A LOW, VULGAR SPECIMEN.

THE Commercial room, this evening, all in an uproar; a dark, broad-set, dirty and ill-bred, Jewish looking fellow-but a man of straw, and a vender of that commodity-disturbing the whole house. A gentleman who had occasion to go to his bed-room, which he had seen upon his arrival, in the early part of the day, was astonished to find that the dark, disagreeable man had, ad interim, taken possession of it -having taken the liberty also of exchanging the luggage. Upon learning this, down stairs the justly enraged party quickly sent him, with his luggage tumbling after him, to meet with no more pleasant a reception from those who heard of his presumption and rudeness, and the unwarrantable conduct of which he had been guilty. He boasted, however, of his selfimportance and respectability, in a manner very unlike a genuine man of property, or what we ordinarily understand by the term gentleman, and styled himself a principal; declaring, in a noisy, blustering strain, his determination to be revenged. He retired, however, to the smoking room to exhibit and carry on his bullying propensity before the quiet inhabitants of the town, its usual occupants,

but they found him out there, and cried him down; for he bears too visibly the mark of the beast upon his forehead, and is unmistakeable as a low, shallow, noisy fellow; and there is in his person as well as in his manner something extremely offensive and forbidding. He is a heavy, dull, frigid looking man, all smoke, porter, choler, and bluster; that sort of captious, knowing, cunning, consequential, rude, and thoroughly disagreeable individual sometimes met with, who occasionally, for a few days only, leaves his home and pot companions at some third or fourth rate smoke-pipe house in the town from which he hails; a resort where bagatelle and skittles, provincial scandal, politics, and beer inspire the guests with that air of swagger and self-consequence which is utterly repulsive to all who are accustomed to decent society. To-night, however, he could not "rule the roast," for he was recognised by one amongst us as the very character I have here described, as low, vulgar, depraved, and grovelling a creature as the sun deigns to shine upon. When addressed by his name, he immediately lost caste, and thought it better to retire self-condemned than to receive the castigation due from those whom he had insulted, and from whom he would have been visited by his true deserts had he ventured to remain.

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A BAR-MAID'S DESCRIPTION OF VISITORS TO AN HOTEL.

MET this morning with a gem in its way-one, indeed, of which I had never imagined the existence-memoranda from the pen of an active, intelligent, well connected young lady filling the situation of a bar-maid at one of the principal, almost exclusively commercial, hotels in a small market town, the capital, however, of a county situated nearly in the centre of the kingdom. Her production, which I happen to possess, consists of a book with the names, alphabetically arranged, of the visitors with whom she is acquainted, the periods of their visits, the description of their business and persons with whom it is transacted; the places from which they issue, the houses they represent, and their position as principals or representatives; leaving a space for those who are strangers to her and to the establishment, or who may be only occasional visitors. It does great credit to her capacity; for observations so sensible and acute, or remarks more shrewd, bearing immediately upon individuals who could never have been thought likely to arrive at the honour of pourtrayment (having

been intended only as a guidance for herself, regarding the frequenters of the hotel) it has seldom fallen to my good fortune to meet with. In availing myself of these brief comments of the fair writer, I shall-avoiding all personalities -select a few sketches, which, although applying particularly to individuals, are nevertheless equally applicable to a host; so that a consciousness of being the party alluded to will rather cause the self-condemned to laugh with those who laugh, than to feel chagrined at the precocious talent of the lady who, continually engaged in and surrounded by scenes of activity, can have had but little time or opportunity for reflection. Yet she has put her mark, as it were, upon individuals and circumstances; showing the necessity of placing a watch on our movements and conduct, since the observers of men and things may, when we least suppose it, be contemplating our diurnal motions and nocturnal amusements or enjoyments, with the view of immortalizing us in their diary. Of the truth of this, the following memoranda, all made within a single month, the year of which shall be mentionless, will be sufficient evidence. February 1st.-Gent. A stranger. Tall, lathy, very pale. Ordered gruel. Sore throat.

Ominous.

4th, Friday.-A dark old Roman Catholic

here to-day-Friday. Wanted fish. Could not procure it. Pined himself, and punished us. Been here before. Always grumbling.

6th. Gent. A stranger, with I. H. horse. His first journey. Rather green. Squints. Went to church. Sat in our pew. Very awkward at finding the service.

7th. Tall gent. Came in late. Said he had lost his way, and driven six miles round. The house full. Shown into No. 14 bed-room. Complained in the morning bitterly, both of the smallness of the room and bed. Said his legs were out of the window. Does business with drapers.

8th. A thin dandy, ah-ah-ah gent. Blue eyes. Rather sandy large whiskers. Been here before. Wicked. Stopped out very late. Tried to learn his name, by showing him several letters, none of which, however, belonged to him; consequently foiled. Will try

again though.

10th. Gent. Very young. A diminutive, band-box man: very talkative; fond of coming into the bar; rather pug-nosed, and always pugnacious.

12th. A fair, fat, disagreeable old man. Been here before. Wears a bag-wig. Subject to fits. Very troublesome, and very penurious.