SIR,--When the Police have fairly and effectually cleared off the loafers, not-do-a-stroke-of-work gentry, and the sedition-mongers, then we can turn our attention to the wants of the genuine Unemployed. Their case is by no means beyond us. It only needs the active and intelligent co-operation among the administrators of charitable funds and agencies, the Poor-Law Authorities, employers of labour, and others, to give immediate and practical effect to the wide-spread sympathy felt for them by all classes of their more fortunate fellow-countrymen, including your quite sober-minded and charitably-disposed Correspondent, "COMMON SENSE." * * * * * DERBY AND GLADSTONE. (_A Speech summarised in a Stanza._) AIR--"_Darby and Joan._" DERBY, dear, I am old and grey, Fifty-five years since my opening day, "Ins" and "Outs" are for every one As the world goes round. Derby, dear, I must fain admit I've altered my mind, just a little bit. But I learnt freedom's lesson in Forty-five, And I mean to be true to it whilst I'm alive. Always the same, Derby, my own, Always the same Is your old GLADSTONE! * * * * * THE ACTOR'S PROGRESS. Within the last half-century, the education of actors has advanced in an extraordinary degree, inasmuch as some have been known to take a degree, or try to, at the University. Therefore the following advertisement in the _Era_ will probably cause little surprise:-- WANTED, for La Comédie Anglaise, a Light Comedian, for a few Weeks, while a Member of the Company returns to Oxford to take his degree. Must be a gentleman. Address, &c. This gentleman, to use the language of the _Era_, seems inclined to "combine leading business with general utility." It is to be hoped he will get his degree, and return to be an ornament to the stage. But if this kind of thing goes on, we shall probably eventually see announced in our theatrical contemporary--"Senior Wrangler and Light Comedian open to engagement in first-class Company." * * * * * "THE REVERSIBLE PEN-CLEANER," recently invented by DE LA RUE & CO., will be most useful to Leader-writers, Politicians, Journalists, and everybody in the habit of using "reversible pens," or pens that can write equally well on both sides. Such pens must occasionally require cleaning; and to be cleaned in this pad they must remain upright. *** "A WINTER'S TALE."--That of poverty and distress, which we must do our best to relieve. * * * * * [Illustration: MIDDLE AGE. "YOU'RE GETTING LONG-SIGHTED, DEAREST. YOU'LL HAVE TO WEAR GLASSES." "STUFF AND NONSENSE! IT'S NOT MY SIGHT THAT'S LONG--IT'S MY ARMS THAT AREN'T LONG _ENOUGH_!"] * * * * *