e to
know whether the employer of such a Curate returns him in his Assessed
Tax Paper, with a farther entry on his account under the head of Hair
Powder.

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POLITICAL CAPITAL.--The only capital most Irish Members have, and even
that is at a terrible discount.

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[Illustration: SEVERE, BUT FLATTERING.

Reflective Cabman. "_Vell, it all 'us was so! The genteeler the Party,
the wosser the Fare!_"]

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A CITY WITHOUT SMOKE!

That a city can exist without Smoke, we beg to refer our readers for the
proof of such a possibility to MR. BURFORD'S Panorama in Leicester
Square. There they will be able to admire, in all its beauty and
undefiled cleanliness, the lovely City of Mexico. You are standing on
the top of the Grand Cathedral, and, look in all directions as you will,
you cannot see the smallest wreath of smoke curling about the place.
Now, we should like to see the curl taken out of London in a similar
manner. It may not look, perhaps, so grand, so showy and glittering as
Mexico, but still it may, in its new aspect, appear sufficiently
tempting to induce Mr. BURFORD to select it as the subject of some
future Panorama. The probability is, we should not know it again as the
same city, in which we are now, like so many living chimneys, inhaling
and exhaling smoke all day long. The new Zealander, when he does view
the ruins of our sooty metropolis from London Bridge, would be able to
see them at all events to greater advantage then than he would if he
were to take his private view from one of the parapets to-morrow. For
our own selves, we are most anxious to see how London would look without
smoke--for, in the name of darkness, it looks ugly enough with it.

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"THE GREAT GLOBE ITSELF."

MR. ALBERT SMITH alters his song of "_Galignani's Messenger_" to the
current events of the day. MR. WYLD will have to follow his example, and
keep a staff of colourmen constantly at work on his Model. Poland is
gone! Turkey threatened! and in the _Times_ of Saturday, we find--

"Last week of Hindostan!"

And

"Mont Blanc will close this Evening!"

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ANOTHER INSULT FROM THE SAXON.

(_From "The Nation._")

Another insult, hot and hissing, has been flung in the scar-seamed face
of Ireland from the Saxon! And the Crystal P