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an India rubber or gutta percha tube, will unite us at the beck of the good angel of Punch's philanthopy. Italy, Sicily, and Hungary look upon us as humbugs. Turkey has long since been spurned, and awaits the grasp of Russia with the equanimity of fatalism. Portugal and Greece are ungrateful bantlings. Neither Mazzini nor the Pope respect England or Englishmen.

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England is fast losing her national character. keepers are no longer honest, and her word is no longer as good as her bond, even if that be honoured.

The remarks, we have already made above, are singularly borne out by the Daily News of to-day, Monday the 23rd. The contrast of the Papal display on the 8th September, 1846, with that of the 8th September of 1850, is strikingly pictured. The ironical loyalty of the wife of CICEROACCHIO, the jealousy between the French and Roman soldiers, the armed and mute display of Papal benignity and the desire of his holiness for more soldiers in the shape of chasseurs de Vincennes, all these things speak volumes. Next we have an insult offered to a British subject at Ancona on the part of an Austrian general, who is represented to be generally odious there. The British subject was threatened with fifty lashes at the drum-head! They are not yet inflicted! Upon this Lord Palmerston will doubtless receive a communication. Then comes the King of Naples grimly riding through his streets, like a dumb Moloch. In 1848 he was a constitutional sovereign, whose feet were kissed by a grateful people in the street. Now, how many of these grateful subjects are in prison, in exile, or a grave? The work of police persecution continues in its most hideous form.

We are precluded by the length of the remarks into which we have been betrayed from quoting much from the

simple and stern pages of our author. The corroboration of the ferocity of HAYNAU, which is offered by this recital of the sufferings of struggling Italy presents at this moment the greatest amount of interest. The facts are narrated by an old man, who has lived in honour beyond the fervency of youth and its indignant aspirations. They are therefore presented naked-almost without comment.

Shall we give some of the horrifying details of the atrocities committed by him at Brescia? "Brescians!" said Haynau, raging like a tiger at their gates, "you know meI shall keep my word." He did keep it fearfully.

"The sight of the horrible deeds committed by the Imperialists, whether in drunkenness, or by command, or in consequence of their stupidly ferocious natures, was such as to overwhelm the mind and freeze the blood in men's veins: they were beyond the limits of imagination or belief. Not only were they ferocious towards women, children, and the sick, but the tortures they inflicted were refined in such a manner as to show how much the cruelty of man exceeds that of the most ferocious animals. Limbs torn from their victims, were flung from the windows and the barricades as food for the dogs. The heads of young children cut from their bodies, women's arms, and fragments of human flesh, were thrown into the midst of the Brescian troops, to whom bombs then seemed merciful. Above all, the Imperial cannibals delighted in the horrible convulsions of those whom they burnt to death; therefore they covered the prisoners with pitch, then set them on fire, and often compelled the woman to assist at their husband's martyrdom. Sometimes, to make game of the noble blood of the Brescians, which boiled with magnanimous wrath, they tightly bound the men, and then, before their eyes, they dishonoured and cut the throats of their wives and children; and sometimes (God forgive us if we remember such a horrid fact) they forced them to swallow the mangled entrails of their nearest friends. Many died of anguish, and many fell fainting with horror."

Again,

"Let the reader imagine the murders, the burnings, the pillage, the violence of those frantic soldiers. Neither generals nor officers showed themselves anxious for their honour and humanity. Colonel Jellachich,

brother of the celebrated Ban, was an exception. Seeing the Church of St. Affra menaced, where many women had taken refuge, he hastened to guard the entrance, and remained there till his men had departed. Some few officers who had lodged in Brescia endeavoured to preserve the houses of their hosts from pillage. But the ferocious Haynau clearly showed that his mind was turned to vengeance rather than to the government of a brave and unfortunate people. It is believed that more than a hundred among the best and most intrepid of the citizens were in a few hours dragged to the castle, bastinadoed, tortured, and finally shot. A fine of 7,000,000 of livres was imposed on the provinces, and on the city a special charge of 300,000 livres, as a reward for his officers."

We are told a little after that, "slaughter was now organized." "Women and children, the aged and the helpless, were first horribly lacerated." In the midst of this, HAYNAU ordered executions from the castle, where he sat grimly watching the progress of butchery, torture, and fire.

Amidst this, deeds of heroism and bravery were acted by these unfortunate citizens, worthy of the brightest days of Greece or ancient Rome.

Can we wonder, then, at the following being elicited from the aged lips of the heroic Pepe, with whom we cordially agree:

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"One smiles bitterly at the pompous title of civilised, with which this nineteenth century is qualified by many."

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"Religion and civilisation were unknown to the barbarians who formerly devastated Europe. These sacred names now serve to cover such wickedness, that posterity will weep over our memory."

SEPTEMBER, 1850.

AN EXPOSURE OF BETTING OFFICES.

DURING the last few months the attention of the public must have been frequently arrested by seeing various showylooking places, whereon are inscribed in conspicuous characters the words "BETTING OFFICES!" At the doors of these self-advertised shop for dissipation, low-cunning, folly, and gambling, may be seen groups of men, attired chiefly in a style between the Jew and the horsejockey. Sometimes a youthful shop-boy may be observed there in the evening, tapping his boot with a ridingwhip unconscious of a horse's back. Sometimes a dashinglooking female adorns the place. Sometimes a heavy, real betting individual of a more solid description, with a real diamond set in the ring, which he bears on his coarse hand; or a steeple-chase rider,—a somewhat-gentlemanly-looking fellow of the Mason and Oliver class-stands near the door with a cigar or a tooth-pick. There are, in short, a variety of customers, touts, victims, and speculators, about these places, which sometimes combine the cigar-shop with their other advantages, so as to mingle with greater facility the smell of tobacco with the atmosphere of slang. The number and appearance of these resorts, which are rapidly increasing over the metropolis, give it quite a debauched appearance. BETTING OFFICE!—there is something quite repulsive in the name and sound.

We wish particularly to draw the attention of the Government to this new system; because we think it more likely to prove injurious than the licensing or permitting gaminghouses.

The passion for play-i.e., for cards, dice, roulette, et hoc genus omne-merely extends to a select few.

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Men, too, are ashamed of gambling, who have no moral scruples as to the propriety of a bet. The latter is a vice less stigmatised by public opinion. It is, however, quite as fatal. What are these places but open, public, staring, gambling-houses? What is betting but gambling? A short time ago, the system of Derby Sweeps was most properly interfered with. The evil was immense amid the lower classes. The petty tradesman neglected his business, or ventured his money in a desperate and disreputable pursuit. What is this but the disease peeping out in another form? The system of these Betting Offices is to establish a bank against the public, and bet the odds against all horses. It is a kind of horse-racing roulette. The evil geniuses of sharpers and gamblers are always providing something new to evade the law and our social institutions, which latter must be, on their part, constantly on the qui vive to follow up and put an end to these nuisances, as they appear. One cannot anticipate them. The " pea and the thimble" receives a wholesome check. Straightway it comes out as "pricking-in-the-garter." Derby Sweeps are annihilated. Forthwith appear the Betting Shops. Indeed, with regard to vice, it will appear in some shape or other.

"Still it is the same!

And, where you dent it, doth but straight bulge out
In other part."

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Nevertheless, it is the duty of the Government to prevent any one abomination from ever flourishing to excess. an argument in favour of these "amusements" at the Derby, that nature's rogues must live, and that, if you stopped thimble-riggers, they would appear as house-breakers. Be it so. The law will remedy that. This is certain—that the law must chase the swindler, and the swindler fly from the

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