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owl is decorated with the riband and star, and looks 

 quite as important as any high official need do. Fiolet 

 has one pipe that might delight Landseer, who sees in 

 the canine a type of the human countenance (Fig. 1); but 

 certainly the Dames cle la Halle would feel no pleasure 

 if this typification were "translated in the vernacular." 

 John Bull appears in propria persona in one instance, 



which we exhibit to our readers (Fig. 2). The beetle- 

 browed Dutchman (Fig. 3), with his chin thrust into a 

 wooden shoe, is another queer impersonation ; so is 

 the Jew " bonneted," by having his hat knocked over 

 his eyes; the frog in the costume of Abd-el-Kader, 

 kneeling for mercy; the advocate roaring in defence 

 of a bad cause, &c. 



England has occasioned the production of one sati- 

 rical pipe for sale among ourselves. The late Duke of 

 Wellington, toward the close of his life, took a strong 

 dislike to the use of tobacco in the army, and made 

 some ineffectual attempts to suppress it. Benda, a 

 wholesale pipe importer in the city, employed Dumeril, 

 of St. Omer, to commemorate the event, and the 



