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THE MAN OF PROPERTY. There is no need of the King's College 

 to the London University, while there exists such a school for public 

 instruction as the Mansion House, and such professors as the Lord 

 Mayor and his constables. 



LORD MAYOR " You mean, I suppose, that you are a gentleman ; that is, 

 that you are a man of property, without toiling for it." 



OFFICER. " Yes, my Lord, that's true ; he is a man of property, for I 

 found a watch and some silver in his pocket \" 



Now here is an important question set at rest, we hope for ever, 

 about which so many learned authorities have differed ; that is, what 

 the precise definition of a gentleman may be. The learned magistrate 

 has settled that dispute : " a gentleman is a man of property without 

 toiling for it." In agreeing to the soundness of this decision, the 

 learned magistrate will not take it amiss if we consider that he can be 

 no gentleman. This by the way. But his learned coadjutor, the 

 OFFICER, fearing that some quibble might arise as to the extent of 

 property which might qualify a man for the rank of gentleman under 

 the act of his learned friend, distinctly fixes it at the possession of a 

 ivatcli and some silver. Thus two important facts have been brought 

 to light in this exclusive and aristocratic country, and by means of 

 those public blessings, Bow-street and the Mansion-house the exact 

 limits of the two most important ranks in society. We learn that a 

 respectable man is he who keeps a horse and gig ; but a gentleman, 

 and a man of property, can only be distinguished by his having a 

 watch and some silver in his pocket ! 



EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY. We beg to congratulate the country 

 upon an ingenious invention lately introduced at Darlington, which 

 cannot be better described than in the words of Sam. Thompson 

 himself: 



" Sam. Thompson, 



SOLE INVENTOR OF THE WATCHMAN'S CLOCK. 

 Messrs. Pease, of this town, and Messrs. Parkes, Haughton Mills, use them. 

 They effectually oblige men to be on duty (or a tale is told in the morning), 

 and also frequently keep them from intoxication, which is of no small im- 

 portance. Darlington, September 3d, 1833." 



Why no ; a clock that can keep men from intoxication is certainly 

 of no small importance ; and when its merits are more generally 

 ".known, its illustrious inventor will be of no small importance either. 

 We sincerely hope that Messrs. Pease, and Messrs. Parkes, of Haugh- 

 ton Mills, have experienced its beneficial effect that small beer will 

 be more in vogue with them than heretofore. The distinguished 

 wag had doubtless an eye upon his customers when he penned this 

 paragraph, although it was hardly fair. And then, an instrument 

 that will effectually oblige men to work, or in default, tell a tale ! 

 We suspect it must be some improvement upon the merits of the old 

 Fleet-street clock of St. Dunstan's : that the men use their clubs 

 more effectually than did they of Fleet-street, and thus a tale is told 

 by the skulker, in the form of a broken head. We hear Mr. Thompson 

 is the chairman of a branch temperance society, and that since the in- 

 vention the whole population of Darlington have enrolled themselves. 



