EXTRACTS FROM "PUNCH."

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 793, 9 March 1853, Page 4

EXTRACTS FROM "PUNCH."

. The Rights of Hospitality. —Bt a regular Diner-out. —Hospitality, like property, has its duties a» well as its rites, and 1 mean to say that it is tbe bounden duty of • man, if he invites yon to dine with him, to give you a good dinuer, I

Agricultural Distress.—lt it positively quite distressing to see, all about Belgrave Square how tbe calves that a mouth ago wert in guch good condition, are wasting away, ever since the footmen have been on board

wages. Wrong on the face of it.—We have teen a little book with tbe title ot " French made Easy." We cannot believe this of a noble nation like France; for, under their present despotic ruler, we should say it was decidedly the " French made Uneasy."

" Why d6n't you Speak Out."—From the impossibility of making our present Ministers say what they mean —or even, what they do not mean—the observation that was one* made by Talleyrand of a celebrated Nobody, may with equal point be turned round upon them—" Ces Messieurs ont un grand taleutpour le silence."

Definitions from a Njcw Napoleon Dictionary.—Empire, s. The Empire ->-as France under Napoleon Buonaparte. Empirer, v. n. To grow worse —as France under Louis Napoleon.

How to Bruise your Oats.—Send them by a cheap Excursion Train, and if, by the tima they leave the railway, they .are only half as well bruised as the passengers yon will have, no causa to complain.