The business of the day commenced with a grand commemorative procession of homage to the prize goose, the representative of whom, we are proud to say, fell by election to the envied lot of the gallant, jocose, and Joe Millertary Colonel Sibthorp.

ORDER OF PROCESSION.

Trumpeter in Ordinary to “all the geese,” and himself in particular, On his extraordinary Pegasus, beautifully represented by a Jackass, Idealised with magnificent goose’s wings.  Mr. GEORGE STEPHENS, Grand Master of Hanky-panky.  Balancing on the Pons Asinorum of his Nose the Identical goose-quill with which he indited the Wondrous Tale of Alroy, Mr. BEN D’ISRAELI (much admired).  The great Stuffer and Crammer, bearing a stupendous dish Of Sage and Onions, Seated in a magnificent Sauce-boat, supported on either side by Two fly pages bearing Apple-sauce, And a train-bearer distributing mustard, SIR EDWARD GEORGE ERLE LYTTON BULWER.  Grand Officiating Gravy Spoon, A character admirably sustained, and supported to the life, by PETER BORTHWICK, M.P. and G.O.G.S.  Drawer and Carver-in-Chief, Bearing some splendidly-dissected giblets, with gilt gizzard under his right arm, and plated liver under his left, Surgeon WAKLEY, M.P.  Hereditary Champion of the Pope’s Nose, Bearing the dismembered Relic enclosed in a beautifully-enamelled Dutch oven, DANIEL O’CONNELL, M.P.  The grand Prize Goose, Reclining on a splendid willow-pattern well dish, Colonel WALDO SIBTHORP!  Supported by CHARLES PEARSON, and Sir PETER LAURIE, With flowery potatoes and shocking greens.  Grand Accountant-General, With a magnificent banner, bearing an elaborate average rate of the price of geese.  And the cheapest depots for the same, JOSEPH HUME, M.P.

This imposing procession having reached the grand kitchen, which had been erected for the occasion, the festivities instantly commenced by the Vice-Goose, Sir EDWARD LYTTON ERLE BULWER, proposing the health of the gallant Chairman, the Great-grand Goose:—­

“Mr. Chairman and prize goose,—­The feelings which now agitate my sensorium on this Michaelmasian occasion stimulate the vibratetiuncles of the heartiean hypothesis, so as to paralyse the oracular and articulative apparatus of my loquacious confirmation, overwhelming my soul-fraught imagination, as the boiling streams of liquid lava, buried in one vast cinereous mausoleum—­the palace-crowded city of the engulphed Pompeii. (Immense cheers.)—­I therefore propose a Methusalemic elongation of the duration of the vital principle of the presiding anserian paragon.” (Stentorian applause, continued for half-an-hour after the rising of the Prize Goose) who said—­

“Fellow Geese and Goslings,—­Julius Caesar, when he laid the first stone of the rock of Gibraltar—­Mr. Carstairs, the celebrated caligrapher, when he indited the inscription on the Rosetta stone—­Cleopatra, when she hemmed Anthony’s bandanna with her celebrated needle—­the Colossus of Rhodes, when he walked and won his celebrated match against Captain Barclay—­Galileo, when he discovered and taught his grandmother the mode of sucking eggs—­could not feel prouder than I do upon the present occasion. (Cheers.) These reminiscences, I can assure you, will ever stick in my grateful gizzard.”