speaking of LOUIS NAPOLEON'S new tariff
reforms, says that he has effected them, "_deaf_ to the howlings of the
iron-masters _and the scowlings of the coal-owners_". One would not
deprive the EMPEROR of one iota of his merit, but we have a "random
recollection" that a "scowl" is a thing to see, rather than to hear. We
do think that our friends the Licensed Victuallers are entitled to
demand better grammar for their money. _Our_ JEAMES would not have so
written.

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CORONACH ON THE SCOTCH LION

Och hone-a-rie! och hone-a-rie!
The Scottish Lion lies fu' sair:
Gude faith, he's tauld sae mony a lee.
We never can believe him mair!

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THE HOLE-INESS OF RAGS.

The best material for the proposed "Ragged Churches" seems to be
Papier-mache, a material which is now applied to building purposes, and
which proves how the useful and beautiful may even arise out of rags.

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THE TURTLE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION

FOR

THE RELIEF OF DESTITUTE ALDERMEN.

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We are glad to inform our readers that a Society, with the above
benevolent motive, is in the course of formation. We need not say that,
in the state of extreme destitution to which the poor Aldermen are
likely, in another year, to be reduced, such a society, like every other
society that has hitherto been started, will supply a great vacuum. The
use of Turtle to an Alderman has become a sort of second nature; and
when, by circumstances over which--unlike the City Funds--he has had no
control, he is deprived of that great humanising and aldermanising
necessity, we need not say that a very great vacuum will be created in
his stomach. It is to fill that vacuum--which, if filled by the
Alderman's own resources, would cause a vacuum in his pocket as great as
the one that already exists in his mind--that a few charitable
individuals have joined together in sympathy and guineas to relieve the
wants of a large luxurious class of their fellow-countrymen.

Until the prospectus, in due satin paper and gilt-edge form, is issued,
we beg to dot down a few of the principal features of this benevolent
association:--

PRINCE ALBERT is to be President of this new charity, if he will only
accept it, in return for the statue which the Aldermen have been trying
to get up in his honour, in the hope that they may be represented on the
pedestal in