Besides the greater war of politics among the journals this
week, there has been a good deal of light sharp-shooting on minor points. One of the skirmishes was between the Times and the Globe, on the subject of the Duke of Sussex. A correspondent of the John Bull had sported a joke on the Examiner's proposal that a public subscrip- tion should be raised to relieve the necessities of his Royal Highness ; whom the wag nicknamed, after the most illustrious beggar on record, the " modern Hellyserious." The Times, fructifying on this witty pro- posal, suggested to HB a caricature, in which the Duke should figure as Belisarius and the Exandner as his dog. Whereupon the Globe felt a call to be sentimental, and exclaimed—" Will it be credited, that the Times actually makes the defect of sight under which the Duke of Sussex labours, the subject of a heartless joke?" The Times re- joined_" We should think it would not be credited ; for the simple reason, that the Duke of Sussex does nut labour under any defect of sight: a successful operation performed some time ago removed the defect under which his Royal Highness once laboured." Thus far the laugh is certainly ag4inst the toadies who support the dale obolum scheme
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