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tumaciously and traitorously, thought that orange was as pretty a colour 

 as green, and that the ribbon of King William was as good as the rib- 

 bon of King Dan. 



The only point to which we object is the comparison of the new offi- 

 cial, the Whig ]Mary Hearn, to our old romancer the Whig Lady Mor- 

 gan. " A liltle Lady IMorgan." Call you this backing your friends ? 

 Miladi is little enough of all conscience ; and to what depth of invisi- 

 bility a lower politician of the Morgan genus must descend, we find it 

 impossible to measure. Oplime dixit isle Butler us: — 



" Thus naturalists say, a flea 

 Hath smaller fleas that on him prey ; 

 And they have smaller still to bite 'em — 

 And so proceed, ad infinitum." 



Poetry of old was always prophetic ; and we shall bet our nightcap 

 against Miladi s next quarto on the " Science of Governing every King- 

 dom of Europe," that Butlerus had Miladi, and her "picture in little," 

 in his prophetic eye at the moment. 



After having witnessed such a tissue of " delicate correspondence" 

 as has lately been spun out between Sir James Scarlett and Sir James 

 Graham, Lord Something Cecil and Mr. Tennyson, and our beloved 

 and trusty councillor, ]Mr. George Dawson, of Protestant-popish, orange- 

 green, and black-and-white memory ; it is refreshing, as the Cockney 

 Homers and Virgils say, to see, at last, a writer who scribbles straight 

 to the point, who lays nothing on the necks of the " reporters," and who 

 blabs out his whole meaning, not caring a drop of ink for the way of 

 any man's taking it. The Times contains the following letter relative 

 to Sir James Scarlett and Sir Robert Wilson : — 



" Sir, — I beg you to inform the public that ' the injudicious, unbecoming, 

 and unwarrantable interference,' mentioned by Sir Robert Wilson in his letter 

 to Sir James Graham, published in your paper of this morning, applies to me. 

 I trouble myself to make this avowal, solely with a view to put an end to the 

 affair, and in the sincere hope that henceforward the parties concerned will 

 think and care as little about it as I shall. 



" 15, Pall Mall East, " I am. Sir, your obedient servant. 



May 31." " Thomas Walker." 



This is plain English. Sir Robert gets his epithets very handsomely 

 returned on him : and the hero of Pail-Mall East is yet vmshot, 

 unsabred, and, we verily believe, unanswered. No delicious correspon- 

 dence, worthy of the dexterity of a dancing-master, and the sensibilities 

 of a school-girl, has grown out of this billet. We sincerely recommend 

 the style as a model to all gentlemen who wish to bring matters to a 

 short issue. 



There is something curious, without being very important, in the 

 adroitness of " the devil's chaplain," a title which the possessor seems 

 to bear rejoicingly, in getting himself within the grasp of the law. 

 He has now volunteered again. — 



" A true bill was found by the grand jury, at the April adjourned sessions 

 for the county of Surrey, against Robert Tai/lor, alias ' The Devil's C'haplain,' 

 for uttering ljlas|jhemy. Not having complied with the order of com-t, he was 

 taken into custody by Skilhorn on Saturday, and brought to Union-hall, when 

 he entered into his own recognizances in the sum of 200/., and two sureties of 



