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THE FAMILY HERALD. Parts 41, 42. London;...
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THE PRACTICAL BAKER. London: Cleave, Sho...
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THE HAND-BOOK OF GRAMMAR: FOR TIIE USE O...
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C 02tyersati0n Between Vax Akdhis ** * S...
C 02 TYERSATI 0 N BETWEEN VAX AKDHIS ** * SON JOBZN . Jonji . Father , —I fear that delusion is gone , 2 !* t the era of p lunder is over and done , irhHa ll of pure humbug is cover'd with shame , - KniS otttee boo ^ are 'P ' 4 * of their game ; * h - time back you know my exertions were great , rtushfree discussion and binder debate , * 5 - silowed to take place would bring to the light th deeds we're most anxious to bury in night . ti « op le * "d hlind , and th' exertion hast cost r manv hard knocks , while my temper I've lost , ? r bifedm ng a cause which every day grows worse ; ? he draini ng J . mean on old Ireland ' s scant purse , Z " no * t ^ " 6 * scare'y enou gh to afford * ^ g S we keep barking a bone from our board . Bah .
¦ near John , I allow there are grounds for jour fears , « t « tffl * H dissemble , and make what appears The worst prove the best in a lucrative way , Thoop li f «> es may insult us , and say we betray The rig hts of old Erin—the cause of Septal ; Rot little we care -what their spleen may reveal , r tbcog b we ' re not free like others to tell , H py we feel to have a country to seU . The patronage of Whigs * bribe , pension , and place . The p rice of our treason is flung in our face ; Sot no nutter— 'tis sweet , and Whiggism's our friend , .. p ^ peal" was but started to work the same end . ¦ $ g ii still praise the Whigs , base , brutal , and bloody , Trifle op at the Hall we play " Punch and Judy . "
Jobk . 01 Sire , unequaU'd in scheming and cunning . Ten cover unerring , the game yon see running—Yonconveitto advantage whatever is borne In the sinoothnbwing stream or the whirlpool ' s turn . I know you ' ve secured Whig favour and pelt Sang births for your sons , whom yon love as yourself Tjjit can we keep these , aud the people still cheat , ¦ The rent gather stUl and "Young Ireland" defeat ? { ir must we submit ta make peace with a gang -irioni I wish it were possible for me to hang I
Das . The young spawn of Ireland , rebellious and vain , Discarded , as felons most ever remain , We could not succeed in our schemes with such ease , If thwarted by them and their bothering ways , It was the best plan to get rid of such folk—Such daring free spirits would not bear the yoke . They say that the country is leagued on their side ; Bat no matter how true , it must be denied . There are those in the country who firm yet remain , Who a ? alously straggle to prop up our reign"Who hoodwink the people and make them believe , We ' re honest and true , and we ne ' er deceive .
JoHsr , Tear tact and invention can wonders produce , A suggestion of mine may be also of use , That ' moral machine ' which has done us sacb . good In expelling the ' HaU * that fiery young brood Might be worfd ' gainst the people— 'twill puzzle their brains , Kith influence mesmeric 'twill cast them in chains ; Then easily we'll make tlmn to serve our own ends , In collecting the rent and supporting oar friends . Das .
Toar sflrice « most shrewd and well to be known , lli use it , I think , in a case of my own . And now that we ' re talking 111 ten you a f ict—1 fear that e ' relong FU be decently whack'd . Placing , of course , in discussion reliance , Feanras O'Connor has bid me defiance . Tiis stern denouncer to confront I ' m afraid , Hell dishonour your daddy and ruin our trade . The ' moral force' engine we'll level ' gainst him , ] And then there ' s no doubt but his jacket well trim . The apparatus we'll fashion the best in this realm , And engineer Toll shall be placM at the helm , 111 fire on the people , and howl till I ' m hoarse , "Gainst Chartist , torch , dagger , and ' physical force , ' While Tom plays the engine , and shouts with an eath Be at him ye whore-sons—ye ' re not worth egg-hroth . And then there ' s no doubt but bell flee ns of oarse Or a * sousing 'he'll get from ex > I' moral ibrce . ' P- SmmKillaloe , Ireland ,
Songs For The People. Xo. 3cxyi. Our Che...
SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE . Xo . 3 CXYI . OUR CHEER . BY EHSEST JOKES . Hurrah ! for each gallant defender , Who stands like a man for the right , With—* 'The Charter ! and never surrender V While yrt there's a foeman to fight . Han-worship let freemen despise , And leave it fur tyrant and slave ; But honour is due to the wise ; And glory the rigid ot the brave ! WcM eary not those who inherit The paradise priests never knew , If jasdee were rendered to merit , And all men were given their due . Tiitn , if ye scorn treason and fear , And value faith , courage and honour , Come , Chartists , and join in a cheer , Por DUXCOMBE and FEARGUS O'COXXOR
To Mchelet, Os His "People." 50. Ssth. I...
TO MCHELET , OS HIS "PEOPLE . " 50 . SSTH . I praised thee , Michelet , whom I saw At Season ' s feast , by Right and Law . fiust then , when Discord ' s voice hath ceased , And wh £ n the fa / got fails the priest , All present Frenchmen , like all past , Crv for & lap of blood at last ? Waltee Sav age Lakoob
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The Family Herald. Parts 41, 42. London;...
THE FAMILY HERALD . Parts 41 , 42 . London ; G . Biegs ^ i , Strand . It Is impossible in a mere notice to give our riders anything like an idea of the richitore of information and-amusement contained in tlie two jaris before ns of the Family Herald . * ' Let those reaa ut . w who never read before , " and they will learn for themselves , the valuable return a penny a week sill tring them- " . Martin the Foundling , " by & ¥ ««• Sue , romances , tales , moral essays , poetry , fifialy iKceipls , science , art , statistics , riddles , wit , curious and clever answers to correspondents , and , Ia ? tly , - leading articles " such as no one but the Editor of the Family Heraid can write , all combined , present a distracting variety of instruction and entertainment beyond our ability " to describe . We give the following extracts from an article by the editor , on that subject interesting to every one : —
I 0 0 TS AND SHOES , AND TENDER FEET . w " e have na corns upon our fingers , nor bunions upon ( or shoulders . We are not afraid to touch a hard subitanee with our hands , sor even to encounter a justle in he arret with our arms . Bat bow vesy cautiously all *& s t-lderly and most of the young people avoid any collifdoa -wiih their little toes ! "Take care of my corns , " ^ jstlis matron at her needle , when she sees her son or da ughter about to p licea stosl or chair close beside her . "fas rtrv touch in agony . Why should the foot be reflace-3 to so very low and pitiful a condition , when it is Sjeanin support of the body ? It reminds one of the 2 Sricaitur . il labourer who s ' ands at the very bottom of fce social scale , npon whom all society depends for subfetsace , aud who , notwithstanding all this , is the most tpprisscd and afilicted zm mbt-r of the community .
Of all pans of the body , the feet have made the smallsi progress in the arts of comfort . The stocking is the ° nly luiury which distinguishes the modern from the Sflcicnt foot core-ting . Even the Greeks and the Romans iadslo-s . The Roman senators were Wellington baots . They were a badge of sen itorial distinction , and came more thanhaif way up to the knee . * * * » The richest and the poorest amongst us experience the miseries of a leather shoe . Sometimes we are so pinched , * at we are fevered all over—ww can neither walk nor fit . Even the ladies cannot rest in their pews at divine service for the aching of then-corns . Sometimes they « Ep off a slipper shoe , but when ti . ey have a boot they
we •« pesfcet agony , " as they call it , and can neither Werthe responses , * ay amen to the prayers , nor listen *> the sermon . They can do nothing but think of the '" seal . y shoemaker , who has taken them in once more , Sudptrsnadel them that the leather would stretch . At Wher rinifcs we arc not punched , but the soles are not Jioptrl y tut , and they wear to one side . The shoe Points oatward more than the foot ; the foot gets twisted W walking ; the great toe has nothing to rest upon , nnd " 16 Whole foot and ankle are inflamed with the awkwardness of tlie position . We then rail agsinst the ignor-^ eeoftiie whole trade : "They don ' t know even how to eat a sr . k »
The shoemaker will warrant anything . HewUlwar-**&¦ as ! . 6 e toSt which will not go on . They have such a Mlit of asserting the perfecti-. m of every shoe they ?* e , tha ; the-y forget themselves at times . We remero-^ ° a M ; e occasion , utir . g all - > ur strength to no purpose . ° P'dlon a boot that we had bespoken , and , after bring-?? fte ptrsj . jrati » n to the forehead with the useless ef-* Vwe gaVtf it up aad tritMrew ; but the last word that •^ Oi- jtnsaker gave us was , that be bad no doubt in his ^ d that it was an excellent fit . It was inipossiblehe
T fw ! , Acre ' s the measure , what cou'd be more cor-^ e | Philips he thought we Cnuld swell out at plea-^ hl : e an aailiti . ms frosi . W « know not , but he T , Ja - J > r , : C 0 . jj jj ^ jj i had maJ i e a blunder . It is ^ T HiUhn ,, that you car . get two boots alike , one is al . Jp ^ wsruroa'ler than the other ; but the maker g ^ - ^ ' ^ at tlus is impossible , for they are made on jjlf ^ ' : ' - '" ' - He means a pair of lasts made fellow .- , - na '' ' ** " * dr ' . usiun , you may -.: ; ake a large shoe " * - a *' -ftS-. ' 7 ssenthe same last . A liilis nior .-stretch-
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ing of the leathen in one case than the other makes all the difference you complain of , and then when the leather is relieved from thep-essure , it graduajly runs to its natural tize . The stretching of leather Is a favourite theory of the shoemaker , wherewith he comforts his customers , and promotes the cultivation of corns and bunions . Kever believe it ; never trust to the tree as they call the stretcher . You may as well trust to thestretchingof an Indian rubber garter , which wiU stop the ch > eolation of your blood for ever before it give way even one quarter of an inch , which it will not recover when the force is removed . When your boot is too tight , you g » t it put on tha tree , and it feels much easier , when you
try it on again . Away , you walk , quite relieved and overjoyed ; but in a few hours you are as miserable as ever . Perhaps your foot has swelled , savs the bootmaker , putit on the tree all night You have it put on the tree aU night , and it comes home comfortable again ; but the comfort is of short duration , and you find , to your sorrow , that though leather will stretch if you force it , it will also uustretch when the force is withdrawn . It is better to trust to the . unstretching of leather . The shoemakers understand this too , Therefore , when the shoe is too large , they say it will close npon the foot , the leather will contract . They are right , it doss contract , more surely than it stretches , and much more comfortably to the poor feet which it encases .
The ladies are particularly fond of having small feet to show , and will endure almost any punishment merely for the imaginary pleasure of being thought to possess them . They will be squeezed , and pinched , and tormented for a month , rather thsn for one second of time an unshapely figure of a foot should chance to peep out from beneath the drapery in which they are enveloped . Only look at the soles of a woman ' s shoe , and you may see the reason why she is always , in large towns and cities , and in high life , so bad a pedestrian . Woman is formed by nature to walk as man , and she dots walk as well in humble life . She { ramps barefooted to church in Scotland for miles without a sigh or groan , and sits down by the burnside to wash her feet and put on her stockings and shoes before she enters the sacred pile . It is then she begins to limp and halt , then that she shows symptoms of pain in walking .
It was so once , but fashion is gradually diminsbing the number of such rustic scenes , and bare toes are becoming almost a rarity . Bat bare toes were good toes , —the toes that could walk five or six miles to church and back again , and think nothing of it . Whereas half a mile is too much for a shod metropolitan dame , with hard corns on the outside of her toes , and soft corns between them . There is little doubt that tightness of shoeing hasincapacitated woman for walking . * * * * The fashion of wearing things to fit close , is a most uncomfortable fashion for all parties . It is a most
troublesome fashion for the tailor and the dressmaker , and it is particularly troublesome to the public , as tbe slightest deviation from a good fit is a source of great annoyance when the clothing is tight , Theleose dress that requires no fit is convenient for all parties , and is by far the most picturesque and dignified . The shoemakers of large towns have escaped many of the troubles to which the fitting trade is liable , by making for the shops and not for the customers . The fault lies , not in the workmen , but in tbe masters or cutters , who , as a body of man , require much instruction , under smart discipline , in the art of boot and shoe making .
Fhe Musical Herald. Partss, 6. London G....
FHE MUSICAL HERALD . PartsS , 6 . London G . Bi g 8 Sj 421 , Strand . This is an excellent companion to the above publi nation , and all who have " music in their souls hould hasten to purchase the " Musical Herald . ' Both the " music" and the " musicalliterature " ; laim our wannest praise .
The Practical Baker. London: Cleave, Sho...
THE PRACTICAL BAKER . London : Cleave , Shoe Lane . This little sixpenny publication professes to teach the art of managing and manufacturing ; all sorts of breaJ : also the method of preventing sour bread . With this portion of Mr . Read ' s book we shall not meddle , but we feel ourselves bound to give the following extract illustrating the
WRONGS OF THE OPERATIVE BAKERS . In the first place , th « poor operative baker , er rather slave , is obliged to reverse the order of nature , by seeking rest when he should be receiving mental and moral improvement ; and when the rest of his feliow . mortals retire to receive nature ' s balmy and restorative cordial , sleep , he has to commence operations for tbe next day ' s slavery ; surely man was never ordained for this , and that , in a civilised country , professing liberty ami freedom . Such a stubborn fact is , however , undeniable , nay , daily practised in this huge metropolis . The clock strikes eleven ; the shops are nearly all closed , the lively bustle ot the day is over ; lights appear in the different chambers , for the purpose of rest ; all nature courts repose ; but the poor emaciated baker is either demanding admittance at his master ' s door , or with hurried footsteps endeavouring to reach it , so as to commence his . toil and continued round of slavery , having previously walked perhaps two or three miles , the distance from his residence .
We will suppose the sponge to be ready at the time of his arrival so as fce may commence operations , but this is not always the case , he is often obliged to wait , sometime an hour or more , before it has " turn'd tbe second time , " when he has a laborious part to perform , ivhich is termed " makingdough ; this is in general done by two persons , the second aud third hands , whilst the foreman is preparing for another batch . I have seen two persons make sixteen and eighteen bushels of dough at one time , which is three sacks of flnur , and very frequently two sacks or two and a half , this last is very general . To have an idea of this part of the business , a person should picture to himself a man , or two men , being elbow deep in a large thick mass , lifting and turning it from side to side , in doing which
they are obliged to employ the whole of their strength , be may then form some opinion of making dough ; this operation lasts from half to threeparts of an hour , when it is past twelve o ' clock , at which time , if his circumeiances permit , he will partake of a little refreshment , and then lis on the boards for two or three hours whilst the dough is proving , frequently this is the only rest which a baker obtains for six consecutive nights , Saturday being the only time he can enjoy rest like other men . But the foreman cannot obtain the short rest which his helpmates have on each night . He is obliged , at intervals , so attend to the heating of tbe oven and prepare it for the batch , and on him rests the responsibility of every thing being in due time , therefore he has constantly to be on tbe alert , and to awake those under
him when the doagh , is sufficiently " forward" t » be taken from the trough , which being done , it is weighed off in pieces the required weight , moulded , or made into a squaie or round form , and placed in regular rotation on the boards . When the whole is disposed of in this manner , the oven is swept out and made ready to receive it , each of those pieces which are previously weighed is again moulded , or shaped to the desired form , and set in the oven where it remains to be baked ; during this time he has to make bis rolls , cottage bread , twists , ic , and also perhaps make another piece of dough preparatory for the second ; the whole of this must be done whilst ihe bresd is baking . The batch is now to be " drawn , " that is , taken out of tbe oven , carried into the shop and duly arranged ; the oven is again
heated for the rolls , & c , to be baked , nor must they fail of being in the shop by eight o ' clock or a quarter before , or tbe consequence to tlie man is , that he is probably discharged at the expiration of his night's slav-ry without any previous notice . There is no time now for the baker to get his breakfast he must " make time" to get it whilst the batch was bakin ;; he has customers to supply with hot rolls , or else a heavy load of bread is on his head to supply some chandler ' s shop . By the time he returns from this excursion , there is another lot of dough ready for a second batch , which has to undergo the same process as before . In the interval which follows , he has to fetch , attend , bake , and carry homo dinners to their respective owners , when if there is not a third and fourth
batch in preparation , he may get a chance of having , a comfortable meal ; if otherwise , he has scarcely time to swallow one in this cafe ; that is , if there are three or four hatches , he may probably leave work by seven or eleven o ' clock , it is often twelve , especially Saturdays , when he has the last mentioned number . This etat-ment principally affects the " underseller ' s" men , which is the low-priced baker ; hut with men in the employ of the full-priced baker ; it is somewhat different , for instead of having three or four batches per day , they may occa « ionally have two , and the remainder of the day you may see them pacing the streets of London with a large basket of bread thrown across his back , and often anothw hanging on his arm . Amongst the tra « e pereons so employed are termed donkeys , and Christian ponies , certainly not inappropriate names . They may manage to have finished their rounds by four or five o ' clock , and iu some instances by three ,
when , after his return , he has to prepare for his next day's labour , and attend to the dinners of thosefashion able customers who dine late , whilst occasionally through the day , or after he has returned from his rounds , he has to amu « himself with tho manufacture of a /« o small goods , when it is likely he may leave work bv five o'clock ; should he after this wish to see any friends or h « ve «« y amusement , he must do so at the expense of his rest . This is often the case , and many never lie down in a bed but once in a week , sleepier only on the boards . Sunday is no better . In London , the mass of tbe people being cither too poor , or being otherwise unable to cook for themselves , the weight of duty of roasting meat falls to tbe b : ik » r . While one part of society is either dashing along in carriages , or walking to church , and another part is iiher remaining at home in a comfortable state of dometiication , or perhaps taking the air in thepsrks , the poor wretch of a baker is hard at work in his den . Pretty considerable hot work this . No rest even on Sundays , tin half the day be done . At four or five o ' clock , he has to set his sponge for the nest day ' s , but m » re properly the same night and next day ' s labour . After the stat-incut which is now given , many persons will naturally say , he is well paid for this excessive toil : they will however find it the reverse ; neither is there any extra pay for the Sunday portion of his . labour , except iu souie few instances the master allows him a dinger . Tlie general rate of wages given is , for a foreman , £ 11 « £ 1 10 ' . ; second band , 10 s . to £ -1 Is .: third hutui . liit . to Us . besides what bread tliey may require ,
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« nd the two former invariably has ( if married , ) a loaf per day for their family , and a half er quartern of flour on Saturday . This it certainly not sufficient for days and nights of actual toil , whereby every domestic comfort , rational amusement , recreation , and even health is sacrificed ; working , as they are doomed to be , in a close unhealthy atmosphere , most frequently under ground , without any ventilation or free current of air to take off the carbonic gas which is engendered by fermentation . This he inhales , and the consequence is he soon becomes a prey to disease , premature old age creeps on , by tbe time and often before he has reached the prime of life . You seldom see journeymen bakers of any advanced age about the streets of London . I have known many instances of healthy young men from the country being obliged to return to their native place , aftsr becoming a victim to thin infamous system of flavery , so productive of disease , and which h » j eventually carried them from the land of tbe living .
The above is a frightful picture of white slavery . Why do not the Exeter Ilall philanthropists open their mouths and their pockets , and raise their voices and exert their energies , to reform this horrible system of oppression ? They " compass sea and land " to find objects of sympathy , yet they are blind to this enormous oppression under their Tory noses , and which even their morning ' s hot rolls should sufficiently testify to them . We have not room to quote Mr . Read ' s suggestions for the doing away with the worst part of slavery—night-work ; but there can be no doubt that the suggested better system might be carried out with injury to no one and immense benefit to tbe journeymen bakers . Wc hope the operative bakers will arouse themselves , and insist upon an amelioration of their condition . We recommend this little book to our readers .
The Hand-Book Of Grammar: For Tiie Use O...
THE HAND-BOOK OF GRAMMAR : FOR TIIE USE OF TEACHERS AND LEARNERS —Bt G . J . HoiTOAKB . London . J . Watson , 31 , Queen ' s Headpa « sage , Paternoster-row . We shall best in brief terms explain the nature and object of this work by quoting the author ' s explanation ;—The Hand Book of Grammar , which is a Sequel to 'Practical Grammar , ' and ¦ designed for the 'cse of Teachers and Learners , ' is founded upon the principle so well laid down by Dr . Borrow : —
'Precepts have no vehement operation upon the fancy and do joon fly the memory . Bat example , like a picture exposed to sense , having the parts orderly disposed and completely united , contained in & narrow -compass and perceptible at one glance—easily ia « inuat « B itself into tbe mind and durably rests therein . This is the mostfacile , familiar , and delightful way of instruction , ' ' The 'Sequel' contains 300 questions deduced from ' Practical / Grammar , * to enable teachers to exercise their pupils , or , as the case may be , the pupils to exercise themselves .
• Eisht Orders of Graduated Exercises , - are constructed , embracing the Definitions and a brief epitome of the principle of Grammar and Composition . In definitions lie the theory of grammar . The object has been to present these so condensed a ? to be brief—so classified as to be clear—so enforced as to be indelible . The wholeare illustrated—not by the insipid examples peculiar to school books , but by 150 of the most instructive sentences which I have been able to select from the produetions of wits , philosophers , moralists , and poets . We need only add that the "Hand-book of Grammar , " which may be had for tea pence . i « s a very necessar y ami useful little work * well worthy of universal circulation . Mr . Holyoake is about to introduce Euclid to "the million , " having commenced the publication { in threepenny weekly numbers ) of a work , iutitled " Mathematicsno Mystery . ' ,
Mackenzie's Monthly Railway Time Tables;...
MACKENZIE'S MONTHLY RAILWAY TIME TABLES ; ADVERTISER , AxND STRANGER'S LONDON GUIDE . Tbe above title explains the leading features of this publication ; but we should add that it also eontains a Hit of steamboats ; cab faros ; railway omnibus offices ; theatres ; places of amusement ; excursions ; pasport office ; holidays at public offices ; monthly fairs ; Post-office regulations ; monthly fashions , & c . The whole is printed on a mammoth sheetf .. rONE PENNY ! What traveller , or visitor to the great metropolis will be without " Mackenzie's Railwav Time Tables" after this announcement ?
Thomas Paine. From The Manchester (N. Ii...
THOMAS PAINE . From the Manchester ( N . II . ) Democrat . Tom Pajse . We perceive that some of our newspapers are for making a hero of Tom . and immortalising him . Poor fellow ! bis immortality , in no s << nse of tbe word , is to be envied . The above paragraph we find in the Exeter News Letter , a paper that professes great sympathy for those under the bonds of oppression . Yet it is ready to sneer at the memory of a man who did more towards the universal freedom of liis kind than any other man that ever lived ! " Tom Paine , " that " poor fellow ! " did more to effect the "glorious Revolution" than any other man of those glorious times . Washington led our troops to battle , but who prepared the minds of those troops for battle ? Who prepared the minds of the people for the change ? Who proved to them that the people were the
sovereigns—the source of all power ? In one word , who was it that procured that Revolution in Opinion in our country , that preceded the Revolution in Government ? Who , but " Tom Paine V His works — "Common Sense" and "The Rights of Man "have done more toward liberalising the acts of Government , and disseminating among the people a knowledg-j of their own rights , than any other works ever written b-fore or alter our Revolution . And how much soever we regret his anti-religious works , from the bottom of our heart we pity the man who , in this land of equal laws and equal rights , can deliberately have it in his heart to sneer at the memory of Thomas I ' aine . True lie wrote against our religion and its forms—but still , had it not been for his political writings , we much doubt whether we should have had any religion at tke present time , except as it bad existence upon the Statute Book of England . — Young America .
Scasdalous Outrage.—A Most Wanton Outrag...
Scasdalous Outrage . —A most wanton outrage was perpetrated at the-ebapel of Erougliton on Furna ? s , last week . Some miscreants smashed seventy panes in the windows of the edifice . The large window just above the altar suffered the most injury , no less than twenty-five squares being broken . Not satisfied with having broken the windows , tliey next proceeded to attack even the mansions of the dead , and threw down four tombstones and one headstone ; and , in fact , the chapel and the burial ground attached to it presented much the same appearance as they might be supposed to have done had they been visited by a tornado .
Fires asd Probable Less of Life . —On Wednesday morning , shortly after two o ' clock , the premises belonging to Mr . J . UUMunday , oil and colourman , situate at 5 , Duke-street , Back-road , St . Georjre ' sin-the-East , were discovered by the police constable on the beat to bo on fire . An immediate alarm was spread , and the inmates having been aroused from their slumbers , they succeded in effecting a safe retreat , when the fire was extinguished . A boy . named John Mahony , five years of age , whose parents reside at Vine-street , liitlbank , by some means got in contact with the fire in the room , and his clothes speedily became ignited . His screams brought several persons to bis assistance , when the flames were found mounting over the child's head . They were extinguished as early as possible , but not before the poor boy was frighfully burnt over the bndy . He was taken to the Westminster Hospital , where he remains without the last chance of recovery .
Manslaughter tr ^ m Reckless Driving . —On Wednesday evening , an inquest , adjourned from the previous Thursday , was resumed and concluded before W . Payne , Esq ., City cor . mer , at Guy's Hospital , on the body of Thomas Roberts , aged 33 , a harness-maker in the employ of Mr . Wheatley , the omnibus proprietor at Greenwich , who was killed through the reckless driving of a man named Thos . Henry Lankford . On Monday , the 9 th instant , the deceased , who had been supping with some friends , was standing in the road way , near the railway terminu s , Greenwich , between eleven and twelve o ' clock at night , conversing with some of the party , when a tilted cart , belonging to Mr . T . Henry Lankford , an egg-merchant in the Borough , passed along at a
rapid rate , knocking the deceased and another person , named baloney , who was with him , down . An effort was made to stop the cart , but the driver , owing to the rate at which the horse was going , was enabled to get off . A day or two after , however , the cart was seen in the neighbourhood o ! Deptford , and identified as the one which caused the accident , and Mr . Lankfoid also identified as having heen at Greenwich and Woolwich on the same day with the vehicle . The deceased , who at the time was the worse for liquor , having been seen by a local surgeon , was brought to ihc hospital , where he died the next dav from fracture of the skull . The Coroner having summed , the Jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter against Thomas Henry Lankford , " who was committed to Sewcate for trial .
Extensive Forgeuies . —Tne post master at Earnett who has absconded after having committed forgeries on the Post-office by means of fraudulent Post-office Orders , is said to have carried off not less than £ 4000 in this way . Fall of a Railway Bridge . — Three men were killed last week by the fall of' a railway bridge near lb ading , on the Berks and Hants " line of the Gieat Western Railway . A verdict in each case was returned of "Accidental death , " but not without some strong remarks from the Jury on the culpable ncakct with resardto the erection of bridges on this liw , ns no le ss thai ! four lives have been lost , and other accidents occasioned .
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Uorsb -radish for the Million . —Among the enormous benefits of free trade is a trcmenduous influx of horse-radish , which is arriving daily by ship-loads at the Custom-house . Getting the horse-radish is one step towards getting the roast beef to eat with it . Ibis is like a friend of ours , who has got a banker ' s book , and now wants nothing to make it complete but a large balance . —Punch . Goon . — ' Get up , husband , ' said a lady to her liege lord , the other morning , ' daylight is breaking . ' ' Let it break , ' said he , ' it don't owe rae anything . ' Cacsb of Irish Suffering . —Some one attributed the wants of Ireland to absenteeism , a resolute punster declared that the misery of the Irish arose not from absent-tee-ism , but from absent dinnerism . Dagokruoiipk . —A woman ' s heart is the only true place for a man ' s likeness . An instant gives the impression , and an age of change and sorrow cannot efface it .
Liberalitv of Lours PuiLlPPE . —The Cantcrourw Journal _ states that a French brig , lying at Erith , is trtking m a cargo of 4 , 000 barrels of gunpowder , of English manufacture . It is , however , the intention of Louis Philippe ( a certain event occurring , ) only to borrow the same ; as he hopes to be able to return the gunpowder to the English , with the additional compliment of lead . —Punch . Cork for Rats . —Well , be was down in the country , and Ins money ran out ; and the landlord of the inn charged h ' un 3 ? . for a damp bed , and 3 s . for a poor breakfast , and when he looked at the bill he was amaied at it ; but he was more amnaed still to know how to pay it . So he called up the landlord , — You ve rats in the house . " said he . " Oh Para
abiut ruined by them , from the slaughter-house over the way . " " Way don't you banish them . ? " «' I'll give you a gold euinea , " said he ,. " if vou'U tell me how " " Done ! " said my father . ' " You may risk your , existence there won't be one in the neighbour hood , slaughter-house and all , in a week , " The innkeeper was like to go out of his wits with joy . ""Then , " said my father , " nothing like doing business , di > - chsree that bill and give me the balance . ' He got the 15 s . and the innkeeper was all month and ears . " " The first rot that comes , " said my father , " charge him 3 s . for bed , and as much tor breakfast , and as goon as he gets home to his companions , and the thing gets-wind among them , they'll never frequent Hie house more !"
The Easth belokob to ai & . — "The earth is the habitation the natural inheritance of all mankind , of ages present and to come ; a habitation belonging to no man in particular , but to every man : and one in which all have an equc & right to dwell . "— John Grav . The Ancient iBbwons ; lived in communities , forming villages in the woods , during the-summer , forthe purpose of hunting and pasturage , as their chief food was flesh , milk , berries , fruit , and leaves ; and in winter they moved to more mountainous districts ,-as beine healthier and drier . Some writers havethought
the natives ate raw meat , exuding the blond by pressure : others , that it was baked amid headed stones , The huts in which the people lived were of a cone form , and covered with boughs , grass , mud , clay , or turf . They had chairs and stools : skins and their mantels served ; for bed clothing . Wooden bowk , platters , and articles-of common pottery , formed their domestic utensils . The dead they buried with their most appreciated articles , from an idea of their wants in a future state : sometimes the body was burnt and the ashes deposited in nras . —Mackenzie ' s History -of Enqlfmat .
A BaoniERLT D / FFRBESCE . —A provincial paper says " There is a sensible difference between the letters of Mr . Grantlcy Berkeley and his brother . * ' It is 3 'he only thine ; , then , in the difference between them that is sensible . —Punch . Q , nA ! urpraG for a Robber . —Cartouche , the notorious French robber , who flourished in 1 J 89 , being told that a young man wa « desirous of becoming a member of his band , took him under examination , and , asking him where he had served , was Answered , ' Two years with an attorney , and six months under an inspector of police at Paris . " . * ' Then , " said Cartoche , with transport , " I shall consider it the same thing as it you had rode all that time in my troop . " And the youair ' man took rank accordingly .
A Dutch Wedding . —The party consisted of some twenty or thirty persons—bride and bridegroom both in deep mourning , the latter in black gloves—little children who would not be kept still on their little bench , but" lounged : up " to the , knees of the older people and " gave just as much trouble , as if they had been at homo—men who sate or stood aa they pleased , with their hats on or off , as seemed good to them . The civil part of the ceremony had been transacted elsewhere : so we ome in but for tho exhortation . This was delivered by a comely pastor , who arriving in his cocked hat , hung it up in the pulpit ere he began to hold forth ; and really to judge from the time he took , and the energy he bestowed on the subject , cannot have lefc out one duty great or small . , For three mortal quarters of an hour did his homily last . Let me not be irreverent , however : —there was one kindly creature in the party , of the tearful class
whom tho exhortation entirely succeeded , and who wept herself into something like hysterics . The bride and the bridegroom sate still , and looked , I must say , dogged , rather than submissive . Both were singularly plain—I say singularly , because I hare rarely seen so many handsome , well-grown men , and fair women , as since I have been in Holland . The servant of the sexton's house , through which you must pass into the church , was worth the whole party put together as a picture : an elderly woman , with a clear waxen cmiip'exioii , deep gray eyes , soft dark eyebrows , and white hair , vory neatly arranged within the wirestiffened border of a rich lace cap ; her clean dimity jacket , with a gay calico handkerchief by way of apron , making up a capit . il painter ' s figure , as she stood looking through the screen , and criticising the whole performanee , methought , with a shrewd and professional expression of countenance . —People ' s Journal .
United States Soldikiis . —( By J . G . Whiter the American poet . )—They look out with honest citizen faces under their leathern vizors ( their ferocity being mostly the work of the tailor and tinker , ) and I doubt not , are at this moment as innocent of blood-thirstiness as yonder worthy tiller of the Tewksduiy hills , who sits quietly in his waggon , dispensing apples and turnips , without so much as giving a glance at the procession . Probably there is not one of them who would hesitate to divide his tobacco-quid with his worst enemy . Social kinu-heartetf , psalm-singing ,
sermon-hearing , Sabbalh-kecping christians ; and yet , if we look at the fact of the matter , these very men have been out the whole afternoon of this beautiful day , under God ' s holy sunshine , as usual at work as Satan himself could wish , in learning how to butcher their fellow creatures , and acquire tho true scientific method of impaling a poor forlorn Mexican on a bayonet , or of sinking a leaden missile in the brain of aome unfortunate Briton , urged within its range by thedoubleincentiveof ' sixpence ^ perdii yin bis pocket , and the cat-o ' -nine-tails on his back!—People ' s Journal .
A Great Comfort . —A tremendous fog on the 3 rd rendered the Wellington Statue quite invisible . Speaking for Posterity . —During the delivery of one of those tedious and interminable speeches which are sometimes inflicted upon the House of Representatives in America , as well as in oar own House of Commons , a member , who had occupied the floor for several hours , was called to order , on the ground that his remarks were not pertinent to the question before the house . " I know it , " said he , " 1 am not speaking for the bencfic of the house , but for posterity . " "Speak a little longer , " said John Randolph , in an under tone , " and you will have your audience before you . " Honey . — "Why does father call mother honey ?" asked a small boy of his brother . " Can ' t think , Sam , 'ccpt its becos she ' s got sich a large corr < b in her head . "
Novbl Race . —Great excitement prevailed lately in New York , in consequence of a match " for speed" —which came off there in the course of the past month , between a gentleman and his "' running accounts . " The gentleman beat the accounts hollow —so much so , indeed , that he couldn ' t stop himself again , eventually ran " clean out of sight , " and entirely disappeared . Wanted an Interpreter . —One W . W . Broom , who has often victimised us before , sends us a paper covered with blue marks , which he evidently intends us to read . We want old Cobbett again , who used to admonish his correspondents to learn to write before they began to contribute . An editor of an Lie of Man paper has some correspondents who take
birds , deep their feet in ink , and make them walk over the paper , and then dispatch it as an article to the editor . Mr . Broom , we suppose employs one of these claw-footed amanuenses . A gentleman skilled in obscure calligraphy , and who has voluntarily devoted great attention to Mr . Broom ' s MSS ., reports that Mr . B . intends astounding things about next spring—the particulars cannot be made out—but we hcrebyinform all almanack compilers , that something excruciating is in contemplation , if hieroglyp hics can be trusted . If . B . Mr . Broom will please to observe , that no paper from him can in future receive attention , unless plainly written . He must take * six lessons !'—The Aeasoncr . [ We hope some—not a few of oi < r " corresnoudents " will profit by the above hints .-Ed . N . S . l
Tiik samk in Scotland . —The Americans are so inq uisitive that Dr . Franklin tells us . when he travelled in America and wished to a * k his road , he found it necessary to save time by prefacing his questions with' My name is Benjamin Franklin , 1 am by trade a printer , I am coming from such a place , and am going to such a place ; and now tell me which is my road . " Sir CiiniSToruiiR Hawkixs , Dart . —The late worthy baronet of Trewiihen , who possessed immanse estates and great borough influence , was well known for his parsimonious habits ; and the following quaint lines , written by some facetious person en the wall of his demesne , arc still remembered in Cornwall : —
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Cost of tub Le eds Policr Forcr . —The cost incurred in the maintenace of the force , during the year ending August last , was £ 6 , G < S 10 s lOd . Captain Warxkr ' s " Long Ranch . "— J ho Post says that a trial ot this destructive engine has boeti made . The greatest secrecy as to the locale of the experiment was observed , and none but the inventor Colonel Chalmer , and two or three other individuals , were present . It is said the experiment was quite successful . Fu . NUKAL OF THE AUTHOR OF TUB WonD " TflEtotal- "—On Sunday , the remains of Richard Turnei were intered at Preston , ground having been purchased for that purpose through the exertions of a few zealous friends of the temperate cause .
William Lloyd Garrison , the anti-slavery lecturer , left Liverpool for Boston recently . A Historical Character . —Died , in August last , in the vicinity of Baton Rouge , says the Bokon Mail , Madame Majocchi , wife of the witness in tho famous trial of Queen Caroline , of " nonmirccirdo" menv- > ry . Majocohi found England too hot for him after the trial of the Queen ; but it was hot known to what part ot the world he betook himself . By tho above we presume he is still living in the United States . . A Public Gain . —The Law Times calculates that the profession will lose £ 80 . 000 per annum by the operation of the new Small Debts Act . Thf . Diamond Mines in Brazil , of which so much was said some time ago , turn out to be not worth the working . Coming Events Cast thiur Shadows Bkfork . — It is rumoured that there is again a probability of an increase in the royal family .
Larit Olobixg of Shops , —The linen and woollen drapers and hosiers of Halifax have commenced closing their sb /> pB at seven o ' clock in the evoninj ? - The Gun Coitok anb the Board op Ordnance . —Tbe Board of Ordnance has rejected the proposal for the use of Schoniseln ' s gun cotton in the British army . The " Oldest Inhabitant" of the iown of Knavesborouuh—Mr , Matthew Pearson—breathed his last on Thursday , in the one ' , liundred and fourteenth year df'his a / re . lie could well remember many curious incidents in « onnexion with the Scottish Rebellion in 1 EK 5 , and maintained his faculties to the very last . Tiik Mator of JLkkds . —It is not true that Mr . Lmccock has been re-eleated Mayoi" of Leeds . The new Mayor is Charles Caseoigne Macloa ,
SiiAKSPBRr / s Descendants . —A Nottingham paper says : — "There is now living in tbe village of Beeaton , tho wife of a mqehaiaie , a daughter of tha late Mr . William Hart , and sister to Mi . Thomas Hart , of Tewkesbury ; lineal defendants of Shako-• spere . Nothing and NoBODr . —Lagt week two lads were carried before the Miiyorof Hull , charged with disorderly conduct . One of them described himself as being " nothing , " and the other as being employed by " nobridy . " Mislrtok . —An experienced agriculturist mentions as a caution , that it raisletoe , when rejected from its pla . *>« -iniihe house , be thrown , [ as is a frequent custom , into the foul yards , the cows will eat of it , and the con- ^ ouences will be that they will slip their calves .
Grkat Printing Press . — Messrs . Dryden , tho celebrated engineers ., are now . employed in the construction of a printing machine tor the Tines , warranted to produce twelve thousand impressions tier hour , orfcke almost inconceivable number of upwards ot" three shee . s p er second ! Rocks Blasted bt Exploding Cotton . —Aletter from Stuttgard of the 2 nd November say * : "On Thursday last experiments for blasting rocks in tks tunnel ofLaupen were made with exploding cotton , and were emincn'ly successful .
New Application of thk Elbctric Telegraph . — On Thursday a workman left the Chesterfield station in a railway carriage , taking his day ' s dinner with him , but on reaching his destination , he left his beef , potatoes , and cabbage in the carriage . I laving communicated his loss to the station clerk , tho telegraph was set to work , and the answer quickly obtained , stating that the dinner was found , and that it would be sent back by the next train . Surrey Zoological Gardens . —Extensive alterations have commenced here . A new entrance , with Gothic loilges , a terrace walk 300 feet in length and 25 in width , with fountains , statues , die . Ax Aged Bird . —A magpie died on the 5 th of this month , which has * been in the possession of Mr . James Dagger , of Great Chesterford , for nineteen
years . Felony by a Bankrupt . —On Saturday a reward of £ 50 was offered for apprehension of Francis Sydor , li grocer and draper , carry ing on business at AVells at Fakenham , in Norf ' olk , _ and Ilitehin , in Hertfordshiro . who is charged with felony , he not having surrendered to be examined by the Commisssioners under a fiat in bankruptcy . Crewe has been uwde a port town . Punuc Works . —The number of persons employed on public works in Ireland , fjr llu week ending 8 th Nov ., was 150 . 2 CS . Thomas Moore , tho celebrated Irish pnet , is mtieh recovered—L . mcricli Chronicle .
A Rich Robbkr . —Last week , Charles DonnelLsn , who has been convicted and sentenced by the magistrates of East Ham for stealing cabbages , was discharged from Ilfoi'd gaol , where wore found upon his person 1 bag containing £ 95 in gold , another having £ 21 5 s . in gold and silver , and also Bank securities for £ 5 oO . Tub Bey op Tunis is on a visit to France . Shortening the Hours op Labu ; r . —Messrs . Bell , the proprietors of extensive potteries at Glasgow , have consented to shorten the hours of labour from 11 to 10 hours a day . Furkiox Potatoes . | The arrivals of potatoes from abroad during the past week , have included French , Russian , and Spanish potatoes In lar ^ e quantities . Tim Railway to Bradford running from Bletchley , on the London and Birmingham portion of the North Western Railway opened this week .
ESTABLISIlliliMT OF AS ENGLISH JoUKXAL IN RoifR . An English newspaper has just been started at Rome . It is entitled the Roman Advertiser , and apcars once a week . The editor is a Mr . Ilemane , but the proprietors appear to be all Italians . Austhalian Bishoprics . —Thediocese of Australia is to be divided into three , by the erection of two new bishoprics , one at Melbourne , for the district of Port fhili p , and the other at Morpeth , for the northern division of New South Wales . Saxitart Condition of the Metropolis . —The Committee of the Health of London Association are persevering with their inquiries into the sanitary condition of the metropolis . The Price of Gi . v is likely to be raised , in consequence of the distillers having made three advances , amounting in the whole to one shilling a eallon .
Westminster Bkidge is to be re-opened tor light carriages , omnibuses , « fec . The present structure will not be removed until the new bridge is completed . Death oy a Pugilist . —On Sunday morning Edward Neale , the celebrated pugilist , aged 51 years , expired at his residence , the Rose and Crown Inn , Norwood , Surrey . Captain Sir Edward Parry , the celebrated Polar voyager , is to succeed Captain Carter , as superintendent of llaslar Hospital . Don Carlos is residing at Genoa .
General Reduction in Steam-boat Fares . —On Tuesday , in consequence of the competition existing on the river Thames , the fares of nearly all the steamers underwent a permanent and very extensive reduction . The fares are now , consequently , between Gravei-end and London , Cd . each person ; between Woolwich , Greenwich , aud London-bridge , 3 d . and id . ; between the latter pier and Chelsea , 3 d . ; and between London-bridge and Nine Elms Railway station . 21 . ; a similar fare is also all that is charged for conveying passengers between ilungerf ' crd-uiarket and Chelsea . Other boats ran during Tuesday between London aud Westminster bridges at the extraordinarily low fare of one halfpenny each person . Horrible . —A French paper states that a butcher at St . Eticune lately sold his wife , to whom he had been very cruel , and then wanting her back , deliberately murdered her purchaser .
Hydrophobia . — -No death from hvdronhwbia has been registered in London during the last three
summers . Mademoiselle Rachkl has contributed 1 , 000 francs towards the vel . cf of the sufferers by tho late inunda tion in France . Good Suggestion . —The Westminster Review eontends that the penny stamp should be removed from newspapers , nnd placed upon a wrapper or envelope , franking those required to be sent through the post . Negro Astronomy ' . — " I say , Baz , " said a negro to a compeer , " where do dafc comet rise at ? " "Him rises in de 40 fch meridian ob de frigid zodiac , as laid down in the comet almanack . " "Well , and wbe / e do him set , Baz . " "Set , you black fro ) , him don't sotdowhere . When him get tired ob shining , him creep into him hole .
lLwi Time p or Women to Study Politics . —Bonaparte once at a party placed himself directl y before a wirty and beautiful lady , nr ; d said very abruptly , " Madam , I don ' t like that women should meddle with politics . " " You arc vory rijjht , General , " she replied , " but ia a country where women are beheaded , it is natural they should desire to know the reason . " The Ways of Women . —Young girls from lourtccn to seventeen , are fond of aping the wvm . v . t in their dress , ai . d are partial to long shawls , which give the young things a matronly appearance . When they bscwinc women in reality , they are rather too apt to go upon the opposite lack , and to assume the dress and airs of the girl .
Taking it Easy . —" When-a strangrv treats me with want of respect , " said a poor philosopher , "I comfort myself with tho n-IUction that it is not myself that he sli ghts , but my old shabby coat and shabby hat , which , to say the truth , have no partiouhir c ' aira lo adoration . So if my hat and coat choo ; e to fret it , let them , but it is nothing to mo . " Colloquy . — Tho following colloquy took p lp . ee between nu inquisitive gentleman and his butcher boy : — " What arc your politics ? " said t-io i ; fniicnian . " Thu auecsi ' * , sir . " " What s : c the 0 . u ; su ' s . "
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" Moin , sir . " " What's your name ? " " My name , " said the boy , " is the same as father ' s . " " And what is liia name ? " said the gentleman . " It is the same as moin . " "Then what are both your names ?" " Whoy they are both alike , " said the boy . The gentleman turned on his heel , and the boy shouted " Anything more , sir ?" An . Old Dkp . vui . thi . —Mr . O'Connell has-been , p asted ajain as a defaulter in the city of Dublin , i'he twelvemonths * bill ho ? ave for Repeal has become due , and been sent back marked " No effects . " This is iii - st the first by many which has been dishonoured in a similar Way . The honourable gentleman has been endeavouring to renew the bill , but his credit is so shaken , that he ha ^ great difficul ty in inducing people to accept anything . —Punch .
Tjis Sufferers nr the Destruction of tub Garmck Theatre . —The most generous sympaihy is being exercised towards the performers of the late Garrick Theatre , by their professional brethren at the City theatres . Benefits in aid of the fund collecting ' for their relief have taken place , while othersare about to come off . This Ciiolbra has extended its ravages from Persia to Banlfid , In that city about one hundred victims to " this disease were , by the last accounts ,, perishing daily . Fourteen hundred persons in all h : ; d then been carried off . Fishin g—The fishing by the long line along the cost of the Cuiiingham district of Ayrshire and off Arran this season , has been an average one compared with former years . . *
Canada isshortly to be annexed to the United States by magnetic telegraph wires , the contract for a line from Buffalo to Toronto being taken at one hundred and twenty-five d liars a mile—4 , 000 dollarsthe entire distance . A Steam-Boileb burst at Serel in Can-ida . Several persons were badly scalded , and five , including a fireman and stoker , have since died . Recent Gales have done much damage to the shipping in Canada . Fatal Accident near Hyde Park , Ion Tuesday morning , a young lady was knocked down by one of the Brentford omnibuses . She was taken to St . George ' s Hospital ; in the immediate vicinity , but life was found to be already extinct . Suicide at Brighton , —On Monday evening a young woman , decently attired , and apparently about 23 years of age , drowned herself by jumping off the pier .
Tnz Af . mt iy Canada . —Ltcutenant-Ganeral Sir Benjamin D' Urban will , it is understood , according to the present arrangements , proceed to Canada as commander in-chief , in the room of tho Earl of Cathcart . Bal Masque in a Cavkrx . —A Bal Masque took place on Monday evening , in a cavern 180 feet below the surface of Blackhcatb , supposed to have been constructed by the D . incs . The " Light of all Nations . "—The little that was lately seen of the sun has entirely disappeared within the last few days . An alarming rumour prevails that he has been totally " used up" by the Daguerreotypes . —Punch . Gold vehsus Steel . —The tool which the Emperor Napoleon used to coerce Spain was the sword . Alas ! it is now—blunt!—Punch .
Suicidb avith Gtw CoTTo . v , —An account is given in a French journal , of a gentleman committing suicide by cramming his ears full of the cotton and igniting it with his cigar ! Tiik Prince of SahikofF , from Russia , has arrived in town , a ^ d purposes to make a tour through the country . Emplotmbkt on the Ritxb , —At a meeting of tho coal porters and coal whippers , held on Monday , in the Temperance Hall , Waterloo Road , one of the speakers said that there were 2 . 000 men enjymed on the coal banies along the river , whoso wages Varied from £ 2 . to £ 1 15 s . a week .
lhe Duchess of M . trlborough ' s recent game-killing feat at Blenheim is likely to become the subject of rn ' nvestigation before the Magistrates and Commis-JOIH' 9 of Assessed Taxes . It is stated that the buelieas is about to be charged in double dutv for killing game without a certificate , and that she is also charged with an offence against the game laws in having killed ' game , not being authorised bra certificate so to do . A You . vo Giatt . -If old Frederick of Prussia could but revisit this terrestial globe , where , by his tyranny , he contrived to make so many of his f ellow creatures miserable , he would , we doubt not , endeavour to kid-iap a certain youth in Kirkby Ireleth . This lad , whose name is John Harrison , and who works at the shte quarries , is only 15 rears of age , and yet he weighs 13 stone , and stands six feet two inches high !
1 here is so much sickness and distress in Liverpool that the payments for the support of the poor are from £ 70 to £ 80 a week more than they were at this time last year . More Explosions . —There has been discovered a kind of explosive paper . The Berkeley Brothers , in the letters they have written to one another , have certainly availed themselves of this discovery . — . Punch . Tub Cheap Omnibus System . —A number of OMUibustSS yesterday s ' urted from between the Bank and Brompton , at tho extremely low fare of 2 d ., being considerably less than one halfpenny per mile . A gentleman , complaining of the scarcity anil proportionate insolence of female servants in Port Philip , mentioned that eight of these " helps" were married out . of his service in the same number of U 101 Itin . — . Pdri Phili p Patriot .
Australian Superstition On the demise of one of tho tribe , his arms , war instruments , and personal property , are placed , at sun down , on a funeral pile with the body ; a circle is then described around the tomb , within which no one is allowed to intrude but the priest ; who , when the S etting sun proclaims the approach of evening , places a lighted torch in , the hand , at the same moment igniting the pile ; he waits till its flickering light vanishes ; his eyes are then dhveted to heaven , and on beholding the "first " star in the sky , he « xelaims , ' There he goes with hiss fire-stick !"—Hodgson ' s Reminiscenw of Australia .
Public Abattoirs , or Slaughtering Houses . — It is intended to apply during the ensuingsession for suv Act for th * erection of slaugktferbouses I ' ov cattle , sheep , and pigs , on the north , south , east , and west of London , at such localities as may be contiguous to the existing railways , and adjacant to established markets , and an the most extensive seals , so as to afford ample accommodation . The Poles . —A j ^ rand ball and concert , in aid of the Poles in this country , was held in tlie Guildhall on the ISth instant . Mr . Temflkton fcas returned to London after a very successful trip to America . Mrs . Lover , wife of Mr . Samuel Lover , died on Tuesday morning , in Baker-street , after a short illness , leaving two daughters to lament her Joss . Mr . Lover is in America giving his Irish Evenings with great success .
London and York Railway —On Wednesday , the cuttings tor this line commenced with extraordinary activity at the north end of Bwnsbury Park and Islington . An Ugly Customer . —A creature very similar to the ouranii-outang , but Wgger , bolder , and move wanlike , is said to exist in the mountains beyond Westernport , in Australia Felix . Insurrection of Young Scotland . —Fifty-two boys have been expelled from George Ileriot's Hospital at Ediburgh for insubordination . Deaths and Biiitiis . —The deaths registered in the metropolitan district during the week ending Nov . 14 , were;—Males , 407 ; females , 449 ; total 916 ; being below the average both of the last five years , and five autums . Thctotal number ot births during the same period were : —Males . 709 : females , 000 .
This Traoe with America . —There are now ninet y packet-ships trading between New York and Europe ; fifty-two of them sail to Liverpool . Loan Tet . viiasi , who is a "Plymouth Brother , " preaches when in town in a small chapel in Rawstorn-street , Islington . Deserters . —In a recent number of the Port Philip Herald , more than two columns are filled with notices of desserlicm from tho 00 th regiment . Trial for Whicucrapt . —A Baltimore paper of September , reports the acquittal of Matilda Cordery , charged with practising witchcraft and conjuration in that citv .
Public Baths and Washuouses in Worcester . — At an adjourned annual meeting of the Wen-ester corporation , held at the Guildhall , Worcester , on Monday , Mr . Arrowsmith brought before the council a motion for the establishment of public balhs and washlioscs for that city , which was unanimously agreed to-Palafox , the old Saragossa " war to the knife " leader , has been dismissed from the command of the Queen of Sj . ain ' s body guards : his presence made the French ambassador uncomfortable . Pui . xck Albert Driwk . —A country paper states that at a late agricultural dinner , Prince Albert was drunk with enthusiasm . Kiko Leopold has become very unpopular in Belgium . Various earrieatuves had " been published since his return in ridicule of him , which have greatly annoyed his Majcstv .
"Put not your trust i . v Phixces . "—The Hull Advertiser represents this maxim to be as app licable to King Hudson as to Louis Philippe . Madame Arcijaud . —The nurse of the King of Rome , the son of JS ' apclcoii , died at Lagny on tbe 15 th inst . „ ,. „ .,. „ 1 'iu . sident IVlk . - The Baltimore Clipper says that President Polk drinks his omndy as regular m W ' £ S , n -Adding to the Rev . R : Monfgomcryf Sunday ' railway travelling is atmospherical ^' ' SI ' m-I ' - is-aid ihal 17 . 000 saclffl if sawdust a » annually consumed in London f , «* stuffing dolls , Moinaos riKi m-G AlALTi . us .-In ten years Moris-m paid for Guvcrhmoi . t stamps tor bis pills 'U 0
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 21, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_21111846/page/3/
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