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MAGAZINE DAY.
BLACKWOOD'S .ilLet GAZINE.
We have here the closing chapter of " Tan
Thousand a Year"—the most lengthy tale that
has appeared in print since the days of the in-
terminable Richardson. It terminates, as might
have been anticipated, with the recovery of his
Yatton property by Mr. Aubrey ; the marriage
of his sister Kate with the son of the Lord Dc
la Zouch; and the :litter ruin of Tittlebat Tit-
mouse, who, distracted with his misfortunes and
the brandy-bottle; is confined for life in a pri-
vate lunatic asylum. As for the inferior per-
sonaf.-,,es, they arc disposed of in a very summary
manner. Messrs. Bloodsuck and Mudfihrt, the
provincial patriots, after being tossed abut on
the stormy waves of litigation, and trying in vain
to get up a public subscription to indemnii y them
for their sufferings in the cause of Reform, at
length cast anchor, and find a haven of Test in
the Insolvent Debtors' Court; Mr. Tagrag, the
broken down haberdasher, turns Church-rate
Marfyr, and finds his account in the specula-
tion; and Messrs. Swindle O'Gibbet and
O'ShirtleF,s, the Irish Reform Members, are
suddenly found wanting in London, leaving
divers perplexed and inquisitive creditors in a
state of very delicate distress. Some of these
incidents display considerable vigour of sarcasm,
though we must protest against the spirit that per-
vades them ; indeed Mr. Warren has far more
of the satirical than the humorous in his :nature ;
when he attempts the purely comic, ha almost
always fails, from his proneness to extravagant
buffoonery. He has no idea of keeping
out withiuglvi
tlii:
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the sPfe mean of projniety. The interest of his
story
1(111:1113; forbe eitheriri d goior Aubrey or
Titmouse, the one being a sentimental, and the
other a grotesque, caricature, as unlike real life
as it is possible to be. Despite its numerous
defects, however—the result rather of careless-
ness than want of ability—the story is an ex-
ceedingly clever one, and must have given plea-
sure to thousands of readers. " A Glance at the
Elections" is remarkable for nothing .so much as
its solemn cant and twaddle. The writer attri-
butes the result of the elections to " thait over-
ruling Providence by which the issues of events
are controlled." It was not the Chandos clause
that degraded Ministers in the counties ; it was
not the Carlton Club funds that assisted the
Tories in many of the more accessible boroughs;
nothing of the sort; it was Jehovah that did it !
_heaven itself fought on the side of the Opposition !
Yes, Omnipotence—and no less an aut.'aority—
hasdeclared against free trade, and in fi LA-our of
taxed bread, by returning a Tory majority to
Parliament! Such is the opinion of th e scribe
in Blackwood, who, thus thinking, must of
course look on Sir Robert Peel as one in di-
rect communication with Heaven of which
we must own we entertain strong doubts, seeing
that he has as few celestial attributes about him
as any man we know of. But if he be really in-
spired by any superhuman Power, then we
should say that the inspiration came to him from
below, rather than from above ! The writer goes
on to express his conviction that Ministers " ad-
vised the late dissolution, knowing that the re-
sult would be a considerable majority against
them!" and yet, in the face of this conviction—
which, to make it the more impressive, he has
put in Italics—he adds, in the very next page,
that " the object of the dissolution was to excite
an evil spirit through the country, which :might
weaken the numbers of the Conservative party !"
Thus the Whigs dissolve, first, it seems, to secure
a Tory majority, and secondly, to weaken the
numbers of that majority ! Who can pin faith on
a writer who argues in this inconsistent wad ab-
surd fashion ? But the article is full ofsuc'h crazy
trash, being throughout consistent only in incon-
sistency. " The World's Honesty" is a tempting
theme, skilfully handled. The " French. in Al-
geria" describes the recent changes in this colony,
and the embarrassment under which it still la-
bours, in a temperate, and, so far as we can judge,
impartial manner. We should say that the
discussion on the " Non-Intrusion Question" was
dull, could we but understand it, but we have
never yet been able to make out what the
Scotch theologians have gone to loggerheads
about. "The Announcements and Three Rooms"
is an amusing- story, with a dash of farce in it.
The " Pied-a-Terre" is a lively jeux d'esprit,
We quote a portion of the stanzas :
Sentimental young students may be in the right,
To dream of a cottage with roses grown o'er ;
And nothing to think of from morning to night,
But POMO pink-and-white Lucy to love and adore.
But you're fast getting grey, as perchance you perceive,
And I guess 'tis high time such green fancies to leave,
And sit down in a civilized pied-a-terre—
Within cry of the Clubs, in the heart of Mayfair.

About twenty, the appetite's strong as a horse,
And one hardly discovers a rasher is tough ;
A bowlful of beans are digested of course,
Anti black-strap or brown beer wash them down well enough ;
Lucy tapping the butt, Lucy foaming the can,
He fares like a fighting-cock, innocent man I
Nor envies the daintiest pied-a-terre,
Within cry of the Clubs, in the heart of Mayfair.
In the morning he works at his garden or hay,
Till the plump little housekeeper beckons him ;
In the evening he'll open Pope, Parnell, or Gay,
While Lucy sits by him to listen and spin.
When her basket is full, though his tale's but half road,
Up she jumps with, " Come, dear, we're too late o of bed 1"
And he turn'd up his nose at a pied-a-terse,
Within cry of the Clubs, in the heart of Mayfair.
If his neighbour the parson looks over the stile,
They converse—as they call it--but, heavens ! what a dose 1
How Rogers would shudder, how Sydney would smile,
At the fun of the point—at the fact of the prose
Shrewd remarks of the 7'atler—conundrums from Joe—
Opinions that Pusey could scarcely outgo—
How remote from the tone of a pied-a-terse,
Within cry of the Clubs, in the heart of Mayfair I
Come and settle in London.—There's no place like that
For a dowager dinner at eight of the clot k
Wits, and well-preserved women, and smooth easy chit—
Fresh and bright as champagne, sharp and racy as hock—
With each glass handed round they are sure to let fly
Virgin double entendre, or spick-and-span lie—
Coin'd in shady boudoir or trim pied-a-terse,
Within cry of the Clubs, in the heart of Mayfair.
If you've slumbered till noon—read the papers till four—
Blue-and-yellow or Quarterly, if they're just out—
A few pages of Maberley, Stepney, or Gore,
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Sufficient to show what the Wry's about ;
And then stroll'd in St. James's, and lounged in The Bow,
And canter'd an hour up and down Rotten-row;
You'll come forth quite the thing from your pied-a-terre,
'Within cry of the Clubs, in the heart of Mayfair.

The expense need not fright you: up one pair of stairs
You may rent for a song such a nest of small rooms,—
Which we'll rig with French tables, American chairs,
Busts of Grisi, and vases from old Tuscan tombs.
One staid woman, a valet who shaves to a turn,
And brews coffee like amber in Ord's patent urn—
No establishment more for a pied-a-tsrre,
Within cry of the Clubs, in the heart of Mayfair.

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ception of an Inquisitor of Spain, there are few--
things more cruel in their nature than a firm.
lady." We subjoin the opening portion of this
sketch :
The lady's maid is the flower of the domestic esta-
blishment—the Proserpine of the lower regions—the
elegance, whose graces of mind and manners bewilder flu
minds of the footmen, to whom with supercilious seen,
she delivers the orders of her principals—a stumbling•
block in the eyes of venerable butlers, as Maria in tho St.
of Malvolio—and a target for the merry jests of the ser-
vants' hall. - The lady's maid is my lady's shedow ; a
parody on the chef d'auvre of elegance, to whose cast-of!
clothes, airs, and graces, she has the honour to succeed.
Though worn to the bone by the labours of office—
though deprived of her rest by my lady's dissipation,
and of her meals by my lady's selfishness—though ha-
rassed by flaws of temper and caprices of taste, there is :I
species of one and indivisibility between the mistress and
maid, characteristic of the umbrageous nature pointed
out. An instinctive esprit du corps unites the daughter
of Eve who washes the laces, and is to inherit. them,
with the daughter of Eve who wears them in her pinners.
Against my master, or my lord, on the other hand, the
lady's maid cherishes an equally intuitive apathy. Even
my master's own man—nay, even the family butler and
coachman does she detest as dependencies of " master."
" Master" is a tyrant—master is a nuisance—master
never satisfied—master is always complaihing the
manner in which his linen is starched, or left un-
starched ; and master's shirt-buttons have tYvice as great
an aptitude to come off as any other gentle:nan's. And
then, master keeps such hours ! Master goes to bed, and
rises earlier than can be accounted for on any other prin-
ciple than that of matrimonial contrariety. Master
comes into my lady's dressing-room in dirty boots ; or
sets down his flat candlestick on a new cap. Master is
full of fancies, such as having his newspapers ironed ;
and worrets people out of their lives about keeping din-
ner, or the horses waiting: According to the lady's maid
there is no end to the peccadillos of " master."
Not but that my lady has her faults too. My lady is
sadly thoughtless and heedless, and seems to think that
people have twenty pair of hands, and no need of rest or
recreation. But she is such a good creature, after all !
And, if it were not for having such a brute of a husband,
she would be such a sweet-tempered lady. Ali ! poor
thing ! if people only knew what they were about when
they marled ! The lady's maid swears sho would not
change her situation for anything that anybody could
offer her ; that is, her situation in life. As regards her
vocation, it must be admitted that she enjoys peculiar
advantages. Other slaveys occupy the place of Tanta-
lus. The butler is no wise privileged to. be the better
for the wine lie is decanting, or the plate he is cleaning ;
or the gardener for the pines or peaches he is forcing.
But if the task of the lady's maid be an eternal smoothing
of coats, and darning of pinholes, she has at least a vested
interest in the fruit of her labours. The lawn kerchief,
or brocaded mantle, will one day be her own ; and the
young heir who watches the growth of his father's plan-
tations, is not more personally interested in their well-
doing than the lady's maid in the safe packing of her
lady's imperials and chaise-seat. The lady's maid is
usually an hysterical, nervous personage ; her constitu-
tion broken by irregular rest and irregular diet.

FRASER'S MAGAZINE.
Like the rest of the Tory organs, Fraser is o
course in extaties with tbft result of the elections
and earnestly calls on his party to give Sir Rober
Peel their prompt, undeviating, undivided sup.
port. In a curious diatribe, which he entitles
" Confusion Worse Confounded," he insists that
the day will be lost unless such support be given,
and takes the British Critic sternly-to task for
its late attack on the Tory Premier that is to be.
We question much whether the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet will obtain the cordial assistance which is
here 60 urgently insisted on, for one or two symp-
toms of disunion have already appeared in - the
camp of the faction, and how Lord Stanley is to
be rendered amenable to strict discipline will be
a most perplexing subject of consideration with
the Tory leaders. That he will very soon com-
promise them by one of his wayward fits of
spleen and independence, is what may pretty
confidently be reckoned on ; and then how are
the Inglises to be kept quiet when some puzzling
Church question is brought forward? Heaven
help Sir Robert Peel! He will be more ham-
pered by his own followers than even by the Op-
position, formidable as this will be by intelli-
gence, number, and unity. " Ruy Lopez, the
Chess Bishop," is an incident in the history of
Spain, during the reign of Philip the Second,
which is wrought up with tact and spirit. "A.
Summer Holiday" opens with some pleasing and
natural reflections, suggested to the writer by
the sight of certain familiar rural objects which
he had known in early youth. It is this associa-
tion of ideas which is Ole chief foundation of our
love of the country, and there is no scene, how-
ever homely or barren, that does not suggest a
useful train of thought, and in some mood or
other find its way to the heart. Rousseau was
enraptured with the sight of a periwinkle, which
he remembered to have plucked when botanizing
with Madame Warren thirty years before; and
Pope has recorded the delight with which lw be-
held an old gate-post remembered in his child-
hood. " Romish Idolatry" is just what might be
expected from a high Tory scribe--a pack of in-
tolerant, unmitigated rubbish. " The Rival
Shopkeepers" is a diverting story, not mispiced
with sarcasm, whose object is to let us into some
of the mysteries of trade. " Men and Coats" is
an arch, rambling bit of gossip ; but we do not
agree with the writer that the first putting on of
a new coat is " always attended with cliultation."
It may be so in dandified youth, but it is other-
wise when one's sense of comfort has come to
predominate over one's sense of gentility. Then
' —at least until we are used to.its fit—a new coat
i is a bore. We resent its stringent embrace as an
infringement on our independence of motion.
Besides, wherever we go, we are harassed by an
apprehension of damaging it. Hence we are, for
a season, its slave. How annoying! To be com-
pelled to succumb in the more serious affairs of
life is bad enough ; but to be the martyr of a few
yards of cloth--to be the helot of a tight fit—
to be panic-stricken by the chimney-sWeepL--to
be scared by the dustman—to be made to shud-
der at the advent of the baker, or the apparition
of a servant-girl with a slop-pail thrust half-way
out of a garret-window—these are among the
worst and most humiliating of the minor miseries
of life ; and these a new coat is apt to entail on
all with whom—as with ourselves—it is a rarity.
From " Anecdotes of Actors" we quote a droll
anecdote of parental fondness, as exemplified by
little Quick, the comedian. He had invited a
friend to dinner, when the subjoined scene took
place between himself and his daughter, a spoil-
ed child, about six years of age :
The main dish upon table, when uncovered, excited
the curiosity of Miss Quick, who either had not seen the
joint before, or had forgotten the name of it, which she
now eagerly demanded ; and upon being told that it
was a saddle of mutton, she stood up, aria promptly an-
nounced her intention to ride upon it forthwith. To this
preposterous recreation the parents were fain to entreat
the little imp's forbearance. In vain ; for she declared
saddles were made to ride upon, and to ride she was re-
solved. After much ado, her patient father and mother
luckily suggested that the obvious heat of the seat she
aspired to, and the inconvenience likely to arise from
such exercise would distress her and spoil her new frock;
the difficulty seemed surmounted, and the child desisted
from further importunity ; but immediately after, per-
ceiving the dish almost overflowing with the juice of the
mutton, she cried out, " Oh, let me put my foot in the
gravy! I tail/ put my feet in the gravy!" The father,
albeit not unused to such eccentric fancies, was a little
startled at his sweet pet's novel desire, and exclaimed in
a tone of assumed wonder and of deprecation, "My
L precious love ! what a preposterous thing you propose !
!. it's quite out of the question. Now, be a dear, good chill,
and let me help Mr. - to some mutton." "Oh !"
reiterated the little treasure, " I will put my feet in the
gravy first 1' 'ln vain the devoted parents argued,
threatened, and coaxed ; in vain promised that the next
day, when they were without a visitor, she should do
whatever she pleased ; all, all in vain ! for upon a more
determined opposition, the sweet little angel- yelled out
her wishes in such a piercing key, that her mother, a
very mild-mannered person, addressed her husba,7l,
"My dear Mr. Quick, I'm afraid we shall hive na
peace until we allow the dear child to do as she likes.
" Well, but my love," urged Mr. Quick, in reply, a little
ashamed of their mutual weakness before their guest,
" what will Mr. - say to such a proceeding ? It is
really so improper." Mr. -, willing to see to what
extreme
parental folly could go, withheld both his opi-
nion and permission, preferring a state of neutrality ;
and Mr. Quick, finding the little tyrant's determination
warmer every minute, and the mutton cooler, proposed
a compromise, namely,. that the little darling should have
' another dish brought in, and placed in a corner of the
room with some of the gravy in it, and then paddle about
whilst themselves and friend were at dinner, and return
to table when the fruit came in. No ; the " treasure,"
at the very top of her voice, once more declired that she
would have the dish, and nothing but the dish, before
farther, that she would not abate one drop of
her ; and,
the gravy. At this perplexing juncture, Quick turned
l towards his friend in apology for the scene before him
assuring him at tho same time, that " it was of no use to;
thwart the dear child, who would have her way." Then
calling for another dish, the poor . father placed the
shivering. saddle upon it, and lifting that from the table
containing the gravy, carried it to a remote corner of
the room, where he was followed by the " little duck;"
who, after a persuading kiss from the goose her father,
consented to have her shoes removed, and to remain
:Plashing' about until the dessert appeared upon table.

TAJT' S MAGAZINE.
The political article ir, Tait this month is Feo,
soned with force and lagenuity. The writcr,

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though a sturdy Radical, is far from disap-
pointed and dispirited by the result of the late
elections, but seems to be of opinion that if the
Tories be allowed rope enough, they will most
assuredly hang themselves. We think so too,
and that their large majority, by inspiring them.
with false hopes and spirits, will be most likely-
to tempt them to the commission of political sui-
.7ide. Were they numerically weaker, they
might possibly, from a salutary fear of conse-
quences, be kept within the limits of discretion;
but a conviction of their overwhelming strenge.lt
will tempt them into a- thousand absurdities,
which their tame, cautious leader will have
little or no power to prevent. Alluding to the
prospects of Sir Robert Peel, Tait says :—" He
is the Tory Premier, because the Torier; cannot
do better. They have no other choice. If they
remain long in place—and we do not pretend to
calculate the duration of life in the young Parlia-
, ment—it must be as the Minister of the middle
..,.lasses." These classes, we suspect, will soon
tire of a Tory Administration. Expecting much
from it, and finding that it will do nothing, it
will cast back a longing eye on the Whigs, who. se
principles were at least intelligible, howeve.r
feebly they were at times supported. "More Medi-
tations in the Wen is a collection of sprightly I
observations strung
_together hap-hazard. The
sketch of a Westminster election in the olden
time, when so many patriotic hustings speeches
used to be pointed and rounded off by a shower
of dead cats and cabbage-stalks, is highly divert-
ing; nor, on the whole, can we object to the fol-
lowing description of a Whig, though we think
that the colouring: might here and there have
been•softened Itrlvantageottsly .
It has been -thought anomalous that the Whigs have
more frequently incurred the indignation, of " the mob"
than the Tories. = Nothing can be more natural. The
Tory and the mob .are political antipodes ; they rarely.
come in contact. When the Tory is advised to face "the
mob" (nota bone, " the mob," properly speaking, is to
be found only in towns—it is a free body—the rural serfs
are not sufficiently high-spirited and intelligent to con-
stitute a mob), it is as a 'forlorn. hope. There is no dis-
guise: his obnoxious political principles are avowed; and
to allow of this being done with the least possible amount of
danger, some frank, jolly, good-humoured person is
selected, who can keep his temper, and make the rabble
like him, though they detest his politics. The Whigs,
on the other hand, court the alliance of " the mob,"
without knowiner its character well enough to know how
to deal with A Whig is necessarily a pedant : he
sees the people, and every -thing natural, reflected in the
softening mirror of books. He has never mingled with
the crowd. When a child, he was mamma's well-be-.
hayed darling, • who never played with naughty boys or
dirtied his clothes : when he was at school and college he

was a pattern of industrious study—and, if he did not
carry off the lowest . premiums and honours, at least
ranked next to those who did : and in after-life he re-
mains the same incurable, neat, decorous prig. With
him " the child is ' father of the man" indeed. He wishes
to square his own conduct, and to see others square theirs,
to the precepts he has imbibed from his godmothers and
godfathers. He is shocked at the levity and restless
overbearing conduct of the Tories. He is shocked at the
coarseness and waywardness of " the mob." He would .
clip and smooth all mankind into a likeness of his own
prim self, as old-fashioned gardeners clipped forest-trees
into peacocks, Adams, and'Eves. He has no sympathies
with the habits and thoughts of others : he has no con-
ception how other men can differ from him. With Par-
son Adams, he would read his sermons to the 'squire's
drunken led-captains and toad-eaters : but he lacks the
robustious bon hommie of the parson—he abhors filthy
tobacco and ale, and is as incarnate a vinaigrette as ever
an old maid of them all. He first excites derision by
his ignorance of men, and then anger by his pragmatical
censoriousness. There is a natural antipathy between
such a one and " the mob :" it is impossible they can
come into contact without quarrelling.
"Chapters on English Poetry" discuss the
merits of Scott and Byron—a theme which is
very cleverly discussed, notwithstanding its want
of novelty. The article is not too long, and
reads very pleasantly. " The Green-Gaunt-
let" is brought to a close this month.
It is a clever story, and furnishes us with
a vivid idea of the horrors that charac-
terised the Irish Rebellion of 1798. " Memoir
of Dr. Jamieson" abounds in anecdotes of cer-
tain Scottish oddities, in politics. and literature,
who figured towards the close of the last cen-
tury. " Campbell's Life of Petrarch" is an im-
partial estimate of the merits of an entertaining,
but somewhat hastily-written, work.

IrfETROPeIrITAiV,"

,
There are too many tales of fiction in this
number, which otherwise is by no means amiss.
We could have borne with two or three stories,
but really half a dozen is too strong a doze for
ordinary digestion. Mrs. Trollope's " Blue Belles
of England" is amongst the best; but, neverthe-
less, it is not in her most successful manner.
The incidents appear laboured, and do not follow
in just and natural sequence; and the characters,
with hardly one exception, have none of the
breath of life breathed into them. " Recollec-
tions of a Student" contain sonic striking details
of the assassination of the Emperor Paul, and the
conduct of his successor, Alexander, immediately
subsequent to that atrocious act. The anxious
state of the Poles, too, at this feverish crisis, is
well described. ' " Curiosities of Legal Expe-
rience" furnish us with some interesting particu-
lars respecting the perpetration and discovery,
under extraordinary circumstances, -;of a most
flit
revolting murder. As a specimen o Idle poetry
of the number, we extract some stans by Mrs.
Abdy, entitled " The Aged" :
Ohl oft the minstrel's lay describes, with warm(' and fervent
it
truth, ik
The lovely days of childhood, and the blushing spreig of youth!
It dwells upon the season of life's sweet and sunny -prime,
But seldom does it chronicle its dark and winter time.

Yet ever on the aged with deep reverence I look;
Their inmost thoughts I liken to a wise and wondrous book,
Enriched with lavish histories of scenes and times of yore,
That never can be given to the eye of mortal more.
We, in the summer•glow of health, may joyously expect
To pass along the ways of life by chance and change unchecked;
But while we trace our future course, and future knowledge
crave,
A year, a day, an hour alas ! may lay us in the grave.

But they already have enjoyed the brief and fleeting span
By Providence allotted as the common life of man ;
And all the wisdom time imparts to benefit our race,
Hath in their full-fraught minds secured a certain dw•elling-
place,

We oft retrace our early youth, and sorrotifii4last
Reflections en our follies in the season that is past ;
May not the aged in their turn reflect and reason thus:
May they not mourn the follies that they still decry in us ?

Oh ! why should we despise them then, and wilfully forego
The treasures of experience they would readily bestow ?
Even as the meek and docile clild receives our counsel sage.
So ought we humbly to regard the warning voice of age.

They ever Should be viewed by us with love and awe, they stanp
On the threshold of another world, a mystic spirit-land,
They should be cherished and revered as tenants of the sod,
Soon to receive their summons to the mansion of (heir God.

BEES.—Huish, in his treatise on bees, in a note
says—" A swarm of bees belonging to Lord Melville, at
his seat in Fifeshire, in the year 1815, threw off two
virgin swarms, a circumstance which perhaps never be-
fore occurred in the history of bees." The same cir-
cumstance has happened with a hive belonging to Mr.
Campbell, schoolmaster in Gilnaerton. The history of
the hive is as follows :—The queen bee of one hive
having died in the month of January last, the bees were
united to another hive, in consequence of which it was
very strong, but had to be removed to some distance.
It was placed in Mr. Johnston's garden, Stenhouse, and
swarmed so early as the 13th May, and a second time on
the 24th of the same month. The first of these, viz.,
the one which came off on the 13th, has thrown two virgin
swarms, the one on the 4th of this present month, and
the other on the 15th.—Edinburgh Courant.
HARD-WORKED PRELATES.—The following
pathetic paragraph appears in a Church-and State jour-
nal.e.ers We need not bespeak the condolence of our readers
for the illustrious sufferer :—" The triennial i
now imposed upon the only two remaining Archbishops
of of the Established Church must bear
those dignitaries, viz., his Grace the Llo'eridr.yuPrdiummatbeeaiungd
the Archbishop of Dublin; the whole
divided among them." Can anything
half the this—to go once in three years through
six
good cathe-
dralwhole-
some towns of the land, and to consumea,
) visitations during
bel kingdom
than
forenoons in holding as
that v
v l
m period.Ds 0
R'' r, of con-
siderable nowis nearly completed. It is in-
tended 'Tis a
oUraglL::
size and power, is
use of Prince Albert, andhei
music-room at the Castle.
building for the express
to be placed in
somet time since, received lessons
Ilis Royal Highness,
it in a very talented
Lieutenant has been pleased to ap-
pointupon this instrument,a nadn_dilitghiellPyrirenscpeuunotawblepemrfaournmesnupon
The Lord
. Bell, Esq., for the county
utluellineen to be
,stipendiary magis-
trates, viz.. :
and Nicholson Kelly, Esq., for the
W. N. Roche, bsq., removed to
Westmeath,in the room of M. Crofton, Esq.,
of lie:II:ye-,
county of t
of Louth.—.Dublin paper.
d to the coun y
in the room
remove
the county o f ClareEdi‘n.gar; dges:3G';
WOOD PAVEN
held
lENT.—At a meeting of the
respecting the wood pavement in Oxford-
street,t k p'ace .
Marylebone Vestry, on Saturday, a long discussion
experiment 27 to 25 that the
yea.
ils
among
asshocaurldriebde fbuyrthaemratjroieridt.y Aof
oo and on a division it was
general belief prevails the shopkeepers in Oxford-
street•
deal - will loltu
tit trial succeed,f and thereby
save !iieinillor'aln.yce rom noise and dust.
has
The Lord Lieutenant, during his absence,
,that
athgerepaatti
pointed Sir Harry Verney, Bart., Vice-Lieutenant
ifileabury Yew,