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Punch — 8.1845

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January to June, 1845
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64 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE.

IL ' I /

The neighbourhood of Camden Town was thrown.into a state of fright- had reached that state of equestrian destitution, that the hounds had
ful excitement, by a report that the Government express, carrying the already marked it for their own. They could hardly be blamed for pre-
whole of the correspondence of the afternoon delivery, had met with a most cipitancy, or charged with an unfeeling degree of haste, for the horse (to
alarming accident. j paraphrase a line in Virginius,) had been reduced so low, that

It was rumoured that something had happened similar to what has oc- I " Nothing liv'd 'twixt it and dog's-meat."

curred in the Alps during the severest weather, when the wolves have Lifter considerable difficulty the dogs were beaten off ; and the rider having
been known to come down into the neighbouring villages, and carry off the ; been released from his perilous position, the horse was received with open
cattle from sheer sharp-settishness. arms by its proprietor.

Our Reporter, on repairing to the vicinity, ascertained that an indivi- We ought, however, to remonstrate against the practice of supplying
dual, wearing the livery of Her Majesty's Post Office, had passed through the Postal department of the country with horses whose appearance jus-
the High-street with a pack of hounds yelping savagely at his heels ; and tines expectations among itinerant dogs, which it would be dreadful to see
as many of the dogs were unknown in the neighbourhood, it was conjee- realised. An animal, with one leg in the cat's-meat barrow, and tottering
tured that the number must have been accumulating all the way from St. on the verge of the knacker's yard, is not the sort of brute that ought to

Martin's-le-Grand, where the man on horseback is supposed to have
started from. It seems that the horse on which the officer was mounted

bear the weight of that system of correspondence which is the keystone
of our commercial greatness.

THE " JEWISH MIND."

Advertisements have appeared in the papers soliciting subscrip-
tions for " The Strangers' Friend Society ;" we believe, a very
benevolent and valuable body. However, one of their advertisements
is headed with a text from Scripture ; of which text it is said-—

" The hardest, most magnetic-astringent Jewish mind must dissolve, and fall
prostrate before it."

What a " magnetic-astringent mind" is, we know not. We doubt,
too, if it be defined by Locke, or Brown, or any other metaphysician.
We can, however, gather thus much from the context, that the \
directors, or whoever they may be, of the Strangers' Friend Society, 1
whilst they seek charity, have an odd notion of that heavenly virtue. I
It would appear that they conceive charity to consist in pounds, '
shillings, and pence; and that the best and most orthodox way of |
opening the pockets of the faithful is to tickle a pet prejudice against ]
the Jews. Even " the hardest, most magnetic-astringent Jewish
mind must dissolve," say the Strangers' Friend Society ; " and there-
fore, Christians, how can you help melting ? " Let us suggest to this
Society that there is a sort,of charity that is not tangible in aj
hunker's account ; and that if it be their mission to pour balm into
the wounds of the unfortunate, they can fulfil that healing goodness
none the worse for not spirting their gall at any portion of the great
family of man.

A BURNING SHAME.

The lights along the Hanrpstead Road still persist in turning day into
night, and burning for several hours after p.m. They look very rakish
from having been up all night, and certainly to our eyes have a most
sickly appearance, as if every lamp had been a little more or less
elevated. The question resolves itself into this : Is naphtha during the
day better than gas during the night 1 This double consumption, too,
seems very much like burning the candle at both ends ; and if Diogenes
were to visit St. Pancras, he would certainly imagine the parish ha*d
cribbed this idea of noonday illumination from him as a sort of highway-
advertisement for " an honest man." If this be really the case, let us
hope there is naphtha enough in England to supply the parish with the
means of testing this curious experiment. Once ascertained, only consider
what an invaluable guide it will be to ail parishes in the election of their
Churchwardens and Select Vestries !

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We beg to acknowledge the receipt of the half of a five pound
note for Mrs. Reston.

Prinied by William Bradbury, of No. 6, Voik Place, Stoke Newington, and Frederick Mullets ETans,
of No. 7, Church Row, Stoke Newington, both in the County of Middlesex, Printer!, ar their
Office in Lombard Street, in the Precinct of Whitefriara, in the City of London; and published by
tAem, at No. 92, Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Bride's, in the City of London.— SiruADAs,
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