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guished and high-spirited divines, a declaration that Dr. Philpotts is the 

 first of scholars and of men, the most immaculate of pamphleteers, and 

 the most unworldly of christians ; if the Precentor shall call him St. 

 Chrysostovn, and the Dean declare him St. Paul, no man shall hear our 

 protest j if his chaplains congratulate mankind on the addition to the 

 bench, and the whole body of Canons set his political virtues to music, 

 and chaunt them in place of the obsolete psalms of David ; we shall 

 only rejoice that merit has found its reward, and that, though the 

 Bench may go down, a Saint of the first water, a Philpotts, is sure of 

 an elevation. 



Sir Walter Scott long may he live and write has again set the 

 fashion of authorship, and his Demonology will fill all the portfolios of 

 " all the talents" with ghosts. Our preachers will have a double reason 

 for calling this a visionary world ; and Messrs. Thompson and Fearon's 

 grand manufactory on Holborn Hill, v/ill not have the monopoly of 

 filling the popular brains with spirits. Demonology will henceforth 

 take its place among the " Ologies" that form so essential a part of the 

 education of any girl who intends to be married ; and spinsters will 

 defy Satan, from mere familiarity, with as much sangfroid as a barrister 

 in full practice deals with him, or as Mr. T. P. Cooke puts on his black 

 majesty's visage, and revels in diabolism and blue flames at the Surrey 

 theatre. 



Scotland, by right divine, has the privilege of all the real ghosts, and 

 she is now busy with that ghost episode, a prophetic dream. 



<f Henderson, the Murderer. A strange tale regarding Henderson is 

 the subject of conversation at Dunfermline. On the day of the culprit's 

 birth his father, who is a respectable man in his own humble way, 

 dreamed that he saw his son, grown to man's estate, go through all 

 the formalities of a public execution. This strange vision gave him 

 great uneasiness at the time, and the impression was confirmed in the 

 course of years by the wild recklessness of character which distinguished 

 his son. It was, however, the hope of the senior Henderson that, as he 

 had not seen the end of the rope wherewith the criminal seemed to be 

 executed, the accomplishment of the vision would not take place during 

 his lifetime. He has been disappointed." 



WE are rejoiced at the arrival of an illustrious person, who has deprived 

 England of his presence for the last ten years ; our dearly beloved 

 Florentine ambassador, the son of that dearly beloved rat, the old Lord 

 Privy Seal, that gayest of sinecurists, brightest of senators, and most 

 galloping of Hyde-Park equestrians. 



f: An English opera, composed by Lord Burghersh, and entitled 

 ' Katherine, or the Austrian Captive/ is in rehearsal by the pupils of the 

 Royal Academy of Music, and will be performed by them in the 

 Concert-room of the Italian Opera." 



So, his lordship is not idle. He has brought his fiddle with him ; 

 and though his loss must throw the whole fiddling population of La 

 bella Fiorenza into despair, and the Countess Belqiojocoso into the 

 delights of a reign unrivalled by her ladyship ; though poor Lord Nor- 

 manby must carry on the theatrical campaign alone, and do the duties 

 of a British senator on a solitary stage; yet we must congratulate 



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