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PUNCH, OK, THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[March 23, 1889.

QUITE AT HOME.

Madame La France. " Ah ! Monseigneur, soyez le bienvenu 1” M. le Due.
Le Brad G&niral. “Enchant!:, Monseigneur! A bientot, Madame.”

Et—SANS ADIEU, CETTE FOIS, j’ESPERE.”

[.II se sauve.

“Arcades Ambo-blackguards both..”

Some of the amenities of the Kennington electors are worth notice,
as specimens of political polemics. A (supposed) Radical abstracted
Mr. Beresford Hope’s watch. By way, perhaps, of retort-un-
courteous, a (believed to be) Conservative threw a lump of “ concrete ”
at Mr. Beaufot. Whether the “ abstract” argument or the “ con-
crete ” one be the worse or weaker, it is hard to say; but at any rate
neither is conclusive—save of the irrational ruffianism of the rascals
who used them.

Refreshment for Speciax Commission.—Coffey, real Mocker,
roasted by Sir Henry James, Q.C.

A Philosophic Reflection for Impatient Patriots.

Since Faction, ever on the wing,

Yents folly in and out of season,

The most ww reason able thing
Is to expect it to show reason.

Mr. Stanhope says that the Ordnance Department are at last on
their mettle, and are going to make up for lost time. It is to be
hoped, for the sake of avoiding disappointments, that the material
may not prove identical with that from which they have latterly
been undertaking to supply the country with its big guns.