Design (being a sovereign more than the sum offered for a second prize) 6 0 0 Stone 10 0 0 Engraving inscription 30 0 0 Gilding the names of the Committee, &c., engaged in the work 50 0 0 Designer's charge for carrying out, superintending and erecting work 4 0 0 Balance (to be used for surrounding memorial "with a suitable iron railing") 100 0 0 ------- £200 0 0 And now, having shown how the thing may be done, we hope that the best man may win. It is pleasant to find Art so greatly appreciated in Devonshire--a county which apparently is as rich and as generous as its own cream! * * * * * POST PRANDIAL.--If the geraniums and roses in my LOUISA'S garden could speak, what celebrated dinner-giver would they name?--LOO! CULL US! * * * * * FAREWELL TO McGLADSTONE. (_From the Heart of Midlothian._) ["I must here add, in explicit terms, the few decisive words to which, after all that has happened, I feel a natural reluctance to give utterance. It is not my intention, at the age I have now reached, to ask re-election (for Midlothian) when the present Parliament shall be dissolved."--_Mr. Gladstone's Farewell Letter to Midlothian._] [Illustration: AIR--"_Farewell to Mackenzie._"] Farewell to MCGLADSTONE, great Chief of the North! Midlothian remembers when first setting forth, The Chieftain she's mourning his course here began, Launching forth on wild billows his bark like a man, And stirring all hearts with his eloquent voice.-- Farewell to MCGLADSTONE, the Chief of our choice! O swift was his galley, and hardy his crew, Her Captain was skilful, her mariners true. In danger undaunted, unwearied by toil, Though the storms might arise, and the billows might boil, In the wind and the warfare _he_ seemed to rejoice.-- Farewell to MCGLADSTONE, the Chief of our choice! Blow bland on his parting, thou sweet southland gale! Like the sighs of his sailors breathe soft on his sail; Be prolong'd as regret that his vassals must know, Be fair as their faith, and sincere as their woe: Be so soft, and so fair, and so friendly of voice, Wafting homeward MCGLADSTONE, the Chief of our choice!