Punch: Punch (21.1851)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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THE SCHOOL FOR POOR CHILDREN.

We have always maintained that the Blue-coat School was an
institution where none but poor children were received. Here is
another proof, in addition to a hundred others which have already been
published, that there never is the slightest departure from the charter
of its benevolent donor, no matter in whose favour it may be exercised.
The School is known to be a sacred spot where the rich have no
influence—where the poor only are allowed to enter—and London
ought to be proud of having within its monied walls such a holy
place.

This is the proof in question, which we cut out of the evidence given
before the St. Albans Bribery Commission :

" He (Mb. Edwards) had a brother in the Blue-coat School. Mr. Bond Cabbell,
who was once member for St. Albans, and for whom his father acted as agent, presented
him to the school after he was elected for the Borough."

Now, Mr. Bono Cabbell, it is sufficiently known at all the
guinea dining-places in the Metropolis, is a very poor man. In
short, the mere fact of his being a member for St. Albans, is the
strongest proof of his poverty. Mr. Edwards's father, if we may
judge from the questionable practices to which he lent himself at
the St. Albans election, must be a very poor man also. Here,

THE MONS. JTJLLIEN IN LABOUR AGAIN.

The Jullien era of music must always form an important epoch in the
Calendar; and the Mons is at this moment rearing his lofty head high
above all opposition in Drury Lane.

We never see the Mons. Jullien without thinking of the famous
Alpine Mons; and Byron's lines on the latter are capable of easy
adaptation to the former :

The Mons is the King of Conductors ;
They crowned him long ago,
With jet black hair,
And moustachios rare,
And a waistcoat, and stock of snow ! "

We only regret that the Mons should be visible for so brief a period
among us, and that he should only visit us like the "glimpses of the
Moon " for the brief month of November. He is no sooner come than
he is gone, and we have only just arrived at the knowledge that it is
the " first week but one," when we find it is also the " last week but two "
of his performances.

We understand that the Mons has in preparation for his next season
then, we have a poor man recommend- a sort of companion to his Army and

ing the son of another poor man—and
no higher recommendation than that of
their joint poverty is requisite for the son

to be instantly received into the Blue-
coat School. This is most admirable!
There is no wealthy influence at work
here—no bending the knee to the Golden
Calf! No election-bargaining—no con-
science buying or cheating ! No ! it is
the finest homage to Poverty— in whose
honour, and for whose solace, the School
was erected : and long life, therefore, say
we, to the Blue-coat School, as long as it
acts up to those noble principles of charity,
which are the text of its charter! Those
noble principles have never been deviated
from since the School has been a School,
and we are so confident that publicity
can only more and more glorify the in-
tegrity of its management, that we should
like to see a published statement of the
number of children who are at present
in the Blue-coat School owing to the
recommendation of Mr. Bond Cabbell.
Who knows ? the number of little Ed-
wardses may be infinite.

a prophecy that requires no great
prophet to prophesy.

It is ngt at all improbable that at the
approaching "festive season" called
Christmas, Mr. Flexmore may dress
himself up as a Bloomer,—and it is not
unlikely, either, that, in that elegant cos-
tume, he may dance a pas seul, very much
to the amusement of the Gallery.—Oar
Prophet.

Navy Quadrilles, under the title of the

POLICE QUADRILLE,

of which we give the programme.

Figure 1.— Grand muster of the men on
their beat. Pas accelerr of the pick-
pockets, and pas redouble of the con-
stables.

Figure 2.—Rattling of the area rails.
Triangle solo. Appearance of the cold
mutton. Oboe solo, Cook.

Figure 3.—Assembly of the Chartists
on Kennington Common. "Come if you
dare !" Speech of the Chartist Orator,
introducing the new drum called the hum-
drum, brought over by Mons. Jullien
from France, expressly for this occasion.

Figure 4.—The crowded thoroughfare.
Politeness of the police to the female
passengers. Love and duty.

Figure 5.—Gathering of all nations and
all vehicles at the entrance of the Crystal
Palace. Flagellation of the cab-horses.
Solo, flageolet — Mr. Collinet. The
meeting of the coal-wagons. Sax-horn
obligato, Trema, trema, scelerato. A purse
is lost in the confusion. // mio trsoro.
Running accompaniment. Blocking up
of the thoroughfare. Grand Concert
Stuck, until all burst forth in the glorious
cry of " Move On."

A Legal Contradiction,

The only day of the week in which the
Sheriff's Officer has no power over the
poor Debtor is the Sunday—and this is
most curious—(though I am far from com-
plaining of it)—for the Sunday is essen-
tially, in the eye of the English Law, the
day of a-rest.—Briefless.

INSGRIPTIO,

Auctore Tobia nostro, Canino-Latina.

JACOBUS BELL,

APUD parliament: britan: burgi s'Tl albani procurator,
seu notoribus titulis
VICI oxoniensis pharmacopola spectabilissimus,
sic sedebat :
QUI, postquam omnia coppockii penetralium
et edwardsii arcana evolvisset,
parltamenti decretum explevit,

burgi corrupti solvantur.

NEW STATUE FOR ST. ALBANS.

{A Pendant to the celebrated Effigy of Bacon.)

TRANSLATION.

Dog-La tin Inscription, composed by our TOBY.

JACOB BELL,

representative of st. albans in the british parliament,
better known as
a most respectable chemist and druggist in oxford street,

sat iv this way :
who, after penetrating all the secrets
of mr. coppock's office and mr. edwards's back parlour,
fell a victim to the act of parliament
for the disfranchisement of rotten boroughs.