Volume 25 — THE PRINCE, THE PIGS, AND THE PARASITES.
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We think we have at last found a key to the flunkeyism of those citizens who are desirous of getting up an Albert Testimonial. The recurrence of the Smithfield Club Cattle Show has presented the Prince Consort again before us in the character of a prizeholder by virtue of a wonderful pen of pigs, which proves His Royal Highness's continued devotion to porcine development. We all know the effect of a fellow feeling, and we are satisfied that the "greasy citizens" must entertain a natural sympathy with those precious feats of princely care which excite so much admiration in Baker Street. The Aldermanic mind would easily find an excuse for gratitude, in the fact that Prince Albert seeks to give importance to the pig; and they would infer that he who would aggrandise the ordinary pig would not desire to make little of the London Alderman. For our own parts, without wishing to draw a nice distinction, we can appreciate the views of His Royal Highness, and though he may continue to fatten pigs for many years to come, we should not attribute to him any desire to see the London Corporation fattening on the spoils it has so long been allowed to appropriate.
TASKING A BISHOP'S FACE.
In the course of a speech delivered the other day at Southampton, the Bishop of Oxford is reported to have remarked that
"There should be Bishops over the Clergy who would weep when they wept, and rejoice when they were glad."
Under existing circumstances that would be a difficult arrangement. What with poor curates weeping on their £70 or £80 annual pittances, and rich pluralists rejoicing at the same time in their several thousands a year, a Bishop, in order to sympathize with both, would have to weep with one side of his face and smile with the other.
THE HAPPIEST HUSBAND UNDER THE SUN.
Adam had one great advantage over all other married couples—an advantage which has been lost to us with Paradise—he had no Mother-in-Law!!!
