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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
Sin , —The Grand Conclave of England being styled as follows , viz .: " The Grand Conclave of the Royal Order of H . R . D . M ., K . D . S . H ., Palestine , & c—Ne plus Ultra , " I would feel obliged if you would do me the favour of stating the exact number and names of degrees that the Grancl Conclave have the power ancl authority to grant ; and likewise what degree they style as " Ne plus Ultra . " A discussion has arisen on these points , in which I am not myself sufficiently well informed to give
a decisive answer . I am , sir , yours fraternally , WALTER LAURENCE , Prince of the Royal Secret . We hear from its nurses that the " Grand Conclave" is exceedingly unwell , and must not be disturbed . —En .
Collectanea.
COLLECTANEA .
In the New York Tribune , " a white gentleman" advertises for " a coloured lady , of education and religious principles , " as a wife ; but intimates by way of postscript , that any white lady , who detests slavery , and is free from prejudice against colour , will be attended to . RATHER MYSTERIOUS . — " Now Jack , " said the printer of a country newspaper , in giving directions to his apprentice , " put the Irish Attorney-General and the State prosecutors into the galleysand lock them
, up ; let the two Members for Liverpool have larger heads ; distribute the Army in Ireland ; take up a line and finish Ferrand ancl the Anti-Corn Law League , and make the Prince of Wales to run on with the Dowager Lady Littleton ; move the Melton Mowbray hunt out of the chase ; get your stick , and conclude the horrid murder that Tom began last night ; after ivhich , come in to dinner , and see that all the pie is cleared up . " An QEdipus may be found iu any printing-office to explain
this enigma . A HINT TO THE PASSIONATE . —Dr . Caldwell , an American writer on physical education , contends that a well-balanced brain contributes to long life , whilst a passionate and turbulent one tends much to abridge it ; ancl , if persons knew how many clangers in life they escape by possessing mildness of temper , instead of the opposite disposition , how eager would be the aim of all men to cultivate it .
A LONG-WINDED . SUESCRIBER to an American newspaper , after repeated dunnings , promised that the bill should be paid by a certain day , if he were then alive . The day passed over , and no money reached the office . In the next number , therefore , of the newspaper , the editor inserted amcng the deaths a notice of his subscriber ' s departure from this life . Pretty soon after this announcement the subject of it appeared to the editor—not with the pale ancl ghastly countenance usually ascribed to
apparitions , nor like them , did he wait to be spoken to , but broke silence with— " What the d—1 , sir , did you mean by publishing my death ?" "Why , sir , I meant what I mean when I publish the death of any other
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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
Sin , —The Grand Conclave of England being styled as follows , viz .: " The Grand Conclave of the Royal Order of H . R . D . M ., K . D . S . H ., Palestine , & c—Ne plus Ultra , " I would feel obliged if you would do me the favour of stating the exact number and names of degrees that the Grancl Conclave have the power ancl authority to grant ; and likewise what degree they style as " Ne plus Ultra . " A discussion has arisen on these points , in which I am not myself sufficiently well informed to give
a decisive answer . I am , sir , yours fraternally , WALTER LAURENCE , Prince of the Royal Secret . We hear from its nurses that the " Grand Conclave" is exceedingly unwell , and must not be disturbed . —En .
Collectanea.
COLLECTANEA .
In the New York Tribune , " a white gentleman" advertises for " a coloured lady , of education and religious principles , " as a wife ; but intimates by way of postscript , that any white lady , who detests slavery , and is free from prejudice against colour , will be attended to . RATHER MYSTERIOUS . — " Now Jack , " said the printer of a country newspaper , in giving directions to his apprentice , " put the Irish Attorney-General and the State prosecutors into the galleysand lock them
, up ; let the two Members for Liverpool have larger heads ; distribute the Army in Ireland ; take up a line and finish Ferrand ancl the Anti-Corn Law League , and make the Prince of Wales to run on with the Dowager Lady Littleton ; move the Melton Mowbray hunt out of the chase ; get your stick , and conclude the horrid murder that Tom began last night ; after ivhich , come in to dinner , and see that all the pie is cleared up . " An QEdipus may be found iu any printing-office to explain
this enigma . A HINT TO THE PASSIONATE . —Dr . Caldwell , an American writer on physical education , contends that a well-balanced brain contributes to long life , whilst a passionate and turbulent one tends much to abridge it ; ancl , if persons knew how many clangers in life they escape by possessing mildness of temper , instead of the opposite disposition , how eager would be the aim of all men to cultivate it .
A LONG-WINDED . SUESCRIBER to an American newspaper , after repeated dunnings , promised that the bill should be paid by a certain day , if he were then alive . The day passed over , and no money reached the office . In the next number , therefore , of the newspaper , the editor inserted amcng the deaths a notice of his subscriber ' s departure from this life . Pretty soon after this announcement the subject of it appeared to the editor—not with the pale ancl ghastly countenance usually ascribed to
apparitions , nor like them , did he wait to be spoken to , but broke silence with— " What the d—1 , sir , did you mean by publishing my death ?" "Why , sir , I meant what I mean when I publish the death of any other