leasure
on the most extravagant scale, will go down yet young as a beggar to one
of our sea-port towns, and, after craving in vain a refuge from the
winter's cold and a crust of bread, will die in the workhouse, and be
buried in a pauper's grave. How many of the gay young fellows now around
us will have a similar termination to their career! I never can pass the
Cave of Harmony without thinking of the comic singer as last I saw
him--in the very flush of health and life, stimulated by wine and
applause, little dreaming of the workhouse in which he was so soon to beg
for room to die. But this exhibition is of the past,--the place is
reformed; and how it is patronized is clear, when I state that on the
night of the marriage of the Princess Royal, there were consumed in it 21
dozen kidneys, 478 chops, 280 Welsh rabbits, 1500 glasses of stout, and a
hogshead of pale ale.

DISCUSSION CLUBS.

It is the condition of a public-house that it must do a good business
some way or other. Mr Hinton, who has just got his license for Highbury
Barn, says the dining apartment fell off and he was obliged to institute
Soirees Dansantes. Sometimes the publican gets a female dressed up in a
Bloomer costume; sometimes he has for his barman a giant, or a dwarf, or
an Albino, or a Kaffir chief--actually as an attraction to decent people
to go and drink their pot of beer. I find the following advertisement in
the _Morning Advertiser_:--

"The Sheep-eater of Hindostan.--To be seen, the Sheep-eater of
Hindostan, representing an exhibition which took place on the 3rd of
March, 1796, before Colonel Patrick Douglas and other officers of a
battalion of Native Infantry, and a great concourse of the
inhabitants of the military station of Futtehghur. It is engraved
from a sketch, taken on the spot by a native artist, and under the
inspection of Major-General Hardwicke, F.R.S. The Sheep-eater was a
native of India, about thirty years of age, five feet nine inches
high, slender, well formed, and rather muscular. He was attended by
a very old man, whom he called his father or preceptor, termed by the
natives Gooroo or Priest, who stated he had formerly followed the
same practice. He was above the ordinary stature of the natives of
India, and wore his hair, which was of great length, coiled into the
form of a turban; and his beard was twisted like a rope, and nearly
reached his fe