n at Lille, remarks, as it appears to us, a rather curious
phenomenon. "At about nine o'clock," he says,

"The EMPEROR and EMPRESS drove to the theatre, where there was a
most loyal reception; and, but that the wet clothes and the soaking
umbrellas gave out the odours peculiar to wet coats, the scene would
have been splendid."

How the odours of wet clothes could possibly have prevented the
splendour of the scene, we confess we are rather at a loss to imagine.
For ourselves, we certainly should as soon dream of hearing a sight as
of smelling one. That there exists a certain connection between the
visual and olfactory organs we don't pretend to dispute. In the absence
of profounder proof we do remember an "eye-snuff," which they who were
up to it of course took nasally. At the same time we cannot well see how
the sense of seeing can be interfered with by the nose, unless indeed it
be a preternaturally long one.

* * * * *

A CHAUNT FOR THE CHOUSED.

Dine? who'd dine
At eight shillings a head, or even nine,
With the heaviest price for the lightest wine?
Ah! that house I know too well,
'Tis your "first-class" Hotel:
Sad "Tales of my Landlord" there they tell.
Far better for me
To order tea,
And go dinnerless at that hostelry.

Sleep? who'd sleep
Where a standing army their quarters keep,
And in countless legions upon you creep?
Ah! whose form is that I see,--
A flea! Sirs, a flea!
He cometh to sup off me.
Far better, say I,
On the sofa to lie;
I prefer his room to his company.

Stay? who'd stay
To be bitten and fleeced in this wholesale way,
And live at the rate of a fortune a day?
Ah! who'll expose their crimes?
The _Times_, Sirs, the _Times_,
The waiter his fee declines:
Tell the landlord from me
Him further I'll see,
Ere again I'll be fleeced at his hostelry.

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HE CAME--SMILED--AND SAID NOTHING!--Such is _Mr. Punch's_ short-hand
report of the interview granted by the EARL OF CLARENDON to the Finsbury
deputation on the Eastern question.

* * * * *

JAMES'S POWDER, AND HIS SQUIB.

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Some of the Virginian slaveholders, true to the kind of logic which one
expects from LEGREES, have made five attempts to burn down the house of
the En