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and the pumps in the casemates were untouched. The ckapel is a 

 striking ruin!" 



The old gentleman's position here is strongly marked ! He is a 

 man after our own heart, he keeps his eye on the bread-basket* 

 Naturalists should class a Dutchman amongst the crustaeeous order 

 of animals, place a specimen on the top of a tower or on dry land, 

 and he feels as strange as a Dutch plaice in a pipkin ; but only let 

 him make his way into a ditch, and it would be a bold Frenchman 

 that would stop his floundering. 



Among the more important consequences of the surrender of the 

 citadel, we find the following announced in the list of fashionable 

 departures, " Some noblemen and officers of the Guards left London 

 for the scene of hostilities, the moment iutelligence had arrived that 

 thejiring had ceased /" 



MILITARY PROMOTION. We are informed by the Horse Guards 

 intelligence, that " Lord Sussex Lennox, has sold his company in the 

 7th Fusileers to Lord H. F. Chichester." Lord William Lennox, if 

 we recollect right, sold his company, some time ago to Miss Paton 

 at what was her salary ? and a precious bargain she made of it. 



LOVE OP PLACE. The following announcement is rater interest- 

 ing: "IsLE OF MAN. Lieutenant Governor Smelt, the sole governor 

 of the island since the death of the Duke of Athol, departed this life 

 on Thursday week, at his residence, Castle Rushen, at Castletown. 

 His successor is Colonel Ready !" Poor Governor Smelt, it seems, has 

 exchanged his sole Governorship for a better place ; but there never 

 was Governor yet, whether of man or beast, that had not a Colonel 

 Ready to step into his shoes ! 



MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 



GOLDEN RULES FOR CIGAR-SMOKERS. BY THE EDITOR OP THE CIGAR. 



LONDON : T. RICHARDSON. 1833. 



THIS gentleman, " the Editor of the Cigar," has long been the acknow- 

 ledged potentate of puffers. . In the very elegant little book before us, he has 

 recorded, with much liveliness of style, the results of his experience as " a 

 glow-worm." The work must needs prove exceedingly acceptable to those 

 who are desirous of selecting. Havannahs with judgment, and smoking them 

 with taste, 



