2 MARCH 1844, page 12

The American Crime.

THE journeymen-politicians who "rub on," living, as it were, from hand to mouth, ridicule the recurrence to first principles, as the idle pedantry of closet-theorists : yet a......

A Law Impossible To Obey.

LET us not be harsh on anomalies in foreign laws while our own pre- sent absurdities are as glaring. Some few months back, a disastrous duel suggested to the English people,......

The Speaking Animals: Chasing Tails.

WIZEN Venus, yielding to the prayers of the enamoured youth, changed the form of his cat into that of a girl, the goddess did not or could not change its feline propensities ;......