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delighted to find that this bird of dignity could not crow lit

an English cock, and did not I
hoped that through his influence the into

cock crowing

chanticleer might be silenced

)1e no popery

The attempt was made with considerable skill, but without
effect. Neither Cheshire cheese, nor Italian flummery would
go down with the noble bird; but rather the attempt to choke
him, served but to rouse his game blood into more vehement
circulation, and he crowed forth a homily of such power, in
old undeniable English, as terrified all the turkeys, and si-
lenced their chief. Old England reverberated the sound
and loud and numerous were the plaudits bestowed upon the
cock of the east. But alas ! there is no rose without a thorn,
no gourd without a worm, no honour without envy, no well-
earned praise without a pitiful detractiori.

On the western coast there lived a would-be-cock, but his
growth was so stunted, his proportions so faulty, and his
voice so cracked,that he rever appeared and attempted to
crow, without exciting a mixture of compassion and ridicule.
He bad been taught, but not in the real Old English school.
He bad received a non-conformity twist when he was a
chicken, and all his little crowing ended in great I—l—l.
This biped was of a vaulting ambition, (not to call it vanity)
and wished to be FIRST : but he was over-matched, and
therefore obliged to abide in comparative obscurity.. Hence
he resented beyond endurance the acclamations which at-
tended the real No-Popery cocks. Being afraid, however,
to attack directly those nearer home, he determined to have
a fling at them by a chivalrous interference in the eastern
question, as an apologist for the " Christian charity," as he
called it, or (to retain the parable) the inarticulate pee, pee,
pee's of the Norfolk turkey.
The result was a little notoriety, and a consequent little
chuckle, but this was short-lived. It was, indeed, taken up
by the anti-English tribes of every wing, and re-sung with
variations by the sweet voices of " esteemed cotemporaries,"
who fancied they had found a champion. But oh ! pity 'tis!
champions don't grow on every bush. Petulance is not

power, neither is learning wisdom, and there is an essential
difference between a wasp and a bee. The genuine coustitu-
tional cocks of Old England expelled the moulting creature
from their societies, seeing that its new feathers were co
out like turkey feathers. This was the more I

:eerily fel

because the bantam, on the strength of the notoriety of a
week, was swelled into the spread and pomp of a peacock.
But it would not do ; after enduring a few rounds of hisses,

and roars of contemptuous laughter, the creature v

obliged to retire into its native obscurity, emerging only
occasionally among the non-conformist tribes for the coun-

tenance and comfort of congenial voices

MORAL

Protestants are Protestants and not half Protestants, am
true Christian charity " rejoices in the truth," not in apolo
gies for compromising or suppressing the truth.

PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT.

(From our London Correspondent.)

The inquiry which is going on in the House of Lords i
drawing considerable attention to the proceedings of thos
omnipotent functionaries—the poor-law commissioners. Thi
evidence of Mr. Phelan—himself an active whig partisan, am

yet an assistant-commissioner—let out, last night

the ac

government is no bar at any rate, if it be not a recommenda.
tion to a candidate for.the favours of the Irish board ; and id
the gentleman in question had not proved himself to be gifted
with a very convenient memory, perhaps he might have alto•

gether settled the question as to the worthiness of the ma
chinery by which Lord Morpeth's Irish reform bill is to
worked. As matters stand, however, it will 1
difficult for the House of Commons, after Easter, to declat
that the machinery in question is the best which could. 1

found to regulate the bestow

,f the franchise

In the House of Commons on I%

newha

onday night, after a ver

damaging debate, the first clause of Lord John Russell's bil

which prc

five years, was carried by a majority of 39 only, in a house of
313 members—the numbers being, for the clause 176, and

against it 137. We are frequently told that this measure is
as much that of the conservative as of the whig party. It is
therefore worthy of remark that, of the 313 members present
only 56 conservative members voted in favour of this—the
vital clause ; and of that number nearly the whole are pre-
pared to support a relaxation of the general stringency of the
measure. It is also worthy of notice that, in accordance

with " compact" no doubt, the whole tribe of popery absented
themselves from the house, unable, from their having opposed
the Irish bill last session, to vote for this, and yet unwilling
to give the benefit of their votes to the victims of poverty in
England.

The smallness of the majority in this division affords deci-
sive proof of the favourable change which has taken place in
the opinions of members of the House of Commons with
respect to the measure. One word from Sir Robert Peel in
favour of its entire rejection would, I firmly believe, have
caused that wished for consummation ; and even yet it is
tolerably certain that, without a material lessening of the
arbitrary powers of the commissioners, it will not be allowed

to pass. The fact which was brought before the house by
Mr. Wakley, and confirmed by Colonel Rolleston, that the
medical officer of a workhouse is not allowed, even in cases
of the most urgent necessity, to prescribe to his patients a
morsel of food beyond that provided in the dietary—to order
any stimulant stronger than tea or water gruel even to pau-
pers dying of inanition—without the previous sanction of a
board of guardians, is sufficient of itself to convince any body
of men, open to conviction, that the framers of such an un-
feeling and murderous regu
effectual check, to be entrt

of so large a number of their fellow-creatures as those who,
unfortunately, are compelled to come under their keeping.

On Tuesday evening a motion was introduced by Lord
Mahon, in deprecation of the practice of employing prisoners
under sentence of transportation for short terms, at the
Hulks, in place of forwarding them, in pursuance of their
sentences, to bur penal colonies. His lordship, in a long
able speech, satisfactorily proved that this practice, which
has chiefly grown up under the administration of the Home-
office by Lord John Russell, is attended with increased ex-
pense to the country, and does not operate at all to check
crime; whilst to the criminal himself it is unjust, as afford-
ing him no opportunity, when the period of his sentence has
expired, of re-establishing his character. The convicts in
our colonies possess such opportunities ; and it is an admitted
fact that they make frequent use of them. But the convict
from the Hulks, turned loose amongst a community abound-
ing with labour of every description, which, though un-
tarnished by the stigma of crime, cannot always command
employment, has too often no other resource than to rush
into the commission of fresh offences to procure even the
bare necessities of life.
An attempt was made by Lord John Russell—who had

previously failed in producing any thing like a reply to Lon:
Mahon—to induce the noble lord to withdraw his motion

upon the ground that it was indirectly a censure upon the go
vernment. His lordship, however, persisted in dividing th
house ; and upon the division, in spite of all their wrigglinl

contortions to escape the infliction, the ministry were beaten
by a majority of 21. Perhaps,' if gentlemen upon the Con-
servative benches were to lay aside that extreme good nature
which prompts them to withdraw important subjects, when-
ever Lord John Russell or Lord Palmerston assume the

.......saus 'funs, 1 Juuulu nave to recoru a sew more or sucn de-
feats; and the full measure of infamy which this worthless
faction require, before they are willing to lay down place and
pay, would be the sooner filled up.
London, Wednesday evening.

A PHRENOLOGIST'S VISIT TO GENERAL HARRISON.—
General Harrison's residence at ,Northlßend consists of a
centre house of two stories, now covered with clap-boards,
but which, the general told us, is really built of logs, and two
clapboarded wings of one story each. It stands about one
quarter of a mile from the Ohio, in a grass park, having a

few cherry trees in the distance,' and several larburn'ams close
to the door. The park may contain forty or fifty acres en-
closed with a rail fence. A footpath, worn in the grass, but
not formed by art, leads from the gate to the door of the
house. The floor of the house is about fifteen or eighteen
inches above .the grass ; and three stones of increasing

thickness, undressed, not built on each other, but each
on the ground at successive distances, serve as steps to s
mount this height. The centre house has much the appear
ance of a log cabin. The principal room in it is coarsely
finished, and the wooden fire biases on the hearth. One of
the wings, however, is finished like a wooden house, and com-
fortably furnished irawinv room. General If-

when we
le, and the

cisop was sufferingss from a violent headache
arrived; but Mrs. Harrison gave us a kind welcom-
general at length arrived. He is .now sixty-seven, r
above the middle stature, slender, and Aestoops,csir

rably. His temperament is nervous ana is head
is long, of full average height, but not remarkably broad.
The anterior lobe is above an average, both in length from
front to back, and height; and both the observing and re-
flecting organs are well developed. The head is obviously flat
in the region of acquisitiveness. The moral region seemed to

present an average developement. nis eye is vivacious, and
his countenance is highly expressive of thought; indeed his
whole appearance is much more that of a literary or scientific
man than that of a military commander. His habitation pre-
sented unequivocal indicationsof.humble fortune ; indeed I

may say, (and I say it without the least feeling of disrespect,)
of poverty ; yet his manner and appearanbe were those of a
man of the world, who was familiar with the best society, and
who, in the retirement of his farm at North Bend, retained
the polish and appearance of a gentleman.—Combe's Visit
to the United States.

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