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When Mr. and Mrs. O'Reily had said all that they had to say, he never attempted to reply, but stood lounging against the bar, sucking his teeth and twirling his hat, until the Magistrate called upon him for his defence, and thereupon ensued the following colloquy :—

"What have you to say to all this, Mr. Leonard?"

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Humph-I don't know; they've served me pretty tidy going along, I think, punching at me with their shilaleaghs as they would at a woolsack.",

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Perhaps you did not go along quietly ?"

"No, 'faith, I wasn't likely, for I was thinking of going to bed at that same time; and there's no fun in being pulled away to a watch-house when a man's thinking of going to bed."

"What are you? What is your trade?"

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My trade! why, I'm a tailor-the more's my luck."

"Please your Worship," said one of the watchmen, seemingly quite surprised at finding he had had so much trouble with a tailor; "please your Worship, as we were taking him to the watchhouse, he up with his fist and knocked me down like a bullock!"

"Are you the man that poked your stick in my eye?" said Teddy Leonard, turning very leisurely to the speaker; "when a watchman had hold of the two sides of me, each of 'em fast and sure, there was he jumping before me, and poking his stick at me like a cock-sparrow. Och! but I wish I know'd you when I saw you this morning !"

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“Well, you know him now," said the Magistrate.

"Know him!" replied Teddy Leonard, "not I faith, for it's a disgrace to be knowing such a consarn; and by the same token, he, or some of the rest of 'em, pocketed my shoe that night, and I haven't got it since, but another."

"But how came you to alarm these honest people in the way you have done?" said the Magistrate; "have you a wife of your own?"

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"No, indeed, nor like to have; for I'm quite alone, and comfortable."

"Well, then," said his Worship, "we must endeavour to make you let other folks he as comfortable as yourself, by calling upon you to find securities for your keeping the peace in future."

Very good, your Worship; that's all very right; and I dare say I'll keep the peace longer nor the peace keeps me," replied comfortable Teddy; and so saying, he followed the gaoler to his uncomfortable apartments.

Bell's Life in London.

ORIGIN OF THE WORD HUBBUB.

HEBOU, in Arabic, signifies a cloud of dust, and hebub, the wind blowing about: hence the English word hubbub, the derivation of which has puzzled Johnson and all the lexicographers so much.

Post.

A DREA M.

BY T. CAMPBELL.

WELL may sleep present us fictions,
Since our waking moments teem
With such fanciful convictions
As make life itself a dream-
Half our daylight, faith's a fable;
Sleep disports with shadows too,
Seeming in their turn as stable
As the world we wake to view.
Ne'er by day did Reason's mint
Give my thoughts a clearer print
Of assured reality,

Than was left by Phantasy
Stamp'd and colour'd on my sprite,
In a dream of yesternight.

In a bark, methought, lone steering,
I was cast on ocean's strife,
This, 'twas whisper'd in my hearing,
Meant the sea of life.

Sad regrets from past existence
Came, like gáles of chilling breath:
Shadow'd in the forward distance
Lay the land of deatli.

Now seeming more, now less remote,
On that dim-seen shore, methought
I beheld two hands a space
Slow unshroud a spectre's face;
And my flesh's hair upstood,-
'Twas mine own similitude.
But my soul revived at seeing

Ocean, like an emerald spark,
Kindle, while an air-dropt being
Smiling steer'd my bark.

Heaven-like-yet he look'd as human
As supernal beauty can,

More compassionate than woman,

Lordly more than man.

And as some sweet clarion's breath

Stirs the soldier's scorn of death

So his accents bade me brook
The spectre's eyes of icy look,
Till it shut them-turn'd its head,
Like a beaten foe, and fled.

"Types not this," I said, "fair Spirit!
That my death-hour is not come?
Say, what days shall I inherit?—
Tell my soul their sum."

"No," he said, "yon phantom's aspect,
Trust ine, would appal thee worse,
Held in clearly measured prospect:-
Ask not for a curse!

Make not, for I overhear,

Thine unspoken thoughts as clear
As thy mortal ear could catch

The close-brought tickings of a watch-
Make not the untold request

That's now revolving in thy breast.
""Tis to live again, remeasuring
Youth's years, like a scene rehearsed,
In thy second life-time treasuring
Knowledge from the first.

Hast thou felt, poor self-deceiver!
Life's career so void of pain,

As to wish its fitful, fever

New begun again ?

Could experience, ten times thine,

Pain from being disentwine

Threads by fate together spun?

Could thy flight heaven's lightning shun!

No, nor could thy foresight's glance

'Scape the myriad shafts of chance.

"Would'st thou bear against Love's trouble,

Friendship's death-dissever'd ties;

Toil to grasp or miss the bubble

Of Ambition's prize?

Say thy life's new-guided action

Flow'd from Virtue's fairest springs-
Still would Envy and Detraction
Double not their stings?

Worth itself is but a charter

To be mankind's distinguish'd martyr."
I caught the moral, and cried, Hail,

Spirit! let us onward sail,

Envying, fearing, hating none,

Guardian Spirit, steer me on!

New Monthly Magazine.

IMPURITY.

WE do not remember to have ever seen a more concise or better account than the following, of the important distinction between writings of really immoral tendency, and mere freedoms of language, which are carried off by a playful or ridiculous vein. The puritans of this our most canting age attempt to confound the two things, and have certainly succeeded to a great extent in driving impurity from the lips into the heart! "The Sentimental Journey of Sterne, for example, is more immoral than his Tristram Shandy. At the gross incidents of the latter we laugh, and the virgin would blush; and with the laugh and the blush the joke passes away; but the garnished looseness of principle and refined impurity of the other, steal into the imagination, and endanger the moral principle in proportion as we neither blush nor laugh.”

Retrospective Review.

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