t 'ave you to gash em?
They aren't 'osses, vich, we know, all likes us for to lash em.
If we are druv about all day from this to t'other station,
Our fares screw'd down to sich a pint as 's werry near starwation,
Our parson'l liberty consarned, and bilked of all our priggings,
I'm blowed if I don't drop the reins and bolt off to the diggings.

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EXHIBITION OF POLITICAL INDUSTRY.

The honourable and gallant Member for Lincoln has reason for complaining
that there is no prospect of the outlay upon the New Houses of
Parliament being finished. The outlay will not be finished before the
Houses are--Victoria Tower and all; and when we see what progress is
being made with the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, we cannot but think how
desirable it is that those edifices, and, indeed, the whole
Parliamentary concern should have been got up by a Houses of Parliament
Company. If that had been the case, the edifices would not only have
been long since lighted, ventilated, and decorated, but the thing would
now be a paying property. Such it might easily have been rendered by
making the galleries larger, and admitting the public at so much a
head--say playhouse prices--which crowded audiences doubtless would be
willing to give, in order to hear the spouting. Besides, the Members
might have been required to pay for their seats, and the revelations
that have taken place this session before the Election Committees afford
sufficient assurance that they would have done that handsomely.

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WHISKEY ABOVE PROOF.

We suppose that the principal objection of the Irish priesthood to the
ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN'S _Christian Evidences_ as a national school-book,
is, that if the pupils were allowed to have the truth of Christianity
proved to them, they would also want proof of everything else that their
Reverences tell them to believe.

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THE ETIQUETTE OF SMOKING.

Light your cigar _first_, and, after you have taken one or two whiffs,
turn round, and inquire, most politely, "If smoking is disagreeable to
any one present?"

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THE MOST UNPLEASANT MEETING.--Having to meet a Bill.

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A CAROL ON CAROLINE CHISOLM.

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Come, all you British females of wealth and high degree,
Bestowing all your charity on lands beyond the s