The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-28 00:00:00

WALES•

SUPEIBTITIONS to 1847.—A few days since an unusual
itireumstance (ea, s the Monmouth Merlin) was °beret:el at
Pillgererilly, Newport. A patient sin stood near a house,
and a fenaly of not touch more rational animal, were groupd
around it. A father was seen passing his little son under
the donkey, and lifting him over its back a certain number
of times, with as much solemnity and precision as if engaged
in the performance of a sacred duty. This done, the tither
tank a piece of bread, cut from an untested loaf, which he
offered the animal to bite at. Nothing loth, the Jerusalem
pony laid hold orate bread with his teeth, and instantly the
tither severed the outer portion of the slice from that in the
donkey's mouth. He nest clipped off some hair, from the
neck of the animal, which he cut up into minute particles,
and then mixed them with the bread, which he had crumbled.
This very tasty food was then offered the boy who had been
round the donkey se mysteriously, and the little fel-
-I'os:7l:laving eaten thereof, the donkey was removed by his
owners ; and the father, his son, and other members of his
badly ware =neing off, when a bystander inquired what all
these "goings on" had been adopted for. The father started
at the ignorance of the inquirer, and then, in • half con-
temptuous, half condescending tone, informed him that " it

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was to cure his poor eon's hooping-cough, to be sure !"
Txa IRISH HerASION.—A correspondent says, " Pain-
filly degrading to observers is the lazy and almost inanimate
appearance of the scores of able-bodied Irishmen who lie
basking in the sun, with folded arms and outstretched
limbs, at every corner where a snug, warm, sunny position
can he obtained, in the streets of Newport. They do not
ask for work, nor seek it. They are content to lie down in
laziness and filth,—yawn, starve, and die. But the police
have been about them. When Mr. Pakonham, seeing an
Hindoo once 'ling down on the road awaiting his death
patiently and like a martyr under the approaching wheels
of the idol Juggernaut, thatgentleman approached the idiotic
victim unperceived, and so vigorously applied the lash of his
whip to his naked back, that he started up, flew, and shouted
that a murderer was at his heels. Although he had been
willing to die a passive martyr under Juggernaut, passive I
resistance could not be chimed by him as a virtue under the I
smart application of the whip. Thus with the policemen
and the Irish. They are content to endure starvation lazily
on the ground, and even to die there, but when the police I
men.emne up with their smart canes. B 111 they are now ordered
to do in Newport, and apply them vigorously to the backs of
the lazy Irish, they start up, bag and baggage, and are off
out of town in a qu'ck time. The board of guardians
reit:dyed on Saturday that they would send no more back to
Ireland, since it was ascertained that romper. were now sent
from Chepstow, Usk, Cardiff, and other towns, to this, to be
returned to Ireland at the expense of our rate-payers, which
system would cause more expense than the maintenance of
them in Newport. About four or five hundred weekly
receive relief at the Refuge.