how completely her pretensions to martyrdom had been cut
short by her premature release. MISS CUNNINGHAME in fact proved herself
a perfect "Buffalo gal" in her indisposition to "come out," until a due
amount of solicitation had been addressed to her.

For our own parts, had we been the British officials employed to
negotiate for her release, and she had shown a stubborn disposition to
cling to her prison bars, we should have allowed her to remain, and ride
as rusty as the bars themselves. We never could see what right she had
to scatter Italian BUNYANS all over the boot of Italy, and put her own
foot in it. We admit the severity of the punishment and the propriety of
getting her out of her prison, though as a general rule it must be laid
down, that those who enter a foreign country for the purpose of
disturbing its harmony, must expect now and then to have to take a few
bars rest.

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A NAUTICAL QUEEN.

The QUEEN OF SPAIN has become decidedly nautical. In honour of her own
birthday she has ordered three screw frigates to be built in Spanish
dockyards; regretting that the screws must be constructed abroad. Surely
this is unnecessary; remembering the effect of Spanish bonds, Spain has
been especially eminent for her enormous screw power.

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MARRIAGES AS WRITTEN IN THE POLICE COURT.

Considering the way in which your brute of a husband is in the habit of
treating his wife, it would be as well, for the classicalities of low
life, to alter the name of HYMEN into FLORA (_Floor-her_).

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[Illustration: A WAKE IN THE MINING DISTRICTS.

_J'moimer Ann._ "HAS THEE FOWGHTEN, BILL?"

_Bill._ "NOOAH!"

_J'moimer Ann._ "THEN GET THEE FOWGHTEN, AND COOM WUM. DADDY GOT HIS'N
DONE BY FOWER O'CLOCK!"]

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RURAL SELF-DENIAL CLUBS.

The laudable custom adopted by agricultural societies of rewarding
labourers for living and rearing families upon ten shillings a week,
might be carried further out. Mutual improvement associations should be
established among the rustics, for the purpose of cultivating abstinence
by means of emulation. Country gentlemen would formerly encourage
eating-matches among the peasantry: the reverse of this gross practice
should be adopted now: and clodhopper should be pitted against
clodhopper to do the greatest amount of work on the smallest q