DOI issue:
July to December, 1845
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16541#0250
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
PUNCH'S POLITICAL DICTIONARY. jeames's diary.
hancellor (in Latin Cancellarius) means literally s?=5r ewly will always oe a sacrid
one who sits at a door or window, like a money- ^V^>- Til anniwussary with me. It was
taker at a theatre ; and, as the Chancellor's office -=35^; -0 = in that month that 1 became
involves the duty of money-taking to a great extent, persnally ecquaintid with my
it is, no doubt, the origin of the term. The Chan- /^^^ — Prins and my gracious Sova-
cellor of England was originally the King's Secre- j^f r~v /^^^^M^^ S rink.
tary, to answer his master's letters ; a task which igp k& Vt' ^Hf^ ? " ^ong ^e^ore tlie DOS5PiI;ious
entitled him to possession of the seal ; but when (vr^McW^3 ^ H event acurd, you may emadgin
the Chancellor waxes disagreeable, the sovereign MWl iMF^Bnk 1 S that my busm was in no
takes his seal back again. His duties are pretty fa *Vg SSw^T %M tn™mS rflutter- Slei>plf. of
ii i j \ • , • lrvA,,A, - VJf.VfwaJw^ ^ . y . AJk nights, I past them thinking
generally known, and his salary is 10,0006. a year. IvlwT^SL §r \? n-^s ~t *uJ „ ,. 4 -r • 6
• i ii , , J r < (pi) i/a'V Kv i *x- ot tne great ewent—or if ig.
with an allowance of about four thousand more for V3W m 0 A]U - ~" ^ sosted natur did clothes my
going out chairing, which he does during the session, as Chairman of '/ -ks^Q^J^. "l/if\ra O 6 highlids- the eyedear of my
the House of Lords. He is keeper of the royal conscience, but this \ V\]^jp^ \ }M$ ( /^ff^ wakmg thoughts pevaded my
has been a sinecure in some reigns. wlt-M !Ikt^^L^Ss^ slummers. Corts, Erls, presn-
Chancellor of the Exchequer. A kind of book-keeper for V^^^^^^^i^^^^^^"^ tations, Goldstix, gracious
the country at large, whose duty it is to make out the accounts of /^iCS^^ ^r"" Sovarinx menglmg in my
the nation every year, and send them in to the House of Commons. ^-^^^^ ^fi^ f"a™ k aoTlTmin risum^
He is usually not much of an arithmetician, but is a great adept in ^^^^^^-^^'^^^^ shn Yever■ su^elyT^eeo^eTtha^
the practice of double entry into the public purse, for he dips into 0f my w;ckid wickid vishn)*
it twice a year. Qne night I actially dremt that Her R. H. the Princess Hallis was
Chancery. A kind of judicial rat-trap or mouse-trap, which it is grown up, and that there was a Cabinit Counsel to detummin whether her
very easy to glide into, but from which it is very difficult and often i & *as to be bestoad on me or the Pbins of Sax-Muffinhause.n-Pum-
impossible to recede. i penstein, a young Prooshn or Germing zion of nobillaty. I ask umly
parding for this hordacious ideer.
" I said, in my fommer remarx, that 1 had detummined to be presented
to the notus of my reveared Sovaring in a melintary coschewm. The Court-
shoots in which Sivillians attend a Levy are so uucomming like the—the
livries (ojous wud ! I 8 to put it down) I used to wear befor entering
Chiltern Hundreds. A piece of land in Buckinghamshire,
formerly known as the Chiltern Hills. They afforded shelter to
banditti, and abounded in timber, which is the reason of their being
chosen as a retreat for those members of Parliament who wish to cut
their sticks. An M.P. who desires to resign his seat applies for the j sosiaty, that I couldn't abide the notium of wearing one. My detummi
stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, which is a sinecure, like the j nation wasfumly fixt to apeer as a Yominry Ca\ilry Hoffiser, in the galleant
stewardship of one of the fourpenny steam-boats on the Thames.
Some think that the Chiltern Hundreds is a ship, and that the
steward, being always compelled to remain aboard, has no time to
attend to his parliamentary duties, which he accordingly resigns.
Chimney Sweeper. No longer a man, out a mere machine ; for
the only chimney sweeper that is now allowed by law is the ramone.fr.
The sweeps were formerly called vulgarly the clergy; but the
chimneys have lost the benefit of clergy since the passing of the act
prohibiting climbing-boys, as being unsuited to our clime.
Churchwarden. An officer who keeps the accounts of the
parish, and keeps them so strictly, as in the case of Gibbs, of St.
Stephen's, Walbrook, that he will not allow them to pass out of his
own hands. One of the duties of a Churchwarden is to perambulate
the parish bounds ; but Gibbs has not been able to keep within
bounds in his official character.
A DRAMATIC RELISH.
What a devilled turkey is to the insipidity of a turkey boiled, is the
subjoined plot of a drama to a drama of the dull old times. We take the
description from a Sunday print. It is deliciously peppered :—
" In it (the Beggar's Petition) are exhibited a worthy English farmer losing his all,
and being ruined by the rapacity of his landlord, the seduction of the farmer's beautiful
daughter, by the only son of the aforesaid landlord, a daughter falsely accusing her i.wn
mother of a robbery, in order to save herself and child from being turned adrift, and dis-
carded by her seducer, a den of thieves, a burglary and highway robbery ; the under-
plot being made up of the adventures of a saucy, wanton woman," &c, &c. I ^jy, was~the way. fused to dress" myself' in my fulUogS. I madft
younifom of the North Diddlesex Huzzas.
" Has that redgmint had not been out sins 1803, I thought myself quite
hotherized to make such halterations in the youniform as shuited the
presnt time and my metured and elygiut taste. Pigtales was out of the
question. Tites I was detumrnind to mintain. My legg is praps the
fiuist pint about me, and I was risolved not to hide it under a booshle.
" I pliixt on scarht tites, then, imbridered with soold as I hare seen
Widdjccimb wear them at Hashleys when me and Mart Hann used to go
there. Ninety-six guineas worth of rich goold lace and cord did I have
myhandering hall hover those shoperb inagspressables.
" Yellow marocky Heshn boots, red eels, goold spurs & goold tassles
as bigg as belpulls.
" Jackit—French gray and silver oringe fasings & cuphs, accordiiig-
to the old patn; belt, green and goold, tight round my pusn, & settin
hoff the cemetry of my figgar not disadvintajusly.
" A huzza paleese of pupple velvit & sable fir. A sayber of Demaskus
steal, and a sabertash (in which I kep my Odiclone and imbridered
pocket ankercher), kimpleat my acooterments, which without vannaty,
was, I flatter myself, uneak.
" But the crownding triumph was my hat. I couldnt wear a cock At.
The huzzahs dont use 'em. I wouldut wear the hojous old brass Elmer
& Leppardskin. I choas a hat which is dear to the memry of hevery
Brittn; an at which was inwented by my Feeld Marshle and adord Prins ,
an At which vulgar prejidis § Joukingh&s in vane etempted to run down.
I chose the Halbert At. 1 didnt tell Bareacres of this egsabishn of
krilty, intending to surprize him. The white ploom of the West Diddlesex
Yomingry I fixt on the topp of this Shacko, where it spread hout like a
shaving-brush.
" You may be sure that befor the fatle day arrived, I didnt niglect to
practus my part well ; aud had sevral rehustles, as they say.
There is but one thing wanting in this delicious drama : there is no j Fitzwarren, my boddy servnt, stand at the dor, and figger as the Lord
murder. Wanting blood, it is as the plum-pudding without the brandy.
Nevertheless, who shall say, with such pieces licensed by the Lord Cham-
berlain (since we must have a licenser), that he is not an admirable school-
master for the galleries ?
Suburban Intelligence.
In consequence of the severe rains of the last week, the passage from the
Kensington Railway Terminus to the entrance of the Bush of the Shepherds
has become doubly dangerous. The mean quantity of mud has become
frightful in consequence of the mean conduct of the Paving Board. The
inhabitants complain of its being very hard, but we have dipped into it
and find it very soft. We understand that the Paving Committee refuse
to lay down flags unless they can meet with " the flag that braved a
thousand years the battle and the breeze."
in Waiting. I put Mrs. Bloker, my laundress, in my grand harm chair
to reprasent the hoi gust pusn of my Sovring—Frederick, my secknd
man, standing on her left, in the hattatude of an illustrus Prins Consort.
Hall the Candles were lighted. ' Captain de la Pluehe, presented by Heri
Bareacres^ Fitzwarren, my man, igsclaimed, as adwancing I made
obasins to the Thrown. Nealin on one nee, I cast a glaus of unhuttar-
able loilty towards The Brittish Crownd, then stepping gracefully hupt
(my Dimascus Simiter would git betwigst my ligs, in so doink, which at
fust was wery disagreeble) — rising hup grastfly, I say, 1 flung a look of
manly but respeckfl hommitch tords my Prins, aud then ellygntly ritreated
backards out of the Roil Presents. I kep my 4 suynts hup for 4 hours at
this gaym the night befor my presntation, and yet I was the fust to be
hup with the sunrice. I coodnl sleep that night. By abowt six o'clock
in the morning I was drest in my full uniform—and I didnt know how to
pass the interveaning hours.
"' My Granmother hasnt seen me in full phigg,' says I. ' It will rejoice
thfct pore old sole to behold one of her race so suxesfle in life.' Has I av»
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
PUNCH'S POLITICAL DICTIONARY. jeames's diary.
hancellor (in Latin Cancellarius) means literally s?=5r ewly will always oe a sacrid
one who sits at a door or window, like a money- ^V^>- Til anniwussary with me. It was
taker at a theatre ; and, as the Chancellor's office -=35^; -0 = in that month that 1 became
involves the duty of money-taking to a great extent, persnally ecquaintid with my
it is, no doubt, the origin of the term. The Chan- /^^^ — Prins and my gracious Sova-
cellor of England was originally the King's Secre- j^f r~v /^^^^M^^ S rink.
tary, to answer his master's letters ; a task which igp k& Vt' ^Hf^ ? " ^ong ^e^ore tlie DOS5PiI;ious
entitled him to possession of the seal ; but when (vr^McW^3 ^ H event acurd, you may emadgin
the Chancellor waxes disagreeable, the sovereign MWl iMF^Bnk 1 S that my busm was in no
takes his seal back again. His duties are pretty fa *Vg SSw^T %M tn™mS rflutter- Slei>plf. of
ii i j \ • , • lrvA,,A, - VJf.VfwaJw^ ^ . y . AJk nights, I past them thinking
generally known, and his salary is 10,0006. a year. IvlwT^SL §r \? n-^s ~t *uJ „ ,. 4 -r • 6
• i ii , , J r < (pi) i/a'V Kv i *x- ot tne great ewent—or if ig.
with an allowance of about four thousand more for V3W m 0 A]U - ~" ^ sosted natur did clothes my
going out chairing, which he does during the session, as Chairman of '/ -ks^Q^J^. "l/if\ra O 6 highlids- the eyedear of my
the House of Lords. He is keeper of the royal conscience, but this \ V\]^jp^ \ }M$ ( /^ff^ wakmg thoughts pevaded my
has been a sinecure in some reigns. wlt-M !Ikt^^L^Ss^ slummers. Corts, Erls, presn-
Chancellor of the Exchequer. A kind of book-keeper for V^^^^^^^i^^^^^^"^ tations, Goldstix, gracious
the country at large, whose duty it is to make out the accounts of /^iCS^^ ^r"" Sovarinx menglmg in my
the nation every year, and send them in to the House of Commons. ^-^^^^ ^fi^ f"a™ k aoTlTmin risum^
He is usually not much of an arithmetician, but is a great adept in ^^^^^^-^^'^^^^ shn Yever■ su^elyT^eeo^eTtha^
the practice of double entry into the public purse, for he dips into 0f my w;ckid wickid vishn)*
it twice a year. Qne night I actially dremt that Her R. H. the Princess Hallis was
Chancery. A kind of judicial rat-trap or mouse-trap, which it is grown up, and that there was a Cabinit Counsel to detummin whether her
very easy to glide into, but from which it is very difficult and often i & *as to be bestoad on me or the Pbins of Sax-Muffinhause.n-Pum-
impossible to recede. i penstein, a young Prooshn or Germing zion of nobillaty. I ask umly
parding for this hordacious ideer.
" I said, in my fommer remarx, that 1 had detummined to be presented
to the notus of my reveared Sovaring in a melintary coschewm. The Court-
shoots in which Sivillians attend a Levy are so uucomming like the—the
livries (ojous wud ! I 8 to put it down) I used to wear befor entering
Chiltern Hundreds. A piece of land in Buckinghamshire,
formerly known as the Chiltern Hills. They afforded shelter to
banditti, and abounded in timber, which is the reason of their being
chosen as a retreat for those members of Parliament who wish to cut
their sticks. An M.P. who desires to resign his seat applies for the j sosiaty, that I couldn't abide the notium of wearing one. My detummi
stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, which is a sinecure, like the j nation wasfumly fixt to apeer as a Yominry Ca\ilry Hoffiser, in the galleant
stewardship of one of the fourpenny steam-boats on the Thames.
Some think that the Chiltern Hundreds is a ship, and that the
steward, being always compelled to remain aboard, has no time to
attend to his parliamentary duties, which he accordingly resigns.
Chimney Sweeper. No longer a man, out a mere machine ; for
the only chimney sweeper that is now allowed by law is the ramone.fr.
The sweeps were formerly called vulgarly the clergy; but the
chimneys have lost the benefit of clergy since the passing of the act
prohibiting climbing-boys, as being unsuited to our clime.
Churchwarden. An officer who keeps the accounts of the
parish, and keeps them so strictly, as in the case of Gibbs, of St.
Stephen's, Walbrook, that he will not allow them to pass out of his
own hands. One of the duties of a Churchwarden is to perambulate
the parish bounds ; but Gibbs has not been able to keep within
bounds in his official character.
A DRAMATIC RELISH.
What a devilled turkey is to the insipidity of a turkey boiled, is the
subjoined plot of a drama to a drama of the dull old times. We take the
description from a Sunday print. It is deliciously peppered :—
" In it (the Beggar's Petition) are exhibited a worthy English farmer losing his all,
and being ruined by the rapacity of his landlord, the seduction of the farmer's beautiful
daughter, by the only son of the aforesaid landlord, a daughter falsely accusing her i.wn
mother of a robbery, in order to save herself and child from being turned adrift, and dis-
carded by her seducer, a den of thieves, a burglary and highway robbery ; the under-
plot being made up of the adventures of a saucy, wanton woman," &c, &c. I ^jy, was~the way. fused to dress" myself' in my fulUogS. I madft
younifom of the North Diddlesex Huzzas.
" Has that redgmint had not been out sins 1803, I thought myself quite
hotherized to make such halterations in the youniform as shuited the
presnt time and my metured and elygiut taste. Pigtales was out of the
question. Tites I was detumrnind to mintain. My legg is praps the
fiuist pint about me, and I was risolved not to hide it under a booshle.
" I pliixt on scarht tites, then, imbridered with soold as I hare seen
Widdjccimb wear them at Hashleys when me and Mart Hann used to go
there. Ninety-six guineas worth of rich goold lace and cord did I have
myhandering hall hover those shoperb inagspressables.
" Yellow marocky Heshn boots, red eels, goold spurs & goold tassles
as bigg as belpulls.
" Jackit—French gray and silver oringe fasings & cuphs, accordiiig-
to the old patn; belt, green and goold, tight round my pusn, & settin
hoff the cemetry of my figgar not disadvintajusly.
" A huzza paleese of pupple velvit & sable fir. A sayber of Demaskus
steal, and a sabertash (in which I kep my Odiclone and imbridered
pocket ankercher), kimpleat my acooterments, which without vannaty,
was, I flatter myself, uneak.
" But the crownding triumph was my hat. I couldnt wear a cock At.
The huzzahs dont use 'em. I wouldut wear the hojous old brass Elmer
& Leppardskin. I choas a hat which is dear to the memry of hevery
Brittn; an at which was inwented by my Feeld Marshle and adord Prins ,
an At which vulgar prejidis § Joukingh&s in vane etempted to run down.
I chose the Halbert At. 1 didnt tell Bareacres of this egsabishn of
krilty, intending to surprize him. The white ploom of the West Diddlesex
Yomingry I fixt on the topp of this Shacko, where it spread hout like a
shaving-brush.
" You may be sure that befor the fatle day arrived, I didnt niglect to
practus my part well ; aud had sevral rehustles, as they say.
There is but one thing wanting in this delicious drama : there is no j Fitzwarren, my boddy servnt, stand at the dor, and figger as the Lord
murder. Wanting blood, it is as the plum-pudding without the brandy.
Nevertheless, who shall say, with such pieces licensed by the Lord Cham-
berlain (since we must have a licenser), that he is not an admirable school-
master for the galleries ?
Suburban Intelligence.
In consequence of the severe rains of the last week, the passage from the
Kensington Railway Terminus to the entrance of the Bush of the Shepherds
has become doubly dangerous. The mean quantity of mud has become
frightful in consequence of the mean conduct of the Paving Board. The
inhabitants complain of its being very hard, but we have dipped into it
and find it very soft. We understand that the Paving Committee refuse
to lay down flags unless they can meet with " the flag that braved a
thousand years the battle and the breeze."
in Waiting. I put Mrs. Bloker, my laundress, in my grand harm chair
to reprasent the hoi gust pusn of my Sovring—Frederick, my secknd
man, standing on her left, in the hattatude of an illustrus Prins Consort.
Hall the Candles were lighted. ' Captain de la Pluehe, presented by Heri
Bareacres^ Fitzwarren, my man, igsclaimed, as adwancing I made
obasins to the Thrown. Nealin on one nee, I cast a glaus of unhuttar-
able loilty towards The Brittish Crownd, then stepping gracefully hupt
(my Dimascus Simiter would git betwigst my ligs, in so doink, which at
fust was wery disagreeble) — rising hup grastfly, I say, 1 flung a look of
manly but respeckfl hommitch tords my Prins, aud then ellygntly ritreated
backards out of the Roil Presents. I kep my 4 suynts hup for 4 hours at
this gaym the night befor my presntation, and yet I was the fust to be
hup with the sunrice. I coodnl sleep that night. By abowt six o'clock
in the morning I was drest in my full uniform—and I didnt know how to
pass the interveaning hours.
"' My Granmother hasnt seen me in full phigg,' says I. ' It will rejoice
thfct pore old sole to behold one of her race so suxesfle in life.' Has I av»