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"Sir Thomas Lethbridge is to be raised to the peerage without further 

 delay ; the objections to him in certain high quarters being totally re- 

 moved, to the great regret of his constituents, who naturally lament the 

 loss of an individual so eminent for good sense, urbanity, and political 

 principle. 



" Wilkie's style is considered to have exhibited a decided improvement 

 since his tour. Nothing can be more unfounded than the opinion so 

 generally spread, that his present coloui'ing is a compound of treacle 

 and turtle soup, that his Spanish heroines breatlie of Billingsgate, and 

 that his Italian designs are to be rivalled only by the Avood cuts that 

 blazon Hunt's blacking, and ]\Ionsieur DucroAv riding fourteen horses 

 at a time. 



" Mr. Peel and Lord Eldon are on the best terms, personal and puliticrl. 

 The Home ilinister has fully cleared up his character, and has wiped 

 away his stains. Tergiversation is to stick to his name no longer. His 

 friends are to be equally received into popular respect. Mr. Dawson is 

 to be scoffed at no more in Dei-ry or elsewhere. ]\Ir. Brownlow is to be 

 honoured as a man braving public indignation from a sublime sense of 

 duty, and the name of Judas Iscariot is no longer to be fixed on them 

 in bipartite scorn. 



" The Duke of Wellington thinks with high i*espect of Lord Grey's 

 abiUties and principles, and is prepared to take him into full partnership 

 of power without loss of time. 



" Lord Grey thinks with high respect of the Duke of Wellington as a 

 statesman, applauds his oratory wherever he goes, panegyrises his 

 management of the foreign cabinets, &c. ; but feeling a due sense of 

 political obligation, is determined not to accept the first offer that is 

 made to him from any party that can give a chance of place. 



" The National Gallery is ra})idly approaching to perfection. Its 

 pictures are first-rate specimens of the great schools ; its late purchases 

 have been made with the most judicious regard to economy, and the 

 intervention of the whole race of picture dealers and jobbers has been 

 vigorously and successfully prohibited. One hundred and fifty thousand 

 pounds sterling could not have been laid out more to the honour of 

 national taste and judgTiient. 



" Dr. Philpotts is to be the next bisliop. A monument is to be erected 

 to Bishop Lloyd, testifying the sorrow of all honest men for his 

 premature extinction ; and Knox, Bishop of Derry, after justifying 

 himself in an able pamplilet against the stigma of voting for the Papists, 

 is about to give five shillings per annum in alms and other charitable 

 purposes, out of his already too narrow income of twenty thousand pounds 

 a year \" 



What would the world do for pleasantry without La belle France ? 

 Old La Fayette, the hero of the time, when " La mort est un sommeil 

 eternel," was the grand maxim of the " grande nation ;" La Fayette, who 

 with the best powdered head, the softest smile on his sallow lip, and the 

 most graceful bow in France, took leave of his unhappy king on the memo- 

 rable evening of the 6th of October, 1792, recommending king, courtiers, 

 and guards to go to sleep, and going to sleep himself ! — this perfumed 

 republican has taken into his head that he is to quit this bustling world 

 at last, and nothing will satisfy him but a grave of American clay, 

 brought from Bunker's Hill. We are well aware that nothing is so idle 

 as an attempt to rectify a French journalist upon any point of history. 



