Punch (16.1849)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

toasts theatrical.

At the farewell Ban-
quet given at New -Or-
leans to Macready,
there was drunk the
subjoined toast:—

" Shakspeare and Macrcad'j.
—The greatest dead poet;
the greatest living actor: the
former, the diamond ; the
latter, the golden setting in
which the brilliant shines."

This is very pretty,
but what follows is, in
our opinion, vory much
prettier. For an En-1
glish actor (name not
riven) one of the New j
Orleans company, no
doubt struck by the
simile of the Diamond

PLEASURES OF HOUSEKEEPING

an insolvent's

luxury.

Last week, Me. W.
H. Curb.an, one of the
Commissioners of the
Insolvent Court, Ire-
land, remanded a pe-
titioner, because he had
not paid his subscription
for his Newspaper—at
the same time ruling
"that a Newspaper was
a luxury." The Insol-
vent was about to be
sent to prison, when he
explained that there
could be no luxury in
the case, the Newspaper
in question being the
Standard. The Com-

^........ t missioner at once re-

and the setting in asso-j IHHf^ I" :-$iAA ! '-:^fffl^^f^^l^^!% <r !| versed the sentence, and

ciation with the1 RHKMw|| l| : ¥ sY '' ,\ / .^aMlOTSili^/'Vi/1'^^*'l! * ^-iscilarSe(i the poor man

Queen's Windsor dia- jfl)KHH\\\/| lull i V- I /O"-, ' i 'j i '^i^:|wPB|^^lf ag^ssaHf ! with many expressions

n.ond presented to M it. mBBKm^ifti \A \ &\*§iiMiti& \l ' W\ I lU^PHRS^^v^^^*^ '■ of ueartfelfc compassion.

Lean, rose and pro- BH|-.'

posed— WSSKm ' A'

and Chart .■sBEmMkv , '

-.•-Tii. greatest living SH| 'HJ W J V 11 ' <■ A:. "i^^^^^i'^«e:%sS^\l//^l:=* rather odd.

sovereign, and the denies! ^3HH| 'isB^s.

living ai j m ^55§§§iifjfe

diamond; tlie latter, t!:<- =^Ks=B& <*--¥""*

It is strange that
Meyerbeer's Opera,
which has been for so
many years the subject of
repeated and numerous
overtures, should at last
be produced without
any overture at all.

Very vulgar advice
to St. Pai l's.-"Tuck
in your tw o-penny."

The Cook says that sue thinks tuere's a slate loose on the roof or the
House, for the WATER comes into the Servants' bed-room. Mr. Briggs replies

that THE sooner it is put to rights the better before it goes any further —

axd he will see about it.

i

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Mr. Briggs having been told by the Builder that a "little compo " is all that is wanted, the first step is taken

towards making things comfortable.

ho— within there—a light."

To avoid the payment of the tax on light, whole windows, it has been
proved by the Sanitary Commissioners, are frequently blocked up. Of
all national burdens, that on windows should be lightened first. The
Window Tax, as at present, may be defined as "The Poor Man's
Window Shutter."

attractive exhibition.

While Lord John Kussell was receiving the Irish Members on
Wednesday, last week, some miscreant (believed to be Lord Br-gh-m)
removed from a well-known Leicester Square Exhibition, and hung on
the area railings of 10, Downing Street, the huge placard requesting the
Public to " go and see Daniel in the Den of Lions."