long pass unrewarded, and we earnestly hope peace may once more revisit the hearth of Glenlonely. Just as we write, we hear that a patent of peerage is in preparation, —a small affair indeed, but the harbinger of more halcyon bon bons.

Note to Number LI.

1 We believe an incident, in the early life of the author, relative to the rupture of a China utensil, is beautifully and happily alluded to in the Romance.

CHIEF COMMISSIONER SINGS,

Oh there's nothing on Earth
That in sorrow or mirth,

So sweetens our mortal existence,

As thus to repay,

In a true Judge-like way,

A friend for his friendly assistance.

Indeed 'tis the principal beauty

Of our otherwise comfortless duty,
That we're only to lean

To the side that we mean,

To suffer to pocket the booty.

PITMILLY.

Great Solon of old,

As by Sandford we're told,

Made a law for the ancient Athenians;

That no one in future

Should ever stand neuter,

Tho' it suited his private convenience.
I don't know if it strikes you so,

I never the subject would view so;
But it can't be denied

We should all take a side

When we find it convenient to do so.
GILLIES.

Some have ventured of late

For to in-si-nuate

That justice should be perfect blindness,
Or not condescend to look on a friend
With any particular kindness;

But this all contemptible fudge-is

Invented by Moralist drudges,

The man d'ye see

Who's a good friend to me,

Shall ne'er want a friend 'mong the judges.

CHIEF COMMISSIONER.

They say Politics

Ought never to mix

In judicial determinations,

And that we should be

All perfectly free

From such pitiful considerations:

But really it seems rather grievous

Of our great Polar Star to bereave us,
For take this away,

And tell me, I pray,

What general rule would they leave us.

CHORUS.

Then let us all sing

Long life to our King,

Who gave us our Pensions and Places,
May the Court where we sit,

And all about it,

Be placed on a permanent basis ;
May we each be as true to his brother,
As the devil e'er was to his mother,
May we answer the ends

Of ourselves and our friends,

And do credit the one to the other.

LIII.

PETER'S ADDRESS TO BOBBY.
Rising with sweet obtrusive voice to claim
A bumper to that dear obnoxious name,
I feel as when-here standing as I do,
And all unused to public speaking too ;—
That where the soul with retrospective eye
Pierces the gloom of bright futurity,
Or darts its full anticipative gaze
Up the long vista of departed days,
Some object still uprears its widowed form,
And sheds its own hypothec o'er the storm,
Staunches the echo of the bleeding mind,
Nor leaves the soul, one shred or snatch behind.

BARD OF THE SEASONS, hail! I turn to thee
With concupiscent retromingency!

Whether I see thy non-adhesive hip

Witching the world with noblest horsemanship, Or hear thee in the house with looks severe Pour amorous nonsense in a Judge's ear,—

And pausing 'mid the dear redundant strife
To look if thy opponent's still in life :
Or sit at Overgroggy's board the while,
And mark thee mutely speak and boldly smile,
Waving thy ruby flag until it fall

Into intoxication's blue canal.

THOMSON, a man than whom,-but to return:
Crown me, ye Nine, with yonder chamber urn;
If here I don't retract without delay

All that I did, or did not, mean to say:
And that there may be no mistake in fact,
This retractation I again retract.—
My feelings overpower me now—but when
The period shall arrive, if ever, then
My heart is in the bottle there with thee,
And I must wait till it comes back to me.

LIV.

TURF INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY.

From the Constitution Newspaper, 28th November 1838, No. 21.

GREAT Interest has been excited among the "knowing ones" in the Parliament House, by the race for the Banff Stakes, which came off yesterday :

STEWARDS,

JOHN A. MURRAY, ESQ. M.P.

ADAM BLACK, Esq. Treasurer of the City.

PETER CROOKS, ESQ. W.S.

JUDGE, DANIEL O'CONNELL, Esq.

The following state of the entry, accompanied by a few remarks upon the performances and character of each of

the horses, was forwarded to us by a sporting friend, too late for insertion last week.

The Marquis of Breadalbane's bl. colt, Corkscrew, by Vinegar, out of Canvasser's dam. The temper of this horse is very bad, and his breeding inferior. He did a great deal of work with the Fox-hounds in the Perthshire country, and was considerably Mauled at the time. However, he afterwards won a king's plate, beating Mr. Hunter's Pollux, Mr. Handyside's Subaltern, Mr. Crawfurd's Declamator, Mr. Reid's Voluntary, and others.

The Duke of Hamilton's b. h. Depute-Advocate, by Sir Michael, out of Mrs. Beaumont, (aged). This horse is own brother to Turncoat, who has won one or two plates in the West of Scotland, but is not expected to start again. Another of Sir Michael's colts, was named by the Duke of Hamilton, however, for the Lancaster cup last season. Depute-Advocate shows more breeding, and runs truer than any of the stock. He formerly belonged to Sir Robert Peel, and won a king's plate. He then changed hands, and ran second to Mr. Spiers' Dr. Cantwell, for the Moray Stakes last autumn; and was also the favourite for the Caithness cup, when it was carried off so unexpectedly by Mr. Thompson's Castor. Since then he has been in training for this race, and has risen considerably in the betting, owing to his appearance on the Waterloo and Hopetoun grounds some months ago.

Sir James Gibson-Craig names Mr. Hunter's brown h. Pollux, own brother to the Sheriff (late Castor); was regularly hunted by the Honourable Baronet for two seasons, both in Selkirkshire and the country round Edinburgh. Has been entered for every king's plate since he came upon the turf, but without success.

Mr. Thomas Thomson names Mr. Maitland's grey horse Bookbinder, by old Dundrennan, out of a Conservative mare, (aged). A fast horse, but considered too heavy for this country. This, at least, is the reason given by the