THE ROYAL CARRIAGES ARE APPROACHING. _Chorus of Loyal Ladies of Various Ages._ There--they're clearing the way--the Prince and Princess won't be long now. Here's the Life Guards' Band--don't they look byootiful in those dresses? Won't that poor drummer's arms ache to-morrow? This is the escort coming now.... 'Ere come the Royalties. Don't push so, POLLY, you can see without that!... There, that was the Prince in the first one--did yer see him, POLLY? Oh, yes, leastwise I see the end of a cocked 'at, which I took to be 'im. Yes, _that_ was 'im right enough.... There goes the Princess--_wasn't_ she looking nice? I couldn't exactly make out which was her and which was the two young Princesses, they went by all in a flash like, but they _did_ look nice!... 'Ere's another Royalty in this kerridge--'oo will she be, I wonder? Oh, I expect it would be the old Duchess of---- No, I don't think it was _'er_,--she wasn't looking pleasant enough,--and she's dead, too.... Now they have got inside--'ark at them playing bits of "_God Save the Queen_." Well, I'm glad I've seen it. _A Son (to cheery old Lady)._ 'Ow are you gettin' on, Mother, eh? _Ch. O. L._ First-rate, thankee, JOHN, my boy. _Son._ You ain't tired standing about so long? _Ch. O. L._ Lor' bless you, no. Don't you worry about _me_. _Son._ Could you see 'em from where you was? _Ch. O. L._ I could see all the coachmen's 'ats beautiful. We'll wait and see 'em all come out, JOHN, won't we? They won't be more than an hour and a half in there, I dessay. _A Person with a Florid Vocabulary._ Well, if I'd ha' known all I was goin' to see was a set o' blanky nobs shut up in their blank-dash kerridges, blank my blanky eyes if I'd ha' stirred a blanky foot, s'elp me Dash, I wouldn't! _A Vendor (persuasively)._ The kerrect lengwidge of hevery flower that blows--one penny! * * * * * [Illustration: EXCHANGE NO ROBBERY.] * * * * * "ALLOWED TO STARVE."--_Mr. Punch_ begs to acknowledge contribution from "PAISLEY" to "The Light Brigade Fund," which has been forwarded to the Editor of the _St. James's Gazette_, who has charge of this Fund. * * * * * [Illustration: THE AUTOCRAT.] "Here is my last request and legacy! After we are executed, and while the impression of this epilogue of all these horrors is still fresh in the minds of the people, do your utmost to make this new example of the unparalleled cruelty of Russian despotism known to the whole world.... This is a great task well worth accomplishing; and if you succeed, the losses we suffered in that terrible butchery will be redeemed."--_From the last letter, written just before his execution, of Nicholas Zotoff, one of the victims of the Yakoutsk massacre._