Punch: Punch (17.1849)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 169

THE CAREER OF A RAILWAY PARCEL.

On the recent investigation, at the Clerkenweli Police Court, of a
charge of stealing twenty-two Railway parcels, it became necessary to
trace the course of one of them, sent by Mb. Hassell, of Bristol, to
Messrs. Lepard & Co., in London, and for this purpose to produce no
fewer than eleven witnesses. This evidence is " carefully summed up"

ANOTHER POSTAL QUESTION.
A correspondent of the Herald asks—

" Has it occurred to you that this new arrangement at the Post-office may be an
attempt to pave the way to let Me. Baeon Rothschild and other rich Jews haTe their
letters delivered on our Sunday, as they ought not to open or read their letters on their
Sunday (our Saturday) ? "

A burst of sunlight breaks in upon us. There can be no doubt that

in tne following lines :— j t^is moment at the Post-office is only the beginning of the end. "We

are all, in good time, to be Judaized. It is all very well for Lord John
This is the Parcel m paper brown, Russell to declare that he is a sincere and fervent Christian : a certain

That was dispatch'd from Bristol town. Bishop knows better ; and on the strength of his episcopal charity, will

This is the Clerk of lawyer Hassell n°t believe him. We hear that Rowland Hill, from boyhood upwards,

That " did up " and address'd the " passell." | Judaical tendencies ; being frequently found playing marbles in the

mi - • -n i , i neighbourhood of a Birmingham svnagogue. The Earl oe Carlisle

This is 1 he Boy who scamper d hard, is a deep Hebrew scholar, pulling up the difficulties of Biblical literature,

lo carry it to White Lion Yard. | by the very roots ^ then t)isbaeli_who has laid a wager of his poli-

tical reputation with himself that he will be Premier in a twelvemonth
—Disraeli lias been heard to prophesy that, in eighteen months, the
Chief Rabbi of the Jews will preach in St. Paul's Church. With all our
That c\med7t?oUtJ^ j Jsgust hatred, loathing, and contempt,-it is impossible, not to admire

j tne subtlety ot the traitorous powers that be, who, aiming at the sub-
This is ihe^Railway Porter whon ^ version of Christianity, for the triumph of Judaism, array a legion

of five-and-twenty clerks in the Sunday Post-office. It is calculated that,
in a twelvemonth at most, these five-and-twenty clerks, working three
hours on a Sunday, will pull down the Altar and upset the Throne—drive
into exile the Archbishop of Canterbury with nothing but his
carpet-bag,—and put the High Priest of the Jews in the palace of

This is the Gent, who from him took it,
And very properly did book it

This is the Conductor of the 'bus

Pteceived the parcel and way-bill too.

This is the Clerk who, in the nick
Of time, the railway bill did "tick

This is the Great Western Guard,

That brought up the parcel for Mr. Lepard. I LamFeth^

This is the Clerk who, from ihe guards,
AtPaddington takes the parcels "inwards."

This is the Clerk of Chaplin and Horne,
That counted the parcels at early morn.

This is Davy, their man, who rides in a van,
To deliver the parcels as quick as he can ;
But walk'd with twenty-four on his back,
(Their weight, he says, did make it crack),
Unto the office in Bedford Row,
Of Gregory, Ealkner, and Seirbow.

This is Mrs. Coombes, who sweeps the floors,
And opens and shuts their office doors :
She eased the porter of his load,
And in the hall 'twas snugly stow'd.

This is the Thief, as a lion bold,
That to her a wicked story told :
He lifted the bundle from ihe floor,
Arid the Lawyer's parcel was seen no more.

ROMANCE OF ADVERTISEMENT.

OUR "INSULTED" POCKETS.

Where is Richard Lalor Shell ? What place of refuge conceals
the traitor ? Is there to be no impeachment—no trial—no transporta-
tion—for, in these milksop times, we can hardly hope for the hurdle,
decapitation, and quartering. Tlie traitor Sheil has filched from his !
"royal mistress her two fairest titles," roars John Bull. Yes; the
" Papistical Master of the Mint," says John, " under the inspiration of'
his Jesuit confessor, we presume" has—see the florin—robbed the j
Queen of that—

" Which secures to her the allegiance of her subjects on the highest and firmest of:(
all grounds, that of her reigning ' By the Grace of God ' A public acknowledgment
of the error it would, perhaps, be too much to expect; it is in the nature of the Whigs
to feel no hesitation to do wrong, but great difficulty in repenting. Stealthily they
have outraged the nation's faith, and Etealthy is to be the reparation. Be it so. We
care not how it is brought about, provided it be done, and our pockets be not insulted by
a coin, which on the face of it denies what Englishmen hold dearest."

But the outrage must, be publicly atoned for. The Master of the
Mint, clothed in a sheet of unprinted Bank note paper, with a dark
lanthorn in his hand, and his pockets turned inside out, must be ex-
hibited for a morning at least at the Stock Exchange, or any other
public place sacred to Mammon. Our loyalty, our feelings, our prin-
ciples, our household gods, all are as nothing compared to our pocket.
The "insult " offered to that innermost heart of man must be avenged.
But the "florin" is doomed. Lawyers refuse it, upon principle, as
anv part of the 6*. and 8d. Jew clothesmen lift up their hands against
it." Pawnbrokers hurl it back into the box from whence'tis offered.
The crossing-sweeper opposite the Standard office drops it down the
dram when let fall into his hat by some benighted passenger. Thank
Flutus! the English pocket has feelings. The, pocket will "not be
insulted."

11 i wish, mister, you'd be so good as to stop the press and

put this in a good place (reads) : ' Hemily. Don't delay, Iwt retwrn
to yer broken-arted Adotylius, or there's no "knowing what may be the
consequence II!1 "

Floating Post-Offices.

It has been suggested in the iJaily News tl\s.X, Post-office clerks should
be carried on board the foreign steamers, to sort and stamp the letters
on 1he voyage. This would be all very well in smooth weather, but in
a slorm, the clerk must of necessity be alternately on his heels'and on
his head, while endeavouring to preserve the equilibrium necessary for
his duties. The sorter would frequently be put terribly out of sorts
by the discovery that, after all his trouble, a sudden lurch might
again shuffle the correspondence together in the most admirable
disorder.

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