which are evil principles,
proceeding from the suggestions of demons and imps; seeing that these
bad dispositions form the source whence the pigtail springs, and whereby
that horrible and ugly excrescence is nourished, it would be desirable
to eradicate them, in order that the absurd and ludicrous tail might
fall off in consequence. But as there are some objects which are not
possible, in the nature of things, and this is one of them, it is best
not to attempt to do what would prove impracticable; and therefore the
case requires the decree to be different.

For which reason, the sentence upon KU LONG is declared to be that he
shall, with as much expedition as the necessary preparations admit of,
be conducted by the officers of justice to a scaffold, and having been
placed thereon in a convenient chair, shall have his pigtail severed
from his head, both as a punishment to himself, and a warning to others,
to intimidate and deter them from making hogs of themselves by wearing
tails, like those of swine, but not in the manner the pig wears his tail
in, but the reverse--which makes it more preposterous. Respect this; and
chop KU LONG'S tail off as soon as you can."

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EVIL EYESIGHT.

Some of our contemporaries appear to be labouring under a political
jaundice, by which distemper they are caused to see everything through a
blue or buff medium. The _Standard_ supplies a case in point, out of the
_Yorkshire Gazette_; in the subjoined portion of an account of some
local festivities:--

... "Before late in the day not less than 1500 had congregated
together, and were engaged in all kinds of sports and games, and
many were the waltzes and polkas, &c., which were gracefully
performed by the lovers of the dance. THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF
MULGRAVE, with their children and the HONOURABLE E. PHIPPS, the
rejected candidate of Whitby, joined the party.

"We would advise our Conservative friends to watch the influence
acquired by this new mode of treating."

This is the way in which one party looks at another, that other being a
simple merrymaking! Motley is the only wear for a writer whose ideas are
so party-coloured. Cannot the superior classes cultivate kindly feelings
with their neighbours without being accused of inferior motives? Such
mean imputations ought not to emanate from the forces who march under
the banner of COLONEL SIBTHORP, but with whom the