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NEW STUFFING FOR THE SPEAKER'S CHAIR.
"With too much blood and too little brain, these two may run mad;
but if with too much brain and too little blood, they do, I'll be a
curer of madmen."--_Troilus and Cressida_.
MR. PETER BORTHWICK and Colonel Sibthorpe are both named as candidates for
the Speaker's chair. Peter has a certificate of being "a _bould_ speaker,"
from old Richardson, in whose company he was engaged as parade-clown and
check-taker. The gallant Colonel, however, is decidedly the favourite,
notwithstanding his very ungracious summary of the Whigs some time ago. We
would give one of the buttons off our hump to see
[Illustration: SIBTHORPE IN THE CHAIR.]
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MR. JOSEPH MUGGINS begs to inform his old crony, PUNCH, that the report of
Sir John Pullon, "as to the possibility of elevating an ass to the head of
the poll by bribery and corruption" is perfectly correct, provided there is
no abatement in the price. Let him canvass again, and Mr. J.M. pledges
himself, whatever his weight, if he will only stand "one penny more, up
goes the donkey!"
[Illustration: CANDIDATE AT THE HEAD OF THE POLE.
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