Punch (9.1845)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

MATERNAL SOLICITUDE.

" And the dear Children ? "

" Why, Alexandrina Victoria is a good deal bttter ; but dear little
libert here is still very delicate."

THE MAN IN THE MOON.

List ye the Song of the Man in the Moon,

That was heard, upon a night,
By one who went up in au air-balloon.

Till he hailed that Ancient Wight

" Age upon age, from my planet so brave,

1 have look'd upon Earth below ;
And have watch'd the tides of the ocean wave

With her changes ebb and flow.

All things, beside, that the moon obey,

It has been my sport to see ;
The whirligig brains, and the wits that stray,

When aloft at the full rides she.

Babel of old, when they rear'd its tower,

I beheld from my starry home,
And at Nero I laugh'd, in his frenzied hour,

As he fiddled o'er burning Rome.

Peter the Hermit I saw go forth,

When he preach"d the First Crusade ;
How I roar'd at the deeds of knightly worth

Of the madmen his sermons made !

Oh. but to think of the world and its schemes,

And the game they have been to me !
The drollest, methought, of its Bedlam dreams

Was the bubble of famed South Sea.

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Little thought I there would e'er befal

Again such a scene of mirth; - _1 IjI—L-Z; [

But the Railway Bubble passes all

I have seen on the crazy Earth.

Ne'er were such days since first Time was

—rrrr=r^z=^-- begun ;

Oh, John Bull is a rich buffoon !
Ho, ho, what rare frolic ! Ho, ho, what fine

TO THE HUMANE.—HARD CASE. f™

Are in store for the ' Man in the Moon' ! "
The present Appeal to the kind-hearted public is made by the friends

of a decayed gentleman, who has seen better days. The Applicant, Mr. ■...... - ■

Dan, was formerly in affluent circumstances, but was unfortunately in-
duced to connect himself with a speculation called Repeal; the utter DRESSING FOR COURT.

failure of which has brought him into his present difficulties. Mr. D. , . „ „ , +i„„,„„ „„™„a

of A day or two since, one Higgins, a tailor, sued a gentleman named

has lately been deriving a precarious subsistence from an income of only Webster (not the immortal Benjamin of the Haymarket), for 15L, the
twenty thousand pounds a year ! chiefly given by the poorest of the Irish price of a dressing-gown ; a thing, as defendant pleaded, mis-cut, mis-
peasantry ; but the lailure of the potato crop will lessen even this small i made, mis-fitting. Three tailors gave their solemn testimony against the
pittance. The Applicant is now reduced to travel with four horses, and j garment. But this was not enough. The defendant, with a moral courage
can afford to entertain no more than thirty persons every day at his public j ought to immortalise him among the statues for Parliament, donned
j,, t . . » j • t i j i.i -!• „ _i the gown in full court ; whereupon he was immediately shampooed by the

table : and though his friends m Ireland now and then give him a meal, ; & ., . > , . * r, r

, ., , , , .... 1 three tailors, in order to prove that the gown was too long and too snort,

yet it must be evident to any gentleman that, to keep a pack of harriers, [ toQ widg and toQ narrow# And they did prove all these things. Never-

to maintain three establishments, and the expense of making his affecting j theless, though the aforesaid Webster looked a Noodle, Justice, with her
case known through the newspapers, must make him even more dependent
than formerly on the charity of the public.

As to his character, Mr. D. begs to refer to his old friends, Whuj

proverbial blindness, would not see it ; so returned a verdict for Higgins,
thereby declaring that when the tailor made for the defendant he made the
best of a bad bargain. It may be supposed that Higgins went off with
his goose in full feather. Still have we a great respect for the moral
& Co. ; also to the gaoler at the Penitentiary, and the Times' Commis- I daring 0f Webstek. Again, we admire his luck ; for how seldom has a
sioner ; by whom the smallest donations will be thankfully received for ^ man, once stripped in a court of law. ever had a coat to his back afterwards 1
him ; as also by

J. Tuaii, Esq. - Sobrien, Esq.

And at the Conciliation Hall.

DEATH IN THE THAMES NAVY.

We are extremely sorry to have to record the fact, that Waterman
No. 7, familiarly known as the jolly middle-aged waterman in the Thames
fleet, is no more. It came in collision with a Bee, and the sting it
received from the concussion was too much for the very sensitive craft.
Its eyes or windows filled with water, its funnel gave one deep groan, and
it sunk into untimely mud off London Bridge. The Bee was a relation by
the side of its Ant; and the Bee was so much affected, that it nearly
suak into the same grave as the Waterman, for they were locked in each
other's paddle-boxes for a considerable time. The Waterman was ex-
ceedingly well connected, and several noble steam-boats are placed in
mourning by the sad event. The Lily and Pink will both have to go into
biack on account ef the melancholy affair.

A Railway Lullaby.

The fearful lull in the Share Market has given rise to the following
Lullaby, which is now being sung by the Stags of Capel Court, as they
pace the deserted purlieus of the Stock Exchange :—

Hush-a-by, broker, at Capel Court top,
When the wind's raised the premiums will stop ;
When there's a breeze the premiums will fall-
Down come the holders, the brokers, and all.

serve them right!

The little Eton boys, who made such a riot at Windsor after the elec-
tion, have been severely punished. Their straps have been taken away
from them, and the ringleaders have been put on "skyblue" till they
have learnt Colonel Reid's address to the electors by heart. Sooner
than submit to this, we regret to say that, three boys with promising
indications of whiskers have deserted.