44.--Renounces the Oly Oly Bom school of piety, and gets a pug and a poodle--meets the man she refused when she was two-and-twenty--he grown plump and jolly, driving his wife and two great healthy-looking boys, nearly men, and two lovely girls, nearly women--recollects him--he does not remember her--wishes the family at Old Nick--comes home and pinches her poodle's ears. 45.--Returns to cards at the Dowager's parties, and smells to snuff if offered her. 46.--Her aunt dies. 47.--Lives upon her relations; but by the end of the season feels assured that she must do something else next year. 48.--Goes into the country and selects a cousin, plain and poor--proposes they should live together--scheme succeeds. 49.--Retires to Cheltenham--house in a row near the promenade--subscribes to everything--takes snuff and carries a box--all in fun--goes out to tea in a fly--plays whist--loses--comes back at eleven--camphor julep, and to bed--but not to sleep. 50.--Finds all efforts to be comfortable unavailing--vents all her spleen upon her unhappy cousin, and lavishes all her affections upon a tabby cat, a great, fat, useless Tommy, with a blue riband and a bell round its neck. And there, so far as I have traced it, ends my Spinster's progress up to fifty. ERRORS OF THE PRESS. SIR,--We hear a great deal of the licentiousness of the press, and I am not disposed to say that there may not be some good grounds for the complaint; but I beg to assert that, to my own knowledge, much is charged to the account of the licentiousness which is, in truth, only attributable to the errors of the press; and I have had the mortification to see articles of the most innocent information, from my own pen, conveyed to the public with all the colour of libels, by the mere mistake of a single letter. For instance, I had occasion to report that a certain "noble lord was confined to his house with a violent cold;" next morning, I found that this innocuous piece of intelligence was metamorphosed into a direct inroad on the peace of a noble family, by representing his lordship as being "confined with a violent scold." In the same way, on the occasion of a recent entertainment given by a noble leader of fashion, I had said, very truly, "that, amidst the festivities, the first point of attraction and admiration were her ladyship's looks:" this deserved compliment was changed by the printer into a satire on the whole company, as if the chief point of attraction had been "her ladyship's cooks." In a description of the regatta at Cowes, I was made to represent a lady of fashion as having formed a hasty and ill-assorted match "with a boy," when, in fact, I had only said that the Lady Louisa had, indeed, broken adrift, but had "luckily, before any mischief was done, been made fast to a buoy."