74 Notes of the Month on [JAN. 



proverb of the " ill wind" is not without its verification in those mat- 

 ters. The king, 'tis true, resides in St. James's and the Pavilion. But 

 the Castle and the Pimlico affair are only the more comfortable habita- 

 tions for footmen, housekeepers, and stewards, until they shall be applied 

 as chambers to the convenience of the young widows or dashing dow- 

 agers of the court. In the mean time they will make pleasant sinecures 

 for the architects, and thus contribute to the encouragement of the 

 national genius, and the liberal expenditure of the national guineas. 



JEKYLLIANA. Some one observed, that probably the Russian Em- 

 peror might be deterred from attacking Poland by the fear of insurrec- 

 tion in his army. 



" Well he may," said the barrister. " It is all over with them all, if 

 revolt extends from the Poles to the Line." 



Long experience has convinced us that of all rare things, the rarest 

 axe facts, facts of any kind, and from any quarter whatever. Raleigh's 

 old' contempt for historical facts made him, as all the world knows, throw 

 his papers into the fire. Horace Walpole was prohibited by his father 

 from reading history to him, " for you know," said the old politician, 

 " that it cannot be true." Thus we have been perplexed during the last 

 month by the theatrical/ad, that Madame Vestris and Miss Foote, had 

 taken the Olympic Theatre, in partnership ; though it was not declared 

 how many anonymous partners, with heavier purses than usually fall to 

 the lot even of female charms, were engaged in the speculation. But it was 

 stated as afact, that the two fair ones were allied, and were determined 

 to draw together ; which, to their attractions must be as easy as it might 

 be difficult for their rivalry ; that the house was to have a new name in 

 consequence, and be called LA BELLE ALLIANCE; that Braham, Jones, 

 and all the stars that have withdrawn their light from the great thea- 

 tres were to form a constellation in the little, and that the back streets 

 of the Strand were henceforth to be the west end of the theatrical world, 

 the focus of all theatric fashion, the spot, to which when a nobleman got 

 into his carriage at St. Stephen's, or at the door of the Clarendon, his 

 coachman drove by instinct ; a general congress of all wits above ten 

 thousand a year all peers under sixty all noble beauties in their teens, 

 and all noble mothers with meditations deep in matrimony. To those 

 facts, the whole tribunal of the London journals would have sworn. 

 Yet where are they now ? 



It was an undeniable fact a week ago, that, Mr. C. Kemble had taken 

 the Tottenham-street Theatre, at an additional rent of 800 per annum, 

 for the purpose of putting down the starring system at the minors. The 

 fact is, however, that it has been let to Mr. Macfarren, on lease for 21 

 years, at 1,000 a year ; who is at this moment engaged in projecting 

 extensive alterations and improvements of the building, and who hopes 

 to re-open about the end of next month, newly decorated, with new 

 pieces, a new company, formed of the principal talent now in the mar- 

 ket, and with very superior patronage, of course. What will be the 

 next fact ? 



The Africans are not celebrated for their brains, yet they have a touch 

 of acuteness, that sometimes serves them just as well. The European 

 kings send the Emperor of Morocco envoys and consuls. The Em- 

 peror of Morocco never returns any thing of the kind. He sends back 



