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THE NEW WORK ON CANADA.
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THE CANADAS IN 1841.
By
Lieut.-Col. Sir RICHARD BONNYCASTLE.
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EDITED BY THOMAS HOOD, ESQ.
Embellished with a strikiking Likeness of the late THEO-
DORE HOOK, Esq., and Two lflustrations by P hiz.
THE OCTOBER NUMBER OF'
COL Ult N'S• W MONTHLY
MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST,
Edited by THOMAS HOOD. Esq.,
. Contains the following interesting Articles :
Memoir of the late Theodore Hook, Esq., with a fine Portrait.
A Tete-a-Tete with the New Editor.
. A Sketch off the Road, by Thomas Hood, Esq.
Graduates and Under-Graduates; or, The Proctor's Note Book,
by the Author of " Peter l'riggins."—No. 1.
PHINEAS QUIDDY;
Or, Sheer Indus!ry.
By John Pooh., Esq., Author of " Paul Pi y."
With Two Illustrations by Phil.
Chapter Vll.—Sheer Industry Prospers.—A Digression for
the Benelit of Yotinger Sons.—A very Confidential Commu-
nication..
Chapter Vlll.—lngenuousness versus Cunning.
Chapter IX.—A Touching Incident.—Our Here's Disinte-
rested Concern for a " Maiden all Forlorn. "—A Magnificent
Proposal Rejected.
,Chapter X.—The Reading of the Will. —A Job's Comforter.
Fathers and Sons, Chapter XX., by Theodore Hook, Esq.
A Tale of a Trumpet, by Thomas Hood. Esq. (concluded.)
A Vi,it to Gerbe, by the Hon. and Rev. Charles Bathurst.
The Counts y Tue n, by Mrs. Gore.
A Reminiscence of an Irish Squire.
. Foreign Sporting, by Nimrod.
Memoirs of Madame Lafarge, written by Herself.
Charles Chesterfield, the Youth of Genius, by Mrs. Trollope.
The Suicide's Burial, &c. &c.
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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.

THIS EVENING, SEPT. 30,
Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled
WHAT WILL THE WORLD SAY?—Hon. Charles Nor-
wold, Mr. J. Vining; Mr. Pye Hilary, Mr. C. Mathews;
Mr. Warner, Mr. Bartley ; Captain Scrope TarradidtiledMr.
W. Farren ; Lady Norwold, Mrs. Glover; Marian Mayley,
Mrs. W. Lacy ; Miss De Vere, Miss Cooper ; Tattle, Airs.
Orger ; Mrs. Tarradiddle, Mrs. Humby.
Alter which, the Farce entitled BROTHER BEN.—
Commodore Cutlass, Mr. Bartley ; Benjamin Bowles, Mr.
Charles Mathews; Mr. Shuffleton, Mr. Harley; Mrs. Cut-
lass, Miss Cooper , Dorothy. Mrs. Tayleure.
To conclude with, the Ballet of Action, entitled HANS OF
ICF.L AN.b.—Hans of Iceland, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Gill, Mr.
3.. H. Ridgway s Frederick, Mr. Gilbert; Oglypiglap, Mr. T.
Ridgway ; Iceland 11-v. Master Marshall ; Guth Stasen, Miss
Bailin; Iceland Girl, Miss-ilac,hall.
Doors to le opened at hair-pas.. Six—the performances to
commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 75, Second Price, 3s. 6d.;
First and Second Circ'es, ss. ; Second Pr.., 9t. 6d. ; Pit, 35.;
Second Price. 2!.; Gallery Is. Tickets and places for the
Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten
till Four, where Season Ticlicts may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be had so!ely of Air. Andrews, bookseller,
167. New Bond-street.

To-morrow, What Will the World Say? with Hans of Iceland

iiOYAL SURREY THEATRE.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE
AND MR. WILLIS JONES.
Unparalleled success of the Military Old English Equestrian
Spectacle, " Blenheim," the Waterloo of the 18th Century.
Overflowing Houses.
THIS EVENING. SEPT. 30,
Will be presented the successful Equestrian Spectacle, called
THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM ; OR, I'HE HORSE
OF THE DISINHERITED; introducing Mr. Ducrow'smag-
ndicent Stud of Forty Horses, !lightly-trained Palfreys, Fairy
Pener, Equestrian Troop, and Companies of both Theatres;
embracing: all the Military Exploits of the Great Duke of
Marlborough, Grand Reviews, Battles, and Glorious Victories.
After'which, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in the
Largest Arena in the World, in which Madame Ducrow, Sig-
nor Hillier, the Great American Rider, the British Horseman,
Signor Felix Carlo, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear.
To conclude with THE HAUNTED WRECK.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON.
Seventy-fifth time of Miss Vincent in the character of " Su-
san HoPlc), ;" third week of Wilks' successful drama of " Raf-
facile, the Reprobate !" and first week of " The Flying
Dutchman," with Childe's Phantasmagorical Representation
of the Spectral Ship in full sail.
THIS EVENING, SEPT. 30,
The highly interesting and pathetic Domestic Drama, called
SUSAN HOPL EY ; OR THE TRIALS AND VICISSI-
TUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL. William Dean, Mr. E.
F. Saville ; Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged
Heroine of Domestic Drama.
After which, RAFFAELLE THE REPROBATE; OR,
THE SECRET MISSION, AND THE tIGNET RING.
Raffaelle' Mr. E. F. Saville ; Count des Monte. Mr. Dale ;
Gablin, Mr. Howard ; Pauline. Mrs. Lee.
To conclude with THE FLYING DUTCHMAN; OR
E PHANTOM SHlP.—Vanderdecken, Mr. Dale; Toby
Varnish, Mr. Seaman ; Peter Von Bummel, Mr. Gardner ;
Lestelk, Mrs. Lee ; Lucy, Mrs. Howard.
Boxes, 2s.—Pit, Is.— uallerl, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes
InlY, at Half-past Eight.
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LONDON:
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1841.

In the Oebate in the Commons, on Monday
evening, a most lugubrious picture was drawn of
r
the state of the country. All parties agreed that
the agricultural labourer is reduced to the lowest
Possible stage of poverty not to be actually a
Pauper, that the manufacturing labourers are
little or no better, that thousands of them are in a
state of semi-starvation, that distress is every where
vetY great, that crimes are numerous, and that
11(leiety is threatened with still more serious
evils.
do Without indulging in the least exaggera-
-0) the state of society, as indicated in the
Iv,
as "le-spread of Chartism, in the hostility whichh
°. been engendered between different classes
;Indla th•
e attacks now made on the ruling powers,
in the general discontent and poverty, may
.oe pronounced to be very alarming. Thi
In Parliament and _out of Parliament e Tortes,
, bid he
eommunity remember that such was its
condi-
tl°ll. when delivered into their hands, and the
Whigs retort that the Tories are to blame, for
they
have in reality possessed the authority of
Parliament, and would not allow those measures
tO. be Passed which would have remedied the
leis
disasters, and relieved the distresses of
ftlibe People. Between them we do not at this
oment pretend to judge ; we only insist on the
tact. that the country is:according to their united
I%'e propose
in a most deplorable condition, and
of great '
. . propose to direct public attention to a con-
deration
titer importance that' the squat:-
bles of politicians.
~ It is now twenty-six years since England, and
almost all Europe, ha .- • profound peace. le enio ed the blessin6s of
burin thatY time no part
Las been exposed to of it
angy
oiczuiogreat natural disaster;
neither hurricanes, v
devestated the earth, nor floods, have
and dis'l'leartened industry
• by depriving it of its reward. During that time,

too, the different Governments of Europe, no
longer harrassed by strife amongst themselves,
have bent all their energies to promote the wel-
fare of the community. In most States, where
representative bodies did not before exist, they
have been established, the great passion of the
day appearing to be to promote the public wel-
fare by legislation. We have had here in Eng-
land Parliamentary Reform, Municipal Reform,
and a variety of other reforms, calculated to in-
crease the happiness of the people. We have
had very extensive reforms in the law, and in
prison discipline; we have had also tithes set-
tled, and the Poor-law altered ; education has
been promoted, and civil government reformed;
in short, the Legislature has for twenty-six
years beStowed almost undivided attention on
promoting the welfare of the" people, and the
result is the present condition of society..
Such a connection between the great exer-
tions of the Legislature, and the inefficiency-. of
the results, is calculated to excite a doubt
whether legislation has answered its end. Most
diligently have our senators toiled, and our news-
papers written, in favour of new, laws, and the
result is the present condition of England. The
labour has been in vain, and in vain through ig-
norance. It is, for example, quite plain that the
filets we yesterday stated in relation to paper
money—namely, that banking facilities supply
the place of a barik-note circulation, and that the
latter is slowly but surely becoming of compara-
tively little importance, have been unknown to
our lawmakers, or they would never, with a
view to keep credit in check, have promoted the
establishment of banks, and sought to regulate
and control the issue of paper promises to pay.
The Legislature has, in fact, defeated its own
object. This is only the example, but from that
we deduce the rule. Thus it has been ignorance
in the Legislature, which has rendered its labours
for twenty-five years nearly or completely abor-
tive, and which has made it the source rather of
mischief than of benefit to the community.
It must at the same time be concluded, that
old laws are better than modern legislation, and
that PEEL'S caution is better than Lod jour;
RUSSEL'S zeal. Except the Corn-law, which,
in thorough ignorance of the progress of
society, was first passed in 1815, and renewed and
and altered in 1828, we know of no modern law
which has much tended to increase the misery of
the people. Reform Acts and remission of taxa-
tion have had no such tendency. The old laws,
laying restriction on trade and heavy burdens on
the people, are the causes of distress, and we
must have legislation to abolish those old laws
if the country is- to be restored to prosperity.
Legislation to abolish old laws we must have,
but beyond that, till legislators are much more
sure of their ground than at present, they ought
to proceed with the utmost care and caution.

But, without entering into details, either as to
the causes or remedies of the national distress, it
is clear, from the present condition of the
country, that since the peace legislation has
been signally inefficient, and the inefficiency
must have been caused by the ignorance or the
malignancy of the Legislature, such a reflec-
tion should make the Members of both Houses
cautious of their sayings and doings.

One of the subjects debated of late in Parlia-
ment, which has probably failed to interest the
people from a want of acquaintance with it, is
that of having a naval officer in the Board of
Ordnance. The reason of this is, that the Ord-
nance supplies arms to the navy as well as the
army, and only a naval man can judge whether
the arms supplied to the navy be well or ill
adapted to the purpose. In one of the brief dis-
euslons which have taken place on the subject
the pecunhvity of gun-carriages on board
ship was adverted to, and what can mere
artillerymen know of the sort of gun-carriage
required for different vessels ? Nothing.
Again, it has long been a subject of com-
plaint that the cutlasses supplied to our
seamen were no better than iron-hoops with
a handle. This is quite true, and it has been a
standing reproach to the Ordnance Department
for nearly half a century. Similar remarks apply
to the muskets supplied to the seamen, who
are expected to defend their lives and gain
honour for their country with instruments that
would be a disgrace to the rude arts of Syria or
Arabia. In fact, as Sir CHARLES NAPIER ob-
served, the English sailor is worse supplied with
arms than the sailor on board MEHEMET Am's
ships, and it may reasonably be expected, were
a naval officer connected with the Board of Ord-
nance, that he would be able to remedy these
glaring evils. To secure the appointment of one
—which we regard as indispensable, and not as
some journals have ignorantly or malevolently
misrepresented the matter, to place a naval officer
at the head of the Board—was the object of Sir
Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S recommendation. Every
naval officer in Parnament concurred in the re-
commendation, and the Tories will probably ere
long regret that they have not conciliated the
navy, and promoted the good of the service by
adopting it.

_....-
In a discourse of Dr. CIANNING'S, delivered
in January last in the city of Boston, in the
United States, we find some remarks on the ob-
ligation of a city to care for, and watch over, the
health of its members, which we would gladly
see adopted by the wealthy classes in the cities
and large towns of the United Kingdom. No-
thing can be truer than that a very large amount
of the misery and crime which disgraces such
cities as London, Dublin, and Edinburgh, would
disappear were the wealthy and influential inha-
bitants seriously to undertake the improvement
of the moral and physical condition of their neg-
lected, starving, erring brethren. But unhap-
pily a residence in cities, instead of bringing all
classes into collision, has generally the effect of
entirely separating them. In London, for ex-
ample, the rich and poor never meet but in the
theatre, and even there the noise from the shil-
ling gallery is all that reaches the dress boxes.
The distance of a single street will frequ:mtly
carry a person from the excess of refinement to
a state of barbarism, of which it is impossible to
form an adequate conception. The most brutal
ignorance, the most deplorable indigence, the
most loathsome squalor and disease, the most
reckless, low, and depraved ruffianism, is fre-
quently separated only by a few hundred yards
from the gay abodes of accomplished elegance,
and the satiety of super-abundant wealth ; and
yet the one knows nothing and cares nothing
for the other. " There are travellers from Lon-
don," says Dr. CHANNING, " who come to visit
our Indians, but who leave at home a community
as essentially barbarous as that which they seek,
T, perhaps, have spent all their lives in the
midst
Nho
of it, giving it no thought. To these tra-
vellers a hovel in one of the suburbs which they
have left would be as strange a place as the wig-
wam of our own forests. They know as little
what thousands of their own city suffer, to what
extremities thousands
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saolrinftess
tolfi.osuasvaatgidestrliivbee,s.
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hosfotohtes
of the destitute, not one in ten is actuated by
poor,bythe
only motives that could endear them to
and obtain from them their confidence. They
are for the most part the female self-
p
apostles of some Tract Society, who see nothing
but sin in rags, and who insult the sufferings,
and chafe the temper, of starving wretches, by
recommending to them the perusal of lying
legends, concocted by some Evangelical Jesuit
in petticoats. For their many miseries they are
to seek consolation in the fabricated record of
the spiritual birth of " Sinful Sally," or " Dicky
Brown, the sweep's, Conversion," from the sin of
two-pennyworth-of-gin potations before break-
fast. No wonder that the poor regard the in-
trusion of such Pharisees into their miserable
dwellings as an insult to their poverty, and that

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