English News.

It is noted, as a very remarkable fact, that "the Member of Parliament
for Sheffield first entered that town as an Italian image boy." He was
the image of his mother.

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In the Air.

_Voice at Rome_. "I am the infallible PIO Nono."

_Echo, everywhere_. "'No! no!'"

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Ancient Inscription on the Throne of Spain.

M. T.

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THE ROBINS.

[_Compare a much more "poetic" effusion, under this head, in all the
American newspapers_.]

There's a screech upon the housetop, a creak upon the plain,
It's a libel on the sunshine, its a slander on the rain;