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contradicted, and recommend him to lay the soothing system aside 

 (the French are too mad for this regimen), and try the treasury system. 

 It Avould settle the affair in a week. 



"A certain Personage," says one of our newspaper writers, " could, if he 

 had the inclination, solve the enigma and mystery in which the marriage of 

 a celebrated Prima Donna is at present involved. After some provincial 

 engagements, highly advantageous in a pecuniary point of view, shall 

 have been fulfilled, the lady will return to the continent, attended by her 

 secretary and another indiiudnal of far greater importance." No doubt he 

 could, and so can every body else. We wish those ridiculous singers 

 and dancers woidd not add hypocrisy to their other qualifications. We 

 have actresses who appear regularly liefore the public in a state of 

 which any eye may be a satisfactory judge ; though whether they love 

 their lords, or their lords love them, or whether they have any lords to 

 love, is as doubtful as it should be. If theatrical women will insist on 

 thus making a class of their own, we cannot help their taste, whatever 

 we may think of their derency. But let us be done with the sickening 

 affectation of the business. Let the truth be told. Let us get rid of 

 those marchionesses in disguise, call them opera-dancers and singers, 

 and feel no wonder at their conduct. If the miserable woman alluded 

 to in this paragraph be the slave of some German beggar, of some fifty 

 quarterings. who covers his sullen physiognomy with one hand, while 

 he seizes her salary with the other, let him be forced at once to take 

 down the covering hand, and give a respite to the financial one. Then 

 let him leave a country into which he ought never to have come, and 

 which he cannot leave too soon. 



A circular has been published by the Horse Guards, stating the prices 

 of military equipments. This paper comes signed by an adjutant- 

 general who has the appropriate and unlucky name of Taylor ; and 

 unquestionably there has been more legislation upon cuffs and collars 

 since this officer's appointment, than for twenty years before. The fol- 

 lowing tariff exhibits the average expense of equipment in the different 

 branches of the service : — 



Cavalry. — Dragoon Guards and Dragoons 

 Light Dragoons - _ - 

 Lancers ----- 

 Hussars, as per returns. — 7th - - - 



8th - 

 10th - 

 15th - 

 Infantry and Light Infantry of the Line, with lace 

 Ditto, ditto, with embroidery - - - 

 Fusileer Regiments, including the cap 

 Highland Regiments _ _ - _ 

 liifle Regiments - - _ _ _ 

 The curious reader will observe the happy variety of expenditure in 

 those corps. First, to take the cavalry : — the equipment of the Light 

 Dragoon officer costs £140, and this equipment is complete for all pur- 

 poses of service and of frippery, as every one who sees them can tell. 

 But tlien come the Hussars, the very lowest hi' whom cost twice the 

 money. Why should this be ? Is the hussai- a more useful soldier than 



