(_BY AN INDIGNANT "OUTSIDER."_)

A masterpiece, worthy of TURNER,
Was mine, there my friends all agree,
No work of a pot-boiling learner,
My "_View on the Dee_."

A place on the line I expected,
Associate shortly to be!
Hang me, if it isn't rejected,
And marked with a D!

I will not repeat what I uttered
When this was reported to me;
The mere monosyllable muttered
Begins with a D.

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ON THE (POST) CARDS.

["Sir JAMES FERGUSSON does not hesitate to declare his opinion
that rudeness or incivility on the part of a Post-Office
servant is, next to dishonesty, one of the worst offences
he can commit. This notice is not addressed to men alone.
Of the young women employed by the department, there are, he
says, some, if not many, whom it is impossible to acquit of
inattention and levity in the discharge of their official
duties. It is Sir JAMES FERGUSSON's intention to ascertain, at