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VARIETIES

SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—The only persons ob-
dtofor the borough of Bewdley, as not entitled to

their names retained in the list of voters for the
.ern division of the county of Worcester, are Benja-
Halfpenny, of Mainble, and William Penny, of
thorn Bush, Bewdley.
iTsteat. Foacts.—A poor Welsh miner, who had
induced to join a riot, when under examination be-
magistrates at Newport, repe:►tedly exclaimed as
—" I wur never for vissikful force." Being
replied—" Why, zur, I ❑ever

explain himself,

wur vor pysonin um !"

ZATURAL ALARIJ9I.—To those who wish to rise early
ing the summer months, the following plan is worth
r attention :—Go into your garden in the dusk of the
ing, and pick a flower in which a dumbledore has
up its night's lodging, place it near your chamber
previous to going to bed. Soon after sunrise,
sect will commence a very loud tune on its trumpet,
same time beating its wings against the glass in
)uring to escape. This will soon awake you ; when
out of bed, open the window, let your living
"ti proceed to apparel yourself.
AND FOREIGN 11)1.ARKETs.—In England 27 per
duty was called monopoly; but the same persons
raised this cry here, called a3O per cent. duty in
Tica " Free Trade." There the manufactures of
natry, Nuneaton, and Birmingham, had to pay one-
of their value to Uncle Sam and Brother Jonathan
e shape of taxes; and he wanted to know why the
ace of the wastes and prairies of Uncle Sam and
dot pay a share of our taxes
ate of prohibition, but he wished
.s who sent their produce here pay a
.:s. Sir Robert Peel wished the people
, to receive the produce of other nations free
.oat they might have them at a low cost. yet he
cbjection to levy high taxes upon the produce of
)untry,—on malt, on spirits, on salt, and on the
f heaven. But Sir Robert Peel's sympathies lay
rection of this country but in that of foreign
-,tl in the case of timber and sugar,
-sed the price to rise abroad,
fit. When the duties were
salt, and glass, the parties
lanufacture of tl ose articles
d not all go to the consu-
:en, and he did not ob-
He thought the proper
. emitting taxes was to remit those which pressed
our people and not those which pressed upon fo-
aers, that our countrymen and not foreigners might
ive the benefit.—Lord George Bentinck's Speech.
KETCH Or JOHN CUNNINGHAM, THE POET.—John
-ham was born in Dublin, some time in the year
was the eldest of seven children. Nursed and
7.p of poverty, his father became suddenly af-
prize in the English lottery of £l2OO. On this
nerchant, spent the whole of the sum,
time among the list of bankrupts.
,ne has told us. Both parents
,teligion through life of their
rudiments of education he
of Drogheda, and had
n little French, when

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to his own home, his

of authorship, and,
Dublin Theatre a two-
or the Lass of Spirit,"
to hive borrowed the plot of

;n, he brough
!ailed " Love
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iced, had a run

of Spirit" was favour-
nights, and procured
ling more substantial, at least the
Here he became acquainted with
ning his talent to lie
—a step which Ritson

3 or, if not sort

of the theatr,

ative art, for
)ented of, a

And joining the company of an itine-
manager, crossed into England, and added the cha-
r of the strolling player to that of the poor poet. This
-f unsettled life he must have led for some twenty
to the publication of his poems. What vicis-
^e he psseri through in this long career of
now in sorrow,
the companion of the
ed in body and in mind.
preserved will chew the

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vhich he was at times reduced. Burns had it
Woods, a player, who knew Cunningham well,
]ed him much. " A fat dignitary of the church,"
4. " coming past Cunningham one Sunday, as

rod in some stream near
primanded him severely for such
day. The poor poet, with that
manner which was his peculiar
racteristic, replieu, that he hoped God and his rever-
would forgive his seeming profanation of that sacred
as he had no dinner to eat but what lay at the bottom
never led him as far as
the north, and, it is be.

verence

)vVevei, he

-0 •
le acquainted with Robert
" and lively poet, at whose
own brilliant flame. But Cun-
ghatn was modest, and his friends, happily too judi-
did not buoy him up with false bladders of impro-
Ritson, the antiquary, who knew him well,
was unequalled as a Frenchman, and gftd
" I remember him," adds Ritson,

the wr

:hi Burns kin

her characters

lent in Orator Gruel." Shields, Sunderland, Dur-
tockton, Whitby, Scarborough, Newcastle, and oc-
lly, Northampton, were the fields of his exertions.
e places his talent for prologues and epilogues was
tly called upon, and at intervals, too, be set forth
small pieces in print, such as an " Elegy on a Pile
ls" (rather too much an echo of Gray),: and the
:as on the Death of George 11."--Fraser 'a May.