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BY the R

J. B. MARSDerN, M.A.,

Rector of Tootiog,
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MISCELLANEOUS

pCOLLIERY STRIAE.—Many of the
eighhourhood have struck and a gee
talked of—Newcastle paper.
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e Home Secretary, Sir James CI
to ipat,"

in this

"strike" is

.m, has been

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from the labori-

Lave
ousthouht his indisposition has
Lea 4,nd anxious duties which have o
absolutely non the Home-office, and that
e°ole
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uArMy ET--
wueu Laniamem wilt
luav, the 19th instank to a futurt
isr toe despatch of business. We
before the usual time of assembling. _
t,EtEcnow-JoicE.—At the recent election in the city,
l'ele vote of-an old and well-known gentleman was chal-
-41,,71 by a young whipper snapper who officiated, and
hi xnew that the old gentleman differed in politics_ from
1111.11' his necessary for you to•swear that you lived
1018 ward more than ten days," said tl
te,l know that I have," replied the vote
Month. -

having

pressed sc
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!cessary

;ouncil at Windsor C

sots, and in money in the Bank of England."

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1111:ilt of Tuesday, oft"
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at the
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oitadictory to every evans
of 8,!)' rganise, put to flight,
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hnreugion of honesty, and of good ti
"Sr Catholic faith, or among our pe
tetT4STE 431, MR. CORDEI!
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a electors of Salisbury, concin
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could gainst the clergy by say
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:E TOLL.—
near Wen-

It is gratifying to find that active steps are being taken
to provide receptacles for the bouseless, and destitute,
and famishing poor, in various parts of the great metro-
-
polis—great, by reason of its wealth, luxury, penury, and
HE PUNCH!
WEEKLY NUMBERS .
of P CH are issued
misery ! The kind-hearted gentleman who has been most
active in this humane undertaking, and who is appointed
.I,initLiverpool EVERY THURSDAY T Noox. Honorary Secretary to the Institution for providing a
"A clIs:G, WEBB, Wholesale Agent, Castle•street. place of harbour for the needy, is a Mr, Artier.

HOURS OF BUSINESS. -
45ve,,,,,..- Journalist phraseology is often very anomalous, and
A,,
._ Just Published, price Sixpenc even when applicable to news frequently repeated. Thus
but,i-iaNCE AT THE PRESEN STEM OF the miserable German, now under sentence of death in
tffe,'ou„SINESS AMONG SHOPK PERS ; and the Newgate, is stated to 'be respited " during her Majesty's
Retail 2 that System upon the Young Men engaged in further pleasure," as if the time of his execution could be
"gli Trades, as well as upon Society at large. any pleasure to her Majesty. And recording the death of
Londo • ..,,,By EDWARD FLOWER. a poor clergyman in Yorkshire, who committed suicide
W/LL„ n • %Nu. AYLorT, 128, Chancery-lane ; CHAS. last week, it is quaintly stated that " the reverend
ookse l gentle-
allg "'Elt, South John-street, Liverpool. To be had of man put a period to his existence at his living."
lers.
WORKHOUSE RELIEF.—On Saturday an inquest was
held at the Bell, Church-street, Lambeth, on the body of
Sarah Horskin, aged 66 years. It appeared that the de-
ceased had been in the habit of receiving out-door relief
for some time past from her parish ; On Wednesday
last she went as usual to the workhouse door, where up-
wards of 1,000 persons were waiting; the deceased after
standing a long time at the door, fell down, and upon
being carried into the house was foutid to be labouring
under an attack of apoplexy. She died at nine o'clock in
the evening. The jury were of opinion that her death
was accelerated by being kept so long waiting in such a
dense crowd. They returned a verdict of " Natural
death," but recommended that some better plan should
-n adopted by the guardians for payment of the paupers.

FREEMASONRY.—The election of Grand Master will
be made at the next Grand Lodge by the masonic body.
On Wednesday last the Grand Lodge met in solemn
conclave at Freemasons' Hall, when the Earl of Zetland
was proposed Grand Master by Brother Peter Thomson
(who holds what is termed a " Lolige of Instruction"
somewhere in the city,) and the Marquis of Salisbary,
K.G., by Brother Captain Mathew, M.P., junior Grand
Warden of England. The John Bull supports strongly
the claims of the Marquis of Salisbury. and 4presses a
fear that " a most imam —"raid& c--"-

. reeling animates those
who are desirous of conferring the office on the Earl of
Zetland, and that the election of the noble earl will be
knell of the craft in these realms, for it will evince
that to one party alone in politics is the succes-
sion of Grand Master to descend."

DEATH, FROM A PUGILISTIC CONFLICT.—An inquest
was held on Saturday last, before Mr. Carttar, coroner
for West Kent, on the body of a young man named James
Gray, whose death had been the result of a prize fight
with a fellow workman. It appeared that the deceased
and his opponent had quarrelled and fought in the tap-
room of a public-house, but were not permitted to decide
the fight. Subsequently, deceased had frequently pressed
his opponent to fight again ; and ultimately, a meeting
.was fixed for two pounds aside, which took place in
Romney Manse, the result of which was the death of the
deceased, as was supposed from a fall backwards in the
course of The contest. The coroner adjourned the in-.
quest, for the purpose of procuring the attendance of the
seconds. bottle-holder, &c. The survivor, himself, was
present at the enquiry, and was complimented for his
promptness in surrendering to justice.

ARMY PRIZE MONEY."--II is stated in a Parliamentary
return of last session, that the unclaimed army prize mo.
ney from 1809 to 1842 was £1,060,435 16s. Bd. ; theinte-
rest -was £215,235 Os. 4d., making together £1,275,670
17s. "Oil. On the credit side there are disbursements,
leaving a balance of £4,115 17s. 10-14. The followitrg
memorandum appears on the return:—" Although the
balance on the account appears to be as above stated, yet
there is in the 3 per Cent. Consols £lOO,OOO stock; and
in the Bank of England, to the account of the Paymaster-

General, £1,038 -Ms. sd. cash, which arises fron7; the in-

vestment oeen made in the earliest periods when
the funds were very low, and from the amount sold there-
out from time to time having been when the prices of
stock were considerably higher, thus accounting for the
difference between the balances stated and the present

—To-mor-

EMIGRATION TO THE WEST INDIES.

(From the Herald.)
The advocacy which free emigration into the tropical
colonies has always found from the present Ministers, the
success of Lord Stanley's bold policy in the Mauritius,
and the comparative failure of his more cautious policy in
the West Indies—all beget a hope that Government is
about to take some decided steps to open to the latter colo-
nies the most ample facilities for procuring labour, and
consequently capital. Already indeed has the Colonial
Secretary given encouragement to emigration from our
ultra-Gangetic settlements, and, through them, from
China to the West Indies ; but such encouragement is far
more valuable because ofthe authoritative sanction involved
therein to the views we are now promoting,than from any
great supplies of labour likely to be had in consequence
thereof from these distant parts of the world. Lord
Stanley is bound in consistency with his own adopted
principles, and with the views taken by the Cabinet on the
sugar duties, and in fairness to the West Indies, to extend
to them the advantages which have proved so beneficial to
the Mauritius. If Cooly emigration to that island be so
profitable both to it and to the immigrants, why, under
proper regulations, should not Cooly emigration to the
West Indies be equally profitable? The greater distance
of the latter colonies from India—the Malacca Straits
settlements, now opened to the West Indies, are still
more distant—will always prove an obstacle to such emi-
gration to them • but the existence of that physical obsta-
cle is the best of all reasons why factitious impediments
should be removed. , Ensure at first the perfect freedom
of the emigration from India—the comfort and the safety
of the passage to the West Indies—and the protection of
the immigrants when there, and the advantages of their
new homes will, in due course, conquer Cooly dislike to
long sea voyages, reduce the inequality of the sexes, and
connect the East with the West Indies by identity of in-
terests and frequency of intercourse.
It. is from Western Africa the West Indies may be
most easily supplied with labour; the shortness of the
voyage, the smallness of its cost, the general identity of
race between African immigrants and the black popula.
tion, and the moral advantages to be remitted back to
Africa, are all strong arguments in favour of relying on
Africa for West Indian labour. Hitherto such immigra-
tion has only been permitted from Sierra Leone, and has
even there been clogged with requirements which are even
more obstructive to its success than the indifference of
the local authorities and the interference of ignorant and
prejudiced missionaries. An effort was also made to pro-
cure emigrants from the Gambia ; but it was seemingly
conducted in the belief that the vessel despatched thither
would find hundreds of negroes, with their bundles packed,
waiting on the shore eager to step into the ship on its
arrival ; and because they were not so found, it, was
not allowed to be repeated. But two of the Sierra
Leone requirements would alone account for the small
number of labourers procured therein, had the govern-
ment emigration agent been properly supported—they are,
the proportion of females and the length of residence in
the colony required. Equality of sexes is most desirable;
but render male emigrants comfortable and prosperous in
the West Indies, and their wives and-daughters will soon
follow their fortunes thither, and the women will become
as anxious to emigrate as the men and thereafter accom-
pany them at once. Freedom of emigration is indispensa-
ble ; but such freedom cannot require a six weeks' resi-
dence by an intending emigrant in Sierra Leone, where he
cannot find work and must starve as a condition precedent
to seeking happiness and employment in the West Indies.
Such a requirement at Sierra Leone is not merely posi-
tively cruel when complied with ; but it practically
amounts to an absolute prevention of the emigration of
all but the liberated Africans, and it hinders that settle-
ment from becoming the medium of intercourse and
civilisation between the West Indies and tire interior of