n the hexpektashun of seein of im out agin, an
of the preshus hidin she'll git at their next appy meetin. An so many a
pore creetur nevver peeches on the man as is a killin of her, lest she
shood bring herself to dounrite starvashun. But, Surr, if husbands wos
to get as good as they gave, an have a preshus good hidin with a
catoninetales hevery time they bete their wives, praps the smart of
their own flesh wood teche em not to make huther peepul suffer, and if
they wos flogged nere their one homes, the other brutes as node em, and
as is naterally kowherdly, would kepe their hands off their wives wen
they sede wot theid get by betin of em. An so I ope ule try to bring
about corpral's punishment for such offences, wich i suppose it is so
called becos the corprals does the floggin in the harmy, and hoblidge
your

"Humbel charcoman,

"JANE GIMLET."

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THE LIVERY OF THE CITY OF LONDON.

After the very conspicuous manner in which the City Corporation has been
busying itself in the matter of PRINCE ALBERT'S Statue, the Livery of
the City of London should be immediately altered to that which is
usually worn at Court. As the Aldermen and others do not mind appearing
before the public as flunkeys of PRINCE ALBERT, the least they can do is
to wear His Royal Highness's livery.

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THREE THINGS MODERN YOUNG MEN CULTIVATE.--The acquaintance of a young
lady with plenty of money--shirt collars as high as a garden wall--and a
moustache.

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NEGLECTED SCOTLAND.

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A sensible Scotchman writing from Haddington to the _Times_, says that
"the real grievances of Scotland are not her insulted Lions, nor her
deserted Holyrood," but lie in "her ill-paved, worse-lighted and
undrained market-towns, and in the incurable apathy of the inhabitants
to sanitary reform."

This gentleman says that, on Tuesday last, at a meeting of the
inhabitants of Haddington, it was proposed to adopt the drainage clauses
of the New Police Act. After an earnest and solemn appeal from their
parish minister imploring them "to unite with heart and hand in bringing
the influences of pure air and water to bear on the wretched homes of
their poorer brethren," followed by an awful warning from a medical
officer of the town, "the householders (many of them wealthy men)"
rejected, by a majority of ten to one, a bill for thei