You have "had the honour of figuring," Sir, many times since then in my pages; As I hope, my dear WILLIAM, with all my heart, you'll continue to do--oh! for ages! The same great designer of "clever cartoons" ("our Sir JOHN") is as lively as ever, And if _you_'ll give him suitable subjects, dear boy, _he_'ll still furnish cartoons quite as clever. "Liberal sentiments"--"manifest still"--"whenever I can," you say? Well, Sir! _My_ sentiments, WILLIAM, are liberal _always_--but with a small _non-party_ l, Sir! "Liberal souls devise liberal things"--_you_ know the authority grand, Sir!-- If your Liberal things are "liberal," always, by liberal things you shall stand, Sir. There! _Verb. sap._, my long-honoured old chap! May a real fool's-cap crown you never, But a Crown of Honour be yours at the end--which we'd wish to postpone, Sir, for ever! Thanks very much for your genial touch. We have pleasant joint memories, many, Since you fought the good fight on the Paper Duty and a Press at the Popular Penny! * * * * * Colourable. ["The banners of most of the Dutch regiments have hitherto been those captured from the French at Waterloo in 1815, since when they have never been renewed."--_Daily News, September 22._] The Dutch have had second-hand flags to fight under; And so if "Dutch courage" mean borrowed, what wonder? * * * * * HISS-TRIONIC QUERY.--Where exists the theatrical manager who, utterly disregardless of tradition and reckless as to the omen of "the Bird," would have produced a new piece for the first time _last Friday night_, which was _Michaelmas Day_, the day sacred to the Goose? We know of only one manager likely to be so bold, and he would not be so audacious as to defy the combined omens of ill. * * * * * Ichabod! (_As it generally seems now in Sculling Matches on the Thames._) Row, brothers, row! But you don't row fast! It's foreigner first, and Britisher last! JOHN no longer can sing now, "I says the Bull" (As in _Poor Cock Robin_), "_because I can pull!_" * * * * * COAL AND DRAMA.--Mr. JOHN HOLLINGSHEAD says that the Princess's Pit, which has been closed for a long time, will be at once re-opened. The price has been generally accepted. * * * * * NEWS OF THE MATABELE.--The "Impi" are "suffering from want of supplies." They are impi-cunious. * * * * * THE MOST GRATUITOUS FORM OF VICE.--Ad-vice! * * * * * THE REIGN OF RINGLETS. ["It is announced that ringlets are to be worn again by ladies, and that side whiskers are coming in for fashionable men."--_Daily News._] [Illustration]