... 1? ?? SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1841. THE GOVERNMENT MOVEMENT ABOUT IMPORT DUTIES TO MAKE SUGAR, * COFFEE, &c. &c. CHEAPER.. t There has been a good deal of stir in different - parts of the country, at public meetings, concern- T ing this movement, which is given out to be made f this Session. If it be carried, doubtless it will be c better, because articles of daily consumption t amongst the millions ...

... | I ~ . ?? I was crossing the Pent Neuf at the moment when a porter belonging to the bank of France, pretty well tired Y of the weight lie carried (it was a bag containing nine 0 thousand francs in silver), stopped to rest himself by e leaning against-tthe parapet wall of the bridge; but at the moment that he did so, his valuable load, either from 1 awkwardness or carelessness slipped out of ...

... A man enterede the arena of the Rajah of Coorg, 1 i nedi only vith a Coorg knife, and clothed in short ur :raoisers, which barely covered his hips, and ex- , ,enaleI half way down his thighs. Thle instrument tm huliiclh lhe wielded in his right hand, was a heavy m ' lase, sornething like the coulter of a plough, about na. .ec feet long, and hrill three inclhes wide, gradually an liminishing ...

... THE ODD FELLOW'S BUDGET, EPIGRAM ON MTSS ANNE DREAD. 'Toast any girl but her,' said Ned, With every other flutter- I'll be content with Annie Bread, But won't have any but her.' A MODEST REQaEST.-' Live and let live,' as the criminal said to the -hangman. REPARTEE OF A LoMBARDY LASS.-A girl of Lombardy, running after her she-ass, which was in haste to get up to her foal, passed a gentleman on ...

... MR. BENTJAMIN BOUNCE; ORTHEWIGHT WITH WHISitERS. BY THOMAS TWENDIE, ESQ. d I Allow me most kind, gentle, and inoffensive reader, to II introduce you to my inestimable friend, Mr. Benjamin c Bounce: nay, be not afraid, you may go still nearer, Mr. o Bounce, notwithstanding his name, will not bite. He may a look as formidable as a unicorn, but I do assure you lhe is a as gentle as a toothless ...

... ENERGETIC MODE:OF REASONING, In the latter part of 1827, when the Catilunian insur- rection in farour of the Carlists took place, and when fifty thousand men in arms threatened the province with anarcby and Barcelona with capture, the conde .de Espana repre- sented to the king the necessity of his appearing in Catalunia; and after his majesty had arrived, be, by the advice of the: conde, ...

... ' The way of it was this,' resumed O'Shaughnessy; ' my father, who, for reasons registered in the King's Bench, 3fspent a great many years of his life in that part of Ireland geographically known as ?? west of the law, was tobliged, for certain reasons of family, too come up to Dub. [ li. ha, fe procer leastto do with due caution; twotruaty [ servants fomed an advanced guards. and patrolled ...

... vr E B L IT EJ P A R LO U R; 9,1' rI' COPRESl'ONDENCe. I ! I a nkvelling, just after we had left Mr. Iletbering. 7i t!1.il '1 nioorable retirement over the water, and h12d .b :idcr'?d upon the deteriorated aspect of the Bench- ?? ile so employed, ruminated upon the different .:s Cf i c to -which diftereut men have bad to attribute ,i met in the above place-we were making our th e inner lodlge ...

... ?? 1. A STORY OF MIRABEAU. The worst enemy of Alirabeau was his father ; it was to him that the son was indebted for his abduction from Holland and his captivity at Vincennes ; a truce was at length established between them, of which it was one of the conditions that AMirabeau should confine himself to the province of Limousin ; and, in pursuance of this agree- ment, he took up his residence ...

... m I f 7 ar m - - : 1 1;a- l I i-T t' l ?? 1EoOPRE. -.Tisstrange with: how little-notice, god1ad1rinif7 epti *sman ~may live anddie, in LOidn eaaeso sympdityik.thobrost any ?? is s-masttr -of-interest to! n onesayemdh a not be said to be forgotten when he dies ?? eot bexedihim when hewas alive., There isay'ery Alulimro0ps ic.asaf'eop a emthis groat inetropolis who0 Ream not to Qr. !, .Urkedby ...

... ODZb P2ELLOW'S BUDGET. STANDAnD'MiErr.-Fletcher, Bishop of lNisanis, was the ?? a tallow-chauldler. A proud duke once endeavoured to mortify the prelate, by saying att thelevethat he smelt of tallovr, towhihb the ether replied, f My lord, I am the, son of ach'nlleri,'tis true, and if, you leidsip haid been thbhsaine', iy would have remainseld ,tail c 8 tbe daya of your hjf.& all ~I~ND AND EOOT ...

... INDEPENDENT OlVtU~U OrF ODn PELLO WS. Y CELRIIIRATION OF, ,Ta, 4NNIVERSARY OF Tl WELLrU13TO D JdOD0N, NO. I, OF THB MAN- , UXSTZr BSTY. It On Mozdsy,.Septeanber 23, the officers and brethre: L bf. the above! lodge met togethat to celebrate their anin- e verfiey; oR iohnocelasion they partook of an excellei c di Rger, ?? Liietayb which wns served up i. . iu .ssooastomed- stylbeadt bad due ...