no opportunity of indulging in their favourite beverage. Meeting at
CROCKFORD's one evening, PITT (being in straitened circumstances)
proposed that they should play for a bottle of sherry. "No," said
FOX, "if I must lose, I will lose in Claret!" and the rival Statesmen
succumbed to intoxication.

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WILBERFORCE, the well-known philanthropist, was accustomed to visit
the prisons. At Newgate one day he met a well-known forger, and asked
him "What he was in for?" "For the same reason that you are out," was
the smart, but uncourteous reply.

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NEW REGULATIONS FOR THE ENGLISH POLICE.

(_FREELY ADAPTED FROM THE IRISH RULES._)

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1. Constables who are required to interfere in a street-row must have
fourteen days' notice before they can be expected on the spot of the
disturbance.

2. Policemen will parade the streets from 12 A.M. to 4 P.M., but will
make themselves scarce in the event of meeting a party procession, or
noticing the holding of a public demonstration.

3. Hyde Park, Trafalgar Square, and all other fashionable