"HOI ADELPHOI" (the Messrs. GATTI), the Adelphians, or, as friend WAGG would necessarily call them, the "Fill-adelphi-uns," have a stirring Life-boat Scene in Messrs. SCOTT and THOMAS'S drama _The Swordsman's Daughter_. Where there are so many rapiers flashing--not one of them pointless--the piece might have suffered from cutting. As it is, the display of fence is most exciting. Mr. TERRISS the swordsman, Miss MILLWARD his daughter, are excellent; and this is true of the entire performance. As for Mr. ABINGDON, he is becoming a greater villain in every play of his life. He'll end by being hung in the Royal Academy. Of course, first of all, he will have to be "taken from life" by the hand of some distinguished painter. * * * * * POT-LUCK.--A sportsman named Mr. ALLAN GILMOUR, junior, has been credited with recently shooting "the first specimen of the solitary snipe" that had been seen in England. Writing to a Scotch paper, he says, "As snipe-shooting has been my favourite sport for the last twenty-eight years, during which time I have killed over 4,000 snipe without ever getting a shot at a 'solitary,' I am naturally very pleased." For years he'd hunted all in vain, But when the time was ripe, His fortune changed--he really bagged A solitary snipe. There are who find their chiefest joy A friend, a feast, a pipe; But Mr. GILMOUR'S heaven is here-- A solitary snipe. O PETER MAGNUS[A] GILMOUR, we Must tears of envy wipe That you can count it bliss to pot A solitary snipe! [A: "'It is calculated to cause them the highest gratification,' said Mr. Pickwick, rather enjoying the ease with which Mr. Peter Magnus's friends were amused."] * * * * * [Illustration: "LA GLOIRE!" FRENCH SOLDIER. "I SUFFER--I DIE! NO MATTER!--OUR VICTORY WILL ANNOY JOHN BULL!" (_Vide French Press._) "What the French have to consider is the balance of advantages for France, not the balance of disadvantages for England."--_Times, Oct. 9._] * * * * * [Illustration: WANTED, A REPARTEE. "PLEASE, SIR, GIVE ME A PENNY!" "YOU SHOULDN'T BEG, MY BOY. WHY SHOULD I GIVE YOU MY MONEY ANY MORE THAN YOU SHOULD GIVE ME YOURS?" "I AIN'T GOT NO MONEY, AND YOU 'AVE!" "AH, BUT SUPPOSE YOU'D GOT A PENNY AND I HADN'T!" "THEN I'D GIVE MINE TO _YOU!_"] * * * * * CABBY; OR, REMINISCENCES OF THE RANK AND THE ROAD. (_By "Hansom Jack."_) No. VIII.--MORE HARMONY--BUSTER'S LATEST--"HI! FOUR-WHEELER!"--A CAB'S A CAB FOR ALL THAT.