The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-31 00:00:00

THE MODEL REPUBLIC!

(Abridged from the New York Ihrald of the 4th inst.)
SCENE AT THE POLICE-OFF 10E.—A decent-looking, but
evidently poor, man, softly approached, the desk of the ma-
gistrate, and pointing to his own face, all bruised and
swollen, said—" S how I've been ill-used, sir!—l ant come
for a warrant for NW arrest of the two men who have beaten
me thus."
The Magistrate—with both legs stuck over the desk, his
head reclining"upon his breast, his spectacles shoved up- on
the summit of his cranium, and his whole material man •
absorbed in a soft siesta—slowly half-opened his maudlin
eyes, and said or growl„al—" Have you got six shillings ?"
"No, s:r," was the reply—" I hav'nt got so much to spare."
"Then you can't have a warrant—and you-may go about
your business as soon as ever you _please, mister;"—said. the
great man, again closing his half-shut eyes and settling down
again into his snooze.
But, sir," said the poor man—
" Bat, sir!" exclaimed the somniferous magistrate, open-
ing both his eyes and taking down his legs—" Bat, sir!—
don't stand butting me all the afternoon ;—go about your
business, I tell you."
' " Sir," said the poor tnan, " I was born and bred in New
York, and always paid my taxes regular to the state; surely
1 am to be protected against violence ?"
" No! l—roared the now infuriated magistrate—" not with-
out you've got fis. for a warrant. So go !—Be off with you,
I SRN' !—Don't you hear me?"
The poor man left the presence muttering something
about "a d—d hog!" and the great man lifting his legs
upon the desk again, interlaced his fingers across his breast,
dropp'd his double chin upon his bosom again : and again
elided off into his siesta, murmuring—" A pretty story I—that
I must be troubled and disturbed at all hours of the day by a
parcel of fellows that can't pay for a warrant!"
SCENE THE SECOND.—Soon afterwards the great man was
roused again, and in earnest. Jones, of sixth ward, was
dragging in a poor creature by the hair of her head, and the
whole place re-echoed with her shrieks. She was an Irish-
woman, charged by another Irishwoman with making a
noise! She struggled hard with her conductor to get his
clutches out of her hair, which the gentleman resisted by
striking the poor wretch's knuckles and fingers with his
rattan. She shrieked for mercy, and implored the protection
of the magistrate,—," I am innocent, your honour; I was
ounly speaking up for my poor bits o' babes. Oh, have mercy
on me-for the childer's sake," &c.
" Take that woman to the cells ! roared the magistrate,
waking up.
" Your honour, I was ounly"—
" Away with her, officers, and stop her infernal yelling in
the cells!" reiterated the magistrate; and the officers set
about obeying his orders.
As they were dragging her to the cells, another woman en-
tered the office with two of the prisoner's children—one of
them about three years old, and the other an infant of a few
days' existence, which she carried in the folds of her apron.
The agonised mother upon seeing them, broke from the
arms of the officers and again implored forgiveness for her
children's sake, protesting that her accuser wns alone to
blame. -
Her pleadings and her protests were all in vain ;—she and
her screaming babes were consigned to the same cell by the
same soul-less, heartless, and arbitrary tyrant, who had not
even heard the charge preferred against her. •
And the editor of the New York paper thereupon indig-
nantly exclaims—" If such tyrannical miscreants are to be
tolerated in this land of liberty, give us Tartary-for a coun-
try, Khans for magistrates, and Cossacks for constables!"

GEORGE OSBALDESTON, ESQ.—This gentleman, so cele-
brated some years ago as a fox-hunter, and as master of the
Quorndon establishment, in particular, has announced his
intention of retiring from the turf at the close of the present
season.—Maidstone Journal.
We understand that Mr. C. Oglefromchallenge to ride fro
Doncaster winning-chair to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne imme-
diately after the termination of the ensuing St. Leger in
eight hours, for £2OO. a side, upon hack horses, has been
accepted, and that £5O. a side has been deposited with Mr.
Radford:— Tyne Mercury.

SOUTH EASTERN AND DOVER RAILWAY.—The extensive
works of this national undertaking at the Shakspeare Cliff
and' Gallery are progressing in a manner that must be highly
g.,:tifying to their .numerous_ wall-wishara in Dover and the
shareholders generally. A few months more and this classic
height will be completely honeycombed by the tunnels; the
galleries and shafts are already formed, and the driftways
connecting the shafts have been commenced. Beyond the
Shakspeare, the benches on the face of the cliff are finished;
and it now only remains t,) cut out the angular masses be-
tween them, ii hen the line will be complete for three miles of
the most difficult part of this Undertaking. During• the
cutting of the upper bench, nearly above Lydden Spout, the
workmen found a splendid and unique specimen of the jaw of
the Mosusaurus. It was, when first discovered, nearly per-
fect, and measured 3 feet 6 inches in length, but through the
carelessness of the labourers who found it, it was broke'n to
pieces, and a general scrambl6 ensued for the fragments.
Some of these have, however, been collected, consisting of
masses of bone and several teeth, and it is intended to present
them to the Dover Museutn.—Dover Chronicle, August 25.