DOI issue:
July to December, 1846
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16543#0022
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
THE PREMIER'S FAREWELL.
DR REID AM) THE JUDGES.
he ministerial season has
come to a close, and the pre-
sent manager, having retired
from the direction, has been
called for in compliance with
the usual custom, and has
delivered the following ad-
dress :—
" Ladies and Gentlemen,
" The period of our ma-
nagement having arrived, it
becomes my pleasing duty
to come before you, for the
purpose of thanking you for
the support with which you
have honoured us. Though
it has been our effort to
foster British productions,
we have, in accordance with
the fashion of the day, deter-
mined to avail ourselves of
foreign aid, and we hope
that the experiment may
lead to a mutual imerchange
of the productions of differ-
ent countries.
" Upon referring to our JT will be remembered, that Mr. Bakon Parke threat-
bills you will rind that much ened, some short time ago, to shed his judicial wig, and
has been done, and most of cast his baronial skin, or robe, if Dr. Eeid was permitted
what we have undertaken to suffocate the Court of Exchequer by his ventilating
has been emin ntly success process. As the wisdom is in the wig, and the dignity
ful,iiispiteof some interested jn the gown, these appendages cannot be actually dis-
opposition from quarters to pensed with, though it may be possible to produce aD
which 1 will not further the necessary effect by placing them on the bench by the
allude. I regret that our side of the judge, who will thus be release 1 from their
last effort, upon which we had staked our managerial Mice ess. has not met with oppressive burden. It might, perhaps, be allowable for
your usual favour. ] may, perhaps, be allowed to allude to our farces, of which a ticket-porter, or some other muscular individual, accus-
aeveral have been produced during the session, and which, thanks to the humorous tomed to carry loads, to sit by the side of the judge,
efforts of Mr. Disraeli, and a few other performers in that line, have created the decked out in the official trappings, and thus supporting
greatest laughter. the dignity of the bench when the weather happens to
"Hoping at some future time to meet you in my managerial capacity once more, j he too hot to admit < 1 the dignity being bearable by a
I now most respectfully bid you farewell." person not accustomed to carry heavy packages. CounseL
m, . „, , ,, , , , also, might perhaps be permitted to combine comfort with
The Manager retired amid a shower of bouquets and the loudest applause. etiquette, byliaving a pele at their sides in Court, on
which the tig-wig might Le hung on the days appointed!
for wearing it.
We merely throw o ;t these suggestions for the consider-
ation of mir legal friends , since it seems, that though
Parliament is to be freed from Dr. Reid, the courts of
Law are still to be left to the mercy of the Great Suffocater.
" SMALL BY DEGREES AND BEAUTIFULLY LESS."
A
The Flag* of Manchester.
The asphalte in Manchester, owing to the warm weather,
has melted to that degree that it has officiated as a boot-
jack in pulling off gentlemen's Wellingtons and the high-
lows of the bagmen. A number of ladies' shoes have
Among the wonders of the age one of the most extraordinary is the gradual di- been pjt.ke(j up, which had floundered in the asphalte,
mmutjon of General Tom Thumb This curious fact we gather from the adver- and tbe authorities have been obliged to put up boards
tising carts, which are pasted over with coloured portraits of him. From these inar]5eri '-Dangerous." to warn the venturesome passenger
it would appear that the decline commenced when he undertook the character from 8jntiUg, and finding a bituminous grave in the Man-
of the " English Sportsman." We next find him a few inches shorter, as somebody, cbester r<yA,]s. We hope that the Paving Commissioners-
in a pair of tights, with a spear and a fireman's helmet. The next stage of smallness quickly mend their wavs, and put the pavement on a
is where he is doing the Highland Fling, after which he diminishes with fearful rapi- . sounder footing. To insure this, we kindly advise them not
dity into Frederick the Great; and sinks at last into the peasant of some un-
discovered country, who is dancing about with a blue shirt and a garland of sun-
flowers. His greatest littleness, however, is reserved for Napoleon, who, by
the side of the "Fine Old English Gentleman," looks so pitiably small that it is
our wonder the French Government has not made it a casus belli.
We perceive that he is advertised to take—positively—a " last tour in the pro- Sir Robert Peel again leaves behind him a surplus,
vinces;" (which, in plain English, means the last but six,) at the end of which we may expect, therefore, in less than a year of the
time we should not be at all astonished to find him so small as to be invisible to the new Government to have another proof of the Whigs
naked eye. He will have to be exhibited through an oxyhydrogen microscope, deficiency,
■which, after multiplying him 6,000,000 times, might bring him back again to his
original size.
to pitch their asphalte the next time quite so strong.
A bad OMEN.
"A Bad Book."—Lord G eorge Bintinck. in fighting the cause of Agricultu-
ral Protection and opposing Sir Roiurt, must have learnt that it is not
always safe "to take the field against the Favourite." | which way to turn.'
"ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER.''
Lord Brougham has been heard to say, that "the
last few days he has been so distracted with the new-
changes, that he positively has not been able to see yet
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
THE PREMIER'S FAREWELL.
DR REID AM) THE JUDGES.
he ministerial season has
come to a close, and the pre-
sent manager, having retired
from the direction, has been
called for in compliance with
the usual custom, and has
delivered the following ad-
dress :—
" Ladies and Gentlemen,
" The period of our ma-
nagement having arrived, it
becomes my pleasing duty
to come before you, for the
purpose of thanking you for
the support with which you
have honoured us. Though
it has been our effort to
foster British productions,
we have, in accordance with
the fashion of the day, deter-
mined to avail ourselves of
foreign aid, and we hope
that the experiment may
lead to a mutual imerchange
of the productions of differ-
ent countries.
" Upon referring to our JT will be remembered, that Mr. Bakon Parke threat-
bills you will rind that much ened, some short time ago, to shed his judicial wig, and
has been done, and most of cast his baronial skin, or robe, if Dr. Eeid was permitted
what we have undertaken to suffocate the Court of Exchequer by his ventilating
has been emin ntly success process. As the wisdom is in the wig, and the dignity
ful,iiispiteof some interested jn the gown, these appendages cannot be actually dis-
opposition from quarters to pensed with, though it may be possible to produce aD
which 1 will not further the necessary effect by placing them on the bench by the
allude. I regret that our side of the judge, who will thus be release 1 from their
last effort, upon which we had staked our managerial Mice ess. has not met with oppressive burden. It might, perhaps, be allowable for
your usual favour. ] may, perhaps, be allowed to allude to our farces, of which a ticket-porter, or some other muscular individual, accus-
aeveral have been produced during the session, and which, thanks to the humorous tomed to carry loads, to sit by the side of the judge,
efforts of Mr. Disraeli, and a few other performers in that line, have created the decked out in the official trappings, and thus supporting
greatest laughter. the dignity of the bench when the weather happens to
"Hoping at some future time to meet you in my managerial capacity once more, j he too hot to admit < 1 the dignity being bearable by a
I now most respectfully bid you farewell." person not accustomed to carry heavy packages. CounseL
m, . „, , ,, , , , also, might perhaps be permitted to combine comfort with
The Manager retired amid a shower of bouquets and the loudest applause. etiquette, byliaving a pele at their sides in Court, on
which the tig-wig might Le hung on the days appointed!
for wearing it.
We merely throw o ;t these suggestions for the consider-
ation of mir legal friends , since it seems, that though
Parliament is to be freed from Dr. Reid, the courts of
Law are still to be left to the mercy of the Great Suffocater.
" SMALL BY DEGREES AND BEAUTIFULLY LESS."
A
The Flag* of Manchester.
The asphalte in Manchester, owing to the warm weather,
has melted to that degree that it has officiated as a boot-
jack in pulling off gentlemen's Wellingtons and the high-
lows of the bagmen. A number of ladies' shoes have
Among the wonders of the age one of the most extraordinary is the gradual di- been pjt.ke(j up, which had floundered in the asphalte,
mmutjon of General Tom Thumb This curious fact we gather from the adver- and tbe authorities have been obliged to put up boards
tising carts, which are pasted over with coloured portraits of him. From these inar]5eri '-Dangerous." to warn the venturesome passenger
it would appear that the decline commenced when he undertook the character from 8jntiUg, and finding a bituminous grave in the Man-
of the " English Sportsman." We next find him a few inches shorter, as somebody, cbester r<yA,]s. We hope that the Paving Commissioners-
in a pair of tights, with a spear and a fireman's helmet. The next stage of smallness quickly mend their wavs, and put the pavement on a
is where he is doing the Highland Fling, after which he diminishes with fearful rapi- . sounder footing. To insure this, we kindly advise them not
dity into Frederick the Great; and sinks at last into the peasant of some un-
discovered country, who is dancing about with a blue shirt and a garland of sun-
flowers. His greatest littleness, however, is reserved for Napoleon, who, by
the side of the "Fine Old English Gentleman," looks so pitiably small that it is
our wonder the French Government has not made it a casus belli.
We perceive that he is advertised to take—positively—a " last tour in the pro- Sir Robert Peel again leaves behind him a surplus,
vinces;" (which, in plain English, means the last but six,) at the end of which we may expect, therefore, in less than a year of the
time we should not be at all astonished to find him so small as to be invisible to the new Government to have another proof of the Whigs
naked eye. He will have to be exhibited through an oxyhydrogen microscope, deficiency,
■which, after multiplying him 6,000,000 times, might bring him back again to his
original size.
to pitch their asphalte the next time quite so strong.
A bad OMEN.
"A Bad Book."—Lord G eorge Bintinck. in fighting the cause of Agricultu-
ral Protection and opposing Sir Roiurt, must have learnt that it is not
always safe "to take the field against the Favourite." | which way to turn.'
"ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER.''
Lord Brougham has been heard to say, that "the
last few days he has been so distracted with the new-
changes, that he positively has not been able to see yet