HOOD'S COMIC ANNUAL.
We have taken a slice, or rather, four cuts, from Mr. Hood's facetious volume. Their fun needs not introduction, for the effect of wit is instantaneous. To talk about them would be like saying "see how droll they are." We omitted the Conditions drawn up by the Provisional Government, (the baker, butcher, publican, &c.) in our account of the revolutionary stir, or as the march-of-mind people call a riot, "the ebullition of popular feeling," at Stoke Pogis. Here they are, worthy of any Vestry in the kingdom, Select or otherwise.
"Conditions.
"1. That for the future, widows in Stoke Pogis shall be allowed their thirds, and Novembers their fifths.
"2. That the property of Guys shall be held inviolable, and their persons respected.
"3. That no arson be allowed, but all bon-fires shall be burnt by the common hangman.
"4. That every rocket shall be allowed an hour to leave the place.
"5. That the freedom of Stoke Pogis be presented to Madame Hengler, in a cartridge-box.
"6. That the military shall not be called out, uncalled for.
"7. That the parish beadle, for the time being, be authorized to stand no nonsense.
"8. That his Majesty's mail be permitted to pass on the night in question.
"9. That all animosities be buried in oblivion, at the Parish expense.
"10. That the ashes of old bon-fires be never raked up.
" (Signed) {WAGSTAFF, High Constable. {WIGSBY."
Our next quotations are two comico-serio Ballads:—
FRENCH AND ENGLISH.
"Good Heaven! why even the little children in France speak French!" ADDISON.
I.
Never go to France
Unless you know the lingo,