The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

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everybody calls himself a politician who can put half a dozen words
together, in which 6overnment is abused. Sproggs is Political. He
thugs his literary small beer with Radical poisons, and corrupts while
he intoxicates.

There are more harmless men among the Itadieal novelists.and of
these eheap narrators some. at all events, are not obscene. It is
always refreshing in the warfare of our period to turn to the mere
fool, and have a little quiet ehat with him. Of the above mentioned

Squitt T think less vindietively. and with him I In tninquifly to
remonstrate.

&utt is now writing a fiction, in which there is a" titled ruffian
figuring away every week, who, I fear, will be the death of me. The
absurd unnatural strut of that being for he is not human at all,
whether " titled " or not) through those columns is a weariness to the
flesh. Ile has married a tradesman's daughter for her money, and is
going to murder her in a tower in the country. Ile is also a high
political man. lI am willing to hope that the existing Cabinet am no
way delineated here.) Ile talks and she talks in a way that no human
being ever did on our planet. The lord has a gamekeeper who keeps
people locked up, and bribes several men to hold their tongues—from
which I begin to dread that he has been at these wicked games from
early youth. Unfortunate Squat! How does Squitt get hundreds of
thousands of readers to listen to this mass of malignant balderdash?
I.et us hope that at least our titled friend will die penitent Lit' as far off
as a hundred numbers hence—for tiquitt is prolix), stud part with
melancholy from these reflections on the personal infinity which so
curiously seems to mix itself up with revolutionary politics.

TILE NEW REFORM BILL

MINISTERIAL PROG RA NI \IE.

With strikes at our 110Orstep, and war in olle more step.
And a " generous public" beginning to storm,
In hopes to conte►tt them, next year we present them
A very " large measure " of thorough Reform.

We might be more timid if Radical Jemmy .41
Not promised a sweeper, to tickle the mob ;
But now, truce to terrors, don't think about errors—
Dash in for the voices of JosErn and Cos.

Of Parliament bounties 'tis true that the counties
At present possess but a fifth of their share ;
But the rule of "needs must" is at variance with justice—
Who'd strengthen the hands of antagonists there !

Hurrah, then, for cotton ! all parties me rotten,
Save those of the great manufacturing towns ;
For trade in this mill•ago rides rampant o'er tillage,
And the people of cities must govern the clowns•

So well get up a leader, to settle each reader.
And prove dear as mud, be he never so dull,
Small towns are grown black o' late, large ones immaculate,—
Chatham and Liverpool, Blackburn and Hull.

But then there's the I►allot—ench Cabinet, palate,
Whig, Itn►lical, Renegade, how shall we pleame ?
"r is a were open question, which ea►+ nian'ts digestion
May manage or not, Ith the diet agrees.

'Though we olive had a policy (all now its folly aee),
Liberal-Conservative christened of old,
'Tis useless to foster the arrant impo►►ture,
When Tories are angry and Churchmen aro cold.

Our poor Coalition t,o keep in condition,
Fur further support we must send round the hat
So a child we'll affiliate, made to conciliate
Chartist and Radical, Papist and Rot.

At Manchester mammon and 60veniment gammon
The old British Lion may grumble and storm ;
With the Times to write crammer«, we heed not his elamours ;
hurrah for our measure of total Reform !

r*. abolition al the Daily un Advertisements enables sis to
insert at the prier of Three Shillings Me Advertisements
Jar which we hare hitherto charged Five ; and Aslver•
fawn generalist rvll receive the fall benVit of the change
in the law.

On reference to our last w.-elt'a paper, M. P. will observe that
we have substantially couiplied with his wishes.
It is impossible to acknowli..lgo the mace of letters we receive.
Their Insertion is often delity...ll, owing to a presa of matter ;
mid when oinittAid, it is frequently from reawots quite tutle-
'pendent ,of the merits of the
We cannot undertake to return eutnitotiliestioni of which we do

pot avail ourselves.
istaunlestions should always be legibly written, and on one
side of the paper only. If lung it inereasei the difficulty of
finding spare *w them.
Whatever is intended tor insertion must be authenticated by the
minie and whlrers of the writer, lit oirce4warily for publics.
WO, but as a guarantee of hie good frith.