474 NOTES OF THE MONTH. 



" Mr. BUCKMAN : The meeting would recollect that Mr, Hallett was pro- 

 prietor of ' The Brighton Guardian/ 



" Mr. COHEN: You are a liar, Sir. 



" Mr. BUCKMAN : Allow me to state without fear of contradiction, that I 

 was a short time back in company with Mr. Hallett, when he said he was 

 master of The Guardian; and could throw it, types and all, in the street just 

 when he pleased. Allow me to ask, who has told the lie now? (Cheering.) 



" Mr. HALLETT: You have: yoa're a liar!" 



The spirit of Chesterfield sojourneth for this generation in the body 

 of Mr. Cohen : but the mantle of the most gentlemanly monarch has 

 clearly fallen on Mr. Hallett. 



CONFISCATION OP POLES. It will be remembered that some short 

 time since, the Tartar Czar of Moscovy- the " father of his people" 

 exercised the parental right over some of his refractory children 

 boys who entertain a strong aversion to the knout by making free 

 with their estates, much the same as that interesting individual of 

 former times, the Roman Emperor, who interested himself so much 

 in the affairs of the rich patricians, that when they were accidentally 

 missing, he took charge of their property. The Czar, with a kind- 

 ness worthy his great predecessor, during the absence of some of his 

 Polish children, who are either devoting themselves to the science of 

 mineralogy in the mountains of Oural; or botanizing in the pleasant 

 fields of Siberia, has advertized their estates for sale in the French 

 and English newspapers; the return of the owners being so very un- 

 certain. That the estates may be enhanced in the eyes of a Tory 

 purchaser, the advertisements specify that several hundred serfs will 

 be sold with each estate. 



The sale however has been a failure; for, notwithstanding the ap- 

 plication of a few English Tories and some of the Polignac school in 

 France, the security was found so questionable that little business was 

 done. A few miserable dogs of renegade Jews speculated, but with 

 the understanding that little objection would be made to their kidnap- 

 ping the natives for the Brazil market. Our attention has been 

 recalled to this, the Autocrat's paternal Ukase, by observing a sus- 

 picious advertisement in a country paper, as follows: 



" Poles from the plantations. A quantity of Poles will be offered for sale 

 by Ticket, at the Grosvenor Arms, in Eccleston, near Chester, on Tuesday 

 the IQth day of March, at four o'clock in the afternoon." 



Can this be a ruse of the Tartar's tory allies in England, who find- 

 ing the speculation of their friend a failure, have opened the adven- 

 ture again through a disguised medium, to favour the scruples of 

 timid speculators; Pozzo di Borgo has been lately here we know 

 that his mission has not been entirely confined to hunting old Talley- 

 rand: we merely throw out these remarks as hints for the considera- 

 tion of the Polish committee. 









