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nishment which they had the 

 misery of witnessing, and whicli 

 is in the following manner: — 

 They are placed on the ground 

 with their backs uppermost, a 

 stick is put across their legs 

 which is held by two men, an- 

 otlter man kneels at the head of 

 the victim and stretches his hand 

 across the back, and two Turks 

 then strike him alternately on the 

 fleshy part below with lai'ge sticks, 

 often to the number of three or 

 four hundred blows, and after- 

 wards make tliem return to work 

 even in that lamentable state of 

 suffering. The pooi- wretches 

 are allowed nothing but bread 

 and water, and are provided w ith 

 a new suit of miserable attire 

 every year by the munificence of 

 the Dey " 



The Moniteur mentions the 

 following incident which took 

 place at Aubusson, in the depart- 

 ment of the Creu.-^e : — On the 

 9th of October, about 5 in the 

 afternoon, the wife of Pierre 

 Martineau, a labourer, was dig- 

 ing potatoes in a field at a very 

 short distance from the suburb 

 of St. Jean, having beside her her 

 son about six years old. Two 

 wolves made their appeaiance, 

 and attacked the boy ■ but the 

 courage of a mother knew no 

 danger, and she defended him 

 with so much presence of mind 

 as to succeed in felling to the 

 ground one of these teirible ani- 

 mals w ith a stone which she threw 

 at him , the other took to fligiit 

 at the sight of the husband who 

 came to her assistance, and who 

 with a mattock, which he held in 

 his hand, gave the finishing blow 

 to the one which was still strug- 

 gling. Almost the moment after 



the courageous mother was de- 

 liveied from the fear of having 

 her chill! devoured, she paid the 

 debt of nature, fulling into a kind 

 of delirium, whicli was not of 

 long duration, and during which 

 she spoke incessantly of her son, 

 and of the danger which he had 

 run. 



10. At a late meeting in the 

 manufacturing and populous vil- 

 lage of Airdrie, called in conse- 

 quence of a long list of petition- 

 ers for relief, it was found that 

 many names had been ofliciously 

 if not mischievously inserted 

 without the knowledge or con- 

 .'ent of the parties, and that num- 

 bers had been induced to put 

 down their names by conceiving 

 that they were soliciting employ- 

 ment, not charity. One old sol- 

 dier wished to withdraw his, as 

 he had now obtained woik ; and 

 two brothers attended to e.vpress 

 their indignation at having been 

 included in such a list, and to de- 

 clare that so far from requiring 

 aid, they were able to lemi it. 

 Of 50 names in the original peti- 

 tion, scarcely five remained con- 

 cerning whose situation it was 

 deemed requisite to make inquiry. 

 Every one who considers inde- 

 pendence of spirit, as one of the 

 finest traits of national character 

 will rejoice that so much of it 

 remains amongst us : that it 

 struggles Avith, and is likely to 

 survive, onr present difficultie.^. 

 — Greenock Advertiser. 



Brazil. — (From a German pa- 

 per.)— As every thing tliat relates 

 to tlie other hemisphere of our 

 globe is now of the gie^itest in- 

 terest, we therefore communi- 

 cate to our readers the following 

 extract of a letter from Rio Ja- 



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