_Business done_.--Parliament dissolved.

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NEWS ABOUT BISMARCK FOR THE BRITISH PUBLIC.--Professor SCHWENINGER,
the Bizzy B.'s private physician, writes privately to _Mr. Punch_ the
following news about his distinguished patient. "Tell the B.P. that
P.B. sleeps like a top. This is no hum. He is up at 7 A.M., and wishes
everyone 'the top of the mornin' to you,' puts on his top-boots and
top-hat, and then goes out for a spin."

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FROM A CORRESPONDENT ANENT THE TRUSTEES, MESSRS. COHEN AND LEVY, AND
THE GIFT OF £350,000 FOR LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER.--Sir,--It has been
asked, what will they do with it? Liverpool and Manchester are both
millionnaires and millowners too. Why not send a little to _me_? Who's
Cohen, I mean who's goin' to Leave-y _me_ anything? No spare Cohen--or
Coin--ever comes _my_ way! Would that a Co-hen would lay for me a
golden egg as valuable as the Kohenore! Sir, I am of Irish extraction,
and the Irish are of Hebraic origin, so I have some claim. Why?
Because Irishmen are Hebrews first and Irish afterwards. The first
settlers on settling-day in Ireland were Hebrews to a man, and isn't
it clear that "Liffey" was originally "Levy?"

Yours impecuniously, THE O'DUNAHOO. _With the accent on the "Owe" and
the "Dun"_