Proceed with the next Bill—the Lunatics' Care and Treatment Bill? How the next Bill? A Bill on the showing of which it appears that certain poor creatures were in the habit of going about trumpeting, drumming, bell-ringing, carrying flags—enacting such fooleries as these—on the solemn occasion of electing a Member of Parliament; of contributing a philosopher to the Collective Wisdom; a Bill in reference to unfortunates corruptible by means of flags and banners: how, a rational Posterity will ask, could this have been a previous Bill to the other? Must not what was called the next Bill have been, in fact, merely the next clause of the same Bill; a general measure relating to the care and treatment of lunatics?
Colonel Sibthorpe's denunciations of the proposed enactment will not, perhaps, tend very much to prevent Posterity from taking this view of the case.
The Member for Lincoln as he will appear at the next General Election.
BOMBA'S BANE.
The Examiner states that the Neapolitan chemists are not allowed to expose bottles, red, white, and green, because they form the tricolours of Italy. We may add that Bomba has nearly been poisoned by partaking of an English salad which besides lettuce, contained red and white radishes.