DOI issue:
July to December, 1851
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16608#0208
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PUNCH OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
SOMETHING MORE APROPOS OF BLOOMERISM.
(Behind the Counter there is one of the "Inferior Animals.")
Hussey's Reaping
Machine.
Mr. Punch presents his
compliments toMR.HusstY,
and hearing that his Reaping
Machine is the best for corn-
cutting, will feel obliged by
one being sent immedi-
ately, as he wishes to cut
his own corns. Mr. Punch
would not have troubled the
celebrated American Hus-
sey, but his own wife, Judy,
is such a lazy Hussy, that
she will not perform the
operation required.
A Miracle Wanted!
Last week, according tf
the Morning Advertiser, c
cargo of twenty nuns was
embarked at Gravesend, for
Valparaiso. What a need-
less waste of ship-room !
Where was Father New-
man ? According to his be-
lief and authority, has not
many a saint swum seas
upon a cloak ? Why, then,
in these days of stiff-necked
scepticism, why did not
Father Newman spread
one of the nuns' veils upon
the Thames, and shipping
the fair ones upon the mus-
lin—why did he not wisli
them a fair wind and ton
voyage to Valparaiso ?
a cure for bad legs.
Bloonierism.
A CHEMICAL PREVENTIVE EORCE WANTED.
eenly alive to the
welfare of our coun-
try, we are sorry to
hear that the moral
'lealthof the metro
general, has sadly
declined during the
last fortnight. We
understand that the
Lancet's exposures
of the horrid adul-
terations of tea
have been followed
by an extensive re-
linquishment of the
Chinese infusion
for the more excit-
ing beverage of
Cognac and other kindred spirits. A great diminution has taken place
m the totality of teetotalism, and a large increase in the amount of
nve shilling fines: not to mention other shocking results consequent
on an immense number of the disciples of Father Mathew having
gone over to Bacchus.
Perhaps the Government may not exactly deserve to be impeached
lor having permitted this state of things; but they might have foreseen
and provided against it. Still, better late than never : but it will soon
be too late : and not only that, but if they do not mind what they are
about, they will have every man, woman, and child in the kingdom
abstaining from all exciseable articles that are capable of adulteration—
to the fearful detriment of the revenue.
Why is our tea black-leaded ? Why is our morning and evening
draught qualified with catechu; coloured with turmeric and Prussian
blu» t W hy are we condemned to moisten our own with infusion of
China clay ? Why must the sweepings of silkworms' cages mingle in
our breakfast-cup ? Simply because there are not p oper officers
appointed at the different Custom-Houses to detect and check the
importation of adulterated articles of food.
We swarm with excisemen of every species, each consuming the
revenue which he is paid to secure, and inflicting more or less annoy-
ance in his vocation. Our coasts, to resist the intrusion of undutiful
pons^^and^^inde^ed I Drandy, are lined with a preventive force, much more than sufficient to
of tiie nation in' i defend them from the French. Shoals of Custom-House officers lie in
wait for every one who enters our ports, and keep you waiting half
the day to feel your pockets, or rummage your carpet-bag for a few
cigars.
Why all this trouble, to keep a little contrabrand tobacco out of Her
Majesty's dominions, and no care to prevent the introduction of black
lead, and Prussian blue, in large quantities, into the interiors of her
subjects ?
These questions are suggested by an article in the Liverpool Journal,
complaining that at Liverpool, that enormous inlet for imports (at pre-
sent largely adulterated), the Customs are unprovided with a Chemist,
whose business it might and ought to be, to search the various articles
imported by testing them for rubbish and poison.
As our Customs establishment is a common nuisance to the com-
mercial world, a pest to travellers, and an object of detestation to every-
body but those employed in it, and as it probably costs twice the
amount that would be lost by the smuggling it prevents, the only satis-
factory reason for its maintenance, that can be conceived by the think-
ing mind, is, that it affords scope lor patronage. This last consideration
may perhaps induce the Government—however indifferent in respect
of Prussian blue, or anything else in connexion with tea, so long as the
whole pays duty—to add to the Custom-House officials, at Liverpool,
and elsewhere, a Chemical Officer, to be employed as a Preventive
against that sort of smuggling by which our food and medicines are
poisoned and polluted.
Very Mean.—We hear that an order is about to issue from the
Home Office to the Governors of gaols, commanding them to make
all refractory female prisoners wear the Bloomer Costume.
PUNCH OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
SOMETHING MORE APROPOS OF BLOOMERISM.
(Behind the Counter there is one of the "Inferior Animals.")
Hussey's Reaping
Machine.
Mr. Punch presents his
compliments toMR.HusstY,
and hearing that his Reaping
Machine is the best for corn-
cutting, will feel obliged by
one being sent immedi-
ately, as he wishes to cut
his own corns. Mr. Punch
would not have troubled the
celebrated American Hus-
sey, but his own wife, Judy,
is such a lazy Hussy, that
she will not perform the
operation required.
A Miracle Wanted!
Last week, according tf
the Morning Advertiser, c
cargo of twenty nuns was
embarked at Gravesend, for
Valparaiso. What a need-
less waste of ship-room !
Where was Father New-
man ? According to his be-
lief and authority, has not
many a saint swum seas
upon a cloak ? Why, then,
in these days of stiff-necked
scepticism, why did not
Father Newman spread
one of the nuns' veils upon
the Thames, and shipping
the fair ones upon the mus-
lin—why did he not wisli
them a fair wind and ton
voyage to Valparaiso ?
a cure for bad legs.
Bloonierism.
A CHEMICAL PREVENTIVE EORCE WANTED.
eenly alive to the
welfare of our coun-
try, we are sorry to
hear that the moral
'lealthof the metro
general, has sadly
declined during the
last fortnight. We
understand that the
Lancet's exposures
of the horrid adul-
terations of tea
have been followed
by an extensive re-
linquishment of the
Chinese infusion
for the more excit-
ing beverage of
Cognac and other kindred spirits. A great diminution has taken place
m the totality of teetotalism, and a large increase in the amount of
nve shilling fines: not to mention other shocking results consequent
on an immense number of the disciples of Father Mathew having
gone over to Bacchus.
Perhaps the Government may not exactly deserve to be impeached
lor having permitted this state of things; but they might have foreseen
and provided against it. Still, better late than never : but it will soon
be too late : and not only that, but if they do not mind what they are
about, they will have every man, woman, and child in the kingdom
abstaining from all exciseable articles that are capable of adulteration—
to the fearful detriment of the revenue.
Why is our tea black-leaded ? Why is our morning and evening
draught qualified with catechu; coloured with turmeric and Prussian
blu» t W hy are we condemned to moisten our own with infusion of
China clay ? Why must the sweepings of silkworms' cages mingle in
our breakfast-cup ? Simply because there are not p oper officers
appointed at the different Custom-Houses to detect and check the
importation of adulterated articles of food.
We swarm with excisemen of every species, each consuming the
revenue which he is paid to secure, and inflicting more or less annoy-
ance in his vocation. Our coasts, to resist the intrusion of undutiful
pons^^and^^inde^ed I Drandy, are lined with a preventive force, much more than sufficient to
of tiie nation in' i defend them from the French. Shoals of Custom-House officers lie in
wait for every one who enters our ports, and keep you waiting half
the day to feel your pockets, or rummage your carpet-bag for a few
cigars.
Why all this trouble, to keep a little contrabrand tobacco out of Her
Majesty's dominions, and no care to prevent the introduction of black
lead, and Prussian blue, in large quantities, into the interiors of her
subjects ?
These questions are suggested by an article in the Liverpool Journal,
complaining that at Liverpool, that enormous inlet for imports (at pre-
sent largely adulterated), the Customs are unprovided with a Chemist,
whose business it might and ought to be, to search the various articles
imported by testing them for rubbish and poison.
As our Customs establishment is a common nuisance to the com-
mercial world, a pest to travellers, and an object of detestation to every-
body but those employed in it, and as it probably costs twice the
amount that would be lost by the smuggling it prevents, the only satis-
factory reason for its maintenance, that can be conceived by the think-
ing mind, is, that it affords scope lor patronage. This last consideration
may perhaps induce the Government—however indifferent in respect
of Prussian blue, or anything else in connexion with tea, so long as the
whole pays duty—to add to the Custom-House officials, at Liverpool,
and elsewhere, a Chemical Officer, to be employed as a Preventive
against that sort of smuggling by which our food and medicines are
poisoned and polluted.
Very Mean.—We hear that an order is about to issue from the
Home Office to the Governors of gaols, commanding them to make
all refractory female prisoners wear the Bloomer Costume.