OUR BOTTLE-HOLDER.

So, Palmerston's out! and the cannie Scotch Peer

Whom he cuts, is in haste to be first with the story,

And, to poison our Pam in the popular ear,

Proclaims that for years our old friend's been a Tory.

But Punch is afraid that another Scotch mull

Is marking the course of the friend of St. Nicholas;

For the good Mr. Bull is by no means so dull

As not to perceive that the charge is ridiculous.

What! Palmerston, Liberty's champion in need,