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THE PRESS.

MAY 21, 1853.

some future reunion. Amiable regret ! honourable hope !—reminding
us of those inhabitants of the South Sea Islands who never devour
their enemies ;—that would be paying them too great a compliment :
they eat up only their own friends and relations, with an appetite
proportioned to the love that they bear to them. And then they hasten
to deck themselves in the feathers and trappings of those thus ten-
derly devoured, in memorial of their " regret at the rupture of ancient
ties," and their "hope of some future reunion" ! Do you feel quite
safe with your new ally? Do you not dread that the same affectionate
tooth will some day be fastened upon your own shoulders ?
MANt

CONTRASTS.—No. I. LOYALTY.
To mould the heart by spotless faith,
Through weal and woe, through life and death ;
To glory in allegiance given
To Ono on earth and One in heaven ;
To pour in prayer love's gushing spring,
God save God's delegate, the King ;
Such, if men's deeds their hearts unfold,
Was England's Loyalty of old.

By turns to bluster and to cower,
When Popes usurp his Sovereign's power ;
With treason's demagotues to treat,
To oust a rival from his seat;
To head sedition's rebel race ;
To hold his tongue when bribed by place ;
Such, if men's deeds their thoughts betray,
Is England's Loyalty to dad•.

TURNING THE TABLES.
THERE is no body of her Majesty's subjects more delighted with the
new pastime of turning the tables than the Ministers. They made
their first experiment on an old table in Downing-street, but it was not
large enough to supply places for all, and Lord LANSDOWNE and Lord
JOHN RUSSELL sate out, eyeing their more youthful rivals, like two
venerable and benignant gmndumes watching the young people. Lord
PALMERSTON was particularly effective : he said there was no novelty in
the trick to him, as he had been doing it all his life, and never turned
the tables better than he did on Lord onN RUSSELL in February last year.
Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH was not very fortunate at. first, and it was
thought that the table was radically fixed ; but after deep meditation,
and the due exercise of a very grave volition, the radical difficulties
quite disappeared. The mesmeric quality of Mr. GLAnsToNE was re-
markable. Under his influence the table heaved, groaned, shrieked,
and, after much agitation, finally split. No electric power was ob-
served in the Duke of NEWCASTLE. Lord ABERDEEN went to sleep
during the process, and was roused by a squabble occasioned by Sir
JAMES GRAHAM being discovered surreptitiously raising the table with
his toe, while innocently looking up at the ceiling. This Lord PALmEas-
TON said was not fair, and he had the right hon. baronet turned out.

What Bedford prompts, or Gladstone schemes,
Or Grahams art supplies,
is not reputed law, it !seen's,
Till Greville supervise.

And so, in language of the stars,
Their designation's plain ;
For Coalition's flagging team
Is henceforth " Charles's Wain."

CONTRIBUTIONS OF HER MAJESTY'S MINISTERS TO THE ROYAL
DUBLIN EXHIBITION.

Lord CL ARENDON—A History of the Little Radlion. This work was

privately got up.
Lord PALMERSTON—The State Bedstead of Don Pacifico.
Duke of NEWCASTLE —A Bottle of Cement, which he had intended to
have used the night the House was counted out, in the
middle of his speech on Vancouver's Island.

Lord ABERDEEN—A Fragment of the Scotch Kirk.

Lord JOHN IttOSSELL---His Protestant Letters, and other Mummery.
Lord LANSDOWNE—A curious Cob, recently found in the neighbourhood
of Chelsea Hospital, and which, when lost, always returns to
its master.

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Lord GRANVILLE—The Clerk of the Council, with leave to become a
permanent lodger in the Irish metropolis.
Duke of AaoyLL—His own Self-estimate. Special
.arraugements with
Mr. Dargan to land this colossal cargo.
Sir JAMES GItAHAM--" A large Measure."
Sir CHARLES WOOD--All 'IMMO TalX.

Sir W. Moixswonnt—A Brown Study. This room will be a pendant
to the Austrian chamber at the tireat Exhibition, and will
be supplied with Hobbes' works and other light literature.

Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT—" A piece of emasculated Slipslop." ride his
speech, 1539.

Mr. GLADSTONE—SeveraI Exchequer Bonds, and a few LillK at did•
count.

The LORD CHANCELLOR--ThC whole of his measures of Law Reform
there being no use for them in this eonntry.

SONG.
Air—" The Jolly Young Waterman."

Oh ! have you not heard of the clever Whig whipper-in.
Who in the lobby so smartly replies,
That he caught the Brigade with surh skill and dexterity.
Entrapping them all, without telling them lies ;
He locale(' so sincere—he pledged his word steadily,
They one and all jumped at his otter so readily,
When he quoted the Member for all Halifax,
"That they never henceforward should pay Income Tax."

And now, tho' the y have both the Income and Legacy.
He's by no means to blame in the slightest degree.
Sir Charles can control at his board; in the Cabinet,
Mr. Gladstone is left comprehensively free
While Hayter don't care for Moore's gibing and jeering.
And as little for Lucas's milling or sneering
He answers it all with so candid an air—
He's the boy for a bargain in Donnybrook fair

ADVICE TO TUE IRltili Mtmnt as.---Dont name your price ill 1/AMR'S
hearing. It may spoil the market.

THE POT-POURRI CABINET.
To a time Irish member, says Netherby James,
As he daubed him with slime and with soapery,
Ilere's a list of the Ministry--surely such names
Guarantee that they're friendly to Popery.
Arrah Jim, says sly Pat, do yen think I forget
For King Bomba your base imtcrlopery?
Since he hanged the brave brolthers you caught in the net,.;
I've no faith in yourself, or yo ur Pot-pourri.

• The heroic bruthers Handlers, betrayed 11 th e Right Lim. Sir J. G. to the King Of
Naples, and by him hanged.

Shortly to he puldisi
T HE COMPLETE WORKS of LORI) .101 IN uniform
with the Memorials anti ('orrespondence 'if ('hail 0/141111.4 Fox. This editi 111 l will
comprise " l'he Nun of Arronca; " the " Anti-Mt " E"`RY..-14 4."11111"1"milli
Work in reply to Cardinal Wiseman ; " 1 tou Carlos," a 'fragelly ; " The Secret Ilistory of
the Boroughs of Calm, Mahlon, and Peterborough ; " the Suppressed Edition of the
Second Reform Bill ; " The Adventures of a 4;111,14.ms nin Search of a Lodging:" and
the Overture and Airs to the " Farce of '
Ordors should be sent immediately to his Lordship, Pro'Part"l ti) 'Neoite Hula
until Midsummer in his present place of basin, hS; after 1 shich his address will be Tull-
bar, Waterloo-bridge.

A PATTERN FOR HAYTFA—.TAMED GOADWIN, it 1 ladical witness before
the Canterbury Commission, on Thursday last, stated that "he was
exchequered in 1847 to the ammtht of 1,11001., and' after twelve months
the Government called upon him to imy 1001., a, ml his friends raised
the money for him. Lord Al.l3r.ilT CoNY%OIIAM ak !reed to use his in-
fluence with the Excise on witness's behalf if wit: less would uso his
power for him at the election, His Lordship perft Primed his Pitt a"
witness performed his.'