Important Financial Question for Italians.—Are the Banks of the Tiber secure?
ICHABOD!
["Mr. Henry Blackburn, lecturing at the London Institution, Finsbury Circus, said English people were not an artistic nation, and instead of getting better, they appeared to be rapidly getting worse. The author of the present day was losing the sincerity and the individuality which ought to characterise him.—Daily Paper.">[
Oh, gaily did we hasten to the London Institution,
Expecting some amusement in our inartistic way,
And little did we reckon on the awful retribution
Which Mr. Henry Blackburn had in store for us that day.
We'd fondly looked towards him for an eulogistic blessing,
But got instead a general and comprehensive curse,