MEM.—You can't expect much from the Speakers at a Convention, where the Speeches must be Conventional.


"HARPY THOUGHT!"—Mr. JOHN THOMAS's Grand Harp Concert.


A WILDE IDEA.

OR, MORE INJUSTICE TO IRELAND!

The licence for the production of his French Play of Salomé, accepted by SARAH B., having been refused by the Saxon Licenser of Plays, The O'SCAR, dreams of becoming a French Citizen, but doesn't quite "see himself," at the beginning of his career, as a conscript in the French Army, and so, to adapt the Gilbertian lines, probably—

"In spite of great temptation

To French na-tu-ra-li-sa-tion,