A Nursery Ballad, entitled “The Christening Cake,” was published on the occasion, (by Mr. John Lee, of 440, West Strand,) from which a few extracts may be quoted:—
When great Victoria ruled the land,
She ruled it like a Queen;
She had a Princess and a Prince
Not very far between.
The Princess was a girl, you’ll guess,
A pretty little thing;
Yet parties all agreed in this—
She never could be King.
But ere the year its course had run,