Punch or The London charivari: Punch or The London charivari (5.1843)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE OPERA.

1 've known a god on clouds of gauze
With patience hear a people's prayer,
And, bending to the pit's applause,

Wait while the priest repeats the air.

I've seen a black-wigg'd Jove hurl down
A thunderbolt along a wire,

To burn some distant canvas town,
Which—how vexatious !—won't catch fire.

1 've known a tyrant doom a maid

(With trills and roulades many a score)
To instant death. She, sore afraid.

Sings; and the audience cries encore.

I've seen two warriors in a rage
Draw glist'ning swords, and—awful sight !-
Meet face to face upon the stage
To sing a song, but not to right !

1 've heard a king exclaim "To arms"
Some twenty times, yet still remain ;
1 've known his army 'midst alarms,

Help by a bass their monarch's strain.

I 've known a hero wounded sore
With well-tuned voice his foes defy ;
And warbling stoutly on the floor,

With the last flourish fall and die.

I 've seen a mermaid dress'd in blue ;
I've seen a Cupid burn a wing ;
3 've known a Neptune lose a shoe ;
1 've heard a guilty spectrs sing.

1 've seen, spectators of a dance,
Two Brahmins, Mahomet, the Cid,

Four Pagan kings, four knights of France,
Jove and the Muses—scene Madrid.

A NEW INVENTION.

Brighton. To Ladies.—J. Spankes Ball has lately invented a new
patent brown-paper boot, which does not require the trouble of lacing and
unlacing.

These boots, which are manufactured of the best brown paper, are
simply pasted on in the morning, and are dry in three quarters of an
hour, when they are warranted to fit the ankle.

A pleasing variety of this elegant article is trimmed with postage stamps ;
so that a pair of brown-paper boots will travel free all over the United
Kingdom, to any direction.

GRAND AFFAIR OF HONOUR!! I

UNDER THE SPECIAL PATRONAGE OF GENERAL WINKIN, AN£>
SEVERAL OFFICERS OF DISTINCTION,

On Sunday, November blh, at 11 a.m., preciseli,

A DUEL WILL BE FOUGHT

at

WORMWOOD SCRUBBS,

BETWEEN

Captain Butcher of the Pocket Rifles, and Lieut. O. 1. Fall, of the Detonators,

seconds.

Major Popham. Simper Steady, Esq.

Surgeon—Mr. Bandage.

Distance, 1'2 puces—Hair Tiiggers—and a compromise impossible.
*»* Tlie Bauds of both Regiments will be in attendance.

[John Gibbins, of the Fortune of War, begs to infoim his Sporting Friend?
and the Public in general, that the above event, being certain to come off, and
no mistake, may be confidently expected to give satisfaction. Provision, wine,,
liquors. &</., in the Booth, at moderate charges. Good stabling on the ground.}

NEW NOVELS.

the following wohks will ee 1wjmed1atf.lv published.

Just ready,

THE ARMY-AGENT'S UNCLE ON HIS MOTHER'S SIDE. Br
Mrs. Goke. 3 vols.

Also, in the Press,

THE BARNABYS COME BACK. By Mrs. Trollope. 3 vols.
THE NEW POST-OFFICE, (uniform with " Old St. Paul's.") By W. H„
Ainsworth, Esq. With 120 Illustrations by George Cruikshank, and fresh
Portrait of the Author.

WAVERLEY ; or, 'TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE. By Lord William-
Lennox, Author of " Bentiey's Miscellany," " The Quarteily Review," "Hood's-
Coniic Annual," &c.

MR. J. FEN1MORE COOPER'S NEW ROMANCE.

Nearly ready, in 3 vols, post octavo,
WAM GACHKOOK;

Or, The Swampy Bog.

a romance.

By J. Fenimore Cooper, Esq.

" Great excitement is caused in literary circles, by the whisper that this new romance-
will contain some thrilling scenes of the American war. The character of the Scout,.
' Flannel-drawers,' is wonderfully drawn : whilst the two native chiefs, Le Cuc/ion Azure
and Le Puce Agile are almost supernatural. It is long since there has been a romance
which will create an equal sensation."—Evening Paper.

A YOUNG GENTLEMAN appeals to the sympathies of a generous-
British public. He wishes to take stout before breakfast, Bass at luncheon,.
Guinness at dinner, and Kinahan's LL. as a wind-up. Any Samaritan in the
above line who will accommodate him will be amply repaid by the reflections of
his own conscience.

FLAT GENTLEMEN'S WATCHES, with maintaining power of escape-
ment for going in the streets whilst walking about, are offered at very low-
prices. A Watch, as a gift from a friend, is peculiarly serviceable, in enabling
him at any time to turn it into cash at his uncle's.

rpHE DUKE OF SUSSEX'S CIGARS.—The weather has set in coir1

JL The cigar is a cheering companion. Should any gentleman possess a
benevolent heart and a box of the above, he may send the latter to 194, Strand,
opposite St. Clement's Church, to be left till called for, and the former to the
Poor Law Board, at Somerset House.

"VT OVEL AND ELEGANT PERFUMES. — Just imported, several cases of
X\ the Bouquet du Solar Lamp, which has lately been much used at evening
parties, for distributing a delicious odour about the apartment. Also the admired
Pastilles d'hareng brule, for halls and staircases ; and Extrait du chcu, for
fumigating passages and kitchen stairs.

PUNCH'S POCKET-BOOK FOR 1844,

embellished with

A COLOURED FRONTISPIECE, SIX ETCHINGS ON STEEL B LEECH,
AND NUMEROUS WOODCUTS,

Will be ready in a few days, price Half-a-Crowrj.

To say that the Work is written by Punch, and illustrated by Leech, is at once to
pronounce it a jocular and pictorial gem.

It will be necessary to give Orders early, as the first edition will be limited to a
million copies.

Printed by Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, Lombard Street, in the Precinct of WhitefHars, In the chv
of London, and published by Joseph Smith, of No. 53, St. John's Wood Terrace, Regent's Park, in
the Parish of Marylebone, in the county of Middlesex, at the Office, No. 194, Strand, in the Parish
of St. Clement Danes, in the County of Middlesex—Saturday, Octohbr 28. 1843.