An Imaginary Conversation.

Punch and Alderman Challis.

Punch. Well, my Ex-Lord Mayor, is Prince Albert to have a statue?

Alderman C. Ah! that he shall, please the pigs!

Punch. You mean to say, if it please the Aldermen.

[Challis retires chap-fallen.


European Concord.—We are happy to announce the Definite Concert of the Four Great Powers. Perhaps it ought rather to be called a Quartet; but that does not much signify: nobody need care what the coalition is named, if it results in harmony.