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IAMENT "DISHED." (_For the Mirror._) An astounding announcement, but an incontrovertible fact, as shown by the following _festive_ arrangements, made wholly from names of members returned forming the new legislature. At the head of the table will be found, in _A' Court Style_, a _Blunt, Harty, King_, dressed in _Green_ and _Scarlett_, seated on a _Lion_--supported on the right by three _Thynne Fellows_ and two _Bastard Knights, Baring_ a _Shiel_; and on the left by a _Sadler_, seven _Smiths_, and the _Taylor_ "wot" _Mangles_ with his _Bodkin_. The bottom, it is understood, will be graced by a _Mandeville_ on a _Ramsbottom_, with a _White Rose_ at each elbow, and a _Forrester_ and _Carter_ on one side, and a _Constable_ and _Clerk_ on the other. The sides will contain a _Host_ of unknown _Folks_. _Lamb_, dressed by an English _Cooke_, will be one of the principal joints; and birds being scarce this season, there will only be a _Heron_, two _Martins_, a couple of _Young Drakes,_ and a _Wild Croaker_. There will, however, be an immense _Lott_ of _French Currie_, and the _Best Boyle Rice_. Fruit being yet unripe, there will consequently only be some _Peach_ and _Lemon Peel_. The whole will be got up at a great _Price_; but in order to go a _Pennefather_, the amusements of the evening are to be further promoted by the performance of _Dick Strutt_, the celebrated _Millbank Ryder_, who will _Mount_ a _Hill_, and afterwards, while swallowing a _Long Pole_, blow a _Horn_ fantasie through his nose without _Pain_, and then _Skipwith_ a live _Buck_ and two _Foxes_--concluding with a description of his late two _Miles Hunt_ in three _Woods_. Among the splendid pictures decorating the walls, are some views along the _Surry Banks_ and of the _Bridges_. On the whole, some warm work is anticipated, from there being a supply of both _Coke_ and _Cole_; but as to who will _Wynne_, remains to be seen. _Walworth._ G.W. * * * * * EPITAPHS. _On Ann Jennings, at Wolstanton._ Some have children, some have none; Here lies the mother of twenty-one. _On Du Bois, born in a baggage-wagon, and killed in a duel._ Begot in a cart, in a cart first drew breath, Carte and tierce was his life, and a carte was his death. _On a Publican._ A jolly landlord once was I, And kept the Old King's Head hard by, Sold mead and gin, cider and beer, And eke all other kinds of
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