Punch (8.1845)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

THE NEXT ANTI-CORN LAW LEAGUE BAZAAR.

We are fully justified in announcing the probability, that, on the next Our countrywomen, who are never backward in giving theiraid to any
occasion of an Anti-Corn Law Bazaar being held, one of the principal project which they consider worthy of support, would no doubt exercise

stalls will be occupied by Sir Robert Peel, in his character of Prime
Minister. It is believed that the Right Honourable Baronet would have
given his services on the present occasion if they had been duly asked;
for he has shown himself anxious to promote the cause of free trade by
all the means in his power ; and he would hardly have refused so simple
a service as that of presiding at a stall for the sale of fancy articles. He
would no doubt have entered on the task with considerable gusto if the

their taste and ingenuity in supplying fancy articles for Sir Robert to
dispose of. They might manufacture a variety of windmills and other
fancy goods, of a sort that would be considered appropriate to the
Premier's political tendencies. We fully anticipate the pleasure of
attending at such a bazaar on some future occasion. More wonderful
things have come and are coming to pass, as a reference to the Premier's
political life will abundantly testify. His being an Anti-Corn Law

dolls and puppets had been made to represent political characters belong- Leaguer in 1848, would not be more surprising or unnatural than his
ing to his own party, for he would naturally have exerted himself to the being, in 1845, the proposer of an increased grant to Maynooth.
utmost to get rid of them.

A LUSUS NATURiE.

egg-cup. A few apples " stand on," like supernumeraries in an
IMPROMPTU HOLIDAYS, opera, all through the dinner ; and though there is positively nothing

else, the effect is so good, that one rises from the dinner-table with

Instead of adopting the ordinary common-place plan of adver- the conYicti0n that there has been abundance of everything,
tising excursion-trains, the Directors of the South-Eastern Railway 1
have had the happy idea of surprising the public into an Impromptu
Holiday at Folkstone. It is a -well-known truism, that an unexpected
pleasure is always sweeter than one w hich has long been anticipated;
and it must follow, as a matter of course, that the holiday excursion
for which we are not at all prepared must be more delightful than
one which we have been counting on.

The ingenious plan of the South-Eastern Railway Directors is to
advertise the trains to start for Folkstone, and the steamers to start
for Boulogne, at certain hours. The traveller leaves London by
railway, and on arriving at Folkstone, he learns the gratifying
and unexpected fact, that he has got a day's holiday before him, for
the steamer will not start for Boulogne until several hours after the
time advertised. If he has a family with him, the treat is of course
the greater; and, making the Pavilion Hotel his head-quarters, he
can run in and out between meal-times to view the Lions of Folk-
stone. It is true that these are somewhat scarce ; and if the
Impromptu Holiday Excursion arrangements are to be frequently
carried out, we should recommend a branch from Madame Tussaud's
or the Chinese Exhibition, to be established at Folkstone, for if it
were only one figure from each collection, it would be better than
nothing, which is the present amount of amusement to be found in
that ancient but dilapidated and dry-rot-eaten old borough.

There is however one very curious exhibition in the town, and
that is the ingenious method of manufacturing a dessert at the
ordinaries, a process, which—considering the smallness of the
material—is truly astonishing. In the centre is a tremendous wine-
cooler, which Stands With the Utmost COolneSS, perfectly empty, I Printed by William Bradbury, of No. S, Voik Place,t Stoke Newlngton ^d Frederick Mullett Evsns
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he Court Newsman tells us that the Queen
)> and Prince Albert postponed their visit to
Claremont on account of the Royal children
having been " unexpectedly attacked by the
hooping-cough." The Court Newsman being a
perfect courtier, has, of course, no right to
expect that anything so common as the hoop-
ing-cough should approach the Royal infants.
Our contemporary appears to be utterly taken
aback at the idea of the vulgar hooping-cough
having made its appearance in the nursery at
j. Buckingham palace. How it got there is a
© marvel to the Court Newsman, who uses the
word " unexpectedly " to mark his sense of the
impertinent intrusion which the malady has been guilty of.

AMUSING IRONY.

Some Birmingham workmen have presented Prince Albert with a
watch, key, and seals, in admiration of "his patronage of the Fine Arts.''
Bravo ! This is the first time we ever knew the Brummagem people were
given to joking.