“True,” said the other drily, “to his cost,

The race is run—but, by a neck ‘tis lost.”


FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.

Lord John Russell has arrived at a conviction—that the Whigs are not so popular as they were.

Sir Peter Laurie has arrived at the conclusion—that Solon was a greater man than himself.


THE POET FOILED.

To win the maid the poet tries,

And sonnets writes to Julia’s eyes;—