Count O'Cavourneen, the bubble is breaking, You've had the last scene, Solferino's red hill, The cannons no longer the echoes are waking, Count O'Cavourneen, what, Minister still? O hast thou forgot the diplomacy clever In which thou didst bear so distinguished a part, Thy vow to clear out all the Hapsbugs for ever? The vermin still linger, Cavour of my heart. Cavourneen, Cavourneen, the dead lie in numbers Beneath the torn turf where the living made fight; In the bed of My Uncle the Emperor slumbers, But Italy's Hapsbugs continue to bite. Well done, my Cavour, they have cut short the struggle They fired all the pulses of Italy's heart; And in turning thy back on the humbug and juggle, Cavour, thou hast played a proud gentleman's part. [Illustration: MILITIA OFFICER: "Ah, this is Smithers! Why, you're getting very fat, Smithers. Let's see--this is your fifth training, isn't it?" STOUT PRIVATE: "Yes, sir. After we was disembodied, sir, the Adj'tant he took an' _reintestined_ me, sir!!!" (_Note._--Militiamen, after serving four trainings, can be "_Re-attested_" for another five years.)] Italy and her friends were alike profoundly dissatisfied with the terms of the Peace of Villafranca, by which Savoy and Nice were handed over to the French Emperor, whose further "intentions" kept England in a simmer of indignant anxiety for years to come. The scare of a French invasion revived, the volunteer movement took on increased activity, and the anxiety of financiers was revealed in the grotesque incident of the four Liverpool brokers who wrote to Louis Napoleon asking him what his "intentions" were. They were faithfully dealt with by _Punch_ in his burlesque verses on "The Four Fishers"--who caught nothing, and in an imaginary parallel letter to Queen Victoria. [Sidenote: _The Invasion Scare_] [Illustration: OUR RESERVES CAPTAIN OF RURAL CORPS (calling over the Roll): "George Hodge!" (No answer.) "George Hodge!--Where on earth's George Hodge?" VOICE FROM THE RANKS: "Please, sir, he's turned Dissenter, and says fighting's wicked."]