BY A THOUGHTFUL PHILOSOPHER.--Any remedy against London fogs must
involve a grate change.

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[Illustration: A GREAT DRAWBACK.

_Dougal_ (_with all his native contempt for the Londoner_). "AYE, MON,
AN' HE'S NO A BAD SHOT?"

_Davie_. "'DEED AN' HE'S A VERRA _GUID_ SHOT."

_Dougal_. "HECH! IT'S AN AWFU' PEETIE HE'S A LONDONER!"]

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THE NEW MONITOR; OR, JOSEPH'S JOBATION.

["It is reasonable to assume that Mr. CHAMBERLAIN will at
once perceive how his position has been altered by becoming
the head of a party including many shades of opinion, instead
of being, as he has been, the spokesman of a small set of
politicians, earnest, no doubt, and active, but not quite
in sympathy with all those who shared their fortunes."--_The
Times_.

"The arrangements consequent on Lord HARTINGTON's succession
to the Peerage have very much narrowed the freedom
previously enjoyed by the Member for West Birmingham, and,