It is--and it isn't--the very same bait That the Nottingham fellows--as anglers so great-- Consider the pink of perfection. Why, WILLIAM himself might well capture a dish With this bait; did he use it, I'm sure, not a fish Would so much as think of rejection. Now, my Starred-and-striped beauties! Canadian pets! Crossed-Irish, so doubtful of hooks and of nets! I drop it in--so! Won't it rummage 'em? Some sneer at my angling. How savage they'll be When the secret of my great success they will see Is Gladstonian bait--_à la_ Brummagem! [_Left winding and winking._ * * * * * By GEORGE!--A first-rate speech was made by the new Patent Commander-in-Chief GEORGE RANGER, Duke of CAMBRIDGE, at the dinner of Volunteer Sergeants, Justice COTTON,--Gun-Cotton on this occasion--in the Chair. "I have always stated," said the Brave old Chief, "that the best way to avoid war, is to be so strong that nobody would think of attacking you." Hear! Hear! _F. M. Punch_ likes this sort of strong language from GEORGE RANGER, and hopes that His Royal Highness will be made Patent President of the International Arbitration Court. * * * * * [Illustration: THE CHILD OF THE PERIOD. "WHY DID THAT POLICEMAN TOUCH HIS HAT TO YOU, AUNTY? HAVE YOU GOT ONE AS WELL AS NURSE?"] * * * * * NOTICE! In consequence of the great success attending the sale of Mr. GLADSTONE'S "Chips," the Grand Old Chief is in future to be known as "the Last of the Ochipaways!" But he refuses to bury the hatchet. * * * * * New Version. O'BRIEN the thin his own breeches would wear, And have nothing to do with the Government pair. "If my patriot legs they those pants would thrust in, They must do it themselves," said O'BRIEN the thin. * * * * * On the 22nd, the _[OE]dipus Tyrannus_ is to be produced at Cambridge. One of the members of the A. D. C. wanted to bring out an old burlesque on _[OE]dipus_ at the Club Theatre on the same night, but Mr. J. W. CLARKE of Trinity, General Manager and University Entrepreneur, immediately objected that it would be irreverent to turn the awful story of _[OE]dipus_ and _Jocasta_ into a jest, "For," said he, "you certainly cannot 'joke as ta' that." The Master of Trinity has summoned the Fellows to consider what ought to be done to the other Fellow. * * * * * A NEW LIFE.--Mr. JOSEPH HATTON, author of _Clytie_, and quite recently of _The Gay World_, a novel which has created a considerable sensation, is coming out as the biographer of "Friend TOOLE." Author and Actor have been about together a great deal lately; in fact so much so, as to give rise to the report that Mr. J. L. TOOLE was dreadfully afraid of catching cold, as he was never seen anywhere without his Hat on. * * * * *