The present worthy Mayor of Liverpool is very low in
stature : his two Bailiffs are very tall men ; the one rather thin, the other realizing Dryden's description of one of his poetical rivals-
" A tun of man in his large bulk is writ."
The Lilliputian height of the Mayor and the Brobdi. gnagian height the Bailiffs have, of course, given occasion-for the display of sonol loose wit„ graphic as well as verbaL In a caricature, privafrh' circulated, the Mayor, supported by his two Bailiffs, is represent"l in the act of presenting a loyal and dutiful address to the Princ..s.-: Victoria, we believe. His Worship makes up by the aid of his artiii.1 of office for his want of height, as contrasted with the stature of Itig colleagues ; and her Royal Highness is made to express the pleasuni which she feels in receiving an address from " such thick and thin suppOrters of the Constitution." Passable as is this specimen of graphic wit, the verbal wit to which the election has given birth is better. " Who," asked a gentleman, " are chosen for Bailiffs ? " Why," replies another, " Mr. Robertson Gladstone and Mr. Janic-i, Aspinall." " Oh ! " exclaims the querist, " the length and tho breadth of the Corporation."
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