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present time, be assigned to the nursery department, consists of a few rooms in the attics
of the north wing ; that these rooms are very small and very low, that in order to eztend
ihe aceommodation within this very limited space, to meet the growing wants of an
increasing family [Eh ? ] and increasing establishment, every possible expedient has been
resorted to ; rooms not exceeding 15 feet high, and of small area, have been divided in
their length and width to convert them into smaller rooms ; and as the Royal children
could only occupy attics intended for servants, it has been found necessary to cut the
height of the ground-floor story into two, by the assistance of a false ceiling, which has
consigned the servants to darker and more uncomfortable rooms than has been agreeable
to Her Majesty's wishes."

However, the evil is to be remedied For only £150,000, a sitting-
room and two or three more bedchambers may be built. And then—
that economy may preside, as it does, over all architectural doings to
be paid for by Government—the Royal Pavilion at Brighton is to be
pulled down (that is, if the Brightonians do not rise in a body to pre-
serve the solemn edifice) and the bricks to be brought to St. James's
Park, to be employed in the necessary alterations.

BABY PATRIOTS.

Navigator. " What

S THAT YOU aAV

I"

Policeman. " Why, I 'll take you to the Station-House if you don't

MOVE ON."

Navigator. " YOU take me to the Station-House ? Ten on you might

The farce of Repeal, instead of coming to an end, is kept up every
day with renewed merriment. Mr. O'Connell has elected as a member
of the Association "Master Thomas Maher, who was born that
morning." We are afraid the " Hereditary Bondsmen " must be get-
ting rather scarce, if the Great Reliever of Ireland is obliged to call on
a baby to " strike the blow." One would fancy, too, there had been
sqUalis enough, lately, in Conciliation Hall, without calling in the
assistance of a new-born infant to increase the disturbance. Where was
" Young Ireland " on the occasion ? It should have moved Mastee
Thomas Maher into the chair ; or is it waiting till its representative
gives its nurse a few striking proofs of " physical force ? "

<£i)e late attempt upon ti)e fLortj imager's pocket.

DREADFUL DESTITUTION IN BUCKINGHAM

PALACE. ilH^HIfi^ at the Blackwail Railway Station'. The gold

ur feelings of indignation it is impossible
to express, when we read one of those acts
of atrocity which fortunately but rarely
disgrace this metropolis. If not in the very
heart, at least near a large artery of the
City, a wretch has dared to make an attempt,
which has proved too successful, on the pro-
perty of the civic Sovereign.

The Lord Mayor, the other day, was robbed

watch and appendages of Mayoralty became

It is all very well for Doctor Sotjthwood Smith and the Marquis \Wti HVU the prey of the audacious depredator. We do

op Normanbv, and others, to write and talk about the dreadful \Wi mffflk j not mean to say that the mace was stolen, or

accommodation of the poor. We ask then]. Do they know- the - i\HHffllli'yl that the felonious hand was laid on the cap

sufferings of our Sovereign Lady the Qdeen—of the Field Marshal, wBm/JTi °^ maintenance ; the appendages we allude to

her husband—of the little Princes and Princesses, happily too young ' X^^WHbI* were those of the watch, we believe-its seals

to know the full value of their sorrows? In the ignorance of our ' It WW'' aDd ke-'' In tne midst of ms Aldermen,

democracy, we envied the luxurious conveniences of Buckingham ^hW^i^^f surrounded by the City Police, that the Lord
Palace. For hours and hours have we stood contemplating its body jCa a \*/ — Mayor should have been robbed under his
and two wings, and saying every five minutes, in confidence to our- -^lyM= very °ose: 18/ tear/ui fact !. Who' ** wr
selves-" That's a Paradise of stone, that is ! There's the Garden of naturally be demanded, was the ™°h jho

x?a .,, . ., . , ' , „ , , ^\ V J\ \4^^r- was capable of a deed at once so desperate

Lden, without a snake. And now—but our feelings are such that we ' ^^\N^2§\v££=s aD(j disloyal ?

must begin another paragraph to give vent to them. ^^^^U-b^^S The police reports say that it was one James

Now, we learn that the dwelling-place appointed for our Sovereign, ^ A&Z^Z^^^ Fitzsimon. Whether it was or was not that
her Prince, and babies, is a most comfortless abode ; a place of nooks — individual, a jury of the prisoner's country will

and corners; a place of racking noises and villanous odours. Her : (jecj(je_ jf convieted he will doubtless meet with deserved punishment j
Majesty is absolutely lodged—but we take from Mr. Blore's printed ; Dut what punishment does he not deserve who commits a crime,
report :— | which, in a civic point of view, must be regarded as next akin to High

" The portion of the Palace occupied by Her Majesty and His Royal Highness
Prince Albkrt as private apartments, is in the north wing ; that they were not calcu-
lated originally for a married Sovereign, the head of a family; that the basement of this
wing is also used by the Lord Chamberlain's department for store-rooms, workshops, <fec,
there being no accommodation in any other part of the Palace for these services ; the

Treason

How to ventilate the House of Commons.

Lucie uciug iiu accuuiuiouaLion in uuy ooier pari, oi tut; i aiace lur uieae sciviwia , mc ; . _= . ,

consequence of this arrangement is, not only that the noise and smell from these work- JF the House is very cold, let george BenTINCKI begin to speaK, ana
shops, in which cabinet-makers, upholsterers, smiths, &c, are constantly at work (inde- a u-ra(Juai warmth will be the result. If this warmth is more than the
pendently of the obvious impropriety of such services being performed in a part of the - , vf !>...,„,, ntMr.v SIR Rorkrt Pf.ft and the

building so contiguous to the Roval apartments), are at times positively offensive : but Members can bear, let Mr. Disraeli attack &ia KOBBRT rBEL, ana ine
that the arrangement is not altogether free from the risk of fire, a quantity of oil being astonishing coolness will Strike everybody. II me ae Date is too up-
used, and large fires kept for boiling glue," &c. i pressive Mr Peter Borthwicr should be called upon to speak, and
There ! Who, now, will envy the Qceen op England ? Dear ' £e will clear "the House in a very few minutes, by sending every Mem-

ber out of it.

lady ! whilst, in their ignorance, people think she is breathing airs of
Araby, she is offended, stifled, by the fumes of a glue-pot ! And
when, desirous of pondering on the wants of her people, she wishes to
have a quiet half-hour to herself, she is compelled twenty times to
send out her Maids of Honour to " beg those carpenters not to make
such a dreadful disturbance 1 " Who would be the Queen, now ?

And then the blessed royal babies. Only see what holes and
corners they are thrust into :—
" It is only necessary to state that the whole of the accommodation which can, at the

Secession from the Establishment.—Our fair readers will learn
with considerable pain, that that civil young man, Mr, Drdggett,
has seceded from the Establishment of Messrs. Jaconot and Bob-
bins, and joined the grocery concern over the way. _

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of No. 7, Church Row, Stoke Newinifton, both in the County of Middl™J^„buAU
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