A Farewell Tea meeting to Mr. Thomas Warr took place in the Shepherd street schoolroom on the 10th of May as a parting respect to that gentleman as the founder and teacher of the sol-fa system of music in this borough. After tea the chair was taken by Mr. Stevens, who introduced Mr. Dobson of Pimlico as Mr. Warr’s successor, who intimated that he was willing to continue the system so long as the class was sufficiently remunerative to defray his expenses to and from London. Mr. Warr followed in an energetic speech, thanking the class for the support he had received, and remarked that although leaving his present sphere of labour, he was not giving up sol-fa, having already formed a class of one hundred where he was about to take up his abode.
Facetiae
The Boot-lace Trick. "Master, your boot-lace is down " shouted a frolicsome urchin as he passed a gentleman on the East Ascent on Friday morning. You little fool, sharply retorted the elder person, how can that be, when your father has made spring side boots for me these two years? Need it be said that it was the first of April? It may be added, however, that the youngster sought to hide his diminished head.
What's the Time, young man? asked a gentleman, of a cabman. "Four-and-eightpence" was the reply. "What is the time?" reiterated the gentleman. "That is the next carriage£ was the not over ready response, but which was rendered peculiarly emphatic by a few hiccoughs. This was thought to be a proper case for the tectotallers; as was, perhaps, another case (but which was not local) in which a moralising clergyman asked a man who had to support himself on a grave stone in his endeavour to reach home, where he expected to go to?, and received for answer in a few stuttering efforts, "I s'pose where I. I can get the best gin.
Breakfast for one. Stepping out of the police-station on the early morning of the 26th of April, the resident Constable Cripps had a narrow escape of crockeryware or chinaware it is not remembered which. Attracted by the novelty of such commodities at such a place, at such a time, and in such a fashion, Mr. Cripps lost no time in commencing an investigation. He stooped yea! and he stooped to conquer; for although his olfactory organs were assailed by the tempting odours of coffee, eggs and bread and butter, he actually had the courage to say thankee? not for me!" There was, however a mystery about it- a mystery which, some hours later, had its solution thus: Have you (asked a woman whose appearance bore evidence of working habits) a basin, a plate and a knife and fork belonging to me? for, do you know, my old man got up in the night, and said his sister was in the lock-up, and he should get her some breakfast and carry it up to her. I hadn't much recollection of what he said at the time, for I was very tired and sleepy. I am sorry to say, he had been drinking. The cases here enumerated were of themselves almost a justification of the extrordinary efforts that were this year, being made by the Temperance leaders.
