cumstances of the patients be not similar. We do not
mean to the peals upon peals of laughter into which she falls, till she sinks deny—it would be nonsensical to attempt it—that a putrescent as at last exhausted on the floor, and only recovers her breath to yield well as a putrid body, cribbed in a small and partially ventilatedroom, again to the irresistible impulse, were contagious, and the whole may not generate gases most injurious to those that inhale them. We house accompanied her laughter from sympathy. From the ludi- have every day proofs that certain airs received into the lungs crous to the coarse is but a step in these cases; and Mademoiselle may affect both health and life. The vapours that hover over the Sr. ANGE showed great skill in going to the very verge of the sick man's couch are, indeed, too fleeting to admit of correct ludicrous, without stepping beyond it. The rest of the parts were analysis; we cannot pronounce upon them, as on the choak-damp well played,—excepting the lover of the piece, Cleonte ; whose or fire-damp of our coal-mines ; but their existence is unques- representative, when he appeared along with his witty valet tionable. Whatever sanatory regulations can effect (and the Covielle, we mistook at first for his comrade, instead of his mas- whole of them may be expressed in one word—free admission of ter. In the said Covielle, G.3.11/ARD was very clever and enter- air) to prevent the accumulation of such noxious gases, in the taming. crowded hovels and narrow courts of our metropolis, is wisely Mademoiselle LEONTINE FAY performed in a little vaudeville done. But can there be any dream more wild than the hypothesis, called Louise, ou in Reparation; but the part of Louise was not that a disease which breaks out in the camp of a miserable set of calculated to display, in any remarkable degree, the powers of this half-starved wretches, whose couch is the damp ground—who are charming actress. Indeed, it is only by seeing her repeatedly harassed in soul as in body from morn to night, every day and all that any idea can be formed of the extent of her genius. She is day long—that the sickness which their wants, their toils, their not regularly beautiful, but something better. She is entitled, filth, their cares have generated, can be communicated to happy, even in face and person, to be called a pretty creature; but her well-fed, well-lodged England, through the medium of a bit of beauty arises, in a great measure, from the mind, which is, as it linen rag or the skin of an asthmatical cow ? What is the treat- were, visible in the workings of her intelligent countenance, and ment to which the more formidable of these plague-conductors— the graceful movements of her form. She is like an April day, the rags—are subjected before they reach the public ? Why, in made up of smiles and tears ; and it would be difficult to say the first place, they are all washed before they reach our shores ; which become her most. In her gifts of intellect and feeling, and when they do reach them, the very first step is to tear them she reminds us of what Mrs. HENRY SWOONS was, and Miss with toothed wheels until they are reduced to one pulp—a ELLEN TREE is ; but has, over them, the advantage of having stream of water meanwhile pouring during the whole of the pro- formed her style from the actual manners of society,—which an Cess of comminution through the midst of them, and cleansing English actor cannot do, because English manners, in real life, their impurities. If cholera, plague, bulam fever, all the ills are not suited to the stage. English men and women (except that humanity is subject to, were wrapped up in a single bale, 'among the lowest ranks) do not give way to an unrestrained expres- the ablution to which its contents are subjected would wash them sion of feeling. Conversations of deep import are carried on with a away for ever. The case is even more ridiculous when we consider composed manner, a steady voice, and a smooth countenance, even the quarter from which the danger is apprehended. Do the Rus- while the heart is labouring with strong emotion ; and it is only in ex- Sian soldiers take heed of linen? Are the Cossacks of the Don treme cases that passion is exhibited in actual life. Even our gayety careful for clean shirts? The rags are ridiculous enough, but the is subdued ; and we areprevented by constitutional want of vivacity, Cow hides are supremely so. Does the Cholera affect horned and the dread of being thought frivolous, from indulging in the people of England ? But our lawmakers hitherto have been our cattle ? We know it may be said, in the language of the old landlords. By the sale of his sheep, the farmer pays his rent ; proverb,—abundance of law breaks no law. Certainly not but by the rent of the farmer, the luxury of the member is upheld; the very abundance may be more injurious than the breach. Such touch one link, touch all. The price of blood, some six hun- uncalled for intermeddling with the freedom of commercial pur- dred years ago, was equal to forty pounds of our degenerate coin. suits is always more or less hurtful. Subject rags and hides to In process of time, silver fell in the market, and with it the life of quarantine, and rags and hides must rise in price ; dear rags an Englishman, twenty-fold. Sir ROBERT PEEL, moderate in all make dear paper, dear paper dear books ; dear hides, again, make things, raised the sum from 2/. to 5/. Why not to 500/.—why dear leather, dear leather dear shoes ; and thus the head and the not to 5,0001.? In point of moral guilt, is not he who filches a feet of John Bull are equally outraged.
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