Punch: Punch (19.1850)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

MR. BRIGGS STARTS ON HIS FISHING EXCURSION.

THE QUEEN AT SEA.

We could not have a more appro-
priate Sovereign for the British Isles
than her present Majesty, who is
perfectly at home at sea, and who
furnishes an excellent representative
of Britannia, of wave-ruling cele-
brity. Among the luggage put on
board the royal yacht for the con-
templated cruise to Ostend, were a
cow and a piano ; a couple of articles
showing that the Queen apprehended
nothing from the roughness of the
weather, to disturb her ordinary ar-
rangements, but that she would be
able to enjoy her tea and music as
usual. The wind being somewhat
boisterous, it might have been feared
that the piano would have been
raised a good deal higher than con-
cert pitch by the pitching of the
vessel. As to the cow, its notions of
a toss up would have been a little ex-
tended by the freaks of Neptune, but
there would be no immediate danger
to the animal, unless any unskilful
hand on board should have got to the
piano, and struck up the tune the
cow died of, in an unguarded moment.

Me. B. won't have a man with him, as he thinks he can

manage a punt by himself ; and the consequence is, he
is obliged to go to bed while his things are dried,
having upset himself, as a matter of course.

THE IMPERIAL BAGMAN.

It strikes us that the " President'3
Tour" is very much in the style of a
commercial traveller, travelling about
the country, visiting the different
towns, for imperial orders. Whether
Louis Napoleon will return with
the crown and sceptre, which he has
started (according to that popular
informant, Rumour, who is the Edi-
tor of the poor man's Moniteur,) with
the object of bringing back with
him, appears very doubtful. The
returns which the Maison Napoleon
et Cie have received at Paris from
Besancon, and the different parts of
Alsatia, are: "Very fiat—nothing
doing."

lord torrington's arms.

The Whigs are about to grant
new honours to the governor of Cey-
lon. In memory of his administra-
tion of that island he is henceforth
to quarter a Shot Buddhist Priest,
and a Taxed Dog Proper. Mott
" Ceylon les regies."

Railway Intelligence.

Mr. Punch is authorised to contradict, in his strongest manner, a
malicious report that Lord Brougham had been engaged to work all
the trams up and down, on the Eastern Railway, vice all the late hands,
discharged.

A Return in Kind.

We have often chronicled the visits of King Leopold to Queen
Victoria. At last Queen Victoria has paid her return visit to
King Leopold. Let us hope that Flemish hospitality, unlike Elemish
book-publishing, may produce something better than a contrefaqon Beige,