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undertaken to settle upon the young couple a liberal income, and the 

 house in Stratton-street. We may add (which we do somewhat reluct- 

 antly) that the alleged ' beauty' ot" the bride principally depends on the 

 well known fact, that every lady is beautiful in the eyes of her lover. 

 The husband, on the contrary, is considered by the only judges of such 

 matters — the sex — as possessing striking personal attractions." 



Such are the fine things that can be said of a bedeviled dandy. The 

 third edition of the story is much more expressive. However, with a 

 heroism worthy of her illustrious blood, and that happy conscience which 

 makes every thing easy in the land of the Pope, she married the poor 

 dandy, and " claimed his beauties for her own." ]Mrs. Waterford Wyse is 

 another scion of this hallowed family. IMr. Wyse probably thinks that he 

 might as well have left an Italian dame to follow the customs of her country 

 at home. The second Stuart who has entangled himself with this open- 

 hearted race, has had the additional merit of making a spouse, be the 

 time more or less, of one of the most ordinary and ill-looking little per- 

 sonages that Italy has hitherto sent to improve the morals of England. 



" What's in a name ?" says Juliet. But this was because Juliet was a 

 pretty fool, furiously in love ; and the same wisdom which made her 

 find nothing in a name, would have made her, and has made hundreds 

 at her age, think that there was nothing in rambling from a hundred to 

 a thousand miles with " the man of her heart," in three months to be 

 abandoned, starved, or hanged by him, and leave the moral to her 

 acquaintance at the boarding school. 



There is a vast deal in a name. We have no doubt that the unfor- 

 tunate person in the ages to come, who shall bear the patronymic of 

 Peel, if the name be not extinguished by the common consent of man- 

 kind, will feel himself among black sheep, and exclaim at the" injustice 

 of fate, which fixed such an appellation upon him before he was of age 

 to turn his coat. It will operate against him, as " Spring-guns and 

 man-traps set here," would operate against any sensible man's making a 

 promenade of the grounds, or trusting his legs within the operation of 

 this agricultural artillery. We have also no doubt that it would require 

 a very handsome estate in a sporting county, and free of tithe and land- 

 tax, to sweeten down the bitter assumption of the name of Lethbridge, 

 as long as bumpkins attempting to play the politician, and ratting slaves 

 with wool for brains, are the object of public contempt. But we are 

 recalled from this miserable brood to another class of the feeble, by a letter 

 which has appeared lately in the public prints, justly inquiring by what 

 process of absurdity his Grace the Duke of Somerset has abandoned his 

 old English, honest family name — why Seymour should be sunk in the 

 French millinery of Sainl Main- ! Heaven help us ! can frippery go 

 further ? " Who," says the letter- writer, " in the name of Heaven can 

 Lord Saint Muur be? One of the Dictator's new peers, perhaps ? After 

 racking my brain for more than a quarter of an hour, it occurred to me, 

 that this Lord Saiul Maur could be no other person than Lord Si'i/moiu-, 

 tlie eldest son of the Duke of Somerset; and then I recollected that I 

 had read an account, some weeks ago, of ajrte given by the Duke of 

 Somerset and the Ladies Saini Maur. Now allow me to ask the Duke 

 of Somerset, Lord Saint Mmr, and tlie Ladies Saint Manr, what they 

 will gain by abandoning the name of Sei/nionr ? The name of Saint 

 Maur is obscure and unknown, while that of Seymour, though to be sure 



