The Birmingham Journal from Birmingham, West Midlands, England • 6

THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL FEBRUARY 9 DOMESTIC POETRY Continued from page 3 to turn the table on ministers and to show that they and not ths Radicals had incited the people to teat the law Mr CaariKTta spoke strongly and eloqnently against be resolution He opposed it for two reason first (bat be Convention had certain defined duties assigned to it and MM not to travel out of its way to notica attack on the es of ember or others from what quarter soever i attacks mi' lit come second on tli plain matter of ground that the words of tbe speech a he read them I no reference whatever to the Kadtcal aaaociatioa but meant to apply solely to tb attempt in same parts of taocountry to resist the introduction of the new poor law flfer these reasons he entreated tbe Coueention to adopt tta Second amendment After some further conversation in whieh several dele-gstw took part Mr Richardson having withdrawn the anginal resolution the question was put oa Mr Dotiglaa'a tfment which waa carried by a eery targr Majority 1 notice of motion intended to be matfeat future were then given alter which tbe meeting waa rued THURSDAY Mr Sarkst delegate from Edinburgh waa called to the ban Mr Lovett secretary The minutes of jeaterday'a jssrtBselmg were read andconfitmcd Mr RicHsansoN moved that the report of the committee perterday for the purpose of disseminating political knowledge be now read and adopted Seconded by Mr Mathews The report stated that td report that do not think it necessary to recommend to the conven-i to enter into auv expense in regard to having meetings he metropolis But they have made arrangement with metropolitan delegates who weie present to have an ariraeatal meeting in the White Conduit Houae on an day and from tue success of which they will be able to ge or tbe propriety ot holding meeting in the other dials of London The committee have also to recommend lpti or more missionaries be immediately appointed to tefe -certain districts of England for the purpose of explain-mg the principle of theebarter and obtaining rent andaigna see The counties which have appeared most in want of dfeia attention are Cornwall Devonshire Dorsetshire Kaaf ami Hampshire and probably Esex and Surrey And also that as the principles of the Chartists to obtain universal adaption by the industrious classes require ta he known aadas it is judicious that a general system of proceeding he riotasved bavin the sanction of the Convention notice be aaat to the several districts winch have appointed delegates Sliding strongly that each of these districts appoint blither remanded and will probably remain in cu-todv till the tint! Ths trial of Bolam will take place in the Northumberland eourt 'lour Wild Baats Abroad On Friday last a huge bear which wit confined in a stable in Bar-street by its master Mr If Harding the proprietor of a wild beast show broke out of the building and entered the street Seeing a oman named Haverstone at her eottage door the bear seized tier and bit her in several place and she whs only released from its gripe by beating it off with a poker Medical aid was procured and the surgeon did not apprehend any dingerous consequences On Sunday how-ever symptoms of an alarming nature manifested themselves and in the course of Monday ail bope of her aurvlv ing was given op Paper The Earl of Derby the Lord Lieutenknt of the county of Lancaster lias convened a meeting of the freeholders on Thursday next in order to take into their consideration Lord John proposition for a rural police forte Tub moss Hastc ths woasa Lord Lichfield and three of bis friends were very nearly killed the other day The hour of the Manchester train was eltanged with out any notice which is a very common occurrence and when Lord Lichfield got to Btraslugham he lound it was gone He was much annoyed aa the Duke ot Sussex and a large party were coming to dinner at hia teat Rauton Abbey He asked whether he could have an engine for himself and party which waa immediately provided Away they went at great speed but owing to the neglect of a policeman in not turning a plate they were carried with great foice off tbe line firere in moat imminent danger and at last upset into a pit They wete all much injured and one gentleman Lord secretary received to violent a con-fusion on his shins that be has been in bed ever since Ao rthampton Herald Rusal A numerous meeting of noblemen and gentlemen justices of the peace took place at Preaton on Friday Mr Wilbraham in tht chair in order to consider the subject of Lord John letter on the subject of a itxal police Tb following ia th speech of Sir Hesketh Fleetwood bart MP for Preston on the occasion in moving resolutions approving of Lord John suggestion On referring to Lord John letter he found that hia lordship wished to ascertain from the magistrates ot tha county whether the constabulary force wa now efficient and if not whether they would agree to taka the subject into consideration with a view to render it so efficient as to make it unnecessary in cates of emergency to call either the military or the special con stable (Hear hear) It had been alleged that the formatitn of a police of this nature would be an encroach ment on their liberties but he held that instead of that being the rase it would be the means of giving them more freedom in their respective district than they at present enjoyed the tianquillity would he more perfect and the minds of those who dreaded any tumult would not be liable to be disturbed by too anxious fears He viewed the proposed measure in the light that there would be more aecu rity for both publle and private property and he did not hesitate to say that the project met witli hia most cordial approbation If they were to have a coustrbulary force at alt he did not think that it could be made too perfect and it appecred be the wish of Her government to render it perfect It waa a fact well known to all acquainted with populous places that whenever an intimation waa given of public meetings timid persons began naturally to inqaire whether a breach of the peace was not probable That was not only a satire upon tbe government but a satire upon themselves who resided in the districts foi surely when such a thing was dreaded they ought to have a force ready to protect them and be available the very moment rt wag wanted Hear When reduced to the necessity of cafltug in a specific remedy for every specific evil it was' impossible it could be to advantageous as if they had a paid lecturer to instruct the people in political khowledge The lecturer nut only ro attend to the instruction of the dis-t every town and village but also at timee to perambtt-(the neighbouring country particularly those part which not jonnrii the Chartist movement A ad likewise to ammend that such branches of the Northern Union or Workmg Men's Association as require speakers to at their meetings should apply to tlie council at New-the to obtain one or more Tlie committee aleo auggest row arid the old man answered I know who are you The person made no rep mid the old man in consequence went into the kitclren where he found the door open but no one there He went out into the farm yard and saw a man going before upon which Lean called to him why did you not atop and let me see your Tlie person ran directly off and he saw no more of him The old man then returned in and agreed with ilia wife to remove their money Irom tbe usual biding place after which they went to bed Oo tbe following morning Lean got up atiout halt past fire took bis breakfast and went to wotk at the mine leaving hi wife in bed Between nine and ten miner named John Oxford came and informed him his wile was very ill The old mmi immediately went home and found hi wife lying in tlie bed bleeding very much and be said to her My dear what is the matter with thee?" and ahe said am very The eld man in his evidence before the coroner said that he asked her if she hail uny recollection how she came so and the said Yes 1 heard the back door open and creak and I heard the breath of some person and soon after that the chamber door opened and I saw a man come in who hid his face and his back was toward me As toon aa lie came she said I received a mortal blow then he knocked me out of my senses When I came to' myself I waa out upon the The poor woman wap lying in a bed dose by the room door which opened towards the head ao tbat the murderer must have tracked into the room and struck her with a club a backhanded blow as her cheek bone was smashed He must then have uaed some sharp small inatrument as the lobe of her left ear was nearly cut off and a wound made across the face to the forehead There were also several stabs in tlie lower part of the face and neck ao that th wonder ia that she wa not killed instantaneously As it was she survived in a state of insensibility during the whole of Wednesday when ahe Letter from Truro dated Feb 2 SCOTLAND Muarxa aid Scicinx On the morning of Monday laat a dreadful attempt at murder which wilt ia mil probability result in the death of the ill-fated victim was perpetrated in the neighbourhood of Marybill near Kelvindock on the Cion of a married woman named Kennedy by her hus-d It would appear that Kennedy and his wife had separated and that for some time pact she had lived with her parent On Monday morning the husband called on hi wife and ptevaded on ber to take a walk with him While on the road lending toward Glasgow be pulled out a knife and stabbed her severely in the lower part of the-Irelly and other parts of the body The poor woman was lelt for dead weltering in her blood and immediately afterwards the assassin was observed to make for the canal into which lie plunged The hotly was recovered but life was extinct The poor woman was taktn home in a dreadful state and not tbe slightest hopes are entertained of her recovery Glatqcxc paper of 'Ihurtday last IRELAND Railways itr Ibiland A meeting took place in Dab- tin on the 1st inst on this subject tb Lord Mayor in the chair The following are the most important of the resolutions come to That safe expeditious and economical inodes of convey ance and intercourse are amongst the greatest public benefits which can be conferred on any country Raid which it is therefore the duty of every eovemmert by ail practical means to secure to all clas-es of its That tbe establishment ot railroads in Ireland on a great comprehensive plan would eminently calculated to extend to this portion of tha empire these important advantages and thereby materially to promote tta future improvement and That It appears to this meeting impossible that (tie establishment of any such comprehensive system of rail ways on principles calculated to extend its uriulneJtQ all part of the country to which railways are applicable can under existing circumstances be rffected by private capital and enterprise and that it consequently becomes the obvious duty of the government in order to secure to tbe people of this country advantages of such vast importance to take Ibis great national work into its own Lovx and Madness About a fortnight since we pub- lislied an account of the attempted murder near this city of a young woman on the night of ber fveddtng by a man named Fahy who had been attached to her and who gave way in the madness of disappointed affection to the suggestion of jealousy and revenge The yoffnc bride has entirely recovered from the desperate wo tub uifTmetf pen her Every effort had been made to trace Fahy but with out success and no one could ascertain whither he had fled On the morning of Sunday last some person belonging to the house had occasion to go into the uarn and there discovered tbe unfortunate man suspended near the spot where he had witnessed the destruction of his hope by the mar riage of one he was led io believe was destined for himself to a rival Life was entirely extract Kilkenny Journal Tux Last Fsicuasoa The following it An extract ftom Mr 0'CouiieU's speech at the Ciicus on tbe 30th ult Aa a beggar suing for alma he (Mr O'Connell) would entreat for justice as the humblest wretch supplicates he would supplicate for justice and his demands would be concluded with the prophecy refuse this justice and you shall bitterly lament when it is too late (Cheers) Let them look back to history In the emancipation petition in 1806 they offered to bind themselves by a law and by an oath not to interfere with the temporalities of the Protestant church they refused the offer and they were sorry for it now Thank God they refused it They said here are treacherous men who iu 1805 offered to be sworn offered a law not to touch the temporalities of the church and here they ate novv tearing her temporalities to pieces Loud cheers He admitted these Lets but he denied their inferences In 1805 when the offer was made they would not give the goods Suppose a man offered another 5 for some goods und it was refused and then when the goods were fallen in he market he should offer them for 6 hut the buyer would say he did not want the goods said tbe other here is treacherous tellow only a fortnight ago he offered me 5 aud now he won't give a (Loud laughter and cheers They offeied then aud were refused then they looked in each other's face they joined in the combined phalanx of the Catholic Association and hud goods enough of their own so would it be (Loud cheer Cohn Laws Mr Mnnsergli St George of Hesdfort county Galway has published an address to the agriculturists of that county strongly urging them to petition against any change in the corn laws McRPcn or Load ll the statements which have appeared in (he newspapers here relative to the arrest of a nuralier of persons charged witn being concerned in the assassination of (he Earl of Norbury are entirely destitute ot foundation Tbe persons who had Iwcn in custody on suspicion have been liberated Letter fom Dublin A few days ago Mrs Coyle wile ol a respectable citizen of Cork discharged a pistol loaded with swan drops at a female named Bridget Carthy ho I nd been persecuting the lady' husband with reminisce of a by-gone affection and application for relief Tlie charge entered the woman's neck aud the wound is considered dangerous Mr Coyle was taken into custody shortly after mid the magistrates refuted bad Limerick Chronicle MISCELLANEOUS What is Postsr A Inewer named Hare residing in Old Kent road was on Monday fined 200 1 by tlie Magistrates of Union Hall for having mixed copperas opium and other poisonous ingredients with beer By a singular coincidence tlie baer in question bad been expressly prepared for beer shop keeper named San One of the contemplated regulations under the new Police bill is that tbe Magistrates of the different police offices sliould sit on Sunday mornings from ten till the time appointed lor the commencement of divine service in order to examine all persona taken into custody on Setordoy nights on charges of dtunkeiiuesa disorderly conduct tic Sunday 7ines Ekrinsx or Pbosscutinc Yolno Persons Mr An-let ton lias given notice to tlie Court of Comaaon Council it be referred to the administrating justice committee to ascertain fitid report to the court the num-her and age of petsons not exceeding 17 years of age committed to the Gaol of Newgate in the year 1838 to be tried at tlie Central Criminal Court from what place committed with the natuie slid amount of their offences die result of their iriala or brtls ignored the sentence passed upon them end the amount of the costa and expense allowed to the prosecutoisjmd Some material alteiation with respect to young offenders has been long loudly called for this recommendation be embraced in the propoeed ad- to the people" lx Cosssrr said that before this important report aid be adopted a report which embraced In soma of its -amendations question of law which repaired the moat land searching inquiry he alluded to that paragraph It the sending of missionaries to th country a this might lead to a breach of tbe Convention set he did Ot say (bis positively but he suggested that all due means should be taken to prevent our falhng futo tht meshes of tlie law at to the acts of Parliament were vagus and indefi-Ohe in their construction they could eatilybo interpreted ta the wishes ef contending parties lie weald therefore dhrawgly advise them to give the report the moat serious Moderation in order that no bold could be taken of their Moseding by those who he believed were only waiting fior an opportunity to do so The Chaibsian said the reason for giving in the report so Mon was to comply with the wishes of meeting Arch recommended dispatch that the petition might be fipeafected for presentation as soon a possible but notwithstanding the necessity for haste lu lv agreed with tbe -msncation of Mr Cobbett that it should before adoption he raid before a competent person for adrice lu accordance with these suggestions it waa moved as an aaaetvdment by Mr Frost antf seconded by Us Brough Mat this report be farther considered Mr HtrnvsivcroN md he hsd looketL whh tboBCWSeet tare through the aa of Parliament tended to Ud MCoafif5 sos find in a single clause that could be crtfetrtadso seta hem sending missionaries through the eotmtry lac purpose of disseminating political miens (too He Awwever (ally agreed with the caution of Mr Cobbett as Mono of the jodges have decided acu ef Parliament in Mr UsossaatMON mid that in conslJeratiaa of the opini Opreesed lie sliould withdraw the resolutioa tad tb ton give the committee an opportunity of re-eooaidering the sepoe Resolution withdrawn and amendment cached Mr Richardson complained that tbe attendance oa the soaaamittees was any thing hut punctual At the appointed Re of meeting namely ten o'clock Dr Ttyler Mr -Fletcher and bimielt were theealy paraoncpNceat (Hear ear Tbe eommittee appointed to draw up regulatioa a to -AM manner in which tbe sentiments of membace of Parlia-aaat might be best ascertained requested tbat farther time -fee allowed before they bring in their report Allowed Dr Tatlos moved a resolution which he said was of argent necessity The great number of nolle of motion dhowed how important it was that they should regulate fiheiv time nil regard to the public imerest in the moeteco-oomical way possible His object was tint the personal Mnventenre of the members but tbe interest of their Matiluents us that alone ought to be considered be that all would agree with him in the propriety of the sent resolution that Saturday be appointed orholiy for the ItHig of committees and that the secretary be empowered a hire a room tor tlie -pecusl use of the committee Mr Butllie C'baic seconded it After some discussion as to whether it would Mt be setter to I ave two days lor that purpose inctead of one the resolution was pa-eu Mr Csano observed thot as cirrumttanc might arise ch would stamp the meeting of the Conveation with whilst in labour tbe wera being iu those article matter of pairs of that there were the one made stocking which afford to make Saxony were the made by country Tlie mad enough ruin they a it the poor people when the meeting alter next A RisrscTAHLg Francis we at Marlborough street It be had on condition a and died inf I testimonial metal estimated to this-tribute tbe hands of gfart worthy expectation Lirx in few days ago pariah of St something named Mary ef distress in to the by the young while iu the Arms a gentleman when in to his the situation was Birmingham first night of drug had to her awaking in master and tlie following aa not to be effected her being among she result of her ceiving it THE METROPOLIS We understand Lord John Russell lia appointed Mr Wedgwood the ex-police magistrate registrar of hackney earrtages Ministerial Paper Tai Duct or WsLunoTOtt'a Oaann Banqcst On Monday evening Ilia Grace the Duke of Wellington gave a sumptuous banquet at Apeley House to upward ol forty members of tbe House of Peers Amti-Cosm Law Dclsgatm A meeting of the persons who are at piesent to Loudon as delegate from the provinces with a view to the adoption of auch measures aa may leaJ to the repeal of the corn laws during tbe present session ef Parliament was held on Wednesday at Brown' Hotel Palace-yard Mr Smith presided Dr Bowring as chairman ol the eommittee stated that that body had adopted a resolution to be circuited throughout the commercial community inviting the member thereof to cooperate with the delegate and to petition Parliament for tlie total und immediate repeal of the com laws He then announced that series of topic connected with the questions which were to be so circulated were under tb consideration of the aub committee and wossld bo laid before the mealing of delegates to-morrow in a properly condensed form tbat tlia question themselves should be circulated throughout the different agricultural and asnMifactotuig district of the country that the aub committee after having had a communication with Mr Joseph Parke on tbe sub ject had ultimately appointed that gentleman to be the Parliamentary agent to the body of delegates and that they had nominated Mr Austin and Mr Kusbton iun to be their Parliamentary counsel A long discussion then ensued originating with the chairman followed by Mr Greig of Manchester the mayor of Stockport Air Ashworth of Bolton Mr Kawson of Nottingham Mr Johnson of Glaigow Mr Ewart Mr Weir of Glasgow Mr Sturge of Bitmingham Mr Finch of Walsall and Mr Coppock of Stockport in the course of which the statement which bad been made by Mr Wood (tbe president of the Chamber of Commerce at Manchester) in bis speech as seconder of the address to the throne were commented upon and deprecated in the strongest language It was contended by the delegates that far from the iacreaea in tbe exportation of the raw material being a proof of the increase of trade in this country it was an evirisocn of the fact that there was more (ban a corresponding diminution in the exportation of British manufactured good It was abo asserted tbat if Mr Wood had fairly given utterance to tbe sentiments anti opinions of tbe Chamber of Commerce at Manchester of which it was contended that he had the previous night proved himself to be a mast unworthy member bis statement would have borne a very different complexion Indeed the exhibition ol tbat gentleman th delegates said was of a nature which colled for par ticular notice by tbe manufacturers of Manchesttr as well at by his own constituent at Kendal It waa likewise staled that the manufacturers of England and Scotland were daily losing their trade in Indio China America the West Indies Germany Sweden tic hr and that Saxony they were being beaten In tb article of chief ingredient in ail manufactures they compelled rapidly to give way to the Americans in which the raw material was tbe leading importance In the course of the afternoon some stockings were produced by Mr Rawaon wbo amid amongst them two pairs of lit same quality in England the oilier in Saxonjr The bad been made in England he could not under 29 per dozen pairs but those from sold at 12s 3d The whole of these manufactures delegates were called oa to remember were machinery which had been exported from thi delegate also said that unless they wer to run boadlong into condition of absolute should be compelled to reduce tbe wage distressing would be for them to adopt such a course of whom they employed and at a moment too piice of bread was at to great height The some further conversation adjourned until Tines of 1 hurtday Mr Jones Burdett tbe nephew of Sir believe was on Saturday fined five shillings street Police Office for being drunk in the appeared that in addition to being drunk him-self given a iioor wretch of a a bottle of gin he should drink th entire of it The man did of apoplexy in eonaaquenee irurow Grave CTiCUor of the Ex-rdkeuHv presented to dm dry committee for rait to the Duke of Wollinrton home broote I STOf to be used ietta construction of Thu-original subscription of 90001 added amounts to tbe tuna of 106201 which in the first sculptor of the sge must secure a work of the city of London the Duke and the ar- At Lambeth Street police office a Mr Rooke the relieving overseer of the George-in-tbe East attended in order tbat might he done for the relief of a young woman Kichner and her infant wbo wer in state the parish The circumstance detailed magistrates on a former application to them woman were the She stated that service of Mr Bull proprietor of tbe Inn Holborn-bridge as chambermaid who was in the habit of stopping there town offered her a situation aa assistant housekeeper in the vicinity of Birmingham Considering offer an advantageous one and a her then a laborious one she accepted it and after a notice to her then master the proceeded to to commence her new engagement On the her being there she declared that some stupi-tying been administered to her in her coffee previous going to bed with the housekeeper and on her the course of the night she discovered her not her former companion by her aide On and several talitequenl day site was so in able to get up cr she would as she say have escape in some sort of way from the house but strangers and her ruin having been accomplished consented to stop Her pregnancy being the intercourse with her master the latter on per started hei off to town with 5 1 to pay her expenses and desiring her to take a lodging in some part of the metropolis until after her confinement and (hat he would supply her with the means Hia aupplise were however so scanty that the had frequently write and in the last letter she received bora him he declared that tlie sovereign which it contained would be tlie last farthing which lie would ever send her and therefore that the mutt shift for herself after that time On opening the letter the could find no sovereign and on making application at the Post Office she was told that nothing what ever was known of tb money that no sovereign could have been put into the letter at all el-e it mutt bar found in it She liad written to Btriuingbat three timet since stating her extreme distress tioning the fact of her not receiving the toverfcfl attention appeared to have been paid to the romptirmr lions ami the consequence wa that after parttuff With almost everything she had alie wa reduced to tbe Most dire distress In reply to the questions of the magistrates a to the character of the housekeeper as sh called her the applicant said tlie was a person who had lived tor some years with her master on terms of intimacy and who also had trad one or two children by him She further stated tbat Mr Le Count het late master besides a handsome private property and hit half-pay at an officer in tbe Royal Navy held a situation of 600 a-year on the Birmingham Rail way and as far as tbe understood was without fsmily or re latiout Mr liooke the relieving officar to whom the applicant had previously ramie lier statement admitted that tbarase was one of great hardship on the poor ghl hut according to tlie present regulation he conla not take more on him self than merely dealing with it in the otdinary way I( was arranged that the reputed faiher of the child should be written to and that on a future day the case should he again mentioned to the magistrates PROVINCIAL Thi lavs Muanea at NtwcAWLa We have abetained from giving currency to rumours manv of them without foundation in regard to the murder at the Saviisgt' Batik but as the period of the assizes diaws near the public are naturally anxious to lie made acquainted with any new facts which iniy tend to throw light upon the mysterious affair Several witnesses have been examined by the solicitor for the urosecuijuii aud at onetime It was supposed that evidence had been procured of Bolam's having been teen in company with another person on the the Arcade bin tlie witnesses on beiag introducHo lam in prison were unable to identity Mm though thei previous description of general appeManoe bad raised a presumption that they would be able is fe One of MtfVy Wetkev's companions who ha ale beea sgaturaeil Hires that in ah interview which took pfedehetweeii them shortly after th arardev Mary Walker aui4he bed Mssted washing th stMh from Boiatu ctethsa Mary Walker MstMM 1 1 firing hdM roaseftation with this wifasw at the tar dearie toriag made the statement We uMlratahil fetaa aprisnt aearsa (hat on unu in appearance when alone at Mt rfolantouV ft hsfriAhrtasd that estaw tapotfMU mrdicai Wfrwhl sIJ riMMMgtata iStalrwWiefeafidKX vered will be adduced on the trial ThisraiadwtaStady between sixty and seventy witnesses to ensaine ao that the trial will last ooaiMarabl time Mary Walker ha beea THE QUEEN AND THE BEGGARMAN A SEtV ASD TRUE BALLAD There was a jolly beggsiman A-begging oft had beea And at last be went a-begging To the pretty little With a whack row do dew daw fat do del de dee Ob he beg for prmUee Nor be wouldn't beg for meal But lie begged for scraps of freedom Fer himself and all hi With a whack he So off he went with this intent Aud with him went a throng tee And when he reached her palace get He rapped both leud and loaf AVith a ivhach he The Queen- engaged her porters state Bat that was aU a bam She wa only lilting tete-a-tete Along with her pet At their crack See So at the gate he had te wait Himself sod all the boy But until I see says be Or Sewl make aeteeo With a he Another message then was Her at prayers But th noise increasing still she WeOt To see tbe cense up stain Of their whack he She trembling there with doe Mi ltd feats To tec this begging Cries They'll puli this house about ear ear? Ob dear! wbat (hall I do With their he Says Lamb quit pat Welt manage that If you'll do aa I warn To give their chief both breed and beef And teed the rest with blarney A nd he Bat when they saw her pretty eyes With chrert and wbiilaloo They threw their canteens to th skits And that soon brought her With a whack he This Changed tier mind and growing kind She says I'll go saluta Say her men of war Twere better for To let us go aad I And their wh But says Lamb and Ce You Bead net fe Eur we'll go pariiamentiag To top tbeir voire witli votes aad ooto Aod save you from consenting To their whack" Still the boys without would bawl sad shoot And liked to raise a riot Till mighty Dan would wave his hood Aud tell them to keep With a whack rc So tn treat between the crowd aad Queen heir chief soon gained admission And with scrapes and bows aod loyal VOWS Tliere bands her hit petition With a whack he To refas me aod thebe boy sritheat I'm sure not so You're the world's darling without You're a diamond of jewel I With a whack he Sare yon'rc far too grand for aay (You ace he wished to plea 11 Ay ereo for Brian Bouroo himself Or ouid Nebuchandcsor WKb a he WU Indeed grant you all yen wont so modest and engagleg Bet then you see tween yeu and me Their lordhlp would be raging With their whack he And tlie bishops toe that holy crew Though (ratting my translation If 1 should grant you what you want Would shut me from Iu their black tkc And you must admit it is not fit treat with a If yon says Dan adopt By plan You must a worse and With a whack he For to tell you plain we ll not again A-begging here be seen If you won't consent parliassent Ourselves in College With a whack" I ronst get my Cabinet To meet iu So there we leave the whole conclave To mystify the nntiou With their clack Ac Pa rata ten Tail't Magazine far February Old haU GLEANINGS Domsstic Serves in On one occnaion says Mr Vetiahlee when three parti chanced to arrive here to dine and spend a day or two unannounced beforehand though the guests themselves amounted only to five or six they brought with them ten servants and sixteen carriage-horses A single man seldom moves- with lest than two servants and four horw aud the Russian country-house has no neighbouring inn to which thn latter Bay be inhospitably consigned Among ipur other guests were lady and geii'lcmun with a name my difficult to pronounce and which I mil therefore translate into literal English and call them Mr and Mrs Longfield On taking leave they pressed ns much to pay them a visit which We accordingly did tire following week tending a messenger a lay beforehand to announce our intention As the distance whs long wc -et off about eleven end traversed an open country tor the most part over unmade roads like the track across uu English common Irv about two hours we descended very steep hill tft tlie foot of which flowed (lie Volga which is here ninety miles fronr-the source and already a fine stream shout two hundred yards wide with a rapid current deep and clear it run in narrow valley which it appears to ive worn for ilself through tbe surrounding him crossed the celebrated river on a Hunting bridge and after ascending the Steep hit) on its further bank n-d gaining the level country we soon found ourselves at the place ot otrr destination which stands on tine elevated spot over th Volga The windows were however turned sway from the river pod presented no vietv but that of a format ohl- fashioned garden filled with lint trees closely trimmed and planted in straight lines on each side of tlie walks After going round the garden we rei urned to the house where we founds dejeuner set out in the drawing room consisting of csviare cheese fee and of course liqueurs Plus was tasted and dipner immediately announced it ling now three In the middle of dinner some English tattled porter was banded round and considerohle amusement was excited by my declining the offered improvement of lemon and pounded sugar which tlie Russ an often drink with porter and which our kind host had supposed indispensable to an Englishman After dinner we took short walk and on our return found a dessert of fruit laid out in a pretty balcony filled with flowers upon which the drawing-room windows opened This was follow ed by music and singing till at half-past six tea made its appearance accompanied by ices snd immediately afterwards we took our departure and got back tn Kra-noe to supper at ten o'clock having paid a visit five hours to accomplish which we bad travelled uearly fifty miles with the same boraa over indifferent roads A week ago we were invited to village fete shout fourteen miles hence which was given by a relation of 's in honour of his lady's Jour de nous that is the dsv of the saint after whom she It called A Russian never has more than one Cbristiin name which Bust always be that of a sniut but according to tbe Gresk Calendar tbete are three hundred and sixty fire saints' days in Clie year sad few saints have an exclusive day to themselvci so that there i no lack of choice We reached Troitsk about one and found ia front of the bouse a long row of tables at which all the peasants with their wives and children had just finished dining they tad been well provided with beer followed by a glass or two of spirits to each 1 and they wer so assembled round tbe door of tbe singing with all tbiflr might On tbe forgo bosket Ml of rfeferhread bis guests worn throwing to everj a dispassionate manner nor would the people feel that perfect security both as to Ufa and property which would be felt when they knew that there existed a fore sufficient to protect them from all danger HisfStrP i'teetweod') attention was called to th subject at a m- eting in London on the occasion when his late Majesty went to the city A pain plnci ab -nr hat period written which plainly showed the advantage 9i Would accrue to this country by the establishment of wha might be termed a national guard of their own so that (be people might be protected from tyranny wltetherariting from despotism or anarchy 'Hear) He wotaMgefer (hem to thai excellent atai of the Loudon feflttvSfcb and was iu bad amonp-iJiT people Tbe opinions of tbe people however jfc respect bad undergone a great change and if any orilriould go into the poorest district in London at he bail done they would invariably find that the poorer the mag the more ready was he to call in the aid ol tha police in dHei of oppression Those who would en-deavour to ascertain the opinions of the inhabitant of tlie metropolis aa to the sSciency of tb police fores would find that it wa ere uhlversally approved of and tbe lower they descended iu tbe scale of society the more cordial they would find He would not enter farther into the subject but to state that he had ventuied to draw up two resolutionvYbr the approval or rejection of the meeting and in so doing ke had endeavoured to keep them clear of any tiring hut swatter of fact Tire resolution lie considered answered luilj the letter received from Lord John Russell by the 'lord lieutenant The first resolution stated what might lie the opinion of Uie magistrates and the other the grswids upon which the opinions were formed The first resolutria was That it is the opinion of the ma gistrates of thisxetwty here assembled that a more effici ent and well rsgrtfited constabulary system would add to the uiiinterrupteff enjoyment of the liberty of the subject at well as to ih(i and protection of persons ami The second was That this meeting invite the attention ol the public to the advantages derived by all classes in Loudon and the surrounding districts from th police system tliere established in confirmation of their opinion Ruth resolutions were carried Musdik A dreadful murder was committed on Satur day evening last at OtterdW Kent A small farmer and hit wife named Jenkins nemg 'desirous of spending th evening at a wed ding party had enghged Hannah Giles the wife of a lat-catcher who lived about a qnarter of a mile distant to take care of their four children in their absence It was arranged that Mr Giles was to come at tea time and the children the eldest of whom about thirteen or fourteen years of age altar they had in vain waited for her to come and make their tea sent one of the younger ones about nine or trti years of age to see why khe did dot come lie shortly returned much frightened saying that he had aceo romp person lying on the know in the road with a light Mil smoking a pipe This alarmed the children so much that they locked themselves in and remained so till tlie return of their parents at about one or tw In Die learning Mr Jenkins and his wife then went towards Ml cottage and saw the body of the unfortunate woman lying ta the snow which was lionibly stained with blood from a (hot wound in her breast and a dreadful gash in bar throat which was severed from ear to ear Her ciothea had been partly burned from her body having appatently been ignited by tbe shot of pistol winch was lying betide her together with a razor sheath Jenkins alarmed the few persons who lived neur the spot and proceeded to look for her husband before they removed the body In two hours tie returned from Charing much ia liquor Tlie body wav then removed to a bakehouse which belonged to the cottage of the deceased in common with others The spot around where the body was found being closely examined it waa found that the needlework winch tit unfortunate woman bad taken with her and also her shawl were a tew steps neater the house of Mr Jenkins than the spot where tn body was found a if she had at tempted to return after Having been shot Footmarks were tiaeed in the snow i (trough tbe fields by a circuitous route towards Leiiham lit one place the person tracked termed to have fallen on hit liantks end knees in getting through the gap of a hedge and iMBfes of blood were (raced on the show where his left hand find fallen Tlie pistol was identified by a blacksmith as one which he tad sold about a fortnight before to Sntrmel Seagus who tad been living in the adjoining parish of Staleslirid and who had been staying with tbe deceased in (lie absence of her husband from ten o'clock till twelve on the day before the murder when he went toward home He had been seen casting bullets a few days previously aad look out tbe above mentioned pistol at two He was afterwards seen at Charing in the course of the afternoon an begged a draught ot cold water from a person tliere who gave him some cold tea which he drank and departed Sengut is a widower with two children and his intimacy with the unfortunate ilsceased I md been the subject of rtucH remark amongst the neigh-hours The deceased was the mother of four Maiditone Gmrtie of Tk today A horrible murder has Men committed during the past week at a small vilfaf Sll Trevarth in the parish of Gwennsp near Hedrutb on an old woman aged 66 the wife of Jeaae Ln a mingr and small farmer Old Lean its hard workinff careful old man and his wife was a penurious woman and acted as parser with respect to her earning In the oeorse of the many year that they had been monied the aid people had between them contrived to amass a coastdsrable turn end It is supposed tbe wfeLknowu circumstances of iu being in the house had excited tbe cupidity of fiOfne one Intimately ecqugipted with tbe premises It Mpegnthat on Temday eVtalhg last tbe old man wbo hadfoeOW attending Mr dMq wept in door and fotadti wife and riotfetar vijfe her taking seme tea Has riowa pofebooa there many mhtotea before ho MardOfcpJhrtb door olllrtkitohraoptned mK Ptvtotf niiicd 0 that foe MfimrtaC Mlrwhrther it Cm yw Mfi a bora to-mor- a force ready to act' upon an emergency in el that and ho oallod-ook in low ton of i or a boy a be importance uil a it was both right and Decenary for tb satisfaction of the constituency that all possible pub-should he given to their proceedings he would introduce a motiou to the following That each delegate fee allowed to iue an order foe the admission of one stranger tach day to be i witness of their proceedings After sotre little discussion at to the propriety of adnltt-r tag fedisw a member having observed that by adopting such court they would show themselves to be a more polite than another lie could name ami allusion having also heenlsiade to lie important services that had been rendered bodies of labe on mtny occasions th moligu wa car died it being understood i Imt tlie term was not An te recs'ved in a limited reuse Hie remainder ut the time of the Hireling wet occupied br pan ng reswlulions incident to the aliov motion and to appointing of officer It wa also beadlved that tbe -majority of each committee be considered qaofMB for con-sfciwiog its sffinrs of such committee I Tbe meeting then dissolved NEWS OF THE WEEK FOREIGN AND COLONIAL Oae of the daughters of Julien a retired notary dsemg at Jonzsc in the Cerente Inferteure having formed attachment to a young man applied to her parents for their consent to a mariiage This and Madame Julien abated The infatuated girl finding their reaieteace ia operable formed the unnatural detiga of relieving herself deem their controul by poisoning them aud for this purpose tew days back infused a strong dose of aisciiic into some Mp prepare I tor their dinner by herself in tbe absence of her sister with whom alternately the perfirmCd the task of oOekieg the family dinner anil Madam Jaltan were forth rn ill immediately after partaking of the meal and physician called in at once pronounced them to have peiseood The mother died soon alici wards imploring -She magi traits have mercy on her child whoa guilt waa preaed aud the condition WA deemed Cdym'i JifiMenger A journeyman shoemaker at -Marseille megming hens rank seme night ago was ao aeverdly footuresl hp-L eif seme night ago was ao severely feotured I that ha determined to make away wul fiimseli wit imbed frpm with bit totting knife This Iti cataful spuusRwyencbgd (row him Afsor making oilier fruitier attempts he prctMidfd to be specified and took his child In his arms wwle the good attention was thus diverted from -WM fee put the wHi guy of drtw the MtaMb jhey to a inf the drunkarj sUt ur wine bottles two of whir HiriryjMyhtMpt leg i Smith rif cargoes oT gram WoUKTOe Tdvr MTTMAMigtely is scarcity here any more limn la tny otl-sr part he country Latter from ComMamtinopU QaeasAA Hmtital Fa Ehjlrisi and Surgeon ot Ik Pstlsnts of tUo week Dr Mala' and Mr Hodgson Visitor Mr Plerry and Mr Cadbury In-patient admitted 2S at I ii patient dUsksrgod 99 1 oat SC RenMiuing la tk bans HI "mTt OF Ttrtt WORKHOUSE PF TO rjMfRUAEY 7 I gtadfed.