Punch (12.1847)

84

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

THE SNOW AND Tme STATUE.

at least, our children's liberties. The right of assembly at a
Punch and Judy show must be conceded. We must have
a guarantee that the sliding-scale shall be abolished as far as
the pavements are concerned, and that the principles of pro-
tection shall still be adhered to.

We have every hope that the next beadle of Fulham will
evince the reforming and liberal spirit shown by the new Pope,
whom, we believe, our candidate has closely studied. There is
an important omission observable in his canvassing letter, for
he omits to state the number of his children. We believe the
children's qualification is indispensable. Had he been able to
throw nine children into large ttpe, or even to put a baby
in arms into small caps, there would have been an approach
to our sympathies which can only be reached through such &
medium.

a i^ealtlj to tf)e llopc.

Here's a health unto Pios, the ninth of the name,

Here's a health unto Italy's hope ;
Though we 're sure to set Exeter Hall in a flame

By proposing the health of the Pope.
But, wherever we find him, we honour a man

Of improvement who forwards the work ;—
Let him do all the good that he possibly can.

And we 're ready to drink the Grand Turk.

Por right feeling, with masculine wisdom combined,

An intense admiration we own,
Whomsoe'er they distinguish, indeed, never mind,

If they grace the Pontifical throne.
He who puts down abu?es and pu>hes reforms

In the danger of poison and knife.
Like a rare gallant fellow, our sympathy warms.

And we wish him success and long life!

One, and only one Briton has e'er had the luck

To be raised to the Fishermen's see ;
But Pope Pics displays such decision and pluck,

One might think that a Briton was he.
Here's his Holiness' very good health, then, once mere,

The tiara long rest on his pate !
And may Pios the Ninth, ere his Popedom is o'er.

Earn the title of Pics the Great.

LOUIS-PHILIPPE'S iMISTAKE.

A new appeal has this week been made to the public on behalf of the j Among the foreign intelligence in the Mormng Post, we read
Wellington Statue, which has appeared in the character of a poor frozen-out i t'ial

equestrian. The snow has Stood upon its arms, nestled in its cocked hat, ' " Through the intervention of M. Bresson, the King of the French has,
fringed its nose, conglomerated in its eyes, and stagnated on its saddle. The : it appears, fomuiiy demanded unapa^e for the Duchess of Montpensjkk.'
snow would melt the coldest heart to consent to a removal of the monster, which I Though Lotjis-Philippe has been styled the Napoleon
is only catching cold so long as it remains in its present position. The horse, i of peace? we have always considered him too old a soldier to
which seemed almost to speak a short time ago, is getting hoarser every day ; I be taken in by anybody. That he should not have known
and the Duke, who seemed but lately as brilliant as a bright poker, is hourly Detter than to let his son go and marry, without taking care
getting dingier and dingier. The original stood the firing of Waterloo, but the tDat tne iady's dowry should first be legally tied down, quiie
copy cannot even tolerate the smoke of London. He is beginning to get black astonishes us". As His Majesty is his own minister, so, we
in the face, as if with anger at the treatment he has experienced. imagine, he is his own lawyer, and has Accordingly the sort of

client that such lawyers are proverbially said to have. Is
it possible that, with the value of Spanish bonds before his
eyes, he can have trusted the Government of Spain ? He
may now whistle for his daughter-in-law's apanage; and we
think that M. Jullien should compose an Orleans Quadrille,
in which His Majesty might be supposed to execute such a solo
on the piccolo.

It may, perhaps, be surmised that this demand of an apanage
will be made the pretext for annexation of Spain ; but we.
doubt, after all, if th? King of the French has an eye to
the Spanish crown. We suspect he thinks a great deal more
of five-shilling-pieces than of crowns. It strikes us that all
his ambition, in the Montpensier marriage case, was simply,
that his son should marry a lady with money. His disap-
pointment will only increase the derision which he has incurred
by the transaction in question. We doubt not that, in a short
time, he will be saluted by the Parisian mob -with the cry of
" How are you off for your apanage.'" which, the moment this
number of Punch is smuggled across the Channel, is sure to be
translated into French.

©ur Btrnjugfjts anti our IScaoUs

Such is the inspiriting cry that now resounds through the parish of Fulham.
The glorious motto enters the parish at the first turning to the right, then
takes the second to the left, then the first to the right again, and there it is,
filling the whole parochial air with its echoes. '■ Our birthrights and our
beadles," is the cry that is now coming home to our businesses and bosoms.
Fulham, is at the present moment beadleless. There is a sort of cocked-hat
interregnum, during which the staff lies neglected in the hands of nobody, and
the energies of the cane are dormant. Anarchy is in the streets of the
beadle-bereft district ; juvenile rebellion throws the snow-ball, cuts out the
slide, pelts the pump, and talks in church on a Sunday.

It is a healthy sign there is little competition for the vacant collar, cuffs,
cape—or victorine, and cane of beadlery. It is evident that absolute power
is no longer coveted, and that a mixed constitutional beadle—like that in the
Quadrant, who is associated with the "civil" power—must bp very preferable
to the pure despotism in beadles, like that which keeps Fulham under the
bcadlian thumb during the present century.

As the parish is to have a new beadle, now is the time to strike for Ty-rol- \ ^^J^**^^*^,J$£'StiXg£'&F£; fflfcWS

Or, rather, for Tol de rol, and Liber-tea. Let us aU determine tO VOte for Middlesex, Printer*, »t their Office, In Lombard Street, in the Preeinet of "ni'*-

no beadle but the one who will give us a constitution to secure our own, or ^^tc^^^^^l!^^^X^^ a^