POLITICAL CARICATURES.
HB has happily illustrated the no-sided, enigmatical character of Lord DURHAM'S Letter to Mr. Bony, by representing his Lordship as a rival of the universal medicine-monger in the act of compounding a dose to suit all stomachs. "Radical alcohol," "Conservative opiate," and " Whig alkali," ( H B is evidently no chemist,) furnish the ingre- dients; and for the colouring matter, we have a perfect rainbow of tints. Boxes of the pills are addressed to the opposite parties, but of very different sizes : O'CONNELL'S robustness requires a strobg dose— which, by the by, be seems to have swallowed, and with effect—but a smaller supply may prove more drastic than the Russell purge to the Bishop of Exeter. If Lord DURHAM desire to have John Bull for a patient, however, he must alter his prescription : like those of unskilful physicians, one ingredient in it neutralizes the other.
As yet, we have only two or three electioneering caricatures from NB. EVANS drilling the ragged regiment that Sir GEORGE Mutt. RAY inlisted to serve against their quondam commander in the bloodless warfare of Covent Garden, where cabbage-stumps flew about instead of bullets, is ludicrous enough ; and the hit at Mr. ROEBUCK'S defeat at Bath, where be figured as the "wounded stag" in As you Like it, is fair and obvious. Who is the "melancholy Jacques?" He should have been an impersonation of the " pensive public." BURDETT'S freaks of vanity are happily ridiculed by representing the superannuated Ex-M.P. for Westminster bobbling on crutches up to the mill for grinding old people young, and coming out on the other side the spruce and sprightly candidate for North Wilts.
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