can only be dealt with by Public Opinion and the progress of civiliza- as to injure at once the revenue, the consumer, and the morals of the tion. A strong sense, also, of the importance of anatomical know-lower classes, what pretence can be urged for delaying a moledge, and the mischievous consequences of rousing popular prejudices ment to repeal every one of such taxes? If the Minister against the necessary, though sometimes painful processes of medical be sincere in his professions of an earnest desire to repress smuggling, instruction, had much to do with the adoption of the tone alluded to.it is the more necessary that he should cut off all such absurd imposts Nevertheless, it was hasty and dangerous: to those who did not make at one blow; for the smugglers who are driven out of one branch of allowances, it seemed to imply a wholesale approbation of sacrificing trade will embark in another, as long as others are left loaded with animal feelings to medical curiosity-a sentiment, we are sure, which extravagant duties. The revenue may therefore be expected to sufthe writer in question never entertained. fer in those quarters where the over-taxing continues, in consequence of the expulsion of smugglers from those where prices have been lowered. What can be more absurd, for instance, than the duty on tobacco, amounting to eight times the value of the article! or than that on French brandy, three times the value, which supports a most active smuggling trade! Mr. HUSKINSON, who found that a reduction of the duty on coffee from 3s. to 4d, a pound, caused no diminution of revenue, cannot doubt, that a large abatement of the tobacco and brandy duties would probably have the effect of increasing the Government receipt, certainly would not diminish it. How is it possible to be content with men, who will not do half the good which, upon their own showing is immediately, in their power?

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals lately addressed a Circular to Mr. ABERNETHY, Sir EVERARD HOME, and other eminent surgeons, requesting their opinions upon the question of trying painful experiments on animals for scientific purposes. The reply was in general, that where some very important thing was to be ascertained, which could only be demonstrated by experiment on living animals, the practice was justifiable; but not for indefinite and conjectural objects. This seems to us the rational and sound view of the subject:-the evil of the pain inflicted is certain the great scientific good should be equally so, before that evil is incurred. The venerable BENTHAM, in an excellent letter of reproof to the Morning Chronicle, argues this topic as a philosopher and a man of feeling might be expected. The Chronicle, which certainly cannot be accused of want of candour, strengthens the arguments of its reprover by the following extract from his celebrated Treatise on Morals and Legislation:

"If the being killed were all, there is very good reason why we should be suffered to kill such as molest us; we should be the worse for their living, and they are never the worse for being dead. But is there any reason why we should be suffered to torment them? Not any that I can see. Are there any why we should not be suffered to torment them? Yes: several The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor (see Louis XVIth's Code Noir). It may come one day to be recognised, that the number legs, the villocity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum, are reasons equally insufficient for abandon ing a sensitive being to the same fate? What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational as well as more conversable animal than an infant of a day. or a week, or even a month old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what could it avail? The question is not, can they reason? nor, can they talk? but, can they suffer

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We must not forget, however, that it is one thing to condemn cruelty to animals, another to pass acts of Parliament to repress it. While we give those gentlemen who have been exerting themselves for the latter purpose, full credit for the best intentions, it is perhaps questionable whether legislation can usefully interfere-whether in fact Public Opinion is not the only effectual instrument for punishing and preventing the vice-an instrument too, be it observed, which daily grows stronger, and we should hope would soon, by the aid of the press, be powerful enough to dispense with all dubious auxiliaries. We confess, at the same time, that when we see the barbarities in flicted on cattle in the streets by drovers, &c. we cannot help wishing to see the law impose on the perpetrators a severe and summary punishment; but we repeat, that it is by no means an easy question to resolve, whether repressive laws of this nature do more good than harm; and at least we should tolerate doubts on the subject, and forbear to impute inhumanity to those who are sceptical, not as to the wickedness of ill-using animals, but as to the possibility of checking it by statute.

CITY.-At a meeting of the Common Council on Thursday, Mr. WAITHMAN renewed his attack upon the Joint Stock Companies, He said, that he was not opposed to Joint Stock Companies, when they were formed to accomplish objects which could not be effected by private capital, or by Stock Companies, or combinations in trade, carried on by private indithe single exertions of private individuals: but there he stopped. Joint viduals, were most mischievous and unfair. It was no answer to say, never be established. They did succeed to the extent the projectors that many of these plans could not possibly succeed, and others would wished. They got premiums on their shares by the force of delusion, and then left others to bear all the risk. The most ruinous gambling took place with the holders of the shares, and a gambling was extensively diffused by them. He had known families and servants engage in it; and the City, he said, ought to make a vigorous stand against the mischief which is to be let loose upon them.-Mr. FAVELL described the grievous the opinion of the Court, that the reductions made by Government in the nature of the Taxes, and concluded by moving a Resolution expressive of Assessed Taxes are inefficient, and that instead of the duties on various articles being reduced, the House and Window Taxes ought to be rejected On the motion of Mr. Southgate, the Court granted the sum of 2507. in altogether. Mr. DIXON supported the Resolution, which was carried.aid of the subscription for throwing open the view of St. Bride's Church Steeple.

SHIP CANAL THROUGH CENTRAL AMERICA.-A bill is now passing through the House of Commons for the incorporation of a Company whose purpose is to make a passage for ships from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through the narrow country which connects North with South America. The immense advantage arising from such an undertaking is apparent to every one who looks at a map of the world. The long and dangerous voyage round the vast South American continent, by Cape Horn, will be thereby saved to all vessels going to the Great South 10,000 miles.. The plan is not however the old one of cutting straight Sea; while the voyage to India and China will be shortened by 9 or through the Isthmus of Darien-which, even at the narrowest part.. would be a work of incalculable labour and expense, and indeed would probably never accommodate any vessels larger than barges :-A line has been discovered, in the new state entitled "the United Provinces of Central America," formed by rivers and lakes, which will only require a canal of twelve miles long, and the clearing of a river-channel, to complete an entire water-passage for large ships from one ocean to the other. Surveys of the whole communication were found in the office of a late conformity with its general colonial policy, kept all information of this Spanish Minister of Marine; for the bigoted Government of Spain, in kind as secret as possible, lest foreigners should make advantage of it. The proposed capital of the Company is only one million, and it seems The House of Commons, the special guardian of the public purse, that mining in Guatimala is to be united with the other object. It is pays very small attention to very important financial questions. Un-thought that these the proposed canal s profitable scheme. If the data toll which the South-sea whalèrs alone could well afford to pay, would make

less you amuse the gentlemen by brilliant speeches and political spar
ring, they leave the benches empty-they will not be bored with the
pecuniary affairs of their constituents. On Thurrday evening, when
Colonel DAVIES brought forward a motion for the appointment of a
Committee to consider whether the duties on tobacco, brandy, &c.
could not be lowered without loss to the revenue, there were not
above 30 or 40 members present; and the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-little of circuitous navigation left in the world!
CHEQUER took advantage of this thin attendance to avoid giving any
direct answer to the Hon. Gentleman's remarks. He merely ob-
served, that as the fiscal measures already adopted by Ministers were
so satisfactory, there was no reason for taking the matter out of their
hands. The truth is, Mr. ROBINSON has nothing to say against the
reductions proposed, because they are précisely similar in principle
to that of the wine-duties; but either froin a disagreement among his
colleagues, or from a reluctance to diminish official patronage, he
does not choose to grant them. It is no answer to say, that all
cannot be done at once." Nobody asks anything so unreasonable;
but when the fact is admitted, that many of our taxes are so excessive

upon which the plan is founded are correct, the undertaking will be one
of enormous benefit, and will effect a sort of revolution in our distant and
most valuable commerce. There could not certainly be a better time for
trying such a speculation with the requisite spirit. There only wants
rata for which all geographers have sighed, would be accomplished, and
now a Canal through the Isthmus of Suez, and then the two great deside-

FREEDOM AND DESPOTISM-THEIR EFFECTS ON MIND CONTRASTED.—

Russia is the best antithesis to Athens for illustrating the feeble intellect which slavery may perpetuate in a gigantic body politic; while Athens best shows what gigantic strength may belong to a small and free community. The whole territory of Attica would not, in point of size, have made a large estate in Russia.-LECTURES ON POETRY by THOS. CAMPBELL-New Monthly Magazine for January.

Mr. O'CONNELL has written a letter to the Catholic Association, in

which he highly praises Sir F. BURDETT for his exertions in the cause of the Catholics, gives it as his opinion, that the question of Catholic Emancipation will be carried this Session, and hopes he may say that "the winter of Erin is past."

LETTER OF HARRIETTE WILSON.

Such is the rage for new schemes in the City, that an eminent capi- POETRY. It is easy to write in prose, but very difficult to be a poet. talist had yesterday morning laid before him twenty proposals for new. More than one "Prosateur" has affected to despise Poetry; in reference. Companies! to which propensity, we may call to mind the bon-mot of Montaigne: CATHOLIC PRIESTS AND THE CATHOLIC RENT.-One of the principal" We cannot attain to Poetry; let us revenge ourselves by abusing it.". charges against the Catholic Association is, that the Rent is extorted from It appears to me, that there never existed a truly eloquent man who did the poor peasant by the tyrannous influence of the Roman Catholic Priests. not love Poetry. I will simply cite, for example, Caesar and Cicero; the M Butterworth, the pious bookseller, particularly insisted on that as a one composed a tragedy on Edipus, and we have pieces of poetry by the Fievous matter. Now this is a pretty charge from the partisans of the latter which might pass among the best that preceded Lucretius, Virgil, Methodists and Church-of-Englandists, who get in their voluntary sub- and Horace.-Voltaire-Philosophical Dictionary. scriptions by no very mild exertion of clerical and clanish influence !Mr. BROUGHAM was very happy in Parliament in his comparison of the Rent of the Catholics with the much larger fund arising from the weekly We think (see the Globe and Traveller of last night) Mr. Ellice does pennies of the Methodists; and Mr. COBBETT, in his Register, draws a but justice to the public in permitting us to publish the following letter, striking picture of the mode of raising a pious or loyal subscription in an which he received by the post this morning. It displays at once the English country town or parish, where the overseer of the poor, or the objects and motives of the Authoress and Editor of the detestable publitax-collector, or both, come with a paper having the names of the parson, cation now circulating under the above title. He has desired us to leave the justice, and the banker, written on it, and having in their side-pockets blank the names of other parties alluded to, but has left the letter with (just sticking out for the "volunteer" to see the corner of it) the rate-book us for the satisfaction of others who may be better acquainted with the or the tax-book." The grossness and absurdity of the charge against the lady's writing than himself. Catholics are however monstrous, when we reflect that the so much deMarch 8, No. Ilf, Rue du Faubourg St. Honore, a Paris. cried "influence" of the Priests is nothing but advice or persuasion from "SIR-People are buying themselves so fast out of my book, Mea beloved minister of religion to his followers, and depends solely upon moires of H. Wilson, that I have no time to attend to them should be the qualities which Mr. Plunkett ascribes to that calumniated body-sorry not to give each a chance, if they chuse to be out. You are quizzed charity, zeal, and disinterestedness-and the love and respect with which most unmercifully-Two Noble Dukes have lately taken my word, and I their focks regard them. And this is the kind of influence which the have never named them. I am sure would say you might trust me followers of the wealthy, proud, and domineering Church-of-England, never to publish, or cause to be published, aught about you, if you like have the face to make a pretext for abuse, and vote to repress by a penal to forward 2001. directly to me, else it will be too late, as the last volume, in which you shine, will be the property of the Edetor, and in his hands. The Protestants of Belfast have petitioned in favour of Catholic Eman- Lord says he will answer for aught I agree to so will my husband. cipation, and the Irishman says that "it is the most respectably signed Do just as you like-consult only yourself. I get as much by a small petition that ever left the town of Belfast; that to that petition is sub- book as you will give me for taking you out, or more. I attack no poor scribed the names of by far the great majority of our men of wealth, men, because they cannot help themselves. talent, and education, although hitherto the taunt has been, that those were the classes of our country averse to the question of Catholic Emancipation."

law!

THE CLOTH.-The Reverend --, of House, in the neighbourhood of one of our most ancient cities northward of the Ouse, lately contrived to debauch the daughter of the clerk of the parish, at the tender age of thirteen, and, not contented with this violation of the decencies of civil society, ravished her sister, another child of the clerk's, only NINE YEARS OLD!! choosing for the place of his abomination the VESTRYROOM OF THE CHURCH!!! We are told, that with money the reverend ravisher for a moment stopped the mouth of the parents, and took himself off to Hull, but a warrant soon followed him there, when he decamped, and we learn is gone to France. His name we know, and in coming time, when the arm of justice has overtaken him, our readers shall know it too: at present, discretion is the wiser course.-Stamford News.

THE GAME LAWS.-It is in evidence, that, in one year, the numbers imprisoned under the operation of these horrid statutes, amounted to no less than one thousand two hundred individuals! Think on the amount of suffering from the direct and indirect consequences of this appalling fact; think on the desolate wives, the starving children, the ruined, heart-broken families; the sons initiated by the contamination of a gaol, into all those degrees of yet unthought-of crime, which is ultimately to bring them to a shameful and premature end; the fathers banished from their homes and their country; their miserable offspring thrown a burden on the unwilling parish;-and all, perhaps for the destruction of a paltry partridge, or other wild animal, to which no person can absolutely establish a right of ownership.-Kent Herald.

"If cer

VULGAR PREJUDICE AGAINST ANATOMY.-We suppose (says the Morning Chronicle) it is because the Law of England exacts from all those who wish to attain a familiarity with it, the exclusive attention of the best part of a life time, that we must account for the astonishing ignorance on all other subjects so often displayed by the highest judicial authorities of the country. As a fresh instance of this, we were particularly struck with the observations delivered by Mr. Justice Burrough at Winchester, in passing sentence on three resurrection men a few days ago. tain persons (he observed) must have bodies for scientific uses, they must. be satisfied with such legal measures as the law allowed, which was by executions." So the venerable Judge knows so little of the medical wants of twelve millions of people, as to suppose that the executions for murder, amounting, for England and Wales, during the seven years ending with 1823, to only 114, that is, to sixteen a year, are sufficient for the instruction of the numbers necessary to fill up the deficiences in the profession! We pray to God, that neither the venerable Judge nor any of his family may ever fall into the hands of any medical man who has not had the benefit of more than his fair share of the sixteen. Why does not Mr. Peel come forward with some plan to relieve the most important of all sciences from the difficulties under which it now labours in this country? Is he afraid to encounter the prejudices of the vulgar of high and low life? Wdd napthink so meanly of him, as that he can believe it of little importance to the country whether our medical men are skilful practitioners or quacks.

The Widow of the late M Oxberry, comedian, having been unsuccessful on former occasion, her attempt to assist herself and family by the means of a Benefit, the Proprietors of the Olympic Theatre have consented at a Benefit for her only Sof should take place on Thursday next, when he will, for the first time, attempt to personate one of his late Father's most popular characters.

"Adieu-Mind I have no time to write again, as what with writing books, and then altering them for those who buy out, I am done upfrappé en mort

"What do you think of my French?

Yours. HARRIETTE ROCAFORT, Late Wilson. "Don't trust to bag with your answer." (Addressed, Edward Ellice, Esq. M. P.. New-street London.)

We adhere to the lady's grammar, which, like her morality, is not closely bound to vulgar rules. The words in Italics are underlined in the original.-Globe and Traveller.

THEATRICAL EXAMINER.

DRURY-LANE.

A NEW farce, intitled Change Partners, was produced at this house on Thursday evening, the plot of which turns upon a young gentleman and lady writing love-letters for their respective servants, and falling in love with the epistles of each other, to the production of a passion in each for the supposed author of the engaging billets-dour addressed to the attendant of the other. This farcical event, or event for a farce, is rendered the more whimsical, in consequence of the letterwriters being really destined by their parents for each other, whose intentions they oppose, in pursuance of their mistaken prepossession. The denouement need not be described. All this may pass in farce as to ingredient; but the concoction was insipid, and lacked the articles both of salt and Cayenne.. The acting was good where there was anything to do; as was proved by Mrs, YATES, KNIGHT, and HARLEY, in the heroine, a Yorkshire servant, and a smart valet: but although the ayes at the conclusion were decidedly triumphant, it will scarcely succeed. The spectators might possibly be in fault, being very grave; which is elixir to a tragedy, but death to a farce,-a truth which, if not yet proved by Change Partners, probably soon will be. Be its transit light.

ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE,

On Thursday evening, Mr. MATHEWS commenced his annual entertainment for the season; and the great attraction of his whimsical and extraordinary powers was evinced by a crowded house in every part, and by a cordiality of reception of the most gratifying description. The vehicle of the year assumes the form of a Memorandum Book, the heterogeneous sketches and notices in which are produced in the apparent order of their entry, for the spectators' amusement. The adoption of a plan, the chief distinction of which is to be without plan at all, possibly in some degree precluded the force and concentration displayed by the more systematic outline of last year, but it no way detracted from the incidental point and whimsicality which, after all, form the principal charm of the unique talent of Mr. MATHEWS, who commences with an account of the recommendation it seems, the advice of one Mr. Outline, a faint personage, who is which led him to his present machinery. In adopting it, he follows, soon discussed; after which, we are introduced to a female tabby, who volunteers a whole volume of parish scandal, as peculiarly available to Mr. MATHEWS, which gives the latter an opportunity of rejecting any such unfair materiel. The Memorandum Book is then

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meats; that they invariably take a patty after soup, and know how to despise the man who is helped twice to turtle; that they are not génés by silver fork, understand the use of a napkin, with many other small vaunts of the same stamp, that tend to the unspeakable advancement of the writers in the good opinion of all the would-be fine people, and consequently secure to them a considerable share of popularity for the would-be fine is a large tribe. But, unfortunately, the very stress which they lay on these things is in fact fatal to their pretensions, for it proves that these common usages have made the lively impression of novelty.

A NATIVE AMERICAN'S NOTIONS OF WEDLOCK.-An aged Indian, who for many years had spent much of his time among the white people both in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, one day observed, that the Indians had not only a much easier way of getting a wife than the Whites, but were also more certain of getting a good one: "for (said he in his broken English) white man court-court-may be one whole year! may be two years! before he marry. Well-may be then got very good wife-No one lectures very learnedly on the habits and modes with which but may be not! may be very cross!-Well now-suppose cross scold so soon as get awake in the morning-scoid all day-cold until sleep!-all one; he must keep him! White people have law forbidding throwing away wife, be he ever so cross-must keep him always!-Well, how does Indian do? Indian, when he sees industrious squaw, which he like, he go to him, place his two forefingers close side each other, make two look like one-look squaw in the face-see him smile-which is all one he says yes! So he take him home-no danger if he be cross-antique coxcombries. In the volumes before us, we cannot discover a No, no! squaw know too well what Indian do if he cross-throw him away and take another! Squaw love to eat meat-no husband, no meat! Squaw do everything to please husband-he do the same to please squaw live happy!"

he is familiar; but we are all disposed to dwell on the manners and customs of a strange land. The author of Sayings and Doings is particularly offensive in the way we have here described, and lays down trite, Dilworth-like rules of good-breeding with species of pedantry truly puerile. Occasionally, however, he soars to the refinement of exquisitism; but then he does but strut about in the worn fopperies of Brummel, dizenied out in that Beau's cast off and now somewhat single original impertinence ! A catalogue of Brummel's facetia would indeed bring the whole tribe of Pretenders into contempt, as it would show what a servum pecus it is: and, after all, they imitate the exiled Dandy with no better effect than the Ass in the fable imitated the Lapdog.-London Magazine.

TEMPERANCE-Never eat too much. You have Galen's authority for it. His constitution was very delicate, yet he lived to an advanced age; and this he attributed, in a great measure, to the circumstance of his never rising from a meal without still feeling some degree of hunger.-From the first Number of the Belfast Magazine, the only work of the kind, we believe, published in Ireland.

THE HOLY ALLIES.-Mr. Thos. Campbell, in his 7th Lecture, ably vindicates the character of the Athenians from the atrocious slanders of certain literary Serviles, and gives us a most striking and admirable "Sketch of Athens." The whole lecture, indeed, is pregnant with useful information and manly sentiment. Alluding to the Holy Allies, the accomplished writer observes," Cleon, in Aristophanes's own pages, brings no aversion to a reasonable mind half so revolting, as the specta cle of Princes leaguing into Gangs of Kingdom-breakers and Constitution lifters, forming Societies for the Suppression of Truth and the Pro-Harriette Wilson, & woman of pleasure (and profit too it seems) who is The John Bull is particularly moral on the subject of the Memoirs of pagation of Error, and deserving to be called Academicians of lgnorance, and Dilettanti in human degradation."-See the last New Monthly Magazine.

Publishing her experience of every one of whom she has, or pretends to have, any knowledge. One does not wonder at the John Bull's anger at a popular rival in its own line, who has introduced an improvement în the private libel trade. by adding the profit on what she suppresses to the gain on what she publishes.

"In every employment of life,

"Each neighbour abuses his brother"

THE APOLLONICON.-There is an interesting description of this noble Instrument in the last New Monthly Magazine, from which we extract the following curious and interesting illustration of the mode in which sound acts upon the air:-"Some of the lower notes, and therefore the most powerful of all, cannot be heard at all in the room in which the-and sister too, it seems. Globe and Traveller. instrument is placed. They cause the whole room, and indeed the whole building, to tremble in a sensible and almost visible manner; but yet you cannot distinguish the sound itself. In fact, you can feel it, but not hear it. But on placing yourself in a yard at a little distance from the building, and thus bringing yourself within or, as it should rather seem, without the proper sphere of the sound, you hear it with tremendous loudness. This seems to us the most striking illustration we have ever met with of the theory which inculcates that sound is propagated through the air in circles. One can in this instance almost see it, agita ting the air tumultuously, so as to shake everything within the range of it, till it reaches a certain point, and then, as it were, condensing itself and becoming audible, just as the rays of light, transmitted through a sheet of falling rain, become condensed and visible only at that particular point where we see the rainbow."

The New Times says," Mr. Stockdale has commenced law proceedings upon the publishers of the Iris-a review, which in its criticisms upon the several Numbers of the Memoirs of Harrielle Wilson, has fallen fqui of him."-This is excellent! We had got it into our silly heads, that Miss Harriette's chaste and worthy Publisher had been born for a very different purpose, but we are now satisfied that he is designed to confer some signal service on the public, unless he should unhappily be cut short by the Vice or any other ugly Suppressors.-Some say, that Mr. Stockdale will shortly get into Parliament, where of course he would cut a figure, being a great Protestant Ascendancy Advocate, and a determined enemy of the Scarlet," if not of any other," Wh—”

Mrs. Opie and HER FUDGE FAMILY."-It has pleased Mrs. Opie, since she has turned a Quakeress, to read a lecture to the world, in two volumes, under the title of Illustrations of Lying. The world has been LONDON MECHANICS' Institute. Of the splendid donation of 1,000l. notoriously given to this vice; and, like a true lover of truth, she does by Sir F. Burdett, to this Institution, the Committee of Managers, in not tatter it, but tells mankind pretty roundly that they are a generation their last Quarterly Report, speak in the following terms:-" To appre- of liars. Sir W. Scott, the romancer, Tom Cribb, the fibber, Major ciate it according to its merits, it is necessary to look, not only at the Longbow, and all other conscious dealers in falsehood, will plead guilty to large amount of the donation, but at the effect already produced by so her charges; but it will shock a great many very worthy people besides, to noble an example, and at the further beneficial consequences expected discover that they have been in a daily babit of lying without knowing to result from its powerful influence. Your Committee cannot but, be it. They have never indulged, perhaps, in the lie of flattery, and sensible that the extraordinary liberality of the Honourable Baronet, and bestowed high praises on a young friend's poetry; nor in the lie of con the subsequent pecuniary aid of so many other patrons of the Institution, venience, and denied themselves to Mrs. Beverley; nor even in the lie have anticipated by several years the unassisted exertions of the mein- of benevalence, and given a tender character of a discharged coachman. bers, and proportionably advanced the accomplishment of all the impor-But let them just take a glance at the mirror which Mrs. Opie holds up tant objects of the society." The Committee also warmly compliment to them in her chapter on lies practical. These are the lies not uttered Mr Place, sen. for his "persevering energy" in forwarding the inter- but acted, and are Satan's own stumbling-blocks,' no doubt, for the deaf ests of the Institution. and dumb; such are “ wearing paste for diamonds, purchasing brooches, pins, and rings of mock jewels:" and "passing off gooseberry wine, at dinner, for champagne." The man that hides baldness by gluing a piece of false hair to his head," is a practical liar; and so is the lady with an artificial front. A wig, if it be well made, is a lie; the Devil is the father of lies, and so is an old scratch. How many pious, and otherwise moral, old gentlemen are walking into eternity with their lies upon their heads! But their case is not desperate, for Mrs. Opie says If the false hair be so worn that no one can fancy it natural, it' the bloom on the cheek is such that it cannot be mistaken for nature, then is the deception will use ruddle; let the man of fashion and the world still glue on his aunihilated." Let the woman of sin prefer rouge, but the lover of truth false coxcomb, the conscientious will betake himself to a Welsh-wig; and the gallant Marquis, who has a make-believe leg, will walk about, if he is ingenuous, with a corkscrew in his calf!-Globe and Traveller.

PROOFS OF VULGARITY.-There is no surer sign of vulgarity than a jactation of gentility. An anxiety to appear particularly knowing in such rates of good-breeding as Mr. Dilworth expounded and gouvernantes inculcate, betrays the miserable ambition of a vulgar mind. Under-bred pretenders to fashion are perpetually talking of what is, and what is not the thing they have always a part to learn, and are, consequently, like the bourgeois gentilhomme, ever running over on the subject of their studies: they are wonderfully shrewd observers of glaring solecisms, and are bitterly severe on any departure from those established canons laid down in the Primer of Politeness. What little they do know of etiquette, they ostentatiously parade, and most vehemently do they insist on its Jaws. Ridictions as this sort of folly appears when one meets with it in a steam-boat, in a stage-coach, or at a watering-place (its proper element), it is rather odd that it has been adopted and introduced into print by some geniuses of the present day who lay claim to extraordinary knowledge of the world. John Bull, the author of Sayings and Doings, and│gazine, who describes himself as debarred from reading during the day some writers in Blackwood, are never weary of displaying their elegance, and informing the world that they know better than to eat fish with a knife, peas with pitchforks, or to drink malt after cheese: they exalt themselves day after day, and month after month, by insisting that they like olives, do not know the taste of port, and religiously observe the canon of drinking white wine with white meats, and red wine with brown

SLEEP v. StudY.-A Correspondent in the Glasgow Mechanics' Ma

by business, and as always experiencing an irresistible drowsiness when he takes to a book at night, although very fond of it, says he discovered an antidote to this balling tendency in a common onion, cut through the middle, and placed in close contact with the eyes. Some involuntary tears are of course produced by this process, but the writer affirms that it leaves the eye-balls refreshed, and dispels the soporific heaviness.

HATRED OF TRE PRESS. It seems that very small as well as great men-Bristol Aldermen as well as Continental Sovereigns-can combine to stigmatize the Press, and no doubt for the like reason, that their deeds will not endure the light of a free Press. We see by the Bristol Journal, that at the late dinner of the Bristol Institution, the toast of" The Bristol Press" was erased from the list, at the special request of some of the Aldermen of that City, who declared that they would quit the room if this obnoxious" toast was given!" To an Assembly (observes the Editor of the above paper) which had been applauding the diffusion of knowledge now so widely extending throughout all classes; which had panegyrized the mechanic's thirst for information; which had heard that day that the period was arrived when such knowledge and instruction could no longer be withheld; which congratulated itself upon the establishment of infant schools; which, in short, availed itself of every opportunity to applaud the present march of intellect, the wide spread of education, and the universal diffusion of learning and science, could not such a company as this have tolerated the toast of a FREE AND INDEPENDENT PRESS? What a stigma, and what a burlesque upon the pane gyrics which we heard upon the union of literature and commerce; upon the Republics of Venice and Florence; upon the characters of Lorenzo and Cosmo de Medici; and other patrons of Literature, as well as Merchants of the World!!! What would have become of the De Spiras, the Jensons, and the Valderfars;-the Alduses, the Sessa, and the Gioliti of the. Venetian Presses, or the Giunti of the Florence, and other names so celebrated in the early stages of the typographic art, if their patrons had thus stigmatised and neglected them."

CITY IMPROVEMENTS. The principal street from Fleet-market northwards, will, it is said, be considerably wider than Regent-street, and equally striking in-its architecture. An improvement, however, of a more useful description, will arise from the grand Slaughter-house, to be erected close upon Smithfield, By this establishment, the poor animals will be saved from the maddening torture of being driven through crowded streets by brutal drovers, to the great alarm of the timid, the pain of the humane, and the frequent injury of the passengers; and when introduced into the slaughter-house, will be deprived of life by a new method, as instantaneous as that of the guillotine. When this improve ment takes place, a market-day in the Metropolis will no longer be a great public nuisance, which it has been for so many years..

ENGRAVING. Whatever facilitates the manual process of the Artist in the performance of his work is of importance, amidst the many difficulties that Mr. Turrell, who received a gold medal for his receipt for biting-in which he has to encounter. On this account it is with pleasure we find steel plates, from the Society of Arts, has been presented by a number of Engravers with a silver cup, as a mark of respect for his useful discovery. NAPOLEON'S OPINION OF CRANIOLOGY.-Lady Holland had sent a

me;

package of books, in which also was a little box, inclosing a bust in numbers referring to the craniological system of Gall. What did plaster of Paris, the head of which was covered with divisions and Mascagni think of those German dreams? Come, speak without reserve, admired very much the manner in which Gall and Sparzheim develop as if you were conversing with one of your own profession."-" Mascagni and explain the various parts of the brain, and had also adopted that method which he considered eminently calculated to inculcate a thorough knowledge of this interesting organ. With respect to the system of judging the vices, propensities, and virtues of men by the protuberance on their heads, he considered it as an ingenious fable, which might seduce men of the world, but which could not bear the examination of the anatomist."-" That is thinking and acting like a wise man, who knows how to appreciate the merit of a conception, and to divest it of the errors and follies with which it is loaded by quackery. I regret much that I did not know him. Corvisart was a great admirer of Gall: he praised him, protected him, and used his utmost endeavours to push him up to but there was no sympathy between us. Such men as Lavater, Cagliostro, Mesmer, have never ranked very high in my estimation. I even felt I know not what kind of aversion to them, and did not therefore feel disposed to admit the man who was a continuation of them. Gentlemen of this description are all dexterous and well-spoken; they work upon that thirst after the marvellous which the generality of mankind experience, and give the colouring of truth to the falsest theories. Nature does not betray herself by her outward forms; she does not disclose her secrets; she conceals them. To judge and examine men upon such slight indications is the act of a dupe or an impostor, such as are all those beings gifted with wondrous inspirations, of which herds are to be found in every large capital. The only way to know men is to see them, observe them, and put them to the test: To avoid falling into errors, they must be studied a long time, and be judged by their actions; and even that is not infallible, and requires to be restricted in its operation to the moment in which they act; for we seldom act consistently with our genuine disposition; we give way to the transport or impulse of the moment, or are carried away by passion; and this constitutes what we call vice and virtue, perversity, or heroism. Such is my opinion, and such has long been my guide. Not that I pretend to deny the influence of disposition and education: I think, on the contrary, that it is immense: but beyond that, everything is mere system and folly.”—Last Days of

It is said that Mr. Stockdale, the Orangeman and Publisher of Harriette Wilson's Memoirs,-in imitation of Mr. Theodore Hook, is about to print a tract" On the Superior Morals of the Higher Classes." Corbiere has recently put down the pleasantest Club in Paris. It was established by Garcia, in a hotel in the Rue de Richelieu, for the comfort and advantage of foreigners, and where politics were entirely excluded. The freedom of conversation, which obtained there, on other subjects, is said to have alarmed the liberal Charles X., and he commanded the hotel to be closed. The wise Minister of this enlightened Sovereign has regis-Napoleon. tered an edict, that Clubs of every description in Paris are no longer

to exist.

Mr. Henry Moses, whose outlines are so deservedly admired, is engraving a series of sixteen designs of the celebrated Retsch, to illustrate Schiller's Ballad of" The Fight of the Dragon.".

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PROGRESS OF REFINEMENT A FACT.-A young woman meeting former fellow-servant, was asked how she liked her new place. Very well." Then you've nothing to complain of?" Nothing; only master and missus talk such very bad grammar."

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LENT ASSIZES.

TRIAL OF CHARLES LYNN FOR MURDER.

charged with the wilful murder of Abraham Hogg, at Whaddon Chase,

AYLESBURY, MARCH 8.-Charles Lynn was this day put upon his trial,

Those most useful and convenient Institutions, which were established In every principal city and town throughout France at the peace, and continued until the death of Louis XVIII. denominated Cabinets Litte-alarming cries: on looking up, he saw the Prisoner striking something on raires, where all the metropolitan and domestic, and many of the foreigu journals, and other interesting, scientific, and literary periodicals, were taken in, and read by the public at a small expence, are abolished by

command of Charles X.

on the 7th of last January. The Frisoner's appearance was very respectRADISH. The boiled roots of this vegetable form an excellent dishable. He is about 26 or 27 years of age. He wore a suit of black, and when served up as asparagus.-Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine. his manner at first was composed —Several witnesses proved the circumistances of the case, just as they appeared in all the papers at the time of the fatal deed. George Meecham, a labourer, while ditching, heard the ground with a gun, which he held in both his hands. He struck full 20 times, until the gun broke, and then walked backwards and forwards, as if looking at something -The witness was so frightened, that he did not venture to the spot, till the Prisoner had gone away. He then saw the dead and bleeding body; and he afterwards assisted to take the Prisoner into custody-The Prisoner's attempts to destroy himself when called upon for bis defence, he told a long and rambling story about his proceedings when he quitted Vauxhall with the deceased, the main point of which was, that Hogg had entered into a conspiracy with some resur. rection men to kill him. Under this impression, the Prisoner said, he determined, if he was to die, that Hogg should die too, and be struck him with the gun; but he did not know what he had done afterwards. Dur ing the delivery of his defence, his manner and delivery became not only incoherent, but altogether unsettled and agitated.

MR. OWEN. We have just learned from good authority, that this gentleman has finally resolved to remove to the New World. His friends at New Lanark have received intelligence that he purchased the settle-in custody were detailed, as well as other strange circumstances.—When ment of Harmony, in Indiana, on the 1st of January. He has left his son William, and Captain M.Donald, to take charge of the American establishment in the meantime, and by the latest accounts had reached Philadelphia on his way back to New Lanark, where he is expected in June. The whole of the Flower family, at present settled in Mr Birkbeck's neighbourhood, mean to join him at Harmony. The letters received state that MrOwen's statements have excited an extraordinary zeal for the mutual co-operative system in the United States. At Pittsburgh, he assembled the great mass of the people in the Presbyterian meeting-house, and having Several witnesses were called on the part of the Prisoner They developed his plans to them, a number of persons immediately declared deposed to his good conduct while in Messrs. Burnett's distillery, at their intention of founding a community on his system; and such was the Vauxhall, and spoke of his peculiar bumanity. He had saved the lives sensation his arrival there produced, that the Court of Justice suspended of three persons from drowning -His Sister proved that he had exhi esittings while the meeting was held. Mr OWEN, on his way westward,bited signs of insanity before he left Vauxhall, and it appeared that his visited the spinning mills of Mr. Skink on the Hudson, which are cele- father had been deranged Lord Nugent, Sir John Dashwood King, and brated for the high perfection of the machinery, and the remarkable Dr. Willis, gave it as their opinion, that the Prisoner had been, and was Bestness of the establishment. The settlement of Harmony is on the now insane-Verdict, Guilty of killing the deceased, but we believe him banks of the Wabash, about 30 miles below Mr. Birkbeck's property, to be insane at the time." and the occupants are a colony chiefly of Germans, who are united by some singular religious tenets, and hold their property in common.Scotsman. It is understood that 300,0001, is the price paid for the Settle

ment.

CHARGE OF MURDER.

MARCH 9-John Allen, Thos Reeves, and Thos. Collyer, were indicted for the wilful murder of Wm Morris, on the 19th of Feb. at Aston Clinton. It appeared from the evidence, that the deceased and another