Palace.

To prevent Ministerial jobbery, let the candidates have to find the
music; composers as well as executants; base is the slave who cannot pay
his expenses, and something more: like a gentleman, like yourself, and
like

PUNCH.

P.S. Solos to the tune of L. _s._ _d._ to be performed by any candidates
who choose, as they have a right, to do what they like with their own.
The _Rogue's March_ would be an appropriate air to celebrate the next
return of the Noble Lord the Member for London. Eh?

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"SURE DERBYITES."

(_As Sung by_ Sir JOHN PAKINGTON _at St. Stephen's Theatre in the
new Musical Comedy of the Successions' Tax_.)

Sure Derbyites were born to sorrow,
Kicked out to-day, and mocked to-morrow;
By Dizzy I'm snubbed, and by COBDEN I'm rated,
Ne'er was Chairman of Quarter Sessions so sittivated.
There's GLADSTONE swears the squires shan't trick him,
And vote as they may, it seems they can't lick him.
Their Taxation Area he enlarges,
And a Succession Tax on real property charges.
Oh! lackaday,
Pity JOHNNY, lackaday!

I denounced the bill in a voice of thunder,
And a House of fifty Members as "FRAUD and PLUNDER:"
But they only grinned at my desperation
And my lack of all "_powers of ratiocination_."
That GLADSTONE he has quite undone me;
Like any bashaw looks down upon me,
When I kneels to ax for the squires some mercy,
It does no good--but vice varsey.
Oh! lackaday,
Pity JOHNNY, lackaday!
[_Exit L._

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HOPING AGAINST HOPE.--Taking a ticket in a Betting-Office.

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INFINITESIMAL LOGIC.

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We agree with PROFESSOR FARADAY that there is something very startling
in the condition of the public mind in regard to scientific reasoning.
Here is a specimen--if correctly reported--of the ratiocination of a
British Legislator, and a gentleman of more than average education,
moreover, a polemic of considerable celebrity; relative to a simple
question of evidence. At a recent meeting of the "English Homoeopathic
Association," according to the _Morning Post_:--

"MR. MIALL, M.P., moved the adoption of the report, and stated that
he had become a convert to the truth of the principles of
Homoeopathy from seeing their effec