The Press.
London, England, 1858-03-20 00:00:00

He's striving to cure the disaster

That capsized the Palmerston eggs,
And labouring, with balsam and pluister,
Humpty Dutnpty to set on his legs.

He's furbishing up the old image,
And dressing the rest of the blocks,
And ranging in ranks for a scrimmage
Dukes, Marquises, Williams and Cox.
He's telling the Whig Lords at Brookes's
They're worshipped by Marylebone pigs ;
He's telling the Radical Snookses
They're greatly esteemed by the Whigs.
In fact, he declares, though he's blabbing it,
On one point they're all quite allied,—
To leave to each other the Cabinet,

And make themselves happy outside.

lie says the extreme Liberal section
Would be sadly and sorely distrest
To take from the great Whig connection
Their Tavistoek, Caine, and the rest.

He says the Fitzwilliams are pining,
That Lansdowne is restless o'nights,
That Bedford has given up dining
Till middle-class men have their rights.

The Fox Club, so free and fraternal,
Will limit themselves to salt fish,
Till Wilson, and Bob Lowe, and Bernal,

Dip again iu the Treasury dish.
If nothing should happen untoward, --"44l`a eft°
Nor Liberal Reformers say "nay,"
Phipps, Elliot, and Tollemache and Howard,
Will give up their places and pay ; .7,
And Shaftesbury yearn for Clanricarde, •,
And Osborne hear Horsman with glee,
And, though they have quarrelled and bickered.
That Roebuck and Butt will agree. r

And so the good Bear's in a bustle, 14
And full of his " shaves and his flam,
That Palmerston may not vex. Russell,
And Russell may not " worry " Pain.
Till they settle which chief shall be leader,
And which shall be put on the shelf,
And join in some common procedure ft+
To elevate Ellice himself.

Thus striving to bring them together,
And coaxing extremes to agree,
" Bear Ellice " expends his shoe-leather,
To what end we shall presently see.

OSBORNE REDIVIVUS. _
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Can it be true, and have our fears been vain?
It is—it is—and Osborne speaks again!
Silent awhile, he licked the Trees ry spoon,
And in the placeman sunk the loud buffoon.
But Fortune fails him, and, adrift once more,
He spouts or puns, a patriot and a bore ;
Prepares the neat impromptu, and extracts
Wit from his meary, from his fancy, facts ;
Darts the rude taunt or aims the two-edged jest,
To foes a laughing-stock, to friends a pest;
In varying cadence, grumbles, rants, and rails.
While Slang and Slipslop load the tainted gales.
So, in the land of Venus and of yams,
His cross-grain'd cur the Otaheitun crams';;
Till faint bow-wows in plethora decay,
And into wheezy dumbness sink away ;
But if, escaped from too redundant food,
He change the threaten'd pie-dish for the wood.
And in a wilder haunt and purer air
Grow lean and nimble upon casual fare,
Vocal once more, his noisy throat he clears,
Curls his stiff tail, erects his bristled ears,
Tries the brisk yelp, rough bark or piteous howl,
And wearies Echo with exhaustless growl.
• The Oteheitans feed their dogs (e favourite aiticle of diet) upon yams, tin they tease tolbesii :

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