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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
39
CHARTIST STATISTICS. MARRIAGES IN EVERY DAY LIFE.
u r u, pi 4- 4- «.„ t At about this period of the year the newspapers amuse their readers
t a meeting of the Chartists at the London with occasioDal ^ of marriag'es in high lifefand we do not see why as
Tavern a few evenings ago, one of thecom- much mterest ghould t tf * h tQ t£ mtended pairing off of hm/blei
pany out-did almosr, al former efforts by , les Wg ] y theref authorised our «own correspondent" to
insisting that the Charter had become ; ke Mg noge { ^ n ft and Qur fh Secretary for other-
actually necessary in consequence of 16,000 ^ peopieVaffairs has us ^lth tbe Mowing:-
pounds having been paid last year for. *_ . &
bu'ter, eggs, and bacon for Buckingham1 The marriage between Young Howard, surnamed the Prince of the
Palace." House of Coburg—he being an assistant in Coburg House—and the
We do not pretend to know the data on ; 'air Matilda Jones, familiarly known as the heroine of Waterloo,
which this assertion is founded, but we can ! a soubriquet she has gained by a long engagement on the commercial
only say, for the story of the £16,000 worth field of Waterloo House—will take place before the spring, as the bride
of butter, eggs, and bacon, that we cannot and bridegroom must both be in town for the commencement of the
swallow cue half of it. The speaker seemed season.
to have the butter quite pat, but, unless the The nuptials of Orlando Snookey, the attorney's clerk, with Miss
practice of putting it upon bacon prevails to Elizabeth Readytin, will be solemnised as soon as the bridegroom
lias saved up the money for a clandestine license. Mb.. Snookey
will be given away by a senior clerk, and Miss Readytin will throw
herself away with the assistance of the clerk and pew-opener.
The long-talked-of match between Me. Jacob Slowcoach, of the
Long Room in the Custom House, and Miss Martha Mayday, of the
Soho Bazaar, is still upon the tapis, the difficulty being to find the
necessary sum for tapisserie, for the newly-wedded couple, should they
mislead one another to the altar. Mb. Slowcoach was understood to
an awful extent in the Palace, we really
cannot see how the consumption can be
effected, while, as for the eggs, we are
sure there are not half as many laid in England as are laid in his
indictment.
It is rather ingenious on his part to suggest to the country that the
Charter is the onlv mode by which its bacon can be saved, though it is
obvious that, unless the royal household lived on eggs and bacon all t he
year round, the bill for these items could not amount to one hundredth j have stated that he had furnished a floor ; but it seems he had only
part of the orator's estimate. We suspect he has got several wrong I furnished an excuse for not having done so earlier,
pigs by the ear, and we are satisfied that so much bacon as he alleges The wedding of the gallant, dashing Captain Cutaway, with
could "neither be cured nor endured by the inmates of Buckingham : Madame Merveille, the fascinating milliner—not millionaire, as was
Palace. To feed the household on nothing but salted swine would be once stated by mistake—will take place as soon as the habeas can be
rather scurvy treatment, and we can only come to the conclusion, that obtained for the removal of the gallant bridegroom elect from the
the Chartist Demosthenes, in enlarging on the quantity of pig con- , Queen's prison, where he is at present confined with a severe indis-
sumed in the Palace, was merely giving way to the propensity for going \ position to pay his creditors.
the whole hog, which is a characteristic of the party he is a member of. 1 The above are a few specimens of the sort of domestic news furnished
by some of our contemporaries, but we have taken our intelligence from
a somewhat lower range of society, whose every-day life seems to us to
possess quite as much interest as that of what are termed the upper
circles.
THE TEA DEPUTATION.
On Wednesday, the 16th of January, a deputation from Liverpool, :
headed bv its numbers, waited on Lobd John Russell and the Chan- i
cellor of the Exchequer, with the laudable desire of obtaining FRIGHTFUL CASE OE STITCH IN THE SIDE,
their consent to a reduction in the Tea duty. I v , , .. ^T
The business commenced bv a few words from Sir Thomas Birch, ! Yesterday, the family of the Most Noble the Marquess of Four-
who was very appropriated selected on this occasion, for, as the I hundred-thousand were thrown into the greatest alarm bythe sudden
Premier (must have mentally) remarked, " Birch has always been
looked upon as one of the principal representatives of Tea in this
country."
Mr. Cardwell went into the arithmetic of Tea, and proved that,
while in the United Kingdom the consumption amounted to only a
pound and three quarters per head, it was nine pounds per head per
annum in the Australian colonies. This, at a spoonful each, and one
for the pof, gave several million cups of tea to the colonists, while,_at
the same strength of brewing, there wrould be little more than a dish
(of Tea) per diem for the inhabitants of Great Britain.
and, apparently, violent illness of the Marquess, who rose in his usual
health, and partook of his breakfast with his usual vigour. The
Marquess, having dressed himself to go out—it was observed by certain
members of the family that he appeared in a new coat, one of the
newest things of the season, brought only from the East the previous
evening—was suddenly seized with the most violent pains—with the
most tremendous attack of what is vulgarly known as stitch in the
side. Medical assistance was immediately summoned, when, after a
long and critical examination of the sufferer, it was discovered by the
intelligence of the physician—intelligence, it must be confessed, extra-
Mr. Edward Brodribb enlarged on the social merits of Tea, and professional—that the cause of the attack was not in the anatomy of
bis Lordsliip, but m his Lordship s new coat. The coat, it appeared,
had been made under the despotism of a "sweater," that it might be
made dog-cheap, and—it is plain there must have been " magic in the
web "—every stitch in the garment transferred itself into his Lordship's
flesh. Never was nobility so dreadfully sewed up. His Lordship,
having desired the coat to be given, as a conscience offering, to the
Home for the Houseless, felt immediate relief; and is now going on as
well as can be expected.
insisted that, although mere spoons had sometimes made a stir in Tea,
there was now a small but determined Tea party springing up in the
kingdom, and, with all respect, he would say that the Government would
eventually be teased out of the duty.
Another Member of the deputation took a view of the matter in
reference to the agricultural interests, urging, that, so long as the genuine
Tea was kept out of the country by the heavy duty, the hedges of the
farmer would never be safe from those depredators who plucked a
spurious sort of Twankay from the sloe, and stole for the Tea market
that which was neither Hyson nor His'n,
After a few further remarks from other Members of the deputation,
Lord John Russell courteously acknowledged himself the friend of
" Our Own Correspondent."
The Posfs " Own Correspondent," writing from Paris, says, very
Tea, and though some called it mere slop, sent over by our foes the i profoundly
Chinese, he Was not One of those who regarded it as a " Weak invention j " Having exhausted that interminable topic, the weather, there remains unfortu
of the enemy." After intimating his willingness to take a Tea leaf, if j nately, little else to speak about."
practicable, out of the book of free trade, he assured the deputation that | This exhausting person—exhausting the interminable—is no doubt
he and his friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, would, some a descendant of the Lish sailor, who, pulling up what seemed to him
day, after dinner, take Tea—into their best consideration. an m, erminable rope, gave it as his opinion that some murderin-* villain
had " cut the end off."
The Romney Cat.
cheap bibles.
The Maidstone Gazette states that the Earl of Romney has, at the m „„„ „0:a tv,« ™^„u<,a „„ u u r> v i j -r.
last Kent Sessions, shown a livelv desire to employ the cat upon grown Z^vZJ? that £t^tTf^ * i ^ ^
men. Five poor wretches, aged from 24 to 30, who, starving, had Bl,ble &^A*vP ^ may desire to make of
stolen six loaves, were recently whipped by sentence of his lordship ! , rell&10D> they have B0 Wlsh to make xt hmdmS-
The nobleman's arms has for supporters two lions. We think his j
Lordship had better assume a couple of cats. His Lordship's motto is ! A Private Note from Memnon.—The Mummy is the strongest
" Non sibi, sed patrice." We would—circumstances of the lash con- proof that the First Law of Human Nature is decidedly_Self-preser-
sidered—suggest an alteration: " Non patrice, sed sibi." ,vation.
39
CHARTIST STATISTICS. MARRIAGES IN EVERY DAY LIFE.
u r u, pi 4- 4- «.„ t At about this period of the year the newspapers amuse their readers
t a meeting of the Chartists at the London with occasioDal ^ of marriag'es in high lifefand we do not see why as
Tavern a few evenings ago, one of thecom- much mterest ghould t tf * h tQ t£ mtended pairing off of hm/blei
pany out-did almosr, al former efforts by , les Wg ] y theref authorised our «own correspondent" to
insisting that the Charter had become ; ke Mg noge { ^ n ft and Qur fh Secretary for other-
actually necessary in consequence of 16,000 ^ peopieVaffairs has us ^lth tbe Mowing:-
pounds having been paid last year for. *_ . &
bu'ter, eggs, and bacon for Buckingham1 The marriage between Young Howard, surnamed the Prince of the
Palace." House of Coburg—he being an assistant in Coburg House—and the
We do not pretend to know the data on ; 'air Matilda Jones, familiarly known as the heroine of Waterloo,
which this assertion is founded, but we can ! a soubriquet she has gained by a long engagement on the commercial
only say, for the story of the £16,000 worth field of Waterloo House—will take place before the spring, as the bride
of butter, eggs, and bacon, that we cannot and bridegroom must both be in town for the commencement of the
swallow cue half of it. The speaker seemed season.
to have the butter quite pat, but, unless the The nuptials of Orlando Snookey, the attorney's clerk, with Miss
practice of putting it upon bacon prevails to Elizabeth Readytin, will be solemnised as soon as the bridegroom
lias saved up the money for a clandestine license. Mb.. Snookey
will be given away by a senior clerk, and Miss Readytin will throw
herself away with the assistance of the clerk and pew-opener.
The long-talked-of match between Me. Jacob Slowcoach, of the
Long Room in the Custom House, and Miss Martha Mayday, of the
Soho Bazaar, is still upon the tapis, the difficulty being to find the
necessary sum for tapisserie, for the newly-wedded couple, should they
mislead one another to the altar. Mb. Slowcoach was understood to
an awful extent in the Palace, we really
cannot see how the consumption can be
effected, while, as for the eggs, we are
sure there are not half as many laid in England as are laid in his
indictment.
It is rather ingenious on his part to suggest to the country that the
Charter is the onlv mode by which its bacon can be saved, though it is
obvious that, unless the royal household lived on eggs and bacon all t he
year round, the bill for these items could not amount to one hundredth j have stated that he had furnished a floor ; but it seems he had only
part of the orator's estimate. We suspect he has got several wrong I furnished an excuse for not having done so earlier,
pigs by the ear, and we are satisfied that so much bacon as he alleges The wedding of the gallant, dashing Captain Cutaway, with
could "neither be cured nor endured by the inmates of Buckingham : Madame Merveille, the fascinating milliner—not millionaire, as was
Palace. To feed the household on nothing but salted swine would be once stated by mistake—will take place as soon as the habeas can be
rather scurvy treatment, and we can only come to the conclusion, that obtained for the removal of the gallant bridegroom elect from the
the Chartist Demosthenes, in enlarging on the quantity of pig con- , Queen's prison, where he is at present confined with a severe indis-
sumed in the Palace, was merely giving way to the propensity for going \ position to pay his creditors.
the whole hog, which is a characteristic of the party he is a member of. 1 The above are a few specimens of the sort of domestic news furnished
by some of our contemporaries, but we have taken our intelligence from
a somewhat lower range of society, whose every-day life seems to us to
possess quite as much interest as that of what are termed the upper
circles.
THE TEA DEPUTATION.
On Wednesday, the 16th of January, a deputation from Liverpool, :
headed bv its numbers, waited on Lobd John Russell and the Chan- i
cellor of the Exchequer, with the laudable desire of obtaining FRIGHTFUL CASE OE STITCH IN THE SIDE,
their consent to a reduction in the Tea duty. I v , , .. ^T
The business commenced bv a few words from Sir Thomas Birch, ! Yesterday, the family of the Most Noble the Marquess of Four-
who was very appropriated selected on this occasion, for, as the I hundred-thousand were thrown into the greatest alarm bythe sudden
Premier (must have mentally) remarked, " Birch has always been
looked upon as one of the principal representatives of Tea in this
country."
Mr. Cardwell went into the arithmetic of Tea, and proved that,
while in the United Kingdom the consumption amounted to only a
pound and three quarters per head, it was nine pounds per head per
annum in the Australian colonies. This, at a spoonful each, and one
for the pof, gave several million cups of tea to the colonists, while,_at
the same strength of brewing, there wrould be little more than a dish
(of Tea) per diem for the inhabitants of Great Britain.
and, apparently, violent illness of the Marquess, who rose in his usual
health, and partook of his breakfast with his usual vigour. The
Marquess, having dressed himself to go out—it was observed by certain
members of the family that he appeared in a new coat, one of the
newest things of the season, brought only from the East the previous
evening—was suddenly seized with the most violent pains—with the
most tremendous attack of what is vulgarly known as stitch in the
side. Medical assistance was immediately summoned, when, after a
long and critical examination of the sufferer, it was discovered by the
intelligence of the physician—intelligence, it must be confessed, extra-
Mr. Edward Brodribb enlarged on the social merits of Tea, and professional—that the cause of the attack was not in the anatomy of
bis Lordsliip, but m his Lordship s new coat. The coat, it appeared,
had been made under the despotism of a "sweater," that it might be
made dog-cheap, and—it is plain there must have been " magic in the
web "—every stitch in the garment transferred itself into his Lordship's
flesh. Never was nobility so dreadfully sewed up. His Lordship,
having desired the coat to be given, as a conscience offering, to the
Home for the Houseless, felt immediate relief; and is now going on as
well as can be expected.
insisted that, although mere spoons had sometimes made a stir in Tea,
there was now a small but determined Tea party springing up in the
kingdom, and, with all respect, he would say that the Government would
eventually be teased out of the duty.
Another Member of the deputation took a view of the matter in
reference to the agricultural interests, urging, that, so long as the genuine
Tea was kept out of the country by the heavy duty, the hedges of the
farmer would never be safe from those depredators who plucked a
spurious sort of Twankay from the sloe, and stole for the Tea market
that which was neither Hyson nor His'n,
After a few further remarks from other Members of the deputation,
Lord John Russell courteously acknowledged himself the friend of
" Our Own Correspondent."
The Posfs " Own Correspondent," writing from Paris, says, very
Tea, and though some called it mere slop, sent over by our foes the i profoundly
Chinese, he Was not One of those who regarded it as a " Weak invention j " Having exhausted that interminable topic, the weather, there remains unfortu
of the enemy." After intimating his willingness to take a Tea leaf, if j nately, little else to speak about."
practicable, out of the book of free trade, he assured the deputation that | This exhausting person—exhausting the interminable—is no doubt
he and his friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, would, some a descendant of the Lish sailor, who, pulling up what seemed to him
day, after dinner, take Tea—into their best consideration. an m, erminable rope, gave it as his opinion that some murderin-* villain
had " cut the end off."
The Romney Cat.
cheap bibles.
The Maidstone Gazette states that the Earl of Romney has, at the m „„„ „0:a tv,« ™^„u<,a „„ u u r> v i j -r.
last Kent Sessions, shown a livelv desire to employ the cat upon grown Z^vZJ? that £t^tTf^ * i ^ ^
men. Five poor wretches, aged from 24 to 30, who, starving, had Bl,ble &^A*vP ^ may desire to make of
stolen six loaves, were recently whipped by sentence of his lordship ! , rell&10D> they have B0 Wlsh to make xt hmdmS-
The nobleman's arms has for supporters two lions. We think his j
Lordship had better assume a couple of cats. His Lordship's motto is ! A Private Note from Memnon.—The Mummy is the strongest
" Non sibi, sed patrice." We would—circumstances of the lash con- proof that the First Law of Human Nature is decidedly_Self-preser-
sidered—suggest an alteration: " Non patrice, sed sibi." ,vation.