* * * * * [Illustration: A LITTLE VAGUE! _Affable Landlady_ (_to her new Artist Lodger_), "AND I SUPPOSE, SIR, YOU COMES FROM ABROAD!" _Foreign Lodger_. "SO! I GOME VROM AUSTRIA." _A.L._ "DO YOU HINDEED, SIR? FROM HOSTRIA! AH! HOW THAT'S WHERE THE HOSTRICHES COMES FROM, I SUPPOSE?!!"] * * * * * AN OLD AND NEW PEER. DEAR MR. PUNCH,--Look here! I've done good service in my time, and no one likes to see himself deprived of an honoured title, or forced to take a back seat. I've been trodden under-foot over and over again--but I've borne it with fortitude, and never, never given way. Now, what do I hear? That a Gentleman, a Government Whip, for whom I have the highest esteem and respect, is now to assume the title which, by right of position, place, time, and prescription, belongs to me, and _to me only_, I can bear much, but, after so many years of devoted service, during which, with all my opportunities, I have never once made any attempt to leave my place to go higher up, or to go lower down, or, in either case, to go with the tide, I cannot, and, indeed, will not, yield my title to anyone, however good and useful to his Party he may have been, but proudly declaring myself as good as any "Sprig of Nobility," even as this one who cometh up as a Flower, I beg, protestingly, to remind the world at large that I am "_Nulli Secundus_," and _de facto et dejure_, THE ONLY BATTERSEA PEER. P.S.--Spell it with an "i" or "e," it's all one. If my "i" is put out, and "_he_" has got in instead, that's a mere quibble or quebble. * * * * * [Illustration: Cowley Lambert.] [Illustration: H. Campbell.] MEMBERS WE SHALL MISS. Our Old Parliamentary Artistic Hand been at it again; looking with eyesight blurred with sorrow on familiar forms of some Members stranded at General Election. Dismembered, and, for some time at least, not to be remembered. COWLEY LAMBERT always been a rover. Went Midland Circuit for short time, and having made the Circuit, made for home. Then he accomplished "A Trip to Cashmere and Ladak." Opportunity now for varying itinerary, and making a "Trip to Ladak and Cashmere." Must be moving somewhere. Wrote himself down in _Dod_ "a Progressive Conservative." Has now progressed out of sight of the Chair. This particular CAMPBELL is neither coming nor going. He's gone. PULESTON seems quite pleased to find LLEWELLYN sitting there, all unconscious of his doom. PULESTON a little astonished himself when things went bad at Carnarvon. Only short time ago made Constable of Castle; thought P.C. PULESTON sure to come in at head of poll; but, "from information received," appears he didn't. [Illustration: E.H. Llewellyn.] [Illustration: Sir J.H. Puleston.]