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+<h1>PUNCH,<br />
+OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.</h1>
+<h2>VOL. 1.</h2>
+<hr class="full" />
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page13" name="page13"></a>[pg
+13]</span>
+<h2>JULY 24, 1841.</h2>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>A MODEST METHOD OF FORMING A NEW BUDGET</h2>
+<h3>SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE DEFICIENCY OF THE REVENUE.</h3>
+<div class="dropcap"><a href="images/002-01.png"><img src=
+"images/002-01.png" alt=
+"A building (with the words More Ton Dyer) and a sail forming the letter P"
+id="img002-01" name="img002-01" width="100%" /></a></div>
+<p><span class="hide">P</span>oor Mr. Dyer! And so this gentleman
+has been dismissed from the commission of the peace for humanely
+endeavouring to obtain the release of Medhurst from confinement.
+Two or three thousand pounds, he thought, given to some public
+charity, might persuade the Home Secretary to remit the remainder
+of his sentence, and dispose the public to look upon the prisoner
+with an indulgent eye.</p>
+<p>Now, Mr. Punch, incline thy head, and let me whisper a secret
+into thine ear. If the Whig ministry had not gone downright mad
+with the result of the elections, instead of dismissing delectable
+Dyer, they would have had him down upon the Pension List to such a
+tune as you wot not of, although of tunes you are most curiously
+excellent. For, oh! what a project did he unwittingly shadow forth
+of recruiting the exhausted budget! Such a one as a sane Chancellor
+of the Exchequer would have seized upon, and shaken in the face of
+&ldquo;Robert the Devil,&rdquo; and his crew of &ldquo;odious
+monopolists.&rdquo; Peel must still have pined in hopeless
+opposition, when Baring opened his plan.</p>
+<p>Listen! Mandeville wrote a book, entitled &ldquo;Private Vices
+Public Benefits.&rdquo; Why cannot public crimes, let me ask, be
+made so? you, perhaps, are not on the instant prepared with an
+answer&mdash;but I am.</p>
+<p>Let the Chancellor of the Exchequer forthwith prepare to
+discharge all the criminals in Great Britain, of whatever
+description, from her respective prisons, on the payment of a
+certain sum, to be regulated on the principle of a graduated or
+&ldquo;sliding scale.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>A vast sum will be thus instantaneously raised,&mdash;not
+enough, however, you will say, to supply the deficiency. I know it.
+But a moment&rsquo;s further attention. Mr. Goulburn, many years
+since, being then Chancellor of the Exchequer, and, like brother
+Baring, in a financial hobble, proposed that on the payment, three
+years in advance, of the dog and hair-powder tax, all parties so
+handsomely coming down with the &ldquo;tin,&rdquo; should
+henceforth and for ever rejoice in duty-free dog, and enjoy untaxed
+cranium. Now, why not a proposition to this effect&mdash;that on
+the payment of a good round sum (let it be pretty large, for the
+ready is required), a man shall be exempt from the present legal
+consequences of any crime or crimes he may hereafter commit; or, if
+this be thought an extravagant scheme, and not likely to take with
+the public, at least let a list of prices be drawn up, that a man
+may know, at a glance, at what cost he may gratify a pet crime or
+favourite little foible. Thus:&mdash;</p>
+<p>For cutting one&rsquo;s own child&rsquo;s head off&mdash;so
+much. (I really think I would fix this at a high price, although I
+am well aware it has been done for nothing.)</p>
+<p>For murdering a father or a mother&mdash;a good sum.</p>
+<p>For ditto, a grand ditto, or a great-grand ditto&mdash;not so
+much: their leases, it is presumed, being about to fall in.</p>
+<p>Uncles, aunts, cousins, friends, companions, and the community
+in general&mdash;in proportion.</p>
+<p>The cost of assaults and batteries, and other diversions, might
+be easily arranged; only I must remark, that for assaulting
+policemen I would charge high; that being, like the Italian Opera,
+for the most part, the entertainment of the nobility.</p>
+<p>You may object that the propounding such a scheme would be
+discreditable, and that the thing is unprecedented. Reflect, my
+dear PUNCH, for an instant. Surely, nothing can be deemed to be
+discreditable by a Whig government, after the cheap sugar, cheap
+timber, cheap bread rigs. Why, this is just what might have been
+expected from them. I wonder they had not hit upon it. How it would
+have &ldquo;agitated the masses!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>As to the want of a precedent, that is easily supplied. Pardons
+for all sorts and sizes of crimes were commonly bought and sold in
+the reign of James I.; nay, pardon granted in anticipation of
+crimes to be at a future time committed.</p>
+<p>After all, you see, Mr. Dyer&rsquo;s idea was not altogether
+original.</p>
+<p>Your affectionate friend,<br />
+CHRISTOPHER SLY.<br />
+<em>Pump</em> Court.</p>
+<p>P.S.&mdash;Permit me to congratulate you on the determination
+you have come to, of entering the literary world. Your modesty may
+be alarmed, but I must tell you that several of our &ldquo;popular
+and talented&rdquo; authors are commonly thought to be greatly
+indebted to you. They are said to derive valuable hints from you,
+particularly in their management of the pathetic.</p>
+<p>Keep a strict eye upon your wife, Judith. You say she will
+superintend your notices of the fashions, &amp;c.; but I fear she
+has been already too long and exclusively employed on certain
+newspapers and other periodicals. Her style is not easily
+mistaken.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>WHIG-WAGGERIES.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>The Whigs must go: to reign instead</p>
+<p class="i2">The Tories will be call&rsquo;d;</p>
+<p>The Whigs should ne&rsquo;er be at the head&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2"><em>Dear me, I&rsquo;m getting bald</em>!</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>The Whigs! they pass&rsquo;d that Poor Law Bill;</p>
+<p class="i2">That&rsquo;s true, beyond a doubt;</p>
+<p>The poor they&rsquo;ve treated very ill&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2"><em>There, kick that beggar out</em>!</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>The Whigs about the sugar prate!</p>
+<p class="i2">They do not care one dump</p>
+<p>About the blacks and their sad state&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2"><em>Just please to pass the lump</em>!</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Those niggers, for their sufferings here,</p>
+<p class="i2">Will angels be when dying;</p>
+<p>Have wings, and flit above us&mdash;dear&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2"><em>Why, how those blacks are flying</em>!</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>The Whigs are in a state forlorn;</p>
+<p class="i2">In fact, were ne&rsquo;er so low:</p>
+<p>They make a fuss about the corn&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2"><em>My love, you&rsquo;re on my toe</em>!</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>The Whigs the timber duty say</p>
+<p class="i2">They will bring down a peg;</p>
+<p>More wooden-pated blockheads they!</p>
+<p class="i2"><em>Fetch me my wooden leg</em>!</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>COURT CIRCULAR.</h3>
+<p>Deaf Burke took an airing yesterday afternoon in an open cart.
+He was accompanied by Jerry Donovan. They afterwards stood up out
+of the rain under the piazzas in Covent Garden. In the evening they
+walked through the slops.</p>
+<p>The dinner at the Harp, yesterday, was composed of many
+delicacies of the season, including bread-and-cheese and onions.
+The hilarity of the evening was highly increased by the admirable
+style in which Signor Jonesi sang &ldquo;Nix my dolly
+pals.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Despatches yesterday arrived at the house of Reuben Martin,
+enclosing a post order for three-and six-pence.</p>
+<p>The Signor and Deaf Burke walked out at five o&rsquo;clock. They
+after wards tossed for a pint of half-and-half.</p>
+<p>Jerry Donovan and Bill Paul were seen in close conversation
+yesterday. It is rumoured that the former is in treaty with the
+latter for a pair of left-off six-and-eightpenny Clarences.</p>
+<p>Paddy Green intends shortly to remove to a three-pair back-room
+in Little Wild-street, Drury-lane, which he has taken for the
+summer. His loss will be much felt in the neighbourhood.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>AN AN-TEA ANACREONTIC.&mdash;No. 2.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Rundell! pride of Ludgate Hill!</p>
+<p>I would task thine utmost skill;</p>
+<p>I would have a bowl from thee</p>
+<p>Fit to hold my Howqua tea.</p>
+<p>And oh! leave it not without</p>
+<p>Ivory handle and a spout.</p>
+<p>Where thy curious hand must trace</p>
+<p>Father Mathew&rsquo;s temperate face,</p>
+<p>So that he may ever seem</p>
+<p>Spouting tea and breathing steam.</p>
+<p>On its sides do not display</p>
+<p>Fawns and laughing nymphs at play</p>
+<p>But portray, instead of these,</p>
+<p>Funny groups of fat Chinese:</p>
+<p>On its lid a mandarin,</p>
+<p>Modelled to resemble Lin.</p>
+<p>When completed, artisan,</p>
+<p>I will pay you&mdash;if I can.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr class="full" />
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page14" name="page14"></a>[pg
+14]</span>
+<h2>SPORTING.</h2>
+<h3>THE KNOCKER HUNT.</h3>
+<p>On Thursday, July 8, 1841, the celebrated pack of Knocker Boys
+met at the Cavendish, in Jermyn Street. These animals, which have
+acquired for themselves a celebrity as undying as that of Tom and
+Jerry, are of a fine powerful breed, and in excellent condition.
+The success which invariably attends them must be highly gratifying
+to the distinguished nobleman who, if he did not introduce this
+particular species into the metropolis, has at least done much to
+bring it to its present extraordinary state of perfection.</p>
+<p>As there may be some of our readers who are ignorant of the
+purposes for which this invaluable pack has been organised, it may
+be as well to state a few particulars, before proceeding to the
+detail of one of the most splendid nights upon record in the annals
+of disorderism.</p>
+<p>The knocker is a thing which is generally composed of brass or
+iron. It has frequently a violent resemblance to the &ldquo;human
+face divine,&rdquo; or the ravenous expressiveness of a beast of
+prey. It assumes a variety of phases under peculiar <em>vinous</em>
+influences. A gentleman, in whose veracity and experience we have
+the most unlimited confidence, for a series of years kept an
+account of the phenomena of his own knocker; and by his permission
+the following extracts are now submitted to the public:&mdash;</p>
+<blockquote>
+<p>1840.</p>
+<p style="padding-left:-1em;margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;">Nov.
+12&mdash;Dined with Captain &mdash;&mdash;. Capital
+spread&mdash;exquisite <em>liqueurs</em>&mdash;magnificent
+wines&mdash;unparalleled cigars&mdash;drank <em>my</em> four
+bottles&mdash;should have made it five, but found I had eaten
+something which disagreed with me&mdash;Home at four.</p>
+<p><em>State of Knocker</em>.&mdash;Jumping up and down the surface
+of the door like a rope dancer, occasionally diverging into a
+zig-zag, the key-hole partaking of the same eccentricities.</p>
+<p style="padding-left:-1em;margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;">Nov.
+13.&mdash;Supped with Charley B&mdash;&mdash;. Brandy, <em>genuine
+cognac</em>&mdash;Cigars <em>princip&egrave;</em>. ESTIMATED
+CONSUMPTION: brandy and water, eighteen glasses&mdash;cigars, two
+dozen&mdash;porter with a cabman, two pots.</p>
+<p><em>State of Knocker</em>.&mdash;Peripatetic&mdash;moved from
+our house to the next&mdash;remained till it roused the
+family&mdash;returned to its own door, and became
+duplicated&mdash;wouldn&rsquo;t wake the house-porter till
+five.</p>
+<p>N.B. Found I had used my own thumb for a sounding-plate, and had
+bruised my nail awfully.</p>
+<p style="padding-left:-1em;margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;">Nov.
+14.&mdash;Devoted the day to soda-water and my tailor&rsquo;s
+bill&mdash;gave a draught for the amount, and took another on my
+own account.</p>
+<p style="padding-left:-1em;margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;">Nov.
+15.&mdash;Lectured by the &ldquo;governor&rdquo;&mdash;left the
+house savage&mdash;met the Marquess&mdash;got very drunk
+unconsciously&mdash;fancied myself a merman, and that the gutter in
+the Haymarket was the Archipelago&mdash;grew preposterous, and felt
+that I should like to be run over&mdash;thought I was waltzing with
+Cerito, but found I was being carried on a stretcher to the
+station-house&mdash;somebody sent somewhere for bail, and somebody
+bailed me.</p>
+<p><em>State of Knocker</em>.&mdash;Very indistinct&mdash;then
+became uncommonly like the &ldquo;governor&rdquo; in his
+nightcap&mdash;<em>could</em> NOT reach it&mdash;presume it was
+filial affection that prevented me&mdash;knocked of its own accord,
+no doubt agitated by sympathy&mdash;reverberated in my ears all
+night, and left me with a confounded head-ache in the morning.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>The above examples are sufficient to show the variability of
+this singular article.</p>
+<p>Formerly the knocker was devoted entirely to the menial
+occupation of announcing, by a single dab, or a variation of raps,
+the desire of persons on the door-step to communicate with the
+occupants of the interior of a mansion. Modern genius has elevated
+it into a source of refined pleasure and practical humour,
+affording at the same time employment to the artisan, excitement to
+the gentleman, and broken heads and dislocations of every variety
+to the police!</p>
+<p>We will now proceed to the details of an event which PUNCH alone
+is worthy to record:&mdash;</p>
+<p>Notice of a meet having been despatched to all the members of
+the &ldquo;Knocker Hunt,&rdquo; a splendid field&mdash;no
+<em>street</em>&mdash;met at the Cavendish&mdash;the hotel of the
+hospitable Marquess. The white damask which covered the mahogany
+was dotted here and there with rich and invigorating viands; whilst
+decanters of port and sherry&mdash;jugs of Chateau
+Margaux&mdash;bottles of exhilarating spirits, and boxes of cigars,
+agreeably diversified the scene. After a plentiful but orderly
+discussion of the &ldquo;creature comforts,&rdquo; (for all
+ebullitions at home are strictly prohibited by the Marquess) it was
+proposed to <em>draw</em> St. James&rsquo;s Square. This suggestion
+was, however, abandoned, as it was reported by Captain Pepperwell,
+that a party of snobs had been hunting bell-handles in the same
+locality, on the preceding night. Clarges Street was then named;
+and off we started in that direction, trying the west end of Jermyn
+Street and Piccadilly in our way; but, as was expected, both
+coverts proved blank. We were almost afraid of the same result in
+the Clarges Street gorse; for it was not until we arrived at No.
+33, that any one gave tongue. Young Dashover was the first, and
+clearly and beautifully came his shrill tone upon the ear, as he
+exclaimed &ldquo;Hereth a knocker&mdash;thuch a one, too!&rdquo;
+The rush was instantaneous; and in the space of a moment one
+feeling seemed to have taken possession of the whole pack. A more
+splendid struggle was never witnessed by the oldest knocker-hunter!
+A more pertinacious piece of cast-iron never contended against the
+prowess of the Corinthian! After a gallant pull of an hour and a
+half, &ldquo;the affair came off,&rdquo; and now graces the
+club-room of the &ldquo;Knocker Hunt.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>The pack having been called off, were taken to the kennel in the
+Haymarket, when one young dog, who had run counter at a
+bell-handle, was found to be missing; but the gratifying
+intelligence was soon brought, that he was safe in the Vine-street
+station-house.</p>
+<p>The various compounds known as champagne, port, sherry, brandy,
+&amp;c., having been very freely distributed, Captain Pepperwell
+made a proposition that will so intimately connect his name with
+that of the immortal Marquess, that, like the twin-born of Jupiter
+and Leda, to mention one will be to imply the other.</p>
+<p>Having obtained silence by throwing a quart measure at the
+waiter, he wriggled himself into an upright position, and in a
+voice tremulous from emotion&mdash;perhaps brandy, said&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Gentlemen of&mdash;the Knocker Hunt&mdash;there are times
+when a man can&rsquo;t make&mdash;a speech without con-considerable
+inconvenience to himself&mdash;that&rsquo;s my case at the present
+moment&mdash;but my admiration for the distinguished foun&mdash;der
+of the Knocker Hunt&mdash;compels me&mdash;to stand as well as I
+can&mdash;and propose, that as soon as we have knockers
+enough&mdash;they be melted down&mdash;by some other respectable
+founder, and cast into a statue of&mdash;the Marquess of
+Waterford!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Deafening were the cheers which greeted the gallant captain! A
+meeting of ladies has since been held, at which resolutions were
+passed for the furtherance of so desirable an object, and a
+committee formed for the selection of a design worthy of the
+originator of the Knocker Hunt. To that committee we now
+appeal.</p>
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/002-02.png"><img src=
+"images/002-02.png" alt=
+"A statue of a gentleman holding a lion-faced door-knocker in the air."
+id="img002-02" name="img002-02" width="100%" /></a>
+<p style=
+"border-width:2pt;border-style:double;margin-left:20%;margin-right:10%;margin-top:-1em;">
+TO HENRY, MARQUESS OF WATERFORD,<br />
+AND HIS JOLLY COMPANIONS IN LOWE,<br />
+THIS STATUE OF ACHILLES,<br />
+CAST FROM KNOCKERS TAKEN IN THE VICINITIES<br />
+OF SACKVILLE-STREET, VIGO-LANE, AND WATERLOO-PLACE,<br />
+IS INSCRIBED<br />
+BY THEIR GENTLEWOMEN.<br />
+PLACED ON THIS SPOT<br />
+ON THE FIRST DAY OF APRIL, MDCCCXLII.<br />
+BY COMMAND OF<br />
+COLONEL ROWAN.</p>
+</div>
+<p><em>Mem</em>. The hunt meet again on Monday next, as information
+has been received that a splendid knocker occupies the door of
+Laing&rsquo;s shooting gallery in the Haymarket.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page15" name="page15"></a>[pg
+15]</span>
+<h4>STENOTYPOGRAPHY.</h4>
+<p>Our <em>printer&rsquo;s devil</em>, with a laudable anxiety for
+our success, has communicated the following pathetic story. As a
+specimen of stenotypography, or compositor&rsquo;s short-hand, we
+consider it <em>unique</em>.</p>
+<h2>SERAPHINA POPPS;</h2>
+<h3>OR, THE BEAUTY OF BLOOMSBURY.</h3>
+<p>Seraphina Popps was the daughter of Mr. Hezekiah Popps, a highly
+respectable pawnbroker, residing in &mdash;&mdash; Street,
+Bloomsbury. Being an only child, from her earliest infancy she
+wanted for 0, as everything had been made ready to her <img src=
+"images/002-03.png" alt="hand" id="img002-03" name="img002-03"
+height="14" /> <img src="images/002-03.png" alt="hand" id=
+"img002-03-2" name="img002-03-2" height="14" />.</p>
+<p>She grew up as most little girls do, who live long enough, and
+became the universal !<a id="notetag1" title="Admiration." name=
+"notetag1" href="#FlyBoyNotes"><sup>1</sup></a> of all who knew
+her, for</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>&ldquo;None but herself could be her ||.&rdquo;<a id="notetag2"
+title="Parallel." name="notetag2" href=
+"#FlyBoyNotes"><sup>2</sup></a></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>Amongst the most devoted of her admirers was Julian
+Fitzorphandale. Seraphina was not insensible to the worth of Julian
+Fitzorphandale; and when she received from him a letter, asking
+permission to visit her, she felt some difficulty in replying to
+his ?<a id="notetag3" title="Note of Interrogation." name=
+"notetag3" href="#FlyBoyNotes"><sup>3</sup></a>; for, at this very
+critical .<a id="notetag4" title="Period." name="notetag4" href=
+"#FlyBoyNotes"><sup>4</sup></a>, an unamiable young man, named
+Augustus St. Tomkins, who possessed considerable &pound;. <em>s.</em> <em>d.</em> had
+become a suitor for her <img src="images/002-03.png" alt="hand"
+id="img002-03-3" name="img002-03-3" height="14" />. She loved
+Fitzorphandale +<a id="notetag5" title="More than." name="notetag5"
+href="#FlyBoyNotes"><sup>5</sup></a> St. Tomkins, but the former
+was &cup; of money; and Seraphina, though sensitive to an extreme,
+was fully aware that a competency was a very comfortable
+&ldquo;appendix.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>She seized her pen, but found that her mind was all 6&rsquo;s
+and 7&rsquo;s. She spelt Fitzorphandale, P-h-i-t-z; and though she
+commenced &para;<a id="notetag6" title="Paragraph." name="notetag6"
+href="#FlyBoyNotes"><sup>6</sup></a> after &para;, she never could
+come to a &ldquo;finis.&rdquo; She upbraided her unlucky &lowast;
+&lowast;, either for making Fitzorphandale so poor, or St. Tomkins
+so ugly, which he really was. In this dilemma we must leave her at
+present.</p>
+<p>Although Augustus St. Tomkins was a <img src=
+"images/002-04.png" alt="Freemason" id="img002-04" name=
+"img002-04" height="34" /><a id="notetag7" title="Freemason."
+name="notetag7" href="#FlyBoyNotes"><sup>7</sup></a>, he did not
+possess the universal benevolence which that ancient order
+inculcates; but revolving in his mind the probable reasons for
+Seraphina&rsquo;s hesitation, he came to this conclusion: she
+either loved him &minus;<a id="notetag8" title="Less than." name=
+"notetag8" href="#FlyBoyNotes"><sup>8</sup></a> somebody else, or
+she did not love him at all. This conviction only &times;<a id=
+"notetag9" title="Multiplied." name="notetag9" href=
+"#FlyBoyNotes"><sup>9</sup></a> his worst feelings, and he resolved
+that no &#8456;&#8456;<a id="notetag10" title="Scruples." name=
+"notetag10" href="#FlyBoyNotes"><sup>10</sup></a> of conscience
+should stand between him and his desires.</p>
+<p>On the following day, Fitzorphandale had invited Seraphina to a
+pic-nic party. He had opened the &amp;<a id="notetag11" title=
+"Hampers-and." name="notetag11" href=
+"#FlyBoyNotes"><sup>11</sup></a> placed some boiled beef and
+^^<a id="notetag12" title="Carets." name="notetag12" href=
+"#FlyBoyNotes"><sup>12</sup></a> on the verdant grass, when
+Seraphina exclaimed, in the mildest ``&acute;&acute;<a id=
+"notetag13" title="Accents." name="notetag13" href=
+"#FlyBoyNotes"><sup>13</sup></a>, &ldquo;I like it well done,
+Fitzorphandale!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>As Julian proceeded to supply his beloved one with a
+&sect;<a id="notetag14" title="Section." name="notetag14" href=
+"#FlyBoyNotes"><sup>14</sup></a> of the provender, St. Tomkins
+stood before them with a &dagger;<a id="notetag15" title="Dagger."
+name="notetag15" href="#FlyBoyNotes"><sup>15</sup></a> in his
+<img src="images/002-03.png" alt="hand" id="img002-03-4" name=
+"img002-03-4" height="14" />.</p>
+<p>Want of space compels us to leave the conclusion of this
+interesting romance to the imagination of the reader, and to those
+ingenious playwrights who so liberally supply our most popular
+authors with gratuitous catastrophes.</p>
+<h5><a id="FlyBoyNotes" name="FlyBoyNotes">NOTES BY THE
+FLY-BOY.</a></h5>
+<blockquote>1. Admiration. 2. Parallel. 3. Note of Interrogation.
+4. Period. 5. More than. 6. Paragraph. 7. Freemason. 8. Less than.
+9. Multiplied. 10. Scruples. 11. Hampers-and. 12. Carets. 13.
+Accents. 14. Section. 15. Dagger.</blockquote>
+<hr />
+<h3>NEWS OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST.</h3>
+<p>A mechanic in Berlin has invented a balance of extremely
+delicate construction. Sir Robert Peel, it is said, intends to
+avail himself of the invention, to keep his political principles so
+nicely balanced between Whig and Tory, that the most accurate
+observer shall be unable to tell which way they tend.</p>
+<p>The London Fire Brigade have received directions to hold
+themselves in readiness at the meeting of Parliament, to extinguish
+any conflagration that may take place, from the amazing quantity of
+inflammatory speeches and political fireworks that will be let off
+by the performers on both sides of the house.</p>
+<p>The following extraordinary inducement was held out by a
+solicitor, who advertised last week in a morning paper, for an
+office-clerk; &ldquo;A small salary will be given, but he will have
+enough of <em>over-work</em> to make up for the
+deficiency.&rdquo;</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>&ldquo;MORE WAYS THAN ONE,&rdquo; &amp;c.</h3>
+<p>The incomplete state of the Treasury has been frequently
+lamented by all lovers of good taste. We are happy to announce that
+a tablet is about to be placed in the front of the building, with
+the following inscription:&mdash;</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="cen">TREASURY.</p>
+<p class="cen">FINISHED BY THE WIGS,</p>
+<p class="cen">ANNO DOM. MDCCCXLI.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>A CON. BY TOM COOKE.</h3>
+<p>Why is the common chord in music like a portion of the
+Mediterranean?&mdash;Because it&rsquo;s the E G &amp; C
+(&AElig;gean Sea).</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/002-05.png"><img src=
+"images/002-05.png" alt=
+"Silhouette of a conductor holding a blunt object" id="img002-05"
+name="img002-05" width="25%" /></a></div>
+<h3>MONSIEUR JULLIEN.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i6">&ldquo;One!&rdquo;&mdash;crash!</p>
+<p class="i6">&ldquo;Two!&rdquo;&mdash;clash!</p>
+<p class="i6">&ldquo;Three!&rdquo;&mdash;dash!</p>
+<p class="i6">&ldquo;Four!&rdquo;&mdash;smash!</p>
+<p class="i6">Diminuendo,</p>
+<p class="i6">Now crescendo:&mdash;</p>
+<p>Thus play the furious band,</p>
+<p>Led by the kid-gloved hand</p>
+<p>Of Jullien&mdash;that Napoleon of quadrille,</p>
+<p>Of Piccolo-nians shrillest of the shrill;</p>
+<p class="i6">Perspiring raver</p>
+<p class="i6">Over a semi-quaver;</p>
+<p>Who tunes his pipes so well, he&rsquo;ll tell you that</p>
+<p>The natural key of Johnny Bull&rsquo;s&mdash;A flat.</p>
+<p>Demon of discord, with mustaches cloven&mdash;</p>
+<p>Arch impudent <em>improver</em> of Beethoven&mdash;</p>
+<p>Tricksy professor of <em>charlatanerie</em>&mdash;</p>
+<p>Inventor of musical artillery&mdash;</p>
+<p>Barbarous rain and thunder maker&mdash;</p>
+<p>Unconscionable money taker&mdash;</p>
+<p>Travelling about both near and far,</p>
+<p>Toll to exact at every <em>bar</em>&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">What brings thee here again,</p>
+<p class="i2">To desecrate old Drury&rsquo;s fane?</p>
+<p class="i4">Egregious attitudiniser!</p>
+<p class="i4">Antic fifer! com&rsquo;st to advise her</p>
+<p>&rsquo;Gainst intellect and sense to close her walls?</p>
+<p class="i4">To raze her benches,</p>
+<p class="i4">That Gallic wenches</p>
+<p>Might play their brazen antics at masked balls?</p>
+<p class="i4"><em>Ci-devant</em> waiter</p>
+<p class="i4">Of a <em>quarante-sous traiteur</em>,</p>
+<p>Why did you leave your stew-pans and meat-oven,</p>
+<p>To make a fricassee of the great Beet-hoven?</p>
+<p>And whilst your piccolos unceasing squeak on,</p>
+<p>Saucily serve Mozart with <em>sauce-piquant</em>;</p>
+<p>Mawkishly cast your eyes to the cerulean&mdash;</p>
+<p>Turn Matthew Locke to <em>potage &agrave; la julienne</em>!</p>
+<p class="i4">Go! go! sir, do,</p>
+<p class="i4">Back to the <em>rue</em>,</p>
+<p class="i4">Where lately you</p>
+<p>Waited upon each hungry feeder,</p>
+<p>Playing the <em>gar&ccedil;on</em>, not the leader.</p>
+<p class="i4">Pray, put your hat on,</p>
+<p class="i4"><em>Coupez votre b&acirc;ton.</em></p>
+<p class="i6">Bah</p>
+<p class="i6"><em>Va!!</em></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>CLAR&rsquo; DE KITCHEN.</h3>
+<p>It is now pretty well understood, that if the Tories come into
+office, there will be a regular turn out of the present royal
+household. Her Majesty, through the gracious condescension of the
+new powers, will be permitted to retain her situation in the royal
+establishment, but on the express condition that there shall
+be&mdash;</p>
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/002-06.png"><img src=
+"images/002-06.png" alt=
+"A fashionable couple being tailed by a pair of gentlemen" id=
+"img002-06" name="img002-06" width="50%" /></a>
+<p>NO FOLLOWERS ALLOWED.</p>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>A PARTY OF MEDALLERS.</h3>
+<p>A subscription has been opened for a medal to commemorate the
+return of Lord John Russell for the city of London. We would
+suggest that his speech to the citizens against the corn-laws would
+form an appropriate inscription for the face of the medal, while
+that to the Huntingdonshire farmers in favour of them would be
+found just the thing for the <em>reverse</em>.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page16" name="page16"></a>[pg
+16]</span>
+<h2>A CHAPTER ON BOOTS.</h2>
+<p>&ldquo;Boots? Boots!&rdquo; Yes, Boots! we can write upon
+boots&mdash;we can moralise upon boots; we can convert them, as
+<em>Jacques</em> does the weeping stag in &ldquo;As You Like
+It,&rdquo; (or, whether you like it or not,) into a thousand
+similes. First, for&mdash;but, &ldquo;our <em>sole&rsquo;s</em> in
+arms and eager for the fray,&rdquo; and so we will at once head our
+dissertation as we would a warrior&rsquo;s host with</p>
+<h4>WELLINGTONS.</h4>
+<div class="figleft"><a href="images/002-07.png"><img src=
+"images/002-07.png" alt="A leg wearing a Wellington boot" id=
+"img002-07" name="img002-07" width="100%" /></a></div>
+<p>These are the most judicious species of manufactured calf-skin;
+like their great &ldquo;godfather,&rdquo; they are perfect as a
+whole; from the binding at the top to the finish at the toe, there
+is a beautiful unity about their well-conceived proportions: kindly
+considerate of the calf, amiably inclined to the instep, and
+devotedly serviceable to the whole foot, they shed their protecting
+influence over all they encase. They are walked about in not only
+as protectors of the feet, but of the honour of the wearer. Quarrel
+with a man if you like, let your passion get its steam up even to
+blood-heat, be magnificent while glancing at your adversary&rsquo;s
+Brutus, grand as you survey his chin, heroic at the last button of
+his waistcoat, unappeased at the very knees of his superior kersey
+continuations, inexorable at the commencement of his straps, and
+about to become abusive at his shoe-ties, the first cooler of your
+wrath will be the Hoby-like arched instep of his genuine
+Wellingtons, which, even as a drop of oil upon the troubled ocean,
+will extend itself over the heretofore ruffled surface of your
+temper.&mdash;Now for</p>
+<h4>BLUCHERS.</h4>
+<div class="figleft"><a href="images/002-08.png"><img src=
+"images/002-08.png" alt="A leg wearing a Blucher" id="img002-08"
+name="img002-08" width="100%" /></a></div>
+<p>Well, we don&rsquo;t like them. They are shocking
+impostors&mdash;walking discomforts! They had no right to be made
+at all; or, if made, &lsquo;twas a sin for them to be so christened
+(are Bluchers Christians?).</p>
+<p>They are Wellingtons cut down; so, in point of genius, was their
+baptismal sponsor: but these are <em>vilely tied</em>, and that the
+hardy old Prussian would never have been while body and soul held
+together. He was no beauty, but these are decidedly ugly
+commodities, chiefly tenanted by swell purveyors of
+cat&rsquo;s-meat, and burly-looking prize-fighters. They have the
+<em>fortiter in re</em> for kicking, but not the <em>suaviter in
+modo</em> for corns. Look at them villanously treed out at the
+&ldquo;Noah&rsquo;s Ark&rdquo; and elsewhere; what are they but
+eight-and-six-penny worth of discomfort! They will no more
+accommodate a decent foot than the old general would have turned
+his back in a charge, or cut off his grizzled mustachios. If it
+wasn&rsquo;t for the look of the thing, one might as well shove
+one&rsquo;s foot into a box-iron. We wouldn&rsquo;t be the man that
+christened them, and take a trifle to meet the fighting old
+marshal, even in a world of peace; in short, they are ambulating
+humbugs, and the would-be respectables that wear &lsquo;em are a
+huge fraternity of &ldquo;false pretenders.&rdquo; Don&rsquo;t
+trust &lsquo;em, reader; they are sure to do you! there&rsquo;s
+deceit in their straps, prevarication in their trousers, and
+connivance in their distended braces. We never met but one
+exception to the above rule&mdash;it was John Smith. Every reader
+has a friend of the name of John Smith&mdash;in confidence, that
+<em>is</em> the man. We would have sworn by him; in fact, we did
+swear by him, for ten long years he was our oracle. Never shall we
+forget the first, the only time our faith was shaken. We gazed upon
+and loved his honest face; we reciprocated the firm pressure of his
+manly grasp; our eyes descended in admiration even unto the ground
+on which he stood, and there, upon that very ground&mdash;the
+ground whose upward growth of five feet eight seemed Heaven&rsquo;s
+boast, an &ldquo;honest man&rdquo;&mdash;we saw what struck us
+sightless to all else&mdash;a pair of Bluchers!</p>
+<p>We did not dream <em>his</em> feet were in them; ten
+years&rsquo; probation seemed to vanish at the sight!&mdash;we
+wept! He spoke&mdash;could we believe our ears? &ldquo;Marvel of
+marvels!&rdquo; despite the propinquity of the Bluchers, despite
+their wide-spreading contamination, his voice was unaltered. We
+were puzzled! we were like the first farourite when &ldquo;he has a
+leg,&rdquo; or, &ldquo;a LEG has him,&rdquo; i.e., nowhere!</p>
+<p>John Smith coughed, not healthily, as of yore; it was a hollow
+emanation from hypocritical lungs: he sneezed; it was a vile
+imitation of his original &ldquo;hi-catch-yew!&rdquo; he invited us
+to dinner, suggested the best cut of a glorious haunch&mdash;we had
+always had it in the days of the Wellingtons&mdash;now our
+imagination conjured up cold plates, tough mutton, gravy thick
+enough in grease to save the Humane Society the trouble of
+admonitory advertisements as to the danger of reckless young
+gentlemen skating thereon, and a total absence of sweet sauce and
+currant-jelly. We paused&mdash;we grieved&mdash;John Smith saw
+it&mdash;he inquired the cause&mdash;we felt for him, but
+determined, with Spartan fortitude, to speak the truth. Our native
+modesty and bursting heart caused our drooping eyes once more to
+scan the ground, and, next to the ground, the wretched Bluchers.
+But, joy of joys! we saw them all! ay, all!&mdash;all&mdash;from
+the seam in the sides to the leech-like fat cotton-ties. We counted
+the six lace-holes; we examined the texture of the stockings above,
+&ldquo;curious three-thread&rdquo;&mdash;we gloated over the
+trousers uncontaminated by straps, we hugged ourselves in the
+contemplation of the naked truth.</p>
+<p>John Smith&mdash;our own John Smith&mdash;your John
+Smith&mdash;everybody&rsquo;s John Smith&mdash;again entered the
+arm-chair of our affections, the fire of our love stirred, like a
+self-acting poker, the embers of cooling good fellowship, and the
+strong blaze of resuscitated friendship burst forth with all its
+pristine warmth. John Smith wore Bluchers but he wore them like an
+honest man; and he was the only specimen of the <em>genus homo</em>
+(who sported trowsers) that was above the weakness of tugging up
+his suspenders and stretching his broadcloth for the contemptible
+purpose of giving a fictitious, Wellingtonian appearance to his
+eight-and-sixpennies.</p>
+<h4>ANKLE-JACKS,</h4>
+<div class="figleft"><a href="images/002-09.png"><img src=
+"images/002-09.png" alt="A leg wearing an Ankle-Jack" id=
+"img002-09" name="img002-09" width="100%" /></a></div>
+<p>to indulge in the sporting phraseology of the <em>Racing
+Calendar</em>, appear to be &ldquo;got by Highlows out of
+Bluchers.&rdquo; They thrive chiefly in the neighbourhoods of
+Houndsditch, Whitechapel, and Billingsgate. They attach themselves
+principally to butchers&rsquo; boys, Israelitish disposers of
+<em>vix</em> and <em>pinthils</em>, and itinerant misnomers of
+&ldquo;live fish.&rdquo; On their first introduction to their
+masters, by prigging or purchase, they represent some of the
+glories of &ldquo;Day and Martin;&rdquo; but, strange to say,
+though little skilled in the penman&rsquo;s art, their various
+owners appear to be imbued with extraordinary veneration for the
+wholesome advice contained in the round-text copy, wherein youths
+are admonished to &ldquo;avoid useless repetition,&rdquo; hence
+that polish is the Alpha and Omega of their shining days. Their
+term of servitude varies from three to six weeks: during the first
+they are fastened to the topmost of their ten holes; the next
+fortnight, owing to the breaking of the lace, and its frequent
+knotting, they are shorn of half their glories, and upon the total
+destruction of the thong (a thing never replaced), it appears a
+matter of courtesy on their parts to remain on at all. On some
+occasions various of their wearers have transferred them as a
+legacy to very considerable mobs, without particularly stating for
+which especial individual they were intended. This kicking off
+their shoes &ldquo;because they wouldn&rsquo;t die in them,&rdquo;
+has generally proved but a sorry method of lengthening
+existence.</p>
+<h4>HESSIANS,</h4>
+<div class="figleft"><a href="images/002-10.png"><img src=
+"images/002-10.png" alt="A leg modelling a Hessian boot" id=
+"img002-10" name="img002-10" width="100%" /></a></div>
+<p>are little more than ambitious Wellingtons, curved at the
+top&mdash;wrinkled at the bottom (showing symptoms of
+superannuation even in their infancy), and betasselled in the
+front, offering what a <em>Wellington</em> never did&mdash;a weak
+point for an enemy to seize and shake at his pleasure.</p>
+<p>There&rsquo;s no &ldquo;speculation&rdquo; in them&mdash;they
+are entirely superficial: like a shallow fellow, you at once see
+through, and know all about them. There is no mystery as to the
+height they reach, how far they are polished, or the description of
+leg they cling round. Save Count D&rsquo;Oraay, we never saw a calf
+in a pair of them&mdash;that is, we never saw a leg with a calf.
+Their general tenants are speculative Jew clothesmen who have
+bought them &ldquo;vorth the monish&rdquo; (at tenth hand), seedy
+chamber counsel, or still more seedy collectors of rents. They are
+fast falling into decay; like <em>dogs</em>, they have had their
+&ldquo;Day (and Martin&rsquo;s&rdquo;) Acts, but both are past. But
+woh! ho!</p>
+<h4>TOPS! TOPS!! TOPS!!!</h4>
+<div class="figleft"><a href="images/002-11.png"><img src=
+"images/002-11.png" alt="A booted leg in a stirrup with spurs" id=
+"img002-11" name="img002-11" width="100%" /></a></div>
+<p>Derby!&mdash;Epsom!&mdash;Ledger!&mdash;Spring Summer, Autumn
+Meetings&mdash;Miles, Half-miles&mdash;T.Y.C.&mdash;Hurdles, Heats,
+names, weights, colours of the riders&mdash;jockies,
+jackets,&mdash;Dead
+Heats&mdash;sweats&mdash;distances&mdash;trainings&mdash;scales&mdash;caps,
+and all&mdash;what would you be without Top Boots? What! and echo
+answers&mdash;nothing!</p>
+<p>Ay, worse than nothing&mdash;a chancery suit without
+money&mdash;an Old Bailey culprit without an <em>alibi</em>&mdash;a
+debtor without an excuse&mdash;a new play without a titled
+author&mdash;a manager without impudence&mdash;a thief without a
+character&mdash;a lawyer without a wig&mdash;or a Guy Faux without
+matches!</p>
+<p>Tops, you must be &ldquo;made to measure.&rdquo; Wellingtons,
+Hessians, Bluchers, Ankle-Jacks, and Highlows, can be chosen from,
+fitted, and tried on; but <em>you</em> must be measured for,
+lasted, back-strapped, top&rsquo;d, wrinkled and bottomed,
+according to order.</p>
+<p>So it is with your proprietors&mdash;the little men who ride the
+great running horses. There&rsquo;s an impenetrable mystery about
+those little men&mdash;they <em>are</em>, we know that, but we know
+not how. Bill Scott is in the secret&mdash;Chifney is well aware of
+it&mdash;John Day could enlighten the world&mdash;but they
+won&rsquo;t! They know the value of being &ldquo;light
+characters&rdquo;&mdash;their fame is as &ldquo;a feather,&rdquo;
+and <em>downey</em> are they, even as the illustration of that
+fame. They conspire together like so many little Frankensteins. The
+world is treated with a very small proportion of very small
+jockeys; they never increase beyond a certain number, which proves
+they are not born in the regular way: as the old ones drop off, the
+young ones just fill their places, and not one to spare. Whoever
+heard of a &ldquo;mob of jockeys,&rdquo; a glut of
+&ldquo;light-weights,&rdquo; or even a handful of
+&ldquo;feathers?&rdquo;&mdash;no one!</p>
+<p>It&rsquo;s like Freemasonry&mdash;it&rsquo;s an awful mystery!
+Bill Scott knows all about the one, and the Duke of Sussex knows
+all about the other, but the uninitiated know nothing of either!
+Jockeys are wonders&mdash;so are their boots! Crickets have as much
+calf, grasshoppers as much ostensible thigh; and yet these
+superhuman specimens of manufactured leather fit like a glove, and
+never pull the little gentlemen&rsquo;s legs off. That&rsquo;s the
+extraordinary part of it; they never even so much as dislocate a
+joint! Jockey bootmakers are wonderful men! Jockeys ain&rsquo;t men
+at all!</p>
+<p>Look, look, look! Oh, dear! do you see that little fellow, with
+his merry-thought-like looking legs, clinging round that gallant
+bright chesnut, thoro&rsquo;bred, and sticking to his ribs as if he
+meant to crimp him for the dinner of some gourmand curious in
+horse-flesh! There he is, screwing his sharp knees into the saddle,
+sitting well up from his loins, stretching his neck, curving his
+back, stiffening the wire-like muscles of his small arms,
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page17" name="page17"></a>[pg
+17]</span>and holding in the noble brute he strides, as a
+saftey-valve controls the foaming steam; only loosing him at his
+very pleasure.</p>
+<p>Look, look! there&rsquo;s the grey filly, with the other
+made-to-measure feather on her back; do you notice how she has
+crawled up to the chesnut? Mark, mark! his arms appear to be
+India-rubber! Mercy on us, how they stretch! and the bridle, which
+looked just now like a solid bar of wrought iron, begins to curve!
+See how gently he leans over the filly&rsquo;s neck; while the
+chesnut&rsquo;s rider turns his eyes, like a boiled lobster, almost
+to the back of his head! Oh, he&rsquo;s awake! he still keeps the
+lead: but the grey filly is nothing but a good &lsquo;un. Now, the
+Top-boots riding her have become excited, and commence tickling her
+sides with their flashing silver spurs, putting an extra foot into
+every bound. She gains upon the chesnut! This is something like a
+race! The distance-post is reached! The Top-boots on the grey are
+at work again. Bravo! the tip of the white nose is beyond the level
+of the opposing boots! Ten strides, and no change! &ldquo;She must
+win!&rdquo; &ldquo;No, she can&rsquo;t!&rdquo; &ldquo;Grey for
+ever!&rdquo; &ldquo;Chesnut for a hundred!&rdquo; &ldquo;Done!
+done!&rdquo;&mdash;Magnificent!&mdash;neck and
+neck!&mdash;splendid!&mdash;any body&rsquo;s race! Bravo
+grey!&mdash;bravo chesnut!&mdash;bravo both! Ten yards will settle
+it. The chesnut rider throws up his arms&mdash;a slight dash of
+blood soils the &ldquo;Day and Martin&rdquo;&mdash;an
+earth-disdaining bound lands chesnut a winner of three thousand
+guineas! and all the world are in raptures with the judgment
+displayed in the last kick of the little man&rsquo;s TOP BOOTS.</p>
+<p>FUSBOS.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>HINTS ON MELO-DRAMATIC MUSIC.</h3>
+<p>It has often struck us forcibly that the science of
+melo-dramatic music has been hitherto very imperfectly understood
+amongst us. The art of making &ldquo;the sound an echo of the
+sense&rdquo;&mdash;of expressing, by orchestral effects, the
+business of the drama, and of forming a chromatic commentary to the
+emotions of the soul and the motions of the body, has been
+shamefully neglected on the English stage. Ignorant composers and
+ignoble fiddlers have attempted to develop the dark mysteries and
+intricate horrors of the melo-drama; but unable to cope with the
+grandeur of their subject, they have been betrayed into the
+grossest absurdities. What, for instance, could be more
+preposterous than to assign the same music for &ldquo;storming a
+fort,&rdquo; and &ldquo;stabbing a virtuous father!&rdquo; Equally
+ridiculous would it be to express &ldquo;the breaking of the sun
+through a fog,&rdquo; and &ldquo;a breach of promise of
+marriage;&rdquo; or the &ldquo;rising of a ghost,&rdquo; and the
+&ldquo;entrance of a lady&rsquo;s maid,&rdquo; in the same
+keys.</p>
+<p>The adaptation of the different instruments in the orchestra to
+the circumstance of the drama, is also a matter of extreme
+importance. How often has the effect of a highly-interesting
+suicide been destroyed by an injudicious use of the trombone; and a
+scene of domestic distress been rendered ludicrous by the
+intervention of the double-drum!</p>
+<p>If our musical composers would attend more closely than they
+have been in the habit of doing, to the minuti&aelig; of the scene
+which is intrusted to them to illustrate, and study the delicate
+lights and shades of human nature, as we behold it nightly on the
+Surrey stage, we might confidently hope, at no very distant period,
+to see melo-drama take the lofty position it deserves in the
+histrionic literature of this country. We feel that there is a wide
+field here laid open for the exercise of British talent, and have
+therefore, made a few desultory mems. on the subject, which we
+subjoin; intended as modest hints for the guidance of composers of
+melodramatic music. The situations we have selected from the most
+popular Melos. of the day; the music to be employed in each
+instance, we have endeavoured to describe in such a manner as to
+render it intelligible to all our readers.</p>
+<p>Music for the entrance of a brigand in the dark, should be slow
+and mysterious, with an effective double <em>bass</em> in it.</p>
+<p>Ditto, for taking wine&mdash;an allegro, movement, with <em>da
+capo</em> for the second glass.</p>
+<p>Ditto, for taking porter, beer, or any other inferior
+swipes&mdash;a similar movement, but not <em>con spirito</em>.</p>
+<p>Ditto, for the entrance of an attorney&mdash;a <em>coda</em> in
+one sharp, 6-8 time. If accompanied by a client, an accidental
+<em>flat</em> may be introduced.</p>
+<p>Ditto, for discovering a lost babby&mdash;a simply
+<em>affettuoso</em> strain, in a <em>minor</em> key.</p>
+<p>Ditto, for recognising a disguised count&mdash;a flourish of
+trumpets, and three bars rest, to allow time for the countess to
+faint in his arms.</p>
+<p>Ditto, for concealing a lover in a closet, and the sudden
+appearance of the father, guardian, or husband, as the case may
+be&mdash;a <em>prestissimo</em> movement, with an agitated
+<em>cadenza</em>.</p>
+<p>Ditto, for taking an oath or affidavit&mdash;slow, solemn music,
+with a marked emphasis when the deponent kisses the book.</p>
+<p>Ditto, for a lover&rsquo;s vow&mdash;a tender, broken
+<em>adagio</em>.</p>
+<p>Ditto, for kicking a low comedy man&mdash;a brisk rapid
+<em>stoccato</em> passage, with a running accompaniment on the
+kettle-drums.</p>
+<p>The examples we have given above will sufficiently explain our
+views; but there are a vast number of dramatic situations that we
+have not noticed, which might be expressed by harmonious sounds,
+such as music for the appearance of a dun or a devil&mdash;music
+for paying a tailor&mdash;music for serving a writ&mdash;music for
+an affectionate embrace&mdash;music for ditto, very
+warm&mdash;music for fainting&mdash;music for coming-to&mdash;music
+for the death of a villain, with a confession of bigamy; and many
+others &ldquo;too numerous to mention;&rdquo; but we trust from
+what we have said, that the subject will not be lost sight of by
+those interested in the elevation of our national drama.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>THE RISING SUN.</h3>
+<p>The residence of Sir Robert Peel has been so besieged of late by
+place-hunters, that it has been aptly termed the <em>New Post
+Office</em>.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>THE PUNCH CORRESPONDENCE.</h2>
+<div class="note">In presenting the following epistle to my
+readers, it may be necessary to apprise them, that it is the
+genuine production of my eldest daughter, Julia, who has lately
+obtained the situation of lady&rsquo;s-maid in the house of Mr.
+Samuel Briggs, an independent wax and tallow-chandler, of
+Fenchurch-street, City, but who keeps his family away from
+business, in fashionable style, in Russell-square, Bloomsbury. The
+example of many of our most successful literary
+<em>chiffonniers</em>, who have not thought it disgraceful to
+publish scraps of private history and unedited scandal, picked up
+by them in the houses to which they happened to be admitted, will,
+it is presumed, sufficiently justify my daughter in communicating,
+for the amusement of an enlightened public, and the benefit of an
+affectionate parent, a few circumstances connected with
+Briggs&rsquo; family, with such observations and reflections of her
+own as would naturally suggest themselves to a refined and
+intelligent mind. Should this first essay of a timid girl in the
+thorny path of literature be favourably received by my friends and
+patrons, it will stimulate her to fresh exertions; and, I fondly
+hope, may be the means of placing her name in the same rank by
+those of Lady Morgan, Madame Tussaud, Mrs. Glasse, the Invisible
+Lady, and other national ornaments of the feminine
+species.&mdash;[PUNCH.</div>
+<p>Russl Squear, July 14.</p>
+<p>Dear PA,&mdash;I nose yew will he angxious to ear how I get on
+sins I left the wing of the best of feathers. I am appy to say I am
+hear in a very respeckble fammaly, ware they keeps too tawl footmen
+to my hand; one of them is cawld John, and the other
+Pea-taw,&mdash;the latter is as vane as a P-cock of his leggs, wich
+is really beutyful, and puffickly streight&mdash;though the
+howskeaper ses he has bad angles; but some pipple loox at things
+with only 1 i, and sea butt there defex. Mr. Wheazey is the
+ass-matick butler and cotchman, who has lately lost his heir, and
+can&rsquo;t get no moar, wich is very diffycult after a serting
+age, even with the help of Rowland&rsquo;s Madagascar isle. Mrs.
+Tuffney, the howsekeaper, is a prowd and oystere sort of person. I
+rather suspex that she&rsquo;s jellows of me and Pea-taw, who as
+bean throwink ship&rsquo;s i&rsquo;s at me. She thinks to look down
+on me, but she can&rsquo;t, for I hold myself up; and though we
+brekfists and t&rsquo;s at the same <em>board</em>, I treat with a
+<em>deal</em> of <em>hot-tar</em>, and shoes her how much I
+dispeyses her supper-silly-ous conduck. Besides these indyvidules,
+there&rsquo;s another dome-stick, wich I wish to menshun
+particlar&mdash;wich is the paige Theodore, that, as the poat says,
+as bean</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>&ldquo;&mdash;contrived a double debt to pay,</p>
+<p>A <em>paige</em> at night&mdash;a <em>tigger</em> all the
+day.&rdquo;</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>In the mornink he&rsquo;s a tigger, drest in a tite froc-cote,
+top-boots, buxkin smawl-closes, and stuck up behind Master
+Ahghustusses cab. In the heavening he gives up the tigger, and
+comes out as the paige, in a fansy jackit, with too rose of guilt
+buttings, wich makes him the perfeck immidge of Mr. Widdycomb, that
+ice sea in the serkul at Hashley&rsquo;s Amphitheatre. The
+paige&rsquo;s bisiness is to <em>weight</em> on the ladies, wich is
+naterally <em>light</em> work; and being such a small chap, you may
+suppose they can never make enuff of him. These are all the upper
+servants, of coarse, I shan&rsquo;t lower myself by notusing the
+infearyour crechurs; such as the owsmade, coke, <em>edcett
+rar</em>, but shall purceed drackly to the other potion of the
+fammaly, beginning with the old guv&rsquo;nor (as Pee-taw cawls
+him), who as no idear of i life, and, like one of his own taller
+lites, has only <em>dipped</em> into good sosiety. Next comes
+Missus:&mdash;in fact, I ot to have put her fust, for the grey
+mayor is the best boss in our staybill, (Exkews the wulgarisrm.)
+After Missus, I give persedince to Mr. Ahghustuss, who, bean the
+only sun in the house, is natrally looked up to by everybody in it.
+He as bean brot up a perfick genelman, at Oxfut, and is consekently
+fond of spending his knights in <em>le trou de charbon</em>, and
+afterwards of skewering the streets&mdash;twisting double knockers,
+pulling singlebelles, and indulging in other fashonable divertions,
+to wich the low-minded polease, and the settin madgistrets have
+strong objexions. His Pa allows him only sicks hundred a-year, wich
+isn&rsquo;t above 1/2 enuff to keep a cabb, a cupple of hosses, and
+other thinks, which it&rsquo;s not necessary to elude to here.
+Isn&rsquo;t it ogious to curb so fine a spirit? I wish you see him,
+Pa; such i&rsquo;s, and such a pear of beutyful black musquitoes on
+his lip&mdash;enuff to turn the hidds of all the wimming he meats.
+The other membranes of this fammaly are the 3 dorters&mdash;Miss
+Sofiar, Miss Selinar, and Miss Jorgina, wich are all young ladyes,
+full groan, and goes in public characters to the Kaledonian bawls,
+and is likewise angxious to get off hands as soon as a feverable
+opportunity hoffers. It&rsquo;s beleaved the old guv&rsquo;nor can
+give them ten thowsand lbs. a-peace, wich of coarse will have great
+weight with a husband. There&rsquo;s some Qrious stoaries
+going&mdash;Law! there&rsquo;s Missuses bell. I must run up-stairs,
+so must conclewd obroply, but hope to resoom my pen necks weak.</p>
+<p>Believe me, my dear Pa,<br />
+Your affeckshnt<br />
+JULIA PUNCH.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>CHARACTERISTIC CORRESPONDENCE.</h3>
+<p>The following notes actually passed between two (<em>now</em>)
+celebrated comedians:&mdash;</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Dear J&mdash;&mdash;, Send me a shilling.</p>
+<p class="i6">Yours, B&mdash;&mdash;,</p>
+<p class="i2">P.S.&mdash;On second thoughts, make it
+<em>two</em>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>To which his friend replied&mdash;</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Dear B&mdash;&mdash;, I have but one shilling in the world.</p>
+<p class="i6">Yours, J&mdash;&mdash;,</p>
+<p class="i2">P.S.&mdash;On second thoughts, I want that for
+dinner.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<p>A young artist in Picayune takes such perfect likenesses, that a
+lady married the portrait of her lover instead of the original.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page18" name="page18"></a>[pg
+18]</span>
+<h2>PUNCH AND PEEL.</h2>
+<h3>Arcades ambo.</h3>
+<p>READER.&mdash;God bless us, Mr. PUNCH! who is that tall,
+fair-haired, somewhat parrot-faced gentleman, smiling like a
+schoolboy over a mess of treacle, and now kissing the tips of his
+five fingers as gingerly as if he were doomed to kiss a nettle?</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;That, Mr. Reader, is the great cotton-plant, Sir
+Robert Peel; and at this moment he has, in his own conceit, seized
+upon &ldquo;the white wonder&rdquo; of Victoria&rsquo;s hand, and
+is kissing it with Saint James&rsquo;s devotion.</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;What for, Mr. PUNCH?</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;What for! At court, Mr. Reader, you always kiss
+when you obtain an honour. &lsquo;Tis a very old fashion,
+sir&mdash;old as the court of King David. Well do I recollect what
+a smack Uriah gave to his majesty when he was appointed to the post
+which made Bathsheba a widow. Poor Uriah! as we say of the stag,
+that was when his horns were in the velvet.</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;<em>You</em> recollect it, Mr.
+PUNCH!&mdash;<em>you</em> at the court of King David!</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;I, Mr. Reader, I!&mdash;and at every court, from
+the court of Cain in Mesopotamia to the court of Victoria in this
+present, flinty-hearted London; only the truth is, as I have
+travelled I have changed my name. Bless you, half the
+<em>Proverbs</em> given to Solomon are mine. What I have lost by
+keeping company with kings, not even Joseph Hume can calculate.</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;And are you really in court confidence at this
+moment?</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;Am I? What! Hav&rsquo;n&rsquo;t you heard of the
+elections? Have you not heard the shouts <em>Io Punch</em>?
+Doesn&rsquo;t my nose glow like coral&mdash;ar&rsquo;n&rsquo;t my
+chops radiant as a rainbow&mdash;hath not my hunch gone up at least
+two inches&mdash;am I not, from crown to toe-nails, brightened,
+sublimated? Like Alexander&mdash;he was a particular friend of
+mine, that same Alexander, and therefore stole many of my best
+sayings&mdash;I only know that I am mortal by two
+sensations&mdash;a yearning for loaves and fishes, and a love for
+Judy.</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;And you really take office under Peel?</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;Ha! ha! ha! A good joke! Peel takes office under
+<em>me</em>. Ha! ha! I&rsquo;m only thinking what sport I shall
+have with the bedchamber women. But out they must go. The
+constitution gives a minister the selection of his own petticoats;
+and therefore there sha&rsquo;n&rsquo;t be a yard of Welsh flannel
+about her Majesty that isn&rsquo;t of my choice.</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;Do you really think that the royal bedchamber is
+in fact a third house of Parliament&mdash;that the affairs of the
+state are always to be put in the feminine gender?</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;Most certainly: the ropes of the state rudder are
+nothing more than cap-ribbons; if the minister hav&rsquo;n&rsquo;t
+hold of them, what can he do with the ship? As for the debates in
+parliament, they have no more to do with the real affairs of the
+country than the gossip of the apple-women in Palace-yard.
+They&rsquo;re made, like the maccaroni in Naples, for the poor to
+swallow; and so that they gulp down length, they think, poor
+fellows, they get strength. But for the real affairs of the
+country! Who shall tell what correspondence can be conveyed in a
+warming-pan, what intelligence&mdash;for</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>&ldquo;There may be wisdom in a papillote&rdquo;&mdash;</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<p>may be wrapt up in the curl-papers of the Crown? What subtle,
+sinister advice may, by a crafty disposition of royal pins, be
+given on the royal pincushion? What minister shall answer for the
+sound repose of Royalty, if he be not permitted to make
+Royalty&rsquo;s bed? How shall he answer for the comely appearance
+of Royalty, if he do not, by his own delegated hands, lace
+Royalty&rsquo;s stays? I shudder to think of it; but, without the
+key of the bedchamber, could my friend Peel be made responsible for
+the health of the Princess? Instead of the very best and most
+scrupulously-aired diaper, might not&mdash;by negligence or design,
+it matters not which&mdash;the Princess Royal be rolled in an Act
+of Parliament, wet from Hansard&rsquo;s press?</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;Dreadful, soul perturbing suggestion! Go on, Mr.
+PUNCH.</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;Not but what I think it&mdash;if their constitution
+will stand damp paper&mdash;an admirable way of rearing young
+princesses. Queen Elizabeth&mdash;my wife Judy was her wet
+nurse&mdash;was reared after that fashion.</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;David Hume says nothing of it.</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;David Hume was one of the wonders of the
+earth&mdash;he was a lazy Scotchman; but had he searched the State
+Paper Office, he would have found the documents there&mdash;yes,
+the very Acts of Parliament&mdash;the very printed rollers. To
+those rollers Queen Elizabeth owed her knowledge of the English
+Constitution.</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;Explain&mdash;I can&rsquo;t see how.</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;Then you are very dull. Is not Parliament the
+assembled wisdom of the country?</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;By a fiction, Mr. PUNCH.</p>
+<p>PUNCH&mdash;Very well, Mr. Reader; what&rsquo;s all the world
+but a fiction? I say, the assembled wisdom; an Act of Parliament is
+the sifted wisdom of the wise&mdash;the essence of an essence. Very
+well; know you not the mystic, the medicinal effects of
+printer&rsquo;s ink? The devil himself isn&rsquo;t proof to a
+blister of printer&rsquo;s ink. Well, you take an Act of
+Parliament&mdash;and what is it but the finest plaster of the
+finest brains&mdash;wet, reeking wet from the press. Eschewing
+diaper, you roll the Act round the royal infant; you roll it up and
+pin it in the conglomerated wisdom of the nation. Now, consider the
+tenderness of a baby&rsquo;s cuticle; the pores are open, and a
+rapid and continual absorption takes place, so that long before the
+Royal infant cuts its first tooth, it has taken up into its system
+the whole body of the Statutes.</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;Might not some patriots object to the application
+of the wisdom of the country to so domestic a purpose?</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;Such patriots are more squeamish than wise. Sir,
+how many grown up kings have we had, who have shown no more respect
+for the laws of the country, than if they had been swaddled in
+&lsquo;em?</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;Do you think your friend Sir Robert is for statute
+rollers?</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;I can answer for Sir Robert on every point. His
+first attack before he kisses hands&mdash;and he has, as you
+perceive, been practising this half-hour&mdash;will be upon the
+women of the bedchamber. The war with China&mdash;the price of
+sugar&mdash;the corn-laws&mdash;the fourteen new Bishops about to
+be hatched&mdash;timber&mdash;cotton&mdash;a property tax, and the
+penny post&mdash;all these matters and persons are of secondary
+importance to this greater question&mdash;whether the female who
+hands the Queen her gown shall think Lord Melbourne a &ldquo;very
+pretty fellow in his day;&rdquo; or whether she shall believe my
+friend Sir Robert to be as great a conjuror as Roger Bacon or the
+Wizard of the North&mdash;if the lady can look upon O&rsquo;Connell
+and not call for burnt feathers or scream for <em>sal
+volatile</em>; or if she really thinks the Pope to be a woman with
+a naughty name, clothed in most exceptionable scarlet. It is
+whether Lady Mary thinks black, or Lady Clementina thinks white;
+whether her father who begot her voted with the Marquis of
+Londonderry or Earl Grey&mdash;<em>that</em> is the grand question
+to be solved, before my friend Sir Robert can condescend to be the
+saviour of his country. To have the privilege of making a batch of
+peers, or a handful of bishops is nothing, positively
+nothing&mdash;no, the crowning work is to manufacture a
+lady&rsquo;s maid. What&rsquo;s a mitre to a mob-cap&mdash;what the
+garters of a peer to the garters of the Lady Adeliza?</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;You are getting warm, Mr. PUNCH&mdash;very
+warm.</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;I always do get warm when I talk of the delicious
+sex: for though now and then I thrash my wife before company, who
+shall imagine how cosy we are when we&rsquo;re alone? Do you not
+remember that great axiom of Sir Robert&rsquo;s&mdash;an axiom that
+should make Machiavelli howl with envy&mdash;that &ldquo;<em>the
+battle of the Constitution is to fought in the
+bedchamber</em>.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;I remember it.</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;That was a great sentence. Had Sir Robert known his
+true fame, he would never after have opened his mouth.</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;Has the Queen sent for Sir Robert yet?</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;No: though I know he has staid at home these ten
+days, and answers every knock at the door himself, in expectation
+of a message.</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;They say the Queen doesn&rsquo;t like Sir
+Robert.</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;I&rsquo;m also told that her Majesty has a great
+antipathy to physic&mdash;yet when the Constitution requires
+medicine, why&mdash;</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;Sir Robert must be swallowed.</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;Exactly so. We shall have warm work of it, no
+doubt&mdash;but I fear nothing, when we have once got rid of the
+women. And then, we have a few such nice wenches of our own to
+place about her Majesty; the Queen shall take Conservatism as she
+might take measles&mdash;without knowing it.</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;And when, Mr. PUNCH&mdash;when you have got rid of
+the women, what do you and Sir Robert purpose then?</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;I beg your pardon: we shall meet again next week:
+it&rsquo;s now two o&rsquo;clock. I have an appointment with
+half-a-dozen of my godsons; I have promised them all places in the
+new government, and they&rsquo;re come to take their choice.</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;Do tell me this: Who has Peel selected for
+Commander of the Forces?</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;Who? Colonel Sibthorp.</p>
+<p>READER.&mdash;And who for Chancellor of the Exchequer?</p>
+<p>PUNCH.&mdash;Mr. Henry Moreton Dyer!</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page19" name="page19"></a>[pg
+19]</span>
+<h2>PUNCH&rsquo;S PENCILLINGS.&mdash;No. II.</h2>
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/002-12.png"><img src=
+"images/002-12.png" alt=
+"A man in a lion's skin holding up the upper half of a smaller man. The bottom half of the small man remains on a bench marked TREASURY BENCH"
+id="img002-12" name="img002-12" width="100%" /></a>
+<p>HERCULES TEARING THESEUS FROM THE ROCK TO WHICH HE HAD
+GROWN.</p>
+<p>(MODERNIZED.)</p>
+<p>APOLLODORUS relates that THESEUS sat so long on a rock, that at
+length he grew to it, so that when HERCULES tore him forcibly away,
+he left all the nether part of the man behind him.</p>
+</div>
+<p class="hide"><span class="pagenum"><a id="page20" name=
+"page20"></a>[pg 20]</span></p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page21" name="page21"></a>[pg
+21]</span>
+<h2>THE ELECTION OF BALLINAFAD.</h2>
+<h3>(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)</h3>
+<p>We have been at considerable expense in procuring the subjoined
+account of the election which has just terminated in the borough of
+Ballinafad, in Ireland. Our readers may rest assured that our
+report is perfectly exclusive, being taken, as the artists say,
+&ldquo;on the spot,&rdquo; by a special bullet-proof reporter whom
+we engaged, at an enormous expense, for this double hazardous
+service.</p>
+<p style="text-align:right;">BALLINAFAD, 20th JULY.</p>
+<p><em>Tuesday Morning, Eight o&rsquo;clock.</em>&mdash;The contest
+has begun! The struggle for the independence of Ballinafad has
+commenced! Griggles, the opposition candidate, is in the field,
+backed by a vile faction. The rank, wealth, and independence of
+Ballinafad are all ranged under the banner of Figsby and freedom. A
+party of Griggles&rsquo; voters have just marched into the town,
+preceded by a piper and a blind fiddler, playing the most obnoxious
+tunes. A barrel of beer has been broached at Griggles&rsquo;
+committee-rooms. We are all in a state of the greatest
+excitement.</p>
+<p><em>Half-past Eight.</em>&mdash;Mr. Figsby is this moment
+proceeding from his hotel to the hustings, surrounded by his
+friends and a large body of the independent teetotal electors. A
+wheelbarrow full of rotten eggs has been sent up to the hustings,
+to be used, as occasion requires, by the Figsby voters, who are
+bent upon</p>
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/002-13.png"><img src=
+"images/002-13.png" alt=
+"A fellow trying to pull a hog from a lake, but the rope broke" id=
+"img002-13" name="img002-13" width="50%" /></a>
+<p>&ldquo;GOING THE WHOLE HOG.&rdquo;</p>
+</div>
+<p>A serious riot has occurred at the town pump, where two of the
+independent teetotalers have been ducked by the opposite party.
+Stones are beginning to fly in all directions. A general row is
+expected.</p>
+<p><em>Nine o&rsquo;clock.</em>&mdash;Polling has commenced. Tom
+Daly, of Galway, the fighting friend of Mr. Figsby, has just
+arrived, with three brace of duelling pistols, and a carpet-bag
+full of powder and ball. This looks like business. I have heard
+that six of Mr. Figsby&rsquo;s voters have been locked up in a barn
+by Griggles&rsquo; people. The poll is proceeding vigorously.</p>
+<p><em>Ten o&rsquo;clock.</em>&mdash;State of the poll to this
+time:&mdash;</p>
+<table summary="Ten o'clock poll" style="margin-left:20%;">
+<tr>
+<td>Figsby</td>
+<td style="padding-left:2em;text-align:right;">19</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>Griggles</td>
+<td style="padding-left:2em;text-align:right;">22</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<p>The most barefaced bribery is being employed by Griggles. A
+lady, known to be in his interest, was seen buying half-a-pound of
+tea, in the shop of Mr. Fad, the grocer, for which she paid with a
+whole sovereign, <em>and took no change</em>. <em>Two legs of
+mutton</em> have also been sent up to Griggles&rsquo; house, by
+Reilly, the butcher. Heaven knows what will be the result. The
+voting is become serious&mdash;four men with fractured skulls have,
+within these ten minutes, been carried into the apothecary&rsquo;s
+over the way. A couple of policemen have been thrown over the
+bridge; but we are in too great a state of agitation to mind
+trifles.</p>
+<p><em>Half-past Twelve o&rsquo;clock.</em>&mdash;State of the poll
+to this time:&mdash;</p>
+<table summary="Half-past Twelve o'clock poll" style=
+"margin-left:20%;">
+<tr>
+<td>Figsby</td>
+<td style="padding-left:2em;text-align:right;">27</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>Griggles</td>
+<td style="padding-left:2em;text-align:right;">36</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<p>You can have no idea of the frightful state of the town. The
+faction are employing all sorts of bribery and intimidation. The
+wife of a liberal greengrocer has just been seen with the Griggles
+ribbons in her cap. Five pounds have been offered for a
+sucking-pig. Figsby must come in, notwithstanding two cart-loads of
+the temperance voters are now riding up to the poll, most of them
+being too drunk to walk. Three duels have been this morning
+reported. Results not known. The coroner has been holding inquests
+in the market-house all the morning.</p>
+<p><em>Three o&rsquo;clock.</em>&mdash;State of the poll to this
+time:&mdash;</p>
+<table summary="Three o'clock poll" style="margin-left:20%;">
+<tr>
+<td>Figsby</td>
+<td style="padding-left:2em;text-align:right;">45</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>Griggles</td>
+<td style="padding-left:2em;text-align:right;">39</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<p>The rascally corrupt assessor has decided that the temperance
+electors who came up to vote for the Liberal candidate, being too
+drunk to speak, were disentitled to vote. Some dead men had been
+polled by Griggles.</p>
+<p>The verdict of the coroner&rsquo;s inquest on those who
+unfortunately lost their lives this morning, has been, &ldquo;Found
+dead.&rdquo; Everybody admires the sagacious conclusion at which
+the jury have arrived. It is reported that Figsby has resigned! I
+am able to contradict the gross falsehood. Mr. F. is now addressing
+the electors from his committee-room window, and has this instant
+received a plumper&mdash;in the eye&mdash;in the shape of a rotten
+potato. I have ascertained that the casualties amount to no more
+than six men, two pigs, and two policemen, killed; thirteen men,
+women, and children, wounded.</p>
+<p><em>Four o&rsquo;clock</em>&mdash;State of the poll up to this
+time:&mdash;</p>
+<table summary="Four o'clock poll" style="margin-left:20%;">
+<tr>
+<td>Figsby</td>
+<td style="padding-left:2em;text-align:right;">29</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>Griggles</td>
+<td style="padding-left:2em;text-align:right;">41</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<p>The poll-clerks on both sides are drunk, the assessor has closed
+the booths, and I am grieved to inform you that Griggles has just
+been duly elected.</p>
+<p><em>Half past Four o&rsquo;clock.</em>&mdash;Figsby has given
+Grigglcs the lie on the open hustings. Will Griggles fight?</p>
+<p><em>Five o&rsquo;clock.</em>&mdash;His wife insists he shall;
+so, of course, he must. I hear that a message has just been
+delivered to Figsby. Tom Daly and his carpet-bag passed under my
+window a few minutes ago.</p>
+<p><em>Half-past Five o&rsquo;clock.</em>&mdash;Two post-chaises
+have just dashed by at full speed&mdash;I got a glimpse of Tom Daly
+smoking a cigar in one of them.</p>
+<p><em>Six o&rsquo;clock.</em>&mdash;I open my letter to tell you
+that Figsby is the favourite; 3 to 1 has been offered at the club,
+that he wings his man; and 3 to 2 that he drills him. The public
+anxiety is intense.</p>
+<p><em>Half-past Six.</em>&mdash;I again open my letter to say,
+that I have nothing further to add, except that the betting
+continues in favour of the popular candidate.</p>
+<p><em>Seven o&rsquo;clock.</em>&mdash;Huzza!&mdash;Griggles is
+shot! The glorious principles of constitutional freedom have been
+triumphant! The town is in an uproar of delight! We are making
+preparations to illuminate. BALLINAFAD IS SAVED! FIGSBY FOR
+EVER!</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>EPIGRAM.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Lord Johnny from Stroud thought it best to retreat.</p>
+<p>Being certain of getting the sack,</p>
+<p>So he ran to the City, and begged for a seat,</p>
+<p>Crying, &ldquo;Please to <em>re-member Poor
+Jack</em>!&rdquo;</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>CONUNDRUMS BY COL. SIBTHORP.</h3>
+<p>Why is a tall nobleman like a poker?&mdash;Because he&rsquo;s a
+<em>high&rsquo;un</em> belonging to the <em>great</em>.</p>
+<p>Why is a defunct mother like a dog?&mdash;Because she&rsquo;s a
+<em>ma-stiff</em>.</p>
+<p>When is <em>a horse</em> like <em>a herring?</em>&mdash;When
+he&rsquo;s <em>hard rode</em>.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>EPIGRAM ON SEEING AN EXECUTION.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>One morn, two friends before the Newgate drop,</p>
+<p>To see a culprit throttled, chanced to stop:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Alas!&rdquo; cried one as round in air he spun,</p>
+<p>&ldquo;That miserable wretch&rsquo;s <em>race is
+run</em>.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;True,&rdquo; said the other drily, &ldquo;to his
+cost,</p>
+<p>The race is run&mdash;but, by a <em>neck</em> &lsquo;tis
+lost.&rdquo;</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.</h3>
+<p>Lord John Russell has arrived at a conviction&mdash;that the
+Whigs are not so popular as they were.</p>
+<p>Sir Peter Laurie has arrived at the conclusion&mdash;that Solon
+was a greater man than himself.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>THE POET FOILED.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>To win the maid the poet tries,</p>
+<p>And sonnets writes to Julia&rsquo;s eyes;&mdash;</p>
+<p>She likes a <em>verse</em>&mdash;but cruel whim,</p>
+<p>She still appears <em>a-verse</em> to him.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<p>A most cruel hoax has recently been played off upon that
+deserving class the housemaids of London, by the insertion of an
+advertisement in the morning papers, announcing that a servant in
+the above capacity was wanted by Lord Melbourne. Had it been for a
+<em>cook</em>, the absurdity would have been too palpable, as
+Melbourne has frequently expressed his opposition to sinecures.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>ECCLESIASTICAL TRANSPORTATION.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Now B&mdash;y P&mdash;l has beat the Whigs,</p>
+<p class="i2">The Church can&rsquo;t understand</p>
+<p>Why Bot&rsquo;ny Bay should be all sea,</p>
+<p class="i2">And have no <em>see</em> on land.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>For such a lamentable want</p>
+<p class="i2">Our good Archbishop grieves;</p>
+&rsquo;Tis very strange the Tories should
+<p class="i2">Remind him <em>of the thieves!</em></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>EPIGRAM.</h3>
+<p>An American paper tells us of a woman named Dobbs, who was
+killed in a preaching-house at Nashville, by the fall of a
+chandelier on her head. Brett&rsquo;s Patent Brandy poet, who would
+as soon make a witticism on a cracked crown as a cracked bottle,
+has sent us the following:&mdash;</p>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>&ldquo;The <em>light of life</em> comes from above,&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Old Dingdrum snuffling said;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;The <em>light</em> came down on Peggy Dobbs,</p>
+<p>And Peggy Dobbs was <em>dead</em>.&rdquo;</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<p>A man in Kentucky was so absent, that he put himself on the
+toasting-fork, and did not discover his mistake until he was
+<em>done brown</em>.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>CONSISTENCY.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>No wonder Tory landlords flout</p>
+<p class="i2">&ldquo;Fix&rsquo;d Duty,&rdquo; for &rsquo;tis
+plain,</p>
+<p>With them the Anti-Corn-Law Bill</p>
+<p class="i2">Must <em>go against the grain.</em></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<p>The anticipated eruption of Mount Vesuvius is said to have been
+prevented by throwing a box of Holloway&rsquo;s Ointment into the
+crater.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page22" name="page22"></a>[pg
+22]</span>
+<h2>THE SAILOR&rsquo;S SECRET.</h2>
+<p>In the year&mdash;let me see&mdash;but no matter about the
+date&mdash;my father and mother died of a typhus fever, leaving me
+to the care of an only relative, and uncle, by my father&rsquo;s
+side. His name was Box, as my name is Box. I was a babby in long
+clothes at that time, not even so much as christened; so uncle,
+taking the hint, I suppose, from the lid of his sea-chest, had me
+called Bellophron Box. Bellophron being the name of the ship of
+which he was sailing-master.</p>
+<p>I sha&rsquo;n&rsquo;t say anything about my education; though I
+was brought up in</p>
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/002-14.png"><img src=
+"images/002-14.png" alt="A Pirate Boarding Battle" id="img002-14"
+name="img002-14" width="50%" /></a>
+<p>A FIRST RATE BOARDING-SCHOOL.</p>
+</div>
+<p>It&rsquo;s not much to boast of; but as soon as I could bear the
+weight of a cockade and a dirk, uncle got me a berth as midshipman
+on board his own ship. So there I was, <em>Mr.</em> Bellophron Box.
+I didn&rsquo;t like the sea or the service, being continually
+disgusted at the partiality shown towards me, for in less than a
+month I was put over the heads of all my superior officers. You may
+stare&mdash;but it&rsquo;s true; for <em>I was mast-headed</em> for
+a week at a stretch. When we put into port, Captain &mdash;&mdash;
+called me into his cabin, and politely informed me that if I chose
+to go on shore, and should find it inconvenient to return, no
+impertinent inquiries should be made after me. I availed myself of
+the hint, and exactly one year and two months after setting foot on
+board the Bellophron, I was <em>Master</em> Bellophron Box
+again.</p>
+<p>Well, now for my story. There was one Tom Johnson on board, a
+<em>fok&rsquo;sell</em> man, as they called him, who was very kind
+to me; he tried to teach me to turn a quid, and generously helped
+me to drink my grog. As I was unmercifully quizzed in the cockpit,
+I grew more partial to the society of Tom than to that of my
+brother middies. Tom always addressed me,&rsquo;Sir,&rsquo; and
+they named me Puddinghead; till at last we might be called friends.
+During many a night-watch, when I have sneaked away for a snooze
+among the hen-coops, has Tom saved me from detection, and the
+consequent pleasant occupation of carrying about a bucket of water
+on the end of a capstan bar.</p>
+<p>I had been on board about a month&mdash;perhaps two&mdash;when
+the order came down from the Admiralty, for the men to cut off
+their tails. Lord, what a scene was there! I wonder it didn&rsquo;t
+cause a mutiny! I think it would have done so, but half the crew
+were laid up with colds in their heads, from the suddenness of the
+change, though an extra allowance of rum was served out to rub them
+with to prevent such consequences; but the purser not giving any
+definite directions, whether the application was to be external or
+internal, the liquor, I regret to say, for the honour of the
+British navy, was applied much lower down. For some weeks the men
+seemed half-crazed, and were almost as unmanageable as ships that
+had lost their rudders. Well, so they had! It was a melancholy
+sight to see piles of beautiful tails with little labels tied to
+them, like the instructions on a physic-bottle; each directed to
+some favoured relative or sweetheart of the <em>curtailed</em>
+seamen. What a strange appearance must Portsmouth, and Falmouth,
+and Plymouth, and all the other mouths that are filled with
+sea-stores, have presented, when the precious remembrances were
+distributed! I wish some artist would consider it; for I think
+it&rsquo;s a shame that there should be no record of such an
+interesting circumstance.</p>
+<p>One night, shortly after this visitation, it blew great guns.
+Large black clouds, like chimney-sweepers&rsquo; feather-beds,
+scudded over our heads, and the rain came pouring down
+like&mdash;like winking. Tom had been promoted, and was sent up
+aloft to reef a sail, when one of the horses giving way, down came
+Tom Johnson, and snap went a leg and an arm. I was ordered to see
+him carried below, an office which I readily performed, for I liked
+the man&mdash;and they don&rsquo;t allow umbrellas in the navy.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s the matter?&rdquo; said the surgeon.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Nothing particular, sir; on&rsquo;y Tom&rsquo;s broke his
+legs and his arms by a fall from the yard,&rdquo; replied a
+seaman.</p>
+<p>Tom groaned, as though he <em>did</em> consider it something
+<em>very</em> particular.</p>
+<p>He was soon stripped and the shattered bones set, which was no
+easy matter, the ship pitching and tossing about as she did. I sat
+down beside his berth, holding on as well as I could. The wind
+howled through the rigging, making the vessel seem like an infernal
+Eolian harp; the thunder rumbled like an indisposed giant, and to
+make things more agreeable, a gun broke from its lashings, and had
+it all its own way for about a quarter of an hour. Tom groaned most
+pitiably. I looked at him, and if I were to live for a thousand
+years, I shall never forget the expression of his face. His lips
+were blue, and&mdash;no matter, I&rsquo;m not clever at portrait
+painting: but imagine an old-fashioned Saracen&rsquo;s
+Head&mdash;not the fine handsome fellow they have stuck on Snow
+Hill, but one of the griffins of 1809&mdash;and you have
+Tom&rsquo;s phiz, only it wants touching with all the colours of a
+painter&rsquo;s palette. I was quite frightened, and could only
+stammer out, &ldquo;Why T-o-o-m!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s all up, sir,&rdquo; says he; &ldquo;I must go;
+I feel it.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t be foolish,&rdquo; I replied;
+&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t die till I call the surgeon.&rdquo; It was a
+stupid speech, I acknowledge, but I could not help it at the
+time.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;No, no; don&rsquo;t call the surgeon, Mr. Box; he&rsquo;s
+done all he can, sir. But it&rsquo;s here&mdash;it&rsquo;s
+here!&rdquo; and then he made an effort to thump his heart, or the
+back of his head, I couldn&rsquo;t make out which.</p>
+<p>I trembled like a jelly. I had once seen a melodrama, and I
+recollected that the villain of the piece had used the same action,
+the same words.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Mr. Box,&rdquo; groaned Tom, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve a-a-secret
+as makes me very uneasy, sir,&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Indeed, Tom,&rdquo; I replied; &ldquo;hadn&rsquo;t you
+better confess the mur&mdash;&rdquo; murder, I was a going to say,
+but I thought it might not be polite, considering Tom&rsquo;s
+situation.</p>
+<p>The ruffian, for such he looked then, tried to raise himself,
+but another lurch of the Bellophron sent him on his back, and
+myself on my beam-ends. As soon as I recovered my former position,
+Tom continued&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Mr. Box, dare I trust you, sir? if I could do so,
+I&rsquo;m sartin as how I should soon be easier.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Of course,&rdquo; said I, &ldquo;of course; out with it,
+and I promise never to betray your confidence.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Then come, come here,&rdquo; gasped the suffering wretch;
+&ldquo;give us your hand, sir.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>I instinctively shrunk back with horror!</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t be long, Mr. Box, for every minute makes it
+worse,&rdquo; and then his Saracen&rsquo;s Head changed to a
+feminine expression, and resembled the <em>Belle Sauvage</em>.</p>
+<p>I couldn&rsquo;t resist the appeal; so placing my hand in his,
+Tom put it over his shoulder, and, with a ghastly smile, said,
+&ldquo;Pull it out, sir!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Pull what out?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;My secret, Mr. Box; it&rsquo;s hurting on me!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>I thought that he had grown delirious; so, in order to soothe
+him as much as possible, I forced my hand under his shirt-collar,
+and what do you think I found? Why, a PIGTAIL&mdash;his pigtail,
+which he had contrived to conceal between his shirt and his skin,
+when the barbarous order of the Admiralty had been put into
+execution.</p>
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/002-15.png"><img src=
+"images/002-15.png" alt=
+"A silhouette of a bulldog pulling a sailor's pigtail" id=
+"img002-15" name="img002-15" width="50%" /></a>
+<p>A NAUTICAL TALE.</p>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>SONGS FOR THE SENTIMENTAL.</h3>
+<h4>No. II.</h4>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>You say you would find</p>
+<p class="i2">But one, and one only,</p>
+<p>Who&rsquo;d feel without you</p>
+<p class="i2">That the revel was lonely:</p>
+<p>That when you were near,</p>
+<p class="i2">Time ever was fleetest,</p>
+<p>And deem your loved voice</p>
+<p class="i2">Of all music the sweetest.</p>
+<p>Who would own her heart thine,</p>
+<p class="i2">Though a monarch beset it,</p>
+<p>And love on unchanged&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">Don&rsquo;t you wish you may get it?</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>You say you would rove</p>
+<p class="i2">Where the bud cannot wither;</p>
+<p>Where Araby&rsquo;s perfumes</p>
+<p class="i2">Each breeze wafteth thither.</p>
+<p>Where the lute hath no string</p>
+<p class="i2">That can waken a sorrow;</p>
+<p>Where the soft twilight blends</p>
+<p class="i2">With the dawn of the morrow;</p>
+<p>Where joy kindles joy,</p>
+<p class="i2">Ere you learn to forget it,</p>
+<p>And care never comes&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">Don&rsquo;t you wish you may get it?</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>&ldquo;SYLLABLES WHICH BREATHE OF THE SWEET SOUTH.&rdquo;</h3>
+<p>JOEY HUME is about to depart for Switzerland: for, finding his
+flummery of no avail at Leeds, we presume he intends to go to
+<em>Schaff</em>-hausen, to try the <em>Cant</em>-on.</p>
+<h3>MARRIAGE AND CHRISTENING EXTRAORDINARY.</h3>
+<p>We beg to congratulate Lord John Russell on his approaching
+union with Lady Fanny Elliot. His lordship is such a persevering
+votary of Hymen, that we think he should be named
+&ldquo;<em>Union-Jack</em>.&rdquo;</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>OMINOUS.</h3>
+<p>LORD PALMERSTON, on his road to Windsor, narrowly escaped being
+upset by a gentleman in a gig. We have been privately informed that
+the party with whom he came in collision was&mdash;Sir Robert
+Peel.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page23" name="page23"></a>[pg
+23]</span>
+<h2>CROSS READINGS.</h2>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="cen">(REC.)</p>
+<p class="i6">If you ever should be</p>
+<p class="i6">In a state of <em>ennui</em>,</p>
+<p class="i6">Just listen to me,</p>
+<p class="i6">And without any fee</p>
+<p class="i2">I&rsquo;ll give you a hint how to set yourself
+free.</p>
+<p class="i2">Though dearth of intelligence weaken the news,</p>
+<p class="i2">And you feel an incipient attack of the blues,</p>
+<p class="i2">For amusement you never need be at a loss,</p>
+<p class="i2">If you take up the paper and <em>read it</em>
+across.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="cen">(INTER ARIA DEMI LOQUI.)</p>
+<p class="i6">Here&rsquo;s the <em>Times</em>, apropos,</p>
+<p class="i10">And so,</p>
+<p class="i6">With your patience, I&rsquo;ll show</p>
+<p class="i2">What I mean, by perusing a passage or two.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="cen">(ARIA.)</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Hem! Mr. George Robins is anxious to tell,</p>
+<p>In very plain prose, he&rsquo;s instructed to
+sell&rdquo;&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;A vote for the county&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;packed neatly
+in straw&rdquo;&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Set by Holloway&rsquo;s Ointment&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;a
+limb of the law.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;The army has had secret orders to seize&rdquo;&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;As soon as they can&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;the industrious
+fleas.&rdquo;</p>
+<p class="i2">For amusement you never need be at a loss,</p>
+<p class="i2">If you take a newspaper and read it across.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>&ldquo;The opera opens with&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;elegant
+coats&rdquo;&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;For silver and gold we exchange foreign
+notes&rdquo;&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Specific to soften mortality&rsquo;s
+ills&rdquo;&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;And cure Yorkshire bacon&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;take
+Morison&rsquo;s pills.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Curious coincidence&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;steam to
+Gravesend.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Tale of deep interest&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;money to
+lend&rdquo;&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Louisa is waiting for William to send.&rdquo;</p>
+<p class="i2">For amusement you never need be at a loss,</p>
+<p class="i2">If you take a newspaper and read it across.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>&ldquo;For relief of the Poles&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;an astounding
+feat!&rdquo;&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;A respectable man&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;for a water will
+eat&rdquo;&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;The Macadamised portion of Parliament-street.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Mysterious occurrence!&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;expected
+<em>incog</em>.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;To be viewed by cards only&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;a terrible
+fog.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;At eight in the morning the steam carriage
+starts&rdquo;&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Takes passengers now&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;to be finished
+in parts.&rdquo;</p>
+<p class="i2">For amusement you never need be at a loss,</p>
+<p class="i2">If you take a newspaper and read it across.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>&ldquo;Left in a cab, and&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;the number not
+known&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;A famous prize ox, weighing 200 stone&rdquo;&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;He speaks with a lisp&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;has a delicate
+shape&rdquo;&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;And had <em>on</em>, when he quitted, a Macintosh
+cape.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;For China direct, a fine&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;dealer in
+slops.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;To the curious in shaving&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;new way to
+dress chops.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Repeal of the corn&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;was roasted for
+lunch&rdquo;&mdash;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Teetotal beverage &ldquo;&mdash;&ldquo;Triumph of
+PUNCH!&rdquo;</p>
+<p class="i2">For amusement you never need be at a loss,</p>
+<p class="i2">If you take a newspaper and read it across.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>A CON. BY DUNCOMBE.</h3>
+<p>&ldquo;Why are four thousand eight hundred and forty yards of
+land obtained on credit like a drinking
+song?&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;Because it&rsquo;s
+<em>an-acre-on-tic</em>.&rdquo;&mdash;&ldquo;I think I had you
+there!&rdquo;</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>A WOOD CUT.</h3>
+<p>A correspondent of one of the morning papers exultingly
+observes, that the <em>wood-blocks</em> which are about being
+removed from Whitehall are in <em>excellent condition</em>. If this
+is an allusion to the present ministry, we should say,
+emphatically, NOT.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>REVENGE IS SWEET.</h3>
+<p>The Tories in Beverley have been wreaking their vengeance on
+their opponents at the late election, by ordering their tradesmen
+who voted against the Conservative candidate to <em>send in their
+bills</em>. Mr. Duncombe declares that this is a mode of revenge he
+never would condescend to adopt.</p>
+<hr />
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>If Farren, cleverest of men,</p>
+<p class="i2">Should go to the right about,</p>
+<p>What part of town will he be then?&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i2">Why, <em>Farren-done-without!</em></p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<h3>&ldquo;WHAT HO! APOTHECARY.&rdquo;</h3>
+<p>Cox, a pill-doctor at Leeds, it is reported, modestly requested
+a check for &pound;10, for the honour of his vote. Had his demand
+been complied with, we presume the bribe would have been endorsed,
+&ldquo;This draught to be taken at poll time.&rdquo;</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>QUESTION BY THE DISOWNED OF NOTTINGHAM.</h3>
+<p>Why do men who are about to fight a duel generally choose a
+<em>field</em> for the place of action?</p>
+<h3>ANSWER BY COLONEL SIBTHORP.</h3>
+<p>I really cannot tell; unless it be for the purpose of allowing
+the balls to <em>graze</em>.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>REVIEW.</h3>
+<p class="note"><em>Two Prize Essays</em>. By LORD MELBOURNE and
+SIR ROBERT PEEL. 8 vols. folio. London: Messrs. SOFTSKIN and
+TINGLE, Downing-street.</p>
+<p>We congratulate the refined and sensitive publishers on the
+production of these elaborately-written gilt-edged folios, and
+trust that no remarks will issue from the press calculated to
+affect the digestion of any of the parties concerned. The sale of
+the volumes will, no doubt, be commensurate with the public spirit,
+the wisdom, and the benevolence which has uniformly characterised
+the career of their illustrated authors. Two more
+<em>statesmanlike</em> volumes never issued from the press; in
+fact, the books may be regarded as typical of <em>all</em>
+statesmen. The subject, or rather the line of argument, is thus
+designated by the respective writers:&mdash;</p>
+<p>ESSAY I.&mdash;&ldquo;On the Fine Art of Government, or how to
+do the least possible good to the country in the longest possible
+time, and enjoy, meanwhile, the most ease and luxury.&rdquo; By
+LORD MELBOURNE.</p>
+<p>ESSAY II.&mdash;&ldquo;On the Science of Governing, or how to do
+the utmost possible good for ourselves in the shortest possible
+time, under the name of our altars, and our throne, and everybody
+that is good and wise.&rdquo; By SIR ROBERT PEEL.</p>
+<p>We are quite unable to enter into a review of these very costly
+productions, an estimate of the <em>value</em> of which the public
+will be sure to receive from &ldquo;authority,&rdquo; and be
+required to meet the amount, not only with cheerful loyalty, but a
+more weighty and less noisy <em>acknowledgment</em>.</p>
+<p>As to the Prize, it has been adjudged by PUNCH to be divided
+equally between the two illustrious essayists; to the one, in
+virtue of his incorrigible laziness, and to the other, in honour of
+his audacious rapacity.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>TO THE LAUGHTER-LOVING PUBLIC.</h3>
+<p>PUNCH begs to inform the inhabitants of Great Britain, Ireland,
+and the Isle of Dogs, that he has just opened on an entirely new
+line, an Universal Comic Railroad, and Cosmopolitan Pleasure Van
+for the transmission of <em>bon mots</em>, puns, witticisms,
+humorous passengers, and queer figures, to every part of the world.
+The engines have been constructed on the most laughable principles,
+and being on the high-pressure principle, the manager has provided
+a vast number of patent anti-explosive fun-belts, to secure his
+passengers against the danger of suddenly bursting.</p>
+<p>The train starts every Saturday morning, under the guidance of
+an experienced punster. The departure of the train is always
+attended with immense laughter, and a tremendous rush to the
+booking-office. PUNCH, therefore, requests those who purpose taking
+places to apply early, as there will be no</p>
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/002-16.png"><img src=
+"images/002-16.png" alt=
+"A group of shadows leaping off of a bench" id="img002-16" name=
+"img002-16" width="50%" /></a>
+<p>RESERVED SEATS!</p>
+</div>
+<p>N.B.&mdash;Light jokes booked, and forwarded free of expense.
+Heavy articles not admitted at any price.</p>
+<p>&there4; Wanted an epigrammatic porter, who can carry on a smart
+dialogue, and occasionally deliver light jokes.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>CHANT.</h3>
+<h4>TO OLD FATHER TIME.</h4>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Time&mdash;old Time&mdash;whither away?</p>
+<p>Linger a moment with us, I pray;</p>
+<p>Too soon thou spreadest thy wings for flight;</p>
+<p class="i4">Dip, boy, dip</p>
+<p class="i4">In the bowl thy lip,</p>
+<p>And be jolly, old Time, with us to-night.</p>
+<p class="i10">Dip, dip, &amp;c.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Time&mdash;old Time&mdash;thy scythe fling down;</p>
+<p>Garland thy pate with a myrtle crown,</p>
+<p>And fill thy goblet with rosy wine;&mdash;</p>
+<p class="i4">Fill, fill up,</p>
+<p class="i4">The joy-giving cup,</p>
+Till it foams and flows o&rsquo;er the brim like mine.
+<p class="i10">Fill, fill, &amp;c.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<p>Time&mdash;old Time&mdash;sighing is vain,</p>
+<p>Pleasure from thee not a moment can gain;</p>
+<p>Fly, old greybeard, but leave us your glass</p>
+<p class="i4">To fill as we please,</p>
+<p class="i4">And drink at our ease,</p>
+<p>And count by our brimmers the hours as they pass.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr class="full" />
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="page24" name="page24"></a>[pg
+24]</span>
+<h2>THE DRAMA</h2>
+<h3>ROMEO AND JULIET.</h3>
+<p>Italy! land of love and maccaroni, of pathos and
+puppets&mdash;tomb of Romeo and Juliet&mdash;birth-place of Punch
+and Judy&mdash;region of romance&mdash;country of the concentrated
+essences of all these;&mdash;carnivals&mdash;I, PUNCH, the first
+and last, the alpha and omega of fun, adore thee! From the moment
+when I was cast upon thy shores, like Venus, out of the sea, to
+this sad day, when I am forced to descend from my own stage to mere
+criticism; have I preserved every token that would endear my memory
+to thee! My nose is still Roman, my mouth-organ plays the
+&ldquo;genteelest of&rdquo; Italian &ldquo;tunes&rdquo;&mdash;my
+scenes represent the choicest of Italian villas&mdash;in
+&ldquo;choice Italian&rdquo; doth my devil swear&mdash;to wit,
+&ldquo;<em>shal-la-bella!</em>&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Longing to be still more reminded of thee, dear Italy, I threw a
+large cloak over my hunch, and a huge pair of spectacles over my
+nose, and ensconced myself in a box at the Haymarket Theatre, to
+witness the fourth appearance of my rival puppet, Charles Kean, in
+Romeo. He is an actor! What a deep voice&mdash;what an interesting
+lisp&mdash;what a charming whine&mdash;what a vigorous stamp, he
+hath! How hard he strikes his forehead when he is going into a
+rage&mdash;how flat he falls upon the ground when he is going to
+die! And then, when he has killed Tybalt, what an attitude he
+strikes, what an appalling grin he indulges his gaping admirers
+withal!</p>
+<p>This is real acting that one pays one&rsquo;s money to see, and
+not such an unblushing imposition as Miss Tree practises upon us.
+Do we go to the play to see nature? of course not: we only desire
+to see the actors playing at being natural, like Mr. Gallot, Mr.
+Howe, Mr. Worral, or Mr. Kean, and other actors. This system of
+being too natural will, in the end, be the ruin of the drama. It
+has already driven me from the Stage, and will, I fear, serve the
+great performers I nave named above in the same manner. But the
+Haymarket Juliet overdoes it; she is more natural than nature, for
+she makes one or two improbabilities in the plot of the play seem
+like every-day matters of fact. Whether she falls madly in love at
+the first glance, agrees to be married the next afternoon, takes a
+sleeping draught, throws herself lifeless upon the bed, or wakes in
+the tomb to behold her poisoned lover, still in all these
+situations she behaves like a sensible, high-minded girl, that
+takes such circumstances, and makes them appear to the
+audience&mdash;quite as a matter of course! What let me ask, was
+the use of the author&mdash;whose name, I believe, was
+Shakspere&mdash;purposely contriving these improbabilities, if the
+actors do not make the most of them? I do hope Miss Tree will no
+longer impose upon the public by pretending to <em>act</em> Juliet.
+Let her try some of the characters in Bulwer&rsquo;s plays, which
+want all her help to make them resemble women of any nation,
+kindred, or country.</p>
+<p>Much as I admire Kean, I always prefer the acting of Wallack;
+there is more variety in the tones of his voice, for Kean tunes his
+pipes exactly as my long-drummer sets his drum;&mdash;to one pitch:
+but as to action, Wallack&mdash;more like my drummer&mdash;beats
+him hollow; he points his toes, stands a-kimbo, takes off his hat,
+and puts it on again, quite as naturally as if he belonged to the
+really legitimate drama, and was worked by strings cleverly pulled
+to suit the action to <em>every</em> word. Wallack is an honest
+performer; <em>he</em> don&rsquo;t impose upon you, like Webster,
+for instance, who as the Apothecary, speaks with a hungry voice,
+walks with a tottering step, moves with a helpless gait, which
+plainly shows that he never studied the part&mdash;he must have
+starved for it. Where will this confounded naturalness end?</p>
+<p>The play is &ldquo;got up,&rdquo; as we managers call it,
+capitally. The dresses are superb, and so are the properties. The
+scenery exhibited views of different parts of the city, and was, so
+far as I am a judge, well painted. I have only one objection to the
+balcony scene. Plagiarism is mean and contemptible&mdash;I despise
+it. I will not apply to the Vice-Chancellor for an injunction,
+because the imitation is so vilely caricatured; but the balcony
+itself is the very counterpart of PUNCH&rsquo;S
+theatre!&mdash;PUNCH.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>MY FRIEND THE CAPTAIN.</h3>
+<p>When a new farce begins with duck and green peas, it promises
+well; the sympathies of the audience are secured, especially as the
+curtain rises but a short time before every sober play-goer is
+ready for his supper. Mr. Gabriel Snoxall is seated before the
+comsstibles above mentioned&mdash;he is just established in a new
+lodging. It is snug&mdash;the furniture is neat&mdash;being his own
+property, for he is an <em>un</em>furnished lodger. A bachelor so
+situated must be a happy fellow. Mr. Snoxall is happy&mdash;a smile
+radiates his face&mdash;he takes wine with himself; but has
+scarcely tapped the decanter for his first glass, before he hears a
+tap at his door. The hospitable &ldquo;Come in!&rdquo; is answered
+by the appearance of Mr. Dunne Brown, a captain by courtesy, and
+Snoxall&rsquo;s neighbour by misfortune. Here business begins.</p>
+<p>The ancient natural historian has divided the <em>genus
+homo</em> into the two grand divisions of victimiser and victim.
+Behold one of each class before you&mdash;the yeast and sweat-wort,
+as it were, which brew the plot! Brown invites himself to dinner,
+and does the invitation ample justice; for he finds the peas as
+green as the host; who he determines shall be done no less brown
+than the duck. He possesses two valuable qualifications in a
+diner-out&mdash;an excellent appetite, and a habit of eating fast,
+consequently the meal is soon over. Mr. Brown&rsquo;s own tiger
+clears away, by the ingenious method of eating up what is left. Mr.
+Snoxall is angry, for he is hungry; but, good easy man, allows
+himself to be mollified to a degree of softness that allows Mr.
+Brown to borrow, not only his tables and chairs, but his coat, hat,
+and watch; just, too, in the very nick of time, for the bailiffs
+are announced. What is the hunted creditor to do? Exit by the
+window to be sure.</p>
+<p>A character invented by farce-writers, and retained exclusively
+for their use&mdash;for such folks are seldom met with out of a
+farce&mdash;lives in the next street. He has a lovely daughter, and
+a nephew momentarily expected from India, and with those persons he
+has, of course, not the slighest acquaintance; and a niece, by
+marriage, of whose relationship he is also entirely unconscious.
+His parlours are made with French windows; they are open, and
+invite the bailiff-hunted Brown into the house. What so natural as
+that he should find out the state of family affairs from a
+loquacious Abigail, and should personate the expected nephew? Mr.
+Tidmarsh (the property old gentleman of the farce-writers) is in
+ecstacics. Mrs. T. sees in the supposed Selbourne a son-in-law for
+her daughter, whose vision is directed to the same prospects.
+Happy, domestic circle! unequalled family felicity! too soon, alas!
+to be disturbed by a singular coincidence. Mr. Snoxall, the victim,
+is in love with Miss Sophia, the daughter. Ruin impends over Brown;
+but he is master of his art: he persuades Snoxall not to undeceive
+the family of Tidmarsh, and kindly undertakes to pop the question
+to Sophia on behalf of his friend, whose sheepishness quite equals
+his softness. Thus emboldened, Brown inquires after a &ldquo;few
+loose sovereigns,&rdquo; and Snoxall, having been already done out
+of his chairs, clothes, and watch, of course lends the victimiser
+his purse, which contains twenty.</p>
+<p>Mr. Brown&rsquo;s career advances prosperously; he makes love in
+the dark to his supposed cousin <em>pro</em> Snoxall, in the
+hearing of the supposed wife (for the real Selbourne has been
+married privately) and his supposed friend, both supposing him
+false, mightily abuse him, all being still in the dark. At length
+the real Selbourne enters, and all supposition ends, as does the
+farce, poetical justice being administered upon the captain by
+courtesy, by the bailiffs who arrest him. Thus he, at last, becomes
+really Mr. Dunne Brown.</p>
+<p>The farce was successful, for the actors were perfect, and the
+audience good-humoured. We need hardly say who played the hero; and
+having named Wrench, as the nephew, who was much as usual,
+everybody will know how. Mr. David Rees is well adapted for
+Snoxall, being a good figure for the part, especially in the
+duck-and-green-peas season. The ladies, of whom there were four,
+performed as ladies generally do in farces on a first night.</p>
+<p>We recommend the readers of PUNCH to cultivate the acquaintance
+of &ldquo;My Friend the Captain.&rdquo; They will find him at home
+every evening at the Haymarket. We suspect his paternity may be
+traced to a certain <em>corner</em>, from whose merit several
+equally successful broad-pieces have been issued.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>LITERARY QUERIES AND REPLIES</h3>
+<h4>BY DISTINGUISHED PERSONAGES.</h4>
+<hr class="short" />
+<h4>QUESTION BY SIR EDWARD LYTTON BULWER, BART,</h4>
+<p>&ldquo;What romance is that which outght to be most admired in
+the kitchen?&rdquo;</p>
+<h4>ANSWER BY THEODORE HOOK.</h4>
+<p>&ldquo;Don Quixote; because it was written by
+<em>Cervantes</em>&mdash;(servantes).&mdash;Rather low, Sir
+Ned.&rdquo;</p>
+<h4>QUESTION BY LADY BLESSINGTON,</h4>
+<p>&ldquo;When is a lady&rsquo;s neck not a neck?&rdquo;</p>
+<h4>ANSWER BY LADY MORGAN.</h4>
+<p>&ldquo;For shame now!&mdash;When it is a <em>little bare</em>
+(bear), I suppose.&rdquo;</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>A SPEECH FROM THE HUSTINGS.</h3>
+<p>The following is a correct report of a speech made by one of the
+candidates at a recent election in the north of England.</p>
+<p>THOMAS SMITH, Esq., then presented himself, and
+said&mdash;&ldquo;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*<br />
+
+*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;crisis&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*<br />
+
+*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;important<br />
+
+dreadful&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;industry&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*<br />
+
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;enemies&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;slaves&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*<br />
+
+independence&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;freedom<br />
+
+*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;firmly&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*<br />
+
+gloriously&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;contested&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*<br />
+
+*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;support&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;victory,<br />
+
+Hurrah!&mdash;&mdash;&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Mr. Smith then sat down; but we regret that the uproar which
+prevailed, prevents us giving a fuller report of his very eloquent
+and impressive speech.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS.</h3>
+<p>COUNT D&rsquo;ORSAY declares that no gentleman having the
+slightest pretensions to fashionable consideration can be seen out
+of doors except on a Sunday, as on that day bailiffs and other low
+people keep at home.</p>
+<hr />
+<h3>EPIGRAM ON A VERY LARGE WOMAN.</h3>
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<p class="i2">&ldquo;All flesh is grass,&rdquo; so do the
+Scriptures say;</p>
+<p class="i2">But grass, when cut and dried, is turned to hay;</p>
+<p>Then, lo; if Death to thee his scythe should take,</p>
+<p>God bless us! what a haycock thou wouldst make.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<hr />
+<p>An author that lived somewhere has such a <em>brilliant</em>
+wit, that he contracted to light the parish with it, and did
+it.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Our church clock,&rdquo; say the editors of a down-cast
+paper, &ldquo;<em>keeps time</em> so well that we <em>get</em> a
+day out of every week by it.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>A man in Kentucky has a horse which is so slow, that his hind
+legs always get first to his journey&rsquo;s end.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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