Each Member might have his peculiar cylinder, surmounted by a bust of himself, and carved from that tree, whose properties were most in accordance with the characteristics of his oratory or his politics. Thus the cylinders of Lord Brougham and Mr. Disraeli, that pungent couple, might be carved from the prickly pear; those of Mr. Newdegate and Mr. Henley from the sloe; that of Mr. Hume, the Senior of the House, from the elder; that of Sir Robert Inglis, from the cherry, as he is the Bob chéri of the high Torics; that of Mr. Bright, from the aspen; that of Mr. Brotherton, the Vegetarian, from a large turnip; that of Mr. Lucas, from the bramble; that of Mr. Cobden, from the (good) service tree; and that of Lord Palmerston, the universal favourite, from the poplar. (Oh!)
The members might attend to turn their own cylinders, or the "Turner of the House of Commons" (for the duties of the Speaker would be at an end) might go round and set in motion the cylinders of those whose opinions he wished to circulate. The Irish members might be gratified, yet without any hindrance to public business, by the simultaneous gyrations of all their cylinders; a number of others, inscribed with the words Hear! Hear! or Question! might always be kept going; and if any honourable gentlemen chose to inscribe on their Tchu Kor words descriptive of cock-crowing or braying, they might make fowls or donkeys of themselves without hurting the feelings of others. In short Mr. Punch is so interested in his scheme, and so anxious for its development, that he pledges himself to have Toby in readiness to turn Lord John Russell's Tchu Kor, on the very first night that the scheme shall come into operation
AGRICULTURAL BRUISERS.
Thrashing, bruising and milling are now carried to such perfection by machinery that every housekeeper may thrash his own establishment, every father of a family may do his own bruising, and every man may have the luxury of a private mill on his own premises. At the recent Cattle Show, our attention was invited to a "compact hand mill," calculated to do an immense amount of bruising, and to give a regular good dressing at the same time to a certain quantity of flour. The newspapers are continually asking us whether we bruise our oats, and intimating that if we vigorously assault our corn it will serve us as well again, from which we infer that every blow administered to our oats will be the means of an extra blow-out to our cattle. We wish our agricultural friends would tell us whether the bruising system would be applicable to anything else beside corn, and whether we may safely, in addition to bruising our oats, give occasionally a black eye to a potatoe?
A Nom de Guerre.—The French papers talk of Aberdeen, apropos of the Turkish Question, as the "ci-Divan jeune homme."
CONSERVATIVES IN ILL ODOUR.
In whatever sense of the word the Corporation of London has conserved the Thames, it has not made that river a conserve of roses.