TOPICS OF THE DAY.
ROYAL CONCORD.
Tux two Kings of Brentford smelling at one rose must cease to be the type of royal cordiality and unity of purpose. On New Year's Day the King of the French and the Queen of England will dine off one ox !
This " singular and perhaps unprecedented event" has been brought about by the diplomacy of the shambles. Mr. Aileron, purveyor to Queen VICTORIA, "politely offered, through the French Embassy, to present his Majesty LOUIS PHILIPPE with a sirloin, a rump, and an aitch-bone, for his festival on New Year's Day," from the same prize-ox which on that day 3 ields a baron of beef to the Royal table at Windsor. In the time of HOGARTH, roast beef had reached the gates of Calais : Mr. MINTON sends it as far as the Tuilleries. The offer of the "immense joint, or rather combination of joints," was as "graciously accepted" by the Majesty of France, as the roast in Hoe.sera's immortal work would have been by the burly friar who is represented as fingering it with watering mouth. In what light will Mr. Mrxrcoe's generosity be viewed at Paris ? Will his good meat prove fresh food to feed fat the Anti. English spirit of the National? A great deal might be made of his present after this fashion—" The shameless publicity with which the de- pendence of the present dynasty on England is paraded, cannot be much longer endured. The Queen of England is distributing doles of beef and pudding to all her immediate dependents at this season ; and among others, the King of the French has received his allowance. The dinner-tables of the Windsor paupers and the dotation-beggar are furnished forth on New-Year's Day by the same royal bounty. Nay, this insult is not deemed gross enough at the Court of St. James's for the thick-witted occupant of Cha- teau Neuilly. The present King of the Belgians, for paying his respects to the Queen of George the Fourth, was, we learn from the journals of the day, romped by that Monarch ; but Louis Philippe is rumped by the Queen's purveyor ! "
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