P.S. The above extract from the Courrier is preceded by
an al- lusion to some incomprehensibility of the Standard of the same date. All that can be surmised from it is, that the Standard is still dreaming of traitors, gallows, and ropes-end. He would seem to be in the enjoyment of a glorious vision of some of the principal Reformers of 1831 swinging on one beam. He talks of its being not yet too late pour faire peser sur eux—to make them accountable for something or other, at some time or other perpetrated; but what this something is, it being wrapped up in clouds and thick darkness, cannot be discerned. His vision is neither substance nor shadow, but what seems its head wears the like- ness of a proces monstre f —a proses monstre to embrace the prin- cipal accoucheurs of the Reform Bill. Look to it, my lords and gentlemen, titled or untitled,
A chield 's among you takin' notes, And, 'faith, you'll swing for 't !
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