The hustings have just come to the earth with a frightful crash, the scaffolding having given way just as a poll was being loudly demanded. The confusion was, of course, dreadful. An unbending Whig fell on to the bald head of a Tory; and a stickler for the "five points," which are always in his mouth, received between his teeth the end of a walking-stick. A free-trader, who expresses openly his antipathy to anything in the shape of protection, was fortunately saved by a plank falling in a slanting direction over him; and a well-known participator in the late strike got a severe blow on both arms, which must keep the hands unemployed for a long period. The rival candidates are being looked for among the rubbish, and a man is at work with a spade, so that it may be supposed then situation is somewhat infra dig. at present. Both must have received a few plumpers, and the state of their respective polls must be rather unsatisfactory.
7. Hammersmith Suspension Bridge, 1825.
The bridge is hung in chain extremely neat,
The workmen's arduous task, 'tis true, is ended,
And uniformity is made complete,
For—like the bridge—the profits are suspended.
15. A Treaty concluded between the Danish and British governments, relative to the passage of the Sound. The affair was managed by means of Mr. Curtis's voice-conductor.
