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by the contemptible fawning adulation of the Khan of the Tartars. 

 That they beheld his ferocious hordes of be- whiskered and be- 

 padded desperadoes, with other eyes than of admiration. They 

 remembered the time when, like their savage ancestors,, these very 

 barbarians spread desolation and terror in civilized countries, and 

 where they entered as friends, marked their course by rapine and pil- 

 lage. They beheld them but as bloodhounds, reeking with the blood of 

 the unhappy Poles ; and their master, but as the " monster" that holloed 

 them on. But enough they will have their day. Poland may yet rise 

 to wreak a bitter vengeance, and in the meantime we wish the 



" Captain bold and officers true, 

 And all aboard, of that gallant crew," 



a more worthy distinction than that of shaking hands and drinking grog 

 with one, whose name of Nicolas the Tartar may be handed down, side 

 by side with Attila and Hun, to the latest posterity. 



REGISTRATION OP VOTE us. " In a great commercial country like 

 this," every thing, of whatever nature, resolves itself at once into a job. 

 We were the less surprised, therefore, when we found the " great boon" 

 saddled by way of rider with no small drawback. To pay up all, is by 

 no means pleasing to John Bull ; to pay taxes, odious ; but to pay poors' 

 rates to pay them tip so that the last quarter's receipts may be forth- 

 coming before the right of voting can be granted a perfect imposition ! 

 " I like not this paying up." 



But what has nettled him most of all is the formulary, or payment of a 

 shilling before his name can be registered. To some of the metropolitan 

 voters, whom we have heard and seen, this is a grievous wrong done to 

 their pockets. They, perplexed patriots, metropolitan Hampdens, not 

 mute but inglorious Miltons, " Cromwells guiltless of their country's 

 good," and others who never cared a fig for the franchise, except as the 

 withholding of it afforded a pretext for grumbling, are exceeding wrath 

 at this arrangement. No, no ; let the rascally aristocracy refund some 

 of their ill-gotten property ; let there be a community of goods ; let us 

 sweep away the national debt ; let us lay on a property tax ; but 



" J pay a shilling ! I'll see you d d first." 



The needy knife-grinder would have fared even worse with these 

 modern patriots than with the friend of humanity. 



THE DUKE OF YORK'S DEBTS. A few days ago, Mr. Commissioner 

 Reynolds harangued at the Insolvent Debtors' Court on the case of a cz- 

 devant spark, who had given extensive orders to tailors and hatters, but 

 who was then applying to be relieved from their clutches. The commis- 

 sioner gravely observed that the case was a fresh instance of the quick- 

 ness with which some people got rid of all principles of honesty, and 

 therefore sentenced the petitioner to further imprisonment. As a set off 

 to the case of this petty debtor, we take the following paragraph (from 

 the Globe) relative to a leviathan spendthrift 



" SUSPICION OF ROYAL MALVERSATION. A meeting of the creditors of the 

 Duke of York was held in the course of the week, when several new claimants 

 on the estate were announced. The total amount of the bona fide debts now re- 

 gistered by the committee, independent of bonds, exceeds 70,0001. Some impor- 

 tant information was adduced respecting the jewels of the Duchess of York, 



