Such a bright merry blue eye as he has, too! This is Captain Blockstrop, now, I am happy to say, C.B.; a right valiant officer, as the despatches of Lyons and Peel will testify.
The other is a very different sort of man;--a long, wiry, brown-faced man, with a big forehead, and a comical expression about his eyes.

This is no less a person than the Colonial Secretary of one of our three great colonies: of which I decline to mention.

Those who know the Honourable Abiram Pollifex do not need to be told; and those who do not must find out for themselves.

I may mention that he has been known to retain office seven years in succession, and yet he seldom threatens to resign his office and throw himself upon the country fewer than three times, and sometimes four, per annum.

Latterly, I am sorry to say, a miserable faction, taking advantage of one of his numerous resignations, have assumed the reins of government, and, in spite of three votes of want of confidence, persist in retaining the seals of office.