Comptroller of the Weather for the Royal Household had given special orders for sunshine, or a good imitation of it from one till three, so umbrellas were not needed; thus symbolically showing that the day of “Gamps” was over, and that a new era of superior nursing was now an established fact.  If such a state of affairs had continued as was portrayed in Martin Chuzzlewit, their Royal Highnesses might have been receiving the last thousand Sarah Gamps and Betsy Prigs, and addressing them in a very different strain.

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DRAMATIC NOTES.—­ALEXANDER the Grateful, in returning thanks for the toast of “the Avenue Piece,” observed that “he objected to this phrase, as he did not mean to ’av a new piece for a long time, the present Bill being good enough.”  This cast a gloom over the assembly, which then quietly dispersed.

Mr. IRVING, disguised as Louis the Eleventh (the last of the great French cricketers), is at the Grand, in celestial Islington, where the Angel is.  These angelic visits are few and far between.

We (who’s “we"?) hear a favourable report of Sowing and Reaping at the Criterion,—­a play that might have been only “sow sow,” if it had not been for the reaping good performance of CHARLES the Reaper.

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CRY FOR EXTREMELY INTEMPERATE TEMPERANCE PARTY.—­“Liberty but no Licence!”

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SELL UNIVERSALIS is a startling, electrifying, flesh-forming, paralysing, stupifying, and sparkling Intoxicant.

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SELL UNIVERSALIS may be taken freely in tons with perfect impunity alike by the Elephant and the Infant.

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SELL UNIVERSALIS, administered instantly in a teaspoon, will sober a drunken Crocodile or steady a tottering Policeman.

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SELL UNIVERSALIS is a wonderful food-supplier, one dose containing the active principle of a ten-and-sixpenny Criterion Dinner.

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SELL UNIVERSALIS.—­Professor SLOTTER, B.J.W.K.R.S., &c., Public Analyst to the Midland Patents Puffing Association, writes:—­“I have made a careful analysis of several sealed bottles of this unique preparation, and, as far as I can make out, I have no hesitation in saying that its claim to contain in every single teaspoonful ’all the active principle of two bottles of “’36” champagne, five pounds of pork chops, a pint of train oil, a tinned lobster, a pot of bears’ grease, and 73 per cent. of the best boot-blacking and dog-biscuit,’ is substantially correct.  I have not as yet prescribed it for any of my own patients, but, if I find my practice inconveniently extended, I shall probably do so.”

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