Punch: Punch (21.1851)

16 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

THE LAST DAYS OP SMITHTIELD.

Smithfield is going, is going, is going,
Smithfield is going, and soon will be gone;
No more will the lowing, the lowing, the lowing
Of ring-droves in agony startle the dawn.

No longer the squeaking, the squeaking, the
squeaking

Of pigs, with lambs' bleating, will tunefully blend;
Nor females with shrieking, with shrieking, with
shrieking,

As they fly from the mad ox, our ear-drums will
rend.

The drovers, by s wearing, by swearing, by swearing,
Nolongerwill heighten the sheep-dog's fierce bark,
While the torches are flaring, are flaring, are flaring,
On each market morning, so early, by dark.

Those cruel brutes' oak sticks, their oak sticks,

their oak sticks,
No more on the horns of the oxen will ring;
They '11 soon cease to poke sticks, to poke sticks,

to poke sticks,
Armed with goads, in the flank the poor creatures

to sting.

TneMarket's Committee, Committee, Committee,
Let us hope, will not make the Lords throw out
the bill;

So,_preserving the City, the City, the City
In its old vested rights, audits nastiness still

TRIPLES (NOT SO) LIGHT AS AIR.

We understand that the Commissioners of
Police are about to issue orders for the regula-
tion of the now inconveniently crowded balloon
traffic of the Metropolis. So long as the intrepid
voyagers were likely to confine their collisions to
each other, it was not thought necessary for the
authorities to interfere, as the evil was likely to
correct itself to a certain extent, and so mitigate
the mischief. There was not so much objection
to the inconvenience falling upon the heads of
the aeronauts, but now that the aeronauts seem
likely to fall on to the heads of the public, some-
thing should be done to put a stop to the
nuisance. We believe it is in contemplation to
give directions, that no balloon be allowed to
set down, or tumble down, within a mile of the
Crystal Palace. Had that volatile daughter of
air, Mrs. Graham, let out her grappling-irons,
the other day, upon the Exhibition, they would
have proved the most serious difficulties it has
yet had to grapple with.

An Error Corrected.

At the War Medal dinner, Lord Saltoun,
the Chairman, said—

" "When he alluded to woman—he begged pardon, he
meant ladies."

Ergo, a lady is not a woman.

DINNER-TIME AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.