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Why bore them so rudely, each night of your life,
On a question, my Lord, there's so much to abhor in?
A question-like asking one, 'How is your wife ?—
At once so confounded domestic and foreign.

As to weavers, no matter how poorly they feast,
But Peers and such animals fed up for show,
(Like the well-physicked elephant, lately deceased),
Take a wonderful quantum of cramming, you know.

You might see, my dear Baron, how bored and distrest
Were their high noble hearts by your merciless tale,
When the force of the agony wrung even a jest

From the frugal Scotch wit of my Lord L-d- -le !1

Bright Peer! to whom Nature and Berwickshire gave
A humour, endowed with effects so provoking,
That, when the whole House looks unusually grave,
You may always conclude that Lord L-d-le's joking!

And then, those unfortunate weavers of Perth

Not to know the vast difference Providence dooms
Between weavers of Perth and Peers of high birth,

'Twixt those who have heir-looms, and those who've but looms!

To talk now of starving, as great At-1 said2

(And the nobles all cheered, and the bishops all wondered) When, some years ago, he and others had fed

Of these same hungry devils about fifteen hundred !

It follows from hence-and the Duke's very words

Should be published wherever poor rogues of this craft are-
That weavers, once rescued from starving by Lords,
Are bound to be starved by said Lords ever after.

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When Rome was uproarious, her knowing patricians
Made Bread and the Circus' a cure for each row:
But not so the plan of our noble physicians,

'No Bread and the Tread-mill's' the regimen now.

So cease, my dear Baron of Ockham, your prose,
As I shall my poetry-neither convinces ;
And all we have spoken and written but shows,
When you tread on a nobleman's corn,3 how he winces.

1 This noble Earl said, that when he heard the petition came from ladies' boot and shoe makers, he thought it must be against "the corns which they inflicted on the fair sex."'

2 The Duke of Athol said, that 'at a former period, when these weavers were in great dis

tress, the landed interest of Perth had supported 1500 of them. It was a poor return for these very men now to petition against the persons who had fed them.'

3 An improvement, we flatter ourselves, on Lord L.'s joke,

MORAL POSITIONS.

A DREAM.

'His Lordship said that it took a long time for a moral position to find its way across the Atlantic. He was sorry that its voyage had been so long,' etc.-Speech of Lord Dudley and Ward on Colonial Slavery, March 8.

T'OTHER night, after hearing Lord Dudley's oration

(A treat that comes once in the year, as May-day does),
I dreamt that I saw-what a strange operation !—
Amoral position' shipped off for Barbadoes.

The whole Bench of Bishops stood by, in grave attitudes,
Packing the article tidy and neat ;-

As their Reverences know, that in southerly latitudes
'Moral positions' don't keep very sweet.

There was B-th—st arranging the custom-house pass ;
And, to guard the frail package from tousing and routing,
There stood my Lord Eld-n, endorsing it 'Glass,'

Though-as to which side should lie uppermost-doubting.

The freight was, however, stowed safe in the hold;
The winds were polite, and the moon looked romantic,
While off in the good ship 'the Truth' we were rolled,
With our ethical cargo, across the Atlantic.

Long, dolefully long, seemed the voyage we made ;—
For the Truth,' at all times but a very slow sailer,
By friends, near as much as by foes, is delayed,

And few come aboard her, though so many hail her.

At length, safe arrived, I went through 'tare and tret’—
Delivered my goods in the primest condition-
And next morning read, in the Bridgetown Gazette,
'Just arrived, by "the Truth," a new Moral Position;

The Captain '- -here, startled to find myself named
As 'the Captain' (a thing which, I own it with pain,
I through life have avoided), I woke-looked ashamed-
Found I wasn't a Captain, and dozed off again.

MEMORABILIA OF LAST WEEK.

MONDAY, MARCH 13.

THE Budget-quite charming and witty-no hearing,
For plaudits and laughs, the good things that were in it ;-
Great comfort to find, though the Speech isn't cheering,
That all its gay auditors were, every minute,

What, still more prosperity!-mercy upon us,

This boy'll be the death of me'-oft as, already,
Such smooth Budgeteers have genteelly undone us,
For Ruin made easy there's no one like Freddy.

TUESDAY.

Much grave apprehension expressed by the Peers,
Lest--as in the times of the Peachums and Lockitts-
The large stock of gold we're to have in three years,
Should all find its way into highwaymen's pockets!1

A Petition presented (well timed, after this)

Throwing out a sly hint to Grandees, who are hurled
In their coaches about, that 'twould not be amiss

If they'd just throw a little more light on the world.2

A plan for transporting half Ireland to Canada,3
Which (briefly the clever transaction to state) is
Forcing John Bull to pay high for what, any day,
N-rb-ry, bless the old wag, would do gratis.

Keeping always (said Mr. Sub. Horton) in mind,
That while we thus draw off the claims on potatoes,
We make it a point that the Pats left behind
Should get no new claimants to fill the hiatus.4

Sub. Horton then read a long letter, just come
From the Canada Paddies, to say that these elves

Have already grown 'prosp'rous'-as we are, at home-
And have e'en got 'a surplus,' poor devils, like ourselves !5

WEDNESDAY.

Little doing for sacred, oh Wednesday, thou art
To the seven o'clock joys of full many a table,-
When the Members all meet, to make much of the part,
With which they so rashly fell out, in the Fable.

It appeared, though, to-night, that-as churchwardens yearly
Eat up a small baby-those cormorant sinners,

The Bankrupt-Commissioners, bolt very nearly

A moderate-sized bankrupt, tout chaud, for their dinners !6

1 'Another objection to a metallic currency was, that it produced a greater number of highrobberies.'-Debate in the Lords.

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2 Mr. Estcourt presented a petition, praying that all persons should be compelled to have lamps in their carriages.

3 Mr. W. Horton's motion on the subject of Emigration.

4The money expended in transporting the Irish to Canada would be judiciously laid out, provided measures were taken to prevent the gap

they left in the population from being filled up again. Government had always made that a condition.'-Mr. W. Horton's Speech.

5 The hon. gentleman then read a letter, which mentioned the prosperous condition of the writer; that he had on hand a considerable surplus of corn,' etc.

6 Mr. Abercromby's statement of the enormous tavern bills of the Commissioners of Bankrupts.

Nota Bene.-A rumour to-day, in the city,
'Mr. R-b-ns-n just has resigned'—what a pity!
The Bulls and the Bears all fell a-sobbing,
When they heard of the fate of poor Cock Robin,
While thus, to the nursery-tune, so pretty,
A murmuring Stock-dove breathed her ditty
Alas, poor Robin, he crowed as long

:

And as sweet as a prosperous cock could crow;
But his note was small, and the gold-finch's song
Was a pitch too high for Poor Robin to go.
Who'll make his shroud?

'I,' said the Bank, though he played me a prank,
While I have a rag poor Rob shall be rolled in't;
With many a pound I'll paper him round,

Like a plump rouleau-without the gold in't.'

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That you would e'en have taken tea (Had you been asked) with Mr. Goundry !2

Come, wise Sir Thomas, wisest then Come, matchless country gentlemen;

When creeds and corn-laws are
debated!

Come, rival even the Harlot Red,
And show how wholly into bread

A 'Squire is transubstantiated.

Come, L-e, and tell the world, That-surely as thy scratch is curled,

As never scratch was curled before

Cheap eating does more harm than good, And working-people spoiled by food,

The less they eat, will work the more.

Come, G--lb-rn, with thy glib defence (Which thou'dst have made for Peter's Pence)

Of

Church-Rates, worthy of a halter;

Whose dreams of premium knew no Two pipes of port (old port 'twas said

bound'ry;

So fond of aught like Company,

1 An item of expense which Mr. Hume in vain endeavoured to get rid of. Trumpeters, like the men of All-Souls, must be bene vestiti.'

2 The gentleman lately before the public, who kept his Joint-stock Tea Company all to himself, singing Te solum adoro.'

By honest Newport) bought and paid By Papists for the Orange Altar !3

3 This charge of two pipes of port for the sa cramental wine is a precious specimen of the sort of rates levied upon their Catholic fellowparishioners by the Irish Protestants.

The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask a drink divine.'

Come, H-rt-n, with thy plan so merry,
For peopling Canada from Kerry-
Not so much rendering Ireland quiet,
As grafting on the dull Canadians
That liveliest of earth's contagions,
The bull-pock of Hibernian riot!

Come all, in short, ye wondrous men
Of wit and wisdom, come again;
Though short your absence, all de-
plore it-

Oh, come and show, whate'er men say, That you can, after April-day,

Be just as-sapient as before it.

ALL IN THE FAMILY WAY.

A NEW PASTORAL BALLAD. (Sung in the character of Britannia). 'The Public Debt was due from ourselves to ourselves, and resolved itself into a Family Account.'-Sir Robert Peel's Letter.

TUNE-My banks are all furnished with bees.

My banks are all furnished with rags, So thick-even Fred cannot thin 'em! I've torn up my old money bags, Having nothing worth while to put in 'em.

My tradesmen are smashing by dozens,
But this is all nothing, they say;
For bankrupts, since Adam, are cousins,
So it's all in the family way.

My Debt not a penny takes from me,
As sages the master explain;-
Bob owes it to on, and then Tommy
Just owes it to Bob back again.

Since all have thus taken to owing, There's nobody left that can pay ; And this is the way to keep going, All quite in the family way.

My senators vote away millions,
To put in Prosperity's budget;
And though it were billions or trillions,
The generous rogues wouldn't grudge

it.

'Tis all but a family hop,

'Twas Pitt began dancing the hay; Hands round!-why the deuce should we stop?

"Tis all in the family way.

My labourers used to eat mutton,

As any great man of the state does ; And now the poor devils are put on

Small rations of tea and potatoes. But cheer up, John, Sawney, and Paddy, The King is your father, they say: So, even if you starve for your daddy, 'Tis all in the family way.

My rich manufacturers tumble,

My poor ones have little to chew; And even if themselves do not grumble, Their stomachs undoubtedly do. But coolly to fast en famille

Is as good for the soul as to pray; And famine itself is genteel,

When one starves in a family way.

I have found out a secret for Freddy,
A secret for next Budget-day;
Though perhaps he may know it already;
As he, too,'s a sage in his way.
When next for the Treasury scene he
Announces 'the Devil to pay,'
Let him write on the bills-Nota benc,
'Tis all in the family way.'

THE CANONIZATION OF ST. B-TT-RW--RTH. 'A Christian of the best edition.'-Rabelais.

CANONIZE him!-yea, verily, we'll canonize him; Though Cant is his hobby, and meddling his bliss, Though sages may pity and wits may despise him, He'll ne'er make a bit the worse Saint for all this. Descend, all ye spirits that ever yet spread

The dominion of Humbug o'er land and o'er sea,

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