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day the 19lh, stales, " that to-morrow night" — what a profane 

 people the inhabitants of Bath must be, if they thus sanction thea- 

 trical performances on Sunday ! — *' the renowned Ravel Family, 

 whose feats have excited such astonishment in London, make their 

 appearance on the Bath boards." Now, every body knows that the 

 Ravel Family, or at any rate a Ravel Family, were not only per- 

 forming their " astonishing feats" here at the time mentioned ; but 

 that they " exhibited" in the Adelphi theatre for a week afterwards. 



The Pubi-ic — A Singular Theft.^II 'appears from the Bath 

 Journals that a very animated and angry discussion has taken place 

 among the Town Council of that city relative to some new church in 

 the town. We have not been able to master the details ; but one 

 gentleman proves very clearly that some sad misdoings have been 

 going on. Hear what he says : — 



" The public have been wronged in this new church. I myself have 

 had a vault taken away." 



The public, every body knows, is a grossly injured personage. At 

 least we daily hear of the wrongs v/hich are done him. To be sure 

 he gets credit for being a sufferer, and receives our warmest sympa- 

 thies when he has no claim to them ; for certain people have got an 

 awkward custom of identifying their own individual wrongs, fancied 

 or real, with those of Mr. Public. We by no means say that is th-e 

 case in the present instance, when this town councillor of Bath says, 

 •' The public have been wronged in the new church ;" but we must 

 confess it does look somewhat like it, when he adds in the same 

 breath, " I myself have had a vault taken away." Some persons 

 have not only a strong penchant for felony ; but the articles they 

 steal are sometimes of a very curious kind. We have heard of 

 persons whose acquisitive propensities were such that where there 

 was nothing else within their reach they would steal a coffin. This, 

 however, is the first instance which has come under our notice of any 

 one stealing a vault ! We marvel how the thief managed to carry 

 it away. We recollect a case in which an old gentleman's gouty 

 shoes were stolen, when the sufferer remarked that all the punish- 

 ment he wished the rascal who had taken them was, that they might 

 fit him. We think the member of the Town Council of Bath, who 

 has had his vault taken away, may be reconciled to his loss in the hope 

 that " the rascal of a thief" may soon find use for it. 



Yankee Controversy. — Who that has ever seen an American 

 newspaper has not been amused by the rich abuse which either the 

 editors or their correspondents heap on each other when they happen 

 to fall into controversy I Cobbett was a mere novice in the art of vi- 

 tuperation when compared with Jonathan. A few days since we pro- 

 mised ourselves a rich exhibition of the kind from two letters, 

 written by Americans, which appeared in a Morning Paper; 

 but one' of the controversialists marred the sport by a pre- 

 mature retirement from the field. The aggressor in this 

 case, speaking of the alleged bad taste of Mr. Jones, the Ame- 

 rican actor, in getting up the late meeting in Freemasons' 



