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possible to collect a crowd at that time? and do cabs go caterwauling about in the small hours of the morning?

A Mr. Pete remonstrating with a policeman, about the impropriety of his interfering with the customary instinctive recreations of his valuable dog-said interesting whelp considered by its owner to be of more consideration than an immortal being in police uniform-whom he kindly offers to massacre on the spot, in the event of his protruding his dirty nose up the right of way again; Mr. Reid, who has apparently a valuable connection among a particular class, gets his client off, to have him on again, in all probability, ere long.

Two foolish women get into disgrace for not exercising their inherent mind-power of theological self-conscious responsibility. And lastly; John Thompson brings up the rear, but the magistrates getting hungry, leave him a remand until the next sederunt of the magisterial bench.

ANOTHER Arrival of Turtle at Williams's hotel. Soup in its usual

excellence every day.

One turtle, fourteen bullocks' heads, plucks, &c., &c., &c., every week, and always as good as it was, which is saying a great deal, for it is not calculated to improve with age like port wine. In case of over eating, and attendant drinking that good eating is said to deserve, deranging the digestion and damaging the general system, we have here the celebrated sovereign remedy.

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OLLOWAY'S PILLS is a Remedy for Dyspepsia.-No one who has seen the effect of Holloway's Pills in cases of dyspepsia, can believe for a moment that this depressing and dangerous disease is incurable. The patient who has suffered from it for years; whose strength, appetite, and cheerfulness, seem utterly gone, to whom life is a burden, and who has long ceased to hope for relief; may be radically cured by a course of this powerful stomachic and mild aperient. Hundreds of instances of this kind are on record.

Holloway's pills is a remedy! meaning doubtless that each pill contains in itself the virtue of all the rest, and a whole box full is only equal to one. But it never occurred

to me before, that gamboge and aloes could be both powerfully stomachic and mildly aperient at the same time. However we seem on the eve of some tremendous medical discoveries. It is a great pity that these pills cannot cure tongue diseases, such as blasphemy, lies, and mawkish cant. These evil spirits are not to be purged out that way, we are unceasingly told by priests how these maladies were once exorcised, so where are those three men from Manchester? Ah! well, thank you, never mind, we don't want any fiddling and too-too-ing just now, we will call for that bye and bye.

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VE PER CENT. INTEREST allowed for MONEY Deposited in this Office, in Sums of £10 and upwards. Repayable on demand. WILLIAM CLARKE & SONS.

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NDIGO CREEK NEW DIGGINGS.-Parties leaving for these Diggings can obtain full value for any Articles they have to dispose of, or Money Advanced. I. BARNET, 117 A, Swanston-street. Observe-One door off Bourke-street.

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[ONEY, Various sums to be advanced immediately. Apply to Mr. Atkyns, solicitor, Chancery-lane,

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[ONEY TO LEND, in Sums of £10, £15, £20, £25, £30, £35, £40, £45, £50, and up to £200, for terms of one, two, three, four, and six months, on deposit of deeds only. Borrowers are reminded that they are spared all vexatious charges, no charge being made for legal documents of any kind and no delay.

Apply to R. C. LUSCOMBE, 89, Swanston-street, opposite Jordan's Rainbow Hotel, moved from Queen's Arcade.

MONEY.-Two Sums of £500 each, three of £800, and four of

£1000, at ten per cent.; two snms of £1800, three of £2000, and four of £3500, at nine per cent.; sums of £4000 up to £10,000, at eight per cent. Any of the above sums to be had on mortgage.

Apply to R. C. LUSCOMBE, 89, Swasnton-street, opposite Jordan's Rainbow Hotel.

Messrs. Clark and Sons have an unsullied reputation as honourable men, but the wording of their advertisement is slightly equivocal, and an unbiassed stranger might be induced to suppose that they were doing a most extraordinary business, and wonderfully profitable, if it enabled them to take the money over the counter, feel it, and pay it back as demanded with five per cent added.

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Very good, Mr. Barnet, very good indeed, but who is to be the judge of full value? Oh, the eighth commandment in the decalogue! well I am glad to find that all pawnbrokers have not forgotten it.

Mr. Atkyns has got a lawyer behind the scenes who is going to sell all that he has, and give to the poor. Well, but my good fellow, why don't you say so? How can we be expected to know that? There is nothing at all to lead us to suppose you mean usury or mortgage from the tone of your advertisement.

Any amount of money to lend by Mr. R. C. Luscombe, if Mr. R. C. Luscombe can only induce the confiding public to lend it to him. Any sum from a paltry ten pound note and upwards, increasing in geometrical progression, like the nails in the horse shoe example, till the cost of the advertisement must have staggered him. However the man has got up to ten thousand pounds sterling. It is worthy of remark that borrowers are "reminded," because an intimation might convey to the public the impression that Mr. Luscombe had not lent any money before, whereas a reminder necessarily carries a man's mind backwards into unlimited space. No charge for legal documents of any kind, that is very accommodating, but it would be awkward if it turned out that some of these gratuitously provided instruments were only so much waste parchment. The great advantage however is, that there is no delay, and opposite the Rainbow Hotel too; visions of nobblers rise before the borrower's mental eyes, free, gratis, of course. It is really refreshing to know that such a large sum of money is going begging, wanting to be borrowed. Nearly fifty thousand pounds to lend. By five thousand times a larger sum than was owned in cash by Jesus Christ and all his Apostles. Christianity? Nonsense, its founder said, "Beware of covetousness, for a "man's life does not consist in the abundance of things that "he possesses." It is the respectability of piety if you like. There was a large sum of money swallowed up in Sodom, Gomorrah, Herculaneum, and Pompeii.

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"Great as have been the advantages which the world "has derived from the introduction of a system of money, "in order to facilitate the exchange of commodities, it "would not be easy to estimate how much those advantages "have been reduced by the confusion which has in consequence arisen, as to the true principles which regulate all "such exchanges, and which could not have existed had "simple barter been adhered to. The introduction of the systems of credit and money, however admirable in them"selves, and however needful in order to conduct commerce "on its present scale, and with due regard to the convenience "and necessities of civilized life, has, by withdrawing "attention from the fundamental rules on which all exchange "of commodities must proceed, done much to complicate "and confuse what would otherwise have been simple aud "plain.

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"The economy of human labour and time, accomplished by the introduction of those facilities for effecting the exchange of commodities, is greater than has probably been "derived from any other invention whatever; but strange "to say, the science or principles which regulate these great practices are, as yet, so little understood, that it is difficult "to find two practical men of business who entertain the "same views on questions of money and currency. And 66 yet there is no science whatever which is based upon more “invariable and tangible laws, and which, therefore, should, "if proper attention were paid to it, be so exact or so well "defined. Much, if not the whole, of the confusion and 66 error which exists, is to be traced to the fact, that men "habitually look upon money as an independent element of "wealth, and not as a mere representative of commodities, "and, therefore, neglect to refer all the fluctuation in the "abundance or scarcity of money, to fluctuations in the quantities of commodities, over which bankers and others, "who are supposed to regulate monetary affairs of the "country, have no control whatever.

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"We have before us a pile of letters, received during last "week, bearing the marks of proceeding from men with "strong powers of thinking, and many of them containing "very valuable suggestions, but which exhibit such a variety "of contradictory views, as to the causes of the present "crisis, as shew in the strongest way how unsettled and ill "defined public opinion is upon a subject so essential to the "best interests of the country.

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"In consequence of this want of a clear and well-defined "view of the real causes which influences the severe pressures, which from time to time are experienced in "the commercial and monetary affairs of the country, it is "common to refer them rather to some of the symptoms by "which they are immediately accompanied than to the true "causes themselves, and the public are always too apt to try "to shift the consequences of their own imprudence, or of "misfortune, upon those who are simply the instruments "through whom the inconveniences first became felt."

Very good indeed, Mr. Wilson. Your idea of the public shifting the consequences of their own imprudence and misfortune upon anybody or anything but themselves is a most happy one. For indeed what brings about these commercial panics if not overtrading? Rash, reckless speculation, risking one hundred pounds to make five. There is no business so bad, no speculation so desperate, but some anxious money maker will undertake it. Men who have money to lose are cautious, those who trade upon credit or brazen impudence are not so particular. They may make a profit. But if they lose and are ruined they get white-washed and start afresh. It is really as easy as lying, and certainly quite as fashionable. Nay, some commercial circles consider "busting up" no discredit, however glaring the swindle may be.

Dr. Channing, deploring the style of conducting business in that go-a-head and repudiating country America, asks his countrymen this question. "Is not more property "wrested from its owners by rash and dishonest failures, "than by professed higwhaymen and thieves?"