eat qualities which won for the Prince Consort the love and
respect of our country?

The papers tell us how, on the night of the marriage of the Prince of
Wales, all over England and Scotland illuminations were made, the poor
and children were feasted, and in village and city thousands of kindly
schemes were devised to mark the national happiness and sympathy. "The
bonfire on Coptpoint at Folkestone was seen in France," the Telegraph
says, "more clearly than even the French marine lights could be seen
at Folkestone." Long may the fire continue to burn! There are
European coasts (and inland places) where the liberty light has been
extinguished, or is so low that you can't see to read by it--there are
great Atlantic shores where it flickers and smokes very gloomily. Let us
be thankful to the honest guardians of ours, and for the kind sky under
which it burns bright and steady.

ON A MEDAL OF GEORGE THE FOURTH.

Before me lies a coin bearing the image and superscription of King
George IV., and of the nominal value of two-and-sixpence. But an
official friend at a neighboring turnpike says the piece is hopelessly
bad; and a chemist tested it, returning a like unfavorable opinion. A
cabman, who had brought me from a Club, left it with the Club porter,
appealing to the gent who gave it a pore cabby, at ever so much o'clock
of a rainy night, which he hoped he would give him another. I have taken
that cabman at his word. He has been provided with a sound coin. The bad
piece is on the table before me, and shall have a hole drilled through
it, as soon as this essay is written, by a loyal subject who does not
desire to deface the Sovereign's image, but to protest against the
rascal who has taken his name in vain. Fid. Def. indeed! Is this what
you call defending the faith? You dare to forge your Sovereign's name,
and pass your scoundrel pewter as his silver? I wonder who you are,
wretch and most consummate trickster? This forgery is so complete that
even now I am deceived by it--I can't see the difference between the
base and sterling metal. Perhaps this piece is a little lighter;--I
don't know. A little softer:--is it? I have not bitten it, not being a
connoisseur in the tasting of pewter or silver. I take the word of
three honest men, though it goes against me: and though I have given
two-and-sixpence worth of honest consideration for the counter, I shall
not attempt to implicate anybody else in my misfortune, or transf