How gratifying to every philanthropist must be these proofs of the elasticity of mind peculiar to a Medical Student! Surrounded by scenes of the most impressive and deplorable nature--in constant association with death and contact with disease--his noble spirit, in the ardour of his search after professional information, still retains its buoyancy and freshness; and he wreaths with roses the hours which he passes in the dissecting-room, although the world in general looks upon it as a rather unlikely locality for those flowers to shed their perfume over! "By the way, Muff, where did you get to last night after we all cut?" inquires Mr. Rapp. "Why, that's what I am rather anxious to find out myself," replies Mr. Muff; "but I think I can collect tolerably good reminiscences of my travels." "Tell us all about it then," cry three or four. "With pleasure--only let's have in a little more beer; for the heat of the fire in cooking produces rather too rapid an evaporation of fluids from the surface of the body." "Oh, blow your physiology!" says Rapp. "You mean to say you've got a hot copper--so have I. Send for the precious balm, and then fire away." And accordingly, when the beer arrives, Mr. Muff proceeds with the recital of his wanderings. * * * * * LOVE AND HYMEN. Cupid (that charming little _garcon_), When free, is am'rous, brisk, and gay; But when he's noos'd by Hymen's parson, Snores like _Glenelg_, or flies away. * * * * * OUR CITY ARTICLE. An alarming forgery of Mendicity Society's tickets has been discovered in Red Lion Square, and has caused much conversation at the doors of most of the gin palaces. Our readers are probably aware what these tickets are, though, being a particular class of security, there is not a great deal publicly done in them. They are issued to certain subscribers, who pay a guinea per year towards housing a Secretary and some other officers in a moderate-sized house, in the kitchen of which certain soup is prepared, which is partaken of by a number of persons called the Board, who are said to taste it and see that it is good; and if there is any left, which may occasionally happen, the poor are allowed to finish it. This valuable privilege is secured by tickets; and these tickets are found to be forged to a very large amount--some say indeed to the amount of 14,000 basins. It is not usual to pay off these soup tickets, but a sort of interest can be had upon them by standing just over the railings of the house in Red Lion Square, when the Secretary's dinner is being cooked or served up, and a certain amount of savoury steam is then put into circulation. The house has been besieged all day with "innocent holders," who, on giving their tickets in, cannot get them back again. The genuine tickets are known by the stamp, which is a soup plate _rampant_, and a spoon _argent_,--the latter being the emblem of the subscribers.