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of poor families for a year. We hope to see some day a champion 

 arise a champion of real reform that will sweep away a crowd of 

 such pestilent penny-trumpeters and render their existence to after 

 times what those of antiquity are to us a fable. 



Loss OP A LADY'S VIRTU. A paragrap has lately appeared in 

 the daily papers, headed " DARING BURGLARY," which appears to 

 have consisted in the furtive abstraction of various articles of virtu 

 from the residence of Mrs. Lane Fox. These valuables are described 

 as being " several tops of scent bottles, the cover of a soup-tray, 

 several trinkets, a blue cross and a blue heart two amethyst hearts, 

 joined together with gold snakes," &c. &c. We are further informed 

 that suspicion is attached to one Lucas, a notorious character, (a neigh- 

 bour of Mrs. Fox's,) as ce he was seen to run from his house in 

 Shephard's market, at the time thefellony was committed." 



Now, in our humble opinion, the fact of Mr. Lucas, running from 

 Shephard's market, at the time of the robbery in Curzon Street, would 

 seem to argue that that notorious and nimble individual ought 

 to be one of the last on whom suspicion should alight, unless it can 

 be shewn that " he can be in two places at once, like a bird or a fish." 

 We would also humbly suggest that if the fact of being a notorious 

 character were sufficient of itself to create suspicion, the greater por- 

 tion of our aristocracy would be open to grave suspicions of hav- 

 ing stolen Mrs. Fox's two amethyst hearts, joined together with gold 

 snakes unless indeed any enthusiastic missionary, absorbed in some 

 pious expedition against the heathen, may have dropped in, and 

 knowing from the reports of his predecessors, that even glass 

 beads have made more converts than either tracts or teaching, despising 

 all selfish considerations, may, in the " amabilis insania" of his zeal, 

 have pocketed the gew-gaws, and packed them up with his other 

 irresistible arguments, glorying in the prodigious effect likely to be 

 produced upon an auditory of New Zealand savages, by holding out 

 to them the fascinating inducements of Mrs. Lane Fox's blue cross and 

 blue heart, her tops of scent-bottles, and her silver cover of a soup- 

 tray ! The benighted heathen, indeed ! Bah ! They need not send 

 their mammon across the seas: there is too much miserable heathen at 

 home the factory child the star vingartisan who in their utter misery 

 in the midst of ease and plenty, are driven, by the callousness of their 

 ruthless fellow-creatures, to doubt the beneficence of their creator a 

 position than which none so awful so intensely horrible can possi- 

 bly be imagined. Miracles have ceased Elijah would find no food in 

 thedesertsnow the ravens are busy on a more importantmatter they 

 are gorging themselves, and if, while suffering under the agonies 

 consequent on repletion, they possess a mouthful which they cannot 

 swallow, instead of giving it to good Elijah in their native wilderness, 

 they transmit it by some sleek young raven, in hereditary black " a 

 kite of their own kin and kidney," who can't provide for his bill, to 

 some Bummagee, Dumniagee, Fummagee, Cummagee, Hickery, Pick- 

 ery, heaven knows who, a thousand leagues off some gentleman of 

 consequence, elegantly tattoed in the first style of fashion, with logs 



