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females. He regards the horns as constituting the principal generic 

 character, they being formed by distinct bones, united to the frontal and 

 parietal bones by a very obvious suture, and having throughout the 

 same structure with tlie other bones. In both sexes one of these abnormal 

 bones is situated on each branch of the coronal suture, and the male pos- 

 sesses an additional one placed more anteriorly, and occupying the middle 

 of the frontal suture. The anomalous position of this appendage fur- 

 nishes a complete refutation of the theory of Camper with regard to the 

 unicorn, that such an occurrence was contrary to nature, and proves at 

 least the possibility of the existence of sucli an animal. Professor 

 Camper is an ass, of course ; but when are we to expect anj'^ thing better 

 from the illustrissimi of the land of sour-krout } Give a Doctor ]\Iagni- 

 ficus his due allowance of the worst tobacco, and the worst beer in the 

 world, with a ream of half-brown paper, and a Leipsic catalogue to 

 plunder, and lie will in three months write any subject dead — smother 

 the plainest truth with an accumulation of absurdity, astonishing, as the 

 work of a creature with but two hands — and prove that the earth is but a 

 huge oj-^ster, in which Germany is the pearl ; or that man is only a 

 reclaimed baboon, of which all the wit is centred in Weimar. 



The Cork election has terminated in the triumph of INlr. Gerai'd 

 O'Callaghan. The papists insist, and truly enough, that their defeat 

 was merely the result of want of time to prepare their levies ; that the great 

 agitator was too busy with his briefs, the priests with their ti'iumphs, and 

 the populace in general not sufficiently masters of the new doctrine, that 

 a forty-shilling freehold is to all election purposes a ten-poinid one. Sir 

 Augustus Warren, too, the rival candidate, never appeared ; evidently 

 shrinking from a contest^ which, with all the purity of papist zeal, 

 would have involved him in a heavy expense, and in short, with a degree 

 of wisdom, memorable among the annals of Irish politics, leaving their 

 patriotism to be its own reward. 



Still the patriots are not without hope of a second trial on the purse 

 and principles of some dupe or other, and a petition is to be presented, 

 charging the new member with being a pork butcher, and, as such, a 

 contractor. If so, he has certainly wasted his eloquence and his 

 whiskey. But the papists, we may rely on it, will have the garrison 

 in time, and not merely in the capital of the ragged South of Ireland, 

 but in every corner of its shores. The true brunt" of the election was in 

 the preliminaries. We are no professed warriors, but we are strongly 

 inclined to think that Mr. Gerai-d O'Callaghan is, in some points, below 

 us in the belligerent scale, if he suffers the " Great Agitator" to have 

 the habit of " agitating" his character in the following style. We give 

 some of the nice touches which this painter of things and persons has 

 laid on the picture. " Gerard Callaghan is an ignorant creature, and 

 his style of speaking is truly ridiculous ; his accent is mongrel cur, half 

 Blackpool, and half Cockneyshire. (Loud laughter.) He is the oozing 

 of a butter firkin. It was only in a poisoned and foetid state of society, 

 that such a thing could have crept into public notice. It was easy to 

 conceive that it was in a period when society was torn up by the roots 

 that such a creature as Gerard Callaghan, who had stamped with scorn 

 on the grave of his father, and cursed the creed of his mother, could 

 have anticipated the slightest chance of success in his canvas of the 

 electors of an independent and wealthy city. It was only during such 



