; or that--
Colonel Sibthorp has more brains than beard; or that--
Sir Robert Peel feels for anybody but himself; or that--
Peter Borthwick was listened to with attention; or that--
Sir Peter Laurie's wisdom cannot be estimated; or that--
Sir Edward George Erle Lytton Bulwer thinks very small beer of
himself; or that--
The Earl of Coventry carries a vast deal of sense under his hat; or
that--
Mr. Roebuck is the pet of the _Times_; or, in short, that--
The Tories are the best and most popular governors that England
ever had.

If "the Irish would swear" to the above, we confess they "would swear
anything."

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COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE THEM.

SIR JAMES CLARK is in daily attendance at the Palace. We suppose that he
is looking out for a new berth under Government.

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HOSTILITIES IN PRIVATE LIFE.

We have just heard of an event which has shaken the peace of a highly
respectable house in St. Martin's Court, from the chimney-pots to the
coal-cellar. Mrs. Brown, the occupier of the first floor, happened, on
last Sunday, to borrow of Mrs. Smith, who lived a pair higher in the
world, a German silver teapot, on the occasion of her giving a small
twankey party to a few select friends. But though she availed herself of
Mrs. Smith's German-silver, to add respectability to her _soiree_, she
wholly overlooked Mrs. Smith, who was _not_ invited to partake of the
festivities. This was a slight that no woman of spirit could endure; and
though Mrs. Smith's teapot was German-silver, she resolved to let Mrs.
Brown see that she had herself some real Britannia _mettle_ in her
composition. Accordingly when the teapot was sent up the following morning
to Mrs. Smith's apartments, with Mrs. Brown's "compliments and thanks,"
Mrs. Smith discovered or affected to discover, a serious contusion on the
lid of the article, and despatched it by her own servant back to Mrs.
Brown, accompanied by the subjoined note:--

"Mrs. Smith's compliments to Mrs. Brown, begs to return the
teapott to the latter--in consequence of the ill-usage it has
received in her hands."

Mrs. Brown, being a woman who piques herself upon her talent at epistolary
writing, immediately replied in the following terms:--

"Mrs. Brown's compliments to Mrs. Smith, begs to say that her
paltry teapot received no ill usage from Mr