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DRAMATIS PERSONAE. _The Little Crossing-Sweeper_ By the unrivalled Variety Artist Miss JENNY JINKS. _The Duke of Dillwater_ Mr. HENRY IRVING. [_Specially engaged; Mr. Punch is sure that he will cheerfully make some slight sacrifice for so good a cause, and he can easily slip out and get back again between the Acts of "Henry the 8th. "_ _A Policeman_ Mr. RUTLAND BARRINGTON. [_Engaged, at enormous expense, during the entire run of this piece._ _A Butler_ (_his original part_) Mr. ARTHUR CECIL. _Foot-passengers_, _Flunkeys_, _Burglars_. -- By the celebrated Knockabout Quick-change Troupe.
SCENE I. -- _Exterior of the_ Duke's _Mansion in Euston Square by night. On the right, a realistic Moon (by kind permission of_ Professor HERKOMER) _is rising slowly behind a lamp-post. On left centre, a practicable pillar-box, and crossing, with real mud. Slow Music, as_ Miss JENNY JINKS _enters, in rags, with broom. Various Characters cross the street, post letters, &c._; Miss JINKS _follows them, begging piteously for a copper, which is invariably refused, whereupon she assails them with choice specimens of street sarcasm -- which the Lady may be safely trusted to improvise for herself_.