ven go further: not only furnishing the EMPEROR'S
frigate with English stores, but with English sailors.

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THE CITY CORPORATION.--If this Corporation is compared to PLATO's
Republic, it can only be as "a KNIFE, FORK, and PLAT(E)O" one.

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THE ROYAL EXCHANGE CLOCK.

It is a common saying in the City and elsewhere that "Time is money,"
and we cannot wonder at the existence of the maxim, when we look at the
cost, of the representative of time at the Royal Exchange--no less than
L2605 0_s._ 8_d._ having been paid for the Exchange Clock. This sum is
at the rate of about L217 per hour, taking the clock to consist of the
usual number of hours, or nearly L40 per minute, if we make a
calculation rather more minute.

The cost of the Clock is made up of a variety of items, which, for the
enlightenment of the public, we subjoin.

L _s._ _d._
Clock 700 0 0
Alterations 224 18 6
Bells and Chimes 615 17 4
Alterations 290 0 0
Recasting 650 0 0
Refitting 124 4 10
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L2605 0 8

It must be inferred from this, that after the Clocks had been purchased
for L700, it resembled the donkey "what wouldn't go," and as there was
nobody to cry "Gee Wo!" with the expenditure, L224 18_s._ 6_d._ was sunk
in alterations. As if the Clock itself was not sufficiently costly, it
was proposed to convert it into a toy by having bells and chimes
attached to it, which have already caused an outlay to the tune of
upwards of One Thousand Pounds--a very pretty tune, no doubt, but
hitherto the only tune to which the Bells and Chimes have contributed,
for they cannot be got into play anyhow. The Common Council, however,
will not admit there has been anything wrong in the matter, because
"PROFESSOR AIREY declares the bells and clock the most beautiful
specimens of workmanship ever seen." We should have thought that bells
and clocks were to be heard rather than seen; and that a clock, like the
costermonger's horse, might be excused for being a "rum un to look at,"
if it's being a "good un to go" could be relied upon. The approval of
PROFESSOR AIREY may be very satisfactory as far as it goes, but until we
can look upon the loss