ouple,
might be carved from the prickly pear; those of MR. NEWDEGATE and MR.
HENLEY from the sloe; that of MR. HUME, the Senior of the House, from
the elder; that of SIR ROBERT INGLIS, from the cherry, as he is the BOB
_cheri_ of the high Torics; that of MR. BRIGHT, from the aspen; that of
MR. BROTHERTON, the Vegetarian, from a large turnip; that of MR. LUCAS,
from the bramble; that of MR. COBDEN, from the (good) service tree; and
that of LORD PALMERSTON, the universal favourite, from the poplar. (Oh!)

The members might attend to turn their own cylinders, or the "Turner of
the House of Commons" (for the duties of the Speaker would be at an end)
might go round and set in motion the cylinders of those whose opinions
he wished to circulate. The Irish members might be gratified, yet
without any hindrance to public business, by the simultaneous gyrations
of all their cylinders; a number of others, inscribed with the words
Hear! Hear! or Question! might always be kept going; and if any
honourable gentlemen chose to inscribe on their Tchu Kor words
descriptive of cock-crowing or braying, they might make fowls or donkeys
of themselves without hurting the feelings of others. In short _Mr.
Punch_ is so interested in his scheme, and so anxious for its
development, that he pledges himself to have _Toby_ in readiness to turn
LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S Tchu Kor, on the very first night that the scheme
shall come into operation

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AGRICULTURAL BRUISERS.

Thrashing, bruising and milling are now carried to such perfection by
machinery that every housekeeper may thrash his own establishment, every
father of a family may do his own bruising, and every man may have the
luxury of a private mill on his own premises. At the recent Cattle Show,
our attention was invited to a "compact hand mill," calculated to do an
immense amount of bruising, and to give a regular good dressing at the
same time to a certain quantity of flour. The newspapers are continually
asking us whether we bruise our oats, and intimating that if we
vigorously assault our corn it will serve us as well again, from which
we infer that every blow administered to our oats will be the means of
an extra blow-out to our cattle. We wish our agricultural friends would
tell us whether the bruising system would be applicable to anything else
beside corn, and whether we may safely, in addition to bruising our
oats, give occasionally a black eye to