Punch (7.1844)

138 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

APPROPRIATE AIRS.

The custom of following the giving of
toasts at public dinners by appropriate airs,
is all very well if it can be carried com-
pletely out, but when some of the toasts
will admit of the arrangement and others
will not, the effect may be occasionally
rather awkward. The other day, at the
dinner given to Sir Robert Sale, the
health of Her Majesty was followed, very
properly, by " God save the Queen ;" but
when it came to the Prince op Wales, and
the rest of the Royal Family, there was no
air that seemed particularly appropriate,
and the glee-singers unfortunately struck
up the popular ditty of " That's the way
the money goes," a contre temps which
was happily put an end to by the band
commencing, fortissimo, the " Prince of
Wales's March," thus effectually drowning
the efforts of the glee-singers.

But the funniest combination of the
evening was the health of Sin R. a. Fer-
guson, Bart., the Member for the City,
with the song of " I'm ower young to
marry yet." We should be glad to know
the honourable baronet's age, and whether
he has any idea of marrying ; and if bo,
whether he is considered "ower young" to

ROYAL PROCLAMATION.

Her Majesty has just issued a Proclamation, of which Pi *ch has
been favoured with an early Copy.

S&IIjettaS, On each and every of our Royal Movements, it haa
been, and is the custom of sundry weakly-disposed Persons,
known as " Our Own Correspondents," " Our Private Corre-
spondents," and others, to write, and cause to be printed, absurd
and foolish language, touching Ourself, our Royal Consort, and
Beloved Babies,—it is Our will and pleasure that such foolish
practices, (tending as they really do to bring royalty into con-
tempt,) shall be discontinued ; and that from henceforth, all
"Vain, Silly, and Sycophantic Verbiage shall cease, and good,
Straightforward, Simple English be used in all Descriptions of
all Progresses made by Ourself, our Royal Consort, and our
Dearly Beloved Children. And Furthermore, It shall be
permitted to our Royal Self to wear a white shawl, or a black
shawl, without any idle talk being passed upon the same. And
Further, Our Beloved Consort shall, whenever it shaR so
please him, " change his round Hat for a Naval Cap with a gold

enter into the state of matrimony. _ £§1 band " without calling for the special notice of the newspapers,

Axd Further, That our Beloved Child, the Princess Royal,
shall be permitted to walk " hand in hand " with her Royal
THE HUNGERFORD^SUSPENSION ||||| Father, without exciting such marked demonstrations of won-

It has just occurred to the proprietors
of this snug little footway, that it will pay-
by adding a railroad to it. They have got
the bridge and they now only want the
railway, a state of things which reminds us
of the boy who had got a watch-key ai- < 1
only wanted a gold watch to add to it. 1 f
the proprietors are desirous of uniting
with a railway, why not fraternise with the
Kensington concern ; a bridge that nobody
wants to go over, would be an excellent
adjunct to a railway nobody wants to go
by, and as the two speculations are deci-
dedly two negatives as far as profit is con-
cerned, it is just possible that an affirmative

derment at the familiarity, as have been made known to Me by
the public press.

ISt it itrtObon, That the Queen or England is not the Grand
Lama; And Further be it Remembered,That Englishmen
should not emulate the vain idolatry of speech familiar in the
mouths of Eastern bondmen.

Victoria Tfteauta.
Gitm at Blair Athol, Sept. 16, 1844. °

INCIDENTS OF THE ROYAL TRIP.
The report of Her Majesty's progress announces the important facl
that during a heavy shower Prince Albert refused to go below, but
took shelter abaft the paddle-box. His Royal Highness must have stuffed
might arise out of them. An uninter- ^TKSfe^SW^lfA 1 I himself in somewhere between the kitchen and the gunwale, but ha

was able to command a view of surrounding objects. Amongst the sur-
rounding objects the Earls of Liverpool and Aberdeen are particularly

mentioned.

rupted communication between Wormwood I i f4w ^"^T* j evidently kept his weather eye disengaged, for the report adds that he

Scrubbs and the Belvidere Brewery might
stand a chance of being visited from a

feeling of curiosity, and the very absurdity design for the d'israkli
of the thing would render it to a certain column at Shrewsbury.

extent an object of interest -—---The Arcbceoloeical Society.

-- Punch has to apologize to this learned body, that in consequence of a»

D' A11R T P K V RffPRniAVnun excruciating press of matter, he is not enabled to give up so many of his

UAUB1(jNY REPRIMANDED. columns as he could wish, to a report of their proceedings. He will,

Mons. Guizot has undertaken to order Captain Bruat to repri- however, next week, make sure amendment. He has been favoured by
maud M. D'Aubigny for his conduct to Pritchard. The solemnity James Robinson Planche, Esq., F.R.S.A., with the MS. of his forth-
will, we understand, be performed in the following manner:—• coming paper, " On the Origin, Progress, and Uses of the Shoulder- knot
Bruat will be seated at a table with bottles and glasses before him. This paper forms a companion essay to that read at Canterbury by the
He will then order D'Aubigny to be brought into his presence, learned gentleman on the Buckle, and will, furthermore, be illustrated

Bruat will then rise, and with great sternness address the prisoner, | with a vei7 handsome portrait of the author.___

thus—

M. D'Aubigny, it is my painful duty to severely reprimand you
—and you are reprimanded accordingly. (D'Aubigny bows.) Now,
comrade, sit down. (Pushes the bottles.) Chateau-Margaux or Lafitte ?

D'Aubigny. Lafitte.

Bruat. (Filling.) " Trinquous I A la gloire de France ! "
And, until a late hour in the evening, D'Aubigny continues to be
reprimanded.

English Politicians Abroad.

Thk Whigs are all gone upon their travels, the country having left
them quite free to alter promener as long as they find it agreeable.
Speculation is very busy as to the motives by which some of the leading
politicians are influenced ; and it is roundly asserted that Lord John
Russell has been into Germany with the intention of " warming up old
animosities against France." This seems to be a most unprofitable branch
of political cookery ; for, whoever tries to warm up oid animosities, is
likely to make a pretty hash of it-

Early in October will be Published,

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For 1845.

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beyond Punch's Pocket-Book for 1844." U having been ascertained that
Punch's Pockjst-Book for 1845, will exceed its predecessor m every
respect, the sentence is reversed.

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