29 OCTOBER 1910, Page 3

This week's Punch contains a most amusing cartoon repre- senting

"The New John Bull, after the Proposed 'Federalise, tion ' of the British Isles." He has discarded his historic costume, and is dressed instead in a kilt, a cut-away coat and a waistcoat embroidered with shamrocks, and a steeple. crowned Welsh hat. All that remains of his former glory is a pair of top-boots, and it is scarcely to be wondered at that every vestige of his usual self-possession has left him, and that his face expresses only a feeling of deep dismay.