We have agitators in our own small way, Tritons of the minnows, bearing the same sort of resemblance to O'Connell that a lizard bears to an alligator.

Therefore Calcutta for me, in preference to Dublin." He had good reason for being grateful to Calcutta, and still better for not showing his gratitude by prolonging his stay there over a fourth summer and autumn.

"That tremendous crash of the great commercial houses which took place a few years ago has produced a revolution in fashions.
It ruined one half of the English society in Bengal, and seriously injured the other half.

A large proportion of the most important functionaries here are deeply in debt, and accordingly, the mode of living is now exceedingly quiet and modest.

Those immense subscriptions, those public tables, those costly equipages and entertainments of which Heber, and others who saw Calcutta a few years back, say so much, are never heard of.