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there a pit-frequenting Taglioni adoring Figgins, or a Muggins in 

 existence, matter-of-fact enough to say, that she ought not to have 

 committed herself to the guidance of some devoted dolphin, who 

 would have been but too happy to have piloted her through the glassy 

 bosom of the deep, to "the emerald gem of the western world." By- 

 ron must have had Taglioni in his eye when he said, " She walks the 

 waters like a thing of life." But to the utter subversion of all that's 

 poetic, she acted in every respect like a Bloomsbury lady's maid, 

 travelled on the outside of a coach, eat beefsteaks on the road and 

 oh, hideous ! washed them down her angelic sesophagus with half- 

 and-half. 



PROVINCIAL PROFUNDITY.- Some one somewhere truly remarks 

 that one half the world does not know how the other half lives. Me- 

 tropolitans properly so called, to prevent misconception we had better 

 say cockneys have but faint notions of the difficulties by which their 

 rustic brethren are beset on all sides. Crown-and-Anchor petitioners 

 may delude themselves with the idea of sometimes having pretty 

 considerable botheration in procuring signatures ; but it is for Welsh- 

 men alone to talk of obstacles and impediments in the way of the 

 completion of such enterprises as the filling up of Tory memorials. 

 The Merthyr Guardian published in the county of Brecon, in the 

 principality of Wales, says that a petition relative to the maintenance 

 of the connection of church and state, received a great many signa- 

 tures in a short time, notwithstanding what ? Now, reader, there 



is a poser. We know what answer is on your lips. " Notwithstand- 

 ing the unprecedented excitement of an unparalleled political com- 

 motion, incidental to an unequalled contest for this county." No 

 such thing ; don't suppose that such trivial matters would excite any 

 astonishment in the mind of the editor of the Merthyr Guardian. 

 Guess again. " Notwithstanding the deplorable mortality occasioned 

 by the awful dispensation of Divine Providence in this county." 

 Very far from the mark ; the people of Merthyr are not to be dis- 

 turbed by occurrences of this nature. Another trial. " Notwith- 

 standing the multifarious avocations which the circumstances of the 



times render it imperative on the inhabitants of this county " Stop, 



stop, wandering and most mistaken reader. The people of the afore- 

 said county of Brecon never find things too multifarious for their 

 universal genius. What, then, can this astonishing difficulty be, that 

 the Merthyr Guardian does not think it; too contemptible to be men- 

 tioned ? Notwithstanding what ? why what ordinary mortals could 



never dream of. " Notwithstanding Ihe mountainous state of the 



country ! /" 



A RIDDLE RESOLVED. A few weeks since, a report of a speech, 

 said to have been delivered by his Majesty to certain canonical 

 worthies, and very expressive of the determination of our sovereign 

 lord to resist all interference with the honey-pots of the church, 

 appeared in the Standard, and excited considerable attention. As the 

 speech was a yarn of many fathoms, and spoken only in the presence 

 of the bishops, serious fears were, we understand, entertained least 



