The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-02 00:00:00

STATE_ OF THE COUNTRY,

The parish priest of Kilkee, the Rev. Mr. Comyn, a gen-
tleman of very active and energetic habits, has placed before
the public the "statistics of produce now to be found within
his parish, for the purpose of demonstrating how impossible
it is that the property of Kilkee should maintain its poverty
in the present year. The rev. gentleman takes the parishes
in his benefice townland by townland, and states the quan-
tity of cattle, the amount of food, and the number of inha-
bitants, together with the name of the proprietor of each. As
these will probably indicate the condition of other districts, I
shall follow Mr. Comyn through one pariah stating the re-
sults. And, first, the townland of Kilfiers This is the pro-
perty of the Marquis of Conyngham, and contains 11l
families, numbering 660 individuals; of theta, 318 per-
sons are now utterly without food; 342 individuals possess
11,221 stones of food, or 55 days provision for each person ;
and if confined to the present possessors, five months and ten
11 days provisions. The present market value of corn and
cattle in this townland is 1,0261. 6s. ; and as the rent is, ha
states, " rigorously exacted." and amounts to 4191. 14s. 2d.,
there remains just 6061. Ils. 101. for poor-rates, county
I rates, food and clothing, and debts—for all were obliged to
run in debt last year.
The townland of Donaghbee, the property of Mr. John
MacDonell, of New-hall, Clare, contains 329 inhabitants;
150 possess no food. The other 179 persons have in corn and
cattle 6,287 stones of food, being 95 days' provisions for all
the population, or 5 months 25 days for the possessors. But
as the rent of the townland, 2391. 81. 3d., must be paid out
of this, and u the whole food if sold at present would fetch
only 4081. 14e., there remains a 'Lupins of 1681. 141. 9d.
only to meet all demands, MI already enumerated in the
former case._ . . . . _

The townland of Dough contains 2,384 inhabitants, of
whom 1,850 are without food of any kind, and 534 pewee
22,971 stones, making 324 days provisions for all the popula-
tion, or 4 months 20 days for the poesesson. This townland
is held under a middleman, and " the rent and fines" ex-
ceed the whole value of the property by 3091. 3e.
The townland of Corbally, the property of Mr. Mac•
Donnell, before-named, and the towulands of Fougha and
Kilkee, same proprietor, contain respectively 626 and 293
individuals. Of these, there are in Corbally 480 without
food ; and, in the other, 133 in the same position. The for-
mer possessee, for all the inhabitants, just eleven days' pro-
visions, allowing rations equal to those given to paupers in
the workhouse; end the latter nineteen days provisions for
the whole population. In Cuddly the rent is 3001., the
value of the produce 701. lls. In Fougha and Kilkee the
rent is 1581. I la. Bd. ; the produce, 1751. 9s.
In Linkman= townland, the property of Mr. Henn, Master
in Chancery, there are contained 424 days' provisions for the.
whole population; and, in Lisdnn townlaad, the property
of O'Gorman Mello', M.P., 324 days' food for the inhabit
ants. In the former ease, the value of the produce exceeds
the rent by 771. 6e. In the latter townland it falls short of
it by 121. 3e. 10d.
Tipperary has added another murder to its criminal re-
cords. The victim in this cue was a man named William
Hickie, nicknamed " The Chicken." The cause is said to
be that he was about to become, or had become an approver.
Hiekie was fret shot, and his body was then flung into
a river.

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There are 290 prisoners in Clonmel Gaol at this moment.
Notwithstanding this large number, there is not a single
prisoner in the hospital.

SCOTLAND.

EDEXIIIMON, OCT. 30.
The new number of the North British Beriew for
November contains an article on the abases of Scotch
jury trials, which takes as its key note a paper on law
reform that recently appeared in the Doily News, the
identity ef which latter may be recalled to its readers
by the first sentence, which ran thus " We can see
no good reason why judges of Nisi Prim, should not,
under that, or some new commission, sit for the trial
of issues without the assistance ofjurWs." As we have
taken occasion to observe before, the mere decline of
jury trial in civil cases in Scotland is not, per se, to bel
regarded as an argument against it, as all kinds of ,
litigation have decreased in Scotland within the present
century. Forty years ago the averse number of
cases per annum had wont to be 2,427 ; in 1845-6, the
whole cases, defended and undefended, were 1,399.
Population has been nearly doubled in the interval,
and lawyers have increased in much the same
ratio, so that law, as a profession, has, in the
nomenclature of assurance companies, become
"doubly hazardous." As to jury trials, not one-
tenth of the cases remitted to them have been taken up
by the jury courts—while in 1842, out of 20,366
cases settled in the different law courts in Scotland,

all cases involving disputes above 401. being entitled
to the benefit of jury trial, only thirty-six were tried,
but probably not ultimately decided by jury. It
seems clear, therefore, that after thirty years' experi-
ment, the jury system has, as it were, been mechani-
cally but not chemically united with the Scotch legal
executive. Two main causes are assigned for this—
first the practice, not followed in criminal cases, of
counsel speaking before the examination of witnesses;
and second, the incapacity of juries as presently con-
stituted to deal with abstract points; and to the
strength of these obections, Lord Jeffery, the late ,
Robert Forsyth, and George Combe have all borne
testimony. The article in the Reriew is well and
temperately written, but in some points the reviewer
is misinformed. Were Mr. Twiss's " Life of Lord
Eldon' consulted, it would be found that his lordship
neither originated the system, nor spoke sanguinely
of its success ; and the alleged professional antipathy
is ill-borne out by the fact, that in 1830, when the
jury court was transferred to the court of session,
addresses were presented to Lord Commissioner
Adam from the faculty of advocates, writers to the
signet, solicitors, &a. thanking him for the important
benefits which the introduction of trial by jury in civil
cases had conferred on the country.
Sir J. M. Grant has addressed the following letter
to the secretary of the Destitution Board, and, as it is
really " a voice from the mountains," its sincerity
cannot be questioned.
Ballindalleet Castle, Oct. 27, 1847.-614—1 n spring last, 251. wa•
remitted by me to the fund for relief of Highland destitution. As not
shove 2-sths of the amount collected have been expended, I have to
request, through you, that the balance (say 15/.) may be paid to my
name to the Provost of Vdinburgh, for behoof of the infirmary of that
city ; and I may state that I sin led to make this request from a con-
viction that a continuance of eleemosynary aid to the population of
the Highlands la the cured way of perpetuating, and even uteremaing,
their present wretched condition. Having the real welfare and im-
provement of the Highlanders sincerely at heart. I am iftirous that
no bawls of mine should be seed f their degradation; mad lam little
diysrpt to insist in Improving the estates of other ploprictont, by
malung roads or otherwise, whilst I have the interests of my own
people to attend to. I send a copy of this letter to the prover, with a
request that he will ere that the money is applied I. relief of the auf-
ferns from the present alarming fever.—l am, &c.—(Signed) Mac-
rtlalt.tpt Gun,. . . . .

Colonel Mure, the consul for Louisiana, makes a
similar request as regards 1,2701. collected at New
Orleans and Mobile.

PROVINCIAL.

THE MUNICIPAL ELEcrto:ss took place yesterday,
but judging from the reports that reached London from the
provinces very little interest was excited by an occasion that
came years since was marked by a party struggle in every
country town. At Liverpool the retiring councillors this year
were 16 ; of these 13 were tories and 3 liberals. Of the 16
there stood again 10; and the result of the polling yesterday
was as follows write, 13; reformers, 3. Twelve wards
were contested, but the election excited very little interest.
At Birmingham the municipal elections passed off quieter
than has ever before been known. Sixteen councillors re-
tired, but three of the wards only were contested, and in
these (says our correspondent) not the slightest political
feeling was displayed • indeed, to a great extent, municipal
honours are, and are likely to be even more so, at a discount
here. Three-fourths of the newly elected councillors are
liberals.

LANCASHIRE.
SINGULAR DISCOVERY.—In July, 1840, Mr. John
Bibby, a merchant of the utmost respectability in Liverpool,
and founder of the Royal Bank, was found drowned in a pit
in a remote field near Aintree, six miles from Liverpool, and
three from Mr. Bibby's residence at Bootle. On the pre•
ceding evening Mr. Bibby had dined at the Royal Bank,
and hld partaken rather freely of wise. He left about 11
o'clock, and took a car to a spot within 300 yards of his own
residence, as he was in the habit of doing, but he
never reached home. As he was a gentleman
of great firmness of mind, it was supposed by his friends that
he had been waylaid and thrown into doe pit where the
body was found, and in this opinion they were confirmed by
the discovery that his watch was missing. Search was made
for it, and the pit emptied in vain ; the watch could not be
found ; but as there was ne mark of violence on the body, it
was considered possible that the deceased had been robbed
of his watch, and that he bad wandered to the place
of the fatal accident. Last Wednesday, however,
' new light was thrown on the transaction; a wan•
ger took a watch to Roakell's, the well-known
watchmakers in Liverpool, to have repaired. On looking
at it, they discovered that the original number had been de.
faced and another substituted. On further examination they
found their own private mark, placed on the watch when
they had repaired it for the late Mr. Bibby. On Saturday
the stranger called for It. and on being questioned the watch
was traced to a disreputable character, the keeper of a disor-
derly house. Two men are in custody, and the police are
making further inquiry.

EDUCATION OF THE WORKING PEOPLE.—Mr. G.
Combe, author of the well-known volume, " The Constitu-
tion of Man," has published the following remarks on the
Lancashire educational scheme :
_ _

—The "plan
KrtWeeStriTiliZinen7if opowel orbs of emu!ar edu-
cation in the county of Lancanter oar&careful comi-
deratlon, to be the soundest in the most somprebensive in
effect, and the moat practical in d has sw Ines proposed In
this country for the education of the penis. It twallsos the bent ele-
ments*/ the Assist common Wool Wry with swab that is
good be dit Pick and Mob mlinsal sisal spolima ; and adapts
them m err I so awl& MMlgism with worypromles of somata,
to the peoniorwesis sad airsimelmees of ths assay of laneaster. It
has, themes% w MMus reM smaphiace by the county,
end kr its dsYla s sloptisolty tha issidolnels r • system applioabk
with modillearims Ots th. whole sopinn Rhone that the " Awcia.
Um" MEM to promots "OWL. made an ap=l,.:. the working
domosferthetromparation in carrying Uinta effect. ni my
opiWn. appropriate smi Jorboloss. 71to ing clews
ham Mops Marest in the sahamo than soy they powwow
WNW* Mldliews to Judea of Ns rani& TIM they respond
to Ms and land it thW powerful support, moot, I hope, be
Them is Imp limber of working men, particularly
dm departments of MOW Yew who are intelligent and moral,
sad who, when married
.mecum ind active women, live in com-
fort, sod bring op their claims with much respectability. Thia clam
will be abler trace their owe olverepose position to good natural
estrommels, otrengthened and tosiorad practicul by education, ex-
ample, or Misr innuenoes, to*. to give the ascendancy to their
most sal remilectual faculties. 14 therefore, they desire, not ooly
to trassmit their own condition to their children, but to promote
their elevation in Mt sosM scale, they prize w
email:Med schools as the bast of all means for acoompliahing
them ado. The saboals repteed In the " Plan^ will be widely
dillimmtfrom those of the WI red in which reading without un-
derwear theer erre reds • committing to memory and
=by rain awl of sentare ; smiting and
; matt be/ drL Wname of educable. In the new
schools it is propessilM Mew* the whole pores et the cluldren—
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fall its to bow cur Asti
a system of sisistion is calculated tYo
promote Sir best trawls. The middle tams have long 400,
Nara it the convietiam thM thin country premste to them a theatre
kr worths be old* es • rowel rule, the prime of wealth and
rig eserilersttoa 'IA le the share et those individuals
who dimly the geMet treust of estlvlty, directed by
tyre awl mereity le rend on ylerteg MOW. The
ermedbery error rah they rd. le tar op *air children
is Midis of isadvltr ondriumwramm dim bow Ms* they ars pene-
tram. `Ale troll. Tar rakes re mete usher r lee or sin
yew secrel attier Oat op to dam or *der le seer err till
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dears On or Ise dor. Wort le mask the know!edne
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Mine Act ail es radnit. In atter " toappropriate the rises
to therreen They it not rob the worlds( demo of therm as erre
pines stye
tomarn by the order or firiderr the rims
▪ an foal =Yr Ore were intelligens. paws of asolftsticen
capitol saimirsil by foirley and accumulated by psalm and see.
now, polder then; sad it is the superior mold Wining
ofthe midi doom widitambles them to wiles timer mations
of weld& The *Oren tithe working claws, In bear* where
they am poslulmd Ms halm kw, or trained by went. who me
themselves erisred, OM Co prosily ant to labour at the age of
eights/ Mos and afterwards Moir metal facalties reordse
littler no The emeerree in that they are art
iremteb mart rm. *eyries* Y walloospable effigies.
hid terte nod weal persowasan The nowastry Milk wet,
hewer en ths labsorbor claret et tare the& Whine tee arty
bar Meat or employing there be Wow, te re le be the
✓ester of att the existing obalasho b Oo sonic of those
erase In the err role. If this qpiolim he WI 6=14 the best
rowdy the evil silts of, for tho pewit asmilWs enmity,
apples te he to improve and MOM* abed% ear to lower the
fees of Mem that not anly my min of the Wil-
dest of Me poor be wings& tom Sir but that the
terabit. one training may le so eider r to reader the
fo'f.tCirs 'limes 'er:dttictihresr:f a:Ler amTeld ea
gealitm.
telliee,:tairserble. Parents reset the ehmeettee of *dr
moire Ow thew ollsers Air to the miss
offered by maridonor lo intalligeserm Worley, morality, and
rivet the aliestagsrinse about thdr mast* eme. As already
obneved, wad& swot be pored by Igeorere and Iflertnee., and
wither e comb esermort et teryendrore and oriel
ecortereden err be atrosL classes. therefore,
her an sheerer Is le thenuelven by
Lwtef Mi errata, to fa ldi the arm en which providence
has iris mirk wed modal waihtg to dipsd, or to submit to
and depeadasce. "Mee are prested to the working
inWevie3 the county of Lancastm,npposts betme is the most dß-
dent ger enabling them to Mr Urn elline Set rust been
tosisred in Great Britain ; end I erre* his e that they will
date Ito Ito value.-0.0. Cosa, 43, Ileleobstet, rdinbargh. Oct.
36, 1547.

GREEN CROPPING VERSCS FALLOWING. Sir, ---
Will you be pleased to insert in year widely-circulated
journal, for the information of owners and cultivators of the
soil, the following account of Mr. William Dickens's mode
of farming upon Spital Farm, Northamptonshire, consisting
of a strong deep heavy sail. After clover, Mr. Dickens
sows wheat; after wheat be plants beans; after beans,
wheat; after wheat, tares. The tares are eaten with sheep
upon the land, after which the land is ploughed three times.
After the first eat of the tare, he sows Swede turnips; and
after the last eat of tares he sows common turnips, both
Swedes and common turnips without manure, as he
manures for beans. After turnips two or three times,
he ploughs the land for barley ; after barley, beans ;
after the beans ere oft' he ploughs the land directly,
if be has no turnips among the beans, and twice more in
the ;spring, and sows it with barley and clover at the
same time. Mr. Dickens drills turnips amongst the
beans, and after they are hoed, should the beans happen to
be an inferior crop, he has a crop of turnip., which compen-
sates him. This is a very beneficial mode of arming, both
for landlord and tenant, and is practised without guano,
crushed bones, or any other artificial manure. Mr. Dickens
entered upon his farm in wretched and disgraceful condition,
but, by the above management, has improved it excessively.
He considers there ought not to be any land in this king-
dom, Ireland included, that ought to lie in dead fallow; for
a whole year is lost by dead fallow, there being no return
either in crop or manure. lie asks, does a garden well
managed require a dead fallow? What would the public
think of a man who let his garden lie in dead fallow ? 'Why,
that he was a negligent, useless sloven, living one hundred
years after his day, or more. Well, then, if a garden don't
require a dead fallow, why should any other land The
wheals of nature and of time were never made to roll back-

wards; the tide of reason long delayed, long checked
and obstructed, has nevertheless set in ; and it is clear
that half of the people in Great Britain and Ire-
land ought not to starve because half the land is
not half cultivated. Our waste land in Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, capable of improvement, amounts to
12,600,000 acres; there are 14,000.000 of acres barren and
worthless. But, in addition t 012,600,000 acres of wastelands
capable of improvement lying idle, do we not see vast quan-
tities of land imperfectly cultivated ? Have we not in Great
Britain and Ireland thousands of acres of land called culti-
vated that do not produce half the crop of which they are els-
pable? Asa proof of this state of things, I ask why does
one fanner upon the same sort of land get double the quan-
tity of his neighbour ? and who is in the fault to let such
disgraceful farming, with such dilapidated tarns buildings,
exist? Why, the landlord or his agent, as no one can deny.
Give the diligent farmer a lease, as security for his money
laid out in improvements; you will then take away the lame
excuse of bad farming. Let the lord of the soil employ a
practical and good farmer to inspect his estates, to see that
they are farmed as they ought to be, twice a year, and I
warrant it will quite cure the evil complained of. If the
negligent and slovenly farmer cannot keep up with the good
farmer, let him retire, and make room for one who will move
faster and better.—S. A., in WGreester Herald.

.A.!, • C. .• •
THE SEPARATEL
SYSTEM.—The chaplain of the
Leicester Gaol, in a report to the magistrates, says —" The
experience of the rut year serves to confirm me in those
views of the beneficial effects of the separate system, to which
I gave full expression in my last report. I cannot but regard
it as admirably adapted to the great purposes of correction
and reformation. the superior advantage of a constant,
industrial, mental, and moral training—apart from al: dis-
turbing causes from without—appears to me indisputable.
We have had similar results in the past year to those
detailed in my last annual statement—similar in a proper
feeling of the privation, disgrace, and punishmeet, that
was endured, in general habits of order, iadusuy, re-
spectful attention to my admonitions, religious inquiry,
and to not a few, 1 trust, of penitence and refor-
mation. I have been particularly struck with some who
were brutish in manner and in feeling, when committed, hut
after a time became softened, and evinced kindliness of dis-
position ; and with others, who, filled with strong prejudices
against scriptural instruction, almost refusing to be spoken
to on my first visit, have, after some weeks of thoughtfulness,
using our books and religious opportunities, freely opened
their minds and confessed their former error. Many, I admit,
have not yielded to this moral presence. Some old offenders,
and some fresh ones, have been refractory; they have endea-
voured to communicate with others in violation of the prison
rules, and have neglected, or for a time refused, the la-
bour of the crank. Some too, more than we had hoped, have
returned a second time to the separate cell : but still, it is
only what we have reason to expect under the best system.
The female prisoners form no exception to this estimate of
the separate system. As far as a few months' trial of it in
their case entitles me to speak, they have borce the punish-
ment patiently and feelingly. One woman done, an old
offender, showed exceeding bad temper under it, but will, I
think, be careful not to expose herself to it again. In the
rest a better tone of mind is manifested; the old hindrances
to profitable thought are removed. And now that the
system is about to be carried out in its integrity, with the aid
of a matron school-mistress, I trust that it will prove to them
also a real benefit. The very young alone appear to me to
be questionable subjects for this mode of punishment, or for
any other species of imprisonment. A certain maturity of
mind is needful to endure, and so profitably to remember,
a continued correction of this nature, such as will
count the cost and bide their time, using every resource at
hand ; but the child cannot do this, and therefore a more
u punishment is better adapted to his age. We
summary
a large proportion of juvenile prisoners during tho
past year, and among them some children from eight to ten
yeses of age ; for all of them the gaol was an excellent school
of scriptural instruction, and many will remember it as a
place of painful separation from their fellows ; bat after a
few days of crying and fears, it ceased to be a prison to the
mere children—they had become familiar with the officers,
and felt at home (had they not been treated with special
kindness and sympathy they csuld not have borne it). The
name of poison, it is to be feared, therefore, will have no
terrors for them in after-life; it they must go to gaol,
however, that system is unquestionably to he preferred
which keeps them separate from bad companions."

A MAGISTRATE AND THE LAW OF SETTLEMENT.—
At the recent sessions for this county, Sir A. Henniker, the
chairman, after congratulatieg the grand jury on the light-
neu of the calendar, alluded to the act of lust session to
amend the Poor Removal Act, which, though it consisted of
only °Declaim, and was but for one year's duration, was of
considerable importance, inasmuch as it removed the expense
that would otherwise fall upon parishes from paupers resid-
ing in them for five years, and made it a union charge. lie
conceived this to be one very important step in a right direc-
tion, inasmuch as he hoped it would lead to the total aboli-
tion of the Law of Settlement. For if we were to have a free
trade in corn, it was but just that there should be a free
trade in labour, which was the only property of the poor
man; that he should be able to carry it to the best market,
and be no longer bound by pariah shackles. He felt comb
dent that the result would be, if the abolition lure effected,
that they would be better servants, and would find better
masters.

LITERATURE.
The Bachelor of the Albany. By the Author of the
" Falcon Family."

An admirable novel, witty and wise, satirical and
sentimental by turns, gay as light, and grave as life,
rich in invention, acute in observation, sparkling
with humour and good humour from beginning to
end, and having, above all, a high and healthy moral
tone and a sound purpose—the story of " The Bachelor
of the Albany" has claim upon the novel-reading
public of no ordinary kind.
. . _

The construction and material of the tale are of the
simplest character. Who does not know the Albany
—that organised innovation upon our most cherished
social institutions, where determined Malthusians
isolate and segregate themselves from all the cares
and costs incidental to love and lollipops—that un-
natural encroachment upon the rights of that devoted
spinsterhood which is ever patriotically prepared to
offer itself up as a sacrifice on the altars of its country,
in order to increase that country's power and popula-
tion ? What " daughter "or "woman" or " widow"
of England, has not attempted to penetrate the
mysterious adyta of that long and singular arcade,
guarded by such jealous and uncourteous warders, as
she passed along Piccadilly, on her way to the parks
or promenades. Not the least mysterious of the
mysteries of the modern Babylon are those chambers
of the Albany—the haunts of helpless bachelors—the
retreat of superannuated men-about-town, worn-out
rakes, and misanthropes—an asylum for every
variety of hopeless oddity. Here dwelt Peter
Barker, Esq., of the Albany—the hero of our story.
This character is sketched with great nicety and
moral anatomical power. Peter was beginning to
grow grey in his centricity and eccentricity. He
was a bachelor and a cynic—cold, hard, dry—drink-
ing sherry as his daily wine, and constantly beooming
more rigid in manner and lees tolerant in speech. He
was eccentric by license, as certain men are always
I found to be in society. But then his life was a
em. The Barkerian social, or rather anti-social,
philosophy was built up on the idea of the stoics—of
isolation and indifference—always the refuge of
cowardly and crotchety minds. Possessing from
twelve to fifteen hundred a year, he plumed himself
upon being able to separate himself from all human
cares and sympathies. He had very few friends
—whom he mostly avoided—and no relations,
at least be hoped and flattered himself so.
Shut up in his isolation, he sneered at and
despised the world. A gentleman by birth, and
a scholar by education and habits of life, he
sought, in his cold intellectual pursuits, the gratifi-
cation of the more active instincts of his being. The
intellectual in his character was cultivated at the
expense of the moral. He indulged his satirical dis-
position at all hazards, and spared no one whom his
wit or his bitterness could wound. He had a dry,
sharp logic for those he chose to reason with ; but he
' never scrupled to employ the first sophism that his
armoury supplied to confound his adversary. Barker
rejoiced in paradox, and took a malicious pleasure in
entangling an adversary in the syllogistic difficulty
called a dilemma. Music, lapdogs, the country, and
women, were his cardinal aversions. He called
a piano an instrument of torture, and consi-
dered Edward the First worthy of canonisa-
tion, because he persecuted the Welch harpers.
Such was Peter Barker, Esq., of the Albany, at the
opening of our tale—a man of good original disposi-
tion and cultivated mind, but isolated from life on
system, selfish, cynical, and caustic, with no purpose
in his existence save to eat and drink, sneer at the
world, and chuckle over the avoidance of its responsi-
Wide&

Against this there is a counter-picture, less artisti-
cally perfect perhaps, but far more charming. Yea,
there are the Spreads—the wealthy, educated, kind-
hearted, bounteous, and affectionate family of Mr.
Spread, of the rich firm of Spread, Narrowemith, and
Co., merchants, of Liverpool. This is an enchanting
gallery of family portraits. There is Alfred Spread
himself, who is an old and intimate friend of
Peter Barker, Esq., of the Albany—the frank,
generous, bustling man of business : the type
of what one would always wish to find the Eng-
lish merchant. And Mrs. Spread, with her cultivated
tastes, her love of flowers, her gentle and matronly
manner. The tall and beautiful Augusta, whose
MHO! have murdered the sleep of the young St.
Leger, and her pale-face, fat, and silent sister Elisa-
beth, who is contracted to that tract-struck Rev. Mr.
Owlet, whom life is devoted to the work of trees-