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POETRY. Vio3l" DON CARLOS," A TRAGEDY, SY La JOUN ausssu. Of' CArLOS' SOLILOQUY IN HIS PRAIIOI CALL. Abode of misery ! to what a line Or wretched men am 1 the heir!—the walls 'Themselves speak dreadful language: here are names, Antl here a thousand marks engraved to tell trmany days of suffering; phshaw ! away irtch gloomy thoughts ; they make me sick at heart.- 17Fis light is disappearing through the diet trod narrow window of my celi—ftis evening! At tbirsease hour of evening, I have stood Cots the borders of the mountain ridp Flat skirts the plain of Seville ; the breed sua loft* edFssigenee o'er a cloudless sky Paned hie last flood of brightness ; the brown bills, The shwa hedge mid rhododendron wild, floe golden orange and the purple grape, All seemed as slotted in light ; and now 'tie gone! Tim god of day ban vanished : a low bell ilia gsseral stillness breaks, but not offends ; AI tongues are whispering prayer and thanks to heaven ; ASS soon again the light guitar is heard, Add aged grandsires with young hearts behold /111 tender maidens, that with graceful step Raid os the village dance—and yet how massy Of those who Sins rejoice, and sleep at night. Aug wake at sunrise with a heart at ease, Weald fain be Phillip's heir; and dream that then 'They eheuld Omitted he happy : poor vain worm ! --wes.-- , EL RYPOCONDRIACO. Wale lity rest, Ikon sullen. Ab sables of my weary wind, Obscured, ere WI its imams be dam, While eight, law night, rioneisababis* All 'that I loved, my pencil, pen, That stole the time on dimity wings, When shall-I Feel year charts again! Fatewell ! ye past, ye pleasant things. 'Where is thy balm of care, 0 Sleep ! That once upon my eyelids lay' Wow, if slumber on me creep, The Night is wilder than the day. v— ;t . - I plunge in ocean; shoot tiro' air; Parch in the deserts; fly the den ; I- See horrors—wake in struggling prayer, r! And midnight is twice midnight them. 1 . —,.....- 10, , i, * l4 i TO GREECE. 1 4111 . Agile o'er thy victorious lewd The streawieg dag of Freedom waves ; 4 lA% ! , never may glorious strand Be' printed by the feet of slaves. .1. Itstaseing Glory yet shall pour - ..' , rWer light apes thy lovely-Wee ; , .. kI - Alt& wakened Liberty .onee mere .!3 , Shall cheer thee with beeheareelY smiles. 4 - And Poesy, who long bas slept 'Within thy dark and silent eaves, ilikart Saveotten by its she waked sad wept A - T . Vpon thy tuneful children's paves, mr - Again shalt strike the trembling tyre, To rapturous notes of jay and peens ; -Milting, with all her wonted ire, .4 , Ilse glories of her native Greece. voti 6-4' • -LOVE'S WRBArTH. When Love leas a child and weal idling round 'Moog dowers the whole summer's day, pan morn in the valley a bower he found, usi So sweet it allured him to slay. O'er bead, from the trees, hang a garland fair, ik-foustain ran darkly beneath— 'Twas Pleasure that hung the bright dowers up (here, Lire knew it, and jumped at the s reach. But Love did not know—and et his weak years What urchlweras likely misses, ? That Sorrow had made of her own salt tears That fountain which murmured below. nboaught at the wreath—but with too mutts haste, As boys when impatient will do— fell' in those waters of briny taste, And the flowers were all wet through. Yet this is the wreath he wears night and day, Aad, though it all sunny appears, With reasura's own lustre—each leaf, they say, Stilt tastes of the Fountain of Tears. WINTER SONG. • Douse the blazing midnight 6re, ]lean the crackli.ig faggots higher ; Stern December reigns without, wer •-•:.-.4gt-.••••41411i old Winter's blustering rout. Let the jocund timbrels sound; Push the jully goblet round ; Care a.iturit, with all tby crew, • floblins dire, and devils blue. Hark! without the tempest growls, Aed the alfrighted watch-dog howls ; Witche, nn theif broomsticks sail, Death upon the whistling gale. Heap the crackling faggots higher, Draw your easy chairs still nigher ; • And, to guard from wizards hoar, 741111 the horse-shoe on the door. Now repeat the freezing story ' Of the murdered traveller gory, • Found beneath the yew-tree sear, Cut his throat from ear to ear. Tell, too, how his ghost, all Moody, • Frightened once a neighbouring Goody ; And bow still at twelbe be stalks, Groaning o'er the wild-wood walks, . I:— Then, when Fear usurps her swey, • Let us creep to bed away ; Each for ghosts, but little ►older, Fearfully peeping o'er his shoulder. Atwortlimg to Parisian gossip, the eldest son of MVII AT shortly espouse one of the daughters of JOIRTII 01; • • A 4. wrt. the celebrated Sculptor at Rome, is now said to hare left behind him a fortune of seven millions a francs—a sum not for short of three hundred thousand pounds sterling! • • A Lady having asked M. de Maartutsor why persons of her ties 'right not be electors ! Be replied, Madam. pot might be --opharterin boa yew could not be il•puties."—" Why not?" said the Lady. " Because oo woman would like to acknowledge that she • *ha Bitty years of age." "rlSt viMilternplete Mineral Collection of lb* celebrated M. dams, will shortly be sold by public auction in that y Pnifessor, in his lifetime, refused for it an oder of i:Milletliftiginto4l,oool. sterling.) • ts stunt In a recent letter front &dip,. that *fatal duel had jgoit ..,en place at floyerswertla.• chant NTctrumitt and another Illosol.neau had quarrelled respecting the 'merits of a young Polish Both the parties were wounded—the former mortally. . • • r.-, 1 i ..7'k/i.,, ,A, N. - . I A L ,. : _•., •. • -- . , -ki.0.4,..... -- 0 1 .• .......... • ii-., ,e, . .191.11.47 1 1 .; if-I,am: v;....... , k de4 . .r- - ' . : Tr Y• *.;-• CAN4l4,,,atad REFORM-.-Tie NE.W.VIKES— AOOII,%TIiE EDINEIIRGH. REVIEW. " Most magnanimous Fitsai.a" has within this last ! t week set himself up as a Revizwza of conscience. .From experience of his incapacity as a politician, **seems anxious to try what he can make of himself as a critic. He begins by trying his hand on the last Number of the Edinburgh Review, and we give him credit for the good policy he displays at starting; he very wisely sinks his own insi;rnificance in the im portance of his subject. " Reverenc thyself' is a maxims° which he conforms to the very letter. It is reported of the celebrated 'BA LZA C, that he never had occasion to mention his own name, but he pulled off his hat. Our Editor of the New Times appears to . have profited in his prayers, from the hint of the Scotch cobbler, spoken of by BuRNS, whose constant supplication was " Lord send 'us a good conceit o oursel." Having totally rid himself of all that modest distrust of his own judgment, and that be coming respect for the superior judgment of others, which men of sense are accustomed to manifest, he begins his Critique thus :—" There is in this Number of the Edinburgh Review an article more than usually flippant, foolish, and insolent, entitled, Mr. CAN NIXO and Reform." Having made this decorous and elegant exordium, he thus proceeds: " We pro pose to notice—De means purpose, but he will learn to write English as he gets onJ—we propose to no tice in a few words-1. Some of its fads. —2. Some of its arguments—and 3. Its admirable eonsistency. And first then of the Reviewer's FACTS. He asks— " Mere did Mr. Canning ever find a Parliamentary Re• former who was satisfied with such a right of election as that of Liverpool, where freemen only, whether resident or not, return the Members?"—p. 390. " We answer" —But, softly ; before we quote what it is we answer, ,et us first put the statement fairly before the reader, that he may judge how far it ap plies to the case. The garbled extract, as it stands, is only disconnected for the purpose of misrepresen tation. • • • • • • • • • • • • II Mr. CANti LNG is the staunch advocate of rotter boroughs, and of what the less knowing amongst us are inclined to consider as abuses in the election sys tem. The Foreign Secretary considers the leaven of corruption, which leavens the whole mass, to be, not useful merely, but indispensable. He joys to con template its operation; he listens to the humming of .tbe fermentation; pronounces that " the system works i well ;" and adduces his connexion with Liverpool as a roof of tke fact. Now the Edinburgh Reviewer, well /snowing the premises, and having occasion to allude to the arguments of the LISBON AMBASSADOR, RS, recorded in his last speech to his constituents, writaa thus : .4 tie is always appealing to bis owa situation as that or a parson representing a place where no reform can be desired — a perfeetly open and free borough. This seems as extraordi nary a mistake, th►t we assist give the words in which be states it. " ' So far from my situation as Representative of the seeped town is the empire stilling my voice no this subject, I have not the slightest hesitation its saying, that if I were Member for 0:d Sarum I should more probably hold my tongue upon it. It is because lam Member for Liverpool, because I can hove So shadow of personal interest in maintaining that more im perfect speeies of representation, which I do, nevertheless, maintain ; it is because my opinion cannot be questioned, as in fluenced by 'notices of individual convenience, that I feel a con fidence, which [ otherwise might not feel, in exposing what I think the fallacy of those doctrines which push the principle of direct personal representation to an extent such as, if adopted, must change the constitution.'—Pages 13, 26. " Now, where did Mr. Cetioing ever find a Parliamentary Reformer who was satisfied with such a right of election as that of Liverpool, where freemen only, and they, whether re sident or not, return the Members ? Is not this as much a close corporation as if it were a borough one twentieth or one hundredth of the size ? Does the mere difference of ez- lest change the nature attic franchise ? If a corporation of thirty, in a town of I,loiiinhsbitants, save their fullow-citi , stile trouble of choosing their Representative, it is termed ixelose or rotten borough ; and the Member so chosen may, .it seems, be taunted with having somo interest in defending the existence of such limited franchises. But extend the same preposterous right of soling to ' the second town in the em pire;' suffer two or three thousand corporatora to choose For 110,000 inhabitants, and no matter in what way the select and privileged body is composed, although it may consist of the very individuals most unlit to exercise the franchise, to the exclusion of all who might must worthily be intrusted wits it, vet this extension of the size, and therefore of the mischief, is to be the cure!" Let us now see what is the reply of the logician of the New Times. "We answer, that Lord John Rus sell, the leading advocate of Reform in the present day, has never even proposed to touch the existing franchises of such places as Liverpool." There is an answer for you! how the ,facts of the Edinburgh Re view fall down before him ! Bishop Warburton tells us, 'that the oldest mathematician then in England was the worst reasoner in it. Our learned Doctor has certainly the honour to resemble the old mathe matician ; but he has all his irrationality without his science. Olt n'a jamais rins via de plus pitoyable. But if this is frivolous and feeble, he will give you something else. His " reasons are as plenty as blackberries." We will then accept another sample: " We answer again, that at the lee Yorkshire Meet ing to which he alludes at the end of the Review, the city of York was declared to be "fairly and honestly represented," although the only difference between the franchises of York and Liverpool is, that the Cor poration for the former town possess the power of packing a majority, by manufacturing honorary free mos. And is this, indeed, the difference? Well! truth will out, and this information, though worth nothing as argument, is important as confession. The reflecting reader will make his own comment upon it. If any other than a Ministerial Journalist, forgetful of the Six AcTs, had said as much, the ArroRNEY GENERAL, we suspect, would have jogged his memory. If our causes can be. tried by packed juries, and our representatives returned by packed majorities, of a troth we are in a pretty predicament! What! Independent Electors classed with our other articles of trade and manufacture! The Editor of the Nato Times, representing St. Stephens as if it were " the: great emporium of WIT and fustian." Monist:eras I. We must really give our consternation time to Hillside. We will resume the subject in a day or two. CRUELTY TO 11OhNED CATTLE. The following pungent epistle will probably be new to most of our' readers, and as, from its locality, it may not be perfectly intelligible without some expla nation, we shall briefly mention the occasion upon which it was written and the circumstances that ori ginated it. The writer, a Mr. Reynolds, was an Irish Gentle man of good family and fortune, who held the com mission of, the peace for many years in the sister country. His literary attainments were few, but he possessed great natural quickness, and was remark able for a caustic irony of expression, which distin guished several fugitive ,pieces of which he was the author, and of which the following letter may be taken as a specimen. His temper, which naturally was none of the best, was soured to morbid irrita bility by a painful asthmatic complaint, which allicted him for the greater part of his life. The effervescence of this angry spirit would occasionally boil over upon those who happened to come in contact with him, and particularly Upon his brother Magistrates, whose views and proceedings he delighted to thwart and overturn upon every occasion. During the period of his magistracy, and but a short time before the breaking out of the Irish rebel= .lioo, to Ins, there was a description of marauders io that country called Defenders, whose practices and pursuits were somewhat similar to those of the more modern Society of Ri yaw; zw. The Defenders were, in time, put down, though no specific Statute had ever' been enacted for the purpose ; and the reader should bear in mind that the merely being a Defender was not, in itself, an offence cognizable by law, or punishable, Weis, when accompanied by a breach of some known *Stole. It happened, upon one occasion, that a farmer, who lilted . % the county of Leitrim, discovered that one of. his cows had been cut arid maimed in a shocking . manner. At the same time, he found a letter which the perpetrator of the outrage bad tied to the cow's horn, in which he was threatened with personal vengeance if he did not forthwith give up his farm and leave the country. There was no direct _clue to the offender, but the farmer's suspicion fall ing upon a person of bad character, who resided near him, he lodged an infoimation against the object of his suspicion, and had him taken up as a Defender. The prisoner apprehending that the Magistrate, who 'had itsued the warrant, would' . not admit him to hail, Prevailed upon the constables to brit* him before Mr. Reynolds, by whom he was innately liberated, up on giving the necessary security to take his trial for the alleged offence. A representation of these fact' having been made to the then Lord Chancellor of- Ireland (who was quite an Ultra in his way); his Lordship, hastily, and as it would seem, unjustly, erased Mr. Reynolds' name from the list of Magi strates. When Mr. Reynolds was apprised of the fact, he determined to submit a statement of the grounds upon which he ha.l acted ; and for this pur pose he obtained a letter of introduction to the Chan-: cellor from the Governor of the County of Leitrim. With this letter he repaired to Dublin and went to the ' house of his Lordship, who happened to be coming ) down stairs, followed by his valet, at the moment Mr. Reynolds entered the hall. Upon seeing Reynolds, whose person he knew. the Chancellor suddenly turned into a parlour, accompanied by his valet, to whom he gave orders to say that he, the Chancellor, was not at home! a duty which the servant performed with great rudeness, actually pushing Mr. Reynolds out of the house, and shutting the door in his face. These circumstances, which it must be confessed ,were of a very aggravating nature, drew forth an epistle that will probably afford amusement to some of our readers, though not couched exactly in such „terms as lovers of the molls algae faeetum would ap-' prove. The allusions to some particular occurrences ,are too obvious to require any explanation. - TO LORD --. Mr LORD—I received, with surprise and regret, a letter signed " John Dyer," informing me that your Lordship had been pleased to supersede me in the Commission of the Peace for the counties of LEITRIM and Roscommon. I say with surprise, because I wail not conscious of any offence to warrant such a pro ceeding,—and I add with regret, because low as the situation is (and low indeed it must be, depending Upon the caprice of any individual), yet as it some times afforded me an opportunity of protecting inno cence and counteracting tyranny, I part it with regret. Your Lordship loved not the Constitution more thaw I do. It has been the theme of my continued pane gyric; nor can even the unkind treatment which I now receive at your Lordship's hands tend, in the re motest degree, to democratise my feelin g s; it will' rather tend, indeed, to confirm me in my aristocrit o tic creed, that there is in men of mean descent a cer tain ignobility which no honours oraitles can eradicate. It is not, my Lord, in the radiance of the royal sun beam to give to the mushroom the fragrance of the rose, and when we look to new men for that bland and golden dignity of manners which constitutes the true noblesse, we too frequently find a pinclitieci petulance substituted in its stead. When I waited upon your Lordship with a letter from the Governor of the county in which its revert., resides, you, with an affected hauteur which very ill became a man of yesterday, turned upon your heel and refused to hear me in justification of my conduct. Had your Lordship, like your father, been designed for the Popish priesthood, you would have had the benefit of a •St. Omers education, and consequently have known mole decency and more good manners ; but a giddy head I turned by looking downwards, from a pinnacle to which an accidental concurrence of fortunate circumstances had raised it; yet believe me, my Lord, that in the highest point of your eleva tion, I never once conceived that—" an angel spoke ;" on the contrary, I have always viewed you as the character of a sweep, who, after clambering throufh dirt, peeps out his sooty-coloured face, and, in a shrill 'Voice, proclaims to the gapingmultitude, ".here, here lam !! !" It has been stated, as matter of accusation, that I bailed a man who was charged with being a Defender (nothing further having been expressed in the com mittal), and - your Lordship, no doubt, is the heat judge whether that be a sufficient ground for detaining the ajeL . - been likewise said, i; seems, that thi's man was sus• petted of having houghed a neighbour's cow, and of having tied a threitening letter to one of her horns. Upon the latter part of the accusation, founded, as it entirely is, upon suspicion'. and existing only in ru mour, I shall merely observe, that if he had even houghed your Lordship, and tied a threatening kite to one of your horns. I would, under similar circuits itances, have acted in the tome manner, I ought not, perhaps, to conclude this letter with out making some comment upon the gross insolence l ef your valet;--but this, after all, is easily accounted for by recollecting that man is an imitative animal. G. N. REYNOLD/. P. S.—l desire that the object of this letter may not be misunderstood, for I can assure you (such is my respect for , authority) that if it rained horsewhips I would not lay, one of, them upon the hem of your Lordship's garment. persons of his MI , st's subjects In prison. It has !I! We are sorry to learn that Mr. WLITZILN is very dangerously ill at Felix Hall, Baser. DEATH OF HANG HA PAILTI3N, ESQ.—After a most painful and tedious illness, Mr. HA as Hawtt.rou ex pired at three o'clock. yesterday morning. Then will be a contest to fill the vacancy caused by his death in :the representat4nu of the County of 'Dublin, Sir Comoro?' Doss-vutz and Colonel WiliTE are (to be) , the Candidate‘—Dublin Morning Post. , . Loki? STEir.tonrots.—We copy the following clas sical and elegant Rulletin from the New Times: - • "The Duke of Wanamnerosi appears in excellent health, and veep /warty." A .. , . • I/for:Elsa seeing the kingdom of Macedon, for merly insignificant, rising into eminence. was asked bow he would be buried when dead. " Make my face lowermost." said he, " for the world is now turn ing upside down ;to that in time I s h all lie right." Buns., the celebrated Scottish poet, used to say, that the scale of good wifeship may be divided into ten parts", thns-- ..7 . .*': : . Good blature.:... ..- -.. ....... -...,-. Good lenge ....- - wit ' . oi , •t? . • ••••• ••• 41 Personal Chantal : 1 k'4rsone.cpaysextone,Ftisnatlen,Familyßlood I AN kept/4V 011 r tilt 14TR, LOMB Meitialittp.— About the Year I'l/lf; biz 401444 then presiding in his MAJESTe's Coartsoilifing"A Bench, signifieol his inteotiou : of guilt to tlyt.causes 'on Monday, upon which, r. Dotortaiii, afterittareli Lord'ASUBURTON, io the name of the Counsel, declared their resolution not to attend OD that day: Lord MANSFIELD, how eser, persevered, and. went to Westminster-hall as. usual, but there was not a single barrister present; on which his Lordship called - op the attorneys, and, in some Instances, on the parties themselves, to optil the cases, which .they did with various abilities, art his Lordship actually tried nearly,2o copies, obsert ing, on lescingshe Court s thot it Aare bad not bee se much talic r alg,. bebellerlfull*rveeb justice ha , bees done, sail the gentlPoslieirdifi loitg robe bad been present. RUSTIC WIT.—As two would-be wits (whioAssido not 100 miles from East Hoeft) were " along," in their gig on the roaffto Brighton, otf.Sit +- day morning, elated with the expectation of obtaini $ peep at Majesty, and a sight of the Palace Cha , under the guidance of a." gentle Shepherd," t hey overtook a clod-pate ow 41at road, blowing on his fingers. which were benued*ld by the cold. " Well, .lonp," said one of our witis. 6 have you met a swarm of bees on the road this morning?"—" Why, no," to plies JOHN, with the archest look imaginable, " but I saw two confounded great DaoNas though."—Leta Express. 4.:XOII.4VINGS.—Tbe followipg Engravings from the works of British Artists either ttre, et 4ertly wikke, ready for publica tion :- ..ii, •r 47 • t , '••/ May Day in Me Rsign aa . lizabelfi, , Troia a picture by C. R. Litstin, which our tendie l t. neenalltel wrie exhibited at Somer. Loners' Qoarrels,•from a very pleaslag - petnee exhibited by G. S. Kirwros, is the British Gallery. The subject is from "Le Lk t! 4 osourettz" Of Mos.ixan. 4 {'tire on llts Themes near Battersea, with rattle and agures i n the laregtowtd, is the style of Curt and PAUL POTTZR, from A psinti Eir by DaANe. • 1.. i • The Aar er of Archbishop Sharpe, froth a picture by ii sl.-1 'Lists ALI.AN PAinbur g h, exhibited at Somerset House, . Rested by tk l ;spriking description of this eveut.in the Taal Al - Landlord. The RICON eat Monet, painted and engraved by BUIITAIIT. ' The Letter of Introduction, from a picture by Wi Lam. .i . 44 Author. readiag his Play In the Green,Reere c/ Delos, lime Theatre.-,The pletnie• was exhibited at Somerset-house, and must be in; the recollection of the public. It contains pee. traits °tonally:a the best performers among " His Margaret Servants." The Three Marys, from the celebrated Picture by ATINUIAL CAIAACCI. The following anecdote is recorded of Judge DODOEIttno a :—liaving, at Huntingdon assizes, in 1619, reproved Xlye Sheriff for returning persons on the jury who were out of sufficient respectability, at the meat Assizes the , kiheriff presented the following list, at which the Judei smiled, and at the same time Applauded his ingenio.ts industry :—Mamilian King, of Tolland; }leery Prinm, of God manchester; George Duke, of Somersham; William Marquis, of Stukeley; Edward Larl, of Hartford; Robert Lord of Worsley; Richard Baron, of Bythorp,i; Edmund Knight, of St. Neots; Peter ..Essn'ire, of Eastoq : George Gentleman, of Spaldock; Robert Yeoman, of Barham ; Stephen Pope, of Weston ; Humphrey Cordinal, of Kimbolton; William Bishop, of Rugden ; Johrr Abbot, of Stukeley ; Richard Friar, of Ellington; Henry Mpnk, of Stoke ley : Edward-Priest, of Graff ham : &shard Deacon, of Catsworth. On a tomb in the church of Kings-T.eignton is the underwritten very slogan, epitaph ; ic which the apostrophe to Death is far, better adapted far inscrib ing on the cenotaph of a heathen temple, than on the• tomb of a Christian minister. Itiehardus Aelam, hujus Ecelesid Vicarius, obiit Feb.lo, ferijil Apostrophe ad Modem : Damm'd Tyrant , can't pront' net Wood suffice? Must priests that offer be the perinea? Go tell the genii that in [lades lye„ . Tb, triumphs o'er this Sacred Caloary ; iii Till some yuM Nemesis avenge our cause, . And linen this SW-priest to revere good laws. M. GALLAND, in his Arabian 'Pales, frequently repeats the words " My dear sister, if you do not, sleep, tell us one of your tales."—Some young men, who had been disgusted at the repetition, determintel one winter night to go and awaken the poor GAI: LAND, lialloipg loudly under the window—" br GALLAND!" He opened the window, and inquir what, they wanted. " M. 055.;,..ati0," said one , ' them, " are you not the translator of the beautiful Arabian 'isles ?"—" I am the very person."—" Ah, well, M. GALLAND, if you don't sleep, tell us one of your Tales." Citatous FACT.—Last Tuesday when the York mail arrived at the Cross keys in this town (Hull) at about six o'clock in the morning, a hen was discovered roosting on the top. On inquiry it turned out that she had come all the way from York in that state. — She bad chosen that place for her bight's lodging , some time previous to the coach being brought out, ' and, undisturbed by the barnessiag . of the horses or the motion of the vehicle, had roinatne4 stationary the whole of the way. ,There were no outside passengers, and the night wa4 4,14 u ip,4o.owippiyelj the Rocitinghalts, PLAN OP THE FRENCH LOTTERIES. . . The lottery is composed of as numbers, five of %%bleb ant/ came up prizes, and these Ave, which are drawn troln.4llll wheel of Fortune, produce a kits of simple 6 lots of western's ' : to lots of simple amber s lota of determined to lots of ternes 0 lots of determined The perebaser boa the option of choosing any nundiel l . k. 3. any quantity of numbers, to form his stake . He Is area WO Jawed to bet upon one, or several chances, nor is he den fined, as in England, to any specific sum ; for the Lottery- 4 office-keepers in Paris sell their tickets from live pence tefire hundred poled,. .. r The chances of the lottery are divided into4we the first consisting of simplrehances which oompreht l isdrlits 4 ipatrtil, the ambe, tbe terme r and the ' quateree ; and rift er lbe determined chances, which are limited to the eatrait S tbe ambe. • isplanation of the Fiesta Clams, or simple independent' dances : the simple extrait is scut the betting on any onoga o.27zge I to 90. , for instance est if .20 is drawn a (leit ai d winner is entitled to Wren times his stake. Had he a shilling, he would receive fifteen abi hogs; if tool., The ambe (from Anita, both) is formed by top itis, liiippose I bet a guinea on numbers It and is. In orderiew win, it is necessary that both these should be draws p rimy" fur if only one comes out, I should lose. In the event got success, I should receive 570 times my stake. The tense is formed by betting on three numbers. The! winner is entitled to 6,,500 times his stake. : 0 ; The quaterne is made up of four numbers, and the Prlvlt4 amounts to seventy- fi ve thutisansi limes the value of the stake . The following example will make the subject perfaellpsil clear ; a Suppose I purchase tho five following numbers r, Se, 41,04 0 97, all me stakes being on the simple inileperami the tickets. by which is ineent,. that Ike order its st i li f s P *44 "4 :4llllollll are drawn is immaterial. a Estvaits, at sf. . . . I. ". • 4.4 to Arabes, at if. sec. .• . . . Id ' -4 to l'ernes, at Ir. . • . . IS •, ~ 14 0 Quaternes, at 00C.... . . $ IS ' _ Total . . 44 In the the following Table may by seen all the can by possibility resell from t his disposition of the r:m. By the dnwingofoww aiogle number, a simple el V 1 4 .1 1. yields By the drawing of two numbers, I ewtraits. led 1 tenbe ' the deeming of three numbers: II sgtz Selby As bes, and woe —o s • .. 4.t, the drawing of four numbers. 4 kit raj** asitell", 05 ♦ tellies, and I quateyne . , lbr the drawing of five numberwr 6 o S 4 initir 10 ambes, to terns, and 6 quaterises ' ,1 44 .446 The Second Class consists of ,determined chasms The determined ertrait is finitude) , bettiM i tlai l l ot which ails numbers will be drama.; In the order of drawing is immaterial, ,and-as the Zaire swOwaßr e t obviously diminished by being compelled to select what w bedrawn first, the prize is proportionably greater; the being only fifteen awn . . tbe stake, witeeeas tbo de- . &ermined ertrart is 70 times. The determined make arises fenntetting on two numbers, and pointing out the order in which t hely wi Ifbe drawn, We may ir remark, that any two num ' bers unitedeogether on all the Om. We modes in wh ic h they can be drain, may be combined in twenty different forms, each simple Moho forming twenty de - ternatned ambes. Elanifile:—Suppose I bet on tltemumbers 7, 19, 33, 41, 58. the ten ambes which may result frum their combination aro the following : . ' a 7. 29. 291 , 41. , • 7. 36. 29. 88. 7. 41. 7. 98. A s ' - 88 - ; .'l' .• ! ' , tie's , : i.) 29. 36. 41. 88. Bach of those ten simple ambes being multiplied by 104. rs , it la evident that the prize on this stake bast be two haademi 4.14. . „ • Fr om this statement it appears, that the low price of a", ticket bold' out facilities or gaining, ndt only to the lowestaa Ineobanies, hot even to the very beggars: The rage fur bet-e 3 tint on the lotteries in Paris is dtredful, and the Govern ment seem anxious to encourage this destructive propensity, • by arranging se that a lottery may he drawn - needy evert, eagle in the weak. Sunday not exempted- • If the Count d'Artosa„ instead of cherishing priestcraft, and scrupulously obserefrep:; r the exterior forms of worship, were to.etert his influencing'? repeess this wide-spreading evil, be would do more real seer . .vice .to.geattine religion, titan by years. of foiling, penanes4 and genuflexion. • There was on Tuesday evening a general rehearsal of the new Christmas pantomimes at Drury-lane and Covent-garden, and both are of high prinnise— • , " Whets Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war." NOTAL Bow Mar.—A man in • puhlio office in Spelt was guilty of many peoulatioes and trauds„, and heist leaped openly a rogue and scoundrel, he compleinpii to Amnpu i ttua, his master, of these indignities.' " Sir," says the Xlisgpst toy subjects are plain men in their speech, mot tall sit tango by their names." Lows the Fourteenth gave this idyl°, 30 oil "Ambassa dor.—" Sir, pursue a conduct totally tbd'reserte Of year pre neoessor."—" Sire," replied the Gentlemen... 4 I will ands mean myself that you shall not give thT "meadsAtp 'Omar successor." A Pauecr.—When the Prince of had gone Ihirditigti big course of education, a favourite servant of his litglineee was asked in what part of education the Prince Moat essmllefl ‘• " In horsemanship (replied the domesttc), for his borteii fisher flattered him." It was said of a man who married a very trreat bonny, but character was much blown upon, that - Id thlitinatch, when lie opened his eyes, he had sisal Ms ears. Count Tweeze, complaining lo.Foorn that a asas.lad ruined his character, " SU much the better (rept iedtlse unity, for it was a d—d bad one, and the sooner tlestroyed,'4o sure to 'oar advantage." ' • A person entering the House of Commons Mace th u s *amp Parliament was sitting. exclaimed, "'flies* are iloodliiren newels t I could work fur them all my life for nothing."' What trade are you, my good friend? said 000 of die aveithers " lem a rape-maker," replied the other. . . „. A tall Minister asid, scoffingly, to a short one, " en in the pulpit, you look like a collar of brawn in adub."— " And you (replied the other) like a pestle it a mortar:" A regular physician hsving been sent for by k maker of universal special:a, grand aa.atertems, fat. expressed his sac . prise at being called in on an occasion apparently se trill ug. " Not so trifling neither," replied the quack, "'for, to tell you thp truth, I have by mistake tykes some of thecae Ohs" Caonwsta's Booss.—Colonel Sown, who hail been jibe of King Caesura the Pint's Judges, died a day or two before Csomwesa, and it, was strongly reported every o h.-re that the Protector was dead. "No (said a gentleman-who knesd bet ter), be has only given Stead to the devil, tOr his lateen ap pearance." - " Your sword, Sir, is very troublesome" said a man ; very surlily, to a young ufficer in a crowd. " All my elfelplNlP aro of the same opiuioa," replied the young man,. FEMALE COURAO E. —On the morning of Thursday last, about three o'clock. the maid servant of the Kee Mr_ Beckwith, ca-ale of Tillingham &IP; was alarmed by et noise at the wiudew of an apartment below, and trolling out, she saw the body of a man about half way through the sasls• end tit Wa4/ them pushin g himself in the remainder of the way. Ms.lisselsnitts was at that time in London, on a visit, ,and the only Map in thee house was the parish clerk, who slept there. The Seeress went immediately laced him, and having 'awned his of witatebc lied seen, desired that he would get up and l' r'N e " tier and- het mis tress. She then went to Mrs. Beekw it 's &gimlet, and hail ms sooner communicated the terrifying intetligeiee teller; then this courageous young lady took A loaded pistol-in-OM anodised a candle in the other, aad desiring the servant to hill 'is bey went down stairs. When she [Ririe to the room lido Which ibefellow bad entered, she walked boldly in and saw hie coverkg• down is one corner. She promoted the petal at him, and las mejsacing tone tyld hint that if he moved or &feted any resistance, she is oul ill shoot him instantly. by this time the honest . Is a sisb tittle, who =fharir g that his aleteet Gomm Wools' . offer feere being M the cold, had waited to put on his clothes, came shiver jag into the room, and seeing the triumphant posture 'ofilis mis tress, be advanced with - more ennadence, and Mrs. Borkwith still standing by with her pistol, the clerk and she kneel. bound the thief band sod foot with cords. Itil was the nest deg taken :before a Magistrate in the neighbosrhodd, and committal. He ,had, it appeared, lifted a five barred gaite - frilas ills• Bei*, sa4 brought tumors one se two fields ter tie porpueeof de44 it by way of ladder to enabiehim to reach the spdpw., • In consequence of a chimney tatng,fire. In "Wild- . i street, on Moeda; night, the parish eng nes WPM sent for s one of [ which in tuning the corner out of Great Quermesreet, tilockilv threw down an old luau amid a child; ad empty net wentesver the • i lat ree t re er i t b o u s t a wi y was n tk ot iu s g u it roTt i groa r t i e, the ° i.fOrlt t'll iti f illtisr )l s n 'ess " s i t' ..i . thag r i g. ,...pass a a v n i cl i iio nc alt :: :Ye og Th po n7em it en:nfreter . t b ra ose a-w h 7s o :eger e tti t il:eled e and Oc il i breki r illit o ti e r t oter rt Y c hii where every attention was *tithe that the tam essaeaded. ' We understand (says an Editibilrgh" Pam*" that some suspicious characti rs are at present' goi nit. about the city as gysarts (,hashers), dressed in the Highland I costume, armed with daggers and pistols--Mott boys, but strong men; and when they obtain silt mitranco l l , i b n e to a a fr h o o l u ic se : bthuetyhsawy wall e b y e w w il e l l a i ct ilt ß a oli t sen iloy asto : • 6 , 1 t be m o a m y ‘ „ their guard against admitting such visittws, lest they Ai , act Rob R o y 'West! wid lay tits faintly tlitlkr cum ? - 1 - t r tributioa 4 1 s 4 . i P 1 1 , I 1 Mho