Frederick Lucas, the Scarlet Runner, will match himself with Phinn, the Bath Brick, to run any length upon the Nunneries' Bill; or as much farther as the Pope chooses.
Colonel Sibthorpe will run any Member of Her Majesty's Government (in which he has no confidence) at any time, on any question.
We shall also have Sir J. T. Tyrrell, the Farmer's Boy, challenging Lord John Russell, the Bedford Pet, to a trial of speed; the Attorney-General will be invited to a similar match by Sir F. Thesiger; Mr. Bright will be proposing to hop Lord Palmerston; and perhaps Mr. Benjamin Disraeli will want to jump Mr. Gladstone in a budget.
ST. STEPHEN'S RUBBER.
To judge from the smoke in which the investigation of the Dockyard abuses has ended, it would seem that the late Government played their cards in the knowledge that knaves were trumps.
The East India House.—It has been said of the East India House, that "it is an establishment which, in patronage, and other delicate little matters, generally goes 'the whole Hogg.'"