ture, whom her lovers love,
Those who were dear to thee to them are dear:
The world's hard way to lift their lives above
Is a clear duty, welcome as 'tis clear.
And if for every page of pure delight,
Those fine and faithful fingers wrought for all,
There came the slenderest gift, the poorest mite,
More lightly on those stricken hearts might fall,
The weight of sore bereavement, hard to bear,
E'en when, as here, all men its sorrow share.

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OGRES IN DAIRYLAND.--Everybody has heard of Fairy Rings, which have a
sweetly Arcadian sound. But "_Dairy_ Rings" do not savour of Arcadia,
save, perchance, in the sense suggested by the stock quotation,
"_Arcades ambo_--blackguards both." The function of "Dairy Rings," it
seems, is artificially and injuriously to keep up the cost of produce.
Not until they are broken up will people really get "Milk
Below"--monopoly prices.

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RAPTURE.

(_By a Radical._)

MR. CHAMBERLAIN (in the debate on the Lords' Amendments to the Land
Bill) said, "he had never regarded the House of Lords as the special
representatives of the community, that he would very much have
preferred that an Amendment in the interests of the community should
have proceeded from another quarter, that they were Commons' House
of Parliament, and that it was they who had to look after the
interests of the community, and not the House of Lords."
(_Opposition Cheers._)

HOORAY! This is rather more like the old JOE,
Whom as pet of the Peers his old friends hardly know.
Does "cushioned ease" tire him already,--so soon?
Is "gentlemen" chumship no longer a boon?
Can zeal for the Union no longer determine,
The Birmingham champion to back up the ermine?
This snub to the Peers is decidedly handsome,
We'll soon have JOE talking once more about "ransom."
Oh! Spalding was splendid, and Bridgeton was brave,
And GROSVENOR'S defeat made the Unionists rave;
TOM SAYERS ne'er landed his foe such a "oner,"
As SALISBURY had at the hands of our BRUNNER;
But neither the news of Gladstonian gain,
Of TREVELYAN'S return, or the tantrums of CAINE,
To Radical bosoms such a rapture affords,
As Brummagem JOE once more smiting the Lords!

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CON. FOR THE CONNUBIALLY INCLINED.--What is the difference between an
accepted and a rejected