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lutionize to demoralize society, they actually threaten, to pull down 

 petty larceny at their joint ex pence ! 



Let Lord Melbourne look to this ! For our own part, we beg 

 leave, as a subject of the realm, loyally paying our taxes, or black 

 mail, strenuously to insist on having a strong body of the police, 

 under the command of Colonel Rowan, backed by that troop of 

 the guards, the captain of which translated mopsticks into spears, to 

 protect our pig-stye against the townships. The men of Hickstock 

 and Pickstock are perfectly welcome to pull down all posts what- 

 soever; but if they be permitted to molest our valuable pig, we shall 

 fillip Lord Melbourne into his slop-basin, and, by our editorial thun- 

 ders, shake the constitution to its very base. What is the use of 

 the sublime Mr. Thomas and his gorgeous opera glass if an Eng- 

 lishman cannot keep his pig ? 



AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY. The short-sighted policy adopted 

 by our ministry with regard to the affairs of the East, has excited 

 the derision of all Europe. In an article called Palmerston Policy 

 in our last number, we pointed out the mistakes into which our 

 government had fallen, and the consequences likely to ensue. Our 

 remarks have been fully borne out; the czar has achieved the 

 dearest object of his ambition. His fleet is in the Bosphorus, his 

 army in Constantinople ; while the powers which ought to have pro- 

 tected that important point, have been playing at protocols with the 

 Dutch, For how many years has it been urged, that the peace 

 of Europe depended upon the balance of power ! What treasures 

 have been lavished, what blood shed, to support this doctrine ! Now, 

 without a struggle, have we allowed the Tartar fearfully to extend his 

 gigantic dominions ! He has been hailed by the panic-stricken 

 believers as friend deliverer and he will never halt till he has 

 been acknowledged as master. Lord Palmerston made a most 

 sorry defence tf Where," it was asked, " when all these things 

 were going on, where was the ambassador of England?" " On 

 the road ! " returned the foreign secretary, with admirable nai- 

 vete, amidst shouts of laughter. Yes; it will hardly be believed, 

 in future times, that when the Russian troops were marching for the 

 capital of the East, when her navy was about to cast anchor near its 

 shores, that the British ambassador, the interests of whose country 

 were about to be vitally compromised, was on the road. Notwith- 

 standing eight months notice of the crisis, when the eyes of Europe 

 were open and watching the result, Lord Ponsonby was but ten 

 days on his journey, and then halted for a conveyance. His lordship 

 could find no ship to his mind in the port of Naples ; his travelling 

 equipage might, perhaps, have been disarranged in his hasty mission ; 

 or possibly, his puppy dog might not have found proper diplomatic 

 accommodation ! We have allowed the Dutchman to play us with 

 his bait in the Scheldt,, while his friend, the Russian, has coolly 

 thrown his net in the East; we resemble the simpleton shepherd, 

 who, while kicking a cur at his threshold, allowed the wolf to enter 

 his distant fold. 



