Fifty years ago . A PAKISH BEADLE(Prom a Drawing by George Cruikshank in London Characters) peated the trick with the same success. I think thereare no longer any Twelfth-cakes, and I am sure thatthe boys have forgotten that trick. On Twelfth Day the Bishop of London made anoffering in the Chapel Eoyal of St. Jamess in com-memoration of the Wise Men from the East. Is thatoffering made still ? and, if so, what does his lordshipoffer ? and with what prayers, or hopes, or expecta-tions, is that offering made ?.

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