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Rat ell vainest for Barrow's ibild ; -
They deck the.bower and gay pal-term
. As if for Mirth algae they stand!
Tan Oswalt') nods upon the kts ;
- , Arad; where wild wreaths the vote Iwo tbsip.
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rAlbeibibe blooms, bet not for met
tr ' • ilait'isekagmts of Happiness!.
1 ItLeriss,b the mosey bed,
ma venial aboveye,
Fir Wet there reclines her head,
And Innocence is gathering Bowers e
The Wall. Flower only shall be using ; •
Its simple Paith Is dear to me;
• To rootless tower and prostrate AIM
It clings with patient mmantagy,
And, prodigal of love, blooms on.
Though all inweentits beauties dig.;
And. though for desert gales alone,
Breathes fragrance rich as Araby
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Oh, there appears a generous soma
Of all requital in its *Mee!
The thousand flowers that earth oder%
In earth's exuberant stern rejoice!•
It only asks the freshening dew,
Imparting all where nought is gives-.
Raised slant mirth, as if It drew
Its only nutriment from Reaves!.
0 dm. whose love is all to me
'Ti. for thy sate I love the fewer I.
As truly it risembles thee,
And I the lone and ruined tower !
Thou know'st that in my desert halls
The pride of youth and hope is o'er—
That sunk, defaced, my crumbling walls
" Repose or shelter yield no nose!.
Yet '
on this dark and dreary pig
Thy love its fragrant wreaths has Magi,
• And all it asks is—still to smile,
Bloom, fade, and die, whamming it clang!
C. EL TettaMisota.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE..
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liogifi ti a Ingot *rodeos system of robbery was pracdsed
freljnently Wheat seems. by several fellows who ;arty about a me
siemable appearaom, and call themselves agents. It is well knows
that seamen come home, after a beg voyage. with large arrears of
pay due to them, and that they "are, the moment they reach the
share. aud to spend some of it in the boisterous sad convivial se.y
/which a long abstelnionsons front all pleasures, to a certain du
grim. senetioos. No persons are Mail aware of this thin the 'crimp
or agents, who infest the public houses to which What ere hi die
habit of resorting, and some plot is generally laid against any jovial
tag whose claim for pay happens to amount to a considerable sum.
It is but very lately the plan has keen detected, sod, new that it
his been discovered; the worn of the vessels to which the pins-
tinted mama belong are determlied to prosecute those wine have
keen tionserned in the compiracy.
tot hai often happened, according to the representation made,
Alta Naar, upon landing, and applying
mussy, after the statement of his case, has been tapped on the
shaultier, to his astonishment, fora debt which be never contracted,
ass et the gelatine of which he was wholly ignorant. He is then
herded by what they all a bum•trap to a spungingthoisse, and told
Mat be met pay the ammo of debt and costs (often amounting' to
err ROL) befori be cam obtain his liberty. The natural impa-
tience of restraint ea the part of the seaman favours this conspiracy.
An agent is at bud mod Alas to settle the whole sum, rid Jack of
the horrors of law. and put into his hand 301. or 404 if be will cu-
min to transfer his pay.
It is, unfortunately for unthinking seamen, the practice of owners
to withhold the pay of the crews of their vessels until the vessels
shall have been cleared, and the accounts have been made up. It
was stated that even a small portion of the wages is denied before
the mooning have been regulated ; so that a seaman, who must
have " his line necessarily commences dealing with the agents.
and thee gives am opportunity for plunder, which is always matched
at. In 'coasequence of this, the seamen have been always subject
to be pilfered; but the " bum-ttap" plan has only of late made its
'Warm*.
A seaman who landed a few days ago. it was reported to the
Lou ltairoa, became the victim of a conspiracy of this nature.=
He was arrested for 411. for a debt of which he knew nothing, and
locked up. An agent made his appearance, offered his assistance,
and for a cheek of more than 304 and premise to pay the
expenses of the action, and to liberate Jack. provided ups IhOm to
deliver up the power to receive his wages,whish asesmised gt.np
wards of SOL The owners, however, we Mine, riceiret saws
Intimation of what occurred. and refused to the ardor.
' The Leas Mare' expressed the greatest t at se bon
a egie=y, and gave insusediase instructions to the dicta upon
es
We understand that some exertions will be soon made to preemie
the enormous impositions to which seamen have bee. liable. Their
carelessness about money is well known. and this vice has drawn
down upon them some vengeance in the shape of crimps and agents.
Ton Taus or Panes.—One of the oikas at the perish if
Bishoptgate, a parish remarkable forks humanity, ins coneetnitim
with Mr. Holder, the Chief Clerk at the Mansion basso, yesterday,
described seine of the deceptions resorted to by mere for the put►
poet of obtaining money. It is unnecessary to mass that many el
the claimants upon parish bonny,. Instead of applying le the maw
immorally expected by the authorities. that eta beggar, Mock
nubs gates of the Overseer, d—a his eyes, and kook
his windows, if be refuses to supply their wants. le
that died hive often been made and sebstaistliNd in the ally, bat
we have' often whammed great acts of et 11=t4m1==s em the
part ot parish dims, in the harsh and of red
land suffering claimants. Amongst other cues which mused mesh
I laughter, was that of an accomplished, but idle fellow, named Joie
Abet*, who has always acted with the greatest humility, and eves
taken refusals with unbounded thanks. This pauper writes a beau
df.l hand, aid it will be seen. from an extract from a letter of his
I to one of the snows, that be Is net destitute deduced= ~.11:3
I mast humbly entreat that you will, in your kindness, be
to give me a little kelp. A Wang wrath' nuke a nsan of ms. fee
which words must ever be wanting to express my deepest sense of
pities& Pray be not angry. benevolent Sir. I should be sorry'
to offend. I wait your kind answer at the bottom of the Midges,
whets I shall stay_ till its suits your pleasure to favour ing;
I remain, &c. itc." The oaken and it Mink to resist gush all
appeal. although the applicant has always refused to go Mods
workhOsse, having a most unconquerable aversion to work Olin
kind. About two year, ago this pauper called upon one of the
Overseers with tears in his eyes, and said." You know, Sir, that I
have been a bad husbind, and ill treated my poor wife. I now re-
pent it, but it is too late—she is dead—a dreadful death!" " 1..
deed I" said the Overseer, " it is odd that we never beard of
" No, Sir." said the pauper, " she fell in the Are down in the causal
try, and I want to go down to de the last dikes. It is now I hall
bitterly for my past conduct," and he cried abed. 6, Well, my
poor fellow," said the Overseer. " I ant sorry to bear this melan-
choly circumstance ; whits can we do for your " Oh, if you
would only let me have what would bury her decently, I'd turn
my thoughts to industry. and never trouble you more." The
Overseer gave the poor fellow two sovenips. and soon afterwards
they were obliged to take into the workboass the pauper's wife,
who walked up to town in perfect health.
GUILDHALL.

FlLMlT•Yestailay Thirint Dime MU was charged before
Sir P. Lerma with attempdag to rob the apartments of Mr. Eng-
-114, solicitor, 4s, &. Paul's Churchyard.
Mrs. English stated, that on Saturday evening she beard a seise
la her frost apartment, and, on going to ascertain the cause. she
met the prisoner with a bundle under his arm. She asked him
what he wanted, when he replied. that he wanted to see Mr. Nor.
wick. Aware that no person of that name lived In the bone, she
charged him with having her pioperty in the bundle be was carry-
ing. The prisoner attempted to get down stairs, and Mrs. English
gave an alarm. when a young man employed Is the first Boor ran
to her assistance. Ale. Frederick Bianco White darted down stain,
pursued by the young man. and would have effected his escape, at
least as far as the oven, but toeing his footing when within give or
sic steps of the bottom, hie pursuer was, by these means, enabled
to overtake and secure him. The first Soar is occupied as the Nor-
wich shawl warehouse, and the prisoner, seeing the word " Nor-
wich." apposed it to be the name of the proprietor.
The prisoner, in his defence, stated that be was a porter out of
Mane, and hearing that a porter was wanted at the shawl ware-
hanaq going up stain to inquire, when he beard a female voice
" That is my property!" when suddenly be received a
4 sus of a boodle on the head, which knocked him down several
Mops tithe stairs. He argued the hour—just eight o'clock-..was
is. dark to enable Mrs. English to identify his person.
The defence was very unsatisfactory, and he was fully committed.
Thep y found ea him, consisting of house linen, value tOe.
was by_ Si re English.