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self-sacrifice to require of them. If any one of these " Game- Certificated 

 Parsons" would but apply this piece of advice to practice, we predict that he 

 will return to his home better satisfied with himself than when he set out. 

 Oct. 7. " Louis Philippe reviews a Body of Troops at Compeigne." 

 THIS hopeful monarch, who at the commencement of his reign could peram- 

 bulate his good capital of Paris in a plain undress, with a gingham umbrella 

 under his arm, recognised by all his subjects, and perfectly free from every 

 apprehension of assassination ; by pursuing a career distinguished alike by 

 its treachery and despotism has attained to so enviable a state of unpopularity 

 as to be obliged to take remarkably good care that he shall not be shot at 

 successfully. The Review in question must have been a military pomp, 

 affording his Majesty a great luxury, as, during the whole of the perilous 

 delight of the day, he was so fearful of a stray bullet as to be so closely sur- 

 rounded that but few of his " faithful subjects " could obtain a view of 

 his Royal Person. His Guards were even ordered to keep back all who might 

 attempt to approach him. Such is the retribution laid up in store for tyrannic 

 kings or sovereigns who act with treachery towards their people. The con- 

 tinued apprehensions that Louis Philippe must experience cannot fail to be 

 most agonizing. The curse will pursue him while existence lasts, embitter- 

 ing every moment, and calling down ample vengeance on the victims of his 

 treachery. We hope that ere many numbers of this Magazine may have 

 gone forth, France may no longer be disgraced by the dynasty of the Bourbons. 



Oct. 12. "In the Alterations now making in Whitehall, the Royal Pew will 

 be placed in the very window out of which Charles the First walked to the 

 Scaffold." 



This must be a somewhat unpleasant communication to make to His 

 Majesty, if ever he is informed of it, and there is a possibility of its occasion- 

 ing him a few extraordinary sensations while in the exercise of his devotions. 

 The convulsions that shake empires have latterly been of such frequent occur- 

 rence, that the people of this country and indeed every other are apt to 

 look upon such a coincidence as the above in the light of an ominous event. 

 " We defy augury" and have no foreboding : still we think that better taste 

 might have been exhibited in the selection of a spot for the Royal Pew. 

 There certainly was no necessity for making the temporary resting-place of 

 our respected and popular Monarch in the very pathway one of his Regal 

 Predecessors was obliged to tread when doomed to decapitation. 



Oct. 16. DRAMATIC EMIGRATION. The Contemporary Prints of this day 

 furnish us with a tolerable lengthy list of English Actors and Actresses of every 

 description who are exercising their callings in the United States of America. 

 If Emigration is to be taken as the standard proof of a superfluity of popula- 

 tion, what a huge surplus must there be of the Children of Thespis ! Theatres 

 increase in this country ; but they are still incapable of supplying with food 

 those, whose existence depends upon them ; hence they ship themselves off 

 to America the New World being still in its infancy in regard to the breed- 

 ing of Performers sufficient to supply the wants of the community. 



Oct. 21. A Great Meeting of the Tories takes place at the Mansion- 

 House to enter into Subscriptions to erect a Statue in honour of the Duke of 

 Wellington. 



We have read over the Speeches made by these "Wise Men in the East; " 

 and for the life of us we cannot discover what deeds the Duke of Wellington 

 has recently achieved to entitle him to this distinction. The chief ground 

 of his Grace's distinction that we can discover from the bourgeois pane- 

 gyrists, is, that he forwarded the Bill in the House of Lords for the re-build- 

 ing of London Bridge ; and if this proceeding entitles a Nobleman to a 

 Statue, every Peer who voted on the same side is entitled to a similar distinc- 

 tion. It is rather too late in the day to get up and talk about the Duke of 



