EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 827, 6 July 1853, Page 4

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH.

A Good Setting Down.— l • thank the honourable member for that cheer, as the M:P. for Sunderlarid said when he was offered a/auteidl by a brother M.P. in the lobby. Bitters. — What makes bitter beer more bitter? aski Punch, The Chancellor of the Exchequer, an authority on- the subject,,, makes answer and says — " Bitter small bottles." And smitten with the truth of this, Punch's cry is " Not men, but measures." Political Horsemanship^ — The Times the other day commended Mr. Disraeli for the clever way in which he had been _ " riding the country parts" lately. We think , the word. " riding** is significantly chosen, seeing how obviously the Right Honourable Jockey bas been studying throughout to keep his seat. , Change oe Relationship. — In consequence of the feeling which has Seen aroused by Mrs. Stowe's famous tale of Slavery, the negro's appeal to sympathy will henceforth be, "Am I not a man and an Uncle ?" , „ Naples Soap. — The eagerness of Jbe Neapolitan Ministers to recognise Louis Napoleod a* Emperor. Thb Height op A'asußrtTT.-^A vegetarian paying a visit to the.Smitbfield Cattle- show* The Cuban (Jdestiok and Answer. — .Much agitation prevails, in Cuba; where everybody is anxiously asking what next ? To this the coo] reply oorn r the part of brother Jonathan i«, Art-nexed;.of course.