THE DISADVANTAGES OF THE PEERAGE.

"Receiving eggs that are not fit for breakfast, and cats that have not received honourable interment."

There are advantages and disadvantages in belonging to the House of Lords. The peers are deprived of the right which other citizens have of standing on the hustings and receiving eggs that are not fit for breakfast and cats that have not received honourable interment. But they have the privilege of British citizens of being roundly abused by those whose talents lay in that direction.

Associated Chambers of Commerce, Newport, Sept. 21st, 1892.