The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-21 00:00:00

TATTERSALL' S.

The attendance yesterday was thinner than on Monday, and
the betting less interesting. The few engagements made were
on the Newmarket July Stakes, for which Sir Mark Wood's
colt is, nominally, the favourite. There is a large field, and
every prospect of its becoming a good betting race. The follow-
ing were the closing prices :

NEWMARKET JULY STAKES.
5 to 1 agst Sir Mark Wood's Louisa colt (offered)
7 to 1 agst Mr. Sowerby's Iklalcolm (taken)
7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Musquito (taken)
7 to 1 agst Mr. Stonehewer's Emma filly
10 to i agst Mr. Greatrex's Trulla colt (taken)
10 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Vidocq
GOODWOOD cUP.
6 to 4 laid agst Sir M. Wood's Camarine (p. p.)
DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
5 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Muley Moloch
7 to 1 agst Mr. Watts's Belshazzar
12 to 1 agst Mr. Watts's Rockingham
13 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Mussulman
14 to 1 agst Colonel Crawford's The Mole
18 to I agst Mr. Waiker's Connoisseur
25 to 1 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Revenge
We give these as the current odds. Nothing was done on the
race, the majority of the subscribers being at Bath races.

ABSENCE OF MIND.—A west country man,
who bad lately occasion to provided himself with a pair of
new shoes, took the measure of his own foot to a nicety,
intending to send a boy to the shoemaker's, about three
miles distant to fetch him the shoes. Something, how-
ever, occurred to prevent the boy from going, and the man
resolved to go himself. He accordingly set off for the
cordiner's, and was about half way on his road, when he
suddenly stopt short, scratched his head, and muttered to
himself, " Confound it! I've forgot the measure!" Back
he went accordingly to procure it, and then proceeded to
his original destination, whete he learned with asto-
nishment from the man of awls, that his foot would
answer better than the measure !—Scotsman.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The population of Belgium on the Ist Ja-
nuary, 1832, was 4,130,121, and on the Ist January,
1838, 4,142,257, showing an increase of 12,136.

We are informed upon good authority that so
great a quantity of hosiery goods never left this town during
May for the last thirty years as during the month ju-t
expired. Many orders still remain unexecuted.—Leices-
ter Chronicle.

On Monday se'nnight, a Seal (Phoca
Linn), was shot in the River Severn, near Sharp-
ness Point, the dimensions of which were four feet and a
half in length, and measuring the same in circumference.
It weighed three cwt , and has been exhibited in the
hamlet of Littleworth, near Gloucester, during the week.
—Dorset County Chronicle.
LOSS OF THE CLYDE STEAMER.—Me
learn that the Clyde steamer, while on her passage (torn
Glasgow to Liverpool, with upwards of 100 passengers,
struck, about one o'clock on Sunday morning last, on a
rock nearArdwall Bay. The vessel was speedily got off,
and, while filling fast-, was, by the utmost exertions,
run a distance of four miles into Portnessock, where,
fortunately, all the passengers were landed in safety. Im-
mediately after, the Clyde sunk.—Dumfries Courier.
MANNERS IN 1741.—The ball began at
eight, each man danced one minute with his partner, and
then began country dances. The beauties were the Duke
of RICHMOND'S two daughters and their mother, still
handsomer than they : the Duke sat by his wife all night,
kissing her hand. The supper was served at twelve; a
large table of hot for the lady dancers; their partners and
other tables stood round. We danced (for I country-
danced) till four, then had tea and coffee, and come home.
—Sketches of the Court of England (1741), by Horace
Walpole.
BOTTLED TEARS.--1(1 some of the mourn-
ing assemblies of the Persians it is the custom for a priest
to go about to each person at the height of their grief with
a piece of cotton in his hand, with which he carefully col-
lects the falling tears, and which he then squeezes into a
bottle, preserving them with the greatest caution. This
practically illustrates the passage in the 56th Psalm,
viii. :—" Put thou my tears into thy bottle." Some Per-
sians believe that in the agony of death, when all medi-
cines have failed, a drop of tears so collected put into the
mouth of a dying man has been known to revive him ;
and it is for such a use that they are collected.—Mirror.
DEATH OF THE KING OF THE GIPSIES.
—We have to record the death, at an advanced age, a
few days since, of LAWRENCE BOSWELL, said to be
King of the Gipsies. He had been declining in health a
considerable time, and during the last two or three months
was, with part of his family, lying encamped in Draycot.
lane, between this town and Nottingham. As a proof
that he was of some consequence among the fraternity,
many tribes of gipsies from distant quarters assembled to
bid him a last farewell. A coffin of the best Nor-
way oak was made to receive his remains, which are
expected to be interred in the parish church of Wilne.—
Derby Reporter.
SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Wed-
nesday afternoon, while a couple of little boys were amus-
ing themselves by the side of the wall which fronts the
Green at the bottom of Charlotte-street, Glasgow, they
happened to stumble upon a bag, partly concealed among
a quantity of rubbish, which contained something of con-
siderable bulk. On cutting it open, to their horror, and
to that of every other onlooker, it was found to contain the
dead bodies of a middle aged female, and in a handkerchief
by her side a young child. Round the neck of the former
a piece of rope was firmly twisted. The corpses were
carried to the Police office. The female appeared to have
been dead about ten days.— Glasgow Courier.
COOL AS A CUCUMBER.—A grave-digger,
in a neighbouring parish was busily employed the other
day in preparing the last home for the remains of a de-
ceased parishioner, when two gentleman passed the man
of spades and mattocks at his melancholy employment.
"6 Whose grave is this?" asked one of the gentlemen of
the venerable and hoary-headed sexton. " It's for my
third wife, Sir," responded he of the mortcloth ; " and
I'm takin' up my first wife, to let her intil her place.
Ther's her banes (casting them out) rotten eneuch ; and
titer's my second wife lyin' aside her (clapping an adja-
cent grave with his shovel) ; fa kens but I may pit my
fourt in her place too. Oh, it's an awfu' wand' Ay, ay !
Ech, ech ! Och, och !"—Aberdeen Observer.
METHOD OF QUELLING A RIOT IN THE
HIGHLANDS.-In a certain burgh in one of our moun-
tainous districts, the important personage who filled the
office of fiscal was one night enjoying himself over a glass
with a friend, when the servant opened the door in great
haste, and announced that there were two men fighting in
Mac's (a neighbouring public-house), and the fiscal was
wanted immediately. The night was cold, and the official
felt reluctant to leave the comfortable situation in which
he found himself; turning. therefore, to the gill, he or-
dered her to "go and tell Mac to give the men a dr ,m to
be quiet." " But what if they'll no be quiet then, Sir ?"
asked the girl. " 0,1 it -1" cried the fiscal pettishly,
" just tell him to make them fight till I come."—Perth
Advertiser.

MENTAL SYMPATHY.—There is a sympa-
thy between minds and persons, which in all cases, even
in common intercourse, speedily attaches certain indivi-
duals to each other, who neither attract, nor are attracted.
by certain where. It is a❑ old remark, that no man ever
looked on, at a game of chance Pr skill, played by two
people, both previously unknown to him, without, in lees
than five minutes, feeling an interest for the success of one
of them over the other ; and there certainly are some un-
definable points of accordance, some harmonies of thought
or expression, of which we are not ourselves clearly con-
scious, which almost immediately attract the attention,
and fix our thoughts upon the individual, who as uncon-
sciously as ours-lves, happens to possess them.—Hook's
Parson's Daughter.
Sir R. WALPOLE was in the habit of having
sometimes at his table the landlord of an inn in the
neighbourhood of his seat. On one occasion, when
11Ionsey was of the party, an old dull Norfolk Baronet,
who had nothing to recommend him but wealth, was so
jealous of the attention the landlord received, that he
openly remonstrated with Sir ROBERT on his permitting
such a man to sit in his company. The landlord mo-
destly observed that as Sir ROBERT, who gave the dinner,
and all the gentlemen present condescended to admit him,
he saw no reason why the Baronet should take exceptions.
" Pho," said the Baronet, " your father was a butcher."
Well," said the landlord, " there is no great diffe-
rence between your father and mine, for if my father killed
calves yours brought them up." All the company took
the joke immediately, except the Baronet, who replied
" What! do you make my father a grasier."
We see by an Irish paper that Mr. O'CONNELL
has written a letter to Ireland in which lie professes to
give his reasons for not bringing forward the " repeal
question" during the present session of Parliament. When
he pleads the advanced period of the session as an excuse,
he hopes, we suppose, that it will be forgotten that at the
very commencement of the session—during the (!ebate on
the address—he was challenged by all parties to make good
his pledge, and let Parliament hear and decide upon the
subject. And yet this is, in fact, the only point of his
letter which can be mistaken for a reason. Mr. FERGUS
O'CONNOR should immediately give the repealers of Ire-
land his reasons for bringing on the discussion, as no
doubt he will bring it on, for we are sure he will not for-
feit his ple,;ge to take the sense of Parliament on the
question before it rises for the vac ition.— Times.

DRAMATIC AUTHORS.—A meeting was
held this week, at the Garrick's Head, of gentlemen who
have written successfully for Drury lane and Covent-
garden Theatres. The object of their meeting was to
prevent their dramatic works from being pirated and per-
formed in the country theatres without their receiving
due remuneration, and to have a property in their dramas
for ten years, and to assimilate the law, in a great degree,
to the regulations in France for the protection of the
works written for the stage. After some discussions,
resolutions to the above effect were adopted, at the same
time that it was agreed to act with all possible liberality
towards the provincial managers who hereafter perform
their plays and farces; and it was resolved to appeal to the
Legislature for the protection of their respective interests.
A copy of the resolutions was transmitte I to Mr. BUI,
WER, MX., to be embodied in his Bill for the protection
of dramatic literary property. A gentleman was nomi-
nated as their agent, and a solicitor was appointed, after
which the meeting adjourned.
TAMBURINI.—A singular story is told of
this gentleman during his residence in Palermo, where a
custom prevails of allowing, during the first day of the
carnival, the audience at the theatres to interrupt and
drown the performance by every sort of discordant noise.
The prima donna, offended at this license, refused to per-
form her part; the people were furious; and TAMBURINI,
who had once ()Olin: allayed the storm by his ready wit,
now undertook to go through the scene in the dress of
Etrza, and in the high tones of his clear falsetto, which
he is said to have done with the most perfect success,
contriving even to perform the duet, with which the scene
concludes, by rapidly changing from the high tones of
the female part to the deep and full tone of his own natural
voice. He gave another proof the versatility of his talent

at Napieq, wi,ere the principal woman having through
sudden illness lost her paver of singing, he went through
the who'e aria while she leaned motionless upon his
shoulder.— Hat nionicon.

KING JAMES'S CLASP KNIFE.—The word
" Jockteleg," which is still Scotch for a clasp-knife, was
of ❑nknown etymology till a knife was fund with the in.
scription, " Jacques de Liege," who was a famous cutler,
and supplied Scotland with clasp knives. It is said of
JAMFS VI., that to puzzle his courtiers in England, he
one day said to his stable boy :—" CALLAN, ba'e, there's
thretty pennies, gae wa' and buy me a jockteleg ; an' gin
ye byd, I'll gang to the bougars o' the house, an' tak' a
cabir and reesle your riggin wi' t." That is, "Boy !
here is thirty pence, go and by me a clasp-knife ; and if
you delay, I shall go to the roof of the house, and take a
rafter and thresh your back with it. —Janzieson's Diet. in
Voce.

ANECDOTES OF SIR ROBERT W ALPOLE.
—When Prime Minister, Sir ROBERT, as his son tell
us, " was called in the morning, and was asleep as soon
as his head touched the pillow, for I have frequently
known bins snore ere they had drawn his curtains—now
never sleeps above an hour without waking ; and he, who
at dinner always forgot he was Minister, and was more
gay and thoughtless than all his company, now sits with
out speaking, and with his eyes fixed for an hour together.
Judge if this is the Sir ROBERT you knew." Anticipat-
ing his being out :—" Trust me, if we fall, all the gran-
deur, the envied grandeur of our house, will not cost me
a sigh ; it has give❑ me no pleasure while we have it, and
will give me no pain when I part with it. My liberty,
my ease, and choice of my own friends and company, will
sufficiently counterbalance the crowds of Downing-street.
I am so sick of it all, that if we ate victorious or not, I
propose leaving England in the spring." He (Sir R.,
after his retirement) " says he will keep the 12th of Fe-
bruary, the day he resigned, with his family as long as he
lives."—Horace lVolpole's Letters. _

DIGNITY OF A ItEPUBLIC.—The policy of
my government being to give to its public servants small
salaries, the latter act but in unison with this policy, in
having their establishments small. It is not for those
honoured by being selected to serve the Republic abroad,
to complain. Nor, with the English, do I believe, tdat
the considera'ion attaching to foreign ministers, is depen-
dent upon the salaries they receive. However large these
may be, and sometimes are, in the persons of the repre-
sentatives of the Imperial and Royal Governments of Eu-
rope, they are still so much below the wealth of the borne
circles in London, as to be no distinction, supposing dis-
tinction to he sought on that ground. The surpassing in-
comes in the home circles, and habit of expenditure, with
the ample accommodations by which the many who pos-
se's them live surrounded, incline their possessors to re-
gard such official strangers as objects, rather than agents,
of hospitality. It may be otherwise in capitals on the
continent, but this is the general relationship which the
diplomatic corps holds to society iu London.—Rush's
Narrative of a Residence at the Court of London.
THE MOTHER.—It has often been remarked
that great and eminent men receive from their mothers,
even before they see the light, half the mental dispositions
and other peculiarities of character by which they are af.
terwards distinguished. Thus in GOETHE'S character we
find a most sensitive shrinking from all intense impres-
sions; which, by every means, and under every circum-
stance of his life, he sought to ward off from himself. We
find the same peculiarity in his mother, as we shall see
from the following curious and characteristic traits:—
GoETHE's mother, whenever she hired a servant, used to
make the following conditions :—" You are not to tell
me of any thing horrible, afflicting, or agitating, whether
it happen in my own house, in the town, or neighbour-
hood. I desire, once for all, that I may bear nothing of
the kind. If it concerns me, I shall know it soon enough ;
if it does not concern me, I have nothing whatever to do
with it. Even if there should be a fire in the street in
which I live, I am not to -know of it till it is absolutely
necessary that I shou!d."— Goethe, from Austin's Trans-
lation of Fah/ie.

SHAPE OF THE EARTH ILLUSTRATED.
—We have before likened the inequalities on the earth's
surface, arising from mountains, valleys, buildings, &c.,
to the roughness on the rind of an orange, compared with
its general mass. The comparison is quite free from
exaggeration. The highest mountain known does not ex -
ceed five miles in perpendicular elevation; this is only one-
1600th part of the earth's diameter; consequently, on a
globe of sixteen inches in diameter, such a mountain
would be represented by a protuberance of not more than
one-hundredth part of an inch, which is about the thick-
ness of ordinary drawing-paper. Now, us there is no
entire continent, or even any very extensive tract of land,
known, whose general elevation above the sea is anything
like half this quantity, it follows, that, if we would con-
struct a correct model of our earth, with its seas, con-
tinents, and mountains, on a globe sixteen inches in
diameter, the whole of the land, with the exception of a
few prominent points and ridges, must he compris-d on
it within the thickness of thin printing-paper; and the
highest hill would be represented by the smallest visible
grains of sand.—Sir J. Herschel on Astronomy—Ca.
binet Cpclopcedia.
HORRID ATTEMPT TO MURDER A WIFE,
AND SUBSEQUENT EFFORT AT SELF•DESTRUCTION
The people of this town were, on Saturday morning,
struck with alarm, on hearing the reports then preva'ent
to the eff.-ct above mentioned. It aprars that the guilty
nil now suffering individual, John O'Neill, a barber, re-
siding in Mill-street, had been greatly addicted to whisky
drinking, and that, under its baneful influence, he, a few
nights back, deliberately proceeded to murder his wife, by
the secret, and therefore inure than ordinarily atrocious
means of pouring a quantity of aqua fortis into her ears
and mouth, when asleep ! After the commission of this
crime, his wretched victim still lingering, and though as
yet unable to speak distinctly, intimating (as we are told)
her knowledge of his guilt and determination to bring
him to justice, he, either dreading punishment, or being
stung with remorse, attempted suicide, o❑ the morning of
Saturday, by cutting his throat, in the most determined
and desperate manner, with a razor. He was discovered
about six o'clock by his daughter, who gave an immediate
alarm. Surgeon Morrison having been sent for, that
gentleman succeeded in staunching the blood and sewing
up the frightful gash, several arteries having been cut
through and the windpipe nearly severed. As soon as safe
or practicable, the miserable man was removed to the hos-
pital, where he now remains under the care of Surgeon
Morrison, but in such a state as to leave the hope of re-
covery extremely doubtful. His wife is not expected to
survive.—Newry Telegraph.

CATSKINS SOLD FOR l'UßS.—Some of the
Londoners (the lower ones, of cJurse, we speak of) are
very ingenious and very cruel ; they have a particular
zest for sacrificing domestic animals, and will skin them
alive, or set them to gnaw one another just for the petty
profit of one and the amusement (-o.ci, amusement !) of
the other. The poor cats of the roetropolii are the chief
holocausts to the god Pluf.o. In the vicinity of \Yapping
and Shadwell the carcasses of dead cats used a few years
ago to be as thick as paving-stones early of a morning.
Sometimes the wretched animals were seen smoking from a

recent tomahawk operation, the nerves on their backs,
shoulder=, and heads, still convulse I with pain. A trades
man in the suburbs of London is out of employ, or haply
is seized with a fit of intolerance of labour ; let him steal a
dozen cats per day and he can live like a gentleman. Cat-
skins are valuable things; they constitute very capital
_ .

mock furs, and some of the most eminent furriers in trade
give seven or eight shillings a dozen. The skin, how-
ever, is scarcely worth anything if it be not taken off when
the cat is alive. It comes off with the greatest facility,
and gives the peeler much less trouble when the creature
is in the full vigour of life. in the flaying alive, too, there
is no blood manifested ; the operator has no " damned
spots" to wash away before his conscience can become
quiet. The flayer begins by slitting up the fore legs, he
then does the same with the hind legs; continuing the
incision along the belly, he divides the skin completely in
the middle line, and tears it up by degrees until he sepa-
rates it on either side up to the back-bone. These mon-
sters have some method of stifling the voice of the cat.
The worst feature of all in this murderous crusade is, that
some of the agents are women.-211onthly Review.
GENIUS AND A PRISON.- lt was in prison
that Bcethius composed his excellent work on the consola-
tions of philosophy; it was in prison that Goldsmith
wrote his " Vicar of Wakefield ;" it was in prison that
Cervantes wrote " Don Quixotte," which laughed chi-
valry out of Europe ; it was in prison that Charles I.
composed that excellent work, the " Portraiture of a
Christian King ;" it was in prison that Grotius wrote his
" Commentary on St. Matthew ;" it was in prison that
Buchanan composed his excellent " Paraphrase on the
Psalms of David ;" it was in prison that Daniel Defoe wrote
his " Robinson Crusoe" (he offered it to a bookseller for
10/., which that liberal encourager of literature declined) ;
it was in prison that Sir Walter Raleigh wrote his " His-
tory of the World ;" it was in prison that Voltaire sketched
the plan and composed most of the poem of " The Hen-
riade ;" it was in prison that llowel wrote most of his
" Familiar Letters ;" it was in prison that Elizabeth of
England, and her victim, Mary Queen of Scots, wrote
their bebt poems; it was in prison that Margaret of France
( wife of Henry IV.) wrote an " Apology for the Irregu.
larities of her Conduct ;" it was in prison that eir John
Pettas wrote the book on medals called " Fleta Minor ;"

it was is prison that Tasso wrote some of his most affect-
ing poems. With the fear of a prison how many wor lo
Lave been written.—Ladies' Magazine.

A LADY OF THE OLD COURT.—Lady
SUNDON is dead, and Lady M disappointed; she, who
is full as polite as my Lord HERVEY, had made hers, if
an absolute servant to Lady SUNDON, but I don't he r
that she has left her even her old clothes. Lord Suranos;
is in great grief; I am surprised, for she has had fits ~f
madness ever since her ambition met such a check by
the death of the QUEEN. She had great power with
her, though the QUEEN pretended to despise her ; but
had unluckily told her, or fallen into her power, by some
secret. I was saying to Lady POMFRET, "To be sure
she is dead very rich ;" she replied, with some warmth,
" She never took money." When I came home I men-
tioned this to Sir R. "No," said he, "but she took
jewels ; Lord POMFRET'S place of Master of the Horse to
the QUEEN was bought of her for a pair of diamond
ear-rings, of fourteen hundred pounds value." One day
that she wore them at a visit at old MARLNRo's, as soon
as she was gone, the Duchess said to Lady MARY
WORTLEY, " How can that woman have the impudence
to go about in that bribe ?" "Madam," said Lady
MARY, "How would you have people to know where
wine is to be sold, unless there is a sign hung out ?"
—Sketches of the Court of England (1741), by Ho
race Walpole.
BONAPARTE'S CELEBRATED BERLIN DE-
CREE.—The principles assumed in this famous decree
were not mere affectation, as is sometimes suggested, on
the part of NAPOLEON, but seem to have been adopted
from a conviction that he had found out the vulnerable
spot where England might be most fatally struck. This
honest impression appears at once breathing with all the
energy of life in a private letter to JUNOT, then Governor
of Paris. The date is two days subsequent to tl at of the
Berlin decree, and it contains earnest exhortatioos to the
Governor to assist with all his might in establishing the
continental system, particularly in Paris. " L-t your
wives," enjoined NAPOLEON, " drink Swiss tea; it is as
good as that from the East; and chicoree coffee is as
good as the coffee of Arabia. Let'them set this example in
their drawing rooms, instead of amusing themselves,
like Madame DE STAEL, with political disquisitions,
Let them beware that I do not find them wearing dresses
of English manufacture; tell this to Madame JUNOT. If
the wives of my principal officers fail in setting an ex•
ample, where am Ito look for it ? This is a question of
life or death to France and England ; and I expect assist-
ance in carrying it through from those who are nearest to
me. I rely, JUNOT, on your zeal and attachment. The
arch-chancellor wilt communicate my orders to you."—
Madame Junot's Memoirs.

NATIONAL ENAIITY.—We have just been
reading one of the amusing books of Capt. BASIL HALL,
in which he intimates that the French and English are
natural enemies, and ever will be. The " ever•will-be"
prophecy is the counterpart of its rash friend the " never-
will-be," and comes to the same point. The French and
English, according to Captain HALL, ever will be ene-
mies : they never, by any growth of common sense, or
the sacrifice of the less to the greater, or the arrival of
rational years of discretion, will become aware of the
policy of living peaceably with their next door neighbours,
and interchanging their goods. They will always he
fighting, more or less, and captains of vessels will always
be getting good prize-money. Human nature is always
to be playing at soldiers. There is no such thing as ad-
vancement in experience and wisdom. The French and
English massacre one another when they take cities, just
as they used to do; the massacres of St. Bartholomew
and Smithfield are not gone by. " Oh, yes, they are;
but still the English and French will remain enemies."
Why so? Why, if neighbours get rid of one, two, or
three grounds of offence, may they not get rid of six—
of all ? Captain HALL, who is a very entertaining,
intelligent, and, we believe, generously disposed man by
nature—spoilt for a wider policy by the narrow limits of
his quarter deck—used to be of opinion (if our memory
is not mistaken) that the impressment of seamen for the
naval service, was an evil not to be got rid of. This
opinion is now changed, and he has shown us that many
in'elligent officers confidently look for its abolition.—
Tait's Magazine.

Four savages, three men and one woman, be-
longing to a tribe of Indians called Charruas, which was
almost entirely exterminated a short time back by the
troops of the Republic at Uruguay, of which Monte Video
is the capital, have just been brought to Paris by M.
Curel, Director of the College of Monte Video, with the
special permission of the Government of the Republic.
Among them is the Cacique Vaimaca, surnamed Peru,
who, in 1814, entered the service of General Artigas.
They are all copper •coloured, their heads are round, and
their hair is of the deepest black. The Cacique Peru,
who is about 50, has an immense scar on his body from a
sabre wound he received in battle. Notwithstanding his
grave and solemn demeanour and stern countenance, he
could not refrain from smiling at sortie ladies who went
with a party to visit him. Tacuabe, who is the youngest
of three men, has very agreeable features, and was cele-
brated in his own country for his skill in taming wild
horses end bulls. He displayed the manner of throwing
the lasso, or cord with which they entangle and
imprison their enemies. The young female is called
Guyunuaa ; she is not handsome, but her com-
plexion is not so red as her companions. She is only 20
yeirs of age, and is the wife of Tacuabe, who is of the
same age. She formerly cohabited with Peru, but this
change of husbands is allowed by their customs, marriages
being made and dissolved without any formalities. The
fourth Charrus, named Senaque, was the constant attend-
ant of the Cacique Peru during the war against Brazil, and
is renowned for his fidelity and bravery. He has the
mark of a wound from a lance on his breast. They are
all nearly naked, and are generally crouched round a fire.
at which they broil the fresh meat that is provided for
them. They at first showed a fierce alarm on the appear-
ance of a large party that went to visit them, but soon
became familiar, and conversed freely in Spanish and Por-
tuguese. They have been visited by M. Geoffrny de St.
Hilaire, and many other men of science. At present they
are residing at No. 19, Allee des Veuves, Champs Elysees,
but it is said that they will shortly be exhibited to the
public.— Galignani's Messenger.
ANGLING.—Anglers of adequate skill and
experience have had capital sport during the present sea-
son, particularly in the lochs of Dumfries-shire and Gal-
loway. Not long ago, a friend and townsman caught six
trout, which together weighed 151b5., and his opinion
is, that loch trout this year are larger than usual. At
Loch Dee he killed some very large pike, simply by using
big bait,—a secret which is not generally known. Skinned
eels of some size are found very attractive, and easily
seen, and bring grown voracious pike from the lowest
depths of their watery abodes. At Loch Skerrow, near
Lochenbreck, and about six miles from Gatehouse, the
fishing is excellent, and the scenery picturesquely grand in
some points, and sublimely so in others. The lake is of
considerable size, and is studded with islands, some of
which are beautifully fringed and wooded. One of th,ni
would afford scope enough for a house and garden, along
with grass for a small flock of goats or sheep ; and might
easily be formed into a crack residence for a Hermit or
modern " Lady of the Lake." The largest island is fre-
quented by at heist one brace of eagles, which build their
nest on the tops of the highest trees. At the same spot
herons build in spring, and lodge in summer, that they
may be near a capital fish market, and find little difficulty
in treating themselves and their greedy young, to a capital
dinner and breakfast, of the finest trout. The herons are old
stagers : the eagles new-comers ; and this year the neigh-
bouring tenant witnessed a pitched battle between the first
class of Scottish feathered belligerents. The herons said,
or thought, " the island is ours ; like his Grace of New-
castle, we have a good right to do what we like with
our own ; you have no business here at a'l ; the tnoun-
tains may be yours, but not so the valleys, and you must
not presume to squat upon our property." To this doe-
, trine the eagles demurred, seeing there were plenty of
trees to spare, which owed no obligation to the hand of
man ; and from words, if words were spoken, the parties
immediately came to blows. The eagles had the advantage
of the lex talionis—the herons in numbers ; and though
the battle was a tough one, numbers prevailed, and the
eagles finally were beaten off. The victors, however,
were generous, and permitted the enemy to retire with the
honours of war, and locate themselves on the island next
in size to their own.—Dumfries Courier.
A POKER'S END.—In my visits among my
patients one morning, I went into a room where two, who
were acquaintances of each other, were accustomed to
live; immediately I entered, I noticed an unusual degree
of dejection about one of them, and a feverish kind of
excitement in the other. I inquired what was the matter ?
" Matter !" said the excited one, "matter enough ! he has
done for himself !" "Why, what has he done ?" "Oh, he
has only swallowed the poker !" During this short con-
versation, the other looked increasingly mournful ; and on
my inquiring what was the matter with him, he replied,
" He has told you true enough ; I have swallowed the
poker, and I do not know what I shall do with it !"
" I will tell you how it happened," said the first. "My
friend and I were hitting by the fire, talking on different
things, when I offered to lay him a wager he could not eat
any of the poker ; he said be could and would ; took it
up, twisted the end of it backward and forward between
the bars of the grate, and at last broke off some inches of

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It, and instantly wallowed It, aid
choly ever since!" " I did not
" a word of this tale;" and I supi.
uc' , for be added, " 0, you
there is the rest of the poker."
examined the poker, which, beini,
much burned ; and, where the action

fiercest and had worn away the iron, a piece of be.we
iwo and three inches had been wrenched off and was miss-
ing. Still I could hardly credit that the human stotry.ch
could receive such a dose, and remain " feeling," as the
professed swallower of it said, " nothing particular."
However, the constant affirming of the first, united to
the assent and rueful looks of the second, induced me to
use the patient as though the account were true. I admi-
nistered very strong medicines, and watched their effects
constantly. The man ate and drank and slept as usual,
and appeared to suffer nothing but from the effect of the
medicines. At last, to my astonishment, the piece of the
poker came away, and the man was as well as ever. The
iron had undergone a regular process of digestion, and the
surface of it was deeply honey-combed by the action of the
juices.—Life of Adam Clarke.

LOCH -LOMOND.—Loch Lomond is not so
much like an arm of the sea, as the sea itself—a Mediter-
ranean. Along its shores might you voyage in your swift
schooner, with shifting breezes, all a summer's day, nor at
sunset, when you dropped anchor, have seen half tht beau-
tiful wonders of the Fairy Flood. It is many-isled ; and
some of them are in themselves little worlds, with woods
and hills, " where roam the spotted deer." Houses are
seen looking out from among old trees, and children play-
ing on the green sward that slopes safe'y into deep water,
where, in rushy havens, are drawn up the boats of fisher-
men, or of woodcutters who go to their work on the main-
land. You might live all your life on one of those
islands, and yet be no hermit. Hundreds of small bays in-
dent the shores, and some of a majestic character take a
fine bold sweep with their towering groves, enclosing the
mansion of a Colquhoun or a Campbell at enmity no more,
or the turretted castle of the rich alien, who there finds
himself as much at home as in his hereditary hall ; Sasse-
nach and Gael ❑ow living in gentle friendship. What a
prospect from the Point of Firkin ! The Loch in i a
whole length and breadth—the magnificent expanse un-
broken, though bedropped, besprinkled, with unnumbered
isles—and the shores diversified with jutting capes and far-
shooting peninsulas, enclosing sweet separate seclusions,
each in itself a lock, the mighty mother of them all being in-
deed a sea. Ships might be sailing there, the largest
ships of war; and there is anchorage for fleets. But
the clear course of the lovely Leven is rock-crossed
and intercepted with gravelly shallows, and guards
Loch Lomond from the white-winged roamers that
from all seas come crowding into the Firth of Clyde,
arid sometimes, as they glide along, carry their stream-
ing flags above the woods of Ardgowan. And there
stands Ben. What cares be for all the multitude of
other lochs his gaze commands—what cares be evert
f 4. the salt-sea foam tumbling far away off into the
ocean ? All-sufficient for his love is the loch at his

feet. How serenely looks down the Giant ! I. there
not something very sweet in his sunny smile? Yet
were you to see him frown, as we have seen him, your
heart would sink ; and what would become of you, if
all alone, by your own single self, wandering over the
wide moor that glooms in utter houselessneas between his
correis and Glenfalloch—what if you were to hear the
strange mutterings we have heard, as if moaning from
an earthquake amongquaginiree, till you felt that the sound
came from the sky, and all at once from the heart of night
that had strangled day burst a shattering peal that might
waken the dead—for Benlomond was in wrath, and
vented it in thunder ?—Blachwood's Magazine.
ANECDOTE OF THE COURT OF NAPOLEON.
—Madame JuNor states that, amongst the measures
adopted by NAPOLEON for rendering his Court the su-
preme example for brilliancy to the rest of the crownel
heads of Europe, was tl.e revival of the dance called qua-
drille; and this, by a specific regulation, was to be danced
only by those who appeared in proper costume. The fun-
damental principles of these laws was, that the quadrille
dancers should be distinguished each by one of four colours,
white, green, red, and blue. The white ladies must wear
diamonds, the red ones rubies ; the green ones must be de.
corated with emeralds ; whilst sapphires and turquoises
were required for the blues. The costume was the Spa-
nish, and consisted of a robe of white crepe, slashed with
satin, which must have the colour of the quadrille, and the
slashings of which were to be trimmed with lama. A
toque of black velvet, with two white plumes, formed the
head dress. All this seemed to the Duchess absurd enough,
but the dress of the men for the quadrille out-heroded
every thing. This was a body coat of white velvet !

surmounted by a scarf of the colour of the quadrille. It
was tied in a bow at the aide. The quadrilles were usu-
ally rehearsed in the daytime, and large companies used to
assemble for the purpose. Some curious instances of
purloining costly articles from each other at these meetings

are given by the Duchess. One is a case in which
a young lady, a member of some exalted family, was
caught in the very manor, after having picked up a
shawl, precious in the eyes of its true owner, on account
of the exquisitely beautiful parrots which expanded their
variegated feathers on the borders. But what, in all
these instances, we chiefly admire in the narrative,
is the admirable coolness with which the lady thief
meets the charge, though the evidence against her be
as clear as the sun. A Madame HAMZLIN, for ex-
ample, stood up at a ball to dance a country dance.
She laid down a beautiful black shawl, and, after the
dance, on going to look for her shawl, it was gone. Pre-
sently she saw the identical shawl on the shoulders of a
well known lady, to whom she went and spoke. " Ma-
dame, I beg pardon, but you have got my *haw)." " I
assure you, Madame, you are mistaken." " By no means,
I can prove it to be mine, for it has thirteen palms, a
very uncommon number; perhaps you will do me the
favour to count them." "It is unnecessary, because any
shawl has thirteen palm•." " But, Madame," said Ma-
dame HA3IELIN, " in coming here this evening I had the
misfortune to tear ir, and should know it by the rent."
" That is vet), singular," replied the other, " for mine
has also its rent, which is precisely the reason of its being
mine, as it enabled me to purchase it much cheaper than
I otherwise could have done." The possessor of the shawl
knew her strength, and sbe left poor Madame HAMELIN
no other compensation for the loss of the thawl than what
the latter might derive from having a capital story at her
command.

FASHIONABLE DINNER PARTY IN ABYS-
SINIA.—A great degree of scepticism has been enter-
tained in regard to the mode of supplying brinde, or raw
meat, to the guests in the fashionable parties at Gondar,
the capital of Abyssinia. When the company have taken
their seats at table, a cow'or bull is brought to the door,
and his feet strongly tied ; after which the cooks proceed
to select the most delicate morsels. Before killing the
animal, all flesh on the buttocks is cut off in solid
square pieces, without hones or much effusion of blood.
Two or three servants are then employed, who, as fast as
they can procure the brinde, lay it upon cakes of
teff placed like dishes down the table, without cloth
or any thing else beneath them. By this time all
the guests have knives in their hands, and the men prefer
the large crooked ones, which in the time of war they put
to all sorts of uses. The company are so ranged that one
gentleman sits between two ladies ; and the former with
his long knife begins by cutting a thin piece, which would
be thought a good steak in England, while the motion of
the fibres is yet perfectly distinct. In Abyssinia no man
of any fashion feeds himself or touches his own meat.
The women take the flesh and cut it lengthwise like
strings, about the thickness of one's little finger, then
crosswise into square pieces somewhat smaller than
dice. This they lay upon a portion of the teff bread,
strongly powdered with black pepper, or cayenne,
and fossil salt, and then wrap it up like a cart-
ridge. In the mean time, the gentleman, having
put up his knife, with each hand resting upon
his neighbour's knee, his body stooping, his head
low and forward and mouth open, very like an idiot,
turns to the one whose cartridge is first ready, who
stuffs the whole of it between his jaws, at the im-
minent risk of choking him. This is a mark of
grandeur. The greater the man would seem to be, the
larger is the piece which he takes into his mouth ; and
the more noise he makes in chewing it, the more polite
does he prove himself. None but beggars and thieves,
say they, eat small pieces, and in silence. Having
despatched this morsel, which he does very expeditiously,
his neighbour on the other hand holds forth a second pellet,
which he devours in the same way, and so on till he is satis-
fied. He never drinks till he has finished eating ; and before Le
begins, in gratitude to the fair ones who hove fed him, he
makes up two small rolls of the same kind and form.
Each of the ladies opens her mouth at once, while with
his own hand be supplies a portion te both at the same
moment. Then commence the potations, which, we are
assured, are net regulated with much regard to sobriety or
decorum.—. Alt ells time the unfortunate victim at the
door is bleeding, but bleeding little ; for so remarkably
skilful are the butchers, that while they strip the bones of
the flesh, they avoid the parts which are traversed by the
last they
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perishing from loss of blood,
andgrea t
soon arteries.
the
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animal,
becomes so tough that the unfeeling wretches who feed
on the remainder, can scarcely separate the muscles with
their teetb.—Edinburgh Cabinet Library, No. Xl4l
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

A smart-. diScuSsion took place yesterday in
the House of Commons on the presenting of a
petition by Colonel Evans from the parish of St.
Anne, Westminster, ftm; the repeal of the as-
sessed taxes. 'lt has ever heal our opinion tiUl
the most impolitic act committed by the present
Ministers has been their obstinate support oldie
above-mentioned taxes, persiSted in because of
an early declaration somewhat imprudently made.
A substitute for these odious imposts mi,zht
easily have been found, and we are satisfied that
double the revenue derived from them would not
repay Lord Althorp and his colleagues for that
alienation of the public feeling from the Govern-
ment which their pertinacity in maintaining the
house and window tax has occasioned. But
while the people are everywhere anxious for this
most just relief, they are not such stupid gulls
as not to see through the Tory policy. Colonel
Evans, who is a good simple-minded man, sus-
pecting no evil, seems to have been cajoled by
the Tory promises to behave better than the
Whigs ; but the nation understands the hollow
trick. We know that there is at bottom, in the pre-
sent Cabinet, a sincere love and purpose of reform,
both in our institutions and our finances, notwith-
standing the occasional awkward and indiscreet
demonstrations of indifference to it in both,
owing to want of practical skill. Whereas the
whole Tory scheme of government rests on re-
sistance to popular demands, exhibiting a stub-
bornness of hostility to all change, and distrust
or, or contempt for, all political improvement.
With regard to the house tax, such instances of
iniquity in the distribution of it as were enu-
merated by Colonel Evans in the course of his
address on the petition, ought to have called up
a blush in any Minister, instead of an attempt
to vindicate them. The false principle was
once more assumed by Lord Althorp that houses
ought to be assessed according to their rent value
in the market, instead of a value measure by
their cost, which would be a more accurate as
well as twofOld ground whet eon to estimate at
once the just tax upon the house and the pecu-
niary ability of the occupant. In fact, a house
tax might be made, and would, if made fairly,
constitute a species of property-tax,—an object
in itself quite just and politic, but utterly frus-
trated by the inequality which has always been
observed in its assessment. Lord Althorp, we
are sorry to observe, gave little hope of satisfac-
tion to the country on this subject. The country,
therefore, through its representatives, must fiEh
its own battle.—Tinies.

In the House of Commons, yesterday, Colonel
Evans pointed out in considerable detail the
unequal manner in which the mansions of the
nobility and shopkeepers, innkeepers, &c., are
rated to the house tax, both in the metropolis
and the country. The inhabitants of towns,
and the metropolis more especially, are quite
aware of the importance of not remaining quiet
under their burden; and without having the
gift of prophecy, any one may foretel that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, with all his imper-
turbability, will be made to feel the incessant
attacks of the sufferers. Neither can the
Nobility be quite at ease, while the partiality
with which they have been treated-in the mode of
rating is continually dwelt on. We observe that
Mr. Cobbett charges the Members of the Hon.
House with shouting and imitating dogs and
jackanapes, in order to prevent his being heard.
Sir Harry Verney had charged him with point-
ing out to the lower orders where the torch of
incendiarism should be applied, at a time when
he was himself shrouded. Mr. Cobbett said
the charge had been made in the Court of King's
Bench, but not established, and he complained
of the hardship of Members bringing charges
against each other in their writings in books.
But when a man not merely writes books,
but puts his name to them, it is natural
to identify him with the' books. When a
man is found advocating a measure one day in a
book, and the next speaking against it in public,
a suspicion of his sincerity is naturally enter-
tained. People are not fond of being hum-
bugged too openly. We have no doubt that the
grating noise of which the Hon. Member for
Oldham complains, is attributable to the above
cause. Thus, for instance, yesterday he attempted
to throw dust into the eyes of the labouring
classes and the nobility at the same time, by
holding up universal suffrage as necessary to the
protection of the.former, while it would add to
the influence of the latter. On presenting a
petition from the Cartwright Club, he said, " It
was signed by twenty persons, and prayed for
universal suffrage and annual Parliaments. They
had found the Reform Act do them no good,
and they wanted it to be carried further. They
began by telling the House that it had no sym-
pathy with the people. There could be no doubt
that it was so—there existed no sympathy be-
tween the middle classes and the higher, and the
nobility of this country made a grievous mistake
when they neglected. to take care of the inte-
rests of the working classes upon the occasion of
the passing of the Reform Bill. Those who were
she nearest to the nobility in rank naturally envied
them, and the man who had money looked upon the
ancient parks and castles, and listened to the
soui.ding titles of the nobility with a feeling
which alienated each class from the other. The
tty ;an of money naturally said to himself, why
should not Ibe a Lord ? Not so the poor man,
he was the ally of the Peer, and the interests of
the higher orders would be safer in the hands of
the lower than in those of the middle. Again,
if they asked the working people, who were alone
opable of defending the country from riots at
home, or from the chances of war abroad—if
they asked those people to stand forward in de-
fence of the country, they would, of course, ask
what country, and in defence of what ? We
have no property ; we have nothing but the
labour that lies in our carcasses ; we have no-
shing to defend. But give them their rights,
and their language would instantly change. If
he were a Lord he-would have a different con-
stituency than under the Reform Bill." Now
gury reader of Cobbett's Register remembers
that during the progress of the Reform Bill the
non. Member for Oldham wrote a series of
very able articles in its favour, in which
he. endeavoured to perstiade' the advocates
sit universal suffrage,.. Oast from the depen-
dent state of the labouring classes in this coun-
try, universal suffrage would be giving undue in-
fluence to the nobility and other great land-
holders, and that the suffrage given by the Re-
form Bill would be more effectual to preeect the
people against the Aristocracy than universal
suffrage. It is true that Mr: Hunt was then
endeavouring to create a division on the subject
of universal suffrage, and that Mr. Cobbett was
exceedingly anxious to mortify the then repre-
sentative of Preston. But that does not prove
his sincerity a whit the more. He is now, all
for the nobility, and for extending their influ-
ence over the labouring classes, with a view to
the benefit of the latter ; but at the time of the

Reform Bill, he conceived the extension of the
influence of the Aristocracy would be prejudi-
cial to all the other classes. No man, whatever
his talents, will be allowed in this mariner to
blow hot and cold with the same breath. Men
naturally resent such clumsy attempts to gull
them, and hence it is not difficult to discover
why the House should he at times so little dis-
posed to listen to the Honourable Member for
Oldham. Mr. Cobbett, as he waxes in years,
grows very thin-skinned. He monopolises the
right of abuse, and we cheerfully concede to
him the exclusive use of the blacking brush.
He is the Fuseli of public writers, and excels in
dreams and nightmare. His prophecies are a
drug in the market, and we do not think that he
even believes them himself. Last night he ap-
pears, in his evening vehicle, suffused with rabid
foam, under the title of " Whig Spite."—
" Sir—Did you ever see the picture which represents
the famous English Saint—Saint Dunstan, whose name
has been retained in our kalendar, and in a parish, bear-
ing whose name, I am now writing this ; did you ever
see tie picture representing this famous S iint taking the
devil by tli• nose with a pair of red-hot tongs; did you
ever pay ~ttention to the writhings and twistings of the
Father of Lies ; to the glare and rolling of his eyes ; to
the foam issuing from his distended jaws; to the livid
flames going forth mixed with the foam ? If you never
did, imagine him now to live in Downing-street, and the
good old Saint there to have him by the nose; and then
read, in the Morning Chronicle of to-day, his words
upon the occasion, manifestly edited by a noisy under-
strapper, who is trembling for his seat as well as for his
pay; and here the words are"—

. _
After extracting our article, he abruptly retires
from the combat with the following farewell :
" Not another word : this, as Dr. Milner entitles his
last book, is, ' the end of controversy.'
" I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,

" WILLIAM COBBETT."
The " Father of Lies" is, however, on a wrong
scent, and we do not feel disposed at this time
to set him right. No Journal has done justice
to the real merits of Mr. Cobbett except the
Chronicle ; and as he discards in rotation all his
opinions and friends, we could not reasonably
expect to continue in favour. When Mr. Cob-
bett has done hugging the Tories, we may expect
a little truth and politeness at his hands. He
has smarted too recently under the indictment of
the Whigs ever to forget and forgive. When
the Tories have given him a second blister, he
will desert from their camp ; but we would sin-
cerely advise him to leave off his old trick of
taking a shilling from every political recruiting
party. When he sticks to his colours, he is
always respectable.—Morning Chronicle.

If the Reformed House of Commons me-
ditate (as we are told every day by certain Jour-
nals that they do), a collision, or a trial of
strength, with the House of Lords, we cannot
compliment the former on the skill with which
they seem to provide for the coming crisis. It
is not enough that they are ready to buckle on
the armour of controversy. Desperadoes are
always ready to fight. But if the struggle
is to be an intellectual one, they would do
• well to provide themselves with a small por-
tion of character, for in all cases, and in
theirs more especially, as a Representative
Body, character is strength. We are aware
that, in the narrow view which was taken of the
General Registry Bill the other night, whe❑ the
Commons thought proper to throw it out, the
impression seemed to be that the country was
indifferent to the measure, while the lawyers—
an influential class in their respective districts—
were violently opposed to it. But this sort of
speculation on the indifference or the apathy of
mankind is often attended with danger; and when,
as in the present case, the motive of parties is clearly
seen through, people are apt to rouse themselves
under the excitement of indignation, and that
rousing is the expression of public opinion in
the instance. It is possible, therefore, that the
transparency of those selfish considerations which
led to the defeat of the Bill may he instrumental
in securing the punishment of those by whom it
was defeated. The great mass of the people are
not interested in the registration of deeds, but
they are interested in the character of their con-
stituents, and in the character of the Reformed
Parliament, which will deceive itself greatly if it
thinks that it has any character to spare. The
advantages of a general system of registration,
such as was proposed by the Bill, are manifest
in the saving of expense and trouble that would
result from it to the community. But this saving
of expense and trouble wa., not palatable to the
lawyers, whose pockets it would affect ; and upon
this latter consideration the House of Commons
has decided that the balance of advantages is
against the measure; that the lawyers, who are
active canvassers at an election, are too important
a body to be offended, even for the sake of the
public. With what face these men ca❑ challenge
the House of Lords upon any vote which they
may please to give upon any other occasion, is a
question which few will answer in a manner to
gratify the self-love of the Reformed House.—
Morning Herald.

The total failure of the recent efforts of the
Whigs to excite public alarm or commiseration
upon their anticipated downfal is not among the
least instructive of the signs of the times. Three
prints only, among the multitude published in
the metropolis, remain, so far as we recollect,
permanently attached to the Grey Adtnimistra-
don, and the cries of distress which they sent
forth when it was only surmised that the ter-
rible Tories were coming out in strength were
the most bitter and piercing we ever heard.
The Times and Chronicle (to say nothing of
our cool friend the Globe) screamed and howled,
each in its own peculiar vein, in agonizing con-
cert, and the chorus was so deep and dreadful
that several of Mr. Irving's disciples really did
believe that the end of the world was come ;
and men of grave habits, not given to panic,
went to far as to ask one another what it waa
all about. But the public at large, the pensive
public, was provokingly dull and phlegmatic.
The Whig Ministers were said to be going or
gone, but somehow or other no one seemed to
regret that awful circumstance,and the only general
remark that reached our ears was, that they had
continued in office a long while for them,
and much too long for the country. A 'Tory
Ministry was actually formed according to some,
and the Duke and Sir Robert Peel at length
understood one another. This again, though
" gall and wormwood to the enemy," was re-
ceived with great coldness by many who, but
a few months ago, were warm supporters of
the Whigs, but who now thought that a change
could not make things worse, though it might
improve them. The Radicals were aga;n ap-
pealed to on behalf of the man who had de-
serted his order, and assured, in no equivocal
phrase, that Kings, Queens, Bishops, and Peers,
with all resisting corporations, should be gra-
dually handed over to their tender mercies, by
regular instalments punctually paid up, zu:d that
the Peers and the Irish Church should be
swamped this very session as a beginning, if
they would only bring up their Unions once
more against the Monarchy ; but no, even
Radicalism refued any longer to fight under

Whig colours, and resented the application as
an affront. Old Cobbett himself, though suffi-
ciently revolutionary in some of his notions,
had enough of the Englishman in him to
shrink from a cause polluted by the compa-
nionship of traitors, and degraded by the ail-
vocacy of the Times.—Morning Post.