560 Notes of the Month on Affairs in General. QMAY, 



then they are to argue in arrest of judgment ; and then, we take it for 

 granted, that we shall not have the pain of seeing so valuable a patriot 

 as the Agitator compelled to feel any embarrassment on the occasion. 

 And what was the reason alleged for this delay " Mr. O'Connell could 

 not appear in court/' Why ? he was out of town, and engaged too, on 

 parliamentary business. But had he not been summoned to attend ? 

 Yes, but the summons had not been sent in time to reach him. The 

 Attorney General on those grounds declared that he should consider.it 

 indelicate to press the matter, and therefore proposed the delay. But 

 why, might a plain man ask, was not the' summons sent in time ? The 

 whole business is to us as cloudy as ever, except in one point, which we 

 look on as perfectly clear. 



The history of the rise of some of our grand monde should be writ- 

 ten for the salutary purpose which the slave answered, who stood be- 

 hind the Roman general in the triumph " remember thou art but a 

 man !" Of what infinite service would it be to Lord Ringlet, to have a 

 historiographer reminding him once a week that his income was com- 

 piled from six-and-eightpences ? Another noble lord, who, however, 

 we believe, is by no means such a conspicuous model of ringletism, 

 might derive the same moral from this anecdote : 



" The late Lord Clonmel, who never thought of demanding more than a 

 shilling for an affidavit, used to be well satisfied provided it was a good one. 

 In his time the Birmingham shillings were current, and he used the following 

 extraordinary precaution to avoid being opposed upon by taking a bad one : 

 " You shall true answer make to such questions as shall be demanded of you 

 touching this affidavit, so help you God." Is this a good shilling? 



Lord Clonmel was an Irish judge. He began the world as nothing 

 but an obscure Irishman Jack Scott; by degrees was distiguished by 

 his effrontery, a good quality in the worst of times, and felt fortune 

 rising on him, in the name of Bully Scott. He was then made a baron, 

 and finally rested in the earldom of Earlsfort. His love for a good 

 shilling was of service to him, for he died worth thirty thousand a 

 year. 



We complain of the luxuries of the great, to whom those things are 

 no luxuries after all, but merely the common conveniences of their 

 rank and habits of living. But what shall we say to the luxuries of 

 the little, recollecting too, that the great pay for their luxuries out of 

 their own pockets, while the little extract them from the pockets of 

 their neighbours ? The churchwardens' dinners are proverbial, and the 

 phrase of " eating a child," or devouring at one of those feasts of the 

 tradesmen and shopkeepers of the vestry, to the value of 20, the 

 computed sum for a child's subsistence, has become a part of vestry 

 language. We give a recent instance of this fashionable taste : we might 

 give a thousand. 



' ( Rose-water for ever ! At a recent parish-feed, when the dinner things 

 were cleared off the cloth, several persons began to turn the said cloth up, to 

 be taken away. One of the waiters, pertinently for the occasion, but imper- 

 tinently for the company, exclaimed to a bricklayer, who was most active in 

 turning up the cloth, ' Stop a minute, the rose-water is coming for you to sweeten 

 yourselves!' And the rose-water did come; and bricklayers, and masons, and 

 potters, arid carpenters, dipped their hard and bony hands in it, and were 

 wonderfully refreshed therewith." 



