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• necessary to ellosiitole a Swig greet may theft is let
thee 'MOM stamp that Illestrioste Personage, mire deserving
the appellation he has alreody'attaiviod, than the abolitioa,
during his admipistratisio of human stieriliene.
The *Norms of war" is a amnion and tree epithet.
Let' the Comnaindev walk over the held after en action, or
visit the bovisal, he will .seeiggoogle of,lisiman woe bet
this evil, however dreodfil, has premmtll roil. Herr,
however, the horror : is perpolostail—Men is the constant
operation of misery sad wee. The sun rises daily, end'
has risen for enlister*, bet to lishold She creel avail of
themesnale of innocent Mad (landed women, from Tartar, to
Cope Cumorin, from Chino its Penile • and is this useless
murder of the sex (given to etas for their mutual happiness,
the sex without whose sotaciag miles, life is nay worn. a
• a moment), to go on loth* end of time? The destruction
of this system would vie with the abolition of the' stove.
trade, and will, let us hope yet, be se imperishable honour
lo our notion/0 records, to the wane of Hosting*.
That these sacrifices are not essential to the existences(
their relation, theft own high priests sad wisest men admit.
If a stop be not pest to these human sacridees by the prewar
enlightened Government, it is difficult to think where and
when they will end. Ws know pot where to look for the
. Marquis's equal, "41dar•Ition all in all, when shall we (in In-
dia) see his like *pie ?".
Havnnot these abominations rontiqsed long tonne.! (we
are ignorant of their qyasineacement) They were perhaps
the cradle of their osperstitimi, which began soon after
India was peopled. It is granted that force would create
she very horrors, and perhaps greater, than the abolition
would he designed to destroy, in the wrath that would be
kindled in the Hindoos at large. dot surely restraint is
lo•fil I in our hands, when their own priests nod laws teach
us it is so, as far as seeing justice (leaving humanity out of
the question) done to the isleeded victims, by foretelling
them being tied down, which appears a msrdrr, and pre-
venting their intoxication, face.
If the Hindoo die at a distance from his wife the body Is
hone, and the widow escapes. Why not then burn the bodies
instantly, before these bloodthirsty Brahmins have poisoned
the minds and drugged the senses of the victims intended to
support their breed, to stupefaction'
Some regulation might be devised. The widow might be
obliged to walk a mile or a thousand paces; no ghee, nil, or
other combustibles than wood should be used; if unable to
wait the prem-ribed distance she canard Ire in health, and
then it is jprbidden, by g I acknowledgment, to luten—
ist bee nun the pile of her own accord, without esalstance;
let every man and women retire to a distance, after the
usnal ceremonies of giving away peon, &e. lie over, except
the person lighting the pile; and I believe,that its nine
. instances out of ten, the widow, on feeling he lire, would
spring out of it, as in the instance stated. There might
then be a party of police or aepoys ready to rescue sad
convey her away—thus would the number of suttees be very
soon diminished.
I have no eouht that every male and female in England
(if funds were wanting) would contribute their mite towards
the future maintenance of the widows saved, and rouse.
quently looked on as omen., by their own tribe, provided
she Government became trustees fur the application of such
contributions.

It is Isasestable to think, that no means have yet been
devised to stop these stmossinstioos to God and mao; and
if they do not come from our hand., so reform is to be
expected !rest among themselves ; for as Dr. Ilaselasitoss
my., " The Histiso religion is founded in bassi mod in.
parity."

A BRITISH OFFICER.
Lueknuw Csatoorneals, Jemmy 19, 1929.
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A dreadful accident happened •belt five o'clock
yesterday evening, in Crown-yard, Swallow,street :
Asa Grntle•wn'a coach was coming out of the yard
at the time • boy, about five years old, the son of
■ poor shoemaker, named WMITE, resident there,
was returning home from school. the child stood
claw to the wall to let the coach pita, but, melon.
choly to relate, was caught by one of the fore.
wleels, dragged underneath, and its head was
vitt-lied to atoms. The accident being attributed
to the curelessuera of the coachman, he was taken
to Marlhorough•street Police Office.
DOG kat.t.inn.—On Monday, the 31st ultimo,
a writ of inquiry was executed before the Sheriff
of Essex, in an action, in which Messrs. A. F.
Ginsua and Sons, common brewers, of Saffron-
Walden, were Plaintiff.. and FORSTFR Artsouß, a
person lately employed on the preserves of Lord
BILAYBROOKE, at Audley End, was Defendant.
The action was brought to recover the value of a
favourite terrier dog belonging to the
whi,•h was killed by the Defendant in the month
of April last. The Defendant suffered jodginent
to go by default, and the Jury, after retiring for
a short time, gave • verdict of a damages, with
cost..

The body of the voung woman found on the
sands, at Sunderland, which was at first supposed
to be u case of murder, was clearly proved before
the Coroner to he one of suicide, arising from
mental derangement, owing to a love affair. The
unhappy young creature had been seduced from
her father's house, at Reeth, and had come in
search of her lo►er to Sunderland. Disappoint-
ment led to the said catastrophe. She had been
taken by ■ person. almost by Nice, from the sea-
side into the town the night befiire, hut escaped
from him in the dark, and he could not find her
again.—( fiewcostk Paper.)

A femur in Hull hiving been a good deal an-
noyed by the 'pertinacity of a cat, which, notwith-
standing she had bren carried several tinier to a
distance in order to be Fort, still found her way
home again; the servant girl, about ten o'clock a
few evenings ago, ti ok her in the Old Dock, and
tying a stone round the animal's neck, threw her
iuto the water. The splash occdPiositil by this cis-
commence reseed the attention of a watchman near
the place, who suspecting the girl to have thrown a
child into the water, took her to the House of Cor-
rection. where she wee obliged to tend for her mas-
ter and friends to bear testimony to her character,
&c. before she could be trleaped.
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MURDER AND ROBBERY.—On Saturday night,
II about half-past nine u'elock, is desperate outrage
was committed upon some carnets near -Hatlicool.
Soon after nine, three tnen joined the carriers, and
entered into conversation with them, and when they
had proceeded three miles, four other men came ult.
The seven robbers (fur 1111Cii they appear in hive
been) there attacked the carmen, shut one of them
through the body, wounded another in the kg, and
laid open the back of the head of a third with the
butt-end of a pistol. and were proceeding to com-
plete their work by rifling the persons and packages
of the carriers, when tine Waterford mud which
lied left Dublin at right o'clock. drove up to the
spot. The fellows instantly fled. and such assist-
ance as could be afforded was immediately rendered
to the wounded men by the persons in or attached
to the coach. We regret to learn that 11w man
who was shot through the burly. died yesterday in
Stephens'• Hospital, and without baring breu able
to communicate lily particulars which might be
serviceable to tracing the robber.. The other smell
are in a fair way of recovers.—(Q (is fres/eel
Journal, Autos, 8.) ~ . itit

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