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" And we are the brokers and bankers who led you to believe that 

 there was a rise in the stocks this morning." 



" And we," added the wives of the above gentlemen, " M'ere les trois 

 commeres de 1'ile houviers" 



<( It is I who sung you the canticle of St. Jaques/' said he who was 

 at that time called in France the modern Orpheus. 



" And I," continued one of the first of punsters, " was the waiter 

 who recommended to you le creme a la Jaques Delille." 



" In conclusion/' said the lady of the mansion, " it was I who repre- 

 sented Madame Henneven j who declared to you that it was impossible 

 for her to accept the amount of the bill, and who had good reasons for 

 saying that the honor of receiving you at her house was the only re- 

 compense she could accept of." 



" Good heavens ! " cried Deville, <( how can I express what I feel. 

 Have so many, then, joined together to amuse an old man. It is only 

 in France that such a delicious deception would ever have been prac- 

 tised. My friends, my brothers, and ye ladies, of whose presence I 

 feel the delightful influence, would that I could once again behold you ; 

 would that you could only feel one half of the delight which I at this 

 moment enjoy. Oh, when I shall be no more, one and all of you may 

 with every truth say, we have prolonged the career of the blind poet ; it 

 was among us that Delille passed the happiest day of his life." 

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 THE BATH ELECTION.* Bath has become a bone of no common con- 

 tention a source of struggle that has not been conducted very tem- 

 perately, though it promises to terminate very profitably, and as all true 

 reformers must wish it should do. 



The history of the contest may be told in a word. Mr. Hobhouse, a 

 banker and occasional visitor (not a resident, as the Times styles him,) of 

 Bath, offers himself to the electors of that city, backed by the influence 

 of government, and recommended with all the ardour of after-dinner 

 eloquence, by his brother, Sir John Cam, and Sir Francis Burdett. 

 He is found out, on his first examination, to be a gentleman of the good 

 old school, who desires distinction and cares little about independence 

 who has no fixed principle, save that of supporting the ministry that 

 patronizes him and whose opinions vary so obligingly with those of his 

 questions, that he promises to vote for the maintenance of a thing one 

 day, and the abolition of it another. The majority of the Bath electors 

 happen to be liberals, and moreover, conscientious and resolute ; they 

 consequently requested Mr. Hume to recommend them a candidate 

 more to their taste, more able and more willing to grapple with the 

 many great questions which must be satisfactorily set at rest before their 

 country, Ireland, or the colonies, can attain a moment's tranquillity 

 and thus to relieve them from the ministerial incubus which promised to 

 sit upon, and weigh down their enemies for seven long years. 

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* The above " Note" was accidentally omitted last month. We insert it now, 

 late as it is. because we are anxious to have our say upon the subject. 



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