DCLII.--WILKES AND A LIBERTY. SO ungrateful was the sound of "Wilkes and No. 45" (the famous number of the "North Briton") to George III., that about 1772, George IV., then a mere boy, having been chid for some fault, and wishing to take his boyish revenge, stole to the king's apartment, and shouting at the door, "Wilkes and No. 45 for ever!" ran away. DCLIII.--A STRANGE OBJECTION. A GREAT drinker being at table, they offered him grapes at dessert. "Thank you!" said he, pushing back the plate, "I don't take my _wine in pills_!" DCLIV.--THE TIMIDITY OF BEAUTY. IT'S a great comfort for timid men, that beauty, like the elephant, doesn't know its strength. Otherwise, how it would trample upon us!--D.J. DCLV.--MAKING A CLEARANCE. AT Glasgow forty years ago, when the time had come for the _bowl_ to be introduced, some jovial and thirsty member of the company proposed as a toast, "The trade of Glasgow and _the outward bound_;" the hint was taken, and silks and satins moved off to the drawing-room. DCLVI.--A SMART ONE-POUNDER. WHILE the "Beggar's Opera" was under rehearsal at the Haymarket Theatre, in 1823, Miss Paton, who was to play the part of _Polly_, expressed a wish to sing the air of "The Miser thus a Shilling sees," a note higher; to which the stage-manager immediately replied, "Then, Miss, you must sing, 'The Miser thus a _Guinea_ sees.'" DCLVII.--RESIGNATION. AN actor, on his benefit night, having a very limited audience, when he came to the often-quoted passage, "'Tis not in mortals to command success, We'll do more, Sempronius--we'll deserve it," heaved a deep sigh, and substituted for the last line, "We'll do more, Sempronius,--we'll do _without_ it." DCLVIII.--DELPINI'S REMONSTRANCE. DELPINI had repeatedly applied to the Prince of Wales to speak to the Lord Chamberlain to grant him a license for a play at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket, always pleading poverty: at last, when he once met his Royal Highness coming out of Carlton House, he exclaimed, "Ah, votre Altesse! mon Prince! If you do not speak to Milor Chamberlain for pauvre Delpini, I must go to your _papa's_ bench." DCLIX.--A PHONETIC JOKE. A LITTLE girl playing at the game of "I love my love with an A," &c., having arrived at the letter Z, displayed her orthographical acquirements by taking her lover to the sign of the Zebra, and treating him to _Zeidlitz_ powders. DCLX.--PURE FOLKS. VERY pure folks won't be held up to the light and shown to be very dirty bottles, without paying back hard abuse for the impertinence. DCLXI.--GOOD NEWS FOR THE CHANCELLOR. WE have to congratulate the Right Honorable Lord Brougham on the following piece of intelligence: "_Yarn_ has risen one farthing a pound." His lordship's long speeches are of course at a premium.--G. a'B. DCLXII.--JUSTICE NOT ALWAYS BLIND.