is played! Miss BROUGH excellent; and so also is Mr.
CHEVALIER, who entirely loses his own identity in his make-up, and is
not to be recognised at all, save for a few mannerisms. Charming
housemaid is pretty Miss MARIE LINDEN; and the idiotic youth, _George
Webster_, played by Mr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER,--two Websters rolled into
one,--is very funny. But they're all as good as they can be. I
congratulate ALEXANDER the (Getting) Great, who, for pecuniary reasons,
I should like to be, were I not

DIOGENES OUT OF THE TUB.

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The Bitter Cry of the Dramatic Critic.

'Tis the voice of the Critic
I hear him complain,
"One more afternoon!
Fools! they're at it again!

These dull _Matinees_!
Wretched plays I must see!
But, alas, 'tis no play,
And there's no peace for me!"

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"Le Sport" in Bouverie Street.

THE excellent columns of "This Morning's News" in the _Daily News_ the
other day were endowed with fresh interest by an announcement made with
respect to the Emperor of AUSTRIA. It runs thus:--

"When informed that on the Imperial preserves in the neighbourhood
of Vienna the first snipe had been seen, _the passionate huntsman_
said, 'I am exceedingly sorry, but I've no time for them this
week.'"

Every one has heard of "The Hunting of the Snark;" but this is the first
time reference has been publicly made to the hunting of the Snipe.

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AT THE FIRST BOTANIC GARDEN SHOW. MARCH 26.

HIMANTOPHYLLUMS and Cyclamens were there to be seen,
And some pretty baskets full of strawb'rries from Englefield Green.

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OUR ADVERTISERS.

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