SOMETHING OUTRAGEOUS.
"Mr. Punch, Sir,
"What next? Have you read the servile inscription on Marlborough House Gates?—
"'The public is respectfully informed, that admission is to be procured,' &c.
"'Respectfully informed,' Mr. Punch! Hity-tity! Well. This is something! Respectfully! And this is by a body of officials, and stuck on a house which is the property of a Royal Prince! The brewers and bakers and candlestick-makers are respectfully informed. Tag, rag, and bobtail are respectfully informed. The swinish multitude is respectfully informed by its own servants that it may see something it has paid for. I cannot trust myself to write. Times are changed, Mr. Punch, or officials are strangely altered from what they were in the time of
"Yours respectfully(!)
"Hampton Court.
An Old Official."