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many now in London whose talents are at least equal to any gentle- 

 man on a newspaper establishment, and who would have been 

 delighted to go for their expences alone. To be sure if our infor- 

 mation had been greater, our mirth would have been less; we 

 should not had the following delectable morsels. 



Amongst the horrors of war for your true Briton loves a horror ; 

 he can lunch off a distressing accident and dine off a murder of pecu- 

 liar atrocity at any time it is gravely related, " that a howitzer 

 shell broke a window in the Place Verte." " On the night of the 

 15th, a shell came through the roof of a house, which fortunately 

 did not explode a Sergeant gallantly took it up and threw it out of 

 the window \" " There's an Atlantic chap for ye ?" as an old Irish 

 captain used to say, when admiring, with a military eye, an athletic 

 grenadier. 



Again, what will not great people do for their suffering fellow- 

 creatures " Her Majesty sent some linen to the hospital at Ant- 

 werp. The nation and the French and Belgian armies will hail with 

 gratitude this proof of her Majesty's benificence !" Considering in 

 whose cause the poor fellows have been maimed, their gratitude for 

 such benificence, need not swell into a twenty-horse power. 



Here we have a specimen of the bathos. " History furnishes few ex- 

 amples of a seige in which an army has submitted with more resigna- 

 tion to the dictates of diplomacy, and has borne with such courage and 

 magnanimity the rigours of the season !" Encore, " It was absolutely 

 distressing to see there brave fellows return to their cantonments 

 covered from head to foot with MUD, and not a murmur !" It would 

 be no joke to encounter such heroes, and particularly, after such a 

 specimen, when we find them absolutely " clamorous to take their 

 turn in the trenches," noble fellows ! they won't spare their pipe- 

 clay ! But, after all, their power of endurance, though great, has 

 nothing in it half so sublime as that of the gentleman who writes the 

 report. He informs us, that " in the midst of all this, the cannons 

 rocir with a vigour, to which he was totally unaccustomed." 



We have heard of certain animals braying vigorously ; but a 

 vigorous roar must be truly terrific ! 



MUSICAL REVIEW. 



Sweet Wining Avon. Written byR. F. WILLIAMS. Composed by C. HODG- 

 SON. 



She stood alone upon the Heath. Written by THE HON. G. F. BERKELEY. 

 Composed by ALEX. D. ROCHE. Both published by J. DUFF, Oxford-street. 

 Both the above are pretty melodies. She stood alone upon the Heath is 

 expressive and effective, but not, in our opinion, equal to, Sweet winding 

 Avon. The word Avon, is associated with so many witching ideas, that it 

 would be almost impossible not to feel its influence. Mr. Hodgson has felt 

 its powers, and produced one of the most sweetly flowing melodies that we 

 have seen for some time. The accompaniments are likewise extremely well 

 done ; an imitation, towards the close of the air, is at once beautiful and ef- 

 fective. 



