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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

s only another man in the

fe, a n

a who, in point of fact

f in the mat
nosed to be

end that was
t, was equally
and chicanery

at of an election

red-f

into such a
could
rd and
chin and cheeks were intersected by
trong lines of cunning ; move them as he might, there
ml in his eye such a disguised consciousness of his own
u,,essful duplicity, and power of overreaching, as ren-
dered his countenance, in connexion with the habits of
his life, absolutely a thing to be admired. He was a
round, portly-looking man, and possessed a singular, in-
deed a peculiar facility, not merely of expressing himself,
but also a felicity of insinuation, that rendered him almost
beyond all price at an election. Burnside, in figure, some-

what resembled him, as he did also in
only difference being, that nothing so fa

lest good

hu-mot

and the frankest
the sunshine of a

to either one or the other. Next in im
was Captain Blaze, who, in common
eentry on both

In fact,

who had

.h most of the
I with a case of

about twenty-seven
most au fait in such matters of any man in th
Blaze was what might not inaptly be t
the " Intimidation CommittE
took not only to fight hii
rioters, so that the out

attairs

;If:but t,

econd, in
to be the

41;iited in different par

produce the greatest Possible co
upon the irresolute and timid
cond
menced

) say, he under-
and regulate the
most judiciously

motions were made by the head and neck in conjunction
with the stump. which she held pressed to her cheek to stance n
retain the pen in its place. After writing half-a-dozen of exchanged
autographs, she laid the pen in the inkstand ; then with named Ndit-bullet
the tongue took up a camel-hair pencil, filled it with paint parading himself upc
from a pallet, and began to work at a minature picture. gine now, that two
She thus took likenesses with great accuracy, and with the pair we have desc,
very considerable neatness and beauty of execution. horsewhipping each other
Her next exploit was sewing. A needle was placed for however, could be farthe
her in a small cushion attached to her stumps. She then intention. They undo
took a thread into her mouth, prepared the end of it with well for that. Their
her tongue, and, holding it between her lips, threaded with each other in a
-41,,, at the first trial with great accu- TV

back, with a po
this circa
would b

I. From
tiv well known that shots

lv com-

whip in his I

ibed, v

larly equipped

hearts than any such

great deal too

and blood, but

they cool(
id timid el

_racy. nen
she pressed the seam between the edge of the table and to intimidate and coerce, ~n as
the end of her right stump, and began to sew by the aid were remarkable for a shrinking ..
.... -iacter, and
of her tongue and lips, making nearly as many stitche who wished to avoid notoriety. " Buxton," said Blaze,
when they met, "an even ten we beat you."—" No,"
in a minute as an ordinary sempstress. In her leisures
hours she could by reading beguile her solitary and con- replied Buxton, " I know it will be too close a contest to
fined condition ; and it was pleasing to mark that good lay a wager on it ; and, between you and me, Blaze, my
humour beamed from her countenance, and evidently dear fellow, 1 can't afford, no more than yourself, to lose
showed that she was contented under those severe depii_ a ten-pound rag just now. Do you expect any fighting on
vations with which she was visited. The late Professor
tihis occasion."—" Why," replied Blaze, " I don t know.
Stewart, in a short note to his " Philosophy of theshould suppose so. Do you ?" " Begad, I can't
Human Mind," describes the intellectual powers of this say.r I think you ought to know best. Heaven forbid
the
kind. Try
not be at least two or three little matters of
person as above the ordinary standard ; and remarks that I
like a oodTery and get me up a couple—will you, Blaze,
her countenance, especially her eye, expressed good
humour and cheerfulness, with a cast of thoughtful inter- may—oneg goodll ?'
—"
Well, I don't know—perhaps I
turn deserves another ; you won't forget
your friends o
,e
atssheoef ;it—wcoa s
be
e.
est. Mr. Stewart introduces her case as an example to
not, if it's an unndetriet other side, perhaps."—" Certainly
show bow the human mind can manifest its superiority
Very well, then, let it
even without the apparatus of the hand and fingers to
ob
fe
theiran understoodintenti
on
work with, and as a refutation of the opinions of some And with this mutual intimation
11—igerent parties separated,
philosophers, that it is by the superior mechanism of this to support the cause of truth
organ that man in his operations so greatly excels other Ey. i „
of 1. and liberty.—An Irish
weoon in the Time the pc,
Wier Animals,—Hog y' $ Weekly Inetructer. . dies, in Dublin Univ. Nay.