appier party sit down this
night to supper than 'READ and others,' of which fact you may take your
Davey."

On the Learned Counsel resuming his seat, there would have been
considerable applause, which, of course, would have been instantly
suppressed.

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NOTES "IN GLOBO."--_Dorothy_ was long ago taken off the stage of the
Prince of Wales's to make room for _Paul Jones_. But another DOROTHY has
recently reappeared at the Globe Theatre in the pretty Shakspearian
fairy-play entitled, _A Midsummer Night's Dream_, wherein DOROTHY DENE
enacts the part of _Hippolyta_. By the way, the lady who used to speak
of that immortal work, _Dixon's Johnsonary_, the other day referred to
SHAKSPEARE as being "contemporaneous with that great wit--dear me--what
was his name?--who wrote _Every Man in his own Humour_--oh, I
remember--JOHN BENSON." Eminently satisfactory.

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MY TAILOR.

[Illustration:]

"The St. Petersburgh tailors have hit upon an effectual device for
obtaining payment of their bills. Immense black-boards are hung up
in the most conspicuous place in the reception-room; thereon are
chalked, in letters as big as arrow-headed inscriptions, the names
of their hopelessly-indebted clients, and the amount of their
indebtedness."

_Daily Paper._

Who always seemed serene and bland;
Who never asked for "cash in hand,"
Quite pleased that my account should "stand"?
My Tailor!

Who catered for the gilded throng,
Who chid me when my taste was wrong,
Whose credit--and whose price--was long?--
My Tailor!

Who chatted when I felt depressed,
Who proffered wine with friendly zest,
Whose weeds were ever of the best?--
My Tailor!

Who with sartorial oil anoints
My vanity, who pads my joints,
And fortifies my weakest points?--
My Tailor!

But who in future, much I fear,
Will greet me with no words of cheer,
But talk of "settling"--language queer?--
My Tailor!

Who silently will point his hand
To figures white on black-board grand.
Where all my unpaid "items" stand?--
My Tailor!

Who'll thus expose me to my peers,
Bring on me jibes, and flouts, and sneers,
Male sniggerings, and female tears?--