SEPTEMBER 21, 1861.]


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EXAMPLE OF FEMALE HEROISMI-No. 1.


MILDRED GOES TO A BALL SGdlS CRINOLINE.


 SLEEP NO MORE.
 SHAKSPEARE, who,-as has been remarked, we believe, before,-was not for an ago but for
all time, and whose comprehensive genius took in everything and everybody, appears to
have been a firm believer in Spirit Rapping,-we bog Ml. HOMEw's pardon, Spiritualism.
Hamlets fetch (and this is especially evident when the misanthropic prince is performed
by MR. FECH-TER) is very strong evidence in favour of this hypothesis. Richard III. is
full of man and womanifestations, and Hecate sings about his "little airy spirit:" as he is
being "taken up" at the time, his remark always seems to us to be strongly suggestive of
the police, more especially as the singer is generally engaged on the strength of his base
vice. But there is one line which we are surprised has never struck those ingenious
gentlemen who squabble eternally about trifles in the text, and pencil marks in the margin,
and it is no less extraordinary that the advocates of Spiritualism should have entirely over-
looked it. Macbeth, who, considering the ambitious and somewhat unscrupulous nature of
Lady M., cannot be said to have enjoyed very many of the pleasures of Home, in his cole-
brated address to the dagger of the mind,"-which, be it remembered, eluded his grasp in
a manner certainly anticipatory of the hands, feet, accordions, etc., met with at modern
sdamccs,-says
 "Thou Marshall-est me the way that I was going."
 There itis. There canbe no mistake about it. SHIAKSPEARE, with the prophetic perspicuity
peculiar to mighty geniuses, evidently saw in his mind's eye the popularity this remarkable
lady would achieve in after times. We have now done. We have pointed out this won-
derful passage, for doing which we must modestly remark that we think we certainly
deserve the thanks of common-taters and uncommon greens. We forbear to hint, lbut
anything in the shape of an easy chair, or a claret cup, or a set of the very best razors, may
be sent to the office, and will be gracefully acknowledged in the following number, as a
matter of course. We know very well what the Shakspearean Society would have done
had it been in existence.


 A LAMENT FROM LINCOLN'S INN .
 WILEn l Black is bagging birds away,
 And Green is out of town;
 And White's in tourist's suit of gray,
 And in the heather-Brown;
 While Wilkins on the jetty walks,
 And Watkins strides the sands;
 Wlile o'er wild highlands Wiggins stalks,
 And tans his manly hands;
 Prods in my blotting pad I make,
 So sadly sigh and say,
 Why was I fool enough to take
 My holidays in May ? "

 When ] return to Camden Town,
 With most dejected air,
 And on tlhe shut-np houses frown,
 In Taradiddle Square;
 My maiden aunt, who makos my tea,
 (She isn't very bright),
 Drops nightly one remark to nm,-
 I wish she'd "drop it" quito:
 "You've had your holiday; you wco ld
 When yet the year was now;
 You can't expect to have your pud-
 -ding, boy, and cat it too."

 The lady's observation's not
 Original, I own,
 But constant dropping on one spot,
 Will wear the hardest stono;
 And though I am not given to
 Reflection, this remark
 Escaped me as I sauntered through
 That dear old Regent's Park,-
 How many hearts grow sick and sad
 In life's declining day,
 And sigh to think that they have had
 Their holidays in May."


 SIIOCKINGLY COARSE, REALLY.
 THE Editor of the Little Snlugborough
 Courier was perusing with anything but
 gratification the "country letter" of his
 "London Correspondent." "Pshaw rub-
 bish !" he exclaimed, as lie ran his eye down
 tle columns of the dreary would-bo comic
 platitudes, "poor BLAI.SE I'ASCAL was the
 boy for country letters. Ah! if I could only
 geot some one to write letters like Blaise's."

 THE LiGrri'TST FisI: DINNEI.i P'OSSliLE.-
 A pair of Cork Soles.
 WilY do refugee foreign noblomon, who
 dispense with linen but cannot do without
 cheap cigars and garlic, prefer a small
 weekly bill to a large one ?-Because it's less
 to square.
 Tia, ]Rix .--Ont his next visit to the
 metropolis, Mi. T. SAiYEX S intends, we hear,
 to put up at Mawley's Hotel.
 IMrPOirANT A.NNOu IsN CnMEINT.--Rainbowsare
 not made of watered silk.
 CoNUNDsi.lM Foll WAIIr WEATHrErR.-Jonoe
 tried very hard to obtain forty winks, but
 failed, in consequence of an irritating fly.
 Why was that fly JonoIs's deadliest onomy?-
 Because it was his bit o' ret tooe.
 IlIltII.sNIAN CoxuNl)NiaM.--Why is tile Daily
 News like a black eye ?-Because it is a
 mourning peeper.
 ONE TO Till,; DosSE.-Wlien a Holloway
omnibus "goes down," may iot the mishap
be described as a Iolloway spill ?