s
Were mashed; with jelly, ice, and cream,
Chantilly biscuits, legs and wings
Of game and poultry, and the stream
Bore salmon, turbot, hash, and curry,
Goblet and flagon, hurry-skurry,
My brain was bursting with the worry--
And then I started from my dream!

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[Illustration: FLUSHING THE GREAT CITY SEWERS.]

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THE RESULTS OF STRIKING.--It is as strange as it is lamentable that
strikes should so commonly end in broken heads, since the moment the men
have once struck there is a stoppage of the mill.

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NOT FAR OUT.--A cynical old Cockney of our acquaintance says he
considers the moustache movement to be only a new way the young fellows
have got into of giving themselves 'airs.

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KING LEOPOLD REPORTS PROGRESS.

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The KING OF THE BELGIANS opened his Chambers last week, and it is to be
regretted that KING LEOPOLD'S excellent speech has been so incorrectly
translated by the London newspapers. No wonder that LORD CLARENDON
complains of the inadequate way in which the journalists render his
despatches. An English dramatic author, hurried in his rapine, could
hardly have adapted a French speech more clumsily than it has been done
for our papers. We subjoin a literal translation:

"GENTLEMEN,

"I am charmed to meet you again. When we separated, you were so kind as
to express your entire satisfaction with the marriage I told you I had
then in view for my son, the DUKE OF BRABANT. I need not inform you that
the match has since come off, because I do not suppose you will easily
forget the portentous (_effroyable_) disturbance we made about it. But
you will be happy to hear that I have taken Mary HENRIETTA OF AUSTRIA
and her husband over to England, and that our charming friend and
relative QUEEN VICTORIA was quite pleased with the bride, and considers
BRABANT a fortunate young fellow.

"It is, I hope, unnecessary for me to say that it was not merely, or
chiefly, to introduce a young wife to a young matron that I endured the
perilous voyage from Ostend to Portsmouth. You will do your King more
justice.

"Allied with the House of Austria, I found in that marriage the
strongest reason why my voice should be heard in England at a
conjuncture (_crise_) when Austria needed an advocate there. But this is
not all. You know how long and how sedulously