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+Project Gutenberg's Manners & Cvftoms of ye Englyfhe, by Richard Doyle
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+Title: Manners & Cvftoms of ye Englyfhe
+       Drawn from ye Qvick
+
+Author: Richard Doyle
+
+Release Date: October 13, 2011 [EBook #37745]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MANNERS & CVFTOMS OF YE ENGLYFHE ***
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+
+
+_MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF YE ENGLYSHE_
+
+  [Illustration: Manners
+                 & Cvstoms
+                 of y{e} Englyshe]
+
+  DRAWN FROM ye QVICK
+
+  BY RICHARD DOYLE
+
+  WITH EXTRACTS FROM
+  MR. PIPS HIS DIARY
+  BY PERCIVAL LEIGH
+
+  T·N·FOULIS
+  London & Edinburgh
+  1911
+
+_The publisher has to acknowledge his indebtedness
+to Messrs. Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. Ltd., the
+publishers of the original edition of this work,
+for permission kindly granted to include in this
+new edition several copyright pictures with their
+accompanying text._
+
+_November 1911_
+
+_Printed by_ MORRISON & GIBB LIMITED, _Edinburgh_
+
+
+
+
+_CONTENTS OF YE VOLUME._
+
+
+  _Ye Contributor hys Preface_                       _Page_ vii
+
+  _A Cydere Cellare duryng a Comyck Songe_                    1
+
+  _An "At Home." Ye Polka_                                    3
+
+  _Ye Fashonable Worlde in Hyde Parke_                        5
+
+  _A Drawynge Room Day_                                       7
+
+  _Smythfield Cattle Markete_                                 9
+
+  _A Few Friends to Tea, and a Lyttle Musyck_                11
+
+  _Ye National Sporte!!! of Steeple Chasynge_                13
+
+  _Ye Commons ressolved into a Commytte_                     15
+
+  _Ye Public its Excytemente on ye Appearance of Miss Lind_  17
+
+  _A Prospect of Exeter Hall_                                19
+
+  _Ye Exhybityon at ye Royal Academye_                       21
+
+  _A View of Epsom Downes on ye Derbye Daye_                 23
+
+  _A Prospect of Greenwich Fair_                             25
+
+  _Kensyngton Gardens with ye Bande Playinge there_          27
+
+  _Ye Hyghest Court of Law in ye Kyngdom_                    29
+
+  _Ye Flower Showe at Chysyk Gardens_                        31
+
+  _"Socyetye" enjoyinge itselfe at a Soyrée_                 33
+
+  _A View of Mr. Lorde hys Cryket Grounde_                   35
+
+  _A Raylwaye Meetynge_                                      37
+
+  _A Prospect of ye Thames its Regatta_                      39
+
+  _A Raylway Statyon_                                        41
+
+  _Ye Brytysh Granadiers amountynge Guard_                   43
+
+  _A Prospect of a Fashyonable Haberdasher hys Shope_        45
+
+  _Regente Streete at Four of ye Clocke p.m._                47
+
+  _Blackwall_                                                49
+
+  _Ye Sporte of Punte Fyshynge off Rychmonde_                51
+
+  _Trycks of ye London Trade_                                53
+
+  _Madame Tussaud her Wax Werkes_                            55
+
+  _Deere Stalkynge in ye Hyghlandes_                         57
+
+  _A Prospect of an Election_                                59
+
+  _A Partie of Sportsmen out a Shutynge_                     61
+
+  _Ye Wyne Vaults at ye Docks_                               63
+
+  _A Weddynge Breakfaste_                                    65
+
+  _A Theatre. Ye House amused by ye Comycke Actor_           67
+
+  _A Prospecte of ye Zoological Societye its Gardens_        69
+
+  _Westminster Hall_                                         71
+
+  _A Prospecte of ye 5th of November_                        73
+
+  _A Banquet of ye Agricultural Interest_                    75
+
+  _Ye Appearance of ye Crymynyal Courte_                     77
+
+  _A Promenade Concerte_                                     79
+
+  _Ye Serpentyne during a Hard Frost_                        81
+
+  _A Fashionable Club. Four o'clock p.m._                    83
+
+  _The Circus at Astley's_                                   85
+
+  _Ye Fathers of ye Churche gyving Judgmente_                87
+
+  _A Juvenile Partye_                                        89
+
+  _A Grande Review_                                          91
+
+  _A Pic-nic_                                                93
+
+  _Vauxhall_                                                 95
+
+  _A Scientific Institution_                                 97
+
+
+
+
+_YE CONTRIBUTOR HYS PREFACE_
+
+
+Suppose the great-grandfather of anybody could step down from his
+picture-frame and stalk abroad, his descendant would be eager to hear
+his opinion of the world we live in. Most of us would like to know what
+the men of the _Past_ would say of the _Present_. If some old
+philosopher, for instance SOCRATES, exchanging robes for modern clothes,
+lest he should be followed by the boys and taken up by the police, could
+revisit this earth, walk our streets, see our sights, behold the scenes
+of our political and social life, and, contemplating this bustling age
+through the medium of his own quiet mind, set down his observations
+respecting us and our usages, he would write a work, no doubt, very
+interesting to her MAJESTY'S subjects.
+
+It would answer the purpose of a skilful literary enchanter to "unsphere
+the spirit of PLATO," or that of PYTHAGORAS, ARISTOTLE, or any other
+distinguished sage of antiquity, and send it out on its rambles with a
+commission to take, and report, its views of things in general. But such
+necromancy would have tasked even the Warlock of the North, would puzzle
+the wizard of any point of the compass, and, it is probable, could be
+cleverly achieved by no adept inferior to the ingenious MR. SHAKSPEARE.
+
+However, there flourished in a somewhat later day a philosopher, for
+such he was after his fashion, a virtuoso, antiquary, and _F.R.S._,
+whose ghost an inconsiderable person may perhaps attempt to raise
+without being accused of pretending to be too much of a conjuror. He
+appears to have been a _Peripatetic_, at least until he could keep a
+coach, but on the subjects of dress, dining, and some others, his
+opinions favour strongly of _Epicurism_. A little more than a hundred
+and eighty years ago he employed his leisure in going about everywhere,
+peeping into everything, seeing all that he could, and chronicling his
+experiences daily. In his _Diary_, which happily has come down to our
+times, the historical facts are highly valuable, the comments mostly
+sensible, the style is very odd, and the autobiography extremely
+ludicrous. I have adventured reverently to evoke this worshipful
+gentleman, that, resuming his old vocation as a journalist, he might
+comment on the "_Manners and Customs of ye Englyshe_," in the name of
+MR. PIPS. I hope his shadow, if not his spirit, may be recognised in the
+following pages.
+
+                                                       PERCIVAL LEIGH.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A CIDERE CELLARE DURING A COMICK SONGE._
+
+                                           SATURDAY, _March 10, 1849_.]
+
+
+To Drury Lane this Evening, to see the Horsemanship, which did divert me
+mightily; but had rather it had been at Astley's, which is the fitter
+Place for it. After that, to Supper at the Cider Cellars in Maiden Lane,
+wherein was much Company, great and small, and did call for Kidneys and
+Stout, then a small Glass of _Aqua-Vitæ_ and Water, and thereto a Cigar.
+While we supped, the Singers did entertain us with Glees and Comical
+Ditties; but Lack, to hear with how little Wit the young Sparks about
+Town are tickled! But the Thing that did most take me was to see and
+hear one Ross sing the Song of SAM HALL the Chimney-Sweep, going to be
+hanged: for he had begrimed his Muzzle to look unshaven, and in rusty
+black Clothes, with a battered old Hat on his Crown and a short Pipe in
+his Mouth, did sit upon the Platform, leaning over the Back of a Chair:
+so making believe that he was on his way to Tyburn. And then he did sing
+to a dismal Psalm-Tune, how that his Name was SAM HALL, and that he had
+been a great Thief, and was now about to pay for all with his Life; and
+thereupon he swore an Oath which did make me somewhat shiver, though
+divers laugh. Then, in so many Verses, how his Master had badly taught
+him and now he must hang for it; how he should ride up Holborn Hill in a
+Cart, and the Sheriffs would come, and then the Parson, and preach to
+him, and after them would come the Hangman; and at the End of each Verse
+he did repeat his Oath. Last of all, how that he should go up to the
+Gallows; and desired the Prayers of his Audience, and ended by cursing
+them all round. Methinks it had been a Sermon to a Rogue to hear him,
+and I wish it may have done good to some of the Company. Yet was his
+cursing very horrible, albeit to not a few it seemed a high Joke; but I
+do doubt that they understood the Song and did only relish the Oaths.
+Strange to think what a Hit this Song of SAM HALL hath made, and how it
+hath taken the Town, and how popular it is not only among Tavern
+Haunters and Frequenters of Night Houses, but also with the Gentry and
+Aristocracy who do vote it a Thing that ought to be heard though a
+blackguard, and look in at the Cider Cellars Night by Night after Dinner
+at their Clubs to hear it sung. After SAM HALL, to pay for my Supper,
+which cost me 2s. 2d., besides 4d. to the Waiter; and then Home in a
+Cab, it being late, and I fearing to anger my Wife, which cost me 2s.
+more; but I grudged not the Money, having been much diverted, and so to
+Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _AN "AT HOME." YE POLKA._
+
+                                        WEDNESDAY, _March 21st, 1849_.]
+
+
+To-night to an Evening Party with my Wife, to SIR HILARY JINKS'S,
+whereunto we had been bidden to come at 10 of the Clock; for SIR HILARY
+and her Ladyship have taken to keeping rare Hours. Thereat was a goodly
+Company of about an hundred, and the Women all very fine, my Wife in her
+last Year's Gown, which I am tired of, and do hate to see. But did not
+tell her that, knowing she would have said how soon I might rid me of
+that Objection. We did fall to dancing Quadrilles, wherein I made one,
+and had for my Partner a pretty little black Damsel, whom after the
+Dance was ended, did hand to a Sofa, and thereon sit me by her Side; but
+seeing my Wife looking hard at us, did presently make my Bow, and go
+away. And, my Wife seated by the Wall, to walk about the Room, and speak
+with such as I thought like to tell me Something worth hearing, but told
+me Nothing I cared to hear, they all shunning to talk, and in their
+white Ties, and Waistcoats, and Kid Gloves, starch, and constrained, and
+ill at Ease, which was ridiculous. Then to look on while some did dance
+the Polka, which did please me not much, for had beheld it better danced
+at the _Casino_, and do think it more suitable to such a Place than to a
+Drawing Room. The Young Fellows did take their Partners by the Waist,
+and these did lean upon the other's Shoulders, and with one Arm
+stretched out, and holding Hand in Hand, they did spin round the Room
+together. But, Lack! to see the kicking up of Heels and stamping of them
+on the Ground, which did mightily remind me of _Jim Crow_. In Truth, I
+am told that the Polka is but a Peasant's Hop, from Hungary, and to
+think now of Persons of Quality cutting such Capers! SIR HILARY to his
+Taste; but a Minuet for me at Home, with Gentlewomen, and a Polka with
+Milkmaids at a Maying or Show Girls in a Booth. Meanwhile the Servants
+did hand round Glasses of Negus, which was poor Stuff; and those who
+listed to Supper when they chose, in a side Room, off wretched
+Sandwiches of the Size of the Triangles of EUCLID his _Geometry_, which
+did think shabby. Expected Chicken and Lobster Salad, with Champagne,
+and Oysters and Ale and Stout, but disappointed. Home in a Cab, at Two
+in the Morning, much wearied and little pleased; and on our Way Home,
+spying a Tavern open, did go and get me a Pint of Beer, and the same to
+my Wife; for we were both athirst, and she in an ill Humour about the
+Beauty I had danced with, and I because of the bad Supper; and so very
+ill-contented to Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE FASHONABLE WORLDE TAYKNGE ITS EXERCYSE IN HYDE
+PARKE._
+
+                                          TUESDAY, _March 27th, 1849_.]
+
+
+This Day to the Ring in Hyde Park for a Walk to get me an Appetite, and
+look at the fine Folks and People of Fashion riding in their carriages,
+which it do much delight me to behold. But, good Lack! what a strange
+Notion of the Pleasure of a Drive; with the Carriages in a close Line
+jammed all together, and sometimes coming to a dead Stop like the
+Omnibuses in Fleet Street of an Afternoon, and seldom moving on faster
+than Mourning Coaches at a Funeral. Did see many mighty pretty young
+Ladies; and one sitting in a Landau with a Coronet on the Panel, upon
+whom I did smile, but perceiving that she did turn up her Nose at me, I
+did look glum; howbeit, another comely Damsel that I smiled at did blush
+and simper, which gave me Joy. It was as good as a Play to watch the
+young Guardsmen, with their Tufts and Mustaches, riding straight-legged,
+and them and the other Bucks taking off their Hats and kissing their
+Hands to the charming Belles as they passed them by. But it was rarer
+still to behold a Snob that strove to do the same Sort of Thing, and did
+get laughed at for his Pains. Then what Sport to observe the fat
+Coachmen, in their Wigs, something like Bishops', sitting on their
+Boxes, and the Footmen behind with their parti-coloured Liveries of drab
+and green, and red and yellow Plush, and gold-laced Hats, Shoulderknots
+and Cockades, bearing their Canes, and their Noses to the Sky, holding
+their Heads as high as Peacocks for Pride in their Frippery and plump
+Calves! These Fellows are as fine as Court Cards, and full as
+Ridiculous, and they do divert me in the Extreme: only their bepowdered
+Pates do offend me, for I think the Fashion an uncleanly one; and after
+all, I wonder how their Masters and Mistresses can delight in dressing
+them out so much like Mountebanks. Did note divers Noble Lords and
+Gentlemen of the House of Commons whom I did know either by Sight or
+from the Caricatures in the Shop-Windows. From four to five o'Clock
+around the Ring and up and down by the Serpentine to make my
+observations. Methought how jolly these fine People must be, and how
+happy they looked compared to a Beggar Boy whom I did spy squatting on
+the Grass: yet no Doubt many of them have Troubles enough, and some may
+be even short of Cash to pay for their Vanities. After that, to the
+Corner, by the Powder Magazine, nigh to Kensington Gardens, to see the
+Company alight from their Carriages, and take an Inventory of the
+Ladies' Dresses, whereof to furnish an Account to my Wife. Then away
+home at half-past Five, and so to Dinner off a Shoulder of Mutton and
+Onion-Sauce, which my Wife doth make exceeding well, and my Dinner did
+content me much; and thereupon I did promise my Wife a new Bonnet, the
+Like whereof I had seen on a Countess in the Park, and so both in great
+Good Humour, and very loving all the Evening.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A DRAWYNGE ROOM DAY. SAYNTE JAMES HYS STREETE._
+
+                                         THURSDAY, _March 29th, 1849_.]
+
+
+To see the Nobility and Gentry, and other great Company, go to the
+QUEEN'S Drawing-Room, with a Friend to St. James's Street, where did
+stand in Front of BOODLE'S Club-House in the Rain, which was heavy, and
+spoiled my Paris Hat, cost me twelve Shillings. But the Sight of the
+Show almost worth the Damage; for the Red and Blue Uniforms of the Army
+and Navy Officers with their Orders on their Breasts, and their Cocked
+Hats and Plumes in their Laps, and the Ladies of Quality in their Silks
+and Satins of all Manner of Colours, and their Hair crowned with Ostrich
+Feathers, and sparkling with Pearls and Diamonds, did much delight me to
+behold. But I wish I could have had as good a View of the Gentlefolks
+within the Carriages as I had of the Lackeys outside, who, with their
+supercilious Airs, and their Jackanapes Garb, did divert me more than
+ever. I do continually marvel at the enormous Calves of those Varlets,
+for which one might almost think they were reared, like a sort of
+Cattle. Indeed, I should have believed that their Stockings were
+stuffed, if I had not seen one of them wince when a Horse chanced to lay
+hold of his Leg. It did more and more amaze me to observe how high they
+carried their Noses, especially as most of them had Posies in their
+bosoms; whereas they looked as though, instead, there were some
+unsavoury Odour beneath their Nostrils. But much as the Servants
+resembled Zanies and Harlequins, yet did some of their Masters look not
+much better; being dressed in a Court Suit, which methinks do make a
+Gentleman seem a sort of embroidered Quaker. I do greatly wonder why the
+ugliest Apparel of any Date in English History should be pitched upon
+for the Court Dress. But the splendid Carriages painted with Coats of
+Arms, and the stately caparisoned Horses, did make a rare Show; and
+among them mighty droll to mark the Hack Cabs not suffered to enter at
+the Palace Gate; so the Fares had to alight and walk on foot the Rest of
+the Way to the Drawing-Room: and so into the Presence of Her MAJESTY in
+dirty Boots: which was not seemly; but many of them are Half Pay
+Officers, and other poor Subjects, who could afford no better than a
+Cab. Pleased to see the Police with their Truncheons, keeping Order
+among the Vagabonds, till one did tell me to move on, which did vex me.
+Then there were the Guards, in full Uniform on Horseback, with their
+Helmets on their Heads and their Swords drawn, about one under each Lamp
+Post, mounting Guard, and I believe this is the heaviest Part of their
+Duty. What with the blazing Uniforms and glittering Jewels, my Eyes were
+dazzled and my Head did somewhat ache; moreover, some pretty Faces put
+my Heart in a Flutter, which did not think fit to mention to my Wife.
+Methinks how fine it would be to ride in State to Court, if it were not
+so chargeable, and I should much delight in the Honour and Glory of the
+Thing, but not like the Expense. A Drawing-Room doth altogether eclipse
+the LORD MAYOR'S Show; although it do seem but a Toy and gilt
+Gingerbread Affair, and an empty, childish Display, like the Babies'
+Game of King and Queen; but then it hath certainly this Advantage, that
+it do much good to Trade.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _SMYTHFIELD CATTLE MARKETE._
+
+                                            MONDAY, _April 9th, 1849_.]
+
+
+Up betimes, it being scarcely Light, to Smithfield, to see the Cattle
+Market, which I do think a great Disgrace to the City, being so nasty,
+filthy, and dangerous a Place in the very Heart of London. I did observe
+the Manner of driving the Beasts together, used by the Drovers, which
+did disgust me. To force the Oxen into their Places, they have stout
+Cudgels, pointed with iron Goads or Prods, wherewith they thrust the
+Creatures in the flesh of their Hind Quarters, or with the Cudgel
+belabour them on the Hock. These means failing, they do seize the
+Animal's Tail and give it a sudden Wrench with a Turn of the Wrist,
+whereby they snap the Tail-bone, and so twist and wring the spinal Cord
+till he pushes forward as far as they would have him. Some, not getting
+Room for the Beasts in the Pens, do drive them into Circles called Ring
+Droves, with their hind Parts outwards, and their Heads forced as close
+as may be together: this done by beating them with all their Might about
+the Head and Eyes, and between the Horns, which they do call pething
+them. Then to see how they crowd the Sheep into the Pens by dogging them
+as their Word is, which means baiting them with Dogs that do tear the
+Sheeps' Eyes, Ears, and Cheeks, until they worry such Numbers in, that
+not one can budge an Inch. All this Cruelty is caused by the Market not
+being big enough: for which Reason they are obliged to force the unlucky
+Brutes into the smallest possible Space. What with the Oaths and Curses
+of the Drovers and Butchers and the Barking of their Dogs and the Cries
+of the Animals in Torture, I do think I never heard a more horrid Din in
+my Life. The Hearing was as bad as the Seeing, and both as bad as could
+be, except the Smell, which was worse than either. But to be sure it was
+good Sport to see here and there a fat Grazier overthrown by a Pig
+running between his Legs, and so upsetting him in the Mire. It were well
+if it were never worse; but with mad Oxen driven from the Market through
+Streets full of People, it continually happens that some Person is
+tossed and gored, and one of these Days it will be an Alderman, and then
+Smithfield will be put an End to. No doubt it would have been done away
+with long ago, but for the Tolls and Dues which the Corporation do
+derive from the Market. This is why they do keep up a Nuisance which did
+well nigh poison me; though one of them at a Meeting did declare that he
+thought Smithfield salubrious, and did send his Children to walk there
+for Change of Air, which if it were for the better, methinks that
+Gentleman's Dwelling-House should be a sweet Abode. All but the Citizens
+do say that Parliament ought to abolish this Nuisance; but it is thought
+that my LORD JOHN dare not stir in the Matter, because he is Member for
+the City. To Breakfast to an Early Coffee House, having lost my Pocket
+Handkerchief, cost me 5s., doubtless by the Pickpockets, of whom
+Smithfield, besides its other Recommendations, is a great Resort. But
+content, not having had an Ox's Horn in my Stomach, and having seen all
+I wanted, and do not wish to see any more.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A FEW FRIENDS TO TEA, AND A LYTTLE MUSYCK._
+
+                                            TUESDAY, _April 17, 1849_.]
+
+
+To MR. JIGGINS'S, where my Wife and I were invited to Tea and a little
+Musique, but we had much Musique and little Tea, though the Musique was
+like the Tea in Quality, and I do prefer a stronger Kind of Musique as
+well as Liquor. Yet it was pleasing enough to the Ear to hear the
+fashionable Ballads, and the Airs from all the New Italian Operas sung
+by the young Ladies; which, though they expressed Nothing but
+common-place Love and Sentiment, yet were a pretty Sing-Song. But to see
+the young Fellows whilst a Beauty was singing crowd round her, and bend
+over her Shoulders, and almost scramble to turn over the Leaves of her
+Musique Book! Besides the Singing, there was Playing of the Piano Forte,
+with the Accompaniment of a Fiddle and Bass Violl, the Piano being
+played by a stout fat Lady with a Dumpling Face; but for all her being
+so fat it did amaze me to see how nimbly she did fillip the Keys. They
+did call this Piece a Concerto, and I was told it was mighty brilliant;
+but when I asked what Fancy, Passion, or Description there was in it, no
+one could tell; and I verily thought the Brilliancy like that of a Paste
+Buckle. It had not even an Air to carry away and whistle, and would have
+pleased me just as well if I had stopped my Ears, for I could discern
+Nothing in it but Musical Sleight of Hand. But good Lack! to think how,
+in these Days, Execution is Everything in Musique, and Composition
+little or Nothing: for almost no Account is made of the Master, and a
+preposterous Value put upon the Player, or artiste, as the Frenchified
+Phrase now is! After the Concerto, some Polkas and Waltzes, which did
+better please me; for they were a lively Jingle certainly, and not quite
+unmeaning. Strange, to find how rare a Thing good Musique is in Company;
+and by good Musique I mean such as do stir up the Soul, like the Flowers
+and Sunshine in Spring, or Storms and Tempests, or ghostly Imaginations,
+or the thought of great Deeds, or tender or terrible Passages in Poetry.
+My Wife do play some brave Pieces in this Kind, by MYNHEER VAN
+BEETHOVEN, and I would rather hear her perform one of them, than all I
+did hear to-Night put together; and so I did tell her when we got Home,
+which did content her well. But every one to his Taste; and they who
+delight in the trivial Style of Musique to theirs, as I to mine, not
+doubting that the English, that have but just begun to be sensible to
+Musique at all, will be awake to the nobler Sort of it by-and-by. And,
+at any Rate, an Evening of insipid Musique and weak Tea is better than
+sitting toping and guzzling after Dinner.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE NATIONAL SPORTE!!! OF STEEPLE CHASYNGE._
+
+                                             MONDAY, _April 23, 1849_.]
+
+
+Down the Road to a Steeple Chase, which I had never seen before, and did
+much long to behold: for of all Things I do love Diversion and
+Merriment; and both MR. STRAPPES and SIR WILLIAM SPURKINS did tell me
+there would be rare Sport. Got a Place in the Grand Stand, cost me
+half-a-Guinea, which was loth to part with, but thought I should have
+brave Entertainment for so much Money. Did find myself here in fine
+Company, Dukes, and Earls, and Lords and Ladies too, which did please
+me; but among them some Snobs, in Stable-cut-Clothes, with spotted
+Neckcloths and Fox-headed Breast-pins; though some of these were Lords
+too, who seemed to have been at Pains to look like Ostlers. To see the
+Crowd on Horseback and in Carriages, and those on Foot pushing and
+scrambling, and trampling each other to get a Sight of the Course, as if
+there had been going to be a Coronation, or a Man hanged! The Course,
+marked out with Flags, and having Hurdles, Posts, Fences, Rails,
+Hedges, Drains, Ditches, and Brooks in the Way; and this Sportsmen do
+call the Country, and say such a Country is a Teaser, and so I should
+think. By-and-by Jockies in their Saddles, but their word is Pig-skins,
+looking, in their gay Colours, like Tulips on Horseback, which was a
+pretty Sight. Then a Bell rung to clear the Course, and the Horses with
+their Riders drawn up ready to start, and presently a Flag flourished
+for a Signal: and so they off. Good Lack, to see them galloping
+helter-skelter, like mad, through Rivers, and over Hedges and Ditches,
+and the whole Thing done in ten Minutes! Some did jump the Fences and
+Hedges, which they about me did term Raspers, clean over; but others not
+so lucky, and stuck in Brambles or on Stakes, or between double Rows of
+Posts, with a Quickset in the Middle, whereof the cant name is
+Bullfinchers. Others upset in Ditches; and one or two of them not able
+to get up again, and carried away upon some of the Hurdles; and when the
+Race was over, three Horses found lying with their Backs broken, and so
+shot. SIR WILLIAM did inform me that it was a tidy Field, which I could
+not agree, with the Raspers and Palisades upon it, and the Horses
+spiked, or sprawling with their Riders on the Ground with broken Backs
+and Limbs. Nor did I understand the Fun of this Part of the Thing;
+wherefore I suppose I must be dull; for it do seem to be the chief
+Delight that People take in it. For, as if the Gates and Rails belonging
+to the Ground were not dangerous enough, they do set up others called
+made Fences, being stubborn Posts and Stakes twisted with Briars and
+Brambles, which do seem to be meant for Nothing but to be tumbled over,
+and in that Case to do as much Mischief, as may be, to Man and Beast.
+The Horses mostly ridden by Jockeys for Hire; but some by their Owners,
+who, methinks, do set a sufficient Value upon their own Existence when
+they venture their Necks in riding a Steeple Chase; but I do blame them
+for risking the Life of a useful Horse.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE COMMONS RESSOLVED INTO A COMMYTTE OF YE WHOLE HOUSE._
+
+                                             FRIDAY, _April 27, 1849_.]
+
+
+To the House of Commons, where an Irish Debate on the Rate-in-Aid Bill,
+which did make me drowsy. The House in Committee; the Irish Members
+moving all Sorts of frivolous Amendments, abusing the Government, and
+quarrelling among themselves. SIR H. BARRON did accuse MR. REYNOLDS of
+being ready to Vote away other People's Money because he had none of his
+own, and MR. REYNOLDS did say that he never saw such Misery as on SIR H.
+BARRON'S Estate; whereupon SIR H. BARRON up in a Rage, and did deny the
+Fact with vehement Gestures, flourishing his Fists gallantly. Then MR.
+REYNOLDS did fall foul of MR. BATESON, one that had been a Captain, for
+questioning the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER concerning young REYNOLDS'S
+Place; and did make a Joke upon MR. BATESON'S Mustachios: whereat much
+laughter. But a small Joke do go a great Way in the House of Commons.
+Before the Debate, LORD JOHN RUSSELL marching up one of the side
+Galleries, and taking the Measure of the House through his Eye-Glass: a
+sharp delicate little Man, with a mild Voice, but do carry himself
+stately. Methought his Observations amused him, for he smirked a little,
+and looked as if he knew the Customers he had to deal with. But to see
+him and the HOME SECRETARY and the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER trying to
+persuade the Irish Members not to press their ridiculous Motions to a
+Division, wheedling and coaxing them, as smiling and civil as
+Haberdashers! The Bill to be reported to-morrow; and then the House to a
+little ordinary Business; and MR. HORSMAN'S Bill postponed, through the
+Irish cavilling and squabbling. Then a Debate on naming the Committee on
+Savings Banks; and made an Irish Question too; the Dispute how many
+Irish Members were to serve on the Committee: and the End, the Naming of
+the Committee delayed. This Way of doing Business in the House of
+Commons makes it no Wonder how little is done; and the chief Cause is
+the Irish Members haranguing upon Nothing and quarrelling about Straws,
+which do seem to me a childish and spiteful Attempt to give Trouble to
+Government. I did hope to hear a Speech from SIR ROBERT PEEL, but was
+disappointed, which did vex me; but heard a few Words from COLONEL
+SIBTHORP, which made mighty Laughter, and were as sensible as any Thing
+I heard all the Evening: and the Colonel in a brave Waistcoat, with his
+droll Figure did divert me much. Last of all, a Settlement of the
+Smithfield Committee: and I do wonder this became not an Irish Matter
+too. The House adjourning at half-past One in the Morning; and to see
+the Number of Members lying asleep on the Gallery Benches! All this
+While Nothing whatever done of more Importance than Parish Business at a
+Vestry. I off to Supper in the Haymarket on pickled Salmon and Stout,
+cost me 1s. 6d., and then Home and to Bed, past 2 o'Clock, and my Wife
+do say that the House of Commons keep worse Hours than any Tavern in
+Town.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE PUBLIC ITS EXCYTEMENTE ON YE APPEARANCE OF MISS
+LIND._
+
+                                              SATURDAY, _May 5, 1849_.]
+
+
+To the Queen's House in the Haymarket to hear Jenny Lind, whom Everybody
+do call the Swedish Nightingale. Did go with a Pit Ticket, cost me 8s.
+6d., which is a mighty Sum of Money to pay for only the Chance of a
+Seat. Went at 6 p.m., expecting a Crowd, and there a Mob of People
+already at the Doors, and some did say they had come as early as Five.
+Got as close as I could to the Pit Entrance, and the Throng increasing;
+and by-and-by Ladies in their Opera Dresses standing without their
+Bonnets in the Street. Many of them between the Carriage Wheels and
+under the Horses' Heads: and methinks I did never see more Carriages
+together in my Life. At last the Doors open; which I began to fear they
+never would, and I in with the Press, a most terrible Crush, and the
+Ladies screaming and their Dresses torn in the Scramble, wherefore I
+thought it a good Job that my Wife was not with me. With much ado into
+the Pit, the Way being stopped by a Snob in a green Jockey Coat and
+Bird's Eye Neckcloth, that the Checktakers would not suffer to pass. The
+Pit full in a Twinkling, and I fain to stand where I best might, nigh to
+Fop's Alley: but presently a Lady fainting with the Heat and carried
+out, which I glad of; I mean that I got her Place. I did never behold so
+much Company in the House before; and every Box full of Beauties, and
+hung with yellow Satin Curtains, did show like a brave picture in a Gold
+Frame; which was very handsome to look round upon while the Musicians
+were tuning. The Fiddles tuned, and the Overture played, the Curtain up
+for the Opera; which was the _Sonnambula_; the Part of _Amina_ acted by
+JENNY. The moment she came on the Stage, the Audience, Lords, Ladies,
+and all, upon their Legs, shouting, cheering, waving Hats and
+Handkerchiefs, and clapping of Hands in white Kid Gloves. But at last
+they silent, and let the Nightingale sing: and for certain she is a
+wonderful Singer. It did amaze me to hear how easy and sweetly she do
+trill and warble the most difficult Passages: and I perceive she hath a
+rare Ability of Voice. But what did no less astonish me was her Acting,
+it being as good as her singing; for she did seem to forget herself in
+her Part, instead of her Part in herself; which is the Mistake of most
+Opera Singers. To think that she should draw the whole Town in Crowds
+together to hear her sing a few pretty Sugar-plum Melodies and portray
+the Grief of a poor Peasant Wench cast off by her Lover! But she do put
+a Grace and Beauty of her own into the Character and Musique: which I
+take to be the Mark of a true Genius. She made to sing divers Songs
+twice over, and called upon the Stage at the End of the Act, and again
+when the Opera was finished; when, good Lack, to see the Nosegays and
+Posies flung in Heaps upon the Stage! She must needs get a Mint of Money
+by her Singing; but she has spent a Deal of it in building Hospitals,
+and I do wish (Heaven forgive me!) I had all she has given away in
+Charity.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PROSPECT OF EXETER HALL. SHOWYNGE A CHRISTIAN
+GENTLEMAN DENOUNCYNGE YE POPE._
+
+                                             WEDNESDAY, _May 9, 1849_.]
+
+
+Went this Morning to Exeter Hall, where one of the May Meetings that do
+regularly take Place at this Time of the Season, and serve in Lieu of
+Concerts and Shows to a Sort of People that call themselves serious.
+This, one of the Meetings of a Protestant Association, which I had heard
+much of and did long to go to, expecting to hear some good Argument
+against the Roman Catholiques. But instead of Argument, I did hear
+Nothing but Abuse, which do always go in at one Ear and out at the
+other. No new Point brought forward to confute Popery; but only an
+Iteration of the Old Charges of Superstition and so forth, urged with no
+greater Power than mere Strength of Lungs. The Commotions on the
+Continent last Year laid much Stress on, and the Turmoils in Catholique
+and Quiet in Protestant States contrasted, as though there had been no
+Disturbance or Trouble in Prussia or Denmark, or any Tumult or
+Revolution in Belgium or Portugal. I did note two chief Speakers, whom,
+on their rising, the Assembly did applaud as if they had been Actors,
+and to be sure, they ranted more frantically than I did ever see HICKS.
+Yet at Times they stooped to Drollery in the Height of their Passion,
+and one of them did make such Sport of the Roman Catholique Religion as
+would not have been suffered in the Adelphi Theatre. But I do find that
+some who would not be seen in a Play-House can enjoy their laugh at
+Exeter Hall. This Orator was a Clergyman of some Kind, for he was called
+Reverend in the Hand-bill, and dressed in a clerical Habit, but his Eyes
+and Face blazing with Wrath, did storm like a Madman against the
+Maynooth Grant and the POPE OF ROME; and howled as fierce as a Hyæna.
+The other a Clergyman too, and looked as much like one, with his
+sneering angry Visage, and did vehemently harangue, crying bitterly out
+on some of my Lords and the Members of the Commons' House that had voted
+for Popish Endowment. His Oration a medley of Sarcasm, Invective, and
+Buffoonery, and wound up with a Flourish of Patriotism and Loyalty. The
+Speeches received with Applause and Laughter, but also with
+Interruptions and crying to turn Somebody out. The Speakers on a
+Platform, whereon they bounced backwards and forwards, having Rails in
+Front as if to hinder them from breaking loose on the Audience. Behind
+them a Crowd of dainty smooth Gentlemen in Black, with white
+Neckerchiefs, and to see how demure they looked, as if Butter would not
+melt in their Mouths! In the Body of the Hall a goodly Number of Heads,
+but by far the Most of them in Bonnets. The two chief Speeches lasted an
+Hour and a Half each, and the Chairman leaving his Seat, I away, my Head
+aching through the Raving. Such Violence, methinks, do only prove that
+there are other Bigots besides Papists; and is the worst Means of
+enforcing any Truth; for they that speak in Anger and Passion are
+commonly concluded by indifferent People to be in the Wrong. The Society
+complaining of want of Funds, which I do not wonder at, for I fear me
+the Subscribers have but few Catholiques converted for their Money.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE EXHYBITYON AT YE ROYAL ACADEMYE._
+
+                                               MONDAY, _May 21, 1849_.]
+
+
+This Morning with my Wife to the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, where
+611 Paintings, besides Miniatures and other Drawings, and Pieces of
+Sculpture, making altogether 1341 Works of Art, and methought it would
+be strange if there were not some Masterpiece among so many. The Whole
+to be seen for the small Sum of 1s., and the Catalogue cost me 1s. more,
+but should have known all the old Hands as well without it. To see how
+easy it is to distinguish them by their Styles after two or three Years'
+Experience: as one by his Dogs, that might be expected to bark, or to
+talk rather, with their Looks and Ways like Human Creatures. Then
+another by his Colouring that do resemble a Mash of sweet Omelet with
+all the Colours of the Rainbow and many more; which methinks is a
+strange Fancy; but now he hath a Picture out of his trite Fashion; done
+after the Manner of the antique Masters, and a good Imitation. A third
+also by his unadorned Beauties with their glowing Eyes and Cheeks and
+plump swarthy flesh, and a fourth by his never-ending Perspectives, and
+Gulfs of Darkness, and Mountains of Blue. But this year I do mark fewer
+of these old Acquaintances, and more of the Works of younger Men,
+wherein there is less of Knack and more of Freshness, which I do esteem
+a hopeful Sign. The Exhibition at large I judge to be a very excellent
+middling one, many Pictures good in their Kind, but that Kind in very
+few Cases high. The Silks and Satins mostly painted to Admiration, and
+the Figures copied carefully from the Model; but this do appear too
+plainly; and the Action generally too much like a Scene in a Play. In
+the historical Pictures the Characters dressed strictly in the Fashion
+of their Time, but in the best of them a Lack of Fancy and Imagination,
+though seeming original through a certain Quaintness that do smack of
+Church-Window Saints and illuminated Missals. The Landscapes better, and
+a most brave Morning on the Lake of Zurich by one that hath the right
+Stuff in him, and some sweet melancholy Shades and solemn Groves, and a
+Solitary Pool that did please me mightily, and my Wife do say that the
+Artist should be Commissioner of Woods and Forests. Some Pictures of
+common Life pretty enough, and a little Crowd before a pleasant
+sentimental one called the Duet. One or two droll ones, as the Slide,
+and Drawing for the Militia, did make me laugh; but to think how many
+Woodcuts as good as the best you can get in a little Miscellany
+published weekly, cost you 3d. Fewer silly Portraits of Gentlemen and
+Ladies than formerly, which is a Comfort. The Pictures fairly enough
+hung, and strange to see a dead Lion between MONSIEUR GUIZOT and PRINCE
+METTERNICH, as though to represent absolute Monarchy, and seemed meant
+for a Joke. Some Pictures in the Octagon Room, which could not tell
+whether they were good or no for Want of Light, and the same with all
+the Sculptures in their Lumber Hole. This is how we treat Art in this
+Country, and with Paintings presented to the Nation buried in a Vault,
+but sorry Encouragement is given to Genius; and no Wonder that Artists
+do Pictures for Furniture to sell to the great and small Vulgar, and so
+produce the Kind of Works that make up the greater Part of the
+Exhibition.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A VIEW OF EPSOM DOWNES ON YE DERBYE DAYE._
+
+                                WEDNESDAY, _May 23, 1849_.--DERBY DAY.]
+
+
+To Epsom Downs to the Great Derby Race. In a Barouche, with a Party,
+over Vauxhall Bridge, and by Clapham, carrying Hampers with Store of
+every Thing needful for a brave Lunch. The Windows and House Fronts
+crowded, and School-Boys mounted on Walls and Gates, and they and the
+Urchins in the Street shouting, as though we were going to the Races for
+their Amusement. But Lack! to see the pretty smart Damsels come out to
+gaze at us, or peeping behind Blinds and Curtains, all in high Glee, and
+good Humour do wonderfully heighten Beauty, as I do tell my Wife. The
+Road through Trees and Orchards, and the Sun shining through the young
+Leaves and on the Horse-Chestnut Blossoms, and the Flowers looking
+bright like the Lasses. So we on, till into the Ruck, which is the Jam
+of Carriages caused by the Stoppage at the Turnpike: and did banter each
+other and them about us. Across the Course to the Hill, the Admission
+cost us £1. Good Lack! what a Crowd of People collected to see which
+out of six-and-twenty Horses should run the fastest, and what a Medley
+of Vans, Omnibusses, and Taxed Carts on either Side of the Course with
+the People in Front of them, and the Grand Stand crowded with Heads,
+plenty as Blackberries, and seeming like a huge Mass of them. A Throng
+of Carriages about us, whereon young handsome rakish-looking Gallants
+with Mustaches and Cigars. Here and there, in open Coaches, Ladies in
+lilac and blue Dresses, and pink Bonnets, and gay Ribbons, all Manner of
+Colours, looking, with the parti-coloured Flags over the Booths, mighty
+lively. Presently a Bell rung and the Course cleared, but then to see an
+unlucky Dog running to get out, and the Mob yelling at him, and the poor
+Dog in his Fright rushing straight on like mad! Then the Horses with the
+motley Jockies on them prancing up and down before the Grand Stand, to
+show their Paces to the Folks in the Betting Ring. At last, they taken
+to the Post, and so started with much Cheering, and came easy round
+Tattenham Corner; but presently away in good earnest, like Shot! The
+Chief Struggle between the _Flying Dutchman_ and _Hotspur_, but
+Yellow-Cap did win by half a Length. The Winner declared by his Number,
+hung out in Front of the Grand Stand, and to see the Flock of Carrier
+Pigeons sent up to bear away the News; but MR. WAGSTAFFE do say they
+were Nothing to the Pigeons left behind. The Race run in three Minutes,
+but to think of the Money lost and won in that little Time! My LORD
+EGLINTON and the Public, as I hear, do gain much, and the Ring and
+Rogues do lose, which I am glad of. After the Race to a brave Lunch; but
+the Gipsy Women and Children did come and beg Morsels out of our Plates,
+which in the Midst of all the Luxury was a sorry Sight. Then about the
+Course to see the Company and the Flinging at Snuff-Boxes, and the
+Thimble-Rig, and some playing at Roulette and Hazard, but the Police did
+seize and break several of the Tables, and take away the Stakes. Great
+Sport returning Home, with the Shouting for the Winner, and trumpeting
+on Horns, and tossing of Snuff-Boxes and Toys to the pretty Lasses at
+the Windows.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PROSPECT OF GREENWICH FAIR._
+
+                               TUESDAY, _May 29, 1849_.--WHIT-TUESDAY.]
+
+
+Down the River with BROWNE to Greenwich to view the Fair. To the Park,
+where young Fellows and Hoydens at Archery, Donkey Riding, playing at
+Kiss-in-the-Ring, and running down the Hill, romping, tripping, and
+tumbling over Head and Heels, with Shouting, Screaming, and Laughter.
+Then down to the Fair, made in a narrow Space in the Town by a Couple of
+Rows of Booths and Sweet-Meat and Toy-Stalls, with Raree Shows at the
+farther End, and Swings and Roundabouts on the Outside. The Passage most
+insufferably crammed; and we having to force our Way between Walls hung
+with Dolls and gilt Ginger-Bread. The Stalls and Booths crowded also,
+and the Tobacco Smoke rising from the Drinking Places like a Fog. Young
+Prentice Blades and Shop-Boys pushing about with large Masquerade Noses,
+and did entertain themselves more than me. But the chief Amusement of
+these Roysterers and the frolicksome Wenches do seem to be scratching
+People behind, with a Scraper, which is a notched Disk of Wood, that
+turns on an Axle in a Mortise, with a Handle some six Inches long, and
+being dragged down a Man's Back, do make him believe that his Coat is
+torn, as I thought mine was, when first served so, which did trouble me.
+With this Noise of continual Tearing, and the Squeaking of Tin Trumpets,
+and blowing of Whistles, and half-a-dozen different Bands playing as
+many Tunes, is altogether made a most discordant Musique; and the
+Showmen bellowing to the Spectators to walk up, do increase the Babel.
+Strange to see the Lads and Lasses, heaved up and down, over and under,
+in the Swings, and to think what Pleasure they can take in such a
+Motion, which methinks a Physician might prescribe in Lieu of a Sea
+Voyage. With much Ado, to RICHARDSON'S Show, where a Tragedy, a Comic
+Song and a Pantomime all in Half an Hour, and the Tragedy accompanied on
+Whistles and Penny Trumpets by the Audience. But the best of the Fun
+outside, between the Performances, with the Beef-Eaters' Band playing,
+and the Show-Girls in their Spangles and Paint, dancing, and the Clowns
+grimacing and flinging Summersets, and the Robber Chief standing in a
+brave Posture in the Corner. Store of Fat Ladies, Wonderful Pigs, Giants
+and Dwarfs to see, and Conjurors in Plenty, specially in the Crowd,
+conjuring Handkerchiefs out of Pockets. In the Evening to the great
+Dancing-Booth, which lighted up and hung with variegated Lamps, was, to
+be sure, a pretty fine Sight. But the Company uproarious through Drink;
+and yet the Dancing without Liveliness, being mostly that rogueish
+Chin-and-Shoulder French Dance, gone heavily through. Here again that
+perpetual Scraping, and they who sold the Scrapers, did cry, "All the
+Fun of the Fair for 2d."; which was true. Home by the Railway Train,
+wherein the tipsy Passengers bawling and singing the whole of the Way.
+Methinks these Fairs do cause a Concourse of Rogues and bad Characters;
+and the more good cheap Concerts abound, and Museums and Exhibitions are
+opened to the Public, the less will the People frequent such Places as
+Greenwich Fair.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _KENSYNGTON GARDENS WITH YE BANDE PLAYINGE THERE._
+
+                                               FRIDAY, _June 1, 1849_.]
+
+
+In the Afternoon to Kensington Gardens, where a Band of the Guards do
+play on this Day, and also on Monday throughout the Season, and draw
+together a great Crowd of Fashionable Folks. The Tunes played mostly
+Polkas and Waltzes, though now and then a Piece of Musique of a better
+Sort; but the Musique little more than an Excuse for a Number of People
+assembling to see and be seen. There all the World and his Wife; and she
+in all her Finery. The Day very fair, and the Sun shining gloriously,
+and the bright coloured Silks and Muslins at a Distance between the
+Trees, did make a mighty pleasant Picture. But I got as near as I could
+to gaze upon the Beauties, and am afraid that I did look too hard at
+some; but they mostly smiled, and methinks they do not trick themselves
+out so bravely to discourage Observation. To see them pacing to and fro
+in such smart Attire, with their shewy pink, and green, and
+Forget-me-not Blue Parasols, I could fancy they were the London
+Fashions for June come out a walking. But many on Seats with tall
+well-looking Gallants posted beside them, or bending down to converse
+with them with vast Attention and Politeness, whereat they seeming
+mightily pleased. Others standing in Groups here and there under the
+Shade, and a great Throng of them round about the Musicians; but all
+walking to and fro between the Tunes to show themselves. Many of the
+Army among the Crowd, and strange, to compare them and others of our
+Gentry, in Air and Manner, with one or two dingy Foreigners with their
+stubbly Beards and ill-favoured Looks. The little fashionable Children
+by the side of their Mammas elegant enough to see; but overdressed in
+their Velvet and Plaid Tunics and Plumes of Feathers, and their Ways too
+mincing and dainty, and looking as though they had stepped from out a
+Band-Box. Methinks they do seem brought up to think too much of their
+Outsides, and to look on Display and Show as the Business of their
+Lives, which is a silly Schooling. I did mark some of their Mothers, old
+enough to know better, bedizened like the young Beauties, but looking
+sour and glum, and plainly ill at ease in their Pride and Vanity. But it
+divert me much to compare the delicate Children with some Charity-School
+Urchins on the other Side of the Wall that did anger the Park Keeper by
+mocking him. I doubt me that the young Leatherbreeches be not the
+happier as long as they can get a Bellyful of Victuals. The Company
+doubtless enjoying themselves after their Fashion, but in general
+looking marvellous grave; and strange to shut my Eyes between the Tunes
+and to hear Nothing but the Rustling of Dresses and a Murmur of Voices
+as they did walk up and down. It is wonderful how we English do go
+through our Amusements after the Manner of a solemn Ceremony. Yet do the
+people of Fashion in Kensington Gardens make an exceeding rare Show; and
+I do only wish that there were no Reverse of the Picture to be seen
+among us. But their Finery do afford Employment to Work-People, and I do
+thank them for parading themselves for my Amusement, and the Officers of
+the Guards for treating the Town to Musique, and so giving Occasion to
+such a fine Spectacle.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _HYGHEST COURT OF LAW IN YE KYNGDOM. YE LORDS HEARYNG
+APPEALS._
+
+                                             THURSDAY, _June 7, 1849_.]
+
+
+Up, and to the House of Lords, where a Committee of Privileges touching
+a disputed Peerage, but I did only go for a Sight of the Inside of the
+House, well worth seeing; and the Carving, and Gilding, and Blazoning, a
+rich Feast to the Eye. There present none but my LORD BROUGHAM and my
+LORD CAMPBELL, and three or four other Lords, but a smaller Muster do
+often serve for a Court of Appeal; for their Lordships do trust all
+their Law Business to the Law-Lords' Hands. Counsel speaking at the Bar
+of the House, and the Clerks of the House before them at the Table, all
+in their Wigs very stately, but my Lords lolling on the Benches, free
+and easy, they only having the Right to make themselves at Home, yet
+droll to see the Officers of the House forced to stand, but some of them
+leaning against the Stems of the gilt Candlesticks, fast asleep on their
+Legs. Did think I should go to sleep too, if I stayed much longer, and
+about to depart; but glad I did not; for presently the Counsel made an
+End, and then my LORD BROUGHAM examining a Witness was almost the best
+Sport that I ever had in my Life. The Witness, one of the Attornies for
+the Claimant of the Title, and LORD BROUGHAM suspecting some Trickery in
+the Case, and good Lack! how he did bait and ferret him to draw it out,
+asking the most peremptory Questions, and sometimes a second before the
+first could be answered, firking with Impatience like one smarting with
+Stinging Nettles: which was great Mirth. It did well-nigh cause me to
+laugh outright, and commit a Breach of Privilege, to hear him in a Fume,
+echo the Witness's Answers, and cry Eh? What! How! Why? and Wherefore?
+and demand how he could do this, or came not to do the other, and how
+was that, and so forth, and then set his Memory right, next made a short
+Speech, then give a little Evidence of his own, and again go back to the
+Examination. It seemed that the Pretender to the Peerage had been helped
+with Money to maintain his Suit by certain Persons, and my Lord did
+strive to worm out of the Lawyer their End therein: but to no Purpose;
+for he had met with his Match; so forced to content himself with a Quip
+on the Chances of the Witness's Client. Then another Witness examined; a
+Chirurgeon, whom LORD BROUGHAM did make merry with for his jolly
+good-natured Looks, and did jest upon concerning his Vocation: and the
+other did bandy Jokes with my Lord, and gave him as good as he brought.
+Methinks such Bantering is strange of a Peer, and one that hath been
+Lord Chancellor and used to sit on the Woolsack, or anywhere else but
+the Box of an Omnibus. But strange, how sober a Speech in summing up the
+Evidence my Lord did make after all; and no Doubt he can be reasonable
+and quiet when he pleases. Save a few words from LORD CAMPBELL, not a
+Syllable spoke but my LORD BROUGHAM; wherefore methinks he must have
+been thoroughly happy, having had nigh all the Talk to himself. But the
+highest Court of Law in the Realm numbering so few, put me much in mind
+of the Army in _Bombastes Furioso_.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _THE FLOWER SHOWE AT CHYSYK GARDENS._
+
+                                             SATURDAY, _June 9, 1849_.]
+
+
+My Wife holding me to my Promise to take her to the Chiswick Flower
+Show, and I could not break it; for certainly the poor Wretch do drudge
+in the House like a Slave; and so often as I go out for Pleasure myself,
+methinks it were well to give her a Treat now and then, to ease my
+Conscience, and keep her quiet also. So took her, though our two Tickets
+together came to 10s., and we thither in an Omnibus, and the Fare
+doubled on the Occasion, instead of 1s. cost me 2s. more, which made me
+mad. A rare Sight, nigh the Gardens, to look out on the Line of
+Carriages behind us, and methought how mean and paltry it seemed to be
+riding in an Omnibus; and was in some Trouble lest any of our
+acquaintance should be in the Carriages, and see us 'light. At the
+Passage to the Gardens beset by Fellows with Shoe-Brushes and
+Clothes-Brushes, importunate to brush my Coat and Boots, that were clean
+enough, but only to earn 4d. or 6d. Our Tickets delivered, and we into
+the Grounds with a Stream of Company, and followed them and our Ears to
+a Band of Musique, the Horse Guards playing hard by a Grove of
+Rhododendrons in full Bloom, and a Mob of Beauties round about them more
+blooming still. Heard a Medley-Piece of Scraps of most of the Operas
+that I knew; which was better Musique than I expected. Then to the
+Tents, where the Prize-Flowers are shown, on high Stands as long as a
+moderate-sized Barn: and there a pretty Display of Orchids, Azaleas,
+Cactuses, Pelargoniums, and Heaths, very rare and curious, and a few
+choice Roses; but I expected to see Roses as big as Cabbages. Many of
+the Flowers finely variegated, and giving forth a Perfume sweeter than
+ATKINSON his shop. Strange how to some of the Pelargoniums were given
+the names of GRISI, ALBONI, MARIO, and other Opera Singers: and MR.
+WAGSTAFFE do say it is Musique in a Flower-Pot. After seeing the
+Flowers, to stroll about the Walks and among the Trees, and view the
+Flowers without Stalks, which I do admire most of all, and a brave show
+they were, drest out in their gayest, and smiling as if resolved to look
+as pretty as they could; and looking all the brighter for the Sun
+shining without a Cloud to be seen: whereby out of Pain for my Wife's
+pink Bonnet, which, if spoiled by the Rain usual at this Show, had been
+£2, 2s. gone. The Bands from Time to Time beat a March about the Garden;
+when to see the fine Ladies and Gentlemen follow at the Soldiers' Heels,
+natural as ragged Street-Children! At last all played together, and
+ended with _God Save the Queen_; when the Flowers wheeled away. But the
+Company remaining, some sitting on Benches to make a Lane, and the Rest
+of the Multitude walking up and down to be seen, and the Beauties
+showing off their Graces, which I did inspect from Head to Foot. My Wife
+beginning to admire a certain Satin; so knowing what this signified,
+away, and home to a Leg of Mutton; thinking of the State of the Nation,
+which should not be so mighty gloomy to judge of it by Chiswick Flower
+Show, and wondering how much all the Finery there cost, and where all
+the Money could have come from.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _"SOCYETYE" ENJOYINGE ITSELFE AT A SOYRÉE._
+
+                                              FRIDAY, _June 15, 1849_.]
+
+
+After a Dinner off Bubble and Squeak, my Wife and I to my LORD
+WILKINSON'S At Home, by invitation; though Heaven knows if ever I set
+Eyes on his Lordship in my Life or he on me; but do ascribe this Honour
+to having my Name put down in the _Court Guide_, and am glad to find the
+Consequence and Importance I have got thereby. I in my new Suit of Black
+and Silk Neckerchief, with a Fringe at the Ends, and my Wife did wear
+her Lace Dress over her pink Satin Slip, which was very handsome. Gave
+our Card to a Lackey in Yellow and Crimson Livery, with a huge
+Shoulder-knot, who did shout out our Name, which, passing along a Row of
+his Fellows lining the Stairs, was by the Time it reached the
+Drawing-Room changed to PIPPINS--but no matter; and so we were presented
+to my Lord and my Lady. So on in the Crowd; for my Lord's Drawing-Room
+as thronged as the Opera Pit Entrance on a Thursday Night. Methought
+surely there was Something worth seeing and hearing; but saw nothing
+extraordinary beyond the Multitude of Company, and divers Writers,
+Painters, and other Persons of Note, elbowing their Way through the
+Press; nor heard anything but Puffing and Gasping, and complaining of
+the terrible Heat. Several Ladies fainting; and my Wife declaring she
+feared she should faint too, which made me mad; for it is always the Way
+with Women at Spectacles and Assemblies, and yet they needs must and
+will go to them. At some Distance before us, a Bustle and Stir, and in
+the midst of it a Lackey with a Tray, whereon were Ices--the People
+struggling for them; and I also strove to get one for my Wife; but the
+Attempt vain, and we borne clear away by the Current to the other side
+of the Room. Some young Beauties there, whom to have looked upon at my
+Ease, and they at theirs, would have been a great delight; but they in
+such Discomfort, that it quite spoilt their Prettiness, which was
+pitiful. We met DR. DABBES the great Chemist, with whom some pretty
+Discourse concerning the Air of crowded Rooms, which he said do contain
+a Gas called Carbonic Acid, and is poisonous, and we were now breathing
+too much per Cent. of it, which did trouble me. To think what Delight
+fashionable Folks can take in crowding together, to the Danger of
+Health, a Set of People, for the most Part, Strangers both to them and
+to one another! Away early; for we could endure the Stifling no longer:
+and good Lack, what a Relief to get into the open Air! My white Kid
+Gloves soiled, cost me 3s. 6d.; but am thankful I carried with me my
+Spring Hat, which do shut up; and did chuckle to see how many others got
+their Hats crushed. Home in a Cab, and on the Way bought a Lobster,
+whereunto my Wife would have me add a Bottle of Stout, which did think a
+good Notion; cost me together 3s. 6d., and the Cab 2s. 6d. more, and
+then to Supper; mighty proud that I had been invited by my Lord, though
+utterly tired with his Party, and so with great Satisfaction, but much
+Weariness, to Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A VIEW OF MR. LORDE HYS CRYKET GROUNDE._
+
+                                              MONDAY, _June 18, 1849_.]
+
+
+This Day a great Cricket Match, Surrey against England, at LORD'S, and I
+thither, all the Way to St. John's Wood, to see the Place, having often
+heard Talk of it, and the Playing, which MR. LONGSTOPPE did tell me was
+a pretty Sight. Paid 6d. to be let in, and 2d. for a Card of the
+Innings, and bought a little Book of the Laws of the Game, cost me 1s.
+6d. more, though when I had got it, could hardly understand a Word of
+it; but to think how much Money I spend out of Curiosity, and how
+inquisitive I am, so as to be vexed to the Heart if I cannot thoroughly
+make out every Thing I see! The Cricketing I believe very fine; but
+could not judge of it; for I think I did never before see any Cricket
+since I was a little Varlet Boy at School. But what a Difference between
+the Manner of Bowling in those Days, and that Players now use! for then
+they did moderately trundle the Ball under-hand; but now they fling it
+over-handed from the Elbow, as though viciously, and it flies like a
+Shot, being at least Five Ounces and a Half in Weight, and hard as a
+Block. I saw it strike one of the Batmen on the Knuckles, who Danced and
+shook his Fist, as methought well he might. But to see how handy some
+did catch it, though knocked off the Bat by a strong Man with all his
+Force; albeit now and then they missing it, and struck by it on the
+Head, or in the Mouth, and how any one can learn to play Cricket without
+losing his front Teeth is a Wonder. The Spectators sitting on Benches in
+a Circle, at a Distance, and out of the Way of the Ball, which was wise;
+but some on a raised Stand, and others aside at Tables, under a Row of
+Trees near a Tavern within the Grounds, with Pipes and Beer; and many in
+the Circle also Smoking and Drinking, and the Drawers continually going
+the Round of them to serve them Liquor and Tobacco. But all as quiet as
+a Quaker's Meeting, except when a good Hit made, or a Player bowled out,
+and strange to see how grave and solemn they looked, as if the Sight of
+Men in white Clothes, knocking a Ball about, were Something serious to
+think on. Did hear that many had Wagers on the Game, but doubt it, for
+methinks there had been more Liveliness if much Betting, and Chance of
+winning or losing Money. The Company very numerous, and among them some
+in Carriages, and was glad to see so many People diverted, although at
+what I could not tell. But they enjoyed themselves in their Way,
+whatever that was, and I in mine, thinking how droll they looked, so
+earnestly attending to a mere Show of Dexterity. I, for my Part, soon
+out of Patience with the Length of the Innings, and the Stopping and
+Interruption after each Run, and so away, more tired, I am sure, than
+any of the Cricketers. Yet I do take Pride, as an Englishman, in our
+Country Sport of Cricket, albeit I do not care to watch it playing; and
+certainly it is a manly Game, throwing open the Chest, and strengthening
+the Limbs, and the Player so often in Danger of being hit by the Ball.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A RAYLWAYE MEETYNGE. EMOTYON OF YE SHAREHOLDERES AT YE
+ANNOUNCEMENTE OF A DIVIDENDE OF 2-1/2d._
+
+                                               MONDAY, _July 2, 1849_.]
+
+
+Comes MR. STAGGE to take me to the great Railway Meeting at a London
+Tavern; and we up the Back Stairs to the Platform among the Directors,
+and glad of so good a Place; but fearing to be taken for one of my
+Company, did get behind a fat Man to hide myself. The Shareholders below
+met to hear their Affairs debated, and what a Collection of wry and
+doleful Faces! Methought the poor anxious Parsons and eager Half-pay
+Officers among them was a pitiful Sight. Looked hard about for the
+Railway King, but MR. STAGGE did say in my Ear he was not likely to show
+his Face. The Secretary reading Bills to be brought into the Parliament
+to join other Railways with this, and all the while interrupted by the
+Shareholders with Noise and Outcries; but at last got through. Then the
+Chairman did propose that the Bills be approved of; but an Amendment
+moved with much Clapping of Hands that the Meeting do adjourn for one
+Month to examine the Company's Accounts; which they do say have been
+cooked. Upon this a long Speech from a Director, denying that it was so,
+and One made answer to him in a bouncing, ranting Harangue; but to hear
+how the Shareholders did shout and cheer whenever he accused the Board
+of a Piece of Roguery! He complained that Proxy Papers had been sent out
+by some for Votes, whereby to gain their own Ends, at £900 Expense to
+the Company; whereat more Uproar, in the midst whereof he moved another
+Amendment; when the Noise greater than ever, with Groans and calling for
+Dividends; and several in the Meeting strove to speak, but could only
+wag their Jaws and shake their Fists at the Chairman, and he imploring
+Quiet in Dumb Show. Howbeit, one old Gentleman got Attention for a
+Moment, and in great Wrath and Choler did declare that the Directors'
+Statement was all Humbug. Then Another, with much ado to get a Hearing,
+did move a third Amendment: and after that, more Wrangling and Jangling,
+until the only Man of any Brains I had yet heard, up and showed the
+folly of moving Amendment on Amendment. So the first and last Amendment
+withdrawn, and the second put to the Vote, and lost, and then the
+Chairman's Resolution put and lost also, and the Shareholders hooting
+and hissing, and shouting "Shame!" and crying that they could not
+understand the Question. So the Amendment and former Resolution both put
+over again, and both again lost; whereupon the Shareholders stark mad,
+and rushed in a Mob on the Platform, raving at the Chairman, who jumped
+up in his Chair, throwing his Arms abroad, and shrieking for Silence;
+till at last a Poll determined on to decide whether for Adjournment or
+not; and so the Meeting brought to an End in as great a Hurly-Burly as I
+ever heard; and a pretty Chairman methinks they have to keep Order, and
+brave Directors to cook their Accounts, and their Meetings do seem as
+confused as their Affairs; and thank my Stars, I have not sunk my Money
+in a Railway.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PROSPECT OF YE THAMES ITS REGATTA._
+
+                                             TUESDAY, _July 10, 1849_.]
+
+
+Sent my Vest to the Tailor's to be let out in the Back, and my Wife and
+every Body say I grow too stout, which do put me in mighty Pain lest I
+should lose my Shape; wherefore I have resolved to take a long Walk
+daily, for Exercise, to bring down my Fat. So begin this Day, and set
+out to walk to Barn-Elms, by the way of Hammersmith, on a brave melting
+Afternoon. I did muse at the Carriages and Omnibuses that passed me,
+crowded both inside and on the Roof, and the People upon them whooping
+and blowing Horns, as the British Public always do when they ride to see
+any Sport. At Hammersmith found what all this meant, everyone there
+hastening to the River, this being the first Day of the Thames Regatta,
+and the Suspension-Bridge thronged, and Festoons of Spectators on the
+Chains. Did go upon the Bridge, cost me 1/2d. toll, but would not have
+missed the Sight for 6d. or 1s.; for the Thames with Boats scattered all
+over it, their Flags fluttering, and their Crews shouting and laughing
+full of Fun and Glee, made a lively Picture; and also I was just in the
+Nick of Time to see a Race; four Boats of as many Oars darting under the
+Bridge at full Speed, while the Beholders cheered and halloaed with all
+their Might, and a Bell rung, and a Band of Musique upon the Bridge Pier
+did play "Love Not." Good Lack! how wrapped up the People did seem to be
+in the Race, and did now cry for Blue to go it; and then Red, and then
+Pink, and at last that Red had it, meaning the Colours of the Rowers,
+which indeed looked very smart and spruce. Over the Bridge, and, instead
+of to Barnes, down the River, along the Towing Path, which was also
+thronged with Folks running to and fro, all Eagerness and Bustle. So to
+Putney, and there the Multitude greatest both on the Bridge and the
+Shore, and FINCH his Ground to the Water-Side quite a Fair, with Fat
+Ladies and Learned Pigs and Gilt Gingerbread; and his Tavern beset by
+Customers for Ale, and mighty good Ale it is. Here more Boat-Racing,
+with Firing of Cannon, Jollity, Shouting, Jangling of Street Pianos, and
+everywhere Tobacco-Smoke and the Popping of Ginger-Beer. Some fouling of
+Barges, but no worse Mishap, though I expected every moment that
+Somebody would be ducked. Methought how neat and dainty the light
+Wherries and Wager-Boats did look among the other Craft; but loth I
+should be to trust my Carcase in a Cockle-Shell, that sitting an Inch
+too much on one side would overthrow. Mighty pleasant also to behold on
+the Water the little Parties of Beauties, rowed by their Sweethearts,
+under Awnings to shade them from the Sun, and the Ripple on the Water,
+and the Smiles on their Faces, and to hear their Giggling, which was a
+pretty Noise. Afloat everywhere in their Boating-Trim I did note sundry
+of those young Sparks that do and think and talk of Nothing but pulling
+up the River, and live upon it almost, like Swans or Geese. But,
+however, that Boat-Racing is a true British Pastime, and so long as we
+pull together he will back us against all the World. "And talking of
+that," says he, "the Sport being ended, suppose we take a pull at some
+of FINCH his Ale."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A RAYLWAY STATYON. SHOWYNGE YE TRAVELLERS REFRESHYNGE
+THEMSELVES._
+
+                                             TUESDAY, _July 31, 1849_.]
+
+
+Prevailed upon by my Wife to carry her to Bath, as she said, to go see
+her Aunt DOROTHY, but I know she looked more to the Pleasure of her Trip
+than any Thing else; nevertheless I do think it necessary Policy to keep
+in with her Aunt, who is an old Maid and hath a pretty Fortune; and to
+see what Court and Attention I pay her though I do not care 2d. about
+her! But am mightily troubled to know whether she hath sunk her Money in
+an Annuity, which makes me somewhat uneasy at the Charge of our Journey,
+for what with Fare, Cab-Hire, and Vails to DOROTHY'S Servants for their
+good Word, it did cost me altogether £6, 2s. 6d. To the Great Western
+Station in a Cab, by Reason of our Luggage; for my Wife must needs take
+so many Trunks and Bandboxes, as is always the Way with Women: or else
+we might have gone there for 2s. 6d. less in an Omnibus. Did take our
+places in the First Class notwithstanding the Expense, preferring both
+the Seats and the Company; and also because if any Necks or Limbs are
+broken I note it is generally in the Second and Third Classes. So we
+settled, and the Carriage-Doors slammed to, and the Bell rung, the Train
+with a Whistle off like a Shot, and in the Carriage with me and my Wife
+a mighty pretty Lady, a Frenchwoman, and I did begin to talk French with
+her, which my Wife do not well understand, and by and by did find the
+Air too much for her where she was sitting, and would come and take her
+Seat between us; I know, on Purpose. So fell a reading the _Times_, till
+One got in at Hanwell who seemed to be a Physician, and mighty pretty
+Discourse with him touching the Manner of treating Madmen and Lunatics,
+which is now by gentle Management, and is a great Improvement on the old
+Plan of Chains and the Whip. Also of the Foulness of London for Want of
+fit Drainage, and how it do breed Cholera and Typhus, as sure as rotten
+Cheese do Mites, and of the horrid Folly of making a great Gutter of the
+River. So to Swindon Station, where the Train do stop ten Minutes for
+Refreshment, and there my Wife hungry, and I too with a good Appetite,
+notwithstanding the Discourse about London Filth. So we out, and to the
+Refreshment-Room with a Crowd of Passengers, all pushing and jostling,
+and trampling on each other's Toes, striving which should get served
+first. With much Ado got a Basin of Soup for my Wife, and for myself a
+Veal and Ham Pie, and to see me looking at my Watch, and taking a
+Mouthful by Turns; and how I did gulp a Glass of GUINNESS his Stout!
+Before we had half finished, the Guard rang the Bell, and my Wife with a
+start did spill her Soup over her Dress, and was obliged to leave Half
+of it; and to think how ridiculous I looked, scampering back to the
+Train with my Meat-Pie in my Mouth! To run hurry-skurry at the Sound of
+the Bell, do seem only fit for a Gang of Workmen; and the Bustle of
+Railways do destroy all the Dignity of Travelling; but the World
+altogether is less grand, and do go faster than formerly. Off again, and
+to the End of our Journey, troubled at the Soup on my Wife's Dress, but
+thankful I had got my Change, and not left it behind me at the Swindon
+Station.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE BRYTYSH GRANADIERS AMOUNTYNGE GUARD AT ST. JAMES HYS
+PALACE YARDE._
+
+                                          WEDNESDAY, _August 1, 1849_.]
+
+
+Up mighty betimes, and after a four Miles' Walk, losing Weight like a
+Jockey, to the Palace Yard of St. James's Palace, to see the Soldiers
+mount Guard to guard the QUEEN, which they do every Morning whether she
+is there or no, and is a pretty pompous Ceremony. Found myself among as
+dirty shabby a Set of Fellows hanging about as I think I ever saw, with
+whom two or three with the Look of Gentlemen, and a pretty Sprinkling of
+Milliner-Girls and Nurse-Maids. Strange how all Women almost do run
+after Soldiers; which MR. PUMPKYNS do say is because Weakness do, by
+Instinct, seek the Protection of Courage; but I think is owing to
+nothing at all but the Bravery of a Red Coat. In a few Minutes more
+Riff-Raff pouring in; then a Noise without of drumming: and then just at
+1/4 to 11, a Party of the Grenadier Guards marching in under the
+Clock-Tower, the Drums and Fifes in Front of them, and, at the Head of
+all, the Drum Major, twirling his Staff, strutted like a Pouter-Pigeon,
+as stately, almost, as ever I saw J. BLAND. The Men at the Word of
+Command ground arms with a Clang, and stood at Ease in Lines, and
+together with the Spectators made a Square, with the Drums and Fifes at
+one End, and the Band at the other by the Clock-Tower, and a Post in the
+Middle, and around the Post, with the Colours, the Officers in full
+Figg, mighty trim; and MR. WAGSTAFFE do tell me that the Guards have
+brave clothing Colonels. The Band did play while the Men that should
+relieve Guard were marching off; and I do muse why Soldiers are provided
+with so much Musique, and conclude it is to hinder them from thinking,
+and also in Battle to inflame their Minds without making them drunk. At
+five Minutes to the Hour comes the relieved Guard, and draws up ready to
+be marched away, and to see them backing for Room on the Crowd's Toes!
+Droll, also, to watch the Marshalman, in his grand Uniform and with his
+Staff of Office, going about to make Space and keep Order among the
+ragged Boys; and I remember how, in my Youth, I thought he was a General
+Officer. More Musique, in the Meanwhile, by the Band; the Band-Master, a
+rare plump Fellow, in goodly Condition, conducting, with a Clarionet for
+his Batoon. Suddenly the Musique cut short by the Drums and Fifes, the
+Word given, and the Men did fall in, and away to Barracks, a Grand March
+playing, and all the Tag-Rag at their Heels. But to see the Lieutenant,
+the Officer of the Day, set up the Colours on the Post, and touch his
+Cap and kiss his Sword to them, saluting them, which do seem a senseless
+Pantomime. Besides, the Flag, a most old and sorry one, blown into
+Tatters, which, in our long Peace, must have been done by the Breeze and
+not the Battle; but so left, with a Grenadier to guard it, sticking in
+the Post. Then the Officer did dismiss the Off Guard, and away to his
+Quarters for the Day. Methinks that mounting Guard at the Palace is a
+Service of little Danger or Hardship; but, good Lack! to think what
+Fire-eaters in Battle are the Dandy Officers of the Guards, and how
+their Men will follow them through thick and thin, and what Work those
+Fellows can do when called on, that play Soldiers about St. James's!
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PROSPECT OF A FASHYONABLE HABERDASHER HYS SHOPE._
+
+                                            TUESDAY, _August 7, 1849_.]
+
+
+Finding Fault with my Wife, for that she do not use enough Exercise;
+whence her continual Headach, and FADDELL, the 'Potticary his bill of
+£5. She replying that I would never take her out, I said I would,
+whenever she liked; whereupon, we agreed to go a Walk forthwith, and my
+Wife did propose Regent Street. So we thither, pleasing ourselves with
+observing the Passers-by and the Carriages, and the Streets blazing with
+fine Ladies and flaming Liveries. Going by LINDSEY AND WOOLSEY'S, my
+Wife's Eye taken with a Scarf in the Window, and would stop to look at
+it with a Crowd of other Women gazing at the Finery, which MR. SKITT do
+call Baits, and a Draper's Shop a Lady-Trap. Presently she recollected
+that she wanted a Collar; so we into the Shop, where some sixty or
+eighty Ladies sitting before the Counters, examining the Wares, busy as
+Blue-Bottle Flies at a Sugar-Cask. Behind the Counters the Shopmen and
+Assistants, showing off the Goods, and themselves also, with mighty
+dainty Airs, every one of them, almost, NARCISSUS his Image. One of
+these dapper young Sirs did help my Wife to her Collar, cost 3s. 6d.;
+when she thought she had better get another while about it, cost 3s. 6d.
+more. Then, says he, in his soft condoling Voice, "What is the next
+Article?" Hereupon, my Wife bethought her of lacking some Lace Cuffs,
+four Pair: cost 12s. "And now, Mem," says the young Fellow with a
+Simper, "allow me to show you a Love of a Robe, a Barège, Double Glacé,
+brocaded in the Flouncings, and reduced to Twenty-One-and-Six from
+Forty-Five." But she professed that she needed it not: whereat I was
+glad; when he did tell her he would do it at One-and-Four less: and she
+then saying that it was indeed a Bargain, which I find is a Woman's Word
+for anything cheap whether wanted or no, I let her have it: cost £1, 0s.
+2d. But, to be sure, the Pattern was pretty, and my Wife being
+well-dressed do please my Taste, and also increase my Consequence and
+Dignity. The Robe bought, it comes into her Head that she could not do
+without a new Shawl to match it, blue and scarlet, cost £2, 2s., but
+will look mighty fine, and, I hope, last. Here I thought to hale her at
+once by Force away; but seeing a stout middle-aged Gentleman doing the
+very Thing, and how mean it looked, did forbear; and in the Meanwhile
+the Shopman did beg, as he said, to tempt her with a superior Assortment
+of Ribbons. She rummaging over this Frippery, I to gaze about the Shop,
+and with Fellow-Feeling did mark an unhappy small Boy, while his Mother
+was comparing some three-score different Pieces of Satin, perched on a
+Stool, out of Patience. My Wife would have 5s. worth of Ribbons, and
+here I hoped would make an End; but the Shopman did exhibit to her some
+Silk Stockings; and I telling her they were unnecessary, she declared
+that then she must wear Boots, which she knows I hate; and concluded
+with buying half a Dozen Pair, cost 24s.; and we away, bowed out of the
+Shop with Congees by the smirking Shopwalker, rubbing his Hands and
+grinning, as obsequious as could be; and so Home; I mighty serious,
+having laid out £5, 10s. 2d.; and the next Time I take out my Wife for a
+Walk, it shall be in the Fields and not in Regent Street.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _REGENTE STRETE AT FOUR OF YE CLOCKE, P.M._
+
+                                          THURSDAY, _August 16, 1849_.]
+
+
+This Afternoon about Four of the Clock to Regent Street, and did walk up
+and down, among the fine Folk mostly, many Foreigners, and a few Street
+Urchins, and others of the lower Sort, and note the Carriages stand in
+Front of the Shops, and the Walking Advertisement Boys and Men, and the
+Cabs and Omnibuses go by, and the Advertising Vans, and mighty fine and
+droll the Monster Advertising Car of MOSES AND SON the Tailors. In the
+Evening to the Queen's House in the Haymarket, to hear MOZART his famous
+Opera "_Le Nozze di Figaro_" and SONTAG in _Susanna_, which she do act
+mighty skittish, and with the prettiest sidelong Looks, but the most
+graceful and like a Lady, and do trip the Stage the daintiest and make
+the nicest Curtsies, and sing the sweetest that methinks I ever did hear
+or see: and to think that MR. VIEUXBOYS should tell me she do it as well
+now as he did see her twenty Years ago! Pretty, to hear her sing
+"_Venite inginocchiatevi_," where she do make _Cherubino_ kneel down on
+the Cushion before the _Countess_, and put him on a Girl's Cap, and pat
+his Chin and Face. Also her singing of "_Sull' Aria_" with PARODI, the
+_Countess_, and the mingling of their Voices very musicall. Likewise
+that jolly blooming she-BACCHUS-ALBONI, _Cherubino_, with her passionate
+fine singing of "_Non so più_" and "_Voi che sapete_," did delight me
+much; and she did play a stripling of a Page in Love to the very Life.
+BELLETTI did mightily take me with his Knaveries, in _Figaro_, and
+singing of "_Non più andrai_," which is a most lively and martial Song;
+and the Grand March very brave as well, and did make my Heart leap, and
+me almost jump out of my Seat. COLLETTI, too, the _Count_, did content
+me much, and to the utmost with "_Crudel! perchè finora_." But then to
+hear LABLACHE, what a great Thing he do make out of so small a Part as
+_Bartolo_, with his Voice in the Concert-Pieces heard above all the
+Rest, and thundering out "_La Vendetta_," like a musicall STENTOR; and
+his undertaking of little Characters to make an Opera perfect is very
+magnanimous; and MR. WAGSTAFFE do well say that he "_Ingentes Animos
+ingenti in Pectore versat_," and have as much Brains as Body. Mighty
+droll to hear the Quartett, with each Singer in turn holding the Voice
+on the word "_Io_," called for three Times, and the Singers each Time
+spinning "_Io_" out longer, whereat great Laughter; and the Performers
+laughing as much as the Audience. Wonderfull how still all the House was
+while SONTAG was a singing of "_Deh! vieni non tardar_," and the
+_Bravas_ and Clapping of Hands when she had ended; and to hear how she
+did stick to the Text, and not, like a vulgar silly _Prima Donna_,
+disfigure noble Musique by ridiculous Flourishes. Home to Supper, it
+being late, though, walking up the Haymarket, did sorely long for stewed
+Oysters. Telling my Wife of the Opera, did speak of _Susanna_ boxing
+_Figaro_ his Ears, and let out that I could have been glad to have her
+box mine too, which my Wife did say she could do as well if I pleased;
+but I said I had rather not, and so, whistling "_Non più andrai_,"
+rather small to Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _BLACKWALL. SHOWYNGE YE PUBLICK A DINYNGE ON WHYTEBAIT._
+
+                                          SATURDAY, _August 18, 1849_.]
+
+
+Comes MR. GOLLOPE, this being his Birth-day, to bid me to go dine with
+him and a Company of some Half-dozen of our Acquaintance, off Whitebait
+at Blackwall. So we first to London Bridge, on Foot, walking for an
+Appetite, and there took Water, and down the River in a Steam-Boat, with
+great Pleasure, enjoying the Breeze, and the View of the Shipping, and
+also the Prospect of a good Dinner. Landed at the Pier, and as fast as
+we could to LOVEGROVE'S, where our Table engaged in the large Room. But
+good Lack! to see the Fulness of the Place, every Table almost crowded
+with eager Eaters, the Heaps of Whitebait among them, and they with open
+Mouths and Eyes shovelling Spoonful after Spoonful into their Plates and
+thence thrusting them five or six at a Time into their Chaps. Then, here
+and there, a fat Fellow, stopping, out of Breath, to put down his Knife
+and Fork, and gulp a Goblet of iced Punch, was mighty droll; also to
+hear others speaking with their Mouths full. But Dinner coming, I cared
+not to look about me, there being on Table some dozen different Dishes
+of Fish, whereof the Sight did at first bewilder me, like the Donkey
+between the Haystacks, not knowing which to choose; and MR. GOBLESTONE
+do lament that at a Feast with Plenty of good Things he never was able
+to eat his Fill of every one. A Dish of Salmon with India-Pickle did
+please me mightily, also some Eels, spitchcocked, and a stewed Carp, and
+ate heartily of them with much Relish; but did only nibble at the Rest
+by way of a Taste, for I felt exceeding full, and methought I should
+have no Stomach for the Whitebait. But Lack! to see when it came, how my
+Appetite returned, and I did fall to upon it, and drink iced Punch, and
+then at the Whitebait again. Pretty, the little Slices of brown Bread
+and Butter, they did bring us to eat it withal, and truly, with a
+Squeeze of Lemon and Cayenne Pepper, it is delicate Eating. After the
+Whitebait plain, Whitebait devilled made us to eat the more, and drink
+too, which we did in Champagne and Hock, pledging each other with great
+Mirth. After the Fish comes a Course of Ducks, and a Haunch of Mutton,
+and divers made Dishes; and then Tarts and Custards and Grouse; and
+lastly, a Dessert, and I did partake of all, as much as I had a Mind to,
+and after Dinner drank Port and Claret, when much Joking and rare
+Stories, and very merry we were. Pretty to look out of Window as we sat,
+at the Craft and the White Sails in the Sunset on the River. Back in a
+Railway Carriage, shouting and singing, and in a Cab Home, where DR.
+SHARPE called to see my Wife for her Vapours. Pretty Discourse with him
+touching the Epidemic, he telling me that of all Things to bring it on
+the likeliest was Excess in Food and Drink, which did trouble me, and so
+with a Draught of Soda and a Dose of Pills to Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE SPORT OF PUNTE FYSHYNGE OFF RYCHMONDE._
+
+                                         WEDNESDAY, _August 22, 1849_.]
+
+
+This Day to Richmond, to go a Fishing on the River, and with me MR.
+ITCHENBROOKE, out of Hampshire, a cunning Angler, who did mightily
+desire to see what this Sport should be. So first we out in a Boat below
+Richmond Bridge, where a Dozen or more of Punts full of People a
+Fishing, and rowed among them to observe the Manner of doing it, which
+is sinking with a Gentle, sitting upon Chairs, and smoking Cigars and
+Pipes of Tobacco, and drinking cold Brandy and Water. We did note one
+young Spark lying at full Length, in a Punt's End, asleep, and did
+conclude he had had enough of the Fishing, or else of the Grog. Some
+very silent, and bent on their Sport, but others bandying Fun and Jokes,
+and shouting for Joy and Merriment whenever they caught a Fish, which
+MR. ITCHENBROOKE do say is not the Wont of a Sportsman. Among the
+Fishers I did note with Wonder one or two Damsels; but MR. WAGSTAFFE do
+say it is a common Thing for Ladies to fish for Gudgeons. Several of
+them also quite old Men; but seeming as much taken up with their Fishing
+as Schoolboys, though catching Nothing but little Fish not a Span long.
+So, satisfied with looking at the Sportsmen, we to try the Quality of
+the Sport ourselves, and did hire a Punt, and Fishing Tackle, and a Man
+to guide the Punt, and bait our Hooks, and did take on board a
+Stone-Bottle of Half-and-Half Beer, to follow the Fashion. Pretty, to
+see our Man sound the Depth of the River with a Plumb, to resolve
+whereabouts on our Lines to place the Float, and glad to have him to put
+the Bait on, being Gentles, which I was loath to touch. Our Hooks no
+sooner dropped into the Water than MR. ITCHENBROOKE did pull up a Fish
+about the Bigness of a Sprat, though, but for the Punt-Man, he would
+have thrown it in again, saying that he never heard of keeping any Fish
+under Half-a-Pound, and that while such small Fry were killed there
+would be no good Fish in the River. But Lack! to see how my Float did
+bob up and down, and I jerk at my Line, but generally bring up a Weed.
+Did marvel at the Punt-Man flinging Lumps of Earth and Meal into the
+Water to entice the Fish, which methought would either have driven them
+away or surfeited them, but did not, and the Trick did much divert MR.
+ITCHENBROOKE. We did catch Roach and Dace to the Number of fifteen,
+which my Companion did call seven Brace-and-a-Half; and I caught the
+Half: I mean the Half Brace. Our Fishing did last two Hours, cost 3s.,
+and 6d. besides for the Beer, but we had much mirth for our Time and
+Money, though little Fish, and yet more Fish than some our Man did show
+us, saying they had been at it all the Day. So to Dinner at the Star and
+Garter, where a most brave Dinner and excellent Wine, and pretty
+Discourse with MR. ITCHENBROOKE of true Sport in Fishing and the Art of
+Whipping for Trout with an Imitation Fly, made out of coloured Silk
+Thread and Birds' Feathers. Our Dinner ended, cost me £1, 9s. 0d., went
+and bought 6d. worth of Maids of Honour at the Pastrycook's, and did
+take them Home to my Wife.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _TRYCKS OF YE LONDON TRADE._
+
+                                         TUESDAY, _September 4, 1849_.]
+
+
+With my Wife this Day to Westminster, and walking thereabouts in
+Regent-Street and Oxford-Street, and the principal Streets, though
+contrary to my Resolution to walk with her only in the Fields, but did
+it to please her, and keep her in good Humour, but in mighty Fear of
+what it might cost me, trembling to observe her continually looking
+askance at the Shop-Windows. But I cannot wonder that they did catch her
+Eye; particularly the Haberdashers, and Drapers, and Mercers, whereof
+many were full of Bills, stuck in all Manner of Ways across the Panes,
+and printed in Letters of from two Inches to a Span long, and staring
+Dashes of Admiration two and three together. In one Window posted a
+"Tremendous Sacrifice!" in another an "Alarming Failure!!" in a third a
+"Ruinous Bankruptcy!!!", by reason whereof, the Goods within were
+a-selling off at 50, 60, or 70 per Cent. under prime Cost, but at any
+Rate the Owners must raise Money. Good Lack! to think of the dreadful
+Pass the Drapery Trade must have come to; so many Master-Mercers and
+Haberdashers on the Threshold of the Prison or the Workhouse, and their
+Wives and Families becoming Paupers on the Parish, or Beggars, and their
+People out of Employ starving; if their notices do tell true. But my
+Wife did say, very serious, that we were not to judge, or to know of
+their Tricks and Cozenage, and, that it was no Matter to us if they did
+cheat their Creditors, provided we could buy their Wares at a Bargain,
+and besides, if we did not, others would. So going by RAGGE, RIP & CO.,
+their Establishment, as they do call their Shop, she would needs stop in
+Front of it to look in; which did trouble me. I to read the Posters in
+the Window, which were the worst and most pitiful of any, and by their
+showing MR. RAGGE and MR. RIP, and their CO. were going altogether to
+the Dogs. My Wife did presently, as I expected, find somewhat she had a
+Mind to: a Muslin she did say was Dirt-cheap, and I knew was Dirt-worth.
+I plainly refused to let her buy it, or anything else at RAGGE and
+RIP'S, who have been, to my knowledge, making a Tremendous Sacrifice any
+Time the last two Years; but the Simpletons their Customers the only
+Victims. But I pity not a Whit such Gudgeons as are caught by these
+Tricks of the Drapery Trade; rightly served by being cheated in seeking
+to profit, as they think, by Fraud and dishonest Bankruptcy. I told my
+Wife that RAGGE and RIP do sell off at a Loss to none but those that
+deal with them, and were like at that Moment, instead of being
+Bankrupts, to be making merry at the Expense of their Dupes. But she
+being sullen at my Denial of her Muslin, I did quiet her by the Promise
+of a better Piece at FAIRCLOTH and PRYCE'S, who do carry on Business
+without rogueish Puffery, and after the old Fashion of English Traders,
+according to the Maxim, that "Good Wine needs no Bush," which my Wife,
+poor silly Wretch, not understanding, I explained to her did mean, that
+stuffs worth the buying, to find a Sale, do stand in no need of
+Haberdashers' trickish Advertisements.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _MADAME TUSSAUD HER WAX WERKES. YE CHAMBER OF HORRORS!!_
+
+                                       WEDNESDAY, _September 5, 1849_.]
+
+
+To please my Wife, did take her this Evening to MADAME TUSSAUD her Wax
+Works; a grand large Room, with Gilding, lighted up very splendid: cost
+2s., and a Catalogue 6d. The Wax Figures showy: but with their painted
+Cheeks and glassy Eyes--especially such as nod and move--do look like
+Life in Death. The Dresses very handsome, and I think correct; and the
+Sight of so many People of Note in the Array of their Time, did much
+delight me. Among the Company Numbers of Country Folk, and to see how
+they did stare at the Effigies of the QUEEN, and the PRINCE, and the
+DUKE OF WELLINGTON, and the KING OF THE BELGIANS, and the PRINCESS
+CHARLOTTE that was, and GEORGE THE FOURTH in his Coronation Robes, grand
+as a Peacock! The Catalogue do say that his Chair is the very one
+wherein he sat in the Abbey; but it look like a Play-House Property, and
+little thought the King where it would come down to figure! A Crowd of
+Dames gazing at the Group of the Royal Family, calling the Children
+"Dears" and "Ducks," and would, I verily believe, have liked to kiss
+their Wax Chaps. My Wife feasted her Eyes on the little Princes and
+Princesses, I mine upon a pretty, modest, black Maid beside me, and she
+hers on me, till my Wife spying us, did pinch me with her Nails in the
+Arm. Pretty, to see the Sovereign Allies in the last War, and bluff old
+BLUCHER, and BONAPARTE and his Officers, in brave Postures, but stiff.
+Also the two KING CHARLESES, and OLIVER, together; CHARLES THE FIRST
+protesting against his Death-Warrant, and his Son Backing him; and
+CARDINAL WOLSEY looking on. LORD BYRON in the Dress of a Greek Pirate,
+looking Daggers and Pistols, close to JOHN WESLEY preaching a Sermon;
+and methought, if all MADAME TUSSAUD'S Figures were their Originals
+instead, what Ado there would be! Many of the Faces that I knew very
+like; and my LORD BROUGHAM I did know directly, and LISTON in _Paul
+Pry_. But strange, among the Kings to see him that was the Railway King;
+and methinks that it were as well now if he were melted up. Thence to
+the NAPOLEON Rooms, where BONAPARTE'S Coach, and one of his Teeth, and
+other Reliques and Gimcracks of his, well enough to see for such as care
+about him a Button. Then to the Chamber of Horrors, which my Wife did
+long to see most of all; cost, with the NAPOLEON Rooms, 1s. more; a Room
+like a Dungeon, where the Head of ROBESPIERRE, and other Scoundrels of
+the great French Revolution, in Wax, as though just cut off, horrid
+ghastly, and Plaster Casts of Fellows that have been hanged: but the
+chief attraction a Sort of Dock, wherein all the notorious Murderers of
+late Years; the foremost of all, RUSH, according to the Bill, taken from
+Life at Norwich, which, seeing he was hanged there, is an odd Phrase.
+Methinks it is of ill Consequence that there should be a Murderers'
+Corner, wherein a Villain may look to have his Figure put more certainly
+than a Poet can to a Statue in the Abbey. So away again to the large
+Room, to look at JENNY LIND instead of GREENACRE, and at 10 of the Clock
+Home, and so to Bed, my Wife declaring she should dream of the Chamber
+of Horrors.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _DEERE STALKYNGE IN YE HYGHLANDES._
+
+                                         MONDAY, _September 17, 1849_.]
+
+
+Comes MR. GOLLOPE, and MR. GOBLESTONE, and JENKYNS, to dine with me off
+a Haunch of Venison, and MR. MC. NAB calling, I did make him stay Dinner
+too, and the Venison very fat and good; and MR. GOLLOPE did commend my
+Carving, whereof I was proud. Between them a Debate over our Dinner, as
+to whether the Red Deer or the Fallow Deer were the better Venison, and
+both MR. GOLLOPE and MR. GOBLESTONE do say the Fallow, but MR. MC. NAB
+will have it that the Red is by far the better, and do tell them they
+know nothing about the Matter, and never tasted Red Deer but such as had
+been mewed up in Richmond Park, which are mighty different from them
+that do browse in the Highlands on the Heather. He do say that Highland
+Deer-Stalking do excel every other Sport, from Tiger-Hunting to
+Fox-Hunting, which I mean to repeat to MR. CORDUROYS to make him mad.
+Then he to describe the Manner of Stalking the Deer, and his Account
+thereof mighty taking, but, with his broad Scottish Accent and Phrases,
+droll; and good Lack, to hear him talk of Braes, and Burns, and Cairns,
+and Corries, rattling the R in every Word! He says that the Deer are the
+cunningest and the watchfullest, and can see, and hear, and smell at the
+greatest Distance of any Creature almost living, and do keep Spies to
+look out, and their Ears and Eyes always open and their Noses to the
+Wind, and do think and reason in their Minds like human Beings; which,
+methinks, is peculiar to the Scotch Deer. He says that the Sport is to
+fetch a Compass on them by Stratagem, so as to approach or drive them
+nigh enough to shoot them with a Rifle, and it do often take some Hours
+and several Miles, mostly crawling on the Hands and Knees, to get one
+Shot. He says that the Stalker and Hill-Keepers that wait on him must,
+to gain their Chance, dodge, stooping behind Crags, wriggle and creep
+over Flats and up Brooks like Snakes or Eels, clamber up and run down
+Precipices, and stride over Bogs, wherein they do sometimes sink plump
+up to the Middle; which should be rather Sport to the Stag than the
+Huntsman. But after all, the Deer shot dead, or wounded, and at Bay with
+the Hounds at his Throat, but despatched at last, and paunched, which he
+do call "gralloched," is such a Triumph that it do repay the Sportsman
+for all his Pains. He do say that what with the Grandeur of the
+Mountains, and the Freshness of the Air, the Spirits are raised beyond
+what we could imagine, and the Appetite also increased wonderfully;
+whereat MR. GOLLOPE did prick up his Ears. To conclude, he did declare
+that no one could know what Deer-Stalking was that had not tried it; but
+methinks I can, remembering how I used in my Youth to creep in Ditches
+and behind Hedges to shoot Larks.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PROSPECT OF AN ELECTION._
+
+                                       THURSDAY, _September 27, 1849_.]
+
+
+Up, and by Railway with MR. WAGSTAFFE to Guzzleford to my COSIN PEG her
+Wedding, and heard the Bells a ringing at 9 o'clock, the Marriage not to
+be till 11, but found they were rung for an Election; 'SQUIRE CALLOW and
+MR. FAIRPORT standing for County Members in the Room of MR. BROWNJOHN.
+So, the Wedding over, we about the Town to see the Fun. A Fellow the
+worse for Beer demanding whose Colours we wore, meaning our
+Wedding-Favours, MR. WAGSTAFFE did pleasantly answer, HYMEN'S, whereupon
+the Fellow, crying "CALLOW for ever!" did rush full at us, but, we
+parting, slip between us and tumble headlong into the Mud. Good Lack! to
+see what Numbers of Ragamuffins everywhere with their Hats awry, Noses
+bleeding, or Eyes blacked, staggering under huge Placard Boards,
+whereon, in great Letters, "CALLOW and Agriculture," or, "Vote for
+FAIRPORT and Commerce!" The Windows and Balconies full of Ladies, some
+pretty, to whom in my Wife's Absence I did kiss my Hand. But to think
+of the Ladies wearing the Colours of the Candidates, Blue and Yellow,
+but only for an Excuse to deck themselves out with Ribbons! In the
+Streets, Horsemen galloping to and fro, to tell the State of the Polls,
+and the Mob cheering and bantering them, mighty droll. 'SQUIRE CALLOW
+did put up at the Barley-Mow, and MR. FAIRPORT at the Rising Sun, and
+between the two Inns, with a few plump rosy Farmers in Top-Boots, was a
+noisy Rabble, quarrelling and fighting, with Skins unwashed, and unshorn
+Muzzles, whom the Candidates' Committee-Men, speaking to them from the
+Windows, did call Free and Independent Electors. To some that harangued
+them, the Mob did cry, "Go Home," and "Who cheated his Washerwoman?" or,
+"How about the Workhouse Beef?" yet listened to a few that were familiar
+and cracked old Jokes with them. Presently they addressed by the
+Candidates in Turn; and nasty to see them pelt each Speaker with stale
+Eggs. But to hear, as well as might be for the Shouting and Hissing,
+'SQUIRE CALLOW promising the Farmers to restore the Corn Laws, and
+laying the Potato Blight and late Sickness to Free Trade; while MR.
+FAIRPORT did as loudly charge all the Woes and Grievances of the Country
+on the Landlords. By-and-by, MR. FAIRPORT, the Poll going so much
+against him, did give in, and then 'SQUIRE CALLOW come forward, and make
+a brave Speech about our Glorious Institutions and the British Lion, and
+so away to have his Election declared, to the Town Hall, in a Carriage
+and Four, and the Rabblement after him. Then they left behind did set to
+on both Sides to fling Stones, and 'SQUIRE CALLOW'S Mob did break the
+Windows of the Rising Sun, and MR. FAIRPORT'S the Windows of the
+Barley-Mow; which the Townsmen did say would be good for the Glaziers,
+and MR. WAGSTAFFE do observe that the Conservative 'SQUIRE CALLOW hath
+destructive Constituents. What with Publicans, and Lawyers, and Damage,
+the Election will cost the Candidates £6000 or £7000 a-Piece, and to
+think what a good Motive one must have to become a Parliament-Man, that
+will spend so much Money for the Chance of a Seat.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PARTIE OF SPORTSMEN OUT A SHUTYNGE._
+
+                                            MONDAY, _October 1, 1849_.]
+
+
+Up mighty betimes, and to Brushwood for a Day's Shooting, by Invitation
+from MR. TIBBITTS, whose Father, the rich Furrier, did die the other
+Day, and leave him a Fortune, and now he hath rented Brushwood Manor to
+shoot over for the Season. But Lack, what a set of young Rogues I found
+there of TIBBITTS his Acquaintance, a-smoking of Cigars and short Pipes,
+and a-drinking of Ale and bottled Stout at 10 o'clock of the Morning!
+Mighty ashamed of, though diverted with, my Company, to hear their loose
+and idle Conversation, and how none of them could pronounce the letter
+H, and to think what an unlettered vulgar Fellow TIBBITTS is, and that I
+should demean myself to associate with such a Companion only because of
+his Riches, and Wine, and Dinners. One of the Party, WIGGYNS, did tell
+me we should have a prime Lark, which, this being the first Day of
+Pheasant-Shooting, I did think droll; but divers Larks, indeed, were
+shot before the Day was over. So we into the Fields, and a Keeper
+following us with the Dogs, and, whenever I did look over my Shoulder,
+did catch him grinning and making Faces behind our Backs. But strange,
+to see how much better the Rogues did shoot than I expected, though
+firing at Tom-Tits, or anything almost, and do understand they got this
+Skill at the Red House, Battersea, through popping at Pigeons and
+Sparrows let loose from a Trap; which do seem but a cruel and a
+barbarous kind of Sport. But little Birds were not all they shot, for
+one HIGGES aiming at a Hare did miss, and instead of the Hare hit one of
+the Dogges, and sent him yelping and limping Home. But good Lack, to see
+how careless the Fellows were with their Fire-Arms, carrying their Guns,
+full-cocked, pointing right in one another's Faces, and one, dragging
+his Piece through a Hedge after him, it went off, but finding it had
+only carried off the Skirt of his Shooting-Coat, we had a good Laugh of
+it. Another, with a double-barrelled Gun, having shot off one Barrel at
+a Blackbird, I did see reloading; the other Barrel being still loaded
+and at full Cock. He, forcing down the Ramrod with all his Might, I did
+catch him by the Elbow, and point to the Cock of the Gun, and methinks I
+did never see a Man on a Sudden tremble so terribly, or grow so pale.
+Getting beyond Brushwood, into a Field hard by, MR. WIGGYNS did let fly
+at some Ducks, for one of those Larks he had been talking of, which did
+bring down upon us the Farmer, with his Bull-Dog, and cause us to make
+off with all the Speed we could. I in mighty Dread of being seized as an
+Accomplice in shooting the Duck, fearing the Farmer, who is horridly
+enraged with the Game-Preserving at Brushwood, for that the Game do eat
+up his Crops; and, truly, the Game Laws are a great Nuisance. Home from
+our Shooting, with our Bag, carried by TIBBITTS his Tiger-Boy, very
+full, with a Brace or two of Pheasants and Partridges, but many more
+Brace of Chaffinches, and Yellow-Hammers, and Robin Redbreasts, and so
+to Dinner, where all very merry, and so to Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE WYNE VAULTS AT YE DOCKS. SHOWYNGE A PARTYE TASTYNGE._
+
+                                         THURSDAY, _October 11, 1849_.]
+
+
+To the Docks, to meet MR. SOKER, and go over the Wine Vaults with a
+Tasting-Order, and taste the Wine there before it hath undergone any
+Roguery for the Market. Found there SOKER, and MR. WAGSTAFFE, and
+SWILBY, and SWYPE, and SHARPE, and with them MR. GOODFELLOWE, who had
+gotten SOKER the Order. First to the Quay, heaped with Barrels of Wine,
+and one huge Barrel, they did tell me, holding 625 Gallons, hoisted
+ashore, MR. WAGSTAFFE did say, by an Adjutant, or Gigantic Crane. Then,
+through all Manner of Casks and Tubs, and Bales of Merchandise, to St.
+Katherine's Dock, and down to the Vault, where a Cooper forthwith did
+wait on us with a Couple of Glasses, and gave each Man a flat Stick with
+a Lamp at the farther End, to see our Way. The Vault almost quite dark,
+only lighted by Sconces from the Roof, and the farthest Sconce looking
+half-a-mile off, and all this Space full of Barrels of Wine! The Roof
+supported by Rows of Columns; and the Vault altogether like the Crypt of
+a vast Cathedral, but sweeter; the Air smelling of Wine very strong,
+which alone did make me feel giddy. Strange to see the Mildew hanging
+in all Sorts of Forms from the Roof, which many do mistake for Cobwebs,
+but some call Fungus, and DR. LIMBECK, the Chymist, do tell me is mostly
+Nitrate of Lime. The Cooper did lead us to the Wine we were to taste,
+and pretty to see him tap the Barrel by boring a Hole in it with a
+Gimlet. We did drink, all round, a good Ale-glass each of excellent
+Sherry, all except MR. SHARPE; and I did wonder to see him taste the
+Wine, and call it rare good Stuff, and yet spit it out, but found by and
+by that he was wise. Next, to the London Dock; and MR. GOODFELLOWE did
+give us Biscuit, and recommend us to eat, and I did take his advice, and
+glad I did. Here, more Curiosities in Mildew, hanging from the Roof; and
+one a Festoon as big as the great Sausage in the Pork-Shop at the Corner
+of Bow Street. A good Story from the Cooper, of a Visitor that took a
+Specimen of the Mildew away in his Hat, and with the Moisture of his
+Head, it melted and blackened his Face, and served him right, that--like
+more than enough Sight-Seers--could not keep his Hands from Picking. To
+several Vaults, and tasted Wine in each; all very vast, but the East
+Vault the biggest, and do contain more thousand Pipes, and cover more
+Acres than I doubt, by Reason of the Wine I drunk, I can remember. By
+this Time, our Party very jolly and noisy, and did begin to dance and
+sing, and flourish their Lamps like Playhouse Devils; and methought I
+did see the Meaning of the Notice outside, that Ladies could not be
+admitted after 1 o'Clock. Coming into the open Air, could scarcely
+stand; and MR. GOODFELLOWE did see them into Cabs, and I home on
+Foot--straight as I could go--and my Wife wondering at the Redness of my
+Nose. Good Lack! to see the Quantity of Goods and Wine in the Docks; and
+to think what a great and mighty Nation we are, and what Oceans of
+Liquor we do swill and guzzle!
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A WEDDYNGE BREAKFASTE._
+
+                                           MONDAY, _October 22, 1849_.]
+
+
+Up, and to Church together with my Wife, to see PALL HARLEY married this
+Morning to DICK BAKER; on both Sides mighty genteel People, and their
+Guests, all except ourselves, such as they do call Carriage-Company.
+PALL, in a Dress of White Satin, and Orange Flowers in her Hair, very
+pretty and demure, and DICK, wearing a Sky-Blue Coat, Crimson Velvet
+Waistcoat, Yellow Moleskin Trousers, and Japanned Boots; with Lavender
+Kid Gloves, and a Carbuncle in his Shirt-Front, a great Buck. DICK and
+every Man of us with great White Favours at our Breasts, mighty
+conspicuous and, methought, absurd, the Things serving neither for Use
+nor Ornament. But to see how grand were old fat MR. HARLEY and MR.
+BAKER, and how more grand were their fat Wives, and how fine and serious
+they looked and how high they carried their Noses! And when the Ring was
+put on PALL'S Finger (DICK first having fumbled for it in the wrong
+Pocket), her Mother did weep, and falling for stay on MR. HARLEY, nigh
+overthrew him. But the pretty modest Bridesmaids did most of all take
+me; which my Wife observing, I saw, did trouble her. The Ceremony over,
+and the Fees paid, and the Bride kissed by some of the old Gentlemen, we
+to old HARLEY'S to Breakfast, where what WIGGYNS do call a Grand Spread,
+very fine both for Show and Meats, every Dish ornamented with Flowers
+and Gimcracks, the cold Chickens trimmed with Ribbons, and the
+Bride-Cake, having upon it Wax CUPIDS and Turtle-Doves, was pretty. So
+down we sat, DICK stiff and sheepish, and PALL also, shamefaced, and
+trying to hide her Blushes with a Nosegay. PALL'S Mother in Tears, and
+her Father solemn, and the Bridesmaids mostly bashful, but a little
+black one that sate by me very merry, and I did by-and-by pull Crackers
+with her, till my Wife suddenly thrust a Pin into my Arm, to the Quick.
+The Company first silent, till a Friend of the young Pair, who did say
+he had known them both from Babies, did propose their Health in a pretty
+pathetic but confused Speech, and breaking down in the Midst of a
+Sentence, conclude by wishing them long Life and Happiness, with great
+Applause. Then the Bride-Groom to return Thanks, but, perplexed with his
+Pronouns, obliged to stop short too, but, he said, overcome by his
+Feelings. The Champagne flowing, we soon merrier, especially an old
+Uncle of DICK'S who began to make Jokes, which did trouble the Bride and
+Bride-Groom. But they presently with much Crying and Kissing, and
+Shaking of Hands, away in a Coach-and-Four, amid the Cheering of the
+Crowd in the Street and the Boys shouting to behold the fine Equipage;
+and Servants and old Women looking on from the opposite Windows. We
+eating and drinking with great Delight till late in the Afternoon, but
+at last broke up, the Multitude saluting us each as we stepped into the
+Street, and the Policeman and Beadle that were guarding the Door in
+great State, touching their Hats. A grand Marriage Breakfast do give a
+brave Treat to the Mob, in Show, and to the Company in Eating and
+Drinking, and is great Fun to all but those most concerned. But to think
+what a Fuss is made about most Marriages, and how little Reason for it
+is shown by most People's married Life.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: A THEATRE, SHOWYNGE YE HOUSE AMUSED BY YE COMYCKE ACTOR.
+
+                                           FRIDAY, _October 26, 1849_.]
+
+
+To the old House in the Market, where I would fain have seen _Macbeth_,
+for the Acting as well as the Divertisement; but this not the Night, so
+went Half-Price, and did see the _Unpolished Gem_, instead. TOUCHSTONE
+did play _Brother Dick_, a Country Clown, and his Figure, in a Coat
+short in the Waist, a huge striped Waistcoat, Trousers too big for him
+tucked up at the Ankles, Hob-Nail Boots, and a great ill-shaped Hat,
+mighty droll, and did move the People to clap their Hands and laugh the
+Moment he come on the Stage. Then did he take off his Hat, and show a
+red-cropped Head, and smooth down his Hair, and make a Face upon the
+Audience, whereat they did laugh again, and then turning round show them
+a Back View of himself, which made them laugh the more. Still greater
+Laughter the Moment he opened his Mouth, and I did laugh too, as much as
+any, though I heard not what he said; but only for the Oddness of his
+Voice, which is such that methinks I could not keep my Countenance to
+hear him, even if he were speaking _Hamlet_. Mighty droll to see him in
+a fine House make himself at Home after the Fashion of a Bumpkin, and
+hear him in his rustical Drawl and Twang relate all the News and Tattle
+of his Village. What with his clodhopping Gait, and Awkwardness, and
+Independence, and Impudence, he did make, methinks, the veriest Lout I
+did ever see, even in Hampshire. His politeness even droller than his
+Rudeness, and his Ploughboy Courtesy of kissing his Hand as comical as
+could be. But I know not well whether I do more prefer his Cocknies or
+his Clowns; for methinks I have seen him do a Snob as well as a
+Clodpole, and he is very good in both, whether a rustical Booby or a
+Whippersnapper Spark; and do use V for W, and misuse or drop his H, and
+talk the Flash and Cant of the Town mighty natural. But to think how we
+English People do take Delight in everything that is ridiculous; and how
+I have seen a Theatre ringing with Merriment at the Sight of TOUCHSTONE
+in a Paper Cap and Apron, with a Baker's Tray, and a Bell, crying
+"Muffins!" or eating with his Mouth full; or even putting his Arms
+a-Kimbo, or pulling his Hat over his Eyes, and some of the Audience, and
+myself too, in Fits almost with Laughter. Methinks that Foreigners are
+wrong to suppose that we are a melancholy People, and would give up this
+Notion if they could see us at a broad Farce, and how easily we are
+pleased, and what Straws will tickle us almost to Death. Home, my Sides
+aching by Reason of TOUCHSTONE'S Drolleries, and truly he do make a
+mighty excellent roguish Buffoon. So to Bed mimicking TOUCHSTONE his
+Voice to my Wife, which did divert her mightily.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PROSPECTE OF YE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYE ITS GARDENS.
+FEEDYNGE YE BEASTS._
+
+                                           MONDAY, _October 29, 1849_.]
+
+
+To the Zoological Gardens, in the Regent's Park, at 3 p.m., in Time to
+see the Otter fed with live Fishes, which he do chase round his Basin in
+the Water, and dive after mighty clever. Then to the Wild Beasts,
+hungry, in a terrible Rage, as I have seen others than Wild Beasts
+waiting for Dinner. Some of the Dens with Trees in them for the Beasts
+to climb in; Lions, old and young, Lionesses, He and She Tigers, a
+Jaguar, an Ounce, a Cheetah, a Spotted and Black Leopard: and on the
+other side Hyænas, and Pumas, and more Leopards, and Bears. Their
+Yelling and Howling for Hunger a most horrid Musique, while the Tigers
+rear on their hind Legs, and dash at their Bars, and grin and glare at
+the Children outside. The Ramping and Roaring doubled when the Keeper
+come with the Meat, and Lack! how they did fly at it with Teeth and
+Claws, and howl and snort over it, and munch and crunch the Bones! But
+one Hyæna droll, the Keeper passing him by, and he, thinking he was to
+go without his Meal, throwing himself on his Back, and moaning, and
+crying in Despair. Pretty, to see the Bears in their Pit climb up their
+Post for Buns; which the Visitors did hold to them on the End of a long
+Stick, and them below fighting for the Morsels that fell; and their
+Clumsiness, and awkward Standing on their hind Legs. The White Bear,
+also, swimming in his Tank, pleasant, I being on the outside of his
+Cage. A fine old Wolf and Cubs, but snarling and snapping over their
+Victuals, seemed not a Happy Family. Saw the Eagles and Vultures Prey,
+treading on their Meat, and tearing it up with their Beaks; the Eagles
+brave, but the Vultures look ignoble. Yet fine the Great Condor Vulture,
+when the Wind blew, stretching forth his Wings upon it; and glad, no
+doubt, would have been to sail away. The Parrots gay; but so shriek and
+squall, that their Abode do seem the Madhouse of the Place. Much taken
+with the Seal swim in the Water, and waddle out on his Stomach with his
+Tail and Flappers, like a Fellow with his Legs tied for a Wager.
+Diverted by the Gambols and Antics of the Monkeys and Apes: yet ashamed
+to see such vile Likenesses of ourselves: and the Apes especially; and
+the Crowd of Women and Ladies gazing at them! With Pleasure, yet Horror,
+did view the Snakes and Lizards in the Reptile House, and glad they
+could not get at me; but hoped to see the Boa Constrictor swallow a live
+Rabbit: but did not. Bought Gingerbread Nuts to feed the Elephant, cost
+me 2d. and he did please me, but I wished he had been bigger; but the
+Rhinoceros did give me great Delight, and with Mirth heard a Countryman
+standing by, call him the Hog in Armour. The Bison, with his huge shaggy
+Head and Mane, Horns, and fiery Eyes, do look the most like a Demon I
+ever did see. To the Camel-Leopards, graceful Creatures; after the Bison
+and Rhinoceros. Then about the Gardens to watch the People and the
+Children stare at, and feed and poke the Animals. Did mark some pretty
+Damsels, and, having done gazing at the Beasts, gaze at them. So Home,
+and described to my Wife what I had seen, except the Damsels, and did
+discourse with her of Natural History; which the Zoological Gardens do
+breed a pretty Taste for among the People.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _WESTMINSTER HALL, SHOWYNGE YE CEREMONYE OF OPENYNGE
+TERME._
+
+                                           FRIDAY, _November 2, 1849_.]
+
+
+Up, and by Appointment to MR. WAGSTAFFE'S, and so with him to
+Westminster Hall, to see my LORD CHANCELLOR and the Judges, after
+Breakfast with my Lord, this being the first Day of Michaelmas Term,
+open the Law Courts in State, in their Robes and Wigs. We there at 12,
+the Hour set for the Ceremony, but, we found, only for the Beginning of
+it by Breakfast, which had we thought of, we had taken our Time, as
+knowing that my Lords would be sure to take theirs. So clear that we
+must have Patience, MR. WAGSTAFFE did say, like many besides us in
+Westminster Hall. So out to look at the New Houses of Parliament, and
+how the Masons speed with the Building, which will be mighty fine when
+it is done, and MR. TRANSOM do commend the Style, and I too, both for
+the Proportions and also for the Heraldry and Lions. Then back again to
+the Hall, where now a few more People; and presently comes marching in a
+Party of Policemen, large enough to have taken up all present, and yet
+hardly have had one Prisoner a-piece; But the Numbers did by Degrees
+increase, and were, I did note, mostly of the better Sort; thank the
+Police. Among them divers Barristers-at-Law, some with their Sisters,
+some with their Wives, or such as did seem like to be their Wives, many
+of whom mighty comely Damsels, and were a Sight I never expected, not
+thinking they could care for Law Matters, or to see the Judges, 2d.; but
+strange how Women do flock to every Concourse, whether it be to see or
+only to be seen. There for the first Time I did behold MR. TOMKYNS, the
+young Barrister, in his Wig, wherein he do look mighty sedate, and I
+telling him I hoped he would come to open Term himself, made answer as
+it might be some while first, he wished I might live to see it. The
+people now crowding about the Doors of the Courts, the Police did make a
+Lane between them for my LORD CHANCELLOR and the Judges to walk down,
+and MR. WAGSTAFFE did call it Chancery Lane. My Lords still not coming,
+he did observe that now we had a Sample of the Law's Delay, and did
+pleasantly lay the Lateness of the Breakfast to the Account of the
+MASTER OF THE ROLLS. But they at last come, and we opposite the Court of
+Common Pleas got a good View of them to my Heart's Content. First comes
+the Mace, and a gentleman in his Court Suit, wearing a Sword and Bag,
+and with them the Great Seal; then my LORD CHANCELLOR, and did walk down
+to his Court at the end of the Hall, looking the better of his Sickness,
+which I was glad of. After him the other Judges, of whom most did enter
+the Door whereby we were, and mighty reverend they looked, but merry and
+in good Humour, and beamy and ruddy after their Breakfast. But to see
+MR. JUSTICE TALFOURD come last of all, shaking Hands with his Friends on
+both Sides, he newly made a Judge, being a Poet, did most content me;
+and MR. WAGSTAFFE did say he looked in good Case and by no means
+_puisne_. The Judges all entered, the Rabblement let into the Hall, and
+we away, fearing for our Pockets; which are like to be very soon emptied
+in Westminster Hall.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PROSPECTE OF YE 5TH OF NOVEMBER, SHOWYNGE YE "GUYS."_
+
+                             MONDAY, _Nov. 5, 1849_.--GUY FAWKES' DAY.]
+
+
+At Breakfast this Morning off a new-laid Egg, cost me 2d., but cheap for
+the Time of Year, did hear a shrill Hallooing in the Street, which my
+Wife told me was made by the Boys, going by with their GUY FAWKES. So on
+this, GUY FAWKES his Day, did in Haste swallow my Breakfast, put on my
+Boots and Over-Coat, and so out and about the Streets and Squares to see
+the Sport, the Bells ringing for Church, and a Scarecrow of a GUY, borne
+by Urchins on a Handbarrow, with Rough Musique at almost every Turn and
+Corner. GUY FAWKES his Effigies, with his Fingers sticking out like
+Spikes, and his Feet all awry, his Body and Limbs stuffed with Straw, a
+Mask for his Face, with a Pipe in the Mouth, and a Lantern and
+Tinder-Box dangling from his Wrist, and on his Head a Paper Cap, like an
+old Grenadier's, but a Cross on it, and meant for the POPE his Crown. I
+thought to see GUY with his Company, borne by the Police in State to the
+Station House, but they this Year mostly let alone, and more GUYS, and
+ragged Regiments of Boys shouting after them, than ever. The Varlets, as
+they went, repeating Doggrel Verses, bidding to remember the Day, and
+asking whomsoever they met for Money for a Bonfire to burn their GUY,
+and did beg of me; but I would not fling my Money into the Fire. But
+Lack to think of the Delight I do take in GUY FAWKES, because of his
+ridiculous Figure, and recollecting how I loved to play with Fireworks
+on this Day when a Boy; though I know what a Libel is the Holyday on the
+Roman Catholiques, and the good Reason, though the Doggrel say to the
+contrary, why Gunpowder Treason should be forgot. But some, who should
+have known better, did give the Rogues Halfpence and encourage them in a
+show of Bigotry; albeit the young Ragamuffins know not what it do mean,
+and care only for the Frolick and Halfpence. From Westminster, by the
+Back Ways and Streets to Fleet Street, Squibs and Crackers in the Courts
+and Alleys fizzing and bouncing all the Way, and did in Fleet Street
+dine at a Chop-house, cost me, with Beer and Punch, 2s.; and so to Tower
+Hill, where the Banging and Blazing of the Fireworks the greatest of
+all; and the Roman Candles and Pin-wheels mighty pretty; but some
+letting off Guns and Pistols put me in Fear. Here presently I did hear a
+Popping and Cracking behind me; which was a Cracker pinned by some
+Scapegrace to my Coat-Tail, and did make me jump, and the Standers-by to
+laugh: which did vex me to the Heart; and MR. GREGORY do say, served me
+right for countenancing such Doings. But to see the Mob flinging
+Serpents at each other, and burning and singeing one another like
+Devils, did much divert me, till a Squib whizzing past me did scorch me
+in the Face. Truly GUY FAWKES his Day this Time was mighty well kept,
+and MR. HOWLETT do say its better Observance is a revival of Protestant
+Spirit; but I do agree with MR. WAGSTAFFE that Protestancy is not a
+Doctrine of Fireworks, and must own it were better to bury GUY FAWKES,
+and not burn him any more.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A BANQUET SHOWYNGE YE FARMERS' FRIEND IMPRESSYNGE ON YE
+AGRICULTURAL INTEREST THAT IT IS RUINED._
+
+                                          MONDAY, _November 19, 1849_.]
+
+
+By Rail to Clod's Norton, to my old Country Friend MR. GILES the Farmer,
+and with him to the Meeting and yearly Dinner of the North Gruntham
+Agricultural Society at Grumbleton, at the Plantagenet Arms. A mighty
+fine and great Dinner; and the Appetite of the Company droll to observe,
+and hear MR. GILES declare that all the Farmers were starving. I did
+mightily admire the Breadth and Bigness of the Countrymen, and their
+round Faces like the Sign of the Rising Sun, but not so bright, for
+though ruddy, looking glum. My LORD MOUNTBUSHEL in the Chair, very grand
+and high and mighty, yet gently demeaning himself, and did pledge them
+about him in Wine with an Obeisance the most stately I think that I did
+ever see a Man, and wish I could do like him, and with Practice hope to
+be able. The Dinner over, and the QUEEN drunk, and the Royal Family,
+and also the Church and Army and Navy all drunk, the Chairman did
+propose the Toast of the Evening, which was, Prosperity to the North
+Gruntham Agricultural Society, and made a Speech, and did tell his
+Hearers that they and the whole Farming Body were going to the Dogs as
+fast as they could go; whereat, strange to hear them applaud mightily.
+He ended his Speech by saying he hoped Gentlemen would that Evening,
+according to Custom, keep clear of Politics, which Rule SQUIRE HAWEBUCKE
+next rising to speak, did promise he would observe, and forthwith made a
+violent Harangue against SIR ROBERT PEEL and MR. COBDEN. After him got
+up MR. FLUMMERIE, and with great Action, and thumping the Table, spoke
+for Half-an-Hour, with most brave Flourishes both of his Fists and of
+Language. He did tell his Audience that they must be up and stirring,
+and quit them like good Men and true, and did exhort them to rally round
+the Altar and Throne, and nail their Colours to the Mast, and range
+themselves under the Banner of Protection; which he did say was a Flag
+that had braved 1,000 Years the Battle and the Breeze, and if so,
+should, methinks, be by this time in Tatters. He did say that the
+British Lion had been long asleep, but was now at last aroused, which do
+seem a simple Saying, the British Lion being only a fabulous Beast, like
+the Unicorn, also in the Royal Arms. But to hear how the Company did
+cheer at this Mouthing, albeit it was the veriest Cant and Stuff; for,
+good Lack! to think of the Monarchy and Church, and all Morals,
+Religion, and Government, depending on the price of Wheat! After more
+Speeches in the same Strain, the British Labourer his Health drunk, and
+then the Prizes given out; and an old Man of 80, for bringing up a
+Family without costing the Parish 1d. in 50 Years, did receive £1, and
+others for honest Service nigh as long, a Jacket, a Smock Frock, or a
+Pair of Hob-Nail Boots, in Reward of Merit. The Toasts and Speech-making
+lasted till late, and then we broke up, the Farmers mighty merry, though
+grumbling, but not more than their Wont, at the Laws and the Weather,
+but their best Friends say, will have little to complain of either, if
+they will but mind their Business, and turn seriously to improving their
+Husbandry.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _APPEARANCE OF YE CRYMYNYAL COURTE DURING AN
+"INTERESTYNG" TRYAL FOR MURDER._
+
+                                          FRIDAY, _November 30, 1849_.]
+
+
+Up, and did take my Wife, with a Party of Friends, to the Old Bailey, my
+Wife having a great Longing to see a Prisoner tried, especially for
+Murder, and little Pleasure as she do take, poor Wretch, I could not
+find in my Heart to deny her this. Got our Places in the Gallery, cost
+me 10s., which did begrudge, and do think it a Scandal to the City to
+have Money taken at the Old Bailey Doors, as at a Play, yet it do serve
+to keep the Company choice. And, good Lack! to see the Assemblage of
+great Folks about us, we sitting close by SIR JESSAMIE SPINKES, and my
+LORD POUNCETT, and two or three other Lords on the Bench by my Lords the
+Judges, and the Aldermen, did make the Place look as fine almost as the
+Opera. But in Truth it was as good as a Play, if not better, to hear the
+Barristers speak to the Jury, especially the Counsel for the Prisoners,
+making believe to be mightily concerned for their Clients, though most
+observable Rogues, and arguing in their Behalf through Thick and Thin,
+and striving as hard as they could to prove the Black, that did come out
+in Evidence against them, White; and pleading their Cause as though they
+were injured Innocents, with smiting of the Breast, and turning up of
+the Eyes, more natural than I remember I did ever see any Actor. But
+methinks they did go a little too far when, cross-examining the
+Witnesses, they strove to entangle them in their Talk, and confound
+them, trying to make them blunder, so as to mislead the Jury, which do
+seem to me only telling a Lie by the Witness his Mouth. And then to hear
+them labour to destroy the Witnesses' Credit, and make their Oath
+suspected; and them, however honest, seem Perjurers; and to think that
+they do practise all this Wickedness only for the Lucre of their Fees!
+Among the Prisoners some of the most horrid Ruffians that methinks I
+ever did see, and some, when found guilty and sentenced even to
+Transportation, skipping out of the Dock, and snapping their Fingers,
+which did remind me of the Saying, "Merry as Thieves." But others
+looking mighty dismal, and when the Evidence did tell against them,
+turning pale and shivering, and we had Eye-Glasses we took with us on
+Purpose, and through our Eye-Glasses did watch the Quivering of their
+Features, which, Heaven forgive us! we did take Delight in. Using
+Eye-Glasses did the more make it seem as if I were at a Play, and what
+did jump with the Notion was the Bunches of Rue on the Dock in Front of
+the Prisoners, seeming almost like Nosegays, which glad I am that my
+Wife and our other Ladies had not with them, for so taken were they with
+the ranting Barristers and hang-Gallows Ruffians, that I do verily
+believe they would have flung their Posies to them if they had. Strange
+that we do make such Account of Criminals, and will sit for Hours to see
+how it goes with a Villain, when we would not spare five Minutes to the
+Cause of many an honest Man. But for one good Reason I did take Pleasure
+in the Old Bailey, which was the Fairness of the Trials, and the
+Patience of the Judge, and Justness of his summing up, which do cause me
+mightily to reverence our Law, and to hear and see was pretty.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PROMENADE CONCERTE._
+
+                                         THURSDAY, _December 6, 1849_.]
+
+
+Did set me Wife, poor Wretch! this Evening to mending my Socks, and
+myself to Drury Lane, to MONSIEUR JULLIEN his Concert. The first Part of
+the Concert all DR. MENDELSSOHN his Musique, which I did long mightily
+to hear, and, so to do in Comfort, buy a Ticket for the Dress Circle,
+cost me 2s. 6d., but found the Seats all full, and obliged to stand the
+whole While, which made me mad, but a pretty full-eyed young Lady being
+forced to stand too, and close by me, though with her Brother, did
+comfort me a little, not that she could not sit, but that she was by me.
+Heard a Symphony that did well please me, seeming to lift me into the
+Clouds, and was mighty mystical and pretty; and the Musique in the
+_Midsummer Night's Dream_ did give me much Delight, the Twittering
+throughout the Overture putting me in Mind of Singing-Birds and Fairies
+and I know not what, and the sleepy Passages very sweet and lulling.
+Mightily taken with the Prelude to the Mock-Tragedy, _Bottom_ his March,
+as droll Musique as I ever heard; but what did most of all delight me
+was the Wedding March, a noble Piece, and I did rejoice therein, and do
+think to hire a Band to play it under our Window on my Wedding Day.
+MONSIEUR JULLIEN in his white Waistcoat and with his Moustachios mighty
+spruce and as grand as ever, and did conduct the Musique, but so quietly
+in the first Part that I could scarce have believed it, and methought
+showed Reverence for the Composer; which was handsome. But good Lack! to
+see him presently, when he come to direct "_God Save the Queen_,"
+flourish his Batoon, and act the mad Musician! All the Company rising
+and taking off their Hats to hear that majestical Anthem, presently some
+most ridiculous and impertinent Variations set all the House a laughing
+and some hissing, and I do suspect MONSIEUR JULLIEN had a special
+Audience this night, that would not away with such Tricks. Between the
+Parts of the Concert, I into the Pit to walk about among the Sparks,
+where a great Press, the House crammed to the Ceiling. In the
+Refreshment and Reading Rooms, young Blades and Lasses drinking of
+Coffee and eating of Ices, and Reading of the News, with Shrubs and
+Statues round about, and the House all White and Gold, and brightly
+lighted, mighty gay; and the Sparks jaunty, but not, I think, wearing
+such flaming Neckcloths and Breast Pins as they were wont. Heard in Part
+second some Musique of the _Prophète_, full of Snorting of Brass
+Instruments and Tinkling of Triangles, and a long Waltz that did give me
+the Fidgets, and nothing please me at all, save JETTY TREFFZ her singing
+of "_Trab, trab_," which was pretty. Lastly, the Row-Polka played, and
+well-named and very droll and absurd, with Chiming-in of Voices and
+other monstrous Accompaniments, a good ridiculous rough Musique. But
+many of the Hearers did hiss, methought with Unreason, the Polka being
+no emptier than any other Polka, and having some Joke in it. Home, the
+Wedding March running in my Head, and glad to find good Musique drawing
+so great a House, which I do hope will be a Hint to MONSIEUR JULLIEN.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE SERPENTYNE DURING A HARD FROST. YE PUBLIQUE UPON IT._
+
+                                          TUESDAY, _January 29, 1850_.]
+
+
+Up, and after Breakfast, to which a new laid Egg at this Time of Year
+cost me 2d., to Hyde Park to see the Skating on the Serpentine, very
+admirable and mighty good Mirth. The Members of the Skating Club, with
+their Booth by the Ice mighty select, yet do as it were perform for the
+Amusement of the British Publique. Pretty to see them cut out Figures of
+8, and in a Sort dance Quadrilles upon the Ice, which I very much wish I
+could do myself, but cannot skate at all, and never could, but whenever
+I tried to always tumbled down, generally a Squat, which hurt me. Upon
+the Ice all sorts of People high and low, great and little, old and
+young, Women and Children, indeed a Multitude of the British Publique
+altogether. With their Hollaing and Shouting a continual Roar like the
+Cawing and Clacking of innumerable Rooks and Jackdaws. Pretty to see the
+Chairs and Forms on the Brink of the Ice, where dirty Boys and Men do
+ply with Skates for Hire, and kneeling and screwing and straping them on
+to Skater's Feet turn a good Penny. Many fine Girls also, both fair and
+black, skating in their warm Furs and Muffs mighty snug and elegant,
+please me most of all; and a Troop of Schoolgirls walk two and two along
+the Shore very pretty. Fun to see how the Skaters do throw themselves
+into all manner of Postures, and how many of them tumble down, and
+sprawl about, and roll over one another topsy-turvy, and kick their
+Heels in the Air. Also the Unskilful beginning to learn to skate helped
+on to the Ice, and an old Woman pulled on by a lively Urchin, make me
+laugh heartily. But the most ridiculous Sight the Lower Sort, not
+skating but sliding, Butcher Lads, and Costermongers, and Street Boys
+with Sticks and Bludgeons in their Hands, and some in their Mouths short
+Pipes, smoking while they slide, which I wonder how they can. Good Lack,
+to see them come the Cobbler's Knock as they say, and keep the Pot
+a-boiling! Likewise how of a Fellow upon the Ice with a Potato Can upon
+a Fire-Basket, they buy and eat roast Potatoes which the Sellers cry
+_Taturs all hot!_ The Street Boys, too, where the Ice at the Sides thin,
+flock together nigh the Edge, and throw Stones breaking the Ice, and I
+did hear one of the Varlets as his Pebble crash through cry, "There goes
+a Window," and could not but laugh, though I would fain have boxed his
+Ears. On Top of a Pole in one Part of the Ice a Board marked
+"Dangerous," nevertheless many so foolhardy as to skate close to it,
+until at last the Ice broke and a Fool went in and was like to have
+drowned, but the Humane Society's Men did come with Drags, and one of
+them fish him out by the Scuff of his Trowsers, mighty laughable. They
+carry him off to the Receiving House, where they chafe and wrap him in
+warm Blankets to bring him to, and give him hot Brandy and Water to
+recruit him and send him Home Comfortable, and so reward him for his
+Folly, and encourage other Fools to imitate his silly Example. Methinks
+such an idle Companion were well served if, instead of getting hot Grog,
+he were sent Home with a good Hiding.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A FASHIONABLE CLUB. FOUR O'CLOCK P.M._
+
+                                        THURSDAY, _February 14, 1850_.]
+
+
+This Afternoon at four o'clock with GUBBYNS to the Leviathan Club
+whereof he is a member, and do mean to propose me to be a Member too
+which I very much wish, only fear I may be black-balled but hope not.
+To-day he take me over the Club to see it, which delight me much, and
+good Lack to see how splendid the Building and the Carvings and Gildings
+of the Walls and Windows, for all the World like a Palace, wherein a
+private Man every Day of his Life may live like a King, as I should like
+to. All the Rooms as full as could be of all Manner of Comforts and
+Conveniences, especially the great Room where the Members do sit in easy
+Chairs with well-stuffed soft Backs and Cushions lined with lovely
+smooth shining Morocco Leather, or loll along on Sofas and Ottomans the
+same, and read the Reviews and Papers and are served by Footmen in
+Livery with Glasses of Sherry and Tumblers of Brandy and Soda Water, all
+at their Ease, and enjoy such Accommodation as I think I never could
+have imagined unless I had seen. Curious to observe the different
+Readers and the Paper each reading; a Parliament or City Man the Times,
+a Member, I take it, of the Protestant Association at Exeter-Hall the
+Morning Herald, another the Standard, newspapers the wits call Mrs. GAMP
+and Mrs. HARRIS, which is great Roguery. Some in Groups stand a
+gossiping, some looking out of Windows down on the People in the Street
+as they go by, mighty agreeable to such as are well off, and would give
+me very much Pleasure. Others with their Backs to the Fire, and one
+methought a Country Squire striding in front of the Grate, with his
+Hands behind him under his Coat Tails warming himself and looking abroad
+over his Neckcloth, as though upon his Parish, and as if he were Monarch
+of all he surveyed; mighty dignified and droll. Likewise a Youth of some
+Condition, but somewhat too like a Shopboy, in a pretty ridiculous
+Posture, eyeing himself in a Pier Glass, did, with his walking Cane
+sticking athwart his Arm, divert me. The Magazines, Guide Books, Post
+Directories, and so on lying about on the Tables mighty handy, and I did
+note also a Pack of Cards and hear some of the Club Men do play. After
+going all over the Club-house, and the Lavatories and all, GUBBYNS take
+me to dine with him in the Strangers' Room, and a mighty good Dinner
+with excellent Claret, cost him how much I did not like to ask, but no
+doubt much more cheap and better than it would have come to in the
+cheapest tolerable Inn. Thence, after dinner, to the Smoking Room to
+smoke a Cigar, and drink Seltzer Water and Brandy, and, after Talk of
+the News, and all the Rumour about Town, and a good deal of Scandal, and
+some Roguish Conversation, Home, and so to Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _THE CIRCUS AT ASTLEY'S._
+
+                                              FRIDAY, _March 8, 1850_.]
+
+
+To the Circus at Astley's late, so missed the Grand Equestrian Drama,
+which vex me not much, for the Acting only Horseplay. But in time to see
+the Horsemanship in the Circle, which was what I wanted, and got a good
+Place in the Boxes, but would have preferred the Pit, except for the
+Company, which is of the Lower Sort, and there they do sit with their
+Hats on, and eat Oranges and drink Soda Water and Ginger Beer, which
+make me ashamed. Pretty riding on a Cream-coloured Horse by a pretty
+black girl, and on horseback dancing carried a basket of Flowers, and
+dance mighty pretty, but being above I could but look down upon little
+but her Head, which did somewhat vex me that I was not below in the Pit.
+Also a Fellow in the Dress of an Italian Robber they call a Brigand ride
+on three Horses at once, and please me I think as much as anything I
+ever saw in my Life. One of the Horses he rode piebald, the others
+spotted, pretty to see. Curious to observe the Riding Master continually
+smacking his Whip to keep the Horses galloping close to the Circle, but
+above all the Head Riding Master they call WIDDICOMBE in a Uniform with
+Epaulettes, as it were a Generalissimo, mighty pompous and droll, divert
+me beyond measure, and good Lack to hear, between the Horsemanship, the
+dialogues between WIDDICOMBE and the Clown. As the Clown walking before
+WIDDICOMBE out of the Ring, WIDDICOMBE say "Stop, Sir, go behind; I
+never follow the Fool." "Don't you," say the Clown, "then I do," and
+walk after him; which tickle me and make me laugh, so that I was like to
+burst my Sides. And Lack to see the Dignity of WIDDICOMBE, how grand he
+bear himself and look down upon the Clown as an inferior Being, calling
+him generally Fool, or else sometimes more gracious, Mr. Merriman. I do
+hear WIDDICOMBE is now an old Man, but his Cherry Cheeks, and black Hair
+and Eyebrows, make him look young, and his Waistcoat padded well out on
+the Chest takes from his Paunch, and though no Doubt he be made up, he
+make himself up mighty clever. All this while the Orchestra, mostly of
+Brass, trumpeting and banging away the most suitable Music to the
+Performance I think that ever could be played except the Tongs and
+Bones. About me in the Boxes great Numbers of Small Children, both Boys
+and Girls, some Babies almost, enjoy the Spectacle as much as any, and I
+do like to see them, and think they with their Mirth do make their
+Elders enjoy it all the more, and did think I should have liked to have
+had some of my own to take with me, but then thinking of the Expense of
+a Family make me better content with None. The Horsemanship mighty good
+Fun for the Children, but serious Entertainment to the grown-up, and
+strange to see how earnest they sit and gaze and stare with their Eyes
+wide open, and their Minds also fixed upon the Horses, and to perceive
+that they who think so much of Horses do commonly think very little upon
+much else, and how many there be of that Sort among the English People.
+After Astley's in a Cab to the Albion Tavern, where a Dish of Kidneys, a
+Welsh Rarebit, a Pint of Stout, and a Go of Whisky cost me 3s., and so
+Home in another Cab and so to Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE FATHERS OF YE CHURCHE GYVING JUDGMENTE UPON YE
+KNOTTYE POYNT._
+
+                                            SATURDAY, _March 9, 1850_.]
+
+
+To the Judicial Committee of Privy Council to hear Judgment delivered in
+the great GORHAM Case, the Reverend Mr. GORHAM against the BISHOP of
+EXETER for refusing to institute him to the Living of Bramford Speke,
+which the Bishop refuse because Mr. GORHAM deny Baptismal Regeneration.
+The Court of Arches gave sentence for the BISHOP, and GORHAM then appeal
+to the Privy Council. A great Commotion among the Clergy, and not a
+little among the People also. The High Church hold, with the BISHOP of
+EXETER, the same Opinion of Baptism as the Catholiques, and the Low do
+side with GORHAM and the Baptists and most other Dissenters. To the
+Council Chamber betimes, and did get a good Place and hear very well.
+The Chamber all the public Part of it crammed with as many People as
+could well get in. Lack, to see what Numbers of the Clergy here, both
+High Church and Low, and distinguish them by their Looks, and their
+Dress, and particularly by their Ties and Waistcoats. Also present many
+Dissenters and Roman Catholiques, and among the Catholiques I did note
+Bishop WISEMAN the Catholique Bishop of Melipotamus, and Vicar
+Apostolique of the London District in the front Row next my Lord the
+President's Chair, pricking up his Ears. By and by in come the Lords of
+the Council and take their places, mighty Grave, yet as they sit do seem
+to take it easy. They sit at a Table in the midst of the Chamber, where,
+among them, Lords Brougham and Campbell look mighty ill-favoured and
+droll. Behind, towards the Bookshelves, the Lay Lords, but with them a
+Bishop in his Knee Breeches and Apron, and a Shovel Hat in his Hand.
+Among the Lay Lords the EARL of CARLISLE, a Great Nobleman, and do look
+noble, and very much like LISTON the Player. Hush, and Silence, even the
+Ladies, of whom some present in the Crowd, when my Lord LANGDALE rise to
+deliver Judgment, which he did mighty clever, and lay down the Law, but
+no theological Argument, which I expected to hear, but did not. For he
+said the Committee have no Authority to determine Points of Doctrine,
+and whether Baptismal Regeneration were true or false, but only whether
+the Clergy were bound to hold it, or free to deny it, by the Thirty-nine
+Articles. And by that Rule he gave Judgment for GORHAM against the
+BISHOP, and I see not how he could have done otherwise, nor why the High
+Church should be so aghast and angry, nor WISEMAN smile and look so
+merry and scornful as he did, and seem so mightily diverted. So the
+BISHOP will have to submit, and institute GORHAM, or else resign his
+Bishoprick, which I dare swear he will not. Nor do I much fear that many
+of the High Church Clergy will leave the Church, as some prophesy, and
+turn Catholiques, and relinquish the Loaves and Fishes. Methinks it is a
+mighty good Thing that both High Church Clergy and Low are bound only by
+the Articles as interpreted by the Law Lords in the Judicial Committee,
+and not by themselves on either one Side or the other, for of all Men
+methinks the Clergy of every Sect have less than any of a Judicial
+Mind.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A JUVENILE PARTYE._
+
+                                          WEDNESDAY, _April 24, 1850_.]
+
+
+With my Wife this Evening to Mr. HARTLEY'S to a Children's Party, but
+some grown up, and among them me and my Wife, though we have no
+Children, which vex me, but not much, for Children mighty expensive and
+cost money, and, if I had them, would only force me to deny myself a
+great many Pleasures I now enjoy, and could not then afford. A large
+Drawing Room very fine, and well lighted up, and so many Children of all
+Ages down to Babies almost as I think I did never before, altogether in
+one room, see. Pretty to see how the little Boys and Girls dance when
+MYNHEER SCHLAMM thump and bang the Piano, and some of the very smallest
+taught to dance nearly as soon as they could walk, and how they stand in
+Position and point their Toes with heels close together, and arms
+hanging down, as they do when the Dancing-Master teach them their
+dancing Lessons. And to see how pleased all the Girls to dance, but not
+all the Boys, but a good many of them look unhappy, yet pretty to
+observe how a few little Boys make love to the little Girls, and one
+little Boy offer a little Girl a Nosegay, like a young Gallant, and she
+take it with the Air of a Coquette mighty pretty. But most of the Boys
+make a great deal more Love to the good Things on the Tables; the Sweets
+and Pastry, Jelly, Blanc-Mange, Tarts, Pies, Tipsy-Cake, Trifle, and
+Ice-creams, and good Lack how they push, and scramble, and hold out
+their plates, to get slices of Cake, while HARTLEY cut up a great rich
+Cake like a Twelfth-cake and share it between them, and they eat and
+stuff all they can, and I fear me some of them ill to-morrow if not
+before. Droll to see a little Boy stand astride stuffing into his Mouth
+a Pie whole like a Pantomime Clown. Another small Boy sitting down upon
+a Pile of Plates set by on the Floor, they having been eaten from, in
+the Remains of Trifle, cause great Laughter. So did a fat Dame with her
+little Boy and Girl, and an Arm round each, like a great plump Fowl, a
+Gizzard under one Wing and Liver beneath the other. Droll to see
+HARTLEY'S little girl sit in her Grandmother's Chair beside her Crutch,
+where her Grandmother hobbling in did find her, and to think that she
+too will be such another old Woman, one of these Days, if she live. Some
+of the bigger Boys public School Boys, mighty grand, and a few wearing
+Spectacles like young Owls. Mrs. HARTLEY'S Brother, Mr. ST. LEGER, dress
+himself like a Conjuror, in a conjuring Cap with magick Characters on
+it, and conjure with Cards, and Oranges, and little Images, and Dolls,
+mighty clever, and I do mean to get him if I can to teach me. One Thing
+made me laugh heartily was to see the Page they call BUTTONS stand
+behind him while he conjure, BUTTONS with his Eyes staring wide open,
+and he grinning with his Mouth from Ear to Ear. The young Folk after
+Supper to dance again, and romp, and play at Blindman's Buff, and
+meanwhile the elder sup too, and I and my Wife on cold Fowl and Ham, and
+Lobster Salad, and Champagne, mighty merry, and so Home betimes mighty
+comfortable, and methinks I do like a Children's more than any other
+Evening Party, to see the Children and their Elders also, play the Fool,
+and to break up, and get Home early, and so with Content and Comfort to
+Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _GRANDE REVIEW._
+
+                                            WEDNESDAY, _May 15, 1850_.]
+
+
+Up, and to St. James's Park, to see on the Parade Ground, the
+Inspection, as usual upon the Queen's Birthday, appointed to be
+celebrated beforehand this Day, of a Battalion of the Coldstream and
+Grenadier Guards, and a Troop of the Royal Horse Guards they call the
+Blues. Through a Friend at Court, got, with a choice Few, a good Place,
+nigh the Sentry with the Colours, where he stood to keep the Ground, and
+the Publique at a Distance, where I also wish always to keep yet pleased
+to see them. The Troops reviewed by the Commander in Chief, Field
+Marshal the DUKE of WELLINGTON, and with him the other Field Marshals,
+Prince ALBERT and the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE, made Field Marshals I suppose
+for the martial Deeds they would no doubt have done, if they had ever
+had the chance in the Field. Field Marshal the PRINCE, the Colonel of
+the Scots Fusiliers, and Field Marshal the Royal DUKE of the
+Coldstream, and the great Field Marshal the DUKE of WELLINGTON, Colonel
+of the Grenadier Guards. Besides the Field Marshals, at their Heels a
+great Staff of Officers, of Lancers and Hussars, and the EARL of
+CARDIGAN among them, looking mighty fierce. The DUKE of WELLINGTON at
+their Head riding gently along inspecting his Regiment standing in their
+big Caps of Bearskin, which do seem much too big for them though they
+mostly six feet high, a mighty brave sight, yet a comical, as the men
+stood shouldering Arms with their Heels together, and their Toes turned
+out like the little Girls and Boys I did see dance at a Children's
+Party. Glad to get so good a View as I had of the Duke, and wonderful to
+see how well and firm he sits his horse, and he now fourscore-and-two
+Years old, and to think what a great General he is and do look, and with
+his Eagle Nose, very much resemble _Mr. Punch_. The Officers of the
+Staff bestriding their Horses very gallant, and the Horses most noble
+Animals and their prancing very pretty. Good Sport to see a Dragoon ride
+keeping Order, flourish and point drawn Sword at a fat old Woman who
+with a cotton Umbrella and Arms spread all abroad in Terror, run out of
+his Way, and Policemen with their Staves closing in as it were to catch
+the old Woman. Other Policemen rushing to and fro, help the Soldiers
+keep the Ground, and the British Publique back, and beat back them that
+would fain press too forward with their staves. Pleasant in a Place
+where plenty of Elbow-Room, to behold the British Publique, around one
+in the Midst the Likeness of JOHN BULL, perched on a Barrel, jostled one
+against the other, push and scramble and tread upon one another's Toes,
+and tumble topsy-turvy some of them and Head over Heels; when I had got
+comfortable Standing in the meanwhile with a Dozen or so of the Better
+Sort, and two or three Poodle and Terrier Dogs, in the Middle of the
+Parade where the Troops were inspected, got in I suppose by Favour, like
+me. But, good Lack, to think what playing at Soldiers now a holiday
+Review like this do seem, and think at the same time what serious Work
+the DUKE of WELLINGTON hath seen and done in his Day, which how many
+seem to forget, and almost think him a Humbug, and if ever and how soon
+we shall have the like to do again, and find another such a Man, to do
+it.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PIC-NIC._
+
+                                             THURSDAY, _May 23, 1850_.]
+
+
+With my Wife to a Pic-nic Party. I to content her more than to please
+myself, and to think how I always study her Pleasure more than my own,
+and sacrifice my own Inclinations to hers always. For I prefer to eat
+good Things off a Plate or a Table, and not upon my Knees. Besides, the
+Fly hired to carry us from Home and back, cost me three Guineas. The
+Pic-Nic in my Lord Bilberry's Park, where the Ruins of an old Abbey,
+open by my Lord's Allowance, People come to see from all Parts,
+gipsying, and making merry and dancing basely among the Ruins. These
+with mouldering Arches and Stones overgrown with Moss, and Lichen, and
+Ivy, mighty venerable, and set off by a Youth with long Hair and
+turned-down Collar, leaning on a broken Pillar, striking an attitude and
+staring at the Sky, as though musing on Infinity but in Truth fancying
+himself an Object of Admiration. But, he wrapt up in that Mistake, and
+forgetting his Meals, the rest intent altogether on the good Things from
+Fortnum and Mason's and the Pastry Cook's; and good Lack to see how
+they, to the Number of nigh forty Men, Women, and Girls, pitch into the
+Ham and Chicken, and the Cold Meat and Lobster Salad, and Pigeon and
+Veal and Ham Pie, and therewith drink bottled Ale and Stout, whereof a
+fat Serving Man in Livery, hardly drawing a Quart Bottle, mighty
+comical, and also a Page, who, carrying Plates, kick against a Wasps'
+Nest and raise the Wasps about his Ears and there he stand fighting them
+with a Knife, his Face in the Centre of the swarm the Image of Horror.
+The Younger Men mostly mighty Polite, they, and especially one with a
+fine slim Figure and hooked Nose, with constrained Postures, making
+Obeisance as they serve the Girls with Beer and Wine, whereof they as
+well as the Men mostly drink their Whack, and pretty to see how one most
+elegant Damsel seem falling into a happy Dream and how with her Hair
+flowing all adown she droop her Eyelids, muzzy. But some did get full of
+Fun, and a little Rogue I see pour the Heel-tap of a Champagne Glass
+into the Face of a Youngster, who, lying on his Back, had fallen on
+Sleep. The Managers of the Collection also mighty attentive, doing the
+Honours, and rare to see one of them, a fine portly Man, carve Slices
+off Great Round of Beef, in high Glee. But another rising from his Camp
+Stool to hand a Plate to a fine fat Dame, she and her pretty Daughter
+suddenly frighted by a Toad and Frog, which crawl and hop towards them
+out of some Flags by the Water, start back in Horror, and startle him
+and make him upset several Wine Glasses and the Water Can, and stamp on
+and smash a Plate. Among the Elders worth noting a lean old Professor,
+and his Neighbour a smug Lawyer how they gave their whole minds to most
+serious Eating, and also one or two of the younger Men did nought but
+stuff themselves; but most made Love; and pretty to see a loving Couple
+clink Glasses together, while other Pairs having had enough, saunter and
+strut about among and outside the Ruins. Good Lack to think what a Deal
+we ate and drank between us, and how famished on one Hand looked a lean
+old Labourer in a Smock Frock with a chubby but hungry little Clown,
+eyeing the picked Bones, while a Cur on the other did, in his Mouth, run
+away with the Wing of a Fowl.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _VAUXHALL._
+
+                                              MONDAY, _July 15, 1850_.]
+
+
+This Evening to Vauxhall, where a Gala Night and much Company, mostly of
+the middling Sort, except the worse. Very few Gentlemen of any Condition
+do now visit this Place, but plenty of the whippersnapper Sparks that
+Shopmen used to call Gents, and a very good Word to distinguish them,
+although a vile, as much as to say Snobs. The better Sort of all there
+chiefly Medical Students. No Place for Ladies, but here and there a
+respectable but stupid Farmer from the Country with his Wife or
+Daughter. A bare, faded kind of a Garden, patched with shabby Trees,
+variegated Lamps hanging to their Branches among smoky Leaves. The Lamps
+do seem the main Attraction, the Bill of Entertainments advertise 10,000
+additional every Night, which seems great Folly. However, the Outlines
+of all the Buildings picked out with parti-coloured Lamps mighty gay. A
+wooden Building on one Side called the Rotunda, where an Orchestra and
+they sing, and opposite an Alcove where a Band in Uniform play at the
+same Time Tunes which the Gents and their Partners dance to, waltzing
+and spinning round like Teetotums, droll to look upon. The Partners some
+pretty but nearly all ill-looking, and one or two horribly
+ill-favoured, and to see the People sit and look on, and among them a
+fat Country Wife, and prim starched old Maid very thin, make me ashamed.
+Also a fat singing Woman sung a Song, not at all to my Liking, and did
+throw herself about and make faces. Another Alcove hung with Lamps in
+Festoons, and in the Middle a Circus Theatre and a Crowd at the Door
+crowding to See a Dancing Girl jump through Hoops and dance upon
+Horseback. Other Alcoves with Seats for Eating and Drinking, and they
+eat Ham and Chicken, and I a Plate cost me 2s. 6d., and the Ham mighty
+thin, which is Vauxhall Fashion, and they drink Arrack, a Spirit I was
+curious to taste, and did and never shall again. But what did please me
+was a Drink newly come in from America, and called Sherry Cobbler, made
+of Sherry and Orange and lumps of Ice, and sucked up into the Mouth with
+a Straw, which to see two Gents do for the first Time did take me
+mightily, and I did do likewise, mighty cool and refreshing and did
+delight me much, and three Cobblers cost me 3 Shillings. Amused to see
+the Gents strut about so jaunty smoking Cigars, I think Cabbage Leaf
+steeped in Tobacco-Juice. They also drink Rhubarb Wine they call
+Champagne cost them 10s. a bottle, and bottled Stout, and good Lack to
+see the Lots of empty Bottles on the by-Tables! An old Fellow with a
+Pot-Paunch that had had too much Drink fallen asleep, a comical Sight,
+whilst pretty to see the Waiters dance Attendance with the Refreshments,
+and hear the hollaing and shouting, and altogether a good Deal of Fun,
+but dreary; but a Family of little Boys and Girls with their fat Father
+mighty merry, and clap their Hands to see the Balloon go up in another
+Part of the Gardens. A grand Display of Fireworks to conclude diverted
+me too, and so Home and to Bed, hoping after my Evening's Entertainment
+I shall not wake with a Headache in the Morning.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION._
+
+                               FRIDAY (_further date wanting in MS._).
+
+                                     WEEKLY EVENING MEETING.]
+
+
+This Evening to the Royal Institution, to hear Professor OWEN, the
+Hunterian Professor to Surgeons' College, Lecturer on Comparative
+Anatomy and Physiology, on the Nature of Limbs. To the Institution
+early, to the Theatre, and there got a good Place, the Theatre already
+filling and soon crammed like any Playhouse where some leading Actor
+make his appearance in a great Part, Gallery and all, as they say, to
+the Ceiling. The Audience sitting on semi-circular Benches covered with
+red Stuff, Tier above Tier, behind the select Visitors to the Front in
+reserved Chairs. A mighty droll Sea of Faces, mostly wry, with Eyes
+peering and squinting, many through Spectacles, though some
+well-featured, one here and there a great Head, but few handsome, Ladies
+excepted, a good Sprinkling of belles, and they look mighty pretty, the
+rather by Comparison with their Elders, the strong-minded Women, and the
+Philosophers around them, for the greater Part to look at, as the Vulgar
+Phrase is, a rum Lot. In the Centre of the reserved Seats an Arm-Chair
+for the Chairman facing the Lecture Table, whereon Prints and Papers, a
+Book and a Water-Carafe and Tumbler. Behind on a Showboard on the Wall
+Diagrams and Plates of Skeletons of Extinct Animals, Fish, and Flying
+Lizards, and a Dinotherium, and Mastodon, and Mammoth, and withal a
+human Skull, the People contemplate, and the Ladies and Damsels even,
+with Complacence, and to think all those pretty Creatures have Skeletons
+in themselves! By-and-by at eight, enter the Chairman and take the
+Chair, a fine fat portly Man with a great Jole, and solemn Look, mighty
+noble, and was, a Medical Student say, an awful Swell. Then in come the
+Lecturer, the Professor, to great clapping of Hands, and he make his
+Bow, and begin. I mighty taken with his Discourse, and to see him point
+out with a long Wand he lean upon while he lecture, the Bones and other
+Parts in the Diagrams of the Skeletons behind him he Describe, and
+explain how this and that Bone, the same as a human Bone, exist only in
+a different Form in Animals, and strange the Pterodactyl's Wing-bone a
+great little Finger. Lack to think of such Animals nothing remain but
+fossil Bones, and the Animals, Geologists say, did live and die Ages
+before Adam, shake some People's Faith. But Mr. HOLDFAST think Geology
+Bosh, extinct Quadrupeds Monsters destroyed in ancient Times by the
+Heroes. Likewise the Fish Lizards and Pterodactyles Dragons, ST. GEORGE
+and the Dragon all true, and ST. GEORGE did verily slay a Dragon, and
+Accounts of real Reptiles under the name of Dragons handed down by
+Tradition; their Bones now dug up out of the Earth witness Legends true,
+and no Fable, and reconcile Orthodoxy with Science. However he do not
+say he believe they belch Fire and Smoke. So my Thoughts a little
+wandering from Professor OWEN'S Lecture, to listen attentively, but the
+Air so foul with much Breath and burning of Gas that I at last nearly
+asleep and fain to pinch myself to keep awake. Strange, in the chief of
+Chemical Lecture Rooms such bad Ventilation. But to think what a
+Philosopher Professor OWEN is and can tell an unknown Animal whether
+Bird or Beast by a single Bone, and the French may brag of Monsieur
+CUVIER, but England have as good Reason to be proud of Professor OWEN.
+
+
+
+
+    _THE CITIES SERIES_
+
+  A brilliant series of Drawings by Eminent Artists.
+
+  In Decorative Covers, 8-1/4 x 5 inches, 1/-net.
+
+  With the Illustrations in Photogravure mounted on hand-made
+  paper. Bound in Parchment Boards, with mounted Illustrations,
+  2/6 net.
+
+    _I. A LITTLE BOOK OF LONDON_
+  Twenty-five Drawings in Photogravure by JOSEPH PENNELL.
+
+    _II. THE GREAT NEW YORK_
+  Twenty-four Drawings in Photogravure by JOSEPH PENNELL.
+
+    _III. THE CITY OF THE WEST_
+  Twenty-four Drawings in Photogravure by JESSIE M. KING.
+
+    _IV. THE GREY CITY OF THE NORTH_
+  Twenty-four Drawings by JESSIE M. KING.
+
+      _Uniform Volume_
+    _MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF YE ENGLYSHE_
+  Forty-nine Drawings by RICHARD DOYLE, to which are added
+  MR. PIPS HIS DIARY, by PERCIVAL LEIGH.
+
+  T. N. FOULIS
+
+  91 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON, W.C.
+  & AT 15 FREDERICK STREET, EDINBURGH
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+
+Multiple spellings not changed:
+
+Multiple spellings are left as in the original.
+
+fashionable, fashonable
+
+both "birthday" and "birth-day" appear in the text
+
+both "Club-House" and "Club-house"
+
+both "Exeter-Hall" p.092 and "Exeter Hall"
+
+both "Pic-Nic" and "Pic-nic"
+
+both "raylway" and "raylwaye"
+
+different spellings of "street"
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 286px;">
+<a href="images/00covera.jpg">
+<img src="images/00cover.jpg" width="286" height="500" alt="Cover" title="" />
+</a>
+<br />
+</div>
+
+<h1><i>MANNERS &amp; CUSTOMS OF YE ENGLYSHE</i></h1>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<br />
+<br />
+<a href="images/003a.png">
+<img src="images/003.png" width="400" height="372" alt="Manners &amp; Cvftoms of ye Englyfhe Drawn from ye Qvick" title="" />
+</a>
+<br /><br />
+</div>
+
+<p class="center"><span class="smcap">by</span><big> RICHARD DOYLE</big><br /><br /></p>
+<p class="center">WITH EXTRACTS FROM<br /><br />
+<big><big><b>MR. PIPS HIS DIARY</b></big></big><br /><br />
+<span class="smcap">by</span><big> PERCIVAL LEIGH</big><br /><br /></p>
+
+<p class="center">T·N·FOULIS<br />
+London &amp; Edinburgh<br />
+1911<br /><br /></p>
+
+<p class="center"><i>The publisher has to acknowledge his indebtedness
+to Messrs. Bradbury, Agnew, &amp; Co. Ltd., the
+publishers of the original edition of this work,
+for permission kindly granted to include in this
+new edition several copyright pictures with their
+accompanying text.</i><br /><br /></p>
+
+<p class="center"><i>November 1911</i><br /><br /></p>
+<p class="center"><i>Printed by </i><span class="smcap">Morrison &amp; Gibb Limited</span>, <i>Edinburgh</i></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<h2><a name="CONTENTS_OF_YE_VOLUME" id="CONTENTS_OF_YE_VOLUME"></a>CONTENTS OF YE VOLUME.</h2>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="2" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp;</td><td align="right"><b>Page</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#YE_CONTRIBUTOR_HYS_PREFACE"><i>Ye Contributor hys Preface</i></a></td><td align="right">vii</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_CIDERE_CELLARE_DURING_A"><i>A Cydere Cellare duryng a Comyck Songe</i></a></td><td align="right">1</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_AN_AT_HOME_YE_POLKA"><i>An "At Home." Ye Polka</i></a></td><td align="right">3</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_YE_FASHONABLE_WORLDE_TAYKNGE"><i>Ye Fashonable Worlde in Hyde Parke</i></a></td><td align="right">5</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_DRAWYNGE_ROOM_DAY_SAYNTE"><i>A Drawynge Room Day</i></a></td><td align="right">7</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_SMYTHFIELD_CATTLE_MARKETE"><i>Smythfield Cattle Markete</i></a></td><td align="right">9</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_FEW_FRIENDS_TO_TEA_AND"><i>A Few Friends to Tea, and a Lyttle Musyck</i></a></td><td align="right">11</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_YE_NATIONAL_SPORTE_OF"><i>Ye National Sporte!!! of Steeple Chasynge</i></a></td><td align="right">13</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_YE_COMMONS_RESSOLVED_INTO"><i>Ye Commons ressolved into a Commytte</i></a></td><td align="right">15</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_YE_PUBLIC_ITS_EXCYTEMENTE_ON_YE"><i>Ye Public its Excytemente on ye Appearance of Miss Lind</i></a></td><td align="right">17</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_PROSPECT_OF_EXETER_HALL_SHOWYNGE"><i>A Prospect of Exeter Hall</i></a></td><td align="right">19</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_YE_EXHYBITYON_AT_YE_ROYAL"><i>Ye Exhybityon at ye Royal Academye</i></a></td><td align="right">21</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_VIEW_OF_EPSOM_DOWNES_ON_YE"><i>A View of Epsom Downes on ye Derbye Daye</i></a></td><td align="right">23</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_PROSPECT_OF_GREENWICH_FAIR"><i>A Prospect of Greenwich Fair</i></a></td><td align="right">25</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_KENSYNGTON_GARDENS_WITH_YE"><i>Kensyngton Gardens with ye Bande Playinge there</i></a></td><td align="right">27</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_HYGHEST_COURT_OF_LAW_IN_YE_KYNGDOM"><i>Ye Hyghest Court of Law in ye Kyngdom</i></a></td><td align="right">29</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_THE_FLOWER_SHOWE_AT_CHYSYK"><i>Ye Flower Showe at Chysyk Gardens</i></a></td><td align="right">31</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_SOCYETYE_ENJOYINGE_ITSELFE_AT"><i>"Socyetye" enjoyinge itselfe at a Soyrée</i></a></td><td align="right">33</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_VIEW_OF_MR_LORDE_HYS_CRYKET"><i>A View of Mr. Lorde hys Cryket Grounde</i></a></td><td align="right">35</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_RAYLWAYE_MEETYNGE_EMOTYON"><i>A Raylwaye Meetynge</i></a></td><td align="right">37</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_PROSPECT_OF_YE_THAMES_ITS"><i>A Prospect of ye Thames its Regatta</i></a></td><td align="right">39</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_RAYLWAY_STATYON_SHOWYNGE"><i>A Raylway Statyon</i></a></td><td align="right">41</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_YE_BRYTYSH_GRANADIERS_AMOUNTYNGE"><i>Ye Brytysh Granadiers amountynge Guard</i></a></td><td align="right">43</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_PROSPECT_OF_A_FASHYONABLE"><i>A Prospect of a Fashyonable Haberdasher hys Shope</i></a></td><td align="right">45</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_REGENTE_STRETE_AT_FOUR_OF_YE"><i>Regente Streete at Four of ye Clocke p.m.</i></a></td><td align="right">47</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_BLACKWALL_SHOWYNGE_YE_PUBLICK"><i>Blackwall</i></a></td><td align="right">49</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_YE_SPORT_OF_PUNTE_FYSHYNGE_OFF"><i>Ye Sporte of Punte Fyshynge off Rychmonde</i></a></td><td align="right">51</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_TRYCKS_OF_YE_LONDON_TRADE"><i>Trycks of ye London Trade</i></a></td><td align="right">53</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_MADAME_TUSSAUD_HER_WAX_WERKES"><i>Madame Tussaud her Wax Werkes</i></a></td><td align="right">55</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_DEERE_STALKYNGE_IN_YE_HYGHLANDES"><i>Deere Stalkynge in ye Hyghlandes</i></a></td><td align="right">57</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_PROSPECT_OF_AN_ELECTION"><i>A Prospect of an Election</i></a></td><td align="right">59</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_PARTIE_OF_SPORTSMEN_OUT_A"><i>A Partie of Sportsmen out a Shutynge</i></a></td><td align="right">61</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_YE_WYNE_VAULTS_AT_YE_DOCKS"><i>Ye Wyne Vaults at ye Docks</i></a></td><td align="right">63</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_WEDDYNGE_BREAKFASTE"><i>A Weddynge Breakfaste</i></a></td><td align="right">65</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_THEATRE_SHOWYNGE_YE_HOUSE"><i>A Theatre. Ye House amused by ye Comycke Actor</i></a></td><td align="right">67</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_PROSPECTE_OF_YE_ZOOLOGICAL_SOCIETYE"><i>A Prospecte of ye Zoological Societye its Gardens</i></a></td><td align="right">69</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_WESTMINSTER_HALL_SHOWYNGE_YE"><i>Westminster Hall</i></a></td><td align="right">71</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_PROSPECTE_OF_YE_5TH_OF_NOVEMBER"><i>A Prospecte of ye 5th of November</i></a></td><td align="right">73</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_BANQUET_SHOWYNGE_YE_FARMERS"><i>A Banquet of ye Agricultural Interest</i></a></td><td align="right">75</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_APPEARANCE_OF_YE_CRYMYNYAL"><i>Ye Appearance of ye Crymynyal Courte</i></a></td><td align="right">77</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_PROMENADE_CONCERTE"><i>A Promenade Concerte</i></a></td><td align="right">79</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_YE_SERPENTYNE_DURING_A_HARD"><i>Ye Serpentyne during a Hard Frost</i></a></td><td align="right">81</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_FASHIONABLE_CLUB_FOUR"><i>A Fashionable Club. Four o'clock p.m.</i></a></td><td align="right">83</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_THE_CIRCUS_AT_ASTLEYS"><i>The Circus at Astley's</i></a></td><td align="right">85</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_YE_FATHERS_OF_YE_CHURCHE_GYVING"><i>Ye Fathers of ye Churche gyving Judgmente</i></a></td><td align="right">87</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_JUVENILE_PARTYE"><i>A Juvenile Partye</i></a></td><td align="right">89</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_GRANDE_REVIEW"><i>A Grande Review</i></a></td><td align="right">91</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_PIC-NIC"><i>A Pic-nic</i></a></td><td align="right">93</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_VAUXHALL"><i>Vauxhall</i></a></td><td align="right">95</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#Illustration_A_SCIENTIFIC_INSTITUTION"><i>A Scientific Institution</i></a></td><td align="right">97</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<h2>YE CONTRIBUTOR HYS PREFACE
+<a name="YE_CONTRIBUTOR_HYS_PREFACE" id="YE_CONTRIBUTOR_HYS_PREFACE"></a>
+</h2>
+
+<p class="chapter"><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">[vii]</a></span>
+Suppose the great-grandfather of anybody
+could step down from his picture-frame and stalk
+abroad, his descendant would be eager to hear his opinion of the
+world we live in. Most of us would like to know what the men of
+the <i>Past</i> would say of the <i>Present</i>. If some old philosopher, for
+instance <span class="smcap">Socrates</span>, exchanging robes for modern clothes, lest he
+should be followed by the boys and taken up by the police, could
+revisit this earth, walk our streets, see our sights, behold the scenes
+of our political and social life, and, contemplating this bustling
+age through the medium of his own quiet mind, set down his observations
+respecting us and our usages, he would write a work,
+no doubt, very interesting to her <span class="smcap">Majesty's</span> subjects.</p>
+
+<p>It would answer the purpose of a skilful literary enchanter to
+"unsphere the spirit of <span class="smcap">Plato</span>," or that of <span class="smcap">Pythagoras</span>, <span class="smcap">Aristotle</span>,
+or any other distinguished sage of antiquity, and send it
+out on its rambles with a commission to take, and report, its views
+of things in general. But such necromancy would have tasked
+even the Warlock of the North, would puzzle the wizard of any
+point of the compass, and, it is probable, could be cleverly achieved
+by no adept inferior to the ingenious <span class="smcap">Mr. Shakspeare</span>.</p>
+
+<p>However, there flourished in a somewhat later day a philosopher,
+for such he was after his fashion, a virtuoso, antiquary, and
+<i>F.R.S.</i>, whose ghost an inconsiderable person may perhaps attempt
+to raise without being accused of pretending to be too much
+of a conjuror. He appears to have been a <i>Peripatetic</i>, at least
+until he could keep a coach, but on the subjects of dress, dining,
+and some others, his opinions favour strongly of <i>Epicurism</i>. A
+little more than a hundred and eighty years ago he employed his
+leisure in going about everywhere, peeping into everything, seeing
+all that he could, and chronicling his experiences daily. In his
+<i>Diary</i>, which happily has come down to our times, the historical
+facts are highly valuable, the comments mostly sensible, the style
+is very odd, and the autobiography extremely ludicrous. I have<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_viii" id="Page_viii">[viii]</a></span>
+adventured reverently to evoke this worshipful gentleman, that, resuming
+his old vocation as a journalist, he might comment on the
+"<i>Manners and Customs of ye Englyshe</i>," in the name of <span class="smcap">Mr. Pips</span>.
+I hope his shadow, if not his spirit, may be recognised in the following
+pages.</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+PERCIVAL LEIGH.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_CIDERE_CELLARE_DURING_A" id="Illustration_A_CIDERE_CELLARE_DURING_A"></a>
+<a href="images/009a.png">
+<img src="images/009.png" width="400" height="237" alt="A CIDERE CELLARE DURING A COMICK SONGE." title="" /></a>
+<h2>A CIDERE CELLARE DURING A
+COMICK SONGE.</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Saturday</span>, <i>March 10, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+<p class="chapter">To Drury Lane this Evening, to see the
+Horsemanship, which did divert me mightily; but had rather it
+had been at Astley's, which is the fitter Place for it. After that, to
+Supper at the Cider Cellars in Maiden Lane, wherein was much
+Company, great and small, and did call for Kidneys and Stout,
+then a small Glass of <i>Aqua-Vitæ</i> and Water, and thereto a Cigar.
+While we supped, the Singers did entertain us with Glees and Comical
+Ditties; but Lack, to hear with how little Wit the young
+Sparks about Town are tickled! But the Thing that did most take
+me was to see and hear one Ross sing the Song of <span class="smcap">Sam Hall</span> the
+Chimney-Sweep, going to be hanged: for he had begrimed his
+Muzzle to look unshaven, and in rusty black Clothes, with a battered
+old Hat on his Crown and a short Pipe in his Mouth, did sit
+upon the Platform, leaning over the Back of a Chair: so making
+believe that he was on his way to Tyburn. And then he did sing
+to a dismal Psalm-Tune, how that his Name was <span class="smcap">Sam Hall</span>, and
+that he had been a great Thief, and was now about to pay for all
+with his Life; and thereupon he swore an Oath which did make
+me somewhat shiver, though divers laugh. Then, in so many Verses,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span>
+how his Master had badly taught him and now he must hang
+for it; how he should ride up Holborn Hill in a Cart, and the
+Sheriffs would come, and then the Parson, and preach to him, and
+after them would come the Hangman; and at the End of each
+Verse he did repeat his Oath. Last of all, how that he should go
+up to the Gallows; and desired the Prayers of his Audience, and
+ended by cursing them all round. Methinks it had been a Sermon
+to a Rogue to hear him, and I wish it may have done good to some
+of the Company. Yet was his cursing very horrible, albeit to not
+a few it seemed a high Joke; but I do doubt that they understood
+the Song and did only relish the Oaths. Strange to think what a
+Hit this Song of <span class="smcap">Sam Hall</span> hath made, and how it hath taken the
+Town, and how popular it is not only among Tavern Haunters and
+Frequenters of Night Houses, but also with the Gentry and Aristocracy
+who do vote it a Thing that ought to be heard though a
+blackguard, and look in at the Cider Cellars Night by Night after
+Dinner at their Clubs to hear it sung. After <span class="smcap">Sam Hall</span>, to pay for
+my Supper, which cost me 2s. 2d., besides 4d. to the Waiter; and
+then Home in a Cab, it being late, and I fearing to anger my Wife,
+which cost me 2s. more; but I grudged not the Money, having
+been much diverted, and so to Bed.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_AN_AT_HOME_YE_POLKA" id="Illustration_AN_AT_HOME_YE_POLKA"></a>
+<a href="images/011a.png">
+<img src="images/011.png" width="400" height="343" alt="AN &quot;AT HOME.&quot; YE POLKA." title="" />
+</a>
+<h2>AN &quot;AT HOME.&quot; YE POLKA.</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Wednesday</span>, <i>March 21st, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">To-night to an Evening Party with my Wife,
+to <span class="smcap">Sir Hilary Jinks's</span>, whereunto we had been bidden to come
+at 10 of the Clock; for <span class="smcap">Sir Hilary</span> and her Ladyship have taken
+to keeping rare Hours. Thereat was a goodly Company of about
+an hundred, and the Women all very fine, my Wife in her last
+Year's Gown, which I am tired of, and do hate to see. But did not
+tell her that, knowing she would have said how soon I might rid
+me of that Objection. We did fall to dancing Quadrilles, wherein
+I made one, and had for my Partner a pretty little black Damsel,
+whom after the Dance was ended, did hand to a Sofa, and
+thereon sit me by her Side; but seeing my Wife looking hard at
+us, did presently make my Bow, and go away. And, my Wife seated
+by the Wall, to walk about the Room, and speak with such as
+I thought like to tell me Something worth hearing, but told me
+Nothing I cared to hear, they all shunning to talk, and in their<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span>
+white Ties, and Waistcoats, and Kid Gloves, starch, and constrained,
+and ill at Ease, which was ridiculous. Then to look on while
+some did dance the Polka, which did please me not much, for had
+beheld it better danced at the <i>Casino</i>, and do think it more suitable
+to such a Place than to a Drawing Room. The Young Fellows
+did take their Partners by the Waist, and these did lean upon
+the other's Shoulders, and with one Arm stretched out, and holding
+Hand in Hand, they did spin round the Room together. But,
+Lack! to see the kicking up of Heels and stamping of them on the
+Ground, which did mightily remind me of <i>Jim Crow</i>. In Truth, I
+am told that the Polka is but a Peasant's Hop, from Hungary,
+and to think now of Persons of Quality cutting such Capers! <span class="smcap">Sir
+Hilary</span> to his Taste; but a Minuet for me at Home, with Gentlewomen,
+and a Polka with Milkmaids at a Maying or Show Girls
+in a Booth. Meanwhile the Servants did hand round Glasses of
+Negus, which was poor Stuff; and those who listed to Supper when
+they chose, in a side Room, off wretched Sandwiches of the Size
+of the Triangles of <span class="smcap">Euclid</span> his <i>Geometry</i>, which did think shabby.
+Expected Chicken and Lobster Salad, with Champagne, and Oysters
+and Ale and Stout, but disappointed. Home in a Cab, at Two
+in the Morning, much wearied and little pleased; and on our Way
+Home, spying a Tavern open, did go and get me a Pint of Beer,
+and the same to my Wife; for we were both athirst, and she in an
+ill Humour about the Beauty I had danced with, and I because
+of the bad Supper; and so very ill-contented to Bed.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_YE_FASHONABLE_WORLDE_TAYKNGE" id="Illustration_YE_FASHONABLE_WORLDE_TAYKNGE"></a>
+<a href="images/013a.png">
+<img src="images/013.png" width="400" height="328" alt="YE FASHONABLE WORLDE TAYKNGE
+ITS EXERCYSE IN HYDE PARKE." title="" />
+</a>
+<h2>YE FASHONABLE WORLDE TAYKNGE
+ITS EXERCYSE IN HYDE PARKE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Tuesday</span>, <i>March 27th, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">This Day to the Ring in Hyde Park for a
+Walk to get me an Appetite, and look at the fine Folks and People
+of Fashion riding in their carriages, which it do much delight
+me to behold. But, good Lack! what a strange Notion of the Pleasure
+of a Drive; with the Carriages in a close Line jammed all together,
+and sometimes coming to a dead Stop like the Omnibuses
+in Fleet Street of an Afternoon, and seldom moving on faster than
+Mourning Coaches at a Funeral. Did see many mighty pretty
+young Ladies; and one sitting in a Landau with a Coronet on the
+Panel, upon whom I did smile, but perceiving that she did turn up
+her Nose at me, I did look glum; howbeit, another comely Damsel
+that I smiled at did blush and simper, which gave me Joy. It
+was as good as a Play to watch the young Guardsmen, with their
+Tufts and Mustaches, riding straight-legged, and them and the
+other Bucks taking off their Hats and kissing their Hands to the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span>
+charming Belles as they passed them by. But it was rarer still to
+behold a Snob that strove to do the same Sort of Thing, and did
+get laughed at for his Pains. Then what Sport to observe the fat
+Coachmen, in their Wigs, something like Bishops', sitting on their
+Boxes, and the Footmen behind with their parti-coloured Liveries
+of drab and green, and red and yellow Plush, and gold-laced Hats,
+Shoulderknots and Cockades, bearing their Canes, and their Noses
+to the Sky, holding their Heads as high as Peacocks for Pride in
+their Frippery and plump Calves! These Fellows are as fine as
+Court Cards, and full as Ridiculous, and they do divert me in the
+Extreme: only their bepowdered Pates do offend me, for I think
+the Fashion an uncleanly one; and after all, I wonder how their
+Masters and Mistresses can delight in dressing them out so much
+like Mountebanks. Did note divers Noble Lords and Gentlemen
+of the House of Commons whom I did know either by Sight or
+from the Caricatures in the Shop-Windows. From four to five o'Clock
+around the Ring and up and down by the Serpentine to
+make my observations. Methought how jolly these fine People
+must be, and how happy they looked compared to a Beggar Boy
+whom I did spy squatting on the Grass: yet no Doubt many of
+them have Troubles enough, and some may be even short of Cash
+to pay for their Vanities. After that, to the Corner, by the Powder
+Magazine, nigh to Kensington Gardens, to see the Company alight
+from their Carriages, and take an Inventory of the Ladies'
+Dresses, whereof to furnish an Account to my Wife. Then away
+home at half-past Five, and so to Dinner off a Shoulder of Mutton
+and Onion-Sauce, which my Wife doth make exceeding well, and
+my Dinner did content me much; and thereupon I did promise
+my Wife a new Bonnet, the Like whereof I had seen on a Countess
+in the Park, and so both in great Good Humour, and very loving
+all the Evening.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_DRAWYNGE_ROOM_DAY_SAYNTE" id="Illustration_A_DRAWYNGE_ROOM_DAY_SAYNTE"></a>
+<a href="images/015a.png">
+<img src="images/015.png" width="400" height="324" alt="A DRAWYNGE ROOM DAY. SAYNTE
+JAMES HYS STREETE." title="" />
+</a>
+<h2>A DRAWYNGE ROOM DAY. SAYNTE JAMES HYS STREETE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Thursday</span>, <i>March 29th, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">To see the Nobility and Gentry, and other
+great Company, go to the <span class="smcap">Queen's</span> Drawing-Room, with a Friend
+to St. James's Street, where did stand in Front of <span class="smcap">Boodle's</span> Club-House
+in the Rain, which was heavy, and spoiled my Paris Hat,
+cost me twelve Shillings. But the Sight of the Show almost worth
+the Damage; for the Red and Blue Uniforms of the Army and
+Navy Officers with their Orders on their Breasts, and their Cocked
+Hats and Plumes in their Laps, and the Ladies of Quality in
+their Silks and Satins of all Manner of Colours, and their Hair
+crowned with Ostrich Feathers, and sparkling with Pearls and Diamonds,
+did much delight me to behold. But I wish I could have
+had as good a View of the Gentlefolks within the Carriages as I
+had of the Lackeys outside, who, with their supercilious Airs, and
+their Jackanapes Garb, did divert me more than ever. I do continually
+marvel at the enormous Calves of those Varlets, for which<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span>
+one might almost think they were reared, like a sort of Cattle. Indeed,
+I should have believed that their Stockings were stuffed, if
+I had not seen one of them wince when a Horse chanced to lay
+hold of his Leg. It did more and more amaze me to observe how
+high they carried their Noses, especially as most of them had Posies
+in their bosoms; whereas they looked as though, instead, there
+were some unsavoury Odour beneath their Nostrils. But much
+as the Servants resembled Zanies and Harlequins, yet did some
+of their Masters look not much better; being dressed in a Court
+Suit, which methinks do make a Gentleman seem a sort of embroidered
+Quaker. I do greatly wonder why the ugliest Apparel
+of any Date in English History should be pitched upon for the
+Court Dress. But the splendid Carriages painted with Coats of
+Arms, and the stately caparisoned Horses, did make a rare Show;
+and among them mighty droll to mark the Hack Cabs not suffered
+to enter at the Palace Gate; so the Fares had to alight and
+walk on foot the Rest of the Way to the Drawing-Room: and so
+into the Presence of Her <span class="smcap">Majesty</span> in dirty Boots: which was not
+seemly; but many of them are Half Pay Officers, and other poor
+Subjects, who could afford no better than a Cab. Pleased to see
+the Police with their Truncheons, keeping Order among the Vagabonds,
+till one did tell me to move on, which did vex me. Then
+there were the Guards, in full Uniform on Horseback, with their
+Helmets on their Heads and their Swords drawn, about one under
+each Lamp Post, mounting Guard, and I believe this is the heaviest
+Part of their Duty. What with the blazing Uniforms and glittering
+Jewels, my Eyes were dazzled and my Head did somewhat
+ache; moreover, some pretty Faces put my Heart in a Flutter,
+which did not think fit to mention to my Wife. Methinks how fine
+it would be to ride in State to Court, if it were not so chargeable,
+and I should much delight in the Honour and Glory of the Thing,
+but not like the Expense. A Drawing-Room doth altogether eclipse
+the <span class="smcap">Lord Mayor's</span> Show; although it do seem but a Toy
+and gilt Gingerbread Affair, and an empty, childish Display, like
+the Babies' Game of King and Queen; but then it hath certainly
+this Advantage, that it do much good to Trade.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_SMYTHFIELD_CATTLE_MARKETE" id="Illustration_SMYTHFIELD_CATTLE_MARKETE"></a>
+<a href="images/017a.png">
+<img src="images/017.png" width="400" height="322" alt="SMYTHFIELD CATTLE MARKETE." title="" />
+</a>
+<h2>SMYTHFIELD CATTLE MARKETE.</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Monday</span>, <i>April 9th, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Up betimes, it being scarcely Light, to
+Smithfield, to see the Cattle Market, which I do think a great Disgrace
+to the City, being so nasty, filthy, and dangerous a Place in
+the very Heart of London. I did observe the Manner of driving
+the Beasts together, used by the Drovers, which did disgust me.
+To force the Oxen into their Places, they have stout Cudgels,
+pointed with iron Goads or Prods, wherewith they thrust the Creatures
+in the flesh of their Hind Quarters, or with the Cudgel belabour
+them on the Hock. These means failing, they do seize the
+Animal's Tail and give it a sudden Wrench with a Turn of the
+Wrist, whereby they snap the Tail-bone, and so twist and wring the
+spinal Cord till he pushes forward as far as they would have him.
+Some, not getting Room for the Beasts in the Pens, do drive them
+into Circles called Ring Droves, with their hind Parts outwards,
+and their Heads forced as close as may be together: this done by
+beating them with all their Might about the Head and Eyes, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span>
+between the Horns, which they do call pething them. Then to see
+how they crowd the Sheep into the Pens by dogging them as their
+Word is, which means baiting them with Dogs that do tear the
+Sheeps' Eyes, Ears, and Cheeks, until they worry such Numbers
+in, that not one can budge an Inch. All this Cruelty is caused by
+the Market not being big enough: for which Reason they are obliged
+to force the unlucky Brutes into the smallest possible Space.
+What with the Oaths and Curses of the Drovers and Butchers and
+the Barking of their Dogs and the Cries of the Animals in Torture,
+I do think I never heard a more horrid Din in my Life. The Hearing
+was as bad as the Seeing, and both as bad as could be, except
+the Smell, which was worse than either. But to be sure it was good
+Sport to see here and there a fat Grazier overthrown by a Pig running
+between his Legs, and so upsetting him in the Mire. It were
+well if it were never worse; but with mad Oxen driven from the
+Market through Streets full of People, it continually happens that
+some Person is tossed and gored, and one of these Days it will be
+an Alderman, and then Smithfield will be put an End to. No doubt
+it would have been done away with long ago, but for the Tolls and
+Dues which the Corporation do derive from the Market. This is
+why they do keep up a Nuisance which did well nigh poison me;
+though one of them at a Meeting did declare that he thought
+Smithfield salubrious, and did send his Children to walk there for
+Change of Air, which if it were for the better, methinks that Gentleman's
+Dwelling-House should be a sweet Abode. All but the
+Citizens do say that Parliament ought to abolish this Nuisance;
+but it is thought that my <span class="smcap">Lord John</span> dare not stir in the Matter,
+because he is Member for the City. To Breakfast to an Early Coffee
+House, having lost my Pocket Handkerchief, cost me 5s.,
+doubtless by the Pickpockets, of whom Smithfield, besides its other
+Recommendations, is a great Resort. But content, not having
+had an Ox's Horn in my Stomach, and having seen all I wanted,
+and do not wish to see any more.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_FEW_FRIENDS_TO_TEA_AND" id="Illustration_A_FEW_FRIENDS_TO_TEA_AND"></a>
+<a href="images/019a.png">
+<img src="images/019.png" width="400" height="316" alt="A FEW FRIENDS TO TEA, AND A LYTTLE MUSYCK." title="" />
+</a>
+<h2>A FEW FRIENDS TO TEA, AND A LYTTLE MUSYCK.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Tuesday</span>, <i>April 17, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">To <span class="smcap">Mr. Jiggins's</span>, where my Wife and I were
+invited to Tea and a little Musique, but we had much Musique
+and little Tea, though the Musique was like the Tea in Quality,
+and I do prefer a stronger Kind of Musique as well as Liquor.
+Yet it was pleasing enough to the Ear to hear the fashionable Ballads,
+and the Airs from all the New Italian Operas sung by the
+young Ladies; which, though they expressed Nothing but common-place
+Love and Sentiment, yet were a pretty Sing-Song.
+But to see the young Fellows whilst a Beauty was singing crowd
+round her, and bend over her Shoulders, and almost scramble to
+turn over the Leaves of her Musique Book! Besides the Singing,
+there was Playing of the Piano Forte, with the Accompaniment of
+a Fiddle and Bass Violl, the Piano being played by a stout fat Lady
+with a Dumpling Face; but for all her being so fat it did amaze
+me to see how nimbly she did fillip the Keys. They did call this<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span>
+Piece a Concerto, and I was told it was mighty brilliant; but when
+I asked what Fancy, Passion, or Description there was in it, no
+one could tell; and I verily thought the Brilliancy like that of a
+Paste Buckle. It had not even an Air to carry away and whistle,
+and would have pleased me just as well if I had stopped my Ears,
+for I could discern Nothing in it but Musical Sleight of Hand.
+But good Lack! to think how, in these Days, Execution is Everything
+in Musique, and Composition little or Nothing: for almost
+no Account is made of the Master, and a preposterous Value put
+upon the Player, or artiste, as the Frenchified Phrase now is! After
+the Concerto, some Polkas and Waltzes, which did better please
+me; for they were a lively Jingle certainly, and not quite unmeaning.
+Strange, to find how rare a Thing good Musique is in Company;
+and by good Musique I mean such as do stir up the Soul,
+like the Flowers and Sunshine in Spring, or Storms and Tempests,
+or ghostly Imaginations, or the thought of great Deeds, or tender
+or terrible Passages in Poetry. My Wife do play some brave
+Pieces in this Kind, by <span class="smcap">Mynheer Van Beethoven</span>, and I would
+rather hear her perform one of them, than all I did hear to-Night
+put together; and so I did tell her when we got Home, which did
+content her well. But every one to his Taste; and they who delight
+in the trivial Style of Musique to theirs, as I to mine, not
+doubting that the English, that have but just begun to be sensible
+to Musique at all, will be awake to the nobler Sort of it by-and-by.
+And, at any Rate, an Evening of insipid Musique and
+weak Tea is better than sitting toping and guzzling after Dinner.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_YE_NATIONAL_SPORTE_OF" id="Illustration_YE_NATIONAL_SPORTE_OF"></a>
+<a href="images/021a.png">
+<img src="images/021.png" width="400" height="318" alt="YE NATIONAL SPORTE!!! OF
+STEEPLE CHASYNGE." title="" />
+</a>
+<h2>YE NATIONAL SPORTE!!! OF
+STEEPLE CHASYNGE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Monday</span>, <i>April 23, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Down the Road to a Steeple Chase, which
+I had never seen before, and did much long to behold: for of
+all Things I do love Diversion and Merriment; and both <span class="smcap">Mr.
+Strappes</span> and <span class="smcap">Sir William Spurkins</span> did tell me there would be
+rare Sport. Got a Place in the Grand Stand, cost me half-a-Guinea,
+which was loth to part with, but thought I should have brave Entertainment
+for so much Money. Did find myself here in fine Company,
+Dukes, and Earls, and Lords and Ladies too, which did
+please me; but among them some Snobs, in Stable-cut-Clothes,
+with spotted Neckcloths and Fox-headed Breast-pins; though
+some of these were Lords too, who seemed to have been at Pains
+to look like Ostlers. To see the Crowd on Horseback and in Carriages,
+and those on Foot pushing and scrambling, and trampling
+each other to get a Sight of the Course, as if there had been going
+to be a Coronation, or a Man hanged! The Course, marked<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span>
+out with Flags, and having Hurdles, Posts, Fences, Rails, Hedges,
+Drains, Ditches, and Brooks in the Way; and this Sportsmen do
+call the Country, and say such a Country is a Teaser, and so I
+should think. By-and-by Jockies in their Saddles, but their word
+is Pig-skins, looking, in their gay Colours, like Tulips on Horseback,
+which was a pretty Sight. Then a Bell rung to clear the
+Course, and the Horses with their Riders drawn up ready to start,
+and presently a Flag flourished for a Signal: and so they off. Good
+Lack, to see them galloping helter-skelter, like mad, through Rivers,
+and over Hedges and Ditches, and the whole Thing done in
+ten Minutes! Some did jump the Fences and Hedges, which they
+about me did term Raspers, clean over; but others not so lucky,
+and stuck in Brambles or on Stakes, or between double Rows of
+Posts, with a Quickset in the Middle, whereof the cant name is
+Bullfinchers. Others upset in Ditches; and one or two of them
+not able to get up again, and carried away upon some of the Hurdles;
+and when the Race was over, three Horses found lying with
+their Backs broken, and so shot. <span class="smcap">Sir William</span> did inform me that
+it was a tidy Field, which I could not agree, with the Raspers and
+Palisades upon it, and the Horses spiked, or sprawling with their
+Riders on the Ground with broken Backs and Limbs. Nor did I
+understand the Fun of this Part of the Thing; wherefore I suppose
+I must be dull; for it do seem to be the chief Delight that People
+take in it. For, as if the Gates and Rails belonging to the Ground
+were not dangerous enough, they do set up others called made
+Fences, being stubborn Posts and Stakes twisted with Briars and
+Brambles, which do seem to be meant for Nothing but to be tumbled
+over, and in that Case to do as much Mischief, as may be,
+to Man and Beast. The Horses mostly ridden by Jockeys for
+Hire; but some by their Owners, who, methinks, do set a sufficient
+Value upon their own Existence when they venture their
+Necks in riding a Steeple Chase; but I do blame them for risking
+the Life of a useful Horse.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_YE_COMMONS_RESSOLVED_INTO" id="Illustration_YE_COMMONS_RESSOLVED_INTO"></a>
+<a href="images/023a.png">
+<img src="images/023.png" width="400" height="311" alt="YE COMMONS RESSOLVED INTO
+A COMMYTTE OF YE WHOLE HOUSE." title="" />
+</a>
+<h2>YE COMMONS RESSOLVED INTO
+A COMMYTTE OF YE WHOLE HOUSE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Friday</span>, <i>April 27, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<p class="chapter">To the House of Commons, where an Irish Debate
+on the Rate-in-Aid Bill, which did make me drowsy. The
+House in Committee; the Irish Members moving all Sorts of frivolous
+Amendments, abusing the Government, and quarrelling
+among themselves. <span class="smcap">Sir H. Barron</span> did accuse <span class="smcap">Mr. Reynolds</span>
+of being ready to Vote away other People's Money because he had
+none of his own, and <span class="smcap">Mr. Reynolds</span> did say that he never saw
+such Misery as on <span class="smcap">Sir H. Barron's</span> Estate; whereupon <span class="smcap">Sir H.
+Barron</span> up in a Rage, and did deny the Fact with vehement Gestures,
+flourishing his Fists gallantly. Then <span class="smcap">Mr. Reynolds</span> did fall
+foul of <span class="smcap">Mr. Bateson</span>, one that had been a Captain, for questioning
+the <span class="smcap">Chancellor of the Exchequer</span> concerning young <span class="smcap">Reynolds's</span>
+Place; and did make a Joke upon <span class="smcap">Mr. Bateson's</span> Mustachios:
+whereat much laughter. But a small Joke do go a great
+Way in the House of Commons. Before the Debate, <span class="smcap">Lord John<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span></span>
+<span class="smcap">Russell</span> marching up one of the side Galleries, and taking the Measure
+of the House through his Eye-Glass: a sharp delicate little
+Man, with a mild Voice, but do carry himself stately. Methought
+his Observations amused him, for he smirked a little, and looked
+as if he knew the Customers he had to deal with. But to see him
+and the <span class="smcap">Home Secretary</span> and the <span class="smcap">Chancellor of the Exchequer</span>
+trying to persuade the Irish Members not to press their ridiculous
+Motions to a Division, wheedling and coaxing them, as smiling
+and civil as Haberdashers! The Bill to be reported to-morrow;
+and then the House to a little ordinary Business; and <span class="smcap">Mr. Horsman's</span>
+Bill postponed, through the Irish cavilling and squabbling.
+Then a Debate on naming the Committee on Savings Banks; and
+made an Irish Question too; the Dispute how many Irish Members
+were to serve on the Committee: and the End, the Naming
+of the Committee delayed. This Way of doing Business in the
+House of Commons makes it no Wonder how little is done; and
+the chief Cause is the Irish Members haranguing upon Nothing
+and quarrelling about Straws, which do seem to me a childish
+and spiteful Attempt to give Trouble to Government. I did hope
+to hear a Speech from <span class="smcap">Sir Robert Peel</span>, but was disappointed,
+which did vex me; but heard a few Words from <span class="smcap">Colonel Sibthorp</span>,
+which made mighty Laughter, and were as sensible as any
+Thing I heard all the Evening: and the Colonel in a brave Waistcoat,
+with his droll Figure did divert me much. Last of all, a Settlement
+of the Smithfield Committee: and I do wonder this became
+not an Irish Matter too. The House adjourning at half-past One
+in the Morning; and to see the Number of Members lying asleep
+on the Gallery Benches! All this While Nothing whatever done
+of more Importance than Parish Business at a Vestry. I off to
+Supper in the Haymarket on pickled Salmon and Stout, cost me
+1s. 6d., and then Home and to Bed, past 2 o'Clock, and my Wife do
+say that the House of Commons keep worse Hours than any Tavern
+in Town.></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_YE_PUBLIC_ITS_EXCYTEMENTE_ON_YE" id="Illustration_YE_PUBLIC_ITS_EXCYTEMENTE_ON_YE"></a>
+<a href="images/025a.png">
+<img src="images/025.png" width="400" height="315" alt="YE PUBLIC ITS EXCYTEMENTE ON YE
+APPEARANCE OF MISS LIND." title="" />
+</a>
+<h2>YE PUBLIC ITS EXCYTEMENTE ON YE
+APPEARANCE OF MISS LIND.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Saturday</span>, <i>May 5, 1849</i>.<br
+/>
+</p>
+
+
+
+<p class="chapter">To the Queen's House in the Haymarket to
+hear Jenny Lind, whom Everybody do call the Swedish Nightingale.
+Did go with a Pit Ticket, cost me 8s. 6d., which is a mighty
+Sum of Money to pay for only the Chance of a Seat. Went at
+6 p.m., expecting a Crowd, and there a Mob of People already at
+the Doors, and some did say they had come as early as Five. Got
+as close as I could to the Pit Entrance, and the Throng increasing;
+and by-and-by Ladies in their Opera Dresses standing without
+their Bonnets in the Street. Many of them between the Carriage
+Wheels and under the Horses' Heads: and methinks I did
+never see more Carriages together in my Life. At last the Doors
+open; which I began to fear they never would, and I in with the
+Press, a most terrible Crush, and the Ladies screaming and their
+Dresses torn in the Scramble, wherefore I thought it a good Job
+that my Wife was not with me. With much ado into the Pit, the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span>
+Way being stopped by a Snob in a green Jockey Coat and Bird's
+Eye Neckcloth, that the Checktakers would not suffer to pass. The
+Pit full in a Twinkling, and I fain to stand where I best might, nigh
+to Fop's Alley: but presently a Lady fainting with the Heat and
+carried out, which I glad of; I mean that I got her Place. I did
+never behold so much Company in the House before; and every
+Box full of Beauties, and hung with yellow Satin Curtains, did show
+like a brave picture in a Gold Frame; which was very handsome
+to look round upon while the Musicians were tuning. The Fiddles
+tuned, and the Overture played, the Curtain up for the Opera;
+which was the <i>Sonnambula</i>; the Part of <i>Amina</i> acted by <span class="smcap">Jenny</span>.
+The moment she came on the Stage, the Audience, Lords, Ladies,
+and all, upon their Legs, shouting, cheering, waving Hats and
+Handkerchiefs, and clapping of Hands in white Kid Gloves. But
+at last they silent, and let the Nightingale sing: and for certain she
+is a wonderful Singer. It did amaze me to hear how easy and sweetly
+she do trill and warble the most difficult Passages: and I perceive
+she hath a rare Ability of Voice. But what did no less astonish
+me was her Acting, it being as good as her singing; for she did
+seem to forget herself in her Part, instead of her Part in herself;
+which is the Mistake of most Opera Singers. To think that she
+should draw the whole Town in Crowds together to hear her sing
+a few pretty Sugar-plum Melodies and portray the Grief of a poor
+Peasant Wench cast off by her Lover! But she do put a Grace and
+Beauty of her own into the Character and Musique: which I take
+to be the Mark of a true Genius. She made to sing divers Songs
+twice over, and called upon the Stage at the End of the Act, and
+again when the Opera was finished; when, good Lack, to see the
+Nosegays and Posies flung in Heaps upon the Stage! She must
+needs get a Mint of Money by her Singing; but she has spent a
+Deal of it in building Hospitals, and I do wish (Heaven forgive
+me!) I had all she has given away in Charity.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_PROSPECT_OF_EXETER_HALL_SHOWYNGE" id="Illustration_A_PROSPECT_OF_EXETER_HALL_SHOWYNGE"></a>
+<a href="images/027a.png">
+<img src="images/027.png" width="400" height="320" alt="A PROSPECT OF EXETER HALL. SHOWYNGE
+A CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN DENOUNCYNGE YE POPE." title="" />
+</a>
+<h2>A PROSPECT OF EXETER HALL. SHOWYNGE
+A CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN DENOUNCYNGE YE POPE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Wednesday</span>, <i>May 9, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Went this Morning to Exeter Hall, where
+one of the May Meetings that do regularly take Place at this Time
+of the Season, and serve in Lieu of Concerts and Shows to a Sort
+of People that call themselves serious. This, one of the Meetings
+of a Protestant Association, which I had heard much of and did
+long to go to, expecting to hear some good Argument against the
+Roman Catholiques. But instead of Argument, I did hear Nothing
+but Abuse, which do always go in at one Ear and out at the other.
+No new Point brought forward to confute Popery; but only an
+Iteration of the Old Charges of Superstition and so forth, urged
+with no greater Power than mere Strength of Lungs. The Commotions
+on the Continent last Year laid much Stress on, and the
+Turmoils in Catholique and Quiet in Protestant States contrasted,
+as though there had been no Disturbance or Trouble in Prussia<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span>
+or Denmark, or any Tumult or Revolution in Belgium or Portugal.
+I did note two chief Speakers, whom, on their rising, the Assembly
+did applaud as if they had been Actors, and to be sure, they ranted
+more frantically than I did ever see <span class="smcap">Hicks</span>. Yet at Times they
+stooped to Drollery in the Height of their Passion, and one of them
+did make such Sport of the Roman Catholique Religion as would
+not have been suffered in the Adelphi Theatre. But I do find that
+some who would not be seen in a Play-House can enjoy their laugh
+at Exeter Hall. This Orator was a Clergyman of some Kind, for
+he was called Reverend in the Hand-bill, and dressed in a clerical
+Habit, but his Eyes and Face blazing with Wrath, did storm like
+a Madman against the Maynooth Grant and the <span class="smcap">Pope of Rome</span>;
+and howled as fierce as a Hyæna. The other a Clergyman too,
+and looked as much like one, with his sneering angry Visage, and
+did vehemently harangue, crying bitterly out on some of my Lords
+and the Members of the Commons' House that had voted for Popish
+Endowment. His Oration a medley of Sarcasm, Invective, and
+Buffoonery, and wound up with a Flourish of Patriotism and Loyalty.
+The Speeches received with Applause and Laughter, but also
+with Interruptions and crying to turn Somebody out. The Speakers
+on a Platform, whereon they bounced backwards and forwards, having
+Rails in Front as if to hinder them from breaking loose on the
+Audience. Behind them a Crowd of dainty smooth Gentlemen
+in Black, with white Neckerchiefs, and to see how demure they
+looked, as if Butter would not melt in their Mouths! In the Body
+of the Hall a goodly Number of Heads, but by far the Most of
+them in Bonnets. The two chief Speeches lasted an Hour and
+a Half each, and the Chairman leaving his Seat, I away, my Head
+aching through the Raving. Such Violence, methinks, do only
+prove that there are other Bigots besides Papists; and is the worst
+Means of enforcing any Truth; for they that speak in Anger and
+Passion are commonly concluded by indifferent People to be in
+the Wrong. The Society complaining of want of Funds, which I
+do not wonder at, for I fear me the Subscribers have but few Catholiques
+converted for their Money.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_YE_EXHYBITYON_AT_YE_ROYAL" id="Illustration_YE_EXHYBITYON_AT_YE_ROYAL"></a>
+<a href="images/029a.png">
+<img src="images/029.png" width="400" height="328" alt="YE EXHYBITYON AT YE ROYAL
+ACADEMYE." title="" />
+</a>
+<h2>YE EXHYBITYON AT YE ROYAL
+ACADEMYE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Monday</span>, <i>May 21, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">This Morning with my Wife to the Exhibition
+of the Royal Academy, where 611 Paintings, besides Miniatures
+and other Drawings, and Pieces of Sculpture, making altogether
+1341 Works of Art, and methought it would be strange if
+there were not some Masterpiece among so many. The Whole to
+be seen for the small Sum of 1s., and the Catalogue cost me 1s.
+more, but should have known all the old Hands as well without
+it. To see how easy it is to distinguish them by their Styles after
+two or three Years' Experience: as one by his Dogs, that might
+be expected to bark, or to talk rather, with their Looks and Ways
+like Human Creatures. Then another by his Colouring that do
+resemble a Mash of sweet Omelet with all the Colours of the Rainbow
+and many more; which methinks is a strange Fancy; but now
+he hath a Picture out of his trite Fashion; done after the Manner
+of the antique Masters, and a good Imitation. A third also by his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span>
+unadorned Beauties with their glowing Eyes and Cheeks and
+plump swarthy flesh, and a fourth by his never-ending Perspectives,
+and Gulfs of Darkness, and Mountains of Blue. But this
+year I do mark fewer of these old Acquaintances, and more of the
+Works of younger Men, wherein there is less of Knack and more
+of Freshness, which I do esteem a hopeful Sign. The Exhibition
+at large I judge to be a very excellent middling one, many Pictures
+good in their Kind, but that Kind in very few Cases high. The
+Silks and Satins mostly painted to Admiration, and the Figures
+copied carefully from the Model; but this do appear too plainly;
+and the Action generally too much like a Scene in a Play. In the
+historical Pictures the Characters dressed strictly in the Fashion
+of their Time, but in the best of them a Lack of Fancy and Imagination,
+though seeming original through a certain Quaintness
+that do smack of Church-Window Saints and illuminated Missals.
+The Landscapes better, and a most brave Morning on the Lake
+of Zurich by one that hath the right Stuff in him, and some sweet
+melancholy Shades and solemn Groves, and a Solitary Pool that
+did please me mightily, and my Wife do say that the Artist should
+be Commissioner of Woods and Forests. Some Pictures of common
+Life pretty enough, and a little Crowd before a pleasant sentimental
+one called the Duet. One or two droll ones, as the Slide,
+and Drawing for the Militia, did make me laugh; but to think how
+many Woodcuts as good as the best you can get in a little Miscellany
+published weekly, cost you 3d. Fewer silly Portraits of
+Gentlemen and Ladies than formerly, which is a Comfort. The
+Pictures fairly enough hung, and strange to see a dead Lion between
+<span class="smcap">Monsieur Guizot</span> and <span class="smcap">Prince Metternich</span>, as though
+to represent absolute Monarchy, and seemed meant for a Joke.
+Some Pictures in the Octagon Room, which could not tell whether
+they were good or no for Want of Light, and the same with all the
+Sculptures in their Lumber Hole. This is how we treat Art in this
+Country, and with Paintings presented to the Nation buried in a
+Vault, but sorry Encouragement is given to Genius; and no Wonder
+that Artists do Pictures for Furniture to sell to the great and
+small Vulgar, and so produce the Kind of Works that make up the
+greater Part of the Exhibition.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_VIEW_OF_EPSOM_DOWNES_ON_YE" id="Illustration_A_VIEW_OF_EPSOM_DOWNES_ON_YE"></a>
+<a href="images/031a.png">
+<img src="images/031.png" width="400" height="330" alt="A VIEW OF EPSOM DOWNES ON YE
+DERBYE DAYE." title="" />
+</a>
+<h2>A VIEW OF EPSOM DOWNES ON YE
+DERBYE DAYE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Wednesday</span>, <i>May 23, 1849</i>.&mdash;<span class="smcap">Derby Day.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">To Epsom Downs to the Great Derby Race. In
+a Barouche, with a Party, over Vauxhall Bridge, and by Clapham,
+carrying Hampers with Store of every Thing needful for a brave
+Lunch. The Windows and House Fronts crowded, and School-Boys
+mounted on Walls and Gates, and they and the Urchins in
+the Street shouting, as though we were going to the Races for their
+Amusement. But Lack! to see the pretty smart Damsels come
+out to gaze at us, or peeping behind Blinds and Curtains, all in
+high Glee, and good Humour do wonderfully heighten Beauty, as
+I do tell my Wife. The Road through Trees and Orchards, and
+the Sun shining through the young Leaves and on the Horse-Chestnut
+Blossoms, and the Flowers looking bright like the Lasses.
+So we on, till into the Ruck, which is the Jam of Carriages caused
+by the Stoppage at the Turnpike: and did banter each other and
+them about us. Across the Course to the Hill, the Admission cost<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span>
+us £1. Good Lack! what a Crowd of People collected to see which
+out of six-and-twenty Horses should run the fastest, and what a
+Medley of Vans, Omnibusses, and Taxed Carts on either Side
+of the Course with the People in Front of them, and the Grand
+Stand crowded with Heads, plenty as Blackberries, and seeming
+like a huge Mass of them. A Throng of Carriages about us, whereon
+young handsome rakish-looking Gallants with Mustaches and
+Cigars. Here and there, in open Coaches, Ladies in lilac and blue
+Dresses, and pink Bonnets, and gay Ribbons, all Manner of Colours,
+looking, with the parti-coloured Flags over the Booths,
+mighty lively. Presently a Bell rung and the Course cleared, but
+then to see an unlucky Dog running to get out, and the Mob yelling
+at him, and the poor Dog in his Fright rushing straight on like
+mad! Then the Horses with the motley Jockies on them prancing
+up and down before the Grand Stand, to show their Paces to the
+Folks in the Betting Ring. At last, they taken to the Post, and so
+started with much Cheering, and came easy round Tattenham
+Corner; but presently away in good earnest, like Shot! The Chief
+Struggle between the <i>Flying Dutchman</i> and <i>Hotspur</i>, but Yellow-Cap
+did win by half a Length. The Winner declared by his Number,
+hung out in Front of the Grand Stand, and to see the Flock
+of Carrier Pigeons sent up to bear away the News; but <span class="smcap">Mr. Wagstaffe</span>
+do say they were Nothing to the Pigeons left behind. The
+Race run in three Minutes, but to think of the Money lost and won
+in that little Time! My <span class="smcap">Lord Eglinton</span> and the Public, as I hear,
+do gain much, and the Ring and Rogues do lose, which I am glad
+of. After the Race to a brave Lunch; but the Gipsy Women and
+Children did come and beg Morsels out of our Plates, which in
+the Midst of all the Luxury was a sorry Sight. Then about the
+Course to see the Company and the Flinging at Snuff-Boxes, and
+the Thimble-Rig, and some playing at Roulette and Hazard, but
+the Police did seize and break several of the Tables, and take away
+the Stakes. Great Sport returning Home, with the Shouting for
+the Winner, and trumpeting on Horns, and tossing of Snuff-Boxes
+and Toys to the pretty Lasses at the Windows.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_PROSPECT_OF_GREENWICH_FAIR" id="Illustration_A_PROSPECT_OF_GREENWICH_FAIR"></a>
+<a href="images/033a.png">
+<img src="images/033.png" width="400" height="329" alt="A PROSPECT OF GREENWICH FAIR." title="" />
+</a>
+<h2>A PROSPECT OF GREENWICH FAIR.</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Tuesday</span>, <i>May 29, 1849</i>.&mdash;<span class="smcap">Whit-Tuesday</span>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Down the River with <span class="smcap">Browne</span> to Greenwich
+to view the Fair. To the Park, where young Fellows and Hoydens
+at Archery, Donkey Riding, playing at Kiss-in-the-Ring, and running
+down the Hill, romping, tripping, and tumbling over Head
+and Heels, with Shouting, Screaming, and Laughter. Then down
+to the Fair, made in a narrow Space in the Town by a Couple of
+Rows of Booths and Sweet-Meat and Toy-Stalls, with Raree Shows
+at the farther End, and Swings and Roundabouts on the Outside.
+The Passage most insufferably crammed; and we having to force
+our Way between Walls hung with Dolls and gilt Ginger-Bread.
+The Stalls and Booths crowded also, and the Tobacco Smoke rising
+from the Drinking Places like a Fog. Young Prentice Blades
+and Shop-Boys pushing about with large Masquerade Noses, and
+did entertain themselves more than me. But the chief Amusement
+of these Roysterers and the frolicksome Wenches do seem
+to be scratching People behind, with a Scraper, which is a notched<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span>
+Disk of Wood, that turns on an Axle in a Mortise, with a Handle
+some six Inches long, and being dragged down a Man's Back,
+do make him believe that his Coat is torn, as I thought mine was,
+when first served so, which did trouble me. With this Noise of
+continual Tearing, and the Squeaking of Tin Trumpets, and blowing
+of Whistles, and half-a-dozen different Bands playing as many
+Tunes, is altogether made a most discordant Musique; and the
+Showmen bellowing to the Spectators to walk up, do increase the
+Babel. Strange to see the Lads and Lasses, heaved up and down,
+over and under, in the Swings, and to think what Pleasure they
+can take in such a Motion, which methinks a Physician might prescribe
+in Lieu of a Sea Voyage. With much Ado, to <span class="smcap">Richardson's</span>
+Show, where a Tragedy, a Comic Song and a Pantomime all in
+Half an Hour, and the Tragedy accompanied on Whistles and
+Penny Trumpets by the Audience. But the best of the Fun outside,
+between the Performances, with the Beef-Eaters' Band playing,
+and the Show-Girls in their Spangles and Paint, dancing, and
+the Clowns grimacing and flinging Summersets, and the Robber
+Chief standing in a brave Posture in the Corner. Store of Fat Ladies,
+Wonderful Pigs, Giants and Dwarfs to see, and Conjurors in
+Plenty, specially in the Crowd, conjuring Handkerchiefs out of
+Pockets. In the Evening to the great Dancing-Booth, which lighted
+up and hung with variegated Lamps, was, to be sure, a pretty
+fine Sight. But the Company uproarious through Drink; and yet
+the Dancing without Liveliness, being mostly that rogueish Chin-and-Shoulder
+French Dance, gone heavily through. Here again
+that perpetual Scraping, and they who sold the Scrapers, did cry,
+"All the Fun of the Fair for 2d."; which was true. Home by
+the Railway Train, wherein the tipsy Passengers bawling and singing
+the whole of the Way. Methinks these Fairs do cause a Concourse
+of Rogues and bad Characters; and the more good cheap
+Concerts abound, and Museums and Exhibitions are opened to
+the Public, the less will the People frequent such Places as Greenwich
+Fair.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_KENSYNGTON_GARDENS_WITH_YE" id="Illustration_KENSYNGTON_GARDENS_WITH_YE"></a>
+<a href="images/035a.png">
+<img src="images/035.png" width="400" height="335" alt="KENSYNGTON GARDENS WITH YE
+BANDE PLAYINGE THERE." title="" />
+</a>
+<h2>KENSYNGTON GARDENS WITH YE
+BANDE PLAYINGE THERE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Friday</span>, <i>June 1, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">In the Afternoon to Kensington Gardens,
+where a Band of the Guards do play on this Day, and also on Monday
+throughout the Season, and draw together a great Crowd of
+Fashionable Folks. The Tunes played mostly Polkas and Waltzes,
+though now and then a Piece of Musique of a better Sort; but
+the Musique little more than an Excuse for a Number of People
+assembling to see and be seen. There all the World and his Wife;
+and she in all her Finery. The Day very fair, and the Sun shining
+gloriously, and the bright coloured Silks and Muslins at a Distance
+between the Trees, did make a mighty pleasant Picture. But I got
+as near as I could to gaze upon the Beauties, and am afraid that I
+did look too hard at some; but they mostly smiled, and methinks
+they do not trick themselves out so bravely to discourage Observation.
+To see them pacing to and fro in such smart Attire, with
+their shewy pink, and green, and Forget-me-not Blue Parasols, I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span>
+could fancy they were the London Fashions for June come out a
+walking. But many on Seats with tall well-looking Gallants posted
+beside them, or bending down to converse with them with vast Attention
+and Politeness, whereat they seeming mightily pleased.
+Others standing in Groups here and there under the Shade, and
+a great Throng of them round about the Musicians; but all walking
+to and fro between the Tunes to show themselves. Many of
+the Army among the Crowd, and strange, to compare them and
+others of our Gentry, in Air and Manner, with one or two dingy
+Foreigners with their stubbly Beards and ill-favoured Looks. The
+little fashionable Children by the side of their Mammas elegant
+enough to see; but overdressed in their Velvet and Plaid Tunics
+and Plumes of Feathers, and their Ways too mincing and dainty,
+and looking as though they had stepped from out a Band-Box.
+Methinks they do seem brought up to think too much of their Outsides,
+and to look on Display and Show as the Business of their
+Lives, which is a silly Schooling. I did mark some of their Mothers,
+old enough to know better, bedizened like the young Beauties,
+but looking sour and glum, and plainly ill at ease in their Pride
+and Vanity. But it divert me much to compare the delicate Children
+with some Charity-School Urchins on the other Side of the
+Wall that did anger the Park Keeper by mocking him. I doubt me
+that the young Leatherbreeches be not the happier as long as they
+can get a Bellyful of Victuals. The Company doubtless enjoying
+themselves after their Fashion, but in general looking marvellous
+grave; and strange to shut my Eyes between the Tunes and to hear
+Nothing but the Rustling of Dresses and a Murmur of Voices as
+they did walk up and down. It is wonderful how we English do
+go through our Amusements after the Manner of a solemn Ceremony.
+Yet do the people of Fashion in Kensington Gardens
+make an exceeding rare Show; and I do only wish that there were
+no Reverse of the Picture to be seen among us. But their Finery
+do afford Employment to Work-People, and I do thank them for
+parading themselves for my Amusement, and the Officers of the
+Guards for treating the Town to Musique, and so giving Occasion
+to such a fine Spectacle.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_HYGHEST_COURT_OF_LAW_IN_YE_KYNGDOM" id="Illustration_HYGHEST_COURT_OF_LAW_IN_YE_KYNGDOM"></a>
+<a href="images/037a.png">
+<img src="images/037.png" width="400" height="333" alt="HYGHEST COURT OF LAW IN YE KYNGDOM.
+YE LORDS HEARYNG APPEALS." title="" />
+</a>
+<h2>HYGHEST COURT OF LAW IN YE KYNGDOM.
+YE LORDS HEARYNG APPEALS.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Thursday</span>, <i>June 7, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Up, and to the House of Lords, where a Committee
+of Privileges touching a disputed Peerage, but I did only
+go for a Sight of the Inside of the House, well worth seeing; and
+the Carving, and Gilding, and Blazoning, a rich Feast to the Eye.
+There present none but my <span class="smcap">Lord Brougham</span> and my <span class="smcap">Lord Campbell</span>,
+and three or four other Lords, but a smaller Muster do often
+serve for a Court of Appeal; for their Lordships do trust all their
+Law Business to the Law-Lords' Hands. Counsel speaking at the
+Bar of the House, and the Clerks of the House before them at
+the Table, all in their Wigs very stately, but my Lords lolling on
+the Benches, free and easy, they only having the Right to make
+themselves at Home, yet droll to see the Officers of the House
+forced to stand, but some of them leaning against the Stems of the
+gilt Candlesticks, fast asleep on their Legs. Did think I should go<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span>
+to sleep too, if I stayed much longer, and about to depart; but glad
+I did not; for presently the Counsel made an End, and then my
+<span class="smcap">Lord Brougham</span> examining a Witness was almost the best Sport
+that I ever had in my Life. The Witness, one of the Attornies for
+the Claimant of the Title, and <span class="smcap">Lord Brougham</span> suspecting some
+Trickery in the Case, and good Lack! how he did bait and ferret
+him to draw it out, asking the most peremptory Questions, and
+sometimes a second before the first could be answered, firking
+with Impatience like one smarting with Stinging Nettles: which
+was great Mirth. It did well-nigh cause me to laugh outright, and
+commit a Breach of Privilege, to hear him in a Fume, echo the
+Witness's Answers, and cry Eh? What! How! Why? and Wherefore?
+and demand how he could do this, or came not to do the
+other, and how was that, and so forth, and then set his Memory
+right, next made a short Speech, then give a little Evidence of his
+own, and again go back to the Examination. It seemed that the
+Pretender to the Peerage had been helped with Money to maintain
+his Suit by certain Persons, and my Lord did strive to worm
+out of the Lawyer their End therein: but to no Purpose; for he had
+met with his Match; so forced to content himself with a Quip on
+the Chances of the Witness's Client. Then another Witness examined;
+a Chirurgeon, whom <span class="smcap">Lord Brougham</span> did make merry
+with for his jolly good-natured Looks, and did jest upon concerning
+his Vocation: and the other did bandy Jokes with my Lord, and
+gave him as good as he brought. Methinks such Bantering is strange
+of a Peer, and one that hath been Lord Chancellor and used to
+sit on the Woolsack, or anywhere else but the Box of an Omnibus.
+But strange, how sober a Speech in summing up the Evidence
+my Lord did make after all; and no Doubt he can be reasonable
+and quiet when he pleases. Save a few words from <span class="smcap">Lord Campbell</span>,
+not a Syllable spoke but my <span class="smcap">Lord Brougham</span>; wherefore
+methinks he must have been thoroughly happy, having had nigh
+all the Talk to himself. But the highest Court of Law in the Realm
+numbering so few, put me much in mind of the Army in <i>Bombastes
+Furioso</i>.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_THE_FLOWER_SHOWE_AT_CHYSYK" id="Illustration_THE_FLOWER_SHOWE_AT_CHYSYK"></a><a href="images/039a.png">
+<img src="images/039.png" width="400" height="334" alt="THE FLOWER SHOWE AT CHYSYK GARDENS." title="" />
+</a>
+<h2>THE FLOWER SHOWE AT CHYSYK
+GARDENS.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Saturday</span>, <i>June 9, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<p class="chapter">My Wife holding me to my Promise to take
+her to the Chiswick Flower Show, and I could not break it; for
+certainly the poor Wretch do drudge in the House like a Slave;
+and so often as I go out for Pleasure myself, methinks it were well
+to give her a Treat now and then, to ease my Conscience, and keep
+her quiet also. So took her, though our two Tickets together came
+to 10s., and we thither in an Omnibus, and the Fare doubled on
+the Occasion, instead of 1s. cost me 2s. more, which made me mad.
+A rare Sight, nigh the Gardens, to look out on the Line of Carriages
+behind us, and methought how mean and paltry it seemed
+to be riding in an Omnibus; and was in some Trouble lest any
+of our acquaintance should be in the Carriages, and see us 'light.
+At the Passage to the Gardens beset by Fellows with Shoe-Brushes
+and Clothes-Brushes, importunate to brush my Coat and Boots,
+that were clean enough, but only to earn 4d. or 6d. Our Tickets<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span>
+delivered, and we into the Grounds with a Stream of Company,
+and followed them and our Ears to a Band of Musique, the Horse
+Guards playing hard by a Grove of Rhododendrons in full Bloom,
+and a Mob of Beauties round about them more blooming still.
+Heard a Medley-Piece of Scraps of most of the Operas that I
+knew; which was better Musique than I expected. Then to the
+Tents, where the Prize-Flowers are shown, on high Stands as long
+as a moderate-sized Barn: and there a pretty Display of Orchids,
+Azaleas, Cactuses, Pelargoniums, and Heaths, very rare and curious,
+and a few choice Roses; but I expected to see Roses as big
+as Cabbages. Many of the Flowers finely variegated, and giving
+forth a Perfume sweeter than <span class="smcap">Atkinson</span> his shop. Strange how to
+some of the Pelargoniums were given the names of <span class="smcap">Grisi</span>, <span class="smcap">Alboni</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Mario</span>, and other Opera Singers: and <span class="smcap">Mr. Wagstaffe</span> do say it
+is Musique in a Flower-Pot. After seeing the Flowers, to stroll about
+the Walks and among the Trees, and view the Flowers without
+Stalks, which I do admire most of all, and a brave show they were,
+drest out in their gayest, and smiling as if resolved to look as pretty
+as they could; and looking all the brighter for the Sun shining without
+a Cloud to be seen: whereby out of Pain for my Wife's pink
+Bonnet, which, if spoiled by the Rain usual at this Show, had been
+£2, 2s. gone. The Bands from Time to Time beat a March about
+the Garden; when to see the fine Ladies and Gentlemen follow
+at the Soldiers' Heels, natural as ragged Street-Children! At last
+all played together, and ended with <i>God Save the Queen</i>; when
+the Flowers wheeled away. But the Company remaining, some
+sitting on Benches to make a Lane, and the Rest of the Multitude
+walking up and down to be seen, and the Beauties showing off
+their Graces, which I did inspect from Head to Foot. My Wife
+beginning to admire a certain Satin; so knowing what this signified,
+away, and home to a Leg of Mutton; thinking of the State
+of the Nation, which should not be so mighty gloomy to judge of
+it by Chiswick Flower Show, and wondering how much all the
+Finery there cost, and where all the Money could have come from.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_SOCYETYE_ENJOYINGE_ITSELFE_AT" id="Illustration_SOCYETYE_ENJOYINGE_ITSELFE_AT"></a>
+<a href="images/041a.png">
+<img src="images/041.png" width="400" height="325" alt="&quot;SOCYETYE&quot; ENJOYINGE ITSELFE AT
+A SOYRÉE." title="" /></a>
+<h2>&quot;SOCYETYE&quot; ENJOYINGE ITSELFE AT
+A SOYRÉE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Friday</span>, <i>June 15, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">After a Dinner <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'off'">of</ins> Bubble and Squeak, my
+Wife and I to my <span class="smcap">Lord Wilkinson's</span> At Home, by invitation;
+though Heaven knows if ever I set Eyes on his Lordship in my Life
+or he on me; but do ascribe this Honour to having my Name put
+down in the <i>Court Guide</i>, and am glad to find the Consequence
+and Importance I have got thereby. I in my new Suit of Black
+and Silk Neckerchief, with a Fringe at the Ends, and my Wife did
+wear her Lace Dress over her pink Satin Slip, which was very handsome.
+Gave our Card to a Lackey in Yellow and Crimson Livery,
+with a huge Shoulder-knot, who did shout out our Name, which,
+passing along a Row of his Fellows lining the Stairs, was by the
+Time it reached the Drawing-Room changed to <span class="smcap">Pippins</span>&mdash;but no
+matter; and so we were presented to my Lord and my Lady. So
+on in the Crowd; for my Lord's Drawing-Room as thronged as
+the Opera Pit Entrance on a Thursday Night. Methought surely<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span>
+there was Something worth seeing and hearing; but saw nothing
+extraordinary beyond the Multitude of Company, and divers Writers,
+Painters, and other Persons of Note, elbowing their Way
+through the Press; nor heard anything but Puffing and Gasping,
+and complaining of the terrible Heat. Several Ladies fainting;
+and my Wife declaring she feared she should faint too, which made
+me mad; for it is always the Way with Women at Spectacles and
+Assemblies, and yet they needs must and will go to them. At some
+Distance before us, a Bustle and Stir, and in the midst of it a Lackey
+with a Tray, whereon were Ices&mdash;the People struggling for them;
+and I also strove to get one for my Wife; but the Attempt vain,
+and we borne clear away by the Current to the other side of the
+Room. Some young Beauties there, whom to have looked upon
+at my Ease, and they at theirs, would have been a great delight;
+but they in such Discomfort, that it quite spoilt their Prettiness,
+which was pitiful. We met <span class="smcap">Dr. Dabbes</span> the great Chemist, with
+whom some pretty Discourse concerning the Air of crowded
+Rooms, which he said do contain a Gas called Carbonic Acid,
+and is poisonous, and we were now breathing too much per Cent.
+of it, which did trouble me. To think what Delight fashionable
+Folks can take in crowding together, to the Danger of Health, a
+Set of People, for the most Part, Strangers both to them and to
+one another! Away early; for we could endure the Stifling no
+longer: and good Lack, what a Relief to get into the open Air!
+My white Kid Gloves soiled, cost me 3s. 6d.; but am thankful I
+carried with me my Spring Hat, which do shut up; and did chuckle
+to see how many others got their Hats crushed. Home in a Cab,
+and on the Way bought a Lobster, whereunto my Wife would have
+me add a Bottle of Stout, which did think a good Notion; cost me
+together 3s. 6d., and the Cab 2s. 6d. more, and then to Supper;
+mighty proud that I had been invited by my Lord, though utterly
+tired with his Party, and so with great Satisfaction, but much Weariness,
+to Bed.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_VIEW_OF_MR_LORDE_HYS_CRYKET" id="Illustration_A_VIEW_OF_MR_LORDE_HYS_CRYKET"></a>
+<a href="images/043a.png">
+<img src="images/043.png" width="400" height="321" alt="A VIEW OF MR. LORDE HYS CRYKET
+GROUNDE." title="" /></a>
+<h2>A VIEW OF MR. LORDE HYS CRYKET
+GROUNDE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Monday</span>, <i>June 18, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">This Day a great Cricket Match, Surrey against
+England, at <span class="smcap">Lord's</span>, and I thither, all the Way to St. John's
+Wood, to see the Place, having often heard Talk of it, and the Playing,
+which <span class="smcap">Mr. Longstoppe</span> did tell me was a pretty Sight. Paid
+6d. to be let in, and 2d. for a Card of the Innings, and bought a
+little Book of the Laws of the Game, cost me 1s. 6d. more, though
+when I had got it, could hardly understand a Word of it; but to
+think how much Money I spend out of Curiosity, and how inquisitive
+I am, so as to be vexed to the Heart if I cannot thoroughly
+make out every Thing I see! The Cricketing I believe very fine;
+but could not judge of it; for I think I did never before see any
+Cricket since I was a little Varlet Boy at School. But what a Difference
+between the Manner of Bowling in those Days, and that
+Players now use! for then they did moderately trundle the Ball under-hand;
+but now they fling it over-handed from the Elbow, as<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span>
+though viciously, and it flies like a Shot, being at least Five Ounces
+and a Half in Weight, and hard as a Block. I saw it strike one of
+the Batmen on the Knuckles, who Danced and shook his Fist, as
+methought well he might. But to see how handy some did catch it,
+though knocked off the Bat by a strong Man with all his Force;
+albeit now and then they missing it, and struck by it on the Head,
+or in the Mouth, and how any one can learn to play Cricket without
+losing his front Teeth is a Wonder. The Spectators sitting on
+Benches in a Circle, at a Distance, and out of the Way of the Ball,
+which was wise; but some on a raised Stand, and others aside at
+Tables, under a Row of Trees near a Tavern within the Grounds,
+with Pipes and Beer; and many in the Circle also Smoking and
+Drinking, and the Drawers continually going the Round of them
+to serve them Liquor and Tobacco. But all as quiet as a Quaker's
+Meeting, except when a good Hit made, or a Player bowled out,
+and strange to see how grave and solemn they looked, as if the
+Sight of Men in white Clothes, knocking a Ball about, were Something
+serious to think on. Did hear that many had Wagers on the
+Game, but doubt it, for methinks there had been more Liveliness
+if much Betting, and Chance of winning or losing Money. The
+Company very numerous, and among them some in Carriages,
+and was glad to see so many People diverted, although at what
+I could not tell. But they enjoyed themselves in their Way, whatever
+that was, and I in mine, thinking how droll they looked, so
+earnestly attending to a mere Show of Dexterity. I, for my Part,
+soon out of Patience with the Length of the Innings, and the Stopping
+and Interruption after each Run, and so away, more tired,
+I am sure, than any of the Cricketers. Yet I do take Pride, as an
+Englishman, in our Country Sport of Cricket, albeit I do not care
+to watch it playing; and certainly it is a manly Game, throwing
+open the Chest, and strengthening the Limbs, and the Player so
+often in Danger of being hit by the Ball.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_RAYLWAYE_MEETYNGE_EMOTYON" id="Illustration_A_RAYLWAYE_MEETYNGE_EMOTYON"></a>
+<a href="images/045a.png">
+<img src="images/045.png" width="400" height="321" alt="A RAYLWAYE MEETYNGE. EMOTYON
+OF YE SHAREHOLDERES AT YE ANNOUNCEMENTE OF A DIVIDENDE OF 2-1/2d." title="" /></a>
+<h2>A RAYLWAYE MEETYNGE. EMOTYON
+OF YE SHAREHOLDERES AT YE ANNOUNCEMENTE OF A DIVIDENDE OF 2-1/2d.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Monday</span>, <i>July 2, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Comes <span class="smcap">Mr. Stagge</span> to take me to the great
+Railway Meeting at a London Tavern; and we up the Back Stairs
+to the Platform among the Directors, and glad of so good a Place;
+but fearing to be taken for one of my Company, did get behind a
+fat Man to hide myself. The Shareholders below met to hear their
+Affairs debated, and what a Collection of wry and doleful Faces!
+Methought the poor anxious Parsons and eager Half-pay Officers
+among them was a pitiful Sight. Looked hard about for the Railway
+King, but <span class="smcap">Mr. Stagge</span> did say in my Ear he was not likely to
+show his Face. The Secretary reading Bills to be brought into the
+Parliament to join other Railways with this, and all the while interrupted
+by the Shareholders with Noise and Outcries; but at last
+got through. Then the Chairman did propose that the Bills be approved<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span>
+of; but an Amendment moved with much Clapping of
+Hands that the Meeting do adjourn for one Month to examine
+the Company's Accounts; which they do say have been cooked.
+Upon this a long Speech from a Director, denying that it was so,
+and One made answer to him in a bouncing, ranting Harangue;
+but to hear how the Shareholders did shout and cheer whenever
+he accused the Board of a Piece of Roguery! He complained that
+Proxy Papers had been sent out by some for Votes, whereby to gain
+their own Ends, at £900 Expense to the Company; whereat more
+Uproar, in the midst whereof he moved another Amendment;
+when the Noise greater than ever, with Groans and calling for
+Dividends; and several in the Meeting strove to speak, but could
+only wag their Jaws and shake their Fists at the Chairman, and he
+imploring Quiet in Dumb Show. Howbeit, one old Gentleman
+got Attention for a Moment, and in great Wrath and Choler did
+declare that the Directors' Statement was all Humbug. Then Another,
+with much ado to get a Hearing, did move a third Amendment:
+and after that, more Wrangling and Jangling, until the only
+Man of any Brains I had yet heard, up and showed the folly of
+moving Amendment on Amendment. So the first and last Amendment
+withdrawn, and the second put to the Vote, and lost, and
+then the Chairman's Resolution put and lost also, and the Shareholders
+hooting and hissing, and shouting "Shame!" and crying
+that they could not understand the Question. So the Amendment
+and former Resolution both put over again, and both again lost;
+whereupon the Shareholders stark mad, and rushed in a Mob on
+the Platform, raving at the Chairman, who jumped up in his Chair,
+throwing his Arms abroad, and shrieking for Silence; till at last
+a Poll determined on to decide whether for Adjournment or not;
+and so the Meeting brought to an End in as great a Hurly-Burly
+as I ever heard; and a pretty Chairman methinks they have to keep
+Order, and brave Directors to cook their Accounts, and their Meetings
+do seem as confused as their Affairs; and thank my Stars, I
+have not sunk my Money in a Railway.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_PROSPECT_OF_YE_THAMES_ITS" id="Illustration_A_PROSPECT_OF_YE_THAMES_ITS"></a>
+<a href="images/047a.png">
+<img src="images/047.png" width="400" height="318" alt="A PROSPECT OF YE THAMES ITS
+REGATTA." title="" /></a>
+<h2>A PROSPECT OF YE THAMES ITS
+REGATTA.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Tuesday</span>, <i>July 10, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Sent my Vest to the Tailor's to be let out
+in the Back, and my Wife and every Body say I grow too stout,
+which do put me in mighty Pain lest I should lose my Shape;
+wherefore I have resolved to take a long Walk daily, for Exercise,
+to bring down my Fat. So begin this Day, and set out to walk to
+Barn-Elms, by the way of Hammersmith, on a brave melting Afternoon.
+I did muse at the Carriages and Omnibuses that passed
+me, crowded both inside and on the Roof, and the People upon
+them whooping and blowing Horns, as the British Public always
+do when they ride to see any Sport. At Hammersmith found what
+all this meant, everyone there hastening to the River, this being
+the first Day of the Thames Regatta, and the Suspension-Bridge
+thronged, and Festoons of Spectators on the Chains. Did go upon
+the Bridge, cost me 1/2d. toll, but would not have missed the Sight
+for 6d. or 1s.; for the Thames with Boats scattered all over it,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span>
+their Flags fluttering, and their Crews shouting and laughing full
+of Fun and Glee, made a lively Picture; and also I was just in the
+Nick of Time to see a Race; four Boats of as many Oars darting
+under the Bridge at full Speed, while the Beholders cheered and
+halloaed with all their Might, and a Bell rung, and a Band of
+Musique upon the Bridge Pier did play "Love Not." Good Lack!
+how wrapped up the People did seem to be in the Race, and did
+now cry for Blue to go it; and then Red, and then Pink, and at
+last that Red had it, meaning the Colours of the Rowers, which indeed
+looked very smart and spruce. Over the Bridge, and, instead
+of to Barnes, down the River, along the Towing Path, which
+was also thronged with Folks running to and fro, all Eagerness and
+Bustle. So to Putney, and there the Multitude greatest both on
+the Bridge and the Shore, and <span class="smcap">Finch</span> his Ground to the Water-Side
+quite a Fair, with Fat Ladies and Learned Pigs and Gilt Gingerbread;
+and his Tavern beset by Customers for Ale, and mighty
+good Ale it is. Here more Boat-Racing, with Firing of Cannon,
+Jollity, Shouting, Jangling of Street Pianos, and everywhere Tobacco-Smoke
+and the Popping of Ginger-Beer. Some fouling of
+Barges, but no worse Mishap, though I expected every moment
+that Somebody would be ducked. Methought how neat and dainty
+the light Wherries and Wager-Boats did look among the other
+Craft; but loth I should be to trust my Carcase in a Cockle-Shell,
+that sitting an Inch too much on one side would overthrow. Mighty
+pleasant also to behold on the Water the little Parties of Beauties,
+rowed by their Sweethearts, under Awnings to shade them from
+the Sun, and the Ripple on the Water, and the Smiles on their
+Faces, and to hear their Giggling, which was a pretty Noise. Afloat
+everywhere in their Boating-Trim I did note sundry of those
+young Sparks that do and think and talk of Nothing but pulling
+up the River, and live upon it almost, like Swans or Geese. But,
+however, that Boat-Racing is a true British Pastime, and so long
+as we pull together he will back us against all the World. "And talking
+of that," says he, "the Sport being ended, suppose we take a
+pull at some of <span class="smcap">Finch</span> his Ale."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_RAYLWAY_STATYON_SHOWYNGE" id="Illustration_A_RAYLWAY_STATYON_SHOWYNGE"></a>
+<a href="images/049a.png">
+<img src="images/049.png" width="400" height="316" alt="A RAYLWAY STATYON. SHOWYNGE
+YE TRAVELLERS REFRESHYNGE THEMSELVES." title="" /></a>
+<h2>A RAYLWAY STATYON. SHOWYNGE
+YE TRAVELLERS REFRESHYNGE THEMSELVES.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Tuesday</span>, <i>July 31, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Prevailed upon by my Wife to carry her to
+Bath, as she said, to go see her Aunt <span class="smcap">Dorothy</span>, but I know she
+looked more to the Pleasure of her Trip than any Thing else; nevertheless
+I do think it necessary Policy to keep in with her Aunt,
+who is an old Maid and hath a pretty Fortune; and to see what
+Court and Attention I pay her though I do not care 2d. about her!
+But am mightily troubled to know whether she hath sunk her
+Money in an Annuity, which makes me somewhat uneasy at the
+Charge of our Journey, for what with Fare, Cab-Hire, and Vails
+to <span class="smcap">Dorothy's</span> Servants for their good Word, it did cost me altogether
+£6, 2s. 6d. To the Great Western Station in a Cab, by
+Reason of our Luggage; for my Wife must needs take so many
+Trunks and Bandboxes, as is always the Way with Women: or else
+we might have gone there for 2s. 6d. less in an Omnibus. Did take<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span>
+our places in the First Class notwithstanding the Expense, preferring
+both the Seats and the Company; and also because if any
+Necks or Limbs are broken I note it is generally in the Second and
+Third Classes. So we settled, and the Carriage-Doors slammed
+to, and the Bell rung, the Train with a Whistle off like a Shot, and
+in the Carriage with me and my Wife a mighty pretty Lady, a
+Frenchwoman, and I did begin to talk French with her, which my
+Wife do not well understand, and by and by did find the Air too
+much for her where she was sitting, and would come and take her
+Seat between us; I know, on Purpose. So fell a reading the <i>Times</i>,
+till One got in at Hanwell who seemed to be a Physician, and
+mighty pretty Discourse with him touching the Manner of treating
+Madmen and Lunatics, which is now by gentle Management, and
+is a great Improvement on the old Plan of Chains and the Whip.
+Also of the Foulness of London for Want of fit Drainage, and how
+it do breed Cholera and Typhus, as sure as rotten Cheese do
+Mites, and of the horrid Folly of making a great Gutter of the River.
+So to Swindon Station, where the Train do stop ten Minutes
+for Refreshment, and there my Wife hungry, and I too with a good
+Appetite, notwithstanding the Discourse about London Filth. So
+we out, and to the Refreshment-Room with a Crowd of Passengers,
+all pushing and jostling, and trampling on each other's Toes,
+striving which should get served first. With much Ado got a Basin
+of Soup for my Wife, and for myself a Veal and Ham Pie, and to
+see me looking at my Watch, and taking a Mouthful by Turns;
+and how I did gulp a Glass of <span class="smcap">Guinness</span> his Stout! Before we had
+half finished, the Guard rang the Bell, and my Wife with a start
+did spill her Soup over her Dress, and was obliged to leave Half
+of it; and to think how ridiculous I looked, scampering back to
+the Train with my Meat-Pie in my Mouth! To run hurry-skurry
+at the Sound of the Bell, do seem only fit for a Gang of Workmen;
+and the Bustle of Railways do destroy all the Dignity of Travelling;
+but the World altogether is less grand, and do go faster than
+formerly. Off again, and to the End of our Journey, troubled at
+the Soup on my Wife's Dress, but thankful I had got my Change,
+and not left it behind me at the Swindon Station.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_YE_BRYTYSH_GRANADIERS_AMOUNTYNGE" id="Illustration_YE_BRYTYSH_GRANADIERS_AMOUNTYNGE"></a>
+<a href="images/051a.png">
+<img src="images/051.png" width="400" height="324" alt="YE BRYTYSH GRANADIERS AMOUNTYNGE
+GUARD AT ST. JAMES HYS PALACE YARDE." title="" /></a>
+<h2>YE BRYTYSH GRANADIERS AMOUNTYNGE
+GUARD AT ST. JAMES HYS PALACE YARDE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Wednesday</span>, <i>August 1, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Up mighty betimes, and after a four Miles'
+Walk, losing Weight like a Jockey, to the Palace Yard of St. James's
+Palace, to see the Soldiers mount Guard to guard the <span class="smcap">Queen</span>, which
+they do every Morning whether she is there or no, and is a pretty
+pompous Ceremony. Found myself among as dirty shabby a Set
+of Fellows hanging about as I think I ever saw, with whom two or
+three with the Look of Gentlemen, and a pretty Sprinkling of Milliner-Girls
+and Nurse-Maids. Strange how all Women almost do
+run after Soldiers; which <span class="smcap">Mr. Pumpkyns</span> do say is because Weakness
+do, by Instinct, seek the Protection of Courage; but I think
+is owing to nothing at all but the Bravery of a Red Coat. In a few
+Minutes more Riff-Raff pouring in; then a Noise without of drumming:
+and then just at 1/4 to 11, a Party of the Grenadier Guards
+marching in under the Clock-Tower, the Drums and Fifes in Front<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span>
+of them, and, at the Head of all, the Drum Major, twirling his Staff,
+strutted like a Pouter-Pigeon, as stately, almost, as ever I saw <span class="smcap">J.
+Bland</span>. The Men at the Word of Command ground arms with a
+Clang, and stood at Ease in Lines, and together with the Spectators
+made a Square, with the Drums and Fifes at one End, and the
+Band at the other by the Clock-Tower, and a Post in the Middle,
+and around the Post, with the Colours, the Officers in full Figg,
+mighty trim; and <span class="smcap">Mr. Wagstaffe</span> do tell me that the Guards
+have brave clothing Colonels. The Band did play while the Men
+that should relieve Guard were marching off; and I do muse why
+Soldiers are provided with so much Musique, and conclude it is to
+hinder them from thinking, and also in Battle to inflame their
+Minds without making them drunk. At five Minutes to the Hour
+comes the relieved Guard, and draws up ready to be marched away,
+and to see them backing for Room on the Crowd's Toes! Droll,
+also, to watch the Marshalman, in his grand Uniform and with his
+Staff of Office, going about to make Space and keep Order among
+the ragged Boys; and I remember how, in my Youth, I thought he
+was a General Officer. More Musique, in the Meanwhile, by the
+Band; the Band-Master, a rare plump Fellow, in goodly Condition,
+conducting, with a Clarionet for his Batoon. Suddenly the
+Musique cut short by the Drums and Fifes, the Word given, and
+the Men did fall in, and away to Barracks, a Grand March playing,
+and all the Tag-Rag at their Heels. But to see the Lieutenant, the
+Officer of the Day, set up the Colours on the Post, and touch his
+Cap and kiss his Sword to them, saluting them, which do seem a
+senseless Pantomime. Besides, the Flag, a most old and sorry
+one, blown into Tatters, which, in our long Peace, must have been
+done by the Breeze and not the Battle; but so left, with a Grenadier
+to guard it, sticking in the Post. Then the Officer did dismiss
+the Off Guard, and away to his Quarters for the Day. Methinks
+that mounting Guard at the Palace is a Service of little Danger or
+Hardship; but, good Lack! to think what Fire-eaters in Battle
+are the Dandy Officers of the Guards, and how their Men will follow
+them through thick and thin, and what Work those Fellows
+can do when called on, that play Soldiers about St. James's!</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_PROSPECT_OF_A_FASHYONABLE" id="Illustration_A_PROSPECT_OF_A_FASHYONABLE"></a>
+<a href="images/053a.png">
+<img src="images/053.png" width="400" height="332" alt="A PROSPECT OF A FASHYONABLE
+HABERDASHER HYS SHOPE." title="" /></a>
+<h2>A PROSPECT OF A FASHYONABLE
+HABERDASHER HYS SHOPE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Tuesday</span>, <i>August 7, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Finding Fault with my Wife, for that she
+do not use enough Exercise; whence her continual Headach, and
+<span class="smcap">Faddell</span>, the 'Potticary his bill of £5. She replying that I would
+never take her out, I said I would, whenever she liked; whereupon,
+we agreed to go a Walk forthwith, and my Wife did propose Regent
+Street. So we thither, pleasing ourselves with observing the Passers-by
+and the Carriages, and the Streets blazing with fine Ladies and
+flaming Liveries. Going by <span class="smcap">Lindsey and Woolsey's</span>, my Wife's
+Eye taken with a Scarf in the Window, and would stop to look at it
+with a Crowd of other Women gazing at the Finery, which <span class="smcap">Mr.
+Skitt</span> do call Baits, and a Draper's Shop a Lady-Trap. Presently
+she recollected that she wanted a Collar; so we into the Shop,
+where some sixty or eighty Ladies sitting before the Counters, examining
+the Wares, busy as Blue-Bottle Flies at a Sugar-Cask. Behind
+the Counters the Shopmen and Assistants, showing off the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span>
+Goods, and themselves also, with mighty dainty Airs, every one
+of them, almost, <span class="smcap">Narcissus</span> his Image. One of these dapper young
+Sirs did help my Wife to her Collar, cost 3s. 6d.; when she thought
+she had better get another while about it, cost 3s. 6d. more. Then,
+says he, in his soft condoling Voice, "What is the next Article?"
+Hereupon, my Wife bethought her of lacking some Lace Cuffs,
+four Pair: cost 12s. "And now, Mem," says the young Fellow with
+a Simper, "allow me to show you a Love of a Robe, a Barège, Double
+Glacé, brocaded in the Flouncings, and reduced to Twenty-One-and-Six
+from Forty-Five." But she professed that she needed it
+not: whereat I was glad; when he did tell her he would do it at
+One-and-Four less: and she then saying that it was indeed a Bargain,
+which I find is a Woman's Word for anything cheap whether
+wanted or no, I let her have it: cost £1, 0s. 2d. But, to be sure,
+the Pattern was pretty, and my Wife being well-dressed do please
+my Taste, and also increase my Consequence and Dignity. The
+Robe bought, it comes into her Head that she could not do without
+a new Shawl to match it, blue and scarlet, cost £2, 2s., but will
+look mighty fine, and, I hope, last. Here I thought to hale her at
+once by Force away; but seeing a stout middle-aged Gentleman
+doing the very Thing, and how mean it looked, did forbear; and
+in the Meanwhile the Shopman did beg, as he said, to tempt her
+with a superior Assortment of Ribbons. She rummaging over this
+Frippery, I to gaze about the Shop, and with Fellow-Feeling did
+mark an unhappy small Boy, while his Mother was comparing
+some three-score different Pieces of Satin, perched on a Stool, out
+of Patience. My Wife would have 5s. worth of Ribbons, and here
+I hoped would make an End; but the Shopman did exhibit to
+her some Silk Stockings; and I telling her they were unnecessary,
+she declared that then she must wear Boots, which she knows I
+hate; and concluded with buying half a Dozen Pair, cost 24s.;
+and we away, bowed out of the Shop with Congees by the smirking
+Shopwalker, rubbing his Hands and grinning, as obsequious as
+could be; and so Home; I mighty serious, having laid out £5,
+10s. 2d.; and the next Time I take out my Wife for a Walk, it shall
+be in the Fields and not in Regent Street.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_REGENTE_STRETE_AT_FOUR_OF_YE" id="Illustration_REGENTE_STRETE_AT_FOUR_OF_YE"></a>
+<a href="images/055a.png">
+<img src="images/055.png" width="400" height="322" alt="REGENTE STRETE AT FOUR OF YE
+CLOCKE, P.M." title="" /></a>
+<h2>REGENTE STRETE AT FOUR OF YE
+CLOCKE, P.M.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Thursday</span>, <i>August 16, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">This Afternoon about Four of the Clock
+to Regent Street, and did walk up and down, among the fine Folk
+mostly, many Foreigners, and a few Street Urchins, and others of
+the lower Sort, and note the Carriages stand in Front of the Shops,
+and the Walking Advertisement Boys and Men, and the Cabs and
+Omnibuses go by, and the Advertising Vans, and mighty fine and
+droll the Monster Advertising Car of <span class="smcap">Moses and Son</span> the Tailors.
+In the Evening to the Queen's House in the Haymarket, to hear
+<span class="smcap">Mozart</span> his famous Opera "<i>Le Nozze di Figaro</i>" and <span class="smcap">Sontag</span> in
+<i>Susanna</i>, which she do act mighty skittish, and with the prettiest
+sidelong Looks, but the most graceful and like a Lady, and do
+trip the Stage the daintiest and make the nicest Curtsies, and sing
+the sweetest that methinks I ever did hear or see: and to think
+that <span class="smcap">Mr. Vieuxboys</span> should tell me she do it as well now as he
+did see her twenty Years ago! Pretty, to hear her sing "<i>Venite inginocchiatevi</i>,"<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span>
+where she do make <i>Cherubino</i> kneel down on the
+Cushion before the <i>Countess</i>, and put him on a Girl's Cap, and pat
+his Chin and Face. Also her singing of "<i>Sull' Aria</i>" with <span class="smcap">Parodi</span>,
+the <i>Countess</i>, and the mingling of their Voices very musicall.
+Likewise that jolly blooming she-<span class="smcap">Bacchus-Alboni</span>, <i>Cherubino</i>,
+with her passionate fine singing of "<i>Non so più</i>" and "<i>Voi che
+sapete</i>," did delight me much; and she did play a stripling of a
+Page in Love to the very Life. <span class="smcap">Belletti</span> did mightily take me
+with his Knaveries, in <i>Figaro</i>, and singing of "<i>Non più andrai</i>,"
+which is a most lively and martial Song; and the Grand March
+very brave as well, and did make my Heart leap, and me almost
+jump out of my Seat. <span class="smcap">Colletti</span>, too, the <i>Count</i>, did content me
+much, and to the utmost with "<i>Crudel! perchè finora</i>." But then
+to hear <span class="smcap">Lablache</span>, what a great Thing he do make out of so small
+a Part as <i>Bartolo</i>, with his Voice in the Concert-Pieces heard above
+all the Rest, and thundering out "<i>La Vendetta</i>," like a musicall
+<span class="smcap">Stentor</span>; and his undertaking of little Characters to make an
+Opera perfect is very magnanimous; and <span class="smcap">Mr. Wagstaffe</span> do
+well say that he "<i>Ingentes Animos ingenti in Pectore versat</i>," and
+have as much Brains as Body. Mighty droll to hear the Quartett,
+with each Singer in turn holding the Voice on the word "<i>Io</i>,"
+called for three Times, and the Singers each Time spinning "<i>Io</i>"
+out longer, whereat great Laughter; and the Performers laughing
+as much as the Audience. Wonderfull how still all the House was
+while <span class="smcap">Sontag</span> was a singing of "<i>Deh! vieni non tardar</i>," and the
+<i>Bravas</i> and Clapping of Hands when she had ended; and to hear
+how she did stick to the Text, and not, like a vulgar silly <i>Prima
+Donna</i>, disfigure noble Musique by ridiculous Flourishes. Home
+to Supper, it being late, though, walking up the Haymarket, did
+sorely long for stewed Oysters. Telling my Wife of the Opera, did
+speak of <i>Susanna</i> boxing <i>Figaro</i> his Ears, and let out that I could
+have been glad to have her box mine too, which my Wife did say
+she could do as well if I pleased; but I said I had rather not, and
+so, whistling "<i>Non più andrai</i>," rather small to Bed.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_BLACKWALL_SHOWYNGE_YE_PUBLICK" id="Illustration_BLACKWALL_SHOWYNGE_YE_PUBLICK"></a>
+<a href="images/057a.png">
+<img src="images/057.png" width="400" height="315" alt="BLACKWALL. SHOWYNGE YE PUBLICK
+A DINYNGE ON WHYTEBAIT." title="" /></a>
+<h2>BLACKWALL. SHOWYNGE YE PUBLICK
+A DINYNGE ON WHYTEBAIT.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Saturday</span>, <i>August 18, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Comes <span class="smcap">Mr. Gollope</span>, this being his Birth-day,
+to bid me to go dine with him and a Company of some Half-dozen
+of our Acquaintance, off Whitebait at Blackwall. So we
+first to London Bridge, on Foot, walking for an Appetite, and
+there took Water, and down the River in a Steam-Boat, with great
+Pleasure, enjoying the Breeze, and the View of the Shipping, and
+also the Prospect of a good Dinner. Landed at the Pier, and as
+fast as we could to <span class="smcap">Lovegrove's</span>, where our Table engaged in
+the large Room. But good Lack! to see the Fulness of the Place,
+every Table almost crowded with eager Eaters, the Heaps of
+Whitebait among them, and they with open Mouths and Eyes
+shovelling Spoonful after Spoonful into their Plates and thence
+thrusting them five or six at a Time into their Chaps. Then, here
+and there, a fat Fellow, stopping, out of Breath, to put down his
+Knife and Fork, and gulp a Goblet of iced Punch, was mighty<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span>
+droll; also to hear others speaking with their Mouths full. But
+Dinner coming, I cared not to look about me, there being on Table
+some dozen different Dishes of Fish, whereof the Sight did at
+first bewilder me, like the Donkey between the Haystacks, not
+knowing which to choose; and <span class="smcap">Mr. Goblestone</span> do lament that
+at a Feast with Plenty of good Things he never was able to eat
+his Fill of every one. A Dish of Salmon with India-Pickle did
+please me mightily, also some Eels, spitchcocked, and a stewed
+Carp, and ate heartily of them with much Relish; but did only
+nibble at the Rest by way of a Taste, for I felt exceeding full,
+and methought I should have no Stomach for the Whitebait.
+But Lack! to see when it came, how my Appetite returned, and
+I did fall to upon it, and drink iced Punch, and then at the
+Whitebait again. Pretty, the little Slices of brown Bread and Butter,
+they did bring us to eat it withal, and truly, with a Squeeze of
+Lemon and Cayenne Pepper, it is delicate Eating. After the
+Whitebait plain, Whitebait devilled made us to eat the more,
+and drink too, which we did in Champagne and Hock, pledging
+each other with great Mirth. After the Fish comes a Course of
+Ducks, and a Haunch of Mutton, and divers made Dishes; and
+then Tarts and Custards and Grouse; and lastly, a Dessert, and I
+did partake of all, as much as I had a Mind to, and after Dinner
+drank Port and Claret, when much Joking and rare Stories, and
+very merry we were. Pretty to look out of Window as we sat, at the
+Craft and the White Sails in the Sunset on the River. Back in
+a Railway Carriage, shouting and singing, and in a Cab Home,
+where <span class="smcap">Dr. Sharpe</span> called to see my Wife for her Vapours. Pretty
+Discourse with him touching the Epidemic, he telling me that
+of all Things to bring it on the likeliest was Excess in Food and
+Drink, which did trouble me, and so with a Draught of Soda and
+a Dose of Pills to Bed.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_YE_SPORT_OF_PUNTE_FYSHYNGE_OFF" id="Illustration_YE_SPORT_OF_PUNTE_FYSHYNGE_OFF"></a>
+<a href="images/059a.png">
+<img src="images/059.png" width="400" height="324" alt="YE SPORT OF PUNTE FYSHYNGE OFF
+RYCHMONDE." title="" /></a>
+<h2>YE SPORT OF PUNTE FYSHYNGE OFF
+RYCHMONDE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Wednesday</span>, <i>August 22, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">This Day to Richmond, to go a Fishing on
+the River, and with me <span class="smcap">Mr. Itchenbrooke</span>, out of Hampshire, a
+cunning Angler, who did mightily desire to see what this Sport
+should be. So first we out in a Boat below Richmond Bridge,
+where a Dozen or more of Punts full of People a Fishing, and rowed
+among them to observe the Manner of doing it, which is sinking
+with a Gentle, sitting upon Chairs, and smoking Cigars and
+Pipes of Tobacco, and drinking cold Brandy and Water. We
+did note one young Spark lying at full Length, in a Punt's End,
+asleep, and did conclude he had had enough of the Fishing, or
+else of the Grog. Some very silent, and bent on their Sport, but
+others bandying Fun and Jokes, and shouting for Joy and Merriment
+whenever they caught a Fish, which <span class="smcap">Mr. Itchenbrooke</span>
+do say is not the Wont of a Sportsman. Among the Fishers I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span>
+did note with Wonder one or two Damsels; but <span class="smcap">Mr. Wagstaffe</span>
+do say it is a common Thing for Ladies to fish for Gudgeons.
+Several of them also quite old Men; but seeming as much taken
+up with their Fishing as Schoolboys, though catching Nothing
+but little Fish not a Span long. So, satisfied with looking at the
+Sportsmen, we to try the Quality of the Sport ourselves, and did
+hire a Punt, and Fishing Tackle, and a Man to guide the Punt,
+and bait our Hooks, and did take on board a Stone-Bottle of
+Half-and-Half Beer, to follow the Fashion. Pretty, to see our
+Man sound the Depth of the River with a Plumb, to resolve whereabouts
+on our Lines to place the Float, and glad to have him to
+put the Bait on, being Gentles, which I was loath to touch. Our
+Hooks no sooner dropped into the Water than <span class="smcap">Mr. Itchenbrooke</span>
+did pull up a Fish about the Bigness of a Sprat, though,
+but for the Punt-Man, he would have thrown it in again, saying
+that he never heard of keeping any Fish under Half-a-Pound,
+and that while such small Fry were killed there would be no good
+Fish in the River. But Lack! to see how my Float did bob up
+and down, and I jerk at my Line, but generally bring up a Weed.
+Did marvel at the Punt-Man flinging Lumps of Earth and Meal
+into the Water to entice the Fish, which methought would either
+have driven them away or surfeited them, but did not, and the
+Trick did much divert <span class="smcap">Mr. Itchenbrooke</span>. We did catch Roach
+and Dace to the Number of fifteen, which my Companion did
+call seven Brace-and-a-Half; and I caught the Half: I mean the
+Half Brace. Our Fishing did last two Hours, cost 3s., and 6d.
+besides for the Beer, but we had much mirth for our Time and
+Money, though little Fish, and yet more Fish than some our Man
+did show us, saying they had been at it all the Day. So to Dinner
+at the Star and Garter, where a most brave Dinner and excellent
+Wine, and pretty Discourse with <span class="smcap">Mr. Itchenbrooke</span> of
+true Sport in Fishing and the Art of Whipping for Trout with an
+Imitation Fly, made out of coloured Silk Thread and Birds'
+Feathers. Our Dinner ended, cost me £1, 9s. 0d., went and
+bought 6d. worth of Maids of Honour at the Pastrycook's, and did
+take them Home to my Wife.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_TRYCKS_OF_YE_LONDON_TRADE" id="Illustration_TRYCKS_OF_YE_LONDON_TRADE"></a>
+<a href="images/061a.png">
+<img src="images/061.png" width="400" height="324" alt="TRYCKS OF YE LONDON TRADE." title="" /></a>
+<h2>TRYCKS OF YE LONDON TRADE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Tuesday</span>, <i>September 4, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">With my Wife this Day to Westminster, and
+walking thereabouts in Regent-Street and Oxford-Street, and the
+principal Streets, though contrary to my Resolution to walk with
+her only in the Fields, but did it to please her, and keep her in good
+Humour, but in mighty Fear of what it might cost me, trembling
+to observe her continually looking askance at the Shop-Windows.
+But I cannot wonder that they did catch her Eye; particularly the
+Haberdashers, and Drapers, and Mercers, whereof many were full
+of Bills, stuck in all Manner of Ways across the Panes, and printed
+in Letters of from two Inches to a Span long, and staring Dashes
+of Admiration two and three together. In one Window posted a
+"Tremendous Sacrifice!" in another an "Alarming Failure!!" in
+a third a "Ruinous Bankruptcy!!!", by reason whereof, the Goods
+within were a-selling off at 50, 60, or 70 per Cent. under prime Cost,
+but at any Rate the Owners must raise Money. Good Lack! to
+think of the dreadful Pass the Drapery Trade must have come to;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span>
+so many Master-Mercers and Haberdashers on the Threshold of
+the Prison or the Workhouse, and their Wives and Families becoming
+Paupers on the Parish, or Beggars, and their People out
+of Employ starving; if their notices do tell true. But my Wife did
+say, very serious, that we were not to judge, or to know of their
+Tricks and Cozenage, and, that it was no Matter to us if they did
+cheat their Creditors, provided we could buy their Wares at a Bargain,
+and besides, if we did not, others would. So going by <span class="smcap">Ragge,
+Rip &amp; Co.</span>, their Establishment, as they do call their Shop, she
+would needs stop in Front of it to look in; which did trouble me.
+I to read the Posters in the Window, which were the worst and
+most pitiful of any, and by their showing <span class="smcap">Mr. Ragge</span> and <span class="smcap">Mr. Rip</span>,
+and their <span class="smcap">Co.</span> were going altogether to the Dogs. My Wife did presently,
+as I expected, find somewhat she had a Mind to: a Muslin
+she did say was Dirt-cheap, and I knew was Dirt-worth. I plainly
+refused to let her buy it, or anything else at <span class="smcap">Ragge</span> and <span class="smcap">Rip's</span>, who
+have been, to my knowledge, making a Tremendous Sacrifice any
+Time the last two Years; but the Simpletons their Customers the
+only Victims. But I pity not a Whit such Gudgeons as are caught by
+these Tricks of the Drapery Trade; rightly served by being cheated
+in seeking to profit, as they think, by Fraud and dishonest Bankruptcy.
+I told my Wife that <span class="smcap">Ragge</span> and <span class="smcap">Rip</span> do sell off at a Loss to
+none but those that deal with them, and were like at that Moment,
+instead of being Bankrupts, to be making merry at the Expense of
+their Dupes. But she being sullen at my Denial of her Muslin, I
+did quiet her by the Promise of a better Piece at <span class="smcap">Faircloth</span> and
+<span class="smcap">Pryce's</span>, who do carry on Business without rogueish Puffery, and
+after the old Fashion of English Traders, according to the Maxim,
+that "Good Wine needs no Bush," which my Wife, poor silly
+Wretch, not understanding, I explained to her did mean, that
+stuffs worth the buying, to find a Sale, do stand in no need of Haberdashers'
+trickish Advertisements.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_MADAME_TUSSAUD_HER_WAX_WERKES" id="Illustration_MADAME_TUSSAUD_HER_WAX_WERKES"></a>
+<a href="images/063a.png">
+<img src="images/063.png" width="400" height="307" alt="MADAME TUSSAUD HER WAX WERKES.
+YE CHAMBER OF HORRORS!!" title="" /></a>
+<h2>MADAME TUSSAUD HER WAX WERKES.
+YE CHAMBER OF HORRORS!!
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Wednesday</span>, <i>September 5, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">To please my Wife, did take her this Evening
+to <span class="smcap">Madame Tussaud</span> her Wax Works; a grand large Room,
+with Gilding, lighted up very splendid: cost 2s., and a Catalogue
+6d. The Wax Figures showy: but with their painted Cheeks and
+glassy Eyes&mdash;especially such as nod and move&mdash;do look like Life
+in Death. The Dresses very handsome, and I think correct; and
+the Sight of so many People of Note in the Array of their Time,
+did much delight me. Among the Company Numbers of Country
+Folk, and to see how they did stare at the Effigies of the <span class="smcap">Queen</span>,
+and the <span class="smcap">Prince</span>, and the <span class="smcap">Duke of Wellington</span>, and the <span class="smcap">King
+of the Belgians</span>, and the <span class="smcap">Princess Charlotte</span> that was, and
+<span class="smcap">George the Fourth</span> in his Coronation Robes, grand as a Peacock!
+The Catalogue do say that his Chair is the very one wherein
+he sat in the Abbey; but it look like a Play-House Property,
+and little thought the King where it would come down to figure!<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span>
+A Crowd of Dames gazing at the Group of the Royal Family, calling
+the Children "Dears" and "Ducks," and would, I verily believe,
+have liked to kiss their Wax Chaps. My Wife feasted her
+Eyes on the little Princes and Princesses, I mine upon a pretty,
+modest, black Maid beside me, and she hers on me, till my Wife
+spying us, did pinch me with her Nails in the Arm. Pretty, to see
+the Sovereign Allies in the last War, and bluff old <span class="smcap">Blucher</span>, and
+<span class="smcap">Bonaparte</span> and his Officers, in brave Postures, but stiff. Also
+the two <span class="smcap">King Charleses</span>, and <span class="smcap">Oliver</span>, together; <span class="smcap">Charles the
+First</span> protesting against his Death-Warrant, and his Son Backing
+him; and <span class="smcap">Cardinal Wolsey</span> looking on. <span class="smcap">Lord Byron</span> in
+the Dress of a Greek Pirate, looking Daggers and Pistols, close to
+<span class="smcap">John Wesley</span> preaching a Sermon; and methought, if all <span class="smcap">Madame
+Tussaud's</span> Figures were their Originals instead, what Ado
+there would be! Many of the Faces that I knew very like; and
+my <span class="smcap">Lord Brougham</span> I did know directly, and <span class="smcap">Liston</span> in <i>Paul
+Pry</i>. But strange, among the Kings to see him that was the Railway
+King; and methinks that it were as well now if he were melted
+up. Thence to the <span class="smcap">Napoleon</span> Rooms, where <span class="smcap">Bonaparte's</span> Coach,
+and one of his Teeth, and other Reliques and Gimcracks of his,
+well enough to see for such as care about him a Button. Then to
+the Chamber of Horrors, which my Wife did long to see most of
+all; cost, with the <span class="smcap">Napoleon</span> Rooms, 1s. more; a Room like a
+Dungeon, where the Head of <span class="smcap">Robespierre</span>, and other Scoundrels
+of the great French Revolution, in Wax, as though just cut off, horrid
+ghastly, and Plaster Casts of Fellows that have been hanged:
+but the chief attraction a Sort of Dock, wherein all the notorious
+Murderers of late Years; the foremost of all, <span class="smcap">Rush</span>, according to
+the Bill, taken from Life at Norwich, which, seeing he was hanged
+there, is an odd Phrase. Methinks it is of ill Consequence that
+there should be a Murderers' Corner, wherein a Villain may look
+to have his Figure put more certainly than a Poet can to a Statue
+in the Abbey. So away again to the large Room, to look at <span class="smcap">Jenny
+Lind</span> instead of <span class="smcap">Greenacre</span>, and at 10 of the Clock Home,
+and so to Bed, my Wife declaring she should dream of the Chamber
+of Horrors.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_DEERE_STALKYNGE_IN_YE_HYGHLANDES" id="Illustration_DEERE_STALKYNGE_IN_YE_HYGHLANDES"></a>
+<a href="images/065a.png">
+<img src="images/065.png" width="400" height="313" alt="DEERE STALKYNGE IN YE HYGHLANDES." title="" /></a>
+<h2>DEERE STALKYNGE IN YE HYGHLANDES.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Monday</span>, <i>September 17, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Comes <span class="smcap">Mr. Gollope</span>, and <span class="smcap">Mr. Goblestone</span>, and
+<span class="smcap">Jenkyns</span>, to dine with me off a Haunch of Venison, and <span class="smcap">Mr. Mc.
+Nab</span> calling, I did make him stay Dinner too, and the Venison
+very fat and good; and <span class="smcap">Mr. Gollope</span> did commend my Carving,
+whereof I was proud. Between them a Debate over our Dinner,
+as to whether the Red Deer or the Fallow Deer were the better
+Venison, and both <span class="smcap">Mr. Gollope</span> and <span class="smcap">Mr. Goblestone</span> do say
+the Fallow, but <span class="smcap">Mr. Mc. Nab</span> will have it that the Red is by far
+the better, and do tell them they know nothing about the Matter,
+and never tasted Red Deer but such as had been mewed up in
+Richmond Park, which are mighty different from them that do
+browse in the Highlands on the Heather. He do say that Highland
+Deer-Stalking do excel every other Sport, from Tiger-Hunting
+to Fox-Hunting, which I mean to repeat to <span class="smcap">Mr. Corduroys</span>
+to make him mad. Then he to describe the Manner of Stalking<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span>
+the Deer, and his Account thereof mighty taking, but, with his
+broad Scottish Accent and Phrases, droll; and good Lack, to
+hear him talk of Braes, and Burns, and Cairns, and Corries, rattling
+the R in every Word! He says that the Deer are the cunningest
+and the watchfullest, and can see, and hear, and smell at
+the greatest Distance of any Creature almost living, and do keep
+Spies to look out, and their Ears and Eyes always open and their
+Noses to the Wind, and do think and reason in their Minds like
+human Beings; which, methinks, is peculiar to the Scotch Deer.
+He says that the Sport is to fetch a Compass on them by Stratagem,
+so as to approach or drive them nigh enough to shoot them
+with a Rifle, and it do often take some Hours and several Miles,
+mostly crawling on the Hands and Knees, to get one Shot. He
+says that the Stalker and Hill-Keepers that wait on him must, to
+gain their Chance, dodge, stooping behind Crags, wriggle and
+creep over Flats and up Brooks like Snakes or Eels, clamber up
+and run down Precipices, and stride over Bogs, wherein they do
+sometimes sink plump up to the Middle; which should be rather
+Sport to the Stag than the Huntsman. But after all, the Deer shot
+dead, or wounded, and at Bay with the Hounds at his Throat, but
+despatched at last, and paunched, which he do call "gralloched,"
+is such a Triumph that it do repay the Sportsman for all his Pains.
+He do say that what with the Grandeur of the Mountains, and the
+Freshness of the Air, the Spirits are raised beyond what we could
+imagine, and the Appetite also increased wonderfully; whereat
+<span class="smcap">Mr. Gollope</span> did prick up his Ears. To conclude, he did declare
+that no one could know what Deer-Stalking was that had not tried
+it; but methinks I can, remembering how I used in my Youth to
+creep in Ditches and behind Hedges to shoot Larks.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_PROSPECT_OF_AN_ELECTION" id="Illustration_A_PROSPECT_OF_AN_ELECTION"></a>
+<a href="images/067a.png">
+<img src="images/067.png" width="400" height="324" alt="A PROSPECT OF AN ELECTION." title="" /></a>
+<h2>A PROSPECT OF AN ELECTION.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Thursday</span>, <i>September 27, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Up, and by Railway with <span class="smcap">Mr. Wagstaffe</span> to
+Guzzleford to my <span class="smcap">Cosin Peg</span> her Wedding, and heard the Bells a
+ringing at 9 o'clock, the Marriage not to be till 11, but found they
+were rung for an Election; <span class="smcap">'Squire Callow</span> and <span class="smcap">Mr. Fairport</span>
+standing for County Members in the Room of <span class="smcap">Mr. Brownjohn</span>.
+So, the Wedding over, we about the Town to see the Fun. A Fellow
+the worse for Beer demanding whose Colours we wore, meaning
+our Wedding-Favours, <span class="smcap">Mr. Wagstaffe</span> did pleasantly answer,
+<span class="smcap">Hymen's</span>, whereupon the Fellow, crying "<span class="smcap">Callow</span> for ever!" did
+rush full at us, but, we parting, slip between us and tumble headlong
+into the Mud. Good Lack! to see what Numbers of Ragamuffins
+everywhere with their Hats awry, Noses bleeding, or Eyes
+blacked, staggering under huge Placard Boards, whereon, in great
+Letters, "<span class="smcap">Callow</span> and Agriculture," or, "Vote for <span class="smcap">Fairport</span> and
+Commerce!" The Windows and Balconies full of Ladies, some
+pretty, to whom in my Wife's Absence I did kiss my Hand. But<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span>
+to think of the Ladies wearing the Colours of the Candidates, Blue
+and Yellow, but only for an Excuse to deck themselves out with Ribbons!
+In the Streets, Horsemen galloping to and fro, to tell the
+State of the Polls, and the Mob cheering and bantering them, mighty
+droll. <span class="smcap">'Squire Callow</span> did put up at the Barley-Mow, and <span class="smcap">Mr.
+Fairport</span> at the Rising Sun, and between the two Inns, with a
+few plump rosy Farmers in Top-Boots, was a noisy Rabble, quarrelling
+and fighting, with Skins unwashed, and unshorn Muzzles,
+whom the Candidates' Committee-Men, speaking to them from
+the Windows, did call Free and Independent Electors. To some
+that harangued them, the Mob did cry, "Go Home," and "Who
+cheated his Washerwoman?" or, "How about the Workhouse
+Beef?" yet listened to a few that were familiar and cracked old
+Jokes with them. Presently they addressed by the Candidates in
+Turn; and nasty to see them pelt each Speaker with stale Eggs.
+But to hear, as well as might be for the Shouting and Hissing,
+<span class="smcap">'Squire Callow</span> promising the Farmers to restore the Corn Laws,
+and laying the Potato Blight and late Sickness to Free Trade; while
+<span class="smcap">Mr. Fairport</span> did as loudly charge all the Woes and Grievances
+of the Country on the Landlords. By-and-by, <span class="smcap">Mr. Fairport</span>,
+the Poll going so much against him, did give in, and then <span class="smcap">'Squire
+Callow</span> come forward, and make a brave Speech about our Glorious
+Institutions and the British Lion, and so away to have his Election
+declared, to the Town Hall, in a Carriage and Four, and the
+Rabblement after him. Then they left behind did set to on both
+Sides to fling Stones, and <span class="smcap">'Squire Callow's</span> Mob did break the
+Windows of the Rising Sun, and <span class="smcap">Mr. Fairport's</span> the Windows
+of the Barley-Mow; which the Townsmen did say would be good
+for the Glaziers, and <span class="smcap">Mr. Wagstaffe</span> do observe that the Conservative
+<span class="smcap">'Squire Callow</span> hath destructive Constituents. What with
+Publicans, and Lawyers, and Damage, the Election will cost the
+Candidates £6000 or £7000 a-Piece, and to think what a good
+Motive one must have to become a Parliament-Man, that will spend
+so much Money for the Chance of a Seat.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_PARTIE_OF_SPORTSMEN_OUT_A" id="Illustration_A_PARTIE_OF_SPORTSMEN_OUT_A"></a>
+<a href="images/069a.png">
+<img src="images/069.png" width="400" height="316" alt="A PARTIE OF SPORTSMEN OUT A
+SHUTYNGE." title="" /></a>
+<h2>A PARTIE OF SPORTSMEN OUT A
+SHUTYNGE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Monday</span>, <i>October 1, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Up mighty betimes, and to Brushwood for
+a Day's Shooting, by Invitation from <span class="smcap">Mr. Tibbitts</span>, whose Father,
+the rich Furrier, did die the other Day, and leave him a Fortune,
+and now he hath rented Brushwood Manor to shoot over for the
+Season. But Lack, what a set of young Rogues I found there of
+<span class="smcap">Tibbitts</span> his Acquaintance, a-smoking of Cigars and short Pipes,
+and a-drinking of Ale and bottled Stout at 10 o'clock of the Morning!
+Mighty ashamed of, though diverted with, my Company, to
+hear their loose and idle Conversation, and how none of them
+could pronounce the letter H, and to think what an unlettered vulgar
+Fellow <span class="smcap">Tibbitts</span> is, and that I should demean myself to associate
+with such a Companion only because of his Riches, and Wine,
+and Dinners. One of the Party, <span class="smcap">Wiggyns</span>, did tell me we should
+have a prime Lark, which, this being the first Day of Pheasant-Shooting,
+I did think droll; but divers Larks, indeed, were shot before<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span>
+the Day was over. So we into the Fields, and a Keeper following
+us with the Dogs, and, whenever I did look over my Shoulder,
+did catch him grinning and making Faces behind our Backs. But
+strange, to see how much better the Rogues did shoot than I expected,
+though firing at Tom-Tits, or anything almost, and do understand
+they got this Skill at the Red House, Battersea, through
+popping at Pigeons and Sparrows let loose from a Trap; which do
+seem but a cruel and a barbarous kind of Sport. But little Birds
+were not all they shot, for one <span class="smcap">Higges</span> aiming at a Hare did miss,
+and instead of the Hare hit one of the Dogges, and sent him yelping
+and limping Home. But good Lack, to see how careless the
+Fellows were with their Fire-Arms, carrying their Guns, full-cocked,
+pointing right in one another's Faces, and one, dragging his
+Piece through a Hedge after him, it went off, but finding it had
+only carried off the Skirt of his Shooting-Coat, we had a good
+Laugh of it. Another, with a double-barrelled Gun, having shot
+off one Barrel at a Blackbird, I did see reloading; the other Barrel
+being still loaded and at full Cock. He, forcing down the Ramrod
+with all his Might, I did catch him by the Elbow, and point
+to the Cock of the Gun, and methinks I did never see a Man on
+a Sudden tremble so terribly, or grow so pale. Getting beyond
+Brushwood, into a Field hard by, <span class="smcap">Mr. Wiggyns</span> did let fly at some
+Ducks, for one of those Larks he had been talking of, which did
+bring down upon us the Farmer, with his Bull-Dog, and cause us
+to make off with all the Speed we could. I in mighty Dread of being
+seized as an Accomplice in shooting the Duck, fearing the Farmer,
+who is horridly enraged with the Game-Preserving at Brushwood,
+for that the Game do eat up his Crops; and, truly, the Game
+Laws are a great Nuisance. Home from our Shooting, with our
+Bag, carried by <span class="smcap">Tibbitts</span> his Tiger-Boy, very full, with a Brace or
+two of Pheasants and Partridges, but many more Brace of Chaffinches,
+and Yellow-Hammers, and Robin Redbreasts, and so to
+Dinner, where all very merry, and so to Bed.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_YE_WYNE_VAULTS_AT_YE_DOCKS" id="Illustration_YE_WYNE_VAULTS_AT_YE_DOCKS"></a>
+<a href="images/071a.png">
+<img src="images/071.png" width="400" height="280" alt="YE WYNE VAULTS AT YE DOCKS.
+SHOWYNGE A PARTYE TASTYNGE." title="" /></a>
+<h2>YE WYNE VAULTS AT YE DOCKS.
+SHOWYNGE A PARTYE TASTYNGE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Thursday</span>, <i>October 11, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">To the Docks, to meet <span class="smcap">Mr. Soker</span>, and go
+over the Wine Vaults with a Tasting-Order, and taste the Wine
+there before it hath undergone any Roguery for the Market. Found
+there <span class="smcap">Soker</span>, and <span class="smcap">Mr. Wagstaffe</span>, and <span class="smcap">Swilby</span>, and <span class="smcap">Swype</span>, and
+<span class="smcap">Sharpe</span>, and with them <span class="smcap">Mr. Goodfellowe</span>, who had gotten <span class="smcap">Soker</span>
+the Order. First to the Quay, heaped with Barrels of Wine, and
+one huge Barrel, they did tell me, holding 625 Gallons, hoisted ashore,
+<span class="smcap">Mr. Wagstaffe</span> did say, by an Adjutant, or Gigantic Crane.
+Then, through all Manner of Casks and Tubs, and Bales of Merchandise,
+to St. Katherine's Dock, and down to the Vault, where
+a Cooper forthwith did wait on us with a Couple of Glasses, and
+gave each Man a flat Stick with a Lamp at the farther End, to see
+our Way. The Vault almost quite dark, only lighted by Sconces
+from the Roof, and the farthest Sconce looking half-a-mile off, and
+all this Space full of Barrels of Wine! The Roof supported by
+Rows of Columns; and the Vault altogether like the Crypt of a vast
+Cathedral, but sweeter; the Air smelling of Wine very strong, which<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span>
+alone did make me feel giddy. Strange to see the Mildew hanging
+in all Sorts of Forms from the Roof, which many do mistake for
+Cobwebs, but some call Fungus, and <span class="smcap">Dr. Limbeck</span>, the Chymist,
+do tell me is mostly Nitrate of Lime. The Cooper did lead us to
+the Wine we were to taste, and pretty to see him tap the Barrel by
+boring a Hole in it with a Gimlet. We did drink, all round, a good
+Ale-glass each of excellent Sherry, all except <span class="smcap">Mr. Sharpe</span>; and
+I did wonder to see him taste the Wine, and call it rare good Stuff,
+and yet spit it out, but found by and by that he was wise. Next,
+to the London Dock; and <span class="smcap">Mr. Goodfellowe</span> did give us Biscuit,
+and recommend us to eat, and I did take his advice, and glad
+I did. Here, more Curiosities in Mildew, hanging from the Roof;
+and one a Festoon as big as the great Sausage in the Pork-Shop
+at the Corner of Bow Street. A good Story from the Cooper, of a
+Visitor that took a Specimen of the Mildew away in his Hat, and
+with the Moisture of his Head, it melted and blackened his Face,
+and served him right, that&mdash;like more than enough Sight-Seers&mdash;could
+not keep his Hands from Picking. To several Vaults, and tasted
+Wine in each; all very vast, but the East Vault the biggest,
+and do contain more thousand Pipes, and cover more Acres than
+I doubt, by Reason of the Wine I drunk, I can remember. By
+this Time, our Party very jolly and noisy, and did begin to dance
+and sing, and flourish their Lamps like Playhouse Devils; and methought
+I did see the Meaning of the Notice outside, that Ladies
+could not be admitted after 1 o'Clock. Coming into the open Air,
+could scarcely stand; and <span class="smcap">Mr. Goodfellowe</span> did see them into
+Cabs, and I home on Foot&mdash;straight as I could go&mdash;and my Wife
+wondering at the Redness of my Nose. Good Lack! to see the
+Quantity of Goods and Wine in the Docks; and to think what a
+great and mighty Nation we are, and what Oceans of Liquor we
+do swill and guzzle!</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_WEDDYNGE_BREAKFASTE" id="Illustration_A_WEDDYNGE_BREAKFASTE"></a>
+<a href="images/073a.png">
+<img src="images/073.png" width="400" height="326" alt="A WEDDYNGE BREAKFASTE." title="" /></a>
+<h2>A WEDDYNGE BREAKFASTE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Monday</span>, <i>October 22, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Up, and to Church together with my Wife,
+to see <span class="smcap">Pall Harley</span> married this Morning to <span class="smcap">Dick Baker</span>; on
+both Sides mighty genteel People, and their Guests, all except
+ourselves, such as they do call Carriage-Company. <span class="smcap">Pall</span>, in a
+Dress of White Satin, and Orange Flowers in her Hair, very
+pretty and demure, and <span class="smcap">Dick</span>, wearing a Sky-Blue Coat, Crimson
+Velvet Waistcoat, Yellow Moleskin Trousers, and Japanned
+Boots; with Lavender Kid Gloves, and a Carbuncle in his Shirt-Front,
+a great Buck. <span class="smcap">Dick</span> and every Man of us with great
+White Favours at our Breasts, mighty conspicuous and, methought,
+absurd, the Things serving neither for Use nor Ornament.
+But to see how grand were old fat <span class="smcap">Mr. Harley</span> and <span class="smcap">Mr.
+Baker</span>, and how more grand were their fat Wives, and how fine
+and serious they looked and how high they carried their Noses!
+And when the Ring was put on <span class="smcap">Pall's</span> Finger (<span class="smcap">Dick</span> first having
+fumbled for it in the wrong Pocket), her Mother did weep,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span>
+and falling for stay on <span class="smcap">Mr. Harley</span>, nigh overthrew him. But
+the pretty modest Bridesmaids did most of all take me; which
+my Wife observing, I saw, did trouble her. The Ceremony over,
+and the Fees paid, and the Bride kissed by some of the old Gentlemen,
+we to old <span class="smcap">Harley's</span> to Breakfast, where what <span class="smcap">Wiggyns</span> do
+call a Grand Spread, very fine both for Show and Meats, every
+Dish ornamented with Flowers and Gimcracks, the cold Chickens
+trimmed with Ribbons, and the Bride-Cake, having upon it Wax
+<span class="smcap">Cupids</span> and Turtle-Doves, was pretty. So down we sat, <span class="smcap">Dick</span> stiff
+and sheepish, and <span class="smcap">Pall</span> also, shamefaced, and trying to hide her
+Blushes with a Nosegay. <span class="smcap">Pall's</span> Mother in Tears, and her Father
+solemn, and the Bridesmaids mostly bashful, but a little black one
+that sate by me very merry, and I did by-and-by pull Crackers
+with her, till my Wife suddenly thrust a Pin into my Arm, to the
+Quick. The Company first silent, till a Friend of the young Pair,
+who did say he had known them both from Babies, did propose
+their Health in a pretty pathetic but confused Speech, and breaking
+down in the Midst of a Sentence, conclude by wishing them
+long Life and Happiness, with great Applause. Then the Bride-Groom
+to return Thanks, but, perplexed with his Pronouns, obliged
+to stop short too, but, he said, overcome by his Feelings.
+The Champagne flowing, we soon merrier, especially an old Uncle
+of <span class="smcap">Dick's</span> who began to make Jokes, which did trouble the
+Bride and Bride-Groom. But they presently with much Crying
+and Kissing, and Shaking of Hands, away in a Coach-and-Four,
+amid the Cheering of the Crowd in the Street and the Boys shouting
+to behold the fine Equipage; and Servants and old Women
+looking on from the opposite Windows. We eating and drinking
+with great Delight till late in the Afternoon, but at last broke up,
+the Multitude saluting us each as we stepped into the Street, and
+the Policeman and Beadle that were guarding the Door in great
+State, touching their Hats. A grand Marriage Breakfast do give a
+brave Treat to the Mob, in Show, and to the Company in Eating
+and Drinking, and is great Fun to all but those most concerned.
+But to think what a Fuss is made about most Marriages, and how
+little Reason for it is shown by most People's married Life.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_THEATRE_SHOWYNGE_YE_HOUSE" id="Illustration_A_THEATRE_SHOWYNGE_YE_HOUSE"></a>
+<a href="images/075a.png">
+<img src="images/075.png" width="400" height="320" alt="A THEATRE, SHOWYNGE YE HOUSE
+AMUSED BY YE COMYCKE ACTOR." title="" /></a>
+<h2>A THEATRE, SHOWYNGE YE HOUSE
+AMUSED BY YE COMYCKE ACTOR.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Friday</span>, <i>October 26, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">To the old House in the Market, where I
+would fain have seen <i>Macbeth</i>, for the Acting as well as the Divertisement;
+but this not the Night, so went Half-Price, and did see
+the <i>Unpolished Gem</i>, instead. <span class="smcap">Touchstone</span> did play <i>Brother Dick</i>,
+a Country Clown, and his Figure, in a Coat short in the Waist,
+a huge striped Waistcoat, Trousers too big for him tucked up at
+the Ankles, Hob-Nail Boots, and a great ill-shaped Hat, mighty
+droll, and did move the People to clap their Hands and laugh the
+Moment he come on the Stage. Then did he take off his Hat, and
+show a red-cropped Head, and smooth down his Hair, and make
+a Face upon the Audience, whereat they did laugh again, and then
+turning round show them a Back View of himself, which made
+them laugh the more. Still greater Laughter the Moment he opened
+his Mouth, and I did laugh too, as much as any, though I heard
+not what he said; but only for the Oddness of his Voice, which is<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span>
+such that methinks I could not keep my Countenance to hear him,
+even if he were speaking <i>Hamlet</i>. Mighty droll to see him in a fine
+House make himself at Home after the Fashion of a Bumpkin, and
+hear him in his rustical Drawl and Twang relate all the News and
+Tattle of his Village. What with his clodhopping Gait, and Awkwardness,
+and Independence, and Impudence, he did make, methinks,
+the veriest Lout I did ever see, even in Hampshire. His
+politeness even droller than his Rudeness, and his Ploughboy
+Courtesy of kissing his Hand as comical as could be. But I know
+not well whether I do more prefer his Cocknies or his Clowns; for
+methinks I have seen him do a Snob as well as a Clodpole, and he is
+very good in both, whether a rustical Booby or a Whippersnapper
+Spark; and do use V for W, and misuse or drop his H, and talk
+the Flash and Cant of the Town mighty natural. But to think how
+we English People do take Delight in everything that is ridiculous;
+and how I have seen a Theatre ringing with Merriment at
+the Sight of <span class="smcap">Touchstone</span> in a Paper Cap and Apron, with a Baker's
+Tray, and a Bell, crying "Muffins!" or eating with his Mouth
+full; or even putting his Arms a-Kimbo, or pulling his Hat over
+his Eyes, and some of the Audience, and myself too, in Fits almost
+with Laughter. Methinks that Foreigners are wrong to suppose
+that we are a melancholy People, and would give up this Notion
+if they could see us at a broad Farce, and how easily we are pleased,
+and what Straws will tickle us almost to Death. Home, my Sides
+aching by Reason of <span class="smcap">Touchstone's</span> Drolleries, and truly he do
+make a mighty excellent roguish Buffoon. So to Bed mimicking
+<span class="smcap">Touchstone</span> his Voice to my Wife, which did divert her mightily.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_PROSPECTE_OF_YE_ZOOLOGICAL_SOCIETYE" id="Illustration_A_PROSPECTE_OF_YE_ZOOLOGICAL_SOCIETYE"></a>
+<a href="images/077a.png">
+<img src="images/077.png" width="400" height="318" alt="A PROSPECTE OF YE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYE
+ITS GARDENS. FEEDYNGE YE BEASTS." title="" /></a>
+<h2>A PROSPECTE OF YE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYE
+ITS GARDENS. FEEDYNGE YE BEASTS.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Monday</span>, <i>October 29, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">To the Zoological Gardens, in the Regent's
+Park, at 3 p.m., in Time to see the Otter fed with live Fishes, which
+he do chase round his Basin in the Water, and dive after mighty
+clever. Then to the Wild Beasts, hungry, in a terrible Rage, as I
+have seen others than Wild Beasts waiting for Dinner. Some of
+the Dens with Trees in them for the Beasts to climb in; Lions,
+old and young, Lionesses, He and She Tigers, a Jaguar, an Ounce,
+a Cheetah, a Spotted and Black Leopard: and on the other side
+Hyænas, and Pumas, and more Leopards, and Bears. Their Yelling
+and Howling for Hunger a most horrid Musique, while the Tigers
+rear on their hind Legs, and dash at their Bars, and grin and glare
+at the Children outside. The Ramping and Roaring doubled when
+the Keeper come with the Meat, and Lack! how they did fly at it
+with Teeth and Claws, and howl and snort over it, and munch and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span>
+crunch the Bones! But one Hyæna droll, the Keeper passing him
+by, and he, thinking he was to go without his Meal, throwing himself
+on his Back, and moaning, and crying in Despair. Pretty, to
+see the Bears in their Pit climb up their Post for Buns; which the
+Visitors did hold to them on the End of a long Stick, and them below
+fighting for the Morsels that fell; and their Clumsiness, and
+awkward Standing on their hind Legs. The White Bear, also,
+swimming in his Tank, pleasant, I being on the outside of his Cage.
+A fine old Wolf and Cubs, but snarling and snapping over their Victuals,
+seemed not a Happy Family. Saw the Eagles and Vultures
+Prey, treading on their Meat, and tearing it up with their Beaks;
+the Eagles brave, but the Vultures look ignoble. Yet fine the
+Great Condor Vulture, when the Wind blew, stretching forth his
+Wings upon it; and glad, no doubt, would have been to sail away.
+The Parrots gay; but so shriek and squall, that their Abode do
+seem the Madhouse of the Place. Much taken with the Seal swim
+in the Water, and waddle out on his Stomach with his Tail and
+Flappers, like a Fellow with his Legs tied for a Wager. Diverted
+by the Gambols and Antics of the Monkeys and Apes: yet ashamed
+to see such vile Likenesses of ourselves: and the Apes especially;
+and the Crowd of Women and Ladies gazing at them! With
+Pleasure, yet Horror, did view the Snakes and Lizards in the Reptile
+House, and glad they could not get at me; but hoped to see the
+Boa Constrictor swallow a live Rabbit: but did not. Bought Gingerbread
+Nuts to feed the Elephant, cost me 2d. and he did please
+me, but I wished he had been bigger; but the Rhinoceros did give
+me great Delight, and with Mirth heard a Countryman standing
+by, call him the Hog in Armour. The Bison, with his huge shaggy
+Head and Mane, Horns, and fiery Eyes, do look the most like a
+Demon I ever did see. To the Camel-Leopards, graceful Creatures;
+after the Bison and Rhinoceros. Then about the Gardens
+to watch the People and the Children stare at, and feed and poke
+the Animals. Did mark some pretty Damsels, and, having done
+gazing at the Beasts, gaze at them. So Home, and described to my
+Wife what I had seen, except the Damsels, and did discourse with
+her of Natural History; which the Zoological Gardens do breed
+a pretty Taste for among the People.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_WESTMINSTER_HALL_SHOWYNGE_YE" id="Illustration_WESTMINSTER_HALL_SHOWYNGE_YE"></a>
+<a href="images/079a.png">
+<img src="images/079.png" width="400" height="320" alt="WESTMINSTER HALL, SHOWYNGE YE
+CEREMONYE OF OPENYNGE TERME." title="" />
+</a>
+<h2>WESTMINSTER HALL, SHOWYNGE YE
+CEREMONYE OF OPENYNGE TERME.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Friday</span>, <i>November 2, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Up, and by Appointment to <span class="smcap">Mr. Wagstaffe's</span>,
+and so with him to Westminster Hall, to see my <span class="smcap">Lord Chancellor</span>
+and the Judges, after Breakfast with my Lord, this being the
+first Day of Michaelmas Term, open the Law Courts in State, in
+their Robes and Wigs. We there at 12, the Hour set for the Ceremony,
+but, we found, only for the Beginning of it by Breakfast,
+which had we thought of, we had taken our Time, as knowing that
+my Lords would be sure to take theirs. So clear that we must have
+Patience, <span class="smcap">Mr. Wagstaffe</span> did say, like many besides us in Westminster
+Hall. So out to look at the New Houses of Parliament,
+and how the Masons speed with the Building, which will be mighty
+fine when it is done, and <span class="smcap">Mr. Transom</span> do commend the Style,
+and I too, both for the Proportions and also for the Heraldry and
+Lions. Then back again to the Hall, where now a few more
+People; and presently comes marching in a Party of Policemen,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span>
+large enough to have taken up all present, and yet hardly have had
+one Prisoner a-piece; But the Numbers did by Degrees increase,
+and were, I did note, mostly of the better Sort; thank the Police.
+Among them divers Barristers-at-Law, some with their Sisters,
+some with their Wives, or such as did seem like to be their Wives,
+many of whom mighty comely Damsels, and were a Sight I never
+expected, not thinking they could care for Law Matters, or to see
+the Judges, 2d.; but strange how Women do flock to every Concourse,
+whether it be to see or only to be seen. There for the first
+Time I did behold <span class="smcap">Mr. Tomkyns</span>, the young Barrister, in his Wig,
+wherein he do look mighty sedate, and I telling him I hoped he
+would come to open Term himself, made answer as it might be
+some while first, he wished I might live to see it. The people now
+crowding about the Doors of the Courts, the Police did make a
+Lane between them for my <span class="smcap">Lord Chancellor</span> and the Judges
+to walk down, and <span class="smcap">Mr. Wagstaffe</span> did call it Chancery Lane.
+My Lords still not coming, he did observe that now we had a Sample
+of the Law's Delay, and did pleasantly lay the Lateness of the
+Breakfast to the Account of the <span class="smcap">Master of the Rolls</span>. But
+they at last come, and we opposite the Court of Common Pleas
+got a good View of them to my Heart's Content. First comes the
+Mace, and a gentleman in his Court Suit, wearing a Sword and
+Bag, and with them the Great Seal; then my <span class="smcap">Lord Chancellor</span>,
+and did walk down to his Court at the end of the Hall, looking
+the better of his Sickness, which I was glad of. After him the other
+Judges, of whom most did enter the Door whereby we were, and
+mighty reverend they looked, but merry and in good Humour,
+and beamy and ruddy after their Breakfast. But to see <span class="smcap">Mr. Justice
+Talfourd</span> come last of all, shaking Hands with his Friends
+on both Sides, he newly made a Judge, being a Poet, did most content
+me; and <span class="smcap">Mr. Wagstaffe</span> did say he looked in good Case
+and by no means <i>puisne</i>. The Judges all entered, the Rabblement
+let into the Hall, and we away, fearing for our Pockets;
+which are like to be very soon emptied in Westminster Hall.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_PROSPECTE_OF_YE_5TH_OF_NOVEMBER" id="Illustration_A_PROSPECTE_OF_YE_5TH_OF_NOVEMBER"></a>
+<a href="images/081a.png">
+<img src="images/081.png" width="400" height="321" alt="A PROSPECTE OF YE 5TH OF NOVEMBER" title="" /></a>
+<h2>A PROSPECTE OF YE 5TH OF NOVEMBER</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Monday</span>, <i>Nov. 5, 1849</i>.&mdash;<span class="smcap">Guy Fawkes' Day.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">At Breakfast this Morning off a new-laid
+Egg, cost me 2d., but cheap for the Time of Year, did hear a shrill
+Hallooing in the Street, which my Wife told me was made by the
+Boys, going by with their <span class="smcap">Guy Fawkes</span>. So on this, <span class="smcap">Guy Fawkes</span>
+his Day, did in Haste swallow my Breakfast, put on my Boots and
+Over-Coat, and so out and about the Streets and Squares to see
+the Sport, the Bells ringing for Church, and a Scarecrow of a <span class="smcap">Guy</span>,
+borne by Urchins on a Handbarrow, with Rough Musique at almost
+every Turn and Corner. <span class="smcap">Guy Fawkes</span> his Effigies, with his
+Fingers sticking out like Spikes, and his Feet all awry, his Body
+and Limbs stuffed with Straw, a Mask for his Face, with a Pipe
+in the Mouth, and a Lantern and Tinder-Box dangling from his
+Wrist, and on his Head a Paper Cap, like an old Grenadier's, but
+a Cross on it, and meant for the <span class="smcap">Pope</span> his Crown. I thought to
+see <span class="smcap">Guy</span> with his Company, borne by the Police in State to the Station<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span>
+House, but they this Year mostly let alone, and more <span class="smcap">Guys</span>,
+and ragged Regiments of Boys shouting after them, than ever.
+The Varlets, as they went, repeating Doggrel Verses, bidding to
+remember the Day, and asking whomsoever they met for Money
+for a Bonfire to burn their <span class="smcap">Guy</span>, and did beg of me; but I would
+not fling my Money into the Fire. But Lack to think of the Delight
+I do take in <span class="smcap">Guy Fawkes</span>, because of his ridiculous Figure,
+and recollecting how I loved to play with Fireworks on this Day
+when a Boy; though I know what a Libel is the Holyday on the
+Roman Catholiques, and the good Reason, though the Doggrel
+say to the contrary, why Gunpowder Treason should be forgot.
+But some, who should have known better, did give the Rogues
+Halfpence and encourage them in a show of Bigotry; albeit the
+young Ragamuffins know not what it do mean, and care only for the
+Frolick and Halfpence. From Westminster, by the Back Ways
+and Streets to Fleet Street, Squibs and Crackers in the Courts and
+Alleys fizzing and bouncing all the Way, and did in Fleet Street
+dine at a Chop-house, cost me, with Beer and Punch, 2s.; and so
+to Tower Hill, where the Banging and Blazing of the Fireworks the
+greatest of all; and the Roman Candles and Pin-wheels mighty
+pretty; but some letting off Guns and Pistols put me in Fear.
+Here presently I did hear a Popping and Cracking behind me;
+which was a Cracker pinned by some Scapegrace to my Coat-Tail,
+and did make me jump, and the Standers-by to laugh: which did
+vex me to the Heart; and <span class="smcap">Mr. Gregory</span> do say, served me right
+for countenancing such Doings. But to see the Mob flinging Serpents
+at each other, and burning and singeing one another like
+Devils, did much divert me, till a Squib whizzing past me did scorch
+me in the Face. Truly <span class="smcap">Guy Fawkes</span> his Day this Time was mighty
+well kept, and <span class="smcap">Mr. Howlett</span> do say its better Observance is a
+revival of Protestant Spirit; but I do agree with <span class="smcap">Mr. Wagstaffe</span>
+that Protestancy is not a Doctrine of Fireworks, and must own it
+were better to bury <span class="smcap">Guy Fawkes</span>, and not burn him any more.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_BANQUET_SHOWYNGE_YE_FARMERS" id="Illustration_A_BANQUET_SHOWYNGE_YE_FARMERS"></a>
+<a href="images/083a.png">
+<img src="images/083.png" width="400" height="316" alt="A BANQUET SHOWYNGE YE FARMERS&#39;
+FRIEND IMPRESSYNGE ON YE AGRICULTURAL INTEREST THAT IT IS RUINED." title="" /></a>
+<h2>A BANQUET SHOWYNGE YE FARMERS&#39;
+FRIEND IMPRESSYNGE ON YE AGRICULTURAL INTEREST THAT IT IS RUINED.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Monday</span>, <i>November 19, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<p class="chapter">By Rail to Clod's Norton, to my old Country
+Friend <span class="smcap">Mr. Giles</span> the Farmer, and with him to the Meeting and
+yearly Dinner of the North Gruntham Agricultural Society at
+Grumbleton, at the Plantagenet Arms. A mighty fine and great
+Dinner; and the Appetite of the Company droll to observe, and
+hear <span class="smcap">Mr. Giles</span> declare that all the Farmers were starving. I did
+mightily admire the Breadth and Bigness of the Countrymen, and
+their round Faces like the Sign of the Rising Sun, but not so bright,
+for though ruddy, looking glum. My <span class="smcap">Lord Mountbushel</span> in the
+Chair, very grand and high and mighty, yet gently demeaning himself,
+and did pledge them about him in Wine with an Obeisance the
+most stately I think that I did ever see a Man, and wish I could do
+like him, and with Practice hope to be able. The Dinner over, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span>
+the <span class="smcap">Queen</span> drunk, and the Royal Family, and also the Church and
+Army and Navy all drunk, the Chairman did propose the Toast of
+the Evening, which was, Prosperity to the North Gruntham Agricultural
+Society, and made a Speech, and did tell his Hearers that
+they and the whole Farming Body were going to the Dogs as fast
+as they could go; whereat, strange to hear them applaud mightily.
+He ended his Speech by saying he hoped Gentlemen would that
+Evening, according to Custom, keep clear of Politics, which Rule
+<span class="smcap">Squire Hawebucke</span> next rising to speak, did promise he would
+observe, and forthwith made a violent Harangue against <span class="smcap">Sir Robert
+Peel</span> and <span class="smcap">Mr. Cobden</span>. After him got up <span class="smcap">Mr. Flummerie</span>,
+and with great Action, and thumping the Table, spoke for Half-an-Hour,
+with most brave Flourishes both of his Fists and of Language.
+He did tell his Audience that they must be up and stirring,
+and quit them like good Men and true, and did exhort them to rally
+round the Altar and Throne, and nail their Colours to the Mast,
+and range themselves under the Banner of Protection; which he
+did say was a Flag that had braved 1,000 Years the Battle and the
+Breeze, and if so, should, methinks, be by this time in Tatters. He
+did say that the British Lion had been long asleep, but was now at
+last aroused, which do seem a simple Saying, the British Lion being
+only a fabulous Beast, like the Unicorn, also in the Royal Arms.
+But to hear how the Company did cheer at this Mouthing, albeit
+it was the veriest Cant and Stuff; for, good Lack! to think of the
+Monarchy and Church, and all Morals, Religion, and Government,
+depending on the price of Wheat! After more Speeches in the
+same Strain, the British Labourer his Health drunk, and then the
+Prizes given out; and an old Man of 80, for bringing up a Family
+without costing the Parish 1d. in 50 Years, did receive £1, and
+others for honest Service nigh as long, a Jacket, a Smock Frock,
+or a Pair of Hob-Nail Boots, in Reward of Merit. The Toasts and
+Speech-making lasted till late, and then we broke up, the Farmers
+mighty merry, though grumbling, but not more than their Wont,
+at the Laws and the Weather, but their best Friends say, will have
+little to complain of either, if they will but mind their Business, and
+turn seriously to improving their Husbandry.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_APPEARANCE_OF_YE_CRYMYNYAL" id="Illustration_APPEARANCE_OF_YE_CRYMYNYAL"></a>
+<a href="images/085a.png">
+<img src="images/085.png" width="400" height="317" alt="APPEARANCE OF YE CRYMYNYAL
+COURTE DURING AN &quot;INTERESTYNG&quot; TRYAL FOR MURDER." title="" /></a>
+<h2>APPEARANCE OF YE CRYMYNYAL
+COURTE DURING AN &quot;INTERESTYNG&quot; TRYAL FOR MURDER.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Friday</span>, <i>November 30, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Up, and did take my Wife, with a Party of
+Friends, to the Old Bailey, my Wife having a great Longing to
+see a Prisoner tried, especially for Murder, and little Pleasure as
+she do take, poor Wretch, I could not find in my Heart to deny
+her this. Got our Places in the Gallery, cost me 10s., which did
+begrudge, and do think it a Scandal to the City to have Money
+taken at the Old Bailey Doors, as at a Play, yet it do serve to keep
+the Company choice. And, good Lack! to see the Assemblage
+of great Folks about us, we sitting close by <span class="smcap">Sir Jessamie Spinkes</span>,
+and my <span class="smcap">Lord Pouncett</span>, and two or three other Lords on the
+Bench by my Lords the Judges, and the Aldermen, did make the
+Place look as fine almost as the Opera. But in Truth it was as good
+as a Play, if not better, to hear the Barristers speak to the Jury,
+especially the Counsel for the Prisoners, making believe to be<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span>
+mightily concerned for their Clients, though most observable Rogues,
+and arguing in their Behalf through Thick and Thin, and
+striving as hard as they could to prove the Black, that did come
+out in Evidence against them, White; and pleading their Cause as
+though they were injured Innocents, with smiting of the Breast,
+and turning up of the Eyes, more natural than I remember I did
+ever see any Actor. But methinks they did go a little <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'two'">too</ins> far when,
+cross-examining the Witnesses, they strove to entangle them in
+their Talk, and confound them, trying to make them blunder, so
+as to mislead the Jury, which do seem to me only telling a Lie by
+the Witness his Mouth. And then to hear them labour to destroy
+the Witnesses' Credit, and make their Oath suspected; and them,
+however honest, seem Perjurers; and to think that they do practise
+all this Wickedness only for the Lucre of their Fees! Among
+the Prisoners some of the most horrid Ruffians that methinks I
+ever did see, and some, when found guilty and sentenced even to
+Transportation, skipping out of the Dock, and snapping their Fingers,
+which did remind me of the Saying, "Merry as Thieves."
+But others looking mighty dismal, and when the Evidence did tell
+against them, turning pale and shivering, and we had Eye-Glasses
+we took with us on Purpose, and through our Eye-Glasses did
+watch the Quivering of their Features, which, Heaven forgive us!
+we did take Delight in. Using Eye-Glasses did the more make
+it seem as if I were at a Play, and what did jump with the Notion
+was the Bunches of Rue on the Dock in Front of the Prisoners,
+seeming almost like Nosegays, which glad I am that my Wife
+and our other Ladies had not with them, for so taken were they
+with the ranting Barristers and hang-Gallows Ruffians, that I do
+verily believe they would have flung their Posies to them if they
+had. Strange that we do make such Account of Criminals, and
+will sit for Hours to see how it goes with a Villain, when we would
+not spare five Minutes to the Cause of many an honest Man. But
+for one good Reason I did take Pleasure in the Old Bailey, which
+was the Fairness of the Trials, and the Patience of the Judge, and
+Justness of his summing up, which do cause me mightily to reverence
+our Law, and to hear and see was pretty.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_PROMENADE_CONCERTE" id="Illustration_A_PROMENADE_CONCERTE"></a>
+<a href="images/087a.png">
+<img src="images/087.png" width="400" height="315" alt="A PROMENADE CONCERTE." title="" /></a>
+<h2>A PROMENADE CONCERTE.</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Thursday</span>, <i>December 6, 1849</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Did set me Wife, poor Wretch! this Evening
+to mending my Socks, and myself to Drury Lane, to <span class="smcap">Monsieur
+Jullien</span> his Concert. The first Part of the Concert all <span class="smcap">Dr. Mendelssohn</span>
+his Musique, which I did long mightily to hear, and, so
+to do in Comfort, buy a Ticket for the Dress Circle, cost me 2s. 6d.,
+but found the Seats all full, and obliged to stand the whole While,
+which made me mad, but a pretty full-eyed young Lady being
+forced to stand too, and close by me, though with her Brother,
+did comfort me a little, not that she could not sit, but that she was
+by me. Heard a Symphony that did well please me, seeming to
+lift me into the Clouds, and was mighty mystical and pretty; and
+the Musique in the <i>Midsummer Night's Dream</i> did give me much
+Delight, the Twittering throughout the Overture putting me in
+Mind of Singing-Birds and Fairies and I know not what, and the
+sleepy Passages very sweet and lulling. Mightily taken with the
+Prelude to the Mock-Tragedy, <i>Bottom</i> his March, as droll Musique<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span>
+as I ever heard; but what did most of all delight me was the Wedding
+March, a noble Piece, and I did rejoice therein, and do think
+to hire a Band to play it under our Window on my Wedding Day.
+<span class="smcap">Monsieur Jullien</span> in his white Waistcoat and with his Moustachios
+mighty spruce and as grand as ever, and did conduct the
+Musique, but so quietly in the first Part that I could scarce have
+believed it, and methought showed Reverence for the Composer;
+which was handsome. But good Lack! to see him presently, when
+he come to direct "<i>God Save the Queen</i>," flourish his Batoon, and
+act the mad Musician! All the Company rising and taking off
+their Hats to hear that majestical Anthem, presently some most
+ridiculous and impertinent Variations set all the House a laughing
+and some hissing, and I do suspect <span class="smcap">Monsieur Jullien</span> had a
+special Audience this night, that would not away with such Tricks.
+Between the Parts of the Concert, I into the Pit to walk about among
+the Sparks, where a great Press, the House crammed to the
+Ceiling. In the Refreshment and Reading Rooms, young Blades
+and Lasses drinking of Coffee and eating of Ices, and Reading of
+the News, with Shrubs and Statues round about, and the House
+all White and Gold, and brightly lighted, mighty gay; and the
+Sparks jaunty, but not, I think, wearing such flaming Neckcloths
+and Breast Pins as they were wont. Heard in Part second some
+Musique of the <i>Prophète</i>, full of Snorting of Brass Instruments and
+Tinkling of Triangles, and a long Waltz that did give me the Fidgets,
+and nothing please me at all, save <span class="smcap">Jetty Treffz</span> her singing
+of "<i>Trab, trab</i>," which was pretty. Lastly, the Row-Polka played,
+and well-named and very droll and absurd, with Chiming-in of
+Voices and other monstrous Accompaniments, a good ridiculous
+rough Musique. But many of the Hearers did hiss, methought
+with Unreason, the Polka being no emptier than any other Polka,
+and having some Joke in it. Home, the Wedding March running
+in my Head, and glad to find good Musique drawing so great a
+House, which I do hope will be a Hint to <span class="smcap">Monsieur Jullien</span>.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_YE_SERPENTYNE_DURING_A_HARD" id="Illustration_YE_SERPENTYNE_DURING_A_HARD"></a>
+<a href="images/089a.png">
+<img src="images/089.png" width="400" height="299" alt="YE SERPENTYNE DURING A HARD
+FROST. YE PUBLIQUE UPON IT." title="" /></a>
+<h2>YE SERPENTYNE DURING A HARD
+FROST. YE PUBLIQUE UPON IT.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Tuesday</span>, <i>January 29, 1850</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Up, and after Breakfast, to which a new
+laid Egg at this Time of Year cost me 2d., to Hyde Park to see the
+Skating on the Serpentine, very admirable and mighty good Mirth.
+The Members of the Skating Club, with their Booth by the Ice
+mighty select, yet do as it were perform for the Amusement of the
+British Publique. Pretty to see them cut out Figures of 8, and in
+a Sort dance Quadrilles upon the Ice, which I very much wish I
+could do myself, but cannot skate at all, and never could, but
+whenever I tried to always tumbled down, generally a Squat, which
+hurt me. Upon the Ice all sorts of People high and low, great and
+little, old and young, Women and Children, indeed a Multitude of
+the British Publique altogether. With their Hollaing and Shouting
+a continual Roar like the Cawing and Clacking of innumerable
+Rooks and Jackdaws. Pretty to see the Chairs and Forms on the
+Brink of the Ice, where dirty Boys and Men do ply with Skates for
+Hire, and kneeling and screwing and straping them on to Skater's<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span>
+Feet turn a good Penny. Many fine Girls also, both fair and black,
+skating in their warm Furs and Muffs mighty snug and elegant,
+please me most of all; and a Troop of Schoolgirls walk two and two
+along the Shore very pretty. Fun to see how the Skaters do throw
+themselves into all manner of Postures, and how many of them
+tumble down, and sprawl about, and roll over one another topsy-turvy,
+and kick their Heels in the Air. Also the Unskilful beginning
+to learn to skate helped on to the Ice, and an old Woman pulled
+on by a lively Urchin, make me laugh heartily. But the most
+ridiculous Sight the Lower Sort, not skating but sliding, Butcher
+Lads, and Costermongers, and Street Boys with Sticks and Bludgeons
+in their Hands, and some in their Mouths short Pipes, smoking
+while they slide, which I wonder how they can. Good Lack, to
+see them come the Cobbler's Knock as they say, and keep the Pot
+a-boiling! Likewise how of a Fellow upon the Ice with a Potato
+Can upon a Fire-Basket, they buy and eat roast Potatoes which
+the Sellers cry <i>Taturs all hot!</i> The Street Boys, too, where the Ice
+at the Sides thin, flock together nigh the Edge, and throw Stones
+breaking the Ice, and I did hear one of the Varlets as his Pebble
+crash through cry, "There goes a Window," and could not but
+laugh, though I would fain have boxed his Ears. On Top of a Pole
+in one Part of the Ice a Board marked "Dangerous," nevertheless
+many so foolhardy as to skate close to it, until at last the Ice
+broke and a Fool went in and was like to have drowned, but the
+Humane Society's Men did come with Drags, and one of them
+fish him out by the Scuff of his Trowsers, mighty laughable. They
+carry him off to the Receiving House, where they chafe and wrap
+him in warm Blankets to bring him to, and give him hot Brandy
+and Water to recruit him and send him Home Comfortable, and
+so reward him for his Folly, and encourage other Fools to imitate
+his silly Example. Methinks such an idle Companion were well
+served if, instead of getting hot Grog, he were sent Home with a
+good Hiding.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_FASHIONABLE_CLUB_FOUR" id="Illustration_A_FASHIONABLE_CLUB_FOUR"></a>
+<a href="images/091a.png">
+<img src="images/091.png" width="400" height="290" alt="A FASHIONABLE CLUB. FOUR
+O&#39;CLOCK P.M." title="" /></a>
+<h2>A FASHIONABLE CLUB. FOUR
+O&#39;CLOCK P.M.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Thursday</span>, <i>February 14, 1850</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">This Afternoon at four o'clock with <span class="smcap">Gubbyns</span>
+to the Leviathan Club whereof he is a member, and do mean
+to propose me to be a Member too which I very much wish, only
+fear I may be black-balled but hope not. To-day he take me over
+the Club to see it, which delight me much, and good Lack to see
+how splendid the Building and the Carvings and Gildings of the
+Walls and Windows, for all the World like a Palace, wherein a
+private Man every Day of his Life may live like a King, as I should
+like to. All the Rooms as full as could be of all Manner of Comforts
+and Conveniences, especially the great Room where the Members
+do sit in easy Chairs with well-stuffed soft Backs and Cushions
+lined with lovely smooth shining Morocco Leather, or loll along on
+Sofas and Ottomans the same, and read the Reviews and Papers and
+are served by Footmen in Livery with Glasses of Sherry and Tumblers
+of Brandy and Soda Water, all at their Ease, and enjoy such
+Accommodation as I think I never could have imagined unless I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span>
+had seen. Curious to observe the different Readers and the Paper
+each reading; a Parliament or City Man the Times, a Member, I
+take it, of the Protestant Association at Exeter-Hall the Morning
+Herald, another the Standard, newspapers the wits call Mrs. <span class="smcap">Gamp</span>
+and Mrs. <span class="smcap">Harris</span>, which is great Roguery. Some in Groups stand
+a gossiping, some looking out of Windows down on the People in
+the Street as they go by, mighty agreeable to such as are well off,
+and would give me very much Pleasure. Others with their Backs
+to the Fire, and one methought a Country Squire striding in front
+of the Grate, with his Hands behind him under his Coat Tails
+warming himself and looking abroad over his Neckcloth, as though
+upon his Parish, and as if he were Monarch of all he surveyed;
+mighty dignified and droll. Likewise a Youth of some Condition,
+but somewhat too like a Shopboy, in a pretty ridiculous Posture,
+eyeing himself in a Pier Glass, did, with his walking Cane sticking
+athwart his Arm, divert me. The Magazines, Guide Books, Post
+Directories, and so on lying about on the Tables mighty handy,
+and I did note also a Pack of Cards and hear some of the Club
+Men do play. After going all over the Club-house, and the Lavatories
+and all, <span class="smcap">Gubbyns</span> take me to dine with him in the Strangers'
+Room, and a mighty good Dinner with excellent Claret, cost him
+how much I did not like to ask, but no doubt much more cheap
+and better than it would have come to in the cheapest tolerable
+Inn. Thence, after dinner, to the Smoking Room to smoke a Cigar,
+and drink Seltzer Water and Brandy, and, after Talk of the
+News, and all the Rumour about Town, and a good deal of Scandal,
+and some Roguish Conversation, Home, and so to Bed.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_THE_CIRCUS_AT_ASTLEYS" id="Illustration_THE_CIRCUS_AT_ASTLEYS"></a>
+<a href="images/093a.png">
+<img src="images/093.png" width="400" height="289" alt="THE CIRCUS AT ASTLEY&#39;S." title="" /></a>
+<h2>THE CIRCUS AT ASTLEY&#39;S.</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Friday</span>, <i>March 8, 1850</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">To the Circus at Astley's late, so missed the
+Grand Equestrian Drama, which vex me not much, for the Acting
+only Horseplay. But in time to see the Horsemanship in the
+Circle, which was what I wanted, and got a good Place in the
+Boxes, but would have preferred the Pit, except for the Company,
+which is of the Lower Sort, and there they do sit with their Hats
+on, and eat Oranges and drink Soda Water and Ginger Beer, which
+make me ashamed. Pretty riding on a Cream-coloured Horse
+by a pretty black girl, and on horseback dancing carried a basket
+of Flowers, and dance mighty pretty, but being above I could but
+look down upon little but her Head, which did somewhat vex me
+that I was not below in the Pit. Also a Fellow in the Dress of an
+Italian Robber they call a Brigand ride on three Horses at once,
+and please me I think as much as anything I ever saw in my Life.
+One of the Horses he rode piebald, the others spotted, pretty to
+see. Curious to observe the Riding Master continually smacking
+his Whip to keep the Horses galloping close to the Circle, but above
+all the Head Riding Master they call <span class="smcap">Widdicombe</span> in a Uniform<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span>
+with Epaulettes, as it were a Generalissimo, mighty pompous
+and droll, divert me beyond measure, and good Lack to hear, between
+the Horsemanship, the dialogues between <span class="smcap">Widdicombe</span>
+and the Clown. As the Clown walking before <span class="smcap">Widdicombe</span> out
+of the Ring, <span class="smcap">Widdicombe</span> say "Stop, Sir, go behind; I never follow
+the Fool." "Don't you," say the Clown, "then I do," and walk
+after him; which tickle me and make me laugh, so that I was like
+to burst my Sides. And Lack to see the Dignity of <span class="smcap">Widdicombe</span>,
+how grand he bear himself and look down upon the Clown as an
+inferior Being, calling him generally Fool, or else sometimes
+more gracious, Mr. Merriman. I do hear <span class="smcap">Widdicombe</span> is now an
+old Man, but his Cherry Cheeks, and black Hair and Eyebrows,
+make him look young, and his Waistcoat padded well out on the
+Chest takes from his Paunch, and though no Doubt he be made
+up, he make himself up mighty clever. All this while the Orchestra,
+mostly of Brass, trumpeting and banging away the most suitable
+Music to the Performance I think that ever could be played
+except the Tongs and Bones. About me in the Boxes great Numbers
+of Small Children, both Boys and Girls, some Babies almost,
+enjoy the Spectacle as much as any, and I do like to see them, and
+think they with their Mirth do make their Elders enjoy it all the
+more, and did think I should have liked to have had some of my
+own to take with me, but then thinking of the Expense of a Family
+make me better content with None. The Horsemanship mighty
+good Fun for the Children, but serious Entertainment to the
+grown-up, and strange to see how earnest they sit and gaze and
+stare with their Eyes wide open, and their Minds also fixed upon
+the Horses, and to perceive that they who think so much of Horses
+do commonly think very little upon much else, and how many
+there be of that Sort among the English People. After Astley's
+in a Cab to the Albion Tavern, where a Dish of Kidneys, a Welsh
+Rarebit, a Pint of Stout, and a Go of Whisky cost me 3s., and so
+Home in another Cab and so to Bed.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_YE_FATHERS_OF_YE_CHURCHE_GYVING" id="Illustration_YE_FATHERS_OF_YE_CHURCHE_GYVING"></a>
+<a href="images/095a.png">
+<img src="images/095.png" width="400" height="284" alt="YE FATHERS OF YE CHURCHE GYVING
+JUDGMENTE UPON YE KNOTTYE POYNT." title="" /></a>
+<h2>YE FATHERS OF YE CHURCHE GYVING
+JUDGMENTE UPON YE KNOTTYE POYNT.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Saturday</span>, <i>March 9, 1850</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">To the Judicial Committee of Privy Council
+to hear Judgment delivered in the great <span class="smcap">Gorham</span> Case, the Reverend
+Mr. <span class="smcap">Gorham</span> against the <span class="smcap">Bishop</span> of <span class="smcap">Exeter</span> for refusing to institute
+him to the Living of Bramford Speke, which the Bishop refuse
+because Mr. <span class="smcap">Gorham</span> deny Baptismal Regeneration. The
+Court of Arches gave sentence for the <span class="smcap">Bishop</span>, and <span class="smcap">Gorham</span> then
+appeal to the Privy Council. A great Commotion among the
+Clergy, and not a little among the People also. The High Church
+hold, with the <span class="smcap">Bishop</span> of <span class="smcap">Exeter</span>, the same Opinion of Baptism
+as the Catholiques, and the Low do side with <span class="smcap">Gorham</span> and the
+Baptists and most other Dissenters. To the Council Chamber betimes,
+and did get a good Place and hear very well. The Chamber
+all the public Part of it crammed with as many People as could
+well get in. Lack, to see what Numbers of the Clergy here, both
+High Church and Low, and distinguish them by their Looks, and
+their Dress, and particularly by their Ties and Waistcoats. Also<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span>
+present many Dissenters and Roman Catholiques, and among the
+Catholiques I did note Bishop <span class="smcap">Wiseman</span> the Catholique Bishop
+of Melipotamus, and Vicar Apostolique of the London District
+in the front Row next my Lord the President's Chair, pricking up
+his Ears. By and by in come the Lords of the Council and take
+their places, mighty Grave, yet as they sit do seem to take it easy.
+They sit at a Table in the midst of the Chamber, where, among
+them, Lords Brougham and Campbell look mighty ill-favoured
+and droll. Behind, towards the Bookshelves, the Lay Lords, but
+with them a Bishop in his Knee Breeches and Apron, and a
+Shovel Hat in his Hand. Among the Lay Lords the <span class="smcap">Earl</span> of <span class="smcap">Carlisle</span>,
+a Great Nobleman, and do look noble, and very much
+like <span class="smcap">Liston</span> the Player. Hush, and Silence, even the Ladies, of
+whom some present in the Crowd, when my Lord <span class="smcap">Langdale</span> rise
+to deliver Judgment, which he did mighty clever, and lay down
+the Law, but no theological Argument, which I expected to hear,
+but did not. For he said the Committee have no Authority to determine
+Points of Doctrine, and whether Baptismal Regeneration
+were true or false, but only whether the Clergy were bound to hold
+it, or free to deny it, by the Thirty-nine Articles. And by that
+Rule he gave Judgment for <span class="smcap">Gorham</span> against the <span class="smcap">Bishop</span>, and I
+see not how he could have done otherwise, nor why the High
+Church should be so aghast and angry, nor <span class="smcap">Wiseman</span> smile and
+look so merry and scornful as he did, and seem so mightily diverted.
+So the <span class="smcap">Bishop</span> will have to submit, and institute <span class="smcap">Gorham</span>,
+or else resign his Bishoprick, which I dare swear he will not. Nor
+do I much fear that many of the High Church Clergy will leave
+the Church, as some prophesy, and turn Catholiques, and relinquish
+the Loaves and Fishes. Methinks it is a mighty good Thing
+that both High Church Clergy and Low are bound only by the
+Articles as interpreted by the Law Lords in the Judicial Committee,
+and not by themselves on either one Side or the other, for
+of all Men methinks the Clergy of every Sect have less than any
+of a Judicial Mind.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_JUVENILE_PARTYE" id="Illustration_A_JUVENILE_PARTYE"></a>
+<a href="images/097a.png">
+<img src="images/097.png" width="400" height="288" alt="A JUVENILE PARTYE." title="" /></a>
+<h2>A JUVENILE PARTYE.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Wednesday</span>, <i>April 24, 1850</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">With my Wife this Evening to Mr. <span class="smcap">Hartley's</span>
+to a Children's Party, but some grown up, and among them me
+and my Wife, though we have no Children, which vex me, but
+not much, for Children mighty expensive and cost money, and,
+if I had them, would only force me to deny myself a great many
+Pleasures I now enjoy, and could not then afford. A large Drawing
+Room very fine, and well lighted up, and so many Children
+of all Ages down to Babies almost as I think I did never before,
+altogether in one room, see. Pretty to see how the little Boys and
+Girls dance when <span class="smcap">Mynheer Schlamm</span> thump and bang the Piano,
+and some of the very smallest taught to dance nearly as soon as
+they could walk, and how they stand in Position and point their
+Toes with heels close together, and arms hanging down, as they
+do when the Dancing-Master teach them their dancing Lessons.
+And to see how pleased all the Girls to dance, but not all the Boys,
+but a good many of them look unhappy, yet pretty to observe how
+a few little Boys make love to the little Girls, and one little Boy
+offer a little Girl a Nosegay, like a young Gallant, and she take it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span>
+with the Air of a Coquette mighty pretty. But most of the Boys
+make a great deal more Love to the good Things on the Tables;
+the Sweets and Pastry, Jelly, Blanc-Mange, Tarts, Pies, Tipsy-Cake,
+Trifle, and Ice-creams, and good Lack how they push, and
+scramble, and hold out their plates, to get slices of Cake, while
+<span class="smcap">Hartley</span> cut up a great rich Cake like a Twelfth-cake and share it
+between them, and they eat and stuff all they can, and I fear me
+some of them ill to-morrow if not before. Droll to see a little Boy
+stand astride stuffing into his Mouth a Pie whole like a Pantomime
+Clown. Another small Boy sitting down upon a Pile of
+Plates set by on the Floor, they having been eaten from, in the
+Remains of Trifle, cause great Laughter. So did a fat Dame with
+her little Boy and Girl, and an Arm round each, like a great plump
+Fowl, a Gizzard under one Wing and Liver beneath the other.
+Droll to see <span class="smcap">Hartley's</span> little girl sit in her Grandmother's Chair
+beside her Crutch, where her Grandmother hobbling in did find
+her, and to think that she too will be such another old Woman,
+one of these Days, if she live. Some of the bigger Boys public
+School Boys, mighty grand, and a few wearing Spectacles like
+young Owls. Mrs. <span class="smcap">Hartley's</span> Brother, Mr. <span class="smcap">St. Leger</span>, dress himself
+like a Conjuror, in a conjuring Cap with magick Characters
+on it, and conjure with Cards, and Oranges, and little Images,
+and Dolls, mighty clever, and I do mean to get him if I can to
+teach me. One Thing made me laugh heartily was to see the Page
+they call <span class="smcap">Buttons</span> stand behind him while he conjure, <span class="smcap">Buttons</span>
+with his Eyes staring wide open, and he grinning with his Mouth
+from Ear to Ear. The young Folk after Supper to dance again,
+and romp, and play at Blindman's Buff, and meanwhile the
+elder sup too, and I and my Wife on cold Fowl and Ham, and
+Lobster Salad, and Champagne, mighty merry, and so Home betimes
+mighty comfortable, and methinks I do like a Children's
+more than any other Evening Party, to see the Children and their
+Elders also, play the Fool, and to break up, and get Home early,
+and so with Content and Comfort to Bed.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_GRANDE_REVIEW" id="Illustration_GRANDE_REVIEW"></a>
+<a href="images/099a.png">
+<img src="images/099.png" width="400" height="333" alt="GRANDE REVIEW." title="" /></a>
+<h2>GRANDE REVIEW.</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Wednesday</span>, <i>May 15, 1850</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">Up, and to St. James's Park, to see on the
+Parade Ground, the Inspection, as usual upon the Queen's Birthday,
+appointed to be celebrated beforehand this Day, of a Battalion
+of the Coldstream and Grenadier Guards, and a Troop of
+the Royal Horse Guards they call the Blues. Through a Friend
+at Court, got, with a choice Few, a good Place, nigh the Sentry
+with the Colours, where he stood to keep the Ground, and the
+Publique at a Distance, where I also wish always to keep yet
+pleased to see them. The Troops reviewed by the Commander
+in Chief, Field Marshal the <span class="smcap">Duke</span> of <span class="smcap">Wellington</span>, and with him
+the other Field Marshals, Prince <span class="smcap">Albert</span> and the <span class="smcap">Duke</span> of <span class="smcap">Cambridge</span>,
+made Field Marshals I suppose for the martial Deeds
+they would no doubt have done, if they had ever had the chance
+in the Field. Field Marshal the <span class="smcap">Prince</span>, the Colonel of the Scots
+Fusiliers, and Field Marshal the Royal <span class="smcap">Duke</span> of the Coldstream,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span>
+and the great Field Marshal the <span class="smcap">Duke</span> of <span class="smcap">Wellington</span>, Colonel
+of the Grenadier Guards. Besides the Field Marshals, at their
+Heels a great Staff of Officers, of Lancers and Hussars, and the
+<span class="smcap">Earl</span> of <span class="smcap">Cardigan</span> among them, looking mighty fierce. The
+<span class="smcap">Duke</span> of <span class="smcap">Wellington</span> at their Head riding gently along inspecting
+his Regiment standing in their big Caps of Bearskin, which
+do seem much too big for them though they mostly six feet high,
+a mighty brave sight, yet a comical, as the men stood shouldering
+Arms with their Heels together, and their Toes turned out like
+the little Girls and Boys I did see dance at a Children's Party.
+Glad to get so good a View as I had of the Duke, and wonderful
+to see how well and firm he sits his horse, and he now fourscore-and-two
+Years old, and to think what a great General he is and
+do look, and with his Eagle Nose, very much resemble <i>Mr. Punch</i>.
+The Officers of the Staff bestriding their Horses very gallant, and
+the Horses most noble Animals and their prancing very pretty.
+Good Sport to see a Dragoon ride keeping Order, flourish and
+point drawn Sword at a fat old Woman who with a cotton Umbrella
+and Arms spread all abroad in Terror, run out of his Way, and
+Policemen with their Staves closing in as it were to catch the old
+Woman. Other Policemen rushing to and fro, help the Soldiers
+keep the Ground, and the British Publique back, and beat back
+them that would fain press too forward with their staves. Pleasant
+in a Place where plenty of Elbow-Room, to behold the British
+Publique, around one in the Midst the Likeness of <span class="smcap">John Bull</span>,
+perched on a Barrel, jostled one against the other, push and scramble
+and tread upon one another's Toes, and tumble topsy-turvy
+some of them and Head over Heels; when I had got comfortable
+Standing in the meanwhile with a Dozen or so of the Better Sort,
+and two or three Poodle and Terrier Dogs, in the Middle of the
+Parade where the Troops were inspected, got in I suppose by Favour,
+like me. But, good Lack, to think what playing at Soldiers
+now a holiday Review like this do seem, and think at the same
+time what serious Work the <span class="smcap">Duke</span> of <span class="smcap">Wellington</span> hath seen and
+done in his Day, which how many seem to forget, and almost think
+him a Humbug, and if ever and how soon we shall have the like
+to do again, and find another such a Man, to do it.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_PIC-NIC" id="Illustration_A_PIC-NIC"></a>
+<a href="images/101a.png">
+<img src="images/101.png" width="400" height="290" alt="A PIC-NIC." title="" /></a>
+<h2>A PIC-NIC.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Thursday</span>, <i>May 23, 1850</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">With my Wife to a Pic-nic Party. I to content
+her more than to please myself, and to think how I always
+study her Pleasure more than my own, and sacrifice my own Inclinations
+to hers always. For I prefer to eat good Things off a
+Plate or a Table, and not upon my Knees. Besides, the Fly hired
+to carry us from Home and back, cost me three Guineas. The
+Pic-Nic in my Lord Bilberry's Park, where the Ruins of an old
+Abbey, open by my Lord's Allowance, People come to see from
+all Parts, gipsying, and making merry and dancing basely among
+the Ruins. These with mouldering Arches and Stones overgrown
+with Moss, and Lichen, and Ivy, mighty venerable, and set off by
+a Youth with long Hair and turned-down Collar, leaning on a
+broken Pillar, striking an attitude and staring at the Sky, as though
+musing on Infinity but in Truth fancying himself an Object of Admiration.
+But, he wrapt up in that Mistake, and forgetting his
+Meals, the rest intent altogether on the good Things from Fortnum
+and Mason's and the Pastry Cook's; and good Lack to see<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span>
+how they, to the Number of nigh forty Men, Women, and Girls,
+pitch into the Ham and Chicken, and the Cold Meat and Lobster
+Salad, and Pigeon and Veal and Ham Pie, and therewith drink
+bottled Ale and Stout, whereof a fat Serving Man in Livery, hardly
+drawing a Quart Bottle, mighty comical, and also a Page, who,
+carrying Plates, kick against a Wasps' Nest and raise the Wasps
+about his Ears and there he stand fighting them with a Knife, his
+Face in the Centre of the swarm the Image of Horror. The
+Younger Men mostly mighty Polite, they, and especially one with
+a fine slim Figure and hooked Nose, with constrained Postures,
+making Obeisance as they serve the Girls with Beer and Wine,
+whereof they as well as the Men mostly drink their Whack, and
+pretty to see how one most elegant Damsel seem falling into a
+happy Dream and how with her Hair flowing all adown she droop
+her Eyelids, muzzy. But some did get full of Fun, and a little
+Rogue I see pour the Heel-tap of a Champagne Glass into the Face
+of a Youngster, who, lying on his Back, had fallen on Sleep. The
+Managers of the Collection also mighty attentive, doing the Honours,
+and rare to see one of them, a fine portly Man, carve Slices
+off Great Round of Beef, in high Glee. But another rising from
+his Camp Stool to hand a Plate to a fine fat Dame, she and her
+pretty Daughter suddenly frighted by a Toad and Frog, which
+crawl and hop towards them out of some Flags by the Water, start
+back in Horror, and startle him and make him upset several Wine
+Glasses and the Water Can, and stamp on and smash a Plate. Among
+the Elders worth noting a lean old Professor, and his Neighbour
+a smug Lawyer how they gave their whole minds to most
+serious Eating, and also one or two of the younger Men did nought
+but stuff themselves; but most made Love; and pretty to see a
+loving Couple clink Glasses together, while other Pairs having had
+enough, saunter and strut about among and outside the Ruins.
+Good Lack to think what a Deal we ate and drank between us, and
+how famished on one Hand looked a lean old Labourer in a
+Smock Frock with a chubby but hungry little Clown, eyeing the
+picked Bones, while a Cur on the other did, in his Mouth, run
+away with the Wing of a Fowl.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_VAUXHALL" id="Illustration_VAUXHALL"></a>
+<a href="images/103a.png">
+<img src="images/103.png" width="400" height="272" alt="VAUXHALL." title="" /></a>
+<h2>VAUXHALL.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Monday</span>, <i>July 15, 1850</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">This Evening to Vauxhall, where a Gala
+Night and much Company, mostly of the middling Sort, except
+the worse. Very few Gentlemen of any Condition do now visit
+this Place, but plenty of the whippersnapper Sparks that Shopmen
+used to call Gents, and a very good Word to distinguish them,
+although a vile, as much as to say Snobs. The better Sort of all
+there chiefly Medical Students. No Place for Ladies, but here
+and there a respectable but stupid Farmer from the Country with
+his Wife or Daughter. A bare, faded kind of a Garden, patched
+with shabby Trees, variegated Lamps hanging to their Branches
+among smoky Leaves. The Lamps do seem the main Attraction,
+the Bill of Entertainments advertise 10,000 additional every Night,
+which seems great Folly. However, the Outlines of all the Buildings
+picked out with parti-coloured Lamps mighty gay. A wooden
+Building on one Side called the Rotunda, where an Orchestra
+and they sing, and opposite an Alcove where a Band in Uniform
+play at the same Time Tunes which the Gents and their Partners
+dance to, waltzing and spinning round like Teetotums, droll to
+look upon. The Partners some pretty but nearly all ill-looking,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span>
+and one or two horribly ill-favoured, and to see the People sit and
+look on, and among them a fat Country Wife, and prim starched
+old Maid very thin, make me ashamed. Also a fat singing Woman
+sung a Song, not at all to my Liking, and did throw herself about
+and make faces. Another Alcove hung with Lamps in Festoons,
+and in the Middle a Circus Theatre and a Crowd at the Door
+crowding to See a Dancing Girl jump through Hoops and dance
+upon Horseback. Other Alcoves with Seats for Eating and Drinking,
+and they eat Ham and Chicken, and I a Plate cost me 2s. 6d.,
+and the Ham mighty thin, which is Vauxhall Fashion, and they
+drink Arrack, a Spirit I was curious to taste, and did and never
+shall again. But what did please me was a Drink newly come in
+from America, and called Sherry Cobbler, made of Sherry and
+Orange and lumps of Ice, and sucked up into the Mouth with a
+Straw, which to see two Gents do for the first Time did take me
+mightily, and I did do likewise, mighty cool and refreshing and
+did delight me much, and three Cobblers cost me 3 Shillings.
+Amused to see the Gents strut about so jaunty smoking Cigars,
+I think Cabbage Leaf steeped in Tobacco-Juice. They also drink
+Rhubarb Wine they call Champagne cost them 10s. a bottle, and
+bottled Stout, and good Lack to see the Lots of empty Bottles
+on the by-Tables! An old Fellow with a Pot-Paunch that had
+had too much Drink fallen asleep, a comical Sight, whilst pretty
+to see the Waiters dance Attendance with the Refreshments, and
+hear the hollaing and shouting, and altogether a good Deal of Fun,
+but dreary; but a Family of little Boys and Girls with their fat
+Father mighty merry, and clap their Hands to see the Balloon go
+up in another Part of the Gardens. A grand Display of Fireworks
+to conclude diverted me too, and so Home and to Bed, hoping
+after my Evening's Entertainment I shall not wake with a Headache
+in the Morning.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span>
+<a name="Illustration_A_SCIENTIFIC_INSTITUTION" id="Illustration_A_SCIENTIFIC_INSTITUTION"></a>
+<a href="images/105a.png">
+<img src="images/105.png" width="400" height="284" alt="A SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION." title="" /></a>
+<h2>A SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION.
+</h2></div>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Friday</span> (<i>further date wanting in MS.</i>).<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Weekly Evening Meeting.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="chapter">This Evening to the Royal Institution, to
+hear Professor <span class="smcap">Owen</span>, the Hunterian Professor to Surgeons' College,
+Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, on the
+Nature of Limbs. To the Institution early, to the Theatre, and
+there got a good Place, the Theatre already filling and soon
+crammed like any Playhouse where some leading Actor make his
+appearance in a great Part, Gallery and all, as they say, to the Ceiling.
+The Audience sitting on semi-circular Benches covered with
+red Stuff, Tier above Tier, behind the select Visitors to the Front
+in reserved Chairs. A mighty droll Sea of Faces, mostly wry, with
+Eyes peering and squinting, many through Spectacles, though
+some well-featured, one here and there a great Head, but few
+handsome, Ladies excepted, a good Sprinkling of belles, and they
+look mighty pretty, the rather by Comparison with their Elders,
+the strong-minded Women, and the Philosophers around them,
+for the greater Part to look at, as the Vulgar Phrase is, a rum Lot.
+In the Centre of the reserved Seats an Arm-Chair for the Chairman<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span>
+facing the Lecture Table, whereon Prints and Papers, a Book
+and a Water-Carafe and Tumbler. Behind on a Showboard on
+the Wall Diagrams and Plates of Skeletons of Extinct Animals,
+Fish, and Flying Lizards, and a Dinotherium, and Mastodon, and
+Mammoth, and withal a human Skull, the People contemplate,
+and the Ladies and Damsels even, with Complacence, and to think
+all those pretty Creatures have Skeletons in themselves! By-and-by
+at eight, enter the Chairman and take the Chair, a fine fat portly
+Man with a great Jole, and solemn Look, mighty noble, and
+was, a Medical Student say, an awful Swell. Then in come the
+Lecturer, the Professor, to great clapping of Hands, and he make
+his Bow, and begin. I mighty taken with his Discourse, and to
+see him point out with a long Wand he lean upon while he lecture,
+the Bones and other Parts in the Diagrams of the Skeletons behind
+him he Describe, and explain how this and that Bone, the
+same as a human Bone, exist only in a different Form in Animals,
+and strange the Pterodactyl's Wing-bone a great little Finger.
+Lack to think of such Animals nothing remain but fossil Bones,
+and the Animals, Geologists say, did live and die Ages before
+Adam, shake some People's Faith. But Mr. <span class="smcap">Holdfast</span> think
+Geology Bosh, extinct Quadrupeds Monsters destroyed in ancient
+Times by the Heroes. Likewise the Fish Lizards and Pterodactyles
+Dragons, <span class="smcap">St. George</span> and the Dragon all true, and <span class="smcap">St.
+George</span> did verily slay a Dragon, and Accounts of real Reptiles
+under the name of Dragons handed down by Tradition; their
+Bones now dug up out of the Earth witness Legends true, and no
+Fable, and reconcile Orthodoxy with Science. However he do not
+say he believe they belch Fire and Smoke. So my Thoughts a little
+wandering from Professor <span class="smcap">Owen's</span> Lecture, to listen attentively,
+but the Air so foul with much Breath and burning of Gas that I at
+last nearly asleep and fain to pinch myself to keep awake. Strange,
+in the chief of Chemical Lecture Rooms such bad Ventilation.
+But to think what a Philosopher Professor <span class="smcap">Owen</span> is and can tell
+an unknown Animal whether Bird or Beast by a single Bone, and
+the French may brag of Monsieur <span class="smcap">Cuvier</span>, but England have as
+good Reason to be proud of Professor <span class="smcap">Owen</span>.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
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+
+
+<p class="center">T. N. FOULIS</p>
+
+<p class="center">91 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON, W.C.
+&amp; AT 15 FREDERICK STREET, EDINBURGH</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class='tnote'><h3>Transcriber's Notes:</h3>
+
+
+<p><b>Multiple spellings not changed:</b></p>
+<ul><li>"fashionable" and "fashonable"</li>
+<li>both "birthday" and "birth-day"</li>
+<li>both "Club-House" and "Club-house"</li>
+<li>both "Exeter-Hall" and "Exeter Hall"</li>
+<li>both "Pic-Nic" and "Pic-nic"</li>
+<li>both "raylway" and "raylwaye"</li>
+<li>different spellings of "street"</li></ul>
+</div>
+
+
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+
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+
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+Project Gutenberg's Manners & Cvftoms of ye Englyfhe, by Richard Doyle
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+
+Title: Manners & Cvftoms of ye Englyfhe
+       Drawn from ye Qvick
+
+Author: Richard Doyle
+
+Release Date: October 13, 2011 [EBook #37745]
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+[Transcriber's Note: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and
+superscript is denoted by {curly brackets}.]
+
+
+
+
+_MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF YE ENGLYSHE_
+
+  [Illustration: Manners
+                 & Cvstoms
+                 of y{e} Englyshe]
+
+  DRAWN FROM ye QVICK
+
+  BY RICHARD DOYLE
+
+  WITH EXTRACTS FROM
+  MR. PIPS HIS DIARY
+  BY PERCIVAL LEIGH
+
+  T.N.FOULIS
+  London & Edinburgh
+  1911
+
+_The publisher has to acknowledge his indebtedness
+to Messrs. Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. Ltd., the
+publishers of the original edition of this work,
+for permission kindly granted to include in this
+new edition several copyright pictures with their
+accompanying text._
+
+_November 1911_
+
+_Printed by_ MORRISON & GIBB LIMITED, _Edinburgh_
+
+
+
+
+_CONTENTS OF YE VOLUME._
+
+
+  _Ye Contributor hys Preface_                       _Page_ vii
+
+  _A Cydere Cellare duryng a Comyck Songe_                    1
+
+  _An "At Home." Ye Polka_                                    3
+
+  _Ye Fashonable Worlde in Hyde Parke_                        5
+
+  _A Drawynge Room Day_                                       7
+
+  _Smythfield Cattle Markete_                                 9
+
+  _A Few Friends to Tea, and a Lyttle Musyck_                11
+
+  _Ye National Sporte!!! of Steeple Chasynge_                13
+
+  _Ye Commons ressolved into a Commytte_                     15
+
+  _Ye Public its Excytemente on ye Appearance of Miss Lind_  17
+
+  _A Prospect of Exeter Hall_                                19
+
+  _Ye Exhybityon at ye Royal Academye_                       21
+
+  _A View of Epsom Downes on ye Derbye Daye_                 23
+
+  _A Prospect of Greenwich Fair_                             25
+
+  _Kensyngton Gardens with ye Bande Playinge there_          27
+
+  _Ye Hyghest Court of Law in ye Kyngdom_                    29
+
+  _Ye Flower Showe at Chysyk Gardens_                        31
+
+  _"Socyetye" enjoyinge itselfe at a Soyree_                 33
+
+  _A View of Mr. Lorde hys Cryket Grounde_                   35
+
+  _A Raylwaye Meetynge_                                      37
+
+  _A Prospect of ye Thames its Regatta_                      39
+
+  _A Raylway Statyon_                                        41
+
+  _Ye Brytysh Granadiers amountynge Guard_                   43
+
+  _A Prospect of a Fashyonable Haberdasher hys Shope_        45
+
+  _Regente Streete at Four of ye Clocke p.m._                47
+
+  _Blackwall_                                                49
+
+  _Ye Sporte of Punte Fyshynge off Rychmonde_                51
+
+  _Trycks of ye London Trade_                                53
+
+  _Madame Tussaud her Wax Werkes_                            55
+
+  _Deere Stalkynge in ye Hyghlandes_                         57
+
+  _A Prospect of an Election_                                59
+
+  _A Partie of Sportsmen out a Shutynge_                     61
+
+  _Ye Wyne Vaults at ye Docks_                               63
+
+  _A Weddynge Breakfaste_                                    65
+
+  _A Theatre. Ye House amused by ye Comycke Actor_           67
+
+  _A Prospecte of ye Zoological Societye its Gardens_        69
+
+  _Westminster Hall_                                         71
+
+  _A Prospecte of ye 5th of November_                        73
+
+  _A Banquet of ye Agricultural Interest_                    75
+
+  _Ye Appearance of ye Crymynyal Courte_                     77
+
+  _A Promenade Concerte_                                     79
+
+  _Ye Serpentyne during a Hard Frost_                        81
+
+  _A Fashionable Club. Four o'clock p.m._                    83
+
+  _The Circus at Astley's_                                   85
+
+  _Ye Fathers of ye Churche gyving Judgmente_                87
+
+  _A Juvenile Partye_                                        89
+
+  _A Grande Review_                                          91
+
+  _A Pic-nic_                                                93
+
+  _Vauxhall_                                                 95
+
+  _A Scientific Institution_                                 97
+
+
+
+
+_YE CONTRIBUTOR HYS PREFACE_
+
+
+Suppose the great-grandfather of anybody could step down from his
+picture-frame and stalk abroad, his descendant would be eager to hear
+his opinion of the world we live in. Most of us would like to know what
+the men of the _Past_ would say of the _Present_. If some old
+philosopher, for instance SOCRATES, exchanging robes for modern clothes,
+lest he should be followed by the boys and taken up by the police, could
+revisit this earth, walk our streets, see our sights, behold the scenes
+of our political and social life, and, contemplating this bustling age
+through the medium of his own quiet mind, set down his observations
+respecting us and our usages, he would write a work, no doubt, very
+interesting to her MAJESTY'S subjects.
+
+It would answer the purpose of a skilful literary enchanter to "unsphere
+the spirit of PLATO," or that of PYTHAGORAS, ARISTOTLE, or any other
+distinguished sage of antiquity, and send it out on its rambles with a
+commission to take, and report, its views of things in general. But such
+necromancy would have tasked even the Warlock of the North, would puzzle
+the wizard of any point of the compass, and, it is probable, could be
+cleverly achieved by no adept inferior to the ingenious MR. SHAKSPEARE.
+
+However, there flourished in a somewhat later day a philosopher, for
+such he was after his fashion, a virtuoso, antiquary, and _F.R.S._,
+whose ghost an inconsiderable person may perhaps attempt to raise
+without being accused of pretending to be too much of a conjuror. He
+appears to have been a _Peripatetic_, at least until he could keep a
+coach, but on the subjects of dress, dining, and some others, his
+opinions favour strongly of _Epicurism_. A little more than a hundred
+and eighty years ago he employed his leisure in going about everywhere,
+peeping into everything, seeing all that he could, and chronicling his
+experiences daily. In his _Diary_, which happily has come down to our
+times, the historical facts are highly valuable, the comments mostly
+sensible, the style is very odd, and the autobiography extremely
+ludicrous. I have adventured reverently to evoke this worshipful
+gentleman, that, resuming his old vocation as a journalist, he might
+comment on the "_Manners and Customs of ye Englyshe_," in the name of
+MR. PIPS. I hope his shadow, if not his spirit, may be recognised in the
+following pages.
+
+                                                       PERCIVAL LEIGH.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A CIDERE CELLARE DURING A COMICK SONGE._
+
+                                           SATURDAY, _March 10, 1849_.]
+
+
+To Drury Lane this Evening, to see the Horsemanship, which did divert me
+mightily; but had rather it had been at Astley's, which is the fitter
+Place for it. After that, to Supper at the Cider Cellars in Maiden Lane,
+wherein was much Company, great and small, and did call for Kidneys and
+Stout, then a small Glass of _Aqua-Vitae_ and Water, and thereto a Cigar.
+While we supped, the Singers did entertain us with Glees and Comical
+Ditties; but Lack, to hear with how little Wit the young Sparks about
+Town are tickled! But the Thing that did most take me was to see and
+hear one Ross sing the Song of SAM HALL the Chimney-Sweep, going to be
+hanged: for he had begrimed his Muzzle to look unshaven, and in rusty
+black Clothes, with a battered old Hat on his Crown and a short Pipe in
+his Mouth, did sit upon the Platform, leaning over the Back of a Chair:
+so making believe that he was on his way to Tyburn. And then he did sing
+to a dismal Psalm-Tune, how that his Name was SAM HALL, and that he had
+been a great Thief, and was now about to pay for all with his Life; and
+thereupon he swore an Oath which did make me somewhat shiver, though
+divers laugh. Then, in so many Verses, how his Master had badly taught
+him and now he must hang for it; how he should ride up Holborn Hill in a
+Cart, and the Sheriffs would come, and then the Parson, and preach to
+him, and after them would come the Hangman; and at the End of each Verse
+he did repeat his Oath. Last of all, how that he should go up to the
+Gallows; and desired the Prayers of his Audience, and ended by cursing
+them all round. Methinks it had been a Sermon to a Rogue to hear him,
+and I wish it may have done good to some of the Company. Yet was his
+cursing very horrible, albeit to not a few it seemed a high Joke; but I
+do doubt that they understood the Song and did only relish the Oaths.
+Strange to think what a Hit this Song of SAM HALL hath made, and how it
+hath taken the Town, and how popular it is not only among Tavern
+Haunters and Frequenters of Night Houses, but also with the Gentry and
+Aristocracy who do vote it a Thing that ought to be heard though a
+blackguard, and look in at the Cider Cellars Night by Night after Dinner
+at their Clubs to hear it sung. After SAM HALL, to pay for my Supper,
+which cost me 2s. 2d., besides 4d. to the Waiter; and then Home in a
+Cab, it being late, and I fearing to anger my Wife, which cost me 2s.
+more; but I grudged not the Money, having been much diverted, and so to
+Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _AN "AT HOME." YE POLKA._
+
+                                        WEDNESDAY, _March 21st, 1849_.]
+
+
+To-night to an Evening Party with my Wife, to SIR HILARY JINKS'S,
+whereunto we had been bidden to come at 10 of the Clock; for SIR HILARY
+and her Ladyship have taken to keeping rare Hours. Thereat was a goodly
+Company of about an hundred, and the Women all very fine, my Wife in her
+last Year's Gown, which I am tired of, and do hate to see. But did not
+tell her that, knowing she would have said how soon I might rid me of
+that Objection. We did fall to dancing Quadrilles, wherein I made one,
+and had for my Partner a pretty little black Damsel, whom after the
+Dance was ended, did hand to a Sofa, and thereon sit me by her Side; but
+seeing my Wife looking hard at us, did presently make my Bow, and go
+away. And, my Wife seated by the Wall, to walk about the Room, and speak
+with such as I thought like to tell me Something worth hearing, but told
+me Nothing I cared to hear, they all shunning to talk, and in their
+white Ties, and Waistcoats, and Kid Gloves, starch, and constrained, and
+ill at Ease, which was ridiculous. Then to look on while some did dance
+the Polka, which did please me not much, for had beheld it better danced
+at the _Casino_, and do think it more suitable to such a Place than to a
+Drawing Room. The Young Fellows did take their Partners by the Waist,
+and these did lean upon the other's Shoulders, and with one Arm
+stretched out, and holding Hand in Hand, they did spin round the Room
+together. But, Lack! to see the kicking up of Heels and stamping of them
+on the Ground, which did mightily remind me of _Jim Crow_. In Truth, I
+am told that the Polka is but a Peasant's Hop, from Hungary, and to
+think now of Persons of Quality cutting such Capers! SIR HILARY to his
+Taste; but a Minuet for me at Home, with Gentlewomen, and a Polka with
+Milkmaids at a Maying or Show Girls in a Booth. Meanwhile the Servants
+did hand round Glasses of Negus, which was poor Stuff; and those who
+listed to Supper when they chose, in a side Room, off wretched
+Sandwiches of the Size of the Triangles of EUCLID his _Geometry_, which
+did think shabby. Expected Chicken and Lobster Salad, with Champagne,
+and Oysters and Ale and Stout, but disappointed. Home in a Cab, at Two
+in the Morning, much wearied and little pleased; and on our Way Home,
+spying a Tavern open, did go and get me a Pint of Beer, and the same to
+my Wife; for we were both athirst, and she in an ill Humour about the
+Beauty I had danced with, and I because of the bad Supper; and so very
+ill-contented to Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE FASHONABLE WORLDE TAYKNGE ITS EXERCYSE IN HYDE
+PARKE._
+
+                                          TUESDAY, _March 27th, 1849_.]
+
+
+This Day to the Ring in Hyde Park for a Walk to get me an Appetite, and
+look at the fine Folks and People of Fashion riding in their carriages,
+which it do much delight me to behold. But, good Lack! what a strange
+Notion of the Pleasure of a Drive; with the Carriages in a close Line
+jammed all together, and sometimes coming to a dead Stop like the
+Omnibuses in Fleet Street of an Afternoon, and seldom moving on faster
+than Mourning Coaches at a Funeral. Did see many mighty pretty young
+Ladies; and one sitting in a Landau with a Coronet on the Panel, upon
+whom I did smile, but perceiving that she did turn up her Nose at me, I
+did look glum; howbeit, another comely Damsel that I smiled at did blush
+and simper, which gave me Joy. It was as good as a Play to watch the
+young Guardsmen, with their Tufts and Mustaches, riding straight-legged,
+and them and the other Bucks taking off their Hats and kissing their
+Hands to the charming Belles as they passed them by. But it was rarer
+still to behold a Snob that strove to do the same Sort of Thing, and did
+get laughed at for his Pains. Then what Sport to observe the fat
+Coachmen, in their Wigs, something like Bishops', sitting on their
+Boxes, and the Footmen behind with their parti-coloured Liveries of drab
+and green, and red and yellow Plush, and gold-laced Hats, Shoulderknots
+and Cockades, bearing their Canes, and their Noses to the Sky, holding
+their Heads as high as Peacocks for Pride in their Frippery and plump
+Calves! These Fellows are as fine as Court Cards, and full as
+Ridiculous, and they do divert me in the Extreme: only their bepowdered
+Pates do offend me, for I think the Fashion an uncleanly one; and after
+all, I wonder how their Masters and Mistresses can delight in dressing
+them out so much like Mountebanks. Did note divers Noble Lords and
+Gentlemen of the House of Commons whom I did know either by Sight or
+from the Caricatures in the Shop-Windows. From four to five o'Clock
+around the Ring and up and down by the Serpentine to make my
+observations. Methought how jolly these fine People must be, and how
+happy they looked compared to a Beggar Boy whom I did spy squatting on
+the Grass: yet no Doubt many of them have Troubles enough, and some may
+be even short of Cash to pay for their Vanities. After that, to the
+Corner, by the Powder Magazine, nigh to Kensington Gardens, to see the
+Company alight from their Carriages, and take an Inventory of the
+Ladies' Dresses, whereof to furnish an Account to my Wife. Then away
+home at half-past Five, and so to Dinner off a Shoulder of Mutton and
+Onion-Sauce, which my Wife doth make exceeding well, and my Dinner did
+content me much; and thereupon I did promise my Wife a new Bonnet, the
+Like whereof I had seen on a Countess in the Park, and so both in great
+Good Humour, and very loving all the Evening.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A DRAWYNGE ROOM DAY. SAYNTE JAMES HYS STREETE._
+
+                                         THURSDAY, _March 29th, 1849_.]
+
+
+To see the Nobility and Gentry, and other great Company, go to the
+QUEEN'S Drawing-Room, with a Friend to St. James's Street, where did
+stand in Front of BOODLE'S Club-House in the Rain, which was heavy, and
+spoiled my Paris Hat, cost me twelve Shillings. But the Sight of the
+Show almost worth the Damage; for the Red and Blue Uniforms of the Army
+and Navy Officers with their Orders on their Breasts, and their Cocked
+Hats and Plumes in their Laps, and the Ladies of Quality in their Silks
+and Satins of all Manner of Colours, and their Hair crowned with Ostrich
+Feathers, and sparkling with Pearls and Diamonds, did much delight me to
+behold. But I wish I could have had as good a View of the Gentlefolks
+within the Carriages as I had of the Lackeys outside, who, with their
+supercilious Airs, and their Jackanapes Garb, did divert me more than
+ever. I do continually marvel at the enormous Calves of those Varlets,
+for which one might almost think they were reared, like a sort of
+Cattle. Indeed, I should have believed that their Stockings were
+stuffed, if I had not seen one of them wince when a Horse chanced to lay
+hold of his Leg. It did more and more amaze me to observe how high they
+carried their Noses, especially as most of them had Posies in their
+bosoms; whereas they looked as though, instead, there were some
+unsavoury Odour beneath their Nostrils. But much as the Servants
+resembled Zanies and Harlequins, yet did some of their Masters look not
+much better; being dressed in a Court Suit, which methinks do make a
+Gentleman seem a sort of embroidered Quaker. I do greatly wonder why the
+ugliest Apparel of any Date in English History should be pitched upon
+for the Court Dress. But the splendid Carriages painted with Coats of
+Arms, and the stately caparisoned Horses, did make a rare Show; and
+among them mighty droll to mark the Hack Cabs not suffered to enter at
+the Palace Gate; so the Fares had to alight and walk on foot the Rest of
+the Way to the Drawing-Room: and so into the Presence of Her MAJESTY in
+dirty Boots: which was not seemly; but many of them are Half Pay
+Officers, and other poor Subjects, who could afford no better than a
+Cab. Pleased to see the Police with their Truncheons, keeping Order
+among the Vagabonds, till one did tell me to move on, which did vex me.
+Then there were the Guards, in full Uniform on Horseback, with their
+Helmets on their Heads and their Swords drawn, about one under each Lamp
+Post, mounting Guard, and I believe this is the heaviest Part of their
+Duty. What with the blazing Uniforms and glittering Jewels, my Eyes were
+dazzled and my Head did somewhat ache; moreover, some pretty Faces put
+my Heart in a Flutter, which did not think fit to mention to my Wife.
+Methinks how fine it would be to ride in State to Court, if it were not
+so chargeable, and I should much delight in the Honour and Glory of the
+Thing, but not like the Expense. A Drawing-Room doth altogether eclipse
+the LORD MAYOR'S Show; although it do seem but a Toy and gilt
+Gingerbread Affair, and an empty, childish Display, like the Babies'
+Game of King and Queen; but then it hath certainly this Advantage, that
+it do much good to Trade.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _SMYTHFIELD CATTLE MARKETE._
+
+                                            MONDAY, _April 9th, 1849_.]
+
+
+Up betimes, it being scarcely Light, to Smithfield, to see the Cattle
+Market, which I do think a great Disgrace to the City, being so nasty,
+filthy, and dangerous a Place in the very Heart of London. I did observe
+the Manner of driving the Beasts together, used by the Drovers, which
+did disgust me. To force the Oxen into their Places, they have stout
+Cudgels, pointed with iron Goads or Prods, wherewith they thrust the
+Creatures in the flesh of their Hind Quarters, or with the Cudgel
+belabour them on the Hock. These means failing, they do seize the
+Animal's Tail and give it a sudden Wrench with a Turn of the Wrist,
+whereby they snap the Tail-bone, and so twist and wring the spinal Cord
+till he pushes forward as far as they would have him. Some, not getting
+Room for the Beasts in the Pens, do drive them into Circles called Ring
+Droves, with their hind Parts outwards, and their Heads forced as close
+as may be together: this done by beating them with all their Might about
+the Head and Eyes, and between the Horns, which they do call pething
+them. Then to see how they crowd the Sheep into the Pens by dogging them
+as their Word is, which means baiting them with Dogs that do tear the
+Sheeps' Eyes, Ears, and Cheeks, until they worry such Numbers in, that
+not one can budge an Inch. All this Cruelty is caused by the Market not
+being big enough: for which Reason they are obliged to force the unlucky
+Brutes into the smallest possible Space. What with the Oaths and Curses
+of the Drovers and Butchers and the Barking of their Dogs and the Cries
+of the Animals in Torture, I do think I never heard a more horrid Din in
+my Life. The Hearing was as bad as the Seeing, and both as bad as could
+be, except the Smell, which was worse than either. But to be sure it was
+good Sport to see here and there a fat Grazier overthrown by a Pig
+running between his Legs, and so upsetting him in the Mire. It were well
+if it were never worse; but with mad Oxen driven from the Market through
+Streets full of People, it continually happens that some Person is
+tossed and gored, and one of these Days it will be an Alderman, and then
+Smithfield will be put an End to. No doubt it would have been done away
+with long ago, but for the Tolls and Dues which the Corporation do
+derive from the Market. This is why they do keep up a Nuisance which did
+well nigh poison me; though one of them at a Meeting did declare that he
+thought Smithfield salubrious, and did send his Children to walk there
+for Change of Air, which if it were for the better, methinks that
+Gentleman's Dwelling-House should be a sweet Abode. All but the Citizens
+do say that Parliament ought to abolish this Nuisance; but it is thought
+that my LORD JOHN dare not stir in the Matter, because he is Member for
+the City. To Breakfast to an Early Coffee House, having lost my Pocket
+Handkerchief, cost me 5s., doubtless by the Pickpockets, of whom
+Smithfield, besides its other Recommendations, is a great Resort. But
+content, not having had an Ox's Horn in my Stomach, and having seen all
+I wanted, and do not wish to see any more.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A FEW FRIENDS TO TEA, AND A LYTTLE MUSYCK._
+
+                                            TUESDAY, _April 17, 1849_.]
+
+
+To MR. JIGGINS'S, where my Wife and I were invited to Tea and a little
+Musique, but we had much Musique and little Tea, though the Musique was
+like the Tea in Quality, and I do prefer a stronger Kind of Musique as
+well as Liquor. Yet it was pleasing enough to the Ear to hear the
+fashionable Ballads, and the Airs from all the New Italian Operas sung
+by the young Ladies; which, though they expressed Nothing but
+common-place Love and Sentiment, yet were a pretty Sing-Song. But to see
+the young Fellows whilst a Beauty was singing crowd round her, and bend
+over her Shoulders, and almost scramble to turn over the Leaves of her
+Musique Book! Besides the Singing, there was Playing of the Piano Forte,
+with the Accompaniment of a Fiddle and Bass Violl, the Piano being
+played by a stout fat Lady with a Dumpling Face; but for all her being
+so fat it did amaze me to see how nimbly she did fillip the Keys. They
+did call this Piece a Concerto, and I was told it was mighty brilliant;
+but when I asked what Fancy, Passion, or Description there was in it, no
+one could tell; and I verily thought the Brilliancy like that of a Paste
+Buckle. It had not even an Air to carry away and whistle, and would have
+pleased me just as well if I had stopped my Ears, for I could discern
+Nothing in it but Musical Sleight of Hand. But good Lack! to think how,
+in these Days, Execution is Everything in Musique, and Composition
+little or Nothing: for almost no Account is made of the Master, and a
+preposterous Value put upon the Player, or artiste, as the Frenchified
+Phrase now is! After the Concerto, some Polkas and Waltzes, which did
+better please me; for they were a lively Jingle certainly, and not quite
+unmeaning. Strange, to find how rare a Thing good Musique is in Company;
+and by good Musique I mean such as do stir up the Soul, like the Flowers
+and Sunshine in Spring, or Storms and Tempests, or ghostly Imaginations,
+or the thought of great Deeds, or tender or terrible Passages in Poetry.
+My Wife do play some brave Pieces in this Kind, by MYNHEER VAN
+BEETHOVEN, and I would rather hear her perform one of them, than all I
+did hear to-Night put together; and so I did tell her when we got Home,
+which did content her well. But every one to his Taste; and they who
+delight in the trivial Style of Musique to theirs, as I to mine, not
+doubting that the English, that have but just begun to be sensible to
+Musique at all, will be awake to the nobler Sort of it by-and-by. And,
+at any Rate, an Evening of insipid Musique and weak Tea is better than
+sitting toping and guzzling after Dinner.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE NATIONAL SPORTE!!! OF STEEPLE CHASYNGE._
+
+                                             MONDAY, _April 23, 1849_.]
+
+
+Down the Road to a Steeple Chase, which I had never seen before, and did
+much long to behold: for of all Things I do love Diversion and
+Merriment; and both MR. STRAPPES and SIR WILLIAM SPURKINS did tell me
+there would be rare Sport. Got a Place in the Grand Stand, cost me
+half-a-Guinea, which was loth to part with, but thought I should have
+brave Entertainment for so much Money. Did find myself here in fine
+Company, Dukes, and Earls, and Lords and Ladies too, which did please
+me; but among them some Snobs, in Stable-cut-Clothes, with spotted
+Neckcloths and Fox-headed Breast-pins; though some of these were Lords
+too, who seemed to have been at Pains to look like Ostlers. To see the
+Crowd on Horseback and in Carriages, and those on Foot pushing and
+scrambling, and trampling each other to get a Sight of the Course, as if
+there had been going to be a Coronation, or a Man hanged! The Course,
+marked out with Flags, and having Hurdles, Posts, Fences, Rails,
+Hedges, Drains, Ditches, and Brooks in the Way; and this Sportsmen do
+call the Country, and say such a Country is a Teaser, and so I should
+think. By-and-by Jockies in their Saddles, but their word is Pig-skins,
+looking, in their gay Colours, like Tulips on Horseback, which was a
+pretty Sight. Then a Bell rung to clear the Course, and the Horses with
+their Riders drawn up ready to start, and presently a Flag flourished
+for a Signal: and so they off. Good Lack, to see them galloping
+helter-skelter, like mad, through Rivers, and over Hedges and Ditches,
+and the whole Thing done in ten Minutes! Some did jump the Fences and
+Hedges, which they about me did term Raspers, clean over; but others not
+so lucky, and stuck in Brambles or on Stakes, or between double Rows of
+Posts, with a Quickset in the Middle, whereof the cant name is
+Bullfinchers. Others upset in Ditches; and one or two of them not able
+to get up again, and carried away upon some of the Hurdles; and when the
+Race was over, three Horses found lying with their Backs broken, and so
+shot. SIR WILLIAM did inform me that it was a tidy Field, which I could
+not agree, with the Raspers and Palisades upon it, and the Horses
+spiked, or sprawling with their Riders on the Ground with broken Backs
+and Limbs. Nor did I understand the Fun of this Part of the Thing;
+wherefore I suppose I must be dull; for it do seem to be the chief
+Delight that People take in it. For, as if the Gates and Rails belonging
+to the Ground were not dangerous enough, they do set up others called
+made Fences, being stubborn Posts and Stakes twisted with Briars and
+Brambles, which do seem to be meant for Nothing but to be tumbled over,
+and in that Case to do as much Mischief, as may be, to Man and Beast.
+The Horses mostly ridden by Jockeys for Hire; but some by their Owners,
+who, methinks, do set a sufficient Value upon their own Existence when
+they venture their Necks in riding a Steeple Chase; but I do blame them
+for risking the Life of a useful Horse.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE COMMONS RESSOLVED INTO A COMMYTTE OF YE WHOLE HOUSE._
+
+                                             FRIDAY, _April 27, 1849_.]
+
+
+To the House of Commons, where an Irish Debate on the Rate-in-Aid Bill,
+which did make me drowsy. The House in Committee; the Irish Members
+moving all Sorts of frivolous Amendments, abusing the Government, and
+quarrelling among themselves. SIR H. BARRON did accuse MR. REYNOLDS of
+being ready to Vote away other People's Money because he had none of his
+own, and MR. REYNOLDS did say that he never saw such Misery as on SIR H.
+BARRON'S Estate; whereupon SIR H. BARRON up in a Rage, and did deny the
+Fact with vehement Gestures, flourishing his Fists gallantly. Then MR.
+REYNOLDS did fall foul of MR. BATESON, one that had been a Captain, for
+questioning the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER concerning young REYNOLDS'S
+Place; and did make a Joke upon MR. BATESON'S Mustachios: whereat much
+laughter. But a small Joke do go a great Way in the House of Commons.
+Before the Debate, LORD JOHN RUSSELL marching up one of the side
+Galleries, and taking the Measure of the House through his Eye-Glass: a
+sharp delicate little Man, with a mild Voice, but do carry himself
+stately. Methought his Observations amused him, for he smirked a little,
+and looked as if he knew the Customers he had to deal with. But to see
+him and the HOME SECRETARY and the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER trying to
+persuade the Irish Members not to press their ridiculous Motions to a
+Division, wheedling and coaxing them, as smiling and civil as
+Haberdashers! The Bill to be reported to-morrow; and then the House to a
+little ordinary Business; and MR. HORSMAN'S Bill postponed, through the
+Irish cavilling and squabbling. Then a Debate on naming the Committee on
+Savings Banks; and made an Irish Question too; the Dispute how many
+Irish Members were to serve on the Committee: and the End, the Naming of
+the Committee delayed. This Way of doing Business in the House of
+Commons makes it no Wonder how little is done; and the chief Cause is
+the Irish Members haranguing upon Nothing and quarrelling about Straws,
+which do seem to me a childish and spiteful Attempt to give Trouble to
+Government. I did hope to hear a Speech from SIR ROBERT PEEL, but was
+disappointed, which did vex me; but heard a few Words from COLONEL
+SIBTHORP, which made mighty Laughter, and were as sensible as any Thing
+I heard all the Evening: and the Colonel in a brave Waistcoat, with his
+droll Figure did divert me much. Last of all, a Settlement of the
+Smithfield Committee: and I do wonder this became not an Irish Matter
+too. The House adjourning at half-past One in the Morning; and to see
+the Number of Members lying asleep on the Gallery Benches! All this
+While Nothing whatever done of more Importance than Parish Business at a
+Vestry. I off to Supper in the Haymarket on pickled Salmon and Stout,
+cost me 1s. 6d., and then Home and to Bed, past 2 o'Clock, and my Wife
+do say that the House of Commons keep worse Hours than any Tavern in
+Town.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE PUBLIC ITS EXCYTEMENTE ON YE APPEARANCE OF MISS
+LIND._
+
+                                              SATURDAY, _May 5, 1849_.]
+
+
+To the Queen's House in the Haymarket to hear Jenny Lind, whom Everybody
+do call the Swedish Nightingale. Did go with a Pit Ticket, cost me 8s.
+6d., which is a mighty Sum of Money to pay for only the Chance of a
+Seat. Went at 6 p.m., expecting a Crowd, and there a Mob of People
+already at the Doors, and some did say they had come as early as Five.
+Got as close as I could to the Pit Entrance, and the Throng increasing;
+and by-and-by Ladies in their Opera Dresses standing without their
+Bonnets in the Street. Many of them between the Carriage Wheels and
+under the Horses' Heads: and methinks I did never see more Carriages
+together in my Life. At last the Doors open; which I began to fear they
+never would, and I in with the Press, a most terrible Crush, and the
+Ladies screaming and their Dresses torn in the Scramble, wherefore I
+thought it a good Job that my Wife was not with me. With much ado into
+the Pit, the Way being stopped by a Snob in a green Jockey Coat and
+Bird's Eye Neckcloth, that the Checktakers would not suffer to pass. The
+Pit full in a Twinkling, and I fain to stand where I best might, nigh to
+Fop's Alley: but presently a Lady fainting with the Heat and carried
+out, which I glad of; I mean that I got her Place. I did never behold so
+much Company in the House before; and every Box full of Beauties, and
+hung with yellow Satin Curtains, did show like a brave picture in a Gold
+Frame; which was very handsome to look round upon while the Musicians
+were tuning. The Fiddles tuned, and the Overture played, the Curtain up
+for the Opera; which was the _Sonnambula_; the Part of _Amina_ acted by
+JENNY. The moment she came on the Stage, the Audience, Lords, Ladies,
+and all, upon their Legs, shouting, cheering, waving Hats and
+Handkerchiefs, and clapping of Hands in white Kid Gloves. But at last
+they silent, and let the Nightingale sing: and for certain she is a
+wonderful Singer. It did amaze me to hear how easy and sweetly she do
+trill and warble the most difficult Passages: and I perceive she hath a
+rare Ability of Voice. But what did no less astonish me was her Acting,
+it being as good as her singing; for she did seem to forget herself in
+her Part, instead of her Part in herself; which is the Mistake of most
+Opera Singers. To think that she should draw the whole Town in Crowds
+together to hear her sing a few pretty Sugar-plum Melodies and portray
+the Grief of a poor Peasant Wench cast off by her Lover! But she do put
+a Grace and Beauty of her own into the Character and Musique: which I
+take to be the Mark of a true Genius. She made to sing divers Songs
+twice over, and called upon the Stage at the End of the Act, and again
+when the Opera was finished; when, good Lack, to see the Nosegays and
+Posies flung in Heaps upon the Stage! She must needs get a Mint of Money
+by her Singing; but she has spent a Deal of it in building Hospitals,
+and I do wish (Heaven forgive me!) I had all she has given away in
+Charity.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PROSPECT OF EXETER HALL. SHOWYNGE A CHRISTIAN
+GENTLEMAN DENOUNCYNGE YE POPE._
+
+                                             WEDNESDAY, _May 9, 1849_.]
+
+
+Went this Morning to Exeter Hall, where one of the May Meetings that do
+regularly take Place at this Time of the Season, and serve in Lieu of
+Concerts and Shows to a Sort of People that call themselves serious.
+This, one of the Meetings of a Protestant Association, which I had heard
+much of and did long to go to, expecting to hear some good Argument
+against the Roman Catholiques. But instead of Argument, I did hear
+Nothing but Abuse, which do always go in at one Ear and out at the
+other. No new Point brought forward to confute Popery; but only an
+Iteration of the Old Charges of Superstition and so forth, urged with no
+greater Power than mere Strength of Lungs. The Commotions on the
+Continent last Year laid much Stress on, and the Turmoils in Catholique
+and Quiet in Protestant States contrasted, as though there had been no
+Disturbance or Trouble in Prussia or Denmark, or any Tumult or
+Revolution in Belgium or Portugal. I did note two chief Speakers, whom,
+on their rising, the Assembly did applaud as if they had been Actors,
+and to be sure, they ranted more frantically than I did ever see HICKS.
+Yet at Times they stooped to Drollery in the Height of their Passion,
+and one of them did make such Sport of the Roman Catholique Religion as
+would not have been suffered in the Adelphi Theatre. But I do find that
+some who would not be seen in a Play-House can enjoy their laugh at
+Exeter Hall. This Orator was a Clergyman of some Kind, for he was called
+Reverend in the Hand-bill, and dressed in a clerical Habit, but his Eyes
+and Face blazing with Wrath, did storm like a Madman against the
+Maynooth Grant and the POPE OF ROME; and howled as fierce as a Hyaena.
+The other a Clergyman too, and looked as much like one, with his
+sneering angry Visage, and did vehemently harangue, crying bitterly out
+on some of my Lords and the Members of the Commons' House that had voted
+for Popish Endowment. His Oration a medley of Sarcasm, Invective, and
+Buffoonery, and wound up with a Flourish of Patriotism and Loyalty. The
+Speeches received with Applause and Laughter, but also with
+Interruptions and crying to turn Somebody out. The Speakers on a
+Platform, whereon they bounced backwards and forwards, having Rails in
+Front as if to hinder them from breaking loose on the Audience. Behind
+them a Crowd of dainty smooth Gentlemen in Black, with white
+Neckerchiefs, and to see how demure they looked, as if Butter would not
+melt in their Mouths! In the Body of the Hall a goodly Number of Heads,
+but by far the Most of them in Bonnets. The two chief Speeches lasted an
+Hour and a Half each, and the Chairman leaving his Seat, I away, my Head
+aching through the Raving. Such Violence, methinks, do only prove that
+there are other Bigots besides Papists; and is the worst Means of
+enforcing any Truth; for they that speak in Anger and Passion are
+commonly concluded by indifferent People to be in the Wrong. The Society
+complaining of want of Funds, which I do not wonder at, for I fear me
+the Subscribers have but few Catholiques converted for their Money.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE EXHYBITYON AT YE ROYAL ACADEMYE._
+
+                                               MONDAY, _May 21, 1849_.]
+
+
+This Morning with my Wife to the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, where
+611 Paintings, besides Miniatures and other Drawings, and Pieces of
+Sculpture, making altogether 1341 Works of Art, and methought it would
+be strange if there were not some Masterpiece among so many. The Whole
+to be seen for the small Sum of 1s., and the Catalogue cost me 1s. more,
+but should have known all the old Hands as well without it. To see how
+easy it is to distinguish them by their Styles after two or three Years'
+Experience: as one by his Dogs, that might be expected to bark, or to
+talk rather, with their Looks and Ways like Human Creatures. Then
+another by his Colouring that do resemble a Mash of sweet Omelet with
+all the Colours of the Rainbow and many more; which methinks is a
+strange Fancy; but now he hath a Picture out of his trite Fashion; done
+after the Manner of the antique Masters, and a good Imitation. A third
+also by his unadorned Beauties with their glowing Eyes and Cheeks and
+plump swarthy flesh, and a fourth by his never-ending Perspectives, and
+Gulfs of Darkness, and Mountains of Blue. But this year I do mark fewer
+of these old Acquaintances, and more of the Works of younger Men,
+wherein there is less of Knack and more of Freshness, which I do esteem
+a hopeful Sign. The Exhibition at large I judge to be a very excellent
+middling one, many Pictures good in their Kind, but that Kind in very
+few Cases high. The Silks and Satins mostly painted to Admiration, and
+the Figures copied carefully from the Model; but this do appear too
+plainly; and the Action generally too much like a Scene in a Play. In
+the historical Pictures the Characters dressed strictly in the Fashion
+of their Time, but in the best of them a Lack of Fancy and Imagination,
+though seeming original through a certain Quaintness that do smack of
+Church-Window Saints and illuminated Missals. The Landscapes better, and
+a most brave Morning on the Lake of Zurich by one that hath the right
+Stuff in him, and some sweet melancholy Shades and solemn Groves, and a
+Solitary Pool that did please me mightily, and my Wife do say that the
+Artist should be Commissioner of Woods and Forests. Some Pictures of
+common Life pretty enough, and a little Crowd before a pleasant
+sentimental one called the Duet. One or two droll ones, as the Slide,
+and Drawing for the Militia, did make me laugh; but to think how many
+Woodcuts as good as the best you can get in a little Miscellany
+published weekly, cost you 3d. Fewer silly Portraits of Gentlemen and
+Ladies than formerly, which is a Comfort. The Pictures fairly enough
+hung, and strange to see a dead Lion between MONSIEUR GUIZOT and PRINCE
+METTERNICH, as though to represent absolute Monarchy, and seemed meant
+for a Joke. Some Pictures in the Octagon Room, which could not tell
+whether they were good or no for Want of Light, and the same with all
+the Sculptures in their Lumber Hole. This is how we treat Art in this
+Country, and with Paintings presented to the Nation buried in a Vault,
+but sorry Encouragement is given to Genius; and no Wonder that Artists
+do Pictures for Furniture to sell to the great and small Vulgar, and so
+produce the Kind of Works that make up the greater Part of the
+Exhibition.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A VIEW OF EPSOM DOWNES ON YE DERBYE DAYE._
+
+                                WEDNESDAY, _May 23, 1849_.--DERBY DAY.]
+
+
+To Epsom Downs to the Great Derby Race. In a Barouche, with a Party,
+over Vauxhall Bridge, and by Clapham, carrying Hampers with Store of
+every Thing needful for a brave Lunch. The Windows and House Fronts
+crowded, and School-Boys mounted on Walls and Gates, and they and the
+Urchins in the Street shouting, as though we were going to the Races for
+their Amusement. But Lack! to see the pretty smart Damsels come out to
+gaze at us, or peeping behind Blinds and Curtains, all in high Glee, and
+good Humour do wonderfully heighten Beauty, as I do tell my Wife. The
+Road through Trees and Orchards, and the Sun shining through the young
+Leaves and on the Horse-Chestnut Blossoms, and the Flowers looking
+bright like the Lasses. So we on, till into the Ruck, which is the Jam
+of Carriages caused by the Stoppage at the Turnpike: and did banter each
+other and them about us. Across the Course to the Hill, the Admission
+cost us L1. Good Lack! what a Crowd of People collected to see which
+out of six-and-twenty Horses should run the fastest, and what a Medley
+of Vans, Omnibusses, and Taxed Carts on either Side of the Course with
+the People in Front of them, and the Grand Stand crowded with Heads,
+plenty as Blackberries, and seeming like a huge Mass of them. A Throng
+of Carriages about us, whereon young handsome rakish-looking Gallants
+with Mustaches and Cigars. Here and there, in open Coaches, Ladies in
+lilac and blue Dresses, and pink Bonnets, and gay Ribbons, all Manner of
+Colours, looking, with the parti-coloured Flags over the Booths, mighty
+lively. Presently a Bell rung and the Course cleared, but then to see an
+unlucky Dog running to get out, and the Mob yelling at him, and the poor
+Dog in his Fright rushing straight on like mad! Then the Horses with the
+motley Jockies on them prancing up and down before the Grand Stand, to
+show their Paces to the Folks in the Betting Ring. At last, they taken
+to the Post, and so started with much Cheering, and came easy round
+Tattenham Corner; but presently away in good earnest, like Shot! The
+Chief Struggle between the _Flying Dutchman_ and _Hotspur_, but
+Yellow-Cap did win by half a Length. The Winner declared by his Number,
+hung out in Front of the Grand Stand, and to see the Flock of Carrier
+Pigeons sent up to bear away the News; but MR. WAGSTAFFE do say they
+were Nothing to the Pigeons left behind. The Race run in three Minutes,
+but to think of the Money lost and won in that little Time! My LORD
+EGLINTON and the Public, as I hear, do gain much, and the Ring and
+Rogues do lose, which I am glad of. After the Race to a brave Lunch; but
+the Gipsy Women and Children did come and beg Morsels out of our Plates,
+which in the Midst of all the Luxury was a sorry Sight. Then about the
+Course to see the Company and the Flinging at Snuff-Boxes, and the
+Thimble-Rig, and some playing at Roulette and Hazard, but the Police did
+seize and break several of the Tables, and take away the Stakes. Great
+Sport returning Home, with the Shouting for the Winner, and trumpeting
+on Horns, and tossing of Snuff-Boxes and Toys to the pretty Lasses at
+the Windows.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PROSPECT OF GREENWICH FAIR._
+
+                               TUESDAY, _May 29, 1849_.--WHIT-TUESDAY.]
+
+
+Down the River with BROWNE to Greenwich to view the Fair. To the Park,
+where young Fellows and Hoydens at Archery, Donkey Riding, playing at
+Kiss-in-the-Ring, and running down the Hill, romping, tripping, and
+tumbling over Head and Heels, with Shouting, Screaming, and Laughter.
+Then down to the Fair, made in a narrow Space in the Town by a Couple of
+Rows of Booths and Sweet-Meat and Toy-Stalls, with Raree Shows at the
+farther End, and Swings and Roundabouts on the Outside. The Passage most
+insufferably crammed; and we having to force our Way between Walls hung
+with Dolls and gilt Ginger-Bread. The Stalls and Booths crowded also,
+and the Tobacco Smoke rising from the Drinking Places like a Fog. Young
+Prentice Blades and Shop-Boys pushing about with large Masquerade Noses,
+and did entertain themselves more than me. But the chief Amusement of
+these Roysterers and the frolicksome Wenches do seem to be scratching
+People behind, with a Scraper, which is a notched Disk of Wood, that
+turns on an Axle in a Mortise, with a Handle some six Inches long, and
+being dragged down a Man's Back, do make him believe that his Coat is
+torn, as I thought mine was, when first served so, which did trouble me.
+With this Noise of continual Tearing, and the Squeaking of Tin Trumpets,
+and blowing of Whistles, and half-a-dozen different Bands playing as
+many Tunes, is altogether made a most discordant Musique; and the
+Showmen bellowing to the Spectators to walk up, do increase the Babel.
+Strange to see the Lads and Lasses, heaved up and down, over and under,
+in the Swings, and to think what Pleasure they can take in such a
+Motion, which methinks a Physician might prescribe in Lieu of a Sea
+Voyage. With much Ado, to RICHARDSON'S Show, where a Tragedy, a Comic
+Song and a Pantomime all in Half an Hour, and the Tragedy accompanied on
+Whistles and Penny Trumpets by the Audience. But the best of the Fun
+outside, between the Performances, with the Beef-Eaters' Band playing,
+and the Show-Girls in their Spangles and Paint, dancing, and the Clowns
+grimacing and flinging Summersets, and the Robber Chief standing in a
+brave Posture in the Corner. Store of Fat Ladies, Wonderful Pigs, Giants
+and Dwarfs to see, and Conjurors in Plenty, specially in the Crowd,
+conjuring Handkerchiefs out of Pockets. In the Evening to the great
+Dancing-Booth, which lighted up and hung with variegated Lamps, was, to
+be sure, a pretty fine Sight. But the Company uproarious through Drink;
+and yet the Dancing without Liveliness, being mostly that rogueish
+Chin-and-Shoulder French Dance, gone heavily through. Here again that
+perpetual Scraping, and they who sold the Scrapers, did cry, "All the
+Fun of the Fair for 2d."; which was true. Home by the Railway Train,
+wherein the tipsy Passengers bawling and singing the whole of the Way.
+Methinks these Fairs do cause a Concourse of Rogues and bad Characters;
+and the more good cheap Concerts abound, and Museums and Exhibitions are
+opened to the Public, the less will the People frequent such Places as
+Greenwich Fair.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _KENSYNGTON GARDENS WITH YE BANDE PLAYINGE THERE._
+
+                                               FRIDAY, _June 1, 1849_.]
+
+
+In the Afternoon to Kensington Gardens, where a Band of the Guards do
+play on this Day, and also on Monday throughout the Season, and draw
+together a great Crowd of Fashionable Folks. The Tunes played mostly
+Polkas and Waltzes, though now and then a Piece of Musique of a better
+Sort; but the Musique little more than an Excuse for a Number of People
+assembling to see and be seen. There all the World and his Wife; and she
+in all her Finery. The Day very fair, and the Sun shining gloriously,
+and the bright coloured Silks and Muslins at a Distance between the
+Trees, did make a mighty pleasant Picture. But I got as near as I could
+to gaze upon the Beauties, and am afraid that I did look too hard at
+some; but they mostly smiled, and methinks they do not trick themselves
+out so bravely to discourage Observation. To see them pacing to and fro
+in such smart Attire, with their shewy pink, and green, and
+Forget-me-not Blue Parasols, I could fancy they were the London
+Fashions for June come out a walking. But many on Seats with tall
+well-looking Gallants posted beside them, or bending down to converse
+with them with vast Attention and Politeness, whereat they seeming
+mightily pleased. Others standing in Groups here and there under the
+Shade, and a great Throng of them round about the Musicians; but all
+walking to and fro between the Tunes to show themselves. Many of the
+Army among the Crowd, and strange, to compare them and others of our
+Gentry, in Air and Manner, with one or two dingy Foreigners with their
+stubbly Beards and ill-favoured Looks. The little fashionable Children
+by the side of their Mammas elegant enough to see; but overdressed in
+their Velvet and Plaid Tunics and Plumes of Feathers, and their Ways too
+mincing and dainty, and looking as though they had stepped from out a
+Band-Box. Methinks they do seem brought up to think too much of their
+Outsides, and to look on Display and Show as the Business of their
+Lives, which is a silly Schooling. I did mark some of their Mothers, old
+enough to know better, bedizened like the young Beauties, but looking
+sour and glum, and plainly ill at ease in their Pride and Vanity. But it
+divert me much to compare the delicate Children with some Charity-School
+Urchins on the other Side of the Wall that did anger the Park Keeper by
+mocking him. I doubt me that the young Leatherbreeches be not the
+happier as long as they can get a Bellyful of Victuals. The Company
+doubtless enjoying themselves after their Fashion, but in general
+looking marvellous grave; and strange to shut my Eyes between the Tunes
+and to hear Nothing but the Rustling of Dresses and a Murmur of Voices
+as they did walk up and down. It is wonderful how we English do go
+through our Amusements after the Manner of a solemn Ceremony. Yet do the
+people of Fashion in Kensington Gardens make an exceeding rare Show; and
+I do only wish that there were no Reverse of the Picture to be seen
+among us. But their Finery do afford Employment to Work-People, and I do
+thank them for parading themselves for my Amusement, and the Officers of
+the Guards for treating the Town to Musique, and so giving Occasion to
+such a fine Spectacle.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _HYGHEST COURT OF LAW IN YE KYNGDOM. YE LORDS HEARYNG
+APPEALS._
+
+                                             THURSDAY, _June 7, 1849_.]
+
+
+Up, and to the House of Lords, where a Committee of Privileges touching
+a disputed Peerage, but I did only go for a Sight of the Inside of the
+House, well worth seeing; and the Carving, and Gilding, and Blazoning, a
+rich Feast to the Eye. There present none but my LORD BROUGHAM and my
+LORD CAMPBELL, and three or four other Lords, but a smaller Muster do
+often serve for a Court of Appeal; for their Lordships do trust all
+their Law Business to the Law-Lords' Hands. Counsel speaking at the Bar
+of the House, and the Clerks of the House before them at the Table, all
+in their Wigs very stately, but my Lords lolling on the Benches, free
+and easy, they only having the Right to make themselves at Home, yet
+droll to see the Officers of the House forced to stand, but some of them
+leaning against the Stems of the gilt Candlesticks, fast asleep on their
+Legs. Did think I should go to sleep too, if I stayed much longer, and
+about to depart; but glad I did not; for presently the Counsel made an
+End, and then my LORD BROUGHAM examining a Witness was almost the best
+Sport that I ever had in my Life. The Witness, one of the Attornies for
+the Claimant of the Title, and LORD BROUGHAM suspecting some Trickery in
+the Case, and good Lack! how he did bait and ferret him to draw it out,
+asking the most peremptory Questions, and sometimes a second before the
+first could be answered, firking with Impatience like one smarting with
+Stinging Nettles: which was great Mirth. It did well-nigh cause me to
+laugh outright, and commit a Breach of Privilege, to hear him in a Fume,
+echo the Witness's Answers, and cry Eh? What! How! Why? and Wherefore?
+and demand how he could do this, or came not to do the other, and how
+was that, and so forth, and then set his Memory right, next made a short
+Speech, then give a little Evidence of his own, and again go back to the
+Examination. It seemed that the Pretender to the Peerage had been helped
+with Money to maintain his Suit by certain Persons, and my Lord did
+strive to worm out of the Lawyer their End therein: but to no Purpose;
+for he had met with his Match; so forced to content himself with a Quip
+on the Chances of the Witness's Client. Then another Witness examined; a
+Chirurgeon, whom LORD BROUGHAM did make merry with for his jolly
+good-natured Looks, and did jest upon concerning his Vocation: and the
+other did bandy Jokes with my Lord, and gave him as good as he brought.
+Methinks such Bantering is strange of a Peer, and one that hath been
+Lord Chancellor and used to sit on the Woolsack, or anywhere else but
+the Box of an Omnibus. But strange, how sober a Speech in summing up the
+Evidence my Lord did make after all; and no Doubt he can be reasonable
+and quiet when he pleases. Save a few words from LORD CAMPBELL, not a
+Syllable spoke but my LORD BROUGHAM; wherefore methinks he must have
+been thoroughly happy, having had nigh all the Talk to himself. But the
+highest Court of Law in the Realm numbering so few, put me much in mind
+of the Army in _Bombastes Furioso_.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _THE FLOWER SHOWE AT CHYSYK GARDENS._
+
+                                             SATURDAY, _June 9, 1849_.]
+
+
+My Wife holding me to my Promise to take her to the Chiswick Flower
+Show, and I could not break it; for certainly the poor Wretch do drudge
+in the House like a Slave; and so often as I go out for Pleasure myself,
+methinks it were well to give her a Treat now and then, to ease my
+Conscience, and keep her quiet also. So took her, though our two Tickets
+together came to 10s., and we thither in an Omnibus, and the Fare
+doubled on the Occasion, instead of 1s. cost me 2s. more, which made me
+mad. A rare Sight, nigh the Gardens, to look out on the Line of
+Carriages behind us, and methought how mean and paltry it seemed to be
+riding in an Omnibus; and was in some Trouble lest any of our
+acquaintance should be in the Carriages, and see us 'light. At the
+Passage to the Gardens beset by Fellows with Shoe-Brushes and
+Clothes-Brushes, importunate to brush my Coat and Boots, that were clean
+enough, but only to earn 4d. or 6d. Our Tickets delivered, and we into
+the Grounds with a Stream of Company, and followed them and our Ears to
+a Band of Musique, the Horse Guards playing hard by a Grove of
+Rhododendrons in full Bloom, and a Mob of Beauties round about them more
+blooming still. Heard a Medley-Piece of Scraps of most of the Operas
+that I knew; which was better Musique than I expected. Then to the
+Tents, where the Prize-Flowers are shown, on high Stands as long as a
+moderate-sized Barn: and there a pretty Display of Orchids, Azaleas,
+Cactuses, Pelargoniums, and Heaths, very rare and curious, and a few
+choice Roses; but I expected to see Roses as big as Cabbages. Many of
+the Flowers finely variegated, and giving forth a Perfume sweeter than
+ATKINSON his shop. Strange how to some of the Pelargoniums were given
+the names of GRISI, ALBONI, MARIO, and other Opera Singers: and MR.
+WAGSTAFFE do say it is Musique in a Flower-Pot. After seeing the
+Flowers, to stroll about the Walks and among the Trees, and view the
+Flowers without Stalks, which I do admire most of all, and a brave show
+they were, drest out in their gayest, and smiling as if resolved to look
+as pretty as they could; and looking all the brighter for the Sun
+shining without a Cloud to be seen: whereby out of Pain for my Wife's
+pink Bonnet, which, if spoiled by the Rain usual at this Show, had been
+L2, 2s. gone. The Bands from Time to Time beat a March about the Garden;
+when to see the fine Ladies and Gentlemen follow at the Soldiers' Heels,
+natural as ragged Street-Children! At last all played together, and
+ended with _God Save the Queen_; when the Flowers wheeled away. But the
+Company remaining, some sitting on Benches to make a Lane, and the Rest
+of the Multitude walking up and down to be seen, and the Beauties
+showing off their Graces, which I did inspect from Head to Foot. My Wife
+beginning to admire a certain Satin; so knowing what this signified,
+away, and home to a Leg of Mutton; thinking of the State of the Nation,
+which should not be so mighty gloomy to judge of it by Chiswick Flower
+Show, and wondering how much all the Finery there cost, and where all
+the Money could have come from.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _"SOCYETYE" ENJOYINGE ITSELFE AT A SOYREE._
+
+                                              FRIDAY, _June 15, 1849_.]
+
+
+After a Dinner off Bubble and Squeak, my Wife and I to my LORD
+WILKINSON'S At Home, by invitation; though Heaven knows if ever I set
+Eyes on his Lordship in my Life or he on me; but do ascribe this Honour
+to having my Name put down in the _Court Guide_, and am glad to find the
+Consequence and Importance I have got thereby. I in my new Suit of Black
+and Silk Neckerchief, with a Fringe at the Ends, and my Wife did wear
+her Lace Dress over her pink Satin Slip, which was very handsome. Gave
+our Card to a Lackey in Yellow and Crimson Livery, with a huge
+Shoulder-knot, who did shout out our Name, which, passing along a Row of
+his Fellows lining the Stairs, was by the Time it reached the
+Drawing-Room changed to PIPPINS--but no matter; and so we were presented
+to my Lord and my Lady. So on in the Crowd; for my Lord's Drawing-Room
+as thronged as the Opera Pit Entrance on a Thursday Night. Methought
+surely there was Something worth seeing and hearing; but saw nothing
+extraordinary beyond the Multitude of Company, and divers Writers,
+Painters, and other Persons of Note, elbowing their Way through the
+Press; nor heard anything but Puffing and Gasping, and complaining of
+the terrible Heat. Several Ladies fainting; and my Wife declaring she
+feared she should faint too, which made me mad; for it is always the Way
+with Women at Spectacles and Assemblies, and yet they needs must and
+will go to them. At some Distance before us, a Bustle and Stir, and in
+the midst of it a Lackey with a Tray, whereon were Ices--the People
+struggling for them; and I also strove to get one for my Wife; but the
+Attempt vain, and we borne clear away by the Current to the other side
+of the Room. Some young Beauties there, whom to have looked upon at my
+Ease, and they at theirs, would have been a great delight; but they in
+such Discomfort, that it quite spoilt their Prettiness, which was
+pitiful. We met DR. DABBES the great Chemist, with whom some pretty
+Discourse concerning the Air of crowded Rooms, which he said do contain
+a Gas called Carbonic Acid, and is poisonous, and we were now breathing
+too much per Cent. of it, which did trouble me. To think what Delight
+fashionable Folks can take in crowding together, to the Danger of
+Health, a Set of People, for the most Part, Strangers both to them and
+to one another! Away early; for we could endure the Stifling no longer:
+and good Lack, what a Relief to get into the open Air! My white Kid
+Gloves soiled, cost me 3s. 6d.; but am thankful I carried with me my
+Spring Hat, which do shut up; and did chuckle to see how many others got
+their Hats crushed. Home in a Cab, and on the Way bought a Lobster,
+whereunto my Wife would have me add a Bottle of Stout, which did think a
+good Notion; cost me together 3s. 6d., and the Cab 2s. 6d. more, and
+then to Supper; mighty proud that I had been invited by my Lord, though
+utterly tired with his Party, and so with great Satisfaction, but much
+Weariness, to Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A VIEW OF MR. LORDE HYS CRYKET GROUNDE._
+
+                                              MONDAY, _June 18, 1849_.]
+
+
+This Day a great Cricket Match, Surrey against England, at LORD'S, and I
+thither, all the Way to St. John's Wood, to see the Place, having often
+heard Talk of it, and the Playing, which MR. LONGSTOPPE did tell me was
+a pretty Sight. Paid 6d. to be let in, and 2d. for a Card of the
+Innings, and bought a little Book of the Laws of the Game, cost me 1s.
+6d. more, though when I had got it, could hardly understand a Word of
+it; but to think how much Money I spend out of Curiosity, and how
+inquisitive I am, so as to be vexed to the Heart if I cannot thoroughly
+make out every Thing I see! The Cricketing I believe very fine; but
+could not judge of it; for I think I did never before see any Cricket
+since I was a little Varlet Boy at School. But what a Difference between
+the Manner of Bowling in those Days, and that Players now use! for then
+they did moderately trundle the Ball under-hand; but now they fling it
+over-handed from the Elbow, as though viciously, and it flies like a
+Shot, being at least Five Ounces and a Half in Weight, and hard as a
+Block. I saw it strike one of the Batmen on the Knuckles, who Danced and
+shook his Fist, as methought well he might. But to see how handy some
+did catch it, though knocked off the Bat by a strong Man with all his
+Force; albeit now and then they missing it, and struck by it on the
+Head, or in the Mouth, and how any one can learn to play Cricket without
+losing his front Teeth is a Wonder. The Spectators sitting on Benches in
+a Circle, at a Distance, and out of the Way of the Ball, which was wise;
+but some on a raised Stand, and others aside at Tables, under a Row of
+Trees near a Tavern within the Grounds, with Pipes and Beer; and many in
+the Circle also Smoking and Drinking, and the Drawers continually going
+the Round of them to serve them Liquor and Tobacco. But all as quiet as
+a Quaker's Meeting, except when a good Hit made, or a Player bowled out,
+and strange to see how grave and solemn they looked, as if the Sight of
+Men in white Clothes, knocking a Ball about, were Something serious to
+think on. Did hear that many had Wagers on the Game, but doubt it, for
+methinks there had been more Liveliness if much Betting, and Chance of
+winning or losing Money. The Company very numerous, and among them some
+in Carriages, and was glad to see so many People diverted, although at
+what I could not tell. But they enjoyed themselves in their Way,
+whatever that was, and I in mine, thinking how droll they looked, so
+earnestly attending to a mere Show of Dexterity. I, for my Part, soon
+out of Patience with the Length of the Innings, and the Stopping and
+Interruption after each Run, and so away, more tired, I am sure, than
+any of the Cricketers. Yet I do take Pride, as an Englishman, in our
+Country Sport of Cricket, albeit I do not care to watch it playing; and
+certainly it is a manly Game, throwing open the Chest, and strengthening
+the Limbs, and the Player so often in Danger of being hit by the Ball.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A RAYLWAYE MEETYNGE. EMOTYON OF YE SHAREHOLDERES AT YE
+ANNOUNCEMENTE OF A DIVIDENDE OF 2-1/2d._
+
+                                               MONDAY, _July 2, 1849_.]
+
+
+Comes MR. STAGGE to take me to the great Railway Meeting at a London
+Tavern; and we up the Back Stairs to the Platform among the Directors,
+and glad of so good a Place; but fearing to be taken for one of my
+Company, did get behind a fat Man to hide myself. The Shareholders below
+met to hear their Affairs debated, and what a Collection of wry and
+doleful Faces! Methought the poor anxious Parsons and eager Half-pay
+Officers among them was a pitiful Sight. Looked hard about for the
+Railway King, but MR. STAGGE did say in my Ear he was not likely to show
+his Face. The Secretary reading Bills to be brought into the Parliament
+to join other Railways with this, and all the while interrupted by the
+Shareholders with Noise and Outcries; but at last got through. Then the
+Chairman did propose that the Bills be approved of; but an Amendment
+moved with much Clapping of Hands that the Meeting do adjourn for one
+Month to examine the Company's Accounts; which they do say have been
+cooked. Upon this a long Speech from a Director, denying that it was so,
+and One made answer to him in a bouncing, ranting Harangue; but to hear
+how the Shareholders did shout and cheer whenever he accused the Board
+of a Piece of Roguery! He complained that Proxy Papers had been sent out
+by some for Votes, whereby to gain their own Ends, at L900 Expense to
+the Company; whereat more Uproar, in the midst whereof he moved another
+Amendment; when the Noise greater than ever, with Groans and calling for
+Dividends; and several in the Meeting strove to speak, but could only
+wag their Jaws and shake their Fists at the Chairman, and he imploring
+Quiet in Dumb Show. Howbeit, one old Gentleman got Attention for a
+Moment, and in great Wrath and Choler did declare that the Directors'
+Statement was all Humbug. Then Another, with much ado to get a Hearing,
+did move a third Amendment: and after that, more Wrangling and Jangling,
+until the only Man of any Brains I had yet heard, up and showed the
+folly of moving Amendment on Amendment. So the first and last Amendment
+withdrawn, and the second put to the Vote, and lost, and then the
+Chairman's Resolution put and lost also, and the Shareholders hooting
+and hissing, and shouting "Shame!" and crying that they could not
+understand the Question. So the Amendment and former Resolution both put
+over again, and both again lost; whereupon the Shareholders stark mad,
+and rushed in a Mob on the Platform, raving at the Chairman, who jumped
+up in his Chair, throwing his Arms abroad, and shrieking for Silence;
+till at last a Poll determined on to decide whether for Adjournment or
+not; and so the Meeting brought to an End in as great a Hurly-Burly as I
+ever heard; and a pretty Chairman methinks they have to keep Order, and
+brave Directors to cook their Accounts, and their Meetings do seem as
+confused as their Affairs; and thank my Stars, I have not sunk my Money
+in a Railway.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PROSPECT OF YE THAMES ITS REGATTA._
+
+                                             TUESDAY, _July 10, 1849_.]
+
+
+Sent my Vest to the Tailor's to be let out in the Back, and my Wife and
+every Body say I grow too stout, which do put me in mighty Pain lest I
+should lose my Shape; wherefore I have resolved to take a long Walk
+daily, for Exercise, to bring down my Fat. So begin this Day, and set
+out to walk to Barn-Elms, by the way of Hammersmith, on a brave melting
+Afternoon. I did muse at the Carriages and Omnibuses that passed me,
+crowded both inside and on the Roof, and the People upon them whooping
+and blowing Horns, as the British Public always do when they ride to see
+any Sport. At Hammersmith found what all this meant, everyone there
+hastening to the River, this being the first Day of the Thames Regatta,
+and the Suspension-Bridge thronged, and Festoons of Spectators on the
+Chains. Did go upon the Bridge, cost me 1/2d. toll, but would not have
+missed the Sight for 6d. or 1s.; for the Thames with Boats scattered all
+over it, their Flags fluttering, and their Crews shouting and laughing
+full of Fun and Glee, made a lively Picture; and also I was just in the
+Nick of Time to see a Race; four Boats of as many Oars darting under the
+Bridge at full Speed, while the Beholders cheered and halloaed with all
+their Might, and a Bell rung, and a Band of Musique upon the Bridge Pier
+did play "Love Not." Good Lack! how wrapped up the People did seem to be
+in the Race, and did now cry for Blue to go it; and then Red, and then
+Pink, and at last that Red had it, meaning the Colours of the Rowers,
+which indeed looked very smart and spruce. Over the Bridge, and, instead
+of to Barnes, down the River, along the Towing Path, which was also
+thronged with Folks running to and fro, all Eagerness and Bustle. So to
+Putney, and there the Multitude greatest both on the Bridge and the
+Shore, and FINCH his Ground to the Water-Side quite a Fair, with Fat
+Ladies and Learned Pigs and Gilt Gingerbread; and his Tavern beset by
+Customers for Ale, and mighty good Ale it is. Here more Boat-Racing,
+with Firing of Cannon, Jollity, Shouting, Jangling of Street Pianos, and
+everywhere Tobacco-Smoke and the Popping of Ginger-Beer. Some fouling of
+Barges, but no worse Mishap, though I expected every moment that
+Somebody would be ducked. Methought how neat and dainty the light
+Wherries and Wager-Boats did look among the other Craft; but loth I
+should be to trust my Carcase in a Cockle-Shell, that sitting an Inch
+too much on one side would overthrow. Mighty pleasant also to behold on
+the Water the little Parties of Beauties, rowed by their Sweethearts,
+under Awnings to shade them from the Sun, and the Ripple on the Water,
+and the Smiles on their Faces, and to hear their Giggling, which was a
+pretty Noise. Afloat everywhere in their Boating-Trim I did note sundry
+of those young Sparks that do and think and talk of Nothing but pulling
+up the River, and live upon it almost, like Swans or Geese. But,
+however, that Boat-Racing is a true British Pastime, and so long as we
+pull together he will back us against all the World. "And talking of
+that," says he, "the Sport being ended, suppose we take a pull at some
+of FINCH his Ale."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A RAYLWAY STATYON. SHOWYNGE YE TRAVELLERS REFRESHYNGE
+THEMSELVES._
+
+                                             TUESDAY, _July 31, 1849_.]
+
+
+Prevailed upon by my Wife to carry her to Bath, as she said, to go see
+her Aunt DOROTHY, but I know she looked more to the Pleasure of her Trip
+than any Thing else; nevertheless I do think it necessary Policy to keep
+in with her Aunt, who is an old Maid and hath a pretty Fortune; and to
+see what Court and Attention I pay her though I do not care 2d. about
+her! But am mightily troubled to know whether she hath sunk her Money in
+an Annuity, which makes me somewhat uneasy at the Charge of our Journey,
+for what with Fare, Cab-Hire, and Vails to DOROTHY'S Servants for their
+good Word, it did cost me altogether L6, 2s. 6d. To the Great Western
+Station in a Cab, by Reason of our Luggage; for my Wife must needs take
+so many Trunks and Bandboxes, as is always the Way with Women: or else
+we might have gone there for 2s. 6d. less in an Omnibus. Did take our
+places in the First Class notwithstanding the Expense, preferring both
+the Seats and the Company; and also because if any Necks or Limbs are
+broken I note it is generally in the Second and Third Classes. So we
+settled, and the Carriage-Doors slammed to, and the Bell rung, the Train
+with a Whistle off like a Shot, and in the Carriage with me and my Wife
+a mighty pretty Lady, a Frenchwoman, and I did begin to talk French with
+her, which my Wife do not well understand, and by and by did find the
+Air too much for her where she was sitting, and would come and take her
+Seat between us; I know, on Purpose. So fell a reading the _Times_, till
+One got in at Hanwell who seemed to be a Physician, and mighty pretty
+Discourse with him touching the Manner of treating Madmen and Lunatics,
+which is now by gentle Management, and is a great Improvement on the old
+Plan of Chains and the Whip. Also of the Foulness of London for Want of
+fit Drainage, and how it do breed Cholera and Typhus, as sure as rotten
+Cheese do Mites, and of the horrid Folly of making a great Gutter of the
+River. So to Swindon Station, where the Train do stop ten Minutes for
+Refreshment, and there my Wife hungry, and I too with a good Appetite,
+notwithstanding the Discourse about London Filth. So we out, and to the
+Refreshment-Room with a Crowd of Passengers, all pushing and jostling,
+and trampling on each other's Toes, striving which should get served
+first. With much Ado got a Basin of Soup for my Wife, and for myself a
+Veal and Ham Pie, and to see me looking at my Watch, and taking a
+Mouthful by Turns; and how I did gulp a Glass of GUINNESS his Stout!
+Before we had half finished, the Guard rang the Bell, and my Wife with a
+start did spill her Soup over her Dress, and was obliged to leave Half
+of it; and to think how ridiculous I looked, scampering back to the
+Train with my Meat-Pie in my Mouth! To run hurry-skurry at the Sound of
+the Bell, do seem only fit for a Gang of Workmen; and the Bustle of
+Railways do destroy all the Dignity of Travelling; but the World
+altogether is less grand, and do go faster than formerly. Off again, and
+to the End of our Journey, troubled at the Soup on my Wife's Dress, but
+thankful I had got my Change, and not left it behind me at the Swindon
+Station.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE BRYTYSH GRANADIERS AMOUNTYNGE GUARD AT ST. JAMES HYS
+PALACE YARDE._
+
+                                          WEDNESDAY, _August 1, 1849_.]
+
+
+Up mighty betimes, and after a four Miles' Walk, losing Weight like a
+Jockey, to the Palace Yard of St. James's Palace, to see the Soldiers
+mount Guard to guard the QUEEN, which they do every Morning whether she
+is there or no, and is a pretty pompous Ceremony. Found myself among as
+dirty shabby a Set of Fellows hanging about as I think I ever saw, with
+whom two or three with the Look of Gentlemen, and a pretty Sprinkling of
+Milliner-Girls and Nurse-Maids. Strange how all Women almost do run
+after Soldiers; which MR. PUMPKYNS do say is because Weakness do, by
+Instinct, seek the Protection of Courage; but I think is owing to
+nothing at all but the Bravery of a Red Coat. In a few Minutes more
+Riff-Raff pouring in; then a Noise without of drumming: and then just at
+1/4 to 11, a Party of the Grenadier Guards marching in under the
+Clock-Tower, the Drums and Fifes in Front of them, and, at the Head of
+all, the Drum Major, twirling his Staff, strutted like a Pouter-Pigeon,
+as stately, almost, as ever I saw J. BLAND. The Men at the Word of
+Command ground arms with a Clang, and stood at Ease in Lines, and
+together with the Spectators made a Square, with the Drums and Fifes at
+one End, and the Band at the other by the Clock-Tower, and a Post in the
+Middle, and around the Post, with the Colours, the Officers in full
+Figg, mighty trim; and MR. WAGSTAFFE do tell me that the Guards have
+brave clothing Colonels. The Band did play while the Men that should
+relieve Guard were marching off; and I do muse why Soldiers are provided
+with so much Musique, and conclude it is to hinder them from thinking,
+and also in Battle to inflame their Minds without making them drunk. At
+five Minutes to the Hour comes the relieved Guard, and draws up ready to
+be marched away, and to see them backing for Room on the Crowd's Toes!
+Droll, also, to watch the Marshalman, in his grand Uniform and with his
+Staff of Office, going about to make Space and keep Order among the
+ragged Boys; and I remember how, in my Youth, I thought he was a General
+Officer. More Musique, in the Meanwhile, by the Band; the Band-Master, a
+rare plump Fellow, in goodly Condition, conducting, with a Clarionet for
+his Batoon. Suddenly the Musique cut short by the Drums and Fifes, the
+Word given, and the Men did fall in, and away to Barracks, a Grand March
+playing, and all the Tag-Rag at their Heels. But to see the Lieutenant,
+the Officer of the Day, set up the Colours on the Post, and touch his
+Cap and kiss his Sword to them, saluting them, which do seem a senseless
+Pantomime. Besides, the Flag, a most old and sorry one, blown into
+Tatters, which, in our long Peace, must have been done by the Breeze and
+not the Battle; but so left, with a Grenadier to guard it, sticking in
+the Post. Then the Officer did dismiss the Off Guard, and away to his
+Quarters for the Day. Methinks that mounting Guard at the Palace is a
+Service of little Danger or Hardship; but, good Lack! to think what
+Fire-eaters in Battle are the Dandy Officers of the Guards, and how
+their Men will follow them through thick and thin, and what Work those
+Fellows can do when called on, that play Soldiers about St. James's!
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PROSPECT OF A FASHYONABLE HABERDASHER HYS SHOPE._
+
+                                            TUESDAY, _August 7, 1849_.]
+
+
+Finding Fault with my Wife, for that she do not use enough Exercise;
+whence her continual Headach, and FADDELL, the 'Potticary his bill of
+L5. She replying that I would never take her out, I said I would,
+whenever she liked; whereupon, we agreed to go a Walk forthwith, and my
+Wife did propose Regent Street. So we thither, pleasing ourselves with
+observing the Passers-by and the Carriages, and the Streets blazing with
+fine Ladies and flaming Liveries. Going by LINDSEY AND WOOLSEY'S, my
+Wife's Eye taken with a Scarf in the Window, and would stop to look at
+it with a Crowd of other Women gazing at the Finery, which MR. SKITT do
+call Baits, and a Draper's Shop a Lady-Trap. Presently she recollected
+that she wanted a Collar; so we into the Shop, where some sixty or
+eighty Ladies sitting before the Counters, examining the Wares, busy as
+Blue-Bottle Flies at a Sugar-Cask. Behind the Counters the Shopmen and
+Assistants, showing off the Goods, and themselves also, with mighty
+dainty Airs, every one of them, almost, NARCISSUS his Image. One of
+these dapper young Sirs did help my Wife to her Collar, cost 3s. 6d.;
+when she thought she had better get another while about it, cost 3s. 6d.
+more. Then, says he, in his soft condoling Voice, "What is the next
+Article?" Hereupon, my Wife bethought her of lacking some Lace Cuffs,
+four Pair: cost 12s. "And now, Mem," says the young Fellow with a
+Simper, "allow me to show you a Love of a Robe, a Barege, Double Glace,
+brocaded in the Flouncings, and reduced to Twenty-One-and-Six from
+Forty-Five." But she professed that she needed it not: whereat I was
+glad; when he did tell her he would do it at One-and-Four less: and she
+then saying that it was indeed a Bargain, which I find is a Woman's Word
+for anything cheap whether wanted or no, I let her have it: cost L1, 0s.
+2d. But, to be sure, the Pattern was pretty, and my Wife being
+well-dressed do please my Taste, and also increase my Consequence and
+Dignity. The Robe bought, it comes into her Head that she could not do
+without a new Shawl to match it, blue and scarlet, cost L2, 2s., but
+will look mighty fine, and, I hope, last. Here I thought to hale her at
+once by Force away; but seeing a stout middle-aged Gentleman doing the
+very Thing, and how mean it looked, did forbear; and in the Meanwhile
+the Shopman did beg, as he said, to tempt her with a superior Assortment
+of Ribbons. She rummaging over this Frippery, I to gaze about the Shop,
+and with Fellow-Feeling did mark an unhappy small Boy, while his Mother
+was comparing some three-score different Pieces of Satin, perched on a
+Stool, out of Patience. My Wife would have 5s. worth of Ribbons, and
+here I hoped would make an End; but the Shopman did exhibit to her some
+Silk Stockings; and I telling her they were unnecessary, she declared
+that then she must wear Boots, which she knows I hate; and concluded
+with buying half a Dozen Pair, cost 24s.; and we away, bowed out of the
+Shop with Congees by the smirking Shopwalker, rubbing his Hands and
+grinning, as obsequious as could be; and so Home; I mighty serious,
+having laid out L5, 10s. 2d.; and the next Time I take out my Wife for a
+Walk, it shall be in the Fields and not in Regent Street.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _REGENTE STRETE AT FOUR OF YE CLOCKE, P.M._
+
+                                          THURSDAY, _August 16, 1849_.]
+
+
+This Afternoon about Four of the Clock to Regent Street, and did walk up
+and down, among the fine Folk mostly, many Foreigners, and a few Street
+Urchins, and others of the lower Sort, and note the Carriages stand in
+Front of the Shops, and the Walking Advertisement Boys and Men, and the
+Cabs and Omnibuses go by, and the Advertising Vans, and mighty fine and
+droll the Monster Advertising Car of MOSES AND SON the Tailors. In the
+Evening to the Queen's House in the Haymarket, to hear MOZART his famous
+Opera "_Le Nozze di Figaro_" and SONTAG in _Susanna_, which she do act
+mighty skittish, and with the prettiest sidelong Looks, but the most
+graceful and like a Lady, and do trip the Stage the daintiest and make
+the nicest Curtsies, and sing the sweetest that methinks I ever did hear
+or see: and to think that MR. VIEUXBOYS should tell me she do it as well
+now as he did see her twenty Years ago! Pretty, to hear her sing
+"_Venite inginocchiatevi_," where she do make _Cherubino_ kneel down on
+the Cushion before the _Countess_, and put him on a Girl's Cap, and pat
+his Chin and Face. Also her singing of "_Sull' Aria_" with PARODI, the
+_Countess_, and the mingling of their Voices very musicall. Likewise
+that jolly blooming she-BACCHUS-ALBONI, _Cherubino_, with her passionate
+fine singing of "_Non so piu_" and "_Voi che sapete_," did delight me
+much; and she did play a stripling of a Page in Love to the very Life.
+BELLETTI did mightily take me with his Knaveries, in _Figaro_, and
+singing of "_Non piu andrai_," which is a most lively and martial Song;
+and the Grand March very brave as well, and did make my Heart leap, and
+me almost jump out of my Seat. COLLETTI, too, the _Count_, did content
+me much, and to the utmost with "_Crudel! perche finora_." But then to
+hear LABLACHE, what a great Thing he do make out of so small a Part as
+_Bartolo_, with his Voice in the Concert-Pieces heard above all the
+Rest, and thundering out "_La Vendetta_," like a musicall STENTOR; and
+his undertaking of little Characters to make an Opera perfect is very
+magnanimous; and MR. WAGSTAFFE do well say that he "_Ingentes Animos
+ingenti in Pectore versat_," and have as much Brains as Body. Mighty
+droll to hear the Quartett, with each Singer in turn holding the Voice
+on the word "_Io_," called for three Times, and the Singers each Time
+spinning "_Io_" out longer, whereat great Laughter; and the Performers
+laughing as much as the Audience. Wonderfull how still all the House was
+while SONTAG was a singing of "_Deh! vieni non tardar_," and the
+_Bravas_ and Clapping of Hands when she had ended; and to hear how she
+did stick to the Text, and not, like a vulgar silly _Prima Donna_,
+disfigure noble Musique by ridiculous Flourishes. Home to Supper, it
+being late, though, walking up the Haymarket, did sorely long for stewed
+Oysters. Telling my Wife of the Opera, did speak of _Susanna_ boxing
+_Figaro_ his Ears, and let out that I could have been glad to have her
+box mine too, which my Wife did say she could do as well if I pleased;
+but I said I had rather not, and so, whistling "_Non piu andrai_,"
+rather small to Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _BLACKWALL. SHOWYNGE YE PUBLICK A DINYNGE ON WHYTEBAIT._
+
+                                          SATURDAY, _August 18, 1849_.]
+
+
+Comes MR. GOLLOPE, this being his Birth-day, to bid me to go dine with
+him and a Company of some Half-dozen of our Acquaintance, off Whitebait
+at Blackwall. So we first to London Bridge, on Foot, walking for an
+Appetite, and there took Water, and down the River in a Steam-Boat, with
+great Pleasure, enjoying the Breeze, and the View of the Shipping, and
+also the Prospect of a good Dinner. Landed at the Pier, and as fast as
+we could to LOVEGROVE'S, where our Table engaged in the large Room. But
+good Lack! to see the Fulness of the Place, every Table almost crowded
+with eager Eaters, the Heaps of Whitebait among them, and they with open
+Mouths and Eyes shovelling Spoonful after Spoonful into their Plates and
+thence thrusting them five or six at a Time into their Chaps. Then, here
+and there, a fat Fellow, stopping, out of Breath, to put down his Knife
+and Fork, and gulp a Goblet of iced Punch, was mighty droll; also to
+hear others speaking with their Mouths full. But Dinner coming, I cared
+not to look about me, there being on Table some dozen different Dishes
+of Fish, whereof the Sight did at first bewilder me, like the Donkey
+between the Haystacks, not knowing which to choose; and MR. GOBLESTONE
+do lament that at a Feast with Plenty of good Things he never was able
+to eat his Fill of every one. A Dish of Salmon with India-Pickle did
+please me mightily, also some Eels, spitchcocked, and a stewed Carp, and
+ate heartily of them with much Relish; but did only nibble at the Rest
+by way of a Taste, for I felt exceeding full, and methought I should
+have no Stomach for the Whitebait. But Lack! to see when it came, how my
+Appetite returned, and I did fall to upon it, and drink iced Punch, and
+then at the Whitebait again. Pretty, the little Slices of brown Bread
+and Butter, they did bring us to eat it withal, and truly, with a
+Squeeze of Lemon and Cayenne Pepper, it is delicate Eating. After the
+Whitebait plain, Whitebait devilled made us to eat the more, and drink
+too, which we did in Champagne and Hock, pledging each other with great
+Mirth. After the Fish comes a Course of Ducks, and a Haunch of Mutton,
+and divers made Dishes; and then Tarts and Custards and Grouse; and
+lastly, a Dessert, and I did partake of all, as much as I had a Mind to,
+and after Dinner drank Port and Claret, when much Joking and rare
+Stories, and very merry we were. Pretty to look out of Window as we sat,
+at the Craft and the White Sails in the Sunset on the River. Back in a
+Railway Carriage, shouting and singing, and in a Cab Home, where DR.
+SHARPE called to see my Wife for her Vapours. Pretty Discourse with him
+touching the Epidemic, he telling me that of all Things to bring it on
+the likeliest was Excess in Food and Drink, which did trouble me, and so
+with a Draught of Soda and a Dose of Pills to Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE SPORT OF PUNTE FYSHYNGE OFF RYCHMONDE._
+
+                                         WEDNESDAY, _August 22, 1849_.]
+
+
+This Day to Richmond, to go a Fishing on the River, and with me MR.
+ITCHENBROOKE, out of Hampshire, a cunning Angler, who did mightily
+desire to see what this Sport should be. So first we out in a Boat below
+Richmond Bridge, where a Dozen or more of Punts full of People a
+Fishing, and rowed among them to observe the Manner of doing it, which
+is sinking with a Gentle, sitting upon Chairs, and smoking Cigars and
+Pipes of Tobacco, and drinking cold Brandy and Water. We did note one
+young Spark lying at full Length, in a Punt's End, asleep, and did
+conclude he had had enough of the Fishing, or else of the Grog. Some
+very silent, and bent on their Sport, but others bandying Fun and Jokes,
+and shouting for Joy and Merriment whenever they caught a Fish, which
+MR. ITCHENBROOKE do say is not the Wont of a Sportsman. Among the
+Fishers I did note with Wonder one or two Damsels; but MR. WAGSTAFFE do
+say it is a common Thing for Ladies to fish for Gudgeons. Several of
+them also quite old Men; but seeming as much taken up with their Fishing
+as Schoolboys, though catching Nothing but little Fish not a Span long.
+So, satisfied with looking at the Sportsmen, we to try the Quality of
+the Sport ourselves, and did hire a Punt, and Fishing Tackle, and a Man
+to guide the Punt, and bait our Hooks, and did take on board a
+Stone-Bottle of Half-and-Half Beer, to follow the Fashion. Pretty, to
+see our Man sound the Depth of the River with a Plumb, to resolve
+whereabouts on our Lines to place the Float, and glad to have him to put
+the Bait on, being Gentles, which I was loath to touch. Our Hooks no
+sooner dropped into the Water than MR. ITCHENBROOKE did pull up a Fish
+about the Bigness of a Sprat, though, but for the Punt-Man, he would
+have thrown it in again, saying that he never heard of keeping any Fish
+under Half-a-Pound, and that while such small Fry were killed there
+would be no good Fish in the River. But Lack! to see how my Float did
+bob up and down, and I jerk at my Line, but generally bring up a Weed.
+Did marvel at the Punt-Man flinging Lumps of Earth and Meal into the
+Water to entice the Fish, which methought would either have driven them
+away or surfeited them, but did not, and the Trick did much divert MR.
+ITCHENBROOKE. We did catch Roach and Dace to the Number of fifteen,
+which my Companion did call seven Brace-and-a-Half; and I caught the
+Half: I mean the Half Brace. Our Fishing did last two Hours, cost 3s.,
+and 6d. besides for the Beer, but we had much mirth for our Time and
+Money, though little Fish, and yet more Fish than some our Man did show
+us, saying they had been at it all the Day. So to Dinner at the Star and
+Garter, where a most brave Dinner and excellent Wine, and pretty
+Discourse with MR. ITCHENBROOKE of true Sport in Fishing and the Art of
+Whipping for Trout with an Imitation Fly, made out of coloured Silk
+Thread and Birds' Feathers. Our Dinner ended, cost me L1, 9s. 0d., went
+and bought 6d. worth of Maids of Honour at the Pastrycook's, and did
+take them Home to my Wife.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _TRYCKS OF YE LONDON TRADE._
+
+                                         TUESDAY, _September 4, 1849_.]
+
+
+With my Wife this Day to Westminster, and walking thereabouts in
+Regent-Street and Oxford-Street, and the principal Streets, though
+contrary to my Resolution to walk with her only in the Fields, but did
+it to please her, and keep her in good Humour, but in mighty Fear of
+what it might cost me, trembling to observe her continually looking
+askance at the Shop-Windows. But I cannot wonder that they did catch her
+Eye; particularly the Haberdashers, and Drapers, and Mercers, whereof
+many were full of Bills, stuck in all Manner of Ways across the Panes,
+and printed in Letters of from two Inches to a Span long, and staring
+Dashes of Admiration two and three together. In one Window posted a
+"Tremendous Sacrifice!" in another an "Alarming Failure!!" in a third a
+"Ruinous Bankruptcy!!!", by reason whereof, the Goods within were
+a-selling off at 50, 60, or 70 per Cent. under prime Cost, but at any
+Rate the Owners must raise Money. Good Lack! to think of the dreadful
+Pass the Drapery Trade must have come to; so many Master-Mercers and
+Haberdashers on the Threshold of the Prison or the Workhouse, and their
+Wives and Families becoming Paupers on the Parish, or Beggars, and their
+People out of Employ starving; if their notices do tell true. But my
+Wife did say, very serious, that we were not to judge, or to know of
+their Tricks and Cozenage, and, that it was no Matter to us if they did
+cheat their Creditors, provided we could buy their Wares at a Bargain,
+and besides, if we did not, others would. So going by RAGGE, RIP & CO.,
+their Establishment, as they do call their Shop, she would needs stop in
+Front of it to look in; which did trouble me. I to read the Posters in
+the Window, which were the worst and most pitiful of any, and by their
+showing MR. RAGGE and MR. RIP, and their CO. were going altogether to
+the Dogs. My Wife did presently, as I expected, find somewhat she had a
+Mind to: a Muslin she did say was Dirt-cheap, and I knew was Dirt-worth.
+I plainly refused to let her buy it, or anything else at RAGGE and
+RIP'S, who have been, to my knowledge, making a Tremendous Sacrifice any
+Time the last two Years; but the Simpletons their Customers the only
+Victims. But I pity not a Whit such Gudgeons as are caught by these
+Tricks of the Drapery Trade; rightly served by being cheated in seeking
+to profit, as they think, by Fraud and dishonest Bankruptcy. I told my
+Wife that RAGGE and RIP do sell off at a Loss to none but those that
+deal with them, and were like at that Moment, instead of being
+Bankrupts, to be making merry at the Expense of their Dupes. But she
+being sullen at my Denial of her Muslin, I did quiet her by the Promise
+of a better Piece at FAIRCLOTH and PRYCE'S, who do carry on Business
+without rogueish Puffery, and after the old Fashion of English Traders,
+according to the Maxim, that "Good Wine needs no Bush," which my Wife,
+poor silly Wretch, not understanding, I explained to her did mean, that
+stuffs worth the buying, to find a Sale, do stand in no need of
+Haberdashers' trickish Advertisements.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _MADAME TUSSAUD HER WAX WERKES. YE CHAMBER OF HORRORS!!_
+
+                                       WEDNESDAY, _September 5, 1849_.]
+
+
+To please my Wife, did take her this Evening to MADAME TUSSAUD her Wax
+Works; a grand large Room, with Gilding, lighted up very splendid: cost
+2s., and a Catalogue 6d. The Wax Figures showy: but with their painted
+Cheeks and glassy Eyes--especially such as nod and move--do look like
+Life in Death. The Dresses very handsome, and I think correct; and the
+Sight of so many People of Note in the Array of their Time, did much
+delight me. Among the Company Numbers of Country Folk, and to see how
+they did stare at the Effigies of the QUEEN, and the PRINCE, and the
+DUKE OF WELLINGTON, and the KING OF THE BELGIANS, and the PRINCESS
+CHARLOTTE that was, and GEORGE THE FOURTH in his Coronation Robes, grand
+as a Peacock! The Catalogue do say that his Chair is the very one
+wherein he sat in the Abbey; but it look like a Play-House Property, and
+little thought the King where it would come down to figure! A Crowd of
+Dames gazing at the Group of the Royal Family, calling the Children
+"Dears" and "Ducks," and would, I verily believe, have liked to kiss
+their Wax Chaps. My Wife feasted her Eyes on the little Princes and
+Princesses, I mine upon a pretty, modest, black Maid beside me, and she
+hers on me, till my Wife spying us, did pinch me with her Nails in the
+Arm. Pretty, to see the Sovereign Allies in the last War, and bluff old
+BLUCHER, and BONAPARTE and his Officers, in brave Postures, but stiff.
+Also the two KING CHARLESES, and OLIVER, together; CHARLES THE FIRST
+protesting against his Death-Warrant, and his Son Backing him; and
+CARDINAL WOLSEY looking on. LORD BYRON in the Dress of a Greek Pirate,
+looking Daggers and Pistols, close to JOHN WESLEY preaching a Sermon;
+and methought, if all MADAME TUSSAUD'S Figures were their Originals
+instead, what Ado there would be! Many of the Faces that I knew very
+like; and my LORD BROUGHAM I did know directly, and LISTON in _Paul
+Pry_. But strange, among the Kings to see him that was the Railway King;
+and methinks that it were as well now if he were melted up. Thence to
+the NAPOLEON Rooms, where BONAPARTE'S Coach, and one of his Teeth, and
+other Reliques and Gimcracks of his, well enough to see for such as care
+about him a Button. Then to the Chamber of Horrors, which my Wife did
+long to see most of all; cost, with the NAPOLEON Rooms, 1s. more; a Room
+like a Dungeon, where the Head of ROBESPIERRE, and other Scoundrels of
+the great French Revolution, in Wax, as though just cut off, horrid
+ghastly, and Plaster Casts of Fellows that have been hanged: but the
+chief attraction a Sort of Dock, wherein all the notorious Murderers of
+late Years; the foremost of all, RUSH, according to the Bill, taken from
+Life at Norwich, which, seeing he was hanged there, is an odd Phrase.
+Methinks it is of ill Consequence that there should be a Murderers'
+Corner, wherein a Villain may look to have his Figure put more certainly
+than a Poet can to a Statue in the Abbey. So away again to the large
+Room, to look at JENNY LIND instead of GREENACRE, and at 10 of the Clock
+Home, and so to Bed, my Wife declaring she should dream of the Chamber
+of Horrors.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _DEERE STALKYNGE IN YE HYGHLANDES._
+
+                                         MONDAY, _September 17, 1849_.]
+
+
+Comes MR. GOLLOPE, and MR. GOBLESTONE, and JENKYNS, to dine with me off
+a Haunch of Venison, and MR. MC. NAB calling, I did make him stay Dinner
+too, and the Venison very fat and good; and MR. GOLLOPE did commend my
+Carving, whereof I was proud. Between them a Debate over our Dinner, as
+to whether the Red Deer or the Fallow Deer were the better Venison, and
+both MR. GOLLOPE and MR. GOBLESTONE do say the Fallow, but MR. MC. NAB
+will have it that the Red is by far the better, and do tell them they
+know nothing about the Matter, and never tasted Red Deer but such as had
+been mewed up in Richmond Park, which are mighty different from them
+that do browse in the Highlands on the Heather. He do say that Highland
+Deer-Stalking do excel every other Sport, from Tiger-Hunting to
+Fox-Hunting, which I mean to repeat to MR. CORDUROYS to make him mad.
+Then he to describe the Manner of Stalking the Deer, and his Account
+thereof mighty taking, but, with his broad Scottish Accent and Phrases,
+droll; and good Lack, to hear him talk of Braes, and Burns, and Cairns,
+and Corries, rattling the R in every Word! He says that the Deer are the
+cunningest and the watchfullest, and can see, and hear, and smell at the
+greatest Distance of any Creature almost living, and do keep Spies to
+look out, and their Ears and Eyes always open and their Noses to the
+Wind, and do think and reason in their Minds like human Beings; which,
+methinks, is peculiar to the Scotch Deer. He says that the Sport is to
+fetch a Compass on them by Stratagem, so as to approach or drive them
+nigh enough to shoot them with a Rifle, and it do often take some Hours
+and several Miles, mostly crawling on the Hands and Knees, to get one
+Shot. He says that the Stalker and Hill-Keepers that wait on him must,
+to gain their Chance, dodge, stooping behind Crags, wriggle and creep
+over Flats and up Brooks like Snakes or Eels, clamber up and run down
+Precipices, and stride over Bogs, wherein they do sometimes sink plump
+up to the Middle; which should be rather Sport to the Stag than the
+Huntsman. But after all, the Deer shot dead, or wounded, and at Bay with
+the Hounds at his Throat, but despatched at last, and paunched, which he
+do call "gralloched," is such a Triumph that it do repay the Sportsman
+for all his Pains. He do say that what with the Grandeur of the
+Mountains, and the Freshness of the Air, the Spirits are raised beyond
+what we could imagine, and the Appetite also increased wonderfully;
+whereat MR. GOLLOPE did prick up his Ears. To conclude, he did declare
+that no one could know what Deer-Stalking was that had not tried it; but
+methinks I can, remembering how I used in my Youth to creep in Ditches
+and behind Hedges to shoot Larks.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PROSPECT OF AN ELECTION._
+
+                                       THURSDAY, _September 27, 1849_.]
+
+
+Up, and by Railway with MR. WAGSTAFFE to Guzzleford to my COSIN PEG her
+Wedding, and heard the Bells a ringing at 9 o'clock, the Marriage not to
+be till 11, but found they were rung for an Election; 'SQUIRE CALLOW and
+MR. FAIRPORT standing for County Members in the Room of MR. BROWNJOHN.
+So, the Wedding over, we about the Town to see the Fun. A Fellow the
+worse for Beer demanding whose Colours we wore, meaning our
+Wedding-Favours, MR. WAGSTAFFE did pleasantly answer, HYMEN'S, whereupon
+the Fellow, crying "CALLOW for ever!" did rush full at us, but, we
+parting, slip between us and tumble headlong into the Mud. Good Lack! to
+see what Numbers of Ragamuffins everywhere with their Hats awry, Noses
+bleeding, or Eyes blacked, staggering under huge Placard Boards,
+whereon, in great Letters, "CALLOW and Agriculture," or, "Vote for
+FAIRPORT and Commerce!" The Windows and Balconies full of Ladies, some
+pretty, to whom in my Wife's Absence I did kiss my Hand. But to think
+of the Ladies wearing the Colours of the Candidates, Blue and Yellow,
+but only for an Excuse to deck themselves out with Ribbons! In the
+Streets, Horsemen galloping to and fro, to tell the State of the Polls,
+and the Mob cheering and bantering them, mighty droll. 'SQUIRE CALLOW
+did put up at the Barley-Mow, and MR. FAIRPORT at the Rising Sun, and
+between the two Inns, with a few plump rosy Farmers in Top-Boots, was a
+noisy Rabble, quarrelling and fighting, with Skins unwashed, and unshorn
+Muzzles, whom the Candidates' Committee-Men, speaking to them from the
+Windows, did call Free and Independent Electors. To some that harangued
+them, the Mob did cry, "Go Home," and "Who cheated his Washerwoman?" or,
+"How about the Workhouse Beef?" yet listened to a few that were familiar
+and cracked old Jokes with them. Presently they addressed by the
+Candidates in Turn; and nasty to see them pelt each Speaker with stale
+Eggs. But to hear, as well as might be for the Shouting and Hissing,
+'SQUIRE CALLOW promising the Farmers to restore the Corn Laws, and
+laying the Potato Blight and late Sickness to Free Trade; while MR.
+FAIRPORT did as loudly charge all the Woes and Grievances of the Country
+on the Landlords. By-and-by, MR. FAIRPORT, the Poll going so much
+against him, did give in, and then 'SQUIRE CALLOW come forward, and make
+a brave Speech about our Glorious Institutions and the British Lion, and
+so away to have his Election declared, to the Town Hall, in a Carriage
+and Four, and the Rabblement after him. Then they left behind did set to
+on both Sides to fling Stones, and 'SQUIRE CALLOW'S Mob did break the
+Windows of the Rising Sun, and MR. FAIRPORT'S the Windows of the
+Barley-Mow; which the Townsmen did say would be good for the Glaziers,
+and MR. WAGSTAFFE do observe that the Conservative 'SQUIRE CALLOW hath
+destructive Constituents. What with Publicans, and Lawyers, and Damage,
+the Election will cost the Candidates L6000 or L7000 a-Piece, and to
+think what a good Motive one must have to become a Parliament-Man, that
+will spend so much Money for the Chance of a Seat.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PARTIE OF SPORTSMEN OUT A SHUTYNGE._
+
+                                            MONDAY, _October 1, 1849_.]
+
+
+Up mighty betimes, and to Brushwood for a Day's Shooting, by Invitation
+from MR. TIBBITTS, whose Father, the rich Furrier, did die the other
+Day, and leave him a Fortune, and now he hath rented Brushwood Manor to
+shoot over for the Season. But Lack, what a set of young Rogues I found
+there of TIBBITTS his Acquaintance, a-smoking of Cigars and short Pipes,
+and a-drinking of Ale and bottled Stout at 10 o'clock of the Morning!
+Mighty ashamed of, though diverted with, my Company, to hear their loose
+and idle Conversation, and how none of them could pronounce the letter
+H, and to think what an unlettered vulgar Fellow TIBBITTS is, and that I
+should demean myself to associate with such a Companion only because of
+his Riches, and Wine, and Dinners. One of the Party, WIGGYNS, did tell
+me we should have a prime Lark, which, this being the first Day of
+Pheasant-Shooting, I did think droll; but divers Larks, indeed, were
+shot before the Day was over. So we into the Fields, and a Keeper
+following us with the Dogs, and, whenever I did look over my Shoulder,
+did catch him grinning and making Faces behind our Backs. But strange,
+to see how much better the Rogues did shoot than I expected, though
+firing at Tom-Tits, or anything almost, and do understand they got this
+Skill at the Red House, Battersea, through popping at Pigeons and
+Sparrows let loose from a Trap; which do seem but a cruel and a
+barbarous kind of Sport. But little Birds were not all they shot, for
+one HIGGES aiming at a Hare did miss, and instead of the Hare hit one of
+the Dogges, and sent him yelping and limping Home. But good Lack, to see
+how careless the Fellows were with their Fire-Arms, carrying their Guns,
+full-cocked, pointing right in one another's Faces, and one, dragging
+his Piece through a Hedge after him, it went off, but finding it had
+only carried off the Skirt of his Shooting-Coat, we had a good Laugh of
+it. Another, with a double-barrelled Gun, having shot off one Barrel at
+a Blackbird, I did see reloading; the other Barrel being still loaded
+and at full Cock. He, forcing down the Ramrod with all his Might, I did
+catch him by the Elbow, and point to the Cock of the Gun, and methinks I
+did never see a Man on a Sudden tremble so terribly, or grow so pale.
+Getting beyond Brushwood, into a Field hard by, MR. WIGGYNS did let fly
+at some Ducks, for one of those Larks he had been talking of, which did
+bring down upon us the Farmer, with his Bull-Dog, and cause us to make
+off with all the Speed we could. I in mighty Dread of being seized as an
+Accomplice in shooting the Duck, fearing the Farmer, who is horridly
+enraged with the Game-Preserving at Brushwood, for that the Game do eat
+up his Crops; and, truly, the Game Laws are a great Nuisance. Home from
+our Shooting, with our Bag, carried by TIBBITTS his Tiger-Boy, very
+full, with a Brace or two of Pheasants and Partridges, but many more
+Brace of Chaffinches, and Yellow-Hammers, and Robin Redbreasts, and so
+to Dinner, where all very merry, and so to Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE WYNE VAULTS AT YE DOCKS. SHOWYNGE A PARTYE TASTYNGE._
+
+                                         THURSDAY, _October 11, 1849_.]
+
+
+To the Docks, to meet MR. SOKER, and go over the Wine Vaults with a
+Tasting-Order, and taste the Wine there before it hath undergone any
+Roguery for the Market. Found there SOKER, and MR. WAGSTAFFE, and
+SWILBY, and SWYPE, and SHARPE, and with them MR. GOODFELLOWE, who had
+gotten SOKER the Order. First to the Quay, heaped with Barrels of Wine,
+and one huge Barrel, they did tell me, holding 625 Gallons, hoisted
+ashore, MR. WAGSTAFFE did say, by an Adjutant, or Gigantic Crane. Then,
+through all Manner of Casks and Tubs, and Bales of Merchandise, to St.
+Katherine's Dock, and down to the Vault, where a Cooper forthwith did
+wait on us with a Couple of Glasses, and gave each Man a flat Stick with
+a Lamp at the farther End, to see our Way. The Vault almost quite dark,
+only lighted by Sconces from the Roof, and the farthest Sconce looking
+half-a-mile off, and all this Space full of Barrels of Wine! The Roof
+supported by Rows of Columns; and the Vault altogether like the Crypt of
+a vast Cathedral, but sweeter; the Air smelling of Wine very strong,
+which alone did make me feel giddy. Strange to see the Mildew hanging
+in all Sorts of Forms from the Roof, which many do mistake for Cobwebs,
+but some call Fungus, and DR. LIMBECK, the Chymist, do tell me is mostly
+Nitrate of Lime. The Cooper did lead us to the Wine we were to taste,
+and pretty to see him tap the Barrel by boring a Hole in it with a
+Gimlet. We did drink, all round, a good Ale-glass each of excellent
+Sherry, all except MR. SHARPE; and I did wonder to see him taste the
+Wine, and call it rare good Stuff, and yet spit it out, but found by and
+by that he was wise. Next, to the London Dock; and MR. GOODFELLOWE did
+give us Biscuit, and recommend us to eat, and I did take his advice, and
+glad I did. Here, more Curiosities in Mildew, hanging from the Roof; and
+one a Festoon as big as the great Sausage in the Pork-Shop at the Corner
+of Bow Street. A good Story from the Cooper, of a Visitor that took a
+Specimen of the Mildew away in his Hat, and with the Moisture of his
+Head, it melted and blackened his Face, and served him right, that--like
+more than enough Sight-Seers--could not keep his Hands from Picking. To
+several Vaults, and tasted Wine in each; all very vast, but the East
+Vault the biggest, and do contain more thousand Pipes, and cover more
+Acres than I doubt, by Reason of the Wine I drunk, I can remember. By
+this Time, our Party very jolly and noisy, and did begin to dance and
+sing, and flourish their Lamps like Playhouse Devils; and methought I
+did see the Meaning of the Notice outside, that Ladies could not be
+admitted after 1 o'Clock. Coming into the open Air, could scarcely
+stand; and MR. GOODFELLOWE did see them into Cabs, and I home on
+Foot--straight as I could go--and my Wife wondering at the Redness of my
+Nose. Good Lack! to see the Quantity of Goods and Wine in the Docks; and
+to think what a great and mighty Nation we are, and what Oceans of
+Liquor we do swill and guzzle!
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A WEDDYNGE BREAKFASTE._
+
+                                           MONDAY, _October 22, 1849_.]
+
+
+Up, and to Church together with my Wife, to see PALL HARLEY married this
+Morning to DICK BAKER; on both Sides mighty genteel People, and their
+Guests, all except ourselves, such as they do call Carriage-Company.
+PALL, in a Dress of White Satin, and Orange Flowers in her Hair, very
+pretty and demure, and DICK, wearing a Sky-Blue Coat, Crimson Velvet
+Waistcoat, Yellow Moleskin Trousers, and Japanned Boots; with Lavender
+Kid Gloves, and a Carbuncle in his Shirt-Front, a great Buck. DICK and
+every Man of us with great White Favours at our Breasts, mighty
+conspicuous and, methought, absurd, the Things serving neither for Use
+nor Ornament. But to see how grand were old fat MR. HARLEY and MR.
+BAKER, and how more grand were their fat Wives, and how fine and serious
+they looked and how high they carried their Noses! And when the Ring was
+put on PALL'S Finger (DICK first having fumbled for it in the wrong
+Pocket), her Mother did weep, and falling for stay on MR. HARLEY, nigh
+overthrew him. But the pretty modest Bridesmaids did most of all take
+me; which my Wife observing, I saw, did trouble her. The Ceremony over,
+and the Fees paid, and the Bride kissed by some of the old Gentlemen, we
+to old HARLEY'S to Breakfast, where what WIGGYNS do call a Grand Spread,
+very fine both for Show and Meats, every Dish ornamented with Flowers
+and Gimcracks, the cold Chickens trimmed with Ribbons, and the
+Bride-Cake, having upon it Wax CUPIDS and Turtle-Doves, was pretty. So
+down we sat, DICK stiff and sheepish, and PALL also, shamefaced, and
+trying to hide her Blushes with a Nosegay. PALL'S Mother in Tears, and
+her Father solemn, and the Bridesmaids mostly bashful, but a little
+black one that sate by me very merry, and I did by-and-by pull Crackers
+with her, till my Wife suddenly thrust a Pin into my Arm, to the Quick.
+The Company first silent, till a Friend of the young Pair, who did say
+he had known them both from Babies, did propose their Health in a pretty
+pathetic but confused Speech, and breaking down in the Midst of a
+Sentence, conclude by wishing them long Life and Happiness, with great
+Applause. Then the Bride-Groom to return Thanks, but, perplexed with his
+Pronouns, obliged to stop short too, but, he said, overcome by his
+Feelings. The Champagne flowing, we soon merrier, especially an old
+Uncle of DICK'S who began to make Jokes, which did trouble the Bride and
+Bride-Groom. But they presently with much Crying and Kissing, and
+Shaking of Hands, away in a Coach-and-Four, amid the Cheering of the
+Crowd in the Street and the Boys shouting to behold the fine Equipage;
+and Servants and old Women looking on from the opposite Windows. We
+eating and drinking with great Delight till late in the Afternoon, but
+at last broke up, the Multitude saluting us each as we stepped into the
+Street, and the Policeman and Beadle that were guarding the Door in
+great State, touching their Hats. A grand Marriage Breakfast do give a
+brave Treat to the Mob, in Show, and to the Company in Eating and
+Drinking, and is great Fun to all but those most concerned. But to think
+what a Fuss is made about most Marriages, and how little Reason for it
+is shown by most People's married Life.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: A THEATRE, SHOWYNGE YE HOUSE AMUSED BY YE COMYCKE ACTOR.
+
+                                           FRIDAY, _October 26, 1849_.]
+
+
+To the old House in the Market, where I would fain have seen _Macbeth_,
+for the Acting as well as the Divertisement; but this not the Night, so
+went Half-Price, and did see the _Unpolished Gem_, instead. TOUCHSTONE
+did play _Brother Dick_, a Country Clown, and his Figure, in a Coat
+short in the Waist, a huge striped Waistcoat, Trousers too big for him
+tucked up at the Ankles, Hob-Nail Boots, and a great ill-shaped Hat,
+mighty droll, and did move the People to clap their Hands and laugh the
+Moment he come on the Stage. Then did he take off his Hat, and show a
+red-cropped Head, and smooth down his Hair, and make a Face upon the
+Audience, whereat they did laugh again, and then turning round show them
+a Back View of himself, which made them laugh the more. Still greater
+Laughter the Moment he opened his Mouth, and I did laugh too, as much as
+any, though I heard not what he said; but only for the Oddness of his
+Voice, which is such that methinks I could not keep my Countenance to
+hear him, even if he were speaking _Hamlet_. Mighty droll to see him in
+a fine House make himself at Home after the Fashion of a Bumpkin, and
+hear him in his rustical Drawl and Twang relate all the News and Tattle
+of his Village. What with his clodhopping Gait, and Awkwardness, and
+Independence, and Impudence, he did make, methinks, the veriest Lout I
+did ever see, even in Hampshire. His politeness even droller than his
+Rudeness, and his Ploughboy Courtesy of kissing his Hand as comical as
+could be. But I know not well whether I do more prefer his Cocknies or
+his Clowns; for methinks I have seen him do a Snob as well as a
+Clodpole, and he is very good in both, whether a rustical Booby or a
+Whippersnapper Spark; and do use V for W, and misuse or drop his H, and
+talk the Flash and Cant of the Town mighty natural. But to think how we
+English People do take Delight in everything that is ridiculous; and how
+I have seen a Theatre ringing with Merriment at the Sight of TOUCHSTONE
+in a Paper Cap and Apron, with a Baker's Tray, and a Bell, crying
+"Muffins!" or eating with his Mouth full; or even putting his Arms
+a-Kimbo, or pulling his Hat over his Eyes, and some of the Audience, and
+myself too, in Fits almost with Laughter. Methinks that Foreigners are
+wrong to suppose that we are a melancholy People, and would give up this
+Notion if they could see us at a broad Farce, and how easily we are
+pleased, and what Straws will tickle us almost to Death. Home, my Sides
+aching by Reason of TOUCHSTONE'S Drolleries, and truly he do make a
+mighty excellent roguish Buffoon. So to Bed mimicking TOUCHSTONE his
+Voice to my Wife, which did divert her mightily.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PROSPECTE OF YE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYE ITS GARDENS.
+FEEDYNGE YE BEASTS._
+
+                                           MONDAY, _October 29, 1849_.]
+
+
+To the Zoological Gardens, in the Regent's Park, at 3 p.m., in Time to
+see the Otter fed with live Fishes, which he do chase round his Basin in
+the Water, and dive after mighty clever. Then to the Wild Beasts,
+hungry, in a terrible Rage, as I have seen others than Wild Beasts
+waiting for Dinner. Some of the Dens with Trees in them for the Beasts
+to climb in; Lions, old and young, Lionesses, He and She Tigers, a
+Jaguar, an Ounce, a Cheetah, a Spotted and Black Leopard: and on the
+other side Hyaenas, and Pumas, and more Leopards, and Bears. Their
+Yelling and Howling for Hunger a most horrid Musique, while the Tigers
+rear on their hind Legs, and dash at their Bars, and grin and glare at
+the Children outside. The Ramping and Roaring doubled when the Keeper
+come with the Meat, and Lack! how they did fly at it with Teeth and
+Claws, and howl and snort over it, and munch and crunch the Bones! But
+one Hyaena droll, the Keeper passing him by, and he, thinking he was to
+go without his Meal, throwing himself on his Back, and moaning, and
+crying in Despair. Pretty, to see the Bears in their Pit climb up their
+Post for Buns; which the Visitors did hold to them on the End of a long
+Stick, and them below fighting for the Morsels that fell; and their
+Clumsiness, and awkward Standing on their hind Legs. The White Bear,
+also, swimming in his Tank, pleasant, I being on the outside of his
+Cage. A fine old Wolf and Cubs, but snarling and snapping over their
+Victuals, seemed not a Happy Family. Saw the Eagles and Vultures Prey,
+treading on their Meat, and tearing it up with their Beaks; the Eagles
+brave, but the Vultures look ignoble. Yet fine the Great Condor Vulture,
+when the Wind blew, stretching forth his Wings upon it; and glad, no
+doubt, would have been to sail away. The Parrots gay; but so shriek and
+squall, that their Abode do seem the Madhouse of the Place. Much taken
+with the Seal swim in the Water, and waddle out on his Stomach with his
+Tail and Flappers, like a Fellow with his Legs tied for a Wager.
+Diverted by the Gambols and Antics of the Monkeys and Apes: yet ashamed
+to see such vile Likenesses of ourselves: and the Apes especially; and
+the Crowd of Women and Ladies gazing at them! With Pleasure, yet Horror,
+did view the Snakes and Lizards in the Reptile House, and glad they
+could not get at me; but hoped to see the Boa Constrictor swallow a live
+Rabbit: but did not. Bought Gingerbread Nuts to feed the Elephant, cost
+me 2d. and he did please me, but I wished he had been bigger; but the
+Rhinoceros did give me great Delight, and with Mirth heard a Countryman
+standing by, call him the Hog in Armour. The Bison, with his huge shaggy
+Head and Mane, Horns, and fiery Eyes, do look the most like a Demon I
+ever did see. To the Camel-Leopards, graceful Creatures; after the Bison
+and Rhinoceros. Then about the Gardens to watch the People and the
+Children stare at, and feed and poke the Animals. Did mark some pretty
+Damsels, and, having done gazing at the Beasts, gaze at them. So Home,
+and described to my Wife what I had seen, except the Damsels, and did
+discourse with her of Natural History; which the Zoological Gardens do
+breed a pretty Taste for among the People.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _WESTMINSTER HALL, SHOWYNGE YE CEREMONYE OF OPENYNGE
+TERME._
+
+                                           FRIDAY, _November 2, 1849_.]
+
+
+Up, and by Appointment to MR. WAGSTAFFE'S, and so with him to
+Westminster Hall, to see my LORD CHANCELLOR and the Judges, after
+Breakfast with my Lord, this being the first Day of Michaelmas Term,
+open the Law Courts in State, in their Robes and Wigs. We there at 12,
+the Hour set for the Ceremony, but, we found, only for the Beginning of
+it by Breakfast, which had we thought of, we had taken our Time, as
+knowing that my Lords would be sure to take theirs. So clear that we
+must have Patience, MR. WAGSTAFFE did say, like many besides us in
+Westminster Hall. So out to look at the New Houses of Parliament, and
+how the Masons speed with the Building, which will be mighty fine when
+it is done, and MR. TRANSOM do commend the Style, and I too, both for
+the Proportions and also for the Heraldry and Lions. Then back again to
+the Hall, where now a few more People; and presently comes marching in a
+Party of Policemen, large enough to have taken up all present, and yet
+hardly have had one Prisoner a-piece; But the Numbers did by Degrees
+increase, and were, I did note, mostly of the better Sort; thank the
+Police. Among them divers Barristers-at-Law, some with their Sisters,
+some with their Wives, or such as did seem like to be their Wives, many
+of whom mighty comely Damsels, and were a Sight I never expected, not
+thinking they could care for Law Matters, or to see the Judges, 2d.; but
+strange how Women do flock to every Concourse, whether it be to see or
+only to be seen. There for the first Time I did behold MR. TOMKYNS, the
+young Barrister, in his Wig, wherein he do look mighty sedate, and I
+telling him I hoped he would come to open Term himself, made answer as
+it might be some while first, he wished I might live to see it. The
+people now crowding about the Doors of the Courts, the Police did make a
+Lane between them for my LORD CHANCELLOR and the Judges to walk down,
+and MR. WAGSTAFFE did call it Chancery Lane. My Lords still not coming,
+he did observe that now we had a Sample of the Law's Delay, and did
+pleasantly lay the Lateness of the Breakfast to the Account of the
+MASTER OF THE ROLLS. But they at last come, and we opposite the Court of
+Common Pleas got a good View of them to my Heart's Content. First comes
+the Mace, and a gentleman in his Court Suit, wearing a Sword and Bag,
+and with them the Great Seal; then my LORD CHANCELLOR, and did walk down
+to his Court at the end of the Hall, looking the better of his Sickness,
+which I was glad of. After him the other Judges, of whom most did enter
+the Door whereby we were, and mighty reverend they looked, but merry and
+in good Humour, and beamy and ruddy after their Breakfast. But to see
+MR. JUSTICE TALFOURD come last of all, shaking Hands with his Friends on
+both Sides, he newly made a Judge, being a Poet, did most content me;
+and MR. WAGSTAFFE did say he looked in good Case and by no means
+_puisne_. The Judges all entered, the Rabblement let into the Hall, and
+we away, fearing for our Pockets; which are like to be very soon emptied
+in Westminster Hall.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PROSPECTE OF YE 5TH OF NOVEMBER, SHOWYNGE YE "GUYS."_
+
+                             MONDAY, _Nov. 5, 1849_.--GUY FAWKES' DAY.]
+
+
+At Breakfast this Morning off a new-laid Egg, cost me 2d., but cheap for
+the Time of Year, did hear a shrill Hallooing in the Street, which my
+Wife told me was made by the Boys, going by with their GUY FAWKES. So on
+this, GUY FAWKES his Day, did in Haste swallow my Breakfast, put on my
+Boots and Over-Coat, and so out and about the Streets and Squares to see
+the Sport, the Bells ringing for Church, and a Scarecrow of a GUY, borne
+by Urchins on a Handbarrow, with Rough Musique at almost every Turn and
+Corner. GUY FAWKES his Effigies, with his Fingers sticking out like
+Spikes, and his Feet all awry, his Body and Limbs stuffed with Straw, a
+Mask for his Face, with a Pipe in the Mouth, and a Lantern and
+Tinder-Box dangling from his Wrist, and on his Head a Paper Cap, like an
+old Grenadier's, but a Cross on it, and meant for the POPE his Crown. I
+thought to see GUY with his Company, borne by the Police in State to the
+Station House, but they this Year mostly let alone, and more GUYS, and
+ragged Regiments of Boys shouting after them, than ever. The Varlets, as
+they went, repeating Doggrel Verses, bidding to remember the Day, and
+asking whomsoever they met for Money for a Bonfire to burn their GUY,
+and did beg of me; but I would not fling my Money into the Fire. But
+Lack to think of the Delight I do take in GUY FAWKES, because of his
+ridiculous Figure, and recollecting how I loved to play with Fireworks
+on this Day when a Boy; though I know what a Libel is the Holyday on the
+Roman Catholiques, and the good Reason, though the Doggrel say to the
+contrary, why Gunpowder Treason should be forgot. But some, who should
+have known better, did give the Rogues Halfpence and encourage them in a
+show of Bigotry; albeit the young Ragamuffins know not what it do mean,
+and care only for the Frolick and Halfpence. From Westminster, by the
+Back Ways and Streets to Fleet Street, Squibs and Crackers in the Courts
+and Alleys fizzing and bouncing all the Way, and did in Fleet Street
+dine at a Chop-house, cost me, with Beer and Punch, 2s.; and so to Tower
+Hill, where the Banging and Blazing of the Fireworks the greatest of
+all; and the Roman Candles and Pin-wheels mighty pretty; but some
+letting off Guns and Pistols put me in Fear. Here presently I did hear a
+Popping and Cracking behind me; which was a Cracker pinned by some
+Scapegrace to my Coat-Tail, and did make me jump, and the Standers-by to
+laugh: which did vex me to the Heart; and MR. GREGORY do say, served me
+right for countenancing such Doings. But to see the Mob flinging
+Serpents at each other, and burning and singeing one another like
+Devils, did much divert me, till a Squib whizzing past me did scorch me
+in the Face. Truly GUY FAWKES his Day this Time was mighty well kept,
+and MR. HOWLETT do say its better Observance is a revival of Protestant
+Spirit; but I do agree with MR. WAGSTAFFE that Protestancy is not a
+Doctrine of Fireworks, and must own it were better to bury GUY FAWKES,
+and not burn him any more.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A BANQUET SHOWYNGE YE FARMERS' FRIEND IMPRESSYNGE ON YE
+AGRICULTURAL INTEREST THAT IT IS RUINED._
+
+                                          MONDAY, _November 19, 1849_.]
+
+
+By Rail to Clod's Norton, to my old Country Friend MR. GILES the Farmer,
+and with him to the Meeting and yearly Dinner of the North Gruntham
+Agricultural Society at Grumbleton, at the Plantagenet Arms. A mighty
+fine and great Dinner; and the Appetite of the Company droll to observe,
+and hear MR. GILES declare that all the Farmers were starving. I did
+mightily admire the Breadth and Bigness of the Countrymen, and their
+round Faces like the Sign of the Rising Sun, but not so bright, for
+though ruddy, looking glum. My LORD MOUNTBUSHEL in the Chair, very grand
+and high and mighty, yet gently demeaning himself, and did pledge them
+about him in Wine with an Obeisance the most stately I think that I did
+ever see a Man, and wish I could do like him, and with Practice hope to
+be able. The Dinner over, and the QUEEN drunk, and the Royal Family,
+and also the Church and Army and Navy all drunk, the Chairman did
+propose the Toast of the Evening, which was, Prosperity to the North
+Gruntham Agricultural Society, and made a Speech, and did tell his
+Hearers that they and the whole Farming Body were going to the Dogs as
+fast as they could go; whereat, strange to hear them applaud mightily.
+He ended his Speech by saying he hoped Gentlemen would that Evening,
+according to Custom, keep clear of Politics, which Rule SQUIRE HAWEBUCKE
+next rising to speak, did promise he would observe, and forthwith made a
+violent Harangue against SIR ROBERT PEEL and MR. COBDEN. After him got
+up MR. FLUMMERIE, and with great Action, and thumping the Table, spoke
+for Half-an-Hour, with most brave Flourishes both of his Fists and of
+Language. He did tell his Audience that they must be up and stirring,
+and quit them like good Men and true, and did exhort them to rally round
+the Altar and Throne, and nail their Colours to the Mast, and range
+themselves under the Banner of Protection; which he did say was a Flag
+that had braved 1,000 Years the Battle and the Breeze, and if so,
+should, methinks, be by this time in Tatters. He did say that the
+British Lion had been long asleep, but was now at last aroused, which do
+seem a simple Saying, the British Lion being only a fabulous Beast, like
+the Unicorn, also in the Royal Arms. But to hear how the Company did
+cheer at this Mouthing, albeit it was the veriest Cant and Stuff; for,
+good Lack! to think of the Monarchy and Church, and all Morals,
+Religion, and Government, depending on the price of Wheat! After more
+Speeches in the same Strain, the British Labourer his Health drunk, and
+then the Prizes given out; and an old Man of 80, for bringing up a
+Family without costing the Parish 1d. in 50 Years, did receive L1, and
+others for honest Service nigh as long, a Jacket, a Smock Frock, or a
+Pair of Hob-Nail Boots, in Reward of Merit. The Toasts and Speech-making
+lasted till late, and then we broke up, the Farmers mighty merry, though
+grumbling, but not more than their Wont, at the Laws and the Weather,
+but their best Friends say, will have little to complain of either, if
+they will but mind their Business, and turn seriously to improving their
+Husbandry.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _APPEARANCE OF YE CRYMYNYAL COURTE DURING AN
+"INTERESTYNG" TRYAL FOR MURDER._
+
+                                          FRIDAY, _November 30, 1849_.]
+
+
+Up, and did take my Wife, with a Party of Friends, to the Old Bailey, my
+Wife having a great Longing to see a Prisoner tried, especially for
+Murder, and little Pleasure as she do take, poor Wretch, I could not
+find in my Heart to deny her this. Got our Places in the Gallery, cost
+me 10s., which did begrudge, and do think it a Scandal to the City to
+have Money taken at the Old Bailey Doors, as at a Play, yet it do serve
+to keep the Company choice. And, good Lack! to see the Assemblage of
+great Folks about us, we sitting close by SIR JESSAMIE SPINKES, and my
+LORD POUNCETT, and two or three other Lords on the Bench by my Lords the
+Judges, and the Aldermen, did make the Place look as fine almost as the
+Opera. But in Truth it was as good as a Play, if not better, to hear the
+Barristers speak to the Jury, especially the Counsel for the Prisoners,
+making believe to be mightily concerned for their Clients, though most
+observable Rogues, and arguing in their Behalf through Thick and Thin,
+and striving as hard as they could to prove the Black, that did come out
+in Evidence against them, White; and pleading their Cause as though they
+were injured Innocents, with smiting of the Breast, and turning up of
+the Eyes, more natural than I remember I did ever see any Actor. But
+methinks they did go a little too far when, cross-examining the
+Witnesses, they strove to entangle them in their Talk, and confound
+them, trying to make them blunder, so as to mislead the Jury, which do
+seem to me only telling a Lie by the Witness his Mouth. And then to hear
+them labour to destroy the Witnesses' Credit, and make their Oath
+suspected; and them, however honest, seem Perjurers; and to think that
+they do practise all this Wickedness only for the Lucre of their Fees!
+Among the Prisoners some of the most horrid Ruffians that methinks I
+ever did see, and some, when found guilty and sentenced even to
+Transportation, skipping out of the Dock, and snapping their Fingers,
+which did remind me of the Saying, "Merry as Thieves." But others
+looking mighty dismal, and when the Evidence did tell against them,
+turning pale and shivering, and we had Eye-Glasses we took with us on
+Purpose, and through our Eye-Glasses did watch the Quivering of their
+Features, which, Heaven forgive us! we did take Delight in. Using
+Eye-Glasses did the more make it seem as if I were at a Play, and what
+did jump with the Notion was the Bunches of Rue on the Dock in Front of
+the Prisoners, seeming almost like Nosegays, which glad I am that my
+Wife and our other Ladies had not with them, for so taken were they with
+the ranting Barristers and hang-Gallows Ruffians, that I do verily
+believe they would have flung their Posies to them if they had. Strange
+that we do make such Account of Criminals, and will sit for Hours to see
+how it goes with a Villain, when we would not spare five Minutes to the
+Cause of many an honest Man. But for one good Reason I did take Pleasure
+in the Old Bailey, which was the Fairness of the Trials, and the
+Patience of the Judge, and Justness of his summing up, which do cause me
+mightily to reverence our Law, and to hear and see was pretty.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PROMENADE CONCERTE._
+
+                                         THURSDAY, _December 6, 1849_.]
+
+
+Did set me Wife, poor Wretch! this Evening to mending my Socks, and
+myself to Drury Lane, to MONSIEUR JULLIEN his Concert. The first Part of
+the Concert all DR. MENDELSSOHN his Musique, which I did long mightily
+to hear, and, so to do in Comfort, buy a Ticket for the Dress Circle,
+cost me 2s. 6d., but found the Seats all full, and obliged to stand the
+whole While, which made me mad, but a pretty full-eyed young Lady being
+forced to stand too, and close by me, though with her Brother, did
+comfort me a little, not that she could not sit, but that she was by me.
+Heard a Symphony that did well please me, seeming to lift me into the
+Clouds, and was mighty mystical and pretty; and the Musique in the
+_Midsummer Night's Dream_ did give me much Delight, the Twittering
+throughout the Overture putting me in Mind of Singing-Birds and Fairies
+and I know not what, and the sleepy Passages very sweet and lulling.
+Mightily taken with the Prelude to the Mock-Tragedy, _Bottom_ his March,
+as droll Musique as I ever heard; but what did most of all delight me
+was the Wedding March, a noble Piece, and I did rejoice therein, and do
+think to hire a Band to play it under our Window on my Wedding Day.
+MONSIEUR JULLIEN in his white Waistcoat and with his Moustachios mighty
+spruce and as grand as ever, and did conduct the Musique, but so quietly
+in the first Part that I could scarce have believed it, and methought
+showed Reverence for the Composer; which was handsome. But good Lack! to
+see him presently, when he come to direct "_God Save the Queen_,"
+flourish his Batoon, and act the mad Musician! All the Company rising
+and taking off their Hats to hear that majestical Anthem, presently some
+most ridiculous and impertinent Variations set all the House a laughing
+and some hissing, and I do suspect MONSIEUR JULLIEN had a special
+Audience this night, that would not away with such Tricks. Between the
+Parts of the Concert, I into the Pit to walk about among the Sparks,
+where a great Press, the House crammed to the Ceiling. In the
+Refreshment and Reading Rooms, young Blades and Lasses drinking of
+Coffee and eating of Ices, and Reading of the News, with Shrubs and
+Statues round about, and the House all White and Gold, and brightly
+lighted, mighty gay; and the Sparks jaunty, but not, I think, wearing
+such flaming Neckcloths and Breast Pins as they were wont. Heard in Part
+second some Musique of the _Prophete_, full of Snorting of Brass
+Instruments and Tinkling of Triangles, and a long Waltz that did give me
+the Fidgets, and nothing please me at all, save JETTY TREFFZ her singing
+of "_Trab, trab_," which was pretty. Lastly, the Row-Polka played, and
+well-named and very droll and absurd, with Chiming-in of Voices and
+other monstrous Accompaniments, a good ridiculous rough Musique. But
+many of the Hearers did hiss, methought with Unreason, the Polka being
+no emptier than any other Polka, and having some Joke in it. Home, the
+Wedding March running in my Head, and glad to find good Musique drawing
+so great a House, which I do hope will be a Hint to MONSIEUR JULLIEN.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE SERPENTYNE DURING A HARD FROST. YE PUBLIQUE UPON IT._
+
+                                          TUESDAY, _January 29, 1850_.]
+
+
+Up, and after Breakfast, to which a new laid Egg at this Time of Year
+cost me 2d., to Hyde Park to see the Skating on the Serpentine, very
+admirable and mighty good Mirth. The Members of the Skating Club, with
+their Booth by the Ice mighty select, yet do as it were perform for the
+Amusement of the British Publique. Pretty to see them cut out Figures of
+8, and in a Sort dance Quadrilles upon the Ice, which I very much wish I
+could do myself, but cannot skate at all, and never could, but whenever
+I tried to always tumbled down, generally a Squat, which hurt me. Upon
+the Ice all sorts of People high and low, great and little, old and
+young, Women and Children, indeed a Multitude of the British Publique
+altogether. With their Hollaing and Shouting a continual Roar like the
+Cawing and Clacking of innumerable Rooks and Jackdaws. Pretty to see the
+Chairs and Forms on the Brink of the Ice, where dirty Boys and Men do
+ply with Skates for Hire, and kneeling and screwing and straping them on
+to Skater's Feet turn a good Penny. Many fine Girls also, both fair and
+black, skating in their warm Furs and Muffs mighty snug and elegant,
+please me most of all; and a Troop of Schoolgirls walk two and two along
+the Shore very pretty. Fun to see how the Skaters do throw themselves
+into all manner of Postures, and how many of them tumble down, and
+sprawl about, and roll over one another topsy-turvy, and kick their
+Heels in the Air. Also the Unskilful beginning to learn to skate helped
+on to the Ice, and an old Woman pulled on by a lively Urchin, make me
+laugh heartily. But the most ridiculous Sight the Lower Sort, not
+skating but sliding, Butcher Lads, and Costermongers, and Street Boys
+with Sticks and Bludgeons in their Hands, and some in their Mouths short
+Pipes, smoking while they slide, which I wonder how they can. Good Lack,
+to see them come the Cobbler's Knock as they say, and keep the Pot
+a-boiling! Likewise how of a Fellow upon the Ice with a Potato Can upon
+a Fire-Basket, they buy and eat roast Potatoes which the Sellers cry
+_Taturs all hot!_ The Street Boys, too, where the Ice at the Sides thin,
+flock together nigh the Edge, and throw Stones breaking the Ice, and I
+did hear one of the Varlets as his Pebble crash through cry, "There goes
+a Window," and could not but laugh, though I would fain have boxed his
+Ears. On Top of a Pole in one Part of the Ice a Board marked
+"Dangerous," nevertheless many so foolhardy as to skate close to it,
+until at last the Ice broke and a Fool went in and was like to have
+drowned, but the Humane Society's Men did come with Drags, and one of
+them fish him out by the Scuff of his Trowsers, mighty laughable. They
+carry him off to the Receiving House, where they chafe and wrap him in
+warm Blankets to bring him to, and give him hot Brandy and Water to
+recruit him and send him Home Comfortable, and so reward him for his
+Folly, and encourage other Fools to imitate his silly Example. Methinks
+such an idle Companion were well served if, instead of getting hot Grog,
+he were sent Home with a good Hiding.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A FASHIONABLE CLUB. FOUR O'CLOCK P.M._
+
+                                        THURSDAY, _February 14, 1850_.]
+
+
+This Afternoon at four o'clock with GUBBYNS to the Leviathan Club
+whereof he is a member, and do mean to propose me to be a Member too
+which I very much wish, only fear I may be black-balled but hope not.
+To-day he take me over the Club to see it, which delight me much, and
+good Lack to see how splendid the Building and the Carvings and Gildings
+of the Walls and Windows, for all the World like a Palace, wherein a
+private Man every Day of his Life may live like a King, as I should like
+to. All the Rooms as full as could be of all Manner of Comforts and
+Conveniences, especially the great Room where the Members do sit in easy
+Chairs with well-stuffed soft Backs and Cushions lined with lovely
+smooth shining Morocco Leather, or loll along on Sofas and Ottomans the
+same, and read the Reviews and Papers and are served by Footmen in
+Livery with Glasses of Sherry and Tumblers of Brandy and Soda Water, all
+at their Ease, and enjoy such Accommodation as I think I never could
+have imagined unless I had seen. Curious to observe the different
+Readers and the Paper each reading; a Parliament or City Man the Times,
+a Member, I take it, of the Protestant Association at Exeter-Hall the
+Morning Herald, another the Standard, newspapers the wits call Mrs. GAMP
+and Mrs. HARRIS, which is great Roguery. Some in Groups stand a
+gossiping, some looking out of Windows down on the People in the Street
+as they go by, mighty agreeable to such as are well off, and would give
+me very much Pleasure. Others with their Backs to the Fire, and one
+methought a Country Squire striding in front of the Grate, with his
+Hands behind him under his Coat Tails warming himself and looking abroad
+over his Neckcloth, as though upon his Parish, and as if he were Monarch
+of all he surveyed; mighty dignified and droll. Likewise a Youth of some
+Condition, but somewhat too like a Shopboy, in a pretty ridiculous
+Posture, eyeing himself in a Pier Glass, did, with his walking Cane
+sticking athwart his Arm, divert me. The Magazines, Guide Books, Post
+Directories, and so on lying about on the Tables mighty handy, and I did
+note also a Pack of Cards and hear some of the Club Men do play. After
+going all over the Club-house, and the Lavatories and all, GUBBYNS take
+me to dine with him in the Strangers' Room, and a mighty good Dinner
+with excellent Claret, cost him how much I did not like to ask, but no
+doubt much more cheap and better than it would have come to in the
+cheapest tolerable Inn. Thence, after dinner, to the Smoking Room to
+smoke a Cigar, and drink Seltzer Water and Brandy, and, after Talk of
+the News, and all the Rumour about Town, and a good deal of Scandal, and
+some Roguish Conversation, Home, and so to Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _THE CIRCUS AT ASTLEY'S._
+
+                                              FRIDAY, _March 8, 1850_.]
+
+
+To the Circus at Astley's late, so missed the Grand Equestrian Drama,
+which vex me not much, for the Acting only Horseplay. But in time to see
+the Horsemanship in the Circle, which was what I wanted, and got a good
+Place in the Boxes, but would have preferred the Pit, except for the
+Company, which is of the Lower Sort, and there they do sit with their
+Hats on, and eat Oranges and drink Soda Water and Ginger Beer, which
+make me ashamed. Pretty riding on a Cream-coloured Horse by a pretty
+black girl, and on horseback dancing carried a basket of Flowers, and
+dance mighty pretty, but being above I could but look down upon little
+but her Head, which did somewhat vex me that I was not below in the Pit.
+Also a Fellow in the Dress of an Italian Robber they call a Brigand ride
+on three Horses at once, and please me I think as much as anything I
+ever saw in my Life. One of the Horses he rode piebald, the others
+spotted, pretty to see. Curious to observe the Riding Master continually
+smacking his Whip to keep the Horses galloping close to the Circle, but
+above all the Head Riding Master they call WIDDICOMBE in a Uniform with
+Epaulettes, as it were a Generalissimo, mighty pompous and droll, divert
+me beyond measure, and good Lack to hear, between the Horsemanship, the
+dialogues between WIDDICOMBE and the Clown. As the Clown walking before
+WIDDICOMBE out of the Ring, WIDDICOMBE say "Stop, Sir, go behind; I
+never follow the Fool." "Don't you," say the Clown, "then I do," and
+walk after him; which tickle me and make me laugh, so that I was like to
+burst my Sides. And Lack to see the Dignity of WIDDICOMBE, how grand he
+bear himself and look down upon the Clown as an inferior Being, calling
+him generally Fool, or else sometimes more gracious, Mr. Merriman. I do
+hear WIDDICOMBE is now an old Man, but his Cherry Cheeks, and black Hair
+and Eyebrows, make him look young, and his Waistcoat padded well out on
+the Chest takes from his Paunch, and though no Doubt he be made up, he
+make himself up mighty clever. All this while the Orchestra, mostly of
+Brass, trumpeting and banging away the most suitable Music to the
+Performance I think that ever could be played except the Tongs and
+Bones. About me in the Boxes great Numbers of Small Children, both Boys
+and Girls, some Babies almost, enjoy the Spectacle as much as any, and I
+do like to see them, and think they with their Mirth do make their
+Elders enjoy it all the more, and did think I should have liked to have
+had some of my own to take with me, but then thinking of the Expense of
+a Family make me better content with None. The Horsemanship mighty good
+Fun for the Children, but serious Entertainment to the grown-up, and
+strange to see how earnest they sit and gaze and stare with their Eyes
+wide open, and their Minds also fixed upon the Horses, and to perceive
+that they who think so much of Horses do commonly think very little upon
+much else, and how many there be of that Sort among the English People.
+After Astley's in a Cab to the Albion Tavern, where a Dish of Kidneys, a
+Welsh Rarebit, a Pint of Stout, and a Go of Whisky cost me 3s., and so
+Home in another Cab and so to Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _YE FATHERS OF YE CHURCHE GYVING JUDGMENTE UPON YE
+KNOTTYE POYNT._
+
+                                            SATURDAY, _March 9, 1850_.]
+
+
+To the Judicial Committee of Privy Council to hear Judgment delivered in
+the great GORHAM Case, the Reverend Mr. GORHAM against the BISHOP of
+EXETER for refusing to institute him to the Living of Bramford Speke,
+which the Bishop refuse because Mr. GORHAM deny Baptismal Regeneration.
+The Court of Arches gave sentence for the BISHOP, and GORHAM then appeal
+to the Privy Council. A great Commotion among the Clergy, and not a
+little among the People also. The High Church hold, with the BISHOP of
+EXETER, the same Opinion of Baptism as the Catholiques, and the Low do
+side with GORHAM and the Baptists and most other Dissenters. To the
+Council Chamber betimes, and did get a good Place and hear very well.
+The Chamber all the public Part of it crammed with as many People as
+could well get in. Lack, to see what Numbers of the Clergy here, both
+High Church and Low, and distinguish them by their Looks, and their
+Dress, and particularly by their Ties and Waistcoats. Also present many
+Dissenters and Roman Catholiques, and among the Catholiques I did note
+Bishop WISEMAN the Catholique Bishop of Melipotamus, and Vicar
+Apostolique of the London District in the front Row next my Lord the
+President's Chair, pricking up his Ears. By and by in come the Lords of
+the Council and take their places, mighty Grave, yet as they sit do seem
+to take it easy. They sit at a Table in the midst of the Chamber, where,
+among them, Lords Brougham and Campbell look mighty ill-favoured and
+droll. Behind, towards the Bookshelves, the Lay Lords, but with them a
+Bishop in his Knee Breeches and Apron, and a Shovel Hat in his Hand.
+Among the Lay Lords the EARL of CARLISLE, a Great Nobleman, and do look
+noble, and very much like LISTON the Player. Hush, and Silence, even the
+Ladies, of whom some present in the Crowd, when my Lord LANGDALE rise to
+deliver Judgment, which he did mighty clever, and lay down the Law, but
+no theological Argument, which I expected to hear, but did not. For he
+said the Committee have no Authority to determine Points of Doctrine,
+and whether Baptismal Regeneration were true or false, but only whether
+the Clergy were bound to hold it, or free to deny it, by the Thirty-nine
+Articles. And by that Rule he gave Judgment for GORHAM against the
+BISHOP, and I see not how he could have done otherwise, nor why the High
+Church should be so aghast and angry, nor WISEMAN smile and look so
+merry and scornful as he did, and seem so mightily diverted. So the
+BISHOP will have to submit, and institute GORHAM, or else resign his
+Bishoprick, which I dare swear he will not. Nor do I much fear that many
+of the High Church Clergy will leave the Church, as some prophesy, and
+turn Catholiques, and relinquish the Loaves and Fishes. Methinks it is a
+mighty good Thing that both High Church Clergy and Low are bound only by
+the Articles as interpreted by the Law Lords in the Judicial Committee,
+and not by themselves on either one Side or the other, for of all Men
+methinks the Clergy of every Sect have less than any of a Judicial
+Mind.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A JUVENILE PARTYE._
+
+                                          WEDNESDAY, _April 24, 1850_.]
+
+
+With my Wife this Evening to Mr. HARTLEY'S to a Children's Party, but
+some grown up, and among them me and my Wife, though we have no
+Children, which vex me, but not much, for Children mighty expensive and
+cost money, and, if I had them, would only force me to deny myself a
+great many Pleasures I now enjoy, and could not then afford. A large
+Drawing Room very fine, and well lighted up, and so many Children of all
+Ages down to Babies almost as I think I did never before, altogether in
+one room, see. Pretty to see how the little Boys and Girls dance when
+MYNHEER SCHLAMM thump and bang the Piano, and some of the very smallest
+taught to dance nearly as soon as they could walk, and how they stand in
+Position and point their Toes with heels close together, and arms
+hanging down, as they do when the Dancing-Master teach them their
+dancing Lessons. And to see how pleased all the Girls to dance, but not
+all the Boys, but a good many of them look unhappy, yet pretty to
+observe how a few little Boys make love to the little Girls, and one
+little Boy offer a little Girl a Nosegay, like a young Gallant, and she
+take it with the Air of a Coquette mighty pretty. But most of the Boys
+make a great deal more Love to the good Things on the Tables; the Sweets
+and Pastry, Jelly, Blanc-Mange, Tarts, Pies, Tipsy-Cake, Trifle, and
+Ice-creams, and good Lack how they push, and scramble, and hold out
+their plates, to get slices of Cake, while HARTLEY cut up a great rich
+Cake like a Twelfth-cake and share it between them, and they eat and
+stuff all they can, and I fear me some of them ill to-morrow if not
+before. Droll to see a little Boy stand astride stuffing into his Mouth
+a Pie whole like a Pantomime Clown. Another small Boy sitting down upon
+a Pile of Plates set by on the Floor, they having been eaten from, in
+the Remains of Trifle, cause great Laughter. So did a fat Dame with her
+little Boy and Girl, and an Arm round each, like a great plump Fowl, a
+Gizzard under one Wing and Liver beneath the other. Droll to see
+HARTLEY'S little girl sit in her Grandmother's Chair beside her Crutch,
+where her Grandmother hobbling in did find her, and to think that she
+too will be such another old Woman, one of these Days, if she live. Some
+of the bigger Boys public School Boys, mighty grand, and a few wearing
+Spectacles like young Owls. Mrs. HARTLEY'S Brother, Mr. ST. LEGER, dress
+himself like a Conjuror, in a conjuring Cap with magick Characters on
+it, and conjure with Cards, and Oranges, and little Images, and Dolls,
+mighty clever, and I do mean to get him if I can to teach me. One Thing
+made me laugh heartily was to see the Page they call BUTTONS stand
+behind him while he conjure, BUTTONS with his Eyes staring wide open,
+and he grinning with his Mouth from Ear to Ear. The young Folk after
+Supper to dance again, and romp, and play at Blindman's Buff, and
+meanwhile the elder sup too, and I and my Wife on cold Fowl and Ham, and
+Lobster Salad, and Champagne, mighty merry, and so Home betimes mighty
+comfortable, and methinks I do like a Children's more than any other
+Evening Party, to see the Children and their Elders also, play the Fool,
+and to break up, and get Home early, and so with Content and Comfort to
+Bed.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _GRANDE REVIEW._
+
+                                            WEDNESDAY, _May 15, 1850_.]
+
+
+Up, and to St. James's Park, to see on the Parade Ground, the
+Inspection, as usual upon the Queen's Birthday, appointed to be
+celebrated beforehand this Day, of a Battalion of the Coldstream and
+Grenadier Guards, and a Troop of the Royal Horse Guards they call the
+Blues. Through a Friend at Court, got, with a choice Few, a good Place,
+nigh the Sentry with the Colours, where he stood to keep the Ground, and
+the Publique at a Distance, where I also wish always to keep yet pleased
+to see them. The Troops reviewed by the Commander in Chief, Field
+Marshal the DUKE of WELLINGTON, and with him the other Field Marshals,
+Prince ALBERT and the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE, made Field Marshals I suppose
+for the martial Deeds they would no doubt have done, if they had ever
+had the chance in the Field. Field Marshal the PRINCE, the Colonel of
+the Scots Fusiliers, and Field Marshal the Royal DUKE of the
+Coldstream, and the great Field Marshal the DUKE of WELLINGTON, Colonel
+of the Grenadier Guards. Besides the Field Marshals, at their Heels a
+great Staff of Officers, of Lancers and Hussars, and the EARL of
+CARDIGAN among them, looking mighty fierce. The DUKE of WELLINGTON at
+their Head riding gently along inspecting his Regiment standing in their
+big Caps of Bearskin, which do seem much too big for them though they
+mostly six feet high, a mighty brave sight, yet a comical, as the men
+stood shouldering Arms with their Heels together, and their Toes turned
+out like the little Girls and Boys I did see dance at a Children's
+Party. Glad to get so good a View as I had of the Duke, and wonderful to
+see how well and firm he sits his horse, and he now fourscore-and-two
+Years old, and to think what a great General he is and do look, and with
+his Eagle Nose, very much resemble _Mr. Punch_. The Officers of the
+Staff bestriding their Horses very gallant, and the Horses most noble
+Animals and their prancing very pretty. Good Sport to see a Dragoon ride
+keeping Order, flourish and point drawn Sword at a fat old Woman who
+with a cotton Umbrella and Arms spread all abroad in Terror, run out of
+his Way, and Policemen with their Staves closing in as it were to catch
+the old Woman. Other Policemen rushing to and fro, help the Soldiers
+keep the Ground, and the British Publique back, and beat back them that
+would fain press too forward with their staves. Pleasant in a Place
+where plenty of Elbow-Room, to behold the British Publique, around one
+in the Midst the Likeness of JOHN BULL, perched on a Barrel, jostled one
+against the other, push and scramble and tread upon one another's Toes,
+and tumble topsy-turvy some of them and Head over Heels; when I had got
+comfortable Standing in the meanwhile with a Dozen or so of the Better
+Sort, and two or three Poodle and Terrier Dogs, in the Middle of the
+Parade where the Troops were inspected, got in I suppose by Favour, like
+me. But, good Lack, to think what playing at Soldiers now a holiday
+Review like this do seem, and think at the same time what serious Work
+the DUKE of WELLINGTON hath seen and done in his Day, which how many
+seem to forget, and almost think him a Humbug, and if ever and how soon
+we shall have the like to do again, and find another such a Man, to do
+it.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A PIC-NIC._
+
+                                             THURSDAY, _May 23, 1850_.]
+
+
+With my Wife to a Pic-nic Party. I to content her more than to please
+myself, and to think how I always study her Pleasure more than my own,
+and sacrifice my own Inclinations to hers always. For I prefer to eat
+good Things off a Plate or a Table, and not upon my Knees. Besides, the
+Fly hired to carry us from Home and back, cost me three Guineas. The
+Pic-Nic in my Lord Bilberry's Park, where the Ruins of an old Abbey,
+open by my Lord's Allowance, People come to see from all Parts,
+gipsying, and making merry and dancing basely among the Ruins. These
+with mouldering Arches and Stones overgrown with Moss, and Lichen, and
+Ivy, mighty venerable, and set off by a Youth with long Hair and
+turned-down Collar, leaning on a broken Pillar, striking an attitude and
+staring at the Sky, as though musing on Infinity but in Truth fancying
+himself an Object of Admiration. But, he wrapt up in that Mistake, and
+forgetting his Meals, the rest intent altogether on the good Things from
+Fortnum and Mason's and the Pastry Cook's; and good Lack to see how
+they, to the Number of nigh forty Men, Women, and Girls, pitch into the
+Ham and Chicken, and the Cold Meat and Lobster Salad, and Pigeon and
+Veal and Ham Pie, and therewith drink bottled Ale and Stout, whereof a
+fat Serving Man in Livery, hardly drawing a Quart Bottle, mighty
+comical, and also a Page, who, carrying Plates, kick against a Wasps'
+Nest and raise the Wasps about his Ears and there he stand fighting them
+with a Knife, his Face in the Centre of the swarm the Image of Horror.
+The Younger Men mostly mighty Polite, they, and especially one with a
+fine slim Figure and hooked Nose, with constrained Postures, making
+Obeisance as they serve the Girls with Beer and Wine, whereof they as
+well as the Men mostly drink their Whack, and pretty to see how one most
+elegant Damsel seem falling into a happy Dream and how with her Hair
+flowing all adown she droop her Eyelids, muzzy. But some did get full of
+Fun, and a little Rogue I see pour the Heel-tap of a Champagne Glass
+into the Face of a Youngster, who, lying on his Back, had fallen on
+Sleep. The Managers of the Collection also mighty attentive, doing the
+Honours, and rare to see one of them, a fine portly Man, carve Slices
+off Great Round of Beef, in high Glee. But another rising from his Camp
+Stool to hand a Plate to a fine fat Dame, she and her pretty Daughter
+suddenly frighted by a Toad and Frog, which crawl and hop towards them
+out of some Flags by the Water, start back in Horror, and startle him
+and make him upset several Wine Glasses and the Water Can, and stamp on
+and smash a Plate. Among the Elders worth noting a lean old Professor,
+and his Neighbour a smug Lawyer how they gave their whole minds to most
+serious Eating, and also one or two of the younger Men did nought but
+stuff themselves; but most made Love; and pretty to see a loving Couple
+clink Glasses together, while other Pairs having had enough, saunter and
+strut about among and outside the Ruins. Good Lack to think what a Deal
+we ate and drank between us, and how famished on one Hand looked a lean
+old Labourer in a Smock Frock with a chubby but hungry little Clown,
+eyeing the picked Bones, while a Cur on the other did, in his Mouth, run
+away with the Wing of a Fowl.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _VAUXHALL._
+
+                                              MONDAY, _July 15, 1850_.]
+
+
+This Evening to Vauxhall, where a Gala Night and much Company, mostly of
+the middling Sort, except the worse. Very few Gentlemen of any Condition
+do now visit this Place, but plenty of the whippersnapper Sparks that
+Shopmen used to call Gents, and a very good Word to distinguish them,
+although a vile, as much as to say Snobs. The better Sort of all there
+chiefly Medical Students. No Place for Ladies, but here and there a
+respectable but stupid Farmer from the Country with his Wife or
+Daughter. A bare, faded kind of a Garden, patched with shabby Trees,
+variegated Lamps hanging to their Branches among smoky Leaves. The Lamps
+do seem the main Attraction, the Bill of Entertainments advertise 10,000
+additional every Night, which seems great Folly. However, the Outlines
+of all the Buildings picked out with parti-coloured Lamps mighty gay. A
+wooden Building on one Side called the Rotunda, where an Orchestra and
+they sing, and opposite an Alcove where a Band in Uniform play at the
+same Time Tunes which the Gents and their Partners dance to, waltzing
+and spinning round like Teetotums, droll to look upon. The Partners some
+pretty but nearly all ill-looking, and one or two horribly
+ill-favoured, and to see the People sit and look on, and among them a
+fat Country Wife, and prim starched old Maid very thin, make me ashamed.
+Also a fat singing Woman sung a Song, not at all to my Liking, and did
+throw herself about and make faces. Another Alcove hung with Lamps in
+Festoons, and in the Middle a Circus Theatre and a Crowd at the Door
+crowding to See a Dancing Girl jump through Hoops and dance upon
+Horseback. Other Alcoves with Seats for Eating and Drinking, and they
+eat Ham and Chicken, and I a Plate cost me 2s. 6d., and the Ham mighty
+thin, which is Vauxhall Fashion, and they drink Arrack, a Spirit I was
+curious to taste, and did and never shall again. But what did please me
+was a Drink newly come in from America, and called Sherry Cobbler, made
+of Sherry and Orange and lumps of Ice, and sucked up into the Mouth with
+a Straw, which to see two Gents do for the first Time did take me
+mightily, and I did do likewise, mighty cool and refreshing and did
+delight me much, and three Cobblers cost me 3 Shillings. Amused to see
+the Gents strut about so jaunty smoking Cigars, I think Cabbage Leaf
+steeped in Tobacco-Juice. They also drink Rhubarb Wine they call
+Champagne cost them 10s. a bottle, and bottled Stout, and good Lack to
+see the Lots of empty Bottles on the by-Tables! An old Fellow with a
+Pot-Paunch that had had too much Drink fallen asleep, a comical Sight,
+whilst pretty to see the Waiters dance Attendance with the Refreshments,
+and hear the hollaing and shouting, and altogether a good Deal of Fun,
+but dreary; but a Family of little Boys and Girls with their fat Father
+mighty merry, and clap their Hands to see the Balloon go up in another
+Part of the Gardens. A grand Display of Fireworks to conclude diverted
+me too, and so Home and to Bed, hoping after my Evening's Entertainment
+I shall not wake with a Headache in the Morning.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _A SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION._
+
+                               FRIDAY (_further date wanting in MS._).
+
+                                     WEEKLY EVENING MEETING.]
+
+
+This Evening to the Royal Institution, to hear Professor OWEN, the
+Hunterian Professor to Surgeons' College, Lecturer on Comparative
+Anatomy and Physiology, on the Nature of Limbs. To the Institution
+early, to the Theatre, and there got a good Place, the Theatre already
+filling and soon crammed like any Playhouse where some leading Actor
+make his appearance in a great Part, Gallery and all, as they say, to
+the Ceiling. The Audience sitting on semi-circular Benches covered with
+red Stuff, Tier above Tier, behind the select Visitors to the Front in
+reserved Chairs. A mighty droll Sea of Faces, mostly wry, with Eyes
+peering and squinting, many through Spectacles, though some
+well-featured, one here and there a great Head, but few handsome, Ladies
+excepted, a good Sprinkling of belles, and they look mighty pretty, the
+rather by Comparison with their Elders, the strong-minded Women, and the
+Philosophers around them, for the greater Part to look at, as the Vulgar
+Phrase is, a rum Lot. In the Centre of the reserved Seats an Arm-Chair
+for the Chairman facing the Lecture Table, whereon Prints and Papers, a
+Book and a Water-Carafe and Tumbler. Behind on a Showboard on the Wall
+Diagrams and Plates of Skeletons of Extinct Animals, Fish, and Flying
+Lizards, and a Dinotherium, and Mastodon, and Mammoth, and withal a
+human Skull, the People contemplate, and the Ladies and Damsels even,
+with Complacence, and to think all those pretty Creatures have Skeletons
+in themselves! By-and-by at eight, enter the Chairman and take the
+Chair, a fine fat portly Man with a great Jole, and solemn Look, mighty
+noble, and was, a Medical Student say, an awful Swell. Then in come the
+Lecturer, the Professor, to great clapping of Hands, and he make his
+Bow, and begin. I mighty taken with his Discourse, and to see him point
+out with a long Wand he lean upon while he lecture, the Bones and other
+Parts in the Diagrams of the Skeletons behind him he Describe, and
+explain how this and that Bone, the same as a human Bone, exist only in
+a different Form in Animals, and strange the Pterodactyl's Wing-bone a
+great little Finger. Lack to think of such Animals nothing remain but
+fossil Bones, and the Animals, Geologists say, did live and die Ages
+before Adam, shake some People's Faith. But Mr. HOLDFAST think Geology
+Bosh, extinct Quadrupeds Monsters destroyed in ancient Times by the
+Heroes. Likewise the Fish Lizards and Pterodactyles Dragons, ST. GEORGE
+and the Dragon all true, and ST. GEORGE did verily slay a Dragon, and
+Accounts of real Reptiles under the name of Dragons handed down by
+Tradition; their Bones now dug up out of the Earth witness Legends true,
+and no Fable, and reconcile Orthodoxy with Science. However he do not
+say he believe they belch Fire and Smoke. So my Thoughts a little
+wandering from Professor OWEN'S Lecture, to listen attentively, but the
+Air so foul with much Breath and burning of Gas that I at last nearly
+asleep and fain to pinch myself to keep awake. Strange, in the chief of
+Chemical Lecture Rooms such bad Ventilation. But to think what a
+Philosopher Professor OWEN is and can tell an unknown Animal whether
+Bird or Beast by a single Bone, and the French may brag of Monsieur
+CUVIER, but England have as good Reason to be proud of Professor OWEN.
+
+
+
+
+    _THE CITIES SERIES_
+
+  A brilliant series of Drawings by Eminent Artists.
+
+  In Decorative Covers, 8-1/4 x 5 inches, 1/-net.
+
+  With the Illustrations in Photogravure mounted on hand-made
+  paper. Bound in Parchment Boards, with mounted Illustrations,
+  2/6 net.
+
+    _I. A LITTLE BOOK OF LONDON_
+  Twenty-five Drawings in Photogravure by JOSEPH PENNELL.
+
+    _II. THE GREAT NEW YORK_
+  Twenty-four Drawings in Photogravure by JOSEPH PENNELL.
+
+    _III. THE CITY OF THE WEST_
+  Twenty-four Drawings in Photogravure by JESSIE M. KING.
+
+    _IV. THE GREY CITY OF THE NORTH_
+  Twenty-four Drawings by JESSIE M. KING.
+
+      _Uniform Volume_
+    _MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF YE ENGLYSHE_
+  Forty-nine Drawings by RICHARD DOYLE, to which are added
+  MR. PIPS HIS DIARY, by PERCIVAL LEIGH.
+
+  T. N. FOULIS
+
+  91 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON, W.C.
+  & AT 15 FREDERICK STREET, EDINBURGH
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+
+Multiple spellings not changed:
+
+Multiple spellings are left as in the original.
+
+fashionable, fashonable
+
+both "birthday" and "birth-day" appear in the text
+
+both "Club-House" and "Club-house"
+
+both "Exeter-Hall" p.092 and "Exeter Hall"
+
+both "Pic-Nic" and "Pic-nic"
+
+both "raylway" and "raylwaye"
+
+different spellings of "street"
+
+
+
+
+
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