* * * * * SONGS FOR THE SENTIMENTAL. No. II. You say you would find But one, and one only, Who'd feel without you That the revel was lonely: That when you were near, Time ever was fleetest, And deem your loved voice Of all music the sweetest. Who would own her heart thine, Though a monarch beset it, And love on unchanged-- Don't you wish you may get it? You say you would rove Where the bud cannot wither; Where Araby's perfumes Each breeze wafteth thither. Where the lute hath no string That can waken a sorrow; Where the soft twilight blends With the dawn of the morrow; Where joy kindles joy, Ere you learn to forget it, And care never comes-- Don't you wish you may get it? * * * * * "SYLLABLES WHICH BREATHE OF THE SWEET SOUTH." JOEY HUME is about to depart for Switzerland: for, finding his flummery of no avail at Leeds, we presume he intends to go to _Schaff_-hausen, to try the _Cant_-on. MARRIAGE AND CHRISTENING EXTRAORDINARY. We beg to congratulate Lord John Russell on his approaching union with Lady Fanny Elliot. His lordship is such a persevering votary of Hymen, that we think he should be named "_Union-Jack_." * * * * * OMINOUS. LORD PALMERSTON, on his road to Windsor, narrowly escaped being upset by a gentleman in a gig. We have been privately informed that the party with whom he came in collision was--Sir Robert Peel. * * * * * CROSS READINGS. (REC.) If you ever should be In a state of _ennui_, Just listen to me, And without any fee I'll give you a hint how to set yourself free. Though dearth of intelligence weaken the news, And you feel an incipient attack of the blues, For amusement you never need be at a loss, If you take up the paper and _read it_ across. (INTER ARIA DEMI LOQUI.) Here's the _Times_, apropos, And so, With your patience, I'll show What I mean, by perusing a passage or two. (ARIA.) "Hem! Mr. George Robins is anxious to tell, In very plain prose, he's instructed to sell"-- "A vote for the county"--"packed neatly in straw"-- "Set by Holloway's Ointment"--"a limb of the law." "The army has had secret orders to seize"-- "As soon as they can"--"the industrious fleas." For amusement you never need be at a loss, If you take a newspaper and read it across. "The opera opens with"--"elegant coats"-- "For silver and gold we exchange foreign notes"-- "Specific to soften mortality's ills"-- "And cure Yorkshire bacon"--"take Morison's pills." "Curious coincidence"--"steam to Gravesend." "Tale of deep interest"--"money to lend"-- "Louisa is waiting for William to send." For amusement you never need be at a loss, If you take a newspaper and read it across.