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GrENER AL NEWS. THE GRANDSON OF LORD BYBON'S 'MART.'—Last week there were rejoicings in the villages of Edwalton, Colwick, Annesley, &c. (Notts), to celebrate the coming of age of Mr John Chaworth Mucters, the grandson of Lord Byron's Mary.' An address was presented to Mr- Musters, which spoke of Annesley Park (one of the family seats, and where the noble poet passed so much of his. boyhood) as having its deep poetical associations, and awakening emotions of no ordinary kind, the name of Mary Chaworth being destined to remain for ever in the annals ot our country. EXTRAORDINARY CHASE.—The little town of Roscrea was on the 10th instant thrown into an unexpected state of excitement by an arrest, escape, chase, and capture, by the Sheriff, of Sam Moore, of known sporting propensi- ties. Moore is a small farmer, living adjoining lhe railway, and got into litigation with the Great Southern and Western Company in an action for compensation, in which he obtained a verdict; but it was set aside on an appeal in Dublin, and execution having been issued for costs, he was arrested and brought into Mr Brown's hotel. Making an excuse to go into the yard, he there shook off the sheriff's grasp, when the lattter fell, and Moore got well into the street, followed at about 30 yards by Mr Fitzgerald, without his hat, and encumbered with a heavy outside coat. The chase continued up the hill towards the Market-cross, where a large crowd were assembled, the pursuer, however, gaining on the purseud. When above the barracks the sheriff was observed to 'shake' himself out of his top-coat and leave it in the- street. This decided the issue of the race. Moore, finding himself hard pressed, made for a house, expecting to be able to close the door after him; but in this he was disappointed, for the agile sheriff was upon him, aud, clutching him by the eollar, both parties rolled into the reception-room of a confectionary establishment. Here one of the sheriff's men, blowing like a porpoise, came up. accompanied by some of the constabulary, and, private information having been given that a rescue would be attempted on the road, after a lapse of about two hours, the prisoner was escorted by Sub-Inspector Morgan, and a large force of police, to protect Mr Fitz- gerald so that you cau imagine our town in a pretty state of commotion. Recently some attempts have been made to upset the trains near this place, but as yet the perpetrators of these outrages have not been discovered. -Olomnel Chronicle. AN AFFECTIONATE BROTHER—Some few months since a poor. boy, a stranger, was sentenced to four months" imprisonment in the Ipswich County Gaol, for stealing a watch. His term of imprisonment expired on Saturday last. Just before the expiration of his sentence the Go- vernor of the Gaol, Mr Alloway, with kindly feeling, made some enquiries of the boy as to where he came from and what were his intentions when he was discharged from prison. The boy replied that he intended to go home to his father, who resided at Richmond, in Yorkshire, that he had run away from home, and his parents knew nothing of his whereabonts. Mr Alloway kindly under- took to write to the boy's father; and shortly after re- ceived an answer, expressing in warm terms his thanks for informing him of the state of his poor boy,' as he termed him. He also stated that he was a poor man, with a family of 12 children, and that it was not in his power to send his boy funds in order to enable to reach home. But added that his eldest son, 19 years of age, had that day started from Yorkshire, to accompany his brother home, and begged Mr Alloway to retain the lad until the arrival of his brother. True to his word, the poor lad arrived at the County Gaol on Saturday, footsore, and weary, and penniless, for he had spent his last copper the preceding night Stowmarket, where he slept, so that he had walked 12 miles without food, having started early in the morn- ing. In reply to a question as to whether he had walked all the way, he said, I Ay, Sir; and I didn't think it was so far.' He stated be had 8s only when he started from home; but he had brought his trowel with him, being a bricklayer, hoping, on his way home, to meet with a job to support himself and brother on the journey homewards. Mr Alloway kindly gave both lads a good and substantial meal, provided them with funds, and started them on their way rejoicing. A more interesting instance of brotherly affection it is rarely our lot to record—Ipswich Express. AMERICAN SENATORS.—The spectacle that is presented in our Congressional sessions is one that stinks in the nostrils of the whole country. Time is frittered away with an incessant wrangling that is disgraceful to a deli- berative assembly. Language that would be expected from only the lowest rip of society is continually heard upon its floor. Scoundrel and liar are among the fre- quent epithets applied by members to each other; and when their lungs tired with vituperative repetition, a fisticuff fight in the aisles and open space before the Speaker's chair is brought in as a relief. Out of doors the scene is no better. Canes are broken over each other's. heads, brickbats are thrown, and pistols are not unfre- quently resorted to. There are the daytime occupations of the members. If we could follow them into their nightly haunts, scenes still more disgusting would meet our view. The riot and filth of the roaring debauch would be the most venial, and from that through every act of unbridled licence, ending in the gambling-house or the brothel. Their courses of life would disgrace the occupants of our penitentiary, while those of our New York penitentiary at least have the merit of earning their living by their labour, which is more than can be said of the members of Congress. In this disgraceful picture no distinction of parties can be made. All are alike in their blackguardism, corruption and rascality. It is not the discussion of the public business that gives rise to these scenes, but it is the constant quarrelling, intriguing, cheating, and lying that are carried on for private and political purposes. Every man has his blustering and shoulder-hitting partizans at home to reward or defend his own views of personal advancement, his particular clique to advance, and some ambitious aspirant for the Presidency to help to force upon his party. With some the motive is power; with others, money with others, again, fear of exposure; while not a few are only obeying their own vile instincts. In this way the power of the- 'lorl country is weakened, the revenue squandered by millions, the Government disgraced, and the people plundered. The President may do his duty, but, unsustained as he is by Congress, he can do nothing. He has not the power to act, and we have already seen, even in the last session, how impossible it is to get Congress to do anything effec- tive. The request for power in the cases of our Central f American and Paraguayan difficulties was first refused and the last only granted at the last moment. In fact, every man, instead of being actuated by a sincere desire to advance the interests of the country, seems to be under a constant fear that somebody may get a chance to do something that will make him prominent before the peo- ple. There is no remedy for these evils but to bring into the Presidency some man whose services have made him known to the country, and who has the energy to act, and with him a Congress that will act. Genernl Scott has said that an energetic President, with a patriotic and working Congress to back him, could, by giving to the executive branch of the Government proptitude and effi- ciency, reduce our national expenses in two years to forty millions of dollars. It is such a change as this that the people are called upon to make, for the course which the present Congress is pursuing is one that always leads to despotism. Like our own, the members of the last National Assembly of France frittered away their time and reputation until the people were rejoiced to have Louis Napoleon step in and overthrow them. So too, with the elder Napoleon and the first National Assembly. It was their abandonment of political affairs and constant personal wrangles that opened the way for the Empire. We must have a revolution in the character of Congress or its present state will inevitably lead to revolution in our political institutions.-New York Herald.

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