POLITICAL CARICATURES.
H. B. has made a "palpable hit" at the framers of the new Game-Laws, by representing the Duke of Richmond and Lord Wharncliffe keeping a game-stall, and the Duke of Wellington and Lord Westmoreland look- ing. unutterable contempt at the " hucksters." Lord Wharncliffe, peeping out as from a screen of hares and pheasants, is grinning with delight at the success of his new trade ; and the Duke of Richmond, attired in apron and sleeves, looks like an aristocratic poulterer. H. B. has strangely omitted Lord Salisbury among the noble vendors of the game fattened on the crops of their tenants. That Peer's anxiety to abolish the immorality of poaching was so strong, that those who were ignorant of his patriotic intentions, attributed the meanest motives to his conduct.
The incident of the Roman Catholic Bishop, • who was mistaken, by the populace at Bath, for a Protestant Anti-Reform Bishop, is comme- morated by H. B. in two very clever sketches, in which the faces and expression of the mob are full of character.
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