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e at once payable out of his father's estates at Saxe Gotha. The whole of the revenues attached to the Duchy of Cornwall are also his by the mere fact of his birth: but there is a difficulty as to his giving a receipt for the money, if it should be paid to him. It is believed, that on the meeting of Parliament a Bill will pass for granting peg-top money to His Royal Highness, and a lollipop allowance will be among the earliest estimates. THE PRINCE'S MILITARY RANK. The Prince of Wales is by birth at the head of all the _Infantry_ in the kingdom, and is Colonel in his own right of a regiment of tin soldiers. THE PRINCE'S WARDROBE. The Prince falls at once into all the long frocks that are required, and has an estate tail in six dozen napkins. THE PRINCE'S EDUCATION. This important matter will be confined at present to teaching His Royal Highness how to take his pap without spilling it. A professor from the pap-al states will, it is expected, be entrusted with this branch of the royal economy. THE PRINCE'S WET-NURSE. Our contemporaries are wrong in stating that the individual to whom the post of wet-nurse has been assigned is nothing but a housemaid. We have full authority to state that she is no maid at all, but a respectable married woman. THE PRINCE'S HONOURS. His Royal Highness has not yet been created a Knight of the Garter, though Sir James Clark insisted on his being admitted to the Bath, against which ceremony the infant Prince entered a vociferous protest. The whole of the above particulars may be relied on as having been furnished from the very highest authority. * * * * * A BARROWKNIGHT. SIR WILLOUGHBY COTTON, during his visit to the Mansion-House Feast, in a moment of forgetfulness after the song of "Hurrah for the Road," being asked to take wine with the new Lord Mayor, declined the honour in the genuine long-stage phraseology, declaring he had already whacked his fare, and was quite [Illustration: FULL INSIDE.] * * * * * MAGISTERIAL AXIOMS. VIDE POLICE REPORTS. An Irishman will _swear anything_.--_Mr. Grove_. A man who wears long hair is _capable of anything_.--_Sir Peter Laurie_. * * * * * THE ROYAL BULLETINS. The documents lately shown at Buckingham Palace are spurious, and the real ones have been suppressed from party motives, which we shall not allude t
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