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London, England, 1825-04-21 00:00:00

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to hear, at Mournful eve,
The Ploughman's pensive tone;
And will be•wending on my way •
When the last note is done! • .
I love to see the mkty•Atetiti,, .
And cross the gusty hill, -
And wind the dirksome homeward lane,
When all is hushed and.sull ! .
FrOns way thus distant, lone and late,
flow sweet kris to come;
And, leaving all behind so drear,
Approach our pleasant home !
While every lowly lattice shines
Along the village street,
Where, round the blazing evening fire,
The cheerful household meet!
And, passing by each friendly door,
At length we reach our own—
And find the smile of kindred love
"More kind by absence grown!
To sit beside the Bre, and hear
The threatening storm come on,—
And think upon the dreary way,
And traveller alone !
To see the social tea prepared,
And hear• the kettle's hum,
And still, repeated from such tongue—
" Haw glad we are you're come !"
To sip nor tea, to laugh and chat,
With heartfelt, social mirth,
And think no spot in all the world
Like our own pleasant hearth!

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MEETING OF DELEOATRII OF THE
LONDON TRADES
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Monday evening, a Meeting of Delegates from the
Journeymen of the different Trades in London, took
place at the J4cnb's Well public•house, Btrbican, for
the purpose of adopting measures to counteract any
attempt to revive the Combination Laws.
Several resolutions, expressive of their feelings on the
subject, were unanimously adopted by the Meeting,
which consisted of about sixty persons, deputed by
meetings of the various trades in the Metropolis. A
resolution was proposed, 44 That this Meeting do now
form themselves into a genet- -I Committee, to be called
the Committee of Trades. for the purpose of watching
the proceedings of the Select Committee of the House
of Commons, and that they use their best endeavours,
by all legal means in their power, to convince the Ho-
nourable House, that no grievances exist between them
and their employers, of a sufficient magnitude to war-
rant any alteration in the laws as they now stand, and
that the enacting of any law tending to alter the relative
situations of masters and their men, would, in all pro.
blbility, be the harbinger of jealousy and division."
The Resolution was adopted by the Meeting ; and a
discussion then ensued, as to the formation of the Corn•
mittee, when it was agreed, that two persons from each
trade should be appointed "as the Committee, with
power to add to their numbers, Deputies from any other
trades, who might present themselves.
It was also Resolved.—" That each trade separately, and for
itself, do petition the House of Common', praying that no alteration
may be made in the law as it now stands."

The Proprietors of the Salinon Fisheries of the rivers
in Hants and Wilts, are about to take legal steps to
prestrve alat valuable species of fish, which has now
become very scarce, in consequence of the many depre-
dations committed, by the destrUction of their spawn.
NEW WAY TO Gal* MARRIED.—At one of the parish
churches in Exeter, yesterday se'nnight, a couple about
to tater the holy bands of matrimony, took a peculiar
method of avoiding the gaze of curiosity, and saving
themselves the blushes which naturally must follow.—
Having, by a back way, ascended,to die roof of the
church, they descended a ladder previous:y provided for
the purpose; and,without the assistance of any individual
bat the Clergyman and Clerk. tied the indissoluble
knot—Amen having performed the offices of clerk, Ei-
ther, and bride-maid!
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A return has been made of the number of Clerical
places to be filled up in France, and the number of
aspirants in the seminaries; and the disproportion
is truly alarming. The number of vacancies is
14,085, and the number of pupils in the seminaries only
4044 ; so, we have thus a deficiency of 10,641 Catholic
Ptiests, or about one-fifth. Besides this, it is to be ob-
served, that the youth devoted to the ecclesiastical
career all belong to the lowest rank of society, and that
they only take, ordeis because they have no other means
of existence.

The picture given of the port of the neighbourhood
of Gorki*, in Ireland, by Dr. DOYLE, exceeds in wretch-
edness any representation we have seen of the ordinary
or continually recurring condition of any people in any
Eoropeaa country. In the parish of Killishean, where
the Doctor resides, and which contains between 3,000
and 4,000 people, the poor whom he enumerated last
.year, as actually in a state of starvation, were upwards
of 700. In addition to those paupers, the distress
among the bulk of the people was so great, that men
having cabins and a few awes of land, were obliged to,
sell the furniture of their houses, and to pledge their
• beds, in older to procure subsistence; and this subsist-
eke, says the Doctor, that is, the subsistence of thii
barer class, " consisted of a few potatoes supplied to
the family once in each day, for about six or eight
weeks, or perhaps longer." The last year, he states, was
a year of more than ordinary, but not very extraordi-
nary distress. The great-T or lesi extent of this period
of starvation, which recurs every summer, depends
upon the scarcity or abundance &the' potatoe crop.—
" The poor people in general," says Dr. DOYLE, " col-
lect a little dung(they hive no land); this dung they
put upon a piece of land given them by a farmer, and
it produces a Lurie stock of potatoes. This, with their
comings. sunrorts them trotil,'suppose, March or April,
then their entire stock is exhausteid ; and when the
summer advances, particularly the latter part of it,
before the harvest_ comes in, they have no means at all
oi support; they have no employment; they have no
foist, and are actually dying -of hunger."
It is a circumstance ratlier singular in itself, and not
generally known, that Porn, .the poet, was also a to-
lerable portrait painter. Alisi .11AWKINS,• in her Me-
In6irs; mentions thattord MANSFIELD once shewed Sir
Joits*Rawasna a pOrtrait of BNTTERTON, the player,
Pitgeottiq I'DPS.
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w ---Big•-o!..,:rirr and Lord Erskine are said to
PF'.e I.L.A.,tinsst Anon of theii time. At dinner some
/veil? P.9%M*_titir,e4.lo entaCies With theconve'rsatinnal
PATfc",l**MfkoZ4.,F!).lled out to hint, .! my Lord.
r,,,enffloyf Or. rArr," replied the
p#4,4proto" 0,614404,w commit suicide."


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