LITTLE ADDRESSES TO BIG NAMES.
Роон, never mind the Times!

Perhaps your supers are a seedy lot;
(And oh! good gracious, WEBSTER, are they not?)
Perhaps your scenery has had its day

(And that was rather distant, I should say);
Perhaps your house does want a little scrubbing;
The critic must be mad who takes to dubbing
Such little matters crimes.

A manager, an author, and an actor;-
In one so versatile as you, my BEN,
The stage has got a triple benefactor-

And, if you lose your temper now and then
When critically lectured or admonished,
Of course we're sorry, but we're not astonished.

WE see it reported that recently the usual celebrations commemorating the raising of the siege of Derry were held, and in a fitting and Hibernian manner-by the singing of "Derry Down!"

Photographic.

M. ADOLPHE BEAU has just published the first part of the Court Album. Of course it contains portraits of members of the BEAU monde only.

Q. E. D.

PEOPLE seem surprised at the recent Fenian outrages. But, considering the numbers of Centres and Circles, it is only natural their conduct should sometimes be out-radius.

Backwards or Forwards.

A CORRESPONDENT, who is, he says, a little backward, feels shy about asking for his Fun. He can ask for it a little backward and he will still be all right, for he will get A-NUF for his money either way!

When Found, Make a £500 Note of.

THE escaped Fenians KELLY and DEASY.

Town Talk.

BY THE SAUNTERER IN SOCIETY.

UST now the Fenian conspiracy is becoming a real dangerbut only in as far as it places deadly weapons in the hands of the ignorant and brutal, and renders it possible that any of us may at any moment be shot down by a ruffian who fixes a quarrel on us. The authorities have a difficult task before them; they must punish promptly and severely, but they must be careful not to seem dealing in the penalties which Panic pronounces. As regards the Manchester case, there can be no difficulty, however, as regards the principal culprit. ALLEN shot down a policeman, who was simply doing his duty; and whether he shot him to liberate COLONEL KELLY

or simple BILL SIKES, hanged he must be for a cowardly murderer. And although I think all should be sentenced to death, the punishment might be commuted to penal servitude in the cases of those not proved to have been seen armed with revolvers.

The War Office has already opened its campaign of blunders in connection with the Abyssinian expedition. Four officers have been sent to Constantinople to purchase mules-they might as well have gone to the Eddystone Lighthouse for an elephant! This is the first time the Department has been called upon to do any work of this sort since it was supposed to be entirely re-organised and reformed after the Crimean war. At present the bungling is only comical, but when the campaign commences, it is to be feared it will assume its old tragic aspect. I verily believe that we should save money as well as prestige if we got our Public Office work done by private enterprise on commission. Meanwhile, the mild clerk who sent those officers out on the fool's-or mule's-errand is doubtless saying, "Bless my soul! I was under the impression-Ah!" while his fellow-clerks chaff him, and the authorities pen a minute about him, which he need not read unless he likes.

The Cornhill this month is welcome for its charming drawings by WALKER-now, alas, far too seldom met with on the wood. MISS EDWARDS's picture is charming, and the number, on the whole, less ponderous than usual. "Our Rosalinds" will, I fear, scarcely persuade the public to the belief its writer holds of MRS. SCOTT-SIDDONS'S powers. The new magazine, St. Paul's, is very unattractive quoad wrapper, but the contents seem good, of the Cornhill class. Belgravia is good, though some of the pictures are very poor-"Lusignan" is a clever Doresque bit, though. C. S. C. (the initials are well enough known to be those of MR. CALVERLEY) contributes some smart vers de societe; MR. THORNBURY, MR. SALA, and MR. MORTIMER COLLINS are pleasant reading. MR. SCOFFERN's "Memoir of Faraday" is inferior. Apropos of the mags., I see that Cassell's announces a new novel with a very telling title-" Poor Humanity."

I am sorry to see the name of MESSRS. METZLER AND Co. to a collection of comic songs, of the most worthless Music Hall style, and -'s Comic called (no, I shall not advertise her gratis) "Miss Song Book." I believe the respectable publishers I name were not aware of the improper practices resorted to in the book. In the first place, a puffing preface is signed G. A. S, with the obvious intention of leading people to suppose it is by a well-known writer. In the second place, several pages are devoted to quotations of the opinions of the press on the singer-and if MR. HOLLINGSHEAD wants anything to give dramatic criticisms a knock-down blow, I commend these pages to him. Among these notices appears the following::

...

Miss

wishes to cultivate a "Fun.

HALL BY THE SEA, MARGATE.-If Mademoiselle fascinating style of singing, she should imitate .. This contains two misrepresentations. First of all, by heading the paragraph "Hall by the Sea," as the others are headed "Weston's," &c., it implies that Miss - has sung at the Hall, which she has not. And finally, the sentence quoted in a garbled form originally "should imitate MADAME LEMMENS SHERRINGTON rather than -"If this way of getting a favourable criticism is honest, I should like to know what is dishonest. I am not an opponent of the Music Hall, which I believe to be capable of good; but the sooner it gets rid of that awful thing, "the Comic Songstress," the better for it and the sex.

ran, Miss

TRIPLE ACROSTIC.

No. 31.

ENGLISH-born and English-bred:
Raise them from their lowly bed!
Bare-oh, bare the supple knife;
Yet, if wise, you'll spare the life!
If you love them truly, you
Will lament they are so few.

1.

If you wish to acquiesce
This will do instead of "yes."
2.

This means acquiescence too-
This instead of "yes" will do.
3.

Now female novelists prevail,
And give us many a harrowing tale;
From "Dennis Donne" and "Birds of Prey,"
How pleasant 'tis to turn away,

To "Felix Holt" and "Adam Bede"-
They're works of intellect indeed:"
Creations of George Eliot's brain
We read again-and yet again;
This character is one of those

The world to that great writer owes.

CORRECT SOLUTIONS OF ACROSTIC No. 29, RECEIVED 2ND OCTOBER :-Ada M.; The Sixty-Eight; Happy Isle; Ruby; Trotty F., Sebrach; Fanny B.; "For John C."; Bo!; Cigarette; Uyterlimmage; Dignall; Sparkie; Four Brokers; K. P.; Boxley; Breakside and H.; F. H.; J. D. P.; Old Trafford; Two B. C.; V. J. R.; Chumpkin; A. A.; Tosh; Painfully; M. B. P.; Betsy H.; Valentine; Tiny Ditton; D. M. Y.; Pal o' Mine; Timber; Mike; S. and K.; Bunnie P.; C. N. W.; Dot; The Don; Coombes; Erin go Bragh; Brummagem B.; Little B.; Doodles; N. N. N.; Varney the V.; Elton; Canterbury; Hedgehog; W. E. W.; E. M. H.; Nemo; Gwallia; A Clever Boy; A 'Cute Youth; Froggy; Cecil; Neptune 22; D. E. H.; Nobody's Child; Engineers Out of Work; Holdfast; W. B. T.; Epton; Gyp Amicus; 2 Moreton Owls; Fanny; W. A. W.; B.; Scantine; A Little D.; Anna L.; Ixion; Chang; Jowhit; Bowa; J. R. W. L.; E. S. K.; Edgely; R. O. Y.; T. M. H.; Scarle; A. G.; E. L. O.; Keg Meg; A Dark-Eyed Hussy; Effigy; Bondellis B. B.; Emma's H; Stockenstrasse; Mr. M.'s Twins; J. E. A.; F. A.; Due Foscari Hookey W.; Long J.; C. M. S.; F. W.; Polar; Knurr and Spell; Little Woman; O. K.; Blinkbonry; A. J. R.; H. T.; Joyful Bufums; Darling Fluffy; Lolliquer L; Two Clapham Contortionists; Philofun.