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Income with a Difference.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer treats precarious income and permanent income, taken together for the purpose of taxation, as alike income simply and absolutely considered; whereas the truth is, that they are incommensurate.

PICKED UP AT THE DRAMATIC AUTHORS.

Why is a Syncretic’s* tragedy like a blister?
Because it draws only one night.
*We generously forbear printing the distinguished Syncretic’s name.

A New Feature that will Shortly be Seen.

So numerous are the Divorces and Judicial Separations now becoming, that we should not be surprised to see them regularly inserted in the Papers every day amongst the Births, Deaths, and Marriages, taking up their place, with becoming modesty, after the latter. We throw out the notion for the benefit of any cheap paper that is anxious to bid largely for notoriety. What a fearful column, too, they would make every week in the Observer; and we have not the least doubt it would prove, especially to the friends and acquaintances of the parties implicated, a most attractive one. Borrowing the title of the Colonne, that stands with outstretched wings on the old Place de la Bastille, it might be called The Column of Liberty.

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