4 JANUARY 1845, page 16

How Law Is Made Unintelligible And Unavailable.

THE enormous overgrowth of the Statute-book is an evil which is often pointed out, and it begins to excite serious alarm. The current number of the Westminster Review attacks......

Irish Independence.

WE have read somewhere of an Irish bank which was so unpo- , polar that the people collected all its notes and—burned them! With that and other instances of peculiar commercial......

Sanguinary Epicurism.

THERE is a curious alchemy in human nature which enables men to convert the most repulsive aliments into dainties. Some have been known to feed on poisons. It is with the moral......