ght of; but pegs--pegs that will
hold any number of fine suits, any weight of canvas. In fact, the peg is
the play.

To return to the bonnet peg, it may be advisable for good
housewives--visiting the Princess's--to follow the advice of MISS
MARTINEAU to travellers. She says: Fail not to take a few gimblets; they
serve on board ship admirably for pegs. Perhaps the manager of the
Princess's will make it known in future bills whether ladies with
bonnets visiting his theatre may be permitted to bring their own
gimblets.

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A DEVOURING FLAME.

Three removes, it is said, are as bad as a fire; but a fire is not so
bad as an extravagant woman, by many removes. The one simply burns you
out of house, but the other, if she is your wife, burns you out of both
house and home; and then again, you may put out the former, but, as long
as you have a place to live in, you have no chance of putting out the
latter.

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AWFUL CALAMITY IN BASS'S BREWERY.

Last week ten thousand barrels of ale--(just advanced 6 _s._ per
barrel)--in BASS'S brewery were turned sour by the thunder of--the
_Times_.

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SCANDAL-MONGERS should take timely warning from the Chinese Rebellion,
before the same law is enforced in England as in China; the summary
punishment being instantly inflicted on every person who is convicted of
being a _tale-bearer_.

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A SOVEREIGN REMEDY (_for Bankrupts and Insolvents_).--Paying twenty
shillings in the Pound.

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[Illustration: THE MOUSTACHE MOVEMENT.

_Railway Official (waking Old Gent from a sweet sleep)._ "TICKETS,
PLEASE!"]

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EVERY CONVICT HIS OWN CHESTERFIELD.

MR. JOHN MITCHEL--by the astute and graceful manner with which he
resigned his "comparative liberty," revoking his "parole of
honour"--displayed a politeness that would have charmed LORD
CHESTERFIELD, and a casuistry that would have ravished IGNATIUS LOYOLA.
Determined upon escaping from bondage--(for which we say the smallest
blame to him)--he nevertheless resolved to escape like a gentleman. He
would resign his "comparative liberty" gracefully, as a bride resigns
her hand--he would revoke his parole smilingly, as a high-bred
cardplayer would revoke at whist. He enters the police-office--walks
into the magis