To multiply, not to diminish, the means of honourable maintenance for women ought to be the object of all Churchwardens and Vestries; as it certainly is the interest of all rate-payers.
A Whipping Recorder.
Mr. Samuel Warren, Recorder of Hull, loves to season his sentences with plenty of whipcord. This propensity of Samuel's has been significantly rebuked by Lord Palmerston, who has remitted whippings and shortened terms of imprisonment. We understand that the judicial poet of The Lily and the Bee will—in self-justification—forthwith produce another poem, to be called The Cat and her Tails.
A DIRTY BUSINESS.
The Magistrates of the City of London can scarcely be expected to come out of the present Commission with clean hands, after having fingered every ton of coals within a circuit of twenty miles.
FASHION AND INFLUENZA.
"That fairy form muffled in shawls, Fanny! why?