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advice is generally worth listening to. They are in everything hybrids between the man of thought and the man of action; and a very pleasing mixture they are.

Without that enthusiasm, which if it prompts self-sacrifice is unrelenting in its exaction of similar sacrifices from others, Sydney Smith was throughout life kind and disinterested. It has been insinuated that his only two prominent appearances of late years were dictated by selfish motives. This is unjust. In the case of the Canons Residentiary he raised his voice less for Sydney Smith than for one of those classes whose individual hardships are too apt to be disregarded in sweeping or bungling measures of reform. His identity of position enabled him to enter thoroughly into their feelings; but it was more their feelings than his own to which he gave utterance. In the case of the Philadelphia Repudiation there can be little doubt that the pleasure of lashing the swindlers amply repaid him for the loss that roused him to the exertion.

We hear less of Sydney Smith's writings than formerly. Other topics of the day have superseded those about which he wrote. His writings have been relegated from the club and coffee-room to the library; and age has not yet winnowed away the chaff of contemporary scribblers amid which his wheat is deposited. But his time is coming again. His broad and genial humor, his reality, his shrewd appreciation of character, will insure his Sibylline leaves a share in the immortality of the Montaignes and Steeles of past generations.-Spectator.

The great secret of Sydney Smith's success was that he knew his place. He had taken a just measure of his own powers, and did not aspire to be anything else than he was. He was quite aware that he could suggest to public men views which they might have overlooked-that he could express their views in a better and more taking manner than they could-that there was a charm in his compositions and conversation to make them run after. He felt that he could make himself necessary, and thus secure an agreeable position in society. And he did not fall into poor Swift's mistake, who, with pretty similar claims imagined he could be master and dictator of those active spirits to whom he was only competent to be an indispensable auxiliary. Sydney Smith was aware that he could not become a Brougham, or even a Lord John Russell: but he felt that he knew them both thoroughly; and on their parts they had a rather uneasy consciousness of the same kind. To this tact and self-knowledge Sydney Smith added the advantage of being older than the colleagues with whom he started in life, and of having from his education at an English University something less of the provincial. They believed that he knew more of the world, and was less liable than themselves to be carried away by mere impulse or one-side knowledge; and the ascendency he had at the outset he maintained to the end. This gave him an authority in their conclaves, confirmed by THE house of representatives have declared in that strength of character which passed through favor of annexing Texas and organizing a territothe intoxicating experience of a fashionable preach- rial government in Oregon; and they have reer in the metropolis and a favorite of the salons ceived petitions from Michigan and Maine praying without having his head turned. To all these cir- for the annexation of Canada! The government cumstances he owed that he was an independent of Texas disclaims all desire to be incorporated power even in the Dom-Daniel of Holland House. into the union; the bill for organizing a governThe few frequenters of that circle who were strong ment in Oregon is a violation of an existing treaty in conscious power, and they who enjoyed the with England; and the Canadas_certainly have hour without reflection, could relish Sydney Smith: evinced no wish to fraternize. The spirit that but the innumerable shams who must always com-animates the house of representatives is a lust of pose the bulk of such a coterie, feared while they domination, as precipitate and insatiable as that of were proud of him. He was one of those awkward any crowned tyrants, the butts of American oraallies who are not always easily managed, and tory. with whom men dare not break.

Much of the charm of Sydney Smith's writings lay in the manner; but the matter was still more valuable. His views, if not strictly original, were in his day uncommon; and he had made them his own. He did not merely repeat what discoverers told him; he saw himself what they pointed out, and in his own way. He wrote only about what he thoroughly understood: he was master of his subject, not mastered by it. He was thus enabled to play with his theme-to insinuate truths playfully, from the severe enunciation of which the public mind would have shrunk. A suggestive fancy, and rare patience of elaboration, came to the aid of this self-possessed disposition. But this talent was always regulated by good sense, and kept in subordination by earnestness of purpose. Even in his wildest license of burlesque he never transgressed the limits of good taste, and there was always meaning and a useful aim in his jokes. Few have pioneered so effectually the cause of reform in education, the law, and our political institutions; and of all the leaders of liberal opinion, he alone, perhaps, never stooped to coquet or compromise with the vulgar and mawkish cant of Exeter Hall.

THE UNITED STATES.

The rational and honest portion of the U. S. citizens endeavor to reässure other countries by protesting that the senate never will adopt such measures. Let us hope so; matters are already bad enough when one of the three coördinate branches of the legislature can violate decorum and respect for the rights of other nations to the extent of passing the Texas and Oregon bills. But how long can the senate persevere in resistance to these annually-repeated assaults on its virtue? It stands between two fires; the president is as friendly to the acquisitive line of policy as the house of representatives; and both are urged on by popular feeling. The house of representatives is goaded by petitions for annexation and appropriation; General Jackson publishes oracles, that if Texas be not acquired peaceably now, must be hereafter by the sword; and even Mr. John Quincy Adams tells stories about pattern young Americans, looking on the St. Lawrence and exclaiming, "It is and must be ours!" The senate is elective as well as the other branches of the legislature; for how long can the honest Americans guarantee to England, Texas, and Mexico, (California being already eyed wistfully by the annexers,) that the senators who stem the

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torrent of national cupidity will be allowed to own. By what right do we authoritatively interpose to regulate under penal laws the conduct of The hardest task of the respectable class of foreigners? What right has one nation to interAmericans, of late years, has been to apologize fere with the citizens of another, except for its for their government. The government wished own protection? Admit that we have a right to to abolish slavery; the government wished to pre-enforce our moral convictions vi et armis on alien serve national faith inviolate; the government nations, and we acknowledge the right of Rome, highly disapproved of the conduct of the New if she can, to impose Popery on us-of Islam to York sympathizers; but the government was introduce the Koran and polygamy. We arrogate checkmated in all its attempts to redress those the right to meddle with the citizen of the United wrongs, by "States rights." Foreigners and States in such way that one state of the union negroes are not the only parties for whom the dares not pretend to act towards another-in such United States Government is too weak to procure mode as that encroachment which now causes war justice. In North Carolina there is a law that between the sovereign states of the Swiss Confedevery sailor of color in a foreign vessel shall be kept eration. Observe, if we speak only of moral conlocked up until his vessel departs; under this law, viction and free consent, we must negotiate withfree black citizens of Massachusetts have been out cannon at our backs, without diplomatic rerepeatedly deprived of their liberty; the Govern- serves, or custom-house bribes. The customment of Massachusetts lately sent an agent to re- house bribes are out of place, because we do not monstrate against this conduct of the Carolinian au- seek to purchase a benefit conceded to ourselves, thorities-the envoy, and (apparently) his daugh- but to dictate what another government shall do ter also, were only saved from the American to its own subjects, according to our code. Our accolade of tarring and feathering, by the gentle claim is a monstrous violation of sovereignty, to compulsion of some gentlemen who conveyed them which nothing but meanness or cowardice will on board ship and obliged them to set sail. induce any foreign country to submit.

Respectable citizens wish their government to be thought the best-disposed and most honorable in the world; but, unfortunately, it lacks power to give effect to its good intentions. It can only sigh over the excesses of its subjects, (we beg pardon-" citizens,") not prevent, check, or punish them. Do the Americans fancy that other nations will always be put off with these whining protestations of weakness and regret? that injured, insulted, and sufficiently powerful European states, will not some day take in hand to punish those who are too strong for their own government? Do they fancy that when other nations see their government not only tolerating the outrages of the worst class of citizens, but carrying into act its dishonest mandates, suspicions of complicity will not be awakened?

The limits of our just interference are very clear; they are the limits of our ordinary jurisdiction-territory and allegiance. If we have come to certain conclusions as to what is crime, we have a perfect right to enforce the rule within our own territory and upon our own subjects. Let us abolish slavery, if we will, and show, if we can, that it is not only virtuous, but prudent, safe, and profitable to do so. Do not let us burden our servants with the duty of enforcing English laws on Spaniards, Portuguese, French, and Americans, all along the coasts of Africa and America. Such an enterprise would be clearly impracticable and silly; it has failed for half a century. Limit the police-restraint to our own jurisdiction and territory. Let it be piracy for an Englishman to engage in the slave-trade, and few Englishmen In the United States are to be found individuals will run the risk of death or perpetual exile for any and classes as honorable, as intelligent, as in any share of profit. Above all, enforce the law, fully country in the world. Amid all the obliquities of and without qualification, that every man standing other departments, the bench of the United States on soil owned by Britain is a freeman; admit no has maintained its character untarnished. The qualification to that rule; grant that it may cause officers of the army and navy are, as a body, gen- you to harbor a few runaway criminals, but say, tlemen in the strictest acceptation of the word. that so long as a nation consents to own slaves and The educated clergymen of the union are, in gen- makes freedom a crime, you will not venture to eral, men of integrity, and set an excellent exam-discriminate between the culprit and the innocent ple. But, year after year, these classes appear to be losing their hold upon the executive and the legislature. It is not merely that these are now, as they ever have been, forced to give way before mobs, and content themselves with repairing the damage as they best might after the mischief has been done. They are worsted at every election; the degrading sentiments of the mere rabble are unblushingly avowed in their legislatures. The constitution of the United States seems on the eve of changing from a democracy-for demos elevates the whole people-to a kakocracy.-Spectator, 1 Mar.

ARMED SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE-TRADE.

SEEING clearly the mote that is in our brother's eye, let us not neglect a considerable speck in our

fugitive at the suit of the slave-owning state; do all that, and you do all within your jurisdiction to secure personal freedom. That done, let your colonists compete to their hearts' content_with slave-traders in obtaining labor from Africa. There is no chance that under cover of such migration a slave-trade would arise; for as you refuse to recognize any bond-as you begin by regarding every man as a freeman, and acknowledge no obli gation except such as he may incur after your recognition of his liberty-you would frustrate the whole end and aim of slave-trading. You make the transfer of the slave from dealer to purchaser impossible. Slave-traders deal in slaves, not in freemen; could you convert the cargo of a Baltimore clipper, on landing, into so many Yankee citizens defying ownership, you would have very few Baltimore shippers investing money in that trade.—Spectator, 1 Mar.

PUNCH.

ECONOMICAL LUXURIES.-From recent accounts, if it be true that mesinerism can convert water into beer or wine, and can work changes in the gastronomic way that Bradwell, Döbler, and Time, were they to put three heads together, never could invent; why not then apply this new science of cheap cookery to the improvement of workhouse larders? Only consider the saving to each parish in the poor's rates, if the paupers were to imagine the New River Moët's champagne, paving-stones loaves of bread, and deal-boards haunches of venison! The same legerdemain might be practised on everything that passed their mouths; and the paupers, whilst they would fare at less cost, if possible, than at present, would have the mental enjoyment of imagining they had been dining off luxuries hitherto the abdominal perquisites of aldermen. Every Union will become an Arcadia, stocked with venison and currant-jelly, and poverty be a thing only to be met with in works of fiction! The Millennium, by the aid of magnetism, will be brought to every man's door; and the pot will be kept boiling all through the world by means of the electric fluid.

pediatur sententia-The antecedent bears relation to what follows next, unless it interferes with the meaning of the sentence.

An indictment against John, the husband of Elizabeth Yeoman, is good; for though Lindley Murray would say the yeoman meant Elizabeth, the law would say that a woman can't be a man, and that John, the husband, must be considered as the Yeoman referred to. So, in the case of the actor who burst in upon Richard the Third, exclaiming, "My lord, 't is I, the early village cock," and forgot the remainder of the passage-it is clear he could not have been sued as the early village cock; for such a description, though grammatically correct, would have been at variance with all probability.

OF LOGIC.-4. Cessante causâ cessat effectusWhen the cause ceases, the effect ceases. This maxim may be read either backwards or forwards; for if it be true that when the cause ceases the effect ceases, it is, à fortiori, a greater truth that when the effects cease the cause will cease; for the lawyer, when he finds the effects all gone, will let the cause come to a stand-still.

Though it is a general rule that effects cease with causes, there are cases to the contrary. And the books tell us of a man who had a thrashing which caused him much pain, and the pain which was the effect did not cease when the thrashing, which was the cause, had been for a long time over.

5. Some things shall be construed according to the original cause thereof. Thus, if two men have a quarrel, and some long time afterwards fight, it is presumed they fought because they quarrelled; but in the Irish courts, and some of the courts about St. Giles', it has been decided otherwise. It has been there held that fighting may be carried on from mere love and affection, and the fight is quite independent of any quarrel that may have preceded it.

NEW TITLES OF HONOR.-IT is stated to be the intention of her majesty's advisers, in emulation of the titles common in Spain, such as "Duke of Victory," "Viscount of Loyalty," (recently conferred on the Baron de Meer,) &c., to institute a new set of dignities, taking their denominations from the qualities most distinguishing the intended recipients. Thus, a noble ex-chancellor is to be created" Viscount of Vinegar;" Mr. O'Connell, "Viscount of Vituperation;" and Sirs R. Peel and J. Graham, (from the epistolary perfection of the one, and the deciphering capabilities of the other,) respectively, Lord Letterwriting," and "Lord Letterreading." Nor are the new titles to be confined to the political world; Lord W. Len- 6. Some things shall be construed according to nox, we understand, is to be raised to the peerage the beginning thereof.-Thus, if J. S. throws a by the style of " Viscount Scissors, of Sheffield;" stone at J. D., and misses him, and J. D. runs and the celebrated Mr. Grant, "Earl of English after J. S. to thrash him, and J. S. is beforehand Grammar," Mr. Bunn, the poet, is to be "Baron and knocks him down, J. S. is guilty of the asof Blazes;" and the chivalrous Mr. Widdicombe sault, for he began by throwing the stone; and J. will have the appropriate title of " Marquis Methu-D. stands in the best position in the eye of the saleh." However unusual it may be to ennoble law, though in other respects he has got rather the a Lord Mayor, or other city dignitary, we also worst of it. hear that, in consideration of his distinguished 7. Some things are construed according to the merit, the present occupant of that honorable | end thereof.—Thus, a brilliant finale may save a office is likely to become "Baron Brass.”

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PUNCH'S NOY'S MAXIMS.

dull opera, and a prosy speaker makes us feel satisfied with him at the end because we are pleased to find his speech is over.

8. Derivativa protestas non potest esse major OF GRAMMAR.-For ages the law has regarded primitiva-No power derived can be greater than Grammar as a guest at a dinner-party regards that it is derived from. The application of this champagne, taking it when it happens to be there, maxim is clear enough: for instance, "the bailiff but never insisting on having it. "It has been of the disseisor shall not say that the plaintiff has settled," says an old jurist, "that Alfred the nothing in the land," which is a nut that the legal Great lived before Lindley Murray, and as Alfred student may crack at his earliest convenience, made a very good code of laws without the aid of There are, however, cases in which a derivative Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, or Prosody, it power is greater than that from which it is dedoes not seem that the law absolutely requires any rived; "as where a ticket-porter, says Finch, one of them." Lycurgus, the Spartan lawgiver," is empowered by me to carry a chest of drawers was no great grammarian; but it was facetiously on the top of his head, surely his power is greater said of him that he could decline though he would than mine in this respect. Howell, in his never conjugate; for he declined his brother's familiar letters, alludes to this as a knotty point, widow, and refused to enter into the conjugal state and makes no attempt to unravel it. with her. The only law maxim bearing on grammar, is

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9. Quod ab initio non valet, in tractu temporis non convalescit-That which is not good in the beginning no length of time can make good.

Thus, if an infant makes a will it is bad, and if the | cannot in law be taken from it; but an incidental infant lives to be a hundred the will does not ballet is sometimes left out of a piece, and the inbecome good, though it is otherwise with port cidents in a melo-drama may often be severed, wine, which improves by keeping. So a bad for they frequently have no connection one with toothache may get better; though some, acting on the other. the maxim that what is bad in the beginning will not become good in time, have served the tooth with an ejectment, and ousted it accordingly. The old saying, that "bad beginnings make good endings," is quite at variance with the maxim we have just been treating of. Perhaps the best translation of this maxim is one which we find nowhere in the books, but which we beg to recommend to the attention of harsh creditors-Quod ab initio non valet, Quod is of no use in the beginning; in tractu temporis non convalescit, and for a length of time it is of no use either.

14. Actio personalis moritur cum personâ—A personal action dies with the person. This maxim is clear enough, and means that an action brought against a man who dies in the middle of it cannot be continued. Thus, though the law will sometimes pursue a man to the grave, his rest is not there liable to be disturbed by the lawyers. If a soldier dies in action, the action does not necessarily cease, but is often continued with considerable vigor afterwards.

15. Things of a higher nature determine things of a lower nature. Thus a written agreement determines one in words, though if the words are of a very high nature they put an end to all kinds of agreement between the parties.

16. Majus continet minus-The greater contains the less.-Thus, if a man tenders more money than he ought to pay, he tenders what he owes, for the greater contains the less; but a quart wine-bottle, which is greater than a pint and a half, does not always contain a pint and a half, so that in this instance the less is not contained in the greater.

10. Unumquodque dissolvitur eo modo quo colligatur-Everything is dissolved by the same mode in which it is bound together.-In reading this maxim we involuntarily exclaim, "Oh law!" for nothing but law would venture on such a bold assertion as the above, which is almost enough to call a blush into our modest pen, by turning red the ink we are writing with. If the maxim were true, that everything is dissolved by the mode in which it is bound together, ice would be dissolved by freezing, and a hard-boiled egg would be rendered soft by again boiling it. What is palpably 17. Majus dignum trahit ad se minus dignumfalse may, however, be legally true, and the The more worthy draws with it the less worthy.maxim is good law though it is very bad morality. In accordance with this maxim, the owner of Thus an obligation in writing cannot be discharged deeds has a right to the box containing them; by mere words-as, if a man has given a bill, all for the box, which is less worthy, is drawn to the the talking in the world will not take it up. And deeds which are the more worthy. By the same the old English maxim, that " fine words butter no rule, that which draws the boxes will also draw the parsnips" had probably reference to a written pit, and sometimes the gallery. It may be added, contract wherein A., after having undertaken to as a further illustration of this maxim, that chambutter certain parsnips belonging to B., endeavored pagne draws with it brandy-and-water at a later to release himself from the obligation by a little of period of the evening; and thus the more worthy what the American authorities usually term "soft-the champagne-draws the less worthy-the brandy-and water-after it.

sawder."

An act of Parliament can only be avoided by an 18. Naturæ vis maxima-The force of nature act of Parliament; and doubtless to save trouble, is the greatest.-This maxim means that no Parliament frequently provides for this in one and power is greater than natural affection; but the the same act, by leaving loopholes in it, which ren-power of the steam-engine was unknown when der it easily voidable.

11. He who claims a thing by a superior title shall neither gain nor lose by it."Though," says Knight Bruce, "if a purchaser claims from his wine-merchant a dozen of champagne, and gets gooseberry, thus in fact claiming the gooseberry by the superior title of champagne, he does both gain and lose; for he gains experience, and loses the value of his money." In the old editions of Noy, we are told in illustration of this maxim, that "If an executor recovers and dies intestate, and J. S. administers to the goods of the first testator, J. S. shall not sue out execution upon this recovery.' The only difficulty about this case appears to be how the executor happened to die, when we are distinctly told that he recovered.

the maxim was written. Parental affection approaches nearer to steam; for a father frequently blows up his child, and in some cases a good deal of the affection of the former has been known to evaporate.

19. The law favoreth some persons.-The reader will no doubt think that Noy was in a merry mood when he talked of the law favoring any one but the lawyers themselves, though when it is ascertained who the favorites of the law really are, the maxim is not quite so enigmatical. The favored individuals are women, infants, idiots, "madmen, and persons without intelligence, who being all of them helpless, may be supposed to fall an easy prey to the law, and are therefore its favorites; in the same sense as the sparrow is the favorite of the hawk, or as the lamb is the especial pet of the wolf, when the parties happen to come in contact. The doctrine of tit-bits offers a wide scope for discussion; but it may be laid down as a general rule, that where the law gets hold of an idiot with property, it will favor him in one sense-for it will make much of him. The gallantry of the law in classing women ar.d lunatics together may be questionable; but this is a point we leave the lawyers and the ladies to settle between them.

12. Debile fundamentum fallit opus-A weak foundation destroys the superstructure. Thus, a very seedy coat will ruin the effect of a new hat, and a horse will inevitably break down if he has not a leg to stand upon. If he who claims the freehold is defeated, all his tenants are defeated also, because the foundation is gone: and so, if the parlors (occupied by the landlord) should tumble in, the floors above (let out in lodgings) would be sure to follow.

13. Incidents cannot be severed,-This maxim means that anything incidental to something else

20. The law favoreth a man's person before his

possession. This is true enough; for the law will not spare a man's property, though it will often leave his person unmolested. Thus, the law will not lay hands on an idiot's person, even for felony, but it will lay hands on his property, by taking the earliest opportunity of clutching hold of it.

Now, of the "expense" of breaking into a church we have not the remotest idea. We presume, however, that it must be a costly operation. We particularly admire the word "removed" there is a fine delicacy in the phrase that is quite diplomatic. It is quite a touch for a prime minister or an ambassador, and here we find it pressed into 21. The law favoreth matter of possession more the service of a half-repentant gallows-bird. "Rethan matter of right, when the right is equal.- moved" is a good phrase. It was thus Napoleon Thus, if two persons were to knock a man down"removed" pictures from churches; it was thus with the intention of robbing him, the law would, he "removed" the Horses of St. Mark to the according to the above maxim, favor the thief gate of the Tuileries. The thief of St. Thomas', who managed to get possession of the property. however, betrays symptoms of pusillanimity that "This," says Spelman, "is the doctrine of first never disgraced the imperial robber. Our knave come first served; for if six people sit down to hints of "the anxiety" that has followed the dine on a chicken, it is clear that they cannot all transaction. It is clear there is a tender place in take; but he that is first seized, or rather seizes his conscience, as he plainly enough states that first, will be entitled, though the right of all was "it is the first time" he has had to do with a in the first instance equal." In the above case church." Ha, this is it! He is but "young in the remainder-man has no relief, even though crime." Had he only "removed" as many valuthere may have been covin, for he has only a con-ables from churches as certain French marshals, tingent interest, which the estate-or chicken- he would have shared with them their heroic freemay not be large enough to satisfy. dom from all " anxiety" about the matter. To be sure the world, in its lamentable ignorance, entertains a different notion of the robber and the hero. To be able to lay hands upon church valuables by means of crow-bar, pick-axe, and lantern, is sacrilegious infamy-to take down pictures and carry off church-plate with beating drums and flying colors-that is a part and parcel of glory; one of the lawful sweets of soldiering. One act is rewarded with a rope, the other with a garland.

22. Matter of profit or interest shall be taken largely, and it may be assigned, but it cannot be countermanded. But matter of pleasure, trust, or authority, shall be taken strictly, and may be countermanded. This maxim is somewhat long, or, as Coke would say, it goes great lengths: for when it says matter of profit should be taken largely, it seems to hit at the law itself, which does certainly take as largely as it can any matter with profit attached to it. If I allow a man to walk in my park, he cannot bring any one else to walk with him, for it is merely a matter of pleasure; but if I allow him to come to play at leapfrog in my yard, it is doubtful whether he could not bring a few friends, for no man can play at leapfrog by himself, and the permission should include everything necessary to the full enjoyment of it.

A license to come into my house to speak with me may be countermanded, for, if the party takes too much license and becomes impertinent, I may show him the door: as in Smith's case, where Smith was asked in, but beginning to dun for his small account, the license to speak with me was revoked, and Smith, growing rude, was sent flying (vide SHOWER) down the hall-steps, till he became tenant in tail of the pavement.

WAKLEY'S ADDRESS TO HIS PROFESSION.
Ye who have for Science bled,
Ye whom WAKLEY oft has led,
Who by Medicine earn your bread,
Or by Surgery:

Now's the day and now's the hour,
Don't
you find your prospects low'r?
See approach gross Humbug's power;
GRAHAM and Quackery!

Who would be so green and base,
As to PARR to yield his case;
Or to HOLLOWAY give place?

Let his patients flee.

Who's for Medicine's rights and claims?
Who will vote against SIR JAMES?
Who would "burke" that bill of GRAHAM'S?
Large his practice be.

Down with our Profession's foe!
Tooth and nail against him go;
Quacks are floored at every blow,
At him, then, with me!

CHURCH THIEVES.-Thieves are, now-a-days, such prosaic rascals, that their doings have ceased to interest us. Perhaps it is that the graces of modern fiction have so elevated and set-off the burglar and the highwayman, that we are disappointed with the blank vulgarity of the real thing. It is like seeing a Coburg Richard, reduced to a Tweed-wrapper and a cotton umbrella, picking his way along the New Cut. We were, therefore, somewhat tickled by an epistle, sent, on the 22d ult., by some sacrilegious knave, to the Rev. Mr. Dee, of St. Thomas', Southwark. Some is, in plain English, the bill of fare at a celebrated months back, the church was robbed of its com- French eating-house at the West End, at which munion-plate. One of the thieves, however, treats we dined the other day. We have no disposition for its restoration. We extract from his homely epistle:

"Reverd Sir,-The reward as is offred is not enuff for the plate removed from the church as the expenses as been very heavy and the anxiety if you are disposed to make it fifty pounds to be divided amongst us it may be restord as this is the first time have had to do with a church."

Carte d'un Restaurant. Londres, 1845.
The volume now before us, mentally speaking,

to quarrel either with the contents of this book, or the matters which they relate to; but there is a certain addition which, we would suggest, might, and ought to be made to them. They require notes. It is true that opposite to the French list of dishes there is an English parallel; but this, in many instances, is no translation at all: and, even if it were, would be useless. What, for instance,

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