Year: 1876

There were distinct murmurs in thu
the crowd at the suggestion that the
Prince was unacquainted with Hin
dustani, and also at what seemed tc
belittle the articles and animals which
he has brought back, and from which
so much is expected. But the Gun
ming minstrels recovered their lost
ground by singing three verses de
scriptive of the Princes popularly
supposed amorous Adventures in In
dia-ve:ses quite unquotable-which
brought them shower of ha'pcnce
from the delighted audience, and they
elected cheer for the last verse:


But now I've left those pretty girls


And crossed the raging main;


I'm precious glad in England


To have arrived again


Though have been and India seen,


Wiener inclined to roam


always find that to my mind


There is no place like home.


"That there, haint," cried a fat wo.
man to another beside her, to which
the other blinked reply, and then
gurgled out: "You's right there,
missis, noplislikeome." Whereupon
the two poured libation on the SEN
timent from bottle of gin which
emerged from the pocket of one of
them. Attracted by another crowded
circle about hundred yards distant,
| went there, and heard another song,
this also being sung by two men, of
whom one might be regarded as phe
nomenal. l don't believe any city
but London could produce such a
man. His jaws were square and
heavy, and his teeth tusky; his face
was deeply pitted-I might say gag
ged and furrowed-with smallpox,
and of the hue of putty, and he was
totally blind. This man had a rude
lithograph of some ships at sea stuck
in his dirty hat. and accompanied his
husky voice with wheezy accordion.
His choral comrade, though white,
had thicker lips than l ever saw on a
negro, and a forehead inferior to that
of some balloons. These men made
a tremendous sensation with their
song, of which I send specimen
verses for the sake of tho philosophi-
cal among your readers.


He's home, home again, from India's foreign land
The welcome that we give him will make him un-


derstand


That British hearts are loyal and will last for time


untold


To cheer our noble Prince of Wales, SO brave and


bold.


Some people say he's gddy, and is very fond of


chaff;


They would make of him Shaker or saint. that
But il he turned religious they would say that's
We want ant az gay and jolly dog to be our future King.
We hear he's bought an elephant to ride on in the
You'll gee him soon in Rotton Row-oh, won't it


be lark!


With nasty little monkey and ring tailed cock
A PERSIAN cat and Bengal rat. as present for the


Zoo.


They say the pretty black girls


but l must pass by this verse, though
it was loudly applauded, especially III
its concluding line:


For the Prince is devil to 60 kissing on the sly.


There were two verses that revealed
the one blot upon royalty in the eyes
of the main crowd of Thursday
John Brown, the Scotch gillie. To
sixty per cent. of them the question
of Queen vs.. Empress sinks to lnsig-
nificance as compared with the often
sive presence of John Brown OH state
occasions. There were cries of
hear" when the Ministries sang
these verses:
John Brown, the mighty scotchman, upon the
Will dane. comic Highland fling; oh, won't the
For on this grand occasion he'll perform without


his clothes,


And if the Prince, he catches him, he'll pull his


blooming nose.


This ballad ended, amid great ap-
plause from hundreds, with verse
beginning:


One cheer for Alexandra, his loving little wife
and continued with so much coarse
ness that l marveled how the most
brutal even of English crowds could
tolerate it. But l saw that singers
and listeners all ment it as the climax
of an enthusiastic and most loving
welcome to the Prince and telicitatlon
to the Princess. For a long time the
crowd was sober and good natured,
but hope deferred makes the British
palate very dry; the long delay Of
the Princes arrival demoralized the
crowd; it got fond and tipsy, tired
and querulous, and when the Prince
came their cheers were not so loud as
they would have been earlier in the
afternoon. Yet the Prince was hand
greeted with enthusiasm in
the balconies-the waving of hand
kerchiefs - the greetings from the
houses Of the wealthy, particularly
the Rothschilds, and OF the nobility
along Piccadilly, being noticcably
vigorous, proceeded from multitudes
of finely dressed ladies, seated amid
richly decorated exteriors. The
Prince seemed as fresh and blooming
as if he had not just that day landed
from rough and long voyage. He
is not at all burnt or bronzed by his
journey, and there is no particular
change, unless it be that he is little
more plump than before.


A New BEAUTY OF BANKING.-A
Hebrew gentleman had legacy left
him, but it was hampered with an
condition, which he hast
ened to annouce to sympathizing
friend. The sum was 100000, but
half the sum, according to the tes-
tatOr's wishes. was to be placed in