When the dye is obtained, the nose of each male convict is to be painted thoroughly black; the paint to be renewed until about to be restored to the world, when the convict shall be restored to society with a clean nose. We hardly perceive the moral and social use of this nose-dyeing; it may also be difficult to obtain the dye of sufficient blackness. In which case Punch advises Kentucky to apply to Mrs. Stowe for the use of her ink-bottle: for that lady has dyed not only the noses, but the whole faces of the Legrees with such well-merited blackness, that Nature must find them not only new skins, but new hearts, ere they can show even tolerably white again.
AN ARMY OF RESERVE.
The foreign correspondent of the Times announces that the Porte has issued an address, "calling on those troops whose courage may fail them to avow the fact without hesitation, so that they may be employed at a distance from the scene of combat." For our own parts, having more of the civil than the military in our composition, we should expect the invitation to be rather generally responded to, as the scenery of a combat is of that kind with reference to which "distance lends enchantment to the view." If the majority of the troops of the Porte should make a "candid avowal" of their desire to remain at a respectful distance from the scene of action, the whole affair might become "void for remoteness"—as the lawyers expressively have it.
An Arch Impostor.—Temple Bar.
