impaled on the area rails, and is dying at the hospital. Mr. Horner and Mr. Dickens are bound to do their best to procure a law for putting up gratings at every window in the kingdom. Nothing is more certainly proved than that such laws do not work. Rash people get killed, whatever their neighbours do to save them. The law might decree that every country gentleman must surround every tree in his park with a chevaux de /rise, to prevent “ all accidents,” by boys climbing; but boys would climb, nevertheless, and now and then one would be killed. What would be said of the justice of throwing the spilt brain and smashed skull of the sufferer in the face of the owner of the land on which the accident happened 1 Yet this would be no more than Mr. Horner and Mr. Dickens have done in the case of disobedient servants