The ingenious Japs at a new work of Art--scarcely native this time. We'll hope their "New Constitution" may shape as well as their cabinets, and wear better than their locks and keys. Pantomime child-peris turned out--_pro tem._, thanks be--of their Stage Paradise. "See me reverse!" Two openings,--Parliament and the Parnell Commission. And then--sinister sequel to the latter!--the flight of the pitiful PIGOTT. A far pleasanter picture is the return of generous D'AUMALE to Chantilly. Scarcely less agreeable, to lovers of peace and of France, is the flight of the blatant firebrand BOULANGER. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest! Big brave boys these American Base-Ball players. Game _may_ be acclimatised here, but _they_ evidently thought our "climate" against them, and with reason. Loss of the _Sultan_,--_not_ the PADISHAH himself, worse luck! He would be _no_ loss. Cambridge winning "the classic race"! Bravo, Light Blue! Who mutters demur! Ah! you are a brunette, though a "fair" one, my dear, so _Punch_ pardons you. The sight of your Gracious QUEEN enjoying her Royal self in Portugal, will, perhaps, put you in a better temper, Miss. Two bad endings! Abolition of the Board of Works, and abdication of King MILAN of Servia. Both can be well spared. But BRIGHT, brave belligerent JOHN, true, tenacious, trenchant,--no, we could ill spare _him_. What, _Punch_ wonders, would the fighting Apostle of Peace have said of the "Naval Defence Bill" hard by? Well, we know what the Country said of it. And the escape of that Kane-Captained Rennie-engined _Calliope_,--England has not forgotten that yet, if the Admiralty has. Opening of the Great--the Colossal, the Titanic, the World-witching, Republic-saving French Exhibition! As "Big" a thing as--as the Tour Eiffel itself! Can even _Mr. Punch_ say more? It must have a paragraph all to itself. Well done, LUTETIA! Well may you _pro tem._ at least, kick out politics. SANDY "takes the floor," and his "Scotch Local Government Bill!" Hope he'll like it. He generally does like big things, be they Bills or Cabers! Better anyhow than PADDY relishes "BALFOUR'S Battering-Ram," which comes next. And then, Gentlemen, the match at Brummagem between those two political pugilists, CHURCHILL and CHAMBERLAIN! Fight unfinished, result as yet uncertain. National Portrait Gallery to be fitly housed at last. Then the picture takes us "across the herring-pond" to the great Washington Centenary. Four Millions more money for Ships, the opening of the Opera Season, the raising of the Rates; all matters of interest, painful or otherwise, to most of you, Gentlemen. Abandonment of the Sugar Bill! Not one of the much-talked-of "sweets of office" this, eh? Ask BARON DE WORMS! Raid on the Betting Clubs! But the great Demon of Gambling, like the objects of the great Curse in Ingoldsby, "never" seems "one penny the worse." Opening of the Spanish Exhibition. Equipment of our Volunteers. Bravo, Lord Mayor WHITEHEAD!