BUSINESS.

["France, it is expected, will endeavour to hasten England's evacuation of Egypt, and Russia will try to settle the question of the Dardanelles."—Daily Chronicle.]

Who says that Franco-Russian gush

Means naught, to reason's optic?

The Russ will help the Frank to rush

England, from regions Coptic;

And—here John Bull must surely flinch,

While Gallia's bosom swells!—

The Bear, if but allowed an inch,