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ledges, some flying through the

air at the tail of balloons, and some d

into the fiery

crater of Mount Etna

enough to indulge them with one of its most elaborate
pyrotechnic eruptions; with the shopocracy off to the
diggins in Margate Sands and Herne Bay mud, where

they keep perpetually inhaling appetite-creating sea
cans of XX ; with the two Opera

breezes, and imbibing

houses shut up, and all our lyric nightingales

. .
finches, larks and linnets—our songsters of every kind and
feather—migrated ; n ith law and equity fast asleep, and

government left to the care of the solitary HONIE SECRE-

who sits in his office all alone, like STERNE'S star-

TARY,

ling, crying from morn to night, " I can't get out ;" with
the streets and all the places of public amusement, from
the British Museum to the National Gallery, in the hands
of the scavengers, the scourers, and the sanatory doctors
—with all these things, and more, which would make a
sentence as long as one of Cnisnot.m ANSTEY'S speeches,

London is at this moment one of the dreariest and dullest
spots in the civilized wora Whatever littlelife we havehere
is derived, not from our own doings, but from the reports
we receive of the doings of others. Some of these reports,
however, are animating and most gratifying. From the

whence it wa

st expected—from Ireland—news

of gladness daily arrives, news which at last gives us hope

dernption of that country

At length the mys-

tery of governing that hitherto ungovernable portion of
as been resolved—at length

er MAJEsry's dominic

the diffi

1.1-y, as it was called, bas been overcome ; and

N arts,

that by a nobleman untrained in MACHIEVEI
unpractised in the tortuous tricks of red-tape statesman-

ship. By pursuing the simple rule of aJministering

justice impartially to all,

firmly upholding the majesty

and the dignity of the crown, by courteous

demeanour, by magnificence befitting the representative
of the QUEEN of Great Britain, by the display of shining
gies, Lord EGLINTON has ac-

abilities

and untiring encl.;

complished what all his predecessors in the office of
Viceroy failed in achieving—the glorious task of making
the Government he administers beloved as well as feared,
respected as well as obeyed, by the whole Irish people.
Ireland was counted upon by the enemies of Lord DERBY'S
Id of his defeat and discomfiture,

Government as the fie
but, thanks to Lord EGI

TON, Ireland is likely to be

the ground of Lord DEAMC'S strength and triumph.
When the House of Commons shall be weeded of those

priest-nominated raggamuffins who have got themselves
returned as members—and weeiedof them itmostundoubt-
edly shall be,—and when the sacerdotal firebrands and
instigators to manslaughter, now under prosecution for

their misdeeds,

shall be punis

d with all the severity of

the law which they have provoked, then will be seen the

unusual spectacle of the population and the representatives
of Ireland steadfastly and honestly supporting a thoroughly
Conservative British Minister. Wonderful, indeed, must

be the merits of Lord EGLINTON, when they extort from
big bitterest adversaries here reluctant admissions of the
rare tact, and the unexpected abitit'es which he has dis-
played in his recent tour of the island. We know that
these forced tributes to his successful course of proceed-

,00r heart -would fain deny, but dares not ;"

t they are, never!heles

conclusive proofs that he has

eprived envy and hatred of every preLenee for assailing

Science, literature, and the arts following in the stream,
have likewise deserted poor old London, and all our noto-
rious conoscenti, our litterati, our dilettanti, and our
humbugenti, are consequently starring it in the provinces

or elsewhere. Each post brings us flaming intelligence of
their brilliant peregrinations and their performances. The
Archreologicals, led on by thatantediluvian nobleman Lord
CARLISLE (who would himself pass for a megatherium),
are poking about Newcastle, spectacles on nose, digging
up venerable Roman bricks, diving into Saxon cells, and
exhuming the bones of

sai

martyrs hairy,"

to the delight of their olfactory nerves, and to the amazing
advancement of useful knowledge. The Scientificals are
disporting themselves at Belfast, astonishing the natives
there with a tremendous display of learning, and an exhi-
bition of jaw-breaking words, and awfully recondite prin-
ciples conveyed by means of forty-horse power of speech,
that must, if continued long enough, convert the whole
nation of wild Irish into a profoundly cogitative commu.
nity of philosophers. The Histrionicals are showing off at
Manchester in the sock and buskin, endeavouring to hu-
manise the men of cotton, and to teach them that man is
an animal endowed with feelings, and having asoul, and not
a mere machine to be worked night and day as long as he
lasts, then to be replaced by a new instrument. The
Musicals are down in Birmingham, preparing to introduce
the dwellers in the "hardware village" to something
more harmonious than the harmony of iron and the filing
of brass—to lap their souls in the elysium of a Grand Fes-
tival. The Agricultural-Chemicals are in Tipton-hall and
at Pussy, Berkshire, under the presidency of Messrs.
MEctit and PUSEY, luxuriating in the glories of sweet-
smelling manures, and teaching the young idea how to
fatten oxen on flint soup, and to grow their crops of corn
where never a blade of grass vegetated before. The say-
ings and doings of all these learned and scientific person-
ages who are thus perambulating the country and recruit-

ing themselves are reported to us daily, and help to keep
us alive, though, sooth to say, there is little entertaining
or amusing in all their vagaries. In one respect there is a
very decided similarity in all their proceedings—they wind
up their labours invariably with famous feeds, the only
drawbacks to which are the shocking long tedious speeches
which, according to constitutional precedent, are the
accompaniment to the viands.

Thanks to Madame POITEVIN, and the ballooning fever
which is now prevalent, the thoughts of all Her MAJESTY'S
subjects resident in the metropolis have been, during the
last few weeks, pointed heavenward. Every fine evening
the eyes of all are turned upwards to the skies ; and, were
an illustrious Chinese or other unsophisticated stranger to

pay us a visit now, he would incontinently write us down
in his note-book a pack of thoroughbred celestials—a
nation of ear-gazers. No wonder we should be on the
qui vice, opera-glass and telescope in hand, as the witching
hour of sunset draws nigh, when such strange and mar-
vellous spectacles are to be beheld in the upper regions,—
the last even strangcr than the preceding,— more exciting
by its novelty, and more heart-thrilling by its temerity.
DIANA coursing over the fields of air on her cream-
coloured hunter wag a sight curious enough in all con-

science, and, for the day, it was adjudged by all beholders
as the ne plus ultra of aerial: horsemanship. But Juni-
TER, in the form of a rampant bull, running away with
the beautiful EUROPA on his back to the Elysian
fields, was a yet more intuest:ag spectacle ; and when
the amorous god, disguised in the shape of a milk-white
bull, with golden horns and royal crimson housings, rose
into mid air, the adorable enchantress seated gracefully on
his shoulders, the enraptured multitudes f►om chimney
tops and church steeples, from :streets and squares, sent
forth a prolonged shout of approval, and manifested by their
frantic gestures the delight they felt at witnessing the
audacious abduction. But even these aerostatic feats are
not sufficient to satisfy the cravings of the Cockney appe-
A brace of Italian mountebanks go

tits for excitement,

aloft, swinging by the legs, and cutting such capers as pen
cannot describe ; the slightest failure of muscle or courage,
eye or cord being sufficient to give them a fall to the earth
from an altitude ofB,oooorlo,ooofeet. One would thiuk that
these dreadful exhibitions would suffice to gratify the most
catastrophe
.admiring people; butno , something more horri-
Me still must be invented. To-night that something is to be
done, unless the authorities intervene to prevent it ; and
the humane public of the most civilized capital in the
world will be treated to the sight of the descent of
Madame POITEVIN from the clouds, dropped f

'rem th©

That these i

s, can

balloon with a parachute. ,sane exploits
will end, sooner or later, vN ith an waling death can
hardly be doubted. The magistrates, it aPPca
interfere to prevent cruelty to dumb animals, but cannot
interfere to prevent people from breaking their necks if
they please to do so, or if their husbands force them to
ran the risk. The law is very careful of the personal com-
fort of donkies and the like, but has no regard for the life of
such animals as Madame POITEVIN. The lady might well
jay of the magistrate, " An' he were here to write me down
an atm !" Better be an ase in England any day than the