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CANADA . CaVADA . The intelligence from ihe seat of civil war is so contradictory , that it would only be casting oar columns to publish the absurd statements otferly repugnant , to each other , which the A&efog yress is publishing . Thisis clear , that Upper Canada , upon which , the people-plundering party bad relief has made a strong demonstration for democracy . Toronto , { formerly called York , ) in Upper Canada , bad been actually taken by the boasted loyal people of t&at colony—thus showing that the opinion of Sir Francis Head , their Governor , that the upper province did not sympathise with , the lower part of the colony is a delusion . It is alleged Toronto ha 3 been retaken , but this news is not confirmed . Several towns in Upper Canada had
hoisted the tri-eolorv As Upper Canada is settled bv British descendants , and bounded by the western parts of the States of New York and Michigan , which are also all settled by the descendants of British" men , there is a comnrai ity of moral sent ] - mem between them , which is likely to display itself in a mutual outbreak of physical force . In Lower Canada the military have , of course , succeeded in capturing all the places within a ready inarch of the capital . This is exactly what occurred in the outbreak of the first American war . Ministers chuckle now , as did George the Third's servile took in 17 "" . The result is plain—Independence for Canada , or , . sooner or later , a general war . Our reader * must be prcwarned that httle truth can be expected from any Gazette accounts of Canadian affairs .
( From the Vindicator . ) SYMPATHY FKOM TJPPEB CANADA . GREAT A :. "TI-Ct > EBCIOX MEETING OF THE TOWXSHIP OF MiRKHAM . Pursuant to notice in the couary newspapers , and by hand-bills circulated among the people , a public nierliiig-of the Beformers of Msrkham was held at me o ' clock-in the afternoon of Tuesday , the IDth of 5-. pu-mber . lS 37 , on the premises of Mr . Wiliiaui Ketcimm , in Mariham village . About 400 friends < jf Kvfonn were-present , andthey chose Mr . Jo * ejh Tomlinson , clmhier , to be chairman , and Mr . Peter Milne , wojl-carder and merchant , as tee secretary . Their proc-ei-dimr * were orderly , every speaker was attentively listened to , the resolutions were calmly dUi-us ? ed , and although many came armed for selfdefence , ibm * was no violence ia > r cau < e for vioJesre . Linrkham sustained its ancient reputation as the alw » de of a friendly people . "We do not encourage Orance Lodges and disorder ) v characters .
After the u ^ al preliminary proceedings , the declaration of their grievances , s * t forth by the lit fanners of the cky of Toronto , was read to ihe meeting , and it wss Rr-Milvt-il , J . That the declaration and pror » vui * urs of ihe Reformer * of Toronto , dated 31 > t J ^ uv li ^ t . haun ir been published in the . Yeyv . auJ this < iay read au < l expLiineil to this nuvriiit ' . we B . lopl ihe same as the se « tinieiits of the Reformers of . Markiimn , and agree to act upon the principles therein set furih .
Ke *> lve 3 . 2 . That according to an estimate . a _> rareially made as the nature of the inquiry would admit , the people of the comity of York are i :: z . ed as fullrtvrK . —1 litre follows a long enumerari « m-uf the fiscal impost * of which they complain , after which the resolution concluded in the following teraii . J— -We are convinced that to get rid of this organized sy > tem of oppression , w «? must depend murh more tin ourselves than on any man or set of men in England , and we see the necessity of establishiuz Reform _ Soc : eiies of from twriw to forty . and will proceed to thi * ir orgm-Liarion , Reform cannot pjwper without popular "" enthusiasm .
Resolve J 3 . That tae imports we have named and otbfj" hiravy taxation is deeply injurious to life seluVd inhabitant * ofthe proriisce ; because it withdraws froin circulation t : ie cold and silver . sub > ti- » tctim : in "its place , by the contrivances of the governor and ol the bank of I " pper Canada . - worthies * jJSjK-7 of bankrupt banks ; Ucfcunsr"it draini ; onr proMUce of its specie to tnrich individuals or associations in Enxope , and disconrares those homemade productions . mid domestic manufactures -which " are i-uited to this fine country ^ because it lowers the value of 2 and < and farming produce ; Iwcanse ir prevent * emigration hither and occasions the removal
U > other lanus of many of our most estimable anil vealluy st'idery ; because a great siiare-of the proceeds and of loans raised in Europe on the credit of our farms- are wasted uselessly , pilfered by government officers , expended iu enormous salaries on rovernoir and other transient persons , who come here in povt-rl _ r nnd return to Europe after acqnirior . fortoues out of the proceeds of our active and illrequited iudusrry ; and further , because many thousands a-year are ' erpended in bribing the pr iesthoods of various creeds to raise strife , and debnte , an . l touV . s , and i-onfnsion in neighbourhoods where , but for their iuterference , all would be friendship , unity , and peare .
Kesolve-J , 4 . That the governor * and rnlers of this colony havt combined with others , our enemies , to prevent , as far as they dared , the education of our Toons men ; have robbed our coinmou schools Of 225 . 000 acres of valuable lands , secured to them nearly half a century ago upon the honour of the King and the Government of Britain , have kept other 500 , 000 acres of the same school lands awil-A * r-Jiess for forty vears , so that do one child of Canada was ever enaLjeu to learn Li * A B C by means of tLe proci'edi ?; the Government have also crushed ewry eff < -. n of the House of Assembly to make a ltsrge and suitable endowment for education , although absolutely necessary for the working of popular insttation > ; and while the children o ! the pensioners and plan-men at Ti roiito have a college and mast »* r > which cost Upper Canada £ liM ) . 000 , those emiuently nsefnl men , the common school teachers , are grudged their miserable pittance of some £ 3 or £ 4 a Imlf
year . Acting on the same principle , the Brni > L liovernJiient in Lower Car . uda have couvt-rted public s-.-miiiaries of education iato soldiers" b « irracks . aud din' up in out ? dr . y 1 AW common « cuools , by reiusiirz to aliuwiLe HotT- * of Assembly to appropr iatt * -tLe jjee . iful 5 upj < liw to uphold and maintain them . . Englaud is poM-rned by an Amtocracv of Whipi and Tories , and both arxT enemies to tLe pnun-e > s of ino ' -vlitlr-e . In Iir 2 >) there were noillions in 'England who oiuld ueither read nor write , and iL 5 ou parishes in Wlucb nut one ecii < x > l wa » to be found . Aud cu-u uok , with prvat perseverance , Mr . Roebuck hn * Le ^ jrable to -obtain only X-20 . U 00 a-year from the ziiti << n t «> s"uppiirt national education , which w : te T--V-1 rflnctantly . Sucli a Go \ ermnent will honoTir ili" r " o ] or » els and csptains who teach man to kill LU f-lkiw . l > nt let tLe poor schoolmaster , who j * e *> : itiiinllv d « iinif all the good he cm , pass through life in obsraritv and indip ** nce .
lU-M . hed . 5 . lliat one great canseof the emu * raerrial and ajrricultural distress now felt in Cuuntia i « that crufl" monopolising code of laws made in EurnjM ' . w hen-by all other nstionc except Britain are * ii ui out fn > m afree trade with the countries on the b- --, ! iks <> f ibe St . Lawrence , wl » ile on the other Land , the < ' ar . aiiiniL * are shut out fruui tlie use of the Ihid-»> : i by their , own Government laying beavy and hcrieiisoine duties and taxes on thus- * articles they r /» u ! d l >!«? t purrhasF in the New York market , ana pr .-vmied by ( Jrt-at Britain and the United States ln > m st-llins their jitaple article * of export to tLe best a ^ vam-aris I n-ing bpinmed in on nil side . * by r ^ c ? aurjcxmniercial regulations of other countries , aud nt-itle-ffd and despised bv that power which i « tbe most
bound in houoirr and justice to have cnarded CanadaV rigbts . Under tlitse circumstances -we will , to the nlmo .-l of our power , abstain from wearing the liwry of tubt-r lauds , enconrnct * the nse of Canadian clt > tlis anl other goods , and ctnisume as little as poi-Kble of the mercbandi . « es ¦ srhicu ha \ e paid duties and taxes to the British or any foreign Government . He > o ] rpd , - ^ i . That we have looked with t' ; irce > t attention to the course taken bv the Government of England , and by tb « people of Lower Canada , and the assembly of " their choice , and we condemn the atrocious resolutions moved by Lord John Russell for coercing the Canadians , and governing them by the iron rod of colonial despotism . If their and our
money can continue to be taken from them and us without their and onr conient , for base and uu worthy purposes—bj resolutions passed in Europe , ur by legvslatiTC act « - made there by persons ignorant of Canada—if bank ciartera witjj vast powers can be panted and sent ont to a few monopolists andfavourit » - < by a Queen or King from England , in defiance of the resolves of tie popular branch of the Legislature and the requirements of the constitution , then * r » those who submit to socb o £ pre ? sion unworthy of the nama of fre « men , and tmbt to be the depoatarits and guardians of British or Canadian liberty . And we do hereby nominate as a committee of vigilance and public safety for the township s > t ^
arkhain-Resolved , 7 . That being well assured of the love of liberty and natred to oppresaon by which the HoBonratile Lonis Joseph Papinean and bis patriotic « oantrymen of Lower Canada are animated in their Pfi-smt noble struggle , we-are determined to make common canst ? with them , and do . hereby declare " » t we would jconrider the redreta of their grievances as the best guarantee for the rediwsa of onr ° * n , whirh object we Terily beliere would hare been obtaiued had responsible executive * , on ihe principles laid down by Dr . Rolph , Mr . Baldwin , and toe other members of the ixecutire Council of Jannary . 1836 , been conceded to the colonists . f Rwolved , 8 . —That Messrs . Rolph , Madntosh , Morruon , Park , Gibson , Dnncombe , Moore , and « hers of the minority of the present assembly , de-» rre well of Ihe people for the noble stand they Jure made against executive tyranny and oppression .
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Resolred , 9 . —That with a population of 15 , 000 or 16 , 000 gonLi , this riding Ls represented in Assembly by ' -bnt one inuEiber , while other p laces , the population and proper ^ of which nniteaisless than oars , send many members , wbereby we are deprived of onr just influence over the imposition of taxes , and onr remonstrances as to trade and narigation nnlieeded . T ^ Tien snch n man us Mr . IJagerman comes forward to declare ,- ** that , it woul'l very greatly advance tlie commercial prosperity of Upper Canada if its merchants and traders were permitted to import by way of the United States suck British and foreign manufactures as they require ^ ej-pecially daring those periods when the narigauon of the St . Lawrence in closed by ice , and the inclemency of the season , " it is worth while for the British authorities to take the hint .
Resolved , 10 . —That from £ 30 , 000 to £ 50 , 000 a-year of the specie raised from our indnstry by taxation will now have to be annually sent to London to pay interest on what is called the publicdebt , although from the expenditure of the money borrowed in onr name , partly on pensions , salaries , bank-bonse , Welkina canals , war losses , and the like , we have reaped very little advantage , and scarcely any additional income . Even the £ 50 , 000 law for our roads , sanctioned by the King in council more than a twelvemonth ago , is forcibly kept from us by Sir Francis Head , and those who are solemly sworn to pursue an uabiassed and honest course towards the country ; and this is done in open defiance of theruquiremenu of the statute of April , 1836 , for road improvements .
Resolved , 11 . That we elect members of Assembly , acreeably to the constitutional charter , forfour years , unless it was sooner dis-iol y ed bv the death-of the King or a royal proclamation . Tlie act ofthe present J / r ii / ed , " pensioned , and conopf 3 tou . « e , . < JU ) Ctio » ed by that wretched state machine tVse Coioniul-onici ' , and by that pretended Reformer , Sir F . B . Head , to omiinio itself three vear * longer , is a violation of our " ri « ht < , and we ho ! 1 tlie acts of a legislature so cmi * tnntfrl a > imperffct and uiicor , stinitioiial . /¦ -TU ; following resolution was moved , but there was . no vote taken upon it : - JlfsolivJ , 1-2 . That we deeply regret to fiml-that the hitlu-rto peaceful rhnracterof this country has bi-i'ii staiued : md taniisiied bv a band of cowardlv
ruiifans ,-by whom » oe \ t * r li * d on and abetted , who have brought into tbe ^ uite and orderly meetings of << ur ltr «> tlix-r farniers sinK " . discord , riot , violence , and bloo . Isiie-i , and liliei their weapons of ort ' euce a _ aii .-t the iuinwnt . : > i vd . and defenceless of our p Tijulation , in tin- preA- 'iuv of cojnniifsioners of the pe ' ic- " , and in open day . Tin- l > ii-i : ie < s i » f'lie ' day was clbse . l by giving three h ?; uTV vln ' i-r-i f ? r yir . I ' jiphi . Tin . and tin cause of rivil ?> nJ ri'liriovs lilxrty r . ll over the world ; after which tin * people rt-tunivd to their homes in friendship anJ peace .
X wrsTY-Two Huv ? xs Crtshed . —On the 31-r . of Dec at five in the morning , a frightful accident occurred at Cadinet ( Avignon . ) A part of tbe rocky strata forming tbe plateau of the ancient castle of Vnucluse detached itself from the principal ina- > , a ; : d in failing crushed tncnry-nro houses , wh * : c"h , were chiefly occupied by industrious and inilijrcnt families . If a child of » evcu years of ape had not . awakened its mother , and she tbe greater part of ter neighbours , more than fifty persons would have j . cnshcd . Nine bodies have already been due out of the ruins ; three persons have been Aved . Miiiiy families are in tonscquonee without nouie or food ; and it is feared that a ponderous wall of thi-old chateau , which was built on the edge of the rock , may momentarily give way . The rocks in that direction are alarmingly < hoilowcd at the base , and have no sub ^ -antiai support . —Droit .
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Meetj . w . at the Ct . owx A ? m A'XCHon . —At the Crown nnd Anchor Tavern , in London , on Thursday wei'k . ' a great njeetinxr was holden on the Canadian qnfsuon . many $ ppeeu . » . « of supj > osed gre&t men were made , but we select the following lVoin a working ninu as tbf only one really worthy of the attentioji of our readers :- — Mr . 7 ) i"rrr wished to say a few worJs . In 1791 . wLfn tbe Canadian constitution was un . ler consideration , tbe Vrhigs . Leaded by Mr . Fox , bad supported tbo 5 O vi * ry rlainx * which " ihe Cauadlons now lur . t ' . e . ( Hear , be-j . ) Wbo ware in office now ? ( Hear . ) . It w <« Id stvm thnt what -was morally wr . > se in 1791 wa . « politirallv rinbt in 1837- ( Cheers . )
11 should be reinenibervJ that tbe Radicals were now vvry jQimerous in t ! iis country , and it would not be so easy to force this country into an unjust war . ( Cluvii . ) This struck him—if they carried oh thii war -they would be compelled to call out the militia . 'Now . Lt * Would support * the case of tlie man being called on to jk-rve—be rvfn < e < l , and was asked hit objl-ctions ; he said merely . 1 won't , "' and declined giving his reasons , lie ( Mr . DuQy ) was next called on , and on being asked why be would not serve , his answer was n ' simple an-1 a " sbort one— Because I was taxeJ without beii !^ represented . '' This was no imKrinxry case , fur be < aw nt * ar him a persen who cave a silimar answer on buinsr " asked-lor-his
taxe . « . ( iir . W . Lorett . ) The people bad tlie power in t ' ieir own Lands , if they only exercise it . ( Cheers . ) Tho Utilise <> f Commons migUt . malm la ' . T » , !< ut tbi're was-a point bi-yond human pnd ' urance t » which they could m > t pusu them . ( Hear , hear , bear . ) There was a-tjnesUun which he would like to a > k :. ; ny Hon . Gt'j : t ! einan present wbi » was a member of-tiie Le ^ : slatnie . and he wnulu \ v . n it to their resj » erte « l chair-Tiiim himself . There were several parties sirnprlinp for . power in the- H »> : im * of Couimoiis , amount others , tbe Hauicnls , of wh . m ] . % ( Mr . llunu-j was ofsL * of tbe most disnucuished leaders . ( Cheers . ) The Radicals Wi » re struggling _ to obtain a { rre . iti'r ¦ sharejof power for the people . They were , however ,
uii ' urtefAtely-so placed , there seemed to lie some strange f : \ Taiity over iuein , wVich obliged tin'in to sanclioa many of tLe arts of a weak and Tiu-iiiating ministry , ( ller . r . bear !) They had draircpi tbein on by little and little , until at last they were confonntivd io knu-. r whether they were Whiifs or Railicals . ( Cheer ; . ) Now . lie "" ould put a plain -question to . auy ir . L-mbfr of the l . * ' :. i > l : ' . ti : re pre . ««* ut . Suppose LvrJ . Johu Rus .-ell were to propose a resolution in tJ »* 1 ii > u > e of Commons i ! otik liis-iulentiou to push lo extremirips tbe war , ii-jii : ist Lower Canada , were they prepared to jrive ; he . r ssiction U ) that : How coulJ you , a ! ttTthar , suj > p' » rt tb .- Whh ; s . anJ bi- ! iev » them to be tlie fri-nds vl-the pporAe ; ( llcnr . bear . )
Such a case mieht arise , aivl l » e called on the mrinhcrs "of P ^ rliaiiient who wvre there jiresent to give an an > w r as t <> what their conduct would be in sucli a ra » .- ? Their conduct lor the last two years had beeirsuch Us to shake the confidence of tin * people in all public men . ( Hear , hear !) They might think that , as Mr . V » * akloy suid . they couU HpLra somethin . ^ out i > f ihe W ' hijrs , l » ut "; i pV . iiu honest course would ' euable them t-i defv both Whigs and Tories , instead of the shilly-shally i-our ^ c wbicli they hn < l hitherto pursued . Thi-y hau been playing hide and seek , and hunt the slipper with iijein in the House of Commons . ( Laughter . ) They were willi them one £ zy nbout Ireland , and tbw opi >< J ^ ed them the ntit
day abuut CanaJn . ( Hear , hei-. r ' . ) There was no reason why they j-h . ^ ull suffer tbvmfelves to be drr gped through the mire by tbe ministry . Where was Ijtperello Evnn < to-day ' : ( Hear , hear , and laughter . ) Was be ( nsw uu ier . * Ux > -l ) preparing to go to the war in Canada : ( Hear , hear , hear ! and laughter . Ile" ( Mr . DuiTy ) had se « -n the llonouruble Chuirman liilu > fu sn ]) p » rtin ^ Lord Joha Russell since th flatter bronglit / . j nvjird JLiij ri ' -vntitions respecting Canada . Now , lit- ( Mr . Du . fv ) woull never ^ upjwrt the man w-ho pri ) p > 5 at * d surh resolutions , whether he was riirbt or wron ? . The Radical -member * ouijht Vj
meet and di-finn the course of pv > licy which they should" pursue in tlie House ol Couunons ; and though that there were bnt twenty of them , still , by acting in a .-tr . iiL'LifDrwnrl and determined manner , thi » y _ cojild put r > t ) th Whi < rs and Tories out at once . [ Hear . ] l 5 ytht-s . Mnean .-i alone could a remedy be secured , nnd he had no hesitation in sdyins , if such a _ course was ti > bo adopted , the ministry would soon finij small . Hi * trusted that he should received a distinct anstrer to a plain question , and that the Honourable Gentlemen would no lomrt- 'r act with u " party who , while th >* y profi-s ^ ed Uie j ) riucipl , 's of Charles Fox , neglected to follow in lii footsteps :. ICheers . ] F
Melaxcholy Shipwreck iXD Loss of Lives . —The Ellen and ^ arah , of Spaldinp , on her passage to Newcastle , was lo-t off Scarborough in the gale of "Wednesday , the * 20 th instant , with the whole of her crew , consisting cf Peter Boyce , master , leaving a'widow anJ two ~ children ; Tho * ma . s Knoti , mate , leaving a widow and five children ; Henry Moats and Johnson , single men . The vessel and cargo were fully insured . —Lincoln Mercury . Disadtaxtac . es oy a Decent Appeara ' kce . —On Tuesday , Thomas Leech , a younp mnn of respectable appearance and superior address , applied at the Bolton Petit Sessions , for an order for relief against the Horwich Union officers , who had refused to allow anything towards the support
of his" mother , who was very aped and infirm , and his sister , who was subject to fits , and unable to assist herself . The applicant stated that on going beforethe officers of the Union , and stating their distressed situation , they were refused all aid because he was clean and decent . In answer to the magistrate , Leech said that tbe family had nothing to live on but what was derived from his and * his brother ' s labour ; that they were weafers , and conld not earn more than 5 s . a week each . The worthy magistrate said that he would recommend a reconsideration of the case , which was all he could do , and intimated that the poor young man ' s respectable appearance and address rather , deserved credit than punishment under the circumrtance of tbe smallnesa of his means . —Bollon Free Prett .
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A Mischievous f ' aoijc . — -At theJVlaniiou-house , London , oh Mooday , the Lord Mayor * rid . that he had received a-letter upon a subject * the odd nature of which ha J induced him to withhold it from the pubttcrfor some dayiy in the expectation that some statement might be made throngh a source of indisputable lmthoritv relative to the matter of which it treated . Hie following is the letter : — - ; u To the ltight Honourable tfie Lord Mayor . " My Lord , —The writeTpresnmes that your Lordship wzQ kindly overlook tie liberty , he has taken in addressing a few lines on a subject which , within the few _ last weeks , has caosed much alarming sensation in the neighbouring villages within three and . four miles of London .
"It appears that tome individuals ( of , as the writer believes , the higher ranks of life ) have laid a wager with a mischievous and foolhardy companion ( name as yet unknown ) , that he durst not take upon himself the task of visiting many of the villages near London , in the three different disguises of a ghost , a bear , andaderil : and , moreover , that he will not dare to enter gentlemen ' s gardens for the purpose of alarming the inmates of the house . —The wager has , however , been accepted , and the unmanly villain has succeeded in depriving seven ladies of then - senses . At one house he rang the bell , and on the servant coming to . open tbe door , this worse than brute stood in a no less dreadful figure than a spectre ,
clad most perfectly . The consequence was that the poor girl immediately swooned , and has never from that moment been in her senses ; bnt on seeing any man screams out most violently , — ' Take him away I ' There are two ladies ( which your Lordship will regret to hear ) who hare husbands aud children , and who are not expected to recover , but likely to become burdens upon their families . ** Yorfear that your Lordship might imagine that the writer exaggerates , he will refrain from mentioning other cases , if any thing , more melancholy than those he has already related . 41 The affair has now been tfoing on for some time , nnd , strange tosav , the papers are still silent on the
subject . The writer is very unwilling to be unjust towards any man , but he has reason to believe that they have the whole history at their fingers ' ends , but through interested motives are induced to remain silent . It is , however , high time that such a detestable nuisance shonld be putastop to , and the writer feels assured that your Lordship , as the chiefmagistrate of London , will' take great pleasure in exerting your power to bring tbe villain to justice . Hoping your Lordship will pardon the liberty I bare taken in writing—1 remain your Lordship ' s most humble servant , A Resident of Peckham . "
The Lord Mayor , on n-ading the account , observed tbat as , our friend * on the other side of the Atlantic were in the habit of saying , it was ** extraordinary if true . " In his opinionit was not calculated lor the meridian of London , but if any trick bad been practiced by fool * , he had no doubt the vigilance ot the foliceniight be depeni > d upon to prevent annoyance , t appeared to him that the letter , which was written in u very beautilul hadd ^ was the production of alady who might have been terrified by some bugaboo into this mode of obtaining retribnUon at tho hands of fhi * Lord Alnyor ; but : is the terrible vision had not entered the city , he could not take cognizance of its iniquities .
A gentleman stated to his Lordship that tbe servant girls about Kensington , and-Hammersmith , and Ealiug told .. dreadful-. stories of the ghost or devil , who on onu occasion was said to . have-beaten a blacksmith , and torn his ftVali with iron claws , aud in others to tear the clathes from the hacks of females . Not one of the injured people had been known to tell th ^ story ; perhaps they did not live to tell it The Lord "Mayor believed that one ofthe seven ladies who had lost their seven senses was his correspondent . He hoped shf would do him the favour of a call , and lie would have an opportunity of getting from her such a description of the demon as would enable him to catch him , in spite of the paid press and the police .
Punishment , of Poverty . —Sarah Gill , an elderly woman , who appeared to be in a starving condition , and stood trembling whilst-at the bar , wa * brought up , at Hatton ( iarden , by a policeman ef the G division , charged by George Willis , gate-keeper at the workhouse of the united parishes of St . Andrew , Holborn , and St . George tlie Martyr , d : c , with having knocked at the gate , and creating a disturbance . ""'• -.-.
uilhs being sworn , stated that on Saturday night the prisoner , knocked , at the ' workhouse gate , and requested Telief , and on refusing to go away , she cansed several persons to assemble , and she wa * given into custody . Mr . Rogers asked her what she had to say ? Prisoner ( crying ) - —2 belong to the parish , and I merely went to ask for relief , but I deny having caused a disturbance . Mr . Rogers—Where did you sleep last ?
Prisoner—In "West-street , Saffron-hill . She had been servant at the Crown and Anchor Tavern , Strand . She was in great distress , and knew not what to do . Mr . Rogers—If you want relief you must apply for it in a proper manner . Inspector Fenny , of G division—She h ; v been in the station-bouBe ever since Saturday night , your worship , and * n hen she was brought in she / was evidently in a starving state , and 1 gave her some victuals , which she ate ravenously . 1 could tell she wa < hunirrv hv the !* ru ; nblitig of ber stomach .
Mr . Rogers said that she had undergone sufficient punishment , and directed that she should be taken to the workhouse and relieved or passed to her parish . ^ he subsequently rtturned to the office , ' and Hai . d that nothing had l « een done f « r her , hut she was to apply to the board on the following day , and until that time she did nfet know what to do for food or lodging . The Eons in Lent . —In Ireland regulations for fasting are differently arranged in different parishes—in some eggs ' are forbidden to be used , or even milk or cream in tea on stated dnys . In a parish in the County Kildnre , epgs were prohibited , and , in confeiJsion , Paddy Blake , the son of a
celebrated cock fighter , deposed to having infringed the order . Upon being told by the priest that ¦ . those t' ^ gs might have contained chickens , Paddy replied , " Och , no , your riverenee , sure they were biled . " "No matter , " said the priest , " they might have had chickens all the same . " The priest considered the offender ' s age , and pardoned him , with a remonstrance . His rererence wishing for sime of the fine breed of Paddy ' s father ' s cocks , asked Paddy for a clutch of his * best eggs . Pat promised to obey , and in a fesv days returned with , the eggs ; they were duly placed under a careful hen , and at the end of three weeks , the usual time allotted for
hatching chickens , inspection Was made , but riot a single egg chipped * , a month passed , and no chicken . At length , after five weeks , the priest ' s patience was exhausted , and curiosity led him to break one of the ' i'jigt , when , to his astonishment , he found it was boiled , and hard as a bullet ; he went through the ceremony of breaking the whole clutch , and having discovered that all were alike , he sent for Paddy , and thus accosted him— " You little rascal , the eggs you brought me were all boiled . " Och , yes , your riverance , I was afraid I'd smash them if I brought them raw ; and , sure , your honour tould me there might be chickens in them just the same .- '
Learned or intelligent as most certainly the community now are , comparatively with the state of society in former times , still there appears to have been one essential matter overlooked in the search for intelligence and happiness . — "How often do Medical men recommend exercise to their patients for Indigestion , Liver Complainf , Costivcness , Sick Head-aches , &c . Females leading an inactive life , and thousands of boih sexes arc , through their sundry avocations , debarred from that exercise in pure atmosphere which is essential to health ; to all such therefore , we would recommend the occasional use of that excellent Family Medicine , Frarnpton's Pill of Health , 'which as a restorative , a gentle aperient , and a promoter of a healthy action of the system , stand * unequalled in public estimation .
Destitution and Death . —Ou Thursday Mr Carter held an inquest at the John Bull , near Lambeth workhouse , on the body of John Cox , aged CO , who it is believed died from want and exposure to night air . The unfortunate man had been in a most wretched state , and compelled to sleep in the streets several nights . On "Wednesday morning he went into the tap-room of the Queen ' s Head , Lambeth , to warm himself , and the landlord was so struck with h i * deathly countenance that he sent to Mr . Dunn j one of the relieving officers , who had him removed to the workhouse , where be expired in less than two hours . One of the parish officers stated that deceased had received , for some time , from that parish Is . 6 d . per week , which a juror observed it was impossible for any man to exist upon . Verdict , •' Died from inflammation of the lungs . "
Relative Height of the Caspian and Black Seas . —The trigonometrical survey of the country situated between these seas , undertaken by order of the present Emperor of Russia , has now been completed . Several interesting results derived from this survey have been communicated in a letter lately addressed by the celebrated astronomer Strove , of the University of Dorpat , to M . Von Hnmboldt . Among other disputed points which the engineers engaged on this work have established , is the relative height of the Caspian and Black Seas . They have ascertained that the Caspian lies lOlRussian feet ( 94 French feet ) below the level of the Black Sea . A full report is shortly to be published in the Bulletin Scientifioue of St . the Petersburg Academy .
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/ 3 Th « Blkssingsof tjb ? * fJuBQiot (^'~ Afoot ujrforronate Irishinan , nimed Griffiths , was harged afewday 8 since , at the Mansien House , Loncfiw * , with having broken a pane of glass in a bakers shop . He smashed the glass , and afterwards upon getting romebread * ' he devoureAitalmost-with his eyes before he thrust it into his mddlbf vrhere it was most rapidly disposed of ; V : ' ¦ : ; ' . ; - ' :-The Lokd . M ^ AYOB ^ Did he t ake the bre-id when he broke the glass ? ; u ; v ; v Officer . —jNo , my lord . He did not tonch it , but he stared at it . Ihearso good a chara ^ rofhim , that I am sure , although Starving , he would not havei taken a morsel of it . ¦ ' ; . ' . The Loed MTayok . —^ oii give him something to eat yourself then ? ^ " y
; Officer . —I did , and he fell to most TaTenously ; There could be no . mistake about it . The Lord Mayor , —Why did you break the ¦ g lass . - ? : ¦ . "¦ ;/ ' ¦' ;¦¦ ¦ . ¦(; : . ¦•• ¦¦' .. " . ¦ ¦ : •; -: ;; .. " ' : \[ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦' . ¦ . ¦; X Prisoner . —I was dying for want of bread and sleep , and I thought I'd get a night ' s rest , and a morsel of Bomething . I had not had . anything for three days and three nights , V The Lord Mayor ( to the omcer . ) - ^ you tell me he did not take any bread from the shop . Prisoner . —N 6 y my lord . God forbid thatl should steal . ¦ - ' ¦ ¦¦' < : ¦¦ ' . - . , ' ; ' " '¦ .. - ' ' : . ' ; '" ' . ¦ ¦ • "¦ : - ¦ ¦ ¦ , ¦ ¦ The officer repeated that the man made no attempt of the kind . The Lord Mayor . —Iij is most extraordinary that a ' man with so good a character could not get employment . , . : T ,
Prisoner . — -I am unable to work , my lord . I am full of wounds and [ sores , or I could- ' get itto do . The Lord MA ^ btt ;— How did you get into so dreadful a condition R ¦ ;¦ . ¦ ' : ' Prisoner . —Fighting in Sp ain . The Lord Mayor . —lender general Evans ? : Prisoner . —Yes , I am quite useless ; not able to do anything for a morsel of ivictualsi ; The Lord Mayor . —What \ 9 your wish now ? I am willing to trerve a poor fellbw in such melancholy circumstances . ' Hav « you got any friends in Ireland . ? . . ' . , / - - ¦ . ' . . " ¦ . ¦ ¦ " .. . : '¦ . ' - - " : : " ; ' : ; ' . . Prisoner . —I don't know , my lord , that any one I knovf there is alive * I have been twenty-five years awayfromit .
The Lord Mayor . —It is lamentable to see a fellow-creature , in so destitute a condition . Let him be taken care of in the compjter for a few day * , and let his necessities be tenderly administered to , and we ehail then see ' what can bo done for him . " Nine Lives " f nailed to the Wall . —Paddy O'Grady and Julia his wifeV a rosy-haired daughter of Etuij were recently' charged , _ at Mary-le-B 6 ne police office , London , with creating a disturbance in Gratton-court , in the vicinity Of the office , andoof assaulting , Ghnrles Howe , their couritryman v a single young inan , lodger in the jsariie court , also a native of the " rirst gem - . of the sea . " ' . ' . -
Mr . R . uvtixsoN . —Tell your story . . Complainant . —That I'll soon be after doing . Well , your honour , that lady in the red curly locks was an ould swetetheart of mine ; buf . bad lubk- to her , she gave me , the slip t ' other day , and got married to that Paddy O'Grady , the biggest blackguard in thu peaceable and rqspecfcbie court . Wei ) , your honour , the next morning -theyjjell out , and had a regjar . battle ,. , and I was called upbn to separate the pair wot the priest had j ' usl made one . So , ka « e
1 would ' ut let ' eTh . light , ' theyVe owed me a grudge ever since ; and on boxing night , " I meets Paddy O'Grady near the gin-shop in the court , and without saying by your leave or with your leave , lie catches me a smack on the ean How do you lika that , " says ' he . "Not at all , " says I-- bad manners to you , " and I runs away ; so ho knocks me down stone dead with a brick-bat wot he had in his hand . So I get * up again as fresh as a kitten , arid with that hii wife comes to his assistance , arid she nailed ni « face against the wall , whilst . Paddy screwed me
nose . Mr . Rawxixson . —Nailed you against the wall ? 11 was boxing night , indeed ? Coirinlnuiant , — "Yes ., yer honour : and after that they threw me dowrh , and there wajs . a . general row , aud there was Paddy G rad y and bis wile , and aiiother Irish gintleman , all dancing , on me body at once , one alter the . other , ' till me breath . was clane gone , and then I screamed " murder" so loud that the police heard me , and came to me assistance , and saved--me from being further kilt by the likes of them . ' - ¦ - . : ' : > ' ¦ " ¦ . ¦ . > "¦ ; . ¦>' : ¦ .. / . . ' . "¦ . Mr . Rawunson . —What are you ?
. Complainant . —Only a single man , your honour . I loads a . single life . - ; ftlr . Raavlinson . —A single life . Why you ' ve as many lives as a cat . I suppose you had all been driiikiiig ? Complainant . —Yes ; we had taken a drop of the crater . ' . " ' ' .. .. ¦ ' ,. " . . - ¦ . ' . . ¦ '¦ : ' ¦ '''¦ Mr . -Rawlinson' ( to . defendants ) . —What have you to say . ? " , " . : ¦ - ¦ . - ' ¦ ¦ . . '¦ , ' , ' ..: ....., ' " Utifendants . —Why he began the row first ;! and he ' s a disgrace , to the respectable court . We want St . Patrick there to' banish all sicb vannint from the place . . ¦¦¦' .. ; The defendants having called two witnesses in their favour , the case ' was dismissed , an'd the belligerents shared the costs between them .
-Charge against a Policeman . —Samuel Much , a fiery Jittle fellow , whose mighty soul appeared sadly cramped by ( he restricted powers of his body , appeared oil Thursday week , at ( he Police Court , Hull , to prefer a charge against Police ConstuHe Higfjins , No . 71 , a huge fellow , more than six feet high , for an assault . Much said he was looking at a glass exhibition in the Marketplace , and had not been standing more than a quarter , or from that to half a second , when the policeman qame up and ordered , him to nipve on ; he said give me time to breathe , upon wliich No . 71 , whose . steam-, said ¦ Afu 6 fi - vra 9 very much up , boiled ; over , or he would have burst his boiler . —( ltoars of
laughter , in , which the Bench joined . ) He took me by my two shoulders , and with great force , threw me off the flags ; there were only two or three persons present . Mr . M'Mauus was proceeding to cross-question the complainant , when , in a voice of great wrath , he exclaimed ^ . " Are you an attorney , l ' or'if not , I cannot allow you to speak .- ^ - ( Laughter . ) Nojj'our worships , I cannot allovv it ; the Secretary of State has sent ' word down that only-. an ' .. attorney , or an attorney's clerk , is to address the magistrates . "—( Renewed laughter . )—The eourt overruled the objeetion , and MK Much admitted at last that he must confess thnt he ivas , perhaps , -rather ' abusive . to the policeman . He then called two -witnesses to prove the assault , one of which prove nothing , and the other said , that the foot
path opposite / the exhibition was certainly obstructed , there been more thatfa dozen persons standing on the flags ; the complainant was requested to go on but refused , and told the constable , that he paid for clothiHg such fellow ' s , as him .: Mf . Grleedow , ironmonger , in the Market-place , and . Mr . Joseph Thurley , an officer in the Custom , voluntarily- ' came forward' and spoke in favour of the Police-man ^ whose conduct they described as mild and conciliar tory in the extreme . Mr .. Thui-ley said the abuse given him was of the most aboininable description , if the officer had done any thing wrong , it was iti not taking the complainant to the Station House . The bench thought thut the officer . had only done his duty > and deserved thanks rather than censure . Complainant dismissed . .
Not used to it . —M « ary Clarkson , a smart dressed female who appearedto be heartily ashamed of the predicament in which she found herself , was charged a ^ the Police Office , Hull j last Saturday ' week , with being drunk . A policeman stated that , on the previous evening the prisoner ^ with a crowd of ho ys and girls at her heels , was very- drunk in / Highstreet , she fell against a window and broke it , aud as he found she was incapablebf taking care of herself , he took her . to the Station House , and secured her property . The prisoner in ber defence
said , that she came from a place between Hull arid Gainsborough , and had a husband and six children . She comes frequently to Hull on business for her husband , who is a butcher and farmer , and on Friday having taken no breakfast , she felt herself sick and faint , and got three pennyworth , but ; she was not used to it and it overcame her . Mr . Bardon told her that she appeared in a most disgraceful situation but in the hope that th \ 3 was her first offence , and that it would not be repeated , he should dispharge her . —Discharged .
Murder and StriciDE . —On the 15 th ult . the daughter of Diggory Goodge , who resides at Wooton Fitzpaine , Dorsetshire , a fine child only three years of age , was found in a room at her father ' s house with her head nearly s evcred . frorii the body . The poor infant was rolled iii feathers from out of one of the beds , ' jThe shocking fact spread a feeling of the greatest consternation in the : neighbourhood , which was hei&htened to the most ' painful extent on its
being discovered that ; Mrs . Goodge , the child '!* mother , had been the perpetrator of the horrible deed . The unnatural parent was taten into custody to await the verdict of a coroner ' s juiy , but sM had contrived to swallow a dose of poison , of which jshe : died on die following morning . . The inquest Siit on the body of the child , and afterwards on that of the mother but as the latter inquiry stands adjourried we refrain from giving the verdict on the first until that on the unfortunate -woman be given .- —Dorset Chronicle . '
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v . ^ -iPil » ACVy-rrThe Thomas Cmp Schooner , J . Cr isp , master , arrived at Bristol 0 a Sunday lt « t after a mostdisastwsa voyage . ; Ske left Cardiff , laden with iron , on the 20 th May last , bound to CoastaBtinoplei and , on the ^ th Junfc , brpaght up in the Uardanelles , about two mHea from the Tillage of YeoeBhea , set the watch , and went to bed without the Jej ^ st aj ^> rehension of danger ; about 10 / 30 p . m . the wateh was alarmed by seeing a boat under the boyr filled with , armed men , who immediately jumped on deck anapursued the man aft - the skylight was off , for the purpose of giviisg ait , ar id the mail jumped down into the cabin , but waile in , the act of doirie so , one
of the ruffians stro < rk him a blowr widi a cutlass , which nearly severed his arm from his tody . The captain Was awoke by the cries of the wounded man , who rushed into the state room crying ^ Pirates ! pirates ! captain ! get yoar gun ; they are aboard , sir ; I am wQurided- ^ -tiiey have nearly cut my arm off . " The captain immediately seized his gun and made towards the . door ^ which w as burst open by the pirates , who seized the-captain by the throat , and demanded his money shouting " Danari ! dariari I " There was no alternative—^ defence was impossible ; he made them understand that he would coniply , and proceeded to get down a box containing a number of
dollars , . which they immediately seized , and demanded more ; his watch was next delivered to them . The captain ' s wife , who had gone out for the benefit of her hsalth , was all this time standing trembling , and nearly up to her ankle * in the blood of theunfpN tunate man they had so barbarously wounded : they then took her cabinet , containing a considerable quaritity of money arid jewels ; but they were not satisfied- loud and vociferous vrere the demands ^ with pointed blades , for more money . While this horrible scene was beingEnacted in the cabin , others
of the piratical party hid seized the fire arms , and had pinioned the mate and all the others of the crew who cariie in their way ; they then , brought the cabin boy into the cabin , and after passing a knife round his throat , in order to make him confess if there was more moneys but to no purpose , they decairiped . The man who had been so severely wounded was left in the country ; and about a week before the vessel made the land , on her passage home , one of the crew fell from yard arm on the deck , and was killed on the spot .
Fire . —Ori Tuesday evening week , about six o ' clock , the posting stables belonging . to-the . Royal Hotel , Manchester , situated in Back Mosley-street , were discovered to be on fire . An alarm was instantly given , and the horses , twelve in number , were got out , with the greatest difficulty . Three of them vvere severely burned . The fire was occasioned by a caridle falling amongst the straw , which kad been , incautiously stuck in the wires of the lantern , and left there by one of the men who had gone out of the stable . Fortunately the fire was got under without doing any serious damage .
Singular Discovery of Theft . — Some short time ago , the house of Mr . Pauld , Crownstreet , Aberdeen , was broken into , and some plate and jewellery carried off . Mr . Charles Dawson , town-sergeant , while examining the room from which the plate had been stolen , found the half of a horn button on the floor , and conceiving that it might be instrumental in identifying the . thief , ha carefully preserved it . Dawson having suspected a lad of the name of Farquharson , kept a sharp look out for him ; and having found him the other
day , instantly applied the half of the biitton , and strange as it may appear , he foutid a corresponding half on the trousers of the lad ! Dawsori was novr confident that he had " hit the nail on the head , " and took care to secure the prisoner . The nex ' t inquiryvvas in regard to the stolen property , and here again the theft , or receipt , was brought home to Farqubarsori—a considerable quantity of the plate being found in his possession . He then was committed for trial , along with Thomas Hunter , who , it appears , had also been concerned in , the theft . —* - Aberdeen Herald .
House Breaking . —On Saturday night week , the house of Mr . Charles Tee , of Pindar Oak near Barnsley was entered by some thieves , and a quantity of hams stolen therefrom . No clna has yet been found likely to lead to the appreheusiori of the depredators . Found Drowned . —On Saturday week , near Kirklees mill , the body of a lifeless corpse was drawn out of the water , near the above place . It was taken to the Black Horse public house , Clifton , to wait the result of a coroner ' s inquest . Upon the person was found three or four packets of needles , arid a pack of cards , but no traces remained by which to knovv who the person was , or from whence he came . It is supposed that he has got into the water during the late flood .
A DoNATiON .- ^ -Mrs . Horsfall , of Bath , has caused to be transmitted to the Rev . J . H . Greenwood , the handsome donation of £ 10 , for the use of the C hurch Sunday School , cf Thustori , near Huddersfield . No ufe being Honest . —Two boys , named M'Gpriiitc arid Hadlam , were , a few days since , brought up , at the Mansion House , London , charged with having stolen as much lead as they could carry from premises occupied by the workmen of Mr . Chadwick tbe builder .
An officer saw the two prisoners moving along under their burdens , and asked them what they carried . They replied without hesitation that they were going home with potatoes , and M'Cormac spoke with" so Irish an accent that he almost gained credit for what he said . He , however , had something about him which the officer did not consider to be . genuine , and a more particular inquiry was the consequence . The Lord Mayor said , that he had seen the boys before at the bar and was afraid that although very young , they were experienced in thieving . M'Cormac , who is only thirteen years old , said ,
" Please you , my Lord , we did ' t sack the lead . - . ; I'll tell you hovr it was . This boy and me were going along the street near a gateway , and I spies a man wot was looking about to see how the land lay . So I knowed he was after no good , and I says stop a bit . So I looks at him . a minute , and he tried to sit over ¦ •* uummut to hide from us what he kad , and I looks at him again , and theri he seed that I knowed how the land lay . ' '" . and he says to us you won't tell nobody , will you ? . ¦ ' . No , eay » we , we don't want to tell nobody ; but I ; kept lookiDg at him , and then sayi he , you may have this bit , and so we tuck a bit a piece , and that's how we got it . "
The Lord Ma yob . —I shall send you both to Bridewell for two months ; for if I discharge you , you will begin to thieve the moment you . get out . M'Cormac . —No , we won ' t , my Lord ; we never means to do anything but what ' s right again . It ' s no good to be gping-about prigging . The other boy said that as they giv'd ' erri the stuff it could . not'bit said that they prigged it ; but he supposed if they bought it , it wouldbe all the same , and as that was the case it was no use to be honest . . They were then committed to BridewelU Seeking a Job . —A man named John Meadows was charged at the Mansion house , London , a . few days ago , under the following circumstances : —
A gentleman named Cooper stated , that about nine o ' clock yesterday morning , he was told by a person in his employment , that a man wbo was not knpwnj had . walked into the warehouse with a candle in his hand . About a fortnight ago a person had walked in and stolen some gas fittings , and it was suspected that the man who had thus lighted himself in was the thief . He addressed the stranger , wbo turned out to be the prisoner , and who coolly answered * that he came to see if the main pipe leaked .
A clerk of Mr . Cooper stated , that he saw the prisoner go from the street up to the warehouse with a lighted candle in his hand , in the morning , arid suspecting from the man ' s back that : be was the person whom he had seen a fortnight before about the premiees , just before they were plundered , asked what he was about . The prisoner said that be vras serit to see whether the inain pas pipe did nptleaki The prisoner .- —So I was . I meant no wrong , and having left my place I go about looking for jobs ; . ' :- ¦ . -. ;¦ - . . ' ¦ ¦ . ' ; . . . ¦ ¦ .. ¦'; ' . ' ' . - ' ; "
The Lord Mayor . —And you thought it so necessary to get one that you took the candle to lootjorit ? ( A laugh , ) > : ^ heprisoner said ; that one of the Gas Company ' s men told h | m of the leak , ancl he accordingly went to see whether it was not the case . : i A gas-fitter , for whom the prisoner had lately workedf stated that he found it necessary to discharge the prisoner a few day ij ago . The Loed MAYOiB . — -Why did you discharge him ;? / : \ ¦;¦¦;¦" ¦ ;• : ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : ¦ : ¦ : \' . ' - / . ¦;; . / ' ; ¦ : . - : .: ¦ : ; Gas-fitterw—We were rather slack of work . The Lord Mayor .- —Anything else ? Gas-fitter . ^^ hyy yes ; we aoissed tyro or three little things , and we thought he knew something about them . :
The Lord Mayor . —Well , I have do doubt he was on the premises with intent to pdriunit some robbery , and I shall aerid him to Bridewell for * month .
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JtosBjCRY . —A . personi . pf thenameof Wray , wh » resides ^ ill Hull , had hi » ppckel £ picked a short time ago while -waiting at the bdokin ^ omce of the , RttHmtr in Leeds . On discoveriBg his loss he exclaimed , ^ Ofc Gqdji amwbbed' ! . " and wasinstantly knocked do wnt b y a fellow standing near . The rascal was laid bo ! ot by the ipolice , as also another , but nothing was found upon then * . Mr / Wray lost £$ ., which he hadreceived in part payment of a bill of £ 16 ., ^ hicklwc : nad been expecting to receive , but most fortqnatel r was aisappointed , as it was aarrariged that he shouli receive ; the rest b y a check * to be sent him in a fevir days . : ¦ ¦'" - - -. ¦ : ¦• • . ¦ ¦ - ' . - : - \" - . : ¦ . . - .-: ¦ v .: ' • . " . - . 'v : ; . - , :..
Curious Defence . —A tad was taken up thfe other day for stealing a hat from the shop door of Mr-Graham , in Queen Street ^ Hull- Qn finding himself pursued he dropt the bat and fan for it , but wasfc stopped-by the pob ' ce . When asked what he had 'iai > ' sa y > v " . Whyy your worship / v he replied , "I vra ^ walking up the Market ; , and a chap comes paitmel andputs-thebat dbwnin ashop door , * there , ' says he there ' sahat foryouj ' soltakes Mm up , and then I hears them call put , stop thief—that ' s him watstoW the hat ; so then , thinks I , its time for me to ha dropping the hat , and that ' s all I know about it . ' * The same- prisoner on being epinmitted for trial s turned a - very dumure look upon the principal witnesg and ; observed ^ solemnly , "Yott'll not go to > heaven , Tin iure . "
Imprisonment fob Debt . —There is at present an individual who has been confined on thatdebtors ' side of the Castle at York , for upwards of 22 years ' , ; and who has for ^ a long period sue--cessfully ; carriedi on' -the profession ' -of nose taker ia the urifpfturiate inmates of ; that abode . The lawhas huriianely provided , a Certain weekly allowance of bread at the cost of the county to such , poor debtors as ? are unable to support theiriselves ; and during trie time of his incarceration , the worthy knight of the razor has consumed 2684 loaves of bread , ; weighingiri the aggregate noless than 4 | tons ;
, and \ vfiichif cut up into iair substantial slices fortoast , ( to wKch the barber is much attached ) antt laid in a right line , would extend upwards of forty miles in length , arid if laid close together would cover a surface of nearly ei g hteen acres of ground ^ so that he has . consumed at the county cost , nearly seventy roads of wheat ^ or the produce of nine acreac of good average land j and supposing the " . ' : worthijknight tq haveia proportionate allowancevof butter with his bread , he will have epnsuined nearly 1 , 000 lbs . of butter , » r the produce of a dairy of three cows for consideraDl y more than a twelveinonth .
Lamb and Godwin . — -Lamb was ^ intrqducd by-Coleridge ; t o one of the most remarkable persons of that etirririg time , the author of Caleb Williams' * and the- " Political Justice . " The first meetingbetween Lamb and Godwin did not wear a promising aspect ; -Lamb grew wanri as the conviviality of the evening advanced , arid indulged iri some freaks of humour , whichha , d riot . been dreamed of in Godwin ' * philosophy ; and the philosopher forgetting th » equanimity , with which lie usually looked on theyiscissitudes-of the world , or the whist table , broker into an allusion to Gilray ' s caricature , and asked " -Mr . -Lamb are you both Toad and Frog ?' Coleridge ' was apprehensive of a rupture , bnt callingr
the next-morning on Lamb , he found Godwin seated at breakfast with hirn ; . and an interchange of civilities ' and card parties was established , whichi lasted thTough the life of Lamb , whom Godwin onlysurvived a tew . months . Indifferent altogether ) to * the politics ofthe age , Lamb could r iot help beings struck with productions of its new borri energies , so remarkabie as the works and character of Godwin ^ He seemed to realise in himself \ vhat Wordswortlx long afterwards described j " the central calm at the heart of all agitation . " Through the medium of hig ; mind the stormy convulsions of society were seen ,. ' * . . silent , as in a picture . " ; Paradoxes the most daring wore the air of deliberate wisdom as
heprbnounced theriiv : He foretold the future happiness of mankind , . not with the inspiration of the poet , but with the grave and passionless voice of the oracle . There was nothing better calculated at once to feed and to ' make , steady the enthusiasm of . youthful patriots than -the high speculations in which hetaught 'them to engage on tho nature , of social evils ^ and the great destiny of his specieSi- No one would have suspected the author of those wild theprie * ,. which startled the wise , and shocked the ; prud « ni » in the calm gentlemanly person , who rarely said : anything abcjve the most gentle common place , and took interest in little beyond : the whist table . Hi *
peculiar- opinions were entirely subservient to : hi * love of letters . He thought any man who had written a book had- attained a superiority oyer hi * fellows ,, which , placed him in another class , and ' , could searcelyYuiiderstan . d other distinctions . Of all his works , Lamb liked his "Essay on Sepulchres '' the best ; , " a short development of : a scheme for preserving in one place the memory of all great writer * deceased , and assigning to each his proper station ^ quite chimerical in itself , but accompanied with . so ? emn and touching musings on life , arid deathj and fame , embodied in a style of singular refinement and bea : uty . —Letters of Charles Lamb , by Thomat JStoon Taifoiird . ; ' -
Little Pampblets and Speeches .- ——Ta « world is governed by little pamphlets andl speeches ^ for by means of them the number of men ' s prejudice * is diminished , and truths are impressed on them of great importance in enabling them to form correcfc judgments in cases in which they have an interest in . deciding aright . What constitutes the difference between -the common people of London and . th . » common people of , Rome or Naples ? The one \ s influenced by pamphlets and speeches , and the other not . Even ; they who cannot read themselves are influenced by the conversation , of those who do read .
ahirty years ago it would have beea easy to set th » people of LPndon on the bakers and . mealmeri , when r ever the price of bresid rose—now sounder notions generally prevail among the labouring classes . In Rome and Naples , during the cholera , it was atany time in the power of any one to provoke to massacre ^ by pretending ; that poison vras thrown into wells , &c . Whea ' : the :-. cholera raged in tins country no . one conld have found the same credulity to work on .: A hundred other instances might be given of the manner ia which pamphlets , and : speeches contribute to the general safety . — -Morning Chronicle * ¦'•; . .
LuxtJRipus Indolence . —It is related of Goldsniithj as characteristic ¦ of his indolence ; and carelessness ,- that his mode of extinguishing hi * candle , whioh he used to keep , burning when in bed until he Tyas ' iriclined for ' sleep ., " was by throwing hi * slipper at it , which , in consequence , was usually found in the mornirig lying near the overturned candlestick , daubed -with grease . / : A Last Farewell . —When the Prince of Orange , in 15 GS , retired to Germany j apprehending the danger . that followedj he entreated Count Egmont to accompany him , who refused . l ( Farewell , " said he-, taking leave of ths Prince of Orange ^ " Prince-withorit an estate . " Farewell , '' replied he , " Count without ahead . " : The prince ' s pithy remark was soon verified , for a few weeks afterwards , the Count being on an excursion , was taken prisoner . and executed .
The Knowledge Haters . —It seems a favourite point with a certain description of men to stop the progress of inquiry , arid throw mankind back into the darkness of the iniddle ages , from a persua ^ sipn that'igrioranee will augmerit their power , a * objects look largest-in- the inist ; There is in reality no other foundatipri for that alarm which they , express . .. Whatever ia not comprehended under revelation , falls under the inspection of reason ; and .
since , fronvthe whole course of Providence , it is evident that all political events , and all the revplritiohs of government are effected by the instrumentality of meny there is no room for supppsing ^ them too ^ sacred to be submitted : to the human faculties . The more minds there are employed ia tracing their principles and effects , the greater probability will there be of the science ' of civilpolicy , asi well as every ^^ other , attaiuing to perfyctiori . —Robert Hall .
Juvenile Thieves . —John Maspn and Wm . Barker , two . very young lads , but old offenders , who had beeniri the gaol before j were , on Tuesday week , placed g . t the bar , charged with stealing some sinall bales froin . the ehop of Mr . Allen , in Mytongate , arid twelyg pen oils and a pack of cards , from Mr . Peck , x » f liowgate . v It appeared that \ on thfr Previous dayy the prisoners , in . company with three or four others , went to several boolwellers' shops in the : town , under the pretence of wanting to purchase a Spelling book , and while bargaining for the same ^ sie « uring any thing on which they could lay their hands . Mn Allen , suspecting thafcall was not , righL
watched them after leaving his shop and saw them , dividing the bales amongst them hi Fiukle-street he fiien ^ gave the prisonersi into custody ; . _ ,- Mr . Parker said » the course which , the court would pursue ^ would be tliqught bj ' .. those who did hot know their previous bad conduct , to : be harsb . aid severe ; he * was sorry their ^ parents did hot attend * as ¦ wi th : their pernnssipn ^ b-ewoTil dli aveintiicted snch a pnni shment as he could not now dp ; lie "wotild , vliowerer » send them to the prison for two months , and though too young to go to the tread mill , he irould ^ himself attend to the case and devise some punishment , sucIjl as the case demanded . : : ^ v
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 13, 1838, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct337/page/3/
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