As stated in the _Daily Telegraph_ of Thursday last, the Russian Censor stamped out _Mr. Punch's_ Cartoon, "From Nile to Neva," and obliterated the verses. The _St. James's Gazette_ suggested that the Cartoon was thus reproduced in Whistlerian fashion. It certainly is a study in black, without any relief whatever. A Black business indeed! Who shall correct the Censor Incensed? Even _Mr. Punch_ himself would be chary about visiting Petersburg, lest he should be "bound in Russia,"--and sent to Siberia. * * * * * [Illustration: IMITATION THE SINCEREST FLATTERY. _(Effects of a Long Session in the House.)_] * * * * * WHAT THE TAME RABBIT SAID TO THE GRAND OLD GARDENER. _(Some way after "Alice in Wonderland.")_ "The work of Major MORANT is headed _Profitable Rabbit Farming. (Laughter.)_ Yes, that is a subject for merriment, probably, on account of its comparative novelty, but it is also a subject of satisfaction, which is akin to merriment, because this rabbit-farming appears to be a very good and promising description of pursuit.... That is the raising of tame rabbits."--_Mr. Gladstone at the Hawarden Floral and Horticultural Society's Show._ _These were the verses the Tame Rabbit recited_:-- The Grand Old Man was on the stir; MORANT named me to him; He gave me a good character; I thought his meaning dim. He held me up; they thought it fun! And laughed; he chid their glee. If he should push this matter on, What will become of Me? He said I was a paying game, Commending me as such. That's the result of being tame, And living in a hutch. My notion is that it is vain For you, you Grand Old Fella, To rave of rabbits in the rain, Beneath a big umbrella. Don't let them know _we_ fatten best, For this should ever be A secret kept from all the rest, Between yourself and me! * * * * * [Illustration: AMONG THE BUNNIES.] * * * * * LITERATURE AND LOTTERY. _(By a Patron of the Popular Press.)_