Punch (10.1846)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

THE TETHERED MINISTER.

(A. PLAGIARISM FROM EDWIN LANDSEER.)

THE BRITISH L A B 0 U R E R.
A MASQUE, AND ANTI-MASQUE.

Scene—The Dininj-Roon) of an Agricultural Association after Dinner. Scene—The cro/s-roads at Goatacre—a Meeting of Wiltshire !. i' i.urert.

squire. william parry.

On, what a lot is the true British labourer's, To repeal of the corn-laws 'squire makes this objection,

Happy and innocent, healthy and fat! That't will ruin the labourer, all the land o'er

Look at the serf of the Danube or Vistula—
Protection alone can keep England from that,

duke.

The castle in England stands hard by the cottage,
The labourer in Englaud may come to the lord

If he wants curry powder to sauce his thin pottage :—
Then perish the League who'd mar such sweet accord !

But how's Free Trade to do what's been done by Protection !
Or how starve us worse than we Ve been starved before?

william burchell.

I've heard tell how the peasant, in ages long vanished,
(I can scarcely believe it) could sometimes buy meat.

Now beef from the board of the cottage is banished :
I've seen veal and pork, but don't know how they eat.

rector. james pegler.

Oh, where is the land that has not got some poor in't ?

(And the labourer's improvident, very, I own,)
But they 're "felices" still, "sua si, bona norint;"

And the church of the poor man is England's alone

farmer.

In our blessed isle, if to work he's unwilling,
The labourer of England can do as he please—

Our vicar still preaches of " love of one's neighbour,"
But that's a scarce article, friends, hereabout,

I was shut in the house, when I couldn't find labour,
And put into gaol wheD I looked for it out.

CHORUS OF LABOURERS.

The gentry say dearth and distress are all gammon,
And shut up their hearts to the lab'rer's appeal

Free to sell us the toil of his day for a shilling, ( Tho' to them it seems humbug to talk about famine,

TVee to take, in the New Poor-law Union, his ease. | To us 'tis no humbug the famine to feel !

THE VOICE OF THE COUNTRY.

Mr. Sebjeaj»t Adams concluded a very eloquent address to the GraDd
Jury at, the Middlesex Sessions, with the impressive words, " In the name
of the country I thank you." Tbe learned SerjeaDt took a good deal upon
himself wben he declared his single voice to be the embodiment of the
public opinion of the whole of the empire. In future, Adams must be
considered as the concentrated essence of British sentiment.

To lord William Lennox.

His Lordship, in his oration at Chichester, said, " he wished*—heartily
wished—that any of the Anti Corn-Law League were present, that he
might attack them !" Punch presents his humble respects to his Lordship,
and begs to inform him that, every morning, an early train starts for
Manchester ! Further particulars to be bad at the Euston Square
Station.