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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
London. However, pray let me know what day they intend to Bet
out. 1 depend upon you not to fail in this. i
I have not yet spoken in the House. It is my policy never to
throw away powder. But when I do make myself heard, depend upon
it that Pottlepot will hear the report.
Believe me, my dear Sir,
Yours faithfully ever,
Curtius Turnstile.
P.S. — As for your son, I think it would be a pity that he should
bury his precocious talents—for I never saw so young a boy smoke
with so much maturity—in either the Excise, the Customs, or the
Treasury. Take a friend's advice, and bring him up to the bar.
A YANKEE NOTION.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE WITH SUDBURY ?
(From our Hampshire Correspondent.)
" Repudiation " is a Yankee no-
tion—so is slavery, so is Lynch law,
so is annexation, so is Mormonism,
so is chewing tobacco. But the
Yankee notion which we are about
to develop is the notion of a Yankee;
and if the reader does not own it to
be a considerable one, we are pretty
particularly mistaken.
All foreigners, whether counts
and barons, or fiddlers and dancing-
masters, are distinguished by pecu-
liarities of dress and person. This
assertion includes the Yankee, who
thus, though untitled, may be ranked
among distinguished foreigners.
The Yankee, in the first place, is
distinguished by
Sudbury is disfranchised. Yes, it is blotted out from the political map;
and the question now arises, What is to be done with the vacant fran- j wllich is something like that devised
chise ? It is rumoured that there will be a new metropolitan borough, 'or. tne military by our gracious
effected by the conglomeration of Chelsea, Kensington, and Hammersmith. | f'rince, Albertus Parvus, so named
Chelsea has her Piers, and why should she not have her Commons? bv us contradistinction to Al-
Kensington has her railway, and why not her rights ? Hammersmith has berths Magnus, who, as everybody
her Chain bridge, and whv should she not form a Link in the constitution ? \ koows, was a conjuror. The brim,
Echo answers, " Why should she not ? " while Common Sense whispers, ; however, turns up more at the sides :
r Certainly." I so *nat there is much less of the flat
„ , , . i , , , ... , , , r , about it than there is about the
But, then, it may be asked, why should one of the suburbs be favoured ^ , jnvention . a difference per-
to the prejudice of its fellow-outskirts ? Is Kensington alone capable of , h ' d d; ' on the different
freedom, and can Putney never know the pride of a patriot ? Shall there : of ^.^ 6 ^ the tw0
be an honourable member for Chelsea, while Peckham pines in unrepre- , . r
11 i\ t s wt? i*6 6 m Jin titions
ranted hopelessness ? Fulham has her feelings, and the heart-burnings of Jn ^ gecond " ^ Yankee
Hackney are proverbial ; while the blood of Brixton boils for the enjoy- j n be discriminated by
ment of that political position which has been hitherto denied to her.
The proud population of Pentonville are naturally jealous of any conces-
sion to a rival suburb : and, though we do not apprehend the horrors of
civil war, we should be sorry to see Islington ranged in deadly hostility to
Chelsea, between whom civilisation, and an omnibus every ten minutes,
have contributed to establish a most amicable understanding.
But, in the words of the French politician, nous verrons, or, as Blag-
Den would express it in his Interpreter, " We shall see"—if we do but
keep our eyes open.
THE LAW OF ARREST.
We understand that, if there should be any alteration in the Law of
Debtor and Creditor, involving the abolition of Imprisonment, the trustees
of Staples Inn will claim compensation, on the ground of their chambers
being greatly reduced in value, through the operation of the measure.
It is not perhaps generally known, that the range of buildings on the south
side is situated partly in London and partly in Middlesex ; so that a
debtor in bed has only to draw up his legs into the count}'at the approach
of a city bailiff, or dive down under the bed-clothes into London, if a writ,
sued out in Middlesex, should be shown to him.
This freedom from arrest is very ancient ; for, while the person living
in Alfred's time was safe in the precincts of the palace, there is a case in
the Books, as old as Egbert, where there appears to have been a privilege
of palliasse, and a rejoinder of Nul tiel Bedstead was declared on demurrer
to be bad for uncertainty. In another case, Respondeat ouster was resorted
to by ousting the respondent, or kicking him out of bed, which led to a
replication De injuria; but as no bruise could be shown, it fell to the
ground for want of colour.
A Con.—Why is a piece of plum-cake which has disagreed with the
Princess Rotal like one of the metropolitan suburbs ?—Why ! because
its Maida Hill (made her ill).
HIS BOOT.
Wherefore ex pede Jonathanum
is as sound an axiom as ex pede
Herculem ; since Jonathan, like
Hercules, may be guessed at, or
calculated, by his foot — with the
boot on it. The boot of the Yankee
in shape very strongly resemble*
the ox's tongue, as exhibited in the
last cut.
Thirdly, the Yankee is denoted by
in which lankness of feature may be
said to vie with sallowness of com-
plexion. The mouth, to speak with
mathematical precision, is curvi-
linear, like that nf a steel purse :
his nose is as plain as that on your
face ; probably plainer, whoever you
are. It may be defined an incipient
aquiline, terminating in a goose-
bill. His eye is of the gimlet order ;
the crow lending its tint to the pupil,,
and its foot to the outer angle. The
same bird, or its first cousin, the
ravtn, affords, in its wing, a com-
parison to the dye of his hair. ((
which the mode of growth is typified
by the tail of the rat.
The Yankee has also divers moral
peculiarities. Of these, one of the
most remarkable is his devotion to
HIS IDOL.
There is a hole in his head where
veneration, according to phreno-
logy, ought to be ; but there is no-
thing in it. We allude to phreno-
logy, as well as the hole ; for his
veneration for dollars is immense.
Melancholy State ot the Home Navy.
It will hardly be believed, but it is nevertheless a fact, that all the crews
of the river steam-boats are sunk—yes, literally sunk—in the profoundest
ignorance. An intelligent traveller, who has favoured the world with
" A Scamper through Italy," and contemplates following it up with " A
Bolt to Boulogne," has called our attention to the fact, that the boy on
board the Bachelor steam-boat is in the habit of exclaiming (i Stop her,"
when the sex of the Bachelor plainly shows that " Stop him" would be
the proper phraseology. The same brutal ignorance prevails on board
the Bridegroom, and it is, therefore, in contemplation to distribute gra-
tuitous grammars among the respective crews of the river steam-boats,
with a leaf turned down at the place where gender is treated of.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
London. However, pray let me know what day they intend to Bet
out. 1 depend upon you not to fail in this. i
I have not yet spoken in the House. It is my policy never to
throw away powder. But when I do make myself heard, depend upon
it that Pottlepot will hear the report.
Believe me, my dear Sir,
Yours faithfully ever,
Curtius Turnstile.
P.S. — As for your son, I think it would be a pity that he should
bury his precocious talents—for I never saw so young a boy smoke
with so much maturity—in either the Excise, the Customs, or the
Treasury. Take a friend's advice, and bring him up to the bar.
A YANKEE NOTION.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE WITH SUDBURY ?
(From our Hampshire Correspondent.)
" Repudiation " is a Yankee no-
tion—so is slavery, so is Lynch law,
so is annexation, so is Mormonism,
so is chewing tobacco. But the
Yankee notion which we are about
to develop is the notion of a Yankee;
and if the reader does not own it to
be a considerable one, we are pretty
particularly mistaken.
All foreigners, whether counts
and barons, or fiddlers and dancing-
masters, are distinguished by pecu-
liarities of dress and person. This
assertion includes the Yankee, who
thus, though untitled, may be ranked
among distinguished foreigners.
The Yankee, in the first place, is
distinguished by
Sudbury is disfranchised. Yes, it is blotted out from the political map;
and the question now arises, What is to be done with the vacant fran- j wllich is something like that devised
chise ? It is rumoured that there will be a new metropolitan borough, 'or. tne military by our gracious
effected by the conglomeration of Chelsea, Kensington, and Hammersmith. | f'rince, Albertus Parvus, so named
Chelsea has her Piers, and why should she not have her Commons? bv us contradistinction to Al-
Kensington has her railway, and why not her rights ? Hammersmith has berths Magnus, who, as everybody
her Chain bridge, and whv should she not form a Link in the constitution ? \ koows, was a conjuror. The brim,
Echo answers, " Why should she not ? " while Common Sense whispers, ; however, turns up more at the sides :
r Certainly." I so *nat there is much less of the flat
„ , , . i , , , ... , , , r , about it than there is about the
But, then, it may be asked, why should one of the suburbs be favoured ^ , jnvention . a difference per-
to the prejudice of its fellow-outskirts ? Is Kensington alone capable of , h ' d d; ' on the different
freedom, and can Putney never know the pride of a patriot ? Shall there : of ^.^ 6 ^ the tw0
be an honourable member for Chelsea, while Peckham pines in unrepre- , . r
11 i\ t s wt? i*6 6 m Jin titions
ranted hopelessness ? Fulham has her feelings, and the heart-burnings of Jn ^ gecond " ^ Yankee
Hackney are proverbial ; while the blood of Brixton boils for the enjoy- j n be discriminated by
ment of that political position which has been hitherto denied to her.
The proud population of Pentonville are naturally jealous of any conces-
sion to a rival suburb : and, though we do not apprehend the horrors of
civil war, we should be sorry to see Islington ranged in deadly hostility to
Chelsea, between whom civilisation, and an omnibus every ten minutes,
have contributed to establish a most amicable understanding.
But, in the words of the French politician, nous verrons, or, as Blag-
Den would express it in his Interpreter, " We shall see"—if we do but
keep our eyes open.
THE LAW OF ARREST.
We understand that, if there should be any alteration in the Law of
Debtor and Creditor, involving the abolition of Imprisonment, the trustees
of Staples Inn will claim compensation, on the ground of their chambers
being greatly reduced in value, through the operation of the measure.
It is not perhaps generally known, that the range of buildings on the south
side is situated partly in London and partly in Middlesex ; so that a
debtor in bed has only to draw up his legs into the count}'at the approach
of a city bailiff, or dive down under the bed-clothes into London, if a writ,
sued out in Middlesex, should be shown to him.
This freedom from arrest is very ancient ; for, while the person living
in Alfred's time was safe in the precincts of the palace, there is a case in
the Books, as old as Egbert, where there appears to have been a privilege
of palliasse, and a rejoinder of Nul tiel Bedstead was declared on demurrer
to be bad for uncertainty. In another case, Respondeat ouster was resorted
to by ousting the respondent, or kicking him out of bed, which led to a
replication De injuria; but as no bruise could be shown, it fell to the
ground for want of colour.
A Con.—Why is a piece of plum-cake which has disagreed with the
Princess Rotal like one of the metropolitan suburbs ?—Why ! because
its Maida Hill (made her ill).
HIS BOOT.
Wherefore ex pede Jonathanum
is as sound an axiom as ex pede
Herculem ; since Jonathan, like
Hercules, may be guessed at, or
calculated, by his foot — with the
boot on it. The boot of the Yankee
in shape very strongly resemble*
the ox's tongue, as exhibited in the
last cut.
Thirdly, the Yankee is denoted by
in which lankness of feature may be
said to vie with sallowness of com-
plexion. The mouth, to speak with
mathematical precision, is curvi-
linear, like that nf a steel purse :
his nose is as plain as that on your
face ; probably plainer, whoever you
are. It may be defined an incipient
aquiline, terminating in a goose-
bill. His eye is of the gimlet order ;
the crow lending its tint to the pupil,,
and its foot to the outer angle. The
same bird, or its first cousin, the
ravtn, affords, in its wing, a com-
parison to the dye of his hair. ((
which the mode of growth is typified
by the tail of the rat.
The Yankee has also divers moral
peculiarities. Of these, one of the
most remarkable is his devotion to
HIS IDOL.
There is a hole in his head where
veneration, according to phreno-
logy, ought to be ; but there is no-
thing in it. We allude to phreno-
logy, as well as the hole ; for his
veneration for dollars is immense.
Melancholy State ot the Home Navy.
It will hardly be believed, but it is nevertheless a fact, that all the crews
of the river steam-boats are sunk—yes, literally sunk—in the profoundest
ignorance. An intelligent traveller, who has favoured the world with
" A Scamper through Italy," and contemplates following it up with " A
Bolt to Boulogne," has called our attention to the fact, that the boy on
board the Bachelor steam-boat is in the habit of exclaiming (i Stop her,"
when the sex of the Bachelor plainly shows that " Stop him" would be
the proper phraseology. The same brutal ignorance prevails on board
the Bridegroom, and it is, therefore, in contemplation to distribute gra-
tuitous grammars among the respective crews of the river steam-boats,
with a leaf turned down at the place where gender is treated of.