The Press.
London, England, 1853-12-31 00:00:00

These I offer—these will tell,
As ingredients of your spell.
Triple curse, and covert hope.
Of the Refiquan. Czar, and Pope.
End your toil and crown your trouble'.
Make your fated cauldron bubble !
As Asmodeus throws these items into the flame it hums np suddenly and
fiercely. A luminous steam demises itself over the apartment, which
attracts a flight of crinnon•winged bats, with other ornithological specimens
not classified by Audubon. The Familiars become excited, and, as the caul.
Ikon boils, perform an eccentric polka to this reinsio4l:
England speed thee to perdit•
Hy this spell of COALITION.
[ kt this moment Munthingus is introduced by his Oily. Ile does not for some
instants appear at his ease, but as soon at he comprehends the butane's he
nave* his gossamer and fraternises. ]

lfundungms.-1 see where we are ! Humll! Vire la Ilepub—
spirit—Hush, my good friend. Even Bright does nut venture
upon that.as yet,—at least before society.

SCENE V.-LOWER DEPTHS.

ll•ims.-IThom have you brought u 5? You aro always bringing
people here.

Spirit—This time, ungrateful wretches, I have brought you the
People. I found him wandering in the middle of the world above,
and catching hint 'twist night and day, when we had power, I brought
him down, to spend his New Year's-eve with us. Now be hospitable,
and amuse him.

roiees.—Let him MUSS us.
Spirit.—He will, if you give him time. But it im our turn first.
Come, what New Years gamo have you for him ?
A lipiee.—Snapdragons ! Up, blue fire !

Fire begins to ri.o.

Mundungss.—Thank you. I bare burned my fingers enough lately.
A Voice.—Call up the young witches fora danec—thoy need not,
make nn elaborate toilette.

Mundungns.—Exenne me—l Imre n wife. I admit the foolish pre-
judice, but hope to overcome it in time. But I will not trouble the
young Mies.

A Voire.-0 ire him drink—red hot.

Mundumps.—Accustomed to English port, I fear no fire you could
proffer. But I have joined the Tempemnee Society, taken an oath
not to make a beast of myself (for a sense of duty w•as of no use), and
I am one of the Band of Hope.
A ruice.—Shoe• him the Magic Lantern.
Mundungem.—All! anything that combines a union of science is
welcome to fife.

Witch wait heard...4kt rianaber darkest, sad a lighted circle appears al note elidi
A Voice.—The Past or the Future ?
Munflunyu*.—Confound old almanac
Music.
The
,folloteing Scenes appear as Visions Qf l'ossible Futtire.
Igo. I.

future, of course.

The House of Commons is seen alter its purification by the Re-
form 11111 of Lord John Russell. Narrow planks, to hold grog and
tobacco-boxes, are fitted along the tops of the benches; a Jewess Balm
refreshment at the table of the House, and between the speeches walks
in and out among the members, offering oranges. Owing to the pre-
valence of the Manchester clilne, a resolution has been agreed to that
any speaker habitually sounding his H shall be considered an aris-
tocrat, and expelled. A pugilistic combat is going on upon a point of
order, namely, whether, as members who are married bring their
wives to sit by them in the House, bachelor members may do like-
wise. Great confusion, but the act works well, in a comprehensive
sense.

No. 11.
A Maine liquor law having been passed, Mr. Oliveira procures its
repeal so far as regards very small claret. Pitiable condition of
the metropolitan viscera, everybody who has tried Mr. Oliveira's re-
medy for drunkenness walking about, and spasmodically making stern
resolves. A Pro visional Committee of Cabmen is discussing an ap-
propriate mode of acknowledgment.

No. 111.

Philanthropy having discovered that punishment is eiuel and
wicked, the gaols are set open, and the criminals placed nt liberty. They
sing a chorus to the tune of one of the hymns which they have learned,
and declare that such kindness shall not be thrown away. Dividing
into two bodies, they make their acknowledgments to Lombard-street
and 13elgrave-square. A brilliant picture, closing amid the Are of
the military, who are called upon to rectify Philanthropy.

No. W.

Mr. 13rotherton'm motion to put the House of Commons on vege-
table diet. Scarcity of eabbagoti in Covent garden.

No. V.
Mr. Thomas Carlyle, the Rev. Mr. Kingsley, the courageous Vditor
of Fraser, and other new lights, are seen going Out as Pilgrim
Fathers to found a colony of earnest and regenerate tailors. Mit Mr.
Carlyle becoming offended with the low radicalism of his followers.
and Mr. Kingsley with their profanity, the two set to work and thrash
the regenerate tailors so unmercifully that the new Sartorian era has
to be put off till further notice.