So we didn't quite set the Thames on fire; it won't do to make letter-carriers of convicts: and as to the nuisance of having knaves and fools amongst our postmen, there is evidently no help for that but to raise the postmen's salaries.
Devotees in Cells.
Mr. Lucas, the other evening, made a reasonable speech in the House. He complained that the principle of religious equality, in English prisons, was not sufficiently observed with regard to Roman Catholic prisoners. A fair ground of complaint! By all means let every Romanist convict enjoy his own conviction.
AN ANSWER TO THE EASTERN QUESTION.
THIS question is, at last, effectively answered. We are glad to announce that Constantinople has just been taken by Messers. Grieve and Telbin, who, dead to the influence of Russian gold, refuse to surrender it, upon any terms, into the hands of the Emperor Nicholas. They intend to hold out as long as they possibly can; but all English subjects will be admitted to view its numerous beauties by applying at the Gallery of Illustration, in Regent Street.
No Russians need apply.