POLIT ICA I. CARICATURES.
Mn. STANLEY'S slang simile of the " Thimblerig " has furnished H. B. with a subjeca: ready to his hand, and he has handled it with greater delicacy than the suggester. Mr. Littleton is the pea and thimble.rigger, and twists the thimbles about with professional dex- terity; looking up tinder his eyelids at John Bull, who seems puzzled, and half-inclined to ba taken in. Lord John Russell, as the active abettor in the trick, offers to lay a sovereign with his confederate ; Laid .Althorp dennwely eyes John Bull ; and Lord Grey appears intent on the game, as if he were but a looker-on. Mr. Stanley warns John Bull to take care of his pockets ; "for," says he, "1 know their tricks well : I once kept a thimblerig myself,"--a palpable hit. O'Connell is leading away poor Pat ; who, with his bands in his pockets, looks as if he were disposed to risk his last penny. The joke is very drama- tically told. The affair between Mr. Littleton and O'Connell is amusingly figured by a fight between two Billingsgate ladies, who are throwing dirt at each other most vigorously. The Irish Secretary has come off worst; for not only is he covered with filth, but one eye is bunged up. Lord Althorp, too, who backs him, has come in for a spatter.
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