A question-like asking one, "How is your But not so the plan of our noble physicians,

1

What the devil has become of this Treasury wonder?

It has Pitt's name on't,

All brass, in the front,

"Now what, we ask, is become of this Sinking Fundthese eight millions of surplus above expenditure, which were to reduce the interest of the national debt by the amount of four hundred thousand pounds annually? Where, indeed, is And R-b-ns-n's, scrawl'd with a goose-quill, the Sinking Fund itself?"- The Times.

under.

There's B-nth-m, whose English is all his own making,

Who thinks just as little of settling a nation As he would of smoking his pipe, or of taking (What he, himself, calls) his " post-prandial vibration." 1

There are two Mr. M- -lls, too, whom those that love reading

Through all that's unreadable, call very clever; — And, whereas M-ll Senior makes war on good breeding,

M-11 Junior makes war on all breeding whatever!

In short, my dear Goddess, Old England's divided
Between ultra blockheads and superfine sages;-
With which of these classes we, landlords, have
sided

And, as for myself, who've, like Hannibal, sworn
To hate the whole crew who would take our
rents from us,

Had England but One to stand by thee, Dear Corn,
That last, honest Uni-Corn 5 would be Sir
Th-m-s!

A HYMN OF WELCOME AFTER THE
RECESS.

"Animas sapientiores fieri quiescendo."

AND now-cross-buns and pancakes o'er-
Hail, Lords and Gentlemen, once more!
Thrice hail and welcome, Houses Twain!
The short eclipse of April-Day

Thou'lt find in my Speech, if thou'lt read a few Having (God grant it!) pass'd away,

pages.

For therein I've prov'd, to my own satisfaction,

And that of all 'Squires I've the honour of meeting,

Collective Wisdom, shine again!

Come, Ayes and Noes, through thick and thin, —
With Paddy H-lmes for whipper-in, —
Whate'er the job, prepar'd to back it;

That 'tis the most senseless and foul-mouth'd de- Come, voters of Supplies-bestowers
traction

To say that poor people are fond of cheap eating.

On the contrary, such the "chaste notions?" of food
That dwell in each pale manufacturer's heart,
They would scorn any law, be it ever so good,
That would make thee, dear Goddess, less dear
than thou art!

And, oh! for Monopoly what a blest day,

Of jackets upon trumpet-blowers,

At eighty mortal pounds the jacket! 6

Come-free, at length, from Joint-Stock cares-
Ye Senators of many Shares,

Whose dreams of premium knew no boundary;
So fond of aught like Company,

That you would even have taken tea

(Had you been ask'd) with Mr. Goundry.7

When the Land and the Silk 3 shall, in fond Come, matchless country-gentlemen;

combination,

(Like Sulky and Silky, that pair in the play,1) Cry out, with one voice, for High Rents and Starvation!

Long life to the Minister!- -no matter who,

Or how dull he may be, if, with dignified spirit, he

Keeps the ports shut-and the people's mouths, too,

Come, wise Sir Thomas-wisest then,

When creeds and corn-laws are debated;
Come, rival even the Harlot Red,
And show how wholly into bread

A 'Squire is transubstantiated.

Come, L-derd-e, and tell the world,
That surely as thy scratch is curl'd,

As never scratch was curl'd before-
Cheap eating does more harm than good,

We shall all have a long run of Freddy's pros- And working-people, spoil'd by food, perity.

The less they eat, will work the more.

1 The venerable Jeremy's phrase for his after-dinner walk. pædia assures us, has a particular liking for every thing 2 A phrase in one of Sir T-m-s's last speeches.

3 Great efforts were, at that time, making for the exclusion

of foreign silk.

4 Road to Ruin."

5 This is meant not so much for a pun, as in allusion to the natural history of the Unicorn, which is supposed to be something between the Bos and the Asinus, and, as Rees's Cyclo

"chaste."

6 An item of expense which Mr. Hume in vain endeavoured to get rid of: trumpeters, it appears, like the men of AllSouls, must be "bene vestiti."

7 The gentleman, lately before the public, who kept his Joint-Stock Tea Company all to himself, singing" Te solo adoro."