The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-20 00:00:00

rIIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, 'FEBRUARY 20, 1862.

THE SUN,

LONDON, THURSDAY, FEB. 20, 1862.

The House of Commons' Wednesdays have begun
this year with " a little bit of blue sky"—we hope
it is in " the winds eye," and that the clouds of last
rear's Wednesdays having begun to break will be
followed by Wednesday sunshine this year. Last
year the Marriage Bill was shuffled out; this year Mr.
MILNES has amended it in accordance with the vote
of last year, and the House has once more accepted
in this amended form the measure which it has
passed in thirty-one previous divisions.
Mr. COLLIER last night hit the mark when he
ebserved that the objection to it lay in the opposi-

tion of a great number of highly conscientious and
religious people in this country—which would be
" an unanswerable argument if the bill were one for
compelling a man to marry his deceased wife's
sister." The truth is, that all the argu-
ments worth a moment's attention are valid
only as directed against a compulsory bill.
The whole of the religious arguments, the
whole of what may be called the aesthetic argu-
ments, the whole of the social arguments, are
met by the single reply—it is not proposed to
coerce any one to do what lic) thinks wrong, but
only to permit others to do what they know to
be right. The broad fact is denied by no one,
that the religion and morality of the marriages,
to which the law of 1835 attaches heavy disabi-
liti le affirmed by the laws of nearly all the
civilised world, and by the vast majority of the
Churctes
of Christendom; that they arc counte•
nanced, also, by
such a list of leading divines in
the different Christian sects, as well as by the
Jews, that there can be no pretence for denying
that those who claim legal liberty on the ques-
tion have, at least, equal claims to respect with
those who desire to fetter them.
But then comes in
I.* COLLIER'S broad dis-
tinction—Our Bill would a rtoice
eates of abstinence from
%T
such m__riages, Y°ll2 the advo-
under no
disability ; you could still Carry out
Your views, and
suffer nothing. On the other hand,
Your present
Act, passed too in so objectionable a manner, does
place us under the most grievous disabilities, so
far as law in opposition to morality can do it, it
Frands us with disgrace in our own persons, and in
those of our innocent ofir4pring for that Which we
believed to be approv, d by rev elitio:!,by reason, and
by morality.—We must maintain as we have always
done, that the Act sought to be repealed is as much
an act of religious tyranny—differing only in de-
gree—as the old Test and Corporation Acts, or as
the act de heretieo comburendo itself. It enforces
the religious convictions of a part of the citizens of
the country, on those who do not hold them. This
We take to be the unanswerable objection to the

Act Of 1835; an objection due not to the noble'
statesman who was the author of the Act,
but to the persecuting interference of the
late Bishop of London. The discreditable fact
stands on record, that one English peer purchased
an incontestible title to legitimacy at the cost of
punishing all born of marriages similar to that
from which he sprung, with illegitimacy. It would
have been more to the credit of the noble family
referred to, had they refused the demand of the
High Church persecutor, rather than fetter future
generations for the sake of the present one.
The objectors to such marriages range chiefly
under two heads—the sexual sentimentalists, as we
may term them, and the stiff Churchmen. As to
the former, we do not doubt that they argue from
experience. To them the temptation to intrigue
with a wife's sister has been so strong that they
feel the need of legal walls to check their tenden-
cies. We doubt not that those who talk of incest,
and impurity, and who attribute to wives' sisters
imaginations only to be found in the:minds of the
wives' husbands, have but too good personal rea-
sons for what they write or speak. But they have
their remedy. Better far that the few, as they
unquestionably are, should keep their wives' sisters
at a distance from their dwelling where such thoughts
can dwell in a husband's mind, than that the innu-
merable husbands who never dream of such temp.
tation, because they never felt it, should be deprived
of their rightful liberty. We hope the sexual
sentimentalists are consistent, and that they admit
to their houses no attractive cousins-german, or
even no accomplished governess as the teacher of
their children. If they are as fond of logic as Lord
CECIL, they ought to apply for an act to prevent
any widower from marrying a lady who has visited
or dwelt in his house during his wife's lifetime.
With the stiff Churchmen generally, it is im-
possible to argue, They have such a conception
of enforcing the dicta of the Church by the laws
of the State that, till they have got rid of their
fundamental error, it is hopeless to convince them
in a particular case. The spirit of the age modifies
their practicalcourse, but their temper would carry
them on to any extent of coercing the body for the
good of the soul. As they cannot create new civil
penalties in the service of superstition, they console
themselves by doggedly resisting to the very last
the repeal of the old ones. All stiff Churchmen are
not, however, Exeters or Oxfords; there are
amongst them a large proportion whose hearts
are in advance of their heads. Who have
the English love of religious as well as of
civil liberty so strong in them, that it
overpowers the persecuting temper of their
creed. Amongst these we venture to hope for suffi-
cient converts, even among the Lords, to permit
this Bill to become the law of the land this year.
They, at least, along with very strong convictions,
perhaps prejudices, in favour of the canons, com-
paratively modern as they are, of the Church, can
also strongly feel that it is not for them to make
their Church odious by forcing its canons on those
who belong to other Churches, or who reject her
authority in this matter.

But whet shall we say to Lord LOGIC, as he
will certainly be styled henceforth—the answer,
ad hominetn, or ad do minum, is short enough—that
the Legislation of Lords is essentially the most
illogical thing in the world. We say essentially.
We do not believe that either the House of Lords
or Commons cares, or ever did care, one straw
for logical consistency. Close logic on the bearing
of facts on practical life Parliament will hear,
but it laughs at the attempt to legislate logically.
" Show a grievance and we will listen ; if made
out we will redress it." Such is the
language of our legislators. It would
be far more reasonable to ask Lord
R. CECIL to make his tables of affinity and consan-
guinity logically consistent, than to ask an English
member of Parliament to include in his demand for
redress, grievances for the removal of which no one
petitioned. The grievance attacked by Mr. MILNE'S
bill, is one which has been felt severely by thousands
ever since 1835, and for the removal of which con-
siderably more than a million of persons have
petitioned. When the Logical Lord can showsuch
a case in favour of "permitting a man to marry his
stepmother," we may certaintly promise him the
most serious attention. We suppose, hewever, the
noble lord's self-refutation is sufficient, since he had
the candour to acknowledge that, in founding a
new State, he should not think -of sueh a prohibi-
tion—but that he was unwilling to disturb existing
law. A kind of ELDON argument, which surely
needs not refutation in 1862.

On one remark made by Sir GEORGE GREY, and
supported by Mr. WALPOLE, we could almost wish
Mr. MILNEs had given some assurance. The Home
Secretary deprecated the annual agitation of the
question. If Parliament refused the bill, Sir
GEORGE wished it dropped ! Is such a course pos-
sible ? Can a real grievance be buried out of
sight ? We are confident it cannot. When so
many members of the House of Commons
have repeatedly voted the redress of a substantial
grievance, is it possible that an obstinate small
majority of the irresponsible House should
deter the aggrieved from pressing their claims ? It
should be remembered, too, that this is a question
on which the House of Lords is especially disquali-
fied to decide. It is a question very much of the
religious liberty of Christian Churches who have
no representatives in that House, while the
Church which desires to over-ride the liberties
of the rest has its representatives there. By one
of those representatives the late Bishop of
LONDON, the clause which restricts the liberty of
all other churches was forced upon Lord LYND-
HURST'S Bill, and Sir GEORGE GREY may rest
assured that the Free Churches of England will
never give up their Parliamentary efforts till they
regain the liberty which they formerly, practically,
enjoyed. And, we may add, that a majority, pro-
bably, of the Episcopal Church itself desires the same
liberty of marriage as is asked by all the other
churches of the empire.

While we are yet looking back, here in Eng.
land, with natural complacency to the great legal
reform accomplished by the Imperial Legislature
last session, namely, the re-adjustment and reorga-
nisation of the whole of the Laws relating to Bank.
ruptcy and Insolvency—it cannot but appear to as
as in every way reasonable, that that selfsame boon
should be accorded, before the close of the present
session, to Ireland. In point of fact, a bill designed
to effect this very object is already prepared, and is
about forthwith to be introduced into, and as a
matter of course, to be carried through both
Houses of Parliament. The Bankruptcy Laws of
Ireland will consequently, through the agency of
this judicious enactment, be assimilated to those
now enforced in England under the act 24 and 25
Viet cap. 131. The assimilation in this way of
the Bankruptcy Laws of England and of Ireland
18 in all
essential
particulars, we believe, de-
signed through
Compatriots on
Channel) to be the other side of St. George's
complete and absolute. The two
systems are to be all but identical. It is but just,
it is but rational, indeed, that it should be so. Yet
already, while there ars these fur.
prospects held out

to Ireland in regard to the equitable revision and
readjustment of her Bankruptcy Laws—already
there are portents, we can hardly help writing here
as usual, of one of those needless cankers in the
seemingly all-blooming fruit of legislation accorded
to the sister island—one of those vexatious and
unnecessary cankers that have so often marred the
good gift to that loyal section of our fellow
citizens ! In truth, so frequently has this " hap-
pened " to be the case in the instances of the
extension to Ireland of a legislative boon already
enjoyed by England that, while we might speak
here of the falling of the fruit into our
laps, as evidence of the "pear being ripe,"
we could only come to the conclusion, often,
when seeing it tossed to Ireland afterwards that
the pear had in some mysterious manner been trans-
formed into an apple of discord. All the grace of
the gift or concession in these instances being in
I some unaccountable way lost in the transformation.
Here, in effect, is precisely a case in point, or, at
any rate, what threatens to be a case in point.
Already the bill has been drafted, and is immedi-
ately about to be passed through the Lords and Com-
mons, assimilating (as before intimated) the Bank-
ruptcy laws of Ireland with those revised laws ac-
corded to England during the last Session of Par-
liament. Assimilating the Bankruptcy laws of
the two Kingdoms, that it to say in all
respects, save in regard to the amount of remune-
ration. Here it is that the grace of the gift is taken
from it at a touch. The bloom of the fruit is rubbed
off—the ripe-dropping pear, by a sort of " Presto !"
becomes, in a twinkling, changed into a crude little
apple of discord. Or, at least, we repeat, it threatens
to be so. For, as yet, happily, it is not too late for
a timely emendation. The Bill is not yet before the
Legislature. And even, if it were, the modification
we are directing attention to as in every way desir-
able, would readily enough be attended to, might be
judiciously proposed and interpolated while passing
through Committee in the House of Commons. It
is not, of course, that we are in any way disposed
to advocate the complete and absolute assimilation
of the amount of payment given for the work to be
done here in England, and there in Ireland. We
observe in a very able and lucid, and, as it appears
to us, not merely a very convincing, but a wholly
unanswerable Statement put forth by the Chief
Registrar of the Court of Bankruptcy in Ireland,
that that officer hesitates not to come forward him-
self betimes in his official capacity, insisting in this
matter that, under the circumstances, he deems
himself entitled, at any rate, to some consideration.
For " more than twenty years," ho remarks in the
very preamble of his Statement, he has been actively
engaged in the public service. His past duties in
his capacity as Chief Registrar in Bankruptcy, he
defines clearly enough under their two heads,
namely, Ist, Judicial, and 2d, Administrative.
His labours manifestly in both respects being suf-
ficiently onerous. After enumerating these labours,
now judicial, now administrative—" Besides the
foregoing," be adds, " I discharge the duties of
Taxing Officer, and tax all the costs in Bankruptcy
and arrangements, and regulate the charges of
auctioneers, valuators, and accountants." Observ-
ing immediately afterwards, and very significantly,
in brackets—" [ln London the Taxing Master
is a distinct officer, with a salary of £1,400.]"
We need not go more minutely, however, here into
the statement of the Irish Chief Registrar of the
Court of Bankruptcy. He will be allowed to have
said enough, even in these brief extracts from his
Statement, when it has been added that he bases
his individual claims for consideration (and we may
hint parenthetically, ex uno disce omnes), firstly,
by reason " That increased duties, judicial and
administrative, will devolve upon me under the new
Act, and that my present salary, £BOO, is inade-
quate to the position of a judicial office ;" and,
secondly, by reason "That the correspond.
ing officers in England are paid higher salaries."
Whereas, for example, he himself, for doing
the duties of both Taxing-master and Chief
Registrar, gets his £BOO per annum the two
offices here in London bringing their holders in,
together, a clear £2,000 extra, £2,000 over and
above the £800! The Chief Registrar having his
£1,400, and the Taxing-master his £1,400.
Enough, howbeit, has already been here indi-
cated to demonstrate beyond a shadow of doubt
that at the very least something tending to-
wards an assimilation in payment should accom-
pany the proposed assimilation in regard to every-
thing else between the administration of the laws
of Bankruptcy in England and in Ireland.
These, of course, are the days of financial and ad-
ministrative economy. It seems an odd thing to say
so when the income and expenditure oscillate in the
balance at a general average of some £70,000,000
sterling. But it is so nevertheless. Yet it is precisely
because the national aspirations now-a•days tend
towards that national and wholesome economy that
we would urge the holding of that balance at all
times, alike in regard to England and in regard to
Ireland, with a steady, even, unswerving hand of
justice. "A fair day's wage for a fair day's
work." " The labourer is worthy of his hire."
Those are axioms the benignant wisdom
of which the Englishman and the Irish-
man can alike appreciate. Let them be acted
upon--no matter oil which side of St. George's
1 Channel it may be—wherever they admit (and
where do they not admit ?) of application. If ever
a wise revision of salaries, in a comprehensive re-
adjustment of an important department, would
appear to be in every point of view requisite, it
(would seem to be desirable, if not, indeed, abso-
lutely imperative, in the designed assimilation this
session of the Bankruptcy Laws of Ireland with
those now conferred (thanks to the memorable Act
of last Session) on Great Britain. It is not by any
means that an increase of payment becomes in any
way inevitable. Are the officials anywhere too
numerous for the amount of work to be got
through ? Let their number be diminished. Give
more work to those who appear to be insufficiently
employed. But whenever among similar officers the
work proves to be equivalent, let the payment of I
each for that work also be equivalent. Let there at
any rate in this instance bo an approximation to a
resemblance, and not as now so frequently happens
(a fact which we have here in these remarks of ours
distinctly illustrated) a flagrant discrepancy. In
extending the operation of our bankruptcy laws,
for example, this session, to Ireland—let us do so at
once with grace and with justice.

SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.—Her Royal High-
ness the Princess Alice,attended by Lady Caroline Barrington
and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Dudley do Ros, Equerry
to Her Majesty, landed in the docks this afternoon, at a
quarter before 3 o'clock, from the Royal yacht Fairy, Master-
Commander Christian, en route from Osborne to Windsor,
on a visit to the Belgian Minister, M. Van do Weyer. The
Princess was received on lauding by Mr. P. .Hedger and
Mr. J. Levy, principal officers of the dock company, and
Mr. It. Beach was in attendance on the part of the South-
Western Railway Company. Her Royal Highness and
attendants left by the three o'clock train. Prince Arthur,
attended by Major E!phinstone, accompanied his sister to
the docks, and returned in the Fairy to Osborne.
Lord and Lady Huntingfield and the Hon. Miss
Vanneck have arrived at St. George's Hotel from their seat
in Suffolk.

Lord and Lqdy Cranworth have arrived in
Upper Brook-street from Holwood Park, Kent, for the
season.

Lord De l'lsle and Dudley has arrived at St.
George's Rotel.

Our readers will be glad to observe that the
Queen has resumed her usual outdoor exercise. For the
first time since the death pf the Prince Consort, her Ma-
jesty drove out on Tuesday, accompanied by the Princess
Alice. Prince Alfred is expected to arrive in Engldnd next
month,

Lord and Lady Skelmersdale have arrived at
Lathom House, Lancashire, from a tour of visits.

Lord Methuen has arrived at St. George's
Hotel,

Lady Theresa Lewis and Miss Lister will leave
Kent House to-morrow on a vfsit to the Earl and Countess
of Clarendon, at the Grove, -Watford.
THE EASTER MONDAY REVIEW AT BRIGHTON.
—We understand that it is the intention of the Secretary
of State for War to appoint Lord Clyde to take the com-
mand at the great volunteer field-day, which it is in con-
templatiOn to hold at Brighton on Easter Monday.

THE NAVIGATION NEAR NEWFOUNDLAND.—AD-
MIRALTY, FEB. 19,—1t appears by a telegram from New-
foundland that it is recommended that all vessels should
pass to the southward of Sable Island, in consequence of
the immense quantity of ice and the great number of bergs
off Cape Race.

In the case of the Bank of Deposit, yesterday,
the Master of the Rolls decided that the depositors must be
placed on the list pf contributories.

THE FATAL OMNIBUS ACCIDENT IN WALWORTH.
—Yesterday Mr. Payne held an inquest at Guy's Hospital
on the body of Thomas Eades, who came to his death in
consequence of injuries received on Sunday night last, in
Walworth.road, while driving one of Hubble's omnibuses.
The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."
THE CAPTURE OF NINGPO.—Our Consui, Mr.
Harvey, and the Rebel Chief have had a conference, but
with what result we are not told. We learn also that a
deputation from the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce has
waited on Admiral Sir James Hope, at his request, to con-
sult with him relative to the present state of affairs at
Ningpo, which is so highly prejudicial to trade. We are
not informed what was the result of his mysterious con-
sultation, but are merely told that the members and the
gallant admiral arrived at the same conclusion.--London
and China Telegraph.

CAP TAIN HORATIO Ross.—Capt. Horatio Ross
of Netherley, made an extraordinary score at 1,000 yards
on the 23d January, shooting with a Henry rifle, at the
Netherley range. Out of 15 shots he made 23 points,
namely,-6 enters and nine centres. The first four shots
were outers, the ninth and fourteenth ditto, and tho
others were all comprised within a circle of 12 inches of
the centre of the target ; four of them are within six inches.
On a subsequent day, firing at 500 yards, Mr. Ross scored
19 points in 10 shots ; all were centres except one. We
have seen no better shooting than this anywhere, unless it
be that of his son, Mr. Edward Ross, who last week scored
24 points in 15 shots-5 at 1,000, sat 900, and sat 800
yards. He made 8 points at each of these ranges, just the
score that won for him the Queen's prize, and with half the
number of shots.—lnverness Courier.

PREACHING AND SWIMMING.—IrI a Western
Conference one circuit sent in a petition for a minister; but
said nothing about any characteristics as a preacher or a
disciplinarian. One quality, however, he must have—" Be
sure and send us a good swimmer," said the petitioners.
Of course every one was puzzled, and none more so than
the bishop. On inquiry it turned out that the circuit was
situated in the region of wide and bridgeless streams, where
the itinerant, in keeping his appointments, would have to
rely upon his own powers of aquatic locomotion ; in fact,
one minister had been drowned on the circuit, because of
his deficiency in this respect.—. North American Review.
Samuel Robinson, whose attempt at suicide while
being conveyed in custody to Cupar-Fife on a charge of
forgery, as recorded yesterday, was captured on Tuesday
at Osmotherley, in the North Riding, and after lodging for
the night in Northallerton gaol was removed to Scotland
on Wednesday morning by the mail train. He was con-
ducted under the escort of Chief-constable Bell and another
officer. Mr. Bell has one of hi's arms disabled, and is other-
wise suffering from a violent kick he received in his side
during the struggle. The prisoner admits that his inten-
tion was self-destruction. Strange to state, he has only a
few scratches on the face. He is now very penitent, or
appears to be so.
THE GREAT EXHIBITION BUILDING.--MenrS,
Lucas, Brothers, and Messrs. Kelk, the contractors for the
International Exhibition building, have insured the im-
mense structure in the Norwich Union Fire-office. The
premium has this week been paid to the Norwich Union,
and amounts to no less than £3,300, the amount of the in-
surance being £400,000. The Norwich Union will, it is
understood divide the risk with several other offices, as it
is not inclined to take the entire responsibility on itself. The
agant who brought the business to the office nets £330, the
commission allowed being 10 per cent.

THE FLOODED COLLIERIES,—By great persever-
ance the water has been conquered in the three flooded pits
in the north of England—Monkwearmouth, Wingate
Grange, and Gosforth. On Monday the shaft :n Monk-
wearmouth pit was secured, and the men would resume
work on Tuesday in the Bank pit. The inflow of the water
in Wingate Grange has materially abated, and it is confi-
dently anticipated that the workings will soon be cleared of
water, which at one time threatened to drown them out. At
Gosforth it was feared that the feeder which broke into one
of the shafts was in communication with the drowned-
out pits on the Tyne ; but it would appear such is f. rtu-
nately not the case, and it is anticipated that the tubbing
will be fixed in both shafts of the mine before the end of
the week, and all made secure.

THE FALL OF HOUSES AND Loss OF LIFE AT
HACKNEY.—The inquiry into the circumstances which
caused the death of the three persons killed by the falling
of the unfinished houses at Hackney was 'resumed yesterday
morning by Mr. J. Humphreys? at the Town-hall, Hackney.
The jury returned the following verdict :—" We find that
the deaths of Jacob Ketteridge, John Fuller, and Alfred
William Rathbone, were caused by mortal injuries received
upon their bodies by the falling of the houses, Nos. 9 and 10,
Amherst-road, East Hackney; and we do further say that
the causes of such accident were occasioned by the materials
used in such building being of an inferior quality, to the in-
completeness of the roof, to undue haste in their construc-
tion, and to the want of a more efficient supervision."
THE ACCIDENT IN A LEAD MINE.—From the
time of the melancholy accident at the Bryn Gwiog lead
mines, near Mold, by Which 16 men lost their lives, every
exertion has been made to procure the bodies. The engine
in use at the mine has been constantly at work getting the
water out of it, and by Sunday the efforts had been so far
successful as to warrant an endeavour to get at the bodies.
The pit was surrounded by thousands of people throughout
the day) and the greatest excitement prevailed. After con-
siderable delay and difficulty, one of the bodies was brought
to the pit mouth, and identified as that of William Williams,
one of the miners. No other bodies were recovered during
the day, but the water is so far cleared out of the mine tha
it is thought probable all the bodies will be brought up dur-
ing the week. A n inquest was opened on view of the body
of Williams, on Monday, before Mr. Peter Parry, coroner,
at the Royal Oak, near Eoel Parcy, and was adjourned to
Tuesday next. Several influential gentlemen residing in
the neighbourhood have been unremitting in their endea-
vours to soothe and alleviate the sorrow and grief of the
distressed widows and orphans, who have been thus sud-
denly deprived of their sole support. A public meeting was
held yesterday at Mold, for the purpose of organising a re-
lief fund, and for setting on foot a subscription list for the
relief of the suffering families.

A GIRL SHOT BY lIER BROTHER.—A melancholy
catastrot he is reported at Syleham, Suffolk. Ann Creasy,
a girl of 11 years of age, was left by her mother in the
keeping-room of the family residence, with her brother,
George Creasy, a boy of nine. The mother had only quitted
the children a few minutes when she heard a great noise,
and on going back she found the girl in the agonies of death
and lying in a pool of blood. The boy was shrieking and
half-distracted, and on being questioned he stated that he
had taken up a gun wlrch was in the room and pulled the
trigger, although he did not know the gun was loaded. He
had a dispute with his sister, as he wanted to blow the fire
with the bellows, and she would not let him do so ; but ho
protested—and there is no reason to doubt the sincerity of
his asservations—that if he had known the gun was loaded
he would not have pointed it at his sister for all the world.
When the deceased was found part of her brains were lying
on the bricks, a great deal of blood was splashed on the
walls, blood was still flowing copiously from her head, and
she died in a few minutes. As it is generally thought that
the boy only intended foolishly to frighten his sister, and
as no one has manifested deeper grief than he has at the
consequences of this dreadful error, no public action has I
been taken against him by the authorities.

TOUTING BROKERS AT AN AUCTION.—As we go
in these gentry assail us half a dozen at a time. " Shall I
buy any lot for you, sir ?" " Look at the catalogue, sir ;
happy to do business for you." " capital goods here,
sir; proud to buy for you, sir; commis-ion only five per
cent." We have to run the gauntlet through a cross fire
of such disinterested applications before we can get into the
dining-room, and there we are bombarded by a whole
broadside of them at once, who will not take '• No" for an
answer, and some of whom stick to us all the while we are
there. In the dining-room the folding doors are thrown
open, the tables are spread wide, and are heaped with the
china and glass, the chimney ornaments, the cutlery, the
plate, and all the little portable luxuries which once shed
such an air of taste about the dwelling, but which, heaped
thus confusedly together, look like so touch salvage from a
fire, or refuse stock of a bankrupt dealer. The persistent
broker at our side, whose breath is redolent of wine-vaults,
keeps an assuring us that this is a genuine sale, " proprie-
tor deceased," n
by
which he means that no goods will be
sold but such as belonged to the deceased lady; but he
knows he is lying,
and we know it too. We know for in-
stance, that poor Miss Robinson never was the proprietor
of 27 pairs of handsome cut decanters ; that those 12 dozen
champagne glasses never belonged to her; and that she,
who was a personification of abstinence, never stocked her
cellar with stores of hollands and whisky. No, the sale is
that ou want me to employ you to buy up your own
li:rootpaelrltgyeannudinte: my persistent friend ; and I have a suspi-
cion
pay you a commission for doing it.—. Leisure

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