DOI issue:
January to June, 1849
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16548#0226
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 219
seeming to lake the Thing quite easy; but presently away in good
earnest, and then to see at what a Rate they flew. The chief Struggle
between the Flying Dutchman and Hotspur, and I could hardly tell
whether Yellow-Cap or Purple-Cap was the foremost, but Yellow-Cap
did win by half a Length, albeit Hotspur did battle it with him bravely.
The Winner declared by his Number, hung out in Eront of the Grand
Stand, and it did surprise me to behold the Flock of Carrier Pigeons
sent up to bear away the News. The Race run in three Minutes, and
all the Attraction over, but to think of the Money lost and won in that
little Time. My Lord Eglinton and the Public, as I hear, do gain
much, and the Ring do lose, which I am glad of, for I do esteem true
Sportsmen; but those Knaves with their Cant Language and roguish
Tricks are a Disgrace to the Turf. After the Race, to Lunch, which
did greatly relish; but the Gipsy Women and Children did come and
beg Morsels out of our Plates, as well as Money, and they got Plenty
of both, but in the Midst of all the Luxury it was a sorry Sight. Then
about the Course to see the Company and the flinging at Snuff-boxefc,
and the Thimble-Rig, but of the last I saw none, only some playing at
Roulette and Hazard, but the Police did seize and break several of the
Tables, and take away the Stakes. Great Sport returning Home, with
the Shouting for the Winner, and trumpetting on Horns, and bandying
Jokes, but all in the best Humour; and methinks I do spy Improve-
ment in the People's Manners. Seeing all Sorts and Conditions of
Persons, great and small, joining in Sport and Erolic, made me compare
our own Country with foreign Nations, and much as some of them may
honesty, and to convince them that in business, as in railway travelling,
there is nothing like a straight line for getting on the quickest.
If any of the above are brought to light, then we shall be able to
congratulate British science upon having realised the grand truth of
the Grecian philosopher, who dropt it, like a pearl, into the ear of the
world, that, "Power is enviable only, when guided by the noblest
Motives."
A GROWING EVIL.
We are quite astonished
at the number
of moustaches
there are about
town. The face
of the metro-
polis is quite
overrun with
moustaches. You
meet with one
at every turn.
This continental
appendage is
talk of their Fraternity, 1 doubt me if any of them . ouldshow such a threatening to
Case of it as the Derbv. Kl^L T1de ^ En"
gush physiog-
nomy, and the
British upper lip
will soon lose its
A SHOWER Ol1 DISCOVERIES. V dLiM^W. Ill- distinctive clean,
., . . liness. Where
Several new motive powers have recently been discover . . Win . p&f^tpq 1$ •/sill tin- mous-
roan fails in discovering anything else, he turns the whole force ^2i$P^a v&mln^ffl hMm^Mtk. ^ fm laches have sud-
of his discoverative powers on to the discovery of a new motive power. JBifrt?vfy x •^^Ck^W < I fflmm'^^^-^ ^ denly sprung
We have had a couple of th se discoveries within the last month. One JgS^i -'- ' " !! "Xvwl"// " '^V^i'-'.' I from we cannot;
is Electro-Magnetism, and the other Xyloidine, which, we are told, is |ffr'*'' 1 '$1 • ^^rtkp • iW^^jh^v tell, as we are
completely to shut up steam. This, we fear, will be rather ; dangerom «»^*\\ / • ff^^^r - . sfi$^&fj&§!^ not' particular
process, us an explosion must necessarily take ) lace, ami we would much fflsjBfNA (_ ■.t|V^ v'\ amateurs in hair
sooner not be the discoverer of a motive power which sent us into the ffiRl^.. ( v^—J^^S;^ *' J$B»^~\ skins, but it is
middle of next week, or forwarded us to so great a distance that we jj^BK. ' lyftf^mi '\\ I' .-<■• MaigKv 1 very clear that
should never be able to come back again—but every one to his own taste ^K^^x< d^ffifc1'>Mfyfyi^jj^^^*^9'^^ h the course at
—for it is not so easy to discover the motive of these new power--. \ ^m^^^Ki^'^yJfvV^fi^4.''. fTN v§. Epsom was co-
This Xyloidine is wonderfully strong, and in time must drive every 1 vsis // jh \ vered, this Der-
railway out of the kingdom: the discoverer tells us that, " for an engii.e ' <- o^HWSl<':''v- - J hv, with lour
of two-horse-power, a thread, not larger in size than ladies' sewins-! ^^^afffiHL•fe^^^^P^^^fe'- ti'mes its usual
cotton, is sufficient; and the «lsP^lP*vS' -^^I^KM average. We
working machinery need not
be larger than a man's bat."
According to this, children,
instead of playing at coach-
and-horses, will be able to
turn stokers, and whip their
-Etnas and Eire-Kings round
the nursery, and ladies will
walk about with a live loco-
motive stuffed in their reti-
cules. Omnibusses and cabs
will be fit for nothing but
bathing machines, and horses
must fall to that insignificance
eventually, that they will only
be bred for the general im-
provement of cats'-meat.
There is no knowing where
_ these new discoveries will
carry us. New motive powers will fall, just like April showers, upon
us, and next year will probably see the following discoveries in daily
practice:
A new motive power—to push the Whigs on a little faster 5 so that
they may be better able to keep pace with the times, and not to lag so
much behind.
A new motive power—that will drive all the beasts from Smithfield
Market, and cleanse the City of the tilth and abomination caused by it.
A new motive power—to force the Gas and Water Monopolies to
lower their high charges, so as to bring them down to the level of most
persons' means, instead of keeping them up merely to elevate the
Shareholders' dividends.
A new motive power—that shall knock down Battersea and Putney
bridges, and so prevent the numerous accidents they occasion every
year.
A new motive power—to impel Ireland to work more and talk less,
and to regenerate itself by its own Acts, instead of relying upon those
of the House of Commons.
A new motive power—to turn Railway Directors into the path of
begin to suspect
that the cheap excursions to Erance have done it. all, tor it is very
strange that an Englishman cannot go to Boulogne without being
immediately seized with a violent moustache. We propose t hat govern-
ment barbers be appointed at Folkestone, and that they be invest ed with
peremptory orders to take everybody by the nose who lands, and give
the batch all round an easy shave for a penny. If some such Order m
Council be not immediately issued to meet this growing evil, England
will be so much put upon by France, that she will soon have not a
feature left on her face that she will be able to call her own. These
cheap excursions must be stopped, or else there must be a bye-law
instantly passed that any one who comes back with a moustache, lorieits
his return ticket.
Jenny Lind.
" We hear that Mademoiselle Jenny Lind remains in Paris for the present, am!
that her marriage is hroken off."—Vide. Morning Chronicle, Jlay 21st.
Dear. Jenny Lind has changed her mind,
And run away to Paris :
So Betsey Prigg was right we find—
There is no Mrs. Harris !
divisions without a difference.
The newspapers talk of the " Grabbe division of the Prussian army."
We suppose this "Grabbe Division" is synonymous with the Eirst
Light Lingers, which, we are well aware, follow every army, and are-
ready to turn their hands to anything ; or very probably these Prussian
Grabbes are only the same corps as our English Rifles '(
MISSING, a Little Child, aged 7 years. It was lost sight of the moment it
■was taken into the Octagon Room of the Royal Academy, and has not been seen
since. It is strongly supposed to be there still. Any of the keepers that will look for
it, will be handsomely rewarded by its disconsolate Mother. Apply to the Dovecot,
East Dulwich.—N. B. Candles no consideration.
seeming to lake the Thing quite easy; but presently away in good
earnest, and then to see at what a Rate they flew. The chief Struggle
between the Flying Dutchman and Hotspur, and I could hardly tell
whether Yellow-Cap or Purple-Cap was the foremost, but Yellow-Cap
did win by half a Length, albeit Hotspur did battle it with him bravely.
The Winner declared by his Number, hung out in Eront of the Grand
Stand, and it did surprise me to behold the Flock of Carrier Pigeons
sent up to bear away the News. The Race run in three Minutes, and
all the Attraction over, but to think of the Money lost and won in that
little Time. My Lord Eglinton and the Public, as I hear, do gain
much, and the Ring do lose, which I am glad of, for I do esteem true
Sportsmen; but those Knaves with their Cant Language and roguish
Tricks are a Disgrace to the Turf. After the Race, to Lunch, which
did greatly relish; but the Gipsy Women and Children did come and
beg Morsels out of our Plates, as well as Money, and they got Plenty
of both, but in the Midst of all the Luxury it was a sorry Sight. Then
about the Course to see the Company and the flinging at Snuff-boxefc,
and the Thimble-Rig, but of the last I saw none, only some playing at
Roulette and Hazard, but the Police did seize and break several of the
Tables, and take away the Stakes. Great Sport returning Home, with
the Shouting for the Winner, and trumpetting on Horns, and bandying
Jokes, but all in the best Humour; and methinks I do spy Improve-
ment in the People's Manners. Seeing all Sorts and Conditions of
Persons, great and small, joining in Sport and Erolic, made me compare
our own Country with foreign Nations, and much as some of them may
honesty, and to convince them that in business, as in railway travelling,
there is nothing like a straight line for getting on the quickest.
If any of the above are brought to light, then we shall be able to
congratulate British science upon having realised the grand truth of
the Grecian philosopher, who dropt it, like a pearl, into the ear of the
world, that, "Power is enviable only, when guided by the noblest
Motives."
A GROWING EVIL.
We are quite astonished
at the number
of moustaches
there are about
town. The face
of the metro-
polis is quite
overrun with
moustaches. You
meet with one
at every turn.
This continental
appendage is
talk of their Fraternity, 1 doubt me if any of them . ouldshow such a threatening to
Case of it as the Derbv. Kl^L T1de ^ En"
gush physiog-
nomy, and the
British upper lip
will soon lose its
A SHOWER Ol1 DISCOVERIES. V dLiM^W. Ill- distinctive clean,
., . . liness. Where
Several new motive powers have recently been discover . . Win . p&f^tpq 1$ •/sill tin- mous-
roan fails in discovering anything else, he turns the whole force ^2i$P^a v&mln^ffl hMm^Mtk. ^ fm laches have sud-
of his discoverative powers on to the discovery of a new motive power. JBifrt?vfy x •^^Ck^W < I fflmm'^^^-^ ^ denly sprung
We have had a couple of th se discoveries within the last month. One JgS^i -'- ' " !! "Xvwl"// " '^V^i'-'.' I from we cannot;
is Electro-Magnetism, and the other Xyloidine, which, we are told, is |ffr'*'' 1 '$1 • ^^rtkp • iW^^jh^v tell, as we are
completely to shut up steam. This, we fear, will be rather ; dangerom «»^*\\ / • ff^^^r - . sfi$^&fj&§!^ not' particular
process, us an explosion must necessarily take ) lace, ami we would much fflsjBfNA (_ ■.t|V^ v'\ amateurs in hair
sooner not be the discoverer of a motive power which sent us into the ffiRl^.. ( v^—J^^S;^ *' J$B»^~\ skins, but it is
middle of next week, or forwarded us to so great a distance that we jj^BK. ' lyftf^mi '\\ I' .-<■• MaigKv 1 very clear that
should never be able to come back again—but every one to his own taste ^K^^x< d^ffifc1'>Mfyfyi^jj^^^*^9'^^ h the course at
—for it is not so easy to discover the motive of these new power--. \ ^m^^^Ki^'^yJfvV^fi^4.''. fTN v§. Epsom was co-
This Xyloidine is wonderfully strong, and in time must drive every 1 vsis // jh \ vered, this Der-
railway out of the kingdom: the discoverer tells us that, " for an engii.e ' <- o^HWSl<':''v- - J hv, with lour
of two-horse-power, a thread, not larger in size than ladies' sewins-! ^^^afffiHL•fe^^^^P^^^fe'- ti'mes its usual
cotton, is sufficient; and the «lsP^lP*vS' -^^I^KM average. We
working machinery need not
be larger than a man's bat."
According to this, children,
instead of playing at coach-
and-horses, will be able to
turn stokers, and whip their
-Etnas and Eire-Kings round
the nursery, and ladies will
walk about with a live loco-
motive stuffed in their reti-
cules. Omnibusses and cabs
will be fit for nothing but
bathing machines, and horses
must fall to that insignificance
eventually, that they will only
be bred for the general im-
provement of cats'-meat.
There is no knowing where
_ these new discoveries will
carry us. New motive powers will fall, just like April showers, upon
us, and next year will probably see the following discoveries in daily
practice:
A new motive power—to push the Whigs on a little faster 5 so that
they may be better able to keep pace with the times, and not to lag so
much behind.
A new motive power—that will drive all the beasts from Smithfield
Market, and cleanse the City of the tilth and abomination caused by it.
A new motive power—to force the Gas and Water Monopolies to
lower their high charges, so as to bring them down to the level of most
persons' means, instead of keeping them up merely to elevate the
Shareholders' dividends.
A new motive power—that shall knock down Battersea and Putney
bridges, and so prevent the numerous accidents they occasion every
year.
A new motive power—to impel Ireland to work more and talk less,
and to regenerate itself by its own Acts, instead of relying upon those
of the House of Commons.
A new motive power—to turn Railway Directors into the path of
begin to suspect
that the cheap excursions to Erance have done it. all, tor it is very
strange that an Englishman cannot go to Boulogne without being
immediately seized with a violent moustache. We propose t hat govern-
ment barbers be appointed at Folkestone, and that they be invest ed with
peremptory orders to take everybody by the nose who lands, and give
the batch all round an easy shave for a penny. If some such Order m
Council be not immediately issued to meet this growing evil, England
will be so much put upon by France, that she will soon have not a
feature left on her face that she will be able to call her own. These
cheap excursions must be stopped, or else there must be a bye-law
instantly passed that any one who comes back with a moustache, lorieits
his return ticket.
Jenny Lind.
" We hear that Mademoiselle Jenny Lind remains in Paris for the present, am!
that her marriage is hroken off."—Vide. Morning Chronicle, Jlay 21st.
Dear. Jenny Lind has changed her mind,
And run away to Paris :
So Betsey Prigg was right we find—
There is no Mrs. Harris !
divisions without a difference.
The newspapers talk of the " Grabbe division of the Prussian army."
We suppose this "Grabbe Division" is synonymous with the Eirst
Light Lingers, which, we are well aware, follow every army, and are-
ready to turn their hands to anything ; or very probably these Prussian
Grabbes are only the same corps as our English Rifles '(
MISSING, a Little Child, aged 7 years. It was lost sight of the moment it
■was taken into the Octagon Room of the Royal Academy, and has not been seen
since. It is strongly supposed to be there still. Any of the keepers that will look for
it, will be handsomely rewarded by its disconsolate Mother. Apply to the Dovecot,
East Dulwich.—N. B. Candles no consideration.