Punch: Punch (21.1851)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

THE CRUSH ROOM AT THE OPERA, SEPT., 1851.-" MR. CHAWBACON'S CART STOPS THE WAY,"

Precious Stones from St. Patrick's
Parnassus.

A gentleman, whose name has the prefix
of Mac, and whose local habitation is Dublin,
has written some verses, recently published,
with the title of _ " God bless the Turk."
Amen to the blessing: which is invoked on
the Sublime Porte for the sublimity of its
behaviour in the matter of Russia and Austria
against _ Turkey, touching the Hungarian
and Polish refugees. The spirit of this poem
must command sympathy : admiration is also
due to a magnificent rhyme, which occurs in
the subjoined lines relative to the Turk, and
may be pronounced as delicious and charac-
teristic a concord as ever was twanged on
the harp of Erin :—

" His spirit, in soaring,
Shall hover, adoring,
And rest with the lowly,
And kneel with the holy,
Who kiss the beryl
And moon-white pearl."

What Englishman could string his pearls of
versification together in this way ? "Beryl"
and "Pearl," whether to be pronounced as
"berl" and "perl," or as "berii"and "peril,"
are gems of such lustre among the rich things
of the Emerald Isle, that Punch felt in duty
bound to give them a setting, which he has
supplied with his appropriate and usual brass.

Mr. Chawbacon "Coming down.:

REAL BLOOMERISM.

At the meeting of the Family Colonisation
Society, the Earl of Shaftesbury gave a
good definition of Bloomerism, in speaking
of Mes. Chisholm, the foundress of the
Society, and, we may add, its guardian spirit.
His Lordship said-

" Mrs. Chisholm had attained the highest order of
Bloomerism : she had the heart of a woman, and the
understanding of a man."

The noble lord never gave a truer evidence
of fine judgment than when he paid this
tribute to a lady, whose unceasing work in
the amelioration of the condition of the poor
—and whose invention of the admirab'e
machinery that regulates her Emigration
Society—elevate her as a benefactress of the
human family.

" The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill,
A perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn—to comfort—and command."

We would advise ladies to copy the
Bloomerism defined by Lord Shaftesbury,
and developed by Mrs. Chisholm : the
heart of the woman, and the understanding
—(not the small-clothes)—of the man.

Odds Fish.

Some fears have been expressed as to the possibility that the fish
may injure the submarine telegraph. We are happy to have it in our
power to allay those apprehensions, by suggesting that the finny tribe
will probably regard it as the electrical eel, and pay it the respect due
to one of their own species.

The Defence of Naples.

The King oe Naples has come out with his defence against the
charges of Mr. Gladstone. The defence is long as a tape-worm; and,
like it, may be said to have neither head nor tai It is moreover,
proved that the hands of Neapolitan Justice are so filthily dirty, they are
not to be made clean by any government outlay of Naples soap.