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exhibiting her strength as only capable of being called into action 

 when elicited, and cheered up by the frightful stimulus of immediate 

 plunder. 



September 8. " Wanted immediately, some barristers called to the bar of 

 England." 



The natives of New South Wales are supposed to be the very 

 lowest in point of intellect and capacity of any earthly creatures ; and 

 we are inclined to imagine that from the frequent intercourse that 

 takes place between the aborigines and the European settlers the 

 latter must have been inoculated with the imbecility of the former to 

 have issued an advertisement like the above. Poor misguided 

 beings ! they absolutely ask for lawyers as they would for an article 

 of sustenance. Are they really so weary of peace and fire-side com- 

 fort that they wish for an importation of the typhus? Will no other 

 excitement satisfy them less than the pestilence ? If not it must be 

 shipped off to them ; they must be left to their fate after being in- 

 dulged with a gift very much resembling a Macadamized road to 

 destruction. It is however only an act of justice to the new country 

 that England, which Is at present crammed to repletion by a legal 

 population, should allow a handsome drawback on every self-trans- 

 porting barrister, which system is pursued with every species of goods 

 it is deemed a decided benefit to the country to get rid of. In this 

 case there could not be two opinions on the subject, that is, on this 

 side of the walls of Bedlam and St. Luke's. 



September 15 " A Temperance Hotel has been opened at Worcester." 

 Diurnal Press. 



This must be a very satisfactory announcement to the lovers of so- 

 briety, and proves most incontestably " the march of virtue'' in the city 

 of Worcester. It is a pity that the prints communicating this Grati- 

 fying fact do not apprise us as to whether the public pumps have been 

 supplied with ladles to induce the commonalty to imbibe the pure 

 fluid in a reputable manner. How the hotel in question is to pay 

 rent and taxes if a little incidental drunkenness is not cultivated is ra- 

 ther problematical. Do the proprietors ever mean to allow any 

 public dinners in the house ? If so, but few will go to them unless 

 they are allowed the tomfoolery of making speeches afterwards, and 

 this generally takes place when each man has deposited the contents 

 of at least one bottle under his waistcoat-band. Moreover, is loyalty 

 to be restrained by toast and water ? We hope not. This is a land 

 of liberty, and it has already been decided by the House of Com- 

 mons that the English people shall not be compelled to be sober by 

 act of parliament. But we live in strange times when the strides to 

 perfection arid moral purity are absolutely gigantic ; for a contem- 

 porary print informs us that " at Margate the public pumps are ordered 

 to be locked during divine service.'* 



September 23rd." A large public meeting was held at Bradford for the pur- 

 pose of forwarding the claims of the American negroes to the rights of eman- 

 cipation. After many eloquent speeches a spirited and elegantly written re- 



