640 Notes of the Month on [Jung, 
He came to the lobby on Friday night, 
The oath of supremacy spurning ; 
He thought of Guy Fawkes with fresh delight, 
And his lantern dimly burning. 
No maudlin feelings annoyed his breast, 
As he dreamed of his lofty station ; 
But he eagerly thought how to feather his nest, 
While he talked of Emancipation. 
Few and short were the words that pass’d, 
And. he looked with a look of sorrow, ; 
When he found that his schemes no longer could last, 
And his glories. would fade on the morrow. 
Duncannon and Ebrington, Whigs, in their pride, 
Led him up to the chair, unabashed ; 
But the Speaker’s stern “ Vo /” was the word to decide . 
That O’Connell’s pretensions were smashed. 
Loudly they'll talk of the Franchise that’s gone, 
And the Paddies will ever upbraid .him— 
But little he'll reck, if they let him plead on, 
With the briefs and the fees that are paid him. ~ 
Slowly and sadly the Paddy-whacks 
Will spell the sad end of their story ; 
He'll care not a jot for Catholic quacks, _ 
But leave them alone in their glory.—[Age. 
The enormous inconveniences resulting from the position of our wreat 
cattle-market in the centre of the city, are beginning, once more, to com- 
pel public attention. The London corporation seem to have given up 
the business in despair, though, certainly, not without remonstrance ; for 
they had petitioned parliament no less than ten times, from 1802 to 1812, 
for the removal of the market from Smithfield. Private interests, how= 
ever, made the fierce fight that they generally do, and the petitions were 
left to their long slumber in the clerk’s desk. The pressing necessity 
of the measure has forced it forward again. Mr. Pocock, a liveryman, 
who protests against his being presumed to have any other object in 
view than the public good, has brought forward a plan which he conceives 
likely to answer all the purposes—to relieve London of the hazard and 
the nuisances of the market, and to assist the owners and salesmen by 
contrivances for security and expedition of every kind. : 
In order to meet the wishes of the population, he offers the following 
suggestions for the consideration of the legislature and the citizens of 
London :— © 
« That ten acres of land should be purchased, as contiguous to the 
present site of Smithfield market as possible, and that the area be en= 
closed by a substantial brick wall, of sufficient altitude, which land is 
now procurable within a distance of two miles from the existing market. 
The spot alluded to is freehold property, situated at Islington, bounded 
by excellent roads, diverging in all directions, without interfering in the 
smallest degree with the pleasure or business roads of the metropolis. 
Should the spot be pronounced eligible, every evil complained of at the ex- 
amination before the Committee of the House of Commons, would be reme-" 
died, and the city of London put in possession of double the quantity of 
ground at a trifling expenditure, when compared with the calculation 
and preposterous plan of the butchers. According to their statements, 
the exorbitant sum of 120,000/. would be required, for the enlargement 
