One of the new LORD MARE'S private gennelmen has told me, in the werry strictest confidens, that they have all agreed together, LORD MARE, Sherryfs, Halldermen, Liverymen, and setterer, to have the most brillientest Show as has bin seen in the old Citty since the time of DICK WITTINGTON of ewarlasting memory! if its ony for the purpose of driving the County Countsellers, as they calls theirselves, stark staring mad with enwy! And so estonished is the Queen's Guvernment themselves by what they hears on the subjec of the glorious approching Dinner, that they has acshally ordered the werry primest of all their Cabinet lot, inclooding the Prime Minister hisself, and the Lord Chanceseller, and my Lord SPINSTER, and setterer and setterer, not only to accept the LORD MARE'S perlite inwitation, but to take care to be in good time, and not to keep the nobel company waiting as old Mr. GLEDSTONE usued to do in days gorn by. By-the-by, the present LORD MARE, jest to show his ermazin libberality, acshally arsked jest a few of the County Countsellers to his larst great bankwet larst week, and werry much they seemed to injoy theirselves, and I must say, behaived like reel gennelmen, tho' sum of the speeches, speshally them by Lord HAILSBERY and Mr. RICHER, must have been rayther staggerers for them to bear. ROBERT. * * * * * PROSIT.--Best wishes to Mr. BEERBOHM TREE for the success of the new piece at the Haymarket. Whatever may be the result, he, personally, is in for a "Wynn." * * * * * "THE CHALLENGE." ["Of course, you may get the House of Lords to surrender as you get a fortress to surrender, by making it clear that it is encompassed and besieged beyond all hope of deliverance; but that in itself is not an easy task with the garrison that I have described as sure to defend it.... We fling down the gauntlet. It is for you to back us up."--_Lord Rosebery at Bradford._] _Bob Acres_ Lord R-S-B-RY. _Sir Lucius O'Trigger_ Irish Party. * * * * * _Sir Lucius._ Then sure you know what is to be done? _Acres._ What! fight him? _Sir Lucius._ Ay, to be sure: what can I mean else?... I think he has given you the greatest provocation in the world. _Acres._ Gad, that's true--I grow full of anger, Sir LUCIUS!--I fire apace! Odds hilts and blades! I find a man may have a deal of valour in him and not know it!... Your words are a grenadier's match to my heart! I believe courage must be catching! I certainly do feel a kind of valour rising as it were--a kind of courage as I may say.--Odds flints, pans and triggers! _I'll challenge him directly!_--_The Rivals._ * * * * * _Fighting Bob's Afterthoughts._