DOI issue:
July to December, 1847
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16545#0192
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
THE ROYAL DRUMMER.
Eranci3C0 D'Assis is very fond, according to the Observateur
Francais, of beating the big drum. We must say that this was the
last organ in the world likely to promote harmony in a royal house-
hold—almost as bad as Queen Christina. Considering the noise
there has lately been in the quarrelsome palace, we should imagine
that this drum must be the far-famed Tartar drum.
No wonder the King and Queen of Spain had separate establish-
ments ! A big drum would put out the best concerted duo. Why,
it has nearly; disturbed the concert of European powers ! The Big
Drum of Spain, and the Serpent of France, would not be tolerated any-
where, excepting at a promenade concert. Why doesn't Jullien
engage Louis-Philippe and Assis ?
the scarcity.
Talk of the scarcity! why, walnuts are selling at Chipping-Norton
fifty for a penny; you can go to the Victoria Theatre for three-pence :
and" there is the whole Praslin tragedy to be had beautifully illustrated
for a halfpenny ! What more would you have ? Really, the British
Public is growing miserly, or else too much of an epicure ! We are
afraid the poor thing is horribly blase.
Thy voice, in purity of tone
Reminds me of the old macaw;
What bliss to think thou art mine own,
My black, my beautiful, my squaw I
COLONIAL ANNUALS.
The publication of the first Co-
lonial Annual has just been
advertised in the Times, under
the title of the New Zealand
something or other, and we
have no doubt the work will
be followed up by a whole
tribe of Caffre-land Keepsakes, I --------------------
Sarawak Books of Beauty, and j
Sandwich Islands Eorget-Me- MR. DUNUFS FAILURE.
Mots.
THE COQUETTE.
If Sarawak is entitled to a
Rajah, it undoubtedly deserves
The interest taken in the failure of Mr. Dunup affords a gratifying
| proof of the sympathy of the public with that individual; but we regret
an Annual; and we hope that to say, that in monetary circles the good feeling to which we allude has-
the enterprising Mr. Brooke not been responded to. The moment the determination of the Govern-
will brook no delay m lllumi- : ment became known to Mr. Dunup, he sent down a pile of his paper to
nating the Sarawakians with the Bank to be discounted. His messenger—the little girl of Ms-
some light literature, in the laundress—being unable to meet with any attention, even from the
style of our English Annuals. ; Bank Beadle—whom the child naturally mistook for the Governor—
The Mew Zealand publishers j Mr. Dunup determined to go in person and seek an interview. He-
will, we hope, meet with suffi- made up his mind not to be over nice about the rate of discount, but
cient encouragement to justify ■ boldlv give two per cent, beyond the maximum, as a temptation to the
them in following up their al- , " Parlour" to treat with him. On his arrival in Threadneedle Street
ready announced speculation j he was not met in a corresponding spirit of cordiality, and he retired
with a Book of Beauty, em- i in some disgust to his private broker—a pawnbroker—with whom he
bracing the native objects of invested his vest, and increased his own stock of bullion to the extent
loveliness that abound in their of three-and-ninepence. Mr. Dunup naturally complains that a measure
neighbourhood. We can pic- j intended for the relief of the country has brought no relief to him, and
ture to ourselves, and of course, 1 he feels convinced that if the Ministers knew how little he had profited
therefore, can picture to our ' by the recent arrangement, they would be exceedingly angry with the
subscribers, some of the portraits that would adorn the Annual we Bank authorities.
have suggested. The contribu-
tions in prose and poetry would
correspond with the style of the
It is particularly hard upon Mr. Dunup to have become a victim to
a general want, of confidence, when he has on his own part given an.
extraordinary instance of confidence, which, when every one knows it,
embellishments, and a galaxy of every one will appreciate Such was Mr. Dunup's confidence in his
beauty, both real and ideal, would ■fflBppF^SffiBk own banker, that he actually overdrew his account by two-and-twenty
be constituted, b\ the aid of a iMlPa^SslB shillings, as a delicate, intimation of his assurance that the firm had a
little judicious editing. There MR^f^^Wmfo. surplus beyond their liabilities,
would probably be a careful selec-
tion of the elite of the different
styles of New Zealand Beauty,
with descriptions ot appropriate
poesy; from which it will be suf- JH|^Hn: - - It was reported in the City, on Saturday, that the well-known firm
ficient to furnish the public with wBKK^^^^^^mWm of Aldgate Pump, Spout Handle, & Co., had stopped payment, and
that its draughts had been dishonoured. Of course the firm, being one
of issue, would have created the utmost inconvenience by a stoppage.
On inquiry, it turned out that its means of action had been temporarily
tied up, and that its resources had never been dry, and some one having
come forward with a friendly hand, removed at once all restriction.
Another Failure.
a single specimen :—
to the
SQUAW QUAREESHEE.
My bulbul, dingy is thy skin,
But yet to me thou seemest
bright; _____ „. ........
Like the dark COal, that holds "tfl ^^^Hf^k Printed by William Bradbury, of No. 6. Tore Place. Stoke *ewinjton and Frederick MnlUtt Evan8.
' —- rr/ /' \ \ 1 of No. 7, Cburcb Row, Stok* Ne« na-n. b.th in the County ot Middlesex, Printers, at their
Within ' ' (j1 j Office, in Lombard Street, in the Precinct nf Whitefriar*, in the City of London, and published
Its shade the elements of light. | nU*^™ 6tl*Vlm " 1Pim" °' Su in the 0ity nt
To Correspondents.— Will the Macgregor send his address?
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
THE ROYAL DRUMMER.
Eranci3C0 D'Assis is very fond, according to the Observateur
Francais, of beating the big drum. We must say that this was the
last organ in the world likely to promote harmony in a royal house-
hold—almost as bad as Queen Christina. Considering the noise
there has lately been in the quarrelsome palace, we should imagine
that this drum must be the far-famed Tartar drum.
No wonder the King and Queen of Spain had separate establish-
ments ! A big drum would put out the best concerted duo. Why,
it has nearly; disturbed the concert of European powers ! The Big
Drum of Spain, and the Serpent of France, would not be tolerated any-
where, excepting at a promenade concert. Why doesn't Jullien
engage Louis-Philippe and Assis ?
the scarcity.
Talk of the scarcity! why, walnuts are selling at Chipping-Norton
fifty for a penny; you can go to the Victoria Theatre for three-pence :
and" there is the whole Praslin tragedy to be had beautifully illustrated
for a halfpenny ! What more would you have ? Really, the British
Public is growing miserly, or else too much of an epicure ! We are
afraid the poor thing is horribly blase.
Thy voice, in purity of tone
Reminds me of the old macaw;
What bliss to think thou art mine own,
My black, my beautiful, my squaw I
COLONIAL ANNUALS.
The publication of the first Co-
lonial Annual has just been
advertised in the Times, under
the title of the New Zealand
something or other, and we
have no doubt the work will
be followed up by a whole
tribe of Caffre-land Keepsakes, I --------------------
Sarawak Books of Beauty, and j
Sandwich Islands Eorget-Me- MR. DUNUFS FAILURE.
Mots.
THE COQUETTE.
If Sarawak is entitled to a
Rajah, it undoubtedly deserves
The interest taken in the failure of Mr. Dunup affords a gratifying
| proof of the sympathy of the public with that individual; but we regret
an Annual; and we hope that to say, that in monetary circles the good feeling to which we allude has-
the enterprising Mr. Brooke not been responded to. The moment the determination of the Govern-
will brook no delay m lllumi- : ment became known to Mr. Dunup, he sent down a pile of his paper to
nating the Sarawakians with the Bank to be discounted. His messenger—the little girl of Ms-
some light literature, in the laundress—being unable to meet with any attention, even from the
style of our English Annuals. ; Bank Beadle—whom the child naturally mistook for the Governor—
The Mew Zealand publishers j Mr. Dunup determined to go in person and seek an interview. He-
will, we hope, meet with suffi- made up his mind not to be over nice about the rate of discount, but
cient encouragement to justify ■ boldlv give two per cent, beyond the maximum, as a temptation to the
them in following up their al- , " Parlour" to treat with him. On his arrival in Threadneedle Street
ready announced speculation j he was not met in a corresponding spirit of cordiality, and he retired
with a Book of Beauty, em- i in some disgust to his private broker—a pawnbroker—with whom he
bracing the native objects of invested his vest, and increased his own stock of bullion to the extent
loveliness that abound in their of three-and-ninepence. Mr. Dunup naturally complains that a measure
neighbourhood. We can pic- j intended for the relief of the country has brought no relief to him, and
ture to ourselves, and of course, 1 he feels convinced that if the Ministers knew how little he had profited
therefore, can picture to our ' by the recent arrangement, they would be exceedingly angry with the
subscribers, some of the portraits that would adorn the Annual we Bank authorities.
have suggested. The contribu-
tions in prose and poetry would
correspond with the style of the
It is particularly hard upon Mr. Dunup to have become a victim to
a general want, of confidence, when he has on his own part given an.
extraordinary instance of confidence, which, when every one knows it,
embellishments, and a galaxy of every one will appreciate Such was Mr. Dunup's confidence in his
beauty, both real and ideal, would ■fflBppF^SffiBk own banker, that he actually overdrew his account by two-and-twenty
be constituted, b\ the aid of a iMlPa^SslB shillings, as a delicate, intimation of his assurance that the firm had a
little judicious editing. There MR^f^^Wmfo. surplus beyond their liabilities,
would probably be a careful selec-
tion of the elite of the different
styles of New Zealand Beauty,
with descriptions ot appropriate
poesy; from which it will be suf- JH|^Hn: - - It was reported in the City, on Saturday, that the well-known firm
ficient to furnish the public with wBKK^^^^^^mWm of Aldgate Pump, Spout Handle, & Co., had stopped payment, and
that its draughts had been dishonoured. Of course the firm, being one
of issue, would have created the utmost inconvenience by a stoppage.
On inquiry, it turned out that its means of action had been temporarily
tied up, and that its resources had never been dry, and some one having
come forward with a friendly hand, removed at once all restriction.
Another Failure.
a single specimen :—
to the
SQUAW QUAREESHEE.
My bulbul, dingy is thy skin,
But yet to me thou seemest
bright; _____ „. ........
Like the dark COal, that holds "tfl ^^^Hf^k Printed by William Bradbury, of No. 6. Tore Place. Stoke *ewinjton and Frederick MnlUtt Evan8.
' —- rr/ /' \ \ 1 of No. 7, Cburcb Row, Stok* Ne« na-n. b.th in the County ot Middlesex, Printers, at their
Within ' ' (j1 j Office, in Lombard Street, in the Precinct nf Whitefriar*, in the City of London, and published
Its shade the elements of light. | nU*^™ 6tl*Vlm " 1Pim" °' Su in the 0ity nt
To Correspondents.— Will the Macgregor send his address?