"Now fetch the Ex-Chancellor," muttered the dame ·

"He who 's called after Harry the Older, by name."

"The Ex-Chancellor!"

echoed her imps, the whole crew of 'em Why talk of one Ex, when your Mischief has two of 'em?"

"True, true," said the hag, looking arch at her elves,

"And a double-Ex dose they compose, in themselves."

This joke, the sly meaning of which was seen lucidly,

Set all the devils a laughing most deucedly.

So, in went the pair, and (what none thought surprising)

Showed talents for sinking as great as for rising;

While not a grim phiz in that realm but was lighted

With joy to see spirits so twin-like

And nature had given him, to keep him still young,

Much tongue in his head and no head in his tongue;

But because she well knew that, for change ever ready,

He'd not even to mischief keep properly steady;

That soon even the wrong side would cease to delight,

And, for want of a change, he must swerve to the right;

While, on each, so at random his missiles he threw,

That the side he attackt was most safe, of the two.

This ingredient was therefore put by on the shelf,

There to bubble, a bitter, hot mess, by itself.

"And now," quoth the hag, as her caldron she eyed,

And the tidbits so friendlily rankling inside,

"There wants but some seasoning;—so,

come, ere I stew 'em,

"By way of a relish, we 'll throw in ' + John Tuam.'

"In cooking up mischief, there's no flesh or fish

"Like your meddling High Priest, to add zest to the dish."

Thus saying, she pops in the Irish Grand Lama

Which great event ends the First Act of the Drama.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM.

THO' famed was Mesmer, in his day,
Nor less so, in ours, is Dupotet,

To say nothing of all the wonders

done

By that wizard, Dr. Elliotson,

Of the true magnetic influence,

Just go to her Majesty's Treasury, And learn the wonders working there And I'll be hanged if you don't stare! Talk of your animal magnetists,

And that wave of the hand no soul resists,

Not all its witcheries can compete With the friendly beckon towards Downing Street,

Which a Premier gives to one who wishes

To taste of the Treasury loaves and fishes.

It actually lifts the lucky elf,
Thus acted upon, above himself; -
He jumps to a state of clairvoyance,
And is placeman, statesman, all, at

once !

To sit on Miss Okey's wonderful case, Should also Lord Parry's case embrace; And inform us, in both these patients' states,

Which ism it is that predominates, Whether magnetism and somnambulism, Or, simply and solely, mountebankism.

THE SONG OF THE BOX.

LET History boast of her Romans and Spartans,

And tell how they stood against tyranny's shocks;

2 The technical term for the movements of the magnetizer's hand.

3 omnes feré internas corporis partes inverso ordine sitas.-" Act. Erudit." 1690.

3 For the particulars of this escape of Grotius from the Castle of Louvenstein, by means of a box (only three feet and a half long, it is said) in which books used to be occasionally sent to him and foul linen returned, see any of the Biographical Dictionaries.

4 This is not quite according to the facts of the case; his wife having been the contriver of the stratagem, and remained in the prison herself to give him time for escape.

5 pallida Mors æquo pulsat pede, etc.

HORAT.