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in the recompence of married and unmarried labourers,
that has rendered the poor of England, idle, reckless,
and improvident. These are among the abuses, and
these the consequences which it is the object of the
Poor Law Amendment Act to remove. And can
any reasonable man say they ought not to be removed ?
But do they not say so in substance, who have cla-
moured, and continue to clamour, against this Bill,
though they cover their vituperation with the cloak
of commiseration for the poor? From the zeal and
pertinacity with which this bill has been pursued in
certain quarters, there can be no doubt that every in-
stance of suffering that has occurred has been brought
into notice. It is impossible in any case, where a wrong
course has been taken under an Act of Parliament, to
return to a right one, without the infliction of hardship.
But in a range of such extent as the abuses of the
poor laws have taken, the wonder is that the cases of
hardship promise to be so few. Dr. CHALMERS,
however, by what he had done in the parish of
St. John's in the city of Glasgow, containing a popu-
lation of 8,000 souls, chiefly of the working classes,
had long ago shown with what ease, safety, and cer-
tainty the existing abuses of a compulsory system of
provision for the poor could be eradicated, to the bene-
fit and improvement of the poor themselves, and what
is meant to be accomplished by this bill had
been already effected, or was in the course of
being effected, in upwards of one hundred pa-
rishes in England. There can be no doubt, there-
fore, of the ultimate success of the measure, and of its
ultimate benefit throughout England. Nevertheless,
the Commissioners have an arduous task to perform.
They have to encounter the prejudices and the love
of power, of those who have not hitherto been inter-
fered with in the execution of the law, and are exposed
to the malice of those who have heretofore furnished
supplies to the wants of paupers, regardless of their
well-being, but mindful of their own gains, mixed up
with mistaken feelings of general charity in weak
well-meaning persons. But every intelligent man and
good subject, will readily afford them assistance. The
difficulties will only be at the outset. After the sys-
tem is fairly launched, it will become like a machine of
vast but simple power, that has only to be kept in
order and in motion, to accomplish its work.

HAMBURG, OCT. 15, 1834.
lIEINE, BROTHERS, beg to inform the Pub-
lic, that the NINE LAST DAYS of DRAWING of the
SIXTY-FOURTH GREAT LOTTERY will be the 3d, sth,
10th, 12th, 13th, 17th, 19th, 20th, and 24th of Next Month.
The Wheels of these Nine Days contain 9,000 Tickets, and 1,200
Prizes of various amounts ; amongst which is the largest Capital
PRIZE OF 150,000 MARKS.

Tickets, warranted undrawn, are now Selling at 136 Marks Banco,
or 101. Sterling, say Ten Pounds.
Direct for Tickets to the above-named Contractors,
HEINE, BROTHERS, in HAMBURG,
who will attend to any order accompanied with remittances, reach-
ing them before the 31th inst. Their foreign customers are always
furnished with any requisite information, if even not inquired for ;
therefore those desirous to purchase have only to write a line or-
dering the Ticket or Tickets, inclosing the amount of 101. per
Ticket in Bank Notes, Bank Post Bills, or any Bankers' Draft, and
giving their full and plain direction. Those who favour them by
purchasing may confidently rely upon the strictest secrecy as to
their taking a chance or getting a prize, such being the undeviat-
ing rule of their old-established and most lucky office, which for
more than Thirty Years stands unrivalled for the continual Sale of
Grand Prizes, and that to a larger extent than any Lottery Office
in the world.
P. S.—lf, on receipt of any order, the Tickets should be cleared
off, the money will be returned immediately, free of any expense
whatever. There is no risk in sending Bank Notes, the Hamburg
Mails being conveyed by capital Steamers. No letters from Great
Britain to Hamburg are forwarded unless the postage be paid when
the letter is put into the post, otherwise the letters remain at the
Post-office.

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1834.

An extraordinary express from Paris was received
in the city this morning, bringing the following tele-
graphic despatch, dated Madrid, the 14th instant :

The Finance Committee of the Chamber of Proceres
brought up yesterday their report upon the foreign debt. It
proposes the adoption of the project of law with the modifica-
tions which it underwent in the Chamber of Procuradores,
but it states that it reserves to itself at the same time the
right of requiring, under the form of a petition, the acknow-
ledgment of the Guebhard loan, as soon as circumstances
will permit." _ _ _

BY the same express another telegraphic despatch
from Bayonne, dated the 19th instant, was also
received. The Bayonne despatch stated that
on the 11th Zumalacarreguy was in the vici-
nity of Los Arcos with the greater part of his troops ;
that Don CARLOS with the Junta was at St. Este-
van ; and that the insurgents had suffered a defeat
at Villa Franca, and had failed in the late attack on
Castile. The other accounts from Bayonne speak
favourably of General MINA'S health, and the pro-
spects of an early termination of the present disas-
trous war in the Northern pi ovinces.
PARIS, OCT. 19.—The President of the Court of Peers
has just written to the peers to inform them that the report
of the criminal process now in the course of investigation
before the Court, will probably be ready to be presented to
it in the middle of the month of November next, and to
invite them, in consequence, to be at Paris at that time.
The peers will be subsequently informed of the precise day
of the first sitting.—Afoniteur.

Notwithstanding the repeated assertions of the legitimist
journals, and the details contained in their letters, it is now
certain that the news of the taking of Bilboa by Don Car-
los, is nothing but a fable. We have seen letters from that
town of the 7th and 10th, which make no mention of an at-
tack, or even of the approach of the insurgents. The
cholera was decreasing rapidly at Bilboa, but it made great
ravages in the Carlist bands.
The Journal du Commerce thinks that the news of a re-
monstrance from the Queen to the Procuradores is very
improbable, as the late votes of the Chamber have almost
all been approved of by the Ministry. Besides, nothing of
the kind is known at Paris, where the courier ought to
have arrived by this time.
A telegraphic despatch announces that the Prince de
Joinville landed at Brest on Saturday, returning from his
voyage to the Azores. He immediately set out for Paris.
Count Pozzo di Borgo is to give, on the 20th of this
month, a fete which will equal in magnificence the late gala
at Fontainbleau.

Prince Gallitzin, Aid-de-Camp to the Emperor Nicholas,
was present on Sunday at the last review of the camp at
St. Omer.—Messager, Oct. 19.

In our Queen-square Police Report our readers will
find another exemplification of the wisdom and benig-
nity of the anti-chimney-sweep Act, by which hun-
dreds of the poorer classes are thrown out of employ,
and turned adrift, as vagabonds, upon town, for no
other reason that we can see, than that their cry of
" Sweep" is obnoxious to the delicate auriculars of
the privileged c'.asses. We subjoin an extract from
this Report, which points out in more forcible terms
than any we can use, the surpassing merits of the Act
in question :

" Charles Millard stated that about 9 o'clock in the morning
he heard the defendant crying " sweep" in Holywell-street.
" Mr. GREGORIE—Are you a house-holder?
" Sweep—Bless you, I've only got von room, and that's full
of my kids, almost starved to death ever since this Hact of Par-
liament came up.
" Mr. GREGORIE said in this case he should only fine the de-
fendant 6d. and 2s. costs."

Now this half-a-crown, be it observed—serious, as
it may appear to a poor chimney-sweep, whose voca-
tion at the best of times is precarious—is but a miti-
gated penalty : how then must it press upon him when
the whole is levied ? The report proceeds as follows :

" Sweep—l can't pay a fardin ;my kids are all starving at
home for bread, and " Sveep" we must cry or starve, and so
there is an end on't.

" The defendant was told that if it was not paid in a week,
a distress warrant would be issued.

" Sweep—So it may for vot I cares. I knows nothing of
the Hact, but I knows I've a right to cry sveep when I likes
for my living."
It is evident that this poor climber knows nothing
of the true science of Government`, or he would not
venture to come to a conclusion which has only com-
mon-sense and common humanity to recommend it.
What matters it, whether a distress be put into his
.house—his last blanket be torn from under him—and
he himself and his whole family be driven out to die
like dogs in the streets—provided his betters cease to
be annoyed by his vulgar dissonance ? Let him live;
but if he can only live by boring the ears of the gen-
teel, then let him starve—and the sooner the better.
So argues the spirit of an Act passed in the second
Session of a Reformed Parliament ! In the predica-
ment to which they are now reduced, with nothing but
the prospect of starvation before them, we would seri-
ously exhort the chimney-sweeps to learn so to modu-
late their voices as to produce an agreeable harmony
by their Cry. If they could only contrive to shake and
quaver, like a Donzelli, upon the word " Sweep,"
we have no doubt that they might cry on to all eter-
nity ; for the genteel are partial to melody, and will go
great lengths in befriending its professors. But what
well-instructed ear that has been entranced by the Siren
sounds of some first-rate opera singer, can listen,
without the profoundest sense of annoyance, to a shrill,
dissonant Cry, which resembles nothing so much
as an east wind whistling through a key-hole ?
Let the chimney-sweeps, then, be advised by us, and
reform their Cry altogether. By so doing, they may
possibly contrive to extricate themselves from their
present dilemma ; for the Act is only levelled against
" Sweep," because the Cry is a nuisance, which it will,
of course, cease to be, the instant it can be proved to be
musical, for, Heaven knows ! music is anything but a
nuisance in this most refined and scientific of countries.

The conduct of the Middlesex magistrates in re-
fusing a license to several of the minor theatres within
and around the metropolis, is ill calculated to impress
the public with any very high opinion of the wisdom or
the impartiality of that Worshipful Brotherhood. Their
Worships, with a gravity of look, and a sense of their
own importance which would excite a smile, were it not
coupled, like all otherabuses at the bench, with injury to
the poor, and mischief to the community, have at last
thought proper to denounce dancing, and singing, and
fiddling, and piping, as abominations, which no person
can witness, without risking the happiness of a
future state, who does not drive a carriage, and
keep a box at one or other of the two great
theatres. The Middlesex Magistrates have in truth
forgotten themselves of late. They are not content with
performing the functions assigned them,:unless they can
show the world how much it owes them for not over-
whelming it with the terrors with which they are
invested. It is pleasant to exercise power—the wish
to exercise it, is one of the most natural that finds a
place in the human breast ; and in no way is the exer-
cise of power so obviously manifested, as in oppressing
others with impunity. The beggar beats his dog to display
the greatness of his dominion, and the tinker apes the
sway of the monarch by ruling his donkey with " a rod of
iron." The Middlesex Magistrates are very fond of
displaying a similar pride of dominion. No doubt it
was as delicious as a feast to them to disappoint the

It is a remarkable circumstance, and we pray at-
tention to it, that the cases which have been reported
of suffering, under the Poor Law Amendment Bill,
clearly demonstrate the soundness of the principle
upon which it has proceeded. They are cases of
individuals wishing to escape from the work-house, or
desiring not to be sent to it ; thereby evincing the effi-
cacy of the means adopted for the accomplishment of
its purpose, namely—to induce the poor of England to
have recourse to their own industry, and not to depend
upon parish pay for their support, by preventing the
payment of wages, rent, or taxes, out of the rates ; and
by discontinuing allowances for children, which, con-
trary to the course of things, has created a difference

TIM SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOEER 21, 1534.