THE PENSIVE PEEL.
It is an unfounded calumny of the enemies of Sir Robert Peel to say that he has gone into the country to amuse himself—shooting, feasting, eating, and drinking—while the people are starving in the streets and highways. We know that the heart of the compassionate old rat bleeds for the distresses of the nation, and that he is at this moment living upon bread and water, and studying Lord John Russell’s hints on the Corn-laws, in
THE MONASTERY OF LA TRAPPE.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
Said Stiggins to his wife one day,
“We’ve nothing left to eat;
If things go on in this queer way,