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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING JUNE' 14, 1845.

allowed to be, closed—a high Nay of equitable public
charity, which ought never to have been permitted to
grow out of "customary resort," and to fall into such
desuetude as to require the authority of new statutes to
re-open it ;—this very circumstance should excuse the
Learned Lord if he halt and hesitate somewhat on his
new effort to retrace the ancient courses through
which the humanity of the old law was wont to
distribute succour to those who could no longer
succour themselves ; for there is a very strict
analogy between the old custom or traditionary
law, of which the system of relief practically adopted
affords us occasional glimpses, and the new scheme of
poor-law which the Lord Advocate has brought forward.
We should have thought that with Scotchmen generally
this assimilation of the modern scheme to the ancient
principle would, in itself, have formed a considerable
recommendation of the plan. In saying this, we are by
no means insensible to the defects of that plan. It may,
in many particulars, be obnoxious to the objection taken
by Mr. PATRICK STEWART, in his usual pithy and
epigrammatic manner—that it is a Poor Bill, good for
lairds and heritors, bad for the presumed pauper
recipients of the assessments upon them. It
may even be chargeable with the deficiencies
which Mr. COLQUHOUN has noted in it, or with some of
those inherent vices which have made it utterly un-
palatable to other of the Scottish Members. But since
none of those Honourable Gentlemen—not even Mr.
RUTHERFORD Or Mr. F. MAULE—dispute the enormity
of the abuses which have crept into the system—or "no
system" of relieving the poor of Scotland, as it now ex-
ists—since none attempt to argue that any machinery
already exists adequate to the repression of these abuses,
now, or to their prevention hereafter—why will they
discourage the commencement of a remedial system ?
Because the measure of the Lord Advocate does not go
far enough, are they unwilling that it should be put in
motion at all!? Because some of its details are deemed
to be objectionable, shall no trial be made of the
great principles which they form but the means of
carrying out into execution? You admit the disease;
you invoke a remedy. Because the remedy at its first
concoction is unpalatable to some of those interested in
its exhibition, is the disease to remain unarrested? Is it
to be contended that the desperate condition of the patient
had better be suffered to determine in hopeless, irreme-
diable' disease, rather than subject it to a treatment which
no one denies would arrest its progress, though it might
not, alone, re-establish the sufferer? Why, the condi-
tion of the Scottish pauper is miserable; he is a sufferer
in the most fearful sense of the term; his malady, social
and physical, does demand instant lenitives, if you are
not ready with a radical cure ; there is but one stage
beyond that which the privation and wretchedness
incident to the neglect in which he has too long
been left to pine ; and that is—death. Shall
we quarrel with a prompt restorative because it is not a
certain and complete specific—or deny him the benefit
of its administration, because it is tendered by hands
shrewdly suspected to be those of lairds and heritors ?
Why, the case is that of .suffering and privation, which,
if it is to be relieved at all, must be relieved at once.
Therefore we concur with Mr. COLQUHOUN in dissent-
ing altogether from Mr. HUME'S proposition (at the
close of a good speech, however, in support of the prin-
ciple), to let the measure tide over till next session.
There is no country in the world of which the poor, from
their generally industrious, orderly, sober and frugal
habits, their willingness to labour and their cheerfulness
in enduring toil, are better entitled to all the considera-
tion which poor-laws can secure for them in helplessness
and sickness, infirmity, age, or want of em-
ployment, than the poor of Scotland. Our
humble but earnest advice, then, to Scottish
Members generally is—make a beginning, at all events.
Reform that scandal on all parties justly blameable for
its existence, the present condition of your unfortunate
paupers. Don't be driven off the true and legitimate
object you are bound to keep in view, by statements and
counter-statements of irrelevant matters, criminatory
and recriminatory, about the clearance of the Suther-
land estates in 1815, or even more recent processes of
wholesale ejectment. Try this experiment of an amended
poor-law, taking care that it be free from the despotic
abominations that attach, or have attached, to that
which we have had so often to cobble for England and
Wales, if this attempt of the Lord Advocate do not
fully answer—realise, in the first place, all the good it
can be made to yield ; and in the second, carefully
mature all future improvements, which careful observa-
tion, during the experience of the term you may choose
to allot for the experiment, may show to be necessary,
when the period arrives for revising it.

WA 11 0 110 r.<,... 1.1.a.h.1 to the 6th inst.
The great topic of conversation was the abdication of
Don CARLOS, an event which seems to be viewed by all
political parties, except the Absolutists, with the greatest
suspicions. A general belief prevails, that an arrange-
ment has been ccme to between the Court of
Spain, in other words the Camarilla, and the
Carlists, that the QUEEN is to be married to
the Prince of ASTURIAS, and the old system
of absolute Government restored. The public feeling
we believe to be correctly expressed by the Clamor
Publico. In adverting to the proclamation of the Prince
to the Spanish nation, that journal says:—" Those
flowers cover an abyss; behind that manifesto lurk
a restoration and despotism, with hatreds and resent-
ments that have brooded for ten years. A restoration is
the greatest calamity that can befal a nation. We
impatiently await the decision of the Government, and
hope that it will reject that monstrous alliance."
The QUEEN made her entrance into Barcelona on the
sth, amidst the applause of a vast concourse of people.
General NARVAEZ accompanied her MAJESTY, but
MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA. remains at Madrid, either ill or
feigning to be ill. The Funds continue greatly de-
pressed.
The Three per Cents. closed at 3lif for casb, and
32* at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 204 for cash,
and 211 at 60 days; and the lDebt without interest at 7i,
at 60 days.

In the French Chamber of Peers a discussion of some
interest took place on the 11th relative to the Jesuits.
On the introduction of the Supplementary Credits' Bill,
the Count DE MONTALEMBERT took occasion to defend
the Jesuits, whom he identified with the Catholic Church,
denounced the treatment they received at the hands of
the Government, and instanced several countries, even
Protestant countries, sueh as Holland and England, were
they were more humanely dealt with. The Minister of
Justice, in reply, said " he could not allow the comparison
instituted by the Noble Peer between France and Eng-
land to pass unnoticed. Undoubtedly England was
playing a glorious part at present, but could he not ex-
claim with all who heard him, Honour to France !
honour to our Charter, which dispenses with our being
obliged to act as England does !' France was far above
the fine example given by the neighbouring country--
France possessed institutions which had proclaimed
liberty of worship, and which preserved her for ever
from having to manifest generosity or commiseration
for the religion of tho minority." He then
showed the character of the Jesuits, sketched
the union that existed between the Church and State
three years back, and the present comparative anarchy,
and argued that the change was chiefly attributed to the
schemes of the Jesuits. He alluded to the claims set
forth by the Jesuits to take part in the education of
youth, and stated how the Chambers had risen to prevent
it, showed how the Jesuits had contrived to unite with
bishops, and to induce them to make common cause with
their body. He concluded by declaring that the Govern-
ment would proceed firmly in the accomplishment
of the mission entrusted to their care, and the strong
common sense of the public would show who was right.
His speech was followed by loud marks of approbation.
The Chamber had passed the Bill for arming the fortifi-
cations of Paris by a majority of 98 to 18. In the De-
puties the Budget was still under consideration. The
papers announce the death of thg Countess MOLE, which
occurred on Wednesday, after a short illness. The Ga-
zette de France says there is no truth in the report of an
intended marriage between the Duke DE BORDEAUX and
a daughter of the Duke of MODENA.

" ' M. Guilot,' says the Courrier Francais, ' is to give a grand
dinner to his political friends on Tuesday next, and at the end of
the session that Minister's partisans intend to invite him to a ban-
quet at the Luxembourg Orangerie.'"

The Reforme announces that alarming accounts of the
health of the Duke DE MONTPENSIER bad been received
from Algiers by his family
.on Tuesday. The Prince
had been attacked with dysentery. The weather at
Paris was oppressively hot. On Thursday FAHREN-
HEIT'S thermometer in the shade marked 86 degrees.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on that
day at 84f. 15c. ; the New Loan, at 84f. 35c.; the Five per
Cents. at 1221. 20c.; Orleans Railroad Shares 1,220 f. ;
Rouen, 1,105 f. ; Vierzon, 8151. ; Havre, 886 f. 25c.;
Avignon, 1,0401. ; Basle, 2731. 75c.; Spanish Three per
Cents., 41i ; Ditto Passives, 7%.
The following are the quotations for the new lines:—

Orleans and Bordeaux, 220 f. premium ; Boulogne, 115 f.
ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 55f. ; Paris and Lyons
( Laffitte), 18f. 75c. ; ditto (Caton), lf. 50c. ; ditto (Ganneron),
6f. 50c. ; Northern line (Laffitte), 35f. 50c. ; ditto (Ro-
camel), Bf. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 10f. 50f. ;
ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 7f.50c ; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 18f. 75c. ; ditto
(Talabot), 40f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 10f.;
Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), 2f. 50c. ; ditto and
Cette:(Espeleta), 15f. ; Creil and St. Quentin, lf. 50c.;
Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), llf. 25c; Dijon and Mul-
hausen, lf. 50c.
LYONS,
Jusa 9.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,047£, end of
June ; Paris and 0r1ean50.,225f., ditto ;'Paris and Rouen, I,llBf ,

ditto ; Oleans and Vierzon,B2sf., ditto ; Orleans and Bordeaux,
710 f., ditto; Montereau, 552 f., ditto.

The Queen and Prince Albert, and their illustrious
visitors, the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, are expected
to arrive at Buckingham Palace about six o'clock this
afternoon, from Windsor Castle. There will be a grand
dinner party this evening at the Palace.
Summonses were issued yesterday from the "
office to the Cabinet Ministers to attend Cou worrigh,
nciltibias
day.

The Judicial Comm Lace of the y
Council sat this
morning.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE:-
The Cotton Market at Lirsl.o.Tiool yesterday was steady;
sales seven to eight thousand bales. There was
good demand fee ailways, at improving prices '; -
Bandon and Bantry, 14 7s. ; Barnsley Junctlon, ilalf Shares,
3% a ; Birkenhead and Cheshire ;Nadia!, 1014 %; Black-
burn and Accrington, 8 ; Blackbiatti, barwen, arid Bolton, 5 ;
Belfast and Ballymena, 8 Belfast and County Down, 311-7,.
345. ; Bolton, Wigan, awed Liverpool, 153/4 ; enitdonian,
111/2 ; Ditto Extension, 3 ; Cambridge knd Lincoln,
6 5% ; Cambridge and Oxford, 6s. 6d. 7s. ; Chester and
Birkenhead, 65 641/2 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 323% % ; Chester
and Holyhead, 17 16% ; Chester and Preston Brook, 48s. 6d. ;
Dublin and Belfast Junction, 10%; Dublin and Galway,
; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 5 54 ; Eastern Coun-
ties, 20%; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 2, 245. 6d.; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 73 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 18; Ditto, New Quarter
Shares, 7 1/2 ; Edinburgh and Northern, ; Glasgow and
Dumfries, 16s. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 1614 ;
Grand :Junction, 237; Ditto, New Shares, 501/2 ; Ditto,
Eighth Shares, 21 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 3% 3% ;
Great Western, Half Shares, 114; Huddersfield Canal and
Railway, 61A 71/2 ; Leicester and Birmingham, 18s. ;
Limerick and Waterford, 8% 9; Liverpool and Manchester,
New Shares, 40 ; Liverpool, Orinskirk, and Preston, 3 595. ;
London and Brighton, 73 3/4 ; London and York, 3%; Di-
rect Northern, 3%; Leeds and Dewsbury, 10 ; Leeds and
Thirsk, 614 6 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 8 16s. 3d ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 58; Ditto, Quarter Shares,
19% ; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation, ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 3% ; Matlock and Mid-
land, 5%; Midland Railway, 188 189%; Ditto, 401. Shares,
291,4 16s. 3%d. ; Consolidated Birmingham and Derby, 145
146% ; Newark and Sheffield, 2 395. 6d. ; Newcastle and Ber-
wick, 1734 ; Newry and Enniskillen, 514 1/8 ; North British,
Half Shares, 6% ; North Union, A, 157 ; North Wales
Mineral, 1514 ; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 41/8 ;
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 5%; Preston and
Wyre, 32 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 128 ; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, 161/2 3% ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 41s. 6d. ; Shrewsbury
and Herefordshire, 19s. 3/4; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Che-
shire, 4% ; South-Eastern and Dover, 47% 3/4 ; Ditto, New
Shares, .1\ o. 1, 18% ; Ditto, New Shares.
.No. 2, 17 1/8 ;
Ditto, New Shares, No. 3,8% %; Scottish Central, 7 6%;
Trent Valley, 1914; Ulster, 4914 ; Welsh Midland, 4% 84s. ;
West Yorkshire, 395. 38s. ; Worcester and Tring, 234
60s. 9d. ; York and Carlisle, 11% 3s. 6d. ; Northern of
France (Laffitta's), 5 14 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux,
10% ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's), 61s. ; Paris and Lyons
(Ganneron's), 568.6 d. 583. 6d.

MANCHESTER-STOCK EXCUANGE, JUNE 13.—The sales are
—Barnsley Junction, 6% 5-16 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 3 3-1614 ;
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 99 ; Bolton, Wigan, and
Liverpool, 15!,4' ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 5A ; Churnet
Valley, 54 •, Erewash Valley, 23 ; Goole, Doncaster, Shef-
field, and Manchester Junction, 114 ; Great Grimsby and
Sheffield Junction, 3% ex new ; Hudersfield and Man-
chester Railway and Canal, 7% 8 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 61/FI 6 ;
Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7% ; Leicester and Bir-
mingham, 2 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2% ; London
and Brighton, 73 ' • London, Worcester, Oxford, and Rugby,
23/4 ; London and York, 334 ; Manchester, Bury, and Kos-
sendale, 1714 ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland,
54 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 59 ; Ditto, New
Quarter Shares, 714 • Ditto Continuation and Welsh Junction,
2 1 15-16 ; Manchester and Leeds, 168 ; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, 25 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction,
314 ~g ; Midland Railway Consols, 401. Shares, 3014 ; Newark
and Sheffield, 2ex new ; North British, 24 ; Ditto, New
Shares, 614 ; North Eastern, 15s. 12s. 6d. prem. ; Oxford,
and Birmingham Junction, 41/s ; Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton, 5 7-16 ; Preston and Wyre, Half Shares, 31/ ;
Preston and Wyre Extension, 2% 54 ; Sheffield and Lincoln.
shire Junction, 1 15-16 ex new; Shrewsbury, Herefordshire,
and North Wales, 15s. 17s. 6d. prem. ; Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union, 21/ 3-16 ; South-Eastern and Dover, No. 3,
'
VA • Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 161/ ; Welsh Mid-
land, 4 1-16 ; West Yorkshire, ; York and Carlisle,
114 prem.
The private advices brought by the Britannia from New
York and Canada are of a much more favourable character
than the contents of the public journals as respects the state
of trade, &c., matters upon which we have always better
means of information than most of our contemporaries in the
States, or in Canada. A very considerable addition was ex-
pected this year of emigrants of the character most required,
viz., those practically acquainted with farming, &c., who,
at the same time, had the means of buying lands
at limited credits. The most important intelligence from
New York is a stAtement that Mr. Andrew H. Everett had
been deputed as resident American, Ambassador at Canton.
From the known desire of this gentleman to promote the
best understanding with our country, it may be assumed that
no measures would be taken by him, of a nature likely to
bring about any unfavourable feeling upon matters connected
with the new trade.

The following is a comparative statement of arrivals and
tonnage at the port of Quebec, in the years 1844 and 1845, to
the 26th of May inclusive for each year :
ti essel& Tonnage. Passengers.
May 26, 1844 134 ... 52,367 ... 3,068
May 26, 1845 312 ... 117,107 ... 208

More this year l7B ... 64,640 ... 2,860
The features in the Bank of England return for last week
are an increase of 96,8651. in the amount of notes issued, viz.,
to 20,732,6001., but then there are 200,020/. more taken to
the banking clepArtrnant_ Th- bunion waa 10,012,0861., an
increase of 100,1081.
There are accounts as late as the 10th April from Graham's
Town, Cape of Good Mope. Extensive warlike preparations
were making by the Griquas and the Dutch Boers beyond
the North Eastern frontier, and unless the British Govern-
ment interfered serious hostilities were expected to take
place. The weather was favourable.
The Funds are very firm, but, extremely quiet. Consols
991/s for the opening. Y,ew Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. 102 4 %, and Ref!,uced Three per Cents. 99x %.
Stock is scarce. Exchequer-bills are 595. to 61s. premium.
Portuguese Bonds have improved a little, being 661/2 to
67%, but Spanish a'..e flat at 414 for the Three per Cents.
Mexican Bonds 'nave been unaffected by the news from
America, and remain at 373 A. Columbian are supported.
The sharebrokers are almost entirely occupied with the ar-
rangement of the Account. Cambridge and Lincoln have
rallied ; the old railways are firm ; Brighton are buoyant, and
South-Eastern have Calvanced.a little. The Foreign Shares
are neglected.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 'per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9914%
New VA per Cent. Annuties
Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860 —
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 lll4
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 13A d. I%d.
1,0001.
5001. ... ...... 60 pm.
Ditto Small —
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Columbian Bonds. l7l/4 16%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 37%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Converted
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent 117%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1843 —
Ditto Passive Bonds 714
Ditto 3 per Cent 411% ..
Belgian 4% per Cent
Dutch 21/2 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% 214%... to
Birmingham and Oxford
Junction
Brighton, Lewes, Hastings ... 20
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln .
Chester and Holyhead
Coventry and Leicester ...... 114 l% ...... to
Direct Northern
Dublin and Galway .. ... ...... 21 ...... 4p
Dublin and Mullingar 2l/2.....• 51 to ... r IO
Eastern Counties l4l. 16s. 2O
_A%SA3 to
Do. New 41. 16s 6%...... to 7
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 5/.13s 4d 114 to
Ely and Bedford ll4 2% ..... to
Great Western BO

Ditto Fifths
London and Birmingham ...100 242
London and 8right0n.......... 50 ...... 7314 to 74% %
London and Croydon... 13/. 15s. 9d.... 19%% to
London and South Western.. 41% B2 to
Ditto New 2% l 5
London and:York ........ ....... 2% 3% to 4
Londonderry and Coleraine... 21/2 4% to
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Birmingham 40 5Bl/2.- to 58
Ditto New Quarters......... 2
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 22s
Midland ~.100 ......189 186% to 188
Ditto New
Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo 147 148... to 145
Newcastle &Darlington ,l-unc. 25
Ditto New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick ...... 1% ,17% 4... to
Newry and Enniskillen ...... 2,4 5l/8 ... to
North British
Ditto New 1 .. ... 04...... to
Northern and Eastern
North Kent
Norwich and 8rand0n......... 10 ...... 21
Oxford and Worcester......... 21/2 541/2— to
Richmond and West End June. 1
Rugby, Worcester.'and Tring 1
Scottish Central ............... 2% 6% to
Scottish Midland
Shrews. & Trent Val. Union. 225. ...
South Eastern and Dover ... 3.31/8 47
Ditto New, No. 1 8
Ditto New, N 0.2 7 .. 164 to 17
Ditto New, No. 3............ 2% 8 2%... to
South Wales
Trent Valley and Holyhead
Junction... ... 1% 2% to
Welch Midland 2%...... 4
Wilts,Somerset,& Weymouth 21/2...... 614 to
York and North Midland ... 50 ......
Ditto, Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens
Bordeaux and Toulouse . 2
Great Northern of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. Do. (Rosamel's). ..... ... 2 ..... *4 to
Louvain and Jemeppe
Namur and Liege........
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 . . .... 101/234% to
Over Yssel 4/ 3s 4d 1
Paris and Lyons(Laffitte) ... 2
Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's) 2 ... .. 2% % to
Paris and Rouen
Paris & Strasburg( Gannern's) 2 ...... 21.72 to
Do. (Hainguerlot's)
Sambre and Meuse
Tours &Nantes (Mackenzie) 2
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London Joint Stock lO ...... 1411%•• to

BRIGHTON, JUNE 13.—The Bishop of Derry and
family, and Count Louis de Holdy, arrived here by the Menai
steamer this afternoon, from Havre de Grace,

MAGAZINES-(CONTINUED).
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WV .ditdVst to th'a a h liiip, o touehing the hearts
the i.i1;11.11. in the story bf " St. Giles and St.
Iktlies" we have a striking illustration df 4he,effects Of
education, " as the twig is bbnt, the tree s
Two bt,ys, 'endowed with equal moral and
intelieetTg capacities, but widely separated by
tte accident of birth, rich and poor—of " two nations,"
—these are the heroes of the tale. We follow their
varying fortunes. We find every luxury that refine-
ment can suggest combined to soften the path of the
young lord, while the hapless child of poverty drags on
a weary life—a childhood without smiles., a year without
a spring. Can we then wonder that their characters as
men should bear the impress of their early training ?
Young St. James grows up to manhood surrounded
by friends and instructors, pith every incentive to virtue,
and comparatively few temptations, while St. Giles, suf-
fering for the crimes of his companions, escapes the scaf-
fold only to consume the best years of his life in
a foreign prison. In the present Number the story
increases in interest—we are introduced to our heroes
when they first meet as men, St. Giles having raturned
from transportation. The following is a beautiful de-
scription of " tired Nature's sweet restorer," sleep :
"' God be with you,' said the girl; and the words of gentle-
ness, the happy, hopeful tone that breathed in them, fell like
balm upon the felon's heart ; and in a few moments he was
sunk in the deep happiness of sleep ; he was far away in that
neutral region of life, where Emperors put off their crowns—
where the arrogance of earth is calm and harmless—where pride
and ostentation have not their blatent trumpets blown before
them—where the purple of Dives is cast aside on the same
heap with the rags of Lazarus—where the equality to all, that
death shall everlastingly bring, is once a day rehearsed by all
men—where life is simple breathing, and the slave loses the
master.

" For many nights had St. Giles slept in the open fields.
Ragged, and worn, and hunger-stricken, he had, nevertheless,
slept; and only when the daylight came felt for a time his
sinews cramped and stiffened with the dews of night. Still,
with the sky above him, no more sheltered than his neighbour
ox or sheep, he had slept: he had—despite of fortune—
cheated misery with forgetfulness. Nature for a time had
blessed him as she had blessed the happiest man."
" A History for Young England " contains an account
of the second Norman Sovereign, William Rufus. If
the present account be correct, few historians
have done justice to the red king. " Man and the Cri•
minal" is a gloomy catalogue, not of crimes, but of their
punishments. Truly, if men were as ingenious in framing
plans for improvement, as they are ready in devising
methods of punishment, we should have occasion to build
sioools instead of prisons, and have more need of the cler-
gyman than the executioner. " The Bishop's Kncck" is
a legend of the south-west, founded on a true and me-
lancholy incident:—a bishop having been invited to per-
form the ceremony of baptism, arrived in his state
carriage, his footman knocked vehemently at the door,
and the violent noise frightened the infant heir into con-
vulsions and occasioned his death. " The Anti-Corn-
law Bazaar" contains an interesting account of the late
free-trade exhibition, concluding with the following
words:—

" We might go on for days and weeks enumerating the
contents of the League Bazaar. Let us content ourselves with
drawing from their obvious moral, with recording their silent
pleading.
" They represent Industry ; they demand Industry's rights.
Here, in this island, are hands and mouths ; the labour of the
one should be the food of the other. The spirit of Selfishness,
powerful for a time, has said No ! ' The people may not
exchange what their hands have made, for the food which it
would bring them. The struggling, honest, willing labour of
the masses, is paralysed for the luxurious, selfish idleness of
the few !

" Here, in England, is ingenuity to invent, and strength to
execute, industrial achievements such as the world never before
saw? Abroad there grows teeming food, the gift of the Deity.
We would barter the products of our hands for the products of
our neighbours' fields.
" Selfishness forbids the bargain : backs in one land shall be
kept bare, in order that stomachs in another may be kept
empty ; food shall rot in the fields of this country, because it
may not be exchanged for merchandise, mouldering in ware-
houses in that.

" But Common Sense, Common Humanity, Common Jus-
tice, call aloud, and with a God's voice proclaim, that God's
gifts to all men shall not be marred by the foul will of a few ;
that the industrious shall not starve when there is food; that
trade shall be as free as the sun, and the breeze, and the rain ;
that the great Religion of Commerce, which is civilising,
humanising, fraternising the world, shall no longer have a
Custom-house for its Church, or a hostile tariff for its Bible !"