RATTAN (the present one, not the clever one, of course) once intimated
that he should like to have the head of one of the Ministers--and really
no one wanted a head more than MR. GRATTAN--we do not think that this
very emphatic style has been introduced into the English legislature.
Imagine MR. GLADSTONE, on the estimates, intimating that he should like
to hang SIR JOHN PAKINGTON, for objecting to one of the items, and
enforcing his intimation by an appeal to the "Holy Moses."

On the whole, _Mr. Punch_ is disposed to suggest to his colonial friends
(over whose fortunes he watches with the utmost interest) that there is
one species of "self government" to which they seem hardly to have given
sufficient attention. It is personal. Therefore, _Mr. Punch_, who is
never personal, will say no more about it.

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GOLD FOUND IN ENGLAND.

There seems to be at last a prospect of a check being put to the rush to
the Diggings by the discovery of gold in England, and, indeed, it stands
to reason that if there is gold at the Antipodes, we have only to dig
deep enough down in order to get to it from this side of the world,
instead of from the other. Supposing that there is abundance of gold in
"the bed of the Turon," we have nothing to do but to get under the bed
here instead of going all the way to Sydney for the purpose of getting
into the bed in question.

A paragraph in the _Kent Mail_ announces the discovery of gold at
Canterbury in such a decided form, that we hope it may check the insane
emigration of those who are rushing off to Australia to live under
canvas, without any of the comforts or decencies of civilisation, with
the idea that gold, and nothing but gold, constitutes "prosperity." The
following is the paragraph to which we have alluded:--

"CANTERBURY GOLDFISHINGS.--During Friday and Saturday last a barber
in the Friar saw something looking much like sovereigns at the
bottom of the river Stow, but thought they were only buttons, and
not worth his trouble to get. He repeatedly counted them, to the
number of 17. Having, however, communicated to others what he had
seen, two young fellows got a boat, and forthwith picked up a
number, which proved to be true and veritable sovereigns. The report
getting afloat, other persons inspected different parts of the
river, and in various places found many more. Altogether above
50_l._ has been recover