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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

PUNCH'S HISTORICAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.' Cfje WzfcmtUtt) l&acer.

" We regret to learn that Lord George Bkntinck, at the close of the present Mason,
RICHARD THE THIRD. intends to dispose of hia stud and retire from the turf."—Sporting Paper,

See the ring when 'tis thronged, 'ere the Derby is run.
And the warren re-echoes to " Done, Sir," and " Done.''
There's one all the knowing ones join to revere,
From Duke down to dustman, from Prig up to Peer—
Tis Lord George, of the Turfites the monarch confest
Whose book's always safest, whose lot's always best;
Who, 'midst betters and blacklegs, towers calmly elate—
'Tis the high-mettled racer, his natural state !

Now Peel is turned out, and Protectionists rush
For a tug at his fur, or a bite at his brush ;
In slander and slang their hot vengeance they wreak ;
But, for want of a leader, are sadly to seek,
Till, with figures and facts freshly crammed, from the course,
Up to points of his " Hansard"—as those of his horse—
When Sir Robert yields up his political breath
The high-mettled racer is in at the death.

His figures upset, his flights nipped in the bud,
Showed up, shouted down, but still showing some blood.
Where top-booted farmers in Willis's show.
With Buckingham upstairs and Richmond below ;
Where the poor British Lion is poked up once more,
Till they hardly get from him one last lazy roar ;
Where Lords flatter labour and tenants look black,
The high-mettled racer's a poor spouting hack.

Till at last, having laboured, drudged early and late,
Broken in to the business, he stoops to his fate.
Dines desperate, wherever Protection is met,
To hear very dry talk in marquees very wet •,
Till forced to exhibit, as lately, at Lynn,
Along with Disraeli, his fallacies thin,
Trotted out to amuse squires dull as their hogs,
The high-mettled racer is "gone to the dogs."

This extraordinary individual is better known by his appearance
on the stage, than from the pages of history, and we therefore prefer
adopting the dramatic version of his character. He was in the habit

of walking up and down the streets of London, indulging in soliloquies an appeal to the country,

on his own deformity, and developing his plans of ambition in very

loud talking, which might easily have been overheard by the servant- Will no one give ivir. Disraeli a dinner?

girls or others looking out of the windows in the neighbourhood.

The first glimpse we get sf him is in one of these promenades, in the ----

course of which he was continually rapping the palm of his left hand

with a truncheon carried in his right, making sudden stops, indulging ttttt. ppttvq' tntm a rnvrroTCJT't? ATTn\r

in winks, sneers, sardonic grins, and other eccentric movements, con- THE GREYS-Irsrs ADMINISTRATION.

eluding with a loud announcement of his intention to " prove a villain." The ^ Earl &ret wag caricatured with his tail of 70> having pro.

This determination he seems to have carried out to the letter, by a vided for that number of his family. The present Administration under

series of assassinations and hypocrisies. Lord John Russell, has a strong tendencv to turn grey, which is a

From his mother s description of him, which we have no doubt was very ^a(j g. -n a ^ykio-
painfully accurate, we learn that he was a most unmanageable baby. Qne Qf Ms • ate se(fretaries is a Grey.
"tetchy and wayward in his infancy, refusing his bottle when Sir George Grey is Colonial Secretary.

tendered, and crying for it when it was most inconvenient to give | Mr_ a WooB_ the chancellor of the Exchequer, is Lord Gret's
it him. _ _ _ brother-in-law.

He spent the prime of his life in extinguishing prosing old kings,. There ig alsQ GreY) and Mg private secretarv, Honourable

smothering his nephews, giving orders for chopping off miscellaneous : Captain qeet

heads, and bamboozling the Duke of Buckingham. The last In faCt there are so many Grets that we wish Mr. Hume, when
great act of his life—his combat with the Duke oe Richmond-has i Parliament returns from grouse-shooting, would move for a list of all the
been differently represented by various authorities. Some make him Qrets who are &t preseut employed in pumping the engine of state,
fight only for a few seconds ; others show him struggling, cutting, ghould thgy gver regi {n & bod th wiU certainly ^ able, in
thrusting gasping, and slashing for full a quarter of an hour. The a , . f h Chiltern Hundreds, to take a Chiltern a-piece
probability is, that he gave a good deal of trouble to his conqueror, by
an obstinate knack of clashing sword against sword, than from any
difficulty there might have been in subduing him.

wanted, a pair of moustaches,

By a young gentleman who is going to spend a month (and his
quarter's salary) in Paris. They must be very fierce, and have a
A MISNOMER, decided military turn. Colour no object. Apply, with specimens, at

How can they give the name of Fleet j Somerset House, after four o'clock.

To London's celebrated Street ?
Its character at once 'twould show.

Instead of Fleet to call it Slow. The Want of Practice. A medical man advertises, m the Lancet,

for " the patients of Job."

WEDDINGS EXECUTED ON THE SHORTEST NOTICE.

The Spanish Ministers have sent over an order to Coburg House for
a nice young man to marry the Queen.

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