_Report of the Quartermaster-Gen., to be forwarded to Inspector-Gen. of Fortifications._ CAN offer no suggestion about the cost of production until it can be ascertained whether the Cannonette will be suitable for Home Defences. What is your opinion on this point? _Report of Inspector-General of Fortifications, to be forwarded to Secretary of State._ No doubt the Cannonette might be used in a variety of ways. But it will be observed that the Ordnance Committee raised the question of expense--a matter that scarcely concerns my Department. _Memo. of Secretary of State, to be forwarded to Financial Secretary._ PLEASE read inclosed Report, and send on. _Report of Financial Secretary, to be forwarded to the Director-General of Ordnance._ It is premature to consider the question of expense until it has been decided that the introduction of this Cannonette will be of advantage to the Service. The Ordnance Committee use the words, "Might possibly," which are not, in themselves, a strong recommendation. It must be borne in mind that the Army Estimates must be calculated with the greatest attention to economy. _Report of Director-General of Ordnance to Commander-in-Chief._ I HAVE examined Cannonette, which appears to have been constructed on the lines of a weapon manufactured in the reign of HENRY THE EIGHTH, of which there is a specimen in the Museum at Woolwich. _Endorsement of Commander-in-Chief. (Packet to be put in Pigeon-hole_ 404,567 B.) POSSIBLY something in the notion--immediate attention unnecessary. _From Mr. T. Tenterfive to Mr. C. Bounder._ DEAR CHARLEY,--Have just been looking through our papers relative to your pop-gun. I am afraid you will have to wait for a decision a good long while. Thine ever, THOMAS TENTERFIVE. * * * * * [Illustration: DISILLUSION.] _Proud Mother._ "I SEE, HERBERT, 'S.P.G.' SEVERAL TIMES OCCURRING AMONG YOUR EXPENSES. I'M GLAD TO FIND YOU CAN SPARE SOMETHING OCCASIONALLY FOR THAT EXCELLENT SOCIETY." _Schoolboy._ "IT'S NOT EXACTLY THAT, MUMMY DEAR. IT STANDS FOR _'SUNDRIES--PROBABLY GRUB_!'" * * * * * ANOTHER OF ROBERT'S XSTRORNERRY ADWENCHURS. It was ony the beginnin of larst week, as I was a seekin to begile my rayther tiresum lezzure by a wark down Cornhill--tho which is hup and which is down that rayther strait hill it is sumtimes difficult to say--that jest as I was a passing by the, to me, amost sacred establishment of Messrs. BRING AND RHYMER, the great Cooks, as amost everybody knos and reweres, I seed a henwellop a laying on the pavement, which I naterally picked up, and put in my pocket quietly, and then, crossing over to the Royal Xchange, jest hoppersit, I sets down on one of the forms kindly purwided by the generus Copperashun and the Mersers Company, six of one, and arf a dozzen of the other, for the rest of the weary traveller.