28 JANUARY 1832, Page 20

UNNATURAL. CHARACTERS IN FICTION.-No character can enter a human imagination

which is not within the compass of Nature's possi- bility, but there is much in Nature which has never entered the imagi- nation. What imagination ever conceived any thing so outrageous as Jack Mitford's acknowledgment that his love of. gin was so great, that if his soul were on one table and a gin-bottle on the other, he would barter the former for the latter?

TORT COURTESY.-Tories are said to be more courteous than Radi- cals and Republicans. Where do you find greater courtesy, or hear softer speeches, than among the extortionate shopkeepers, who pick your pocket[;?