In the Hunchback, MISS TERRY, appears to much greater advantage than in Much Ado about Nothing-in fact, we consider Julia one of the lady's best parts. Putting certain mannerisms of action out of the question, it is a fine performance, and we agree with MISS TERRY'S idolators that no actress on the London boards could play the character better. The younger MISS TERRY is a delicious Helen-a coquette with a heart, and a romp without an atom of coarseness. Her front scenes with Modus, bring the house down with a run. Mr. STUART, is a long-winded and guttural Master Walter; and Mr. NEVILLE plays Clifford respectably. In the fourth act he should make the pride of Sir Thomas more dignified and less sullen; he looks a little too ferocious and vindictive. Stage management as usual; wedding guests gorgeous in apparel and unembarrassed in attitude-scenery full of humour.

A PRACTICAL LOVER.
'Tis well to praise our English maids,
For eyes and bright expression,
For hair arranged in dainty braids,
For feet-this is digression.
For merry voices, winning ways,
Clear faces, ringing laughter ;-
Your perfect beauty seldom pays,
For how about hereafter?

I have a maiden in my eye

My mind's eye-don't mistake me-
For whose affection I shall try,

Unless weak tremors shake me,

Come, drink her health! Wilt take a pull ?

A bottle? come and crack it!
For, oh! she looks so beautiful
When cutting out a jacket!

The Write Way to Do It.

AN Irish paper states that MR. WHALLEY is so popular among the peasantry that he is inundated with letters asking for his autograph, and feels obliged to keep three clerks always at work to supply the required article.

Mddle. ERACLEO are the vocalists; the latter, who is very pretty, has one of those extraordinary Spanish voices which never will keep in tune, and the former has that Italian style which never will keep in time.

Reason and Rhyme.

REALLY our provincial contemporaries should be more careful of our common language-by which we don't mean vulgar language, for that our friends deal in. Here's an extract from the Scarborough Mercury:

"The usual loyal and complimentary toasts were given by the chairman; Mr. William Hodgson; Mr. Auburn, Hunmanby; Dr. Cross, Scarborough; and Mr. Smart, Aberford; which was briefly responded to by Messrs. Staveley, Kilham, Atkinson, and Smart. The Scarborough Volunteer Artillery Band was in attendof the scene." ance during the day, and whose lively strains DONE much to enhance the pleasure

It would be useless to reason with the S. M., so we'll rhyme :

Such grammar as Scarborough's
Really is barbarous !

From the Colonies.

RABBITS have increased so plentifully in Victoria, that the buildings of the Legislative Assembly will have to be promptly enlarged to accommodate the representatives of the numerous burrows that have "English hares have also shown themselves," says sprung up there. Three were discovered on the right cheek of a young gentleman of a colonial journal, "in places where they were not expected to be." sixteen, who has devoted half his life to the cultivation of whiskers. The Acclimatisation Society is reported to be greatly delighted at this result of the importation of Macassar.

The Covent Garden Concerts go swimmingly. STRAUSS is the hero of the evening.-"like CERBERUS, three gentlemen in one"-composer, conductor and leader. Mr. J. M. WEHLI is a pianist of the pyrotechnic school; one of those players who tear a pianoforte to rags-to very tatters-to split the ears of the groundlings in the Promenade. As regards execution, Mr. WEHLI's playing is remarkable; he has great power in the left hand, and is peculiarly dexterous at octaves. A selection from Gounod's Romeo and Juliet is admirably played by SIGNOR BOTTESINI'S orchestra, and gives us a meaner opinion of the composer's talent than ever. The music is dancy and showy, and that's all. A blatant fanfare leads us in one part to a scrap of diddle-dum, that is hardly worth remembering. There is a mild infusion of MEYERBEER in this music which is not unpleasant; but we prefer taking our MEYERBEER neat. The Ragoczy March, arranged by BERLIOZ, and performed by the band, is a feature in the programme. Mr. LEVEY, who has been called PAGANINI redivivus-plays a dull solo on the violin. PAGANINI appears to have got out of his coffin in such a hurry as to have left his brains behind him. Mddle SAROLTA and London:-Printed by JUDD & GLASS, Phoenix Works, St. Andrew's Hill, Doctors' Commons, and Published (for the Proprietor) by W. ALDER, a 80, Fleet-street, E.C.August 31, 1867.

WHY WERE THE DAUGHTERS OF MOSES VERY
Because they were Mo' lasses.

"SWEET GIRLS"?

A MARGATE MISAPPREHENSION. Smiff (to his Julia) :-" WELL MAY THEY CALL 'EM Bals de 'eat SUCH WEATHER AS THIS! I NEVER FELT THE 'EAT SO MUCH BEFORE.'

DOUBLE ACROSTIC.

No. 26.

WHERE the mountains round Winander,
Stand like sentinels that keep
Silent watch, would we could wander
Where the lakes in sunshine sleep.
Or where Alpine summits frowning
Tempt rash tourists to explore,
Or to Italy, where BROWNING
Lived and rhymed about its shore";
Any trip at all were pleasant,

When our ease in some snug inn
We might take, but just at present
We're uncommon short of tin.

1.

The great earl rose in a terrible rage,

And he clapped his hand on this;

Quoth he, "I've got that philanderirg pige
A-giving my lady a kiss."

2.

A party with a very gentle wife,

Rudely deprived her of one thing-her life.

3.

In circulating medium she

Was rolling, after marriage,

I made the darling, don't you see,
Stand me a handsome carriage.

A pleasant thing to be in this hot weather,
By the seaside or else upen the heather.

5.

He made a treacherous woman very dear
To us, whene'er his charming strains we hear.

6.

Asigh expressed in speech, we've often read it,
But did you ever know a man who said it?

7.

We own its use in daily food, and, look!

A title of a famed Professor's book.

ANSWER TO ACROSTIC No. 24.

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season has descended upon us like an avalanche. It has come as suddenly as the second winter came on us last May. London emptied itself like a tub with the bottom out, and the Park, crowded one day, was a wilderness the next. On the whole, too, the weather has been favourable, and the watering-places are crowded. Wanting a blow on the water the other day, I took a trip to Margate and back, on board the Albert Victor. She is a

fast and exceedSingly comfortable boat, the

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cruise of this

sort in fine weather. Her victualling department is better than is found in such boats generally, and she goes so smoothly, that your attention to the eatables is not lost labour. I should recommend, however, those who go to Margate by sea not to take their luggage with them, for the spirited manner in which the Margate porters play at pitch-and-toss with boxes and portmanteaus, under the bland superintendence of a benign but rather incompetent elderly gentleman, pier-master, or harbour-master, or some such dignitary, is a thing to make you tremble if you have any breakables in your trunk. Margate is tremendously full, and beds are scarce, but I was lucky enough to find room at the York, one of the best of the hotels. Of course the "Jolly Dogs" muster rather strong in the kingdom of HODGE the First. I observe their chief evening amusements are strutting up and down the Jetty four abreast, singing popular airs in discord, and

CORRECT SOLUTIONS OF ACROSTIC NO. 24, RECEIVED 28TH AUGUST:-Betsy; loafing about at the Hall by the Sea on the borders of the dancing

Breakside and Hamish.

What, all my Pretty Chickens and their Dam ? WE see among the literary advertisements in the Saturday Review the following strange question:"Can poultry be made to pay?" We have met with hens that were much given to laying, and as they are not considered to indulge in foul practices on the turf, we suppose they paid up. At any rate, Cox and Co. have always been looked on as cock-sure to pay, and we cannot see hen-ny reason why the Poultry should not continue to run towards the Bank.

space, interfering with the Terpsichoreans, but prudently keeping outside the limit at which the M.C. could interfere.

It seems to me a pity that the Horse Guards should allow commanding officers in agricultural districts to send out "at their discretion" soldiers to assist in harvesting. The labourers are trying to get a rise in their very inadequate wages, and the harvest time is their best opportunity. Commanding officers, accustomed to the implicit obedience of a soldier who gets a few halfpence a day, do not possess the discretion to hold aloof when they see labourers showing independence and asking for more pay. I hear that the soldiers have been allowed to work in parts of Essex where the farm-labourers are on strike. If this is so, it ought not to be allowed. Unfortunately Parliament is not sitting, or MR. HUGHES and PROFESSOR FAWCETT might be relied on to inquire into the question.

MURPHY is still at his old tricks in Birmingham, and no steps appear to be taken by the authorities to stop him, although his conduct and language are perpetual provocatives to a breach of the peace. It is a thing worth noting, that physical force seems to be in the ascendant nowadays, and that a respectable cause does not get respectable supporters. Reform is as little honoured by the advocacy of a BRADLAUGH, as religion is by the inflammatory falsehoods of a MURPHY. To judge from his conduct at the last Birmingham riot, it seems probable that he will crown his mission with martyrdom -I don't mean his own martyrdom, but the death of some unoffending THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE.-The one that is always last to see the person by the revolver of this terrified fanatic, who ought no more to

GENERAL SHERIDAN has removed GOVERNOR THROCKMORTON of Texas, and has appointed Ex-GOVERNOR PEASE to succeed him. This is an instance of calling out PEASE when there is no peace.

joke.

be trusted with pistols than with principles.