2 DECEMBER 1837, Page 18

Nos. 2 and :3 of H H's Political Sketches are

quite equal to the first in humour and point. The onslaught of the Uncivil List threatens to annihilate the unhappy Mr. RICE; who, with his back against the closed door of the treasury, tremblingly implores the merry of the mob of dandies, damsels, dowagers, and divines, who with furious iooks and gestures menace his destruction. The quintette of

lamentation to i the tune of " dear, what will become of us ! " most dolefully chanted by five of the corps of gentle pensioners, is ludicre"us]y lugubrious.

Subjects like these, broadly treated, are calculated to amuse the public at large ; to whom the point of H B's sketches is often imper- ceptible, because the allusion is not understood.