CONTENTS. THE DIURNAL REVOLUTIONS OF DAVIE DIDDLEDOFT, DURING THE COURSE OF HIS INITIATION INTO THE MYSTERIES To Correspondents. We do not propose to take communications of any length, except from cur regular Contributors, and shall be open only to the receipt of short articles in prose and verse, for the CHARIVARI and COURRIER DES DAMES, and concisely written original tales, which, however, will be in no instance paid for. All communications to be forwarded by letter (post paid) to the Publishers. "The Miser's Son," and the contributions under the nom de plume of “Mr. Francis Funster," will be returned to their respective authors upon application to the Printer. The Several Poetical Communications are under consideration. We cannot undertake to preserve verses for which we are unable to find room. writers should therefore keep copies. Books, Prints, &c. intended for review in this Magazine, should be forwarded (free) as soon as published, to Mr. RICHARD FENNELL, 28, Arundel Street, Strand; or the Publishers, Messrs. SIMPKIN & Co., Stationers' Hall Court. THE DIURNAL REVOLUTIONS OF DAVIE DIDDLEDOFT, During the Course of his Initiation into the Mysteries of London Life, BY SIR TICKELEM TENDER, Bart. CHAPTER VIII. A coffee-shop breakfast-Davie a writer for the Times-Turns out to be no more than a foiled penny-a-linerSecrets of the Newspaper PressPenrailway's consolation-Davie is introduced by Penrailway, junior, to the Houses of Lords and CommonsGeorge Trout, the Parliamentary dwarf-Pen-and-ink Sketches of the Lobby, and a few distinguished Members-"High life below stairs"Davie's rencounter with Lords Brougham and Wellington - The Knight of Cahirciveen's Song-Penrailway's Story. Ir experience is dearly bought, it is not the less worth the purchase. To grow old without realizing its benefits was the bitterest reproach which Pitt could level against a political antagonist. Experience is the ripe fruit which is gathered amongst brambles-the rose which springs in the midst of thorns. If our hands are stung and pricked in severing it from its stem, they are made the firmer for all future time. Davie was somewhat "sickened" by the dose of ridicule to which the treatment he had been subjected to by the Bayswater beauties exposed him. The vixenish, though spirited, conduct of Ynez gave him some slight zoological knowledge as to the habits and propensities of that fero VOL. II. cious tigress-an enraged woman; and the mean figure which Mr. Narcissus Dobbs cut upon the occasion, the paltry, narrow-souled, miserably selfish, and utterly contemptible character which the hunted rat of a" lady-killer" displayed, all tended rather to disgust Davie with Fitzen's paraphernawlia of foappery," as he termed his fashionable attire, and more especially with the hirsute appendage with which he had garnished his upper lip. "A'm blest!" quoth Davie, as he tore off his false moustache, and applied it to the flame of his bed-cham ber candle on his return home, "A'm blest but it's no befittin' in a mon o' leeterary pretensions to mak' lossies in cre-eetion! a Jockanops o' himsel' for a' the 'A'd reether be a doag, an' bay thae moon!"" Davie had by this time singed a few of the straggling hairs, when he suddenly withdrew the moustache from the flame, and burned his fingers by the eagerness with which he extinguished the conflagration. This change of manner was produced by a strong recollection of some of the early precepts which he had imbibed in canny Caledonia. The most salient of these maternal maxims was, F |