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1 . LITERATURE.
1.818 H. CAVENDISH'S DEBATES. '-Part IV
Longman, London, 1841.
' The present Part of this curious and useild.
-work contains the debates of the House of Com-
mons' as reported by Sir H. Cavendish, during.
-the
n iiSession of 1770. Burke,• of course, figures
.p eutly the speakers, but his
- 11 among'
;speeches are seldom given but in outline, which
1 :is to be regretted, for no man ever expressed
Emself more eloquently or instructively -on all.
anatters connected with legislation. We find-rilicr
lq several of Lord North's speeches; but' in vain` ire
look for that wit and sprightliness for which.
! Wraxall and other of his contemporaries have.
assured us he was remarkable ; nothing can be
duller than the tone of his remarks, or more tho.r
1 Toughly practical and blisiness-like than their
substance. Judging from the specimens of his
oratory before us, we should say that Lord North
l! 'ad no more of the wag. in his nature than Lord
A lthorp, whom no one was ever yet . hardy
en ough to accuse of a joke. Among the debates.
is :that memorable one on-. the Remonstrance of
-Hi, City, of London to the King, calling for the
Di& volution of Parliament and the Removal of
Evil Ministers; in the course of which we find a
spirsr,:ed speech by Alderman Beckford, which
Sir IL Ca7endish has given very fully, and which
pi eve's' him to have been a man of more do-
quence and political sagacity than the world has
generally given him credit fbr being. At the
en 1. of the part, which closes the first volume,
there is an interesting private 'journal of John,
fourth Duke of Bedford.

LONDON CHARIVARL Parts I and 11.
Bryant, London, 1841.
An amusing little miscellany, embellished with
caqicatures, and containing several lively and
sal vastic sketches, both in verse and prose. The
workappears weekly, and also in monthly Parts.

xy,sORE'S POETICAL WORKS. Vol. X.
WO we here the closing volume of the corn-
pletest an
d handsomest edition of Moore's Poems
that has ye
.t appeared. it contains his popular
prose' rornau•ce, " The Epicurean," in which
there is more eloquence than fecline,-; and an
unfinished Poen;.; entitled " Alciphron," which
we noticed sonic. tinsineain The _Sun, when
was first published by Mr. Macrone. The vo-
lume, as usual, is embellished with two en-
gravings.

The Mormons, says the Nova Scotian, have
armed and organized, in some parts of the Union, for purposes
of defence.

RiorlNG.—Two neighbours, and old settlers
of respectable connexions, it is said, had a quarrel recently in
Sussex Vale, N. 8., respecting a spring of water. One of
them (Harri3ol.9 shot the other (Cleveland), in the knee.
Amputation restOted. Harrison fled, but a hue and cry had
issued against him,.—Montreal Paper.
M. Odillon Barrot has been named President
of the Council-Generai of the Aisne.
BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE.—About 150
of the supporters of Sir Benjamin Hall and Sir Charles Napier,.
belonging to the west quarter of the borough, met on Tuesday at
the Mechanics' Institute Tavern, to celebrate the return of the
Liberal Members. Mr. Williams, of Oxford-street, was in the
Chair. After the usual loyal toasts, the Chairman gave " The
two Members for the Borough of Marylebonc." Sir Benjamin
Hall only was present, and gave as a reason fe'r the absence of
his colleague the intense interest which he took in the questions
before the House of Commons, and also the novelty of his situa.
tion, but assured the meeting that the Gallant Officer would in
the course of the evening meet his constituents. He at the
same time briefly stated the preceOings which had taken place
in the House of Commons, and in reference to a statement
made by the Chairnan, said he would support every =aloft for
a reform in Church and State. Major Revell then proposed a
toast to the following effect, that the corrupt county constitu.
encies and the pocket boroughs be transferred to Schedule A, and
that the country should be represented by thereat reprew.vtatives
of the people. Mr. Savage afterwards gave " The glorior..s ma-
jority of 1,271 which returned the two Members;" and m.ide a
suitable speech for the occasion, which was responded to with
loud cheers. We regret that the length of the debate in Pat lia-
ment prevents us from giving a more full account of the pro-
ceedings.

•‘ We learn from Rome," says the Moniteur
Parisien, " that the Papal Government has just forbidden the
reacting in public of the Gazette de France. Until lately this=
was the only French journal permitted in the cafes and other
public establishments at Rome. The political doctrines and
principles lately professed by the Gazette de France have, it is
supposed, led to the prohibition of it by the Government of the
Pope. The Mersager says, that the admission of this journal
into the states of the Church is forbidden."

AN EXPERIMENTAL TRIP.—(From a Cor-
respondent. )—On Thursday morning last a new steam-car-
riage, built by a company of gentlemen at the West. end of the
town, started on an experimental trip from London to
Hastings, where they arrived in the afternoon, within one
mile oellastings, when, unfortunately, the boiler burst. The
carriage was brought into the town of Hastings, and on Friday
it was repaired, and on Saturday morning the party
left Hastings, on their return to London. in eescending
long and steep hill, within one mile of Sevenoalis, the skid or
drag-chain broke, and they descended the bill at the rate of
63 miles per hour, and fortunately reached the bottom of it
undamaged in person, although in the descent they every
moment expected to be dashed to pieces. On their attempt-
ing to proceed up the opposite bill into 6evenoaks, it was
found impossible, the whole of the machinery being broken
and out •of place. With the assistance of ten horses it was
conveyed to the Crown Inn, at Sevettnaks, igheili it remains,
much damaged.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE SERPENTINE.
Yesterday a young man of : the name of Samuel Jones, a
footman, was drowned in the Serpentine under the following
circumstances :—At six o'clock the deceased and a number of
other persons were bathing on the south bank of the river,
when he suddenly sank. This was observed by several of those
who were near him, and they called out to the boatmen of the
Royal Humane Society, several of whom soon attended with.
the drags, and after some time had elapsed the body was found.
The attempts that were made to restore animation were un-
availing, and the body"now awaits an inquest to be held upon
it, which Mr. Higgs has postponed till this day, in order
that inquiries may be rrjtEt
ENTOMBMENT OF GENERAL HARRISON.—
The Cincinnati Gazette gives the following description of the
final resting place of the body of the late President:—" The
tomb is a simple vault, with nothing merely for show, and
none of the decorations of art. Its situation is very beautiful,
with reference to either the river or the country in its rear. A
few trees, of the original growth of the forest, stand around it.
By another year the grass will be creeping up its sides, and
the wild flowers be bending towards it."
CUSTOM-HOUSE lIOBBERIES.—A gentleman
lately returned from the Continent sent home, by the Steam
Conlialny, on the sth of July from Biberich, on the Rhine,
a portmanteau and a small deal Lox, to be left at the Custom-
house in London until his return. This baggage was not re-
ceived until the 15th of August, and the following is the ex-
pense to which he was subjected :—Sight entry to land two
packages, 4s. 6d. ; paid for freight and disbursements from
Rotterdam, 11. Is. Bd. ; ditto lighterage from vessel, 2s. 6d. ;
ditto landing, wharfage, warehousing, &c., 3s. 6d. ; ditto
porterage and booking, 2s. 6d.; ditto attending the arrival of
each boat ciuring ten' days to inquire for the packages, and
commission for examining, 10s. 6d. ; carriage to Kensington,
3s. ; total, 9.1. Ss. 2d. _ _

The Court of Assize of Lyons has been occu-
pied with the trial of the man named Collot, who, as we
' r. The
guilty,fac
t
men-
tioned in June last, had murdered his uncle, in that city, and had
oa afterwards t
theesw acradsse
wer mutilatede clearlyh
proved,ibodys in
niae prisonerhorrible was foundmanne
and sentence of death was passed on him.
A soldier on duty at the prison of Orleans
was, a few days since, attacked by one of the large dogs which
are kept to guard that building,
and before any assistance could
reach him was severely bitten. The infuriated animal was
obliged to be shot, in order to release the man from his gra,P,
as no one dared approach him.
The Gionzale delle Due Sicilie states that the
crops in Sicily are most promising, and that the harvest is
likely to surpass the good one of last year.
A Correspondent at Genoa writes The ac-
counts of bad weather to the north of the Alps are almost in-
credible to the residents here. Since the middle of May we
have only had two rainy days, and even then were not pre-
vented from sitting out of doors by the sea-side in the evening."
A. letter from Berlin states that, although in
Prussia the weather has been this summer unusually cold and
rainy; it has been excessively warm in Southern Russia, and
the harvest has been abundant. The writer observes, that the
year 1816, so disastrous to the harvest of some of the countries
in Europe so favourable to Southern Russia, that the pro-
sperity .
of Odessa, from its trade in corn, dates from that period.
It is added, that all she circumstances of the present year are
analogous to what occurred then.
A NAILER 1—" Papa," said a juvenile pas-
,;,.r the coach-top, a few days
„ on y, ago, why has the guard
- 'awn in his horn ?" "To send that waggon to one side,
jest -„ ." said the lad's father. '1 he little fellow made no obser-
en,'" • ''me • butwhen
cation at thew • he got home he said, " Mamma
what do yon .
think The guard of our coach blew a waggon
and horses 'o Oils aide of the road!" " Come, my boy," said
the youngster's maim, "don't make fun of me with your
travellers' stories."
The morning before last, at an early hour, a
Garde Charnpetre, on duty in the environs of Montmartre,
heard two pistol shots, and running to the spot from whence
the sound proceeded, to his astonishment saw two young and
pretty women re-loading their pistols, which they had jisst dis-
charged, in a duel. The man interposed to p'lt an end .to the
combat, and uuder the pretext of escorting the fair dueilists
through the barrier, crcempanied them thither, and imniesli-
ately-gave them in charge. They passed several hours in tlu'l
guard-house before they were released.
DIED,—At the Royal Naval Hospital, Ply-
mouth, on the 21st instant, Captain Hugh Nurse, R.N., aged'
45 years. He held the command of the African station in her
Majesty's ship Trig. " James's Naval History" records his
command of a tender of her Majesty's ship Tyne, in the West
Indies, in the year 1820, when he highly distinguished himself
in a desperate and successful conflict against a very superior pi-
ratical force, in which action he was most severely wounded.
He was sincerely beloved by all who knew him.
Among the last fashionable arrivals in Paris we
notice the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Lord Sheffield,
and General Murray.
The Duchess Dowager of Leuchtenherg went
to visit the tomb of Napoleon at the Invalides, where she re-
mained on her knees for more than a quarter of an hour, and
was for the whole time in tears. After leaving the Invalides,
her Serene Highness went to see the Artesian Well at Grenelle.
Whilst there the Duchess recognised amongst the employes an
old Sergeant-Major of her Guard, when N ice. Queen of Italy,
named gallon, whom she addressed with great kindness, and
gave him a handsome proof of her benevolence.
A member of, the Parisian " swell mob" was
arrested a few days ago while endeavouring to com-
mit depredations in an hotel in the Rue Vivienne. He was
dressed in the first s'yle of fAshion, had alighted from a ca-
brolet at the door, and ran up stairs without being noticed by
the porter. His movements had however been watched by a
person in the house, who communicated his suspcition to the
master, and the man was by them secured while trying to get
into a room, and sent to the Prefecture of Police. On arriving
there he was recognised as a well known thief, named Eugene
L., alias Count de Beauclerc, after whom the police had been
on the look-out for some time for former offences. On
being searched, 60 false keys were found on him, and 400 fr. in
gold.'

MO RNI NG SUN

It is not only the expense to Society, but the
moral
destruction of the men, and their unfortunate, and from
thenceforth miserable, wives and families. From that
time, too, the bereaved wife may be shut up in a new
union, if she cannot drag up her helpless children, though
able to maintain herself—in this way women are constantly
the victims of bad laws, and of the temptations of dis-
tress and misery into which they are plunged by the im-
pris6nmenti and transportation of their fathers, hus-
bands, and sons.

" A FREE-TRADE MISSIONARY FROM THE UNITED
STATES.—An address was delivered on Tuesday even-
ing to the members of the Manchester Anti-Corn-law
Association, by J. Curtis, Esq., of Ohio, North America,
upon the capabilities of that country to supply us with corn
and provisions, lie stated that he was authorised by the
public voice in the United States to state that nothing
was more desired by his countrymen than to exchange
their agricultural produce for the manufactures of Eng-
land. Be was listened to with great interest whilst he
went into a great variety of facts, showing the rich re-
sources of the 'great west,' and at the close of his ad-
dress a vote of thanks was unanimously tendered to him
by the meeting. We understand Mr. Curtis intends to
make a tour through the principal towns of the kingdom
for the purpose of explaining the capabilities of the
United States• to supply the deficiency of food for our
population"—Anti-Bread-tax Circular.
Can any economist doubt that if our aristocratic legis-
lators prJrmitted our brethren in America to pa; the im-
mense sums they owe us by their flour, that our mer-
chants would have been paid their debts, and our work-
.men kept in employ ?
Now, mark how these gew-gaw titles seduce those who
-once were generous, and in some degree disposed to equal
rights and equal laws :
" We hear it rumoured that Sir Francis Burdett is at
_Drayton Manor, fishing for a Peerage."—Sun.
This plague spirit runs away with every thing that is
:generous and noble in men's nature. It is not alone the
renegades and the demented whom the law of primogeni-
,ture, and the folly of hereditary titles seduce from the
mobility of nature, and convert into subservient cringing
idlers ; but those who have been great and useful, when
they get dry and shrivelled, are made Lords, and become
the parents of idle and useless men and women, despising
work and promoting corruption and patronage, that they
may be placed or pensioned upon society. The suppres-
sive effects of hereditary titles are more injurious than
the positive, and they are blighting and destroying. It
ia the black jaundice of the body social.

THE STORM.—The thunder-storm of Saturday
last raged violently throughout the Potteries. The electrie
fluid struck a building at Hanley and did some injury, scorch-
ing a chileehair. At Burslem a large tree was struck, which
presents a shattered appearance. Several little injuries were
also sustained in various parts of the Potteries, but we are
happy to hear of none of a serious nature.—Stafford Gazette.
‘7-1. Among t numerous interesting facts recorded
in the ceilieila- urns for Scotland, the following affecting case
-appea.F.suodekt e head of the parish of Kirkpatrick, Iron Grey,
irkendbright :—" Slcpt in a barn, a soldier's
..,---Az.-I,3sulow of a. bland regiment, whose husband and ten sons
- falaiad '0

ILLUSTRATIONS OF ARISTOCRA-
TIC LAW-MAKING.

" The cause of the general distress will be found in the
selfishness and misgovernment springing from the great mon-
ster evil, the monopoly of legislation."
Nonconformist, No. XVIII.
We select from the daily papers, immediately suc-
ceeding our remarks upon the aristocratic principle, the
following illustrations of the misery flowing from the
system of hereditary legislation—the germ of all mono-
polies, and the well spring of selfishness :
" At the Guildhall yesterday, no less than four indi-
viduals were brought before Mr. Alderman Kelly, who
committed offences for the mere purpose of gaining the
temporary shelter of a station house, and the chance of a
crust of bread. Crime, therefore, is better off in Eng•
land than poverty. To be entitled to protection, shelter,
and food, a man must be a criminal. Such a fact, though
there were only one in a year, instead of crowding upon
us four in a day, would be an unerring indication that
our legislation requires revision.
" The process of debasement and degradation seems to
be this ; scarcity of employment and scarcity of food, as
they are felt in class after class, make one class press
down on the other, and squeeze out the lowest to utter
destitution. Amongst the humble classes there is a
great deal of charity ; they help each other ; but when
all find it difficult to live, they are obliged to deny succour
to the most distressed, who are driven to commit offences
that they may drag out their miserable existence a few
days or weeks longer. We are much afraid that the
misery which thus forces itself into public notice, bears
only a very small proportion to that which hides itself,
and perishes in obscurity. We are much afraid, too,
that reckless despair instead of blithe and careful hope,
is becoming, from continual disappointment, the preva-
lent disposition of our people ; and that those who deny
them bread and a fair field for their exertions, will have
to answer, not only for starving many out of existence,
but for the moral debasement of all."—Sun, Aug. 12.
The people are fast getting to know that forcible re-
sistance to the law is absurd, for the aristocracy have
provided, and can provide against this—they can starve
a sufficient number of the poor into ignorance and en-
listment as seidiers, and arm them to keep down the rest,
and make them pay the instruments. Whilst the mass
are foolish enough to be incited to force and rebellion,
and the aristocracy can vote themselves secret service
money, they will never want for spies to incite the igno-
rant, and gibbet them as terrible examples at once of
folly, fraud, a:id bitterness. Both sections, too have con-
curred in (Silling and organizing a police soldiery that
could be made more effectual for both purposes. If they
would win equal laws the people must not resort to vio-
lence. If the practice of seeking a prison instead of the
union should generally obtain among the starving and
roofless that they may obtain food and shelter, the aristo-
cracy will find it a more difficult thing to deal with than
an outbreak of physical violence.
Two men were tried during the present assizes for kill-
ing a sheep, not with any felonious intent, but that
they might be transported—the aristocracy having most
benevolently enacted that the act, irrespective of the
motive, shall be so punished ; and these poor wretches,
desiring to be sent out of this happy country, gave in-
formation against themselves, that they might avail them-
selves of the wretched provisions of this blind law, made
by the " Corinthian pillars of polished society." It is
not only blind, but merciless, for the Judge said he had
no discretion.
Would such a law, with such a punishment, exist if
poor men were represented in Parliament? Thus society
is suffering the natural consequence of converting 'the
new union-houses into a prison, and of evading the
claims of the wretched upon technical points, whilst the
poor grow desperate from want of food, clothing, and
shelter. There is now, we fear, but little difference be-
tween the two shelters, except that relief is secured at
once in the one case, and is protracted in the other. By
this absurd law our wretched poor have now the power
to compel the country to pay the expense of their emi-
gration to a place where they may be better off, and can-
not be worse. We proceed with our extracts:—
" CAUFZ AND EFFECT.—The uneasy state of the
public mind in Ireland, produced by the prospect or a
Tory Government, has induced her Majesty's representa-
tive to recommend that an addition be made to the mili-
tary force in that country. We have, of late years, had
the pleasure of reporting a reduction in the army sta-
tioned there. We have now the unpleasant duty of
stating that a regiment of cavalry is ordered to proceed
to Ireland forthwith, to be followed by two infantry re-
giments."—Sun.
This is quite consistent with Lord John's intimation to
the electors of London—which the Morning Chronicle
called a state paper.
In the outset of that pledge-myself-to-nothing docu-
ment, he volunteered this intimation to his Tory
cousins :
" It would be inconsistent with my notions of public
duty to harass the Government of the day by vexatious
opposition, still less to deny to the Crown the means bl
maintaining the reputation of the country abroad, and in-
ternal quiet at home."
Lord Ebrington, a pet Whig, is carrying out the hint,
—if the section cannot give good measures, they can
make the people submit to bad ones. The passage,
being translated, means, "It would be inconsistent with
my notions of duty to my order to deny to the order'
the means of compelling the people to submit to laws in-
volving their starvation."
Read again the paragraph—he falsely assumes that
some one had asked him to harass the Government by a
vexatious opposition, and to deny to the Queen the means
of maintaining the reputation and peace of the country.
Men resort to false assumptions to veil dishonest or indi-
rect purposes—his purpose was to tell the people that he
considered the interests of his " order" more important
than theirs ; and that though he was going out protest-
ing in words against the prohibition-of-food laws, he
meant that the Tories should have the soldiery to com-
pel them to submit to those laws. He well knew there
was no other cause for apprehension at home, and that
the Crown was never more popular. Contrast the
Queen's present visiting tour with the apprehension
as to the late King's visiting the citizens. We do not
object to the purpose, but we point out the anxious and
unnecessary volunteering of the information, to show that
the love of " the order" is paramount to the love of the
country ; that is, as we use the word, of the interests of
the people. With the aristocracy it is the class first,
and then the people ; but the class at all events—it must
be so whilst we have privileged classes irrespective of
living merit.
We proceed with our illustrations of the effects of
aristocratic selfishness and its spirit :
"GAME PRESERVES.—The extent to which the system
of game-preserving is carried is almost incredible ; for
not alone in the ranks of our proud and overbearing
aristocracy are game-preservers to be found—the mania
extends to tradesmen,—aye, to Liverpool tradesmen too,
—and we are bound to say that the proceedings of the
latter class are often characterised by a spirit of petty
vindictiveness and spleen generally unknown amongst
despots of a more elevated grade. We spoke of Lord
Stanley preserving lands not his own ; the same remark
will apply, in an equal degree, to the Earl of
Sefton: The latter Nobleman commences with
his preserves at Croxteth, and extends it through Kirby
Simmonswood, Aintree, Sefton, Thornton (a township in
which he scarcely 011138 an . acre of land), Altcar, to the
sea—a space, as the crow flies, of some twelve miles in
length, and averaging two miles in width. Lord Sefton
should not put the county to expense for punishing tres-
passers on twenty-four square miles of land. Some years
ago his lordship's keeper, Joseph Warner, of Altcar, was
left for dead by some poachers, who were transported
for the crime ; but the expenses of the prosecution were
borne by the county. Within our recollection one of
Lord Skelmersdale's keepers in Latham, was shot dead
by a poacher, who was never taken. In Anglesea, the
convict Chub now lies under sentence of death for the
murder of a gamekeeper. We repeat, then, game pre-
servers should dip into their own pockets, and not into
those of the public to pay for their whims."--Liverpool
Albion.