Punch . uke of Sutherlands having set thestarting as Volunteer Pire-Brigademen, it is rumoured that a certain noble Marquis has already instituted aVolunteer Ramoneur Corps, to assist the professionals. They com-menced proceedings, we believe, on the Great Ramoneur Pestival ofthe First of May. On the Derby Day several people who had lost aSweep, applied for information to his Lordship in Command of the BlackBroomsweepers. The Reward of Merit will be the Order of the Jack-in-the-Green, and efficiency iu the art will be recompensed by the Volunteerbeing raised to the peerage by the title of My L

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Punch . uke of Sutherlands having set thestarting as Volunteer Pire-Brigademen, it is rumoured that a certain noble Marquis has already instituted aVolunteer Ramoneur Corps, to assist the professionals. They com-menced proceedings, we believe, on the Great Ramoneur Pestival ofthe First of May. On the Derby Day several people who had lost aSweep, applied for information to his Lordship in Command of the BlackBroomsweepers. The Reward of Merit will be the Order of the Jack-in-the-Green, and efficiency iu the art will be recompensed by the Volunteerbeing raised to the peerage by the title of My Lord. Por the bandfund (the band consists of a fine drum and unrivalled pandaean pipes)an amateur performance will soon be given, on which occasion aChimney-piece will be played. Music and Sport. A Hunting friend, who is also a first-rate musician.says that whendressed for the sport he occupies the quarter of an hour before break-fast in singing tantivy to his own chords. Visible Speech.—Taking a Sight.. THE LONDON CHARTVAKT. 225 STREET-BOYS. Dear Jones, —The otherday I heard you com-plainingof the nuisancethat small raggedstreet-boys are to youwhenever you go out.With touching pathosyou described how theybespatter you withmud by turnin g head -over-heelers in thegutter by your side:how they hit you inthe eye with theirshuttlecocks and tip-cats ; how they shakeyour nerves by shrillywhistling in your earwhen you stop at ashop window; howthey crowd aroundyou, chaffing^ whenyou stoop to tie yourshoe ; and how theyterrify your horse andyou by getting under-neath his legs almostat well-nigh everycorner, or shouting outHi! Guvnor! whydont yer get inside ! You wished that some one would do something to clearaway these little Arabs, as you are pleased to call them/so that a fine old Englishgentleman—as you are pleased to think yourself—might take his exercise in peace. But this is a free country, and even little street-boys have a right to try and livein it. You can hardly find a