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THE NEW STATE STRETCHER.

"What an uncomfortable bed Peel has made for himself!" observed Normanby
to Palmerston. "That's not very clear to me, I confess," replied the
Downing-street Cupid, "as it is acknowledged he sleeps on a _bolstered
cabinet_." The pacificator of Ireland closed his face for the remainder of
the day.

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The latest case of monomania, from our own specially-raised American
correspondent:--A gentleman who fancied himself a pendulum always went
upon tick, and never discovered his delusion until he was carefully wound
up in the Queen's Bench.

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"VERY LIKE A WHALE."

The first of all the royal infant males
_Should_ take the title of the Prince of _Wales_;
Because 'tis clear to seaman and to lubber,
Babies and _whales_ are both inclined to _blubber_.