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up the delusion about the corn monopoly being favourable to the general in- 

 terests of Great Britain, r and to the landed interest thereof in particular. This 

 again is characteristic. Those associations do coquet a deal with the mole- 

 blind farmers, who, like the dupe of other nymphs, insist upon being vic- 

 timized, though all the world be laughing at them the while. However, we 

 have hopes of the clodpoles yet, though they and common sense have so long 

 been unknown that we might well be excused for our scepticism in the possi- 

 bility of their political redemption. We understand that they are at length 

 beginning to see through and, by the way, no limited vision will suffice to 

 see through that arch humbug, and most'plausible, though empty noddled 

 noodle Lord Chandos. We have seen some Bucks' pastorals inscribed to 

 him as Lord Sham'd-us. The poor Aylesbury 50 tenants can appreciate the 

 applicability of the cognomen. 



COURT CIRCULAR MYSTERIES. Locke, Hobbes, and the philosophers 

 must have been unaware of the existence of court newsmen when dissertations 

 on innate ideas were the rage. We wish Bentham had given us a couple of 

 tomes on the codification of the fashionable paragraph} sts, for in the high- 

 life gossip columns of the diurnals, we occasionally meet with announcements 

 " hovering on the verge of meaning " that ought to portend something, 

 though, for the life of us, we can't make out what, through the want of somag 

 index to the ratiotination process prevalent among the gentry who deal irRJ 

 obfuscating the intellects of plebeians touching the mysticism of ton. For 

 instance, in one of the matutinal organs of May fairish humanity the other 

 day, we find the following : " In consequence of Lady Bingham having been 

 appointed one of the ladies of the bed-chamber to the Queen, Lord Bingham 

 will retire from the command of the 1/th Lancers on half- pay." Now, how 

 her Ladyship's appointment to the inspectorship of royal bolster cases, and 

 the adjustment of majestic counterpanes, &c. (if such be the duties of ladies 

 of the bedchamber, though heaven knows we are blissfully ignorant thereof), 

 how, we say, this can interfere with his Lordship's superintendence of the 

 moustaches and drumsticks of the seventeenth we are regularly nonplused 

 to find out. Is it that the fatigue of receiving his half- pay for doing nothing 

 became too onerous to permit of his allowing her ladyship's doing less without 

 his assistance when she had that important duty to discharge. We pause 

 for a reply. Probably three vols. post 8vo., founded on this startling event, 

 entitled the " Fatal Warmingpan, or Aristocratic Anomalies," will illuminate 

 us before the summer is over. 



Another worthy adjunct to the preceding, and also indicative of the extraor- 

 dinary doings within the penetralia of the royal household, is to be found 

 in the subjoined : " We understand that the King, when informed of the 

 present distress experienced by the silk manufactures in Spitalfields, was 

 pleased to direct that a sufficient quantity of silk for fourteen dresses should 

 be immediately completed and forwarded to his Majesty at Windsor Castle." 

 The Oligarchs call us, unfortunate Liberals, discontented hounds, and talk of 

 our treason and so on, because we say that petticoat influence has been in the 

 ascendant at St. James's. Well, if truth be libellous, let us be impeached. 

 Here we have it on unquestionable evidence that our august sovereign, 

 William the Fourth, orders for himself no less than fourteen petticoats, at 

 one and the same time, habilimented in which, for any thing we know to the 

 contrary, he may dissolve parliament. Should the worst come to the worst, 

 and this be the case, let Mr. Hume bear in mind one satisfactory reflection 

 the eight cream-coloured horses that demi-annually transport his Majesty 

 when clothed in a simple pair of breeches and laced hat, from the bottom 

 of Pall Mall to the end of Whitehall, will have no sinecure if he induct him- 

 self in fourteen silk dresses. Royal orthodoxy in matters of female orna- 

 ment is sufficient guarantee that each dress will be duly furnished with the 

 requisite number of furbelows and flounces, however multitudinous. We 

 trust also, that the royal caput will be surmounted with fourteen head-tiers 



