as glowing,
brimming with flowers; all of them nodding at me, as I thought, a
welcome.

What a house-warming we've had! And I never can complain of the
smallness of the house after such a party! A hundred and fifty, and
still plenty of room for _Roger de Coverley_. Mamma danced with
TRUEPENNY who--the foolish fellow!--would go upon his knees on the
hearth, and drink a glass of champagne in honour, as he said, of the
household gods. We've had merriment enough almost for a life! I begin to
be afraid of so much happiness--can it last?

_May 1, Twenty-ninth return of Wedding Day._

Thankful, grateful, for all blessings! Happiness has continued;
happiness the purest and best, for--as dear, dear FRED says--the
happiness was ever home-made.

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BRITISH BLACK SLAVERY.

LORD PALMERSTON has furnished the Women of America with a new answer to
the Women of England. The American ladies say that now the Smoke
Nuisance Bill has passed, we cannot blame the States for their Runaway
Negro Act, inasmuch as we ourselves have made a law to prevent the
escape of the Blacks.

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VERY LIKE A WHALE.

The Yankee scheme for purchasing the fictitious title to the American
Fisheries from the pretended EARL OF STIRLING, comes out under the
auspices of an Ex-Secretary of State with the portentous name
of--WALKER!

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[Illustration: THE GREAT BARBARIAN DRAGON THAT WILL EAT UP "THE BROTHER
OF THE MOON," &c. &c. &c.]

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GREAT CATCHES.

[Illustration: W]

Whether everybody has his price or not; there are some quite capable of
selling themselves, even by auction: as, for one instance, we should
think, the author of the subjoined advertisement:--

AS LEDGER CLERK, Manager, and Correspondent.--A gentleman, of
close-sticking business habits, who does nothing by halves, whose
references as to character, &c., are first-rate, and whose devotion
to his employers' interests ever has been unbounded, is just now
open to a RE-ENGAGEMENT. The advertiser is of ripe, vigorous,
middle-age, and so undeviatingly systematic, as by the restless
force of example, to be qualified to establish, in all around him,
habits of perseverance, self denial, and fagging industry, such as
could not fail to tell wonderfully, as those habits became more and
more fully dev