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"C-a-t," repeated the child more slowly, but with sobs in-
creasing in loudness.
" You obstinate little slut! You're enough to provoke a
saint, you are! and if I hadn't the patience of Job, and the
mildness of an angel, I should nut attempt to enlighten your
wretched ignorance." Then, giving the pupil a shake, which
increased the sobbing to a roar, the other cried out, " Tell me
what it does spell, or I'll give you such a box on the ear."
With a convulsive effort, the girl endeavoured to make her
answer audible, amid her lachyrinose outcry, and said, " Puss

—puss—puss—pussy !
I heard a blow follow the unfortunate reply, that I thought
would have finally settled the education of the young student ;
but it only elicited a scream, which sets description at

" Stop that blubbering, this instant ! or I'll give you some-
thing to cry for," said the teacher, sharply. " But it is all
for your good, you ungrateful jade ! 'Am I not striving all I
can do, to make you happy ? There, take that, and go into
the corner," and another spanker was followed by another
scream

"come and say

"Tommy Tucker," cried the same voice,
your reading lesson."
In a few moments, I distinguished the following words, re-
peated in a tone, and in a manner, which I can only describe
by saying, that the smaller words were given in a high tone,
with pauses of various lengths' between, and the longer or
more difficult words fell rather more than au octave lower ;
the single letters denote an attempt at spelling :
" A wise—son—ma, make, maketh a—glad—f a-t—fat—
h-e-r—fat—her—"
" Father, you dunce !"
" Father;--but a—foo-fool-foolish son—is—the—h.e-a—
hea—"
" He, you blockhead
" He—v-i—heavi—n-e—double s—ness—"
Here there was a pause.
" Well, what does that spell, dolt ?'' cried the teacher.
" Heavenliness—"
A box on the ear, made the unfortunate Tommy Tucker
cry out.
" Heaviness, you stupid little fool !" exclaimed his instruc-

tress.
" Heaviness!" repeated the boy, rather sotto voce : but
here an interruption took place, by a girl crying out :
" Please, Governess, Billy Snipes—"
" I'm sure I didn't !" said the boy, instantly..
" NV hat has Billy Snipes done ?" inquired their Governess.
" He's been a pinchin, of me."
" Peggy 'Wobble pricked me with her needle, first! said
the other ; and he began to wimper. grti.
" You plagues, 11l give it you! and you, Jonny Bolter,
you're playing at tit-tat-tow with Bobby Bricks, instead of
doing your sums; you good-for-nothing, wicked wretches !"
Hearing a rapid succession of blows, I thought my appea-
rance might
.afford some relief to the little innocents, so I
pushed the door open, and entered the school-room : and
there, to my surprise, beheld my mild, my gentle, meek, and
amiable Amelia, wacking away, with all her might. among a
parcel of juveniles, not much bigger than a sixpenny-worth
of half-pence ; while Billy Snipes, and Peggy Wobble, and
Jonny Bolter, and Bobby Bricks, were in full chorus, shrink-
ing from the punishment. She was so intently engaged in the
" Delightful task, to rear the tender thougt !"
that I, for some moments, remained unperceived by her; at
last, her face, all flushed with passion, was turned towards
me, as her vigorous arm was raised to inflict its vengeance
on another victim; and, as she beheld me, in a moment her
countenance became as gentle as ever, her uplifted arm was
stretched out to shake hands, and, in her usual mild accents,
she said—
"A h ! Mr. Wag, lam glad you are come to assist me in
the charming employment of instructing these little dears."
Calling the next day at the house, the door was opened by
a servant in livery, whom I had not noticed before.
" Be you the gemman what conies arter Miss Melia? 'cause
if you be, Missus told me to show you into the garden. Mas-
ter's in the pig-stye, and Missus and the young ladies be a
studying buttonry, I think they calls it, in the iughun bed."
I satisfied the matter-of-fact footman that I was the person
he imagined, and was directed to the garden, through which
I walked, without seeing any one, until I came to a suit of
Summer-house, painted green, and furnished with a variety
of execrable drawings,' (doubtless the production of the seven
talented Miss Thomsons,) seats and a table. I had partly
closed the door, on entering, and was amusing myself, by
examinining the daubs on the walls, when Cheard voices
approaching.
" Mr. 'Wag is a very serious young man, my dear," said
Mrs. Thompson, " and I have no doubt, he will be much
gratified by knowing that you have become a teacher of the
Sunday-school."
" But it is so very annoying, mamma; the children are
worse than brutes," replied my gentle Amelia.
"Never mind, my love, if it procures you a husband, and
one so respectable."
" I think he is the most stupid young man I ever saw,"
remarked my affectionate Amelia.
"That is not the slightest consequence, child—consider
what an estate his father has."
" I wish I had Amy's chance," cried Miss Augusta,—" I
would not care if be was an idiot."
" Nor 1," exclaimed Miss Rosa, emphatically.
" Nor 1," repeated Miss Belinda, in a similar manner.
"Nor I," echoed the others.
"You are quite right," girls, observed the matron; and I
am sorry to see your sister so little alive to her own interests;
I am afraid she is still thinking of Mr. Bleedem's assistant."
"Fredertck Aloes is very handsome," said my devoted
Amelia.
"But Frederick Aloes is a beggar, you foolish girl," re-
plied mamma."
"And Mr. Bleedem told me that he had only twenty
pounds a-year, and finds his own tea and sugar," remarked
Miss Augusta, disdainfully.
"Never you mind, Miss," cried my adored, with some as-
perity, " he is a gentleman, and that's more than M. Calico's
shopinan is whom you are always running after."
ri " I run after the fellow !" exclaimed the other, with more
anger than surprise. "But you never could speak the truth;
therefore— "
"Come—come, I mus'nt have any quarrrlling," here in-
terposed mamma; " I hope you have both too much good
sense to disgrace your family, by forming alliances so much
beneath you. Remember that your father's annuity (lies
with him ; and, if you do not wish to be reduced to poverty,
you will assist mein securing Amelia so excellent a husband ;
and I am sure, our Dear At m, out of gratitude, will provide
for us as soon as she's married. 1 shall leave nothing untried
to ensure so desirable a match, and none of us must hesitate
about trifles, upon such an occasion. Didn't I tell the young
Squire that the Frontignac was made by Amelia, when you
all know it was bought of old Dame Suivle, at a shilling a
bottle; and have'nt I sewed souse yellow cloth round the
collar and cuffs of one of your father's old coats, and made
John wear it, so that Mr. Wag should think we kept a foot-
man in livery ? But I expect him here every moment ? so
let us all go into the summer-house, or your skins will be
freckled by the sun." So saying, she pushed open the door,
and the whole party instantly beheld me. The consternation
of the Thoinson's was beyond conception. Knowing I must
have heard their conversation, and that their designs were
now hopeless, they were too much confounded to titter a
word ; so, having enjoyed the scene sufficiently, I very
gravely made my- bow, and never entered the house of the
retired Barrister again.—New Monthly.

NARROW ESCAPEOF THE ROYAL TAR STEAMER IN THE
BAY OF BISCAY.-It appears that the Roy al 'far underwent
some trilling repairs last voyage at Limehouse, and left the
river on Friday, the 12th inst., for Lisbon and Gibralter. On
reaching the Bay of Biscay she met a heavy sea and stiffish
breeze, which strained her to that degree that she was half
full of water before the captain and crew were aware of it. if
there had not been six pumps to go to work with she must
have gone down. There were 65 passengers on board; and
'when it was reported that the ship was sinkinir, the scene of
dismay and uproar that ensued baffles description. The pas-
sengers have landed at Falmouth, there to await the arrival
of another steamer.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—On Friday evening, as one of the 1
labourers, named Dawson, employed on the London and
Birmingham Railway, was reiurning from the Kilburn sta-
tion, whither he had gone to receive his wages, he incauti-
ously walked in the carriage-way. The train with the mail
approached, and before the man could reach a place of safety
he was caught by the engine and dashed to the road. Those
who witnessed the occurrence gave up all hopes of seeing
him again alive, and when the train had passed they ran to
look at what they supposed to be a mangled corpse:: Much
to their surprise, however, Dawson was found to have re-
ceived no other injury than what proceeded from his contact
with the engine. it appeared that he fell immediately in-the
centre of the road, and as there is a considerable space be-
tween the bottom of the carriages and the surfaceot the road,
and he contrived to keep one position, he escaped with some
severe bruises, and is now doing very well.
STAGE COACH ACCIDENT AND Loss OF LIFE.—On Satur-
day a dreadful accident occurred to the light Salisbury coach
whicho
join the Southamp-
ton railway
leaves hurley-row station, oas
to go up by the three o'clock train to London. On passing
tat Salisburyth
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nc clock, c to
down Husband-hill, between Basingstoke and Andover, the
bit of one of the horses caught in the hook of the pole, and
before the coachman could pull up to put on the break to the
wheels, the coach overturned, by which the coachman broke
his right arm, and dislocated his shoulder. One passenger, a
mechanic, on whose industry his aged father alone depended,
was so much hurt that he died the same afternoon; a gentle-
man also, injured about the head, was taken to his residence
at Andover, without the slightest hope of recovery; a young
woman had her leg broken, and great doubts are entertained
as to her ultimate fate; the other limbs broken, and the
Others (except the Rev. Mr. Fowl, of Winchfield) were all
more or less bruised. Both leaders were killed on the spot.
MURDER OF A MOTHER BY HER DA UGHTER.—A shocking

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murder was committed on Monday last, on the lands of Cam-
lin, within a mile and a half of Roscrea, on an old woman
named Delaney, about 90 years of age, by her own dapghter.
It appears that the poor creature and her daughter, who is
about 45 yea s old, lived together, and that the old woman
went into her garden to dig some potatoes. After she re-
turned into the house, the daughter immediately felled her to
the ground with the spade, and so chopped her face and the
side of her head as to cause the brains to protrude. The
body presented an appearance too shdcking to look upon.
A son of the old woman, who lives within a few perches, went
down to the house about mid-day, but finding the door locked
of his the door;
his mother.
on the outside, he supposed them to be out, and returned
home, (at this time nothing was known of the murder.) 1-le
went down again in the evening, and finding the door locked
hwihsesuspicionst
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laidarise
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fh
wase
the
forcedl
He gave the alarm, and search was made for the unfortunate
daughter; who, it appears, was partially suffering under an
aberration of intellect for some time before, and was at last
found lying in the field, and when questioned as to the horrid
crime, she replied that it was "the devil that made her do it."
An inquest was held on the body the next day, and the fol-
lowing verdict returned :—"'rhat the deceased, Elizabeth
Delaney, came by her death iu consequence of wounds in-
flicted on her head by Margaret Delaney, who appears to be
insane,"—Tipperary Constitution.
BRUTAL AND MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—About three o'clock
on Sunday morning last, as a number of colliers, in a state
of intoxication, were passing along Oldham-road, Rochdale,
they were attracted by
.a light in a house occupied by a man
named Dearden, and immediately began to knock at the
door, and demand admittance. On being refused, one of
them threw a stone through the window, when Dearden
opened the door, and a scuffle ensued; the colliers attempt-
ing to force themselves into the house. Dearden at last suc-
ceeded in driving them out, and in shutting the door, when
the coat skirts of one of the colliers were caught between the
door and the door-post, by which he was kept a -prisoner till
one of his companions extracated him by cutting off that
part of the coat which was fast. At this time the door opened,
when Dearden was stabed twice by one of his assailants in
the bowels: and not satisfied with this, the colliers set two
dogs which they had with them upon the poor man, to tear
and mangle him still worse. An alarm was immediately
given ; the constables and police beadles were shortly on the
spot ; and four of the colliers, with the two dogs, were secured,
and conveyed to the lock-up. On searching the prisoners
for the knife, none was found; but, it being subsequently
suggested that they might have concealed it in prison, an
examination took place, and the knife was found with the
blade still bloody. Dearden is a pensioner, between 40 and
50 years of age, a married man but without children, and
was formerly one of the supernumerary watchmen of the
town. Lately having broken his leg, he has been disqualified
for some time serving in that capacity. On Monday, the
prisoners were brought before t he magistrates, at the Session
Room; but no witness was examined, except Mr. Coates,
the surgeon who first attended Dearden, and who stated, that
he had received two deep incisions in his belly, by some
sharp instrument; that his bowels bad been injured, and'he
was in great danger. Mr. Royds said, he should remand the
prisoners tilt Tuesday, the following day. The court was
crowded to excess in expectation that the case would be gone
into. The colliers are all young men of the neighbourhood,
and worked at Athershaw Moor colliery, between Rochdale
and Royton.
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