RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONISTS.
The Russians are not commonly supposed to be revolutionists, though the slaves of a sanguinary Autocrat are just as bad as Red Republicans. However it appears that they have embraced that revolution in naval warfare which is destined to result from the adoption of Colt's Revolver. Armed with this instrument, these tools of absolutism are likely, in effect, to prove the most destructive levellers; flooring their antagonists left and right. Should these antagonists ever be British Tars, it will be a disgrace to the Admiralty if the Queen's sailors have no better weapons than the superseded old pistol and common cutlass wherewith to encounter the crew of Nicholas. It is to be hoped that they will be supplied, without delay, with arms that will place them on an equality with whatsoever foe they may be called upon to conquer; so that they may defy old Nicholas and all his crew, and repel all other assaults of the enemy.
Tricks, but not Honours.
Lord Mayor Sidney, in presiding the other day at a meeting of those very common people, the Common Council, expressed himself excessively "anxious for the honour of the Corporation." We are delighted to have it in our power to relieve Lord Sidney from further solicitude, by entreating him to cease from all anxiety for "the honour" of the Corporation, as we can assure him that the alleged cause of his anxiety does not exist.
THE DANGERS OF INFANCY.
The two serpents that Hercules strangled in his cradle were a couple of bottles of Daffy's Elixir and Godfrey's Cordial. If he hadn't killed them, they would have killed him.