London was astonished on Thursday to find in the columns
of the Post an important announcement as to the disposal of the va- cant Garter transferred from "our contemporary the Owl "side by side with a clever jeu d'esprit on the Conference from the same un- known source. Inquiries were naturally made, and the Owl turns out to be a diminutive sheet, embellished with a portrait of the bird whose name for wisdom it has taken in vain, and valuing itself at the modest price of sixpence. Its specialite' would appear to be a habit of adorning with the imagination what it is desired should be considered as truth, and treating with -circumstantial gravity the products of the imaginative power. In which of the two categories is to be included the impression -conveyed that its nest is not far from Stafford House there is not intrinsic evidence to decide.
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