is a digression-now to the argument." Can any remedy be imagined by directing our attention, and our mechanism, to the structure and circumstances of our carriages; to the quality of the wheels, more especially; those dread engines of all the disturbance and the mischief? What are all our professors and our doctors of music about? certainly, not about our streets. Where are the inventors, or the manufacturers of all our fine old-fangled and newfangled instruments? Cannot some among them imagine, and others execute, that premier desideratum, a melodious wheel? What a fine conception!! But, the music, thence arising, should assume a softened, though full and sonorous character; but, less loud, than sweet; and ought to still the noise, or, as it were--if possibleabsorb into itself the horrible give and take between iron and stone, I admit, that one fine strain and flow of universal harmony, in the aggregate movements of our carriages, can hardly be expected!! If that could be produced and supported!! Suppose for a moment this great metropolis the scene!! oh, what a ravishment were there!!! Talk we of our "full-voiced choir below;" or of "Timotheus raised on high;" of the heavings of the bellows;

and the breathings of our organs, "swinging slow in solemn roar!" What are they?-dwindle they not, in comparison with the tide of harmony, just hinted at, to the unpretending and tinkling merriment of a tabor and pipe? Yet, after all, simple melodies, issuing from the twice two wheels of each individual carriage, are perhaps all that can be looked for in existing circumstances. And let them approximate in disposition, and by management, to those "native wood notes wild," which "creep in our ear" from a pack of well mouthed harriers, "each under each," running on quick scent.

Should this proposal, also, be thought to involve difficulties too arduous for attempt though I can see nothing of the sort in it, myself-no more remains than just to case the margin of our wheels with any mute and enduring substance, such as-, &c. or, that we consent to be hauled about, as is yonder much-to-be-admired Laplander, in all the luxury and tranquillity of silence, on his well-imagined, well-constructed, and effectual wooden sledge. And may I be permitted to ask the question, ladies and gentlemen?-why not?

BULLS.

EVERY topic, which implies in its discussion a regard to personal safety, has an immediate claim to attention and to seriousness. That to which I am now desirous of giving publicity, is of this character; and I am led to its consideration by the many instances of such fatal accidents, as have already happened, and are continually happening, disgraceful and deplorable as the annunciation must appear, in this and in every district of a land, famed for the establishment of laws and regulations, directed to the assurance of general and individual security.

The accidents, to which I am alluding, frequent as fatal, are occasioned by the daring and objectionable practice of suffering bulls to range uncontrolled over the various farms of the country; where, alone, they are apt to produce abundant mischief, whether in path-way fields, or other; and from whence they can easily

break out, as they often do, rambling far and near, to the imminent peril of many a human being, man, woman, and child, whom they may chance to meet on open common, or in narrow lane; from neither of which could escape from a vicious bull become possible.

Instances of destruction, in such and other situations, where the wretched victim has been found torn to pieces, and the bull at length descried rioting, actually snorting, and rioting in his blood, are by no means to be received and gazed at, as extraordinary occurrences; as tales of wonder; as novelties to be registered, or set down. I will not conclude, that such examples of destruction, by the viciousness of these beasts, irresistible except by the agency of powder and lead, can be found amidst the daily transactions of every farm, or in the recordance of every parish throughout the realm of Great Britain: but, I will affirm, that they have happened so frequently in this kingdom, during the last twenty years, as to shock every feeling of humanity, and to call loudly, and imperiously, for the prevention of such dreadful mischief in the time to come.

How is this to be accomplished? The

answer, is, in no way, effectually, except by the authority of the legislature. And is not the object worthy of its consideration? It cannot fail to be so, if the protection from personal danger, often ending in violent death, forms, as it certainly does, a main article in the provision of its jurisprudence. I am persuaded, if the amount of the mischief, and the evil, to which I am alluding, were fairly laid before the wisdom and humanity of the legislature, it could not fail to adopt, and to enforce, effectual measures, for the security of the subjects of this land from an ex posure, a constant exposure, to a fatality so wanton, so common, and so horrible. But, the entire catalogue of such fatalities, during the last twenty, or, the last ten years, which would, on enquiry, be discovered to exist, could be ascertained, and concentrated for inspection, in no other manner, of which I am aware, than by a demand on all the counties, and, through them, the parishes of the kingdom, to make a full and clear report of such fatalities, to officers appointed to receive it. This would doubtless prove a work of labour, but neither of impracticability nor cost. have indeed used the expression “entire

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