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and the anti-population men, will be put to their last shift, by the in- 

 creasing intelligence of this new class of political economists. Messrs. 

 Mines and Russell will enter the field against Dr. Chalmers, and upset 

 his theory, by engaging to find bread for any number of human beings, 

 without straining the agricultural capabilities of the kingdom. On the 

 contrary, they, will allow two-thirds of the arable land now in culti- 

 vation, to be laid down to grass. They will only covenant that the 

 chalk-pits shall be kept open that they shall have free access to the 

 lime-pits that no tax shall be imposed on the manufacture of whiting 

 and plaister of Paris that bones and oyster-shells shall not be at a pre- 

 mium that gypsum, potash, jalap, and saw-dust,, be in no scarcity,, 

 and they will then guarantee to furnish any quantity of bread, from 

 " genuine home-baked brown," to the most delicate " cottage crump- 

 ling," at a given price, let the value of flour be what it may ! 



Insinuating assassins ! benevolent cut-throats ! that would lure a man 

 to his destruction by a buttered roll that would beat their victims to 

 death with the very staff of life !., ft ^ooq seller oJ IU.J 



While talking of bread,, w r e may as well say that one honest little man, 

 who answers to the name of Mollet, and sojourns at 16, Picket Street, 

 Strand, is our purveyor and very nice bread he makes. 



QUEEN-SQUARE QUORUM. These boys will certainly be the death of 

 of us. Were it not that the misery of our fellow-creatures is always, 

 with right minded people, a sufficient check on merriment, these 

 mountebanks, with their quips and quirks, and wise saws, would make 

 us die of laughing. 



It appears that a respectable old lady, Mr. White, as she so pleases to 

 be designated, of Queen-square has just been dilivered of another oracle, 

 a wise axiom to add to all magisterial note-books, a by-law to increase 

 their already incomprehensible code. Now, we have all along felt con- 

 vinced that some day or other will be revealed to us a mighty secret, 

 that a second Pope Joan has been smuggled into the majesterial chair 

 in the person of Mrs. White of Queen-square, and daily experience fur- 

 nishes additional proof for such conviction. 



A poor half starved boy, the picture of misery, was brought to the 

 Queen's- Square, police-office, charged with sleeping on a hurdle ! some- 

 where in Tothill-fields, where he was found half dead with hunger and 

 cold. The worthy magistrate, our friend above 'mentioned, struck with 

 the atrocious nature of the above case, aggravated by the delinquent 

 lamenting, with tears, the impossibility of finding work, immediately 

 committed him for one month to the treadmill ! 



Now, this is a positive scandal to the sex, proverbial as it is for 

 kindness; to say nothing of the injustice of the thing, for there MAY 

 be a doubt as to the criminality of sleeping on a hurdle, it is positively 

 inhuman. Has the old lady no compassion for her fellow-creatures. 

 Had she been young, doubtless, the poor boy, a comely boy in spite of 

 his wretchedness, might have found favour ; but age is obdurate : she 

 may, too, have met with her disappointments her maternal feelings 

 checked we must not be harsh. But, in a politic point of view, does 

 not Mrs. White see well, we forget, old ladies do not see well does 

 she not, then, comprehend, that by her committing an innocent boy for 

 a month to an abode of vice, another time, she may have to commit him 

 for actual crime. Has conscience nothing to whisper on that head ? 



