We note an error in the latter title. It should, of course, have been, "Has anybody here seen Sylvia?"
THE NEW DAMOCLES.
John Bull. "I WON'T HAVE THIS THING HANGING OVER MY HEAD ANY LONGER. I'LL HAVE IT IN MY HAND."
ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
Tuesday, May 2nd.—The House of Commons was unusually well attended this afternoon. Members filled the benches and overflowed into the galleries, and many Peers looked down upon the scene, among them Lord Grenfell, formerly Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, and Lord MacDonnell, once Under-Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant. All were curious to learn what the Prime Minister would have to say about the painful events of the past week. Would he announce that the Government, conscious of failure, had decided to resign en bloc? Or would it be merely pruned and strengthened by the lopping of a few of the obviously weaker branches?