Nine o’clock
I have yet to learn that a beadle can be called out by any civilian to exercise a domination and despotism over the boys of Britain . I have yet to learn that a beadle will be permitted by the commissioners of poor law regulation to wear out the soles and heels of his boots in illegal interference with the liberties of people not proved poor or otherwise criminal . I have yet to learn that a beadle has power to stop up the Queen 's highway at his will and pleasure , or that the whole width of the street is not free and open to any man , boy , or woman in existence , up to the very walls of the houses -- ay , be they Black Boys and Stomach-aches , or Boot-jacks and Countenances , I care not . ' ` _ Nine o'clock _ . ` I have procured a local artist to make a faithful sketch of the tyrant Sowster , which , as he has acquired this infamous celebrity , you will no doubt wish to have engraved for the purpose of presenting a copy with every copy of your next number . I enclose it . -LSB- Picture which can not be reproduced -RSB- The under-beadle has consented to write his life , but it is to be strictly anonymous .