and indeed hourly contents of our
letter-box would, if set before his Lordship, have convinced him, that
the corrector of public abuses will find himself continually buried
under a Mont Blanc of foolscap, and enveloped in a mist of envelopes.
LORD PALMERSTON will have less labour thrown upon him by his official
post, than the Penny Post will consign him to every hour of the day.

We, however, remind his Lordship to lay down a rule excluding all
anonymous letters from the number of those to which he is ready to give
attention. Already one enormous hoax has been played upon him by a wag,
who, under the signature of "OBSERVER," has made a complaint against the
City Police of "charging the public with drawn swords" on Lord Mayor's
Day, and turning the Poultry into a sort of Peterloo. The Home Secretary
has already demanded an explanation from the civic authorities; but it
has turned out that the horses which rode over the people belonged to a
mare's nest, while the only charge upon the public by the City Police is
a charge of so much in the pound by way of rate, which is, no doubt,
rather a heavy one. We certainly acquit the police of the massacre
imputed to them by LORD PALMERSTON'S anonymous friend, who seems to have
a little of the assassin in his own composition, for he does his utmost
to murder, by a stab in the dark, the characters of those whom he is too
cowardly to assail in a straightforward manner.

* * * * *

NICHOLAS'S DREAM.

I wandered in a rosy dream,
Where Danube's waters pour;
And there I saw the Crescent gleam
Upon the farther shore.

When lo! it seemed to pale and wane,
And through the sky go down;
Athwart the flood I leaped amain,
And clutched a Turkish Crown.

Oh! trust not visions, when, to Ill,
Ambition they incline;
That Crescent bright its horns will fill,
Whilst I shall draw in mine!

* * * * *

CURIOSITIES OF THE CATTLE SHOW.

The annual aggregation of "fatty deposits," at the Bazaar in Baker
Street, has just taken place as usual. It is, perhaps, as well that the
exhibition should be of brief duration; for, in these days of "nuisance
removal," we are not sure that the overfed beasts might not have been
regarded as so many accumulations of offensive matter, and ordered to be
got rid of accordingly.

The yearly gathering of agriculturists is, of course, the signal for the
circulation of