Pennsylvania will rejoice, but a sort of still small voice
    In the ear of Uncle SAM may sound quite handy, O! 
  Wall Street may feel smart shocks at the lowering of Stocks,
    And will “Tin-plates” comfort Yankee doodle dandy, O? 
      Yankee doodle, Yankee doodle, dandy O! 
  Lower Stocks by raising “Stockings” Ah, methinks I hear the “Shockings”! 
      Of the women-folk of Yankee-doodle dandy, O!

  Howsoever that may fare, let JOHN BULL keep on his hair,
    And Miss CANADA with flouts be not too handy, O! 
  Common sense is safe commander, and we need not raise our dander
    At the Tariff tricks of Yankee doodle dandy, O! 
      Yankee doodle!  Yankee doodle dandy, O! 
  And may it ever prove in trade fights, or brotherly love,
      BULL can keep upsides with Yankee doodle dandy, O!

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“CHARGE, CHESTER, CHARGE!”—­The Times reports that at Chester County Court last week, Mr. STAVELEY HILL, Q.C, M.P., Judge Advocate of the Fleet, was summoned for L25—­for goods supplied, and that the claim was unsuccessfully contested on the score that it was barred by the Statute of Limitations.  Mr. SEGAR, who represented the Plaintiff, said that the Defendant was “wrong in his law,” and Judge Sir HORATIO LLOYD assented to the proposition by giving a verdict for the full amount claimed.  From this it would appear that there was “no valley” (as a Cockney would say) in the point of the Hill—­the Judge Advocate of the Fleet being on this occasion, if not in his native element, at any rate, “quite at sea!”

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[Illustration:  A FAMILY QUESTION.

Miss COLUMBIA.  “SAY, PAP-PA, WON’T THAT BILL RILE THE BRITISHERS, SOME?  ANYHOW, GUESS YOU’LL HAVE TO SHELL OUT PRETTY CONSIDERABLE ALL ROUND—­AT HOME!!’”]

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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

STEAM-ROLLING EXPERIENCES.—­That you should have endeavoured to have turned the birthday-gift of your eccentric nephews to account, and made an offer to the Municipality of West Bloxham to “set” the High Street for them by going over it with the seventeen-ton steam-roller, with which your youthful relatives had presented you, was only a nice and generous impulse on your part; and it is undeniably a great pity that, owing to your not fully understanding the working of the machine, you should have torn away the front of three of the principal shops, finally going through the floor of a fourth, and getting yourself apparently permanently embedded in a position from which you cannot extricate yourself, in the very centre of the leading thoroughfare.  Your idea of getting out of the difficulty by presenting the steam-roller then and there to the Borough was a happy one, and it is to be regretted that, under the circumstances, they felt no inclination to accept your offer.