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A PARLIAMENTARY JOKE.

The prevailing fashion of certain orators interlarding their speeches with frequent classical quotations, reminds us of a piece of mischievous waggery perpetrated by one of the greatest men of his time.  Sheridan once electrified the country gentlemen in the House of Commons, by concluding an animated appeal to their patriotism, with a quotation from Herodotus, which they cheered most vociferously; when, in fact, he merely strung together a jumble of words, a jargon uttered on the instant, which sounded very much like Greek.  Pitt, it is said, was in a convulsion of laughter all the time.

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THOUGHTS ON THE TIMES.

There is not a word of news stirring.  Yesterday’s papers may serve for to-day’s, and Sunday’s for all the week.  There is, as it were, a syncope in all things; nothing is doing; art, science, and business, are alike at a stand-still.  The stage, the press, the easel, the loom, the rudder of the merchantman, and the helm of the state, all are alike in a most extraordinary negative condition.  The world is in a catalepsy.  It hears and sees, but it can do nothing.—­Blackwood.

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LIMBIRD’S EDITION OF THE
Following Novels is already Published:

g.  d. 
Mackenzie’s Man of Feeling              0   6
Paul and Virginia                       0   6
The Castle of Otranto                   0   6
Almoran and Hamet                       0   6
Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia     0   6
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne      0   5
Rasselas                                0   8
The Old English Baron                   0   8
Nature and Art                          0   8
Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield          0  10
Sicilian Romance                        1   0
The Man of the World                    1   0
A Simple Story                          1   4
Joseph Andrews                          1   6
Humphry Clinker                         1   8
The Romance of the Forest               1   8
The Italian                             2   0
Zeluco, by Dr. Moore                    2   6
Edward, by Dr. Moore                    2   6
Roderick Random                         2   6
The Mysteries of Udolpho                3   6
Peregrine Pickle                        4   6

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Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD 143, Strand, (near Somerset House,) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic; and by all Newsmen and Booksellers.

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