ere accepted,
and the whole population have returned to work.

_Mr. Punch_ has not often the happiness of agreeing with the _Morning
Herald_, but is bound to express his gratitude to that journal for
having called his attention to the above noble and courageous conduct of
MESSERS. COBDEN and BRIGHT, who have now shown that they are not mere
empty theorists and platform spouters, but honest, consistent friends of
peace.

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HANOVER IN BRONZE.

The House of Hanover does not shine very much in bronze. All our statues
of the departed greatness of that House are marvellously little. The
best point of GEORGE THE THIRD is his pigtail; whilst his son, GEORGE
THE FOURTH, looks and sits his steed in Trafalgar Square like an
over-fed ostler above his business. The DUKE OF YORK--a monument at
which every insolvent touches his hat in sympathetic reverence--is,
however, to come down. This we learn to be decided upon in the very
highest quarters--a truth whispered at the fireplaces of the Clubs.
PRINCE ALBERT is to have a statue in Hyde Park: and the men who propose
the monument (not that they can want bronze) are to have placed at their
disposal, as old metal, the whole of the York Pillar and Royal effigies.
Thus the DUKE OF YORK will duly go to the melting-pot, the only manner
in which there is any chance of his liquidating the debts he has left
behind him.

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[Illustration: Presentation of a New Breast-Pin on the 5th of November.]

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ABERDEEN _VERSUS_ PALMERSTON.

It is the fashion at all the Clubs to allude to Lord ABERDEEN always as
"the injudicious Bottle-holder of the Porte."

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BITTER FOR BURTON.--For raising the price of Bitter Ale, the Brewers
thereof allege, as one reason, the dearness of _Hops_. What has _that_
to do with it?

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[Illustration: MRS. BUNDLE GOES TO SEE THE GREAT AMERICAN ANT-EATER.

_Mrs. B. (loquitur)._ "WELL! IF I'D HA' KNOWN I SHOULD HA' GOT SCROOGED
INTO A SANDWICH IN THIS WAY, I'D HAVE SEEN THE HANT-HEATER AT 'ANOVER
FUST!"

[_And_ MRS. BUNDLE _can't get a sight of the novelty after all_.]

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SPORTING AT WINDSOR.

"HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, and the KING OF THE BELGIANS went
out shooting yesterday, attended [_at a respectful dis