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since. It is discovered not to be the panacea it was supposed. People 

 are beginning to be reconciled to colds and coughs, without treating 

 them as forerunners of the arch-enemy. In one respect the panic has 

 even been of some service, though of brief duration Sundry skin&j 

 some covered with fine garments and others with rags, have felt the 

 application of soap and water, which they never have felt before ; and 

 drunkenness was in some degree diminished. The panic subsiding, a 

 re-action has taken place. These innovations on the constitution have 

 "been rejected as unwholesome j cleanliness is voted a bore ; and sobriety 

 only fit for Whigs and political Unionists. If the abstinence from gin 

 had continued much longer, it was said to be the intention of Messrs. 

 .Hodges, Deady, and Booth, to get up a petition to Parliament, amongst 

 the venders of the metropolis, stating their losses and prospect of ruin, 

 not " blue ruin," and praying for the abolition of " cholera." 



On the contrary, Mr. Green, of Marlborough-street, has made his for- 

 tune by his baths. He has likewise raised for himself a reputation likely 

 to live longer than the smoke of his furnaces. By the help of one of 

 Captain Jekyll's vapour baths, he has put the Duke of Wellington into 

 a perspiration, who was never in one before. To make a " perspiring 

 hero'' of the great captain is no minor feat. 



PRIVILEGES OP THE PEERAGE. A great event often ends in an 

 anti-climax. Some " delicate affairs" go off with an explosion others 

 with a mere flash in the pan. Here is the Londonderry affair evaporated 

 before our eyes melted into thin air sent on its journey to oblivion, 

 without so much as a public subscription, or an address of condolence 

 to either party. By the " Londonderry affair," we mean the now barely- 

 to-be-alluded-to matter between the noble and the nurse, which by 

 shewing how fifty pounds can weigh down a marquis into the mire of 

 a common-law court, settled the question which had so long agitated the 

 world, whether peers were made of the same clay as other people. 

 Some of the delicious details of the story we have forgotten, and there 

 is little chance now of our memory being refreshed on the subject for 

 the affair is compromised ; the marquis has paid, if we can trust the 

 newspapers, (< a handsome compensation for the assault," together with 

 an incredible sum incurred in costs, and other expences incident to 

 aristocratic indulgences. Now we dislike curiosity, on this side detes- 

 tation, as much as any man; we scorn and abhor impertinent inquiries ; 

 but we should so like to know the amount of the " compensation" that 

 was conceived to be necessary in this case ; and should feel obliged to 

 any one who would enlighten us as to the exact cost of a " handsome 

 compensation/' with a comparative estimate of the expence of a good- 

 looking compensation, and an ugly compensation. But it is really im- 

 portant that the country should know ; because the matter becomes 

 serious, when nurses may be assaulted by noblemen at a certain sum per 

 head. It opens a door of attack upon old women, that may lead to 

 frightful consequences and nobody can say where they may end. Of 

 course the terms will vary in proportion to the age and condition of the 

 party to be assaulted; the sex also may make some difference but 

 still it would only stand an item higher in .the expence, and consequently 

 <at a certain price, prodigious no doubt, various illustrious members of 

 the legislature may have whips as well as witticisms applied to them ; 

 -and we shall have Mr. , Sir , and the Earl of , walking 



