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 NOTES OF THE MONTH. 



AN ORIGINAL MEANING RESTORED. In the Premier's " Ad- 

 dress," which with the most dexterous proficiency unites the 

 lengthiness of an American President's, with the unintelligibility of 

 that of an English Sovereign, we find a single phrase that looks some- 

 what definite 



" Our main object," says he, " will be the maintenance of peace." 

 We confess we should rather that he had stated more plainly how 

 he intended to forward this most desirable object ; because we 

 remember that this has been professedly the " main object " of every 

 statesman who has had power in this country. The bloodiest wars 

 that ever desolated the globe have been supported by a Tory 

 ministry but always to " maintain peace." Is it, therefore, the 

 intention of the Right Hon. Premier and his military colleague to 

 support the cause of the Spanish and Portuguese Pretenders to 

 maintain peace ? Do they intend to assist the King of Holland in 

 his project of reconquering Belgium,, to maintain peace ? Will they 

 encourage the Duchess of Berri to excite insurrection in France or 

 Austria to invade Switzerland, all for the love of peace ? These 

 reflections somewhat puzzled us, until we bethought ourselves that 

 the whole difficulty was caused by the slightest mistake imaginable. 

 The alteration of a single letter renders the entire passage luminous 

 and appropriate. The Hon. Baronet evidently wrote 

 " Our main object will be the maintenance of place." 

 But the avowal being so unusual, and the printer not comprehend- 

 ing the independence of a great mind, mistook the / for an e, and 

 thus the mistake arose. The Hon. Baronet will have great reason 

 to thank us for this emendation, which will at once set him right 

 with the public, and raise to the highest possible pitch that singular 

 character of frankness and straight-forwardness which the Tory 

 journals have discovered in that matchless production " The 

 Address." 



AN INSINUATING ADMONITION. In the daily papers we find the 

 subjoined gem arising from the blessings of the tythe system. It 

 must be consolatory to the susceptibility of Lords Roden, Kenyon, 

 and others illustrious in the annals of the church militant, to find that 

 holy zeal so long deplored by them is not yet quite extinct. 



" A clergyman in an inland county lately concluded a sermon in the fol- 

 lowing words : ' Brethren, next Friday will be my tythe day, and those 

 who bring their tythes which are due to me shall be rewarded with a good 

 dinner ; but those who do not, may depend that on Saturday they will dine 

 on a lawyer's letter !' " 



Here is a truly pastoral amalgamation of the suav itcr in modo etfor- 

 titer in re. Who can fail being impressed with the benevolent men- 

 tion of a day fatal to decimal pigs and bipeds of oviparous parentage. 

 No less worthy of admiration is the deference to the feelings of the 

 backward in " rendering unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's" 

 exemplified in the playful inuendo of the gastronomic figure of speech 



