... P UN C H IA N A. We select a few of the good things in the PUNCH bowl for the present week. The wit and humour ot our little friend are perfectly exhaustless. CORRECTION TO BE MADE IN ALL GEOGRAPHIEs._ Pyreneea.-A chain of mountains which was formerly the boundary between France and Spain. They were cleared away by Louis Philippe, in the year 1846, on the occasion of his son's marriage with ...

... THE ERA. COUNTRY EDITION. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1S46. _go It is most desirable that Her MAJESTY'S Opposition should, during the recess, ponder on their position, with a view of organizing something like a standard of action around which they may all rally. A guerilla warfare is not suited to the genius of our constitution, it ever has the appearance of faction. The coarse personalities of Mr. ...

... 'THE ?? AT DAEHm-ohn can exceed the displeasure of the inhabitants of Dagenham, Romford, I lford, a lad the surrou inding villages, at the tardiness shown by t-e governmentin taking proceedings against Sergeant Parsons, and Constables Kitnpton, lButfoy, Farris, Slick- ton, and Stevens, for the wholesale perjury committed at the inquest on the body of the young man, G. Clarke. The murder took ...

... It will be seen in another column that an inquest has been held upon the body of a girl, who has fallen a Victim to the fury of an ox on its way from Smith- held. The violence of the animal is said to have 'Ieen owing to the presence of Her Majesty's 3d regiment of Buffs, while, in right of their ancient Ptivilege (the regiment having been originally one of the City Train Bands), they marched ...

... TREATMENT OF THE POOR IN ST. PANCRAS I WORKHOUSE. At the weekly meeting of the board of directors and guardians of the poor of St. Pancras, held in the board room of the workhouse, King's-road, Camden-town, on Tuesday, Mr. Cburchwarden Howarth in the chair, Mr. M'Gabey, the clerk to the board, brought up a re solution passed at the last meeting of the vestry, censur- ing the conduct of Mr. Lee ...

... If the railway CATO of the Times were not a consummate ignoramus, he would, in all probability, be a sensible man; if he knew a sleeper from a locomotive, he might have some pretensions to write about railways; if he spoke the truth as Mr. BECKETT DENisoN did, when he said he knew nothing about railways, and obtain some engineer ing friend to fill up the gap of his deficiency. he ...

... OuR CARPET BAG. AI[IOSTORIC&L PARALLEI.-SIR PETER LAURIE'S AIrnen history alludes to the Trojan horse, it says .:Siot when it shall record the Wellington one, it will ?? he not. s Sayt dSt, THOU fREAV PeLve.-We sent Toby, the ther day, to inquire after Westminster-bridge. The answer he brought back was, that the poor old invalid was r adually sinking.-Punch. HEr Majesty has a bracelet, ...

... I (From the Liverpool Cheronicle.) Comparo Virgilium cum Homero. The unscrupulous masquerading of these learned lords may fairly provoke a publicity of animadversion, which composure of character and dignified retirement would disarm. Brougham commenced his public character as a writer for the periodical press;-so did Nicholson. Nicholson's practice was almost exclusively confined to side ...

... SCE CHAROGBA merchant of Mississippi sold a ddle of the value of forty dollars. Next day he missed had die and recollected the fact of the sale, but not ulesadiridual who had bought it. After racking his theo' for some time, he directed his clerk Jim to turn his sedger alphabet and read off the W'e, then the S's the ?? thre C's and other letters in succession, all to no Tired out by the mental ...

... The general quarter sessions for the county of Buck. ingham were held on Thursday, at the Town Hall, Ayles. bury, for the disposal of the usual county business, and an unusually large body of the magistrates were present, amongst whom we noticed Sir T. Aubrey, Bart, (chair. man), the Right Hon. Lord Carrington (lord lieutenant of the county), Lord Nugent, R. R. Clayton, Esq., ALP., G. Dupr6, ...

... To possess two strings to your bow is alike politic and prudent, and probably Louis PHILIPPE was not unmindful of this adage when, in defiance of a treaty, he marries his son to a Princess with an immense dowry, lest he should a second time be driven into exile; the kingdom may depart, but with prudent management the dowry will remain. Let us take a lesson from this monarch's book; he has ...

... THE UNWARRANTABLE PRICE oF I I , BREAD. From the days of Pharaoh to the present, the public have had grievous cause of complaint against the bakers-that illustrious individual hanged his chief baker pour encourager les autres. In Turkey, nothing is more common than to see a baker nailed by the ears to his own door-post; but no such poetical justice as this is dealt out to our British lions ...