sed with the bargain at once, laid down his shilling, and
walked off with his prize. This little incident will probably make
the fortune of the exhibitor, who is constantly surrounded by groups
of the curious, and preserves the shilling under a glass vase, only
to be shown to the most favoured of the customers."

While transferring the above paragraph to our columns, we beg to protest
against its truth, and to express our contempt for the awkward
flunkeyism which endeavours to compliment the heir to the throne by
imputing to him an act of what an American would call "smartness," and
an Englishman would designate dishonesty. The imputation thrown upon the
little PRINCE is that he took advantage of a shopman's mistake to obtain
for a shilling what was worth fifteen, and this is clumsily described as
a feat "worthy the future ruler of a great commercial nation." What
great commercial principle is comprised in the act which has thus
falsely, as we believe, been attributed to the Prince we are at a loss
to perceive; but, if our contemporary carries on its commercial concerns
in the spirit it seems so much to admire, we should decline having any
dealings with it "in any shape or way" whatever.

We should like to know what the proprietors of the paper would say if a
"smart" news-boy were to enter the office, asking the price of a quire
of the journal, and on being told sixpence by mistake, he were to throw
down that sum, and seizing up some ten shillings-worth of property, were
to hurry away with it. Such an "incident" would more probably become the
subject of a police charge than of a puffing paragraph.

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AN IMPOSING SIGHT.--The sight of your Bill--at nine-tenths at least of
our "first-rate" Hotels.

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PHOTOGRAPHIC "GLIMPSES OF THE MOON."

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PROFESSOR PHILLIPS, than whom ENDYMION was not a more fervent admirer of
the moon, has succeeded in inducing her, not merely to sit for her
portrait, but even to paint it. When

"His great bright eye most silently
Up to the moon is cast,"

we may be sure that

"Right graciously
She looketh down on him,"

since she allows him to carry away so many softened images of her
charms. For other men she exists only in apogee or in perigee, but he
possesses her also in effigy, and can contemplate her at his leisure,
when her face is "gone from the