... It is gratifying to perceive that the condition of the Irish poor is now becoming a subject of such general and marked attention as to promise the speedy adoption of some system of amelioration, some legal provision for the millions of our fellow-subjects, half starved and destitute in a land of ferti- lity and abundance This is not only a question to which the minds of public men are directed ...

... (Sittings in Banco at Westminster.) MITCHELL V. JENKINS. This was an action brought against the defendant for having arrested the plaintiff for a larger sum than was really due. The defendant arrested the plaintiff for £45, for tithes, and it appeared that, in giving the bailiff instructions for the arrest, he had de- sired that, if Mitchell was prepared to pay a sum of rather more than £28, ...

... The frequenters of the Tribunal of Correctional Police were highly amused by the following ludicrous case. At Paris there are two rival exhibitions of industrious fleas. The Signor Ber- tholetto for a long time exercised this singular branch of industry, to the great satisfaction of connoisseurs, when another Signor, named Maestro, contrived to creep into the cabinet of the great naturalist, ...

... Some of the following brief accounts of the closing scenes of men of genius may tend to show how far a predominant passion, or favourite pursuit, may influence the mind even at the latest hour of life. In nearly every instance, the ruling passion strong in death, is found to be displayed. Rousseau, when dying, ordered his attendants to place him before the window, that he might once more ...

... TRUE STORY. Shewing, as in the case of John Gilpin, how the parties went farther than they intended, and came safe home again. Early in the last month, the better half of a farmer, re- siding not a hundred miles from Wickwar, in Gloucestershire, left home with her two blooming daughters for the purpose of taking a peep at the raree-shows at Bristol fair, and of making sun- dry purchases. In ...

... The following letter has been received by Robert Williams, Esq., in reply to the address of the inhabitants of Monmouth to the Rev. J. E. Tyler, inserted in our paper of the 2d instant. Would that such a reciprocity of kindly feeling between the clergy and the people weie more general!— 24, Bc-dfoTfl Square, Nov. 7th, 1833. My dear Sir,-You will easily believe me when I assure you that, on the ...

... BANKRUPTS.—Joseph Glover, London, commission agent.— John Edmund Richard Cracknell, Acorn-yard, Limehouse, and Wade s-terrace, East India-road, Poplar, engineer.—John Davis, Fleet-street, upholsterer.—Thos. Harcourt, Great Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, brass founder.—John Acton Boden, Drury-lane, needle manufacturer.—John Everard Farr, Baldock, Hertford- shire, carpenter. John Edward Collingwood ...

... IMPORTANT DECISION RESPECTING BONDS.—On Tues- day, in the bankruptcy court, Mr. Danford appeared to prove a debt for £2000, against the estate of Mr. W. Croggan, artificial stone and scagliola manufacturer. The solicitor to the assignees said, the claimant became Mr. Croggan's partner in 1830, and brought £3000 into the concern; in two years the partnership was dissolved, being unprofitable, ...

... SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. ASSESSED TAXES. [The late resistance made to the payment of the Assessed Taxes in London has provoked the amplest discussion in the Metropolitan Press. The Times, as the chief Government organ, argues the case with its wonted zeal and talent. It denounces fiercely, but seeks rather to attribute that to a partial, which it ought to know, springs from a general feeling of ...

... MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE. Monday, Nov. 25.—Our supplies have been, since this day se'nnight, of English and Scotch wheat, English malt, beans, and flour, English mustard seed, Scotch oats, and foreign linseed and rapeseed, moderately good of English barley gre&t; of English and Irish oats and peas, Irish and foreign wheat, Scotch and Irish flour, and, with above exception, seeds, from ...

... What is to become of the sons and the daughters ? No man likes that his son should fall, or his daughter marry, into a circle much inferior to his own especially in England, where this sort of degradation, like absolute poverty, is disgraceful if not criminal. Every Englishman of property, moreover, likes that his eldest son should inherit nearly the whole of his property. What then, when ...

... There are great doubts whether ministers will give up the As- sessed Taxes. The evil genius of the government is for making a stand, as it is called, against the demands of the people. Those who desire the downfall of the ministry can wish nothing more to the purpose than that they may attempt the stand advocated by Mr. Stanley. Even now, however, we repeat our often expressed opinion, that ...