As stated in the _Daily Telegraph_ of Thursday last, the Russian
Censor stamped out _Mr. Punch's_ Cartoon, "From Nile to Neva," and
obliterated the verses. The _St. James's Gazette_ suggested that the
Cartoon was thus reproduced in Whistlerian fashion. It certainly is a
study in black, without any relief whatever. A Black business indeed!
Who shall correct the Censor Incensed? Even _Mr. Punch_ himself
would be chary about visiting Petersburg, lest he should be "bound in
Russia,"--and sent to Siberia.
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[Illustration: IMITATION THE SINCEREST FLATTERY.
_(Effects of a Long Session in the House.)_]
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