Sir Peter Laurie discovered during his residence in Boulogne that _veau_ is the French for _veal_. On his return to England, being at a public dinner, he exhibited his knowledge of the tongues by asking a brother alderman for a slice of his _weal_ or _woe_. * * * * * HAPPY LAND! Six young girls, inmates of the Lambeth workhouse, were brought up at Union Hall, charged with breaking several squares of glass. In their defence, they complained that they had been treated worse in the workhouse than they would be in prison, and said that it was to cause their committal to the latter place they committed the mischief. What a beautiful picture of moral England this little anecdote exhibits! What must be the state of society in a country where crime is punished less severely than poverty? Old England, bless'd and favour'd clime! Where paupers to thy prisons run; Where poverty's the only crime That angry justice frowns upon. * * * * * THE NEW STATE STRETCHER. "What an uncomfortable bed Peel has made for himself!" observed Normanby to Palmerston. "That's not very clear to me, I confess," replied the Downing-street Cupid, "as it is acknowledged he sleeps on a _bolstered cabinet_." The pacificator of Ireland closed his face for the remainder of the day. * * * * * The latest case of monomania, from our own specially-raised American correspondent:--A gentleman who fancied himself a pendulum always went upon tick, and never discovered his delusion until he was carefully wound up in the Queen's Bench. * * * * * "VERY LIKE A WHALE." The first of all the royal infant males _Should_ take the title of the Prince of _Wales_; Because 'tis clear to seaman and to lubber, Babies and _whales_ are both inclined to _blubber_. * * * * * ARRIVED AT LAST. We perceived by a paragraph copied from the "_John o'Groats Journal_," that an immense Whale, upwards of _seventy-six_ feet in length, was captured a few days since at Wick. Sir Peter Laurie and Alderman Humphrey on reading this announcement _naturally_ concluded that the _Wick_ referred to was our gracious Queen _Wic_, and rushed off to Buckingham-palace to pay their united tribute of loyalty to the long-expected _Prince of Wales_. * * * * * EPIGRAM. I'm going to seal a letter, Dick, Some _wax_ pray give to me. I have not got a _single stick_, Or _whacks_ I'd give to thee. * * * * * THE PICTORIAL HISTORY OF PARLIAMENT.