Miscellany: "Don't Be Dependent On Foreigners."

Tlie Carlisle (Eng. ) Journal reports the (óllowmg amusing ojid doquent passage, a part ol a recent speaeb ol George Thomson, Eaq., the Anii-Coni-L.'ivv Ieeturer. deüvered in thut town: :Don't le dependerá on foreigners!' This is another very lavonte cry of ihe corn-Iaw makers. Methinks if they werc to practice the doctrine tliey preach. they would le 'poor indeed.' Let us pny a iiiendly visit to the inan who preaches this doctrine, and. let us see whetber he hvee up to it. For the beauty ot all preadung. is that which is by practice. Let us go and dine with him at his own house, at 7, just after he has left the House oi' Lords, whcre he hassilenced Lord Radnor by crying 'Don't be dependent on foréigners for supplies,' and ehouts of 'hear. hear,' will almost occupy a whole line in the nextday's paper. Alighting at his door, which perhaps, is opened by a foreign footm.an- [Laughtcr] - you wipe your feet upon a mat made of Kusssian hemp. [Don't be dependent on foreigners.] - Over your head burns a lamp, fed by oil from the Polar Seas, and supplicd with a wiek, made from American slave-grown cotton. [Don't be dependent on foreignere.] You areshown upstairs and step into the drawing room, whcre you tread upon a Turkey Carpet. [Don'' be dependent on foreigners ] My Lord advances. dressed for dinner. A coat ot' the newest Parisian fashion of Saxony wool, made by the immortal Stulz - a broach with an Indian cem set in Mexican gold. China silk stockings, Morocco pumps, and a curious Gencva watch, which tells him you have been remarkably punctual. He introduces you to his Lady. She advances. Over her pnle inteliecuial brow waves an ostrich feather. fOstrich feather3 don't grow in the tails ofour barndoorfowls.] Round her graceiul neck is a row of pearls from Ceylon; over her shouldersa profusión oí Brussels lace: in her hand aibreign fan; and fanher I niight go to prove her independence o( loreigners, and niight talk of corsets and oiher things as sacred, but will not. Let us go down to dinner. It is spread upon a table rf Spanish muhogany. The turcens and vegetable dislies are from Dresden - the tüftlë is from the Cumanas [no sliding scale or fixed duty for turtle]--the coments ot the castor are all foreign - the side dishes are all foreign. sent up by a French cook - thetongue isreindcer - the boar's head from Germany. The dessert comes on - The olives are from Mount Lebanop - the iius are from Turkey - the raisins are from Malagn- the dates are Irom Syrië - the npples from New York - the grapes from Portugal - the preserved ginger from Jamaica - the nuts from italy - the pomegranntps from Egypt - the prunes from France - the oranges from Lisbon. The dessert over, we go to the ladics. My Lord's dnugliter 8 playing a foreign air - singing in a foreign language - bas learnt under a foreign mas'.er - has rïnished her edneation in a foreign country - going 10 be married toa foreign couni - [don't bc dependent on foreigners for your supplies.] The footman enters - Coflee from Mochi. Tea from Cantón - Sugar from Siam. At eleven you depart. My Lady is going to a concert - ala Muaard; My Lord to the foreign Opera, to witness the debut of the admirable figurantt, FannyShow-her-leg8, who has been sent for express irom the Prussian capital, for the especial entertainment of those who cannot endure ihe thoughtof seeing iheir countryinen dependent on Foreigners tor their supplies. During the whole of this sketch, of wliich wc are able lo give but the bare outlinc, theaudience were convulsed with laughter, and at the end were loud in their npplause.