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LITERARY OBITUARY, 



Died, on the 31st, and " last day" of December, 1835, after a 

 most painful and distressing consumption — not of the lungs — which 

 had been borne with Conservative resignation, during the whole term 

 of its comparative obscurity — 



THE ALBION, 



EVENING NEWSPAPER, 

 Aged 3 years and 9 months. 



It is due to the " wet-nurse" who had the care of this splenetic 

 Tory offshoot, to record, that every possible attention was paid to the 

 comfort and cleanliness of the private department — especially the sheets 

 on which it lingered with so much suffering to itself, and with no little 

 pain to those who heard its " daily-evening" agonies. It is confidently 

 reported, in the higher circles, that the manes ai-e to be buried under 

 the bronze statue of Achilles, in the Park. 



EPITAPH. 



Oft has it been our lot to mark 

 A proud, conceited, talking spark : 

 Wiih eyes that hardly served, at most, 

 To guard his master 'gainst a — Post. 



We are sorry to announce the sudden and unexpected demise of that 

 excellent young hobby-horse, known by the name of 



" LEIGH HUNT'S JOURNAL," 



The loss of this mental volocipede will be felt by the literati, and by 

 those of its friends and admirers who — despite the frowns of fortune 

 — continued to be its readers and admirers up to the last moments of 

 its ephemeral existence. 



We understand, the deceased smiled its last smile amidst the en- 

 couraging hopes of intellectual — Knight ; in the morning, however, it 

 was found to be quite dead ! 



