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Nantes are remarkably loyal, and having been apprised of the fate of 

 our first Charles do not wish to facilitate the exit from existence of 

 their own unpopular monarch by similar means, or they are particu- 

 larly disaffected to their sovereign, and deeming it absolutely certain 

 that he will shortly call the guillotine into .action they do not wish to 

 lend a helping hand to the annihilation of political victims. Adver- 

 sity, though it could not teach this trickstering Janus-faced king, 

 Louis Philippe, wisdom, yet contrived to teach him several useful 

 trades, by means of which, at the most creditable period of his life, he 

 procured his daily subsistence. Doubtless he knew enough of the 

 carpenter's business to have repaired this instrument of death. Why 

 did not the people of Nantes send for him ? the employment would 

 have been most congenial to his taste and habits. Every nail he 

 drove in he would have considered an additional safeguard to his 

 throne, and when his royal labour was finished he would have taken 

 out his wages from the blood of his fellow-citizens. 



September 2. PHILPOTTS, BISHOP OF EXETER, MAKES A VISITA- 

 TION TOUR THROUGH CORNWALL. It is universally reported that 

 during this " clerical progress" the exemplary bishop has unre- 

 servedly stated to his clergy that they are possessed of the full power 

 to forgive sins. This doctrine must be remarkably comforting to the 

 majority of their parishioners,who, if they can be supplied with abso- 

 lutions on moderate terms, will doubtless be regular quarterly cus- 

 tomers to the absolver. Should this delectable plan be carried into 

 effect, we recommend bishop Philpotts when he returns to London to 

 draw up a scale of prices for permission to commit every variety of 

 peccadillo, and to get it well circulated among the self-indulgent 

 scions of the aristocracy, from whom a large income could be derived. 



September 3. Mr. Buncombe, say the tory prints, has received 

 the appointment of Superintendant of the Foreign Letter Depart- 

 ment in the Post Office, and in consequence there will be a vacancy 

 in the representation of the Borough of Finsbury. The Standard re- 

 commends Mr. Horseley Palmer or Mr. Masterman, or any other dis- 

 tinguished conservative banker or merchant, to stand for Finsbury. 

 This advice is remarkably judicious and rational. The tories are 

 no doubt great friends of " the circulating medium," especially when 

 it can be turned into their own pockets ; and who could be more effec- 

 tive to set it in full operation for so desirable an end than some " con- 

 servative banker or merchant," whose coffers are well filled, starting 

 on the hard gallop for the Borough of Finsbury ? The tory prints 

 have no doubt already calculated how much they should make by his 

 long-winded advertisements about fidelity to the constitution, venera- 

 tion for the church, and attachment to the state, and every other re- 

 spectable establishment that is sufficiently superannuated to have en- 

 gendered abuses of every description. As we live in a commercial 

 country, and as the advice given has been bestowed in the true spirit 

 of trade, we regret that the opportunity is not afforded to the " con- 

 servative banker or merchant" to make a first-rate noodle of himself. 



September 5. This day's newspapers inform us that 



"The epicures of Vienna are in great spirits at the premium offered by go- 



