... be traced. It is to a like source, and open to a similar remedy, that the poverty and physical misery of the really valuable industrial classes of this country claimeth their origin. It is to this cause many, very many, if not all, the crimes, the immorality, dishonesty, suicide, and murder, may be assigned. It is there, here, that society oweth its grumbling, its discontent, its turbulence; ...

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... never ask to see her again : for their meeting in the prison had already been torturing beyond endurance. I visited him in his cell two days before the time appointed for his execution. He was silent for many minutes after 1 entered, and I did not attempt to rouse him. At length, with a voice quivering under an effort to be com posed, he said Although, Mr Seville, Ido not request (I was going ...

... have reached the fearful magnitude which they have now atttained. To the reality of these evils the people are getting pretty generally awakened ; great” numbers are now perfectly sensible of the source from whence their sufferings proceed They have fixed, too, on the only certain—the only infallible remedy. Nothing appears to divert them from the primary—the grand object of their many the ...

... the corner of London Street. He published the first edition of Rodgers’ poems, and by his interest with respectable editors of newspapers and periodicals, procured many of the flashy notices, criticisms, and puffs, that then appeared in the press, extolling the patriotic, humorous, and melting poetical effusions of our respected Bridgeton bard, and laid the foundation of his honourable fame. ...

... let us whisper a quiet word in their ear, they could easily command custom. Borrowers would soon appear in abundance, and ■‘even the working classes could say their employers, We have no faith in such and such banker’s bills, but if you present us with notes of the Working Men's Bank, will instantly accept of them.” This would soon yield double profit, compared with the paltry interest now ...

... them, layeth claim to wit” but impudence. Where the English are respectful and independent, the Caledonians, cautious and distant, you find the Irish intrusive and impertinent; unless you are known to be powerful and wealthy, when the conduct or bearing of the peasantry —I speak of the peasantry only—is then modified into the most abject servility. Such, alas! is 100 true a picture of ...

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... Experience, in all ages, and in all countries, has demon- strated, that it is impossible to control nature in her dis- tribution of mental powers. She gives them as she pleases. Whatever is the rule by whichshe, apparently to us, scatters them among mankind, that rule remains secret to man. It would be as ridiculous to attempt to fix the hereditary- ship of human beauty, as of wisdom. Whatever ...

... The Rev. Rowland Hill travelling alone, was once accosted by a footpad, who, the agitation of his voice and manner, appeared to be young in his profession. ‘After delivering to the man his money and his watch, curiosity prompted him to question him on the motives which had urged him to so desperate a course. The man candidly confessed, that being out of emp'oyment, with a wife and children who ...

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