a mouth!), and silky JOSEPH PARKES | gabbling of a school; and, oh! how for a pis-aller; but never will they have deep the damnation due to those, who industry, properly so called, as long as, would put a hog's mess of potatoes amongst those who are destined to la- in the place of that bit of bacon! bour when they become men and But, here is the devil and all for Mowomen, the early years are wasted in ther MARTINEAU in this American aclearning a b abs and i b ibs, or in sing- count; for here is the increase of poverty ing, as the little creatures are now doing and crime both ascribed to the newsin this very Bolt-court, the Apostles' papers! By Heavens, a famous arguCreed, the Magdalen Hymn, and the ment for Lord ALTHORP, when he has Pence Table, almost in the same breath, again to refuse to take off the "taxes instead of being shoying off birds, or upon knowledge," which some of my tending pigs and geese in the stubbles. brother members-of-Parliament held Train the twig in the shape in which me up as a blasphemer when I called it you would have the pole: if you would a tax upon nonsense." A famous have an industrious man, or woman, let argument for my Lord, who has their little hands and feet begin very everlastingly been reproached with early to move in useful avocations. A keeping the taxes upon knowhurdle-maker in a Hampshire copse, he ledge," and who has had to fight twisting the rods round the stakes to against the terrible argument afforded make the hurdle; his eldest boy with his by the brilliant example of America, little hook, splitting the rods and laying the innocent and happy state of which them ready to his hand; his second the feelosofer vagabonds have always boy cutting off the twigs from the rods ascribed to the extensive circulation of and makingthem smooth for splitting; his newspapers! Faith, my Lord is prethird boy cutting down the rods; his pared for them now: this American fourth boy, bringing them, two or three account will puzzle them to death; at a time, to the second boy; his fifth, four they will firk their polls, and shake or five years old, wrapped up in warm rags their ears, like a dog with the mange, with bits of old cloth tied round his little and, as such dogs do, bring up a sort of legs and ancles, with his little hands half-growl half-groan from the bottom tucked in amongst the rags to keep them of their stomachs. FIELDING, in one from the cold, standing and looking at the of his romances, giving the figure of operations of the rest, or warming his great discomfiture, says something of fingers by a little fire made of the offal, this sort: "Imagine a quack doctor collected by himself, and having already" standing upon his stage, his hand more real sense than BROUGHAM, Mo-" stretched out, proving the infallible ther MARTINEAU and roaring RUSHTON," efficacy of his nostrums, citing the all put together: that, or something" instance of a particular patient; and like it, and of the same sort precisely, "then imagine that patient brought I have seen hundreds of times in Hamp-" and tossed down dead upon the stage, shire and Sussex. That is a "school of having expired with the nostrum in industry;" that is education; those are" his throat." A case requiring strong the valuable people; not the sauntering, imagination, to be sure; but a case not conceited, lazy wretches, who are more complete, and, if the devilish stuck up to burn their shins, while they feelosofers had any shame, not more are sighing over novels, or singing effective, than this American account; hymns to the praise and glory of cant. How sweet the huncheon of that hurdler and his boys! How justly divided amongst them! How sweet the bit of hot bacan for supper; and how sweet the sleep; how much more good sense is there in that family, than there would be, if the boys spent the day in the

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which, however, though it may fail to have any effect upon the brazen humbug feelosofers, will, I am sure, not fail to produce effect upon my Lord of the Exchequer, who has now got his answer cut and dried, and who, if he do not make use of it, has not one drop of true financiering blood in his veins.

GARDEN SEEDS.

I TOOK a farm for several purposes : 1. To please myself, and to live, at the end of my days, in those scenes in which I began them; 2. To make the life as long as nature, unthwarted by smoke and confinement, would let it be ; 3. To make a complete TULLIAN FARM, raise large crops of MY OWN CORN, and to set an example for others to follow; 4. To make a LocusT-COPPICE, and to rear hop-poles in eight years to last for twenty; 5. To raise GARDEN SEEDS in the best possible manner.

the farm, I have been enabled to raise a considerable quantity, and which is not only beyond all measure superior to all other peas, but by proper plantings, gives you fine green peas till the hard frosts come. I have them now, on the 20. September, as fine and fresh as ever peas were in the month of June; and this pea is particularly calculated for hot countries, where all other peas, that I have ever seen, mildew, or will not grow at all, after midsummer. I have the KNIGHT-PEA now bearing fine peas fit to eat, and having fresh bloom stilt coming out.

are not

planted till April. I once thought of sending a part of my seeds to be sold at NEW YORK; but I have changed my mind about that. If any body there, or in any part of the United States, wish to have them, there are ships enough, God knows, to carry them, unless the owners think that having anything really useful on board would sink the ship.

The 3 and 4 are things not to be accomplished in one year; but I have a Some little time ago, a gentleman good piece of Cobbett's Corn; I have called to get some bags of seeds to mangel wurzel, turnips and cabbages intake to NEWFOUNDLAND. I had none; the Tullian style; I have the locust but the bags of new seeds will be ready plants for a little coppice. by the 15. of November; and the And, as to GARDEN SEEDS, I have a gardens in Newfoundland complete crop of all sorts, raised with the greatest care; placed at distances to keep them true to their kind, and managed properly in every respect. These seeds will be sold, as they were last year, at the shop where the Register is published, and they will be packed up for sale in the same manner. That is to say, in BAGS of CANVAS. There are, all together, more than FIFTY SORTS of seeds. Each sort will be put into a paper-bag, There will be two sizes of bags, one and then the 50 or more paper-bags for a large garden and one for a small will be put into a canvas-bag, sewed one; the latter will contain half the up at the mouth. Each paper-bag will quantity of the former. The price of the have a number upon it; and there will former, 25s.; the price of the latter, be a printed paper in each bag, contain- 12s. 6d. ; always ready money. It is iming the names of the seeds, each name possible for any man to raise such an having a number against it, correspond-assortment of true seeds in any one garing with the number on the paper-bag den; and, if he could do it, the doing of which contains that sort of seed; and, it would cost him six times the sum that the paper-bags shall now be tied, which, I sell these seeds at. they were not last year; owing to which Any person who purchases ten bags, I was sorry to find, that some of the will pay the price of eight, and, if twenty purchasers experienced inconvenience. bags, will pay the price of fifteen; and, This mode of doing the business was if 100, pay for 60. The bags will be so attended with great success last year. strongly done up that they can be sent Many gentlemen have called at the shop with safety to any part of the kingdom or to express their satisfaction at the pro- of the world, and each bag will have on duce of the seeds, and I am sure, that it, or in it, a card, with these words, in their satisfaction, on this account, can-fac-simile of my hand-writing: "GAR not be greater than mine. This year DEN SEEDS, RAISED, in 1833, BY WM. my bags will contain what they did not COBBETT, M P. FOR OLDHAM." And my contain last year; namely, some of the constituents will remember, that La charKNIGHT-PEA, of which, by means of rue, L'epée et La plume ne deroge pas.

POOR-LAW COMMISSION. THE following documents will speak for themselves. My readers will recollect Mr. YEATMAN's publications on this subject.

which I have made to emancipate the justices of this division from the charges and insinuations preferred against them by the poor-law commissioner, lately acting for this county; and I am the more gratified and delighted at the ap

At a special session of the justices acting for the division of Sturminster New-probation which you have thus been ge ton, in the county of Dorset, held at the Crown-inn, at Sturminster, on the 22. July, 1833,

nerous enough to extend to me, because, so far from considering it as a mark of esteem rendered to me on your parts, on It was unanimously resolved,That the ground of mere prejudice and par the cordial thanks of the justices of this tiality, I can positively declare, that I division be given to their colleague, the have received from other persons from Rev. HARRY FARR YEATMAN, for gentlemen of great influence and consi the trouble and expense which he hath deration, from those who reside in disincurred in establishing his very able tant parts of England, and consequently defence of their conduct in the adminis- from those who are, and must be, ditration of the poor-laws, as well as for vested of all suspicion of being actuated his complete and successful refutation by either local or party feeling, an assuof certain passages in a recently pub-rance on their parts, that the defence lished Report of the Assistant Com- which I set up and established in the missioner," which covertly and unjustly name and on the behalf of the justices of charges the justices of the said division the Sturminster Newton division, has with mischievous interference and party been, in their opinion, both unanswered bias in the execution of their magiste- and complete; and that we, the said justices, are absolutely, and entirely, and honourably acquitted from the charges which have been preferred and alleged against us.

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rial duties.

It was also resolved,-That these resolutions be reduced to writing, signed by the justices of the division, and presented to Mr. Yeatman, and inserted in the Dorchester and Salisbury and Winchester Journals, and also in one of the London papers.

JOHN BASTARD,

But if I had not only in view the emancipation of the justices of this division from the charges and insinuations which were groundlessly, and somewhat gracelessly, advanced against G. THOMSON JACOB, them, in the report of the aforesaid poorGEORGE C. Loftus, law commissioner, I felt, at the same JOHN HUSSEY, time, that I was endeavouring to clear WILLIAM BOUCHER. away a certain portion of that unmerited Though prevented by indisposition froin odium and disrespect which ill-affected attending the special sessions, at Stur-persons have, for some years past, enminster, I desire to add my signature to the above resolutions.

HENRY KER SEYMOUR.

deavoured to throw around the whole magistracy of this kingdom. Attacks like these, levelled against the motives and conduct of the justices of Great Britain, can only be considered as so many steps taken by those who are ready and determined, at the first convenient opportunity, to put them aside, and to supersede them altogether. But, gentlemen, I would ask, if the provin cial magistrates are put down, and the stipendiary justices are appointed in their stead, I would ask, what are the conse quences which are likely to arise, and what are the benefits to be derived from

the introduction of a municipal regula- | several and multifarious statutes which tion, so new and so uncalled for as this? we have been called upon to administer, In the first place, annual salaries must yet, that in the whole course of my life, be paid to these stipendiary justices, I have never experienced the slightest which will add somewhat considerably degree of unkindness or incivility from to the taxation and the distresses of this any one of the ten thousand persons country, and which, therefore, must im- who reside within the Sturminster Newpoverish the Government, without be-ton Division; and that during the nefiting the people! For I ask, with agricultural riots and the popular exconfidence, whether our successors-if citement which frighted "this isle from in evil hour they should happen to be its propriety," in 1830, I received but appointed-would bestow more time one single communication, and that was and labour, or self-devotion, than we from an humble individual, who kindly have done to the consideration of the offered to come forward to defend with several cases which will come before his life, if necessary, both my property them? and whether, secondly, the in- and my person! Lastly, as a proof that troduction of a new system of practice if we have administered the poor-laws on the formal and rigid principles which so as to afford relief generally to the prevail in the courts above, will give impotent and infirm, as well as occagreater satisfaction than the very indul- sionally to the unemployed and ablegent and temperate mode of inquiry bodied paupers of this division, in and decision, which is at present adopt- extreme and urgent cases, as a proof ed by the provincial justices of this that we have not been unmindful of the kingdom? Does any one conceive, that rights and interests of its rated inhabithey will make more allowance for the tants, wherever to be found, or dipped unlettered simplicity and slow compre- our hands too deeply into their purses, hension of those who come before them, and beyond the exigencies of the time, either as prosecutors, as witnesses, or I state this important and additional as defendants, or that they will be better fact, as well, first, that we, as justices acquainted with the habits of the people, of this division, have for some time or search deeper into the causes of those past been in the habit of ordering very irregularities which they are appointed little more for the relief of a pauper to put down? Will the inhabitants of family, if six persons, than Lord Chief this country prefer strangers as their Justice Hale considered to be sufficient local judges, to those gentlemen amongst and also necessary for the same number whom they have lived; with whose of persons 180 years ago; and that, kindness and benevolence they are secondly, taking the whole twenty pahourly and daily and continually made rishes of this division, with a population acquainted; and of the purity of whose of ten thousand persons within them, motives they are conscientiously con- the average amount of poor-rate does vinced. As a proof that this mutual not exceed the very moderate sum of confidence and reciprocity of good-will two shillings and nine-pence three farand good-feeling does exist between the things in the pound sterling; and, what provincial and district magistrates on is more, that in eleven parishes, out of the one hand, and the public at large on the aforesaid twenty, the poor-rate has the other, I can state one fact, at all actually decreased in amount within the events, by way of confirmation, so year now last past, with a sure and far as this division is concerned, calcu- certain prospect of that decrease being lated to show that the existence of extended to others at the end of the such feelings are not imaginary, viz., parochial year now passing away. It that although it has happened during was in support, then, of a system of the last twenty years, that I have been legal practice conferring advantages present at, a party too, and through like these upon the public,-a system your indulgence the propounder of a which resembles, in the language of vast number of convictions, under the our great bard, “an hoop of gold, to

THE WHIG COMMISSIONS.
From Nicholson's Commercial Gazette,
14. September, 1833.

TO THE EDITOR OF "NICHOLSON'S
COMMERCIAL Gazette.

"Mr. HAMPDEN insisted that there could

Sir, The electors of Hull are indebted to

bind the people in," which unites and
comprehends the rich man and the
poor man under one goodly form of
legal remedy and restraint, which
amalgamates and consolidates con-
tending interests and feelings,-which
brings home justice to the door of "be no real settlement, nay, that it was a
every man, and that, too, at little cost,
"jest to talk of settlement, till the manner
" and time of calling Parliaments, and their
much upon the principle of the great sitting when called, are fully de'ermined;
charter of our privileges and rights; "and this, in order to prevent the practice
and it was also in defence of the "of keeping one and the same Parliament
justices of this division, or who had by
"long on foot, till the majority was corrupt-
prudence and caution upheld that sys-HOUSE.-Defence of the People, p. 23-6.
"ed by offices, gifts, and pensions!"'—HOB-
tem, from which they had been unjustly
accused of having departed and stepped
aside, and who had so administered its you, for having informed them that, at the last
general election, they sent to Parliament a man
provisions as to deprive the poor-laws who was, at the time of his election, in the pay
of nearly all the evils which, under or- of the Government. We marvelled at his
dinary circumstances, they are too well deeds; but we attributed his defalcations to
known to occasion,-it was in defence which we can refer them with a certainty.
his cloth! But you have given us data to
of principles, that, belonging to the Con-
Spurred to it by your article in the last
stitution, and of a system of jurispru-number, I have procured a copy of the parlia-
dence, was valuable and blessed, that Imentary return to which you there allude;
ventured to go forth; not presuming to wish, for the information of my brother elec-
and, as your notice of it was very short, I
deny the impolicy of the present poor-tors, to trouble you with a more detailed ac-
law system, when forced and driven by count of the "pots and pay" doled out in this
adverse circumstances into extremities, instance. You are politician enough to know,
which are attributable principally, if that, of all the fertile sources of corruption,
not solely, to the imperfection of the
existing statutes-but, at the sume
time, fearlessly denying that the evils
of that system had been aggravated by
myself, or my brother justices of the
division! To be assured that I have
succeeded, and to be presented with so
kind and flattering a mark of the appro-and 1 Wm. IV). to regulate the fees, &c. to be
An act was passed in July 1830 (11 Geo. IV.
bation of my honourable colleagues, is, in future received by the officers' of the superior
to me, and ever will be, a source of courts of common law. In October, 1830,
pride and of pleasure, of the most ex-just before the Whigs came in, the commis-
alted description: and I beg to assure
you, gentlemen, that as long as health
and strength will permit me to do so, so
long will I endeavour, by increased
exertions in the discharge of my public
duties, to make something like an ac-
ceptable return for the great honour"
which you have now been good enough
to confer upon me, and to earn, if I
can do so, what I value above all ordi-
nary considerations, the continuance of
your confidence and esteem.

noue has been more fertile than "commis

sons." We have had them of almost perma-
uent duration; they have been the sly means
of providing maintenance and fortune for
in any other way; and, of all others, a com-
creatures incapable or unwilling to gain either
missionership has been the choice bait for a
vacillating patriot. However, to my narra-

tive :

sioners were appointed to examine into the
matter under the above act. They were Ser-
geant GOULBOURN (brother to the then Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer) FORTUNATUS DWARRIS,
Esq., T. F. DICKENSON, Esq., and G. FAULK-
NER, Esq. The business of these commis-

sioners under the above act was," to ascertain

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the gross and net annual value of the lawful fees and emoluments of all offices and employments in the superior courts of common law, according to a fair average of the ten years nert preceding the 24. May, 1830, "and to certify the same, &c." On the 2. of September, 1831, the Lords of the Treasury allowed 2000. to be granted to each of the commissioners for all their services until the business should be concluded; "PROVIDING "however, that if any considerable additional "labour was thrown upon them by any further "interference of the legislature, or otherwise,