... PICKINGS AT PUNCH. is, in my twopenny weekly paper, one column which I seldom miss. It is headed Jokes from Punch of yesterday. These things set me thinking more than anything in the news. Who sends such flashes of wit as the following?— CONVICTION ...

... the field against that of the South-rn Provinces eariy next spring. 'flie principal nut them force will consist if 1.49 woo picked troops.. General Congreve's new mechanical cannon was Died last week at the siege of I Georgia. It discharged in one hour ...

... exist so as the stamp duty was continued. It was too that the working classes should be forced to pat up with the political garbage they were now doomed to receive, and then be reproached with the want of taste. (Cheers.) Mr. Milner Gibson, M.P., who followed ...

... . It is ata, however, the qual ) i l t al yr of the literature of this trial that bonito an exceptional savoar among the garbage of the lawoeurta. It is rather the relative yeritiou of the parties to the action that appears extraordinary' to those who ...

... in is as honourable to the national kindn e ss I infringe on toy right.. (Applause.) Wishing the are nothing better than garbage. They are It he expected that the papal aggression juvenile delinquent sent to gaol.) In emiclusion, np the arreareol: ...