But you (you're a cynic, that's one of the ways,

And by no means the worst, to get credit for kindness),

You can smile at this struggle for titles and praise,

You can laugh at your friends while you envy their blindness.

A time, so I fancy you saying, will come;

They are not done with LABBY, for all their sweet smiling;

And they're vastly mistaken who think he'll be dumb,

Or abandon his amiable habit of riling.


"GREAT SCOTT!"—Mr. Punch's congratulations to the new Bart. of Scott's Bank, Cavendish Square, with the classic name of HORACE. His friends will be able to adapt MACAULAY's lines, and tell—