"What's the use," they ask, "of winning
Hartlepool out of doors, if things are so managed that we are made
ridiculous within?"
_Business done_.--SHAW-LEFEVRE's Resolution on Irish Land Question
negatived by 213 Votes against 152.
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"THERMIDOR" UP TO DATE.
(_TONED DOWN FOR ENGLISH RECEPTION._)
_Last Act--On the road to the Guillotine--Hero, instead of
Heroine, about to be executed--Heroine imploring Hero to sign
paper._
_Heroine_. Attach but your signature, and you are free!
_Hero_ (_after reading document in a tone of horror_). What, a vow to
marry, with the prospect of a breach of promise case to follow! Never!
Death is preferable! [_Exit to be guillotined. Curtain._
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AN ARTIST AND A WHISTLER.--M. COQUELIN has summoned M. LISSAGARAY for
having thrown a whistle at him on the night of the _Thermidor_ row. It
is to be hoped that by this time M. LISSAGARAY will have been made to
pay for his whistle.
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