me again,
do you? I'm very much obleeged to you. I have a right to refer in a
hereditary assembly to the best man that ever stood in it."

Then noble Lords knew it couldn't have been CHAPLIN. Not yet.

_Business done_.--Still winding it up.

_Tuesday, June 28_.--Parliament prorogued and dissolved. "All over
at last," says ROSCOE, putting it in another and more original way.
Few to part where (six years ago) many met. Still some, chiefly
Metropolitan Members, remain to see the last of the old Parliament.

"Good-bye, TOBY," Prince ARTHUR says, after we've shaken hands with
the SPEAKER. "Shall see you again in August. _You_'re all right. One
of those happy fellows who are returned unopposed. As for me, I have
to fight for my seat, and my life."

"You'll come back too," I said; "but you'll be sitting on the other
side of House. What'll you do when you're in Opposition?"

"I'll go to the Opera every Wednesday night," said Prince ARTHUR, with
a gleam of joy lighting up his face.

_Business done_.--Parliament dissolved.

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NEWS ABOUT BISMARCK FOR THE BRITISH PUBLIC.--Professor SCHWENINGER,
the Bizzy B.'s private physician, writes privately to _Mr. Punch_ the
following news about his distinguished patient. "Tell the B.P. that
P.B. sleeps like a top. This is no hum. He is up at 7 A.M., and wishes
everyone 'the top of the mornin' to you,' puts on his top-boots and
top-hat, and then goes out for a spin."

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FROM A CORRESPONDENT ANENT THE TRUSTEES, MESSRS. COHEN AND LEVY, AND
THE GIFT OF L350,000 FOR LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER.--Sir,--It has been
asked, what will they do with it? Liverpool and Manchester are both
millionnaires and millowners too. Why not send a little to _me_? Who's
Cohen, I mean who's goin' to Leave-y _me_ anything? No spare Cohen--or
Coin--ever comes _my_ way! Would that a Co-hen would lay for me a
golden egg as valuable as the Kohenore! Sir, I am of Irish extraction,
and the Irish are of Hebraic origin, so I have some claim. Why?
Because Irishmen are Hebrews first and Irish afterwards. The first
settlers on settling-day in Ireland were Hebrews to a man, and isn't
it clear that "Liffey" was originally "Levy?"

Yours impecuniously, THE O'DUNAHOO. _With the accent on the "Owe" and
the "Dun"_

_Leafy June 30_.

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