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Vrottin. ( From PAULINE; a Fra.9ment of a-. Gmfankm.) Night, and one single ridge of narroirpsith Between the sullen river and the woods . Waving mid muttering—for the moonless night llas shaped them into itnages of life, Like the upraising of the glantZghosts, Looking on earth to know how their sons fare. Thou art so close to me, the roughest swell Of the tree-tops hides not the panting Of thy soft breasts ; no—we will pass to morning— Morning—the rocks, and valhes, and old woods, How the sun brightens•in the mist, and here, — net in- the air, like creatures of the place, TruSting the element—living on high boughs That swing in the wind—look at the goldeti spray, Flung from the foam-sheet of the cataract, Amid tire broken rocks—shall we stay here With the wild hawks I no, ere the hot noon come Dive wo down,-safe : see this our new retreat Walled in with a sloped mound.of matted shrubs. Dark, tangled, old and green , --still slOping down To a small pool whose waters lie asleep Amid the trailing boughs turned water-plants, And tall trees over-arch to keep us in, Breaking the sunbeams into emerald shafts, And in the dreamy water one small group Of two or three strange trees are got together, Wondering at all around—as strange beasts herd Together far from their own land—all wildness— No turf nor moss. for boughs and plants pave all, And tongues of bank go shelving In the waters, Where the pale-throated snake reclines his bead, And old grey stones lie making eddies there ; The wild mice cross them dry-shod—deeper in— Shut thy soft eyes—now look—still deeper in : This is the very heart of the woods—all round, Mountain-like, heaped above us ; yet even here One pond of water gleams—far off the river Sweeps like a sea, barred out from land ; but ono— One thin clear sheet has over-leaped and wound Into this silent depth, which gained, it lies Still, as but let by sufferance ; the trees bend O'er it as will men watch a sleeping girl, And thro' their roots long creeping plants stretch out Their twined hair, steeped and sparkling ; farther on, Tall rushes and thick flag-knots have combined To narrow it so, at length, a silver thread It winds, all noiselessly, thro' the deep wood, Till thro' a cleft way, thro' the moss and stone, It joins its parent-river with a shout. PROM MELEAGER TO HIS MISTRESS SLEEPING. Thou slee.p'st, soft silken flower Would I:were Sleep, For ever on those lids my watch to keep I a. Seshould I have thee all mine own—nor he Who seals Jove's wakeful eyes my rival be. 326 VARIETIES. The primary question on Natural Religion is, " Is there a (Tod ?" There are two modes or forms in which it may be an swered. One, by reasoning from certain abstract principles assumed, and. thus attempting, a priori, to demonstrate the necessary existence of such a Being; and the other, by reason ing, a posteriori , from-final causes; or the intelligent adaptation of means to ends, discoverable in every department of nature or creation. According to the former mode, the existence of a God is necessarily involved' in the very first principles and elements of knowledge, and therefore; susespttble of being demonstrated without any reference whatever to final causes or external manifestations of intelligence and design: According to the latter, it is merely a deduction which experience enables his to make from certain arrangements in the economy of nature and'providenee, incompatible with any other supposition than that of their having proceeded front an intelligent and govern ing mind. The distinction, then, between these two methods of reasoning, is obvious. If the existence of the ..Deity is ptoved to be necessary, the idea of his non-existence involves a contradiction ; but it his being be "only inferred from certain inditations in his works, it in no respect differs from any ordi nary matter of fact or belief, the reverse of which may be easily conceived though it cannot be proved. In the Volume of nature, which-is spread out before,us for our instruction, there are written, in legible characters,- which even he who inns may read, all those truths which the unenlightened reason of man can ever hope to discover, but which, in the pride of his understanding, he sometimes seeks to explore, in a region where he is certain at last to lose his way. At DOG'S Aeeeerzoe.--After the battle of Baiossa, the wounded ofhOili nations, were, from want of means of tran iport, necessarily left upon the field of action the whole night , and part of the 4dlotrieg day. General Rousseau, a French: general of division, was of the number; his dog, a white one of the poodle .kind, Which hadlieertliAt iii quarzers upon the ad eance of the i'rencli force, finding that the General returned. , notiwith those who escaped fie& the battle, set out in search of, him ; found him at night in his dreary resting place ' and ex pressed-his. afilietion by moans and by licking the hands and feel of his dyinarnaster. "Wheri the fatal (rim took place some hosts after, he seemed:fully . aWare of the dreadful.ohange, at-. tached.hiraseff closely to the bcidY ' dud for three daYs refusal the. sustenance which was offered him; Arrangements having been made for the iriternient"Of the dead, the body, of the Ge neral was, pike the rest, committed to ifs honourable grave; the, dog lay down uporr the earth which coveredthe beloved remains, and evinoed by silence and deep dejection his sorrow for the loss, he had sustained. The English Commander, General Graham, erhote'fine feelings had prompted him to superintend the last duties due to the 'gallant slain, observed the friendless mourner, drew him, now no longer resisting, from the spot, and gave him his protection, which he continued' to him- until his death, many. years after, at the General's residence in Perthl' shire.---:.Eraited, Service Journal. A Arch WAG.—The following jeu d' esprit was-handed up to :kr. Justice. P a rke, during the trial of an indictment for the nori , repair of a bridge, at the late Dorsetshirc assizes-: " Because the list, is full, my lord, And time sb fastly marches, I move that this bridge cause be heard, Beffore the Court 6f Arches,'? THE PREACHER: A, Gascon preacher Stopped short in the pulpit ; it was in vain that he scratched his head;: nothing *culla come out. "My friends," . said he, as he walked quie4 down the pulpit stairs, "my friends, I pity you, for you have last a fine discourse." A French ship, 'calla Le &knee, lately arrived* at Havre from Rio de Janeiro, with .a cargo of parrots. Le Silence must have made-some little noise both in the old and new worlds. MEASURES " SISEET."—.Sir George Shea hearing that the only measure that passed the House during a stitting of nine ide~ks was one Sugar Bill, all the others having been put oil;. said he supposed the rest would follow, " en sweet," if not "teat Wlief." • A SHORT' Sinuota—On St. Stephen's day, a Monk was ap pointed'to pronounce a long eulogium upon the saint. As the day was pretty -dell' adVaneed, the priests, who were getting hungry, and were apprehonsire of a tedious panegyric, whiS perecl to their comrade to be brief. The Monk mounted tile pulpit; and, after a short. preamble, said, " My brethren, it is only about' a year since I told'you all I knew about Sfi Ste -Oen., •As 4 have heard, nothing new with regard to him since that time, I Shall addnothing to whafl, said before." And so, Making the sign , of the cross,. he walked off. CATCHES AND SNATCHES. — What do they mean by the mu sical golls terra - " - catehes?" asked one of theignorcrmi, at a late fund festttal, of a theatrical wit. " Merely snatches of songs," was the reply. "Thank you," said.stupid, "I.never knew that before." d. Lorr or Cipianns.—Spring Rice, speaking of the. Whig automatons that make up the , ministerial majorities, the other day, to the gifted Tom Babble, said, "Taking the tuttle of the whole. (as Joe Hume says,)' that is, arithmetically , and nume rically, they dre. mre- ciphers." " Aye (answered Tom,) I,see, Rice—you speaking. of them not: individUaliy, but in round n umbers." LAZlNESS.—There_was a young Garcon gentleman at Con stance, named Bonac, wlikirrse- every morning very late. As his, comtades, used, to'rip • Chin upon his laziness—" lam obligee - said he; "'to .g eetry , morning to a long pleading between 'laziness and diligence. The latter exhorts me to get up, and employ myself in,. something useful; the other inge niously pleads;the-.eocutint of a . arna bed, and that rest is bet ter than labour. I listen to the pleadings on both sides, till matters are made up, and this is The cache of nay late rising." WEN'S L AST.—" Tours in Upper India!" said Alderman Wen the other day, reading the title of a new work, "Bless my eyebrows t this must be a blunder; I always thought Tours was a town in France." THE LIVERPOOL STANDAIik THEIR MAJESTIES AND THE " GREYS." At three o'clock this afternoon their Majesties left the Castle in a dose carriage ; drawn by four greys, and proceeded on an airing in the direction•of Slough.--Cot at UIRCOLAR. This curious piece of court intelligence. Confirms the twice ten thousand loud assertions Of Whiggish treachery and impertinence, Made by, the Tory dealers in aspersions. Horrid announcement! Tidings full of meaning ! What, we much marvel, will the GREYS say now ? Accnsed of drawing both the King and Queen hr A Radical direction—towards Slough! Never were King and Queen so " drawn !" I vow That if these " Greys," instead of giving o'er, Choose thus to draw their Majesties through Slough, 'Twere proper they should send a broom before. Love is of the nature of a burning glass, which, kept still in one place, tireth ; changed often, it troth nothing.—Sir John Suckling. LISTENERS IN THE LORDS AND CONIMONS.—The evening dis cussions in, the House of Lords when any take place, are al ways numerously attended by ladies. The Dowager Duchess of Richmond is the most constant attendant among.those female politicians. Mrs. Lane Fox, in all former years a regular par liamentary listener, has "cut" their lordships during the present session. Lady Glengall may be seen in the front seat every evening of tb eselashionable political musters, and the Marchio ness of Clanricarde autrefois la belle Canning, is also a frequent attendant. De. JOHNSON'S OPINION OF NEWSPAPERS.—I never derive more benefit, or see more pleasure for the time, (says Johnson) than reading a newspaper whiCh has lately issued from the press. I do really believe that nothing adds so much to the glory of my country as newspapers. Liberty is stamped legibly upon its pages, and even the fold is marked with freedom. Do you want to know how your country thrives, I point you to the press ! There you shalt find a piece, perhaps, under the head "Legislative." Are you fond of miscellany, look there ! What book can furnish such good accounts of murder, robbery, acci dents, marriages, anecdotes, and many other such things—such as good as well as bad accounts from the Russians, Turks, Dutch, &c. Under all these considerations, who is there in this land of freedom, who will not attend to an object so worthy of his regard ? Shakspeare is the poet of all ranks. The theatre has fami liarized us with the creatures of his fancy; we see them on can vas as old acquaintances, and delight to compare the ideas of the artist with our own ;—but Milton is the poet of the scholar, and the man of refinement; to many almost unknown—familiar only to very few. He appeals too little to ordinary sympathies, and confines himself too exclusively to the elevated and the ter rible, to be the favourite of the crowd. HANDEL AND THE SERPENT.—The first time the serpent was used in a concert, at which Handel was in the habit of pre siding, he was so disgusted with the powerful coarseness of its tones, that he called out in a rage, " fiat de cliffil be de'?" On being informed that it was an instrument called a serpent; " Oh !" he replied, " de serpent—ay—but it not be de serpent vat seduced Eve." TRUE SPIRIT OF REFORM.—A system of fundamental reform will scarcely be effected by massacres mechanised into revolu tion. We cannot therefore inculcate on the minds of each other totrofteu or with too great earnestness; the, necessity of cuitivating benevolent affections. We should, be cautious how we indulge the feelings even of virtuous indignation. Indig- nation is the handsome brother of anger and hatred. The tem ple of despotism, like that of Tescalipoca, the Mexican deity, is built of human skulls and cemented with human blood; let us beware that we be not transported into 'revenge while we are levelling the loathsome pile, lest when we erect the edifice of freedom we but vary the style of architecture, not change the materials. Let us not wantonly offend even the prejudices of our weaker brethren, nor by ill-timed and vehement declara tions of opirrion excite in them malignant feelings towards us. The energies of mind are wasted in these intemperate effusions. Those materials of projectile force, which, now carelessly scat tered, explode with an offensive and useless noise, directed by wisdom and union, might heave rocks from their base, or per haps (dismissing the metaphor) might produce the desired effect without the convulsion.—S. T. Coleridge. BENEFIT PLAY-BlLL.—Linton, a musician belonging-t; the orchestra of Covent-Garden The6tre, was murdered by some street robbers, who were discovered and executed. A play was given for the benefit of his widow and children, and the day preceding the performance, the following appeared in one,of the public prints : " THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.—For the Benefit of Mrs. Linton_, The widow,' said Charity, whispering in m y ear, must have your mite ; wait upon her with a guinea, and purchase a box ticket.—' You may have one for five shillings,' ob served Avarice, pulling me by the elbow.—' My hand was in my ,pocket, and the guinea which was in my fingers, slipped out.'— Yes,' said I, she shall have my five shillings.'— Good Hea ven!' exclaimed Justice, what are you about? Five shillings ! If you pay but five shillings for going into the theatre, then you get value received for your money.'—'And I shall owe him no thanks,' added Charity, laying her' hand upon my heart, and leading me on the way to the widow's house.— Taking the knocker in my left hand, my whole frame trembled. Looking round, I saw Avarice turn the corner of the street, and-I found all the money in my pocket grasped in my hand Is. Your mo ther at home, my dear ? said I to a-child who conducted -me into the parlour.'—'Yes,' answered the infant, but my father- has not been at home for a great while ; that is his harpsichord, and that is his violin. He used to play on them for me.'—' Shall I play you a tune, my-boy?' said No, sir,' continued the boy, 'my mother will not let them be touched; for, since my father wentabroad„ music makes her cry, and then we all cry. I looked on the violin; it was unstrung. It was out of tune. Had the lyre of Orpheus sounded in mine ear, it could not have insinuated into my frame thrills of sensibility equal to what 1 felt.'—' I hear my mother on the stairs,' said the biiy. I shook -him by the hand. Give her this,' said I, and left the house.— It rained; I called a coach, drove to a coffee-house, but, not having a farthing in my pocket, borrowed a shilling at the bar." REMARKABLE TRADITION.—Of the " three Viscountesses" (daughters of the Duchess of Tyrconnell), Lady Dillon appears to have been the most remarkable, and to have inherited with the high blood of the Harniltons, no small share of that lively and• wilful , temper which distinguished her mother's. family. There is a curious tradition respecting her still preserved aniong the peasantry of the country in which she resided. It is related that on the death of Lord Dillon she inhabited Laugh lin Castle, then only one of the numerous castles and palaces - possessed by the Irish Dillons: This princely feudal edifice covered two acres of land ; and with the estate round it, was assigned to her as her jointure, but with the proviso that she should reside during h-erlife in the castle; The lady, in her widowhood, was seized with a passion for a young Englishman, and being unable to detain him with her, or to follow him to England as long as her castle existed, she determined on the wildest and boldest project that ever entered the head of an im petuous woman borne away by the violence of passion ; she ordered a banquet to be spread in her garden, then fired the castle, and feasted by the light of the blazing pile. After supper, and while. the. towers were, yet burning, she set off for England with her lover.—Beauties of the Court of Cita! les the Second. Sir JOhn Stanley, an eminent person in the time of Richard 11., was made Justice of Ireland, and by King Henry IV. was made Lieutenant. of that realm. He was the founder of the Derby fathily, and his direct lineal descendant was, after a lapse of centuries, chief secretary in the same kingdom. APOLOGY FOR THE Llol , 7.—That the lion is idle, except when he is hungry, may be admitted; but whatis•the plea for human occupation in general, except that a man ' must live;' that he must get his bread;' and.that if he is idle, he will have no butcher's meat. It is astonishing with what coolness we fish-eating, fish-hooking, stag-hunting, war-making, borough mongering, too-legged animals, sit in judgment upon our fellow creatures the quadrupeds; and abuse them for doing, out of sheer instinct and compulsion, what we perpetrate out of a deli berate self-indulgence! Let those among us who have really not been•educated for nothing, and who have a decent quantity of humanity to go upon, do justice to the common instincts of lion and noble lord. As to his walking off before a multitude of men and dogs with loaded muskets, and all sorts of advan tages over.hirn, it , is what, in , a Xenophon or a Frederick would have been called; a 'retreat, not a skulking away.. The lion_ refuses to risk•his life, and that of others, to .no purpose ; _and instead of praising him for it, we call him idle and skulking. It is surely enough that, before he makes up his.mind to decline the battle he can look calmer upon his.eneniies ; nay, (as they acknowledge themselves;) with the most lofty and . courageOus aspect. If a.dog or so happens ta•come too near him on that occasion, he makes a-movement of his paw, invisible. as one of Belcher's pieces of by-play, and smites, , the mongrel to death; which is just as if he had said, Do not misinterpret me,! and behave like a puppy. lam standing thus, not for fear of Nett, but like a. proper general calculating.. his forces.' When Homer speaks of a lion walking Off, it is in compliment , to his• bravest warriors, and the reluctance•with which they retire.— Tait's Magazine. CHRISTIAN EXAMINER FOR APRIL. In our last we noticed the remarkable admissions of Cie Encyclical Letter of the present Pope, respecting the Church of Rome. The following extract, from a part of the Christian Examiner, goes strongly to justify the querulous tone of the Papal Charlatan: — ON PROPHETIC INTERPRETATION:—In the- vision of the four beasts, which, with its interpretation, is- related in the 7th. chap. 'of. Daniel, we have, I believe, the first mention of the above quoted period [`times, times, and a half]; and its position in this place appears to me almost to decide its meaning: All commentators are, I believe, agreed with respect to the four great worldly kingdoms, symbolized first in the great image, and again in the-four beasts; and I believe that the best, and, perhaps, only interpreter-of prophecy, the voice of history, has decided that the fourth great kingdom. was- the Roman empire. The same testimony has, I conceive, put it beyond controversy, that the 'ten horns,' which were 'the ten kings-that shall arise,' predicted the divisions of the Roman empire, in all its decline, into ten kingdoms; and, to my mind, it is conclusive that the little-horn, which came up among the ten horns, which had the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things, and before which three horns were plucked up, was a symbol of the Papacy. I cannot but consider the description of that little horn, both in the time of its rising, the extent of its-temporal dominion; and its - spiritual character, as marked in the 2:ith verse, as a complete and accurately fulfilled. prophecy of the Papal apostacy. Now, if it be true that 'the little horn' is the Papacy, I conceive that the duration of 'the times' is fixed by it, inasmuch as, during those times, the saints of the- Most High were to be - given into his hand, and he was to wear them out; and I think a- historian, even if quite ignorant of Popery, would most naturally and justly use such terms as descriptive of the general treatment of the saints of God, during the long night of the Papal rei g n, well termed.'the dark ages.' When, therefore, I find that, irrespective of- prophecy altogether, it may be shown, that the dominant and dark inf Thence of Popery (though not at all times equally or visibly persecuting the saints of the Most High; yet always have the same character) has actually existed for nearly, if not entirely, 1260 years. I can not refuse- the conviction that such a period is the fulfilment of the 1260 prophetic days during which .the little horn, confessed to represent the Papacy, was to reign. It seems to me, that these observations must lead us to choose between the three following conclusions :—First, that. Daniel's- prediction of the little horn, with all its marks and- circumstances, had no ful filment whatever in the Papacy, and then I cannot but con sider that all the foundations of the prophetic interpretation are out of course ; or, secondly, that the church of God is yet to be given into the hands of the Papal power—that identical Papal power which- arose among the ten divided Roman kingdoms, and no other—for 1260 literal days; or, in the last place, that the old landmarks set on this subject are the true ones." We .conclude that the last is the real prophetic interpretation, and should encourage and' strengthen every Bible Christian to his militant faith—to put on the whole armour of righteousness, and to "fight the good fight to the end,'' with the assurance of that victory which God ever gives to truth. SPECIMENS OF KENTUCK. The new farce of " The Kentuckian." has been acted with great success at Covent-garden. We wish (says the Literary Gazette) we could give our readers any idea of the drollery of the following Specimens of Kentuck, so admirably delivered by Mr. Hacket, with the emphasis regularly imposed in the wrong place :- 1 can out- talk any man in the United States, and give him half an hour's start. I have had a speech in soak these six months. I am all brimstone but my head, and that's aquafortis. His threats when about to fight a ddel:— Pistols ! pistols are trumpery : they lodge a ball in a man's body and wounds his feelings a rifle, now, sends it clean through, and no mistake. Stranger, bet you 500 dollars I hits you between your eyes without touching your nose. Half a mile ! Do you want me to strain my.rifie ? Uncle, dont you know I can out-eat any man in the States ? I wish he'd staid till I untied my neckcloth ? I'd have swallowed him whole. You are like a new pen, and I'll use you up to the stump. Stranger, if you think to turn me, you may as well row up the Falls of Niagara in a fish-kettle, with a crow-bar for an oar. I say, stranger, if you try to get through that ere sand-bank, I guess you'll burst your boiler. I can out-grin a wild cat. I was in a menagrie once ; stranger, says I, talk o' your wild cats grinning ; look here, says I, and I gave one of 'em a look, and he turned on his back and died. Vanity, thy name is woman I—that's Shakespeare, and he's a screamer. He'd ride through a crab-apple orchard on a flash of lightning. Aly.father can whip any man in Kentuck, and I—l can whip my father. Stranger, if you keep your mouth so wide open, I guess you'll sun burn your teeth. I never owned a nigger; but 1 -borrowed one once : he'd a fever and an ague ; the fever stopt, but the ague left him, he was so tarna tion lazy he would'nt shake. If yoit plant a crow-bar overnight in Kentuck it will sprout ten penny nails next morning, Gii;'e us some music 30(Thorse power. I give him such a teaser he disappeared, and nothing- was found but a spot o'grease on the ground. If it warn't true, may I be tetotaciOusly exilunctified. Stick me into a. split log for a wedge. I was going into the swamp one dad, and I see a white hat moving on the mud in a pretty considerable queer way. S o I j us t w hi ppe d it up with the but-end o' my whip. Hallo, stranger, who axed you to knock my hat off? says a voice. Hallo, says I, where's the rest of you ? In the next country ; and there's a ' waggon and a team of horses under me. I belong to the Temperance Society, but it is only between drinks: Description of his Kentuck sweetheart: She ! she's a feeler she killed a bear when she was thirteeni and now she'll whip her weight in wild eats. THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD'S ADVICE TO EMIGRANTS. We have received the following important communi cation from oar friend the Ettrick Shepherd, and we ear nestly call the attention of the public and our contempo raries to its contents : To the Editor of the Edinburgh Evening Post. AITRIVE, April 2, 1833. DEAR SIR,-At this painful season, when so many more thousands of our most valuable peasantry are preparing to leave their native country, I beg you will be so kind as give publi city to the following injunction. Let not one of the .emigrants pay one farthing of earnest-money on booking their names at the various agents of each ship. Let them enter their names as passengers where they will, but never pay a sixpence until they are on board, and have received their berths. I received a letter from Quebec last year, from a friend who had just landed there on his way to upper Canada, desiring me to charge any of his friends, or my own, who come out this year, to pay no earnest-money. And I think you will allow that his tale warrants this caution. An American Company advertised a ship to sail about the end of May. They had agents over all the country, both in Scotland and England, who took in all that offered, and charged earnest-money for all; to the amount of ss. a-head, or El Is. Od. for a family. What was the consequence? The ship was only registered for eighty passengers, so the first eighty that arrived were received on board, and 'the vessel set sail. Upwards of three hundred arrived from all quarters, and these were handed over, partly to an English ship, lying at Maryport, and the rest to a large American,, lying at White haven. This last party, in which were several of my intimate friends and relations, had to board themselves there for a month before the vessel sailed. The American Captain then took them on board atthe fare formerly stipulated; but every one lost their cards; or earnest-mOney • and my friend av ers , that what with board before sailing, and - the loss of their former payments, that goer company of industribus.emigrants lost up wards of £lOO. Such mistakes deserve to be exposed, and I request thatthis notice may be copied into all the papers in the west of Scotland. • Yours truly, JAMESITOGG. DANIEL ON THEAVOOLSACK ! was the ominous heading of a paragraph in the Dublin Evening Mail the other day, and the announcement, we hear, sent one-half Dublin into a fit of de light and the other into a fit of 'despair before the mystery was solved as follows :—Dan, is chairman of the Carrickfergus elec tion committee ; all the committee rooms belonging to , the house being occupied, Dan suggested to the committee to estab lish themselves iu the Court of Chancery in WeStminster-hall, then vacant, and accordingly the agitator took his seat on the English equity bench', in j iidgnient on a Tory member. We do not wonder at the Pats being frightened at the news !—Age. NEW • BANKII PTC Y CoraratssioNas.—The foliowing gentle men have.beeu appointed Commissioners in fiats of Bankruptcy for Liverpool And a circuit of 20 miles round it :—F. Raincock,. Esq., L. J. Venables, Esq.; , Henry . Lawrence, Esq., and T. J. Hall, Esq., to' be quorum commisSiOners.--Mr. Lace, Mr. Avi son, Mr. IV. Thomson, Mr. Radcliffe, Mr. Brooke, and •Mr. Littledale are the attorneys.—[We araitifoirned, on authority Whereon we can.rely, that although it is probable the above appointments may hereafter take place, they have not yet done so in fact';. that the bankruptcy arrangements are not yet Com pleted, it being doubtful whether the bankruptcy and ihstavent business will not he united, and•the commissioners of tlie latter court increased so as to afford one for eaCh county.] TriE LONDON PILVSSI • ) (PIPIYM. THE GUARDIAN AND PUBLIC LEDr:--El2, r „ We refer our readers—and we can do little to certain proceedings at Hertford which tie extracted from the. County Press, consequent o s extraordinary resolution which, by some Pw ce , s , reasoning faculty which we may not Pres,to ficantly to characterize,. a Committee o f 1- `' Members—for they are all honourable —bel lif the Commons House, thought it decent to re c° „ r er jd face of as much perjury and subornation 0f fi e ril the annals of the Old Bailey could ever Pra' hit iol any one year since its erection. The re s° question imported that much bribery and eori r i S e l P erpetrated previous to and during the HE d —they might have added for months before and the Berkshire also—that the election of the S i itt , l 7. bers was void, although not. specifically dec' ar- o f a of the bribery; and subsequently the issujog ' writ was moved to be delayed, and certain til ti r r whispered about placing the ancient City of e Schedule A. f One Mr. DUNCOMBE—better and mor e known in the green rooms of the theatres 35 ,0" the House of Commons as Tom DuNcom o occasion of all this, as be would elegantly' t el , o o he probably thinks it, row—Tom and Jer r l eg ilf the man himself as far as we can judge has 'O O idea beyond that kind of thing: In order this last feat, Tom, according to a paper vibl c d e him, (need we name the only paper which co such a cause—the Times} prevailed on some f 0 make up a purse for £soo—the blunt (ic e 01 readers to observe, that in writing about a m -, '~ ,,' adopt the kind of vernacular which he most d and best comprehends,) running short at 1 1 ca.0 or the possessor hoarding it upon a new prioe l s ' e , £5OO would scarcely pay two days' expert Committee, and its labours lasted twen t i rt ToM's official Gazette has, therefore, put fo e for a more general subscription. Doubtless 'co a list shortly of various high and mighty Dad official indeed calls upon the government WV expenses out of the secret service, but We not being of the family, whether that will be Now, that the public being forewarned may ri ° o ! by any forthcoming list of subscriptions of g!i o c we will just mention that we are in posf;tti assortment of people who made up a purse amount of Tom's enterprize before it was LI. and when Tom's Gazette publishes his 115 0 check it with ours, and the public will see I ', l prise new made or promoted Peers paYu l " honours by this sort of dirty work. h We may and we ought to mention here t...30L . n DUNCOMBE is in no way connected with the ' of Yorkshire. A sense of decency and j° sll , we hope never to be found wanting, oblige notice. For the rest, we refer to the masterly sP e ,, e ; Lords INGESTRIE and MAxoN. Lord -MAI-frd raised to exhibit one RUSSELL DAVIS, a Mr. Tom DUNCOMBE, on the floor of the co`!ii for perjury. We have no doubt that he 1c1 ,,e word if Mr. RUSSELL will give him a fair el la f „ il have our doubts about that, for not many O friends are noted for coming up to the scratch-is We really must apologize to Bell's Lif e ,4 for borrowing so largely from their peculiar P'''d our excuse being, that we are transacting a,, - t y of business with a common friend of theirs an SIR JOHN HOBHOUSE. (FROM THE DUBLIN MAIL OF WEDNf The new Secretary promises marvellous land. " Wait a while," quoth he, to a blackf l / man that assailed him on the hustings; "wal l dear friend; only wait for three months; 0 0 0 duct—and you will see what I'll do for your. Well, we must wait awhile, whether we 111 14 so must the blackguard Irishman aforesaid. good can we expect or he know how to e ve 3 land ?—the only country, perhaps, in E u rore v y il l i Sir Cam never set the sole of his foot, and 0 1 o property, blood, connection, friendship, o r eve) ante, he has no interest in common. Sa il Hobhouse is a Londoner—a Cockney—of 3 , the most pert, conceited, and ignorant rac e in literature and politics, he has displayed ter then a mere dilettanti. Had he been ma of Greece, instead of King Otho, there ha d 13 ' sense in the thing ; for the pert Secretary', 1 .,y with Byron, traversed both peninsula anc I A I C. doubtless familiar with every cape, headlan o lli bay immortalized in -the deathless-song of . 4 1, nides." Sir John knows somewhat of Eg..,"‘ , has been among the catacombs.; he can real ? writing upon the wall," and can tell you t mummy by the smell. We wish the Turk if e the Pachalick. But what knows he of t l Hath he ever been at Carrickshock ? Can il, devices of Multifarnham by the scent of ti le ie hath he learnt to track the stealthy pace of t i o from Braganza-house to the Abbey of 1 3 / 1 5; short, where be his qualifications for an and what are they, relying upon which he li ve ' wonders in a three months' probation in c4rid heads and abler hands have managed the , afore times ? and where is their boast ? truth require the ablest and most experieo c a that England can boast to manage the o tt- o i land, and yet the invariable rule is to $e younker to take charge of her interests. to g This is not using England well, and it , land. We reprobate the system. Wounderstaod that the marriage between Mr' t ,co l more, M. P., and Lady Louisa Douglas, eldest Marquis of Queensberry, was to be solemnised nuptials of Lady Jane Stopford and Mr. 'taro i ' s c toi ed, take place on the sane day. The brides o e v ie j sins, the Marchioness of Queensbe rr y an d the to Courtowu being sisters to the late, and awl" Duke of Briceleugh. The East India Company's ships Abercroo. ty, and London arrived off the Lizard the 7th jus t ' the Bth Dec., and St. Helena the 20th Feb. l e, CARRICKFERGUS ELECTION.---The CORO: ltr, again on Wednesday morning, and will ag r ':ittll port before they separate. Mr. Dobbs, the, ' r trj having, through his counsel, declined any ' 6 4 . tr , defend his return. The house was cleared oe r ; but the committee then determined to re ceiS!„,,ti`') relating to the long-practised bribery and eo;: in that borough. That inquiry was proceecil a e 6 'doi" mittee will.Olose,its labours in the course of t h report will be made.—Standard. Namik Pacha, who has left England on .h i : 0 1 0 stautinople, was much gratified by his visio e ,V , charmed with our modes and customs. lic a Parisian, and converses with animation au it , ), vestioned by a lady if he did not conside r d Englishmen to be confined to one wife, inste a a st'i Turkey, a plurality, he politely replied, that t he ' 3 , of English ladies had each in her own pers° l l ' r e[ l ..'h half;a-dozen ladies of all others, h e consi i e ,,,rlo„ l 7 wife a' more desirable possession than ' e st visited all our institutions, and displayed prof lj medicine and surgery, as he has given muol l ware both in his country, for the purpose of O r ce ri o ' o ments in each branch: Namik Pacha is 3 , 1 man, of about five-and-thirty years old, ov"i; o tio t ,J culiurly well-bred. lie has only two wives , Co o given him children since his departure frail 7d"" . 1 ."-- elO , °4D 1 4 'rt tt oi LE a e d e \rt s - ' - `* -- -- BELs t i t s , ILL 4'a Vo r, k Slnith, k 'aceoco. co, (1 , 1'1 , :), , CO, co, k ';4it, ke ci o . , tr.sham '°°' V & 4 co, e: S ias, Cra te , ?''her c, I. l ac\ aY, 'IV tn. 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