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outset, because it is subversive of all rules of ordinary foeethought, 

 and cannot be taken as an average of the deportment of public men. 

 But when chicks, with the shells on their tails, chirp for " most sweet 

 voices" of electors, we take it to be little short of absolutely idiotcy, 

 when their callow cries are attended to. Of all claims of candidates, 

 no matter of what party, to the suffrages of the public, we opine that 

 that of shaving should at least be satisfactorily established. Yet if 

 we believe reports now pretty current, it would appear that not a few 

 in their " hirsuite season " are ambitious of senatorial distinctions, be- 

 fore they can muster even an excuse for brandishing a razor. Let us - 

 hope that the rampant ardour of these gosling law -makers will receive 

 ucha check as will spare us the necessity of questioning the veraci- 

 ty of the axiom that " at thirty a man suspects himself a fool." 



FORTY SHILLING IMMORTALITY. When Malvolio spoke of per- 

 sons who acquired greatness, we are not quite clear that he contem- 

 plated the present Sheriffs of London, though for the sum of two 

 pounds sterling, each of these dignitaries have become candidates for 

 popularity. No subject in our times has been more prolific of pa- 

 triotism on paper than Poland, which has been literally hunted to 

 death from the Kremlin to the Mansion-House. The turtle-eaters 

 west of Temple-bar have a peculiar aptitude of being most extrava- 

 gantly generous at a marvellously small outlay of their individual pa- 

 trimony, and yet manage to obtain the same celebrity for generosity, 

 as if they made the most unheard-of sacrifices. One would think, to 

 have heard the notes of preparation for the feast in the city the other 

 day, in behalf of the expatriated denizens of Warsaw, that the Cor- 

 poration magnates had " unhoused their unsunned gold "if only to 

 realise Whittington's fable of LonBon wealth. But the unlucky pro- 

 prietors of frogged coats and whiskers were blessed with the sight of 

 but two guineas each from the sheriffs of the first city in the world, 

 who, of course, made up in official pomposity for the minuteness of 

 their dole. We should not be at all surprised should things hereafter 

 take a favourable turn, if these sheriffs be first among the foremost in 

 claiming some out-of-the-way testimonial of their unheard-of libe- 

 rality. 



fc^* To THE DIRECTORS OF MINING COMPANIES. We beg to 

 inform gentlemen connected with these notable speculations, 

 that a continuation of the article which appeared in our last 

 Number, entitled, " Tactics of the Stock Exchange," has 

 been postponed, in consequence of some additional informa- 

 tion which we have received being of such a nature that we 

 deem it right to make ourselves acquainted with the facts 

 previous to" their publication. 



