Smoke! Who smokes To the great annoyance of other folks? Ah! who is this snob so fine? A gent, Sirs! a gent! He comes with the noxious scent Of tobacco, beer, and wine: Far better that he On the roof should be. I prefer his room to his company. * * * * * COTTON AFLOAT. The Americans have made another magnificent discovery of the use of cotton. Cotton makes the best cordage for ships. It runs freer, and ties tighter knots. (The knots hitherto caused by cotton all _Uncle Tom's_ can bear witness to.) Cotton, moreover, makes the best sails: for the _Sovereign of the Seas_, Yankee craft, has sails as well as rigging of the fabric. What a slave-clipper might be rigged by the appropriate cotton! What a thing of life (and death) to walk the middle-passage; to fly in and out of African bays and creeks! But one ceremony would be needed to make such a craft perfect. She ought to be christened by the QUEEN DOWAGER OF SPAIN. As HER MAJESTY is about the richest slaveholder, the very largest dealer in human flesh, it would be very appropriate that she should give a name to the kidnapping craft. We would suggest as a name _The Christina_. The slaver rigged with cotton, and the Dowager Queen rigged with the spoils of slavery, would be worthy of one another. * * * * * HOW TO WRITE THE BIOGRAPHY OF A WOMAN. An impudent fellow says: "Show me all the dresses a woman has worn in the course of her life, and I will write her Biography from them." * * * * * [Illustration: CONSULTATION ABOUT THE STATE OF TURKEY.] * * * * * PERVERSION OF A CLERGYMAN. [Illustration: T] The Advertisements that are sent to some of our contemporaries, must be altered by them. Here, for instance, is a notification, extracted from the _Lincoln, Rutland, and Stamford Mercury_, by which unprincipled journal it has evidently been corrupted in the grossest manner:-- THE REVEREND RALPH WILLIAM TOLLEMACHE having obtained the exclusive right of Shooting, Sporting, &c., over the whole of the Manor of CLIPSHAM (except Addah Wood), and Lands belonging to J. M. PAGET, Esquire, in the Lordship of PICKWORTH, in the county of Rutland, hopes that all qualified Persons will refrain from trespassing upon the said Lands; as also upon Lands in the Lordship of SOUTH WITHAM, over which he has the right of Shooting, &c., including Lands belonging to the Blue Bull Farm in the Parish of CASTLE BYTHAM and the Hamlet of LOBTHORPE, in the county of Lincoln; and in the Parish of THISTLETON, in the county of Rutland; also on the Blue Point Farm in the Parish of WYMONDHAM, in the county of Leicester.