The corporation," he declared," were unable of themselves to meet the expense; they had met with misfortunes of late-such as the harbour, the mud at Blackshore, beside a ruinous law-suit; but if the corporation, the gentry and the townspeople, would hang together in a string, he doubted not they would soon be relieved from their difficulties." It is to be hoped that the Suffolk papers will record the issue of the contest between Providence and this town-corporate.

ROGUES, GREECE AND TURKEY, LOVES OF LORDS AND LADIES, INDIAN RETROSPECTIONS, OLD WOMEN, AN ATTACHE, A PAWNBROKER'S LODGER, THE COURT, THE ANNUALS." God is God, and Mahomet is his prophet!" said Ali Mirza, as he raised himself on the bolster of his couch, last week, to receive the news of the Shah of Persia's death, so soon, too, after that of his son, and to consider to which of the fifty uncles, who, with ten thousand men each, meant to contend, in the field of war and desolation, for the power of making the Persians happy!

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"The grandson of the deceased Shah," said he, "is a good and a young man. is true, the uncles have claims, ancient in Persia, but which can claim the positive right of all the fifty? Fifty is a large sum in numbers, and multiplied is fearful, yet the simple UNIT congregates them all, as it were; at least I see it delightfully exemplified in London. Aye! and it was that beautiful UNIT of England, I remember, that so arrayed the unit for Persia, and provided for the descent of the one. All England, with her Collins', her Jones', Ousely, &c. &c., have long delighted even in the Dorics of Persia. I'll go to the English court, and see what I ought to do."

"Nay," said Baba, his attendant, " before thou risest from thy rest, bethink thee of instruction from the poets, who always instruct as our fathers were wont to consider them. Thou hast said there are English that delighted even in our history, and imitated it in the song of Hafiz, the Houries, &c., we all know that others have shared in our native pleasures; doth it not befit thee, O Mirza, to consult the mysteries of the court poet of England?"

Mirza agreed, and his "attaché" brought to his couch, within the brief period of a houri's smile, what should tell him the best he could do in his divided consideration.— We know he must have been a good deal struck by the articles which form our head; though that patient, contemplative silence, so remarkable in the Persians, and so worthy of imitation, prevents us from recording it. He was, however, heard muttering in a gibberish, half English, half Arabia-"What! the rogues of Greece, Turkey, India despoiling the loves of lords and ladies, in the all-governing England! Old women! (we have no word for that in Persia!) a pawn

broker's lodger-does that mean a man who sells himself and the court annually?” Mirza reclined again on his couch.

Doubtless the Persian ambassador must be an ignorant man, at least as regards the books and things of this country, however poetical, wise, or any thing else he may be at home. He has studied our language, our friend Abbas tells us, very closely; but then he unfortunately mistakes words for facts, and thinks people who are simply occupied in making books with very lofty names to sell, know all about courts, which, very properly, they never think about! We have not yet been able to collect what was the result of his last reclining doze-not even an idea of his highly-interesting hookah, sandals, ablutions, poetical dreams, or any thing else; all we could learn was an account of various fits and starts, with exclamations against such as being authorised to communicate a whole volume of the poetry, dreams, and intentions of the British court, not enabling him to learn matter for his guidance." Poor dear man!" said Abbas, who has been long here with a former celebrated Persian resident, and so say we.

TAPESTRY OF THE SPANISH ARMADA.There is something, we do not hesitate to say, excessively ridiculous in the history of its abstraction from the Parliamentary House of Lords. Here is a national trophy that must be dear to the heart of every Englishman in particular, from the remembrance of the virgin queen, aided by the winds of heaven to disperse an invading enemy, left like mere lumber to be cleared away by a servant, and sold for a trifle accorddingly. We will say no more at present, perhaps our Persian friend, Abbas, may inform us also on this, for we really do not think any English friend can.

STATISTICS. A new division of Russia has been made, as follows:-" District of iron-moss-land-forests and pasturesland and barley districts, noting those before uncultivated-rye and flax-wheat and fruit -maize and wine-olives, sugar-cane, and silkworms.

CAUTION TO NURSES.-We suppose it must have been a very young nurse who, a few days since, fondly, no doubt, dandling an infant at a second-floor window, suffered it to escape from her arms in the usual unfortunate exertion, and be dashed to pieces! The late Duke of Leeds was wont to jest on the origin of his honours, arising from a similar accident in the Thames.

MARCH OF INTELLECT- DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE-ANOTHER INCENDIARY.-In the eastern quarter of London, a boy seven years of age, being left with his younger sister, lighted a match and set fire to her clothes, by which she was so burned as to expire in agony at the London Hospital. Being rebuked the next day, he replied with nonchalance, "I only set sister on fire!" Mr.

Baker, the coroner who held inquest, spoke of the necessity of "some punishment being enacted by the legislature against persons leaving their children;" and also spoke of the boy being "unpunishable, as under seven years of age." Alas! there has always been too much legislating without a just know. ledge of the state of society. Is it possible that Mr. Baker has lived to his good age, without knowing that thousands of the British people are obliged to leave their children daily, perhaps with a mouldy crust both to amuse and keep them from starving, while they go forth, both man and woman, to earn in all seasons, at all hours, a scanty pittance? And what good would Mr. Baker have done, if he had had a law by which he could have tried the male child for murder? We are sure the worthy coroner did not think of these things, and our sole purpose is to win him to think of them, for amendment of our present laws.

A GIRL OF CHELSEA HOSPITAL SCHOOL. What we have just said to a coroner, we have always endeavoured to urge on magistrates, and we are happy to say that we have now an instance of magisterial virtue to record. This was a female child of twelve years, who, as far as we can understand the case, had stolen half a sovereign from her schoolmistress, and added falsehood to theft, (a most natural succession of crime,) and theu returned it. For this she was carried, we believe, before Mr. White, at Queen-square police-office, for prosecution, which he most wisely refused. We are now glad of the opportunity to mention, that it was at the instance of this gentleman's son the king visited the Westminster School exhibition. Mr. White properly lectured the girl; but oh! what a lecture ought to be read to her school-mistress by the good Col. Le Blanc, or his excellent daughters. We doubt not she has had it.

BIRTHS

At the Cape of Good Hope, the lady of Sir J. Herschel, K.G.H. of a daughter.-At Rowdens, Devon, the lady of C. Stirling, Esq., of a daughter. At Filleigh House, Devon, the lady of Capt. Flint, of a son.--In Upper Harley. street, the lady of Le Marchant Thomas, Esq., of a daughter.-At Hartfield-grove, Sussex, the lady of G. T. Greenland, Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

On the 9th instant, at Trinity Church, Clapham, by the Rev. K. M. R. Farpley, vicar of Flore, in the county of Northampton, and chaplain to Lord Howard of Effingham, Alfred Jones, Esq., of Lower Grosvenor-street, to Mary, only child of S. Hillatt, Esq., of Clapham-rise, Surrey.In Somerset, C. Bunton, Esq., to Mary Anne, second daughter of G. H. Carew, Esq.-Dr. Spurgin, of Guildford-street, to Rose, only daughter of J. Down, Esq.-In Hants, Frederick, third son of the late H. Yates, Esq., of Derbyshire, to Stella Maria, only child of T. Scotland, Esq.-At Thanet, W. Lonsdale, Esq., to Sarah, fourth daughter of J. Green, Esq.-On the 11th, at Stepney, Middlesex, by the Rev. T. Barneby, W. H. Oxberry, Esq., of the Theatre Royal English Opera House, to Eleanor M. Lancaster, late of the Theatre Royal Edinburgh, and third daughter to the late highly-esteenied comedian, Henry Lancaster, Esq.-At Stapleton, near Bristol, G. F. S. Mathison, Esq., of the Royal Mint, to Eliza, only daughter of the late Lieut.Col. Græme, of Oldbury Court, Gloucestershire. -W. Webber, Esq., of Suffolk, to Eliza, daughter of the late Sir T. Preston, Bart., of Barlow Hall, Norfolk.-Sir A. Malet, Bart., to Miss Spalding, daughter of Lady Brougham and Vaux.

DEATHS.

Commander Louis, son of the Admiral, aged 76. Mrs. Smith, relict of the Rev. J. Smith, vicar of Melksham, and Prebendary of Salisbury, aged 74.-Mr. Ackerman, for 35 years stud-groom to the Duke of Rutland.-H. Harford,

Esq., of Berks, aged 76.-At Camberwell, J. Joyner, Esq., aged 80.—Caroline, wife of the Rev. T. Pennant.-In Dublin, of a sudden attack of erysipelas, Gen. Sir A. Fitzgerald, Bart.-J. Woodgrove, Esq., of Sussex, a worthy magistrate, at an advanced age.-Mr. Parkinson, of Change-alley, aged 63.—William Thwaites, Esq., of Fenchurch-street, aged 88.-Mrs. Drewe, of the Grange, Devon, aged 88.-W. Holmes, Esq., of Kennington, aged 78.-E. Knapman, Esq., of H. M.'s Corps of Gent. at Arms.-In Lancashire, J. Peel, Esq., aged 83, paternal uncle of Sir R. Peel, Bart.-In Scotland, the celebrated preacher, Mr. Irving. The Rev. Dr. Chalmers pronounced his eulogy at Edinburgh, while he lamented his errors.-Lieut. C. T. Lewis, late of the 21st regt., by an accident in shooting; the neighbourhood spontaneously attended his funeral.-In Holland, C. Van Ollen, aged 104.At Somers'-town, H. Bone, Esq., R.A., enamelpainter to the king, aged 80.-In France, M. d'Ornay, member of the Roman Academy of Sciences, aged 105.-The Rev. T. Sikes, fortytwo years vicar of Gainsboro', Notts, aged 69.— At Streatham, Mrs. Smith, aged 76, daughter of J. Adams, Esq., Barbadoes.-Francis Jane, youngest and only surviving daughter of J. Bowder, Esq., Grosvenor-place, Catherine Clarke, relict of Lieut.-Col. Nicoll, late of the 10th regt.-C. Streatfield, Esq., of St. John's College, Oxford, aged 23.-Miss C. F. Potter, aged 49.In Scotland, Major-Gen. Stirling, aged 80 years, passed to the last in good health, notwithstanding service in America, Egypt, the Peninsula, &c. -Suddenly, at Notting-hill, T. Phipps, Esq., aged 60.-The Rev. Isaac Frowd, fifty-seven years vicar of Bishop's Castle, aged 82. Earl of Powis, whose tutor he had been at College, followed him to the grave.-Thomas Say, the American naturalist, aged 47 only, at New Harmony, Indiana State. For what he has done we must refer to the National Gazette of the United States, or the compressed statement from it in the Athenæum, which honours his name.

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