on on 'em in private, but we don't
allow not nothink to be said against 'em in Public. Ah! my Lord Markiss,
how one touch of Natur makes us all kings! Who'd ever have thort that a
werry Prime Minister would have been troubled with a similar complaint
to that as so offen trubbles a pore Hed Waiter.

Mr. GOSHEN apollergised for the absense of the pore 1st Lord of the
Tresury, who was quite nocked up with setting up so late.

And so ended the last of the long seris of grand Bankwets of the rain of
Lord Mare HANSON, a seris to be rememberd for many long years by all on
us, as combining with all the reglar old lot, such a wariety of noveltys
to all sorts and condishuns of sillybrated persons, as has never bin
ekalled afore, and as will and down his name to a werry remote
posteriority as HANSON the Magnifisent!

ROBERT.

* * * * *

CHANNEL TALK.

(_Echoes from the Naval Manoeuvres._)

[Illustration: Any Port in a Storm.]

"WHAT they're at I can't guess,"
Observes Dungeness,
"Then the plan you've not read,"
Responds Beachy Head,
"FREMANTLE went right on:
I saw him," says Brighton,
"Oh, that's all my eye!"
Ejaculates Rye,
"Well, he came down my way,"
Remarks Pegwell Bay,
"Yes, and HEWETT'S his target;
That's quite clear," adds Margate,
"It seems silly to me,"
Sneers Westgate-on-Sea,
"Humph! I think it quite real:
That I do!" replies Deal,
"And they think so on shore,"
Says the Light at the Nore,
"Well, now it's all over,
Thank goodness!" says Dover.

* * * * *

A NOTE FULL OF GAIETY.--_Loyal Love_, the new piece at the Gaiety,
requires a little compression. If the Authoress would only reduce it to
one Act, and have that single scene supplied with a few catchy songs,
there really is no reason why it should not serve some day as a very
effective _lever de rideau_ at the Savoy, as a capital foil to a Comic
Opera. For the rest, Mrs. BASIL POTTER has greatly improved, Mr. WILLARD
is (as usual) excellent, but the remainder of the company are
unimportant. Scenery good, and dresses adequate.

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[Illustration: "ZINGS VUN VOOT RAHZER HAF LEFT OONZET!"

_Herr Wohlgemuth._ "ACH, YA! YOU MUST HAF HAT A FERRY COOT MASTER! YOUR
FOICE HAS _LASTET_ SO VUNDERFOLLY LONG!"]

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A BALLADE OF THE HOUSE.

(_Sung apologetically at a recent