Hm! In the first place a gentlemanly person would not wish to hear his partner talk in that exceedingly curt way of their minister and his flock. "Member of Spurgeon's." "One who regularly attends the ministrations of the Reverend C. H. SPURGEON, B.M." would be more gentlemanly language. Nextly, "a believer with about £50" reads rather Mammonish. It suggests that a sceptic with about £75, or a positivist with about £100, would not be unacceptable. Thirdly, "who can travel." Who _can't_ travel with about £50? MR. COOK will give you a return-ticket for the Pyramid for about that. Fourthly, the "and" is abominable English. We wish our esteemed friend the _Christian World_ would edit its advertisements. We really can't be always doing it. * * * * * =Dignity for Doctors.= IT is suggested that a fitting honour to be conferred on meritorious Physicians and Surgeons would be that of the Order of the Bath. Nothing could be more suitable; but should the Bath be the Hot-Bath or the Cold? * * * * * [Illustration: GENEROSITY. _Noble Lord_ (_whose Rifle has brought to a scarcely untimely end a very consumptive-looking Fallow Deer_). "TUT--T, T, T, T, TUT! O, I SAY, STUBBS!--(_to his Keeper_)--YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LET ME KILL SUCH A POOR, LITTLE, SICKLY, SCRAGGY THING AS THIS, YOU KNOW! IT POSITIVELY ISN'T FIT FOR HUMAN FOOD! AH! LOOK HERE, NOW! I'LL TELL YOU WHAT. YOU AND MCFARLIN MAY HAVE THIS BUCK BETWEEN YOU!!!"] * * * * * A SEAT ON A SAFETY-VALVE. AN Income-tax partial see THIERS oppose, O WILLIAM the Earnest, O ROBERT the True! A soul above fear of the Rabble he shows; Is that to be said, British Statesmen, of you? Or is it that you, whom mob-courtship doth move With tribute from all due to load a part's purse. Albeit your Honours both see and approve The better arrangements, do follow the worse? How bad are the worse, which poor fleeced Britons rue, You have often confessed; but decline to advance On that high path which upright financiers pursue; They manage these matters much better in France. For justice it is which disposes them there, Political craft in this mighty free land, Whose Rulers perpend not what impost were fair, But what imposition tax-payers will stand. It was not enough upon shoulders select To pile your whole Budget; on folk thus oppressed (As housebreakers use, the strong-box to detect) The Screw has been put; they are over-assessed. You fancy your Engine is working so well By way of a Steam-Rack, 'twill yet more extort, And bear any pressure your force can compel; You sit on the safety-valve, therefore, in short.