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to turn his talents to a more profitable as well as a more honest cal- 

 ling when jugglers mount the stilts they should take care what 

 ground they caper upon. 



THE RECORD OF FAME. There is, in the present day, a journal 

 circulated with the true spirit of philanthrophy. It is intended for 

 the gratification of all truly loyal hearts, of our own times, as well as 

 for the instruction of the rising generation, and the general edifica- 

 tion of posterity. Can any one evince a more extensively humane 

 principle ? or a more actively benevolent mind than he possessed, 

 with whom such a work originated ? Your ce papers for the people/' 

 must hide their diminished heads before the Court Circular, for 

 therein is contained an authentic record of the actions of the great ! 

 of what an incalculable benefit would a Court Circular have been, if 

 preserved to us from remote ages. Then we should have been able 

 to have ascertained the precise time that Julius Caesar ate his break- 

 fast, or Cleopatra took an airing. What labour would have been 

 saved to the^antiquary ? and with what ease might the lives of the 

 great have been compiled ! But, alas ! for want of this, how much 

 instructive matter concerning queens and princesses is buried in 

 oblivion. Not so with the great of our own times. Future ages 

 will learn how, on a Monday " The Dutchess of Kent and the 

 Princess Victoria, walked and rode in Hyde Park !" 



On Tuesday, how they " rode and walked." On the Wednesday, 

 they will find a blank touching their royal highnesses; but the 

 editor, having, doubtless, received a rap on the knuckles for such an 

 unpardonable omission, they will read with much satisfaction, that 

 on Thursday " the Dutchess of Kent and the Princess walked and 

 rode in Hyde Park, and yesterday also !" 



Although the benefit of such intelligence to mankind is consider- 

 able, its influence amongst the Royal and Noble personages is no less 

 productive of good. The Dutchess of Gloucester, for example, 

 though known to be passionately fond of a red herring for her 

 morning's meal, cannot indulge in so vulgar a lux-ury with the dread 

 of the Court Circular before her eyes. 



Thus we see how the actions of mankind are regulated by the 

 dread of public opinion. How salutary a check it is on the inordi- 

 nate appetites and desires of the great. There is no knowing of 

 what they might not be guilty, uninfluenced by posterity and the 

 Court Circular ! 



" MORE LAST WORDS !" Amongst the numerous interesting 

 accounts of the progress of the siege at Antwerp, received at drop- 

 ping intervals from various resident correspondents, it is ludicrous to 

 read the strange interlarding of military tecnicalities in their every- 

 day description of proceedings, much after the same fashion as a 

 cockney's report of a volunteers sham fight. It reminds me of the 

 gallant Major Sturgeon with his sword buckled on the wrong side. 



The proprietors of newspapers who really spare no expence in the 

 attainmeet of intelligence for the public, would have done better had 

 they engaged military men to furnish their reports. There are 



