Punch: Punch (11.1846)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

RAMSGATE INTELLIGENCE.

ositively this Cockney combi-
nation of .Naples and Baden-
BadeD, where the sun and the sea
make a very good substitute
tor Italian skks and scenery,
while the raffling and wheels-of-
- fortune give all the air of Ger-
% man gambling—this fashionable
resort for unfashionable people—
is just now at its acme of gaiety.
The German green-baize band
has materially contributed to
the fascinations of the place by
giving concerts on the cliffs,
and turning the Ramsgate Rocks

THE NEW MINISTRY.

Among the various lists that were handed about during the inter-
regnum, the following appears to have escaped observation. It came
into our hands from a correspondent " upon whom we are in the habit
of relying," as Mrs. Gamp says of the authentic sources from which
she is continually deriving her mares' nests :—

First. Lord of the Treasury . , Mr. Petsr Borthwick.

Master of the Horse . . . . Lord G. Bentinck.

Lord Chancellor, and Keeper of the i ^r
Royal Conscience. . . . . J *

j. A. Roebuck.

Attorney-General . . . . . Mr. Bodkin.

Solicitor-General ..... Mr. Commissioner Dubois.

Chancellor of the Exthequer . . . Mr. Alderman- Gibbs.

Secretary of Stale for the Home Depart- I „ „ _

, > Mr. Benjanin Dishaeli.

ment ...... J

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs . Signor Lablache.

Colonial Secretary .... Mr. Paul Bedford.

into a huge Rock Harmonicon. Postmaster-General . . . . The Earl oe Aldboroujh.

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland . . . Lord William Paget.
Governor-General of India . . . Ramo Samke.
Commander in Chief .... Colonel Sibthorpe.
Lord Chamberlain . . , . . Mr. Widdicombe.
First Lord of the Admiralty. . . Mr. T. P. Cooke.

This really excellent band is
indefatigable in its efforts to fill
the air with melody, and mix
the musical wind of their instru-
ments with the salt breezes of
the ocean. An opera air amal-
gamates very nicely with an air T* Wl11 be/een that the above appointments would have comprised
of Bolus and Neptune's union of parties which is thought m the present day absolutely

crotchets accord remarkably well essent/al to .the stability of a government. Though some of the new
with the demisemiquavers of'ministers might have been objected to it must be allowed that the
Donizetti. Occasionally the 1 ^"eiuf to mtroduce " a11 the talents was at least a bold one,
band is put in requisition for ™h?ther such a government could have held power through an entire
private parties ; but as it would sess™n m^ be a nfner of doubt' but lt mi§ht' at aU eJent8' havf ^
be rather too powerful for the ^^nient * GX1Stmg circumstances' t0 have tned the

small Ramsgate tenements, it exPenment-____

has been ingeniously arranged to
make an orchestra of the coal-

cellar, or turn the dusthole into NEW PATENTS

a bandbox, from which the I

notes of the performers issue ; Mr. Dennis Smith, of Patrick Street, Dublin, has taken out a
with more softness than if they patent for a new Carriage, with a pair of horses both before and
were stationed in the apartments behind. It is on the principle of the Ant and Bee steamboats, which
where the dancing is proceeding, have a rudder at each end, to save the trouble of turning. The new
The spirited proprietors of the Victoria Bazaar have added a large carriage has not been tried yet, as some little difficulty has been ex-
assortment of sixpenny tooth-brushes to their already valuable stock, perienced in inducing the horses to run backward ; but it is expected
and these useful articles are being rapidly carried off by the lucky , that with a pair of good jibbers this difficulty will soon be got over,
holders of sixpenny tickets gained by the payment of a shilling to the
Wheel of Fortune, which keeps the flower of the Cockney youth in one
continued whirl of excitement. The elegant Snobbins and his fasci-
nating sisters, are constantly coming forward to make the three that
are wanted to complete the number for a two-shilling chance in the
raffle for a papier-mache blotting-case, to be raffled for by sixty
subscribers—the highest to win the case and the lowest the blotting-
paper.

At one of the Libraries the enterprising lessee has secured the
services of a harp-player in real mustachios, a juvenile pianist in spec-
tacles and turn-down collar, to give the appearance of a student of
the "classical" in music, and a tenor singer with a base falsetto and a
great facility for going down very low, which he accomplishes by
bobbing down at the end of each song under the music-stool, which he
uses as a kind of green-room, to retire to in the intervals of his vocal
efforts.

The commercial arrangements of the town are on the same liberal
scale as heretofore. The marquee is munificently provided with two

the new double-action carriage.

Mr. Septimus SnARrE has taken out a patent for a new vehicle
which is to combine the utile of an omnibus with the dulce of a

morning papers in the evening and one evening paper on the day fol- j waterinsr-cart. that is to say, every omnibus for the future is to be its
lowing; while the Magazines for September, 1845^ give pleasing variety own watering-cart. To accomplish this, a portable cistern will be

to the green-baize table of that establishment. The delightful apathy affixed tQ thegbottom t of thFe omnibus which
of the towns-people to the exciting news of the day is very pleasing, and ; lo ag it is ^ motion*and cease the moment it
proves now seclusion dulls the appetite for the gratification of morbid

appetite for the gr
curiosity.

Though the papers are brought down daily by the earliest train,
such is the Arcadian innocence of the inhabitants, that the bundle of
journals is permitted to lie unopened at the Railway Station until some
visitor, vitiated with a taste for early intelligence, rouses the natives
into a state of consciousness that the papers have arrived, and are to
be had by the trouble of going for them.

We regret to observe, that the Margate Slipper trade seems to have
fallen into decay, for we have only counted three pair in wear during
a whole week, and two of these were on the feet of a glazier's man and
a sweep, who had been desired to change their shoes on being admitted
to clean a window and sweep a chimney.

will keep playing as
stops.

WANTED, A GOOD PAIR OF HANDS. Punctuality indispensable; as
they are expected to be on the premises the first thing in the morning, and
the last thing at night. Apply, immediately, at the Horse-Guards'Clock. THE new watering OMNIBUS,