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NOTES OF THE MONTH. 



THE transition from the fool to the bully is neither so violent nor so 

 uncommon as some people imagine. The small rubicon of a bottle of 

 port once passed, and the ci-divant blockhead becomes, on the instant, the 

 foul-mouthed boaster, who, for the opportunity of venting his abuse, will 

 go as far out of his way as the drunken fellow who reels from the Free- 

 masons' Tavern, and makes for St. Stephen's Chapel by the route of 

 St. Giles's. 



It was amusing, to say the least of it, to remark the other night the 

 impotent fury of two more illustrious lords than any since the patents of 

 Noodle and Doodle were made out. My Lords Winchelsea and Kenyon 

 consider it most atrocious of Lord Grey to think of acting upon principle, 

 or to resign his post as Minister when he found he could no longer hold it 

 with honour. Lords Winchelsea and Kenyon had no idea of such a thing, 

 and we devoutly believe would never have acted as Lord Grey has done. 

 One of these specimens of aristocracy would not be questioned, and the 

 other cannot suffer himself to be interrupted ; as though impudence and 

 scurrility were to be passed over because the wine is bad, or my Lord is 

 the worse for it. 



If these two noble lords were to form the standard of respectability, 

 talent, and decency, by which any choice of new peers was to be regulated, 

 we think that the creation would be a very small one. It was, doubtless, 

 an intimate knowledge of some of his noble friends, that suggested to Lord 

 Carnarvon the possibility that Lord Grey would have recourse to the bell- 

 man, when he made a new batch. By such means alone could he procure 

 an opponent of Winchelsea or a rival to Kenyon. 



THE SCHOOLMASTER AT HOME, We are continually hearing of the 

 schoolmaster being abroad, but he now appears likely to be at home, as 

 we read the other day of a benevolent Quaker having established and en- 

 dowed within the last five years a number of schools, principally in the 

 county of Bucks, containing upwards of five thousand pupils. Now that 

 such a number of children should have been without a prospect of education 

 in a county over which so enlightened a statesman and legislator as his 

 Grace the Duke of Buckingham exercises such paramount influence, 

 appears to us enigmatical. All the world knows that the second best Duke 

 in all the world, and his family, have received more from the government 

 annually than the whole county pays in taxes, although his Grace is forced 

 to be destrained upon for his poor-rates. But perhaps the Noble Duke's 

 motto is 



" Darkness, be thou my light, evil, be thou my good." 



However, leaving the Noble Duke out of the question, we think this grim 

 Napoleon of the realms of education, ought to make the Education Socie- 

 ties blush most prodigiously in the midst of their ratiocinative argumen- 

 tation, respecting expediting proselytism and the rights of the church. We 

 have a NATIONAL School Society, with an income of 50,000 per year, 

 and an anti-national with five or six thousand at their command, and 

 yet there is room for the exertions of such a jnan in one county within 

 twenty miles of the first city in the world. Surely there is something 

 indeed rotten in the state of Denmark, to permit this and we fully ex- 

 pect to hear that the truly noble man who has been so busy in teaching 



