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Majesty's mail, as also to the lives of passengers." Evil-disposed 

 persons in this country generally employ themselves behind coaches 

 rather than before them, as Lord Sandon testified the other day at 

 the Police-office when he lost his portmanteau. 



An advertisement of an Almanack reminds us strongly of the style 

 of O'Connell it is piquant yet forcible. The writer is evidently 

 from the sister isle, he tells us that all government announcements 

 will be " given at full length, but in a consolidated form." A work of 

 three volumes has been printed at Sydney for the London market, 

 and from it we find, that however aristocratical honours may be 

 depreciated in England they are decidedly on the rise in Botany 

 Bay, for the name of the printer is emblazoned on a shield, supported 

 on either side by a FLAMINGO and a KANGAROO ! 







THE MARCH OF MILLINERS. Not a line do we read but contains 

 matter for instruction or astonishment. Every milliner furnishes a 

 moral. If we are more amazed than taught the fault lies in our 

 own dulness : yet we are sometimes tempted to believe that certain 

 passages of our teachers would go far to puzzle a conjuror. To give 

 an instance : " For evening dress we must quote one very seasonable 

 parure a robe ponceau baroge mousselaine de laine over a petticoat of 

 penceau satin. Madonna bands and hair without ornament, save a 

 few ponceau velvet bows, and a pearl agrfiff;. Dog-collar necklace 

 round the throat of very large pearls." We confess our utter in- 

 competence touching this paragraph. A dog-collar round the throat 

 of a large pearl bothers us entirely. We have therefore submitted it 



to the learned Miss , who has pronounced it to be a beautiful 



specimen of the " unknown," and referred it to professor Irving. The 

 professor has placed it before the elders and we wait the result with?/ i 

 impatience. _ 



LEADENHALL-STREET LEGISLATORS. Overgrown chartered mo- 

 nopolists are the great enemies to improvement. They know thflorf*", 

 tenure of their property to be unjust, and they become more jealous 

 of their fictitious rights in proportion as their claims become more 

 generally questioned. The East Indies are a vast mart for capital and 

 industry. There, the merchant, the agriculturalist, or the artisan, 

 would find a boundless field for the exercise of talent and inanstry, 

 and could the communication with England be shortened, no country 

 presents greater inducement to the colonist. But the East India 

 Company are aware that were such an object to be accomplished 

 their empire would be at an end that long voyages, large ships, and ,u: 

 expensive establishments are their only safeguards ; therefore every 

 offer to facilitate our communication with the East encounters their 

 serious opposition. Mr. Waghorn has proposed to establish an over-ri ***< 

 land carriage which would accomplish in sixty or seventy days that 

 which now occupies five or six months. The present ruler of Egypt 

 would afford every facility : his great object is to enlighten his 

 people ; his late victories will render him sole master of Egypt, 

 and render the journey to the Red Sea, heretofore beset with 

 difficulty, comparatively of easy accomplishment. The British 



