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blessed with like propensities, flock to Downing-street, but one 

 inference can be drawn. However, as we are the very antithesis of 

 uncharitable, we ask for information sake, pray what are we to un- 

 derstand by the attendance at the Foreign Office of Sir Hudson Lowe ? 



SEASONABLE MORCEAU. Christmas is proverbially prolific of 

 good things, and doubtless the following is amongst them, if we 

 could only find out what it is : 



" Mr. William Southern, of the Eastgate-street, Stafford, respectfully 

 informs his friends and the public, that he has bought a Prize Ox from the 

 Earl of Talbot ; he will be slaughtered on the day of December, 1834. 

 W. S. expects that his beef will delight the eye and make the mouth 

 water." 



W. S. is a wag. Whether it be the Earl of Talbot's, William 

 Southern's, or the Ox's beef that is expected to " delight the eye and 

 make the mouth water," is a question for the Chancellor of Oxford. 

 Assuredly, none but a veteran in the art of " hovering on the verge 

 of meaning " can make out what the gentleman of the Eastgate- 

 street would be at. If he is as expert at showing up the Earl's beef, 

 as he is the King's English, he is no contemptible operator. Let the 

 Noble Earl and the coroner of the county keep an eye upon him. 



MARCH OP EVENTS. Political vicissitudes so ludicrously outre 

 sa the late Cabinet revolutions, have so blunted the wondering facul- 

 ties of the gentle public, that the inventive genius of the marvel- 

 mongers has of late been altogether unrestricted in the fabrication 

 of " moving incidents." A Greek (Breotian, we presume) cor- 

 respondend of a morning journal, announces that the capital of 

 Otho's dominions " will be removed from Nauplia to Athens" 

 altogether reversing the schoolmen's dogma, ex nihilo mhil jit, and 

 totally independent of the laws of gravitation. The Cork Constitu- 

 tion, with a na'ivete alarmingly Hibernian, felicitates its readers on 

 the failure of Mr. O'Connell's attempt to " convert the county of 

 Clare into a close borough !" 



MEMS. FOR ELECTIONS. Indications are being manifested of an 

 arduous struggle being likely to accrue for the supremacy of upright 

 liberality, or right down chicanery, in the approaching election. For 

 our own part we are altogether unable to discern the wisdom of the 

 Tory tacticians, in courting an appeal to popular opinion at the pre- 

 sent juncture ; but, it strikes us as being in no wise emblematic of 

 the sagacity of such proceedings, that a most untoward and unseemly 

 assemblage of personages, verging on the confines of discretionary 

 age, should be among the candidates in what is called the " Conser- 

 vative interest." Heaven knows that we are already sufficiently 

 plagued with the comic vagaries of confirmed or incipient senility ; 

 but, in the name of all that is absurd, let us escape the unfledged em- 

 piricism of embryo legislators. It is sufficiently mortifying when the 

 experience of adversity has been unproductive of a diminution of ini- 

 quity in habits engendered by an obstinate defiance of public opinion. 

 Such conduct comes not within the scope of legitimate enquiry at the 



