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There was a considerable diversity of opinion a was the first who broke silence, and displayed

a great deal of erudition on the ine, and the

potatoe-beetle, in which she was interrupted by the indignant Mrs

Glibbans, who exclai, speak

of sic baubles, when the word of God's in danger of being controverted by

an Act of Parlia of the queen's face is a Jezebitical testification against her?"

Mr Snodgrass replied, with an unwonted sobriety of manner, and with an

emphasis that showed he intended to make soe correctly of strangers byto our own notions of propriety It has certainly long

been a practice in courts to disfigure the beauty of the human

countenance with paint; but what, in itself, uise, rown into a very

harmless custom I am not, therefore, disposed to attach any cri paint Her late

majesty did so herself" "I do not say it was criminal," said Mrs