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 NOTES OF THE MONTH. 



COBURG TREASON. The tasteful manager of the Coburg Theatre has 

 nearly fallen a victim to the Tories. He advertised for representation Tom 

 Thumb, with a new programme, in which, after the manner of Plutarch, 

 he drew several parallels between King Arthur, his queen Dollololla, 

 Grizzle, Noodle, and Doodle, and several living distinguished personages. 

 A demi-official notice was taken of the matter; and the Tories called 

 loudly for the manager's head, as if managers, now- a-days, possessed such 

 a superfluity. At one time the business looked somewhat gloomily ; and 

 it was promised by some of the ultras, that the offending manager would 

 indue season suffer .decapitation on Tower-hill. In order, however, to 

 gratify that portion of the public disappointed of the sight, a drama 

 founded on the circumstance, to be got up " with entirely new scenery, 

 machinery, and decorations," was to be produced at the Coburg Theatre, 

 for the benefit of the patriot's widow, which, as Mr Pepys would say, 

 would have been " pretty to see." We understand, however, that the idea 

 of the piece is given up, the manager having apologised to the authorities, 

 and told them the naked truth, namely, that he had no political feeling 

 in the pasquinade ; and that, ** upon his honour," he would have taken up 

 quite the other side, had he thought he could have gained one extra half- 

 price visitor to the gallery by so doing ; and this we verily believe to be 

 the fact. 



" BLOOD ! BLOOD, TAGO !" On the third reading ,of the Common 

 Sense Bill, the Earl of Winchilsea sang, of course, a requiem to the con- 

 stitution. He said, or sang, " He had lived to see the first act of the 

 fatal and bloody tragedy !" We do riot know whether the noble earl will 

 be spared to see the whole performance, which, as he prophecies, will 

 realize the direction given in an old play, where every body dies, and the 

 stage appears " as bloody as it may be ;" but certainly, albeit the bill has 

 but a short time grown into a law : its effects do already bear out the 

 seer-like apprehensions of the noble peer. At Gatton, within this last week, 

 the sexton found the grave of every quondam dbctor open, and the late 

 tenants walking, says our informant, " with an air of great distraction," 

 about the churchyard. All business was at a stand-still, and thousands 

 of families flying from that all populous hot-bed for orators and place- 

 men. In Old Sarum there have been no less terrible exhibitions ; the very 

 walls of the houses have been seen to heave with spasmodic motion, and 

 several stones rose in the street with an evident wish to make themselves 

 felt, but failed to " catch the eye" of a speaker; all the others have for- 

 saken the neighbourhood, and a ruinous run has commenced on asses. 

 There are terrible accounts from East Retford ; an awful storm of hail, 

 the stones as big and as thick as a " moderate" reformer's head, have 

 rendered impassable every high-way and by-way, totally covering hundreds 

 of inhabitants : a great demand for spade labour to dig out families. An 

 almanac -maker at Birmingham plainly discovered, at two in the morning, 

 an unusual movement among the stars, and intently studying their evolu- 

 tions, saw them at last, like so many lamps on a general illumination, 

 distinctly form the letters " ATT WOOD." A reader of the Political Regis- 



