HANOVER IN BRONZE.
The House of Hanover does not shine very much in bronze. All our statues of the departed greatness of that House are marvellously little. The best point of George the Third is his pigtail; whilst his son, George the Fourth, looks and sits his steed in Trafalgar Square like an over-fed ostler above his business. The Duke of York—a monument at which every insolvent touches his hat in sympathetic reverence—is, however, to come down. This we learn to be decided upon in the very highest quarters—a truth whispered at the fireplaces of the Clubs. Prince Albert is to have a statue in Hyde Park: and the men who propose the monument (not that they can want bronze) are to have placed at their disposal, as old metal, the whole of the York Pillar and Royal effigies. Thus the Duke of York will duly go to the melting-pot, the only manner in which there is any chance of his liquidating the debts he has left behind him.
