As a very little goes a great way, and particularly as the most diminutive portion of knowledge communicated by ourselves is, like the "one small pill constituting a dose," much more efficacious than the 40 Number Ones and 50 Number Twos of the mere quacks, we close for the present our observations on _Political Economy_. * * * * * ON THE KEY-VIVE. There can be no doubt as to the _prima facie_ evidence of the hostile intentions of the destroyed American steamer, with respect to the disaffected on Navy Island, as, from the acknowledged inquisitiveness of the gentler sex, there can be no doubt that _Caroline_ would have a natural predilection for [Illustration: PRIVATE (H)EERING.] * * * * * LAST NEW SAYINGS. _Come, none of your raillery_; as the stage-coach indignantly said to the steam-engine. _That "strain" again_; as the Poor-law Commissioner generously said to the water-gruel sieve. _I paid very dear for my whistle_; as the steam-engine emphatically said to the railroad. _Peel for ever!_ as the church bells joyously said to Conservative hearts. * * * * * There is at present a man in New York whose temper is so exceedingly hot that he invariably reduces all his shirts to tinder. * * * * * PUNCH'S THEATRE. THE MAID OF HONOUR. The Adelphi "Correspondent from Paris" has favoured that Theatre with an adaptation of Scribe's "_Verre d'Eau_," which he has called "The Maid of Honour." Everybody must remember that, last year, the trifling affair of the British Government was settled by the far more momentous consideration of who should be Ladies of the Bed-chamber. The Parisians, seeing the dramatic capabilities of this incident, put it into a farce, resting the whole affair upon the shoulders of a former Queen whose Court was similarly circumstanced. This is the piece which Mr. Yates has had the daring to get done into English, and transplanted into Spain, and interspersed with embroidery, confectionary, and a Spanish sentence; the last judiciously entrusted to that accomplished linguist, Mr. John Saunders.