And if England should e’er my assistance require,
She must—
“WAIT TILL I’M CALL’D IN A REGULAR WAY.”
ON DITS OF THE CLUBS.
Peter Borthwich has expressed his determination—not to accept of the speakership of the House of Commons.
C.M. Westmacott has announced his intention of not joining the new administration; in consequence of which serious defection, he asserts that Sir Robert Peel will be unable to form a cabinet.
“You have heard,” said his Grace of Buckingham, to Lord Abinger, a few evenings ago, “how scandalously Peel and his crew have treated me—they have actually thrown me overboard. A man of my weight, too!” “That was the very objection, my Lord,” replied the rubicund functionary. “Their rotten craft could not carry a statesman of your ponderous abilities. Your dead weight would have brought them to the bottom in five minutes.”