Till the throbbing pulses burn,
And Butcher piles on the coals.
The Four Busy (Budget) B's.
Business done.—Clause XVIII. added to Budget Bill.
Wednesday.—Grandolph sails to-day in the track of Columbus, only going much farther. He will cross Continent and Pacific to pay a morning call on the Mikado; afterwards to India and Burma.
"I want," he says, with certain proud pathos, "to see the frontier I extended, and Burma which I annexed."
You remember the old French song written about Grandolph's great ancestor? It was sung as a lullaby to the little son of Louis the Sixteenth, and Napoleon never mounted his horse for the fight without humming the air,—
Marlbrook s'en va-t'en guerre—