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T fi Orra Head akd Eabs ik Debt . "—A batter in New York gives a definition , of the common pbraie ** ever head and ears in debt . " He says in hi * ad-Yerus ^ ment , it means a man who hasn ' t pud for Ma hit . X ' iffidekcb . —A man gets along- faster with & sensible ffiarried woman in hours thin with a jonng £ £ rl iu whole days . It is next to impossible to make them talk , or to jeach them . They are like a green Tfalmt ; thar « are half a dozen outer coats to be pclle- ; off , one by one and slowly , before you reach ike kernal of their character * Idles ess . —The worst rices springing from the worst principles—the excesses " of the libertine , and the ouir » ges of the plunderer—usually take their rise from early * nd unsubdued idleness . Farr't IHsconrses on Education .
O » d Answkb .. —The elder folks were talking of the races , when one turned to a listening child and and said , " Did you ever * ee a racer , Bobby !" " Ye-, was the answer , " I haTe seen , the candles TOE . * "' A Dst Hcb . —The late Rev . Mr . Walker of Dundetald , who was a 3 well known for his piety as his rsaJy talent for repartee , had , in big youth , been a sergeant i p the army . One day as he entered the Presb ) terial court , he was addressed by a clerical brother , who was notorious for his ardent and constant attachment to his bottle , with , — " Come away , captain—if yon had still been a eolditr , what situation would yon haTe given me in your company ? As I lave by the word of my mouth , at any rate , I thick I would hare made a capital fifer ! " " No , no , '' sa'd the clerical wit , " that would never have done , for the pay would not have been half enough to haTe kep : your whistle wet . "
Astonishi 5 G . —A Western Editor went off in a fit of .-k \ -ics a few weeks since , at the sight of three men , who oneeremoniously entered his office and req' ;~ ifd the liberty of paying for a year's enb 3 cription to the paper . Tn-. Aherioot Chaej . ctes . "— " We are born in a hum , "' says aa American , " we a " re educated at full ¦ p «\ . i . We make a fortune with the wave of a wai ! J , and loose i : in like manner , to re-make and re-iuj . -e it in the twinkling of an eye . Our body is » locciaotive , traveiling at the rate of ten leagues in hour ; our thoughts are as a bigh-presFure engine ; oar life resembles a shooting star , and death surpri ? ei -as like an electric stroke . "
Pltektt is an enormous evil . By poverty , I under" i ^ j ihe s ; ate of man possessing no permanent prop ry , in a couairy -where wealth and luxury haic already gained a secure establishment . He then , thai is w > born to povenj , may bo said , under another tame , to be born a slave . —Godicin . BisHv .. ? Otter ' s " Pastoral Addresses , " announced am-:-:- ¦ ; . ; rbe new clerical work ? , include , it is said , Bom- - inVctionate advice to the clergy as to the best modi ; of securing the "loaves ana fishes ?'—good tnir .. " which the whole clerical ho < tare in search of , thoiurh but ttsw of the number hare the wit to SUCoeei i :. their attempts .
O . ihe dat that Sir Robert Peel dineJ at the Roy-n table , the minature carriage built for the Pric ; - ~< Rojai bei-ame the subject of conversation ; it w- much extolled for its Lghtness and elegance by L . rl Melbourne , who had seen it , and who , addies .-a . *; himself to Sir Robert , said , Peel , I'm sure v . ul approve of it ; let me recommend you to go and .-te our ' turn-out . '" "I shall be only too h * ppy >' promptly rejoined Sir Robert . A Dvichmas and his wife were travelling ; they tat aonn by the roadside exceedingly fatigued . The wife .- ^ r .-ju . " I wish 1 wa 3 in Heaven . " The husbanu - --plij ? , ~ I wish I was at the tavern . " " Oh , yon via rc ^ ue , " says ste , " jou alwajs want to get the le ? : place . " ^ Ya . nki . kism . —A man died in Kentucky so tarnation : a ' . ; thai u took two clergymen and a boy to pies , " j his funeral sermon .
Tit Bi > hop op LoxDo . f io a plainttpoken indi-TidujJ . When he read the acc ^ uat of the Visitation PToc « aings at York , and the sentence passed on the Dean , he cmphaticaliy , bot rather nnclerically , relaartr j , that " . the Dean was a d—d fool , inasmuch as he sot only Einned simoniacally , but suffered hufiseif to be found out afterwards . " The last xmi £ » ccrraialy appear in the eye 3 of a Bishop the worst . f ibliies . ** 'Twas wacsG from me , " as the chicken said when he k-t hb held . " " I . * ii jnE ^ r eAtest woman in the worl d , Poll , ' - reiraikeu h-r most gracious Aiajesiy to the learned pairot . " How verv deceptive the eye is sometime- I" rfj'jined the ironical bird .
It ts believed that the silver . stolen , from tfce plat * room at Winisor Castle was immediately nut into bars . o p-evtnt its being identified . May not this lead ' ¦ _ iae probability of its forming , by this time , a portion of the current coin of the realm ? " I msajj , Poi . vr , to take you to the German company , '" said the Queen to the J ear-red parrot . " Pray do iH > t , " rejoined PoH , " I see quite enough of Get men cmipany here . " The Cona- . xewssia * . by a slight literal mistake , gtauu =. 1 . 1 Tnursday , that " the bells rang a merry peel on her Majesty's arrival . "' Merry " Peels" in © Onn-oiion with her lisjesty have betrn somewhai scarce . We recoliect bui one " PeeL , " and that w » 8 any thing oat a merry one .
Fkek Trade to the Lawyeps , —A man from the eountry applied to a respectable soliritor lor legal advice . After detailing the circumstances of the case , he was asked if he had 3 fa : ed the facts exactly as thty occurred . u O ay , sir , " rejoined the applicant , '' I thought it best to tell you the plain truth ; you can put the lies to it yourself . "
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DtsCiiPno . v op a Kepcblicaw Preslde-vt . —Mr . G . Cctnbe , 'he phrenologist , thus describes General Harriron , whom he saw last year at h . 3 residence at North Bend , abint a quarter of a . mile from the Ohio : —He is now G 7 , rather above the middle stature , slender , and stoops considerably . Hi 3 temperament is nemna and bilious ; his head is long , of full averag- height , but not remarkably broad . The anterior iobe is above an average , both in length , from front to back , and heitht ; and both the ob-Berviii ^ and r-Aectwg orgav . s axe well developed The he-Ad is obviously flat in the region of
acqui-Biivciiess . The moral region seemed to present an irerage development . His eye is vivacious , and his comucuaao ; is highly expressive of thought ; indeed , ) iia who !' , 1 appearance is much more that of a literary or sci'iitine man than that of a military commander . His fcsb-: nation presented unequivocal indications of humble fortune ; indeed , it may be saiJ , withuut the least fet-IiDg of disrespect , of poverty ; yet his manner and appearance were those of a man of the ¦ worid , who was familiar with the best society , and who , iu the retirement of his farm at North Bend , retained the polish and appearance of a gentleman .
The Easy JIa > . —There is no human being walks through tkis life in a way more peculiar to himself than the easy niau . The hopes and ftars , joys and anguish , which worry and harrass the rest of mankind , are naknoTra to him ; he came inw > this world he knows not how—he jogs through it just because he sees other people doing so—he eats and drinks sleeps soundly , and dies easily—and when he ii buried , the s ' exton , as he stands in the half-filled grave , sticks his spade , in it for a moment- and takesnvfL The easy man is generally of middle stature , stout , with cheeks h&TiDg a kind of roughness , like » fowl with the feakher 3 off , ro . -j , Jhowever , and streaked like a winter pear . There i 3 usually a little watery saliva at the c « rners of his mouth , and in coid weather his proboscis has a drop hanging
from it like a diamond in the nose of a Persian queen . He wears &a everlasting drab great coat , green leather gloves , and a hat slightly turned up behind . His uowsers in summer—they are a verj old pair—are usually too &hort for _ him , and displaj glaring white worsted stockings ; his hair appear * to obey no sort of arrangement , and he was nevei seen with an umbrella in hia life . He speak * alway s in a kind of cosy whisper * as if he was conversing with his wife under a coverlit—he has a look o aaiversal benignity , * a < l breathes heavily througl his nose . He is fond af using the word " Sir , " am Slicks it into his sentences ortencr than other people He takes off his hat in banks and attorney's office * and has a guise of inoffensiveness which nobody ca ; mistake .
How to lkad Makkisd . —If masters fully Tondersiood the influence which even the slightest persoDa ! attention produces on the minds of their workmen , they would be more lavish than than they are of a simple act of justice which ean cost them so little , * nd would profit them so much . Treat a man like » friend , and you soon make him one ; treat him like » Tcgoe , and his honesty must be much greater than poitr wisdom , if he do not soon justify yoor suspicions ! In no way are men bo easily led-roftep , it is . tree , so blindfy led—as through the affections . Thanks to the benign arrangements of a merciful Father , the aSectioBB are the only part of our nature the cultivation of which man connol neglect , how-^ TerjnsVq- to m * J gften pervert ^ hem . &jtiy man
times into the world surrbunaea by objects oiafiection . The filial ami partatal tiafe one which binds rich and j « yjralike ; and . ii-oftea the stronger in the poor , tMt&afeU is almost zka only domestic blessing which the / ean truljr call their own ; H ence it is , that meQ who are guite iiiaccasible to reason , are easily Jed by . the anectroas ; " snd no "wise man will Wsgiect to use , especially when a is for the mutual bgaea . t otall , this pb-werfoliuid mil vewally prevailing in ? truHi « ot , ' The next stage to the tie of parent and ehild , in ^ ie ^ rogr . esa of woietj , is that of master BBd serraci ; and it is for the interest , of both te carry into their relations with each other as much a * ' -pf > T « bW ef th » kiadly feeiisg which b& » been wtuei in the bosom , in childhood , by the domestic fwide . —The Ret . Mr . Parkinson ' x Pamphlet if * ^ ' ' - ' * , r . . ¦
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THE SECOND " SETTLEMENT" OF THE CHINA QUESTION . " The Dogberries of Government are : load in theii self-felicitations about the news by the orerland mail . " There is no country in the world , " mys the Chronicle , in which ft Minister is more frequently tried than in England by the unjuxt test of the results xather than . the principles of ids policy ; and we think W 8 may say with confidence , that there have been few Ministries that have stood the test more triumphantly than the present / ' it must certainly be a . great subject of congratulation to Minis ters to know that their foreign policy meets with approbation—when tried by ao . " unjust test . " The Chronicle has thus dexterously and judiciously sought to shelve the principles" of the quarrel with Chins . There is so mooh ot trnth in the pithy axiom announced by that journal that Ministers are in this country most frequently tried by the ** unjust test" of their success , that were their success in China beyond dispute , there- would be nothing remaining for all who question their principles , but to enter a protest—an appeal from the people in the intoxication of success , to the people become sober again , and called upon to pay the bill , under the 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 opium 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 haTe be ^ n redressed ; the position of our trade immensely beuefitted ; increased facilities given far carrying it on iu future ; and our diplomati 0 > intercourse fr » ed from those offensive and humiliating forms , so long a source of serious embarrassment between the countries . " And all thiB , we are assured , his been attained " in a single campaignat an incredibly small , expenditure either of life or means . " Lot us contrast this magnificent verbiage with the meagre abstract of events upon which it rests .
" The wrongs of our merchants have been redressed . " By 4 i wrongs of our merchants , " we suppose the writer means the seixure and destruction of the opium . How have they been redressed ! _ " An indemmty to the British Government of six millions of dollar ? , payable in six yearly instalments , " is said to have been promised by the Chinese Commissioners . This is not repayment to the merchant : it is a contribution towards the payment of the expanse incurred by the British Government in fitting out tie expedition . " The Plenipotentiary has published officially his intention to urge Die opivm-indenmiji cation claims upon the British Government , with the c jncurreuce also of the Governor-General of India . " It is uncertain yet whether the opium-merohauts at Canton are to be indemnified for their losses ; and it they are , it is to be at the expense , not of the Chinese Government , but of the British people .
w The position ofour trade immensely bencfittedincreased facilities given for carrying it on in future . " The clauses " said to be stipulated" in" the preliminary treaty signed officially by tke Plenipoteutiaries" are—" cession of the island of Hong-Kong to the British Crown , " and " the trade of Canton to be opened ten days after ihe Chinese New Year . " That is to gay—the British have now in Hong-Kong , an inland thirteen leagues to the east of Macao , a right of property similar to that which the Portuguese have loug had in the latter island : and that the trade with Canton is to be re-opened , for auythiug that appears to the contrary , exactly on the fame footing on which it was formerly conducted . Hoag-Kong is granted merely as & fief of the empire—as private property : and the terms upon which trade is to be conducted are left for afternegociation—to furnish matter for Palmerstonian protocols .
"Uur diplomatic intercourse freed from those offensive and humiliating forms , " &c . The Btatemcut from China is—'" Direct ofitial intercourse , on an equal footing between the two countries . " This is undoubtedly a gain , if real : ' bat the politic Chinese may dispense with the form of" pin' and yet keep the representatives of the British Crown as much at arm ' s length as ever . This admission on th « part of the Chinese , that Great Britain is not a tributary but an independent state , ma ; place certain Consular and Diplomatic appointments ai the disposal oi Ministers—entail additional expense on the country , and furnish Government with increased means of corruption—and yet leave our mercantile interests in China exactly as they were .
And aU this has been purchased wiin an iucretiibiy small expenditure either of life or of means . " Before we admit this , ^ we must know the exact value oi" what has been gained . Expenditure is large or fmall in proportion to the return obtained for it . Buv we would say that , prirna facie , the expenditure of life in the Chinese Walcheren of Chusan has not been small ; and that the Chinese contribution of six millions of dollars ( only £ l , 50 \) fi 00 sterling , taking the doliaT at as high a value as 53 . ) toward * the expences of the expedition , will fall far Bhort of the expences already incurred . In short , the result of the whole transaction seems to be—Thit the Directors of the Eist India
Company , ( who have a monopoly of the opimn grown iu their territories , ) and some British merchants resident in Cau ; on , having for some time carried on a Juerative smuggling trade in opium , the Chinese Government seized their stock on hand at Whampoa ; that in consequence of this , the British Gavernment fitted oui a fleet and army , which took possession of a town in Chusan , battered down two or three Chinese iorts , lost a great many men by sicklies ? , and frightened the Chinese Government into ceding to our Queen a barren i n land near the mouth of the Canton river , promising to treat Euglish
diplomatic agents with civility , and undertaking to pay by instalments , in the course of six years , a portion of the expences of the expedition ; and that the Governor-General of India is to endeaTour to persuade ihe British Government to indemnify the Canton merchants , for the purpose of enabling them to pay the East India Company , out of the taxes rai-ed ia Great Britain , and to defray the surplus expence incurred 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 Whig organs must be sadly at a loss for something to brag of , when they make such a hallooing about this trumpery affair . —Spectator .
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i Ox Moxdat another house fell down in High-Street , ! St . Giles ' s . No life was lost . ! A number of quarryman , who had been employed ) at Buliock , six miles from Dublin , hare been taken I off to Paris , to work upon the fortifications . | M . K . Abijah Pope , of Juniata , has been found guilty aud fined ' 22 t dollars for an assault and bat-! tery on Philemon H . Mann . This statement is : headed " Pope ' s E » 3 ay on M . au . " 1 Mors Absuhditt . —It is currently reported that \ Mr . Hawes was so shocked on hearing a parcel of , ' urchins cry " Hot cross buns , " on Good Friday , that i h » i is determined to put a stop to it by legislative : interference . i While thbrs has been a slight increase in the i quantity of malt used in the distilleries in Enj » - , iatid during the last year , and ouly a very slight I decrease ia Scotland , the falling off in Ireland has i amounted to nearly one-third .
It Ii stated , on the authority of a letter from St . Petersburg , that the Russian army was about to be reduced by 4 i > , O 00 or 50 , 000 men . The sam « paper announces that the agitation in Serria still continued . Smuggling . —The mate of a foreign ship was fined 40 s ., at a London police office , on Saturday , for smuggling a box of cigars , which was also oonfiscited . Fcuious Dkiyiko . —A reporter , named Clyatt , has been held to bail , himself in £ 501 , and two sureties in £ 250 , to appear to answer the charge of having run over a child , in Bridge-street , Blackfriar ' s Boad , London . Ihe child is not B » id to be out of danger yet .
Highway Robbebt by a Retttrned Transport . —Jame 3 Forter , a returned transport , was sentenced to transportation for life , at the Central Criminal Court , on Saturday , for having committed a robbery upon a jonng lady , near the Edgewareroad , in February last . As Ukpslopitablr Ccstomeb , —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 he had no money in his pockets , and asked wonld they gire him credit for a month ! He was taken b « fore 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 Mtjrdkbxb . —On Saturday at the Criminal Court , London , Harriet Longley , who drowned her child in the New Biver , to which act she waa driven , by her destitution , and the refusal of the Poor Law officers to relieve her , was tried , and . found guilty of murder . Sentence of death , was passed upon her , but the Judges said they would record her case to her Majesty , in order to save her life . . .. RETinjfiXG from TiusspohiatioM j —At the Central Criminal Court , ' London , on Saturday , George Childs , alias Giles , was indicted for returning front transportation . It appeared that the prisoner was capitally convicted in this Court , in the year 1832 , and that his sentence was subsequently commuted to transportation for life . AVofficer apprehended him a few days iiiice . in a public-house / Mr . Baron Gurney sentenced him to M imprisoned six months in the House of Correction , and afterwards transported for life , '
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Ibish Railroads . —At length the subject of railroads for Ireland is taken up in good earnest ; a number of Engliih capitalists bare come forward with the necessary funds , and they ] are to be secured by the government in _ a certain per centage on their outlay . We understand that the Messrs . Baring stand at the head of ihe liBi . —Waterford Chronicle . A Lcsps Ninnus . —On Friday , the wife of a wearer , named George , wh » . resides in Rose-lane , Spiulfielda , was delivered of a male child , which has excited the greatest curiosity . The child is a mere trunk , without arms or tbijjhay but is in exceedingly good health , and . likely , in the opinion of the medical attendant ,, to do wall , performing the offices pf nature perfectly . The trunk appears as if nature never intended to give thighs or arms in this instance . ¦ - ¦¦ - - ¦ ¦ ^ — ¦ » . — - — —^ ^— ¦¦¦ — ¦ im^—i—^——* ¦
Wk regret to mention that a quondam writer in Arbroath , who commenced business some years since as a merchant and importer of green cloth , abscond ed last wek , leaving debts Reliabilities , as estimated by some , to the amount of upwards of £ 100 , 000 . £ ew of our manufacturers but have sustained heavy losses , and many in the neighbouring towns of Forfar , Kirriemuir , and Dundee , have also suffered by this nefarious transaction . —Mmtrose Review . Justices' Justice . —It appears by the Nottingham Review that the two labourers who were seiit to prison by two Mansfield Justices for the serious offence of loitering , i . e . standing upon a causeway , looking out for a job of work , which we noticed at the time , have undergone their severe sentence of a 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 sold in Covent Garden . —Amongst the numerous lots sold 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 » s . [ The presumption afterwards was that Hollowly , and Haggerty , who was executed with him , \\\ re innocent oi' the offence for which they suffered . —Loudtn pa ^ er . Life preserving Hat . —A day or two ago the natives of Dover were much amused with the exhibitiou of soino fishermen swimming about in the
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 the 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 tho heart being filled with air , they make the person having hold of them float like a cork . Tkey are not kept on the bead , but held over the chest or under the chin . The hat is fastened with a cord or ribaiid to the wearer , and so equipped he may go to sea without fear .
Juvenile Vagrancy . —There exists a Society whose object it is to reform and provide for destitute children , juvenile begcars , and infant pickpockets . It is very slenderly provided for ; nay , ita continued existence is douitf ' ul , 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 vigorously acted up to , society would be relieved from continual depredation ; the gaols would be depopulated , the hulks -thinned , aud tho horrors of crime and punishment mitigated to a mest heart-rejoicing degree . Well , this mo 3 t rational and humane plan is one that ^» 8 never been adopted by our Government , has been scarcely ' eauctioned by the wealthy and
enlightened public , and in the instance of this society is left to Btrugglo , and starve on its way to failure and extinction . All this timo the Legislature is providing laws against crime ; the Executive is devising prisons at home and at the antipodes , establishing anuies of police , and legions of magistrates , justices , and juries . What a spectacle of blindness J Crime is left to grow strong , to spread , to fecundate , aud overrun the land—and then iB 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 preveat it from overshadowing and suffocating every
Rowing and green thing . " Catch your thief young . " If this maxim were acted upon , and the whole forco of a preventive society were directed to this object with full powers and means , the change effected in London , in ten yeaT ? ,. would be magical . The blooi boils to see fetich objects neglected , aud at the same time to read of tens and hundreds of thousands squandered upon patching up old churches and chapel ^ , and other ruiue , whose sole merit is , that they were built in a distant time of barbarism . When will tho scale 3 drop from tho eyes of society ? When will it cense to be deluded and diverted from its true interests!— Weekly Dispatch .
Longevity in Russia Explained . —A statistical economist , who kuows nothing of the iuteroal arrantierMnLs of the province , must bo sadly puzzled to account for the extraordinary tenacity and vigour of the vital powers , the healthful influence ot the climtte , and the astonishing greatness of the average duration of human life in Bessarabia . The problem i ? , however , easily solved , when the contrivance ot the « ivic authoutics to increase the numbers within tLeir municipal jurisdiction is understood . Arefugec appears and prays to be enrolled as a Mesnechaninthat is , a citizen of the town . He is at first told , " Thai is not a matter of course , friend : you have no passport , too ; but wait awhile , and we will see what cau be lione for you . " Tho refugee waits until one of tho civic community dies , sin J then he is summoned to appear again before tho Red Table , in the
magisterial office . I ^ ow the business proceeds thus : — " What is your name ? " — " Ivan Gritthov . "" What age ?"— " 25 . " " Well , young man , attend to what 1 am going to say—Mitrophan Kalenko died yesterday , aged 50 ; if you wish to be a citizen , y ou must take upon yourself his name and his ago ; then we will allow you to be substituted for him , and will give you his certificate and other documents . " Ivan Goitshov joyfully consents , and becomes all at once a respectable citizen of a . very respectable age . The departed Mitr-. > phau still lives under thismetaraorphosis on the civic register , and , probably , after two or three other renewals of his existence , dies at the patriarchal age ot" 150 . We need , therefore , no longer marvel at the frequent accounts of deaths in Russia of persons exceeding 1 U 0 years of age . —German paper .
Peter the Great and Peter the Little . — Some account of Oliver Cromwell ' s Helmet . — At the London lJoiongh Court of R-quests on Saturday last , Pettr Crump , a diminutive knight of the bodkin and shears , standing some four feet six in his high-lows , appeared before the Commissiencrs as defendant iu a case in which Solomon Levy , an elderly member ot' the " peplish , " was plaintiff : the sum in dispute beiDg 7 s . 6 'd . Solomon Levy , the plaintiff , was a dealer in old curiosities , reEidiug ia the neighbourhood of the New Cut , and he cultivated a long gr ^ y beard , resembling a mop . " I rash sh \ ist a shuttin up ma shop , yer vartshipa , " said the Jew , ' when" 1 6 heed dis man come up , de vush for vhat he took . ' Mind de vinders , ma tear , '
I shays to him ; ' All right smouchy , ' he shaye , aud den he Talks into ma shop , and anoder vonfollered him , and begun pulling ma goots about , yer vartships , and atervards dey set to Vurk a singing , and disturbed all ma neighbours . " Commissioner—1 Buppose they were tired , aud wanted to rest themselves . Jew—iS ' oc a bit of it , jer rartships , not a bit of it ; dey yanted to desbtroy ma goots ; de little von put on Oliver Cromwell ' s hclmut , <* nd de oder Napoleon ' s j * ck-boo ; s , and yash a marching off vid ' em , but ma shon Ishaac , who ' s a gooi lad to his ould fader , sthopped ' em . Commissioner—Indeed ; but how do you know that the helmetand jack-boots belonged to the oeltbrated 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 crose , you could furnish it to them at a cheap rate . What happened after their adventure with Cromwell ' s helmet and Napoleon ' s boots 1 Jew—Yer vartships , de little von ( the defendant ) vash a lookiDg at a picture , vhen he poked his finger threugh it , and sphoilt it . De subject vasb Peter do Great making a pair of shoes . The Commissioner said it was strange the defendant ' s finger should have gone so easily through a piece of canvas . Solomon explained that it was not au oil painting , but merely n print coloured over and varnished . Its value he
estimated at 7 s . 6 d . Commissioner ( to the defendant ) —Now , what have you to say about Peter the Great ? Peter the Little—Please jer rorshlp , Vi tuck a drop too much the other night , and was golh' home along with my mate Bobby , wot works on the same board With me , when this here old Jew lays hold ' en me and pulled me slap into his shop . Commissioner-He says you tried to walk off with Oliver Cromwell ' s helmei ; how came you to do that ! Peter the Little-Gammon , yer vorship ; I tried it on , and jist walked outside to see how I looked in it , that ' s all . Commissioner—Well , how about Peter the Great ! Peter the Little- ^ -There was a greal ; bold in it before I touched it at all , and that artful old dodcer wants to victimise me for what I didat do . Solomon ^ -S'help
S * ^ t f'T ? r i , « lupiVt v * aim vhat tore it . Peter the Ltttle-Here , Bobby , step forrud , ' cause you seed Peter the Great with his eye out . "Bobby , " a long , ieaii , schneider , -with » ^ cratch wig and a cock m his eye , was then sworn to give evidence in behalf of "Peter the Little . " (^ mmMoner-Wliat do you know-iiboat tnfe matter ! Lonjr Bobby—I Baw the pistur in the first instance , and one or the eye * wag poked out . Jew tufting np his hauds ) - Lard have marshy upon va That a lie . TheCommismoners , after a short consultation , returned a verdict for the defendant . Solomon Levy packed up the remains of " P « wr the Gn » t" aud left the P ^ i ' ??*? £ * . ^ Hebrew wit h great volubility , followedby "Peter the . LW and his friend « Long Bobbj . " 6
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Mi « KR 8 ' Executioner . —Au 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 1 Jack Ketoh ! " The man wasoonveyed to the look-up , and on his person was found a letter from Mr . Dawson , the Governor of Shrewsbury Gaol , in which were these words : — M March 31 . Sir , —Yon had better oome over immediately : the execution takes place on Saturday . To Thomas Taylor , cotter , Coreniry-strfiet , 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 , ^***"'^^^^^^^^ M ^^^^*^^^ TT ^*' M' ^^^ ' ^^ T ^ T ^^ T ^^^^^ ¦
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 fins broad cloth , with velvet collar ; his waistcoat of satin , richly flowered ; his . trousers of striped kerseymere ; his shirt of fine Irish cloth , but with no visible marks of blood on it , as had been stated . His entire suit was in accordance with that of a gentleman . Tho Btockipga were marked with the initials " A . C , " the same that Mr , Cooke gave him
at Ludlow . On the evening of Sunday , a 3 the spirit of . Sir John Barleycorn evaporated , and left the professor in this peculiar line of life ( 1 ) compos , he , deplored his indiscretion , wishing himself > afely located again , with his wife and family at his Stourbridge tinkery .. Large sums were 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 ia said to have * retainer for four jobs in perspective , at Gloucester and other places . —Ten towns ' , Mestenger .
Pbinciple 8 of Puseyism . —Though the public journals have , for some time past , devoted bo 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 tho sovereign or the state , and that consequently the legislature has no right to interfere in ecolesiastial matters . The PuBeyites maintain that all children baptised by the church are converted at their baptism , and that there can be no saying repentance for sins after persons have reached the years of maturity . They admit , however , that there may be a reconversion by means of the Sacraments . They repudiate every thing 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 Soripturea , unless they have first read the Common Prayer-book , and are prepared to interpret the Scriptures by it , instead of imerpreting 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 iu one sense divine , and consequently worthy of worship . The PuseyiteB further maintain that departed saints are
to be prayed to , and that prayers are to be made for them . They believe , in other words , in a modified form of purgatory . Their opinions on the suljeot of transubstantiation are substantially tho same as those of the Roman Catholics . They look ea all beyond the palo of the church with a harsh and uncharitable eye , and though they do not go so far as to gay that no Dissenter can be saved , they assert the right of the 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 . Suoh are the leading principles of " Pusoyism . "
Frightful Accident to a Passenger on the Eastern Counties Railway . —On Sunday evening , about' twenty-five minutes before eight o ' clock , a most frightful accident occurred on the Eastern Counties Railway , by which a passenger , named Joseph Lovell , living at 2 , Swallow ' s-gardens , Chamber-street , Goodman ' s-fields , was so much injured it is supposed he cannot possibly survive . The Romford train , on it ? way to London , arrived at the station iu Devonshire-street , Mile-end , at the time above-mentioned , when Lovely who had been riding in one of the third-class carriages , alighted , and was in the act of stepping across a platform with a stick ia his hand , upon which he wag leaning ^ when , owing to the greasy state of the platform , from the rain which fell in tho 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 tho engine and carriages had passed over the unfortunate man . He was picked up apparently lifeless , and a litter being procured , no time was Io 9 t in conveying him to the London Hospital , where the sufferer was attended by Mr . Luke , the house-surgeon , and several other medical gentlemen , and on examination it was ascertained that Ips left kg waa literally crushed to pieces , and the foot of his other leg also severely injured . It was deemed expedient to amputate the left limb , and that operation was immediately carried into effect in the most skilful manner . No hopes were entertained of the unfortunate man ' s enrviving .
Attemi-ed Murder . —At the Assizes recently held at Tanuton , Richd . Hoynon , was indicted for having attempted to violate and murder Elizabeth Veal . It appeared that the proseoutrix , a young woman , nineteen years - of age ,, was on the turnpike road leading from West Uarptreo to Chepstoke , on the l' 2 th October last , when the prisoner followed her and throw her down , and then cut her throat . The evidence did not show clearly the prisoner ' s object in the assault in the firs : place , or the attempted murder . A surgeon , who mot 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 prisouer shortly after the
occurrence , at an inn near the spot , to which the surgeon took her . . The Jury found the prisoner guilty 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 Mibters . Misters was executed for having cut the throat of his victim , who recovered ; Roynon is found guilty of an exactly similar offence . What rule governs the decision of Judges ? The law at Ludlow aud the law at Taunton are two different things . This species of haphazard and uncertainty in the administration of the 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 effect , and encourage that disposition to risk the chanoea , which feeling the criminally disposed are prone to indulge in . It must not be inferred from thiB that we think Roy non 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 . ]
Caution to Borrowers prom Loan Societies . — At Marylebone Police Office , on Saturday last , Mr . Deckes , the chairman of , and a solicitor ( whose name did not transpire ) connected with , the St . Marylebono Loan and Discount Society , holding itB meetings in Great Portland-street , attended before Mr . Hardwick , at his ( the magistrate ' s ) request , in consequence of a communication made to him by Lord Radstock , a few days ago , relative te a loan of £ 11 having been granted to a person named ( as we understood ) Perrott , and on which £ -20 expences had been incurred . Lord Radstock was present on this , occasion , and there were also in Court several other highly influential per&ons connected with the parish , who seemed to be much interested in the
inquiry . The gentlemen of the society made a Statement to the effect , that the loan was granted in j une last , and that it was not until after there wore ten weeks payments iu arrear , that the matter was placed in legal bands , with a view to the recovery of the sum due ; 'but prior to this course being taken , ten lettevs had been written to the borrower , and two to the surety ; the society was always ready and willing to be as lenient as possible , but if parties neglected to keep their payments good , they ought not to blame those who had advanced them money ior endeavouring to obtain the amount due t » them . It further appeared that the Societys' Act possessed no controul over them whatever . Mr . Hardwick 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 , and who were , of course , supposed to be necessitous persons , should be made . fully acquainted with the fact , that in the event of th « re being any defalcation in pay ' mentB , they would be liable , to . be arrested upon their stamped notes , and put to considerable expence : by such proceeding . The borrowers , in most cases , no doubt , imagined that by obtaining money from the society they were rendering themselves liable only to the expence attending proceedings before a magistrate , as was the case with other loan societies , and he ( the
magistrate ) observed , that if the contrary was known , and that a man had the remotest idea tha the debt conjd at one * be put into a lawyer ' s hand * without any magisterial interferencfe ^ whatever , tjiere would , he apprehended , under such circumstances , be very few applications for loan ?; Tiii jChalrman and solicitor remarked upon the fairness with which the bosines 8 6 f the society waB uniformly transacted , and j after a few- observations , which wo could no distinctly hear , from the magistrate and Lord Radstook , the latter , and the two first named gentlemen who had af tended as requested , quitted the , Court . — London Paptr ' :
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Hard Swearing . —At the Pontefract Sessions , on Wednesday last , Sir Gregory Lewin , addressing the Jury on the improbability of the prosecutor identifying a quantity of hay , which had been stolen , said that some men ' s conaoienoes allowed-them to go so far , thai a witness in America onoe distinctly swore to a goose ' s leg after it had been made into a giblet pie and dooked . —¦ Doncaster Chronicle . Thb " 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 m 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 the grave , ohannting the funeral requiem . It is in contemplation by the catholics of Shields to bring the * affair before the authorities , —Neimastle Chron .
' Railway Accibent . —LaBt 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 plane near Bromsgroye station , by which Mr . William Creuze , the engineer of locomotives , was so dreadfully scalded that he died ia 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 beewne enamoured of a corporal of the Gastadores of the R * yal Guards , her father , the Coade de —— , anxious to please his daughter , applied t « 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 hd 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 Robbeki at Windsor Castle . — One HUNDRED Pounds Rewaed . —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 c » n viction 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 is 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 in 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 » xe , 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 sentence of death was pronounced .
" Abscondment" 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 regardinglhe " 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 of Suicide . —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 ) , aud then hung himself to a beam in a stable belonging to his mother . Whilst thus suspended , it is supposed he must have been kicked by one of the 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 was put to the bar charged by her mother , who appeared to be in deep affliction , with having proposed to run away with a Smithfa ' eld drover , named Bill Scroggine . The mother said that she had a large family of children , all of whom were exceedingly affectionate and obedient exoept Sarah , who was about sixteen years of age , and who degraded herself by associating with the drover . —The alderman : Do es he intend to irarry her ?—The mother : She thinks so , but he has no notion of auy thing of the kind ; he wants to make her like the unfortunate poor creatures about tho streets . —The alderman ' . What ! will she condescend to be the trull of a com ?
mon pig-driver!—The mother ; She does not know tho " 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 me . He has promised me . — -The mother : He was hoard 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 1—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 Koing 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 will consider the deplorable condition of your poor parents , and shun the fellow . I shall order bis number to be
taken , and deal with him m 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 ho can . He is not to bo ' limidated . He says , a womans a woman , high or low , genUe or simple , and I ' m- blest if he don t act as sich . He ' s a reg'lar bad un artcr the women , and no mistake . ( Laughter . )—The 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 : When ; you'd think of anybody for a husband , look a little higher than a pigdriver at any rate .
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THE UNCHRISTIAN NEW POOR LAW BILL . PROSPECTS OF THE RATE-PAYERS IN SI 0 KNESS AND POVERTY . On Thursday evening , an inquest was held by Mr . Higgs , at St . George ' s Hospital , touching the death of Hannah Robinson , aged 5 tf . 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 loom , where witness lodged , at 39 , Albert-street , Grosyenor-square , She was a married woman , and her husband is a porter . About ttaee o ' clock in the afternoon of the 22 nd ult ., witness was sitting by the fite side when Bhe beard , a
noise like a dog howling . She opened the door , and observed araoke rising up the stairs ' : on looking more carefully , she say that it proceeded from the deceased , who was sitting on the stairs " alllna bfce , " Witness immediately called to another lodger , named Morris , ¦ wheta , by their combined exertions , ' the flames were extinguished . rThey . looked , in the deceased ' s room when they noticed the table-cloth on fire , which was approaching the bed-clothe * . Mr . Lcdbitter , a surgeon , ot Oxfofd-Btreet , was sent for directly ^ who gave the woman a draught , when , afe bis request , the deceased , yi * a brought away immediately ia > a cab to the hospital ^ : : :-t ^ - - \ , ' :, ' . : ¦" , ' ¦ . .
; By the Coroner—There , was a large fire In the room The deceased wan qnite ^ an invalid , and I bad not seen her out of bed for some time before , as she was labouring under ' * paralytic stroke . ¦ Bya Jnror—Shews * partly diee » ed . Her husband was out at tte time . She oonld not speak sufficiently plain for ws to understand how the accident happened . I preaume that » he had got uptoputthe kettle on , or to throw up the cinders , when her clothes caught fiie . The witness , Morria , said that she discovered several cinders in the deceased ' s apron . The whole of her clothes were b « rnt off the right aide of her body :
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Tbomas Tanant , house surgeon , depored th « t o ^ deceased was brought in on the 22 d March . » bo « t f ™! o- clock to the afternooa Her right arm , r idl S ? right aide of the head were aeverely burnt ¦ £ rJ 2 *
attected-i > y paralyali . ~ 4 ttw ^ ngwe 4 ttn therM-bJEZ when she died from the effect * of the aeddent ^^^ By the Coroner—Her speech was ao indbtinet . tii . v t conld not make out how it happened . •»«¦« * Baldwin , one of the beadles « f si George ' * toaiA here informed the Coroner that the husband wasmZ sent , and wiahed to speak a word to him on the » nwS p eHusband-Iapplied , afr , to the pariah S gffi into the lnfitmwy , but the overseer aaid he couM ^ a nothing except I came in as welL ™ W « W do The Coroner , ( to the Jury )—J think it ia nart of » , » ,. inquiry to hear this man , as the womWa deaS m « have been partly occasioned by not bilng lookediftaT * The Jury-Certainly . «««[« .
^ The husband ( who was a fine hearty old man > n . then sworn , and stated that his name was William rT binaon , his age ^ 4 , and that he lived withhia * ite * No . 39 , Gilbert-atreet He called himself a porter it was at the wo ? k-h < mse . In Moont-atreet , SroaTeiw » squaw , that he made hU applicaOen , when he s » w m * Rowed , the assistant-overster . By a Jaror—He offered me some bread , when 1 tola him that was a poor consolation for a poor sick wom » n that wanted advice . " ^ woman The Coroner-There fa such * system now goine « In these werkhouses , that Illness is thought nothin * 17 There was a case in St Margarefa workhouse wh «» they gave a man five * hming 8 to get rid of him and m , family , and would not then without bis carryina m infant in a dying state about the street , for fonr m fi « hours together . Their plea was , that if they let him oat with hia family , they would see no more < rt Mm afterwards . . ' : - 'T ^ The Foreman—Did yon tell the overseer how hebl * M your wife was ? " ^
Husband—Yes , and he said there wa * the irorkhouas tor 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 tMa mi * at his own discretion ? v Coole ( one of the beadles )—I should say , sir , thai » ,. acts under hla wgulations . A Juror—I think this is a case that ought to come to the knowledge of all the rate-payers , so that they m . ? see , if they come to poverty , what they may expect } The Coroner—If the woman had met with that can her state required , this case would not have happa !*! A Juror—Some representation must be made to the proper authorities of this case , as the poor woman ma not fit to be left alone , and the husband conld not afford to pay to get her looked after in his absence . By the Coroner—I left her in bed , wlwn I went out bet ween one and two o ' clock , as I did not know when I was like to come home , and the poor soul had nothinu at all till I did come home . .. « - }» naming
By a Juror—As well as I conld understand her , the aaid she was putting some cinders upon the fire . I could not say what she wanted a large fire for , exceiA she wanted to put on the kettle , which she sometimes tried to do , if she thought her niece was coming . The Foreman—Did she know that you applied about the intrniary ? ' '' , ' Husband—Tesj and she said she would UTce to so there to be taken care of , and she often eaid , " 0 lord what can I do here . " ' By a Juror—She was sefaed with palsy about two months ago in the night time , and lost the use of one side , and nerer recoTered . I apph ' ed four timea to the overseer , and tbe same answer was given . Baldwin , the beadle—I suppose , gsntlemen , this was a doubtful case , and the overseer refused it under some of the rules . Several of the Jury—It is moat shameful .
Husband—The first time I applied was about » month ago , -when she got worse , and I never aawhej up and dressed after , except her nfece was coming . I aui willing to work , and can get a living myseh * , for I paid 3 a . 9 d . a week for our lodging . I told Mr . Rowed the same , and said as I could get my own living out of doors fey hard work , why should I come in ? He said " I don't care , I will not take her except you come in ' as I will not be a party to separate man and wife . " I said to him , " Well , if you won't separate us ontof doors , will yon separate us when we come in ? " and he said " Yes . " ( Laughter . ) The poor old fellow then shed tea ^ s , saying , " If the poor old soul had been taken care » f , ' this would not have happened . " A Juror—It was a trick to keep them out altogether .
The Foremon—We iPiah , Mr , Coroner , to erprewour opinion in the strangest manner possible , for it appears their own beadle , Mr . Coole , visited this case , and still the woman was neglected . ; The Coroner—Pid the beadle come to yeur place ? Husband—Yes ; Mr : Coole came , and saw how helpless she was , and I told him sometimes I was out f « eighteen'hours together , aud there was no onetogiTfl tbe poor creature anything till I came home . By a Juror—I left het between one and two # * dock , when I fried some pork , arid we had that and some turnip tops ; then I lifted her into bed . I almost always lifted her in and out of bed myself . I have paid rates and taxes myself in a respectable way for twenty-five years in the parish . I formerly lived In Thomas-street , Oxford-street , and have lived about the neighbourhood for forty years .
A Juror—I am afraid there will be no attention paid by the overseer , except wo have him before us . The Coroner—We can admonish him In our verdict . The Foreman ( to the Coronsr )—You ought to Write to them as well . The Coroner—I suppose I had better write to the vestry generally on the subject . A Juror—No ; to the Board of Guardians . The Coroner—Are there miny of the Guardians ? Baldwin \ the beadle )—There is a certain quantity called the'" poor board , " which , with the churchwardens and overseers , amounts to about twenty-two . Ta 9 veaUy altogether consists of ICO persons . A Juror said he thought it unfair to condemn the overseer without hearing his defence . The Foreman—It is not finding fault with this over seer exactly , but with the shameful system he is carry ing out ( "Hear , hear , " from the Jury . )
The Coroner ( to the beadle )—Shall I call them the " poor board , " or the " guardians of the poor ?" ( Laughter . ) A Juryman—Not the latter , certainly . The Jury now consulted together , when a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned ; to which a Juryman submitted the following appendage : — " That this Jury cannot Separate withoutexpresaing , in the strongest manner , their abhorrenee of such a system of oppression to the poor , and hope that no similar cose will be refused attention by the overseer or relieving officer in future . "
The Jury appended this to theii ¦ verdict , and sepa rated on the understanding that the Coroner was to write " a sharp letter , " in addition to enclosing the -verdict , to the Poor Law Board of St . George ' s , Hanover-square .
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THE REVENUE . The Revenue accounts have been published for the year and quarter ending the 5 th April , 1841 . They do not present very satisfactory results : there is an aggregate decrease on the year of £ 309 , 280 : on the quarter , it is , £ 70 , 154 . One principal decrease is in the Postoffice ; and in that deparraent alone it amounts to £ 833 , « 00 on the year , and £ 27 , M » on the quarter . The Ministerial journals explain away this rather star tling falling off in the last quarter : the receipts for tbe corresponding quarter of the previous year , tney
say , were swelled by arrears of postage at the fourpenny rate , which were not paid in till that time , ana by exacting more prompt delivery of monies then due from the deputy-postmasters ; now , it ia necessary to leave large balances with the deputy-postmasters , to enable them to ' meet the demand on account of money » orders , the business in that branch of the Poat-offlca having largely increased since the reduction of the commission . There is the reverse of a falling-off , it u said , in- ' tbe number of letters passing tbrouga tn « Post-office i and that ia the true test of the chaDge .
An attempt is made by the Government organs w gloss over the declining revenue , by sinking aU . allusion to the additional taxes imposed last year by Mr . Baring The facts of the case are as follows : — Decrease on the year ending Sth of April , 1841 , ... ... ... t 9 ' ^ I Decrease on the Post-office ... ... 833 , 90 t Apparent increase on the year 35 £ 523 , 729 But the Chancellor of the Exchequer imposed new taxes , or increased old Ones , whose conjoint amount he thus estimated : — Addition to Assessed Taxes .... .. ... £ 276 , 000 New survey on ditto ... 15 M » 0 . Customs and Excise ... 1 , 426 , 009 SpiriU ... .. . ~ « 5 , M # , ¦ M -
Real decrease on the year ... £ 1 , 813 , 280 The whole ' amount of these additions did not , ho * eve come into . operation equally throughout the V **'™ get ah accurate view of onr financial prospects we man confine our attention to the quarters ^—Decrease on the quarter ^ ' ?? J " ' . . ' Decrease in the Post-olfice . 37 , uuu Apparent decrease on the quarter £ 43 , 011 But there mteti be added to tbto , on « . « ovuttb «) f the additioo made - to ear taxation , amounting to ... o 80 > ovv
Beal decrease on the quarter— ... £ 623 , «« 0 So much for Mr : Baring ' s per centoges »^ j ^ % dutiee , which were to makeup for Po * W f < & * £% and supply the . income ; -wanted to meet ^^ eTl expenditure . In despite of the temporary wst ^^ wilT gain by ; laying haads upon the *^ gygj doporittiitttto ^ btthbaght ' the . - . Oh «»« g « ^^ dimcnlty in Busing the trtad to ^ meat P ^ . JJJJJJ and future t *» en «* ; We look forward to . fte . *« W ¦ witU 8 ome curiosity . Tt-Sl' « ' * ' ' — : . :
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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-ncseproduct375/page/6/
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