Punch (20.1851)

PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 197

BIVOUAC IN THE PARK THE NIGHT BEFORE THE EXHIBITION.

A HOSPITAL THAT BEATS BEDLAM.

Mr. Punch is very happy to see that the " London Homoeopathic
Hospital" is largely advertised, under the patronage of that illustrious
lady of science, the Duchess or Cambridge, the Lady Lindsay, Sib
C. E. Eardley, Baut., and numerous other philosophers of both sexes,
including a gentleman named Downey. Punch cannot too earnestly
recommend this valuable institution to public patronage. When a
fellow-being is seized with inflammation of the lungs, or some other organ
essential to life, and but for prompt medical assistance would perhaps
expire in a few hours, leaving a wife, possibly, and several children to
lament his loss, what an advantage it is to him to be enabled to obtain
that certain and instantaneous relief which is afforded by the billionth
part of a grain of medicine !

It is a pity that the Board of Management of the London Homoeo-

Sathic Hospital does not publish those numerous cases of fracture and
islocation which have been reduced by the administration of homoeo-
pathic globules, as also the reproduction of various amputated limbs,
effected—as certainly as any disease whatever—by the same
means. The Board, also, might as well have acknowledged those
edicts of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons which require that
the candidates for their respective diplomas shall have walked the
Homoeopathic Hospital; and, moreover, Mr. Punch misses the
respected name of the Eabx of Aldborough in the list of subscribers
to the institution.

A Richmond Trip.

"Is Protection dead? " After reading the following paragraph, we
doubt if any sane man can, any longer, have a misgiving upon the
subject.

"Gentlemen," shouted the Duke op Richmond at the Drury Lane meeting, "we not
only must have Protection, but, what is more, by Heaven, we will ! " (Immense
cheering).

A REALLY ALARMING SACRIFICE.

Every body knows there has not been much liberty in France since the
glorious Revolution, which made nobody free, while making free with
every thing and every body; but we were not aware, until our eye
lighted on the following advertisement, that the system of selling rail-
way shareholders had actually commenced in Paris. That the French
themselves have been fearfully " sold " by their revolution, is an admitted
fact; but the following notice seems to apply to others as well as then-
own countrymen.

TPOURS AND NANTES RAILWAY COMPANY.—Shareholders who
-L have not yet PAID the SIXTH CALL, due 20th June last, are requested
to do so at once, to prevent them being sold in Paris agreeably to the Statute.

By order of the Board, &c.

The above actually appeared a few days ago in the Times, and the
perusal of it is really enough to knock down, in one lot, all the English
shareholders in French Railways. We trust some member of Parlia-
ment will get up in the House of Commons, and ask Lord Palmerston
whether any leave has been given to dispose of shareholders, by sale,
in Paris; for if it is only French leave that has been taken, we hope
it will be resorted to in every legitimate measure.

A PUN FOR THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

We presented ourselves a few weeks ago at the Western door for
British Exhibitors, to offer the following pun, as a light fancy article
for the Great Exhibition. We were received with the utmost courtesy
by the authorities, and the pun will be found as a companion to
the Koh-i-noor diamond in the Crystal Palace. Passing the building
a few days ago, we found at the outer gate a tremendous piece of
granite in a cart, which some twenty horses were in vain attempting
to draw within the Park railings. Hearing that the enormous stone
had been brought many miles with comparatively little difficulty, we
could not help exclaiming, " What a pity it is that the granite, having
been brought thus far, should now experience so much difficulty in
being taken into the Palace, when the stone is within a stone's throw
of it! " The assembled multitude burst out into such an eclat de rire,
that the workmen were sufficiently invigorated to make another effort,

Now, the will of a person is never publicly displayed until after his
death. Accordingly, we may look upon the above Will—coming, too,
from such good authority as the Duke of RrcHMOND—as the 'most
convincing proof that Protection is really dead; and we must say it is
most generous of the Duke to come in at the last moment and assist at

the execution. j wnich enabled them to accomplish their task amidst deafening plaudits

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