Last year he visper’d, “Mary Hann, Ven I’ve an ‘under’d pound to spare, To take a public is my plan, And leave this hojous Buckley Square.” O how my gentle heart did bound, To think that I his name should bear. “Dear JEAMES,” says I, “I’ve twenty pound,” And gev him them in Buckley Square. Our master vas a City Gent, His name’s in railroads everywhere; And lord, vot lots of letters vent Betwigst his brokers, and Buckley Square. My JEAMES it was the letters took, And read ‘em all, (I think it’s fair), And took a leaf from Master’s book, As _hothers_ do in Buckley Square. Encouraged with my twenty pound, Of which poor _I_ was unaware, He wrote the Companies all round, And signed hisself from Buckley Square. And how JOHN PORTER used to grin, As day by day, share after share, Came railway letters pouring in, J. PLUSH, Esquire, in Buckley Square. Our servants’ All was in a rage— Scrip, stock, curves, gradients, bull and bear, With butler, coachman, groom and page, Vas all the talk in Buckley Square. But O! imagine vat I felt Last Vensdy veek as ever were; I gits a letter, which I spelt “Miss M. A. Hoggins, Buckley Square.” He sent me back my money true— He sent me back my lock of air, And said, “My dear, I bid ajew To Mary Hann and Buckley Square. Think not to marry, foolish HANN, With people who your betters are; JAMES PLUSH is now a gentleman, And you—a cook in Buckley Square. I’ve thirty thousand guineas won, In six short months, by genus rare; You little thought what JEAMES was on, Poor MARY HANN, in Buckley Square. I’ve thirty thousand guineas net, Powder and plush I scorn to vear; And so, Miss MARY HANN, forget For hever JEAMES, of Buckley Square.” But, joking apart, there is no exaggeration in Jeames. Look at a “Return to the Order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 8th April 1845, for an Alphabetical list of the Names, Description, and Place of Abode of all Persons subscribing to the Amount of £2000 and upwards to any Railway Subscription Contract deposited in the Private Bill Office during the present Session of Parliament,” and amongst the names will be found many of the leading nobility, large manufacturing firms, names well known in commerce and literature, mingled together in a most heterogeneous manner. The same columns shew a combination of peers and printers, vicars and vice-admirals, spinsters and half-pay officers, M.P.’s and special pleaders, professors and cotton spinners, gentlemen’s cooks and Q.C.’s, attorney’s clerks and college scouts, waiters at Lloyd’s, relieving officers and excisemen, barristers and butchers, Catholic priests and coachmen, editors and engineers, dairymen and dyers, braziers, bankers, beer sellers and butlers, domestic servants, footmen and mail guards, and almost every calling under the sun.