alace--or, rather, the
Vitreous Dungeon for Ireland's liberties--was the appointed scene of the
atrocity. Among the more sublimating objects was the venerable form of
O'CONNELL (in something harder than wax!) surrounded by a crowd of his
own finest peasantry.

"That's O'CONNELL," said the QUEEN.

"And very like him," said PRINCE ALBERT. And with all respect for his
Royal Highness--(for, as we are slaves, we have learned to treat the
Saxon with respect!) with all respect we ask, how he should presume to
know it was like the deified lineaments of the sublime Liberator?--"And
very like him!" said the Queen's husband; but--patience is the badge of
all our tribe, and we'll let _that_ pass.

But the withering insult is now to be recorded; if it do not, as we
write it, turn our steel pen red-hot, and singe the paper into flames!

The DUKE OF WELLINGTON--the second Duke--the son of O'CONNELL'S "stunted
corporal"--yes, Dux Secundus--presumed to "buy O'CONNELL and the
peasantry!"

Think of that, oh countrymen! The DUKE OF WELLINGTON dared to put his
hand into his pocket, and to take out so much tax-wrung, Saxon gold,
and--counting it piece by piece--he laid it down as the price of
O'CONNELL!

What did he mean by that cowardly, atrocious, ready-money transaction?
Why, this: by purchasing O'CONNELL he intended to fling this burning
libel in the face of Ireland--he wished to show it as his decided
opinion that O'CONNELL _could be bought!!!_

But the day of reckoning with the Saxon _will_ come. Meantime, if we hug
our chain, it is only to count and _pay for_ the links!

* * * * *

A CLERK PAID IN KIND.

Law is looking up at Manchester--to judge from a paragraph in the
_Morning Herald_; to wit--

"MANCHESTER LIBERALISM.--The following announcement has been posted
on the walls of the Manchester Law Library:--'An experienced clerk,
who writes a good hand, is wanted by a respectable solicitor in
Manchester. Salary 7_s._ per week, with perquisites in the shape of
cast-off clothes. Apply to the librarian.'"

Dull literalism would denounce the respectable solicitor who proposes to
pay an experienced clerk principally in cast-off clothes, as a screw.
Many a plodding fellow will expatiate on the unreasonableness on the
part of a legal gentleman who remunerates a clerk on this scale, of
being astonished that the said clerk should go seedy, or stretch forth
his hand and commit a