POLITICAL CARICATURES.
JIB has opened his graphic battery of ridicule, and commenced the campaign with u shot at Plausible Bob, which tells admirably. Peel, in his last new character of pedagogue to the Glasgow boys, is mounted on his "humble but faithful steed," like another Doctor Syntax in search of the picturesque in Scotland. The precise manner and formal propriety of the political Joseph Surface, well become the bob-wig and three.curncred hat; and he sits astride his sorry beast geometrically, like an cnibodied•problem—one that is easily solved, though seemingly intricate. The difference bctween Mr. Sharman Crawford and O'Connell, in person as well as in "pinion, is amusingly exemplified by the quarrel between Hudibras and Ralph° : the speeches are, however, put into the wrong mouth, 1-. tkistake. The likeness of O'Connell is a new one, in profile, shun te; his long head without a wig, for the benefit of the phrenologists. The silence of Niinisters on the night of the Address, is quizzed by a droll personification of Lord John Russell and Mr. Rice as mutes, standing beside the coffin of the British Constitution, which the Tories have so often waked with their howlings after it has been " kilt entirely." Its last fatal disorder, according to HB, was the Influenza.
The story of the Spanish Senora about an Inquisition in Broad Street, has served for another hit at the O'Connell-ridden Cabinet. Thi Ministers are represented as Inquisitors, O'Connell being Grand Inquisitor ; and Lord John Russell, as " Don Carlos," is present at
the deliberation. The Lord Chaecellor is reading a list of per- sons denounced ; aim:west whom are Lyndhurst, Wellington, and Peel. The likenesses of Lords Holland, Lansdowne, Glenelg, and Mulgrave, are capital, and O'Connell has a most truculent aspect.
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