Desert and Deserters.
Sir William Napier never was an advocate for brutal punishments. Talking of deserters, and the cruel way in which they are “lettered” with a hot iron, he said indignantly one day: “You may take my word, no soldier was ever improved by it. On the contrary, the soldier, like port wine, inveriably turns out the worse for being brand(i)ed.”
OUT OF THE BERNAL COLLECTION.
“In one sense,” says Osborne, “Gladstone is greater than Harvey. Harvey only discovered the circulation of the blood, whereas Gladstone, my boy, by remitting the duties on French wines, has discovered the circulation of the bottle.”
“Contempsi Catilinæ gladios, non Pertimescam tuos.”
They told Mr. Gladstone the cork-cutting trade
‘Gainst his Budget was all up in arms;
“Of the bite of the Brewers,” quoth he, unafraid,
“Do they think that their bark has alarms?”
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The Real “Collier Controversy.” - Whether the restrictions, which harass the British shipowner carrying coals into France, and the differential duties in favour of French shipping, should not be abolished?
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A Fine Illustration of the Association of Ideas. – Savoy suggests cabbage.
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