1826.) ‘SBE bh “Affairs in general. ALT 
Pes le in general have very little conception of the mass of stolen 
property which is bought every year, by persons who do. not live ‘by"un- 
awful Courses, but are content to accept a bargain, where they think it 
may be taken with safety. mv 
“ Many. actresses, it is known, sport their carriages. Ona recent wet 
evening, when the daughters of Thalia were retiring from the Haymarket 
jeatre, the lobby of the stage door resounded with “ Madame Vestris’s 
carriage !”—« Miss Love’s carriage !”—‘« Mrs. Waylett’s.” and others of 
€qual note. Poole, the dramatist, being in conversation with a married ac- 
tress, whose character as a wife anda mother exempts her from any imputa- 
tion; significantly observed, “‘ Have you no carriage ?”—‘“ Ah,no,’said she; 
“T am draggle-tailed Chastity, doomed to walk through the rain and dirt.” 
— Evening paper. KEM 
It is pity we are not told which actress is the last here alluded to. , But 
«Poole, the dramatist,” gets rather troublesomely obtrusive. There are one 
or two farces not worth a farthing a piece, that I see, never can be acted at 
the Haymarket Theatre, without the “permission,” in large letters in 
the bills, of J. Poot, Esq.!!! ne 
~ The King has sent twenty-five pounds to the new “ Poor’s box” at Bow- 
street, intended, under the control of the magistrates, for the relief of 
those unfortunate persons, whom necessity more than vice brings occasion- 
ally into the hands of the police. This is an excellent charity; and one to 
which every body who can afford so much indulgence ought to contribute. 
Noone who reads the newspapers but must see that it has longbeen wanted. 
Donations to the fund ought to be advertized half-yearly, and an account 
regularly kept of the money disbursed; and care should also be taken 
that extreme cases only are attended to. The charity will then have 
this peculiar advantage—arising out of the system of “ Police Re- 
porting” (which I have before taken occasion to commend), that its ad- 
ministration will go on, from day to day, before the eyes of the whole 
country. me 
Speaking of “ Police offices,” 1 observe that there has been a fight in 
the matter of the « Welsh Iron Company ;” and that the new solicitor, 
M. Verbeke, has been trying to take up the old solicitor, Mr. John 
Wilks, for a felony. This M. Verbeke, if I don’t mistake, was Mr. 
Wilks’s late partner. There is a proverb, that ‘“ when a certain descrip- 
‘tion of persons fall out, another certain description of persons come by 
their own.” Pays ner 
- There is a writer on Parisian manners, in the New Monthlj 
Magazine, whose. last letter gives a most extraordinary account of the 
intelligence of French society. He assures us that “aman who mixes 
in Jas tonable life in Paris, generally knows all the facts recorded in. all 
‘the journals twenty-four hours before they appear in print !” Now this is 
‘an admirable extent of knowledge, as regards the members ‘of 
‘fashionable ‘life ;’' but ‘what a state, as regards information, does it 
‘leave the poor people that belong to the “ journals” in} 9 
0s Os ‘Puesday the 5th instant, the Stratford and Moreton railway was 
‘opened to the public,” says a daily paper; “and it was estimated by 
“competent judges, that not less than 20,000 persons were present.” 
“Now there is more’ meant here than meets the eye! I should not have a 
notion myself of what constitutes a “ competent judge” to know in’ a 
“mibb exactly how many persons are “ present.” But some people haye 
‘the faculty—both as régards numbers and distance: an example of it 
appears two hundred years ago, in Shakespear’s Henry the Fifth :— 
-M. New Series.—Vou. II. No. 10. H 
