Punch (34.1858)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[May 22, 1858.

THE LAUNCH OF THE LEVIATHAN.

The odds have been so fluctuating that the task is not an easy one
Ltih JJJiiXir)! LVLJNl to state them with precision. Bat if our information be correct, the

following may be quoted as about the

LATEST BETTING ON THE POLITICAL COURSE.

St. Stephen's, Monday Evening.

As the time approaches for the Derby Event, the interest of those
interested naturally culminates, and this has been a day of more than
ordinary excitement in all political sporting circles. The Pall Mall
Subscription Rooms have been inconveniently crowded, and a more
than usual amount of speculation has been quoted. From the fact
that, Lord Shaftesbury had been distanced in the Censure Stakes,
backers of the Government appeared at first in highest feather; but
when reminded that the trial in the Commons was still pending un-
decided, they showed a drooping tendency, and could hardly hold their
heads up. Later in the day more confidence prevailed, but this was
chiefly cwing to the influence of dinner.

A stimulus at one time was given to the betting by the rumour that

a cross had been effected in the Whig stables. It was confidently__

stated by certain of the ' knowing ones' that for the Opposition stakes ~ "

Lord John Russell had been scratched, and that in the case of the , . .

Derby lot retiring, Lord Palmerston would be permitted to walk A New Pleasure for Entomologists,

over. Mr. Disraeli's Budget had stood previouslyun favour although We are to b a statement in the Times, that a most

for reasons of their own it was known that the Irish party had refused j destructive disease termed the " auger-worm," nearly as ruinous as the
their support o it But the Derby lot in general were in moderate t has b diSCOVered in the Royal paddlewheel steam sloop
request, and their doings on the India course still further showed their Ba'rracouta We supp0se that the auger-worm is another and a bigger
weakness. It was at one time hoped that the withdrawal of the :
Elephant would have produced a good effect, but his stable companions
have not been much the better for it.

The news, that the supporters of Lord Palmerston had been mus-
tering pretty strongly on Friday afternoon, had also a bad influence
on the backers of the Government: and Lord Derby's Resignation,
which in the morning had advanced to 65 to 40, receded before lunch-
time to 20 to 19. Lord Chelmsford's Woolsack was also quoted
lower, and at one time as long odds as 1000 to 15 were booked against
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's Peerage. Mr. Cardwell's Majority







CLOSING PRICES.

6

to

5 a?st. Lord Derby's Dissolution (offered).

6

to

5 —

Lord Palmerston's Succession (taken).

9

to

7 —

Lord Ellen borough's Scapegoat.

15

to

12 —

Lord Stanley's Adhesion.

20

to

19 —

The Dizzy Lot (taken).

25

to

10 —

General Peel's Routine.

99

to

1 —

Lord Chelmsford's Anti-Jew-lIania.

100

to

6 —

Mr. Cox's Wat Tyler.

300

to

20 —

Lord John's Finality (offered).

500

to

50 —

Viscount Williams's Economy.

1000

to

75 —

Conservative and Weakness, coupled.

2000

to

15 —

Lord Ellenborough's Indiscretion.

5099

to

1 —

Lord Canning's Confiscation and Oudo







Pacification, coupled.

1,000,000

to

1 —

Pam and Lord Jnhn Russell, coupled





(take 10,000,000 to 1).

insect than the teredo navalis, and is called " auger," to signify that it
bears to the teredo the relation of an auger to a gimlet, and thus con-
stitutes a greater bore. What, however, may be a bore to the nation
at large, may be a subject of interest to the Entomological Society.

A Point ia Private Finance.

Two sixpences are preferable to a shilling. A cabman never has
any change; and the dignity which a largess of the smaller coin would
was regarded in most quarters as a pretty safe investment, while as j maintain, would be incompatible with a donation to the amount of that
far as we could learn, it seemed generally admitted that Appeal-to-the | sum, effected by giving twice as much, and receiving half of it ba«s
Country was completely out of favour. i again. «.