FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS OF THE BEGGARS. THE Brighton correspondent of the
Globe remarks- " it is said by the Brightonians—I know not how truly—that among the regular visitors of Margate, for a month of the season, is a noted street-sweeper of Oxford-road, and that during his life timethe celebrated black man, who used to stand at the end of Fleet-street, went there every year as a gentleman visitor."
We think we can venture to state, that the reproach of this gen- teel class of company is not applicable to Margate only. All the London nuisances visit Brighton in the fashionable season, and among the most distinguished are the gentleman whose brother makes matches in Rosemary-lane, the virtues of which he recites with a poet's tongue and a brimstone fire' and also a certain peri- patetic piper, whose property of ubiquity affects every street in the better half of London for nine months in every year. To these we must add the last of the hurdy-gurdies, who never fails to take the benefit of the warm baths, and to torture the ears of Brighton visitors in the autumn. We rather wonder that the daily news- papers do not record the movements of these public characters, who are really quite as well entitled to the distinction as the actors. It would be surely satisfactory to society to know where the Rose- mary-lane match-vender was spending the vacation, at what Cat- and-B agpipes he was sojourning, and what profits he made of his powers of annoyance. The piper's airs, too, might possess as much interest as Mr. BRAHAM'S ; and the hurdy-gurdy's extortions for the buying off of her music, might be as curious as the hard bar- gains of more exalted performers. We really think that the beg- gars are unduly neglected by the press. The Beggars Circular would make a nice article in the newspapers,; and Mendicity Chit- chat might advantageously supersede Theatrical Chit-chat, of which, Heaven knows, we have had a surfeit.
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