Electioneering Dodges. Writes “ ZEgles ” in the Australasian : “An election story, which perhaps may soon be apposite, come 3 from a (Sheffield journal. The occasion was that of the late Glad stone and Beaconsfield duel :—“ On the eve of the late election a manufacturer assembled his men in hi 3 yard for the pur pose of explaining that they could vote just as they pleased. ‘Now, look here my men,’ said he, ‘ I don’t want to in fluence you in any way. You can vote just as you like. I should advise you to attend as many meetings of the candidates a 3 you can, and then make up your mind which side you will support. Don’t think about obliging me—in fact, I shan’t tell you how I am going to vote. We shall be quite as good friends after the election as before, and then the day after it’s over I will have a barrel of beer brought into the yard.’ ‘ Hear, hear,’ shouted the men. ‘ But,’ said the master, ‘ I sha’n’t tap it unless Mr. Wortley gets in.’

The Old Story. —Sydney has been entertaining an angel unawares. About twelve months since (says the Bulletin) a gentleman arrived in Sydney with the debris of LIOOO in his pocket, and as they heard he was blue-blooded, people took kindly to him, and he speedily planted his feet under aristocratic mahogany. He was soon in first-rate fettle for a station billet at “ twenty bob a week and found,” but after eating Johnny cakes, water dogs, and black sugar, and drinking tea out of a billy lid for a few months, he rose superior to himself with the advent of the Inter national Exhibition, where he aired to some advantage his linguistic gifts. It may here be mentioned that the LIOOO he had on leaving England was obtained in the following manner :—He was a younger son and was fast in a ratio inverse to his income. He “ made a smash ” and applied to his elder brother, the Earl of for assistance, which was denied him. A few days after a signboard inscribed “ Fish and Oyster Saloon, by the Honorable Mr. tious little shop in the ancestral village. The board and the LIOOO shortly “ came down ” together on the Hon. 