DOI issue:
July to December, 1848
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16547#0143
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
FLUNKEIANA.
ODE ON THE THAMES,
jfar Claitetral JHusJte.
Am.—Violoncello obligate.
Beneath the City's thousand sewers
Old Thames runs to and fro ;
This way and that its fill h be pours,
As his tide doth ebb and flow;
And foul Mephitis ever soars
From the mud that swags below.
Oh! oh!
This thing ought not to be so ;
No ! no ! no!
Chorus of Aldermen. Handelian fugue.
Full Orchestra.
Oh ! c^ase your idle clatter,
Since to us it is no matter,
Tho' the Thames grow thick as batter;
And for all you say,
Though Miasma play the devil,
Yet while fluids find their level.
We will wallow, roll, and revel
In our mud for a\ e !
Yes, in every kind of fcecula,
1 n sempiterna seecula,
la seecula, in fcecula,
In fcecula and seecula
Hooray ! hooray !
British Manufactures.
There is a Hospital at Westminster,
that, determined to uphold the principle oi
patronising none but British productions,
lias issued a placard, in which they dis-
tinctly state, they will take in no other
cases of Cholera but what are proved to be
thoroughly British.
a conundrum from the "stable
^ Old Gent. " Thomas, I have always placed the greatest Confidence in you. Now tell me,! mind."
Thomas, how is it that my Butcher's Bills are so large, and that I always have such bad
Dinners I"
Thomas. Really, Sir, I don't know, for I am sure we never have anything nice in the
Kitchen that we don't always send sohb of it up into the Parlour I"
Why is the St. Leger like the Irish Re-
bellion ?
Because it is the great Donkey-stir (Don-
caster).
RECREATIONS IN NATURAL HISTORY.
eally Lord John has had
a narrow escape. He has
been to the Zoological
Gardens, Dublin, and
avoided the trap that was
OVERDOING IT AT BOULOGNE.
Premier was to have been
caught, and exhibited be-
hind some iron bars.
However, the conspiracy
was betrayed, as Irish
conspiracies invariably are,
and liis Lordship escaped
being shown at sixpence
a head.
The partridges are said,
this year, to be very shy.
Now, really, sportsmen
AA)\f\f\''V!p * ^IW V"36^n should recollect that what
^A)\V\fNf yi/WV*r_^ should recollect that what
,| \ V » V\\ V » %fw . fN~\x-x is Same to us is death to
M , \ \A1W ^.^kS^ them- We can hardly
__^» expect the partridges to
come and be shot, as if it
was a pleasure for which
they were dying. If this
were the case, they would not fail, as well-bred birds, to bring their
own bread-sauce with them.
Talking of birds, we know of one at Boulogne that is so extremely
shy, that nothing will induce him to come across the water, unless
he sees that the coast is perfectly clear. The shyness of this bird is
attributed to a deal of shot which, it is said, he has left behind him in
the hands of several persons, who would be too happy to get a dis-
The Boulogne authorities, after inviting a lot of National Guards to an
entertainment, made the unpleasant discovery that all the money having
been spent in preparation, there was nothing left for the entertainment
itself. Having consumed the best part of the ready cash in bill-sticking
and knocking up a platform in the Tintilleries, it is found that there is
laid for him. A cage was ; scarcely a franc remaining to provide the invited guesos with some-
already prepared. The ! thing to amuse them and something to eat. The banquet was therefore
of necessity made up for t he most, part of papier mache properties, lent
by the manager of the Theatre, with a sprinkling of real filberts, and
here and there a loaf of bread. It was intended to offer the visiters a
glass each of vin d'hontieur, but the assets being insufficient, the inhabi-
tants were entreated to furnish a supply, and the result was the
collection of some red and white wine, there being just six of one and
half-a-dozen of the other.
However, a deficiency of the substantial is easily made up for in
France by plenty of hollow sound, and the drummers have been
rehearsing from morning until night, with such vigour that even when
off duty they rush about the town in a state of frantic practice, and
there is one enthusiast at his tambour work, who climbs to the top of
the piles in the port for the sake of indulging in an uninterrupted
rataplan out of the reach of the jeers of the bystanders, and the mud
and orange-peel of the gamins. If the National Guard experienced a
dearth of better provisions—if there were no tit-bits in the shape of
breasts or wings, there were, at all events, the drum-sticks to fall back
upon. Nobody need go among the Caribs for the purpose of getting a
regular tattooing, for if any one will only land at Boulogne, we will
answer for his being most thoroughly tattooed.
Arcades Ambo.—A respectable Beaile calls the Thames Tunnel
the Exeter Change Arcade seen under the water." _
Printed by William Bradbury, of No. 6, York Place, Stoke Newtaeton, and Frederic* Mullett Evans,
of No 7, Churcb Row, Stoke Newington, both in the County of Middlesex, Printer*, at their
Office in Lombard Street, in the Precint of Whitefriars, in the City of London, and Published
Tar^ Tf„'„| j n W„ „"7°{ : K ft W * l ■ hT "No" h7 Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of Londor^SATUEDA.
charge, it they could only catch an opportunity of firing into Luiu. I sbptembeb 23rd. is4s.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
FLUNKEIANA.
ODE ON THE THAMES,
jfar Claitetral JHusJte.
Am.—Violoncello obligate.
Beneath the City's thousand sewers
Old Thames runs to and fro ;
This way and that its fill h be pours,
As his tide doth ebb and flow;
And foul Mephitis ever soars
From the mud that swags below.
Oh! oh!
This thing ought not to be so ;
No ! no ! no!
Chorus of Aldermen. Handelian fugue.
Full Orchestra.
Oh ! c^ase your idle clatter,
Since to us it is no matter,
Tho' the Thames grow thick as batter;
And for all you say,
Though Miasma play the devil,
Yet while fluids find their level.
We will wallow, roll, and revel
In our mud for a\ e !
Yes, in every kind of fcecula,
1 n sempiterna seecula,
la seecula, in fcecula,
In fcecula and seecula
Hooray ! hooray !
British Manufactures.
There is a Hospital at Westminster,
that, determined to uphold the principle oi
patronising none but British productions,
lias issued a placard, in which they dis-
tinctly state, they will take in no other
cases of Cholera but what are proved to be
thoroughly British.
a conundrum from the "stable
^ Old Gent. " Thomas, I have always placed the greatest Confidence in you. Now tell me,! mind."
Thomas, how is it that my Butcher's Bills are so large, and that I always have such bad
Dinners I"
Thomas. Really, Sir, I don't know, for I am sure we never have anything nice in the
Kitchen that we don't always send sohb of it up into the Parlour I"
Why is the St. Leger like the Irish Re-
bellion ?
Because it is the great Donkey-stir (Don-
caster).
RECREATIONS IN NATURAL HISTORY.
eally Lord John has had
a narrow escape. He has
been to the Zoological
Gardens, Dublin, and
avoided the trap that was
OVERDOING IT AT BOULOGNE.
Premier was to have been
caught, and exhibited be-
hind some iron bars.
However, the conspiracy
was betrayed, as Irish
conspiracies invariably are,
and liis Lordship escaped
being shown at sixpence
a head.
The partridges are said,
this year, to be very shy.
Now, really, sportsmen
AA)\f\f\''V!p * ^IW V"36^n should recollect that what
^A)\V\fNf yi/WV*r_^ should recollect that what
,| \ V » V\\ V » %fw . fN~\x-x is Same to us is death to
M , \ \A1W ^.^kS^ them- We can hardly
__^» expect the partridges to
come and be shot, as if it
was a pleasure for which
they were dying. If this
were the case, they would not fail, as well-bred birds, to bring their
own bread-sauce with them.
Talking of birds, we know of one at Boulogne that is so extremely
shy, that nothing will induce him to come across the water, unless
he sees that the coast is perfectly clear. The shyness of this bird is
attributed to a deal of shot which, it is said, he has left behind him in
the hands of several persons, who would be too happy to get a dis-
The Boulogne authorities, after inviting a lot of National Guards to an
entertainment, made the unpleasant discovery that all the money having
been spent in preparation, there was nothing left for the entertainment
itself. Having consumed the best part of the ready cash in bill-sticking
and knocking up a platform in the Tintilleries, it is found that there is
laid for him. A cage was ; scarcely a franc remaining to provide the invited guesos with some-
already prepared. The ! thing to amuse them and something to eat. The banquet was therefore
of necessity made up for t he most, part of papier mache properties, lent
by the manager of the Theatre, with a sprinkling of real filberts, and
here and there a loaf of bread. It was intended to offer the visiters a
glass each of vin d'hontieur, but the assets being insufficient, the inhabi-
tants were entreated to furnish a supply, and the result was the
collection of some red and white wine, there being just six of one and
half-a-dozen of the other.
However, a deficiency of the substantial is easily made up for in
France by plenty of hollow sound, and the drummers have been
rehearsing from morning until night, with such vigour that even when
off duty they rush about the town in a state of frantic practice, and
there is one enthusiast at his tambour work, who climbs to the top of
the piles in the port for the sake of indulging in an uninterrupted
rataplan out of the reach of the jeers of the bystanders, and the mud
and orange-peel of the gamins. If the National Guard experienced a
dearth of better provisions—if there were no tit-bits in the shape of
breasts or wings, there were, at all events, the drum-sticks to fall back
upon. Nobody need go among the Caribs for the purpose of getting a
regular tattooing, for if any one will only land at Boulogne, we will
answer for his being most thoroughly tattooed.
Arcades Ambo.—A respectable Beaile calls the Thames Tunnel
the Exeter Change Arcade seen under the water." _
Printed by William Bradbury, of No. 6, York Place, Stoke Newtaeton, and Frederic* Mullett Evans,
of No 7, Churcb Row, Stoke Newington, both in the County of Middlesex, Printer*, at their
Office in Lombard Street, in the Precint of Whitefriars, in the City of London, and Published
Tar^ Tf„'„| j n W„ „"7°{ : K ft W * l ■ hT "No" h7 Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of Londor^SATUEDA.
charge, it they could only catch an opportunity of firing into Luiu. I sbptembeb 23rd. is4s.