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[DECEMBER 14, 1861.


 A SAD CASE.
 Scene-Breakfast Room, Coivtry House.
 (Enter FWANK, who helps himself to a pheasant's thigh at side table, and takes his chair ioith doleful expression of countenance,
amid general exclamations of "Gracious, FRANK, what is the matter? Why do you look so melancholy .
 Frank:-"MELANCHOLY, AW-I SHOULD WATAIER THINK SO-AW. WHY THAT ATWOCIOUS WET SKYE TEWIAW HAS PURSUED ME DOWN
STAIRS, AND WANTONLY JUMPED ALL OVER MY BOOTS AND-AW-LEATHAWS, AW-AND I SHALL NEVAW BE ABLE TO GET INTO ANOTHAW
PAIR IN TIME FOI THE MBET!"


 THE HERBERT MEMORIAL.
 MUCH e eloquence, and, what is more important, much money, have
been contributed within the last few weeks to a scheme for raising a
fitting monument to the memory of the late LORD HERBERT. If he,
whom MIssNIGHTINGALE, the soldier's friend-SANTA FILOMENA-called
" her dear chief," could express his wishes on the subject, we fancy he
would not ask the erection of a church or a state. While the papers
are filled with accounts of military murders, we wonder the movers of
the scheme do not see that the best memorial of LORD HERBERT they*
could devise would be the introduction of a new system into the army,
which, by raising the soldier above the level of the brutes, and placing
the officer a little lower than a demigod, would at once put a stop to
these assassinations, which are becoming the disgrace of our army.
When soldiers may be trusted to go out with belts and side-arms,
when rounds of ball cartridge may safely be placed in their hands,
when officers may be dressed in a little brief authority without playing
fantastic tricks with their fellow-men, and when military authorities
look on a private as something better than a machine to be kept going
at so much per day, then the system which introduces these reforms
would be the noblest and most fitting tribute that a sorrowing nation
could raise to the memory of a great and good man. And that system
might be termed the HERBERT organization.


 WuY arc volunteers like old maids?-Because they are always
"cady, and never wanted.


 VOLUNTEERING WITH A VENGEANCE.-The St. Pancras Volunteers
have been proceeding against several members for non-payment of
their subscriptions. Orders for payment of subscription and costs in
seven days were made with the ultimate delight of a distress warrant
in default of payment. This sort of voluntary contribution appears to
come into the category of things you are "not obliged to do-only
you must."

 THE COMING SENSATION!
 Year it goes round, round, round I"
 The Proprietors of FPM, wishing to make a few-roar with laughing, and also to set the
 BRITISH PUBLIC
grinning from year to year, beg to announce that they have entered into arrangements with the
most exalted personages of the day (including BLOaDIN) for the production, on the 10th, of

 FUN ALMANACK FOR 1862,
 comprising some
 EDUCATIONAL MINUTES OF GREAT MOMENT,
(not second-hand information); an Essay on the Fore-quarters, by HIonD; Problems in
Draughts, by the GovERoa of the BAnK; Voice of the Stars, by a Lighterman, etc. The
Almanack will be of such a character that
 MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT
will be compelled to TAKE IT UP, and then find themselves totally unable to PUT IT DOWN.
The Month of March will be devoted to the Volunteer Movement. Full Notice of the
 GREAT EXHIBITION,
which will OPEN in May and CLOSE to the Kensington Museum. Our Sporting Readers will
also be attended to, for our particularly fine cover will be drawn, without any chance of its being
a blank; and finally, the outside will give great promise, which any one may look uponas binding.


London: Printed and Published (for the Proprietors) by CHARLES WHYTE at the Office, 80, Fleet Street, E.C.-Saturday, December 14,1801.