Then it was agreed that Nasrulla should appear at the Queen's Birthday Parade, and other "features" were discussed with animation.
"But what the Khan will ultimately do, Sir," murmured an experienced official at the conclusion of the confab, "only Time can show—with the assistance of the Government."
A New Terror.—Politics on the stage. In Enry Hauthor Jones's Bauble Shop at the Criterion we were taken into the House of Commons and got somehow mixed up with Party Politics; but in The Home Secretary, Mr. Carton, it appears, has attempted to drag his audience, with Mr. Charles Wyndham, into the inner circle of Parliamentary life. What next? A debate on the Budget in Four Acts? Or shall we have, in five Parliamentary Acts, with a Prologue and Epilogue, the Comedy with a short Jonesian title called Home Rule for Ireland: or, how the O'Reillys, the Maguires, and the Kellys went into the Opposition Lobby, and how one Government came in and the other went out, &c. &c.? Save us from politics on the stage! There was just enough of the political element in Dora to give it a peculiar interest. But then Dora was written by Victorien Sardou.
Royal Military Tournament.—The initials being "R. M. T." will not be descriptive of the state of the seats in the Agricultural Hall during the performance. The announcement will be "Are Quite Full," not "R. M. T."
Quotation for Londoner last week, on seeing the Duke of York in Pall Mall.—"I know that man, he comes from Sheffield."
The New Coins.—It was announced that the reverse was to have been altered. On the contrary, it is quite the reverse.