Punch or The London charivari: Punch or The London charivari (2.1842)

£08 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

I Jarvis can satisfy a crowded buss that one or two more will cause no in-
PUNCHJS DOSSAY PORTRAITS.—No. 6. I convenience, ranks among the highest efforts of persuasive eloquence

and the insinuating style of his inimitable " It's a lady," when he has
received a remonstrance for thrusting a fat woman on to the laps of four-
teen stifled beings packed closely together in the Dog-days, can only be
conceived by those who recollect the thrilling effect produced by Mr.
T. P. Cooke when, as a British tar, he denounces the " lubberly loblolly-
boy who could see a woman in distress and not place the last shot in his
locker at her disposal, or protect her with the latest gasp of his breath
and the last blow of his marling-spike."

It is another great point in the character of Jarvis, that he never
acknowledges any place to which the omnibus of which he is the conductor
is not immediately going. By these means persons going to Kensington
have the opportunity of visiting the pleasant little village of Brompton,
when there is an agi'eeable walk over a fertile district, across which Jarvis
politely points, with a delicate intimation that there lies the way of the
passenger. In the same manner, an individual going to the Elephant and
Castle is treated to a view of some of the finest thoroughfares in London,
and having glanced at the Bank, he has a salubrious walk over London
Bridge in store for him—after having, of course, seen considerably more
than he could have done had he been conveyed at once to the Elephant.

The deep, sonorous voice of Jarvis also contributes greatly to his pro-
fessional success ; for his " Bank, Bank," is so beautifully indistinct, that
it conveys to every one a sound which is easily mistaken for the name of
the particular place he is desirous of going to.

MR. GROOM'S TULIP SHOW.

Punch returns his thanks to Mr. Groom ; he was very much pleased
with his floral blaze. However, shall we have no place—no spot—free
from the dirt and blight of politics ? Why, Mr. Groom, why introduce the
spleen of party among the innocent beauties of creation ? Why should
the caterpillar of politics drag its foul slime across the satin glories of the
tulip? Our friend, The Times, observes:—"Some of these tulips are
unique in shape, colour, and feathering: they have almost the appearance
of being painted by the hand, so accurately and evenly are the divisions
of the tints. It is quite true that nothing is like the pencilling of nature,
and in these superb flowers it is illustrated beyond contradiction ; yet it
is also true that here nature comes so close to art in regularity and pre-
cision of design, that it would seem she had borrowed, and indeed im-
proved by her intimacy with her copyist."

The Times affects an ignorance of the fact; but art has been wickedly
industrious among Mr. Groom's tulips. The Times proceedsSome
of these flowers are more than peculiarly magnificent in colour, and
Tnci?T)u ;.t,uie pen ,,,,,,, n . i> I perfect in shape, viz. a specimen called the Duke of Sutherland; another,

JUbr.l H. JAKV lb, ESQ., 1HE CAD. • thg V;ctoria Regina; another, the Aglaia; another, the Bacchus; others,

The family of the Jarvises, to which the subject of our present sketch the Claudiana, the Duchess of Sutherland, Lord Stanley, Louis XVI.,

belongs, has always been identified with the public conveyances of the
metropolis ; and an intermarriage with a cad walloper (a female of Welsh

the Reine de Sheba, Queen Adelaide, Marcellus, and the beautiful tulip
called Nourri Effendi, which is valued at 100/."

the Lawrie, with the goose's head perfect to every feather !

We might cite other instances of party spirit ; but we trust we have
said enough to reprobate the principle. If this practice be continued, the
Wars of the Roses will be forgotten in the Riots of the Tulips.

THE QUEEN'S LETTER.
" It is in contemplation to issue a Queen's letter, authorising the clergy
to make an appeal in their several places of worship on behalf of the
distressed to the sympathy and liberality of the public."—Times.

extraction who used to frequent the same public-house as the cads, some All this is true enough : but why does not the Times speak of the other
of whom she occasionally walloped)- united the escutcheons of the j tulips? Did our contemporary see the Ferrand ? Was there no " paint-
jarvies and the cads in the person of the youthful Jarvis. ing by hand" in that? If not, how did every leaf present such a perfect

The father of our hero having applied to the Commissioners of Stamps, representation of Bottom's head ? Could it be, that the genius of the
was fortunate enough to secure a tin plate, which empowered him to keep flower, knowing to whom it was to be dedicated, painted it accordingly ?
two horses and a hackney-coach; and having intercepted a crippled j Look again at the Wakley ; with the poetic "bushel" fully developed—
cob on its road to the knackers, he treated with, or rather treated, the
man who was driving it, and became at once the owner of the rescued
animal. His next care was to secure a strong beast that could drag the
one already obtained in addition to a vehicle ; and this having been done,
he purchased the body of a left-off carriage of a deceased peer, and having
picked up four wheels at different times at the shops of as many wheel-
wrights, he repaired with the whole of the articles to the coach-stand in
Charing-Cross, where we find him, in the summer of 1824, taking a party
of four to Vauxhall Gardens, and bringing a party of nine home again.
We must, however, now leave the father and turn to the son, who, being
a young man of enthusiastic temperament, was naturally much excited by
the bold and energetic measures of Shillibeer—who had just succeeded in
starting in London the then unknown vehicle which has since become so
familiar to us all under the title of an omnibus. Shillibeer was at that
time in the pride of fame and power, and young Jarvis boldly sought an
interview, determined to obtain, if possible, a conductorship under a man
whose name was at that time a passport from the Bank to Paddington.

Shillibeer, who was a man of sound discrimination, at once perceived
our hero's eligibility for the situation he sought; and the friendless boy,
who bad entered the stable-yard of his patron the simple son of a harassed
hackney-coachman, returned in the triumphant capacity of a cad at the
back of his new master's omnibus.

From this moment the destiny of young Jarvis was fixed, and he threw
his whole heart into his new pursuit, which, it must be admitted, is one
peculiarly likely to captivate a certain class of our metropolitan youth, by
its daring and reckless character. The career of Jarvis as a cad has been
one uninterrupted succession of honourable triumphs. His quickness in
detecting a passenger who wishes to go, and his tact in forcing into the
vehicle a party who would rather walk, have long obtained for him among
his fellows the title of "seductive Joey." The fascinating air with which

X 61GN OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE.

Her Majesty has also signified to the whole b«nch of bishops her
gracious permission, that they should take the honour of subscribing the
largest possible sum on the occasion. With this view, it has been adver-
tised that the Archbishop of Canterbury "has discontinued his public
dinners for the season."

" It's only once a-year, " as Louis-Philippe said when the hand-grenade was Uirw*
In at his carnngo-window.