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PLACE OF BANISHMENT FOR MISTAKEN PERSONS.--The Isle of Mull.

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[Illustration: CENSUS DAY HOW SOME WERE CAUGHT.]

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EARL GRANVILLE.

BORN IN 1815. DIED 31ST MARCH, 1891.

The coarser Cyclops now combine
To push the Olympians from their places;
And dead as Pan seems the old line
Of greater gods and gentler graces.
Pleasant, amidst the clangour crude
Of smiting hammer, sounding anvil,
As bland Arcadian interlude,
The courtly accents of a GRANVILLE!

A strenuous time's pedestrian muse
Shouts paeans to the earth-born giant,
Whose brows Apollo's wreath refuse,
Whose strength to Charis is unpliant.
Demos distrusts the debonair,
Yet Demos found himself disarming
To gracious GRANVILLE; unaware
Won by the calm, witched by the charming.

Bismarckian vigour, stern and stark
As Brontes self, was not his dower;
Not his to steer a storm-tost bark
Through waves that whelm, and clouds that lower.
Temper unstirred, unerring tact,
Were his. He could not "wave the banner,"
But he could lend to steely act
The softly silken charm of manner.

Kindly, accomplished, with a wit
Lambent yet bland, like summer lightning;
Venomless rapier-point, whose "hit"
Was palpable, yet painless. Brightening
E'en, party conflict with a touch
Of old-world grace fight could not ruffle!
Faith, GRANVILLE, we shall miss thee much
Where kites and crows of faction scuffle!

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AN IRISH DIAMOND.--The _Cork Examiner_ of 28th ultimo contained an
official advertisement, signed by the High Sheriff of the County of
the City of Cork, requesting certain persons connected with the Spring
Assizes to attend at the Model Schools, as the Court House had been
destroyed by fire. Amongst those thus politely invited to be present
on so interesting an occasion were the Prisoners!

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PATERFAMILIAS ON HIS CENSUS PAPER.

Head of the Family! That makes me quail.
I am the Head--and thereby hangs a tale!
This big blue paper, ruled in many a column,
Gives rise to some misgivings sad and solemn.
Relation to that Head? That Head's buzz-brained,
And its "relations" are--just now--"much strained."
Citizen-duty I've no wish to shirk,
But would the State do its own dirty work--
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