This day week the Prince of Wales dined at Fishmongers'
Hall, and was as happy as distinguinhed visitorh always are on such occasions to enjoy the very fresh entertainment of a City ban- quet. The Prime Warden drank .his health and alluded to the in- 1 _resting event," and the Princethoped "his two eons might learn to emulate and follow the bright example of their revered grand. father." Mr. Gladstone apologized for being late by referring to a stoppage in the City, which made every one present, he said, whether Liberal or Tory, feel that they belonged to "the party of pro- greas," and Lord Brougham advised this country to avoid cor- ruption during the coming elections and the Americans to spare their political prisoners. "If my voice could reach across the Atlantic," said Lord Brougham, "it would tell our kinsmen that their best friends, those who have been their advocates through good report and bad report, now pray and beseech them to use their victory . . . . with leniency as yell as with justice." The advice is good, but certainly not tendered by one of the class described by his Lordship,—who was Northern at first, but became more and more bitter against the North as they sank to the ebb tide of their fortunes.
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