APRIL.

4th.—The House of Commons resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and

Means, when Sir R. Peel's ways of getting means were much objected to.

18th.—Discussion in the House of Lords on the New Corn Bill, when the

Duke of Buckingham plainly intimated that the Premier deserved to be

turned out, for having taken others in.

22nd.—A dispute between Mr. Lumley and Signor Mario, when the latter

complained of hoarseness, and the former declared that _he also_ was

taken by the throat.

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