586 Xutvs o/ the Month on QNov. 



We understand that accounts have been received subsequently, stating 

 that the disorder had reached Moscow, where it was making frightful 

 ravages. The Russian government is making all possible efforts to stop 

 its progress. Besides directing the attention of medical science at home 

 to the subject, a large reward has been offered in foreign countries for 

 the discovery of any effectual mode of treatment. 



There are individuals born to be talked of, just as there are indi- 

 viduals born, like Dr. Philpotts, to be rats and bishops ; and individuals 

 born to be pumped, pijloried and hanged. A city rector is seldom a 

 " great son of fame," and the London smokes are rather prejudicial 

 to the growth of the laurel ; but there are some, whose natural turn 

 for reputation cannot be restrained, and of such is the hero of the 

 following tale. 



" A Rev. Doctor in the City, who has manifested a great taste for 

 tithes, and whose parishioners have the pleasure of paying two-and- 

 ninepence in the pound, not content with a splendid income, takes from 

 his Curate, to whom he gives what hardly can be considered good 

 wages by a journeyman mechanic, any little compliment which persons 

 may be disposed to make at weddings or christenings, even though 

 the parties should be his own personal friends. A gentleman some 

 time ago, informed of this amiable trait, determined, on the occasion 



of his marriage, to be a match for Dr. O . A week before the 



happy day, a dozen of wine made its appearance as a present to the 

 Curate ; who did not think the bridegroom particularly shabby, though 

 at last he gave to the Rector his dues, and not one farthing more." 



What a curious book might be written, full of nothing but royal inter- 

 rogatories, at this moment. 



Ferdinand of Spain. " What shall I do with the Carlists, the Apos- 

 tolicals, the Serviles, the Liberals, the freemasons, the exiles, the 

 patriots, the monks? and what will they do with me ?" 



Francis of Austria. " What shall I do with the Italians, the Hunga- 

 rians, the Jesuits, the monks, or with Venice, Trieste, and Dalmatia? 

 and what will they do with me?" 



Don Miguel. (l What shall I do with the nobles, the priests, the 

 people, my brother, my troops, my sailors, my exiles, my prisoners, my 

 sisters, my people, and England ? and what will they do with me ?" 

 . Louis Philippe. " What shall I do with my nobles, my populace, my 

 courtiers, my comrades, my guards that I dread,. my subjects that govern 

 me, my parliament that scorns deliberation, my council that will neither 

 give nor take advice, Austria that hates revolution, Russia, that dreads it, 

 Prussia, that longs for it, England, that threatens it at every change of 

 ministry ? and what will they do to me ? 



We could prolong the interrogatory to a folio, but in the mean time 

 we must give a specimen of the true way of letting out a cabinet 

 secret. 



" ' What shall I do?' " said the Emperor of Austria, when he heard 

 of the French revolution. There was a pause. ' Repeat the drama in 

 Brussels/ said Metternich ; ' German money, French profligacy, and 

 Flemish obstinacy will get it up. Make revolution unpopular by setting 

 the most stupid of subjects against the most liberal of kings create a 

 necessity have Napoleon II. elected first consul of the Netherlands, and 



