[Illustration: "_Receiving eggs that are not fit for breakfast, and
cats that have not received honourable interment._"]
There are advantages and disadvantages in belonging to the House of
Lords. The peers are deprived of the right which other citizens have
of standing on the hustings and receiving eggs that are not fit for
breakfast and cats that have not received honourable interment. But
they have the privilege of British citizens of being roundly abused by
those whose talents lay in that direction.
_Associated Chambers of Commerce,
Newport, Sept. 21st, 1892._