Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-11-30

have MacadamiZed roads, too. orr ancestors did
very we'll without Macadamized roads. They
took their time in travelling from one place to
another, and il they happened to be too late tor
the stage, they had nothing to do but run after It
and catch it. Let them try to do SO now.
Buildings too! did ever any mortal see such an
overgrown place as London is now? There Is
not dirty ditch within five miles Of London that
has not got some Paradise Row; or Mount Pleas
ant, oc Prospect Place stuck Why cant
the citizens live in the city as they used to do,and
stick to their shops: There is no such place az
the country now, it is all come to London. And
what sort of houses do they build Look at them
IA bundle OF matches for the tmbers and oas-
ket Of bricks for the walls.
Railroads. pretty continuance, forsooth! 10
pick the pockets Of the good old wagon horses,
and the regular Legitimate coach horses that had
stood the test Of ayes. Pray what Is to become
Of the farmers If there are no horses to eat their
oatss And how are the rents to be paid, and the
taxes, and the tithes and the poor rates! and VINO
is to pay the interest Of the national debt! and
what will become of the church ifhOrses do not
eat oats to enable the farmers to pay their tthes
and feed the cergyS Manchester and Liverpool
were quite near enough without the assistance OF
rail reads, and if the building mania goes on much
longer there will be no need ola road from one to
the other, for they will both join. and the people
may be in both places at once. People are talk
ing now of rail roads superseding canals, the good
old canals, half Of which are already three-quar-
tiers full Of duck weed and dead CATS
What did the Wellington ministry mean by
opening beer shops? Why could not they let the
good old gin shops alone and stick to the regular
legitimate public houses? Our ancestors could
get as drunk as heart could wish at the genuine
licensed old fashioned pot house.
Look at the population too! People 60 on III
ed to leave of. Hundreds and hundreds OF PEG.
ple are coming into the world who have no right
10 be born. The world is as full as it can hold al
ready; there is positively no room for any more.
There was nothing like the number OF children
TO be seen about the streets, when wasa boy, as
there is now. have sometimes half mind to
ask those lubberly bows that see about the streets,
what right they had 10 be born; but perhaps they
would make me some impertne answer, for
they swagger about as If they thought that they
had as good right to be born rs any one else
I wish they would read Mathuss Essay on Po-
pulation. they would then be convinced that they
have no right to be born,aud they would be asham-
ed Of themselves for existing to the manifest in.
convenience of gentlemen and ladies to whom
they are exceedingly annoying.
Look at the Reform Bill, that sink of innova-
ton, to speak metaphorically; that climax of no
veltv, that abominable poke in the ribs Of our
Constitution, that DESTROYER OF all that is venera-
BILE. Its opponents have been accused Of talking
nonsense against it. Very likely they have talk.
ed nonsense, for they have been so fabbergusted
at the innovation, that they have not known what
they have been saying. The Constitution is gone.
quite gone. Lord John Russell has purged it to
death.
If things 60 OH changing at this rate for the next
hundred years as they have done OF late, we shall
scarcely have relic of the good old times LETT
The weather is not what it used to be when [ was
a boy. Oh! those were glorious old times, when
we had sunshine all through the summer, and
hard frosts all through the winter; when for one
half the year we conld battle every LAY, and for
the other half could skate every day. There is
nothing of that sort now. Ifa man buys a pair
of skates in the winter, it is sure to thaw next
day; aud If boy buys pair of cocks one day,
there is sure to be hard frost next morning -
There is nothing but wet weather all through the
winter, and no DRY weather all through the sum-
mer. F. rmerly we used to have an eclipse or
two in the course Of the year. and we used to look
at it through smoked glass. and very good fun 1t
was, only it used to make our noses black, if we
did not take care to hold the glass properly. If
we look into the almanack for an eclipse, we are
sure to see that it is invisible in these parts; and
even if it is visible we can never see 1t, tor there
is always cloudy weather; scarcely know any
thing that is now as it used to be when was a
boy.
Day and night have not quite changed places,
but night and morning have. What used To be
Sunday morning when was little boy, has now
bv a strange mutation become Saturday night
wonder Why people cannot dine at dnner-time
as they used 10 do; but every thing is in mems
minds. and they will do nothing as they used to
do, and as they ought to do Things went on
well enough when was a boy; we had not halt
the mseries and calamiteis that one sees and
hears of now. What an. absurd and ridiculous
invention is that nasty, filthy, sinking gas The
buildings where it is made look like prisons with
out, and like internal regions within; and
there always is some accident or other happening
with it; people have their houses blown up with
it. and it serves them right for they have no bu-
siness to encourage such newiangled trumpcry.
The streets used to be lighted we'll enough with
the good old-fashoned oil lamps. which were
quite good enough for our ancestors, and think
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