SO MUCH FOR BUCKINGHAM PALACE!
It seems that dry-rot, or decomposition, or the action of the atmosphere, or the dampness of the place, is playing sad havoc with the facade of Buckingham Palace. The whole front-age is threatened with a kind of architectural small pox, that in time bids fair to indent it with a number of small holes not unlike the hollows we notice in Gruyere cheese. What remedy may have been determined upon to arrest the ravages of this fearful malady, we cannot say; but if some able doctor, who is well skilled in the cutaneous diseases of buildings, is not instantly called in, the Palace will soon be as open as a doll’s house, and we shall be able to look into the interior of all the rooms, and to see exactly what the inmates are doing. Prince Albert will then have every patent right of boasting that he is the first German Prince in this country who has ever kept open house.
As we are not advocates for the privacy of Royalty being at all hours intruded upon by a vulgar and staring mob of snobs, we should recommend some screen being temporarily thrown up to protect the residents of this crumbling Palace from the ocular invasion of the million, who not content with reading the movements of the Court Circular in print, would be only too happy to see them acted to the life by the real characters themselves. We don’t know whether any new uniform has been selected for the better equipment of Buckingham Palace, but it is very clear that the “facings,” as they say in the Rifle Corps, have not yet been decided upon. In every was it is desirable that a new face should be put on this stucco abomination, for it has been an eyesore quite long enough, and in changing faces could not very well get a worse set of heavy, unsightly features. From the impudence of its looks, we should say it was much better qualified to give affront than to take one.
THE SENTIMENT OF COLOUR.
French White is all very well as a water-colour, but we must not have the Mediterranean converted into a French Lake.
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