430 Notes of the Month on [Oct. 



total exclusion of verdure from the garden of Eden gives a powerful 

 impression of the effect 



" Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit 

 Of that forbidden tree, whose moral taste 

 Brought death into the worlds and all its woe. 

 With loss of Eden." 



The artist has acquitted himself with masterly ability, and we do not 

 doubt that he will highly gratify his admirers, and all who like to see the 

 subhmest subjects grappled with by a mind, awake to all their hiterest 

 and importance, and full of vigour and poetical imaginings. 



The late peerages have set all the merry-men in motion, and no mem- 

 ber of any of the clubs within five miles of St. James's thinks he has 

 done his duty, without a bon-mot daily on the subject. That odd ren- 

 contres sometimes occur in this world, every body knows ; and it will 

 be no wonder if Birnam wood should come to Dunsinane, when we 

 may possibly see Westminster getting into a west- country stage, (from 

 pecuniary considerations) and driving as fast as four horses can accomplish 

 the object, into Cheshire. " One of those witty gentlemen about town, 

 ■who 



" Things that are serious turn to farce," 



hearing that Lord Grosvenor was to be created IMarquess of Westmin- 

 ster, suggested the absurdity, quite possible, of an invitation from the 

 Bishop of tliis diocese to his lordship, couched in these words — 



" Dear Westminster, 

 " Will you come to Fulham to-morrow ? 



" Your's truly, C. J. London. 



" It is thought that Lord Westminster's second title will not be Earl 

 Grosvenor, as might naturally have been expected, but that the present 

 second title will be changed in a slight degree, so as to suit the alteration 

 in his own, and that as son of the IVIarquess of Westminster, Lord Bel- 

 grave will in future be called Lord Belgrave Square. 



" There is another title vacant, which, if ]Mr. Hume, whose surgical 

 skill should never be forgotten — should be elevated to the peerage, will, 

 we presume, be granted to him — Lord Bills of IMortality." 



But if we once begin with the bishops, Avhat a fertile field may we 

 plough for the pleasantries of locomotion. We shall have Jamaica 

 coming to St. James's, Barbadoes on a visit to Brighton, and Calcutta, 

 for the winter months of IMay, June and July, established in Cavendish 

 Square. This is the day of strange things. It was once predicted that 

 "when the cross of St. Paul's met the dragon on Bow, London should 

 have a Avooden Lord Mayor. The rencontre actually took place in a 

 tinman's shop in Cheapside, and this difficulty being got over, the rest of 

 the prediction was a matter of course. The next prediction was, that 

 ■when the bottom of the Thames fell out, the giants of St. Dunstan's 

 should strike their last ; and four fools should be returned for the city to 

 ])arliament. The Thames tunnel effected the fulfilment, and the result 

 is before our eyes. Who but knows the famous JMother Shiptonism .-' 



" There was an old prophecy found in a bag. 



That Ireland should be ruled by an ass and a hag ; 



That her priests should be thieves, and her thieves should be piiests ; 



That her leasts should be blood, and her blood should be feasts. 



