HE CLAN."--According to _Debrett_, the Earl of
CLANCARTY (by the way, the Patent of Nobility granted to this family
in 1793, is consequently not a hundred years old) bears on his arms "A
Sun in splendour." The authority is too good to imagine for a moment
that this can be a misprint!

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WEEK BY WEEK.

_Monday_.--Colney Hatch Hussars' Annual private Introspection. Balloon
rises at Chelsea. Sets to partners after midnight.

_Tuesday_.--Beadle of Burlington Arcade's Copper Wedding Festivities
commence. Kangaroo Shooting in Fleet Street begins.

_Wednesday_.--_Mr. Punch_ up and out with the lark. Afternoon
Fireworks on the Stock Exchange. Hippopotamus-washing in the
Serpentine commences.

_Thursday_.--Billiard Championship contest in the Pool below London
Bridge. Cannons supplied by the Tower. Anniversary Festivity to
celebrate the Discovery of cheap Ginger Beer by the Chinese B.C. 3700.

_Friday_.--Opening of the "Wash and Brush you up" Company's Automatic
Machine, by Prince HENRY of BATTENBERG. Total Eclipse of the Moon,
invisible at Herne Bay and Pekin.

_Saturday_.--Tinned Oyster Season commences. Fancy Dress Ball at
Bedlam. Close time for Hyaenas in Belgrave Square.

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The Austrian Inventor, who has just designed his ship of a mile in
length that is to travel through the water at eighty-seven miles an
hour, and cross the Atlantic in something under a day and a half, is,
I am told, only waiting the requisite capital to enable him at once
to set about carrying his project into effect. Each vessel will be
provided with an Opera House a Cathedral, including a Bishop, who
will be one of the ship's salaried officers; a Circus, Cricket-ground,
Cemetery, Race-course, Gambling-saloon, and a couple of lines of
Electric Tram-cars. The total charge for board and transit will
be only 10s. 6d. a day, which will bring the fare to New York
to something like 16s. As it is calculated that at least 100,000
passengers will cross the Atlantic on each journey, the financial
aspect of the whole concern seems sound. As I said before, the only
difficulty is the capital. Surely some enterprising Croesus who has
thirty millions lying idle in the Two-and-a-half per Cents, might look
at the matter.

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"A SPORTING TIPSTER" writes:--"Perhaps you are not aware that _the_
feature of next Season's Foot-ball will be the