the head .

      We might claim John Hampden , junior , as a Fraternal Democrat , for he heads his first chapter with "God has made of one blood all the nations of the earth , " a truth , which . if nndersteod by mankind , would hare prevented the majority crouching beneath the feet of tie usurping minority , and prevented the shedding of those seas of blood which have flowed over the soil of every country on the face of the earth—Wood ignorantly and madly shed to gratify the devilish lusts of the brigand few . " This work consists of nearly 350 closely-printed pages , every page occupied with an account of some act of fraud , rapine , murder , or other kind ofscoundrelism committed by onr rascally aristocracy . In ihe limits , therefore , to which we must confine our selves , we can merely give a few extracts ' as specimens of what the reader wi 5 I find by wholesale if he will buv the book and read for himself .

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

      THE XOHMAXS . Were , in fact , a swarm of the most desperate and net < ly adrenturers ; a rascal rabbWof vagabond ttiierei and plunderers . They were not , in fact , one-half of them , what they are pretended to be , —Sormans ; hut collected by proclamation , an-1 Ijy lavish promises of sharing in &e plunder of conquered England , — vultnrea , from every wind of heaven rushing to the field of British carnage . We shall find that , allowing the claims of such families as now can trace a clear descent from these men —and these are very few indeed—even such of them as were Normans , were of the lower and more rapacious gratfe . The great vultures fleshed themselves to the throat wi ! h the first spoil , and returned horns , while their places were obliged to be repeatedly supplied , through renewed proclamations , and renewed offers of the plunder of the Anglo-Saxons , from the still hungry tribes of knights who were wandering and fighting anywhere for bloody l > rea « L

      Our proud nobles are forsooth descended from the gallant and chivalrous Sormans . They will be descended from them and them alone . There is not a soul « f them lhat will claim the honour of descent from the Danes . Oh no ! The barbarous and bloody Danec , they are a scandal and abomination » TJiey are thieves , pirates , jj ' . umJercrs , and savages . Nobod y is descended from them , txccjit some plebeians in the Xorth of England , and est * jit that the rabble xont of the common people are contaminated with their Mood . And yet , who are tbe Soraacs ! Why , the Banes ! Yes ! the proud aristocracy of England , such of them at 5 iare any long known descent at all , are actually desi'tuiei fMin the Dines 1 They are lie legitimate issue of this Kooay and oaroaroas people that nobody irishts to acknowledge as ancestors . Th « D : ; Be « , driven from En-laud , fell on the shores of France , and amid the diffractions of lhat kingdom , laid Paris in ashea , and seized On that district which thence received from these Xorth .

      menners or > onnans , its name ot 2 > orman < ly . Ilere , ^ liuu ^ li settled too comfortably for their d « serts , they naver ceased te keep an eje on the far richer prize of England , from which , for their cruelties and fiery devastations , they had been chased away . After the battle ? of Hastings , and the death of Hairld , William made his way through the country pilkuin ? , plundering , burning , massacreing and destroying' like a very dsyil . . We pass over the Ion ? Lhtorv of these atrocities to come to the crowning Wror , his devastation of the entire north of Eujjl « ui « J , and extermination of the whole of titc inhabitants .

      The descriptions of sMb laying waste of the north of Eugland bj ail the old caronidcrs , Xonnans and French <» 5 ivi-IJ as Enalivh , are UiOSt hvrrifyvg , at the same time Wist ih-ri- js wotHus in 3 i 5 st «; v more thoroughly prove ! . J- ' it ?* « ivju'j !<» r is ~ : ila 10 have Lten fcusi . 'iu . ^ in : 1 m 'on st ' ¦ D-ijn tvhen ntws of disturbances in the north was

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      . ~——»_ brought to him , and on which he swore by the splendour of the Almighty , that he would exterminate the whole of the Northumbrians , and never lay his lance In rest till he had doas the deed . The implacably Danish and savage nature of his mind is shown in this , that though it re . quired time la march northward , and to put down all the disaffected people , he never departed from his diabolical purpose , but after he had enforced submission , he sent out hig whole army in exterminating columns to scour the whole country , and destroy man and beast , town and tower , before them . This army of human fiendg , of what aa old Norman calls a host of " Normans , Burgoloung , thieves , and felons , " went on in a fury of carnage over all Northumberland , burning towni , villages , houses and crops , and slaying men , women , children , and cattle , with indiscriminate rage . Monasteries and churches were laid in ashes ; amongstthem Jarrow , famous as theformer residence of the venerable Bede . The monks and clergy

      of Durham fled for security to Holy Island . When the rumour of this terrible work of destruction spread , the minds of men were stunned as it were with the horror of it . From Durham to York , a space of sixty milei , the whole country was so thoroughly desolated that not an inhabited village remained , and William of Malmsbury , who wrote eighty years after this period , says , that fire and slaughter had made a vast wilderness there which remained to that day . From Durham north to Hexham . from the Wear to the Tyne , the remorseless Conqueror continued the same in&rnal process . Orderic Yitalis describes the "feralis occisio , " th « dismal slaughter , and ¦ aya that more than ahundred thousand victims perished . "It wan ahorrribleepectacle , * ' 6 ays Roger Hovenden , "to see on the high roads and public places , and at the door * of houses , l . utnaa bodies eaten by the worms , for there remained ne one to cover them with a little earth . "

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

      . v v ^ W * v »^*» — - -- - - - - ^ The great invading Norman let us know , What conquerors in after times might do ; To every musqueteer he brought to town . He gav « the Lt :. ds which never were hit own . When first the English crown he did obtain , He did not fend his Normans home again ; No re-assuraptlon in his reiyn were known : Davenant might there ha' let his book alone . 2 ? o parliament hii army could disband , He raised no mont-y , for he paid in land . H « gave his legions their eternal station , And made them all freeholders of the nation ; He canton'd out the country to his men , And every soldier was a denizen . The rascals this enrlek'd he eall'd them Lords ,

      To please their upBtart pride with new made words And Doomiiag-Book hia tyranny recordt . And here begins our ancient pedigree That so exalts our poor nobility : J TUth » t < romsorae French trooper they derive , Who with the Norman Bastard did arrive : The trophies of-the families appear ; Some shew the sword , the bow , and some the spear Which their great ancestor , fwsooth , did wear ; These in tbe herald ' s register remain , The : r noble mean extraction ts explain ; Yet who the hero was , no man can tell , Whether a drummer or a colonel ; The ( ilent record blushes to reveal Their nndescended dark original .

      Here is a picture of THE FAMILY OF IHE CONQUEROR . In the affections of his own family William was not more happy than in those of his people * He was obliged to arrest his turbulent half-brother Odo , and imprison him during the remainder of his reign . His eldest son Robert , was almost continually in rebellion against him for possession of Normandy , and showed more disposition for a dissolute life , and for the company of guzzlers , jug'Iers , danceis , lewd women , an-1 gamblers , than for any rational pursuit . His second fon , Richard , was gored to death with a stag in the New Forest , where

      afterwards a ion of Robert also was killed , and hi * third son , William Rums , —a judgment , a * the people believed , from God for his atrocities there . His latstr days weit embittered by the wrai . gl ' ncs « nd jenfousies of his two youngest sons , William and Htiiry . which showed Sjim horrors in perspective ; and in his las ; moments these BOns forsook him , as did all his followers , to secure what he had left . "Barons . priests , anddukeE , " eayshisown secretary , " mounted theirhorses and rode away almost before he was dead , to serve their interests with the living . The minor attendants rifled the apartments , and even carried off the royal clothes ; and the bodj was left almost naked on tbe bare boards for a whole day . "

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

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

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

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

      the isrMiouz johx . This John crowned all the villainy and crimes of his family , and became the most contemptible and diabolical 6 coundrel that ever wore a crown . There is no portion of his life which is not covered with infamy . Treachery and rebellion to his father ; treachcrj and rebellion 8 galn 5 tlli 5 brother and king- , stirring up foreign powers and assassins agiiinst Ifun , mat-f eed tis earlier progress ; anU the character thus acquired was amply maintained by fcecoroine the undeubted murdi-rer of his nephew , the Prince Arthur of Brittany , the orphan son of his elder brother , OioStat , and true heir totlio crown , who , there is every reason to believe , perished , by his own hands . Shakspesre lius stirred the blood of ages against him , b . v his description of the burning ont of the eyes of this orphan and unprotected youth ; but not even the powers of that marvellous dramatist , could add an atom to

      that load of contempt and indignation which his own and succocding times heaped upon the head of this royal monster . There is no crime against heaven or humanity of which he was not capable or of which he was not accused . He scorned all the bonds ^ f family honour * ud affection ; he defied and outraged all those of social life and of government . lie hd amongst the most infamous companions the most infamous existence . He defied Us nobles , and trampled on their pririkges . He Stripped Us subjects with a robber ' s hand ,. and let loose on them the most diabolical horde of wretches that ever rtftieted tins much-enduring nation . He gratified his lust by tearing wives from their husbands ; and , as we hare secrt , when the barons and people attempted to bind him by the Charta , he marched from place to place , all over die kingdom , with mtn whose very names are a horror ; * and . to the very day of his ignominious flwith , carried through this devoted realm , fire , murder , anarchy ,

      and desolation . In a chapter devoted to the history of the struggle for iiagna Cliarta , our author incontesllbly pi'OVGS that the glory of wringing that measure from tlie tyrant John , hitherto monopolised by the aristocracy , belongs really much more to the people than to tlie nobles , who without the people had been nothing . It was during the reisns of Richard U ., Henry v ., and Henry VI ., that the feudal aristocracy attained the height of their insolent domination . Their iullb ! o-vn pride , however , proved their ruin . Having tho whole of the country in their possession , they now strove to effect the ruin of each other , eacb an " all being bent only upon getting possession of the lands and titles of liis brother baron . Hence the endless plots , intrigue ? , rebellions , wars and massacres which render memorable these reigns , the whole terminating in the lonp and frightful civil war between ihe partisans of " York and Lancaster . " We give an extract illustrative of the horrible

      butcheries in the WARS OF THE ROSES . Oppose- ! to the Yorkists and Warwick was the queen ,

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

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

      Warwick himself perished , with hii brother , Lord Sf'mtacute , in the lsst horrible battle of Barnet , where Edward put in practice the Moody rule which he hiing elf had taught him , of giving no quarter : Warwick fell , the just victim not merely of his reckless ambition , but of his implacable and sanguinary policy , little in accordance with the fine character which Hume hns drawn of him- But , in Ihe meantime , Warwick had 80 t up Edward IV ., and pulled him down again , had mad * Clarence a rebel against the king , his brother ; had set up Henry VI ., whom he had before dethroned ; had entored into a league with Margaret , whom he had pursued for fiff eenyears , and who had pursued him with so much hatred that she had even sent his own father to

      the block ; had not only married his eldest daughter to Clarence , while Edward had no son , in the hope of Clarence thui succeeding to the throne , but had again agreed to come forward for the support of Henry VI ., and married his second daughter to Prince Edward , the only son of Henry and Margaret , so as to secure to his posterity the throne on that side ; and , finally , fell fighting agaivit Edward IV ., for whom he had broken up th « peace of the realm , cut off ruthlessly bo many of the chief nobility , and such thousands of the people , and / or the king whose throne he had overturned , whois life he had so thoroughly embittered , and on whom , and hii only ion , he eventually brought bloody murder , thus annihilating his line for evar .

      But tlie aristocratic ambition had , in fact , laid suicidal hands on itself . Besides thebattlei we have mentioned before the accession of Edward IV ., there followed that accession the ( till bloodier ones of Towton , Hedgeley Moor , Hexham , Edgecote , Erpingliam , the second battle of Barnet , and Tewkesbury . In the battlas and on the block during tbe long course of this contest , fill tbe Duke of fork , his sod Rutland , three successive Dukes of Somerset , the Dukes of Exeter and Buckiag . ham , three Earls of Northumberland , the Earls of Salisbury , Devon , Wiltshire , Shrewsbury , Pembroke , Rivere , Warwick , Montacute , Worcester , Leedi , Audley , Beaumoot . Egremnnt , Bonvill , De Roos , Hungerford , Cromwell , Saye , Wenlock ; Sirs Kyrii 1 , Grey , Woodville . Lisle , Audley , Rose , Clifton , Cary , Treshnm , Owen Tudor , who are more particularly named , beaides a whole host of ethers ; in the battle of Northampton alone , SOQkuigbts and gentlemen falling ; and tix barom being beheaded with the Earl of Northumberland after the battle of Towton .

      Of the people it is calculated that not less tb * n 100 , 000 were sacrificed . In the battle of Totvton fllone fell 38 , 000 ; in the last bloody battle of Barnet 10 , 000 ; at Edgeco ' . e fell of Yorkiits alone 5000 ; in the first battte of Barnet 2 GO 0 ; and of the Lancastrians alone at St . Alban ' sSOOO ; at Mortimer ' f Cross S 600 . But besides , the private murderous crimes were numerous and mo t revolting . In the beginning of Henr ; Vl . ' g reign , Ids uncle thegood old Humphry of Gloucester was prk tev murdered . King Henry was privately murdered as is believed by Edward IV ., or by the hands of bis brothers Clarence and Richard of Gloucester . Hfnrv ' s only son Edwnrd , a stripling , was stabbed in the presence of Edward IV ., as again said , by Clarenc * and Cfloucest . r , the latter murderir afterwards marrying

      the youth ' s vidow , Anne , daucther of Warwick . As foully had Edward his own brother Clarence murdered in the Tower , according to tradition , drowning him in a butt of Mnlmsey . Scarcely was Edward himself dead , when his cwn brother , tbe infernal Gloucester , had his two son *—two innocent boys—smothered in that old slaughter-house tlie Tower . For a more extended account of these horrors , and an rxpnsnre of the unnatural intrisucs , and shameful indecencies of the royal and aristocratical brutes of this period , we must refer the reader to the work itself . The reign ef kingly despotism now commenced , and continued to the time that the hypocritical Charles was made a head shorter . The bulk and the greatest feudal aristocrats bad perished

      in the wars of the Roses . The cold-blooded , avaricious tyrant , Henry VII , contrived , under various pretexts , tocliopoffthehcadsofmanyof the surriTora , at the same time confiscating their estates to the crown . His son . the horrible and ever to be execrated Henry VIII ., destroyed almost the entire of the remaining : members of the old aristocracy . With one or two exceptions they well merited the destruction which fell upon them . They showed themselves the vilest panderers to the brutal tyrant on the throne ; for instance , the Duke of Norfolk presided at the trials both of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard , ( two of the King ' s wives ) both his own nieces ! We give two extracts , illustrating the character of

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

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

      In one year he was tired of his wife , and within two years and a half from their marriage lie had her head off , with that of Lady Rochford , at tho same time . The marriage of his last wife , Catherine Parr , he may be said to have celebrated in his usual way ; for Catherine being a good Protestant , during her honeymoon , that is only sixteen day * after their wedding , he burnt three Protestants alive in Smithfield . He was a monarch ofso lusty a humour , that he did not fancy himself properlymarried without he amused hie people with the fallen head of a wife , a minister , or with the flames and cries of a few heretics . Between the accession and the death of this " monster , " some thousands of individuals" were executed . Lord Snrrey , the brave poet , was liis last victim : at the time of his decapitation , the royal wretch was breathing liis last . Here is an account of his last moments : —

      The picture of the Bluff Harry , in his last year , is a fine example of what a loathsome piece of carrion pure blood may become . " The most wretchod being in thil wretched state of thing * was the king himself , whose mind and body were alike diseased . In the absence of other pleasures , he had given himself up to immoderate eating ; and be had grown so enormously fat , that he could not pass through an ordinary door , nor could he move about from room to room without tUe help of machinery , or of numerous attendant * . The old issue in his leg had become an inveterate ulcer , which kept him in a constant state of pain and excessive irritability . It was alike offensive to the 6 enses , and dangerous alike to life and property to approach this corrupted mass of dying tyranny . The slightest thing displeased him , and his displeasure was a fury and a madness ; and nothing on earth could give him a wholesome , agreeable feeling . How his last wife Catherine Parr , escaped destruction , appears almost marvellous ; she was inoro than once in imminent peril .

      In the reifen of this royal devil , commenced the rise ot the new church-plundering aristoeracy , ; but of this disreputable gans ; we must defer saying anything until our next number .

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      ROBBERY OP THE LANn PROM THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY , It is a fact , that , within the last two hundred yearB , almost every aero of land in this country , except the large entailed estates of the aristoeraey , have quite changed hands . Tkere is quite a different race and class of men now living on all the small possessions of land , or on what has been formed out of those small possess , ions ; but the greatest and most rapid and striking nitrations ofthis kind have taken place within the last fifty years . The French Revolution , in fact , introduced an English Revolution , which , if i t did not shed ro much blood on tho British loil , it thoroughly altered the title and holding of property , and pressed the blood as perfectly out of thousands of oppressed hearts .

      That possession of small portions of land by the people , which now so strikingly distinguishes the people of the Continent from those of England— . thich makes , indeed , property bo different a thing there and here—would seem at one time to have been almost as general here as any where . If we still go into really old-fashioned districts —into those which the modern changes have not yet reached , where there are no manufacturers—into the obscure and totally agricultural nooks—we nee evidences of a most ancient order of things . Tho oittagcs , the farm houses , the very halls are old ; the treeB are old ; the hedges are old ; everything is old . There is nothing that indicate * change or progress . There is nothing , even in furniture , that may not have been there at least five hundred years ; there is much thnt induces you to

      believe that eight hundred years ugo it existed . In common labourers' cottages , before the late rage for old English furniture , which led the London brokers to scour the whole empire , penetrate into every nook , and bring up all the old cabinets , hall tables , old carved chairs , carved presses and wardrobes , and retail them for five hundred percent ., besides importing great quantities of similar articles from Holland , Belgium , * and Germany , I have myself seen old heavy ample arm chairs , with pointed backs , in which one might imagine an Alfred or an Edward the Confessor sitting , with the date in great letters on their backs , of 1300 or 1400 . There are plenty of houses so ancient , that in the roofs and woodwork the ends of the great wooden pegs with which their framing is pinned together are not cut off . But without , how old

      is erarything ! The treeB are dead at top and hollaw nt heart ; there are ancient elms and oaks stanfliug , whose shadow is said to have covered their acre of ground , but which have now neither head nor heart ; huge hollow shells , so capacious , that whole troops of children pi ny in them , and- call them their churches ; and whole flock * of sheep or herds of cattle seek shelter from the summer tun under them . These old villages too , are lost , as it ware , in a wilderness of ancient orchards , where the trees produce apples and pear * totally unlike any now grown in modern plantings . The villages are surroundi d bj a maze of little crofts , whose hedges have evidently never been set out in any general enslosure , for they do not run in regular squares and straight lines , but form all imaginable figures , and with the line of beauty go

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

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

      The first shock to this state of things was the Reformation . The breaking up of the monasteries at once turned a vast amount of monks and nuns on the country , nearly destitute of means of existence ; and a still vaster amount of poor people , who had to be supported on the third of the church revenues , given expressly for the poor . Those , suddenly deprived of all other resources , were converted into a monstrous mass of beggars and thieves , that overrun , from the days of Henry 8 th to those of Elizabeth , the whole land , and bade defiance to constables , stocks , and gallows . Never were there such swarms of miser ; and vice and terror known in England , even in tbe fiercest heat of the civil wars . Henry himself hanged , of these wretches , his thousands annually , without lit all sensibly diminishing the misery or the terror . This ,

      however , was only the pressure on one side of the case : that on the other was as great . The people , greedy courtiers , gamblers , commissioners , and speculators , who got hold , by a variety of means , but seldom by any honest ones , of the church and abbey lands , rose , or wished to rise , into the ranks of the aristocracy . They w « uld have their halls , their parks , their chases ; their children would no longer follow trades ; they , too , must be provided with land ; and hence came the growing jealousy of all encroachments by the poor on waste lands—nay , the violent disposition-to encroach , on one plea or another , on the small proprietor . Then , 5 r fact , bepan those scenes so well described bj Goldsmith in his " Deserted Village . " Every one of these novi homines would have an establishment like the ancient aristocracy .

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

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

      Well : but it had been tolerable had the mischief stopped here ; but it did nof . Such was the value of land , and such the number who had made money by trade , by manufactures , by government contracts , « fce ., &c , that the pressure on the small proprietors became like an overil-. wing flood , and in a great measure swept them from the faco of the earth , and English poverty became what wo see it now—the most frightful poverty in existence . The poverty of the Continent is the poverty of mtn whohave all their little portions of land andnothing more . They and theirs by industry can with frugality

      live on this land . It is a constant support , a constant riiect . suchor ; and though they bnvo poverty tkey have no fear . That horrible condition of total destituti , n , ol total dependence on tho employment by others—the total dependence on the labour of their hands—which , when that employment is not given , drops them at once into the bottomless pit of pauperism , and makes the lives of millions one great heart-ache , one great agony of Hit vultures of necessity and uncertainly gnawing at their vitals , is only known in the midst ofthis land of Iuxur . v and unesamnled wealth .

      With what monstrous strides has this great English Revolution stalked on since the impulse oi' Hie Preileli Revolution , which gave a . tenfold lilo to our manufacturing and to all sorts of jobbing aud speculation ! The men who had made largo sums by government contracts , stockjobbing , lotteries , corn dealing , and by the legal operations which all these things brought into play , were ; till looking out for landed investments , especially iu oldfashioned places , where land was still cheap ; and where , therefore , a large tract could be purchased for a trifle , and a great house be built and a park laid out . In many eases , nay in lew , could these snelliiiB fellows tinil a piece of earth large enough for them , and soon began to cust p-eed y oycB on all the little inclosures around ( hem ; and in a wonderfull y short spaco of time did their great Aaron ' s rod of money mannge to swallow up all the rod * and roods of their lesser nei ghbours . Oh , many a piteous tale of huge oppression , chicanery ami vinlvnt or treacherous wrong , could the history oC these things unfold '

      For the story itself ( "Sampson JJoolcs , and liis man Joe Ling , " ) we must refer our readers to the magazine . The other contents are good readable articles , but do not call for any comment .

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      Lord John Russell has taken a residence for the season near Rickmansworth , Hertfordshire , and tbe same is now boin ? prepnred for the reception of liis Ltirdanip and family . [ Neighbour to the Chartist * at O'Connorville !] Lord Panmuhe , father te the Right Hon . Fox Maule . Secretary at War , has given the sum of £ 1 , 000 towards the infirmary for tlieEeJief of tho Sick Poor at Arbroath , North Britain . TnB Damnable Gamb Laws . —In the year 1843 not less than 4 . 529 persons were convicted of offences against the Game Laws , had suffered fine or imprisonment ; from 1833 to 1844 . inquests were held on ¦ he bodies of forty-one gamekeepers , and in not less than twenty-six cases verdicts of wilful murder were returned .

      Ankwkr to a Challkkge—Through some mistake , a eentkmen in the South of Ireland led off the dance at a country ball out of his turn . The person appointed to the postof honour challenged the intruder , and received the following reply : — "Sir , I cannot understand why , because 1 opened the ball at night , a ball should apen me in tho morning—Yours , &c . " March of Siiopocract . — " Assistant . "like"shopman , " having been common and low , a Lincolnshire establishment has dubbed its young mon " coadjutors !" Rights op Women . —The Indian Examiner says , that females hold nearly one-fifth of the votes in the E ; iBt India Flouse — that they generally vote at the ballots , and never attend at the debates .

      Westminstkr Bridsb The work of dilapidation up"n this old and dangerous structuie has been carried on during the week with great rapidity . A large portion of the masonry down to the parapet over the arches , on the east side , has been removed . The intended new bridge is the topic of conversation in most parts of Lambeth . It seems the bridge is to be carried over the Thames in a new line , diverging to cannon-row , and the opening into Parliament street will face Charles-street . According to this de « sign more site will be given to the Houses of Parliament , and the noble buildings which distinguish Westminster will be seen to greater advantage . Mn itart Brutality . —There are cases on record , in the office of tho Judge Adrocate ( wherein delinquent soldiers have been sentenced to receive three thousand lashes !

      Mr . Struit , M . P ., for Derby , has accepted the stewardship of the Chiltren Hundreds , which was preparatory to his appointment as Vice-President of the Railway Board , an office created by t ' e Railway Commissioners Act . A Large GATnnnisooirTHE Protectionists in the EastRidins of Yorkshire issnid to bo in contemplation durine the Parliamentary recess , at which Lord George Bentinck , the Marquis of Granny , Mr . Disraeli , Mr . Hudson , and other leaders will be present .

      Thk Governor-General op India . —We understand that , whatever doubts may be entertained as to the successor of the present Governor-General of India , { here is none whatever as to the fact of an early vacancy in that high office being all but certain . We hear that the latest lei tars from Lord IJardingeexpress his fixed determination tit retire into private life as soon as it can be dine without detriment to the public service . Travelling . —In 1717 , thejourney from London to Worcester was performed ( "if God permit" ) , by Eliz . Winslow and Thomas Wingfield's stage coach , and ablehnrses , in three days . «> - (? M / kmcfcm Paper , Freak or Nature . —Among a litter of pigs , s few days ago , from a sow belonging to Mr , Joseph White , Bislow . waB one presenting a nr OBfc extraordinary appearance . It had one eye , and that a larae one , in the mii'dle of the forehead ; it had a natural mouth ; four " wattles" on one side of its head , and one ear

      much larger than the other . Over thn eye was n round trunk , about two inches long , asd the thickr . e-s of a man ' s finger . It lived some time , but was killed by the sow laying on it . Coins " Focxd—During the excavations in Saltergate , Chesterfield , a shilling , ofthercicn of Edward VI ., was discovered amongst the mould . The coin is in a perfect state , and contain * on the obverse the full lace and bust of the King and on the reverse the arms of France and England quartered together , with tho well known legend "Posui Deum Adjutorem Meum . " Several co ; ns of later date have also been found ,

      Lynch-iaw Ladies in MicniG an . —On Friday mornms . the lOlh of July , between tho hours of one and two , about forty ladies , from the vil | age of Utica , Michigan , secretly assembled , proceeded to a bowlingalley , armed with axes , hatchets , hammers , Arc , and completely demolished it . They had viewed this insidious foe to their domestic peace for some time with an anxious and a jealous eye ; and , having waited in vain for some legal proceeding against it , determined for once , to take the law into their own bands . They went at it with much spirit and energy , hacked the bed of the alley , tore , down the walls , razed the roof to the cround . and finished with trampling upon

      and breaking the roof to pieees . The building was eighty feet long , and this work of destruction was accomplished in a little less than an hour . Hop Picking . —On Saturday and Sunday , the leading roads in Kent were literally thronged with persons from London wending their way to Maidstone and other hop districts . From the metropolis alone ) ipw , irds | of 8 , 000 are annually employed in hop p icking , who " , from their abstinent manner of living whilst engaged in the occupation , generally manage to take home a comfortable competence , in tbe same manner as ihe Iri 9 h reapers on their return home from the harvest in this country .

      Radical Patriotism— Tub wax the English Vesplk's Money is Squandered . —A Letter from Cannes , says : '' Lord Brougham and Mr . Leader have just afforded us a spectacle quite u uisual in thiscountry . It may be rerr . embered that tiiree years back these gentlemen purchased the fine forest of La Croix de Gardy . The whole of it has since been surrounded with a high wall in the Eneli-ih style , and fourteen stairs , as many does , and a number of young fawns have arrived here from Sardinia , and are to be immediately let lose in the forest . They were under the care of six keepers , in handsome liveries of

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

      Shocking Cool . —Most people have , hoard the story of the Irishman who , on being awakened one night with the intimation that the house was on fire , coolly turned hinwelf , and as coolly replied , " It is nothing to me , I am only aJodger . " Tlio anecdoto has been generally looked upon as ft joke , but the following incident m » y prove that it may have been no joke after all . One day last week , as the stage coach was being rapirlly driven past a small village between Ayr and Maybole , a child , apparently between four and five ye ti'S of ago . was observed playing in the middle of the road , unconscious of

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

      The Suicide of Sir Justinian Vkrk Isham , Bart . The inquest on the remains of this unfortunate gentleman took place on Thursday . It appeared from the evidence that the death of deceased ' s father , which occurred about eighteen months ago , greatly affected him , and during the last eight mouths his spirits became more depressed . He avoided society , and his manners were exceedingly eccentric . He had recently purchased a quantity of musical instruments , comprising a piano , violins , _ / lutes , ffagcolots , and cornopeans , which was considered somewhat remarkable , as he could play but little on any of them , lie also boHtiut a stftfck Of bOblS AWll sl \ 0 C 9 , amounting to upwards of 100 pairs . No letters or papers were found to show that the deceased contemplated suicide ; but the evidence went to show that liis mind was deeply affected . The Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity . " The body was removed to Lauipton Hall for interment in the familv vault .

      KiniiDAus . —Attempt to Burn tiie Gaol . —A prisoner in Kirkdale Gaol a few days since set tire to the lodge in which the wardens ' of the gaol slept , and , but tor a timely discovery , tho prison might have been entirely destroyed . The object of the incendiary was to get transported . Another Fatal Accident at Loxoton . —On Wednesday a most lamentable accident occurred at Mr . Sparrow's , Gould Street , Coal-pit , Longton . Some boys were playing together on the pit-bank , when the clothes of one of them , named John Ford , about eight years o'' age , became entangled with the chnhi attached to the cngiuo drum , which , iu revolving , drewthe child with great force agninat » portion oi the machinery , and crushed his neck and one iinn in a frightful manner . Tho unfortunate boy survived

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      tho accident only about two hours . An inquest was held at the Throe Tuns Inn , before W . Harding , iwq .. and a Verdict of " Accidental Death" returned . i he Ocban—The deepest part of the ocean which 3 ™/ i ! f en ? raildod ' "» on « mile «» dMX » . y . 8 ix feet in depth , if «« t auppoM its medium depth to be two P + ? A » r v . x nUwouW covcr ! iII the dry parts sirriU'stt r ^ x" —• " * ilitMrroif Court Palack .-TIic late fine weather has caused an unprecedented number of visitors to this interesting place of public recreation , and on the lowest average for many Sundays past the numbers who have availed themselves of recreation in its asrpeable domains , have not been less than from five to fix thousand . The price of grain is still increasing in the north of France . The Echo deLambe et Muse attributes this rise to speculators hoarding up large quantities in their granaries .

      As Advbkturr . —In the beginning of last week , a sloop employed in the herring fisfiery Jeft Wfok with a cargo of herrings for a curer in Kirkaldy . On Wednesday afternoon the vessel was hove to off tlie Aberdeen coast , about ten miles south from Buchan Ness , where the captain took the small boat , and , accompanied by a boy , went en shore to -viwt some friends , leaving an individual named Roper , belonging to this place , in charge of the vessel during his absence . In the mean time , the breeze , which was northerl y , began to freshen , when , in order to avoid danger , the man who wag left on board of the sloop stood out to sea . TJie wind , howercrstiJJ kept

      , increasing in strength , while the sea , was becoming more boisterous , in consequence of which the seaman found it impossible to regain the coast to take the captain and boy on board . Tklnking it the safest plan—hazardous as the attempt w s in his unaided condition—to proceed on the voyage , he did so , and arrived at Kirkaldy in perfect safety , having been sixty hours on deck , during which time he had run a distance ot 130 miles . The captain has since arrived at kirkaldy . happy , no doubt , to find his vessel , whicn he had last seen on the Aberdeen coast with a xnhtnry individual on board , safe in harbour . — Witness .

      Witchcraft ik Scotland . —The following extraordinary statement is from a report ( inst printed by Parliament ) on the Btate of prisons in Scotland : — 'The connection of ignorance with crime is shown in the present report by the general low state of education among the prisoners , already described , and bv some special cases . In particular I would refer te the following , in the report on the Dingwali Prhon , and to the subjoined notice of a late riot at Dun * fermline : —W . G ., aged twenty-four . I lire nea-Tain , and am a fisherman . I am in prison for assaulting a woman named M . M . She is about sixty years old . I awaulted her because she was 'b witching" everything I had . " She prevented m » from catching fish , and caused my boat to be upset . " The other fishermen said they should have no chance of catching any herrings while I was with them , and

      they would not let me go out with them . M . M . is "known" by all in the neighbourhood "to be a witch . " She has been seen a hundred times " milking the cows in tUe shape of a hare , " though I never saw her do so myself . People believe , in my neighbourhood , that if any one " cets blood from a witch " shecan do them no barm , and that is the reason that I cutM . with my penknife ; but I held the knife bo that it might go into her as short a way as possible . All I wanted was to get blood I was not the first person who wanted to draw blood from her . Those who advised me to cut her told me that if I did not she would drown me , and the reBfc who were in the boat « ith me , ad sure as any man was over drowned . It is hard that I should be put in prison , for the Bible orders us to punish witches , and there was not a man r > n the Jury who did not know M . to be a witch . "

      Anecdotes or Barrikotox , the Famous Pickpocket . —Atoue of the music meetings in St . Martin ' s Church for the benefit of the Leicester Infirmary , I noticed a tall , handsome man , in a scarlet roat . with a gold but ! on-hole in a black collar , the fashion of the day , moving with a gentleman-like air . This person proved to be the notorious Barrington , the pickpocket . In going up the middle aisle he was invited into the Mayor ' s pew , and sat between Miss St . John and Mr . Ashby of Qucenby , our ' ate member of Parliament . One of the plates was held at the door by this lady and gentleman , and whon Mr . Banington laid his guinea upon the plate , he was kindly thanked by his new acquaintance , and passed on with a graceful bow . The gentry who held the plates retired into the veslry to add their

      contributions , and when Mr . Ashby would have placed his ten guineas on the plate , to his utter astonishment they had flown from his pocket . After considerable umaisement , the mystery was explained by one of the company ^ remarking that Miss St . John ' s pocket was turned inside out , and that the gentlemen who sat between them had helped himself to the subscription he had put on the plate , and something else besides . It is said that Barrington facilitated his operations by instruments , which he had made for 1 hat purpose . I recollect a circumstance of this kind . lie waited on a surgical instrument maker and ordered a pair of scissors of a curious form . A lew days afterwards he called for them , liked them , and psid two guineas which the maker charged . After he had left the shop , the cutler's wife said . "My dear , as thegentleman seemed so much pleased with the scissors , I wish we had asked him what

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

      Plague ok Boxr . n an Euigiust Ship . —The following melancholy intelligence has been received at Lloyds' , by the last mail , brought by the Hibernia , relative to a frightful fever having broken out on board the Elizabeth and Sarah , emigrant ship , beloncing to KiJIala , Captain 0 . Simpson , master , by which upwards of forty-six of the passengers had fallen a sacrifice . The notice in question runs thus : — "Quebec , August 6 . —The barque Elizabeth and Sarah , Simpson , bound from Killala , with passengers , has arrived off the Basque Islands , and is reported to have lost a great number of tho passengers ,

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

      Fme w HqiBORN . —Wednesday afternoon , between the hours of four and five o ' clock , considerable alarm was created in the neighbourhood in consequence of the great volume of smoke which issued from tbe rear of Mr . Sparrow ' s , tea , ( offec , and pepper dealer's establishment , 95 , Ilolborn , and which extends into Dcnn-strect . The fire originated in the wood work at the back of the cylinder , while coffee was being roasted . The speedy arrival of two engines from the London Fire Establishment fortunately prevented tbe spreading of the flames , and therefore the daniugo to property was very trifling .

      sekious and 1 'atai , Accidents , —On Wednesday morning , whilst waiting on the pier at Hungerford Bridge , for a conveyance down the river , Mr . James Mitchttl , a solicitor's clerk , was thrown off the barge into the river , llo was standing too near tho margin , and the swell of the water , occasioned by the Princess steam-boat passing at the moment , caused the accident . Mr . Mitchcl attempted to swim back again , but was driven by the water with great violence against the kcclofa steamer . It was with the utmost difficulty that he was enabled to swim clear of tho numerous steam-boats on the river ; but having done so , he succeeded in reaching the opposite shore , after remaining in the water very nearly twenty minutes . On the same day , between eleven and

      twelve o'clock , a lad , aged twelve years , employed as an errand boy to a tradesman In the Wai worth-road , Camberwell , was knocked down in tbe Newington causeway , by one ot ihe Pecldiam Rye omnibuses , and , in consequence of tho injuries sustained , lie was conveyed to St . Thomas's Hospital . On Tuesday evening , about nine o'clock , a youth was drowned In the river , near tho Thames Tunnel Pier . The decased , it apepars . together with a waterman , was proceeding up to London P . ridge , when , through the < larkne ? s of the night , they Van foul of a heavily laileu coal barge , nearly opposite the Thames Tunnel Pier , the . boat half turned over , throwing the boy into the water . The waterman succeeded in saving his own life .

      Ierbific Fire . —On Sunday morning , between one and two o ' clock , a ¦ dbry destructive five broke out in the large looking gjhss ' manufactory belonging to Mr . Foletli , situated in Bateman's Row , Curtain Road , Shnreditch . The fire commenced in the lower floor , and owing to tho combustible nature of the stock-intrade , they extended with more than usual rapidity . The en « iiies of tho Brigade , West of England , and County Companies were prompt in their attendance , and as soon as a sufficiency of water could be ob . tained thev set to work-, but floor after floor fell a prey to the furv of the flames , so that by three o ' clock tho whole ol" the stoek-iii-trado was destroyed , and the factory completely gutted . Tho total loss must be very considerable .

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      THE MUSICAL HERALD . Part i . London G . Bhjgs , 421 , Strand . This part contains | a choice selection of musical compositions , and well-written and interesting articles on "Old English Plays , " "Sacred Music , " " The Begear's Opera , " "Scottish Music , " &c , < fee . ; also biographical notices of Haydn and Madame Can-iporese . This publication is a boon to the lovers of Music , and well deserves their support .

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      PUNCH . Part LXII . London : Punch Office , 8 f > , Fleet . Street . Both " Old Ireland " and " Young Ireland" arc accommodated with a well-merited ' flagellation in this part of Punch . The "begging impostors" of Buckingham Palace who want £ 150 , 000 to enlarge their very small and inconvenient premises arc exhibited in tliciv proper characters as " cadgers . " We wish this exhibition could teach the Royal paupers modesty , but we very much fear that they are incorrigible .

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      * Sui-h a * "Fa ' . eo without Uon-c-ls ; " "Maulfon , tlie Woody ; " "Walter Much , the >! urt > ei < r ; "Softim , tlif Merciless : " and "Gwlvsclsal , the Iron-her . vted !"

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      THE ALMANACK OF THE MONTH . Soptember . London : Punch Office , 86 , Fleet Street . The fun " grows fast and furious " in this month ' s number . " The Lord Mayor ' s Visit to Oxford , " " The Constant Reader , " and " Voices from tho Crowd in Fleet Street , " a > e capital specimens of the sublimely ridiculous . ' Gilbert a Beckett ' s parodies ' of Charles Mackay's poems are really " rich and acy . "

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 5, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1382/page/3/