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a Ores Head am ) Eass is Debt . "—A hatter in Kew York gives a definition of the common phrase " over head and ears in debt . " He s * ya in his ad-Teriisement , it means » man who hasn ' t p » id for hi 3 hat . Ditfide-nce . —A man « eis along faster -with a ensible married -woman in hours than with a young girl in whole days . It is next to impossible to make them talk , or to reach them . They are like a green ¦ walnut ; thtre are half a dozen outer coats to be pnlied off , one by one and slowly , before you reach ike kernal of their ch * r&ct « r . Idlekes 3 . —The worst vices springing from the worst principles—the excesses of the libertine , and ihe outrages of the plunderer—usually take their rise from early and unsubdued idleness . Farr ' s Discourses on Education ,
Obd Axsweb . —The elder folks were talking of the races , when one turned to a listening child ar . d and said , " Did you ever see a racer , Bobby !" B , wag the answer , " I hare seen the candles ran . " A Dbt KrB . —The late Rev . Mr . Walker of Dundonald , who was as well known for hi 3 piety as his ready talent for repartee , had , in his youth , been a sergeant in the army . One day as he entered the Preibyterial court , " he was addressed by a clerical brother , who was notorious for his ardent and constant attachment to hi ? boitle , with , — " Come awiy , capta : n—if you had still been a soldier , what situation would you have given me in your company ? As I live by the word of my mouth , st any rate , 1 think I would have made a capital fifer V' " . No , no / ' said the clerical wit , " that would never have done , for the par would Dot have been half enough to have kep : vour irhislte tret . "
Astoxishi > g . —A Western Editor went off in a fit of hysterics a few weeks since , at the 3 ight of three men , who unceremoniously entered his office and requested the liberty of paying for a year ' s subscription to the paper . Ths Axekicas Chahactes . — " We are born in a hurry , " says au American , " we are educated a ; full ipeed . We make a fortune with the wav » of a ¦ w and , and loose i ; in like manner , to re-make ana re-3 oose it in the twinklicg of an eye . Our body is locomotive , iravaiiin ^ at the rate of ten leagues an hour ; our thonghts are as a'high-pressure engine ; onr life resembles a shooting £ tar , and death surprises us like an electric etroke . "
Potebtt is * n enormous evil . By poverty , I understand the state of man possessing no permanent property , in a country where wealth and luxury save already gained a secure establishment . He , then , that is to born to poverty , may be said , under another name , to be born a slave . —Godirin-BiSHOl Ottek ' s " Pastoral Addresses , " announced unong the new clerical works , include , it is said , some affectionate advice to the clergy as to the best mode of securing the "loaves and fishes , "—good things which the whole clerical ho ^ tare in search of , ihough but few of the number have the wit to succeed in their attempts .
Ox the dat that Sir Robert Peel dined at the Royal table , the minature carriage built for the Princes 3 Royal became the subject of conversation ; it was much extolled for it 3 lightness and elegance by Lord Melbourne , who had seen it , and who , addressing himself to Sir Robert , said , " Peel , I ' m sure will approve of it ; let me recommend yon to go * nd « ee our ' turn-out . '" "I shill bo only too happy , " promptly rejoined 5 ir Robert . A Dutchman axd his wife were travelling ; they sat down by the roadside exceeding ' . ) - fatigued . The wife sighed ' , " I wish 1 was in Heavea . " The husband replies , I wish I was at . the tavern . " '" Uh , yon old rogue , ' says she , " you always / want to get the best place , " Ya . vkeeisjl—A man died in Kentucky so tarnation tall that it took two clergymen and a boy to preach his funeral sermon .
__ The Bishop of Loxdos Ls a plain-spoken indi- ; Yidoal . When he read the account of the Visitation proceedings at York , and the sentence passed on ihe \ Xlean , he emphatically , bus rather unelerically , re- marked , that " the Dean was a d—d fool , inasmuch ' as he not only sinned simqniacaliv , but suffered himself to be found out afterwards . " The last must certainly appear in the eyes of a Bishop the i worst of follies . u 'Twas watKG from me , " as the chicken said when ; lie lost his head . , u I am the greatest woman in the world , Poll , " remarked her most gradeU 3 Majesty to the learned . parrot . " How very deceptive the eye is some- ' times ! " rejoined the ironical bird . ' ' I ! ; : ; '
It is believed that the silver stolen from the plate room at Windsor Castle was immediately run into ' bars , to pievent it 3 being identified . May not this lead to ihe probability of its forming , by this time , & portion of the current coia of the realm ! " I mea > ' , Poixt , to take yoa to the German company / ' said the Queen to the ' learned parrot . " Pray do not , " rejoined Poll , " I see quite enough of German company here . " The Cocbt xewsma * , by a slight literal mistake , stated an Thursday , that " the bells rang a merry jp ^ / eaher Majesty ' s arrival . " Merry " Peels m connection with her Majesty havB been Boniewli&l scarce . We recollect but one "Peel , " and that "was any thing but a merry one . ¦
Fhkb Tkade to the Lawyers . —A man from the © onutry applied to a respectable solicitor for legal advice . After detailing the circumstances of the ease , he was asked if he had stated the facts exactly as they occurred . " 0 ay , sir , " rejoiced the applicant , I thought it best to tell yon the plain truth ; yon can put the lies to it yoorseif . "
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Description op a Republican President . —Mr . G . Combe , the phrenoiogis :, thus describes General Harrison , whom he saw last year at his residence at Korth Bend , about -a quarter of a mile from the Ohio : —He is now 67 , rather above the middle stature , slender , and stoops considerably . His temper-MBeDt is nervous and bilious ; his head is long , of fail average height , but not remarkably broad . The saterior lobe is above an average , both in length , torn front to back , and height ; and both the observing and reflecting organs are well developed . TEfas head is oVrifcusly fiat in the region of aeqni- ? ,
silneness . The moral region seemed to present an sversge development . His eye i 3 vivacious , and his countenance is highly expressive of thought ; indeed , his whole appearance is much more that of a literary or scientific man than that of a military commander . His habitation presented unequivocal indications of humble fortune ; indeed , it may be said , without the least feeling of disrespect , of poverty ; yet his manner and appearance were those of a man of the world , who was familiar with the best society , and "who , in the retirement of his farm at North Bend , retained the polish and appearance of a gentleman .
The East Ma > . —There is no human being walks through thi 3 life in a way more peculiar to himself than the easy man . Ths hopes and fears , jovs and anguish , which worry aBd harrass the rest of mankind , are unknown to him ; he came into this world he knows not how—he jogs throngh it just because he sees other people doing so—he eats and "drinks , sleeps soundly , and dies easily—and when he is buried , the sexton , as he stands in the half-filled grave , sticks his spade in it fora moment—and takes Enuff . The easy man is generally of middle stature , Stout , with -cheeks having a kind of roughness , like & fowl wiih the feathers off , rosy , however , and streaked like a winter pear . Tbe ' re is usually a little watery saliva at the earners of his mouth , and in cold weather hi 3 proboscis has a drop hanging
from it like a diamond in the nose of a Persian queen . He wears an everlasting drab great co : it , green leather gloves , and a hat slightly turned up behind . His wowsers in summer—they arc & very old pair—are esaally too short for him , and display glaring white worsted stockings ; his hair appears toobeyuosert of arrangement , and he was never seen -with an amirella in his life . He speaks always in a kind of cosy whisper , as if k « wu conversing ¦ witafcis YrifeTinder . & eoverlit- ^ ko has a . look of universal benignity , and br « a £ hes heavily through his mm . He is foad ef using the word " Sir , * and sticks it hito his sentences ofteaertbjui other people He takes off his hat in banks and attorney's offices , and has a guise of laoffensivenesa -which nobody can at istoke . . . ¦ '"
H&w to LBAB MiSKim . —If masters folly understood the icfioenoe which even the di ^ btest personal attention produces © a the minds of their workmen , the / would be more ijwish than , thaa they are of a simple act of justice jtfueh can cost them bo little , sad noald profit them so much . Treat & man like * £ aead , * Bdjoa soon nuke Mm one \ &e * t kirn like juro £ Sfi ,. a&d & * honesty jaust be much greater than your wisdom , if ha do o » i soon justify y « ir guspi cioflif ! 2 a bo way are sen so easily led—often , it is true , * a ^ blindljL lei-ar ^ hroagix-tfaB affections . Thanks to the benign acraogemsnts of a merciful Father , the affections are the only part of oar nature the cultivation of which mas cannot neglect , however much he may often perrert them . Every man
eoznes into the world surrounded by objects of affection . The filial &ud . parental tie is one which binds rich and poor alike ; and is often the stronger in the poor , becaaee it is almost tke only domestic ) blessing which they esn truly call their own . Hence it is , that j&ea who ore Qpte inaccessible to reason , are easily led bj the affections ; and po wise man will neglect to use , especially -when it is for the mutual benefit of all , this powerful and nniversally prevailing instnrnieDt . The next stage to the tie of parent and child , in the progress of society , i 3 that of master and servant ; and it is for the interest of both to earry into their relations with each other a * much as possible of the kindly feeling which has been nursed in the botom , in catldhooa , by the domestic fireside . —The Rev . Mr . Parkinson ' s Pamphlet
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THE SECOND " SETTLEMENT" OF THE CHINA QUESTION . The Dogberries of Government are lond in their self-felicitations about the news by the overland mail . " There is no country in . the world , " says the Chronicle , " in which a Minister is more frequently tried than in England by the unjust test of the results rather than the principles of his policy ; and we think we may say with confidence , that there have been few Ministries that have stood the test more triumphantly than the present . " It muBt certainly be a great subject of congratulation to Ministers to know that their foreign policy meets with approbation—when trild by an " unjust test . " The Chronicle has thus dexterously and judiciously sought to shelve " the principles" of the quarrel
with China . There is so much of truth in the pithy ixiom announced by that journal that Ministers are in this country most frequently tried by the " unjust test" of their success , tnat were their success in China beyond dispute , there would be nothing remaining for all who question their principles , buc to enxer a protest—an appeal from the people in the intoxication of success , to the people become sober strain , and called upon to pay the bill , uuderthe influence of a headache the consequence of their debauch—and drop the controversy for the the present . Honesty is the best policy ; and a less restricted intercourse with China , purchased by an jpium war , might have its advantages materially neutralised by the fraud and violence which procured it .
: But even the success may be questioned . The ' Chronicle tells us— " The wrongs of our merchants ! hare been redressed ; the position of our trade im-! mensely benefitted ; increased facilities given for 1 carrying it on in future ; and our diplomatic interj courbe fr » ed from thos > e offensive aud humiliating i forms , so long a source of serious embarrassment between the countries . " And all this , we are i assured , has been aimiued " in a single campaign—( at an incredibly small expenditure either of life or ; means . " ! Let us contrast this magnificent verbiage with the i meagre abstract of events upon which it rests .
' ¦ u The wrongs of our merchants have been re-] dressed . " By " wrongs of our merchants , " we i snppose the writer means the seizure and destruction ' ¦ of the opium . How have they been redressed ? "An i indemnity to the British Government of six millions I of dollar ' , payable in six yearly instalments , " is ; said to have been promised by the Chinese Commis-; siouers . This is not repayment to the merchant : it i is a contribution towards the payment of the expense ' incurred by the British Government in fitting out ! the expedition . " The Plenipotentiary has published I officially his intention to urge the opium-indemniji-1 cation claims upon the British Government , with the ; concurrence also of the Governor-General of India . " ' it is uncertain yet whether the opium-merchants at ; Canton are to be indemnified for their losses ; and if they ara , it is to be at the expense , not of the Chinese Government , but of the British people .
I " The position of our trade immensely benefittedincreased facilities given for carrying it on in future . " : The clauses " said to be stipulated" in " the preliminary treaty signed officially by the Plenipotentiaries" are— " cession of the island of Hong-Kong to the British Crown , " and ** the trade of Canton to ! be opened ten days after the Chinese New Year . " That is to say—the British have now in Hong-Kong , an ieland thirteen leagues to the east of Macao , a ri . ^ ht of property similar to that which the Pori tuguese have long had in the latter island : and that | the trade with Canton is to be re-opened , for any-1 thing ibat appears to the contrary , exactly on the I same footing on which it was formerly conducted . < Hong-Kong is granted merely as a fief of the i empire—as private property : and the terms upon i which trade is to be conducted are left for
after-¦ negociation—to furnish matter for Palmerstonian ; protocols . ; "Uur diplomatic intercourse freed from those offensive and humiliating form ? , " & . c . The statement from China is— ' Direct oficial intercourse , on an equal footing between the two countries . " This is undoubtedly a gain , if real : but the politic Chinese may dispense frith the form of " pin'' and yet keep the representatives of the British Crown as much at arm ' s length as ever . This admission on the part of the On ' nese , that Great Britain is not a tributary but an independent state , may place certain Consular and Diplomatic appointments at the disposal of Ministers— entail additional expense on the country , and furnish Government with increased means of corruption—and yet leave our mercantile interests in China exactly a = they were .
And all this has been purchased with an "incredibly small expenditure either of life or of mtans . " Before we admit thi .-, we mu .-t know the exact value of what has been seined . Expenditure is large or Email in proportion to the return obtained for it . But we would say that , primo facie , the expendi-; ture of life in the Chinese Walchtren of Chusan has not been small ; and that the Chinese contribution of ' six millions of dollars ( only £ 1 , 500 , 000 sterling , taking the doliai at as high a value as o 3 . > towards ; the expences of the expedition , will fall far short of ; the expences already incurred . ; In short , the result of the whole transaction seems * -i « -l»—That the Directors of the East India Com-1 poPT . f who hare a monopoly of the opium grown in Tf&eirie ? Hf@cifa- a ; w 'BP « rBmf 5 K'Tiierefaant 3 resi' ¦ dent in Ganurn ,-having for some time carried on a ¦ lucrative smuggling trade in opium , the Chinese ' . Government s « z ? d their stock on hand at Whampoa ;
! that in consequence of this , the British Governi ment fitted out a fleet and army , which took possession of a town in Cbusan , battered down two or three Chinese forts , lost a gTeat many men by sickness , and frightened the Chinrse Goveromont into ceding to our Queen a barren island near the mouth of the Canton river , promising to treat English diplomatic agents with civility , and undertaking to ¦ pay by instalments , in the course of six year ? , a portion of the expences of the expedition ; and that the Governor-General of India is to eudeavour to persuade the British Government to indemnify the Canton merchants , for the purpose of enabling them to pay the East India Company , out of the taxes raisea in Great Britain , and to defray the surplus oxpence incurr # d by the expedition , o * er and above the contribution of the Chinese Government . Lastly . ' even this settlement has not yet been ratified by either Government .
The Whit ; organs must be sadly at a loss for something to bra # of , when they make such a hallooing about this UvimpelV affair . —Spectator .
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^ O . v Monday another house fell down in High-street , St . Giles ' s . No life was lost . A - nvmber of quarrymen , who had been employed at Buliock , six miles ir . ) m Dublin , have been taken off to Paris , to work upon the fortifications . Mr . Abijah Pope , of Juniata , has been found guilty and lined 228 dollars for an assault and battery on Philt-mon H . Mann . This statement is headed " Pope ' s Es 3 ay on Man . " Moee Absurdity . —It is currently reported that Mr . Hawes was so shocked on hearing a parcel t > t urchins cry " Hot cross buns , " ou Good Friday , vh * t he is determined to put a stop to it by legislative interference .
While there has been a slight increase in the quantity of malt used in the distilleries in England during the last year , and only a very slight decrease in Scotland , the falling oif in Ireland has amounted to nearly one-third . It is stated , on the authority of a letter from St . Petersburg , that the Russian army was about to be reduced by 4 'J , 000 or 5 U , 0 u 0 men . The sam » paper announces that the agitation in Serria still continued , Sm-GGLiJiG . —The mate of a foreign ship was fined 40 s ., at a London police office , on Saturday , for smuggling a box of cigars , whiah was also confiscated .
Furious Driving . —A reporter , named Clyatl , has been held to bail , kimself in £ 50 % , and two sureties in £ 250 , to appear to answer the charge of having run orer a child , in Bridge-street , Biack friar ' s Road , London . Xho oM ^ T , | i not ^ Iitd WJfr out of danger yet . ' ^\ - '! ^^^^ : \ fW \ r High-way Bojbbebt by a RkrrauniD T&A * spoaT . —James Porter , a returned transport , was sentenced to transportation for life ' , ' at ' the Central Criminal Court , on Saturday , for having committed a
robbery upon a young lady , near the Edgewareroad , in February last . Aa Ukfrofitablb Customer . —A tall hungrylooking man walked into a cookshop in London Wall , London , a day or two back , and , after consuming plate after plate of meat and vegetables , very coolly told the eating-housekeeper that ha had no money in his pockets , and asked would they give Mm credit fbr a month ! He was taken btfore the magistrates , at the Mansion House , on Saturday , but was discharged on giving his address , and promising payment in a week .
The Poob Law made Murderer . —On Saturday at the Criminal Court , London , Harriet Longley , who drowsed her child in the New River , to which act she was driT « n by her destitution , and the refusal of the Poor Law officers to relieve her , was tried , and found gailty of murder . Sentence of death was passed upoa . her , but the JudgeB said they would record her case io her Majesty , in order to save her life . Retcbmsg fjbom TRAJfSPOB . tATioit . —At the Central Criminal Court , London , o . i Saturday , George Ghilds , alias Giles , was indicted fiT returning from transportation . It appeared that i he prisoner was capitally convicted in this Couri , i , i the year 1832 , and that his sentence was subsequently conmiuted to transportation for life . An ofSoer app . rehended him a few days since in a public-house . Mr . Baron Gurney sentenced him to be imprisoned si . t months in the House Of Correction , and afterwards u ^ "isported for life .
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Irish . Railroads . —At length the subject of railroads for Ireland is taken up in gpod earnest ; a number of English capitalists have come forward with the necessary funds , and they are to be eecrared by the government in a certain per centage on their outlay . We understand that the Messrs . Baring stand at the head of the list . —Waterford Chronicle . i A Lcsus Natub-e . —On Friday , the wife of a weaver , named George , who resides in Rose-lane , Spitalfielda , wsb delivered of a male child , which has excited the greatest curiosity . Tho child is a mere trunk , without arms or thighs , but is in exceedingly good health , and likely , in the opinion of the medical attendant , to do well , performing the offices of nature perfectly . The trunk appeals as if nature never intended to give thighs or arms in this instance .
"We regret to mention that a quondam writer in Arbroath , who commenced business some years since as a merchant and importer of green cloth , absconded last wek , leaving debts and liabilities , as estimated by some ,, to the amount of upwards of £ 100 , 000-Few of our manufacturers bat have sustained heavy losses , and many in the neighbouring towns otForfar , Kirriemuir , and Dundee , have also suffered by this nefarious transaction . —Montrose Review . Justices' Justice . —It appears by the Nottingham Review that the two labourers who were se ' ut to prison by two Mansfield Justices for tho serious offence of loitering , i . e . standiRg upon a causeway , looking out for a job of work , which we noticed at the time , have undergone their severe sentence of % month ' s confinement ! We think the punishment inflicted upon these men was an outstretch of the law , and we hope the two merciful Justices who committed them will have to account for it . — Weekly Dispatch .
Skeleton soid in Covent Garden . —Amongst tho numerous lots Bold by Mr . Edmund Robins , in Covent Garden , on Tuesday , was the skeleton of Holloway , the murderer of Mr . Steele , on Hounslowheath , in the year 1802 . It was knocked down to a surgeon for 3 % i . [ The presumption afterwards was that Holloway , and Haggerty , who was executed with him , were innocent of the offence for which they suffered . —Londtn paper . Life preserving Hat . —A day or two ago the natives of Dover were much amueed with the exhibition of some fishermen swimming about in tho
harbour buoyed up by White ' s life-preserving hat . Mr . White , who is at present resident in Dover , gave the men a hat each , on condition that they would jump into tho water to prove its efficacy in saving life . The hats which kept their owners above water without the slightest exertion , are of the ordinary make ; and the space above the head being filled with air , they make the person having hold of them float like a cork . They are not kept on the head , but held over the chest or under the chin . The hat is fastened with a cord or riband to the wearer , and bo equipped he may go to sea without fear .
Juvenile YAGRANcy . —There exists a Society whose object it is to reform and provide for destitute children , juvenile beggars , and infant pickpockets . It is very slenderly provided for ; nay , its continued existence is douitful , for the want of patronage . Of the importance of crushing crime in the egg , no reflecting person can doubt ; and were this system of suppressing vermin vigorouaiy acted up to , society would be relieved from continual depredation ; the gaols would be depopulated , the hulks thinned , and the horrors of crime and punishment mitigated to a me-st heart-reji > icing degree . Well , this most rational and humane plan is one that has never been adopted by our Government , has been scarcely sanctioned by the wealthy and
enlightened public , and in tho instance of this society is left to struggle , and starve on its way to failure and extinction . All this time the Legislature is providing laws against crime ; the Executive is devising prisons at home and at tho antipodes , establishing armies of police , and legions of magistrates , justices , and juries . What a spectacle of blindness ! Crime is left to grow strong , to spread , to fecundate , and overrun the land—and then is the time chosen to contend with it ; when all that it is possible for a man to do , is just to keep it under—to prevent it from overshadowing and suffocating every
growing and green thing . " Catch your thief young . ' If this maxim were acted upon , and the whole force of a preventive society were diroctcd to this object with full powers and means , the change effected in London , in ten year ? , would bo magical . The blood boils to see such objects neglected , and at the same time to read of teus and hundreds of thousands squandered upon patching up old churches and chapels , and other ruius , whose solo merit is , that they were built in a distant time of barbarism . When will the scales drop from the eyes of society ? When will it cease to bo deluded and diverted from its true interests?— Weekly Dispatch .
Longevity in Russia Explained . —A statistical economist , who knows nothing of tho internal arrangements of the province , must be sadly puzzled to account for the extraordinary tenacity and vigour of the vital powers , the healthful influence of the clim « te , and the astonishing greatness of the average duration of human life in Bessarabia . The problem is , however , easilj solved , when the contrivance of the civic authorities to increase the numbers within TfieTr municipal JuristSotitm is understood . Aref ^ co appears and prays to be enrolled as a Mesnechanu £ — that is , a citizen of the town . He is at firaftold , " That is not a matter of course , friend : you have no passport , too ; but wait awhile , and we will see what can be dona for you . " The refugee waits until one of the civic community dies , and then he is sumthe Red
moned to appear a ^ ain before Table , in the magisterial office . Now the business proceeds thus : — ' What is your name ?"— " Ivan Gritshov . "" What age !" - " 25 . " " Well , young man , atteud to what 1 am going to eay—Mitrophan Kalenko died yesterday , aged 50 ; if you wish to be a citizen , you must take upon yourself his name and his age ; then we will allow you to be substituted for him , aud will give you his certificate and other documents . " Ivan Uoitshov joyfully consents , and becomes all at once a respectable citizen of a very respeotable age . The departed Mitryphan still lives underthismetamorphosis on the civic register , and , probably , after two or three other renewals of his existence , dies at the patriarchal age of 150 . We need , therefore , no longer marvel at the frequent accounts of deaths in Russia of persons exceeding 100 years of age . —German
paper . Peter the Great and Peter the Lims . — So . ML- ACCOUNT OK OLIVER CROMWELL ' S HELMET . — At the London Borough Court of Requests on Saturday lasi , Peter Crump , a diminutive knight of the bodkin and shears , standing some four feet six in his high-lows , appeared before the Comnussieners as defendant in a case in which Solomon Levy , an elderly member of the " peplish , " was plaintiff : the sum in dispute being 7 s . 6 d . Solomon Levy , the plaintiff , was a dealer in old curiosities , residing in tiie neighbourhood of the New Cut , and he cultivated a long grey beard , resembling a mop . " I vash shast a shuttin up ma shop , yer vartships , " said the Jew , '" when I sheed dis man come up , de vush . for vhat he took . ' Mind de 'indj ( fcma tear , ' 1 shays to him ; ' All right smouchy , ' naSfcays , and den he valks into ma shop , and anodefV&h follered
him , and begun pulling ma goois about , yer vartships , and atervards dey set to vurk a singing , and disturboi all ma neighbours . " Commissioner—I suppose they were tired , and wanted to rest themselves . Jew—Not a bit of it , yer varujbips , not a bit of it ; dey vanted to deshtroy ma Rflits ; de little von put on Oliver Cromwell's helmat , . "und de oder Napoleon's jack-boots , and vash a marching off vid ' cm , but ma shon Ishaac , who ' s a goot lad to his ould fader , sthopped ' em . Commissioner—indeed ; but how do you know that the heirnetand jack-boots belonged to the celebrated characters you have mentioned ? Jew—Not a doubt of it , yer vartships , not a doubt of it—I ' ve got de papers vhat shall prove it to all de vurld . Commissioner—Now I think there are a g « od many doubts on the subject ; but I dare say if a person wanted the entire cross , you could farnisb , it to them at ft cheap ^^ g ^^^^^^^^^ dvemuroiith ^ FfffiyTyJ ^ afflMi ^ BI ^ B ^ B ^^^^^ r ^^^^^^^ B ^^^^^^^^ KiE ^ ki ^ ala&iMivhXtl pSwSS ^ MHBI it , and sphoilt it . De sabjeoHiIhTettf tf * Grolt making a pair of Bhoes . T&e Commissioner said ft " was strange the dcfendant ' s"flnger shouldJiaTejs < te * so easily through a pieoV of canvas . SplomttV ' ttCplained that it was not an oil painting , but merely a print coloured over and xttrni&ed , Itsraltfe ^ o estimated at 7 s . Gd . Commissioner ( to 4 be 4 efendant —Now , what have you to say about Peter tha Gr&tl Peter the Little—Please yer rorship , I'd tuck a drt * too much the other night , and was goin' home aloni ^ with , my mate Bobby , wot works on the same board with me , whea this here old Jew lays hold ' on me and pulled me slap into his shop . Commissioner- ' - He says you tried to walk off with Oliver Cromwell ' s heJmet ; how came you to do that ? Peter the Littlebammon , yervorship ; I tried it on , and jist walked outside to see how I looked in itthat ' s
allCom-, . missioner—Well , how about Peter the Great ! Peter the Little-There was a great hole in it before I touched it at all , and that artful old dodger wants to vzctimise me for what I dida ' t do . Solomon—S'help §?» * X' y ^ /^ i ps . it vash him vhat tore it . Peter the Little-Here , Bobby , step forrud , 'cause you seed Peter the Great wit& his eye out . "Bobby , " a long , lean , Schneider , with a scratch wig and a Sf ,. £ l o ' IP , *? ? ! wora to 8 ™ wideoee in behalf of Peter the Little . " Commissioner-What do you know about this matter 1 Lone Bobby—I saw the pietur in the first instance , andTone df the eye * was poked out . Jew ( lifting ' up his hands ) - Lard have marshy upoa us , > hat a lie . The Com-^ X ? T' ! £ V , !!! ooa ^ tetiofl , returned a verdict for the defendant . Solomon Levy packed up the remains of " Peter the < G * eat" and left the Uur * , jw eanng in Hebrew with ^ reat volubility followed by « p eter As UtUif ' w&&b friend » I *»*
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Misters' Executioner . —An extraordinary sensation was excited in Bridgnorth , on Sunday last , by Constable Edwards apprehending a man drunk and disorderly in the streets , during divine service , and who was surrounded by a crowd that kept shouting , " Jack Ketch ! Jack Ketch I" The man was conveyed to the lock-up , and on his person was found a letter from Mr . Dawson , the Governor of Shrewsbury Gaol , in which were these words : — " March 31 . Sir , —You had better come over immediately : the execution takes place on Saturday . To Thomas Taylor , cutler , Coventry-street , Stourbridge . " There was another letter in his possession , and in which was the 35 s . he received for hanging Misters ; he had the clothes of Misters in a bundle ,
tied up in a filthy old apron . Numbers visited him in the lock-up on Sunday from curiosity , and to examine Misters' clothes . The report of our correspondent enables us to contradict the report of Misters being shabbily dressed . His coat was a good fine broad cloth , With velvet collar ; his waistcoat of satin , richly flowered ; his trousers of striped kerseymere ; his shirt of fine IriBh cloth , but with no visible marks of blood on it , as had been slated . His entire suit was in accordance with that of a gentleman . The stockings were marked with the initials " A . C , " the same that Mr . Cooke gave him
at Ludlow . On the evening of Sunday , as the spirit of Sir John Barleycorn evaporated , and left the professor in this peculiar line of life (* J compos , he deplored his indiscretion , wishing himself safely located again with his wife and family at his Stourbridge tinkery . Large sums wero offered him for different articles of dress belonging to Misters , but he declined to bargain for any portion of the precious wardrobe . On Monday , he was had up before the magistrates , and sentenced to be heavily fined in the sum of sixty pence . He is said to have a retainer for four jobs in perspective , at Gloucester and other places . —Ten Towns Mesienger ,
Principles of Pi / seyism . — Though the public journals have , for some time past , devoted so much of their attention to "Puseyism , " the principles which constitute that creed are not generally known . It is one of its leading doctrines that the authority of the church is superior to that of the Boyereiga or the state , and that consequently the legislature has no right to interfere in ecclesiastial matters . The Piiseyites maintain that all children baptised by the church are converted at their baptism , and that there can be no saving repentance forsins afterpersons have reached the year * of maturity . They admit , however , that there may be a reconversion by means of the Sacraments , They repudiate everything of an evangelical nature , and place the whole essence of
religion in the observance of external forms . They are great sticklers for fasts , and attach greater importance to them than to the Sabbath-day . They deny the right of the common people to read the Soripture 3 , unless they have first read the Common Prayer-book , and are prepared to interpret tho Scriptures by it , instead of interpreting the Prayerbo # k by the Bible . They also set up tradition as a sura and infallible guide in all matters of religion , and view the Bible as subordinate in authority to it . Puseyism regards the Virgin Mary as in one sense divine , and consequently worthy of worship . The Pusoyitcs further maintain that departed saints are
to be prayed to , and that prayers are to be made for tho-m . They believe , in other words , in a modified form of purgatory . Their opinions on tho subject of transubstantiation are substantially the same as those of the Roman Catholics . They look ea all beyond the pale of the church with a harsh and uncharitable eye , and though they do not go so far as to eay that no Dissenter can be saved , they assert the right of tho church to compel conformity to her ritual . They do not disguise the fact , that if they were armed with the requisite civil power , they would exercise that power for the purpose of extinguishing dissent . Such are the leading principles of '" Puseyism . "
Frightful Accident to a Passengbr on the Eastern Counties Railway . —On Sunday evening , about twenty-five minutes before eight o ' clock , a most frightful accident occunred on the Eastern Counties Railway , by which a passenger , named Joseph Lovell , living at 2 , Swallow ' s-gardens , Chamber-street , Goodmau ' s-fields , was bo much injured it is supposed ho canuot possibly survive . The Romford train , on its way to London , arrived at the station in Devonshire-street , Mile-end , at the time above-mentioned , when Lovell , who had been riding in one of the third-clas * carriages , alighted , and was in tiie act of stepping across a platform with , a stick in his hand , upou which he was leaning , when , owing to the greasy state of the platform , from the rain which tell iu ths afternoon , he suddenly slipped , and
his stick breaking in half , he fell backwards on the rails of the line . At this instant a policeman called out " All right , " and the train started , and a violent shriek was immediately afterwards heard ; and it was then found that the engine and carriages had passed over the unfortunate man . He was picked up apparently lifeless , aud a litter being procured , no time was lost in conveying him to the London Hospital , where the sufferer was attended by Mr . Luko , the house-surgeon , and several other medical gentlemen , and on examination it was ascertained that his left , leg was literally crushed to pieces , and the foot of hia other leg alao severoly injured . It was deemed expedient to amputate the left limb , and that operation was immediately carried into effect in the most skilful mannor . No hopes were entertained of the unfortunate man's surviving .
: Attebi rfeD MCRDER . —At the Assizes recently hold at Taunton , Richd . Roynon . waB indicted for having attempted to violate and mntder Elizabeth Veal . It appeared that the prosecutrix , a young woman , nineteen years of age , was on the turnpike road leading from West Harptreo to Chepstoke , on the 12 th October last , when the prisoner followed her and threw her down , and then cut her throat . The evidence did not show clearly the prisoner ' s object in the assault in the first place , or the attempted murder . A surgeon , who met the girl staggering along the road en the evening in question , deposed that he examined her throat , and found a wound three inches long and half an inch deep . The young woman identified the prisoner shortly after the
occurrence , at an inn near the spot , to which the surgeon took her . The Jury found the prisoner f uitty on this and corroborative testimony , and judgment of death was recorded against him . [ This case forms a strange contrast in its result with that of Misters . Misters was . executed for having cut tho throat of his victim , who recovered ; Roynon is found guilty of an exactly similar offence . What rulo governs the decision of Judges 1 The law at Ludlow and the law at Taunton are two different things . Tnis species of haphazard and uncertainty in the administration of tho law has , we think , a most decided tendency to encourage rather than discourage crime . If hanging Misters might be supposed to deter those who are murderously
inclined , we should argue that the sentence of Roynon to transportation for life will diminish its proposed effeot , and encourage that disposition to risk the chances , whioh feelfng the criminally disposed are prone to indulge in . It must not be inferred from this that we think Roynon should be hung but that if he was not hung for his offence , Misters ' execution was a legal murder . If crime deserve punishment in proportion to its atrocity , or , in other words , if the example exhibited to the public should be severe in proportion to the extent and intensity of the offender ' s cruel misdeeds , then like should be administered to like , or we have injustice dealt out somewhere ; and , in a case like that of Misters , it amounts , as we have said above , to judicial murder . l ,
Caution to Borrowers from Loan Societies . — At Marylebone Police Office , on Satur < fay last , Mr . Deckes , the chairman of , and a solicitor ( whose name did not transpire ) connected with , tno St . Marylebone Loan and Discount Society , holding its meetings in Great Portland-street , attended before Mr . Hardwick , at hfeMthejjjfcei ^ txftte ' e ) request , in consequence of a comm ^ ijlcafion made to him by Lord Radatook , a few dt $ B ago , relative to a loan of £ 11 having been granted to a person named ( as we understood ) Perrott , and oa which £ 20 expences had been incurred . Lord R&datock was present on this occasion , and there'were alao in Court several otherl ^ ighly influential persous counected with the parishj who seemed to be much interested in the
jotyuiry . Ihe gentlemen of the society made a statement to the effect , that tho loan was granted in J ^ ne last , and that it was not until after there wore lea week * payments in arrear , that tho matter was $ liced in legal hands , with a view to the recovery of ' he sum due ; but prior to this course being taken , i en letters had been written to tha borrower , and $ wo to tho surety ; the society was always ready and j rilling to be as lenient as possible , but if parties eglected to keep their payments good , they ought not to blame those who had advanced them money for endeavouring to obtain the amount due to them , it further appeared that the Societys' Act possessed ^ ocontroul over them whatever . Mr . Hard wick was , aware that he had no power over them under the Act which had been alluded to , but he thought it was only fair and right that those who borrowed sums of money , aud who were , of course , supposed ty be necessitous persons , should be made fully acquainted with the fact , that iu the event of there
being any defalcation in payments , they would be liable to be , arrested upon their stamped notes , and pirt to considerable expenoe by such proceeding . The borrowers , in most cases , no doubt , imagined that by obtaining money from the Bociety they were rendering themselves liable only to the expence attending proceedinga before a magistrate , as was the case with , ether loan societies , and he ( the magistrate ) observed , that if ¦ the contrary waa known , and that a man had the 'remotest idea that the debt could at once be put into a lawyer ' s hands without , any magisterial interference-whatever , ther , e would , he apprehended , under sueh circumstances be yery few applications forl « 4 ns . The Chairman anctfylidtor remarked upoa the fairness with which thebasinesspf tiie society was uniforml y transacted AndJ ifter a few observations , which we could not diBMflBtly hear , from the magistrate and Lord Rad-S 4 » dE the latter , and the two first named gentlemen , M | £ ^ had attended as requested , quitted the Court — Mmm Paptr
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Hard Swearing . —At the Pontefract Sessions , on Wednesday last , Sir Gregory L « win , addressing tbe Jury on the improbability of the prosecutor identifying a quantity of hay , which had been stolen , said that some men ' s consciences allowed them to go so far , that a witness in America once distinctly swore to a goose ' s leg after it had been , made into a giblet pie and cooked . —Doncaster Chronicle . The " Parsons" again . —On Friday considerable excitement was created in Tynemouth garrison , by the vicar of Tynemouth refusing to allow the body of John Larkin , a private in the 95 th regiment , who had died in the early part of last week , to be interred
in the Castle burial ground . The deceased was a catholic , as most of the depot are , and during : his last moments received the consolations of the catholic priest . The corpse was consequently interred in the New Cemetery , nearly the whole of the- depot attending , under the superintendence of a captain , the band playing the "Dead March in Saul , " until they reached the cemetery , where the procession was met by the Rev . T . Gillow , who preceded the body to tbe grave , chaunting the funeral requiem . It is in contemplation by the catholics of Shields to bring the affair before the authorities . —Newcastle Chron .
Raiiway Accident . —Last week , an accident , unhappily attended with the loss of life of one individual , and the serious injury of two or three others , occurred on the Birmingham and Gloucester railway , by the blowing out of a plug from the boiler of one of the bank engines , on the inclined phue near Bromsgrove station , b y which Mr . William Creuze , the engineer of locomotives , was so dreadfully scalded that he died in about twenty-four hours after . Two or three other persons , who were on the engine and tender at the time , were also more or less injured , but they are all in a fair way of recovery .
True Love in Spain . —A letter from . Madrid , March 25 , says : —The daughter of one of our Spanish grandees having became enamoured of a corporal of the Gastadores of the Royal Guards , her father , the Conde de , anxious to please his daughter , applied to Gen . Espartero , requesting that he would promote the man to the rank of a commissioned officer , but upon the lucky grenadier being made acquainted with what was intended for him , he replied , " That he felt greatly flattered , but being determined to marry a young servant girl he was much attached to , he declined all and every honour intended him . "
The Robbert at Windsor Castli ? . — One Hundred Pounds Reward . — The following has just been issued : — " Whereas divers valuable articles have been stolen at different times from her Majesty's stores at Windsor Castle—a reward of £ 100 will be paid by the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury , on conviction of the offender , to any person who will give such evidence as shall lead to the conviction of the person or persons who stole the said articles , or who feloniously received the same ; and her Majesty ' s pardon will also be granted to any person ( not being the actual thief or receiver ) who shall give the like evidence . —Whitehall , April 12 , 1841 . "
At Chester Assizes , Bartholomew Murray , who ia only eighteen years of age , was charged with the murder of Mr . and Mrs . Cook , at Over Peover , near Knutsford , in Cheshire . Mr . Cook was an old man , in very good circumstances . The prisoner was engaged with a number of Irish labourers iu haymaking near the town ; and while there he made various inquiries concerning Mr . Cook ' s wealth . The aged couple were murdered in their beds , with an axe , in August last ; and the murderer stood for some time over the servant-girl as she lay in bed , to
murder her also if she waked . Though-terrified , she succeeded in feigning sleep . Two bits of paper were afterwards found in the house , which contained names that ultimately led to Murray ' s detection : they were parts of a written character which he had exhibited before the murder . He was proved also to become suddenly possessed of a large sum of money , the actual spending of which was proved nearly to the full amount of money taken from Mr . Cook s house . The Jury returned a verdict of " Guilty , " and sentance of death was pronounced .
" Abscoivdment" only "Absence . ' "— A few days ago , the disappearance of Mr . Abbott , one of the official assignees , being part and parcel of the newfangled bankruptcy system , was noticed in the Bankruptcy Court as " abscondment , " and inquiries were made by the Commissioners touching Mr . Abbott's unceremonious departure ; but , as if that mode of speech sounded somewhat too harshly upon city ears , softer phraseology is adopted in an advertisement issued yesterday , summoning the attendance of assignees , solicitors , and creditors " affected (!) by the absence of Mr . Abbott , " &c . Absence of "Mr . " Abbott ! Really we are becoming a very refined people ; and no doubt the next accounts from Windsor regarding the " absence " of divers valuables , will be duly recorded as the transfer of various superfluities from royal to democratic hands , whereby the reciprocity system must be extended and strengthened .
Determined Act op Slmcide . — On Sunday morning last , at Chudleigh , a man named Samuel Tuckett , of that place , about thirty years of age , put an end to his existence in a most determined manner . It appears that he first cut his throat with a small clasp knife ( an instrument of this description being picked up near the spot in which he was found ) , and then hung himself to a beam in a stable belonging to his mother . Whilst thus suspended , it is supposed , he must have been kicklid by one of tbe horses , marks of this description being found on his person . His mother first discovered the body , but life was extinct .
No ACCOUNTING FOR TaSTE . — FOLLOWING A PlG Driver . —At Guildhall on Saturday , a pretty little girl waa put to the bar charged by her mother , who appeared to be in deep affliction , with having proposed to run away with a Smithfield drover , named Bill Scroggins . The mother said that she had a large family of children , all of whom were exceedingly affectionate and obedient except Satan , who was about sixteen years of age , and who . degraded herself by associating with the drover . —The alderman : Do " es he intend to marry her ?—The mother She thinks so , but he has no notion of anything of the kind ; he wants to make her like the unfortunate poor creatures about the streets . —The alderman : What ! will she condescend to be the trull of a
common pig-driver !—The mother : She does not know the misery that awaits her ; and how wretched her father , who is sick , and I am on her account . —The alderman : What have you to say about this filthy favourite of yours , and about causing such distress to your poor parents 1 The pig-driver will never marry you , if you wish to be the wife » f such a fellow . Sarah : He will marry mo . He has promised me . —Tho mother : He was heard to swear that he would not marry the finest woman in the kingdom . ( Laughter . )—The alderman : What ! this drover , covered all over with mud and dirt?—A person in the crowd : Yes , your worship , he says he has no mind to marry any on 'em » as he can get ' em without going to that trouble . ( Laughter . )—The alderman ( to the girl ) : It is quite evident his object is to destroy and laugh at you . I hope you wlH consider the deplorable condition of your poor parents , and shun the fellow . I shall order his number to be
taken , and deal with him in such a manner as will make him remember what he has been about . —The mother : She says that she will run away with him , whatever we may do . The drover is twenty-eight years of age , and does not care about our sorrow . — The voice in the crowd : 'Pend upon it , Bill will have his way if he can . He is not to be ' timidated . He says , a womans a woman , high or low * gentle or simple , and I ' m West if he don ' t act as sich . He ' s a teg'lar bad un arter the women , and no mistake . ( Laughter . )—Tho alderman : I shall certainly look after him . In the meantime , the obstinate and mean-spirited girl shall be locked up by herself in the Compter . —The girl looked ashamed , but expressed her belief that Bill meant nothing but what was strictly honourable , and said that if she thought otherwise she would never keep company with him again . —The alderman : Wheu you'd think of anybody for a husband , look a little higher than a pigdriver at rate .
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any THE UNCHRISTIAN NEW POOR LAW" BILL . PROSPECTS OF THE RATE-PAYERS IN SICKNESS AND ' POVERTY . On Thursday evening , an inquest was held by Mr . Higga , at St George ' s Hospital , touching tbe death Of Hannah Robinson , aged 56 . The Jury having viewed the body of the deceased , which presented a ghastly spectacle , Anna French deposed , that she knew the deceased , who rented the one-pair back room where -witness lodged , at 39 , CHlbert-street , Grosvenor-square . She was a married ¦ woman , and her husband is a potter . About three o'clock in the afternoon of the 22 nd ult ., witness was sitting by the fire side when she heard a
noise like a dog howling . She opened the door , and observed smoke rising up the stairs : on looking more carefully , she saw that it proceeded from the deceased , who waa siting on the stairs " all in a blaze . " Witness immediately called to another lodger , named Morris , when , by their combined exertions , the flames were extinguished . They looked in the deceased ' s room when they noticed tbe table-cloth on fire * , which was approaching the bed-clothes . Mr . Ledbitter , a surgeon , of Oxford-street , was sent for directly , who gave the woman a draught , when , at his request , the deceased was brought away immediately in a cab to tbe hospital .
By the Coroner—There was a large fire in the rOom . The deceased was quite an invalid , and I bad not leen her out of bed for some time before , aa she was labour ing ander a paralytic stroke . By a Juror—She was pattly dressed . Her husband was out at the time . She could not speak sufficiently plain for * s to understand how the accident happened . I presume that she had got up to pat the feettte on , ' or to throw up the cinders , when her clothes caught fire . The witness , Morris , said that she discovered several cinders in the deceased' s apron . The whole of her clothes were barnt off the right side of her body .
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Thomas Tarrant , houae surgeon , denoted V * . ""^ I deceased was brought in on the 22 d Ma £ h « S * *» o ' clock in the afteraoo * . Her right awn ^ * right side of the head were severely burnt ' Sp ** affected by paralysis . She lingered till thzM ?? when she died from the effects of the aeSmt ^ ^ By the Coroner-Her speech was bo indistinct ( hi > could not make ont how it happened WUUCT i " **! Baldwin , one of the beadles » f SL Geo * eV ,, » ,. I here informed the Coroner that the husband w « * ¦ ¦ sent , and wished to speak a word to him on & *«*—I The Husband-I applied , sir , to tE 3 fe 52 | into the infirmary , but the overseer said he ™? m t ! nothing except I came in as welL Uld 4 The Coroner ( to the Jury )— I think it is Dart « f „ H inquiry to hear this man . as the woman ' s ^ wif ** f h The 7 ury P - SSy ! 0 ned * ** ** ^^ The husband ( who was a fine hearty old mim B then sworn , and stated that his name was WiS TP binson , hia age 64 , and that he lived withhtX ' No . 39 , Gilbert-street He called himself Sorto ? ? - was at tbe work-house , in Mount-street , Gun . ^ square , that he made his application , when he sal u C Rowed , the assistant-overseer . "" MW J& .
By a Juror—He offered me some bread , when I f * i him that was a poor consolation for a poor ' sicV »„ that wanted advice . ^ * « The Coroner—There is such » system now ffnlnn in these workhouses , that illness is thought JS 3 There was a case in St Margaret ' s workhouse ^ they gave a man five shillings to get rid of Um 4 »? 5 family , and would not then without his cantfiw infant in a dying state about the street , for foot Z \ hours together . Their plea was , that if they la kout with his family , they would see no more of ff afterwards . ' "U The Foreman—Did you tell the overseer how h » M your wife was ? * " *« Husband—Yes , and he said there was the wotkw for her and me , but there was no infirmary ^ The Foreman—But I say there is an infirmary The Coroner—Is this man treating the poor tMs « . at his own discretion ? ™ Coole ( one of the'beadles)—I should say , sir Hut k . acts under hie regulations . ' ' *
A Juror—I think this is a case that onghttocomai , the knowledge of all the rate-payers , so that therm » J see , if they come to poverty , what they may asect i The Coroner—If the woman had met with States her state required , this case would not have hamW A Juror—Some representation must be taade totk . proper authorities of this ewe , aa the poor woman » a not fit to bo left alone , and the husband could not afforf to pay to get her looked after in his absence . By the Coroner-1 left her in bed , when I went on between one and two o ' clock , as I did not know wW was like to come home , and the poor soul had noftli . at all till I did come home . "" 5 By a Juror—As well as I could understand her ri » said she waa putting some cinders upon the fire , i could not say what she wanted a large fire for enJ she wanted to put on the kettle , which she so ' metims tnea to do , if she thought her niece was coming The Foreman—Dia she know that you applied aW theinfomary ?
Husband—Yes ; and she said she would like to a there to be taken care of , and she often said , " 0 Lo& what can I do here . " By a Juror—She was seia ? d with palsy about tn months ago in the night time , and lost the use ol «» side , and never recovc-red . I applied tout times to fo overseer , and the same answer was given . B » ldwin , the beadle—I suppose , gentleroen . thisn a doubtful case , and the overseer refused it under soia of the rules . Several of the Jury—It is most shameful
Husband—The first time I applied was about i month ago , when she got worse , and I never saw lj up and dressed after , except her niece was cominj . ) am willing to work , and can get a living mysolf , foil paid 3 s . Od . a week for our lodging . I told Mr . Rowj the same , and said as I could get my own living ont i doors by hard work , why should I come in ? He sai 4 " I don't care , I will not take her except you come in as I will not be a party to separate matt and wife . " 1 said to him , " Well , if you won't separate us onti doors , will you separate us when we come in ? " midji said " Yes . " ( Laughter . ) The poor old fellow tin shed tears , saying , ' If the poor old soal had been tats care » f , this would not have happened . " A Juror—It was ft trick to keep them out ai » gettaer . ¦ .
The Foremon—We wish , Mr . Coroner , to expreaa opinion in the strongest manner possible , for it appas their own beadle , Mr . Coole , visited tnis case , and si the woman was neglected . The Coroner—Did the beadle come to yeur place ! Husband—Yes ; Mr . Coole came , and saw howM > Jess she was , and I told him sometimes I waa oat i eighteen hours together , and there was no one to pi the poor creature anything till I came florae . By a Juror—I left her between one and two e'clod when I fried some pork , and we had that and s » turnip tops ; then I lifted her into HA . I atom always lifted her in and out of bed myself . I bn paid rates and taxes myself in a respectable vraylt twenty-five years in the parish . I formerly lived ! Thomas-street , Oxford-street , and have lived about th neigh bourfaooii for forty years .
A Juror—I am afraid there will be no attention pii by the overseer , except wt . have him before us . The Coroner—We can admonish him in our verdki Tho Foreman ( to the Coronsx )—You ought to mil to them as well . .. Tlia Cmcuuae —I snppnsa I had . b « tl »» Write tofil vestry generally on the subject . I A , Juror—No ; to the Board of Guardians . Ttie Coroner—Are there many of the Guardians ? Baldwin ( the beadle)—There is a certain ' "quantity called the " poor board , " which , with the churchTO dens and overseers , amounts to about t * enty-two . 11 * vestry altogether consists-of 110 persona . A Juror said he thought it unfair to condemn tin overseer without hearing his defence . ¦ - ' .. ' ¦
The Foreman—It is not finding fault with this owt seer exactly , but with the shameful system he is canj ing out . ( " Hear , hear , " from the Jury . ) The Coroner fto tbe beadle )—Shall I call them tin poor board , " or the " guardians of the pooi ? ( Laughter . ) A Juryman—Not the latter , certainly . I The Jury now consulted together , when a verdict ! " Accidental death" was returned ; to which a Jid man submitted the following appendage : — " That W Jury cannot separate without expressing , in thcstronga manner , their abhorrenee of such a system of opprasu to the poor , and hope that no similar case will 1 refused attention by the overseer or relieving officer j future . "
The Jury appended this to their verdict , and « e rated on the understanding that the Coroner was write " a sharp letter , " in addition to enclosing verdict , to the Poor Law Board of St . Geoigi Hano-reT-squate .
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THE REVENUE . Tho Revenue accounts have been published f «« year and quarter ending the 5 th April , 1841 . TMjg not present very satisfactory results -. there is an ag » J gate decrease on the year or £ 309 , 280 : on the qasffll it is £ 70 , 154 . One principal decrease is intueiwj office ; and in that deparment alone it amounBJ £ 833 , 600 on the year , and £ 27 , e # » on- the qu » J The Ministerial journals explain away this w startling falling off in the last quarter ; the * ec € I I * J tha csrresponding quarter of the previous yea" " - " 1 say , were swelled by arrears of postage at tee m ratewhich were not paid in till 'that time , » oi
penny , by exacting more prompt delivery of monies tlies from the deputy-postmasters : now , it is netxsssn 1 leave large balances Tsith tiie deputypostmasteftl enable them to meet the demand on account of m * m orders , the business in that branch of the Poal ^ J having largely increased since the reduction oi J commission . There is the reverse of a falling-o « , «¦ said , in the number of letters passing throng * 1 Post-office ; and that is the true test of the cbatige . J An attempt is made by the Government . orgaMI gloss over the declining revenue , by sinfa f fr ^" j to the additional taxes imposed last year bjaiT . Jtum The facts of the case are as follows : — I
Decrease on the year ending 5 th of II Anril 1841 £ 2 t 9 , 2 S » B April , ioil , ... - « HH Decrease on the Po 3 t-omce " II Apparent increase on the year S | £ 523 , 72 * H But tbe Chancellor of the Exchequer | | imposed new taxes , or increased olu E ones , -whose conjoint amount he thus Ej
estimated : — Addition to Assessed Taxes £ 276 . New survey on ditto ... 159 , 990 Customs and Excise ... 1 , 426 , 000 * " * " J !!^!! s , 3 sr . i » Real decrease on the year ... £ l . » Tbe -whole amount of these additions did not , ho «^ come into operation equally throughout th « -r ^ get an accurate view of our financial prospects w » confine our attention to the quarters—Decrease on the quarter ^ I ! ' ! l !» Decrease in the Poat-office ^ .
Apparent decrease on the quarter £ « . < W * M But there must be added to this , m one-fourth of the addition made . g to ear taxation , amounting to »• 58 U > 0 H Real decrease on the quarter ...... £ 623 , « # * J So much for Mr . Baring ' s per centages and «^ JjjH duties , which were to make np for P ^ Sl and supply the income wanted to meet W ™ F ~ m expenditure . In despite of the temporary w £ ? gB vrill gain by laving bands upon the ^ V ^ J ^ M deposit , it iB to be thought the ChanceUo' ¦ wiD ^|| difficulty in raising the wind to meat past f *™ LM and future expenses . We look forward to the x »» m with some curiosity . — Spectator . m 1
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 17, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1105/page/6/
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