We learn from good authority that Lord TAMBOFF STANLEY, in answer to a deputation from Scotland, assured the gentlemen who waited upon him that "the subject of _emigration_ was under the serious consideration of Her Majesty's Ministers." We hope that those respectable gentlemen may soon resolve upon their departure--we care not "what clime they wander to, so not again to _this_;" or, as Shakspeare says, let them "stand not upon the order of their going, but GO." The country, we take it upon ourselves to say, will remember them when they are gone; they have left the nation too many weighty proofs of their regard to be forgotten in a hurry--Corruption, Starvation, and Taxation, and the National Debt by way of [Illustration: A HANDSOME LEG--I SEE (LEGACY).] * * * * * A DOSE OF CASTOR. Peter Borthwick, late of the Royal Surrey Nautical, having had the honour of "deep damnation" conferred upon his "taking off" the character of Prince Henry, upon that occasion, to appear in unison with the text of the Immortal Bard, "dressed" the part in a most elaborate "neck-or-nothing tile." Upon being expostulated with by the manager, he triumphantly referred to the description of the chivalrous Prince in which the narrator particularly states-- [Illustration: I SAW YOUNG HARRY WITH HIS BEAVER ON.] * * * * * CUTTING AT THE ROOT OF THE EVIL. "Good heavens, Sir Peter," said Hobler, confidentially, to our dearly beloved Alderman, "How could you have passed such a ridiculous sentence upon Jones, as to direct his hair to be cut off?" "All right, my dear Hobby," replied the sapient justice; "the fellow was found fighting in the streets, and I wanted to hinder him, at least for some time, from again [Illustration: COMING TO THE SCRATCH."] * * * * * TO PUNCH. We have received the following choice bit of poetic pathology from our old friend and jolly dog Toby, who, it seems, has taken to medicine. The dog, however, always had a great propensity to _bark_, owing doubtlessly to the strong _tincture_ of _canine_ there was in his constitution:-- MY DEAR PUNCH,