unk, as their
custom is, I spose. Then there was a lot of all sorts--niggers and
sodgers, and three young ladies as mag-pies. Which last made me think
that a young gent fond of using his fists might do wus than go as
a burd prize-fiter. By the way, one likes condesenshun, down to
a certain xtent, but whether it should hinclude a most bewtifool
Princess a dansing with a pore littel white-faced Clown, is what I
must leave others to deside; I declines doing it myself.

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We had _Mr. Punch_ in the course of the heavening, and both hold and
young larfed away as ushal at his rayther rum morality. Then we
had two most clever gents who dressed theirselves up before a large
looking-glass to look like lots of diffrent peeple. The best couple I
was told was two Gents named BIZMARCK and BULLANGER, one was said to
be a reel Ero, and the other, a mere Sham, but I don't know werry much
about such Gents myself, xcept that BROWN tried werry hard to make me
beleeve that BIZMARCK, who was the reel Ero, used to think nothink
of pouring a hole Bottle of Shampain into a hole Pot of Stout and
drinking it all off at one draft, like a ancient Cole Heaver! We
finished up with a lot of German Chinese, who jumped about and danced
about and climbed up a top of one another, and then acshally bilt
theirselves up like a house, and then all tumbled to pieces, reelly
quite wunderfool, and not only the lovely little children, but ewen
Common Councilmen, aye and ewen ancient Deputys, all stood round and
larfed away and enjoyed theirselves, recalling to my sumwhat faltering
memory the words of the emortel Poet, "One touch, of Nature makes the
hole World grin."

ROBERT.

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AN ECHO FROM THE LANE.

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LAST week the Carl Rosa Opera Company (whose Managing Directors
are AUGUSTUS DRURIOLANUS, future Sheriff of London, with Sheriff's
officers in attendance, to whom he might, on some future emergency,
entrust the charge of Her Majesty's) continued its season of success
with a solitary addition to the programme, _L'Etoile du Nord_.
_A propos_ of this novelty, it may be hinted that although the
_Catherine_ of Madame GEORGINA BURNS does not make us entirely forget
ADELINA PATTI in the same character, the performance is, from every
other point of view, completely gratifying. As "little _Peter_," Mr.
F. H. CELLI is (as the comic songs have it) "very fine and large." Mr.
JOHN CHILD, whose _W