of no
consequence, and domestic policy of no interest; that there was only
one subject which should engage the attention of public men, because
everything depended on it,--that was our external system; and that the
only specific for a revival of trade and the contentment of the people,
was a general settlement of the boundary questions. Finally, Mr Kremlin
urged upon the National Convention to recast their petition with this
view, assuring them that on foreign policy they would have the public
with them.

The deputation in reply might have referred as an evidence of the
general interest excited by questions of foreign policy, to the
impossibility even of a leader making a house on one; and to the fact
that there are not three men in the House of Commons who even pretend
to have any acquaintance with the external circumstances of the country;
they might have added, that even in such an assembly Mr Kremlin himself
was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,--and that was
wrong.

Their next visit was to WRIGGLE, a member for a metropolitan district,
a disciple of Progress, who went with the times, but who took particular
good care to ascertain their complexion; and whose movements if
expedient could partake of a regressive character. As the Charter might
some day turn up trumps as well as so many other unexpected cards
and colours, Wriggle gave his adhesion to it, but of course only
provisionally; provided that is to say, he might vote against it at
present. But he saw no harm in it--not he, and should be prepared to
support it when circumstances, that is to say the temper of the times,
would permit him. More could hardly be expected from a gentleman in the
delicate position in which Wriggle found himself at this moment, for he
had solicited a baronetcy of the whigs, and had secretly pledged himself
to Taper to vote against them on the impending Jamaica division.

BOMBASTES RIP snubbed them, which was hard, for he had been one of
themselves, had written confidential letters in 1831 to the secretary of
the Treasury, and "provided his expenses were paid," offered to come up
from the manufacturing town he now represented, at the head of a hundred
thousand men, and burn down Apsley House. But now Bombastes Rip talked
of the great middle class; of public order and public credit. He would
have said more to them, but had an appointment in the city, being a
most active member of the committee for raising a statu