THE MARCH OF MAGNILOQUENCE--Is “onward” like the prosperity of your two-and-sixpenny republic in Central America. We [the Americans] are becoming so great, that it is very much to be feared we shall lose all our standards of commerce. Having nothing _little_, we don’t see how the deuce we shall be able to express a diminutive. Our miniature will all become magnitude, and it is difficult for us to see our way clearly in the world. Our insects will grow into elephants, and for aught we see we shall have to speak of the gnat as a large monster, and the honey-bee have to be described as a beast of prey. “I does business in this _store_,” was the remark made the other day by a dealer in crab apples, as he crawled out of a refuse molasses-hogshead with his peck basket of merchandise. The skippers of the Long Island clam-boats all call each other _captains_; and we lately heard a city scavenger complaining to another gentleman in the same line of business, that his _town house_ had been endangered during a recent conflagration: a mischievous cracker-boy had thrown one of his flaming missiles into the segment of a cellar occupied by the complainant and his family. Mr Mark Anthony Potts told us the other day that he had made arrangements for extending his _business_. He has taken the superintendence of two coal carts, having heretofore shovelled for but one. Nobody thinks nowadays of calling the conductor of a mud cart on the railroad by any less dignified title than _an agent_. The vender of apple-jack on a dilapidated cellar-door upon the North river, is a _merchant_; and the fourth-rate victualler along the wharves, who manages to rent half of a broken-down cobbler’s stall, _keeps a public house_! * * * * * Printed and published every Saturday by GUNN and CAMERON, No. 6, Church Lane, College Green, Dublin; and sold by all Booksellers. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 19, November 7, 1840, by Various