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SPIRIT OF THE SUNDAY PRESS Collected, combined, arranged, compared, dissected, amended, s.nd circulated." - As; ASTAS I ES. THE CHANCELLOR'S REFORMS.--In the existing state the Court, and ef the office of Chancellor, it is agreed by per. sans whose opinions are of the highest authority, that another Judge is required ; but if the Chancellor was not occupied in a political ca. pacity, in which no Judge should be occupied, he would probably be competent to the performance of labours which now require the additional exertions of another functionary ;—or, if lie would consent to part whit the jurisdiction in Bankruptcy, he might ha equal to the business of Equity, with the aid h, should al. ready possess—we s y, should already possess, because lie does not possess that aid, through a Vice in the lower Courts. But we know sufficiently well that neither the Bankruptcy, nor the part in intrigue which passes under the name of politics, will be relinquished ; nevertheless as the administration of justice is an object paramount to all others, the appointment of another Judge should not be resisted, though it be only rendered neces s..ry by the obstinate continuance of a faulty system. Yet when !he addition is called for, if the question should be asked, a Are sA your Judges now efficient, and is there not one whose inea pat i;r just amounts to the alleged deficiency ?` we know not wl'at answer could be made consistent with truth, without show. how shamefully the public interests arc sacrified to mere i i:rsonal considerations. If another person is asserted to be necessary to the performance of a given task, and it turns out that one at present employed is generally inefficient, according to all the rules of reason, the proper demand is not for an additional officer, but for another man. This suspicions circumstance undoubtedly marks all the Chancellor's reforms, that increase of patronage is the uniform accompaniment of them, and it were difficult indeed to sup pose that no material improvements could be made at variance with his official interests.—Exansiner. 1 [We should like to know of which of the Legal Reforms, hitherto perfected, or as yet in contemplation, an abandonment of pa tronage has been, or is likely to be " the uniform accompaniment" ? 1:D. ST AB.] O . CONNEL'S REVIVED ASSOCIATION.—A Society of United lrilanen—the name promises well—has been formed, which adds to all the insolence and turbulence of the old Associatioh, objects more avowedly dangerous. We say more avowedly dangerous, because in fact they are only the same as before--the separation of the islands, and the establishment of Popery as predominant in Ireland, "with out toleration of any other religion," as is laid down as a funds .nental article in the charters of the new free and easy South American States. The old Association, however, did not avow this—they only fought for the preliminary step ; but that being pined, they throw off the mask, and advance further pretensions.— As if the name of United Irishmen were not enough, they admit as one of their earliest members, with much pomp and panegyric, a fellow of the name of CLUNEY, a rebel General, as they call him ; that is, a man who headed one of the gangs of cowardly, blood thirsty murderers, stimulated by the priests to the massacre of the Irish protestants, in the year 1798. The mere presence of this fellow, who escaped the gallows by a misplaced lenity, is enough to show what is the spirit of the association, and what is to be expected from it. What will Mr. PEEL gay on this subject? He made it a matter of glowing invective against the late Association, that they had praised Mr. ARCHIBALD HAMILTON ROWAN. If the whole six millions (said he) of Catholics were to come to the Bar of this House, they would never convince the Irish or Eng -Ixli Protestants, that there wa, no ground for alarm and suspicion at this body. They might depend upon it they could never get over this united and concurrent testimony as a ground of suspicion against sr body who rssuivtd rouse the energies of the nation, and talked of the respected :lad honoured name of an ATTAINTED TRAITOR. Could there ac r. stronger ground of alarm and appre hension ?"—NI - hat w3l :re say now, when they have admitted into their body, a man who teas actually in arms against the State : who led gangs of tuflians, stained with every crime and every cruelty, and whose life a as forfeit to the laws. Why, though Rowan was a traitor, no doubt, he had .ICOCI dabbled in the blood of Wexford, or howled with joyat the bathing of men,women,and children in Sculls. bogue. Of the dangers wlach at least the Protestants of Ireland may expect from the state of things it that country, there can be no ques tion. We copy soma observations upon the Cluney Club, from that excellent paper the Dab: ion Evening Mail.--" That this new society a more mischievous in its construction, because more general in its nature, than the late Associetlon, we have no hesitation in pro. -uuncing. It contains all the bad and angry elements of the latter, .1121 is calculated from its universality to entrap the unwary, and those who held aloof from the Burgh-quay Parliament, scared by its exclusiveness. Of the shouters, professional and amateur, it is cer :ain. Their vanity will not suffer them to remain absent. Upon the t.reNs, with very few exception, it can reckon. The priests for mere arbulence will join the society; and an audience of "rank, : umbees, and respectability" (at least in print) can always be had in Dublin " on the shortest notice and most reasonable terms." Thus, •ien, we have a society at once construcced--nay more, while we are Nriting the sentence, at " full work," within a few yards of the Crude, more decidedly hostile to Government, and more subversive et ;be Constitution, than that for the nominal putting down of which t :e Constitution itself was saerificed."— The Age. [IV c would fain consider this picture overcharged; fain would we look upon the appalling atrociousness of some of its most prominent of :es as: the fearful exaggeration of a political opponent :—but a vet hound coascientiously to admit, that there is not one trait ..s-'gctd to el:: revived A rsociatiou which we do not recognise as the true and indelible attribute of a society which, as we have already repeatedly declared, menaces more danger to the peace and safety of the Luipire, than any organized faction has dared to contemplate, or been able to effect, since the ever memorable 1798.—ED. STAR.] Tim PORTUGUESE REGENCY.--A thing called a Decree of Emperor of BRAZIL, who has as much to do with Portugal as General JACKSON has, has been published, in which that Monarch ,eta forth that having, in consequence of breaking his faith with his t . osliess become Emperor of BRAZIL, and having abdicated (his own cords) the throne of Portugal ; and having, Li we know, tried many expedients for inaking.that ancient and noble kingdom a colony of South America, he at length hit upon the expedient of devoting four days and a morning to the formation of a Constitution for the Por tuguese people, whom he had quitted to reign in a distant country; a Constitution, the respectability of which he hoped to enhance by making an English Minister the bearer of it to his late but Ms .:aided subjects; but which they would not conent to, unless under the influence of a foreign force, brought into the capital under ono. ther pretence, and the merits and virtues of which honourable and liberal alteration of the form of government were to be guaranteed and • emented by the incestuous marriage of his Imperial Majesty's own brother, with his Imperial Majesty's own daughter, a Brazilian Princess, ;utterly disqualified, by the laws of Portugal itself, from sitting on the throne:; even if the liberal cause, of which she was the s•slkingloney, had so far prevailed as to make her election to the crown passible. That, finding the people of Portugal resolved to have none of the newfangled Constitution, and equally resolved not be reduced to the state of colonists and dependants upon the l:emetor of Brasil, His Imperial Majesty has resolved that the re. Iscurd and respectable Marquis de PALMELLA, and two friends, be made Regents to govern that ancient and honourable king dor —and that, ar from the hatred of usurpation and the horror the whok Portuguese nation have for such a course of proceeding, it is icifloostible for this Regency to chew their faces in the mother ,ountry they are constituted and appointed to rule, govern, and l egillate for Portugal, in a little island, the ninth part of the A "re", whence the sixth part of the Portuguese people—the autount of the liberal party.—are to be rukd, and directed how to overthrow the c:her live.aixtbs, who are true to their Xmo and their country, and who will not be enslaved by the man who first abisnd..i.s all pretensions to the throne, and then attempts to exercise a sovereign authority over them.. The Regency -firm is therefore opened at Angie, in the some, of )Icsirs. PALMELLA, VILLA non, and Ovzinsisto, who are to j..?ay Regents in Terceira, while the Princess of GRAN PAEA plays QIIVI:11 at her father's court in BRAZIL. And now for the sequel. The Emperor of Bnazit (who, by the way, was dangerously ill when the last news arrived from his empire) is to furnish the means of supporting this Regency, which has hitherto been done out of the pockets of the English bondholders--a circumstance which may, perhaps, interest our Government in its discontinuance. lie is then to send reinforcements of vessels and troops to Terceira, to aid the cause of invading Portugal, (indeed, Madeira is al ready threatened) ; and here, we suppose, the affair will stop. Not only is England bound to assist PonTrnat —no matter who reigns--against her enemies (in consideration of which ob ligations, her subjects enjoy privileges in Portugal, granted to no other foreigners)—and not only is she obliged to protect Pot. tugal, upon long acknowledged principles and treaties, when the enemy approach her, but we have the Duke of Watt, stoTozes determination, expressed in Parliament, to prevent the Emperor of BRAZIL from interfering at all with the old colonies of Portugal. Hence it will be seen, even if there be any body affected by the ab surd blustering of this foreign Emperor and his graceful regency, that the things proposed are impossible. The force at Terceira itself con. silts of about 5900 men, a brig or two, and a few guns. If they are not reinforced, they can do nothing; and if they are, care will be taken to check their activity, it being always recollected that the Emperor of BRAZIL has neither men, money, nor ships, adequate to the enterprise—that the Brazilian people are decidedly opposed to his interference with Portugal—and that the funds appro priated to carry on the farce, are voted by the Chambers there, for the payment of the dividends of the European bond.. holders, and the maintenance of the Brazilian character and criclit. It should seem, by the curious speeches which our Ministers have made in Parliament on this subject, that the right of Don MIGUEL to the Throne of Portugal, forms no part of their difficulties in the affair of the recognition ; and that the delay is in fact attributable to the apprehension of being involved in hostilities for Portugal, which we might shuffle out of, if the invasion took place before we acknowledged him. The Government need not fear this result.—John 111411. [The lltilreas are again at work : but of the rhodomontade which they have here purchased what shall we say ?—what can we say but as " the true Prince" said to his " fat friend"—another" clay-brained guts" "a knotty-pared fool," an i• obscene greasy tallow-keech," like the Fleet-street roarer:—" These lies arc like the father that begets them, gross as a mountain, open, palpable." Don PEDRO did not " break faith with his father to become Emperor of Brazil." He "abdicated the Portuguese throne" only conditionally—and the condi tions have not been fulfilled. He never " tried any expedient for making that ancient and noble kingdom a colony of South America." The constitutional charter was promi=ed to the Portuguese by his father, Don JOHN VI. long before his death, and was granted by Don Pienno, in compliance with what he held to be a sacred duty in ratifying and fulfilling the royal promise of his predecessor. The " incestuous marriage" was declared by Don MIGUEL himself to be a " most fortunate event," until he found the treasonable project which he had long secretly cherished, of usurping the throne, likely to be accomplished by the aid of some of those very Peers who had but a short time before congratulated him upon the completion of that nuptial contract, as a circumstance which " Tout ee royatone compte au nombre des evenemens les plus henreux dont ilest re. devabte a Providence." But it were vain to follow this hireling ad vocate of treason and usurpation through the long string of fallacies which he has unblushing uttered. We shall only observe that a hint is here given of what 31 form. expects at the hands of the Bri. tish Government ; and it fully confirms the suspicion we some days since avowed, that England will be called upon to assist in the bloc kade of Terceira : and we already know to what lengths she is pre. pared to go in the cause of absolutism, Ha plausible pretext be given to her Ministers.—ED. STAR.] PENSIONS AND THE NATIONAL DEBT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sla,—There is I believe, a Tax—but a very incon siderable Tax—levied upon all Pensions ; and upon all Places held under Government. The Collectors of these Taxes receive, I presume, a poundage upon them ; so that the amount deducted from the Pensioner and the Placeman never reaches the Exchequer. Would it not be a much more effectual, and prudent measure, and a much more simple mode of relieving the revenue, at once to reduce the amount of the Pension, or the salary of the Placeman ? There is a fund collected at the War Office, and I be lieve at all the public offices, from certain fees:—at the War Office, particularly, this fund is raised from the fees paid on all commissions of military officers. How is it ap plied ? lam told that it is under the exclusive controul of the Secretary at War; and that he distributes it as he thinks proper amongst his clerks, in addition to their re spective salaries. Would it not be more proper to apply this fund to the payment of the superannuation pensions of the clerks who retire from office ?" Or, would it not be a more beneficial arrangement in all public offices to pay men for their services, as long as they are able to per- 1 form these services efficiently, and not to give any re tired allowances, unless they choose individually to subscribe to a fund to be raised and established for that purpose, like the Civil Fund at each Presidency in India ? I would propose that all fees should be de voted to this Fund, and let every clerk have the option of subscribing to it, according to the amount of his sa lary. Then, after the service of a stipulated number of years, three or four pensions, of sums fairly proportioned, should be appropriated to the seniors whamight choose to take them. After the death of any such pensioner, let the annuity be offered, in rotation, to the senior clerks who may be entitled to it from the length of service ; but never let the number of annuitant's be increased ; and until the Fund shall be able to supply such annuity, let the Government make up whatever sum may be deemed the proper amount. I would also propose that a similar fund should be established for all the Minister, of State, for all An:- bassadors, Consuls, &c. from the tax on their places, from fees of office, and from subscriptions annually, for a given number of years, according to the amounts of their several salaries, some of which are enormous. This would constitute a sort of Mutual Insurance for annuities. No man ought to have a pension for services until he shall be of a certain age, or after a certain number of years' service, (and that number ought far tl exceed the term now considered necessary) and until he shall have paid subscriptions for a stipulated time. With respect to the National Debt and Sinking Fund it would, in my opinion, be a saving measure to abolish the whole machinery of the latter, and to impose a mo dified property tax, to be applied to the express purpose —and to that purpose only—of annually cancelling as much of the debt as might be the amount of this specific Tax, in addition to all surplus revenue.—nut these sub jects require a mole extensive and laborious considera tion, than I can at present devote to them. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, INVESTIGATOR. London, April 17. The private accounts by the Brasil Mail state that the exchange had risen from 22 to 24. A loan for half a million had been contracted for at 65. The reports of the mines are said to be favourable. The leather duty in Ireland does not produce mote than we conjectured several weeks ago. Its assent last year was 46,4331. which was nearly 2,0001. less than it was the year before. LIBRARY• OF UNIrEIMAL KNOWLEDGE. We have received th announcement of a new serks of monthly volumes, to be entitled The li brary of Universal Knowledge." Perhaps no dresses of modern publications have been so successful as those that, within the last two or three Years, have appeared in England and in Scotlaud with r the titles of " Con etable'e Miscellany," " The Family library," " Lard ncr's Cyclopedia," and " The Library of Useful Know ledge." Neatness and cheapness have been long the order of the day, and, to administer to the wants of those who required information upon a variety of points. but whose limited means prevented it from being of easy access, the long-headed and dear-sig,he , cl booksellers of the north adopted a plan which at once removed all difficulty. For a very amall 1•1113 a volume, carefully, and judiciously, and ably written ar compiled, was placed in the hands of the purchaser, by which it was rendered unnecessary that he should wade through dry tonnes of the olden time, or ponderous quartos of more modern days, to render him acquainted with any given subject. Messrs. Constable and Co. of Edinbrrgh, however, did not long retain the r.bi t , , themselves. Competitors soon started up in the British inetropelis. Mr. Charles Knight, Mr. Matra . -.., and Messrs Longman and Co. followed in the same track, and with equal success. As is generally the case, how ever, each new candidate for public favour was bound to make its appearance under advantages greater than those of its predecessor. " The Library of Usefal Know ledge " was superior to " Constable's Miscellatty," " The Family Library," a yct higher improvement, and', Mer.srs Longman and Co.—the last to enter the course— gave to " The Cyclopedia," edited by Dr. Lardner, attractions of a still more important character. The publication to which we now desire to direct public attention—" The Library of Useful Knowledge"—is shortly to issue from the firm of Messrs. Colhurn and Bent ley—a firm that yields to no other in the kingdom for libe rality, '1 energy, and ability, to execute properly any judi ciously-devised plan. A great proportion of the most able and popular authors of the aga are among the many for whom they publish. They have, of COMM:, that ne cessary support—a large capital ; their ;runes stand high in public estimation ; and we have daily, it might be almost said hourly, proofs of the tasteful manner in which their works are sent into the world.— We have, therefore, no hesitation in concluding that " The Library of Universal Knowledge" will be one of the most agreeable and useful, and, consequently, suc cessful, of the pleasant and profitable family to which it belongs. It will also have an advantage of no trifling moment—the publication is to be placed under the super intendence of the Rev. G. R. Gleig, himself a distin guished writer, and, if we be correctly informed, a gen tleman of much learning, tact, and experience. The prospectus, after alluding to the other branches of the same family, proceeds to state that the projectors of "The Library of Universal Knowledge" " have no de sign whatever of trenching upon the ground already oc copied by others. As little is it their desire to decry the exertions of those who labour in the same vineyard and seek the same end with themselves. For these, on the contrary, they entertain the highest respect; but the field seems sufficiently wide for all parties, and there fore they enter it. They are willing to persuade them selves, moreover, that the circumstances under which they approach their task are not unfavourable to its suc cess. Almost all our knowledge arises from experience ; and hence, by imitating as far as can be, the excellencies of their predecessors, no less than by avoiding their errors, should such chance to have been committed, they hope to produce a series of works which shall at once satisfy the judgment, and suit the tastes of those who relish amusement, the most when it comes united with instruc tion." It is, therefore, with us a matter of little doubt that these monthly volumes will prove an agreeable and im portant addition to our literary and scientific stock, and under this impression the plan has our approval, and shall have our best support. Of its execution we shall be here after called upon to speak. At present we can only ob serve, that the publishers and the editor are fully equal to perform all that we look for at their hands, and that we shall be more than disappointed if " The Library of Universal Knowledge" will not have stronger claims on public patronage than any work of a similar character. Messrs. Colburn and Bentley will at once have the advan tages of their own ample means and connexions, and the experience which those wbo have gone before them have laboured hard to maintain. The paper duties of Ireland are declining. They pro duced 24,2821. in 1828, but 1,5421. less in the last year. At a late trial in Yorkshire, Mr. Justice Park asked the witness, if he thought that a Clergyman of the Church of England would administer the holy sacrament to an insane person ?—Dr. Wake: (a physician) " I have no doubt of it, my Lord."—His Lordship held up his hands in incredulous astonishment ! Mr. PETTIGH w held his second conversazioni at his house in Saville-street, on Wednesday evening, which was well attended. The Prince CEMITELI I, the Presi dent of the Royal Academy, many of the members and council of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, most of the eminent physicians, surgeons, and artists, and a great number cf literary and scientific gentlemen were present. the Duke of SussEx was bent in consequenec of his recent domestic loss. A theatrical wardrobe, belonging to s provineial actor ::arced Nlok TM: 1:, was sold on Friday. A very hand some black velvet dress, wu:n for Hamlet, Romeo, and JaCer, which 11 raid to have originally cost 100!., was Fircliaced by Mr. R xII Lt., of the Surrey Theatre ; for %/.; a splendid white satin tonic and petticoat, the regal ef Macbeth, was knocked down to the same gentle ir a i at t/. 2r. tid. ; Sir FA!ward Mortimer's dress fetched 4/. 2i. Cd. ; a beautiful costume for Romeo went at 21. 155,; niaguificent robe for Richard the Third produced 6!. 15s. ; an old man's dress fetched only 3s. ; Paul Fry's dress complete, 4s. tid. ; a tunic worn by the Stranger, 6s. ; Othelio's dress, ss. Cd. On Sawrday, a musical performance took place at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, for the purpose of iotrod.!cing to the notice of th 2. English public, the Prague Minstrels, who have attained considerable proficiency in the per formance of wind instruments. These foreign musicians, who were dressed in the costume of their country, exe cuted several pieces in a very effective style, especially one called the " Hungarian Can," in which were intro duced some beautiful piano passages for the horns, which were very ably managed by the performers. It would Le l impossible to conceive a more perfect representation of distant sound, than that produced by the horns, answer ing the other instruments. Prom the style in which these Bohemians played some Austrian waltzes and a set of quadrilles, we should think their performance peculiarly 'adapted to ball-room orchestras, especially as it may be presumed they have brought with them a stock of those beautiful waltzes so common in Germany, and so little known among us, and to the perfect execution of wbieb vriad instruments are indispensable. DREADFUL FIRE AND LOSS OF LIVES. iletween ono anti two o'clock yesterday ino..aing a fire broke out :in the house of Mr. Grant, a baker, of No. Si, F. Ifer lan; Holborn, which, from the mac of night, sod the tiantri , of the pre.e.iser, struck the greatest tenor throughout the whole neighbour ' how!. The fire, from all accouters, broke out in di : lower tof the front of Mr. Grant's house, which, in a few minutes altio: its first discovery by the watchman, burst forth with great fury a* the shop door and windows, w the immanent danger of the lives M no less than 18 or 80 human beings, who. including Mr. Grant's fa mily, inhabited she house. It was most distressing to see the in mates in their night-clothes only, at the different upper wit:dotes, screen:Mg for assistance. Ladders were procured as soon as poet. ble, Ly which some escaped with little injury. Others. seven or eight in number, threw themselves out of the windows, Lcu two of them were carried, in a dreadful state, to the hnspitul ; one of whom, a female, died at St. Bartholomew's iehout six o'clock yes:erday morning. The fire next communicated to the house of Mr. Wright, the eating-house-keeper, No. 83, which, as well as Mr. Grant's, and Mr. Smith, the grocer's, of Nc. 8.5 (a/I built of wood), were on fire at the same tic e. The families and .:igers of Mr. Wright and Mr. Smith had time to save themselves. without Utll4l3': ing any injury; but we are sorry to say that an eld. rly lady, named Ewins, about 80 years of age, who had lodged i.: 31r.lirates house fur nearly 30 years, perished in the flames, as nett as an infsnt about fmir years old. Their babes were dug out of the ruins sb-iot II o'clock yeetertiay, and carried ins shell to the house of Mr. Hos - ell, the undertaker, in Fetter-lane. All the assurance-office engines, and a resit number of firemen, were promptly on the spot, and their e‘ertioni unquestionably saved the houses (all of wood) between Mr. smith's and the White Horse Inn and Tavern. from destruction. The houses of Mr. Grant and Mr. Wright, and a stable belonging to 31r. Jones, the optician, in Holborn, are completely destroyed.— Mr. Smith's house is greatly damaged. Ihe fire burnt backwards to the party wall of Barnard's Inn, Holborn, which however escaped with lit:le damage. The strong pasty wall of the large distillery of Messrs. Anderson and Co. of Holborn, saved their premises tract reet•ivin4 much injury. We have heard that the property of Mr. Grant, Mr. Wright, and Mr. Smith was pattly insured, but it is acid that Mr. Grant bad about one hundred pounds in Cash in the house when the fire broke out, which is lost in the ruins. The thieves upon this calamitous occasion mustered in great force, and plundered the unfortunate sufferers of the few things a hi - 1. were sewed, with the greatest impunity, puttitt the few watch and constables in a tt en d ance completely at defiance.. FURTHER PARTICUL %RS. since the foregoing was written, we have learnt, by calling zt the Hospital, that three persons, an elderly matt, and a so.) act daughter of the unfortunate Mts. }wins, w re carried the :•e. yesterday morning. We are now enabled to state, t' they were emainly all alive about seven o'clock yesterday eve: . ing. The old man, anti the daughter of Mrs. Ewins, are, however, so dreadfully burnt, as to render their recovery hopeless. The case of Mrs. Ewins's son, although dangerous, b. not RO bad as that of hts sister and the unfortunate old m:.n. A man s-d woman, lodgers in Mr. Grant's holm. are said to be still missing. Their ladies were being searched for among the uini during the whole of yesterday. The utmost revenue the whiskey trade of lr.•l: u an der the old and high duty since 1821 was 923,3041. It yielded under the new mitigated duty over half a million more than this. It amounted in the last year to 1,30.5,0641. Whiskers, a check shirt, a jemmy whip, high stays, and a small hat, covering a head destitute of brains, are the essentials necessary to form an exquisite or modern dandy.—Brighton Guardian. AN UGLY PICTURE..—Th;_sre seems to be somethimr so radically base in the mind of men, that ooe would think there was no need for a divine revelation to teach us the doctrine of original sin—although, perhaps, the obviousness of the truth does not suggest itself till after wards, as was the case in that easy and natural nay taught by Columbus of making an egg stand on end. To torment is the favourite occupation and delight of boy hood, whether a fly or a playmate be the object; but as the boy prokresses towards the constitution of manhood, he Ws, at every step, that to tear the lower animals limb from limb,—at least, with his own hands—or to point the finger and halloo at the follies or misfortunes of his neighbour, would subject himself to many an elon gation of the nose, and many a sound and exemplary kicking. The lessons of humanity are thus inculcated through the medium of fear and self-interest, which folio no inconsiderable portion of what is called the light of nature ; and as the same sort of process takes place in favour of nearly all the social virtues, we need not be surprised to see, in process of time, the individual whose youthful recreations were those of devils, acting the pert in society of a kind master, an attentive husband, and an obliging neighbour. His mind, however, is still the same, for the miracle of a second birth cannot be wrought by this world ; and the old instinct of cruelty, in the ac commodating spirit of Hudibras's dagger, has only changed its occupation:— "It was a serviceable dudgeon Either for fighting or for drudging : When it had stabbed or broke a head, It would serape trenclms or chip bread-- Toast cheese or bacon,—though it wens To bait a mousetrap, 'twould not ease." The most trivial circumstance or coincidence in human life, and the meanest individual of the human race, gest an employment and a victim. Beauty is no availing intercession, virtue no shield, and poverty and humility no refuge. The nod, the wink, the cough, the sigh, the up-turned glance, the " if," the hint, the meaning tion, the treacherous defence, the qualified asiertions, the round, plump, direct, deliberate, undaunted lie, all follow in succesesion more or less rapid and regular, and all me the ministers of that solitary Demon of Cruelty, without whose dominion in the human heart one half of the Lan and the Prophets would se a dead letter.— The Game uf Lift, by Leitch h'ittbif. Cl/RN-EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, AP'''. 19. • --- , The trade in our market this morning i• somewhat more Li Mk I than last week ; our supplies are plentiful, and folic of the 14 ~ 11011111 arc 1:1 the ir,..sket. The very prime sompb.- • o r English and Foreign Wheats maintain Monday's prices; but the middling at a inferior sorts are about Is. per qucrter lower. The hest Maliii , :. Barley is selling I.t Lett week's prices ; inferior, a trifle. lower. Out. are about le. per quarter Ws than laet week. Wheat. Kent & Fasts . 764 801 i Peas, Grey . ss• . .71 Suffolk, i Batts, . 74s 78s 1 es, Small . 38• 44 e Norfolk . 67e 70e 1 Tick 88, ::::. Rye . . UN 344 Oats, Potatne 20. is. nAtiey,44.264—M4iting 33s 36. Poland • 76s int, Malt — a — .I Feed . IS, Vs • Peas, White . 36s 40s Flour, per sack, as 6:t 1 Boilers . 1110 —s Rapeleed 2CI. 201. per law. LA!! ware. Irph Oats Rye. English . Beaus, English Ditto, Foreign -- I Do. Irish . I Peas. English • 7,634 i l)ittn Foreign 4,760 I I:Pg Ws Flour, laths . f7,M•;,; • -- I Asnerkandisto, Ori. . %Mk TA TIONI %%rat, English, quarters 6 569 Do. Fo►rign . . S ,f 162 /rids Ditto . . . . 00 Barley, British . 5,668 Do. Foreign . I►ish Malt, . English Oats Fortign Ditto . . 11 . 1,443 SMITHFIELD. Anus. 19. CATTILIt ♦T WARTA? : • . I L. 7.7 lieaete. Sheep and Lambe...... `:0,110: Beet .......3, 61 to se 10J Veal ....... 24 to Se Mt Anton .... ..4s Od 4,1 Pork •a 10. 1 Lamb ..... —Go Od 74 O. Hay (per bud), £2 10•. to A'S Os. (lover, All 10s. to AS as. Straw, £2 Se. to £2 110. COAL-IEXCHAN6P., Avian. Is. 'thirty-L..lr new "hips were emered for sale to-day, Ind than woe a good alypty of wale at Market, but not ma:qv/unbent*, Snipe arrived dories the month .. 340 Beat Welland Comb 36 *1 311 e OA I niter harts Ships at Ma►ket. Mi NEW6ATE AND LEADENHALL, AWL le. By the I arease.—Per atom of albs. Beef. 4e. ad. to 56 44. bletteon, Se. N. to 46 Veal, Ea to H. 6d. tote. 44. Lamb, 5,. *dm Go. N. ~~~:~