"TEARS SUCH AS ANGELS STIED."
WHEN Mr. Romsenten shook hands with Lord MELBOURNE on their bargain for the Pew Loan, he is reported to have been "evidently much affected." Lord CASTLEREAGH'S famous simile of " the man who with tears in his eyes puts his hands into his breeches-pockets like a crocodile," cannot, we hope, be applied to the Leviathan of the Money-market. He was " affected," we dare say, without any affectation. But whence his agitation? It could not be that the great capitalist, who has helped to maintain the credit of nations, to send armies into the field, and who holds the balance of exchanges in his hands, should have been touched to tears by the honour of shaking hands with the Premier,—unless, indeed, the recent edict of Sir WILLIAM CURTIS, banishing all Jews from his house, caused the heart of the Hebrew to melt when the Minister of a Christian people grasped his band. Could it have been the terms of the Loan that moistened the eyes of the man of money? And if so, were the tears drops of sorrow, or of joy ? Certain it seems that the Chancellor of the Exchequer made a hard bargain. His terms were lower than the ofler of Mr. ROTIISCHILD, and yet they were accepted. That they were accepted, is proof presumptive they were worth having : query, whether the tears that wetted the bargain were of gratulation at the advantage secured, or of regret at the profit foregone ?
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