But the most exquisite suffering is endured by those victims which have not the good fortune to be disposed of the first day, and led to a speedy termination of their existence. After standing a whole day on the hard pavement, bruised in every part, particularly their legs (which frequently exhibit, after they are killed, one coagulated mass of bruised flesh and blood), and nearly famishing, they are destined to prolong their miserable existence until another market-day. The limits I have prescribed will not allow of more observations; but as no propensity is so hostile to the well-being of society as cruelty, I would strongly urge the necessity of parents endeavouring to inculcate in the minds of their children a degree of kindness for the brute creation: the principles of humanity, indeed, ought to form a prominent feature in the various systems of national education; and Sunday-School teachers, it is hoped, will consider the inculcation of such principles an indispensable duty. The men to whose care the cattle are entrusted have each a badge on their arm numbered, in order that, if guilty of acts of wanton cruelty, any person may have the power of applying to a magistrate, whose authority cannot be more beneficially exercised than in taking effective measures for the suppression of this most odious propensity. Your's, &c. July 22, 1824. THE GIN SHOP. DYMOND. (Illustrated by the Frontispiece.) Here is the footstep of the drunkard marked. The hand of poverty and wretchedness has rubbed off the paint from the door. Here comes the half-famished artizan, the worn and emaciated wife, the prostitute, and the outcast. What is it that thus attracts? Is it pleasure? Is it gain? Is it use or benefit? No; but the very worst depravity of man's nature! Many have passed its threshold, for the first time, with health on their cheeks, industry in their arms, and money in their pockets; yet, before one short year had passed, were nothing but rags and disease! What can cause this? Where is the attraction? It is a false glow-a momentary flash upon the darkness of the poor man's life that flies but to leave him still more gloomy. He comes home-he quarrels with his wife-he retires (where?) to ruminate: he becomes gloomy, and the gin-shop is his resource. Perhaps his wife (as well inclined as he may be to go there) begins this quarrel in order to drive him out, and then indulge herself with the usual beverage-a glass of gin, and lightens the pleasure of it by abusing the father of her children to her circle of tipplers, with whom she spends his earnings. The poor outcast visits the gin-shop even with the last penny, which ought to provide a mouthful of bread for his famishing frame. But this deceptive draught banishes, for a few moments, reflection, and palls the powers of the stomach. So he is happy! Let the artizan avoid the door of the gin-shop as the gate of perdition; and, instead of expending his hard-earned income thus, let him increase his comforts at home: even if he must have gin, let him not go to the shop to drink it, but with his family sit down and be happy. But, why drink gin? Is not a draught of good porter, or home brewed ale inore wholesome, more enlivening, and more economical? Leave off the gin shop, and money, happiness, and health will increase with you. Visit it, and disease, poverty, and misery await you! WAT TYLER AND SIR WILLIAM To the Editor of The Economist. SIR;-In the 13th Number of your valuable publication, under the head of Smithfield, you have taken an opportunity of giving a side hit to Sir William Walworth; although I am not prepared to call the man who slew a rebel an assassin, yet there are secrets in history; and perhaps, if the matter be investigated, this ex ploit of London's mayor may not be I remain, Sir, A CONSTANT READER. ANNALS OF GULLING. No. XV. DAY-LIGHT GAMING. TO RECOVER SUMS LOST AT GAMING. We have little more to say upon the voice of day-light gaming, and Rouge et Noir houses, than what we have stated in our 10th and 11th Numbers; but as we have promised to lay down the means of recovering sums lost at unlawful gaming, we shall make a few observations upon the subject. There are two methods of recovering money lost at play: one is by an action for sums had and received, and the other by indictment. In the first way it will be necessary, as in all cases of debt, to have a witness to prove the loss; but, in the latter process, the plaintiff's own oath is sufficient. If an action be not brought within three months after the money is lost, an action for debt cannot be proceeded upon; it must be by indictment, and at the end of that period, it is in the power of any person who was present when the money was lost to lay an indictment. The acts are 9 Anne, c. 14, and 25 George II, c. 36. We are not advocates for the prac tice of applying to the law to recover money lost which was risked voluntarily, but there are too many cases where young men are deprived of their property, or the property entrusted to their care, by the deceptions and allurements of the gaminghouses; to these, and their friends, we address our present remarks, and recommend them to profit by them. The only way to put down gamblinghotises, is by exerting the law against them; and we sincerely wish we could see the inhabitants of each street, where they exist, united for the purposes of visiting them with the penalties of the law. In proceeding against these gamblers, the most strict watch should be kept over the plaintiff's attorney employed against them, in order that, by delays and deception, he may not manage to lose the cause. Money becomes no object to them in such an undertaking, and they would willingly part with ten times the sum sued for, than that the suer should succeed in his object. Many actions are commenced against them, but we seldom hear of them, because they are not brought into court, bribery in uine cases out of ten being the cause. STRAW BONNET GULLING. To the Editor of The Economist. SIR; Two respectable females went to the shop of Mr. A, in Cranbourn-alley, a short time since, to purchase some bonnets; they were shown a good article at a certain price, and pressed much to buy, and allow them to be sent home; but from some cause they did not purchase. A few days after, one of the same party went with the full intention of purchasing two bonnets; she was shown some at the same price as the others, but of an inferior quality; on remonstrating at the difference, they brought her the same articles as at first, with only the moderate addition of eight shillings on each bonnet to the price originally asked! All remon➡ strance was in vain; they would not sell the article at the first price fixed. The master of the shop slunk out of the way, being quite ashamed of his untradesman-like conduct. The fact is, if the purchase had been made and paid for, they would have sent home an inferior article, which I really believe is a very common practice in those pulling-in shops, as I term them, for you really can hardly pass in many parts of the town without being absolutely dragged into shops, and forced to look at articles quite against your inclination. I am, Sir, yours, &c. PLATED DOGS. To the Editor of The Economist. SIR;-Of all the plated things with which the unwary are deceived, there is none more extraordinary than that which forms the title of my letter. A short time ago my attention was attracted to some beautiful small white poodle dogs in a cage at Charing-Cross, and after some chafering betwixt the seller and myself, I became the purchaser of one for twelve shillings; in a few days, I observed symptoms of uneasiness in the animal, when all of a sudden I saw a brown nose just under the white one, and with a little assistance, out walked as dingy, ill-looking a cur as ever breathed: the poodle's skin had been curiously fastened on the animal's body, and I was bit. Grays Inn Lane. LOTTERY. T. ROGERS. This is the last, but not the least gull. Every ticket is to be a prize of (what think you?) five pounds, and tickets will probably be sold at nineteen pounds each. If all is fair in the drawing of the lottery (and we do not mean to assert the contrary), according to the doctrine of chances, the ticket can only be worth ten pounds, inclusive of the certainty of the return of five. The contractors expatiate much on the advantage which the lottery possesses. Suppose the public let these gentlenen enjoy all these boasted advantages themselves: it will be fair, liberal, and just! SPANISH SNUFF. Cheap tobacco-powder, savine, yellow sand, old rotten wood, and almost any vegetable substance, both dry and green, mixed into a body, and coloured with red ochre, amber, or other noxious red or brown colour, moistened with water and molasses. The whole is passed through a hair sieve, to mix it more intimately, then placed in a heap for some time, to sudorify or sweat, as the snuffmen have it, which makes it all over equally moist, and imitates the oiliness which the real Havannah possesses. It is then placed in canisters or jars, and an ill-printed label in Spanish pasted outside. This is the genuine Macouba sold in London; aye, and exported in large quantities to the East Indies too! THE ECONOMIST AND THE PRINTER'S DEVIL. We are, as minor periodicals, ambitious of being noticed by our greater brethren. The Morning Chronicle often does us that honour; but sometimes-for instance, in the extract of the "Confessions of a Bricklayer," inserted last Wednesday-the printer's devil has omitted to mention where the article came from. This is like recognizing an humble acquaintance, by first looking at him, and then nodding at the wall. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.NO. III (Literary.) Who invented Mrs. Veal's Vision? -Daniel Defoe! Who composed Thomas Little's poems?-Little Thomas Moore! Who made Mavor's Spelling-book? -Benjamin Tabart! Who compiled Mawes' Gardener? -John Abercrombie. Who wrote Barry Cornwall's poems?-Proctor the Attorney! Who was the author of Junius?Our corpondents may answer that. REFLECTIONS, MAXIMS, &c. Continued from p. 221.) 25. There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of Virtue. Sincerely to aspire after Virtue, is to gain her, and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them. Those that seek her early, will find her before it is late; her reward also is with her, and she will come quickly. For the breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivalled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling bis word." 26. The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. 27. Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die. 28. Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say; but, from their conduct, one would suppose that they were born with two tongues, and one eye; for those talk the most who have observed the least, and obtrude their remarks upon every thing, who have seen into nothing. 29. It proceeds rather from revenge than malice, when we hear a man affirm, that all the world are knaves. For, before a man draws this conclusion of the world, the world has usually anticipated him, and concluded all this of him who makes the observation. Such men may be compared to Brothers the prophet, who, on being asked by a friend how he came to be clapped up into Bedlam, replied, "I and the world happened to have a slight dif ference of opinion; the world said I was mad, and I said the world was mad; I was outvoted, and here I am." 30. The ignorant have often given credit to the wise for powers that are permitted to none, merely because the wise have made a proper use of those powers that are permitted to all. The little Arabian tale of the dervise may be the comment of this proposition. A dervise was journeying alone in the desert, when two merchants suddenly met him. "You have lost a camel," said he to the merchants. "Indeed we have," they replied. "Was he not blind in his right eye, and lane in his left leg?" said the dervise. "He was," replied the merchants. "Had he not lost a front tooth?" said the dervise. "He had," rejoined the merchants. "And was he not loaded with honey on one side, and wheat on the other?" "Most certainly he was," they replied; " and as you have seen him so lately, and marked him so particularly, you can, in all probability, conduct us unto him." "My friends," said the dervise, "I have never seen your camel, nor ever heard of him, but from you.' "A pretty story, truly," said the merchants; "but where are the jewels which formed a part of his cargo?" "I have neither seen your camel nor your jewels," repeated the dervise. On this they seized his person, and forthwith hurried him before the cadi, where, on the strictest search, nothing could be found upon him, nor could any evidence whatever be adduced to convict him, either of falsehood or of theft. They were then about to proceed against him as a sorcerer, when the dervise, with great calmness, thus addressed the court: "I have been much amused with your surprise, and own that there has been some ground for your suspicions; but I have lived long, and alone; and I can find ample scope for observation, even in a desert. I knew that I had crossed the track of a camel that had strayed from its owner, because I saw no mark of any human footstep on the same route; I knew that the animal was blind in one eye, because it had cropped the herbage only on one side of its path; and I perceived that it was lame in one leg, from the faint impression which that particular foot had produced upon the sand; I concluded that the animal had lost one tooth, because wherever it had grazed, a small tuft of herbage was left uninjured, in the centre of its bite. As to that which formed the burthen of the beast, the busy ants informed me that it was corn on the one side, and the clustering flies, that it was honey on the other." GARDENING, HORTICULTURE, &c. TO GROW RADISHES AT ALL Take seeds of the common radish, and lay them in rain water to steep for 24 hours; then put them, quite wet, into a small linen bag, well tied at the mouth with packthread. If you have steeped a large quantity of seeds, you may divide them into several bags. Then expose the bags in a place where they will receive the greatest heat of the sun, for about 24 hours, at the end of which time the seed will begin to grow, and you may then sow it in the usual manner, in earth well exposed to the heat of the sun. Prepare two small tubs to cover each other exactly. These may be easily provided, by sawing a small cask through the middle, and they will serve in winter; in summer one will be sufficient for each kind of earth that has been sown. As soon as you have sown your seeds you must cover them with your tub, and at the end of three days you will find radishes of the size and thickness of young lettuces, having at their extremities two small round leaves, rising from the earth, of a reddish colour. These radishes, cut or pulled up, will be excellent, if mixed with a sallad, and they have a much more delicate taste than the common radishes which are eaten with salt. By taking the following precautions you may have them in the winter, and even during the hardest frosts. After having steeped the seeds in warm water, and exposed them to the sun as already directed, or in TO PRESERVE FLOWER SEEDS. Those who are curious about saving flower seeds, must attend to them in this month. Many kinds will begin to ripen apace, and should be carefully sticked and supported to prevent them from being shaken by high winds, and so partly lost. Others should be defended from much wet: such as asters, marygolds, and generally those of the class syngenesia; as from the construction of their flowers they are apt to rot, and the seeds to mould in bad seasons. Whenever they are thought ripe, or indeed any others in wet weather, they should be removed to an airy shed or loft, gradually dried, and rubbed or beat out at conveniency. COOKERY. PORTABLE SOUP, OR GLAZE. Desire the butcher to break the bones of a leg or shin of beef, of ten pounds weight (the fresher killed the better); put it into a soup-pot (a digester is the best utensil for this purpose) that will well hold it; just cover it with cold water, and set it on the fire to heat gradually, till it nearly boils (this should be at least an hour); skim it attentively while any scum rises, and pour in a little cold water, to throw up the scum that may remain; then let it boil again, and again skim it care. fully; when no more scum rises, and the broth appears clear (put in neither roots, herbs, nor salt); let it boil for eight or ten hours, and then strain it through a hair sieve |