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to lie in the way. We were about to have mentioned one or two parties who 

 have performed rather chefs-d'oeuvre in this way of doing business, if a book 

 just now produced, by .Mr. Murray, called " The Establishment of the 

 Turks in Europe : an Historical Discourse/' had not rather outrun all 

 things that have gone before it. In this " Historical Discourse," the 

 author, not content with quoting largely from such authorities as the Baron 

 cle Tott, the Tableau de L'JEmpire Ottomane, &c. boldly makes up his 

 mind to nonsuit half measures, and nicety at once, and says speak- 

 ing of some customs peculiar to Christians in the East See " Anastasius ! 

 one of the best delineations of manners ever given to the world!" Now 

 there is no doubt that Anastasius is the most splendid novel that modern 

 times have produced ; and a great deal of the matter contained in it bears 

 internal evidence of being founded in fact : but still that a " Historian" 

 should quote a romance as authority for his statements, is a stretch of cool- 

 ness which, thirty years ago would hardly have been imagined. It is 

 true that the word (t history" is only a word of seven letters. It is only 

 perhaps a difference as to a name. But the calling things by wrong names 

 leads to confusion. 



A Sunday paper copies the following notice from a board near the new 

 bridge, in Kensington Gardens. "All persons found guilty of fishing in 

 these waters, will be prosecuted." There is some mistake here, we 

 apprehend : the " cart seems to be before the horse." The Board of 

 Works probably means to say " All persons prosecuted for fishing in 

 these waters, will \*Q found guilty." 



The report of the committee upon Lunatic Asylums has been published ; 

 and will be found discussed at length in our magazine this month, in an 

 article to which we recommend the attention of our readers. Perhaps, 

 after the investigation, it is little more than justice to Mr. Warburton to 

 say, that considerable as the faults and abuses of his establishment un- 

 questionably have been the marvel is rather that they should not be 

 discovered to have been greater. Considering the dreadful character of 

 the trade in question, how impossible it would seem to find subordinate 

 agents disposed to undertake the management of lunatics, and to minister 

 to all the wants connected with their unfortunate condition, even at large 

 and ample stipends; what can we reasonably expect, where a capitalist 

 has to make a fortune (as every man in trade fairly expects to do), by 

 furnishing food, lodging, clothes, constant guardianship, and medical at- 

 tendance, to pauper lunatics, at twelve shillings a-head per week ? Where 

 so many temptations concur to induce neglect and misconduct, it can 

 scarcely excite much astonishment that such vices should exist. But that 

 very fact only furnishes a more decided argument of the necessity for taking 

 so difficult a calling out of the pale of trade altogether ; and confining the 

 treatment of pauper lunatics to asylums provided, and regulated, at the 

 charge and under the guidance of the public. 



Irish Intelligence " Rock's the boy to make the fun stir !" The 

 Belfast Chronicle says- " During the night of Monday last, four horses 

 were killed in a grazing field behind Cromal Lodge, adjoining this town, 

 their throats being cut across with some sharp instrument. Two belonged 

 to a carman named James Duncan, and one to James M 'A vary, who had 

 hired the grazing field, and the other was the only property of a poor 

 industrious man, named Pat M'Garry, who made his living by selling 

 water about the streets. The outrage appears to have been produced by 



