We loved great GILBERT, Glorious JOHN!-- Sir JOHN to-day, good knight, fine painter! Our eyes dwelt lingeringly upon His work, by which all else showed fainter. His dashing pencil "go" could give To simplest scene; a wondrous gift 'tis! How his bold line could make things live In those far Forties and old Fifties! And humorous "PHIZ" and spectral READ, Made us alternate smile and shiver. Ah! ghosts, Ma'am, then were ghosts indeed, Born of the brain and not the liver. You shared our LEMON and our LEECH; Our BROOKS for you ran bright and sunny. May you live long, to limn and teach. Be graphic, genial, sage, and funny! We like you well, we owe you much, True record, blent with critic strictures, And culture of the artist touch Through half a century of pictures. We wish you many gay returns Of this May day! You're brighter, plumper Than then; and _Punch_, who envy spurns, Drinks your Good Health, Ma'am, in a bumper! * * * * * "ORME! SWEET ORME!"--_Orme_ is still off solid food, and is kept alive entirely by Porter. It is the opinion of the best informed that "Porter with a head on" will pull him through. Smoking is not permitted in the stable, but there is evidence of there being several "strong backers" about. * * * * * [Illustration: MR. PUNCH CONGRATULATES MADAME ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS ON ATTAINING HER JUBILEE, AND BEING YOUNGER THAN EVER.] * * * * * MEMS. OF THEATRES, &C., COMMISSION. Mr. John Hare, Lessee of the Garrick Theatre, in his evidence before the Theatres and Music Halls Committee, described himself, according to the _Times_ Report, as having "been for about thirty years an actor, and for fifteen years a manager." This gives him forty-five years of professional life, and saying, for example, that he commenced his career as an actor at twenty, then his own computation brings him up to sixty-five If this be so, then Mr. JOHN HARE, with his elastic step, his twinkling eye, his clear enunciation, and his energetic style, is the youngest sexagenarian to be met with on or off the stage; and it is probable that when he reaches the Gladstonian age he will be more sprightly than even the Grand One himself.