PESSIMISM v. OPTIMISM.
(From the City.)
"You're getting quite a Corporation, Brown!"
"Yes; the result of a Contented Mind, Old Man!"
"No. You mean the result of a Continual Feast!"
An Omission in Last Week's Ceremonial Accounted for.—It was first proposed to make a détour from Piccadilly by way of Park Lane, Stanhope Street, and so forth, round again to Piccadilly. But as H. R. H. the Duke of YORK pointed out, there was no necessity for specially visiting May Fair, as from start to finish he took May Fair with him.