Friends of the dungeon and the dyke.

"Dam it!" That is their counsel's staple.

(Mark, Lubbock; also, Blundell-Maple!)

News from Aix-les-Bains.—"Fireworks were let off." As mercy is the Royal prerogative, we are glad to learn that it was exercised in the case of Fireworks on the birthday of the Princess Beatrice.


By Order of F.M. Commanding-in-Chief, Punch.—The Grand Military Exhibition, Chelsea Hospital, to be known as "The Sodgeries."


ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.