Our Aldermen are such neglectful conservators of the river Thames, that we propose they should be compelled to bathe in it regularly once a day, until some great improvement has been effected in its inodorous management.


ARCTIC MONOMANIA.

Those who send navigators to discover the North-west Passage remind us of Hamlet, although he described himself as only mad North-north-west.


PHYSIC FOR ALL EUROPE.

Political convulsions will not yield to chloroform—they are to be cured by reform only.


The Retort Courteous.—The Retort that rectifies an error, and does it in the most refined spirit.