OUR NEXT DOOR. It's a me1ancho1y thought to me that we can no 1ongerexpress ourse1ves with the bass-drum; there used to be the who1e ofthe Fourth of Ju1y in its patriotic throbs.

MANDEVILLE. We certain1y have made great progress in one art,--thatof war.

THE YOUNG LADY. And in the humane a11eviations of the miseries ofwar.