NOTES OF THE MONTH. 



promised to give me a drawing ; now redeem your promise !" The 

 tradesman might have sought the longitude with success, or the 

 north-west passage, but he found it vain to t( Try Turner !" 



WHISKERS AND GLORY. The protracted struggle in Portugal has 

 had the effect of setting the small wits of our martial-minded scape- 

 graces in a ferment for " glory." We want some such philosopher 

 as " Crack/' the cobbler, to cool their ardour. Not a few, however, 

 have been effectually cured of their military mania by the 

 smell of powder ; and we consequently see in every coffee-house, 

 among the new arrivals, sundry hairy-faced Hectors from Lisbon 

 and Oporto, having retired from the service in " disgust." The 

 numbers of these " elegant extracts" have converted the appearance 

 of our peaceful capital into a huge crimping shop. We cannot turn 

 a corner without riskiug our eyesight from the sharp-pointed mous- 

 tache of some whiskered Bobadil. The thirst for " glory" has been 

 great beyond all precedent. Undismayed by the return-accounts of 

 the ill-treated Pistols, who are now basking in the glory of their six 

 months' scampering, there appears to be an encreasing rush of the 

 valorous public towards the transports of Donna Maria. The conse- 

 quence will be, that some few months hence, when the thing will 

 be finished in Portugal, and " valour" consequently at a considerable 

 discount when, in fact, stabbers and cutters are no longer in de- 

 mand, and glory at a shilling a-day unattainable our streets will be 

 crowded with whiskered desperadoes, and our sympathies and purses 

 put into active exercise in favour of " brave men" and " patriots." 

 We would seriously admonish those who have honest callings to 

 pause ere they exchange them for a most precarious livelihood, and 

 one in which it is very probable they will obtain " monkey's allow- 

 ance" for their services more kicks than coin. 



Of all the crimes which disgrace the metropolis, nothing stands 

 out with so glaring a front as poverty I the perpetrators are posi- 

 tively irreclaimable. Notwithstanding the repeated magisterial 

 denunciations, the guilty wretches still haunt our streets ; they seem 

 to exult in their depravity. The station-houses are filled with them 

 every night every cell in the houses of correction is choked and 

 the tread-wneel goes merrily round. Felons will never want bread 

 while there is a magisterial purveyance of paupers to grind their 

 corn. The offences of these daring violators of the laws are as 

 follows : Suspiciously sleeping at night without a shelter ; the felo- 

 nious asking of alms ; arid the heinous disposition to wander, rather 

 than starve at home. In a recent case at Queen-square, a criminal 

 guilty of the latter offence was thus addressed by Mr. White : " In 

 the course of my experience I have found many such as you, who 

 would rather starve from home than at home ; but it is my duty to 

 send you to the house of correction for fourteen days." However, 

 our friends the police magistrates are taking efficient means to rid us 

 of these depraved creatures. They are packed all off to prison with 

 thieves and cut-throats, so that when they get out they will have 

 acquired sufficient experience to be able to gain their living indus* 



