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THE MENAGERIE AT SCHORNERUNN, NEAR VIENNA.
—Of all the iatprisoned animals twee make so inelaucl.o!y
an impression as the eagles and vultures. These great,
high seating, far-circling lords of the air ought at Irast to
have had their prison-house arranged in some measure
according to their natural propensities. A wooden cage,
with iron eating, is a fitter den kr a ;ion or tiger than
for the ruck-th roned eagle's nest. In this narrow dungeon
they cannot even stretch their pinions, and yet des mo-
tion is no doubt as much a necessity to them as it is to
man to stretch his arms and legs after long continuance in
a sitting or Iviug posture ; indeed it is evident, from the
custom all imprisoned birds have of spreading their wings
slowly and yawningly from time to time, The eagle and
vulture sit upon their perches as motionl ss as if they
were mere stones. One whom I was watching held his
head on one side and his eves immoveably fixed on the
skies; another uttered a melancholy sound at intervals,
and lifted his useless wing. Some of them are extremely
old. I was told that one had been fifty years a prisoner.
In fifty years, if we assume that, one way or another, an
eagle can fly thirty miles a day, he might have traversed
590.000 miles; that is, he might have encompassed the
earth a hundred times. Good heaven ! what a fearful
destiny to feel this power within, and be condemned for
ever to one narrow, dirty, stinking hole ! As the eagles
are neither cheerful here, nor display their natural pecu-
larities in any way, they can yield neither pleasure to the
lover of nature, nor profit to the inquirer into her
mysteries; and people would do much better, I am al-
most inclined to think, to free them at once from the
burden of life, and place them stuffed in a museum.—
Kohl's Austria.
LABOURERS' ALLOTMENTS.—At a great agricultural
meeting, at Lichfield, on Tuesday week, Sir Robert Peel
thus expressed himself on this subject :—" The question
was agitated last Session, with reference to the policy of
allotments to farm labourers, and much important evi-
dence was taken upon the snbject, before a Committee of
the House of Commons. I have read that evidence, and
the impression on my mind, whether in a political or
moral point of view, is in favour of allotting to the re-
spectable labourer on a farm such a small portion of land
as would afford occupation to the vacant hours of himself
and family, and give him an interest in the soil in com-
mon with the great proprietor."—On the Question of
whether it was not an essential policy in landowners to
secure better farming in their tenantry, by granting more
extended terms, the Right Hon. Baronet said, that, on
his own property all tenancies were from year to year
only, according to the custom of that part of the country ;
but he gave notice, that he would be prepared to meet any
tenants of his who might consider that they should feel
it would conduce to their greater self-respect and satis-
faction to hold longer leases, and who was not at all pre-
pared to say he would withold such leases after so conferring
with the parties. "Gentlemen," said the right Hon.
Baronet. " I know nothing in English Society that pre-
sents a prospect more gratifying than a rural district well
cultivated, in which subsist relations of mutual confi-
dence between the landed proprietor and the occupying
ten let; and, let me add, the farm-labourer. Politics,
gentlemen, that is to say, politics that in anyway partake
of a party character, are wisely excluded from our pro-
ceedings ; hut it would be absurd to exclude that great
and comprehensive policy which must see in the success
of British agriculture one of the great foundations of na-
tional strength and national prosperity."
LIFE IN TETE HAREM.—The Eastern woman seems
as happy in her lot as her European sister, notwithstand-
ing the plurality of wives in which her lord indulges or
ventures upon. In her " public opinion's law" there is
no more disparagement in occupying the second place as
a wife, than there is in Europe as a daughter. The man-
ners of the patriarchal ages remain in Egypt as unchanged
as its monuments ; and the people of Cairo no more think
of objecting to a man's marrying a second wile, than those
Merrehis thought of questioning the legitimacy of

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Joseph. The Koran, following the example of the Jewish
doctors, only allows four wives to each Musseltnan. and
they seldom avail themselves even of this limited allow-
ance to is fullest extent. Some hareems contain two
hundred females, including wives, mother in-law, concu-
bines, and the various slaves belonging to each. These
feminine harracks, however, seem very different from what
such establishments would be in Europe. In the hareem
there is as much order and decorum as in an English qua-
ker's home. It is guarded as the tiger guards his young ;
but its inmates consider this as a compliment, and fancy
themselves neglected if not closely watched. This cause

for complaint— seldim occurs, for the Egyptian has no
blind confidence in the strength of woman's character or
woman's love : he considers it safer, if not more glorious,
to keep her out of the reach of temptation, than to run
the chance of her overcoming it. Born and brought up
in the hareem, women never seem to pine at its imprison-
meta! like cage born birds, they sing among their bars,
and discover in their aviaries a thousand little pleasures
invisible to eyes that have a wider range. There are no

associ to the more with their own ; and who can tell what
wild and beautiful regions of imagination their minds may
wander through, utiimprisoned, if undirected by educa-
Gm. To them, in their calm seclusion, the strifes of the
battling world come softened and almost hushed ; they

only hear the far-off murmur of lifr's stormy sea, and if
their human lot dooms them to their cares, they are as
transient as those of childhood.—Dublin University Ma-

ENGLISH AND COSSACK HORSES.-t 1 wager was laid
by Mr. Gibson. the Enelish Consul, that two English
horses would beat any two Cossack horses which could

lish miles. This took place long after the Cossack horses
had been improved by the admixture of English and Ara-
bian blood, and Mr Gibson had no particular horses in
his view. He commissioned a friend to send two hunters
for the purpose. Two tolerably well bred, but at that date
natural' -,h-bred

.iy not thorou, , hunters were sent out to
him, whilst the Russians selected out of some 50,(1)0 of
the best horses in the Cossack country. The race took

lients of Cossacks were dispersed along the line to keep
t clear, thousands of pounds were betted on the issue of
he match, and an immense concourse of people a•sem-

tages for the Englishmen—firstly, that they had grown
men to ride, whilst the Cossack horses were ridden at
feather weight; and, secondly, that one of the two Eng-
lish horses fell dead lame at starting. The other, at the
half-way station, arrived whilst the two Cossacks were
far out of sight, and being full of contempt fur his anta-
gonists, he dismounted, both to refresh himself and his
eanwhile the Cossacks came up and passed on-

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wards. Now, it happened that one of the CountA Orloff,
commander of the Cossack horsemen stationed to keep
the line, was deeply interested in the issue of the race,
and, by a very ingenious if not a very creditable piece of

jockeyship, he had contrived to he made acquainted at
every instadt with its progress. For this purpose the
Cossacks had private orders, whenever the Russians were
ahead to hold their lance perpendicular, when the En:lish
were foremost to drop them horizontally. As the horse-
men were in sight of each other, this signal was in a few
minutes telegraphed from one to the other, up to the
Count. At about the middle of the race, where the Eng-
lish horse had stopped, the lances, after being constantly
down, were suddenly raised up, and Orloff, imagining that
now the bottom of the Cossacks was beginning to tell,
made sure of victory, and betted another 100,000 rubles
on the event ; but, alas! he was caught in his own trap,
the lances went up again, the English horse Caine in at
last, in miserable plight it is true, but the Cossack horses
never came in at all, either dying or being obliged to be
killed where they had fallen.—New Mont hlp Magazine.

MR. GRATTAN'S CHARACTER OF DANIEL O'CON-
NELL IN 1815.—" Examine their leader, Mr. O'Connell
—he assumes a right to direct the Catholics of Ireland—
he advises—he harangues—and he excites; he does not
attempt to allay the passions of a warm and jealous peo-
ple. Full of inflammatory matter, his declamations
breathed everything but harmony, venting against Great
Britain the most diegnsting calumny, falsehoods, and
treachery, equalled only by his impudene; describing
Great Britian as the most stupid, the most dishonest, and
the most besotted nation that ever existed ; that Ireland
could not confide in the promises of England, &c. With-
out discrimination he pronounced all Protestants ' bigots.'
When he advocated the grievances of the Catholic body,
he omitted the greatest greriance—himself! A man that
could make the speeches be has made, utter the senti-
ments he has uttered, abuse the characters he has abused,
praise the characters that be has praised, violate the pro-
mises that he has violated, propose such votes and snch
censures as he has proposed—can have little regard for
private honour or for public character; be cannot com-
prehend the spirit of liberty, and he is not fitted to re-
ceive it. He betrays such a scattered understanding and
barbarous mind, that if he got liberty he would immedi-
ately lose it. Almost unsuited for the British constitu-
tion, and almost ignorant of the bonds of civil society,
of such a mould, and such a disposition, as to be incapa-
ble of accomplishing any rational object, his declamations
to the lower orders are full of extravagance, wildness and
ambiguity, and set afloat the had passions of the people,
make them restless in disposition, and impatient in action.
He leaves a vacuum in the meaning of his harangue, to be
filled up by the elevated imagination of a warm-hearted
and sensible people. It is the part of a bad man to make
use of grievances as instruments of power, and render
them the means of discontent without a single honest
attempt at redress. Ile knows, or at least he ought to
know, that this coxduct is of such a nature as must al-
ways tend to confusion in bad m'nisters. and strengthen
their authority ; it seduces people into mischief not inten-
ded, and, after exciting them to lolly, it abandons them
through rear. It may lead them to rise o;einst an ex-
ciseman or titheruan, to burn a hayrick, or murder a
farmer, but will never teach them to redress greivances,
or to tiring the offending minister to the scaffold. This
leader in spirit is poor, his courage is of a hesitating
quality, his political confidence is prodigious also; in de-
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THE POOR AND THE NEW POOR LAW.

(From the Times.)

The condition of the poor is a subject which, altogether
irrespectively of the Poor L w and its collateral questions,
must ever excite the attention of thinking men. Above
ill, it should he in London, where the condition of the
poor is most strikingly appalling.
It appears from the report of the proceedings at Marl-
borough-street Police-office, in our columns of yesterday,
that there is an average number of 50 human beings, of
all ages, who huddle together in the parks every night,
having no other shelter than what is supplied by the trees
and hollows of the embankment. Of these the maj ,rity
are young girls, who have been seduced from the country
by the soldiers, and turned loose on the world in all the
destitution of friendless penury, and all the recklessness
of early vice.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.