to see him.
The maid opened the door, and MOORE asked if MR. SHAMBORE was in. 'What
name, Sir?' says the girl. But SHAMBORE had bolted through the back
parlour, and was standing on the stairs. 'What do I see?' he shouts out.
'Come in by all means;' and he comes down exactly four stairs--no
more--and waits for the other. MOORE will not take off his hat until the
door is shut, for fear the neighbours should think he's nobody, but he
hangs it on a peg, and makes SHAMBORE a bow.

"'I am glad to call on the head of my family,' says MOORE, kicking out
his leg behind, and making the girl laugh. SHAMBORE makes him say it
again, pretending to be deaf. Then they shake hands, and the girl is
sent out for beer, and they sit down and drink bad luck to UNLIMITED
LOO, and may he soon lose his licence. And it seems they have arranged
that, if they can kick LOO out, and get the house, SHAMBORE'S to keep it
for the good of the family, until a boy--a son of MOORE'S elder
brother--is old enough to take the licence; and, to prevent danger, if
SHAMBORE'S wife dies he is not to marry again. The precious couple sat a
long time, and MOORE brought in MRS. MOORE, and they all grew as thick
as thieves; and when going away, MOORE, who was tipsy, said he had made
a bridge, or was going over the bridge, or something which could not
quite be understood. Meantime, LOO has told the police to keep a sharp
look-out on the cousins, and it will be wiry times for them if they are
laid hold of."

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TWO GREAT QUESTIONS.

There are two great questions which at present address themselves to the
political mind, and they are both in connexion with wages. Without
entering into the merits of either, we may say that in England the great
question is, "How wages are?" and in Turkey, "How wages war?"

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LOVE IN LOW LIFE.

Whether much love prevails on both sides between husband and wife among
the inferior classes, properly so called, of this country, may be
questioned, but there is no doubt that the wives, at least, are much
smitten.

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THE PORTE IN BOTTLE.

If Turkey can be enabled to hold her own a few years longer, she will,
there are good reasons for hoping, arrive at a high state of
civilization. There is little doubt that the Ottoman Porte will improve
by keeping.

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FOOD FOR IMPROVEMENT.--