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impolitic, and fraught with the most ruinous consequences. We have 

 heard from a learned Theban, whom we would sooner trust than a peer's 

 promise, that it was this very soup (leaving out the bacon-fat, which 

 was prohibited under the mosaic law) that made the children of Israel 

 to multiply so exceedingly in the land of Egypt ; and for our parts we 

 propose as an amendment, by and with the advice of our privy council, 

 the following, written at the request of a charitable lady, by a mem- 

 ber of the Metropolitan Committee of Taste, as infinitely more simple 

 and quite as economical : 



" Take ten quarts of water, and stir it with a rush-light till it boils ; 

 season it to your liking, and it is ready for use. N.B. The wick may be 

 bolted." 



Descartes might well ask if God made good things only for fools? 

 Here is the receipt of a philosopher, one who considered the stomach 

 as the grand organ of the human system, a nervous expansion of the 

 brain. But leaving philosophy out of the question, and to shew the 

 difference between plebeian and true aristocrat! cal soup, and what 

 pains that gracious, and noble, and right honourable body take to spoil 

 aqua pura, by heterogeneous and corrupt additions, we subjoin from 

 the " Universal Cook" the method of preparing Soup d la Reine. 



" To a knuckle of veal, and six or seven pounds of lean beef, and six good 

 rashers of lean ham, put six quarts of water, with a little salt. Boil all together 

 till the meat is boiled quite down ; then boil half a pint of cream, and pour it on 

 the crumb of a penny roll. Blanch and beat a pound of almonds as fine as 

 possible, putting in now and then cream, to prevent them oiling. Then take 

 the yolk of six hard eggs, and the roll that is soaked in the cream, and beat 

 them all together, quite fine ; then make your broth quite hot, and pour it to 

 your almonds, strain it through a fine hair-sieve, rubbing it with a spoon till 

 all the goodness is gone through into the stew-pan, and add more cream to make 

 it white. Set it over tbe fire, keep stirring it till it boils, skim off the froth as 

 it rises, and soak the crusts of two French rolls in melted butter in a stew-pan 

 till they are crisp but not brown. A quarter of an liour before you send it up 

 to table, take a little of the hot soup and put it to the buttered roll in the bottom 

 of the tureen ; then put in the remainder, and pour some thickened cream on the 

 top, and send it up to table." 



The Court of Aldermen, the Bench of Bishops, the House of Peers, 

 ought to grant pensions, " from generation to generation," to the families 

 of Collingwood and Williams (authors of the " Universal Cook") for this 

 glorious invention. Heliogabalus offered a reward for a new dish, but 



he had never tasted Soup a la Reine. 







PROGRESS OP DOGMATISM. It is one of the most interesting things 

 in the moral world, says Tully, to observe how men in all ages, while 

 serving the immortal gods, have at the same time served themselves. It 

 seems as if the deities had ordained that all that is given to their glory 

 by the pious should return to them in blessings and temporal advan- 

 tages. Thus the riches, and honour, and power which generally belong 

 to the supporters of religion and the defenders of our sacred altars, may 

 be considered as the natural reward of piety and zeal. 



It is, we suppose, from a due consideration of, and a fervent belief 

 in the truth of this divine apothegm, that the great, and good, and wise, 

 of the present day, are so excessively zealous for the interests of the 

 Deity. An exemplification of this sacred principle was the other day 



