... Plutarch used to say of men of small capacities put into great places, like statues set upon great pillars, are made to appear the less by their advancement. For a king to engage his people in a war, to carry off every little humour in the state, is like a physician ordering his patient to be fluxed for a pimple. An Irish fellow, vaunting of his birth and family, affirmed, 'That when lie came ...

... I THE ODD FELLOW'S P'UNCII-BOW L. TOO-TOO-T'OOIT-TOOIT ! SHIPPING INTELLIJlN.NeE. The Bloomning Betsey, laden with Wallsend, h]ivinjg got on shore at Lamibeth, WUs temploll'illy abandored by the erew, whto welit inlaind duringe the night, andl found on Iheir return that; the cargo had been comnpletely scuttled, find every coul on board clandestinely earricd (itf by a );y of na- tive maranders. ...