[Illustration:  A N-ICE SITUATION.]

    [3] Sic, actually, in the dramatic article of that paper,
        Wednesday, 24th ult.

In fine, the farce is altogether a leaven of the best material most cleverly worked up.

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A PERFECT VACUUM PROVED.

MR. HALSE, the gentleman who has during the last week been lecturing upon Animal Magnetism, having stated that one of his patients, while under the magnetic influence, could “see her own inside,” the Marquis of Londonderry, anxious to test the truth of the assertion, requested the lecturer to operate upon him, and being thrown into the Mesmeric sleep, looked into the inside of his own head, and declared he could see nothing in it.

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A CON BY O’CONNER.

Why ought the Children of a Thief to be burnt?—­Because their Pa steals (they’re pastiles).

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