NOTES OF THE MONTH. 



PENMANSHIP IN HIGH LiFE.~-A document an astounding do- 

 cument was issued from the Lord Chamberlain's office early in the 

 past month touching " the King's Levees/' from which, with the 

 most poignant regret, we feel compelled to quote the following para- 

 graph:-* 



" It is particularly requested, that Gentlemen who are to be presented at 

 the Levees, will have their names distinctly written upon the card to be de- 

 livered to the Lord in Waiting, in order that there may be no mistake in 

 announcing them to the King." 



Now really this is "too bad/' We have long been aware that the 

 novels of ladies and gentlemen in high life are unreadable ; but here 

 the Lord Chamberlain, in a solemn edict, insinuates, that our aristo- 

 cracy are not able to write their own names. 



SMITHFIELD FASHIONABLES. A daily paper, to which Smithfield 

 and Drury-lane are not terra incognita, informs us to the following 

 effect: 



" What few cattle were present, were of very inferior quality." 

 By a strange ambiguity of expression, and a singular knack of jum- 

 bling opposites together, it remains doubtful whether the editor 

 speaks of the theatre on the night of a new piece, or of Smithfield on 

 a market-day ; " what few cattle were present, were of a very inferior 

 quality," is a figure of speech, which, it will be seen, is quite as 

 applicable in the one case as the other, 



INFORMATION EXTRAORDINARY. The Cheltenham Chronicle, a 

 very grave and interesting paper, contains the following important 

 paragraph : 



*' Our Weymouth correspondent informs us that the people are all ALIVE 

 ttere." 



This is really kind of tf our Weymouth correspondent," especially to 

 reversionary legatees, whose tenants for life reside within his cogni- 

 zance. How happy would the former feel were the Cheltenham 

 Chronicle to contain such a paragraph as this : 



' Our Weymouth correspondent informs us, that the people are all dead 

 there." 



EFFECTS OF DISFRANCHISEMENT. The following case 5s quoted 

 from the accidents and offences at Grantham; 



" As a lady was proceeding to the theatre at Grantham, in a carriage be- 

 longing to Mr. Windover Guild Hall, on Thursday, the 17th instant, to wit- 

 ness Mr. Kean's Shy lock, some daring rascal got up behind the vehicle, the 

 top of which he cut through, and seized an elegant comb which the lady 

 wore in her hair. Though greatly terrified, the lady contrived to snatch it 



