muzzle of the
ordinance; you're a loafer.' One of these ''fishal functionaries'
justifies extreme physical means in 'captivating obstropolous vagroms'
both by reason and distinguished precedent: 'Wolloping is the only way;
it's a panacea for differences of opinion. You'll find it in history
books, that one nation teaches another what it didn't know before by
wolloping it; that's the method of civilizing savages; the Romans put the
whole world to rights that way; and what's right on the big figger must be
right on the small scale. In short, there's nothing like wolloping for
taking the conceit out of fellows who think they know more than their
betters.' 'And so forth, et cetera,' as may be ascertained on a perusal of
the volume.

LIFE AND TIMES OF THE LATE WILLIAM ABBOTT: THIRD NOTICE.--This most
entertaining manuscript-volume, from which we have already drawn so
largely for the entertainment of our readers, has not been published in
America, as it was designed to have been, owing partly as we learn to the
fact that, through 'something like unfair dealing' toward the widow of the
writer, a copy of half the volume had been transmitted to England, parts
of which have already reached this country in the pages of a London
magazine. We had the pleasure to anticipate by a month or two the best
portions even of these printed chapters; and we proceed to select passages
from other divisions of this interesting auto-biography, which were
written out after a duplicate copy of the earlier chapters had been
transmitted to the London publisher. Mr. ABBOTT (aside from the society to
which he had the entree on account of his professional merits,) was a
personal favorite with many of the most eminent personages among the
English nobility, with whom he was on terms of close intimacy; but we
never find him illustrating his own importance by the narration of the
social anecdotes or careless table-talk of his distinguished friends, as
too many of his contemporaries have done. He was honored with the cordial
friendship of the EARLS GLENGALL and FITZHARDING; and 'at their tables,'
he writes, 'I was a frequent guest, where I constantly met with society
embracing the highest rank and most distinguished talent in England. I
refrain, from obvious reasons, from mentioning names; but I may say that
if there was ever a class of persons who confer honor upon the society in
which they mingle, it is _the Aristocracy of Great-Britain_. There is a
deli