THE KING AND THE DUKE.
THE John Bull of Sunday last presented, in a very conspicuous place, the following announcement- " Their Majesties honour his Grace the Duke of Wellington with their com- pany at a ball at Apsley House, on the 23th of next month, being the day appointedfor the celebration of the King's birth-day."
We know not whether this is to be received as a specimen of the peculiar kind of wit in which John delights; in that case, it would have been as w ell to add—" the Reform Bill being rejected, and the Duke of Wellington restored to the Premiership previous to that date." If, on the other band, we are to receive it as a sober announcement of their Majesties' intentions, we must of ne- cessity conclude that it is the King's special desire that his birth- day should in future pass unnoticed by the Nation, and depend for its celebration on the party of which the Duke of WELLINGTON is the head. It is right, in that case, that his Majesty's wish. should be complied with. There will be less bustle in the streets, less gratification for the women and children; there may be a few oaths from the irate—a few sighs, soon gulped down, from the gentle; but the people at large will save their pence, and the Court will have its way, and the whole affair will be as rationally though not so brilliantly settled as if every street in the kingdom were blazing.
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