gudgeons, and CROCK pigeons pale,
Are less free to EARL BAREPURSE than RIPEFORAJAIL.

RIPEFORAJAIL, when his carcase was light,
Used to sweat and to curry a thoroughbred bright,
And when "grown overweight" the Kents turned him abroad.
To pick winners, in print he each week pledged his word;
Gents who love "the blue ribbon," and sport the blue veil,
Became quite confidential with RIPEFORAJAIL.

RIPEFORAJAIL to distinction is come,
He's no longer a tout, but he owns a flash home;
A fig for THE DAVIS and 'cute HARRY HILL!
They might lay the long odds, he lays longer odds still,
A baize board and counter, and weeds very stale,
Are the sole stock in trade of bold RIPEFORAJAIL.

The COCKBURN was steel, and the BETHEL was stone,
And PALMERSTON warned him he soon must be gone;
Fierce and loud this last week was the curse and the cry
Of his victims when shutters alone met the eye;
With their Goodwood deposits he gave them leg-bail,
And a cove at Boulogne looks like RIPEFORAJAIL.

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SPHERES OF REAL USEFULNESS.

The subjoined advertisement relates to an exhibition, which is, perhaps,
somewhat interesting, and which might be rendered very much so:--

DIORAMA OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS, 32, Sloane Street, will continue open
for a short time. Parents will find this a truly Christian
exhibition for their children. Tahiti--New Zealand--The
Maori--Island of Tanna--Death of Captain Cook--First Missionary
House at Tahiti--Cape Coast Castle--Banyan Tree--Ashanti--Missionary
Tombs--The Dungeon, and Rose Madiai.

What this exhibition wants, in order that it may enlist the sympathies
of those who are the most earnest promoters of Missionary enterprise, is
the addition of a few views of certain savage and heathen regions, the
conversion and civilisation of whose inhabitants are more particularly
important to the British public. The New Cut, Ratcliff Highway,
Houndsditch, Whitechapel, and the slums of Westminster, afford fields
for the operation of preachers and philanthropists as extensive, as
remarkable, and as unknown as the Polynesian Archipelago or the Cannibal
Islands.

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DIETETIC RULE OF CONDUCT--Never ask a favour of a man until he has had
his dinner.

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[Illustration: A PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURE.

Old Lady (who is not used to these new-fangled no