A Hundred Years Ago
Lord Howick, on Tuesday, introduced his Bill for facilitating settlements in His Majesty's Foreign Possessions. His object was to enable the labouring poor to find that elnployment in the Colonies which they could not procure in the Mother Country. A great deficiency of employment exists in proportion to the numerical amount of the labouring population.
STOCK EXCHANGE.
The calm of last week has been succeeded by very stormy weather, and severe losses to the adventurous Bulls, who then bought Stock at and above _80. The gloomy aspect of affairs in France, with the fall of the funds in Paris, the spread of insurrection to Italy, and other circumstances abroad, combined with our unsettled condition at home—these have all operated most unfavourably for the stock- holder and we have now to report on the whole a fall of 21- per cent: below the average prices of last week.
THE OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.
The trials at this sessions, which terminated on Thursday, have offered nothing of passing or permanent interest. On Thursday sentence of death was passed on twenty-four individuals for house- breaking and stealing, on one for burglary, and on two females for coining. This is the perfection-of-reason system—to frighten men from the commission of crimes by sentences which are never meant to be carried into execution. Sparrows are too cunning to be frightened from-their purpose by a pole with an old hat on the top of it : but any scare is deemed sufficient for Englishmen.
PkTiTIONS PRESENTE D DURING THE WEEK.
Duelling.—For the adoption of measures to prevent.
THE DUKE OP WELLINGTON.
Last Saturday afternoon, as the Duke of Wellington was riding on horseback in Oxford Street, the horse stumbled, threw His Grace with great violence on the ground, and then fell upon him. Fortunately, though the accident looked very alarming, the Duke was not in the slightest degree hurt, though considerably befouled with mud.
LUCKY ExEmprtox.
Last week, the wife of a tradesman, residing in Arthur Street. Edinburgh, gave birth to two sonsie girls and a thumping boy : all of whom, together with the mother, are spared for a blessing to the happy father, who has thus escaped from the militia ballot by one triumphant swoop.—Scoternan.
THE ADVERTISEMENTS OP THE WEEK.
We are great readers of advertisements the columns of the Times or Morning Herald, when crowded with them, form a kind of index of life. Imagine the parties brought together, from the portly candidate for an East India directorship to the shabby-genteel a the servant out of place : what a moving scene 1—what a bustle 1— in short, it is life, and these columns are its signs and tokens. Hero there is a movement of ships out of harbour, and there a vendor of patent medicines—here are houses to let, and there are families who want to get into them—the master without a servant, vie-el-me the servant without a master—Mr. Read with his stomath-pump, and Mr. Hawkins with that other invention as ingenious as the self-acting pianoforte : at the top of the column, mysterious initials speak of mysterious assignations ; the runaway boy advertises his repentance, and the bashful wooer makes general love to the whole fair sex : at the bottom, Mr. Chapman boldly speaks out in favour of his anti-eructative sausages, that "gem of Epicurean dainty," so fresh from the morning's mail ; and Dr. Goss gently hints the indiscretions of youth. For the women there are stays, paint, lotions, millinery ; for the men, horses, gigs, estates, advowsons, a.nd money—the only thing wanted being security..
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