The Way of Temperance.
"Education" (says the Times) "is the half-way house to Temperance." But, judging from the ignorant way in which many of our rabid advocates of Teetotalism act and talk, we should say it was a house that very few of them ever stopped at.
Centralization.—The Commissioners of Sewers are decidedly in favour of this plan, for their drains are so admirably managed that every man's nose, merely by passing one, is immediately made the (s)centre of it.
THE CLAIMS OF SCOTLAND.
To Her Maist Gracious Majesty Victoria, by descent frae the Stuarts, o' North Britain, England and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Presbyterian Faith, &c.
The Humble Petition o' the Undersigned, Inhabitants o' the Principal Part o' Her Majesty's Dominions ca'd Scotland.
Humbly Sheweth,
That your Petitioners, leal subjecks o' Your Majesty, are muckle and sairly fasht and vexed wi' unco' grievances, o' whilk the maist considerable an' intolerable is the degradation, an' dislocation, an' deposition o' the Scottish Lion.