When an old man, having been wounded fatally by a young man, requests, as a boon, to be permitted to examine the young man's neck, who, accordingly unloosing his cravat, displays a hieroglyphic neatly engraved thereon, which the old man interprets into his being a parricide, and then dies, leaving the young man in a state of histrionic stupor. When a will is found embellished with a Daguerreotype of four fingers and a thumb, done in blood on the cover, and it turns out that the residuary legatee is no better than he should be--but, on the contrary, a murderer nicely ripe for killing. The "supernatural" _denouement_ is the last resource of a bewildered dramatist, and introduces either an individual in green scales and wings to match, who gives the audience to understand that he is a fiend, and that he has private business to transact below with the villain; who, accordingly, withdraws in his company, with many throes and groans, down the trap. Or a pale ghost in dingy lawn, apparently afflicted with a serious haemorrhage in the bosom, who appears to a great many people, running, in dreams; and at last joins the hands of the young couple, and puts in a little plea of her own for a private burial. And there are many other variations of the three great classes of _denouements_; such as the helter-skelter nine-times-round-the-stage-combat, and the grand _melee_ in which everybody kills everybody else, and leaves the piece to be carried on by their executors; but we dare unveil the mystery no further. * * * * * SPORTING FACE. "Well," said Roebuck to O'Connell, "despite Peel's double-face propensities, he is a great genius." "A great _Janus_ indeed," answered the _liberathor_. * * * * * "A RING! A RING!!" The political pugilistic scrimmage which recently took place in the House of Congress so completely coincides with the views and propensities of the "universal scrimmage" member for Bath, that he intends making a motion for the erection of a twenty-four-foot-ring on the floor of the House, for the benefit of opposition members. The Speaker, says Roebuck, will, in that case, be enabled to ascertain whether the "noes" or "ayes" have it, without tellers. * * * * * PUNCH'S GUIDE TO THE WATERING PLACES.--No. 1. BRIGHTON