adation descending almost to
pauperism.

To meet this objection it is proposed to erect a building containing
little suites of small apartments, adapted to the requirements and
circumstances of the poorer portion of the people, to be called "The
Industrious Albany;" industrious for the sake of distinction; or, if a
more explanatory title shall be preferred, "Cheap Chambers." Ventilation
and Warmth combined with Comfort and Cleanliness are to preside over the
interior arrangements, and the external proportions are to be regulated
by architectural taste, whilst the rent will be fixed at the most
economical figure. Investments of capital in this promising speculation,
to any amount, may be paid into the Office, 85, Fleet Street.

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TO THE PRESS GENERALLY.

The EMPEROR NICHOLAS wishes an _erratum_ corrected in the next edition
of our dictionaries. He begs to say that he has discovered that an
Ottoman is _not_ a thing upon which you easily and comfortably place
your foot.

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PROGRESS OF SCIENCE.--A Scientific Hair-dresser at the West-End is about
to favour the ladies with the discovery of a wonderful new Pommade,
which, he guarantees, "will prevent the bonnet falling off the head."

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"THE UPHOLSTERER TO THE MONUMENT."

We see, in the reports of the City Commission, that there is a situation
with the above singular title. We wonder, in the name of everything
that's wonderful, what are the duties of this curious functionary? What
is there to hang, excepting the birdcage with the dingy canary,
belonging to the porter, at the entrance door? There may be a few
play-bills, also, and some steamboat placards; does "the Upholsterer" go
every morning to hang these outside the railings? What is the furniture
that is inside the Monument? and where is it stowed away? Or is the
"Upholsterer" engaged to keep the flutes of the columns clean? Or is it
his particular duty to rub up the Panorama of London that is viewed from
its summit? There is no other picture that we are acquainted with,
belonging to the Monument, excepting the picture of London's busy
traffic across London Bridge, and surely this is a picture beyond the
"Upholsterer's" reach? One would imagine from the fact of the Monument
having an "Upholsterer," that there were chairs, tables, four-post
bedsteads, curtains, and a regular houseful of furnitur