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PUNCH, OR THE LOx\DON CHARIVARI.
$robmtfal SJeatrtcal Intclltatnce.
ookam cum Snivey__The comedy of
the School for Scandal was played
here last week in Tomkins's stable,
which was fitted up as a theatre.
The Mayor and family occupied the
stalls, and the County Members were
to have been on the rack, which
had been fitted up as a private box,
but they were detained in London
by their parliamentary duties. Mr.
Macready Fitz-Wallack was the
Charles, and looked the character
UNREPORTED ILLUMINATIONS.
Although the daily papers gave columns to the chronicling of the illu-
minations on Her Majesty's birth-night, very important cases of light
were omitted. We hasten to name them.
The York Column.
The illumination was very chaste, yet very insignificant; the head of
the Duke's statue being surrounded by the three letters I. 0. U.
british and foreign institute, or cuckoo's nest.
This display quite eclipsed every other in Hanover Square. It was a
magnificent oil transparency, showing the full length portrait of Mr. Silk
to perfection. He dressed it in Buckinsham (in a turban), receiving the allegiance and the year's sub-
stocking drawers and a surtout, with [ scription of his subjects the members ; all of whom, by the way, seemed
the skirts pinned up to form a body- admirably done.
coat, so that he was admirably made ' _
up far the kindhearted but extrava- .
gant spendthrift. In the dialogue
he was not quite so successful. After the performance he was called for The Constitution again in Danger,
—by a sheriff's officer.
Dunstable.-Our worthy manager has been hitherto very unfor- j J—_ ^fV^Fr; h*s frequently been our painful duty
tunate. He left the town under heavy liabilities, and though Ins com- p-^-v to Doint the finger of caution through
pany was not followed, he was personally a great deal run after He was 1| ^ ^ * Burlington-arcade,
strongest in the ballet, and he led several of the townspeople to a \ery "*M t;n \,aa „„^„a „ i • i
pretty dance ; torhis premise danseuse was attended to thethea.re by nearly ft fjl gj j h]lf llas rested on one who is armed
all the youths of the place, who formed a procession after her. Her | ; > ]} 1 J1* 1 a w|aPon whlch }ve liave been the
hotel—the Goose and Gallipot—was surrounded with the populace ; and, jL'j» i first £o denouncers dangerous- to the
in the evening, the tap was brilliantly illuminated. She is everywhere Jg| 39 $ Constitution. This is not the time for
hailed as the "Dunstable Taglioni ; and the inhabitants, through the hands *P§&/ iM a vacillating delicacy ; and we, there-
of their headborough, have presented her with a bonnet, inclosing the jff W '•■?! fore, unhesitatingly tear off the mask of
freedom of Dunstable, and surmounted with a plaited crown, encircled ii, 1|| j£ reserve, and assert at once, that our
by ribands, the sarsnet for which alone was valued at a very high figure. ^ .tJw --^ •■•■^'^"■-^ allusion is aimed at that unhappy man
____ —for unhappy we are justified incalling
him—who wields the destinies of the Arcade in one hand, and the
DINNER TO MR. HULLAH AT CAMBRIDGE. bludgeon of his office in the other. f. .
_ It was, therefore, with a feeling of unmitigated alarm, that we
Ox Tuesday last a dinner was given at Cambridge to Mr. Hullah, by , observed, the other day, in that Quadrant with which the name of
the graduates of the University who are under his instruction. j Regent is identified—it was, we say, with unmitigated alarm, that we
After the cloth was removed, the Chairman rose to enunciate a toast,
and he felt sure the company would not be wanting in a demonstration.
He was delighted to regard the University as the patron of everything
good : he considered the members of the University to be bricks, united
by the mortar of harmony. The beautiful effect produced by the simul-
taneous ringing of all the college-bells, from six in the morning till six at
night, showed that the University patronised music. His antipathy to
long prefaces was well known ; he would therefore at once propose, ' The
health of Mr. Hullah ; and might he render the University as famous for
music, as they were superior to all the world in everything else.' (Cheers.)
Glee—"The Bells of St. Michael's Tower."
Mr. Hullah rose. He was, he said, most extensively exhilarated. If
he might use the terms of his art, this was no common time with him.
His heart, which usually beat minims, was now performing an adagio
movement in ■§ time.
If, before, he might have been represented by a crotchet, he now became
noticed the erection of two chairs, upon which a sort of duarchy ha.<
been set up, comprising a double beadleocracy, at the contemplation
of which we are at this moment violently shuddering. Very far are
we from underrating the value of that fine old remnant of fettd-.il
feeling which exists only in the Metropolitan streetkeepery—a race
of" men, who, like the native Indians, are being fast driven westward
towards the setting sun ; but we do not think that these are the
times for introducing a new and unpopular despotism into the heart
of a crowded thoroughfare. Already has juvenile irritability been
excited, and many a youthful finger has been placed sneeringly on the
end of the infantine nose, with that significance w hich never yet was
pointed at power without the desire, at least, of undermining it.
As we looked on those empty chairs, we involuntarily thought ot
Canute, whose easy elbow was washed away by the tide—as the sea
of popular indignation may one day overwhelm the gold-laced
a dotted note, for he felt half as large again. He certainly hoped to ren- oligarchs, who are attempting to lord it over the tribes that throng
der the University as famous for notes as they had long been for letters, the quarter in which the beadleocracy seems attempting to establish
Much had been said against his system, but he would challenge any one itself.
(and he used the word 'challenge' in the sense which it bore before the — —
late State Trials), he would challenge any one to show that it had ever
failed. He should therefore continue to treat all the abuse bestowed on STREET VOICES,
his system as a mere nothing—in fact, as so many Pennsylvauian Bonds. Ah ! what is man J —You ask yourself the query.
Mr. Hullah thanked the company, and resumed his seat amidst loud ju vajn Y0U muse : you give it up : when lo !
cheering. Yon moralist, whose gait proclaims him beery.
After the cloth was removed, the company performed some of Mr. From 'neath his fan-tailed beaver shouts—" Dust, 0."
Mullah's lessons in a very creditable style. Friendless and spiritless, bereft of Hope,
On going up stairs to coffee the conversation became highly scientific. In anguish, too, from corns or, may-be, bunions,
One gentleman was demonstrating a geometric proposition, using a muffin You hear a friendly voice cry " Buy a rope ; "
and several triangular pieces of toast for a diagram ; while the Chairman You rush to purchase one," when, lo !—it's onions,
was investigating the nature of tides, by stirring the milk with a fork.
Our reporter was obliged to withdraw to prepare his dispatches; but from — - ~
the ascending powers of tea which he met on the stairs, he concluded that
the meeting was not likely soon to break up. ^alffttS.
- i - -i .; The Right Honourable the Home Secretary, for a New Grinding
Machine to be used in Union Workhouses, for the diminution of Pauperism
Shakspeare at Court. by Friction. Likewise, an Improved Screw for the application of Com-
Her Majesty, compassionating the benighted condition of St. James's pression to the same purpose,
in its ignorance of the English drama, has graciously appointed Charles | the lords gf tue Treasury, for an Extinguisher, for the extinction
Kemble, Esq., to diffuse Shakspearianity throughout her royal court. Mr. j grjtisn \rf
Kemble- began his labours a few days ago, by reading Ci/mbeline ; the I ' . , -,->■■ «r j
drama having been previously purified and licensed by his son, the Mr. Silk Buckingham, for a Contrivance for Raising the Wind,
examiner of plays. The next reading was ordered that day six months, j Mr. Widdicombe, for a Life Pill.
PUNCH, OR THE LOx\DON CHARIVARI.
$robmtfal SJeatrtcal Intclltatnce.
ookam cum Snivey__The comedy of
the School for Scandal was played
here last week in Tomkins's stable,
which was fitted up as a theatre.
The Mayor and family occupied the
stalls, and the County Members were
to have been on the rack, which
had been fitted up as a private box,
but they were detained in London
by their parliamentary duties. Mr.
Macready Fitz-Wallack was the
Charles, and looked the character
UNREPORTED ILLUMINATIONS.
Although the daily papers gave columns to the chronicling of the illu-
minations on Her Majesty's birth-night, very important cases of light
were omitted. We hasten to name them.
The York Column.
The illumination was very chaste, yet very insignificant; the head of
the Duke's statue being surrounded by the three letters I. 0. U.
british and foreign institute, or cuckoo's nest.
This display quite eclipsed every other in Hanover Square. It was a
magnificent oil transparency, showing the full length portrait of Mr. Silk
to perfection. He dressed it in Buckinsham (in a turban), receiving the allegiance and the year's sub-
stocking drawers and a surtout, with [ scription of his subjects the members ; all of whom, by the way, seemed
the skirts pinned up to form a body- admirably done.
coat, so that he was admirably made ' _
up far the kindhearted but extrava- .
gant spendthrift. In the dialogue
he was not quite so successful. After the performance he was called for The Constitution again in Danger,
—by a sheriff's officer.
Dunstable.-Our worthy manager has been hitherto very unfor- j J—_ ^fV^Fr; h*s frequently been our painful duty
tunate. He left the town under heavy liabilities, and though Ins com- p-^-v to Doint the finger of caution through
pany was not followed, he was personally a great deal run after He was 1| ^ ^ * Burlington-arcade,
strongest in the ballet, and he led several of the townspeople to a \ery "*M t;n \,aa „„^„a „ i • i
pretty dance ; torhis premise danseuse was attended to thethea.re by nearly ft fjl gj j h]lf llas rested on one who is armed
all the youths of the place, who formed a procession after her. Her | ; > ]} 1 J1* 1 a w|aPon whlch }ve liave been the
hotel—the Goose and Gallipot—was surrounded with the populace ; and, jL'j» i first £o denouncers dangerous- to the
in the evening, the tap was brilliantly illuminated. She is everywhere Jg| 39 $ Constitution. This is not the time for
hailed as the "Dunstable Taglioni ; and the inhabitants, through the hands *P§&/ iM a vacillating delicacy ; and we, there-
of their headborough, have presented her with a bonnet, inclosing the jff W '•■?! fore, unhesitatingly tear off the mask of
freedom of Dunstable, and surmounted with a plaited crown, encircled ii, 1|| j£ reserve, and assert at once, that our
by ribands, the sarsnet for which alone was valued at a very high figure. ^ .tJw --^ •■•■^'^"■-^ allusion is aimed at that unhappy man
____ —for unhappy we are justified incalling
him—who wields the destinies of the Arcade in one hand, and the
DINNER TO MR. HULLAH AT CAMBRIDGE. bludgeon of his office in the other. f. .
_ It was, therefore, with a feeling of unmitigated alarm, that we
Ox Tuesday last a dinner was given at Cambridge to Mr. Hullah, by , observed, the other day, in that Quadrant with which the name of
the graduates of the University who are under his instruction. j Regent is identified—it was, we say, with unmitigated alarm, that we
After the cloth was removed, the Chairman rose to enunciate a toast,
and he felt sure the company would not be wanting in a demonstration.
He was delighted to regard the University as the patron of everything
good : he considered the members of the University to be bricks, united
by the mortar of harmony. The beautiful effect produced by the simul-
taneous ringing of all the college-bells, from six in the morning till six at
night, showed that the University patronised music. His antipathy to
long prefaces was well known ; he would therefore at once propose, ' The
health of Mr. Hullah ; and might he render the University as famous for
music, as they were superior to all the world in everything else.' (Cheers.)
Glee—"The Bells of St. Michael's Tower."
Mr. Hullah rose. He was, he said, most extensively exhilarated. If
he might use the terms of his art, this was no common time with him.
His heart, which usually beat minims, was now performing an adagio
movement in ■§ time.
If, before, he might have been represented by a crotchet, he now became
noticed the erection of two chairs, upon which a sort of duarchy ha.<
been set up, comprising a double beadleocracy, at the contemplation
of which we are at this moment violently shuddering. Very far are
we from underrating the value of that fine old remnant of fettd-.il
feeling which exists only in the Metropolitan streetkeepery—a race
of" men, who, like the native Indians, are being fast driven westward
towards the setting sun ; but we do not think that these are the
times for introducing a new and unpopular despotism into the heart
of a crowded thoroughfare. Already has juvenile irritability been
excited, and many a youthful finger has been placed sneeringly on the
end of the infantine nose, with that significance w hich never yet was
pointed at power without the desire, at least, of undermining it.
As we looked on those empty chairs, we involuntarily thought ot
Canute, whose easy elbow was washed away by the tide—as the sea
of popular indignation may one day overwhelm the gold-laced
a dotted note, for he felt half as large again. He certainly hoped to ren- oligarchs, who are attempting to lord it over the tribes that throng
der the University as famous for notes as they had long been for letters, the quarter in which the beadleocracy seems attempting to establish
Much had been said against his system, but he would challenge any one itself.
(and he used the word 'challenge' in the sense which it bore before the — —
late State Trials), he would challenge any one to show that it had ever
failed. He should therefore continue to treat all the abuse bestowed on STREET VOICES,
his system as a mere nothing—in fact, as so many Pennsylvauian Bonds. Ah ! what is man J —You ask yourself the query.
Mr. Hullah thanked the company, and resumed his seat amidst loud ju vajn Y0U muse : you give it up : when lo !
cheering. Yon moralist, whose gait proclaims him beery.
After the cloth was removed, the company performed some of Mr. From 'neath his fan-tailed beaver shouts—" Dust, 0."
Mullah's lessons in a very creditable style. Friendless and spiritless, bereft of Hope,
On going up stairs to coffee the conversation became highly scientific. In anguish, too, from corns or, may-be, bunions,
One gentleman was demonstrating a geometric proposition, using a muffin You hear a friendly voice cry " Buy a rope ; "
and several triangular pieces of toast for a diagram ; while the Chairman You rush to purchase one," when, lo !—it's onions,
was investigating the nature of tides, by stirring the milk with a fork.
Our reporter was obliged to withdraw to prepare his dispatches; but from — - ~
the ascending powers of tea which he met on the stairs, he concluded that
the meeting was not likely soon to break up. ^alffttS.
- i - -i .; The Right Honourable the Home Secretary, for a New Grinding
Machine to be used in Union Workhouses, for the diminution of Pauperism
Shakspeare at Court. by Friction. Likewise, an Improved Screw for the application of Com-
Her Majesty, compassionating the benighted condition of St. James's pression to the same purpose,
in its ignorance of the English drama, has graciously appointed Charles | the lords gf tue Treasury, for an Extinguisher, for the extinction
Kemble, Esq., to diffuse Shakspearianity throughout her royal court. Mr. j grjtisn \rf
Kemble- began his labours a few days ago, by reading Ci/mbeline ; the I ' . , -,->■■ «r j
drama having been previously purified and licensed by his son, the Mr. Silk Buckingham, for a Contrivance for Raising the Wind,
examiner of plays. The next reading was ordered that day six months, j Mr. Widdicombe, for a Life Pill.