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 BANDMASTERR RSIAKEIlATON, WHO10 PRIDES HIMSELF UPON H[IS ARTISTIC EYE, ARRANGES I1S MEN TOR WHAT iHE CONSIDERS WILL MAKE A
 2ERY PICTURESQUE PI'lOTOGRAPI';-IBUT DON'T YOU THINK TIE HAD BETTER KEEP THE SPECTATORS OUT O' THE FOCIuS



 good o' grinning on the maintop, not caring much for unnatural
 NAVAL RESERVE. infants with wings at the best o' times. And here's wishing you a
 merry Christmas and a happy new year to you, and hoping that
 BELAY there, messmate! Axing your pardon, great Commodore the next Bull's Run which the Americans may have a taste of will be
FUN, haul-to for just a minute. Look here; the Americans have at them and not from them.-I am, yours ever,
insulted our flag, haven't they? Yes, you say. That's enough. Fore Castle. TAR QUIN.
Now every tar is ready to pitch into them for that. Ain't he?
0' course. Lot me come athwart their hawsers! Haw! haw! haw!
sirs, it makes me laugh to think how-but avast heaving! What ART NOTES.
I'm going to say is this: every one, more or less, is a volunteer;
good. Now I don't understand noways this 'ere Naval Reserve of THE National Portrait Gallery is again thrown open to the public
which they talk so much; if the tars or the volunteer tars are really in Great George-street. Several pictures of considerable interest
fishing to have a smack at theso Yankees, let 'em say so boldly, and have been added, amongst whish we may mention likenesses of tile
with naval straightforwardness, and on this subject at least don't let following noted personages :-The author of the touching ballad
us have any of this hero Naval Reserve. Very good. Now I come to known as the "Perfect Cure;" the Irish literary gentleman who
another point (I tells our steward who writes this for me, that it's wrote Du CAILLU's Equatorial Africa; the popular actor, MR.
spelt pint," but he says it isn't; so to save a quarrel among friends HIGGINS, in his favourite character of Montesqueieu B. (in the Pet
we has a quart together), about that CAPTAIN WILKES, I should just 1''P'reacer, by SHERIDAN KNOWLES); the WoOMAN IN WHITE, authoress of
like to pipe all hands to make him pipe his eye. I mean, you know, 1 lIilkic Collins and other fictions; the RIGHT REV. A. TROLLOPIE,
should just like to make him bare his back and bear the lash,-that is, Bishop Designate of Barchester; and MR. BRIGHT, with an olive-
you understand, take off some of his kit and give him a taste of the branch in his mouth, cotton in his ears, his own interest in his
cat. As Paddy says, we'd have lashins all round, and make a great day trouser's pocket, and England's honour over his left shoulder. Photo-
of it. But, worthy Commodore, just let me and some other hearts of g'aphy has given its assistance to this national collection in the shape
oak (they're the fellows to deal with) have a regular go in at of a capital negative of Pio No-No. A delicious group in marble,
CAPTAIN WILKES; we'll soon make dm into pickled WILKES, I promise copied from the well-known Three Graces, and representing the three
you. P'raps, as I said to my PorLY, they'll apollygizo. P'raps they celebrated acrobats of the day, n MESSRS. BLONDIN, LEOTAItU, and
won't. If not, out go our steamers, and then comes the tug of war. Si'RGIEO, adorns the entrance-hall.
I've heard some scholar say it's a bad thing to serve two masters;
so it is, purwided you can get three-masters or a regular first-class
man-o'-war steam-vessel. Well, well, I'll bring to now, Commodore ; A RE1ARK FOR A TRAVELLER.-Where there's a wheel there's a way.
and as l'm in port, I drinks this little glass to your health: "There's WHEN is a doer not a doer?-When he's doing nothing, of course.
a sweet little chirrup as smiles up aloft." But I don't much see the TERM TIME.-When a lady quarrels with her husband.


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