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NOT IMPROBABLE.--Lord ROSEBERY might have ended his diplomatic reply
to Mr. THOMAS GIBSON BOWLES, M.F., who recently sent kind inquiries
to the Foreign Office, as to the Pamirs and Behring Sea, Canadian
Government, &c., &c., with a P.S. to the effect that "his
correspondent probably considered him as a Jack (in office), and
therefore a legitimate object to score off in the game of BOWLES."

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_The Prodigal Daughter; or, The Boyne-Water Jump_, by DRURIOLANUS
MAGNUS and PETTITT PARVUS, was produced with greatest success, last
Saturday, at Old Drury. The general recommendation to the authors will
be, as a matter of course, i.e., of race-course, given in the historic
words of DUCROW, "Cut the cackle and come to the 'osses." When this
advice is acted upon, _The Prodigal Daughter_, a very fine young
woman, but not particularly prodigal, will produce receipts beyond all
cacklelation.

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FUTURE LEGISLATION FOR NEXT SESSION.--Mr. GLADSTONE will introduce a
Bill to render criminal the keeping of heifers loose in a field.

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BY A PARAGRAPHIC JOURNALIST.--Very natural that there should be "pars"
about "Mars."