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.
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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
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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_.
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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
to. The following are genuine; they relate only to the Prince, the
convalescence of Her Majesty being, we are glad to say, so rapid as to
require no official notice.
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