FROM A FLY-LEAF.—­“Buzziness first, pleasure after,” as the bluebottle said when, after circling three times about the breakfast-table, he alighted on a lump of sugar.

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SALISBURY AT ST. MARTINS’S-LE-GRAND.

  How slow is fate from fatal friends to free us! 
  Still, still, alas! ’tis “Ego et RAIKES meus.”

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“THE OXFORD MOVEMENT.”—­Not much to choose between this and the Cambridge movement in the last race.

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PLACE OF BANISHMENT FOR MISTAKEN PERSONS.—­The Isle of Mull.

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[Illustration:  CENSUS DAY HOW SOME WERE CAUGHT.]

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EARL GRANVILLE.

BORN IN 1815.  DIED 31ST MARCH, 1891.

  The coarser Cyclops now combine
    To push the Olympians from their places;
  And dead as Pan seems the old line
    Of greater gods and gentler graces. 
  Pleasant, amidst the clangour crude
    Of smiting hammer, sounding anvil,
  As bland Arcadian interlude,
    The courtly accents of a GRANVILLE!

  A strenuous time’s pedestrian muse
    Shouts paeans to the earth-born giant,
  Whose brows Apollo’s wreath refuse,
    Whose strength to Charis is unpliant. 
  Demos distrusts the debonair,
    Yet Demos found himself disarming
  To gracious GRANVILLE; unaware
    Won by the calm, witched by the charming.

  Bismarckian vigour, stern and stark
    As Brontes self, was not his dower;
  Not his to steer a storm-tost bark
    Through waves that whelm, and clouds that lower. 
  Temper unstirred, unerring tact,
    Were his.  He could not “wave the banner,”
  But he could lend to steely act
    The softly silken charm of manner.

  Kindly, accomplished, with a wit
    Lambent yet bland, like summer lightning;
  Venomless rapier-point, whose “hit”
    Was palpable, yet painless.  Brightening
  E’en, party conflict with a touch
    Of old-world grace fight could not ruffle! 
  Faith, GRANVILLE, we shall miss thee much
    Where kites and crows of faction scuffle!

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AN IRISH DIAMOND.—­The Cork Examiner of 28th ultimo contained an official advertisement, signed by the High Sheriff of the County of the City of Cork, requesting certain persons connected with the Spring Assizes to attend at the Model Schools, as the Court House had been destroyed by fire.  Amongst those thus politely invited to be present on so interesting an occasion were the Prisoners!

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PATERFAMILIAS ON HIS CENSUS PAPER.