Justice not at Home. So Government proposes to erect, between Carey Street and the Strand, a grand new building, comprehending all the chief legal tribunals, under the name of Palace of Justice. Let it not be called by this new-fangled title. Palace of Justice is a Frenchified phrase, and, moreover, the so-called Palace will be one in which a very different inmate from Justice will reside. To denote the distinctive character, as well as the nationality of the edifice, style it not Palace of Justice, but Court of Law. A VERY HANDSOME PRESENT. "There, Thomas, be very careful not to injure the creature, as it's a very fine specimen of a full-grown lively Viper." THE MONEY MARKET AND THE FUNNY MARKET. CONSIDERABLE agitation has been of late prevailing in the monetary world by reason of a little squabble between those highly influential and respected personages, Madame la Banque of France and the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. So far as we can gather, the row arose in consequence of the behaviour of Madame, who, on finding her long purse was getting short of gold, created what is called an artificial run for it. This she partially achieved by buying up as many bills on London as she could lay her hands on, and sending them over here to be prematurely discounted; an operation that occasioned the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street considerable annoyance, and made her more than usually tetchy when applied to. Matters were at length indeed brought to such a pass that she tied up her old stocking in which she keeps her gold, and declared that she'd be "dratted" if she'd send out any more of it: adding, that if her neighbour wanted gold, she ought to raise her rate of discount, and not come bothering over here and running off with all the gold that she could grab from us. For her part the Old Lady said she wouldn't have demeaned herself by stooping to such practices, and if Madame did not know the proper way to go to work, it was high time that she were taught, and while she was about it, the Old Lady was determined to give her a good lesson. Madame la Banque of course felt some uneasiness at this, which she tried her best to hide by affecting indignation. She knew too well, however, that it would not suit her interest to quarrel with the Old Lady, and so she compromised the matter by begging for a loan of two millions of gold to be secured by a deposit of an equal sum in silver, of which it seems that she has plenty stored away in two or three old china teapots in her safe. This request, as is well known, was gra. ciously acceded to; but those behind the scenes are aware there was some trouble in getting it accepted, for although upon the whole of a kindly disposition, and ready to do all within her power to accommodate, the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street is rather apt to grow cantankerous, especially when her old stocking is threatened to be touched. It is not generally known, but we conceive there is no harm in our publishing the fact, that her gracious acquiescence to the French lady's request was mainly owing to the ready tact of Mr. Punch. Being by far the most considerable capitalist in Europe, that gentleman felt naturally some slight feeling of anxiety to see the symptoms of a monetary panic put a stop to, and be therefore did his best to make the old ladies shake hands upon the bargain which, it seems, had been suggested by his wisdom, and of which the ablest of financiers had approved. As an inducement, then, to part with her two millions of A Fair Return. EVERY effort is being made at the present day by the men to enlarge the sphere of woman's employment. If woman is only commonly grateful, the very least she ought to do in return would be to diminish the sphere of her dress! gold, he generously offered to place at the disposal of the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street the same number of copies of his, Mr. Punch's, Pocket-Book: a work which all his readers tell him, is " as good as gold," and which has been stamped as sterling by the public press. This Mr. Punch, who is all goodness, volunteered to do, without receiving further recompense than two million half-crowns, at which absurdly low quotation he allows his book to issue; and he was liberal enough to add, that he was willing to send over on precisely the same terms two millions of his Pocket-Book to his friend Madame la Banque. By these means the old ladies will be abundantly supplied with a new circulating medium, which if not gold itself, is allowed to be as good as it. When it is remembered that the Pocket-Book is valued at some hundreds of puns, and that of the precious gems of poetry it abundantly contains nearly every other line will be found to be a golden one, some notion may be formed of how enormously by Mr. Punch's operation the Banks of France and England will be mutually enriched. "MOOSICK!"-A CRY FROM THE GALLERY. WE read in our favourite publication, The Musical World, that the municipal authorities of Baden-Baden, have been christening, out of compliment to the illustrious composer, one of their new promenades L'Avenue Meyerbeer. We suppose that all the trees are covered with nothing but leaves of music, which the wind, as it runs its weather-eye through them, plays at sight, the result being a most delightful series of glees, ballads, cantatas, and songs without words. What a glorious Jubilate they would all strike up as their worthy godpapa walked musingly through them! We wish some obliging correspondent would oblige us with a stave or two out of this harmonious avenue. We would have them made into flutes, or batons rather, and present one to each of the most renowned Maréchaux of the orchestra. By the way, when shall we be christening any of our public thoroughfares after our favourite composers or singers? In our dull imagination, it will be a rare long time before we shall ever have a Balfe Square, or a Wallace Crescent, or a Macfarren Avenue, or a Webster Lane, or a Punch Arc de Triomphe, or a Clara Novello Park. How the nightingales, Swedish as well as those of other countries, would cluster in the latter! It would be one immense bird-cage, and Night, as it threw its black mantle over it, would alone have the power of putting a stop to the singing. You would see the whole atmosphere shaking like ALBONI, with gushing melody-every breath of air, we can fancy, would bring with it an air of music. A CONSERVATIVE AGENT. said, 'We fine MR. FRAIL £3, and require him to be bound in his own recognisances for £50 for three months." RAIL! Who is MR. FRAIL? They doubtless felt that MR. FRAIL'S Own "MR. FRAIL to MR. SMALLWOOD (with a look of assumed surprise)-Is that all? I thought it would have been more! from the Montgomeryshire Mercury. DON'T LOOK ALIVE. MR. FRAIL was charged, before the trembling Magistrates of Shrewsbury, WHAT a dreadful hurry the victors of Delhi and Lucknow are in for the reward of their with having come up to a gentleman named SOUTH- Valour. Why, such of them as are still alive AM (who was conversing have not waited much more than three years! with a friend in a street Is that a time to make a fuss about? If they of the said town), and think so, let them be ashamed of their impa having used unto the said tience, and read the following advertisement, gentleman language of an which is official. It appeared in the Times newsexceedingly potent de- paper in June last:scription, so potent indeed, that like very high game, it could not be brought under the noses of ordinary persons. In four lines of the language) sworn to, there are seven words which are only heard (except in Shrewsbury and from the Carlton agent) from persons in that condition of drunken violence which justifies their immediate incarceration. Well, it is further sworn that MR. FRAIL, not unnaturally astonished that he did not receive instant chastisement, proceeded to intimate his ideas to MR. SOUTHAM as follows, omitting oaths: good lick in the mouth; you are a "FRAIL. I'll give you a head off; but you know it's all true. "SOUTHAM. 1 don't choose to make a blackguard of myself in the streets. "FRAIL. I will knock yours off. "SOUTHAM. If you touch me it will be the most expensive job you ever did. "FRAIL. I will give you a good licking before the Mayor yet." "NAVAL PRIZE MONEY. "Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy, "Admiralty, Somerset House, June 16. "Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen and marines, and to all persons interested therein, that the distribution of a moiety of the proceeds of certain piratical junks, captured on the 11th of May, 1853, by HER MAJESTY's Ship Rattler, will commence on Monday, the 25th of June, 1860, in the prize branch of the departcoward, or you would knock my ment of the Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset House." MR. SOUTHAM kept his head on, and also kept his temper, and invited the Conservative gentleman to meet him, as proposed, before the Mayor. There the foregoing scene was proved, and then the agent of the Carlton proceeded to cross-examine his accuser: "FRAIL. Did I say it was not the first lie you had told, and had to apologise for ? "SOUTHAM. You did not. I never had to apologise. "FRAIL. Not to MR. KEATE, when you told a lie about him. "SOUTHAM. I never told a lie about MR. KEATE, and never apologised to MR. KEATE. "FRAIL. Did I call you a vendor of squirt and British brandy? "SOUTHAM. You did not. "FRAIL. Did I call you a bandy-legged baboon? "SOUTHAM. You said nothing of the sort. "FRAIL. Did I say your breath was worse than poison? "SOUTHAM. No. "FRAIL. Did I call you a punter? (4 laugh.) "SOUTHAM. I suppose all this is part of the mud you said you would throw at me if the case came into court? "FRAIL. NOW, open your cars and shut your mouth, and listen unto me." It is to be supposed that the worthy Magistrates of Shrewsbury desired that the case should be established out of MR. FRAIL'S own mouth, and therefore permitted him to insult the witness, as it is not to be imagined that a Mayor of Shrewsbury and his friends stand in any awe and terror of the eminent Conservative. Their clerk certainly interfered, but was in his turn insulted by MR. FRAIL, and was not supported by his more subtle and far-seeing chiefs. Their wisdom was rewarded, and they had some fun into the bargain, for MR. FRAIL, after justifying the use of the potent language, proceeded pathetically to narrate the following anecdote: "MR. SOUTHAM Would have everybody look up to him, and when he stands up, as I often see him in the council, he wants everybody to look up to him as a mighty man-a second DISRAELI. Why did he not tell you what happened in the summer months; he prepared his speech upon the new market, walked out of his drawing-room with his two children, took them into a field occupied by MR. ROCKE, and addressed them as babes in the wood. "MR. SOUTHAM. I distinctly say that is untrue. "MR. FRAIL (continued). Addressing his children as babes in the wood, he commenced his speech by saying, Mr. Mayor and gentlemen,' and when he concluded he said. Come along, my little dears; your father has often told you he was the DISRAELI of the Town Council.' I appeal to him if he did not take the two children with a large telescope, and a cow in the distance, and say, What a splendid creature."" This story MR. FRAIL supposed would be a plea in arrest of judgment, and he was not entirely wrong; for after a good deal more of what a harsh judgment might term vulgar buffoonery, by MR. FRAIL, There! a heroic deed is done in May, 1853, and nobody thinks of rewarding the heroes until 1860, seven whole years later. As the man says in the Antiquary, "Oh, it's a beautiful thing to think how long and how carefully justice is con sidered of in this country!" But, mind! where there are reasons for being rapid, our admirable authorities can be as fast as steam or even telegraphs. It is only the lower order of heroes who have to wait for what is due to them. Their betters are served the instant they have done their work. For instance, though the Rattlers have waited seven years, and the Indian warriors have waited three years, the return mail took out (and very properly) the guerdon to SIR HOPE GRANT for his services the other day at Taku. So let us have no sneers, or allegations that the authorities can't be rapid-the fact simply being that they won't. QUESTION FOR SPIRIT-RAPPERS.-Are spirits smuggled under the table, and can they be "The Magistrates retired, and after an absence of about a quarter of an hour returned, when the Mayor removed without a permit? That is to say, that if the Government does not take off the taxes, we are to proclaim a Republic, with TEYNHAM for our WASHINGTON. That will not pay, and we very much prefer the other alternative, namely, TEYNHAM'S having his head taken off as aforesaid, in the presence of a brilliant and distinguished circle of spectators, and by the express desire of several persons of distinction. Therefore, GEORGE CURZON, make your arrangements for taking a chop on Tower Hill, at an early date. You need not bother about your will, because, even if the above insane address did not show that no will made by you could be valid, you may remember, GEORGE, that all your property is forfeit to the Crown. We have ordered a new opera-glass of double power, to see how you behave yourself, and we cannot think that you will have much to grumble about, for the ceremonial will leave you much as you are, seeing that you can have got no head at present. So, MONKEY UNCOMMON UP, MASSA! IN consequence of the election of ABRAHAM LINCOLN as President of the United States (bravo, hooray, O my brothers!), it is announced that South Carolina, in an ecstacy of slave-owner's rage, has ordered a solemn day of humiliation, on which all the slaves in the State are to be flogged, and all the copies of the Scriptures burned. Moreover, she calls a Convention, and declares that she is going to separate from the Union, and be an independent State, and have representatives of her own at the Courts of Europe. We hear that her first demands on England are, that to show our sympathy in her hate of the President, Lincoln Cathedral be pulled down, the County of Lincoln be re-christened and called Breckenridge County, that all Lincoln and Bennett hats be immediately smashed in, that LORD LINCOLN be transported, and that when Falstaff in the play speaks of "thieves in Lincoln green," he be ordered to say "PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S black thieves." Anything to please the lovely Carolina. OFF WITH HIS HEAD! HOORAY! we have not had a good sight lately, and the execution of a Lord, on Tower Hill, will be a refreshing stimulant. We hope that the streets will be laid down again by the time the fatal scene comes on, and we suggest to the Trinity House to do something useful for once, and have the Hill nicely gravelled. We bespeak front places in the best red cloth gallery for all our young men, and as criminals from the lower class are finished off at a time which suits their friends, we really trust that similar courtesy will be extended to the aristocracy, and that justice will be done, in this case, about two o'clock, so that one will have time to breakfast and get to the execution comfortably. The nobleman whose head-such as it is now totters upon his noble shoulders, is GEORGE HENRY ROPER CURZON, 16th Baron Teynham, who was born we don't know when, but created in 1616. He will have to bring his block-head to the block for the following High Treason. He has objections to the present system of taxation, (and so have we for that matter), and thus the unfortunate TEYNHAM addresses the Northern Reform Union: "A House of Commons that cannot carry the people's measures needs that the people should carry it. Are the people as weak as their representatives? Do we dwell in Lilliput? If not, let them arise upon their feet, stretch themselves to the full stature of men, and have a solemn proclamation read, ere they march to fight for freedom once again. Look, Britons! to the kinsmen of your fathers, who were colonists in North America, taxed, or attempted to be taxed, being unrepresented. They petitioned Parliament that it might not be so, and the prayer of their petitions was rejected. Under these circumstances they asked their hearts what should freemen do, and the reply was, ask your swords. These gave them freedom." POPE NAPOLEON. REMEMBER, remember, the MAN OF DECEMBER, There's very good reason why, just at this season, He never should be forgot. With Red men outrageous, and growing contagious, He seized on the sceptre, to cope : 'Tis said that, to quiet the Priests running riot, That point our EIGHTH HARRY was able to carry, He knocked the Priests under, in spite of Rome's thunder, Proud clergy to trample KING HARRY's example Off their alien head, just to reign in its stead, HOORAY FOR NINEVEH! MR. LAYARD stands for Southwark. That is well. Now, opposed as Mr. Punch is both to Bribery and Intimidation, he intends to practise both upon the present occasion in the most unblushing manner. And first in regard to bribery, he hereby gives the Southwarkians notice that if they nobly lift their borough out of local mud by returning MR. LAYARD, Mr. Punch will take the borough under his care, and make it his pet. He will send a special correspondent over in two Hansoms, and have the place explored and praised, will show that Horsemonger Lane Gaol is superior to the Hanging Gardens of Nineveh, that High Street, is far more elegant than the same street at Oxford, and that strangers ought to come from all parts to examine the dirty old inns with the galleries whence the guests used to look down on bear-baits and private theatricals. In fact, Mr. Punch will invent Southwark, as GEORGE THE FOURTH invented the now evil-scented Brighton. But, on the other hand, for Intimidation. Let MR. LAYARD find, on canvassing, that Southwark offers him no chance, or let him be second on the poll, and Mr. Punch solemnly pledges himself to take care of Southwark in another sense. He will say no more-except that twelve months from the day on which he declares war, a decent Christian shall sooner admit that he lives in Holywell Street, Strand, than in the Doomed Borough. Now, Southwark, utrum horum mavis accipe, which it may be convenient to you to have translated-Return MR. AUSTEN LAYARD, or what Nineveh is now, you shall be at Christmas 1861. A WRAP-RASCAL.-A Spirit-Rapper. the diet is sufficient, a pauper who is no epicure, has no pride, and no affections, might manage to lead a contemplative life of considerable ease and enjoyment. He would be better off in every respect than a monk; and the discipline of the Union would not involve the occasional flogging to which he might be liable in a monastery. On the whole, therefore, it is conceivable that the rich Quaker and the noble Peer may be sometimes equalled or even exceeded in happiness and consequent longevity by the philosophical pauper. The man, therefore, who is ushered into the world with a silver spoon in his mouth, may, in some cases, not have much the advantage of the one who enters it with a wooden one. AMONGST things not generally known, is the existence of anything in common between the British Peerage and the Society of Friends, except two legs, two arms, and the other particulars which constitute a common humanity. Longevity, however, is a peculiarity in which the Lords partake with the Quakers, and wherein the plain Quakers even hold a rank above that of the noble Lords. Whereas the average life of the Peers is seventy years, that of the Friends is thus stated in a letter to the Times signed JOSEPH ALLEN: "Permit me to enclose you the following ages of some deceased members of the Society of Friends during the present year, taken from the obituary of the Friend, a Monthly journal, published by that body. They are as follows:-84, 84, 85, 85, 85, 86, 86, 87, 87, 88, 88, 89, 89, 89, 91, 91, 91, 91, 91, 91, 92, 92, 93, 93, making a total of 2,128 years, with an average for each life of rather more than 88 years. "Fifty lives in the same period give 4,258 years, with an average of 85 per life." The Quakers are said to be dying out; but if their average duration of life is as great as that above given, they are likely to take some time in decaying. The decline of Quakerism will operate to the disadvantage of Life Assurance Offices, if it is the custom of the Friends to insure their lives, as feelings of friendship might prompt them to do, even those who have no relations. The various Provident Societies should endeavour to provide for the dissemination of the doctrines of the Society of Friends. As a general rule, the Quakers bear a high character; but in some cases, as regards pecuniary transactions, this assertion must perhaps be discounted. Their characteristic morality may in some measure account for their long life, but that seems to be in a greater degree due to the good living, for the practice of which they are equally celebrated. They cultivate a cheerful equanimity together with the main chance; and being for the most part rich, or in easy pecuniary circumstances, take all other things easy, as we all ought to do, and probably should do, if we could afford it. Care may have killed a cat, but it does not kill Quakers, who appear to quake very little with anxiety and mental perturbations. THE BEGINNING OF SLAVERY'S END. THUS far shall Slavery go, no farther: That tide must ebb from this time forth. Who Good and Truth hold something worth, The great Republic is not rotten. So much as half; the rest is sound. The nobler people of the nation The baser sort no more will stand, Enforced, with strength of murderous hand, In Congress, who knock statesmen sprawling, Their higher-minded fellow creatures That snuffle texts with nasal trick, Enough of frantic stump-haranguing, This is America's decision. Of tyrants, whilst she shames us free; Or ground beneath the Papacy. Come, South, accept the situation; The change will grow by safe degrees. Hang all such traitors if you please. The Portraiture of the Times. WE expect to see very shortly houses opened all over the country, at which will be held out the following refreshing announcement:-"A GLASS OF ALE AND A SANDWICH, AND YOUR PHOTOGRAPH, FOR FOURPENCE!" A DESIGNING CHARACTER.-An Architect. The affluence and comfort to which the longevity of the Lords and that of the Quakers may perhaps be ascribed cannot be readily supposed to account for that of paupers, which another correspondent of the Times proves to be extraordinary. Paupers are not certainly affluent, and they can hardly well be imagined as being comfortable. But in a workhouse wherein a proper warmth is maintained, and fines you. VOL. XXXIX. AN IMPOSING CHARACTER.-A Magistrate, when he A BOON TO BRITISH TOURISTS. manner of the Continent; and the luxury of dancing will nightly be permitted in an atmosphere of bad tobacco, blazing gas, and blaring HERE has been a pro- brass. Masters of the Ceremonies will be ready ject started for pro- in attendance to introduce the stranger to the viding English tourists doubtfullest of partners. In fine, no pains will with the means of be spared to make the Tourists' District equal being worried, fleeced, to the Continent in every respect; and as it insulted, mobbed, must assuredly be better for Great Britain that douaned, and done Englishmen should lay out their spare five pound while travelling, in the notes at home, instead of going abroad to do so, most approved and it appears to us that every lover of his country common Continental of course must wish the project every possible manner, without their success. having to cross the SPIRITUAL LUXURY AND DESTI- IN an account given by the Post of what we "At a few moments past eleven, a procession of priests and choristers, all habited in surplices, emerged from the vestry, at the east end of the south aisle, then moved along the south aisle, and down the middle aisle to the altar, on which two large burning candles were placea, and a golden cross." (say, for instance, Prussia) as it is possible to fancy. The frontiers of the district will be guarded by a custom-house, which will be officered by persons of most aggravating insolence, The BISHOP OF LONDON the other day made and made extremely difficult and time-wasting to pass. Every box marked "fragile" will be some judicious remarks about existing spiritual knocked about and stamped upon, and, if the words "with care" be added, will most pro- destitution. In the presence of that, his Lordbably be smashed. The searchers will pry into the most private books and writing-cases, and ship's attention is respectfully invited to the unless they are well bribed will blab forth to the public whatever they spy out. A sovereign above case of spiritual luxury. Burning candles duty will be charged upon a pennyworth of biscuits, and on lollipops there will be levied a in the middle of the day! What spiritual extrafive-pound-note apiece. Moreover, to make things even more unpleasant, the tariff of vagance! They were not dips, either, or even forbidden articles will extend to all such articles as tooth-brushes and hair-combs, which no composition; wax no doubt. It is deemed unbeone but an Englishman would look upon as necessaries; and any one attempting to introduce coming of clergymen to smoke cigars in public; into the district such un-Continental luxuries as good tobacco and good soap, will at once be and what could they have wanted with lighted handed over to the Staats Procurator, to be dealt with as the law (as he may twist it) may candles of a morning in church? If to fumidirect. To further the resemblance to a Continental country, and increase the torment and of indulging in the most heterodox form of gate the place with incense, they were guilty annoyance of the tourist, touters and commissioners will dog him at each step, and tread smoking. Perhaps they smoked the golden cross upon his heels until he either kicks them round or else engages one of them to defend him which they put upon the altar, that is, incensed from the rest. In the former case, however, he of course must run the risk of being dragged it, in which case they will incense the Bishop if before some functionary of what is mis-called Justice, and being blackguarded from the he smokes their cross and them. Let them go bench as well as fined for the assault. In the same way he will always have the law dealt to the Golden Cross, Charing Cross, if they out to him, if he refuses to submit to an exorbitant extortion, or gets into a row in any want to smoke, or to some other respectable public room or vehicle, where any impudent intruder may tread upon his toes or coolly oust public-house, and take their lights there, or if him from his seat. He will be told such incivilities are the customs of the country, and they want to amuse themselves with fireworks, instead of, as a foreigner, being treated with some courtesy, he will be jeered at for the let off their Roman Candles on the Fifth of grossness of his ignorance in not knowing them. November, the Feast of St. Guy Fawkes, in some more suitable place than church. In order to make tourists feel as wretchedly uncomfortable as they generally do when they first get away from home, and have not grown reconciled to foreign ways of living, the district will be furnished with hotel accommodation of the fifth-rate German class, such as Englishmen when travelling have too often to put up with after vainly seeking entrance at every decent house. Here the tourist will be tortured with every inn-convenience, and will get the worst of everything by paying the best price for it. His days will be made wretched by bad cookery and glazed floors, such as British boots unvaryingly and inevitably skate upon; and his nights will be made hideous by every kind of torment, from sweltering quilts of eider-down to tribes of creeping things. To keep up the resemblance, he will find his bed-room furnished with those copious and extensive arrangements for lavation, consisting of a slop-basin and cream-jug full of water, for which Continental places have been long and justly celebrated and if he express himself in any way dissatisfied he will grandly be informed that His (olfactorily) Highness the DUKE OF DIRTISHIRTZENBERG has his bathroom fitted up on precisely the same scale, and of course no common tourist can expect to be supplied with greater luxuries than Dukes. It having been observed that, as a rule, an English gentleman never seems so ill at ease as at a table d'hôte, of course this form of taking meals will be the only one obtainable. Persons who object to eat and drink in public, where they are liable to be annoyed by every kind of travelling bore, will be allowed no opportunity of having quiet dinners served in private rooms. Care too will be taken to make the table d'hôte as long and tedious as possible by having too few waiters and too many ill-served plats. For this purpose the cooks will be selected from the worst of those on board the Rhenish steamboats, and among their other blunders, special pains will daily in particular be taken to send round the poulet a considerable time after the stewed plums have been consumed. Cheap home-made wines turned sour will be supplied in foreign bottles, and be charged for as Johannisberg, Rudesheim, and Asmanhausen; while to complete the misery of the unfledged British tourist, the reckonings will be made in foreign dialect and money, and the waiters will speak nothing but their own peculiar polyglot, which we will defy the most accomplished linguist to understand. Besides fleecing them with every possible extortion, proper means will be provided to ease tourists of their money by having gambling tables opened at every stage and stopping-place, say for instance, on the average at every half mile. Ball-rooms will be attached, after the Times Change, and so do Fashions. We think it was Swirr who said that "young ladies troubled themselves a great deal more about making nets to catch men than cages to hold them." However, the Dean would have changed his mind, if he had lived at the present day, for we think the Crinoline is much more of a cage than a trap; or might it be looked upon as a combination of the two-both trap and cage rolled into one. There may be some truth in this, for there is no doubt that many a man has been hooked by a woman's Crinoline strongly against his will, and detained there much longer than was agreeable to him. Chinese Poetry. It took a three hours' fight, THE BRITISH EMBASSY AT PARIS.-There was no addition to the Ambassadorial dinner-party to-day. His Lordship dined alone. |