"God save great Johnny Bull,
Long live our noble Bull,
God save John Bull!
Send him victorious,
Loud and uproarious,
With lungs like Boreas;
God save John Bull!"
Then followed the O. P. dance and a variety of speeches, and then the rioters would quietly disperse.
The opinions of the press being, as a matter of course, divided on every question, were necessarily divided upon this. The Times and Post supported the new system; in consequence of which a placard was exhibited from the pit every evening for at least a week, with the inscription,
"The Times and Post are bought and sold,