The ponds in St. James's Park were on last Monday drawn with nets, and a
large quantity of the fish preserved there carried away by direction of
the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests. Our talented correspondent,
Ben D'Israeli, sends us the following squib on the circumstance:--
"Oh! never more," Duncannon cried,
"The spoils of place shall fill our dishes!
But though we've lost the _loaves_ we'll take
Our last sad haul amongst the _fishes_."
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GENERAL SATISFACTION.
Lord Coventry declared emphatically that the sons, the fathers, and the
grandfathers were all satisfied with the present corn laws. Had his
lordship thought of the _Herald_, he might have added, "and the
grandmothers also."
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ADVERTISEMENT.
If the enthusiastic individual who distinguished himself on the O.P. side
of third row in the pit of "the late Theatre Royal English Opera House,"
but now the refuge for the self-baptised "Council of Dramatic Literature,"
can be warranted sober, and guaranteed an umbrella, in the use of which he
is decidedly unrivalled, he is requested to apply to the Committee of
management, where he will hear of something to his "advantage."
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"PUNCH'S" LITERATURE.
I. "The Hungarian Daughter," a Dramatic Poem, by George Stephens,
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