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Kf" MOST ATROCIOUS INSULT. A fracas has lately taken place at 

 Washington, between General Blair, a member of the House of Re- 

 presentatives, from South Carolina, and General Green, editor of a 

 paper y in which the Union party in South Carolina, to which General 

 Blair belongs, were charged with being Tories. 



" General Blair met General Green in the street, and asked him what he 

 meant by calling the Union party Tories ? General Green replied, that his 

 paper truly spoke his sentiments ; and General Blair thereupon knocked 

 General Green down." 



What else could General Blair do ? Had General Green impugned 

 his veracity, a gentlemanly meeting would, of course, have been pro- 

 posed. Had General Green called him a thief, a mere action at law 

 would have been the consequence : but General Green went further 

 he branded General Blair with the name of Tory ! and the latter, 

 smarting to the quick under so degrading an infliction, naturally 

 enough knocked his brother officer down. 



ANODYNE TECHNICALS. A man who, from his birth, had no 

 kneepans, is described by a Guy's Hospital gentleman, as labouring 

 under an absence of the patellae. Phraseology in physic is eminently 

 mystifying and cool: Has one of your friends suffered amputa- 

 tion ? By no means he has merely had a leg removed. Are you 

 doomed to gulp down a horrible potion by some apothecary? Far 

 from it the gentleman merely exhibits a draught. By the way, we 

 wonder how many DRAUGHTS were exhibited to our talented friend 

 W k, before he took the benefit. 



-i iiiw T_. 



THE KING'S THEATRE has commenced auspiciously, with Rossini's 

 opera of " La Cenerentola," and a most magnificent ballet from the 

 subject of Faust. The most splendid dancer of modern times, M. 

 Perrot, is here introduced ; since the great Vestris, the public have 

 witnessed " no such man." 



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CANT is THE ORDER OP THE DAY. The shadow of power which 

 public opinion has left to the dignitaries of the church they are de- 

 termined to make the most of. Not a pot-house, but they must dic- 

 tate the club rules not a skittle-ground, but they must have a hand 

 in the bowls ! The theatres, in Lent, are glorious pegs, whereon to 

 hang their piety ; portions of scripture must be burlesqued upon the 

 boards of a theatre, and the patriarchs must be tricked out in tinsel, 

 that bishops may prove their virtue, and that religion may be pro- 

 perly respected by the play-going public. But one step further 

 would be absolute blasphemy. The lessee of Drury-lane was obliged 

 to close his theatre one night last week, because his performance was 

 not of a strictly pious character. Heaven help us ! when our right 

 reverend fathers order religious instructions to be dealt out through 

 so questionable a medium as a patent theatre. 



