(A stoppage of a few minutes is supposed to take place.)
Dreadful Boy (on lamp post): "Oh! My eye, Bill! 'Ere's a rose bud."
THE ACCESSION OF THE QUEEN OF INDIA
In the same vein is the protest in the spring of the same year, against the journalistic flunkeyism of the report of the opening concert in St. James's Hall (described as "vast in dimensions, elegant in proportion and splendid in decoration") which was "honoured by the presence of H.R.H. the Prince Consort, a large number of our aristocracy, and a very numerous company belonging for the most part to the better classes of society"—an English revival of the term optimates which Punch very properly disliked and deprecated.
The reorganization of the Government in India brought the Queen a new title, and in his congratulations we see Punch at his best:—
To thee is given another land,
Another title of renown,
Another sceptre in thy hand,