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Wellington Independent, Issue 43, 24 December 1845, Page 4

' So. you are the little boy that came begging of me in Buw Street ?' growled Capstick. ' I'm the werry dog, Sir, , answered Sfc s no w«y daunted. • Don't you know that boys oughtn't to beg ? Don't jou know that I could have sent you to gaol for begging ? th ? D n't you know that ?' asked ihe Mudiu Maker, very loudly.

' Yei sir; I know* it, sir, , , replied diechli i . a wonderful knowledge of lav. wI 4 • And if you know better, why don't yon ,v l ter ?'said Capstick. , v, do bet. •Don't know what better is, sir' return .1 „ Giles, looking down at thenar, and 7fiSj J • Humph !' mused Capstick, and then h. . what gently asked, ' skould you like to uZ ;- *'' little boy? , '' '■'•'■ ,»' u «itny 'Isn't it very hard, air ." enquired St γ-i ' Don't like hard learning, sir.' ? GlI «' • What, you've tried, have you > Y ou » . to school, eh ? You can write a little, and ,-& little ?' said the Muffin Maker. read • ' No.sir; never went to school; never hail *• sir. Besides, sir. father always used to say ,S wae so very dummy.' uea yi»cnoul Dummy.! what's dummy ?• cried the M ttffia Young St. Giles leered up in Capsticks f ace .„,, then giving himself a twist, ae. though emovin? i? tradesman's ignorance, the boy said—'Not /£^ Ummy l 8 l Why ' Bir, lf y ° U Pleaß9 '' d " m »?i • Oh, thpn ynu ltpaw fhth ?' asked Ctpstick „» his infant teacher. . ' P tlok of • I know a little, sir, , replied St. Giles very m destly. • Know more when I grows bigger. ' I dare say you will, , cried the Muffin £tf ak(lr pityingly. • And tell me what's your father doinl now?' » ' He's a doing nothing now, sir.' 'No '' said Capstick. ' No, sir,—he's dead,' said St. Giles. ' And you've never been taught to do anything Poor little wretch I cried Capstick. "' It was plain that young St. Giles rejected the compassion of the Muffin Maker, for he imraedi ately, with mnch volubility, asserted—' I knoffj j good many things, sir; sometimes, sir, goes a sine ing o' ballards with Tom Black : was to have gone with him to day ; only Tom's so precious hoarse crying dying speeches yesterday. Then I kaowj how to sell matches, and hold osses.and dbatnanf things, sir, as I forget now.' Capstick looked at the little urchin for a fe* moments, then leaning over the counter and beck'i oning St. Giles closer, he said to him, i n a tone of tendernejs—' You'd like to be a good boy, would'nt you ? ' A course, Sir, , answered St. Giles, with stolid fuce. '• . > • • And so be a good man ; and so at last get a nice shop, such as this, eh ? You'd like it, eh >' 'Wouldn't I, though!' cried St. Gilei, playin» with hie hair and grinnin?. a ' Instead of wandering about ths streets »nd singing ballards—and going "alon? "with boyj that at last may lead to be hanged ?' ' I saw Bill Filster buog, yesterday,' cried St. Giles, sharply, and his eyes sparkled, as with .the recollection of the treat. 'Oh Lord! oh Eord !• groaned the Muffin Maker. .' You little raecal! who took you ?• ' Went with some big boys, , answered St. Giles. ' I give Phil giant a happ'ie to le,t me set upon his shoulders. Bill Filster used to live in our lave! Poor B;l]! It wis so prime.' The Mufn Maker spasmodically whippeJ his cap from his head, and, drawing along breath, wiped his brows; the while he looked at young St. Giles with p:fy, and something like bitterness. The next moment he cried to himself-—» Poor little wretch 1 poor little animal !' ' I knowed Bill Fihter. Once he lived in oar ilane. Oh, couldn't be sing a song 1 He teached me one about Dick Turpin. Sometimes, , said St. Giles, bending his small quick eyei on Capstick, ' sometimes people have gieen me a penny to sing it.' The Muffin Maker made no reply. After some further conversation, the Muffin Maker gives the boy two dozen muffins, a basket, and a bell, with directions to dispose of them and return to him next day ; and send* him awayi looking after him for a time, and then muttering id himself—' Well, if it saves the Httfe wretch, its a cheap penn'orth.'— St. Giles and Si. James. The Madrid journals announce the arrest of a /amous brigand named Josee. who is charged with having committed one ' hundred and seventeen murders. Sir jamsetjpe Jejeebhoy, the wealthy Hindoe, recently knighted on account of his philanthrophy, has just constructed, at an expence of 16,000., a causeway, connecting the Islands of Bombay and Salsette. The Archjmedian Railway.—Mr. Isaac Farrell of Dublin, has taken out a patent for aa invention, by which he proposes to apply the principle of the Archimedian screw as a substitute for the locomotive engine on railways. A new steamer, on a novel principle, having * double stem and bows, was launched at Blackwjll. A veteran soldier has been selected by his Grace the Duke of Wellington as "the bravest of the brave, in Ihe desperate combat at Waterloo, to order to profit by the generous offer of the Rev. Mr. Norcross, rector of Frarnlingham, to confer a pen* eion, during life, upon the soldier most distinguished in thebrigadeof guards on that glorious day. Aftet the most minute inquiry, carried on by Sir John Byng's directions the laurel waa awarded to en Irishman, John Graham, a native of Clo0oao» county of Monagharr