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THE DEVIL AMONGST THE TAILORS. Tailors are tailors all the 

 world over ; dignify them by the style and title of merchant, or by any 

 other you please, they are still tailors, and consequently rogues. 



If ever the argument against the monstrous accumulation of funds in 

 corporate bodies, and indeed the utter uselessness, not to say scandal, 

 of minor corporate bodies themselves, was fully brought to bear, it might 

 be instanced in the scene which was exhibited at the tailors' head- 

 quarters in the city. It appears their wealth has so increased by the 

 increased value of property, that though crammed to the utmost, their 

 stomachs are not sufficiently capacious to gorge the half of it. What to 

 do with their surplus funds, without actual and unlawful appropriation, 

 they did not know, till at last some luminous snip hit on an expedient 

 to satisfy their consciences (!) and gratify the ruling passion. He dis- 

 covered that although they could not actually divide the booty, they had 

 the power of voting rewards to distinguished merit, as the immortal 

 Nelson and others had experienced. Instantly on this discovery, pieces 

 of plate were voted all round, generally for " able and impartial conduct 

 in the chair," which being translated means, being able to maintain his 

 equilibrium there longer than his less endowed competitors, and distri- 

 buting the unctuous contents of the tureens without retaining all the 

 best for himself. But when was genius left unassailed by envy; men, 

 that is to say, tailors of equal merit and capability finding their talent 

 unrewarded, though they had almost burst themselves to prove it, 

 noised the thing abroad amongst the craft, and caused a general burst of 

 indignation at their respective shopboards. At a grand dinner the ex- 

 plosion took place, and such a scene of abuse, blackguardism, and per- 

 sonal violence never was before witnessed in any civilized community. 

 The confusion was crowned by some wag of a visitor slyly ordering the 

 band to strike up " the devil amongst the tailors \" 



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LITERARY NOTICES. 

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THE publishing campaign has commenced with great spirit, notwith- 

 standing the Tory predictions of general war, the stoppage of Dutch 

 fishing boats, and other events egually to be deplored, and equally cala- 

 mitous. Effingham Wilson, and Smith, and Elder, are taking the lead 

 in new publications in the city, and Edward Bull at the west end. 

 Whittakers are conducting " Constable's Miscellany" with great spirit. 

 This is the best and cheapest family library that has yet appeared. The 

 plan of this species of periodical literature commenced with the original 

 proprietor of this publication, and it has ontlived most of its imitators. 



Effingham Wilson is about to publish Campbell's life of Mrs. SID- 

 DONS, which will be a bonne bouche for literary epicures. 



A translation by Mrs. Austin of a posthumous work concerning the 

 great GOETHE, drawn from the most interesting and authentic sources. 



NORTH AMERICA, by the son of the late King of Naples. 



A life of MILTON, by Joseph Tierney. 



COUNT PECCHIO'S remarks on England. 



A new novel called ARTHUR CONINGSLEY. 



Another, called WHYCHCOTE OF ST. JOHN'S. 



A work by JUNIUS REDIVIVUS, entitled the PRODUCING MAN'S COM- 

 PANION. 



