'Twas thine, poor Tom! in life's decline, In sad reverse and want to pine; Till Pity came, with angel-pow'r, To soothe thee at thy latest hour.[10] (Pity! on earth a heavenly guest, And sweetest in a queenly breast.) But rest thee well! nor let us grieve Thou hadst no hoarded bags to leave; One legacy of thine shall yet Be valued more--thy CABINET. J. A. WILLIAMS. It is the fate of one author to be overlooked by the Great, and of another to be overlooked by the Little. But we very much question, whether any author, be he poet or pamphleteer, occupying what is technically called a two-pair front, was ever subjected, whether sitting down to dinner or getting into bed, to the inconvenience of being Overlooked by the Great, after the fashion portrayed in the margin hereof. Now this we really take to be THE HEIGHT OF IMPUDENCE! Impudence has many degrees. When a stranger in a coffee-room politely requests to be allowed just to glance for one instant only at the newspaper you are reading, merely to look at an advertisement, and then, ordering candles into the next box, coolly sits down to read through the parliamentary debate--when a friend borrows your horse, to lend to a friend of his whom he would not trust with his own--a certain degree of impudence has unquestionably been attained. There is impudence in looking through a keyhole, in peeping over the parlour-blinds, in spying into the first-floor from the window "over the way;" but surely the highest stage of impudence is reserved for the man who stops as he strolls along at night, to look into your bed-room window, on the second floor--tapping at it probably with a request to be permitted to light his cigar at your candle, as the gas-light has gone out. [Illustration] FOOTNOTE: [Footnote 10: A few months before Mr. Dibdin's decease, and at the intercession of some friends, he received 100 _l._ out of the Queen's Bounty Fund. But he has left a widow and young family, for whom no provision whatever has been made.] AN APPARENT CASE OF DETERMINED SUICIDE. [Illustration]