knot; that is to say, in cutting off the hair, all his life; but on this fatal morning the they contrived to cut off the head along with condemned rises the principal object of a it. Now, said the warriors, Radama's orders thousand cares and thoughts-he is for once are obeyed; the hair of these women will the cynosure of neighbouring eyes;" the never grow again: and so ended the pig- sheriff turns uneasily on his pillow for thinktail rebellion of Madagascar. When the ing of him; Mr. Wontner looks pale and Duke of York cut off our military tails, we sad as he bids him a last farewell; the turnbelieve there was no dissatisfaction express- keys grow tender as they talk; and every od on the part of the ladies of Great Bri- apprentice in the vicinity has a lecture at tain; but our Commander-in-Chief followed night, and leave in the morning to go and public opinion, which had grown weary of see the man hanged. It is then that huthese appendages, whereas Radama got in manity has its triumph; the man gets uniadvance of the popular tastes. The Duke versal attention for once, because he is a belonged to a school that keeps up an old man, and can die. He that could scarcely folly till it absolutely rots off. Radama, in attract the passing glance of a fellow-bethis instance, was a radical who applies the ing, now is the gaze of myriads assembled shears of truth and reason to all ugly ex- about the scaffold with upturned faces, anxcrescences, forgetting that sometimes men ious to behold him do a deed that is die, feel more acutely the loss of a pet absurdity alias suffer. This flinging-off in the face than they are touched with gratitude for of public opinion is often the consolation the bestowal of a piece of pure utility. and the support of the previously-despised For a curious and excellent account of Ra- and overlooked good-for-nothing. Now, if dama, the reader is referred to the book of a man proceeding to solemn and public Captain Owen's "Surveying Expedition on execution were called aside in some wretchthe Western Coasts of Africa." ed Newgate passage, and told to die there without ceremony, he would feel himself a SHORT METHOD WITH THIEVES.-At vastly aggrieved person, cheated of his dues, the late Old Bailey Sessions a pickpocket and, if he could write, would surely demand plied his trade in court: he was caught in pen and ink, and protest against thus being the act, and instead of being handed to docked of his lawful solemnities. Thus, prison he was introduced into the dock; the we have no doubt, will our Filch complain judge, the jury, and the witness were all of an injury of minor degree, that of being prepared, on the spot, and just as if they had sent out of this world without a proper rebeen made for his crime. He was tried, gard to the bienséances of respectable pofound guilty, and from the bench was pro- lice. It is a pity, however, that all his nounced an extempore sentence of trans- brethren cannot be treated in the same portation for life. "One came to scoff, but manner; we should soon want crime. stopped to pray;" so here the youth came Bentham would have the judge always sitto steal, and stayed to be tried. There are ting; he would have him on the bench at some events of a tremendous importance, all hours; nay, that as he slept, he should that if they happen very suddenly, produce be liable to be summoned into his court; no impression, or rather they destroy all he would have his door graced like that of a impressions; we seem to require a prepara- surgeon's, with NIGHT BELL; the fractures tion even for misfortune, in order to receive of the peace, he thought, demand as init with due misery: everything has its time, stantaneous a setting as those of the bones. its pace, its measure. On reflection, we Some error might arise, but what an awe dare say this young Filch deemed himself would such an arrangement strike into the hardly treated; he probably complained to population of crime! What, no space for Mr. Wontner that he and his offence had communication with the fellows, otherwise not been treated with due ceremony. Here pals of the society?-no scheming to get was a culprit apprehended without a pur-off by alibi, or suppression of evidence?— suit, tried without any imprisonment, and no time to frighten, buy, or tire out witcondemned without the sympathy of his nesses?-and, above all, no vacation when friends. His wife (vulgarly so called) was free from external cares, the Apprehended expecting him home to dinner; and, lo! the judge had ordered him off to the Antipodes. Was ever the insolence of office carried to a higher pitch? Foreign service, and not even time to take a farewell from his most intimate associates! Who would be a thief to be treated with so little respect? Men about to be hanged derive a temporary consolation from being for once in DISGRACEFUL NEGLECT OF OUR SCIENtheir lives the_principal actors in an exten-TIFIC OPPORTUNITIES.-The indifference sive scene. Poverty, ignorance, and con- of the English government to the promotempt, perhaps, have kept a poor man down tion of science has long presented a re

may strut his hour in Newgate, where the worst having happened, the accomplished thief holds himself up as the mirror of Nighthood, the pride of roguery, and the envy of surrounding thieves, and daily and hourly lectures upon the theme of his former triumphs.

markable contrast to the zeal and magnifi-, do we find such men as Waterton or Burcence which the various French govern-chell spring out of official appointment? ments have shown in encouraging all at- The most scandalous neglect of opportunitempts to enlarge the boundaries of knowl- ties of gathering valuable knowledge occurs edge. It penetrates from the highest offi- in our navy, and more especially in our exces of state to the lowest outposts: all that peditions of discovery and survey. Somewe have done in bringing home the scien-thing in a small and mean way was done tific treasures of other countries, or in in the Polar expeditions; but how many braving the dangers and difficulties in seek-vessels have left our shores, bound to suring nature in her remotest recesses, has vey the most interesting tracts of the globe, been the result of individual enterprise: without having a man on board the least lucky if, on our return, on the very thres- | hold of home, some custom-house duty, or other paltry obstacle, does not destroy or render of no avail the result of all or a great part of our labours. Consider the enormous extent and the natural treasures of our colonies, and the relations they, joined with our commerce, bring about between En-tach to it a single naturalist; not a man gland and the nations of the earth, and wonder how rarely an officer of government has his attention directed to exploring and describing the remarkable objects absolutely under his control. Sir Stamford Raffles is a distinguished instance of what might be done, even in a short life; but Sir Stamford Raffles was an officer of the East India

acquainted with the kingdom of nature, or even a smattering of any other art or science beyond those indispensable to navigation! Look at Captain Owen's expedition to the coasts of Africa, which spent years among the most curious and fertile spots of the whole earth; the government did not at

who knew a hawk from a handsaw, or a melon from a mulberry, save in the pulpy form of fruit. But there was a botanist: oh, yes, there was a botanist-one botanist to three ships! and hear the record of his appointment as published by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admirality :—

"The Horticultural Society, desirous of government. We might pardon the ap- extending the boundary of human knowlpointment of men to rule countries without edge in natural history, obtained from the any knowledge, political, commercial, or Admiralty an order to embark a botanist for scientific, for the sake of the military rank | this purpose: and here Mr. John Forbes, which somehow is supposed necessary to the gentleman appointed, joined us, with sustain the dignity and secure the safety an allowance from the society of 2001. a year of our colonial possessions; but it is surely during his absence." This able and zealinexcusable that, among all the overpaid ous young man fell a victim to the deadly and almost sinecure places of our colonial climate of the countries in which his reestablishments, care is not taken that some searches were carried on. What became one at least of these officers shall be able to of his collections we are not informed: as give some account on his return; and, dur- he had no assistant, or successor, or adjunct, ing his residence, be able to spread the in all the expedition, it is possible they knowledge of the natural advantages of the were lost. Such as he had made at Rio country in part placed under his control. he wished to send home by the Beaver In that colony of such extraordinary beauty frigate, then on her return; but the spirit of and richness, the Isle of France, where our hatred or contempt for natural science which official establishment cost as much as would animated the Admiralty of the time had govern Denmark and Sweden, but a short descended to its officers. Mr. Forbes went time ago a variety of plants were the ad- on board the Beaver, and asked the capmiration but the puzzle of the whole island, tain (M'Lane, a very young man, and nefor no one knew or could form a guess of phew of the First Lord of the Admiralty, what they were; accidentally, however, Lord Melville) permission to send his colsome German gardeners arrived, sent about lection to his frigate. The answer was, the world by that generous and enlightened "She is going to take dollars, and so could government of Bavaria, to collect seeds and not."-(Captain Owen's Expedition, vol. i. specimens, who no sooner had these plants p. 49.) The Scotch captain was not too pointed out to them than, to the shame of young, we dare say, to calculate his per the education of the island and its regi- centage on the carriage of the dollars, ments and staff, clerical, medical, political, though it is very probable he was too ignoand financial, they instantly explained their rant to understand the value of any other names, their qualities, and took note of plants than such as had been time immemosome of their remarkable varieties. There | rial introduced into his father's kitchen-garis scarcely a colony we possess where the den. Like Omar, we can easily imagine natives have not some valuable medicine a nephew of Lord Melville's reasoning of unknown to our faculty; but a mystery is usually thrown round savage treasures, and it requires such men as Waterton to track them to their secret habitats; but when

botany thus: "Do these plants grow in my father's kailyard? if they do, I see no use in sending them to England; if they do not, they are wholly unnecessary, and, as

such, might as well be thrown to the pigs of the Beaver."

Nile; kneel, with the Greek and Catholic, at the tomb of their Redeemer; or join the Hebrew patA botanist, we perceive, has been ap-feasts beneath the branches of the willow and the riots who reside near Sion, and keep the harvestpointed to Hobart Town, with a salary of palm. Supplies of coals should, of course, pre600l. per annum. This is a sign of better cede the steamer to some intervening ports."times. The fact is, a chair of natural histo- Greenoch Advertiser. ry, or perhaps two or three, ought to be en- The grand tour indeed! What was the dowed in every one of our great colonies, grand tour, compared with the mere Cocksuch as Jamaica, Demerara, Ceylon, New ney trip of the present day? It is called an South Wales, &c., and travelling professors excursion, an extensive one, to be sure. appointed, like the travelling fellowships of An excursion is a little eccentric deviation Oxford and Cambridge (now sunk into jobs.) from the ordinary routine; the little modern Were two or three men sent to every colo- deviation, however, includes Constantinople, ny, such individuals as followed in the steps Athens, and Egypt. Doubtless, there will of men like Whewell, Sedgwick, Sabine, soon be a corresponding boat at the Isthmus Swainson, and were there instructed to lec-of Suez, which will perhaps extend the exture and travel, the result would be an im- cursion to India,-a mighty pleasant arportant change in colonial morals, as well rangememt to those who have friends and as great acquisitions to science. An impe- connexions in the Indian empire. The Matus would be given to the intellectual exer- lacca islands will vary the return; and our tions of the young colonists, which would friends, at evening parties, will prattle of the raise them altogether above the low and Malays instead of Mont Blanc, and the volgrovelling pursuits too common in hot cli- canoes of Sumatra take the place of Vesumates amongst intemperate and ill-informed vius;-nay, it is not impossible that the more youths. They would form themselves into leisurely and disengaged may stretch the investigating parties, study to compose me- excursion to China or New South Wales, or moirs and reports, and gradually connect bring us the lastest fashions from the South themselves with the science of the mother- Seas. If Captain Cook could look down country; thus, not only raising the standard upon these things, what would he say to a of individual excellence, but strengthening the bonds of union between the mothercountry and the colonists by the most graceful of ties; while, at the same moment, the great and distinguishing object of civilization would be furthered, viz.—the advancement and refinement of mankind at large through the purifying influence of knowledge.

THE NEW GRAND TOUR.-Here is an autumnal excursion: what next? Our ancestors made their wills before they set out on a journey from York to London; now we arrange our carpet-bags for trips to Asia and Africa,-Gibraltar, Smyrna, and Egypt: we are to pluck the orange from the tree, bathe in the Jordan, and "join the Hebrew patriots who reside near Sion "who are they?) the only preparation necessary being to see to a supply of coals.

Cockney trip round the globe, in which a provision was made to visit his tomb in the Sandwich Islands, as a mark of respect to the man who first showed the way to so pleasant a variety of the grand tour?

THE HOURIS OF THE WEST INDIAN NE

GROES.-"News has come from St. Vincent's that the negroes are aware that something is going on for their advantage, and are already speculating on having white wives and keeping gigs and horses."—Mr. Bernal's Speech in the House of Commons, July 24.

This was, of course, meant to prove that the negroes are in a very dangerous state, and the Members thereupon cried hear, hear! in horror; but, in truth, it is an argument that tells quite the other way. Mr. Bernal, whose talents, experience, and deserved popularity, secure to his remarks the highest respect, had just informed the house that the EXTENSIVE PLEASURE TRIP.-It is in con- negroes would not work, but on compulsion; templation to send a well-appointed steamer an- that, by six or seven hours' labour per week, nually, near the end of summer, from Greenock or Glasgow, to Alexandria, Joppa, and Athens, which they could support themselves; and having vessel shall remain about a fortnight or three done that, they would, in freedom, do no weeks convenient to those ports, for the accommo- more. But here is a very different story;dation of such passengers as may offer in Belfast, the negroes are looking up; freedom is not Liverpool, Dublin, Gravesend, Brest, Lisbon, idleness in their opinion-it is white wives, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Malta, and other places where and horses and gigs. We admire their she may touch for a few hours upon her voyage out and home. Economy and convenience being taste; but it is not a cheap one. The nethus united, learned and curious persons may visit groes are mightily mistaken if they imagine various interesting parts of the three old conti- a white wife and a horse and gig in any nents in a very little more than two months' time. They may pluck the orange, olive, grape, and fig in full perfection; examine the rocky fortress of Gibraltar; the statue, pillar, pyramid, and mosque. They may bathe in the Jordan and the

country, much less in the West Indies, are to be kept for the value of six or seven hours' labour per week. The negro has a capacity for labour, he has a love of gain, and various

expensive tastes; and yet there are people, be thrown into the debtor and creditor who will maintain that nought is to be ex-account of the book of conscience, as a pected from him but indolence or violence. balance against this blood-money, depends The negro is extremely apt for civilization: upon chance. The horrid thirst for gold is it is shown in his very nonsense, his love of too greedy to calculate lives: it is in fine names, his passion for cocked-hats and thought guilty of compassing the death of plumes of feathers, his ceremonial observ- all, and if any are saved it comes of no ances, especially at balls and treats; and, mercy of the blood-traffickers. This is immediately on his getting property, his pe- worse than the slave-trade, bad enough culiar neatness, his pride, and his contempt though it be, and assumes a more atrocious for slaves. More than this, we think there dye, concocted and prepared as it is by is a great deal in Mr. O'Connell's apparent "respectable" individuals in the very centre paradox,-he proves his fitness for freedom and mart of knowledge and benevolence. by the grace with which he has submitted A little publication on this subject filled to slavery. What is slavery, but an undue us with incredulous horror; but such doubt share of the hardships of life? We are all as remained is pretty well cleared up. slaves, more or less; the so-called slave has Captain Owen's surveying ships were his hardships in the grossest form, but by directed to some points of the coast of no means always in the greatest amount. Africa infamous for wrecks: it appeared, on Well, then, here are men who have made examination, that nothing but the grossest the best of all the bitters of life, unmitigated ignorance, or the most wicked purpose, in their astringency by such joys as we could account for the majority of these deem sweets. If unrepiningly-nay, re-wrecks; and it seems to be well underspectably-they have made up their spirits stood in our navy which of the interpretato bear this burden, surely they are the very tions to adopt. The fact is, these murdermen who will bear themselves discreetly ous wreckers have their pet spots, their under the ordinary restrictions imposed by nooks and corners of the ocean, to which society. They have bowed to fate-they they retire for the perpetration of their have acknowledged superior power-they unnatural offence. "Of the numerous have taken misfortune in good part,-are wrecks which occurred in Table Bay and not these the men rightly chastened for a its vicinity, during the term of our voyage, subordinate state of citizenship? Good there was not one, at least where we had wages in hand, and many tempting mer- the means of inquiring, which could not be chandises all around, and the Mahometan traced either to extreme ignorance, negparadise of "white wives," and "gigs and ligence, or design." ("Captain Owen's horses " in view, much may be expected Voyages.")-A case of gross sea-burking is from the transplanted African. Wherever recorded in the same valuable book: it is we hear of him in free service he is a wor- that of the Matilda, which, after having thy man. Ask the captains of our navy if made a barefaced attempt to be wrecked they would desire better or more trustwor- within the port of Mozambique, from which thy hands than the ordinary sailor-negro? while some of the tribes, even of savages, are proverbial for their sense of honour, their fidelity, and their enthusiastic industry.

she was saved, in spite of her officers, by unexpected assistance, was afterwards run upon the bank of St. Antonio, in open day, "to answer the ends of her owners, by whom she had been over-insured." The SEA-BURKING. This is a name given to bank on which she was lost is a patch of a crime of extreme civilization: just as coral, crowned with dry-sand, just covered land-burking springs out of science and at the highest spring tides. She was comhumanity, so sea-burking takes its origin in fortably laid on the inside of this bank, mutual association to prevent individual where the least danger was likely to attend distress. Advantage of this is taken to the crew (charitable souls!) They began insure unseaworthy vessels for a sum great- to unload the cargo and place it on the er than the value, when the owners and the sand; but after three days, they all set off, captains enter into an agreement to wreck in two boats, for Mozambique, a distance of them on some dangerous shore, the bad about seventy miles to the northward. But reputation of which may serve as an excuse the scoundrels were out in their reckoning: for the loss, and yet, by its proximity to they had forgotten the currents, which succour, may afford a refuge for the boat of always set with great rapidity to the norththe prepared conspirators. The wretched ward near the shores and edges of coral crew shift for themselves: the majority are banks. They were obliged to land on the probably drowned, that is to say, murdered coast for water, where some were killed, by this new description of pirate. The and the rest with difficulty escaped. The reward, or blood-money, is received at son of the owner (said to be an agent for Lloyd's, it is the difference between the value of an unsaleable vessel and the insurance-money. How many lives are to

Lloyd's) was on board, but the fatigues and privations to which they had been unexpectedly exposed in this adventure, cost

him and all the officers their lives upon, their arrival at Mozambique. The information was gained from a few nearly starved Lascars, picked up at St. Mary's; half of them died before Captain Owen arrived with them at the Cape.

"The complainant stated that her husband was a man of violent temper, which was increased when he got drunk, and this was often the case. On the preceding night, he came home, and as she did not expect him so early she went to bed at nine o'clock, and the moment he entered the room he dragged her out of bed, and commenced beating her with a stick. She screamed with pain, but instead of her tears and entreaties having any effect upon him, he continued to beat her, and did not desist until she fell to the ground in a state of insensibility, one mass of bruises from head to foot.

"The magistrate asked the defendant what he had to say in answer to the charge, and he replied with the greatest sang froid imaginable, 'I admit that I gave her a quilting with an ash sapling, and she provoked me by not having supper

IDEA OF A NEW COURT FOR DOMESTIC GRIEVANCES.-One of the most fruitful sources of applications for magisterial interference is the unhappiness arising out of matrimonial misunderstandings. It is a pity that there should not be some better mode of reconciling these differences. The great want seems to be some court of morals, some branch off the main trunk of prepared."" Doctors Commons, which might interfere Another husband, in the same rank of in all domestic disputes on being appealed life, brings up "a buxom young damsel," to, and whose deliberations should take his wife, and charges her with a multitude place with closed doors. Men of respec- of offences, one of the chief of which tability, education, and knowledge of the seemed to be the neglect of not having world, formed into a Domestic Court in washed up the breakfast things before the every large town, might interpose with middle of the day-a complaint at any rate great effect. Public opinion unhappily exhibiting a passionate love of order. On does not operate with any force below a the part of the husbandcertain rank; broils, fights, abusive set-tos, "the complainant gave a long account of matriending in the disturbance of a neighbour-monial enormities perpetrated by his wife, the hood, are visited with no loss of reputation, principal of which appeared to be that she perreputation being in fact pitched too low for mitted his shirts to go unbuttoned and his hose The undarned, in order that she might indulge her such discord to make a difference. penchant for a dish of gossip with her neighbours. restraint imposed by the fear of ridicule Having occasion, a few days ago, to call at her and the dread of censure acts with very father's house, he encountered his wife, who opfavourable results in the higher and middle posed his progress up stairs tooth and nail, and inwalks of life. Many is the broil of bad flicted a scratch down the dexter side of his nose. temper stopped at the point where the It is from no vindictive feeling (added Mr. Joyce) that I bring forward these serious charges against bubble and squeak is likely to be heard by that woman, but it is because I go in fear of my the neighbours or the passenger. But life. Oh! your worship, I haven't told you_half, there is no such wholesome fear in low life. nor a quarter of her baseness-I've come home Neither is there any care to be considered at twelve o'clock in the day, and I've actually in a happy and respectable ménage. Won- found the breakfast things not washed up!"" It is creditable to this complainant that he derful efforts are made, and great sacrifices are yielded in a multitude of families for proceeded to no violence like the horse-deathe sake of this consideration alone; and ler; but then he is connected with the arts, though the hypocrisy it engenders is some- being a lithographic printer, and the arts, alí those of the horse-dealer, "soften times laughable and easily seen through, save yet the mere effort often turns the tide of manners, and will not permit a man to be wrath; the lull is taken advantage of, and brutal," at least so says the Latin syntax in the coming storm prepared for; nay, the illustration, not of a police, but a genitive And then it appears Mr. Joyce is a elements of anger themselves often seize case. the opportunity and dissolve into innocuous person of some refinement of taste; he ocshowers. In the lower ranks, most com-cupies his leisure hours with music-that monly the wife is both spouse and servant; music is the guitar. This fact, to be sure, if she performs her duties ill in her latter comes out in an awkward manner:— "Mr. Conant intimated that his opinion did capacity, the punishment is visited upon not quite coincide with complainant's as to the her in her other relation. A bad servant, grievances he appeared to think so unpardonable. when not a wife, is immediately discharged; Well, but what will your worship think,' said but if bound also by the sacred bond of Mr. Joyce, when I inform you, that though she marriage, the only discharge she receives is well knew that music was my only rational recrea discharge of blows. To use the language ation after the shop was shut up, she positively pawned my guitar!"" of a gentleman whose domestic quarrels she were lately the subject of a police case, is well quilted.

"Thomas Lay, a horse-dealer, was brought before Mr. Murray at Union Hall, charged with committing a violent assault on his wife, whose features were scarcely visible, owing to the beating she had received.

But the lady, in some measure, explained this circumstance, which draws out still further charges.

"Mrs. Joyce. That was when you left me several days without a farthing to support myself.' "Mr. Joyce. And I have just discovered another piece of monstrous baseness on her part.