ural fairs and merry-makings the master of ceremonies
treats pigs; namely--to grease well their tails, that they may the more
easily slip out of hand.

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THEATRICAL ACT OF GRACE.

Our theatrical readers will rejoice to know that MR. CHARLES KEAN will
re-open the Princess's with an act of clemency. The play-going world
lamented to learn that, MR. KEAN--in pursuance of a high, unflinching
principle--had erased the QUEEN'S name from the List, for having
incautiously laughed at Free MR. BRAID'S imitation of MR. KEAN. We are
happy to learn, however, that HER MAJESTY'S name has been restored,
intelligence to that effect having, last week, been sent from the
Box-office to Balmoral.

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MAHOGANY POSSESSED.

There is something in Table-moving--and we imagined that FARADAY had
discovered what that was. At least we thought that if he had not, the
Deuce was in it; and we were right--but right in the alternative. The
phenomenon, according to the demonstration of two Anglican divines, is
produced by "Satanic Agency." The old broker of souls is the man in
possession of mahogany. The REV. N. S. GODFREY, Incumbent of Wortley,
Leeds, and the REV. E. GILLSON, Curate of Lyncombe and Widcombe, Bath,
have respectively printed and published evidence of this fact. They have
witnessed the change of mahogany into Satan-wood. They have seen the
tables talk with their legs by knocking on the floor, and they give us
dialogues which they have held, personally, with these articles of
furniture; questions put and genuine answers returned, with the
stamp--without which none are genuine. From these answers they conclude
that the leg of the table is connected with a cloven foot.

The tables, indeed, candidly confessed to both of these clergymen that
they were actuated by evil spirits, one of which described itself as a
lost soul, by the name of ALFRED BROWN, but appeared, by the testimony
of another, to have an _alias_. This rogue of a spirit asserted that he
could move the table without the hands of the experimenters; which, when
tested, however, he could not do; and it certainly seems that
table-moving cannot be accomplished unless somebody else, besides the
devil, has a hand in it.

That personage is familiarly denominated the Old Gentleman. His table
talk justifies his title to that appellation, by showing that he is in
his dotage. The demons that possess the tab