gnised financial authorities, he has no doubt that through the
shoals of the present crisis the Bark of Public Confidence may be
steered into the haven of prosperity.

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THE IMPERTINENCE OF SCIENCE.

Somebody has invented an instrument which he calls a Lunarium, and which
is calculated to look so very closely into the Moon's face, that the
Moon's age--exact to a quarter of an hour--may be discovered. Really
this seems hardly fair towards the Moon, for it ought to be remembered
that

"Luna, Luna, Luna's a lady."

and no lady--at least none of our acquaintance--could stand against the
force of an instrument so powerful as to detect every furrow, wrinkle,
or even crease in her countenance. It is all very well for the sons of
science to be continually staring Luna in the face, through the medium
of powerful telescopes; but having satisfied themselves of the "Moon's
Age," they might surely be satisfied without continually publishing the
fact for the gratification of an impertinent curiosity.

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MODERN MYTHOLOGY.

One of our serious contemporaries, in recording a fashionable marriage,
describes the bride as "led to the hymenaeal altar." The nuptial rites
were celebrated at St. George's, Hanover Square; and we are further
informed that the REV. BERRY M. HUNTINGDON officiated. We did not know
that the priests of Hymen were styled Reverend, nor were we aware that
the divinity in question had any altar in St. George's church.

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WHAT THE "BRITISH GRENADIER" IS INEVITABLY COMING TO.

Some talk of ALEXANDER, and some of PERICLES,
Of HECTOR, and LYSANDER, and such old Guys as these;
But of all the horrid objects, the "wust" I do declare,
Is the Prusso-Russo-Belgo-Gallo-British Grenadier.

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Integrity of Foreign Powers.

The preservation of the integrity of the Ottoman Empire is no doubt a
very important object; but a matter of no less consequence is the
restoration of the integrity of the Kingdom of Spain, which it has lost
in cheating its creditors.

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PATRIOTISM OF THE FIRST WATER.

MR. FRANCIS MAGUIRE talks of "patriots of the purest water." Pity is it
that such water so seldom comes out of the Liffey.

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