i.) fairly warm, (iii.) likely to last so, (iv.) wind
S.W., (v.) no remains of sloshy thaw, (vi.) no frost; if there are
comfortable conveyances to and from station; if there is a perfectly
dry spot for me to stand on, and see and hear everything, and
no draughts, and if there is a good lunch in a comfortable, dry,
well-aired, and warmed room, with not too many guests, and plenty of
good waiters, also with dry champagne,--say Pommery '80 or '84, for
choice,--then you may expect me, and I accept, with the greatest
possible pleasure.

Yours ever, D. DASH."

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[Illustration: TWELFTH-NIGHT DRAWINGS FOR FATHER TIME.

(_Shadows of the Past and Coming Forms._)]

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"HONOURS EASY!"

(_OMITTED FROM THE NEW YEAR'S LIST LAST WEEK._)

Sir F. LEIGHTON, Bart., P.R.A., to be raised to the Peerage as the
Earl of BURLINGTON, in order to adorn the House of Lords.

Mr. HENRY IRVING, to be Lord LYCAEUM, to please Baron BEEFSTEAK.

Mr. J.L. TOOLE, to be Baron BEEFSTEAK, to satisfy Lord LYCAEUM.

Miss FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, to be Lady REDCROSS OF GENEVA; because she
earned it nearly forty years ago.

"General" BOOTH, to be Viscount BOOMON, to collect subscriptions in
the House of Lords.

Sir WILFRID LAWSON, Bart., will take the title of Lord DRINKWATER.
N.B.--He will always have to appear in Court suit with pumps.

Viscount WOLSELEY will he made F.R.S., F.S.A., F.R.G.S., M.D., in
order to add to his collection, if he hasn't them already.

Professor NORMAN LOCKYER will receive The Garter, to place among his
Stars.

Lord TENNYSON, a Second Pension from the Civil List, to augment the
one granted half a century or so ago.

The Donkey of the Brothers GRIFFITHS, the Order of the Thistle.

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_Some More of Them_.--THE QUEEN has been further pleased to confer the
dignity of a Peerage of the United Kingdom upon--

Mr. Sheriff AUGUSTUS HARRIS, who will, on taking his seat in the Upper
House, assume the title of Lord AUGUSTUS DRURIOLANUS OF LONG ACRE.

Mr. S.B. BANCROFT, who will take that of Lord HAYMARKET.

Mr. WILLIAM BLACK, who will in future be known as Lord SHEILA OF
THULE.

Messrs. SWAN AND EDGAR, who will assume the dignity, respectively,
under the titles of Lords PICCADILLY and REGENT's CIRCUS, and the

BEADLE OF THE BURLINGTON ARCADE, who will accept the honour with the
style and title of Lord BUR