Several now should follow, of varied and even
conflicting interests, so as to satisfy any over-captious
criticism inclined to question the thoroughly cosmopolitan
character of the elective body. And so I next add, Mr. Sheriff
AUGUSTUS HARRIS, H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, the Proprietor
of PEARS' Soap, and the Beadle of the Burlington Arcade.
It might now be well to give a distinctively literary flavour
to the body, and so I am disposed to continue my list with the
names of the Poet Laureate and the City Editor of _Tit Bits_,
following them up with the representatives of commercial
enterprise, speculative art, and sportive leisure, guaranteed
respectively by the names of the Chairman of the Chelsea
Steam-boat Company, Mr. R. D'OYLY CARTE, and Prince HENRY
OP BATTENBERG. For the twelfth, and remaining name, I
would suggest that of Mr. HENRY IRVING, the Archbishop of
CANTERBURY, the Manager of Madame TUSSAUD'S Wax Works, Sir
WILFRID LAWSON, General BOOTH, Mr. SLAVIN, Mr. J.L. TOOLE, or
any other striking or notable one that arrests the eye with
the familiarity of long acquaintance.
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