POLITICAL CARICATURES.
TILE Great 0 is as fertile a theme for the HB's comic pencil as Little Nap was to his predecessor OILLRAY. O'CONNELL, WO, is quite a godsend to the whole race of old women : the cholera baying disap- peared, and the appearance of the comet being uncertain, they would otherwise have nothing to frighten them out of their wits ; for the Tories have not been able to make a scarecrow of the Pope—even the little boys laugh at that Guy. O'CONNELL figures in every one of HB's last batch. In the first, he is tossing up "heads or tails" for Ministers with the King—tail being called by O'CoNeetr. In the second, he is shadowed forth as the Genius rising from the urn that the Fisherman (Lord JOHN RUSSELL) in the Tales of the Genii drags up. In the third—the best—be is represented setting in motion a merry-go. round, on which the Ministers are seated. Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Mr. SPRING Mere on their hobbies, look excessively droll. Lord MEL- BOURNE, who with Lord LANSDOWNE and others is seated in a car, rebukes one of his colleagues who is commending the exertions of "the man of the movement," and wonders he should lower himself by noticing such an " individual." It's a capital joke, and will afford a hearty laugh to Tories and Radicals too.
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