five years old, may be a little seasoned to the
custom; and ARTHUR--(as godson to the DUKE)--may have a precocious taste
for gunpowder; but consider the tender months of baby LEOPOLD! A
suckling, and saluted with a smack of thunder.

Poor little heart! No doubt GRANNY BRITANNIA means the noise as an
evidence of her love; but, we needs must think it a proof of her
foolishness. Dear little rose-buds! Why not go to be kissed at Windsor
in all their innocent freshness? Why should they be forwarded to their
parents, new too from Scotland, smelling of gunpowder in which is so
much brimstone?

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[Illustration: OUR TRAVELLING CONTRIBUTOR, AFTER A SEVERE ATTACK OF
_INN_-FLUENZA.]

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RETALIATION.

Photography, it was erroneously stated, had enabled forgers to commit
frauds upon the Bank of England. Had it been true, the retribution would
have been just. The Bank issues light sovereigns--why not repay it with
Light five-pound notes?

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HOW TO MULL PORTE.--Ask LORD ABERDEEN.

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EXIT G. V. BROOKE.--ENTER TOM BARRY.

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That MR. BROOKE--according to the information benignantly supplied to a
benighted public by his manager--has restored Drury Lane to its former
grandeur as a Temple of the Drama, is a grand fact. Having restored the
Temple, and made his exit--_en route_ for California--enter TOM BARRY
"the Deathless Clown."

MR. E. T. SMITH--like a modest flower--unconscious of his own merits,
has culled in "a wise discretion, the result of a deliberative council
in science." And the wisdom of his discretion shows itself in astounding
results. For instance, he has the youthful HERNANDEZ, who is, in
himself, "the very constellation in the hippodramatic hemisphere." Next,
he has EATON STONE; and he "confronts in a marvellous manner, the wild
horse of the prairies"--that animal being at the present hour rampant
and loose under Drury Lane stage. Next, there is ARTHUR BARNES, "the
champion of all the world" who throws "ninety-one summersaults in
succession;" a living anatomical illustration of the truth that one good
turn deserves another. TOM BARRY, "the deathless Clown--his name and
fame are enough." The Undying One! Immortal WILLIAM over the portico,
and the Deathless BARRY in the sawdust!

It is expected that the Deathless BARRY will, 'ere his