POACHED EGOTISM.

The _Examiner_ observes, in speaking of the types of the new premier's

policy,--"The state, I am the state," said the most arrogant of French

monarchs. "The administration, I am the administration," would seem to say

Sir Robert Peel. In the speech explanatory of his views, which cannot be

likened to Wolsey's "_Ego et Rex meus_," because the importance of the

_ego_ is not impaired by any addition.--This literally amounts to a

conviction, on the part of the editor of the _Examiner_, that the

premier's expression is all in his "I."

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