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CHANGING A NAME.
The rain having confined us to the house this afternoon, we sat over our wine after dinner longer than usual.

Among the different topics that were discussed, the most prominent was the state of the political parties in this country.

Mr.Slick, who paid great deference to the opinions of Mr.Hopewell, was anxious to ascertain from him what he thought upon the subject, in order to regulate his conduct and conversation by it hereafter.
"Minister," said he, "what do you think of the politics of the British ?" "I don't think about them at all, Sam.

I hear so much of such matters at home, that I am heartily tired of them; our political world is divided into two classes, the knaves and the dupes.