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And with these do you dare men like yours to compare P Why, you've | Here the whole of the shaven monks near him looked grave in amaze-
not got an alderman now who's at all worth ment at hearing the truth from their Prior,
Our Fabian, the writer, or Bramber, the fighter, not to speak of the ! And Thomas a Becket, determined to check it, turned round to a

fishmonger, stout William Walworth."
" Come, Stow, don't be prosy ! " exclaimed a great rosy Lord Prior

who, hitherto, scarcely had spoken,
" Of the ' House of the Trinity' in Aldgate, while in it, I was Prior, and

alderman, too, of Portsoken;
A strange jumble, you'll say, of preferment, but aye every priest in

the race for power likes to be prizemaD,
Change the age and the name, still the feeling's the same in Nicholas
Breakspear or Nicholas Wiseman."

waiter, and bade him inquire
If Colet the dean in the Hall could be seen, as he thought that the

system of sound flagellation
Which that worthy had tried in his school, if applied to the Prior,

might cure him of recalcitration;
And Chaucer called out, "Have we Lollards about? He wol

springen som cockle now in our clene corne,
" Let him kepe to his hawking and feasting, for talking of truths in a
Prior wol nat be y borne."

Then, "You mean, Sir, I hear," said a Mayor who sat near, "for this

Hall to beg statues. They're very much needed ;
I myst If in my day had a taste in that way."—" Pooh ! That's Yiner,"

said Stow, " pray do better than he did,
For the group which he bought for the Stocks Market Court, and called

Charles with old Oliver making short work,
In a ^toneyard he found, where 'twas known to all round, as John

Sobieski destroying a Turk."
Here Strype shouted " Come! Stow, for Pope, Milton, Defoe,

Chaucer, Colbmdge, and Lamb, have got up a debate,
As to who shall sit first;—E'er it comes to the worst, pray hasten the

proper precedence to state! "
Now I'd not said a word until now, but I heard with such shame that

these fellows had cards for the dinners,
That i cried " Pray! what jobs have admitted such snobs ? In the

true civic arts you are surely beginners ;

As reporters, perhaps, we might let in such chaps, but,"—I'd better

have pondered awhile ere I spoke :
Such a shindy arose; Milton's hst to my nose came at once, and

Defoe's my best spectacles broke ;
While Pope stamped on my corn, Chaucer flung a full horn of liquor

all over my new satin vest,
(It was Port, and they say the stains won't come away), but Coleridge

tormented me more than the rest,
For he seized on my ear, and compelled me to hear an oration so long,

that I thought that my wife
Must be reading her lecture, and Faith! my conjecture didn't prove

very wrong, for I woke, on my life,
Lying dressed on my bed, with such pains in my head, and a great

streak of soup down my deputy's gown;
And my courage quite faltere, for I know Mrs. Walters has heard

the whole truth from that horrid Bob Brown.

What is Looming in the Future.

_ We cannot tell what Mr. Disraeli's loom maybe like, nor what
kind of work he has been industriously weaving out of it, but we
imagine that it will be something after the patfern of Penelope's
loom, and that on the opening night he will proceed to take to pieces
all his beautiful work of Protection, undoing all be had previously done
in that way. After which he will busy himself, let us hope, in filling
up the hollow framework with some rich design of Free Trade, such
as shall make the mouths of all poor men water to look at it.

Old Patch.—The great naval architect who builds ail the Ships *or
the Admiralty.

Abd-el Kader at the Madeleine.

Abd-el-Kader has visited the Madeleine, where were exhibited
many precious relics treasured by the priests, with which he was duly
affected. One of the most precious was the broken oath of Louis
Napoleon, in a phial of very good spirits. Among: the relics were,
also, the skull, with a deep sabre-cut in it, of Liberie—the blood-
soaked blouse of Egalite—and the heart, with a musket-ball in it, of
Fratemiie !

a subject for scrutiny.

It is a remarkable fact which has lately been recognised in the
building of steam-vessels, that the power of more than a hundred
horses may be centred in a single screw.