TOPICS OF THE DAY.
THERE are so many ludicrous, and so few serious points in the King's "no-visit," that, after the "Waterloo Coachman," and Sir CLAUDIUS HUNTER'S speech, there remains almost nothing to be said on the subject. The Ministerial necessity for an alarm, must have been-thove measure pressing, when they had recourse to so clumsy an expedient to procure one ; and nothing can better show the disrepute into which_the Premier has fallen with the lower orders, than the determination of the people not to gratify him in that respect, notwithstanding his special advertisement. These follies of the great aranot without serious mischief to the little : "Delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi"—the Ministers play the fool, and the people pay the piper. The shock, not to Funded property alone, but to every description of security, produced by the notable letter of Sunday night, has been great; and thousands at home and abroad may yet severely suffer from the effects of the elo- quence of Lord Mayor CROWDER'S lieutenant on the susceptible mind of the Victor of Waterloo. Abroad, our character as a na- tion must have been greatly damaged. What are the Belgians to think of a Minister who talks one day of interfering to put down a revolution in their country, and acknowledges, the next, that he is incapable of putting down a mob of idle apprentices in his own ? There are many matters of nine-days' wonder, that we, recorders of events, have to look back on with astonishment ; but of all that we have set down, and of all that the public have forgotten, the revolution of the 5th November bears the bell. It said the Duke would go out if a fitting successor could be found. What description of fitness is required ?
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