Glancing at Nos. 2 and 3--Leech's sketch in No. 3 is, by the way, a truthfully graphic reminder to the writer of the first time _he_ [unexpecting] heard and saw a strong Cornish cock-pheasant get up close at his feet--we come to No. 4, which represents the British Lion (as taxpayer) looking askance at the Prince of Wales, aged nine, on whose behalf application had just been made for the purchase of Marlborough House as a residence for the Prince. The portly man in the picture on the wall is a former Prince of Wales, the Regent who became George IV. in 1820, and who is here seen walking by the Pavilion at Brighton, built in 1784-87 as a residence for this Prince of Wales. [Illustration: 3.--BY LEECH. 1850.] No. 5 is very funny, and it is one of the many _Punch_ jokes which are periodically served up afresh in other periodicals. I have read this joke somewhere quite lately, although it came out in _Punch_ nearly fifty years ago. On this score, does anyone know if the following is a _Punch_ joke? It was lately told to me as a new joke, but I was afraid to send it to Mr. Punch:-- Two London street-Arabs. One is eating an apple, the other gazes enviously, and says, "Gi'e us a bite, Bill." "Sha'n't," says the apple-eater. "Gi'e us the core, then," entreats the non-apple-eater. "_There ain't goin' to be no core!_" stolidly replies the other, out of his stolidly munching jaws. [Illustration: 4.--THE PRINCE OF WALES AT AGE NINE. BY LEECH, 1850.] The very clever drawing No. 6 is by Richard Doyle; it was published in 1850, and at the close of that year Doyle left _Punch_ owing to _Punch's_ vigorous attack on "Popery"--the Popery scare got hold of the public mind in 1849, and for some while _Punch_ published scathing cartoons against Roman Catholicism. Doyle being of that faith resigned his position and a good income through purely conscientious motives. Although Doyle left in 1850 his work was seen in _Punch_ as lately as 1864, for when he resigned some of his work was then unpublished. This funny illustration of "A meeting to discuss the principles of Protection and Free Trade" was an outcome of the intensely bitter feeling between the partisans of both sides which marked the carrying-on by Lord John Russell of the system established by Sir Robert Peel in 1846 for throwing open our market-doors to free trade with foreign nations. [Illustration: 5.--A CLEAR CASE OF LIBEL. 1851.] [Illustration: 6.--BY RICHARD DOYLE. 1850.] No. 7 is one of the minor hits at "Papal Aggression" made by _Punch_ fifty years ago, and it is irresistibly funny. [Illustration: 7.--THE APPARITION. 1850.] [Illustration: 8.--THIS IS SIR JOHN TENNIEL'S FIRST CARTOON; FEBRUARY 8, 1851.]