The announcement that a Thousand Nurses would be received at Marlborough House last Saturday, naturally attracted a large number of the Guards and Household troops, who were off duty, to the vicinity of St. James's Park and Pall Mall. The excitement among the military somewhat abated when it was ascertained that the Prince and Princess were receiving the "first working subscribers" to the National Pension Fund for Nurses. The Prince made one of his best speeches, and the Princess smiled her best smiles. The Comptroller of the Weather for the Royal Household had given special orders for sunshine, or a good imitation of it from one till three, so umbrellas were not needed; thus symbolically showing that the day of "Gamps" was over, and that a new era of superior nursing was now an established fact. If such a state of affairs had continued as was portrayed in _Martin Chuzzlewit_, their Royal Highnesses might have been receiving the last thousand _Sarah Gamps_ and _Betsy Prigs_, and addressing them in a very different strain. * * * * * DRAMATIC NOTES.--ALEXANDER the Grateful, in returning thanks for the toast of "the Avenue Piece," observed that "he objected to this phrase, as he did not mean to 'av a new piece for a long time, the present Bill being good enough." This cast a gloom over the assembly, which then quietly dispersed. Mr. IRVING, disguised as _Louis the Eleventh_ (the last of the great French cricketers), is at the Grand, in celestial Islington, where the Angel is. These angelic visits are few and far between. We (who's "we"?) hear a favourable report of _Sowing and Reaping_ at the Criterion,--a play that might have been only "sow sow," if it had not been for the reaping good performance of CHARLES the Reaper. * * * * * CRY FOR EXTREMELY INTEMPERATE TEMPERANCE PARTY.--"Liberty but no Licence!" * * * * * OUR ADVERTISERS.--THEIR LATEST BOON. SELL UNIVERSALIS is a startling, electrifying, flesh-forming, paralysing, stupifying, and sparkling Intoxicant. * * * * * SELL UNIVERSALIS may be taken freely in tons with perfect impunity alike by the Elephant and the Infant. * * * * * SELL UNIVERSALIS, administered instantly in a teaspoon, will sober a drunken Crocodile or steady a tottering Policeman. * * * * * SELL UNIVERSALIS is a wonderful food-supplier, one dose containing the active principle of a ten-and-sixpenny Criterion Dinner. * * * * *