NN, the
Bath Brick, to run any length upon the Nunneries' Bill; or as much
farther as the POPE chooses.

COLONEL SIBTHORPE will run any Member of HER MAJESTY'S Government (in
which he has no confidence) at any time, on any question.

We shall also have SIR J. T. TYRRELL, the Farmer's Boy, challenging LORD
JOHN RUSSELL, the Bedford Pet, to a trial of speed; the ATTORNEY-GENERAL
will be invited to a similar match by SIR F. THESIGER; MR. BRIGHT will
be proposing to hop LORD PALMERSTON; and perhaps MR. BENJAMIN DISRAELI
will want to jump MR. GLADSTONE in a budget.

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ST. STEPHEN'S RUBBER.

To judge from the smoke in which the investigation of the Dockyard
abuses has ended, it would seem that the late Government played their
cards in the knowledge that knaves were trumps.

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THE EAST INDIA HOUSE.--It has been said of the East India House, that
"it is an establishment which, in patronage, and other delicate little
matters, generally goes 'the whole HOGG.'"

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[Illustration: DELIGHT OF THE GROUSE AT THE PROSPECT OF A LATE SESSION.]

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PAX VOBISCUM.

The Irish constituencies being now completely in the hands of their
spiritual advisers, it is contemplated that henceforth the Speaker's
writ for a new election in Ireland shall be directed to the priests of
the vacant locality. The Reverend gentlemen are to meet (whiskey toddy
and tobacco to be charged to the county), and their endorsement of their
tool's name on the back of the writ, without any other form of election,
is to save all the riot and bloodshed which they now feel it their duty
to their Church and their consciences to cause, if a layman, Catholic or
Protestant, ventures to present himself to the electors without priestly
sanction. Anything for peace and quietness.

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THE FARMER'S MAGIC STROP.

The genius of MR. MECHI has sharpened many razors:--may it have a
corresponding effect upon agricultural blades.

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HINTS FOR A NEW EDITION OF THE DRAMATISTS.

We have been favoured with a glimpse of the note-book of a great
dramatic critic, who evidently contemplates giving, or selling to the
world, a great national treat in the form of a new edition of the
dramatists. The annotator seems to combine all the acuteness of