rouricAL CARICATURES.
HB has sketched a clever and most amusing political parody of EDWIN LANDSFER'S admirable picture of a "Jack in Office." Jack is, of course, Lord John Russell ; who makes a sleek and genteel representa- tive of the shaggy, surly dog in LANDSEER'S picture. Ile is not with. vat a stouck.ot stall- in his phi; however, like his prototype ; and the waggish caricaturist has ingeniously converted the balf-etosed eye, which in the original is a proof of his pugnacious propensities, into a sly wink at O'Connell, who personates the plaintive poodle in the expectant group. Lord Durham, in the background, casts a leer at O'Connell, who has caught the eye of the guardian of the good things of office. The best of all is the lean and hungry hound, who has broke away, with the halter destined for him yet round his neck, and is eyeing with greedy and wistful, albeit despairing eye, a tempting morsel, which under the ap- pearance of a bit ()fluent on a skewer the scrutinizing glance will perceive to be the mace stuck into the Chancellor's wig. Joseph Hume sits aside, statue-like, patiently biding his time. 1111, who, it will be seen, has embodied the Tory view of the Ministerial arrangements, here does jus- tice to Joseph : this is his real position ; as it is also for the present Lord Durham's. Lord Durham, fortunately, can afford to suffer much more serious misrepresentations than li B's. And as for O'Connell, he will laugh at the suppliant attitude of his canine impersonation, and remark that DB bits altogether forgot his tail, though he has made his head very like.
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