name of CHARLES.

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TOWN AND COUNTRY.

If, by any remote accident, the Russians were to take Constantinople, it
would be a curious realization (says young BAKER STREET) of the "_Russ
in Urbe_".

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THE REASON OF PRISON EXPENDITURE.

The following paragraph occurs in the _Preston Guardian_:--

"THE COST OF CRIME.--The REVEREND MR. CLAY, the Chaplain of the
Preston House of Correction, estimates the loss caused to the public
by fifteen pickpockets, whose careers he has traced, including the
value of the property stolen, expenses of prosecution, and
maintenance in gaol, at L26,500."

How many schoolmasters might have been had for the money which fifteen
pickpockets have cost the nation?--and how many more than fifteen boys
might those schoolmasters have prevented from becoming pickpockets?--and
how much larger a sum than L26,500 would have thereby been saved?

Why cannot this great saving of money--to say nothing of vice and
misery--be effected?

Simply because Papists and Protestants, High Church, Low Church, and
Dissenters, cannot agree as to which of them shall have the privilege of
preoccupying the minds of street-children with ideas about which bishops
and doctors differ!

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LOVE.

(_A Prose Definition by_ MOSES' _Poet_.)

Love comes from Courtship, and Courtship is a suit that is not made in a
day. It is the slow result of several measures, and these measures
cannot be taken too carefully; but Love at first sight is a ready-made
suit that is entered into at once, and for which, as the result
frequently proves, neither party was in the least fitted.

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SHOCK TO RUSSIAN CREDIT.--There has been a hard run on the Banks of the
Danube. It is said to have been owing to a panic in the Russian army.

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THE RACE OF MAN.--It is your favourite that generally wins on the
"course of true love."

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SCOTLAND HUMILIATED.

Tuesday the 29th of November, 1853, was celebrated as a day of
humiliation in Edinburgh; and the humiliation consisted in making the
day as much like a Scotch Sunday as possible. Recollecting as we do:
1st, That there is more drunkenness in Scotland than anywhere else in
the United Kingdom; 2ndly, That there is more drunkenness on Su