yours; I think I must pay you a visit in Maypole Lane."

the voter;

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"In troth, I'll be happy to see you," returned 'will ye now give me the favour of your company to dinner on Sunday? - you shall have a leg of mutton and turnips, done to a tanzay."

"Let me, first, be better acquainted with your residence," replied the barrister, "lest I lose my way :-once more, then, if you please."

To it, my hearty," rejoined the buck.

The man of law, now looking very wise, and raising his voice, said, "You have told us that you occupy the ground-floor yourself; that your first-floor is let to Mr. Kagle, the piper; and that your upper story is empty?"

The buck, casting a look of indescribable archness at his examiner, shaking his head, and gesticulating with his hand, exclaimed, in reply, By the full moon! counsellor, I am afraid your own upper story is empty!

The learned gentleman was floored, and the auditory, who had all along laughed heartily, now burst into a general roar. The buck, however,

gave his vote: and the dexterous man of the robe gained his point of spinning out the time until the hour of adjournment, which enabled his client to be prepared for the next morning.

At another election, for the county of Cork, the contest between Lord Kingsborough and Mr. Townsend was sharp, of long duration, and conducted with every species of trick and manœuvre. One of the methods adopted for obtaining votes was, by inducing Protestants * to swear to tenpound freeholds, who never, in their lives, were owners of a single rood of land!

One of these bucks, or gentlemen-freeholders, being brought up for Lord Kingsborough, Roger Barratt, the counsellor for Townsend, examined, and cross-examined him, most minutely, and abused him most vehemently; but, maugre every legal objection, the buck gave his vote. Whilst he was doing this, Townshend's agent pointed out to Barratt's notice, a chain and key which hung from the voter's fob, to give him the ap

*The Catholics had not then the elective franchise.

pearance of respectability; and remarked, that he had taken notice, that these very identical appendages had been worn by the last score of Kingsborough's bucks; "and that he was positively certain there was no watch attached to them.”

"We'll see to that," said Barrett; and calling to the buck as he was descending from the polltable, he said, "My good friend, what was your reason for taking up so much of our time by your crooked answers? You have been on that table

for at least two hours."

"More shame for you, counsellor," replied the voter," to be after keeping a jontleman from his 'musements and his 'creaitions, whilst you was but following yer trade of talking all the while! But aren't ye 'shamed o' yerself, Mister Barrett, to tell sich a big thumping lie in the face of the court, as to say that I ha' been here two hours?"

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· What time was it, then,” returned Barrett, when you mounted the table?"

I don't know," replied the freeholder, I

did not look at my watch.”

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Well," continued Barrett, thinking that he

had the buck in his trap;

I can tell the very

minute that you were roused from your lair :tell us what o'clock it is by you now?”

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Is it after the manner ye behaved to me?” returned the voter; "By Jasus! I wouldn't give

ye

the satisfaction of telling ye the time o' day: let the same watch that tould ye when I comed, inform ye of the time when I made my escape from sich incivility; so, good morning to ye, Mister Counsellor Barrett !"

FRENCH EMIGRANTS IN ENGLAND.

AMONG this body of unfortunate foreigners, a certain M. Dumont was well known and esteemed by many individuals of rank and literature in London. Dumont was of a lively character, and he contrived to make his companionship agreeable, in spite of his eternal citations from "Les Jardins" of his friend, the Abbé de Lisle. Whilst the storm of the French revolution was only yet impending, Dumont transmitted to England a considerable portion of his property, and subsequently lived here in easy and tranquil independence, giving frequent petits soupers, in the Parisian taste, where many of the most intelligent of the emigrants used to assemble,

Dumont was also a frequent and welcome