LITERARY AND DOMESTIC LIFE. 409 



published by Simpkin, Marshall, et Co. 2d. The author is not 

 Moore, Dean (to whom it is dedicated, as a compliment to his ' zeal 

 for the Apostolical succession'), but H. Ryder, Canon of Lichfield, 

 son of the late Bishop of Lichfield, and nephew of Lord Harrowby. 

 I fancy the man is simply mad ; if not, Lonsdale must handsel his 

 jurisdiction by overwhelming a scandal not inferior to the other 

 Fitz-Eveque H. Marsh's in re Miord. That case, by the by, goes 

 to confirm another of my old doctrines, viz., that the Trial by Jury 

 is the grossest of all British humbugs. I forget if it is Swift or 

 Scorpio who sang — 



" ' Powers Episcopal we know 

 Must from some apostle flow ; 

 But I'll never be so rude as 

 Ask how many draw from Judas.' 



" Here is another fine spring day. Why don't you come up with 

 Lord Peter for a week or two ; or without him ? The Government 

 is in a tarnation fix. I suspect Ashley has got very wild, poor fellow 

 — a better lives not ; and that we shall have by and by Jack Cade 

 in right earnest. Gleig is chaplain-general of the forces ; keeping 

 Chelsea and his living in Kent too. ***** Ever yours affection- 

 ately, J. G. L. 



" Alone and dreary ; both my young away from me ; I shall soon 

 be left entirely alone in this weary world. 



" You read in the papers about Louis Philippe giving Brougham 

 a piece of Gobelins Tapestry, but they did not mention the subject. 

 It is a very fine picture indeed — of a worrying-match between two 

 dogs ! 



" Now I went, a few nights ago, to a large dinner at Brougham's 

 house, and on entering the inner room, there was he with a cane, 

 holding aside the curtains, and explaining the beauties of this mas- 

 terpiece to — Plain John ! I 



" Literal truth ; but absurder than any fiction. The company 

 seemed in agonies of diversion at the unconsciousness of the pair 

 of barons. 



'•'•That week both H. B* and Punch had been caricaturing them 

 as the Terriers of the Times disgracing a drawing-room ! 



"All true, as I shall answer, etc." 



* Mr. John Doyle, the father of Richard Doyle, author of Brown, Jone.% and RoMTison, "is 

 generally believed to be the author of the celebrated H. B. political sketches, which were a few 



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