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CHIT CHAT. A Norwich paper asserts that in the late high wind, a man belonging to a neighbouring village had his breath completely blown out of his body. The man. of course, did not survive the Last week Sir Robert Graham, ex-Baron of the Court of Exchequer, who is now in his 91st year, but hale and hearty, and in full enjoyment of all his faculties, took the oaths in the Court of King's Bench, before Lord Denman, required by the Act lately passed, empowering retired Judges to assist in trying prisoners at the Central Court of the Old Bailey.- Our grumbling Politicians cry, Old England's basis stinds awry; Mend this, they say, mend that, mend t'other. Spare, spare, zood people, your concern, Let this Old England serve our turn, Till you can shew us such another.-Ill. -It is said that one of the contemplated al- terations in the management of business in the Post Office is to ajjpoint three Commissioners to perform the duties now executed by the Postmaster- General. Iloi-e Cointilissiotiers I More jobs!! A ietter, dated Pittstield, Massachusetts, 17th September says-" Last evening a very han(t- some streuk of litjhtniny came slick do«n the con- ducting rod into our lecture-room, where there were assembled about three hundred persons Some were stunn'd; some were stagger'd; some were struck staring.; some were all but struck blind; some were scorch d; aud some were topsy-turvy'd. One had his sleeve slit from shoulder to hand; one-had his head and face singed bald; and one had the sole of his boot handsomely cut otf !"■ AN IRISH BM1 LIE brief in Mr O'Connell's case for the Dublin Election Committee, which is to be sent to London, consisis of'22 reams of paper —only 11,000 sheets W-Dublin POIJt- BREVIS f-SSE LABORO. YOll may speak of your Houses of Commons and Lords, Of the strenzth of their lungs, and the weiltht of their 0- words; But in spite of their Cons, and in spite of their Pros. They that speak to the p >int are the Ayes and the Noes -It is stated to be the intention of Vlinisters to bring forward a measure for the purpose of incor- porating every borough which sends two Members to Parliament; and that it will not be left to the option of boroughs whether they participate in its provisions or not. -A farmer, the chance- companion of Charles Lamb, in a coach, kept boring him to death with questions, in the jargonof agriculturists, about crops. At length he put a poser-" And pray, Sir, how are turnips t' year?" "Why, that, Sir," stammered out Lamb, will depend on the boiled legs of intitton. Droll, though not very logical or conclusive, was the reply of the tipsy Irishman who, as he sup- ported himself by the iron railings of Merrion Square, was advised by a passenger to take himself home—"Ah, now, be aisy, I live in the Square; isn't it going round and round, and when I see my own door come up, wont 1 pop into it in a jiffy." -One of our poets, a remarkably cadaverous looking man, recited a poem, descriptive of a coun- try walk, in which the following couplet occurred "The red-breast, with his furtive glance, Comes and looks at me askance. Upon which a wag exclaimed, "Gad, if it had been a carrion crow he would have stared you full in the face.Lord Byron was once asked by a friend, in the Green Room; if he did not think Miss Kelly's acting, in the" Maid and the Nla,,pie," exceeding:ly natural. "I really can't say," was his Lordship's reply, I was never innocent of stealing a "ilver spoon." HIST ON ETIQUETTE—Nothing in- dicates a well-bred man more than a proper mode of eating his dinner. A man may pass by dressing well, and may sustain himself tolerably well in conversation; but if he be not perfectly "all fait" dinner will betray him.- Cotint Charles de Mornay's practice, whenever he dined at an ordi- nary on the road, was to instruct his valet to come iu and sit down with the company, place himself at the top or bottom of the table, treat his master as a perfect stranger, and help hun to the best of every thing ._ANOTI]Ett YET.—The rage for commissions is so great, that the cOllservencyof the river Thames is to be transferred to sommis- sioners from the Lord Mayor. Perhaps they are afraid that the next Lord Major may set it on fire- I The snake, tradition's tale avers Casts once a year his speckled skin; Yet no improvement change itifers- 'Tis still the self-same snake within. How like O'Connell's sinuous trim, Who turns and hurs's, occasion's slave 'Tis change of sides-not change of him- New kiiavery-litit the same old knave — B.

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