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THE BRITISH AMERICAN.

when they can’t have it all their own way ; some actually descend to abuse, others have even done more. threaten to ﬁght. I have a remedy for this. The arms of justice are proverbially long, and I have taken a hint from this saying. If. therefore. a Counsel shall speak before one of my common law machines, beyond a certain time, or behave himself at all ungentlemanly, out comes along arm, when he least expects it, from under its robe, and knocks him down. This is a glo- rious plan. Sir, for getting through business ! This is the way to keep the bar in order ! But I have not done yet, Sir. Every now and then the machine will put out its leg, and trample the Attomies and other subordinate ofﬁcers in the well of the Court under foot. This is sometimes without any cause; but it will teach them to take care what they are about, and expedite business. Then Sir, think of the cheapness, instead of giving my Lord Chancellor 20,0001. or my Lord Chief Justice his 10,0001. I call your attention to the follow- ing low scale, which as you will perceive includes the prices for the Colonic: To a patent self adjusting Lord

Chancellor, with peculiar move- 20 0 0 meat for decidin costs - - To a do. Master 0 the Rolls with do. 16 0 0 To a do. Vice Chancellor with do. 15 0 0 To a do. Lord Chief Justice of K. . C. P. or Exchequer, 14 0 0 without movements - - . To ado. Puisne Judge, without; 10 o o movement - - -

roa THE COLONIES. To a patent self-acting Chief J us- tice, of S. C. with peculiar 6 . o movement for decrdmg costs in very doubtful cases - - To a do. assistant Judge without: 2 10 a movement - - - N. B. No extra charge for going Circuit; but as the Agl‘nventor has several second hand machines, he could aﬁ'ord to put them in at something less, and a consider able allowance made, if more than one taken. And after this rate all the Judicial situations not only at home. but the Colonies may be ﬁlled. Thus, Sir, this contrivance combines elegance with cheapness and utility; and hoping it may be favoured with your support, I am, Sir, Yours.

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Front the London Satirist, July 1.

The Queen Was received, on her return from the review on Monday last, with the most une- quivocal expressions ofdislike. Few of the pa- pers have noticed the circumstance; nor should we do so, but for the vehement indignation of certain well-meaning persons “about town,” who out-Burdett Old Glory himself, on this point. Far, very far, be it from us, directly or indirectly, to attempt a justiﬁcation ofout- rage, especially when that outrage is offered to the more defenceless portion of humanity. We have always deprecated any such course. We do so still; and beg all reformers to regerd such expressions of opinion as unworthy of them and of their cause. But in our cosmopolitan wish to actjustly we must not be unmindful of what is due to our countrymen who are so violently vituperated by persons in high places, at the present moment. The case is one between the Queen and a certain class ofour countrymen; and we hesitate not to say,that any class ofour countrymen have stronger claims on our inter- est and attachment than all the family of Saxe Meiningen put together. We therefore take leave to say this much, in palliation of what we admit to be an unjustiﬁable error on the art of the populace. It is impossible that Her Ma-

jesty can be ignorant of the present state of pubic feeling, with reference to her recent conduct. Nay, some of the Court-twaddle Jour- nals tell us that, on the stone being thrownat the Kurd, Her Majesty picked it up, and said, ~‘ This was meant for me, I am the unpopular person.” Well then, knowing this to be so, was there not deplorable want oftact, not to say of taste, in Her Majesty making a public parade ofher person before the people, whom she knew to be—rightly or wrongly, it matters not—impressed with an idea that she had been adverse to the concession of theirjust and con- stitutional claims ? What earthly object could the Queen have, in adopting such a course, un- less that which no one will for a moment impute to her—namely, a wish to brave the public disapprobation, and show the P eople of Eng- land how cheaply she valued their esteem? B

a judicious withdrawal from public scenes for a time, Her Majesty would have given time for the ro-awaking of those kindly sentiments, ne- ver known to slumberlong in the national mind of Britain ; and the people blast in the enjoy. ment of their political rights, would have, at no distant day, been eager to bury all recol- lections of her Majesty’s ill-judged conduct on the question of Reform. But if now, with re- cent events fresh in their recollection, they are to meet a Tor Queen whose inﬂuence has been all but fatally exercised with a liberal King, who shall wonder if thei give vent to their disapprobation, in terms w ich they them- selves would not,in the exercise of their cooler judgment, attempt tojustify ? Nothing is more easy than the attainment of popularity in Eng- land. But if persons choose to set sai with the wind in their teeth, what's to be expected P

Clerkcnwell Rgform FestieaL—The Inhabitants of Clerkenwell are about to give a festival to commemo- rate the passing of the Reform Bill, to between one and two thousund of the industrious working classes of the parishioners. Messrs. Dixon and the other proprietor have offered the use of the extensive grounds of Sadler‘s Wells, and Mr. Fitzwilliam in the name of his lady. and in conjunction with Mr. W. H. Williams, the spi- rited lessees of the theatre, have tendered their valuable assistance in ﬁtting up the grounds. and giving the aid of their valuable hand and talented vocalists on the oc- casion. The good and substantial English fare, roast beef and plum-pudding will be the order of the day, A beneﬁt is to take place on Friday next under distin- guished patronage. in furtherance of the above object.

.IIttack on his Majesty at Aunt—Addresses have been forwarded to the King from the East and West India companies, bankers, merchants, and traders of London, and from many other quarters, congratulating his Majesty on his late providential escape in the abominable outrage on the Royal Person at Ascott

aces.

Dr. Adam Clarke is much better. Letters were re- ceived from him three days since, from which it appears he was then proceeding to Belfast, where he intended to sail in the first vessel for England. Mr. John Clarke was on his way to Ireland to accompany his father home ; but the doctor, being so much improved in health. dispensed with his son's attendance.

The Duke of Wellington left the review. on Monday, unaccompanied by even a single aid-de-camp. An ofﬁcer, in undress, of the Hussar Volunteer Cavalry, was with his grace,

Intended London Festival in Honour qf Reform.— On Tuesday it was ordered, in a Court of Common Council on the motion of Mr. Pearson. that the sum of 3.0001. he voted to all the wards, according to their several proportions of householders and freemen, to commemorate the event by a public dinnerusA report of the committee to whom a petition from some inhabi- tants of Cheapside and the Poultry had been referred, praying that the reform should not be solemnised by an illumination, was read, and it stated, that as the public mind was excited b that event, as so much preparation was already made or that reat solemnit . and as it was the established mode of recording a mfghty victory, it would he injudicious and inexpedient to attempt to

check the popular will, as this would only raise the excitement.

STATE OF POLAND.

The Poles, who nobly defended their coun ry’s rights, are now exrles from the soil which

gave them birth. Stripped of fortune, and 0,- '

rank, they are now in banishment in Siberiq‘

120. 3. p‘

or wending their way to it under the inﬂiction ‘ . v

of the Imout, or in search of an asylum in France and England. The worthy Autocrat

treading in the steps of his predecessors, keep, 1, terms them_ :'

no faith with the rebels, as he Every Pole that returns to his native countr under the sanction of the latel proclaimed amnesty is speedily disposed of, either by bein sent into exile, or draughted into a magi regiment—fathers are separated from their children, and women with children at their breast are dragged. along with those of more robust frames. “ Two young Poles,” say; a Paris paper, “ forming part of a number can. veying to Siberia, succeeded in escaping at Wilna. After encountering many dangers and difﬁculties, they arrived on Saturday at Paris What we have heard in the recitals made b . these young men, of the cruelties of the Bus. sians, exceeds all expression. Not only those men who ﬁgured with some importance in the Polish revolution, and all these who formed part of their families, but even the mere workmen, the poorest of those who took arms forthe cause of independence, have been torn from their homes, and transported to the deserts of Siberia. They were separated from their children, even the youngest, and made to travel in separate convoys. Many ofthese unfortunate children are onl three or four years of age. The women are ragged on with those to whom they still give suck, or whom they are obliged to carry. Men and children are taken to Warsaw, and shut up in the house - of refuge for orphans. The wife ofa general oﬁcer, already separated from her husband, herself put her children to death, in the pre- sence of the guard who came to tear them from her; and then killed herself immediately afterwards.” A few ears of such Govern- ment. and Poland wil be only known as a country that once existed—its people, as a peo- ple, Will have neither name or habitation—the country will be peopled by Russians, and the most desert parts of Russia by Poles.-London Paper.

COLONIAL INTERESTS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Colonial Times.—The ignorance of the House of Commons, with respect to colonial affairs, is well known to an man that has ever Visited any one of the British settlements, but can we wonder atit? ls not each member individu. ally returned by a certain interest, and when they now and then do make tine speeches res- pecting the colonies, nine times out of ten they by so doing only publicly avow their ignorance of the subjects they may be canvas- sing; let any one look over the long list of members of the honorable House, and we defy any body to point out one single member of the six hundred and ﬁftyneight, that can give the least information respecting our co- lonies, save such information as may have been derived from the perusal of the interested and preposterously exaggerated works that have

een written respecting them. Whilst making these few observations respecting the igno- rance of the members of the House of Com- mons concerning colonial affairs general] , we will here mention that some months bac we noticed in one of the Journal: de Maurice, an angry article in support of our present position: it appears from that Journal, that the late Mr. Huskisson, in one of his speeches on colonial

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