COMPLICATED CASE.—The other day, an Italian Organ-grinder was arrested for having shot one GIUSEPPE PIA. "He admitted the charge" (we quote the Globe), "but said the gun went off accidentally." When a Gentleman "admits the charge" (though indeed it was the other one who did that), how the gun went off seems to be a matter of secondary importance.


THE NAME AND THE THING.—A vote of thanks to Sir CHARLES RUSSELL, after his address to the Liberal and Radical Association, was earned by a Wapping Majority.


A LATTERDAY VALENTINE.

(LEAP YEAR: NEW STYLE.)

(From Miss Anastasia Jay, New York, to Thomas, Earl of Dunbrowne, London.)

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