Punch (10.1846)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 107

1 the subject, we have made arrangements
PEOTECTION AND NATIVE PRODUCE. for presenting our readers with a Royal

Doll's Court Circular, of which we furnish a
specimen :—

" The Royal Doll was taken her accus-
tomed airing in her go-cart, drawn by a
superb pair of calves, bred by John the
royal footman. The Royal Doll attended, in
the schoolroom for an hour, and reposed
in a drawer with her head downwards
during the time devoted to study.

" The Royal Doll left the drawer at exactly
twelve, and was danced for a quarter of an
hour on the rug before the fire, where she
sustained some inconvenience from the heat,
and has looked considerably paler ever since
that period. The Royal Doll had her eyes
exercised with the wire in the usual way
yesterday morning. The Royal Doll had
an airing, by being left in the garden of
Buckingham Palace all night on Wednes-
day last. Her dress was somewhat deranged
by the moisture, but having had her toilette
changed, she speedily recovered.''

AN ALARMING REPORT.

Considerable consternation was excited
a few nights ago by a succession of loud

The theory of protection for native produce is all very well, but the practice would, we foar, I reports, which were heard all over the me-
be somewhat ridiculous. We might raise a shout of protection for the native sloe-leaf, and insist; tropolis, just about the hour when quiet
on the prohibition of tea, while the exclusion ot the mild Havannah and the penny Cuba might! and industrious people were seeking their
be demanded by those enthusiasts who would ask protection for the British lettuce and the cab- nocturnal repose. Children who are teeth-
bage leaves of happy Albion. But if we extend the principle of protection still further, if we ing, of whom it is calculated there are ner.rly
carry it to its legitimate end, or. in other words, carry it to the clothes, we should have ward- seven thousand—got off to sleep with diffi-
robes consisting only of such articles as might be grown in our own country. The sheep-skin would ; culty every night—in the metropolis, were all
take the place of the eight-and twopenny registered Paletot, and the hayband would become the '' suddenly woke up by a series of bangs such
substitute for the trowser. Such a set of fashions as would be the result of the prohibition of | as have not been heard for a very consi-
foreign articles can only be conceived by the imagination of the artist, and to him, therefore, we derable period. It is estimated that at least
leave the task of depicting them. | three dozen of " Godfrey" and two dozen of

_ " Mrs. Johnson" were consumed in the half

hour, during which the successive explosions
i were heard on the night alluded to. At
@Tt)f i&Opal iSMl'S (CoUlt CUTUlHt. the lowest computation, three thousand

fathers had to turn out. of bed to nurss
seven thousand children, allowing two chil-
dren and a half to each father, and four
fathers to every seven families.

All sorts of speculations were indulged in
as to the cause or meaning of the series of
reports. Some thought it was Dr. Dee's
overdue earthquake, which was payable
some time back, according to the bill drawn
by Dee on public credulity, and those fami-
lies who expected the earthquake were
making arrangements to get up imme-
diately, and repair in cabs to some sheltered
suburb.

Others thought the reports might proceed
from the Park and the Tower, and that they
were possibly intended to announce one of
those events which are so frequently adding
to the happiness of the nation in general,
and the domestic circle of royalty in par-
ticular. It was not until the following day
it became generally known, that the sounds
proceeded from the firing of guns in celebra-
tion of the frightful slaughter that has re-
cently taken place in India, and which we
are told is a matter for general rejoicing.

We confess we have not yet been able to
get up any high degree of hilarity after
reading the accounts in the newspapers.

It has been already announced in the papers that the Princess Royal has received a present
of a doll, with a complete wardrobe, from Loots-Philippe. The completeness of the wardrobe of
course admits of the various processes of dressing—for the promenade, for dinner, or for an
evening party or ball, to be carried out with reference to the doll of royalty, which is subjected
to all the strictest rules of court etiquette and fashion. Feeling the importance and interest of 1 of St. Paul's ?

a Query.

Childe Harold, speaking of the Church
of St. Peter's, Rome, says :—

' But lo ! the dome, the vast, the wondrous dome !
To which Diana's marvel was a cell."

Which is the more deserving of the term—
the " Ephesian's miracle," or the Exhibition