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reiiie' l ul wr the table, hic;ice he did not reappear for some minutes,
awl the srlject was dropped.)
 LoIi) P.ALIEIISroN :-NOW, GLADSTONE, touching the money-bag.
 The income-tax is coming off this time, of course?
 31Ai. GLADSTONE:-With a hook Not if I know it. It's too con-
 venient a lover to raise the national wind for me to be a reliever. But
 I won't increase it-if I can help it. I gave up the paper-duty---
 MaR. MILNEit GIBSOx (proudly) :-That was my doing.
 MI. GLADSTONE :--Well, and you're going to get a testimonial-
 silver coal-scuttle, boot-jack, or toothpick, or something of that sort
 -from a grateful nation; so don't make any more noise about it.
 Still, I am in doubt about the cash business,-and so further particu-
 lars in our next, as the newspapers say.
 Sit (G. C. WooD :-I hear the TURNER pictures have gone back to
PI'ppor-pot lIouse.
 -)DUKE or AiRGYLL (blani7dly) :-Meaning the National Gallery, I pre-
suino.
 lA;,\B1 RUSSELL:-Only just in time though. Government nearly
had to be a re-turner. (Groans and indignation from all the
ilioisters.)
 Lolln I')ALMERSiTONE (severely) :-JOHN RUSSELL, you've done a
good deal in that way lately. \Who your associates may have been in
tlie provinces I can't say. It is now time conduct of that sort should
le put a stop to, and it's my opinion you'd better go home to dinner,
and I mean to do the same. [Exeunt ones.


 FREEDOM OF OPINION,
 THE NEW AlMERICAN "SENSATION SONG."
 I A\i a Yankee-yes, sir-ee !
 I'd scorn the fact to smother,
 I'd have each nation to be free,
 And every man a brother.
 Who thinks with me 's a cutish hboss,
 Who don't agree's a ninny 'un,
 A dolt,.a traitor skunk, an ass,
 I'm for Freedom of Opinion!
 The Southern States combined and struck,
 Against our just oppression,
 And some said part, and wished them luck,
 But I'll have no concession!
 They say they have dissolved the firm,
 That once was called the Union,
 I say they hain't-they can't-they sha:-'t,-
 I'm for Freedom of Opinion!
 And thus to serve my state I'll try,
 Tleh freest in creation ;
 Whoever tries to iargif',
 Will catch it hot,-tarnation
 Who fancies reason can prevail,
 To limit our udmininon,
 \Ye'll tar and feather, ride on rail,
 I'm for Freedom ot Opinion!
 Those cussed Britishers' offence,
 Won't be too soon forgotten,
 Why don't they arm in our defence ?
 What's principles to cotton?
 They prate about neutrality,
 Hiut that ain't worth an inion,
 'When half a nation crushed may be.
 For Freedom of Opinion!
 They say that we have fought, by goles !
 Old time-worn rules in spite of,
 That we shoot sentries, break paroles,
 And honour's Inws make light of.
 I'd lie, and lhomnewardn make a track,
 And as for traitor minions !
 I like to shoot 'em in lthe back-
 I'm for Freedom of Opinions !
 Then, when we've won, we will expand
 Due North by nmnexation,
 To Canada and Neswfoundland,
 Extend IloRit. taxation.
 Confiond free trade and freedom, too,
 In such superb dominion !
 Hang all who do not as 1 do,
 I'm for Freedom of Opinion!


[NOEMBER30 1861.


 PAN AT THE PLAY.
 .F course every
 ,, ,, playgoer knows
 i,' by this time the
 ": t'- r a --- plot of the Octo-
 .. -- roon, and that the
 At, audience after p-
 "plaudingthrough
 'I -." i _,. --- -1 i four acts, became
 ..- squeamish at the
 conclusion, and
 S hailedthedeseent
 S_ of the curtain
 ____ \-with anything
 but a congratula-
 tory accompani-
 ment. The picture of a heroine dying by poison, administered to her
 in ignorance of its dreadful property by her lover, is not a pleasant
 one, and the opening of the scene at the back to exhibit a super-
 natural picture is an injudicious effect which is altogether out of place
 in a drama which, if it is to succeed, must do so from its naturalness
 and the vivid truth of its transatlantic pictures. It is a strange
 sight to watch an English audience on the first night of an important
 dramatic production, to see how thoroughly they ignore the effects of
 the earlier portion of the play, and how swayed they are by the con-
 cluding incidents and tableau. Anybody who had witnessed the first
 four acts of the Octoroon on Monday, and was compelled to leave after
 so doing, would have felt perfectly certain as to its success. But,
 alas what may not happen in a short half-hour; one unpleasant situa-
 tion, or an unskilfully worked-up climax, will peril, and perhaps destroy,
 the hopes of the most brilliant dramatist and the most experienced
 and effective company. Notwithstanding the uncomfortable feeling
 induced by the final act, the Octoroon will draw, and will prove, if not
 a second Colleen Biwn, at all events a remunerative aid sufficiently
 successful production.
 MR. RYDER, a painstaking, sensible, and conscientious actor, has
appeared at the Princess's as Sir John Falstaff in the Merry Wives of
Windsor, with excellent effect; he is not as unctuous as he might be,
but he is droll and appreciative, and consequently deservedly success-
ful. Miss RosE LECLERCQ, as Stoeet Anne Page, is alone worth a visit,
and the merry wives are impersonated with humour and grace by
Miss CARLOTTA LECLERcq and Miss ELSWORTHY.
 A very pleasant drama, adapted by MR. CHAiLES SELBY, has been
produced at the St. James's. MR. WIGAN, as the poor nobleman,
exhibits that skilful blending of humour and pathos for which he is so
remarkable, and MNis. WIGAN gives a perfect picture of a kind-hearted
woman of plebeian origin, but possessing the innate delicacy of the
true lady. M3B. BErLMOR is admirable; this comedian, having
passed tle matriculation of enormous shirt-collars and pantomime-
pattern trousers, has come out with honours as a most sensible and
humourous artist.
 In a paragraph which appeared in FUN last week, touching a
trifling accident to StGNOR GILUGLINI's nose, poor little MDLLE. PATTI
was described as the assailant instead of MI LLE. TITI:NS. lWhen
our contributor heard of his mistake, he excused himself by admitting
that he could never think of anything or anybody but MDLLE. PAITI.
Upon this the editor forgave, as no doubt will the kind-hearted little
prima donna.
 Three cheers for Mil. IIALLmWELL! May his shadow never grow
less, and may a thrill of joy pass over his frame while rending the
following parody of PAN's on the subject of his successful SHi.K-
SPEAANi- gardening operations:-
 SONG TO MR. HALLIWEIL.
 Air-'* Fare-thee-well, my own Mary Anne."
 HALLI-WELL, my dear SIIAKSPEAiI-AN,
 IIALLIWELL, for a time
 Is the heart of the best
 SIIAKSPEARE lover at rest,
 And I am bound unto thee, gentle-man.
 The garden of St AKSPEARE is sacred properties,
 HALLIWELL, as you know,
 And it ne'er shall be said
 That they groaned neathh the tread
 Of the fool or the knave; it shan't be, gentleman.
 Fare-thee-well, my bold SIIAKSPERI-AN,
 Fare-thee-well, for my rhyme
 Is now at an end,
 May my blessings attend
 Thy footsteps, believe me yours faithfully, PAs.


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