... to put a stop to Sunday traffic on rivers and canals through- out the kingdom~l. He menltion.led that a petition from 300 boatmen had produced a powverful effect in the House of Lords; that Lord Nermauhy had promnised the appoir.t- Ment of a Couomitteo ...

... POETRY. -_ t THE BOATMEN'S SONG. I (Dedicated to Ie iaMll Clubs, by threir cebdie ...

... stray O'er.Clo'1delli's wa'Ve with f(,nd delay; Now on the rising gale swell high And now in faitijiar niurmitrs die, The boatmen on Nilt's gentle sireIil Tuhalgli~tens in lte pale moon's-beams, 'Suspend their dasbing oars to hear *The holy anthem, lotd ...

... put your horse into a boat without beating him. The simple mode was to fasten a rope to one of the fore legs, and the two boatmen dragging at it, till it was lifted up in the attitude of King Charles's steed at Charing Cross, and until it became an im ...

... of the rope by both hands-it was the clutch Of death; Bessy had her arms round her father's neck; both were le3seless. The boatmen carried them up to the cottage, and the nUal methods of recovery were resorted to with success. Still we baIl to lament the ...