LAST MOMENTS OF MIRABEAU.-He begged Cabanis, his attendant, degenerated they are, and they must be, by their miserable life, of long not to call in physicians; but in this he was disobeyed, and on their | hours, and hard fare, and the restless nights which every body knows to arrival they found death fast approaching, which had already seized be consequent upon over-fatigue. This sort of life has robbed them, and upon his feet. His head was the last part of his body attacked, as if is robbing them, of every characteristic which belonged to their hardy Nature permitted his genius to shine on to the last moment. An im- forefathers, who worked hard, but fared well, and slept sufficiently. mense crowd, preserving the most profound silence, thronged round his They are as different, too, in mind as in body. They have not the house; the Court sent messengers after messengers to inquire of his courage and the spirit which have hitherto been a part of British chastate; bulletins of his health were transmitted from mouth to mouth, and racter. History, experience-all that is known of the labouring classes spread grief among the people at every new progress of his disorder; he of any community existing, or that ever did exist, in any country under himself, surrounded by his friends, expressed regret at the interruption heaven, presents no account of protracted and ill-requited toil, at all apof his projects, but seemed proud of his past career. "Support," said proaching to a parallel with the condition of the manufacturing populahe to his servant," support the ablest head in France." The anxiety of tion of Scotland and the north of England. Why is not this condition the people affected him; the visit of Barnave, his enemy, who came in investigated? We have more than a thousand legislators, who are very the name of the Jacobins, caused him a pleasing emotion. He gave some fond of forming themselves into "Committees of Inquiry:" why do not thoughts to public affairs. The Assembly was about to be engaged in they inquire into that system under which fourteen hours labour daily, the question of testaments: he therefore called for M. de Talleyrand, is a great reduction, and that reduction desired as a luxury? But those and gave him a discourse which he had written on the subject. "It will high personages are busy. They have, as Mr Cobbett says, "the bares be pleasant," said he, " to hear a man speak against testaments who is and the partridges to take care of." They are fullhanded as grand conno more, and who ought to be making his own." The Court, indeed, servators of rabbits, snipes, and widgeons.—Manchester Gazette. wished him to make one, and promised to take upon itself the payment THE KING'S CIRCLE.-Lady Scott: Ladies are not received into the of all his legacies. Speaking of his views on Europe," that Pitt," said King's circle but in dresses with long trains, four yards long.-Dr Pihe," is the Minister of preparatives; he governs by menaces: I would chot: That must really be a very embarrassing affair.-Sir W. Scott: give him some trouble if I lived." The Curate of the parish came to The Gentleman in waiting supports it till the lady approaches his offer his services. He thanked him with politeness, and said, smiling, Majesty: the lady then pays her respects by a low curtsey: the King that he would accept of them willingly, if his superior ecclesiastic, the raises her and salutes her on the cheek.-Dr Pichot: Is that indispensa Bishop of Autun, was not in the house. He then begged to have the ble?-Sir W. Scott: Indispensable. That done, the lady retires, withwindows opened." My friend," said he, to Cabanis, "I shall die toout ceasing to turn her face towards the Monarch, till she is out of the day: envelop me in perfumes, crown me with flowers, and surround me circle. The difficulty of retiring backwards without assistance is very with music, so that I may deliver myself up peaceably to sleep." Poig-great for such as are not accustomed to it. The ladies must exercise nant pains interrupted from time to time these noble discourses. "You themselves in managing their trains with skill and dignity, in order to have promised," said he to his friends,“ to spare me useless suffering;" be able to retire without turning their backs. It will be a sad affair for and he immediately demanded opium with great eagerness. This being the young lady who should be so unfortunate as to commit a faux-pas on refused, he insisted on compliance with his request with his accustomed such an occasion. It was a more easy operation when the ladies wore violence. For the purpose of satisfying him, his attendants deceived hoops; but now there is nothing to support the robe.-Tour in England him, and gave him a cup which they persuaded him contained opium. and Scotland, by Dr Pichot. He received it calmly, swallowed the beverage which he believed mortal, and appeared contented. A moment after, he expired. This was on the 20th of April 1791. The news of his death immediately reached the Court, the City, and the Assembly. All parties had placed their hopes on him, and all, except the envious, grieved at his death. The proceedings of the Assembly were suspended, a general mourning ordered, and a magnificent funeral prepared. Some Deputies being invited to attend, "We will all go," exclaimed the whole Assembly. In the church of St Genevieve a monument was erected to his memory in the form of a pantheon, with this inscription, which no longer exists: "A grateful Country to great Men."-It was situated by the side of that of Descartes. His funeral took place the day after his death. All the Authorities, the Department, the Assembly, and the Army, accompanied the procession; and this simple Orator obtained more honours than ever had been conferred on the pompous funerals which proceeded to St Denis. Thus terminated the career of this extraordinary man, who has been greatly praised and greatly blamed; who effected much good and much evil; and whose genius was as equally adapted to the one as to the other. History of the French Revolution, from the French of 4. Thiers aad F. Bodin-just published.

FOURTEEN HOURS A DAY!" Are there not twelve hours in the day in which men ought to work?" Our readers, who have Bibles, will not need to be told whose words we are quoting. In the times when this question was asked, there were no great townships of weavers, and no cotton factories; but since the introduction of the manufacturing system, the principle which the question involves, has, like many other points of christian morality, become quite obsolete. "Twelve hours," indeed! why, a weaver could not keep body and soul together with the fruit of twelve hours' labour. Even if he were to find out some cheaper article of subsistence than the wretched potatoes and oatmeal upon which he feeds, and could, by working twelve hours only, procure enough of it to prevent the gnawings of hunger during the four and twenty, he would soon be cashiered as an idle vagabond. Men know the fact, that the loom which is in motion by four or by five o'clock in the morning, does not cease till eight, nine, ten, or eleven o'clock at night; they know that all around them the looms are going the same length of time; and it never, or very rarely occurs to them, that fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen hours' labour for a bare subsistence, is not the natural, the reasonable portion of an ingenious artisan. But, whatever be the popular apathy with regard to this evil, and this wrong, the evil and the wrong remain. And they are not individual merely, but national also.-Early rising and early rest; labour to create an appetite for food, and a desire for rest; plenty of good meat to satisfy the one, and a sufficiency of time to indulge the other;-this is the course of life which for centuries has contributed to make Englishmen what they have been; and this ought to be the course of life of every labouring man. The "times are out of joint;" the state of society is monstrous, when clever artisans find it necessary to combine in order that each may not have more than fourteen hours labour in the day, and can look forward to this reduction as comfort and luxury. That which debases and degenerates them, is as bad, and perhaps worse, than that which destroys them, Debased and

A STRANGE IDEA OF A MANIAC REMOVED BY STRATAGEM.-One of

the most eminent watchmakers in Paris became deranged, from prosecu ting the idea of perpetual motion. His derangement was characterised by this singularity; he believed that he had been guillotined, that his head had been mixed with those of some other victims, and that the judges, repenting of their cruel verdict, had ordered the heads to be the head of one of his unfortunate companions had been placed upon his replaced on their respective bodies. By some mistake, he conceived that shoulders; and this idea haunted him night and day. A convalescent, of a lively and jocular turn, was engaged to play the following trick upon of St Denis, who carried his head under his arm, and kissed it as he the artist:-Their conversation was directed to the celebrated miracle went along. The watchmaker vehemently maintained the possibility of the fact, and endeavoured to confirm it by an appeal to his own case. His companion burst out into a loud laugh, and said to him, in a tone of mockery," Why, you fool, how could St Denis contrive to kiss his own head? was it with his heel?" This unexpected repartee struck the lunatic forcibly: he retired quite confused, amidst the laughter that it produced; and he never after spoke of the misplacement of his head.~~ Dr Pinel on Insanity.

SUICIDE PREVENTED BY SUDDEN TERROR.-A man of letters, accustomed to free living, and who had lately been cured of an intermittent fever, was seized in the autumn with all the horrors of propensity to A journey which he took to London seemed to increase his melancholy suicide, and he often estimated the different ways of destroying himself. and his determination to shorten his life. He fixed upon a late hour of one night, and went upon one of the bridges, in order to throw himself into the Thames: but at the moment he got there he was attacked by some pickpockets. He became very angry, and made violent efforts to escape, which he effected, after being considerably agitated and greatly alarmed. His melancholy immediately was changed; he forgot the object of his walk: and though he was reduced to as great distress as before, he never afterwards felt any emotions of suicide.-Dr Pinel on Insanity.

A Correspondent of the Times very properly recommends the disuse of the practice of noting inland bills of exchange, it having been repeatedly decided by the Judges, that such noting is entirely superfluous, and adds nothing material to the evidence of the holder; whilst its payment becomes a serious tax upon persons little able to pay anything extra.

DISCOVERY OF WINE.-To Persia we must look for the origin of the vine: we know that it is not indigenous elsewhere, except in America. The discovery of wine, as given on the authority of an ancient Persian MS. by Sir John Malcolm, may be thus briefly told:-The bersian emperor who founded Persepolis, being extremely fond of grapes, put' some into jars to preserve them: tasting them while fermenting, he found them so bad, that he put them back and marked poison on the jars. His favourite mistress, from some cause weary of life, drank the liquor, which-the fermentation being at an end-was so pleasant as to reconcile her to life, instead of poisoning her. The King found out what had taken place, and thus wine was discovered.--Westminster Review.

LORD COCHRANE.-On Wednesday this distinguished uobleman, accompanied by his lady, arrived at the British Hotel, in a travelling carriage and four. Thursday forenoon, his Lordship and Lady Cochrane, attended by Mr Robert Scott Moncrieff, drove to the Castle in an open carriage. The carriage remained on the esplanade while they walked round the fortification. On the party returning, the crowd assembled at the barrier gate gave them a hearty cheer, which his Lordship acknowledged by a grave but affable inclination of the head. They afterwards proceeded to the Parliament House, and the Advocates and Writers to the Signet Libraries, where a similar testimony of respect was shown by the populace; and subsequently visited Holyrood House and the Calton Hill. Yesterday forenoon, his Lordship, accompanied by his Lady and suite, visited the chain pier at Newhaven. About an hour previous to his departure, the spacious street in front of the British Hotel was completely blockaded by hundreds of anxious spectators, who greeted his Lordship with enthusiastic cheering as he passed to his carriage. Their enthusiasm however did not stop here, they proceeded to disengage the horses, with the view of dragging him along Queen street in triumph, had not his Lordship politely declined the honour. His Lordship has apparently suffered no constitutional injury from his long exposure to a foreign climate and every species of danger to which his profession is liable. His frame is athletic, and but for a slight bend in the neck, would be erect. His complexion is hale, and by no means indicative of a long residence under a tropical sun. He was plainly dressed in a blue surtout, and one of those narrow-crowned hats lately come into fashion. Lady Cochrane is an elegant petite figure, with a considerable share of beauty. Her features are highly expressive; and an olive tinge in her complexion, together with very black hair and eyes, give her a Spanish cast of countenance.-Scotsman, Sept. 3.

REV. A. FLETCHER.-This Reverend Preacher, we judge of him in the fullness of his inspiration,-is a man of a robust and commanding figure. He carries his office, too, with an air of secure vigour and determination, that makes him no inapt illustrator of the style of the sturdy old gospellers, When Pulpit, drum Ecclesiastic,

Was beat with fist instead of a stick.

A Miss Cranston, who eloped with Captain G-, from Streatham, on Friday week, was overtaken at Canterbury, supping with her inamorato the same night, and was safely conveyed home by her brother. They were traced from Croydon, which they left in a single horse chaise. In what manner young ladies may gradually get rid of eruptions on the face and neck:-Walk tolerably quick five or six miles every day in the open air, and if it be wet under foot, change the shoes and stockings immediately on returning home.-Medical Adviser.

NOVEL HIRING.-A farmer in the neighbourhood of Pulborough, at the commencement of the present harvest, hired a man from an adjoining parish, for a month, to assist him in getting in his crops, and by agreement was to pay him a single pea for the first day, two for the second, four for the third, and double every day until the term was expired, the farmer but too late discovered that this would be the worst bargain that ever he made, and that even with purchasing the whole growth of all his neighbours' pease, he will not be able to pay his man in kind; while the labourer, on the other hand, piques himself on having entered into an agreement, by which, in one month, his earnings will enable him to live at ease during the remainder of his life. We however understand that the man has offered to compound with his employer for five guineas and one load of pease,-Kent Herald.

STREET AND ROAD PAVEMENT.-It is the practice in Vienna and some other cities, to pave the open courts of the hotels with blocks of hard wood a few inches long, set on edge, ove which wheel-carriages roll almost without noise. Were the pores, or tubular cavities of the wood, previously filled with a calcareous or other stony solution, or even with pitch, its hardness would be a good deal increased, and its durability still more, by the exclusion of the water. As broken wood would answer for this purpose, and as the labour of cutting and laying would be comparatively small, we do not think the expense would much exceed that of M'Adam's road metal. We have often wondered indeed that the Vienna wooden pavement is not adopted in some of our most fashionable streets, where the noise occasioned by the constant passing of coaches must be felt as a serious nuisance.—Scotsman,

DELAYS OF CHANCERY.-On Saturday, Mr Arthur H. Marriott, aged 73 years, died at his residence, Stonehouse. The deceased was formerly The man's physiognomy is dark, intelligent, and gentlemanlike; his eye a comedian, and possessed almost to the last a fund of genuine humour well placed and expressive; his forehead broad and fairly developed. and originality. The deceased had accumulated money sufficient to An air of precision beams about his adjustments, which does not seem to render his vale of life smooth; but about 14 years since he purchased say, that the preacher has altogether eschewed the vanities of personal some premises in Stonehouse: after he had paid for them, and had had effect. The smile too, that not unfrequently played about his visage, possession, it was contended that the person who sold them had no auappeared to speak fully as much of self-satisfied opinion, as of a pure thority, and that deceased's title was bad. A bill in Chancery was filed Christian benignity; and if so ungodly a conjecture might be adventured, against him, and for nearly 14 years has this Chancery suit been eating was just as well fitted to illustrate rather a handsome mouth, with an him to his "heart's core." He has been repeatedly heard to say, agreeable équipage of teeth, as the severe doctrines of his schismatical" Were it not for that law-suit, I should be the happiest man alive; but faith. The action of the preacher is varied, perhaps to redundancy; on as it is, I am most wretched;" for so long a period has he suffered the the whole, however, it is not inelegant, and very frequently commanding." law's delay," being unwilling to lose his little property without a His style of address is vigorous and studiously affectionate; delighting struggle, and there being no other means of getting rid of this suit. At in simple allusion, and, as it seemed, perhaps over-much in the minute last death put a period to his sufferings, but not before the Lord Chandistinctions of the elder church. His utterance is distinctly national; cellor had put an end to the cause; for a day or two preceding his death, and his tones are various, and not disagreeable. This man, whatever be judgment was given against him; but of this he was never brought achis private aberrations, is plainly a combatant not at all to be sneezed at. quainted, as he was too far gone to be troubled with the event of that He is a labourer, full of youth, full of vigoar, and, as it appeared, very cause, which to him had been a most grievous one.-Devonshire Freereasonably accomplished with confidence too. He is a preacher, in fact, holder. that, as such, no sect has a title to despise, and very few sects should rashly or very willingly have contributed to lose.-Edinburgh Observer. THE PARKS.-A great deal has been lately written respecting the projected alterations, or improvements (as by some they are said to be) in the parks. If the public right be trespassed upon, perhaps some stout pedestrian will imitate Tim. Bennett, who in the year 1752 manfully reclaimed a footway over Bushy park. This Tim Bennett was an honest cobbler, who by dint of his own exertions recovered a path leading from Hampton to Hamptonwick and Kingston market, which way had been taken from the people many years, to their great prejudice. He first applied by way of memorial to the authorities in whose name the altera tions were carried on; no attention being paid to his memorial, he with his own scanty means appealed to the law, and succeeded.-Times. TEST OF PERFECT VACCINATION. When a person has been vaccinated on one arm, the surgeon should vaccinate the other arm with matter taken from the first. If the first vaccination has been perfect, the pustules on both arms will grow to a head at precisely the same time; and if this does not take place, the system has not been properly affected, and the vaccination ought to be repeated. This simple and easy test, first brought into notice by Dr Bryce of Edinburgh, ought never to be neg-quarters, whilst others more healthy are always exempt from it. The lected.-Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine.

AFFIDAVIT STAMPS.-It is now judicially decided by the Court of Chancery, that affidavits of debt under bankruptcies are no longer liable to any stamp duty.

TEMPERANCE. We find, from the registers of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, that, as a consequence of their temperance, one half of those that are born live to the age of 47 years, whereas Dr Price tells us, that of the general population of London, half that are born live only 2 years! Among the Quakers, 1 in 10 arrives at 80 years of age; of the general population of London, only 1 in 40. Never did a more powerful argument support the practice of temperance and virtue.Boston Medical Antelligencers

THE PLAGUE.-At a late sitting of the Paris Royal Academy of Sciences, M. Lassis presented a memorial, stating his reasons for considering the plague and yellow fever not contagious :-" Ancient Rome (said M. Lassis), like France, was unknown to America and to the East, but nevertheless they both suffered from the yellow fever and the plague. Whenever an epidemical disease exists, it is produced by local causes, which can always be explained. The yellow fever is nothing but a very intense fever, accompanied by the jaundice--the plague is nothing but an intense fever, attended with buboes, parotides, &c. These pestilential buboes are absolutely the same as the pustules of the nature of carbuncles which we notice in all parts of France, and which are in a manner endemic in some of the provinces. The disorders called yellow fever and plague appear continually in all parts of France, but as they are called by another name, no mention is made of contagion and no precaution is taken. It is for this reason that they are not attended with the fatal consequences which always follow the official declaration of these maladies. The measures which are called sanitary occasion all the accidents which they profess to prevent. At Cairo, as at Constantinople, when the plague has a contagious influence, it ravages only certain plague which exists in Lower Egypt never penetrates into the Upper.”. M. Lassis then made some observations relative to the late epidemy at Barcelona. A committee was formed, which declared unanimously that contagion was but a chimera; this committee published the reasons upon which they had formed this opinion, which were so conclusive that they effected the conversion of a celebrated physician, who had before been at the head of the contagionists. M. L. presented a list of ten communes in Barcelona, inclosed within the cordon sanitaire, in which three hundred sick took refuge. The inhabitants communicated constantly with the city, but no alteration took place in their health. M. Lassis concluded, by declaring that he did not believe that either the plague, the yellow fever, or any other typhus, was contagious,

MORTALITY OF INFANTS.-A memoir was lately read at Paris, on the THE GRAND STREETS. The street from the British, Museum to Northnortality of infants. Dr Villerme had already made some curious re-umberland House will be the chef d'œuvre of Mr Nash's skill; for report searches on this subject, in which he compared the mortality of children speaks of it in the highest terms of panegyric. It will be perfectly in the upper classes with that in the lower. The present memoir is straight, ascending by St Martin's lane to the spot called " The Seven formed on a similar plan. There are born at Paris about 22,000 annu- Dials," cutting away numerous triangles in its approach to Holborn, and ally; of these about two-thirds are sent out to nurse in the country; of three cross streets to the Museum.-The whole of St Martin's lane, right these two-thirds, the mortality, during the first year, is three out of five, and left, comes down; for it is to be the widest street in Europe. The while of the 7,000 to 8,000 nursed in Paris, more than 4,000 die within centre of the left is Lord Salisbury's estate, and the houses now standing the year. In the very populous quarters of Paris, where the streets are were many of them mansions, the abodes of Members of Parliament, little narrow, and the inhabitants wretched, the mortality is about nine in ten, more than half a century ago. The Tuscan, the Doric, and the Compo in the first year. In the country, where good air, cleanliness and comfort site, are to be the favourite orders; the first, being the most simple and are united, as in Normandy, the mortality during the first year is only solid, will take the lead. The united parishes of St Martin's, St Anne's, one in eight. At the Foundling Hospital at Paris, where they were all and St Giles's, have had plans laid before them by the Government. It confined to the establishment, of 7,000 to 8,000 received annually, there is to be the " most magnificent street in the world," the words are so exonly remained 180 at the age of ten! The Academy, considering the pressed! Lately the plans have been recalled by the Board of Works importance of these facts, decided on communicating them to the Societé from each vestry, with an intimation that they will be returned in JanuMaternelle, and all the Societies, whose object it is to aid the unfortu-ary next. This street will improve the Bedford estate by at least twenty nate. Hitherto these societies have invariably recommended mothers thousand a-year; and, had Waterloo bridge been in a line with it, what nursing their children; but it is evident that bad air, and other conco- a matchless picture it would have produced! It is the due consideramitant circumstances more than counterbalance those advantages; it is tion of this that has suggested the commendable idea of opening a wide more charitable to aid them to send their children to nurse in the street from Waterloo bridge to the New road, upon a plan which will country. render it perhaps the most magnificent thing of the kind in all Europe.Morning Paper.

A singular circumstance occurred at Islington a few days ago. Mr Hickman, after an absence in India of more than twenty-one years, returned and found that his landed property, which was considerable, had been disposed of by his heir-at-law, a Mr Laycock, who had sold it to the parish, and upon which land are erected numerous dwellinghouses and a chapel. Mr Hickman, of course, claims his land, and also

the edifices erected thereon.

SPIRIT OF ARISTOCRACY.-Two English gentlemen happened, some time ago, to be in one of the Swiss Cantons, in which the signs of prosperity and happiness were every where visible. One of them called the other's attention to so cheering a circumstance. The other, a gentleman of large property in a South-western county, observed in return-"Yes, all are certainly very happy; but still this is not a country for a Gentle man.”—Morning Chronicle.

HOW TO GET INTO COURT.-The great Frederic once sent for Mendelsohn to come to Potsdam. It happened to be Saturday, on which day Jews are not allowed to ride on horseback or in coaches: Mendelsohn therefore entered the royal residence on foot. The officer on duty,--a sprig of Nobility,-who of course had never read either" Phædon" or the Philosophical Letters," being informed that he was a Jew called Mendelsohn, asked, amidst a volley of swearing and guard-room wit, The terrified Philosopher replied, with the true causticity of Diogenes, what could have procured him the honour of being called to the King? another affair;" and suffered the juggler Mendelsohn to pass, when he "I am a sleight-of-hand player." "Oh !" says the Lieutenant, "that's would have examined-who knows how long the philosopher Mendelsohn, and perhaps have arrested him in the guard-room, since it is well known that more jugglers than philosophers pass through palace

BAYLE.-One of the philosophers who were most persecuted was the immortal Bayle, the honour of human nature. One of the pretexts made gates.-Memoirs of Moses Mendelsohn. use of for reducing him to poverty was his article of "David" in his valuable Dictionary. He was reproached with not praising actions which were in themselves unjust, sanguinary, atrocious, contrary to good faith, or grossly offensive to decency.-Philosophical Dictionary.

HOW TO DISCOVER A THIEF.-A physician named Brown had in Barbadoes a sugar-house and negroes, and the latter stole from him a considerable sum. He assembled his negroes together, and thus addressed them:-"My friends, the great Serpent has appeared to me during the night, and has informed me that the thief has at this moment a paroquet's feather at the end of his nose."-The criminal instantly applied his hand to his nose. "It is thou who hast robbed me," exclaimed the master; "the great Serpent has just informed me so:" and he recovered his money.

GALLANTRY OF LOUIS XIV. -Talk of the ferocity of the lower orders, forsooth! Why, we venture to assert, that no ballast-heaver on the Thames would behave with such studied ruffianism towards a woman he had seduced, and who loved him, and was the mother of his children, as Louis did towards the affectionate La Valliere. This most magnanimous descendant of St Louis, who is described by his admirers as the model of chivalry, threw his spaniel in her face, telling her at the same time that she was not a fit companion for anything but a dog, left her in tears, and walked away with an abandoned adultress, whose heart was blacker than night! Yet this outrage was committed in that boasted "age of chivalry and exalted feeling," whose downfall was pathetically bewailed in the oratorical rhapsody of Burke, when that political renegade announced to his affrighted contemporaries, "that the glory of Europe was extinguished for ever."-Oriental Herald.

RELIGIOUS NOVELS.-The Authors of Calebs, Tremaine, &c. have no claims to the merits of originality, for between twenty and thirty years back, Mr Payne Knight, in his book on Taste, thus notices and exposes works of a similar description:-" Of late this spirit (a dogmatical spirit of devotion) has been much pampered by some of the sentimental Narratives in question; the fair authoresses of which, in their zeal for Revelation, boldly bring forward their love-sick heroes and heroines into the fields of religious controversy; and as the same hands wield the weapons on both sides, they find as little difficulty in silencing all the cavils and overturning all the objections of the fictitious disciples of Hume, Gibbon, and the French Academy, as a Colonel of the Guards does in routing a regiment of fictitious French soldiers in a review on Blackheath. When victory seems so easily obtained, it is no wonder that many are ready to enter the lists; especially as the shortest and pleasantest way of becoming a saint is by converting a sinner. According to the Italian proverb, Those who know nothing, doubt nothing: whence it has frequently happened to me of late, to hear questions of sacred criticism and philosophy decided, upon the authority of a dialogue in a Novel, from which Grotius and Le Clerc, Mosheim and Michaelis shrunk in despair, or passed by in timid perplexity."..

tion at the University to obtain his degree, but at the end of six terms, HEREDITARY LEGISLATORS. A Nobleman never passes any examinawhich may occupy about nine months at the farthest, he is admitted to the honorary degree of Master of Arts. When Lord Chesterfield desig nated the House of Peers as "an Hospital of Incurables," he might have founded his opinion on the want of education which usually falls to the lot of those hereditary legislators, who trace their descent from the vaga bond and illiterate freebooters of the Norman era-Oriental Herald. SERENADE.

FLY to me! the Vesper star
Is twinkling, sweet, above thee;

I have wandered long and far
To whisper that I love thee:

That star is only seen at night,
And fades before the morning light;
Truth like mine will constant shine-
Then love me, dearest, love me!

List to me. Can gentle sighs
Cause thy bosom anguish ?
Ah! its dovelike peace I prize
Though it bid me languish.

Give thy lover's breast repose,
Purest love within it glows;

Thine will still as softly thrill

Then love me, dearest, love me!

Mr SALEL in his speech at Kilkenny, pointed to some living exemplification of Thomson's Portrait:

--"A man of God,

Who has a roguish twinkle in his eye
If a tight lassie chance to trippen by,
And shines all over with ungodly dew,
Which, when observed, he sinks into his mew,
And straight 'gins recollect his piety anew."

POLICE.

MANSION HOUSE.

Mr Hobler received a letter from a female who called herself Elizabeth Locke, stating that she was a collateral descendant of the great John Locke, author of the Essay on the Understanding, and that she was in, service at No. 8 College street, Bristol. Her grandfather had been, she stated, a hairdresser in the city of London, and had taken a violent part in the affair of Wilkes, and she wished to learn to what company he had belonged, and whether she was not entitled to some pecuniary aid, as the descendant of a citizen of London, if she could expect none as the relative of one of the greatest geniuses England over produced. By the direction

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of the LORD MAYOR, inquiries were made about the person Elizabeth | permit him to do so. They arrived at the house of the witness about Locke called her grandfather, and it was found that a person of that name half-past 12, and both sat down and fell asleep. The wife of witness was had been an active partisan of Wilkes, but it could not be ascertained to in bed in the attic, and witness intended to have gone to bed, but he was what company he belonged, or whether he belonged to any.-Mr Hobler's so overcome with liquor, that he did not wake till past four o'clock, when correspondent expresses a humble hope that she may obtain some situation the prisoner was brought down stairs by a lodger; and if witness had in consequence of the circumstance of her relationship, and which she can then known what the prisoner had been guilty of, the consequences would satisfactorily prove, in conjunction with her claim as an irreproachable in all probability have been fatal.-Mrs White said, that about four and industrious woman. o'clock on Thursday morning, a person whom she supposed to be her husband, entered her bed room. She spoke to him, and said, “ It is late, CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.-Mr Martin, M.P. attended on Wednesday William;" he made some kind of answer, like a person in liquor, and the before Mr Alderman BRIDGES, to support a complaint he had exhibited supposing him to be intoxicated, said no more to him; be proceeded to against the driver of the cabriolet No 12, for ill-treating a horse in undress, and then got into bed; he was in her bed above a quarter of a Cornhill, on Sunday last. The Hon. Member addressed the Alderman in hour, but he did not speak during the time: he covered his face with the She believed at the time nearly the following words:-"Before I enter upon this charge, Sir, I clothes, and she spoke to him. must beg leave to say a few words upon the subject of the virulent attacks it was her husband. She accidentally putting her hand on a flannel made upon me by a portion of the public press. I am charged by the waistcoat, which her husband was not in the habit of wearing, instaady editor of the Morning Chronicle with passing by all the acts of cruelty started up and exclaimed, “Good God! am I in bed with a strange man? practised by the nobility and higher orders of society, whom he declares And upon the prisoner not answering, she jumped out of bed, and called to be more cruel in their general practices than the middle and lower for the assistance of a lodger, who entered the room and turned the ranks; and proceeds also to assert, that there is much cruelty practised in prisoner down stairs. She declared to God that she did not give the his Majesty's stables, and even declares that his Majesty himself is the prisoner leave to enter her bed room; she had never seen him in her life cause of it, urging as proof the rapid and furious rate at which his before she found him in her bed-[Here the woman appeared ready to Majesty's post-horses usually travel. Now I can only say, Sir, that if faint, and her husband, from whose eyes the tears were flowing, said, the editor of the Morning Chronicle will point out to me any act of cruelty" We shall never be happy, Mary, any more; if I had caught him,I practised by the highest nobleman or gentleman in the land, I pledge know what the consequences would have been."-John Donnelson said, myself to prefer a prosecution against him. Now, with regard to the he was a lodger in the house of Mr White. About a quarter before four, treatment of his Majesty's horses, from my fondness for these animals I the prisoner entered bis bed room, and asked him which was Mr White's have been permitted long ago to visit his Majesty's stables, and can there- room? He told him it was the room opposite. About twenty minutes fore say from my own knowledge that no species of cruelty whatever is past four he heard Mrs White call for assistance; he went into her bed practised there. As to the treatment of their horses by the nobility and room, and she said that there was a strange man in her room. gentlemen, I ride in the Park frequently, and I see them riding and him out of the room. Mrs White did not at that time say the person had driving there, but I never witnessed any acts of cruelty. If I had, I committed the offence he stands charged with.-M White and the should certainly have preferred complaints against any of them. This prisoner were about the same age and size, and dressed alike in brows editor holds me forth as a scoundrel and a rascal. Now it must be surtout coats and striped waistcoats.-The Prisoner, when called upon obvious to you, Sir, that my conduct throws me open to the attacks of the his defence, said he awoke about four o'clock, and being tired, he tried to lowest of the rabble: and he, Sir, has expressed his hope that my skull grope his way to Mr White's bed room, to lie down for a few hours. He will be cleft some one of these days by some of the fellows I bring White's room, and he laid himself on the bed, supposing Mr White was by mistake, entered the lodger's room, who told him which was Mr charges against; thus holding out even an encouragement to murder. in the bed. He was very drunk, and did not know that anything further I shall take care what I now say, because I know that I am open to a prosecution, and may be made to answer for what I now say respecting took place. Mrs White said, that the prisoner, on being taken to the him, as surely as he shall be made to answer for what he said respecting watch house, treated the thing as a joke, and asked her if she knew the me in his leading article the day before yesterday."-Mr M. then difference between him and her husband?-Mr DYER said, that the ceeded to the case before the Magistrate, and observed, "I saw the prisoner would find that he had been guilty of a serious offence.-Mr cabriolet driven past the Royal Exchange at such a rate as would have White said, that his wife had been very ill ever since, and as there was subjected the driver to punishment for the furious driving only, without no chance of their being happy together, he had made up his mind to quit taking notice at all of the unnecessary and cruel manner in which he the country-Mr DYER stated, that as he was convinced of his wife's flogged the animal. There were two men in the cabriolet, and I cannot innocence, he thought that they might yet be happy.-Mrs White wept, take upon myself to swear that the man now before you is the one that and her husband shook his head and sighed.-Mr DYER told the prisoner, drove; but upon inquiry of the owner, I learn that he bears a very good that if he possessed a spark of human feeling, he would feet remorse at character; and I shall therefore, with your permission, beg leave to with- the misery he had brought upon the young couple. He ordered him to find bail, himself in 100%. and two sureties in 50%. each, to answer the draw the charge against him." charge of assault at the Sessions.

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Mr Alderman BRIDGES expressed his surprise that the Editor of the Morning Chronicle should have taken the licence of publishing observaOn Monday, a two-fold charge was brought against a poor fruit-seller, tions such as the Honourable Gentleman had mentioned, inasmuch as he had generally found Editors take the side of humanity. He had himselfast, for committing a breach of the Street Act, by placing his basket on observed, since the passing of this Act, a great deal more attention in the street to the treatment of animals. They were not so hard drove, and asses in particular had been much more kindly treated. He had seen them formerly beaten with large clubs; and with regard to what had been said as to the treatment of his Majesty's horses, he was quite sure that must be most grossly false. His Majesty was well known for his humanity, of which many instances had occurred in public, when accidents had happened, and on other occasions, which had gratified everybody.

the pavement, and secondly, for the enormity of vending nuts on a SunPatrol, came out of a public house during the time of Divine Service, day. It appeared that the Street-keeper, together with a Bow Street rushed on this Sabbath and Street Act breaker, overturned his basket of filberts, and apprehended him. In the scuffle, the man of sin and nuts from placing their baskets on the pavement; but it was cruel to put the lost two sovereigns.-Mr RAWLINSON said, that persons were prohibited law in force against those poor persons, who endeavoured to procure a living by the sale of fruit. As he walked the streets he experienced no annoyance from them, nor did he think, on the occasion in question, that there was a necessity for that severity which was displayed by Wilson. also others in the same capacity, ought to exercise their authority with He, if he professed himself to be a guardian of the public morals, and respect among the lower orders. If poor persons were to be prevented mercy, otherwise that authority was calculated to bring the laws into dis from disposing of their fruit on the Lord's day, he considered that the same strict rules should extend to tradesmen, who, instead of supplying a Strange Affair.-On Saturday week, a charge was preferred by a few pennyworths of apples, sent out large quantities of fish and other married woman, named White, against Robert Charles, for "fraudu- commodities on the Lord's day. It was very extraordinary, that chose lently" violating her person. The prisoner, when he was placed at the poor persons were to be visited with this severity for supplying a small bar, seemed to be greatly alarmed. He appears to be about 30 years of quantity of fruit on this day, while luxuries of every description age. The complainant and her husband are young; they formerly lived supplied by others.-Mr RAWLINSON concluded, by intimating to the in the service of a family at the west end of the town, and recently com-informer that, if pressed, he must inflict the penalty; but he advised him menced business in White Horse court, Piccadilly. The complainant to withdraw the charge. The charge was withdrawn.-[This, observes was in a state of distraction, and the husband in tears, all the time they the Morning Chronicle, is the language and conduct becoming a were before the magistrate.-Mr White stated, that on Wednesday even-Magistrate, and it is thus that the intelligence and correct feeling of an g the prisoner and himself were at a public house drinking together, administrator of justice may mitigate the mischiefs of our barbarous and till they were in a state of intoxication. About 12 at night, the prisoner bungling legislation. The rigorous enforcement of all the clumsy or stid that he was locked out of his lodgings, and proposed to witness to stupid Acts that are passed every Session, would throw the whole comgo to his house, and to sleep in one of the arm chairs. Witness agreed to munity into disorder. We might commit to the tread-mill almost the

Mr Martin :-I can assure you, Sir, that the King's name was actually mentioned in the paper as the occasion of the cruelty practised, but I my self know the disposition of his Majesty to be the direct contrary. know that in the case of a police officer (Townsend), who was accused of an act of cruelty, he was forbid to appear about his Majesty until the affair was satisfactorily cleared up.Is it satisfactorily or in any way cleared up?]-The defendant bowed, and the summons was dismissed.

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whole Aristocracy of England under the Vagrant Act (even in its amended shape), for playing at unlawful games; and we might grievously amerce the Lord Chancellor for attending his Majesty on Sunday instead of church, which would probably be tantamount to a sentence of death, for a fine would surely break his Lordship's heart. Is it not well, then, that ■ sensible Magistrate should now and then stand between the poor people and the terrible operation of the Wisdom of Parliament?]

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BARBARITY-An elderly woman, named Caroline Edmeads, was charged with assaulting an infant only three years old, named Brickhill. Brickhill is a labouring man, and the wife sells fruit in the streets. On Monday they were both compelled to go from home on their ordinary avocations, and the prisoner Edmeads was employed to take care of the child. When the mother was going away, the infant cried, and attempted to follow its mother, when the prisoner caught it up in her arms, and on getting into the house she dashed it down on the floor, and of course its screams were redoubled; she then beat it severely on the face, neck and arms, merely because it did not cease crying. Some persons then inter fered, and on taking up the little sufferer, it was discovered that the hip bone had been dislocated, and the leg was broken below the kneer it was also much bruised, and in this state it was removed to Bartholomew's Hospital. The prisoner said the child became very unruly after the departure of the mother, and that when it fell down she did not think it had sustained so much injury.-Mr LAING ordered her to be committed, in default of bail.

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The body of Margaret Simmin, who but a few months since was a dashing courtezan under the protection of a gallant Colonel, and who afterwards figured away in the lobbies of the theatres, was found dead on Wednesday, in a third floor back room in Duke street, Oxford street. She had not been seen since Monday, and the landlady of the house suspecting she had fled, got the door opened, and found the unfortunate woman dead upon the bed with her clothes on. On the table were found the remnants of a poisonous draught of sugar of lead. The deceased was in the most abject state of poverty.

On Sunday, the wife of a gardener, in the employ of Mr Cockfield, of Upton, in Essex, sent to a druggist's for sixpennyworth of tincture of rhubarb for her children, then labouring under a complaint in the bowels. A boy in the shop filled the phial with opium instead of the tincture. As soon as the mother received it she gave a small quantity to an infant, but deferred giving some to the remainder of her children, they being asleep. The poor infant died immediately after taking the dose. The mother is almost distracted at the fatal mistake.

On Sunday last, a respectable young man, named James Williams, residing in King street, St George's in the East, while on a party of pleasure, was drowned near Barking. The presentiments which the deceased had of the calamity which has occurred are rather extraordinary. On the nights preceding his death, he was haunted by the most fearful dreams, each of which presented appalling pictures of drowning. The first dream he paid but little attention to; neither did he take much notice. of the second; but the third making a deep impression on his mind, he communicated it to his sister-She made use of the strongest arguments AFFECTING CASE.-A young woman, 22 years of age, whose pallid and to dissuade him from his purpose. All her intreaties, however, were withdejected countenance bore the remains of beauty, and who was far ad-out effect-he determined to keep his engagement, and not disappoint his vanced in pregnancy, was on Friday brought before Mr Alderman SMITH, friends; and asked what would be thought of him if he were to assign an by John Stanbury, night patrol, who stated, that perceiving her between idle dream as an excuse for his absence. His mind, notwithstanding, was two and three o'clock yesterday morning wandering about St Olave's strongly influenced by the conviction that what was meditated as a day of stairs in great agitation, he watched her motions, and was fortunate pleasure would eventually prove one of mourning, and fatal to himself: enough to save her from self-destruction, by catching bold of her clothes he therefore told his sister that should the catastrophe which he anticipated at the instant she was plunging into the river.-Alderman SMITH asked take place, that let his body be ever so long in water, it would be recogthe unhappy creature what could have prompted her to attempt so wicked nized by certain marks on his dress; he then punched three letters on each an act as destroying her own life? To which she replied, shuddering, of his shoes, which he pointed out to his sister, and set forward on his illthat the pangs of hunger and disease, joined to the bitter anguish of her fated excursion.-Daily Paper. mind, had overcome her strength, unfixed ber reason, and driven her to despair. Her name, she said, was Mary Martin-that she was born at Penzance, in Cornwall, where her father, who was an Irishman, married, and whom she accompanied last Christmas to London, on the death of her mother, and slept the first night at a public-house, where her father left her, under pretence of seeking private lodgings, but never returned, and whose face she had never seen from that hour to this. Destitute of money, and unacquainted with a single being in London, prostitution became her only resource by which to sustain life, and which had sunk her so deep in misery that death now alone appeared her only relief. To this pitiable tale the Magistrate gave the greatest attention, and said if it was true, and that it was a voluntary act of her father, he must be one of the most heartless, unnatural men that ever disgraced a country; and after again endeavouring to instil into her mind the enormity of the crime she meditated, recommended her case to the parish-officers of St Olave's, as one entitled to their humane and immediate attention. Mr Littel, the assistant overseer, assured the Magistrate she should be directly admitted to the poor-house, where everything would be done tending to alleviate her sufferings.—Alderman SMITH commended the conduct of the patrol Stanbury, who conveyed the unfortunate being forthwith to her asylum.

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c.

Taesday week, the infant daughter of Mr Howell, of South Villa house, Cheltenham, was suffered, whilst at play, to eat some berries of the laburnum tree, by which she was nearly poisoned. The effect is similar to the torpor produced by laudanum; and but for the timely interference of Mr Eves, of that town, surgeon, she must have perished; her recovery occupied between three and four hours, during which time there was the utmost difficulty in keeping her awake.

On Thursday week, a son of a farmer of the name of Kirwan, who lives near Clare, while handling a gun, let off the contents, and shot his brother and first cousin dead, and wounded his sister. They were all children. The unhappy boy who caused the catastrophe is only 11 years of age. The numerous accidents which occur from leaving fire-arms in the way of children, ought to warn the parents and guardians of youth to keep their arms in a place of security.-Leinster Journal.

On Monday, Major Ridge, who was at his brother's seat, at Vining, near Rogate, Petersfield, on a shooting excursion, went out with his servant to enjoy the sports of the field. After going over a hedge, his servant handed him his gun through the hedge, with the muzzle towards him, when it accidentally went off, and the contents passed through the Major's body. There is but little hope of his recovery.

On Thursday, a serious accident occurred to the son of Mr White, of Coleford. Being out shooting with a companion, he had crossed the hedge, and a bird rising in that direction, his companion shot at it, and lodged the contents of the gun in the unfortunate youth's loins. He is in a fair way of recovery-Bristol Mercury.

Apprehension FOR FORGERY.—An individual of whom the police have been long in search, was on Wednesday evening apprehended in the neighbourhood of Holborn. He claims the rank of Field-officer, and is said to be known at the fashionable gaming-houses. He was taken to Bow street, where the examination was conducted in the private room, upon the charge of uttering forged cheeks upon the house of Smith, Payne, and Co. The names of the parties are concealed for the present, an active search being on foot for others who are said to be implicated.

DARING ROBBERY.-On Tuesday evening, Mr Curtis, of Hampstead, dined with a friend at Smithfield Bars; he quitted between eight and nine o'clock to proceed home by one of the Hampstead coaches, and passed along Saffron hill, when two ruffians suddenly seized hold of him, and dragged him up an alley. Notwithstanding the place was crowded with passengers, and Mr Curtis called for help, no one came to his assistance; the fellows carried him into a house, forced him up one pair of stairs into the front room, where two women were sitting, threw him upon a mattrass, and while the men held him down the women rifled his pockets of nine sovereigns; from the resistance and noise he made, the party became irritated, dragged him from the room, and threw him down stairs. He was so much injured by the treatment and stunned by the fall, that he became insensible, and was conveyed back to his friend's house, where a surgeon was procured, who accompanied him home to his family, and remained all night with him. Apprehensions are entertained that the spine of the back is seriously affected. He had a valuable lady's watch in his fob without any chain attached to it, which the robbers overlooked.

SUICIDE.-On Thursday an inquest was held at the Queen's Head, St. Martin's-le-grand, on the body of Mr John Phillips, aged 33, the proprietor of an eating-house, in St Martin's-le-grand. Mary Thacker deposed, that she was nursery-maid in the deceased's family; for the last three weeks, she always observed the deceased to be cheerful in his disposition. On Monday night, about twelve, witness saw the deceased supping with his wife and a female friend, he was then apparently in good spirits, laughing and joking with them. On Thursday morning, about five o'clock, Mrs Phillips ran to her sister's apartment, and alarmed her and witness, who on proceeding down stairs to the first floor landing place, she perceived her master suspended by a silk handkerchief, tied to a hook in the door-post. The deceased was cut down, and a surgeon was procured, who attempted to bleed him, but he had been dead for some time. Miss Parkhouse, sister to the deceased's wife, deposed that during the last fortnight the deceased had been exceedingly low spirited. She attributed this melancholy change to a considerable pecuniary loss he had sustained in the disposal of a house, which had the effect of blasting the prospects of the deceased, who appeared cheerful before his family, but which proceeded from effort only, as he was heard frequently to speak of his disappointment; and for the last few days, he flew to drink for relief. The Jury returned a verdict-"That deceased committed the act himself, being at the time in a state of mental derangement.”,