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One of the Esquire Bedells who bear the mace before the Vice-Chancellor.

The savage despair of the Member is finely pourtrayed by the trousers. A total indifference to moral guilt or personal danger is argued by his thus appearing before the Vice-Chancellor; that gentleman justly regarding the wearing of trousers as the most atrocious of moral offences, and having lately deservedly excluded a distinguished wrangler who had been guilty of them, from a Fellowship of his College.

Speakers of the Society.

A magnificent though bold figure. The Red Lion , and which is a remarkably handsome lion of the kind, is described as wagging his tail in testimony of the pleasure he felt at the goings on within.

The Vice-Chancellor elect.

Two of the Esquire Bedells.

Former Vice-Chancellors.

The Chancellor.

Speakers of the Society.

Sir John Fielding, an active police magistrate of that day.

Coe's father, a blacksmith and alderman of Cambridge.

Professor Richard Owen, formerly superintendent of the natural history department of the British Museum, whence it was decided to remove the natural history specimens to South Kensington.

Don Quixote.

A Colonade is that which consists of columns. The British Army consists thereof. Therefore the British Army is a Colonade.--WALKER.

The Prisoner was accommodated with a neat "folding bed."

"Pack" is the Arctic ice. "Shove," when river-ice begins to move, in America.

The Poet's residence.

"The White Doe of Rylstone" which had a very slow sale. Jeffrey wrote of it that it was the very worst poem he ever saw in a quarto volume.

Jack and Nancy, as it was afterwards remarked to the Authors, are here made to come into the world at periods not sufficiently remote. The writers were then bachelors. One of them, unfortunately, still continues so, as he has thus recorded in his niece's album:

This alludes to the young Betty mania.

A fashionable milliner.

Euclid Redivivus.

"The M," "the C." The Modern Side, the Classical Side.

Leckhampton Hill, near Cheltenham.

Without paying the Customs duty imposed on silver plate in the United States.

Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, Mayor of Birmingham, then holding very advanced Radical views.

"He of Blackfriars Road," viz., the late Rev. Rowland Hill, who is said to have preached a sermon congratulating his congregation on the catastrophe at Drury Lane Theatre.

Hungerford suspension bridge was opened on May 1, 1845, it was removed in 1862 to make way for the Charing Cross railway bridge, and was afterwards erected over the River Avon at Clifton, near Bristol.

It is currently reported that Robert Warren, Esq., is a native of Birmingham.

Lord Stewart at a dinner in Ireland proposed as a toast "the health of the Prince Regent, the first cavalry officer in Europe."

It was generally supposed that the Prince Regent's whiskers were artificial. But as the Prince was never true to either his word, his oath, his wife, or his mistress, it matters little by what, or by whom, he swore.

Bishop Gray.

Lord Westbury.

Bishop Colenso died after a brief illness, in 1883, leaving behind him the memory of an honest and fearless thinker, and of a true and devoted missionary.

Sir William Harcourt.

Mr. Whitbread, the brewer, who was very active in the rebuilding of Drury Lane Theatre.

This appeared soon after a tremendous fire at Whiteley's stores, in Westbourne Grove, London.

Mr. W. P. Marshall, Secretary of the Institution.

Lord Hartington, then Secretary of State for War, was responsible for the measures taken for the relief of General Gordon.

Sir John Lawrence, Governor-General of India, 1863 to 1868.

Jovis. Bacchi. Veneris.

Sir James Mc. G. Hogg, of the Metropolitan Board of Works.

There is something' like this in MACAULAY'S Lays:-- "And, like a dam, the mighty wreck," &c.

Of the Whartonites.

Sic appellata, principio "lucus a non," quod nostri reges rarissime viuunt illic.

Templum Sancti Pauli quod est unus leonum in Londino.

Ut "Ite id, Cantabrigia" aut "Strenue! Fusci Coerulei" aut "Bene remigatum."

Then the residence of George, Prince Regent, his present address is rather doubtful.

The Earl of Liverpool, who was premier from 1812 to 1820.

What is a caxen?--ED. P.

Thomas Dibdin, song-writer and dramatist, was born in 1771. He was apprenticed to Sir William Rawlins, Knt., who then kept a broker's shop in Moorfields.

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