And hasn't Sir Robert Peel and Mr. A'Court been down to Tamworth to be
reseated?
They ought to get an act of parliament to save them such fatigue, for
its always--ditto repeated.
Whilst at Leeds, Beckett and Aldam have put Lord Jocelyn into a
considerable fume,
Who finds it no go, though he's added up the poll-books several times
with the calculating boy, Joe Hume.
So if there's been _no other election_, I should like to find out
What all the late squibbing and fibbing, placarding, and blackguarding,
losing and winning, beering and ginning, and every other _et
cetera_, has been about!
* * * * *
TO THE BLACK-BALLED OF THE UNITED SERVICE.
Black bottles at Brighton,
To darken your fame;
Black Sundays at Hounslow,
To add to your shame.
Black balls at the club,
Show Lord Hill's growing duller:
He should change your command
To the _guards_ of that colour.
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