_They_ wring them from the poor!

With glow-worm lamp, and incense cull'd
Fresh from the bean-fields breath;
And matin lark,--and vesper thrush,
And honey-hoarded heath;--
A throne beneath the forest-boughs,
Fann'd by the wild bird's wing;
Of all the potentates on earth,
Hail to the GIPSY KING!

_Tait's Edinburgh Magazine_.

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AMERICAN PRISON DISCIPLINE.

(_By the clever Schoolmaster in Newgate--See Fraser's Magazine._)


It appears, from the testimony of Captain Basil Hall, R.N. that
perfect as he describes the American prison discipline to be, yet
"there is a gradually increasing culprit population growing up in
America, of which the legislation cannot rid the country. These men,
who may almost be called the penitentiary population, run the round
just as I have observed with respect to the Bridewell at Edinburgh;
the same men come and go, round and round again." Well, then, nothing
is accomplished in the way of reform, even under this lauded plan,
which aims at the twofold object of efficient punishment and