ACCIDENT TO MR. WAKLEY.
WE have the evidence of that great physiologist Mrs. Malaprop, that in the East figures are very unmanageable, when she Ob- serves that some one is " as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile." There are monsters as dangerous on the banks of the Thames ; and sometimes they wander into the low buildings and seize upon the inmates. The House of Commons is much infested ; and, melancholy to relate, on Thursday even- ing Mr. Wakley was obstinately attacked by a metaphor ; from which he was with great difficulty rescued by the whole House ; all his fellow Members, much to their credit, hastening, without distinctions of party, to drive the monster away by- their shouts. The unfortunate gentleman, unconscious of his danger was sportively talking of the object which the Prince De joinville- had in magnifying the power of the British steam-marine, in order to rouse the French people to rival it.
" He looked through the wrong end of the telescope, in order to make our power appear to his countrymen as mall as povsible. (A laugh.) He meant that he looked through the right aide of the telescope tomake our power poem,as
anallas possible. (Laughter, and vies of " Large, larger) No • , small!- ake (Laughter.) Really, they were very merry; but they were mist ken, and he-was correct. The Prince, for his own sake, wished to ascertain our real dimensions;- but begot his countrymen to view us through the telescope, in order that -our power might appear to them as small as possible. (Renewed laughter.) Really, after all, they were right, and he was -wrong—he meant as large as possible.' (Langhter, and "Hear, hoar! ") We understand that Mi. Wakley sustained no serious injury from- the seizure, and that he so far recovered as to be ablato walk home.
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