RULES FOR THE HOME-RULERS.

THE following regulations, to be observed in the Irish Parliament when it meets on College Green, are under consideration :

1. The Speaker shall not speak except when he is talking. 2. Such terms as "thief of the wurruld," "spalpeen,' 99 66 nager," villian," polthroon,' " "thraytor," "omadhawn," &c., and such epithets as "base," "brutal," ""bloody-minded," and others named in the schedule to these regulations, shall be considered unparliamentary, except when used in the heat of debate. 3. An Annual Budget shall be presented to the House once a quarter.

4. Shilelaghs, revolvers, and pikes, shall not be introduced into the House, except when accompanied by a Member.

5. A Member shall be bound to attend every debate. A Member, however, shall be excused if he gets up in his place in the House and announces that he would be present were he not ill at home in bed.

6. A quorum shall consist of forty Members. Should a count-out be demanded, Members who have been engaged in personal altercation, shall not be included unless they are sufficiently conscious to utter "Erin go Bragh!" thrice distinctly.

7. Duels will be strictly forbidden. Should any Member, however, think proper to break this rule, it will be considered a breach of privilege if he does not invite the Speaker and the whole House to see the fun.

8. There will be only one Speaker; but two or more Members may be elected to the post.

9. Only one Member shall address the House at a time, except when two or more wish to speak at once, in which case they shall not interrupt each other. 10. A Member when addressing the House shall not wear his hat unless he has got it on his head before rising, when he shall remove it on any Member directing the Speaker's attention to the fact.

permitted in the House. This rule does not apply to whiskey, gin, brandy, 11. Under no consideration whatever will the consumption of any spirits be and the French liqueurs.

12. As only the most elegant Dublin English will be spoken in the House, no Provincial brogue can be tolerated. To this rule there will be no exception.

RAIN IN OVERDUE SEASON. (HAWFINCH sings.)

THE Country sadly wanted rain;

It han't come none too soon.
O' drought the Farmers did complain
Till nigh the end o' June.

We hadn't scarce had nare a drop
Not sence the fust o' May;

And things looked uglee fur the crop

O' turmuts, and the hay.

The dry wind, like a stubburn beast,

To move too fat and big,

Fur days together, North and East,
Stuck restiff as a pig.

And when a' shifted fur a bit,

In West or South to bide,

The sky sim'd cloud-bound; could but spit,

What times to raain it tried.

For want o' wet the grass runs shart,

And fodder 'ool be dear,

Unless we be a gwiun' to cart

An arter-math this year.

Our early pase was parched wi' sun;

Our early 'taturs late.

Twodstools I marked there wuzzunt none
Fur loonatics to ate.

No frogs nor slugs nor snails about,
Which they Mooshoes devour.

But now the moistur' brings 'um out,
As well as yarb and vlower.

I loves to zee 'um creep and crawl,
Though mischiefull they be;

To stand and watch the gurt drops fall
A cumfurt 'tis to me.

Well plazed I hears the thunder crack,
And sees the lightnun' play
Athurt the sky all pitchy black
A pepperun' hard away.
About the thirsty fields I thinks,
To harvust wi' an eye,
Consider'n now at last they drinks.
So long that wuz a-dry.

I hopes, though, that o' storms and showers
We shan't git more than due.

"It never raains but what it pours."
Med them words.not come true!
Med it raain hard enough to grow,
Not lodge, the bladed carn.
Doan't let Saint Swithun prove a foe,
By 'm by, to rick and barn.

Such is my thoughts when I surveys
Them clouds aloft as towers,

Like mountains, or, I sometimes says,
Like monstrus collyflowers.

But no wus yet for many a drench

The land wun't be, no fear! Meanwhilst, our own thirst what's to quench? Let's try the effect o' beer.

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