TILE rrE LESS FAVOURITE, Avian e iii:cuesees ON " BOTTOM ' S

DREAM."

ROCK% that IIIVO St,o(1 ibr ages have yielded at length to the un- dermining sea ; monument, of brass and marble are worn away by the hand " Tempos ednx serum'" saes Hottsce ; Ovin remarks. " Cut ta cavat breidem" ; and it has 'been well observed by the Sieian of Avon. The elculd-capp'd lowers, the gorgeous palaces"— —But we fear we ere becoming too recherche in our musineo. The flee is, ',ye have been driven to philosophize a little, from discovering ourselves in an important error. We really thought in our inner steels that the .MesnouRNE dynasty was to last for ever • having 15e11 it survive every known mode of attack, in front or behind, it seemed to tie impossible not to admit that it was

fairly in tie' an humored existence. But, alas! this so-thought in- vulnerable Minieteriel body !urns out to have one undipped heel,

and that heel, it is -aid, has already received a wound: so that the ef' th e dievnild and dissolution even of a MELBOURNE

ORCO 11101e to th':! .215.

The mixture of',.;.1,ility and instability which has characterized

this strange of a Government, puts one in mind of that :' the three sticks, which, being in a certain

way c-'' ''ii. while they seem ready to fall asunder at the first tele itos reist and even grow stronger under the

firmest pr E me down at once by the " pressure from without eel Ly the pressure front within, our blessed .Ministers seem only to aeheni more firmly to their seats than ever. Whence

then this iitrength to osak men ? what is their fulcrum of power ? The Ttrom,. l'emittea to plant his foot there, my Lord Mim- ing:rest: his got his p,:a st,) and will raise you what worlds you like.--Ent svhat if tee permitted ? We !BAT: were fond or go:isip, especially Court gossip—the most tutpretitable of all gossips, " Tlicy sly she frowned on hilo as she passed to the Throne-room."

"lly bleed I. rd So.altd-:io declares he saw her sniffing and conversing with him only viler iv.''

"A. he :.pp:.g,ached, at the Ifrawing-room to-day, she turned short round sad began to tall. to an.,.hir lord "

Such brash.: of repast are quickly caught up by the Ariels of the press, who, hies hes silt toil in every precious word, skip off

With ,'•-11 to my master's ear."

But thi,:t e '10,:lgty paragraph beginning " are au- thorized to state that hi- he is not a word or truth," &c.; so that, Conuadiethm sr a, loud as Report, this gossiping generally conics to nothing, Pt is,imply 0 plus 0. Such light airs and

zephyrs, titer:loos te'e better disregarded, as decep;i.ms ; but

Rumour has sti ongt.r and it' it should blOW a regular North- wester °tie muis attend to it. We don't assert that it does iney tithe; ee the k:ist—but, certainly, they do say, and they do even repeat, II,- ii.!..;11(•:,1 l'er,onage in this real n has been observed

to cool a ii: Li,. : late toN‘ ards an eminent nobleman long believed to ;las cnjovel her most distinguished and ttlmost exclu- sive throes; eed Ilea thie incipient refrigeration has hetet brought

about !el' *n111110100 or another very high personage in the exect height, 110WCVCV, being a matter Of rather at:gry adnicastutmt u to mm a. pcople, we ourselves forbear to calculate. We wool.' not toati.,.. too much aceount of an on dit, but if it sets Os thinkeie et, cat t help Mat. It does set us thinking. We

think le' nobleman tbr whom we begin

to feel nu eethor's elf ; we think ot' his long spell of thvour, mei then, V. I h ti:: re lu our eyes, reflect what limy be the end ! CoT1 Cod: ellat do V. a say—have we not already on this very sultleet" vetieineted me not once ere now, wound into the triple tie 'discuss., pi e reel forth certain dark forebodings, prompted by the gd -.kith!, leeching the extreme thte of this amiabl* but unhappy 'el ie:ie er? ,v hat now do we behold ? Alas; no- thing lei' 111,111 seems to arglle the approach of those figebodings to a mil When we drew a parallel between the case oh' our gentle Favourite and the untinitunate Ilizziti,it was wanting in one allfortent l:stture— Ile 51 as no DARNLEY : DARNLEY has now entered on the :teem. ! Things conspire to an end. The last despatches front the eiaittle el' France say that Lord Baououssi re- turns to England after the Easter recess. Would dee we knew the state of the Favourite's mind at this

moment ! indeed, ee come not to vex but to soothe him. It occurred to its mis pnthablv, that the close and alarming resem- blance or his situation to that of R tzzio, which we pointed out to hnn on the above (teem:ion, might have recurred to his mind at this period with peculier terror ; and in that thought it was that we, with It considerate feeling which we trust will be properly estimated,

• See "A Favourite Subject," in No. 5t1 of the Speetator-10th November 1s38.

poetical know how quick the transition is front love to hate : especially with

royal favourites, whom some sovereigns have not been content to

discard n without disgracing and persecuting afterwards with a malignity proportionate to their former indulgence.

-ministr tit to dawn upon our understanding—and we bow In untblding to the Favourite a new view or his situation, cal- y

ve it. We see no good reason why the ommons points to submit to his Lordship es an alternative. Almost all the

tribe of Favourites have died violent deaths. To find an exception to this rule was our first convern, and a difficult matter it was; but happy are we to say, that after much patient reading me at length discovered, and on finuiliati ground, the very object of our search : it was in the person of — Bottom.

Yea, sweet lord, between Elul° and Batton) thou hest thy only choice. Wilt thou die and be Rizzi°, or wilt thou live and be Bottom ? Thou wilt surely live, for thou host more of Bottom in thee than of' romance. And this brings us to say, that the present parallel is better than the other in respect of representing the hero under closer analogies. Queen M ARY WaS l't•aSonalik—at least we mean she was natural and womanlike—le levity; music and romance and love and youth all coin:tined 'erssionicte: but Queen Titania was unreasonable iii lot hg an ass; and it was an infatuation in fact, she being at the time meter the influence of a spell—which is broken in the end; ()listless by her husband, Oberen, (ALBERT,) who comes on the scene jest in time to save her from further humiliation. It is then that she exclaims, being disenchanted, " My Oberon ! what visions have I seen ! Ms:thought I was enamoured of an ass. OB. There lies 3 our love. TIT. BM% Caine these tilling to pass? Oli! how mine em's do loathe his vis ior nom !

We hope it has not conic to "loethino" vet—though we all culated to quiet those apprehensions which in all probability tor- ment hint at this moment on considering the preeent aspeet of the stars, we think we have performed him a valuable service. He has only to persuade himself or this truth, that lei is ii0 BUCKINGHAM OT SPENCER, but altogether of the Dattant order of 6v:writes, and he will at once perceive that he can have n gluing to ferii . disrmj is all he can suffer, but death will come to him m bed.

" Hum neque dira venena, nee hostieus auferet ensis."

No man would think of slue Pig a Battom—a kick's the thing.