ney-piece, and hold
out against the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for double incomes. In
short, almost everybody will strike except the threshers, the smiths,
and the pugilists.

With all this striking, though, we had better take care that we are not
floored.

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Musical Intelligence.

Talking about music--and our Honourable Members have been talking a
great deal about it lately--a celebrated professor says: "You generally
find that persons who are not fond of music play the Flute."

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THE POPULAR LAURIE BALLAD

There is a song to which we have alluded before, called "_Annie
Laurie_," being sung at all the Mansion House dinners; and though ANNIE
is the name in common use, there can be no doubt that PETER is the party
whom the ballad is designed to flatter. We have therefore engaged our
own Laureate in the graceful task of fixing on the head of the LAURIES
the honour which had been conferred on ANNIE, by a poet evidently
unconscious of the "coming" Alder-"man."

The Mansion House is bonnie when dinners are not few;
And it's there that PETER LAURIE gave me his promise true,
Gave me his promise true that I his guest should be;
And for Old SIR PETER LAURIE I'd lay me doun and dee.

His neckcloth's like the snaw-drift; his frill like down of swan;
His watch-chain is the smartest electro e'er shone on,
Electro e'er shone on! And green is his coatee;
And for Old SIR PETER LAURIE I'd lay me doun and dee.

Like lead on the pavement dropping is the fa' of his heavy feet;
And like winds in winter blowing, his voice on the judgment seat,
His voice on the judgment seat! And, though he frightens me,
For Old SIR PETER LAURIE I'd lay me doun and dee.

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WONDERS OF THE DEEP.

We paid a visit to the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens the other day,
for the purpose of noticing the collection of Mollusca, Zoophytes, &c.,
and very much regret to find it incomplete.

There are specimens from the German Ocean and the Bristol Channel, but
none from the Sees of London, Durham, Rochester, or Salisbury, the
rapacity of whose tenants is so well known, that there is no doubt,
could their destructive propensities be as clearly seen as those now
exhibiting, the very Sees themselves would be drained to stop their
depredations.

On inquiring the reason of the absence of so interesting a collect