The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-08

aDle passages OF MS hit. lie rats oppoI
timely, and ably when he sets about il; he
abandons his party manfully, and flies from
his colors ike hero" Il made curl.
Gus observation the other day, said the Lon.
! don collegian, ar r. stands both for Robert
Peel and rotten potato" This luminous
remark turned the conversation upon free
trade. The rotten potato will ripen the
corn question. said disciple Of Golden.
"Yes," said the collegisn, 1--WE shall be in
debted for the most tremendous political
improvement Of the nineteenth century to a
microscopic fungus, in the invisible tissues
OF tuber" Heaven help the agricultu-
raj interest" cried the squire, ''what will
become of us, with the enormous burdens
upon land" shame them, cried Bar
ker. The squire was dumb. "The great
est burdens upon the land Of this country,
that know Of, pursued Barker, "are your
georgical dukes and bucolical marquesses.
"Their pockets will soon be light enough, I"
said the squire, stepping out Of the carriage,
the train having now arrived at the Rugby
station. "Easier to tighten their pockets
than enlighten their heads, said Barker,
taking parting shot at him.
During the next stage or two, MIR. Bar
ker behaved tolerably well. for be slept tine
greater paIt Of the tiuao. When he awoke,
he found the party constructed anew, and
now il was that his troubles for the day
commenced. His uis-a-vis was a raw
youth, Of eighteen or twenty, with round
rosy face, and simple, good-humorsd
physiognomy he was Immersed in an i'm.
mense rough coat, like a bears skin, with
enormous mother-oEpearl buttons, and doz-
en- pockets Of all sizes and in all positions.
Ia fact, he looked something like brown
bear, or great Watchdog, sitting on its
hind legs; and he kept his neighbos in
constant alarm. by sometimes pulling out .
cigar.case, as if he meant to commence
smoking, sometimes producing three-bar.
relied pocketpistol, snd examining the
printing, sometimes displaying q wonder
fol knife with hundred blades, and, every
now ard then, giving blast, with hunt
ing horn, which he had bought, be informed
an elderly lady beside him, at q shop in
High Holborn, adding, that it was greet
bargain, and that il she ever wanted thing
OF the kind, he would recommend her TO 90
to the same place. The old lady was as
nice an old lady as benevolent features,
white cambria and shining black silk, could
make her. She seemed, indeed, the very
incarnation of philanthropy, for she Yves
always warning somebody not to do some
thing or another, imPloring the guards to
take care Of themselves, or administering
drops and lozenges to plump, lazy maid,
who seemed neither to attend TO her mistress,
nor to be expected to do so, although her
sidelong looks and coquettsh cough showed
that she was very well disposed to a fiirta-
ton with the owner Of the wonderful knife.
The middle seat, at the right Of Mr.. Bar.
ker and opposite the plump maid (whose
name appeared to be Letty,) was now oc-
cupied by cool, sedate man, who might
have been somebody, or nobody, landed
man, or a funded man. an honest fellow. or
a swindler, from all that you could gather,
either from his physiognomy o. his costume.
The seat beyond this ambiguous individual,
on the same side, could only he said to have
been half filled; its tenant was a slight,
pale, retiring little girl, with features not in
keeping with her dress, for while the former
disposed one to believe her Of the class that
is born TO alHuence and ease. the latter as
obviously suggested, that her lot was indi-
gence and labor. A plain straw bonnet, a
gray plaid shawl, frock Of dark blue stuff,
and gloves, through which, in more places
than one, her fair fingers PeePed; such was
her simple, almost poor attire. The impu-
dent fat maid evidently regarded her with
supreme scorn, as much as to say, Marry
come up, the likes OF her in a coach =
And, indeed, this was almost the only no.
tee the little girl received during the Jour-
ney, except occasionally from the officious
old lady herself, who seemed possessed by
a spirit Of nursing and care-taL.ing, which
in professional nurse-tender would have
been perfectly miraculous. As nobody
troubled themselves to conjecture who the
neglected thing in the corner was, why
should zee speculate on the subject? She
looked like poor girl, found guilty Of the
crime of poverty, and sentenced to shirt-ma-
king for life, a seven years term. at most,
Of necessity and needls-work. Perhaps, it
was otherwise. Nobody now cared, and
least Of all the Bachelor Of the Albany,
who had quite enough to do to repel the
6dgetty old lsdy's benevolent attentions, and
TO defend himself against the young man
opposite 10 him, who was armed with such
a variety Of offensive weapons. Have
care, sir. hope your pistol 10 not loaded,
he at length broke cut in surly tone
with q look still surlier, at the for
midabls simpleton in the enormous
rough coat, who, in exhibiting the pis-
tol 10 the plump maid, had repeatedly point
ed il night al Mr.. Bankers head. The old
lady had already, in her capacity OF pro-
tecuess general, cautioned the youth twenty
times ssaInsI shVVtin5 h:r,ss!f which WAS
the least part Of the danger to be aPPrehen.
ded. None of these remonstrances, how.
ever, proving successful, the cool man took
a different course; he expressed G curiosity
to examine the pistol, and the moment it
was placed in his hands, he extended it out
OF the window, and a couple Of sharp re-
ports instantly proved that two oil the bar
rels had been loaded. The innocent youth,
far from taking offence, laughed loud, said
it was funny, and called the cool man a
deviIish sensible fellow, a compliment which
that gentleman could not have returned with
the slightest respect for truth. Barker being
now comparatively at his ease, subsidized into
his corner; the old lady wearied with her
exertions began to doze and the sedate