"Very," answered Fred.


The Irresistibles; or, Horse Guards (Black).

It is to be hoped that all those cab-drivers who are dissatisfied with the Hackney Carriage Act will enlist in the British army. A regiment of these fellows would carry everything before them; no troops whatever could stand their charge.


Newspaper Promotion.—The "Enormous Strawberry" to the columns of the provincial newspapers, vice the "Enormous Gooseberry," broken for incapacity.


WHAT I SAW, HEARD, AND THOUGHT AT CHOBHAM.

(By one who has mentally been there).

I saw the Light Cavalry so heavily accoutred that it seemed a perfect farce ever to have ordered them on "active" service.