The Press.
London, England, 1853-06-04 00:00:00

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Cum. Comennuosem : Is there that resemblanee between yon iu
stature. countenance, expression, and rock of the hat, that you
might be taken one for each other? Did any person ever stop
you in the street. for him?
Sir T. kiRAHAM : It may be.
CHIEF COMMISSIONER: Phil you ever hear that Lord Derby said
that you were so alike that you might. be driven in a curriele ?
Sir .1. ORAHAM : I believe that is not in Hansard ; but it may have
been Paid nevertheless.
CHIEF COMMISSIONER : You may retire. Iler 'Majesty's Commis-
sioners have at length sueceeded in aseertaining the principle
on whieh the present Administration is founded and carried
on. We must proceed at our next. meeting to the third and
most important branch of our investigation. namely. the menus
by which the present occupants of the Treasury bench
obtained their scats.

(Adjourned to Friday ne.• f.)

A NEW ELECTORAL. FACT.

11113 T TO AN 01. D TUNE.

I'll give you, Sir Member, a twelvemonth or twain
To canvass our boroughs again and again :
But neer shall you find, though you work till you tire,
So potent an aid as the barefooted Friar.

Yon knight, by his agent, solicits a seat.
And is proved in cotutuittee to bribe an►l to treat
He expeete►l, poor fool, to be Knight ►►f the shire
Without the support of the barc6sited Friar.

Your free-bleeding trader his Money pays (loan,
And trusts to the service of Consul or BroWII
He finds, to his cost, 'twould be eli.iper to hire
A wild Irish mob wed a barefooted Friar.

The Friar is gone forth. and, wherever he goes.
Electors and eandidates worship hi-, toes:
And the heir of a dukedom will kneel in the mire
A blessing to beg from the bale-footed Friar.

If he's seen at a hustings, no wight in the trw►n
Dares whistle Boyne Water" or Crop pies lie Dowu "
For, in street or in court, every bully and liar
Will break heads or oaths for the barefooted Friar•

If he been at a riot, a fig for pollee.
Not a sword or a truncheon dares ?Strike for the peace
For the Liberals would hang high as Homan, or higher.
Every man that opposes the barefooted Friar.
Long flourish the sandal, the Vora. and the cope,
The dread of the Tories and trust of the Pope
For to carry elections, whate'er may transpire,
I granted to none Slave the baretnoted Friar.

MORA! .

Ye Westminster Soions, who sit on eommittee,
Come read me this riddle whieh closes my ditty ;
Say why is your goddess SO tender and pure,
That the smell of a sixpence she cannot endure ?
By bribery tainted, she dies like the ermine.
As if gift meant in English what gift means in German;
But her physical sense is not shocked in the least,
If ordure is thing by command of a priest.
Ye purity-mongers, who faint at. " job."
If you vote the right side, and are friends to King Mob,
With cash in your pockets and will to spend free.
Would you purchase with safety the rank of M.P.?
Bestow not a shilling on holders of votes,
Withhold bite and sup from electoral throats
Buy brickbats and bludgeons, go boldly to work,
For Meanly and }'A6AN are NiVIONTS 101' fork.

THE llamAnt Orr-mlomuvaThe present position of
Brigade rebukes prophecy but reiterates fact. As usual, after
Derby cotnes. not the Deluge, but the Hume.

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