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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-28 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANbAItb.

CEYLON.—Certainly, if Ceylon was not, at least it ought
to have been, Paradise ? for at this day there is no place
on earth which better supports the paradisiacal character
than this Pandora of islands, which the Hindoos call
Lanka, and Europe calls Ceylon. We style it the " Pan-
dora" of islands, because, as all the gods of the heathen
Flubbed their powers in creating that ideal woman—cloth-
ing her with perfections, and each separate deity subscrib-
ing to her dowry some separate gift—not less conspicuous,
and not less comprehensive, has been the bounty of Pro-
vidence, running through the whole diapason of possibili-
ties, to this all-gorgeous island. Whatsoever it is that
God has given by separate allotment and partition to other
sections of the planet, all this he has given cumulatively
and redundantly to Ceylon. Was she therefore happy,
was Ceylon happier than other regions, through this hy-
per-tropical munificence of her Creator? No, she was
not; and the reason was, because idolatrous darkness had
planted curses where Heaven had planted blessings ; be-
cause the insanity of man had defeated the graciousness
of God. But another era is dawning for Ceylon ; God
will now countersign his other blessings, and ripen his
possibilities into great harvests of realization, by super-
adding the one blessing of a dove-like religion ; light is
thickening apace, the horrid altars of Moloch are growing
dim; woman will no more consent to forego her birth-
right as the daughter of God ; man will cease to be the
tiger-cat that, in the noblest chamber of Ceylon, he has
ever been ; and with the new hopes that will now blossom
amidst the ancient beauties of this lovely island, Ceylon
will but too deeply fulfil the functions of a paradise. Too
subtly she will lay fascinations upon man ; and it will need
all the anguish of disease, and the stings of death, to un-
loose the ties which, in coming ages, must bind the hearts
of her children to this Eden of the terraqueous globe.—
Blackwood's Magazine.
TUB BROTHERS.—It is generally supposed that the
Duke of Wellington was born at the family scat, Dangan,
county Meath. His Grace was born in Grafton-street,
Dublin. The Marquess Wellesley was born at Dangan.
These illustrious brothers—the Fabius and Marcellus of
the British empire—have ever evinced a heartfelt interest
for the welfare of a country which their ancestors have in-
habited, as distinctly traced, for more than five centuries.
The Duke. of Wellington conceded Roman Catholic
emancipation contrary to his feelings and judgment, ra-
ther than deluge his native land with the blood of his
countrymen ; and for this act of self devotion he has been
meanly and ignominiously taunted and reviled by those
whom he has benefitted. The Marquess Wellesley twice
refused the premiership, and for years voluntarily excluded
himself from office, to obtain Catholic emancipation ; and
when the records of his Irish viceroyalty are published,
the just and comprehensive policy he endeavoured to
carry into effect in Ireland will be found equal to his
glorious government of British India. Lord Wellesley
was a perfect specimen of the Irish gentleman of the old
school, with a beautiful form and of the most polished
manners and exquisitely refined taste ; thoroughly master
of his own language and of the highest classic attainments ;
abounding in pathos, rich in anecdote, and sparkling
with wit; qnickly perceptive, and yet deeply reflective;
of high comprehensive resolves ; prompt, vigorous, and
effective in action: quickly discriminating character, and
well adapting instruments for the purposes designed ;
yielding confidence most fully, and, with the power that
alone belongs to genius, pouring into his subordinates the
spirit and energy of a large, vigorous, and well stored
mind ; kindly considerate to inferiors ; gay, animated, in-
structive to equals ; deferential but proud to superiors ;
ardently attached to constitutional liberty ; conscious of
the responsibility of political power, despising wealth,
imbued with a pure patriotism, and, when full of years and
honours, descending into the grave, breathing forth his
dying thoughts for the welfare and perpetuity of the
united British empire.—Montgomery Marlin's Ireland.
BOOK MANIA.—BIDDING AT AN AUCTION.—It is ge-
nerally acknowledged, that the bibliomania is amongst
the diseases which have been declining in intensity of
action during the last twenty years. It was at its greatest
height during the first years of the present century, when
even new books bore prices which it would now be mad-
ness to dream of. Perhaps the sale of the Duke of Rox-
burgh's library, in May, 1812, marked the very noontide
of the fever. At this greatfiaht, as Dr. Dibbin calls it,
which lasted forty-two days, Mr. Evans made his profes-
sional (Mut. Amongst many curiosities collected by the
duke in the course of a long life, was a copy of Bocca-
cio's Decameron, printed by Valdarfer, of Venice, in
1471; a book of which no other perfect copy was known
to exist. On this lot being exhibited, Mr. Evans made
an appropriate oration, which was listened to in breath-
less silence. Three noble candidates had gathered to the
field, the Duke of Devonshire, Earl Spencer, and the
Marquis of Blandford (since Duke of Marlborough).
The biddings rose rapidly to 500 guineas. " Hitherto,"
says Dr. Dibdin, in his glowing account of the action,
" it was evident that the firing was but masked and de-
sultory. At length all random shots ceased, and the
champions before named stood gallantly up to each other,
resolving not to flinch from a trial of their respective
strengths. " A thousand guineas " were bid by Earl
Spencer, to which the Marquis added " ten." You
'night have heard a pin drop. All eyes were turned, all
breathing well-nigh stopped, every sword was put home
within its scabbord, and not a piece of steel was seen to
move or to glitter, except that which each of these cham-
pions brandished in his valorous hand. See, see ! they
parry, they lunge, they bet; yet their strength is undi-
minished, and no thought of yielding is entertained by
either. Two thousand pounds are offered by the Marquis.
Then it was that Earl Spencer, as a prudent general,
began to think of a useless effusion of blood and expen-
diture of ammunition, seeing that his adversary was as
resolute and " fresh" as at the onset. For a quarter of
a minute he paused ; when my Lord Althorp .advanced
one step forward, as if to supply his father with another
spear for the purpose of renewing the contest. His coun-
tenance was marked by a fixed determination to gain the
prize, if prudence, in its most commanding form, and
with a frown of unusual intensity of expression, had not
bade him desist. The father and son for a few seconds
converse apart, and the biddings are resumed, " Two
thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! said Lord Spen-
cer. The spectators were now absolutely electrified.
The marquis quietly adds his usual " ten," * * and there
is an end of the contest. Mr. Evans ere his hammer fell,
made a due pause ; and, indeed, as if by something pre-
ternatural, the ebony instrument itself seemed to be
charmed or suspended 'in the mid air.' However, at
length down dropped the hammer. * * The sound of
Mr. Evans's prostrate sceptre of dominion reached, and
resounded from, the utmost shores of Italy. The echo of
that fallen hammer was heard in the libraries of Rome,
of Milan, and St. Mark. Boccaccio himself started from
his slumber of some five hundred years; and Mr. Van
Praet rushed, but rushed in vain, amidst the royal book
treasures at Paris, to see if a copy of the said Valdarfer
Boccaccio could there be found! The marquis's triumph
was marked by a plaudit of hands ; and presently after,
he offered his hand to Lord Spencer, saying, " We are
good friends still !" His lordship replied, " Perfectly ;
indeed, lam obliged to you." "So am Ito you," said
the marquis; "so the obligation is mutual." He de-
clared that it was his intention to have gone as far as
£5,000. The noble marquis had previousl3 possessed a
copy of the same edition, wanting five leaves. " For
which five leaves," Lord Spencer remarked, " he might
be said to have given £2,26o."—Chambers's Edinburgh
Journal

ASSUMPTION OF DIGNITY BY A CANDIDATE FOR
MAYNOOTII.—He accordingly took his father aside one
morning, after he had eaten a more meagre breakfast than
usual, and after licking his lips, addressed him in these
words :—" I think, father, that upon considerating the
consequence to which I am now entitled, and the degree
of respectability which, in my own person—in prepria
persona—l communicate to the vulgarians with whom I
am connected—l call them vulgarians from no derogatory
motive ; but you will concede yourself, that they are ig-
norant of the lamed languages, an' consequently, though
dacent enough, still in reference to Latin an' Greek, but
vulgarians. Well! Quid multus?—l say, that taking
all these things into speculation, looking at them—reluli
in speculum—it is neither dacent nor becoming that 1
should ate in the manner I have done, as vulgarly as
themselves—that I should ate, I say, any longer without
knife and fork. Neither, I announce, shall I in future
drink my milk any longer, as I have, with all humility,
done hitherto, out of a noggin ; nor continue to disrobe
my potatoes any longer without a becoming instrument.
I must also have better viands to consume. You are not
to be informed that I am in that situation of life, in
which, from my education and other accomplishments,
I must be estimated as duly qualified to ate beef and mut-
ton instead of bacon, an' to have my tay breakfast instead
of stir-about, which, in polite society, is designated por-
ridge. You know yourself, and must acknowledge, that
I'm soon likely to confer distinction and pre-eminence
upon the poor illiterate, but honest creatures, with whom
lam associated in the bonds of blood relationship. If I
were a dunce, or a booby, or a leather-head, the case
might be different ; but you yourself are well acquainted
with my talents at logic and conthroversy ; art' I have
sound rasons and good authority, which 1 could quote,
if necessary, for proving that nothing increases the weight
of the brain, and accelerates to gravity and solidity more
than good feeding. Pay attention, therefore to my words,
for I expect that they will he duly observed :—buy me a
knife and fork ; and when I get them, it's not to lay
them past to rust, you consave. The beef and mutton
must follow; and in future I am resolved to have my jay
breakfast. There are geese, and turkeys, and pullets
enough about the yard, and I am bent on accomplishing
myself in the art of carving them. I'm not the man now
to be placed among the other riff-raff of the family over a
basket of potatoes, wid a black c.erical coat upon me, and
a noggin of milk under my arm ! I tell you the system
must be changed : the schoolmaster is abroad, and I'll
tolerate such vulgarity no longer. Now saddle the horse
till I ride across the bog to Pether Rafferty's Station,
where I'm to sarve mass : plase heaven, I'll soon be able
to say one myself, and give you all a lift in spirituals—
ehem !" " Throth, Dinny, I b'lieve you're right, avick ;
and—" " Vick me no longer, father—that's another
thing I forgot. It's full time that I should be sirred;
and if my own relations won't call me Sir instead of
Dinny, it is hardly to be expected that strangers will do
it. I wish to goodness you had never stigmatised me wid
so vulgar an epithet as Dinny. The proper word is
Dionysius ; and, in future, I'll expect to be called Misther
Dionysius." " Sure, lor your mother needn't be sirrin'
you, Dinny ?" " I haven't made up my mind as to whe-
ther I'll demand that proof of my respectability from you
and my mother, or not ; but on this I'm immovable, that
instead of Dinny, you must, as I said, designate me
Dionysius." " Well, well, avoutneen, I suppose only it's
so long and lamed a word." "Itis a lamed word, no
doubt : but she must persevere until she's able to master
it. I wouldn't for three tenpennies that the priest would
hear one of you call me Dinny ; it would degrade me very
much in his estimation. At all events, if my mother can-
not manage the orthography of Dionysius, let it be Denis,
or anything but that signature of vulgarity, Dinny. Now,
father, you won't neglect to revale what I've ordered to
the family ?"—Carleton's Traits and Stories of the Irish
Peasantry.

ORIGINAL STOPPAGE OF BANK PAYMENTS.—On
Saturday, the 25th of February. 1797, the late Mr. Samuel
Thornton, deputy governor of the Bank of England, waited
on Mr. Pitt, to explain to him the imminent dangers to
which that corporation was exposed. Mr. Pitt appointed
to receive him at dinner that very day, for the purpose of
examining into the facts, and of determining upon the line
to be adopted. At that dinner there were present but
three persons —the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, and Mr. Steele,
then secretary to the Treasury. The presence of the latter
was soon dispensed with, and the authorities of the Trea-
sury and Threadneedle-street were left to discuss confi-
dentially the most important proposition that had ever
been mooted between those " high contracting powers."
Mr. Thornton demonstrated to the minister that it was
utterly hopeless for the bank to continue its specie pay-
ments; and that early on the following Monday it was
necessary that some decisive resolution should be per-
formed and acted on. The interview was long. Mr.
Pitt examined into the case with the deepest anxiety and
minuteness. In dismissing Mr. Thornton, he directed
him to attend a meeting of the council, to be held on the
following morning, on Sunday. Mr. Thornton was in
waiting, even before the arrival of Mr. Pitt. Having sent
in his name to the council, he was asked by some of the
official persons what was the object of his attendance—an
object which did not appear to have been communicated
to them. He replied that he attended by the command
of Mr. Pitt, and on behalf of the Bank of England. On
the arrival of Mr. Pitt, Mr. Thornton was called in and
examined. He explained the state of the bank, and the
imminent peril to which it was exposed by an immediate
stoppage. The persons present were—the Chancellor
(Lord Loughborough), the Duke of Portland, Marquis
Cornwallis, Earl Spencer, Earl of Liverpool, Earl of
Chatham, and Mr. Pitt. The latter shortly, but conclu-
sively, stated his reasons for the instant adoption of an
order of council, directing the suspension of cash pay-
ments by the Bank of England. The Lord Chancellor
expressed the strongest objection to such an act, as being
wholly contrary to law. The reply of Mr. Pitt was con-
clusive :—" My Lords, it must be done, the public safety
requires it ; and I lay before your lordships a minute
directing the proper steps to be taken. To that minute
I affix my own name, and I assume the whole responsi-
bility of the proceeding." The minute was adopted, as
might have been expected, from the authority almost
supreme, conceded to ,Mr. Pitt by his colleagues as well
as by parliament. The order of council was issued ; it
was communicated to the Bank of England; it was dis-
persed throughout the metropolis at the earliest hour on
Monday morning. We are aware that this statement does
not altogether agree with the declarations made on the
occasion, as well as subsequently ; but our information
came from the lips of one of the parties to the whole
transaction, from its commencement to its close; a man
who would not deceive, and who could not be mistaken.—
Quarterly Review.

THE PARTING WITH AN OLD FAVOURITE.—A few days
afterwards the Captain announced his intention to shoot
the Great Mogul himself, and a day was appointed for
what, to boys, was almost a festival. A consultation was
held with the skinner of the village, who agreed to accom-
pany us to the forest for the purpose of aiding in the exe-
cution, and to bring spades for the use of all. When the
time arrived, the Captain was ill, and the meeting was
deferred,—again it was fixed, and again put off; but at last
he became ashamed of his irresolution—and the next even-
ing, towards sunset, we all marched off with the glee of
Old Bailey spectators to a hanging match. The great
number of operators soon made an ample grave,—the
scene was one of singular beauty,—a deep recess in the
wood arched over by tall trees, and the sides thickly bor-
dered with holly, was open only at the western end ; and
as the rays of the setting sun streamed up the glen, and
marked the outline of the cathedral spire in the distance,
they showed in strong relief the group of boys ranged on
a little rising bank, and on the foreground the decrepit
and tottering horse, and the pallid face of the venerable
old man. He had deposited his hat on the ground, and
pushed back his long silver locks behind his ears ;—the
horse was tethered, and his master advanced with a sieve
of crushed beans ;—fond as the Great Mogul was of the
repast, he would not begin it till he had licked the hands
of his benefactor, unwitting of the cruel mercy designed
him ;--the Captain placed the sieve on the ground, and
with a deep sigh withdrew to a distance, and prepared his
gun. At last the dreaded moment arrived,—he slowly
raised the gun to his shoulder, but his emotion made it
impossible to hold it steady ;—the horse raised his head
at the moment he fired, and the only effect of the shot was
to take off a piece of the ear. " Cut me some sticks, boys,
and make me a resting-place for my gun." This was soon
done, and he once more prepared his musket and took de-
liberate aim. Long did he pause—passed his hand to the
trigger again and again, and drew back as if it were red
hot—took out a ragged cambric handkerchief, and applied
it to his eyes. The horse had finished his beans—looked
full in his master's face, and gave his accustomed neigh
of recognition and gratitude ;—it was too much—the gun
dropped from his hands. " I cannot do it," he ex-
claimed, and staggered back fainting to the bank. The
gun exploded as it fell, and its contents lodged in poor
Mogul's knee. Reader, did you ever hear the scream of
a horse in an agony of pain and terror ? It is, of all mor-
tal sounds, the most awful and unearthly. No one who
has not heard it, can conceive anything so full of super-
natural horror. The horse turned his expressive eye on
his master, and said as plainly as in words, " This is thy
doing, monster—and this is my reward." The Captain
fell senseless into our arms. The startled deer rushed
past the opening of the dell in groups, and were soon fol-
lowed by one of the forest keepers, who had been alarmed
by the forbidden sound of fire-arms, and had hastened up
to see what was the matter. He comprehended our situa-
tion at once—walked up to the noble animal, and, putting
his musket close to his heart, fired with fatal precision,
and ended his suffering. Thus perished the Great Mogul.
When the Captain recovered, his first words were, " Is
he dead ?" " Quite dead," was the reply. " Thank
God !" said he, and alowly attempted to rise : till we got
out of the dell he kept his eyes closed ; but, when once
seated in the open air, he revived and assumed an air of
cheerfulness. " I did not think I had been so weak,"
said he; " I am an old fool.—llluminated Magazine.

VARIETIES

In America, we find Democracy united to Slavery; in
France, Jacobinism to Despotism ; in England, Conser-
vatism to Freedom ; and Liberalism conjoined to Humbug
everywhere !
Fuller, the well-known author of " British Worthies,"
wrote his own epitaph, as it appears in Westminster
Abbey. It consists of only four words, but speaks
volumes :—" Here lies Fuller's earth."

NEW PUBLICATIONS.—On the 20th of this month will
be published, highly ornamented, and bound in calf a work
by a churchwarden of St Stephen's Walbrook, entitled A
New Way to Pay Old Debt:.—Punch.

CURIOUS COINCIDENCE..—There is a family at King-
cross, Halifax, in which the first born of three generations
have been all girls—all born on the 7th of a month—and
all christened Elizabeth.

THE REPEAL CAP.—Mr. Hogan, tha sculptor, has de-
signed a cap for the Repealers, which, however beautiful
in itself, is by no means illustrative of the prime object
of Mr. O'Connell. The repeal cap should be a cap with-
out a crown.—Punch.

Quick lime is found to be a much better agent than
water in dispensing the choke damp that is often found in
wells and pits. The application of a bushel of lime,
slaked or unslaked, will be sufficient to clear a well in five
or ten minutes.

We find by a St. Petersburg journal that during the
year 1840 there died in Russia 479 persons aged more than
a hundred years ; 236 of them reached the age of 105 ;
108 had turned 110 ; fifty-nine had reached 115 ; forty-
five died at 120 ; twenty-five at 125 ; four died at 130 ;
aril two attained 145.

Bishop Bedel, to remind him of the need he had of
being cleansed and purified in heart, chose an ingenious
device, consisting of a flaming crucible, with a Hebrew
motto, signifying take from me all my tin, in allusion to
Isaiah i. 25. The reason for selecting those words was
that the Hebrew word for Tin is Bedil.

THE DANGER or TAPPING.—After a consultation,
several physicians decided that a dropsical patient should
be lapped. Upon hearing of the decision of the doctors,
a son of the sick man, who had been remarkable for his
devotion to John Barleycorn. approached him and said,
" Father, don't submit to the operation ; for there was
never anything tapped in our house that lasted more than
a week."

Corn given to fowls should be crushed and soaked in
water : this helps digestion. Hens will lay in winter that
are so fed, that would not otherwise. Feed your fowls in
winter with bones powdered fine, and they will need less
corn, and lay as plentifully as at any season of the year.
The bones supply the carbonate of lime, which is neces-
sary for the production of the shell, and a part of the
yolk of the egg. Egg-shell, chalk or unburnt lime,
answers a similar purpose.
PRAISES OF THE IGNORANT.—Racine always reckoned
the praises of the ignorant among the chief sources of
chagrin ; and he used to relate that an old magistrate,
N:ho had never been at a play, was carried one day to his
Andromaque. The magistrate was very attentive to the
tragedy, to which was added: the PlaideurB ; and going
out of the theatre, he said io the author, " I am extremely
pleased, sir, with your Andromaque ; I am only amazed
that it ends so gaily."
MONSTER BouQuErs.--One prevailing fashion I must
notice, which is the monster bouquets of exquisite flowers
which turn the Paris Opera-house into a hot-house in
every sense of the word ;—those for the hand would be a
load for a market girl, and of those borne in the bosom I
leave you to judge, when I tell you I saw a fat marquise
with five full bloom cabbage poses under her chin ! biers
msuvais gout, no doubt, and in her case especially, un-
wise, as they gave the hint direct to her age and propor-
tions.—Cheltenham Looker-on.

A CRYING MISTAKE.—At Southampton last week,
the cryer proclaimed a reward of £2OO for the recovery of
£7OO, stated to have been lost in a green purse of notes.
The cryer was in error—the sum was £7, and the reward
offored was £2. A gentleman of Southampton, a friend
of the loser, in writing out the particulars for the cryer,
wrote the sums thus—£7 0 0 ; £2 0 0;,,, omitting to put
s. d. to the ciphers ; and though the cherub was somewhat
startled at the amount, he " followed his copy," as the
printers phrase it.
A DISCONSOLATE WIDOW.—A few weeks ago the hus-
band of a young woman died in the vicinity of this city ;
being quite inconsolable for the loss of her late partner,
she was called upon, before the funeral, by a male friend,
who did everything he could to console her, and finding
that nothing else would do, he made her an offer, plump,
to supply the place of the deceased. After a good deal of
ill-suppressed sighing, the poor widow sobbed out, " Oh,
Richard, you're very gude—very con-con-siderate, indeed
—but I pro-promised mysel' to our puir John's coffin-
maker last night!"—Glasgow Constitutional.,

Nov. 28, 1841.

AMERICAN DEBT

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRO,HCO*
Sir,—Having been unwell for some days past, 111
had no opportunity of paying my respects to',reaehro
Duff Green, who (whatever,,he his other mort# "-or
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Generalhiinself daeWmaansdhsi,ngs4t.ointhin defe.oe..s%t
a beaut ),
simplicity, " Whence this morbid hatred of
But this question, all-affecting as it is, is stolen ..-bi-
Pilpay's fables :—" A fox," says Pilpay, " caught
the leg in a trap near the farm-yard, uttered the 396.,
piercing cries of distress ; forthwith all the birds('
big
yard gathered round him, and seemed to delight int, a,
misfortune ; hens chuckled, geese hissed, ducks quacj'el..,
and chanticleer with shrill cockadoodles rent the pis
Whence,' said the fox, stepping forward with inehe
gravity,l done ' wh
P Whomenceth haveismorbid I injuredhatre of
fth; I
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have
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whelmed with astonishment at these symptoms of
sion.' Oh, you old villain,' the poultry excision
where are our ducklings ? where are our goslingfii
Did not I see you running away yesterday with..
mother in your mouth ? Did not you eat up 2.11 tof
lations last week ? You ought to die the °'iscew
deaths—to be pecked into a thousand pieces.' dof
hence, General Green, comes the morbid hatrebeeri
America, as you term it—because her conduct has,
predatory because she has ruined so many he.;
children, so many miserable women, so many aged Orl
because she has disturbed the order of the
rifled those sacred treasures which human virtue a,
hoarded for human miser) Why is such hatred it,
bid P Why, is it not just,r.inevitable ? whY,'
innate e to
not disgraceful to want it ? why, is it not h nonrabl
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feel it ? A nie
Hate America !! ! I have loved and honoured ...•-at
rica all my life ; and in the Edinburgh Review, anuti
all opportunities which my trumpery sphere of °4l
has afforded, I have never ceasedtopraise and cle'e
the United States ; and to every American to whalurof
have had the good fortune to be introduced, I haTve.Pee
fered all the hospitality in my power. nut c-b
°P.
shut my eyes to enormous dishonesty ; nor, reineni_Zog
ing their former state, can I restrain myself from calhe
up from
on them (though I copy Satan) to spring
gulf of infamy in which they are rolling—
world,

" Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen." do
I am astonished that the honest States of Atnerilre.
not draw a cordon sanitaire round their unpaYingA the
thren—that the truly mercantile New Yorkers, a% ill
theirthoroughly p
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visits wear
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and " our own property"
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and receipts in full of all demands tamboured
pantaloons. th'e
But the General seems shocked that I should saY st
A •
mericans cannot go to war without money : cr t
do I mean by war ? Not irruptions into Canada
the embodying of militia in Oregon ; but a long? Ttefiloci
maritime war of four or five years' duration. le
man so foolish as to suppose that Rothschild haj,
thing to do with such wars ? and that a bankrupt State,
without the power of borrowing a shilling in the W.°_r,sili
may not be crippled in such a contest ? We all
that the Americans can fight. Nobody doubts tri`..,
e a whole ar011;
courage. I see now in my mind's ey
the plains of Pennsylvania in battle array: beefyirnine
corps of insolvent light infantry, regiments of of
horse debtors, battalions of repudiators, brigade:heft
bankrupts, with Vivre sans payer, ou mour=n, on ,ese
banners, and cere alieno on their trumpets : all their
desperate debtors would fight to the death for
i,00%
country, and probably drive into the sea their inYOOO7).
creditors. Of their courage, I repeat again, I hale is
figured on Or
doubt. I wish I had the same confidence in ther.vi„
dom. But I believe they will become intoxicated, "if
the flattery of unprincipled orators ; and, insteaolarioug.
entering with us into a noble competition in in„ race
calico (the great object for which the Anglo-Sa%°'"theit,
of bloody, foolish, arid accursed waste sears
appears to have been created), they will
happiness and their money (if they can get any) in / to
the world that Perkins is a real fine gentleman' will
that the carronades of the Washington steamer a
carry farther than those of the Britisher Victoria, -
the Robert Peel vessel of war. tion te
lam accused of applying the epithet repud.3 but
States which have not repudiated. Perhaps the
But wiltyou
then these latter States have not paid.
ct I don't °'"ejorsi
difference between a man who says,
anything, and will not pay you," and another woo; the
mnitteuto be
cc I do owe you a sum," and who, having
debt, never pays it ? There seems in the first t°
some slight colour of right ; but the second is
blazing, refulgent, meridian fraud. men in
It may be very true that rich and educated fest
Pennsylvania wish to pay the debt, and that as,e who
objectors are the Dutch and German agriculturifsetet
cannot he made to understand the effect of 0h.% du'
upon clover. All this may be very true, but it istatioa
mestic quarrel. Their churchwardens of reP!,...ce
must make a private rate of infamy for themselcic:rei is
have nothing to do with this rate. The real till nris.
the Unpaid World versus the State of PenneYlva- &lost
And now, dear Jonathan, let me beg of you t° wbut
l
the advice of a real friend, who will say toy ust vl
Wat Tyler had not the virtue to gay, add cti°ns
el rot
speakers in the eleven recent Pennsvanian
44 Make 3 g
have cautiously abstained from saying,}o have
effort ; book up at once, and pay." Youou
ception of the obloquy and oontempt to which doom
exposing yourselves all over Europe. Bull as oes 0°
°f
disposed to love you, but he loves nobody 'iv° lot ;
pay him. His imaginary paradise is some anu
soon as I hear that the last farthing revs.' sg
punctual payment, where ready money p
where debt and discount are unknown. A 8 fgthe
creditor, I will appear on my knees at the baro.ole
Pennsylvanian Senate in the plumeopicean robe of shall
rican controversy. Each Conscript JonathadecotgAte
trickle over me a few drops of tar, and help r°
me with those penal plumes in which the vail'ito the
reasoner of the transatlantic world does honsgehavilit
sto
physical superiority of his opponents. And Ow' clt
eased my soul of its indignation, and sold subjee;
40 per cent. discount, I sulkily retire from to fre"
with a fixed intention of lending no more moneY 000e1
and enlightened republics, but of employing A/11.07uro,::
henceforth in buying up Abyssinian bonds, an' sol—
ing into the Turkish Fours or the Tunis Ore--
Half per Cent. funds g"is war, top pto
.r,oovfetaxabe

SYDNEY sMITO.

YOUNG WIVES.—In the county of 13ed1r, it, Ca
women marry under age; in Huntingdon, 25,-V; i.ntri;•
bridge, 23 ;in Essex, 23 ;in Northampton' of g;
West Riding of York, 21 ; in the East Itidingofom
11; Cumberland, 10; Westmoreland, 10;
c
Salop, 9 ; Hereford, 9.
SUITS —From Saragossa in 1555 ; the 'lll-066;
LIST OF THE EXPULSIONS ENDURED IP
in
Vienna 1568; Avignon 1570 ; Antwerp, Segroto
vatelineja fort;
Nll
gal 1570; England 1579, 1581, and 1586; °°`1589;491;
Hungary and Transylvania 1588; Bordea°oou 40.1;
France 1594 ; Holland 1596; the city of Tocnoe, Lr'og"
Bearn 1597; England again in 1601 ; the i6V; 'lO4
Dantzic and Thorn 1606; Venice 1606 and iis; 1110 rod
dom of Amara or Japan 1613 ; Bohemia 1,6,1; Chindoo9
1619 ; Naples and the Low Countries 16.z%i'523;
India 1622 ; Malta 1634 ; Russia 1676 and ',toil ,1 06
1729 ; Portugal 1759 ; Spain, the 2d Pfc7kPfit
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 3d Nov. “;„ 2P:r ge"
Parma, Bth Feb. 1768 ; Isle of Malta ag'';;rtial
1768 ; Rome and all Christendom 1768. is'
iti f
neral expulsions, 37. ;ao 0f
JUST LIKE HIM !—Brevity is the soul of w'n'eteristliola,
as most men know, the distinguishing chary, an el.tioo
the " The Duke's" epistolary style. We ~138.0019 it i 5
pie in point to submit to our readers, the
1000'61119
suppressed being the name of the person ;,v roorhegt tbe,
addressed. But in order that the reader re gay thtba
at
the laconic reply, we roust As' Gracer'iter
writer had taken upon himself to inform his the writer
a certain estate in land, formerly enjoyericblothehreriore"
ancestors, was now in the possession m chg-
and as the property had belonged to the he ", boW
to. 00., be
came into the writer's family, he felt 'vac now
charging his duty in pointing out to the °,,,.er I'l9l
the crown might re-possess it—the arts
the better appreciated :

The Duke of Wellington 10/
letter of the 11th • inst. the
ea in engtoo.
Mr.
°f
°f
the question which he has asked the Dulce ((I 1 the
The Duke is the Commander in of
°
not a counsel learned in the law.
Mr.
, Preston." we Pk: e
ANECDOTE OF THE AYttstitas BAILI?r,'°. rnae_2„nrit t°,
following anecdote in Ainsworth 's a°' Carlisle, "•' ire"
" One Andrew Horner, a resident in 1-•°l:yin•eil suc),,yed
Glasgow, to publish a volume of Pnems,'„,,ne, be Strayed
by himself. Oddly enough, on his WO "v.et with ~t the
out of the direct road into Ayr, where be l''aniellS 5' the'
at a public-house, and some boon cor"foie ofif3auitts'
poet errant and the poet resident (wl,oset verse-f°,,orei
unmade) to try their strength in a match
use, EtS , 10
An epigram was the subject chosen, bee poer°s:s 002
internally argued, ' it is the shortest of alle, ~at in
compliment to him, the company resolv toteronced...,
merits should supply the theme. He corniii
eta
nine or
' In seventeen bonder thretty-n,
,„ 1 WO 11,1 tool‘
and he paused. He then said, 'Ye se,'l fie the-of alv
1739, so I mak' that the commencemen • ._us 81r Coil,
pen in hand, folded his paper with a conson_e s(h° pet
'lce " wll v
thorship, squared himself to the table, 11
_..1 810 001
sidered it no trifle even to write a letter, %no'. raniiing
down, in good round hand, as if he had been
a bill of parcels, the line— o°
• tty-ni";
'ln seventeen hunder thre ._,. as Ori_opi
but beyond this, after repeated attenctePt!,,_ll,,o, h. 0,
to advance. The second l►ne was th or_',',,t3titlf_na
not pass. At last, when Andrew Horne% rfeL;l, in ,orhere
mitted he was not quite in the vein, t,
~ Kin, thec:,
paper were handed to his antagonisotnowinYg viva o,
rejected, for he instantly t" f
In seventeen burlder threttY_vine,
The Dell gat stuff to male a ~,
And pit it in a corner ; e ~, plan,
But, shortly after, change I unt,;',
Made it to something 'lke a "":! , , r'
And called it Andrew Horner
"hia,soniaeoco
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