METROPOLITAN SKETCHES. Heartly, Echo, and Transit start for a Spree--Scenes by Daylight, Starlight, and Gaslight--Black Monday at Tatter-- sail's--The first Meeting after the Great St. Leger--Heroes of the Turf paying and receiving--Dinner at Fishmongers' Hall --Committee of Greeks--The Affair of the Cogged Dice--A Regular Break--down--Rules for the New Club--The Daffy Club, or a Musical Muster of the Fancy: striking Portraits-- Counting the Stars--Covent Garden, what it was and what it is--The Finish--Anecdotes of Characters--The Hall of Infamy, alias the Covent Garden Hell 327 VISIT TO WESTMINSTER HALL. Worthies thereof--Legal Sketches of the Long Robe--An Awkward Recognition--Visit to Banco Regis--Surrey Col-- legians giving a Lift to a Limb of the Law--Out of Rule and in Rule--"Thus far shalt thou go, and no further"--Park Rangers personified--Visit to the Life Academy, Somerset House--R. A--ys of Genius reflecting on the true Line of Beauty--Peep into the Green Rooms of the two Theatres Royal, Drury Lane and Covent Garden--Bernard Blackmantle reading his new Play and Farce--The City Ball at the Mansion House--The Squeeze--Civic Characters--Return to Oxford-- Invite to Cambridge--Jemmy Gordon's Frolic--Term ends 355 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE ENGLISH SPY. (By R. CRUIKSHANK unless otherwise attributed) We hope it will be generally admitted that few volumes have a more decided claim upon the public patronage, in respect to the novelty and variety of design, as well as the number of illustrations, than the one here presented to the reader. To speak of the choice humorous talent engaged in the work would only be to re-echo the applauding sentiments of the reviewers and admirers of rich graphic excellence. Cruikshank and Rowlandson are names not unworthy a space upon the same roll with Hogarth, Gilray, and Bunbury: to exhibit scenes of character in real life, sketched upon the spot, was an undertaking of no mean importance; particularly, when it is remembered how great the difficulty must have been in collecting together accurate portraits. The work, it will be perceived, contains thirty-six Copper- Plates, etched, aquainted, and coloured, by and under the direction of the respective artists whose names appear to the different subjects, the principal part of which are the sole production of Mr. Robert Cruikshank. The Wood Engravings, twenty-eight in number, besides the _Vignettes_, (which are numerous), are equally full of merit; and will be found, upon examination, to be every way worthy the superior style of typographical excellence which characterises the volume, I. THE FRONTISPIECE