e Earliest Block, with authentic history of Etonian
Original Transgression, or "First Fault."

6. Documents tracing the connection between "Pop" and the Pawnbroking
business.

7. Specimen of Lower Boy's Hat, with motto, "_Sub Tegmine Fag-I!_"

8. Portraits of Eminent "Sitters" on Fourth of June and Election
Saturday in the early part of present century.

9. Scull of a "Wet-Bob" originally feathered.

10. A copy (perfect and signed) of another boy's verses. (N.B. Not
very scarce.)

11. Portraits of eminent Landlords who, acting on SHERIDAN's advice,
have "kept up the Xtopher."

12. Also, portrait, with life and times of the crabbed old Thames
Waterman, known on the river as "Surly HALL."

[Any future suggestions that maybe sent to us will be entirely
at the service of the Duke of FIFE and others, interested in
promoting this most interesting exhibition.]

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A PUBLISHER AND HIS FRIENDS.--In order to worthily celebrate the
hearty reception, by the critics and the public generally, of this
most interesting and successful work, the present representatives of
the great publishing firm of MURRAY will give a grand banquet, and,
with SMILES, will sing in chorus the once popular refrain, "We are a
Murray family, we are, we are, we are!" _Prosit!_

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TO THOSE IT MAY CONCERN.--In reply to several Correspondents, _Mr.
Punch_ begs to suggest that ANTHONY TROLLOPE would certainly have
observed, "_I say Yes!_" had he been told that WILKIE COLLINS had
written "_I Say No!_"

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THE WAY OF WESTMINSTER.

(_A STORY OF THE PARLIAMENTARY BAR._)

"You will not forget, Sir," said my excellent and admirable clerk,
"that to-morrow you have to appear before a Committee of the House of
Commons, in the matter of the Glogsweller Railway Extension?"

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I glanced somewhat severely at PORTINGTON, but was gratified to find
that his face was quite free from any suggestion of levity. I was
the more pleased with the result of my investigation, as, truth to
tell, the delivery of a brief in the matter of the Extension of the
Glogsweller Railway Company had been somewhat of an event in my life.
I had never before had the honour of practising at the Parliamentary
Bar. So for months my mind had been entirely occupied with the date
fixed for my appearance in the Committee Room of the House of Comm