DOI issue:
January to June, 1853
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16611#0045
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
67
THE POULTRY EXHIBITION.
SISTERS AND SLAVERY.
Baker Street has
been sufficient to
remind one of the
crowd in the Poul-
try. The anxiety
to see these animals
and their various
plumage shows how
the public taste can
be tickled by a
feather, and, indeed,
during every day of
the exhibition, the
place appropriated
to the fowl has re-
sembled a fair.
The display has
somewhat shaken
our faith in the old
•saying that " birds of a feather flock together," for we have never seen so many
birds of different feathers as we have recently found flocking together in Baker
Street. The prices fetched at the sale have been almost fabulous, and among
others a certain duck—which must have been a regular " duck of ducks "—was
valued at one hundred pounds sterling. Two of the pens of Polish fowls are
estimated at one thousand pounds—a circumstance which ought to make the literary
market look up, for if so much can be obtained by a pen, the author's fortune may
be one on which he has a right to plume himself. We are not in the habit of
taking our own pen into the market, but we should like to ask, if a pen at Baker
Street—Polish though it be—is worth one thousand pounds, what is the value of
the pen of Punch, which is all polish, and point of the most brilliant order ?
S>HE exhibition of
fowls has been draw-
ing such numbers, i AFFECTIONATE REPROOF
that the throng in
"by the ladies bull.
PROSPECTUS
OF
THE GRAND UNITED GOLD AND DIAMOND DUST COMPANY.
An Act is already in existence—the Insolvent Act—to limit the liability of the
Shareholders.
CAPITAL, £100,000 in Shares of £1.
To show the confidence felt in the undertaking on the spot, it is respectfully
annoimced, that 50,000 Shares are reserved for the locality where the dust exists,
or, in other words, for the dusthole.
The names of the Directors, if announced, would be recognised in the market
as guarantees for very large amounts, and every one of them is extensively
associated with the stamp or stamps of credit.
This Company is formed for the purpose of working the rich deposits supposed to
•be embedded in the various Banks of an extensive district. The Directors are in
treaty for the lease of an extensive river in the Brazils, the tide of which is supposed
to lead on to fortune.
They hope, by getting into the right current, to be able to stir up the sources
of wealth already alluded to, when they may anticipate that the numerous flats
on all sides will yield an abundance of the precious ore they are in search of.
Should these means of profit become exhausted, the Directors have the satisfaction
of feeling that the adjacent plantations will enable them to take advantage of the
numerous plants, and the gold being used up, they can cut their sticks immediately.
The Directors propose to take further powers for pocket-smeltmg, and otherwise
reducing the quantities of auriferous matter that remain unappropriated, on account
of the imperfect manner in which the process of extracting gold from any place in
which it exists, has been hitherto carried on in this country.
Notwithstanding the numerous arts that have been employed, the Directors
flatter themselves they are in possession of a machinery by which gold can be
squeezed out from quarters where it has, until now, remained so tightly held as
to have been regarded as utterly unattainable. The process is one of refinement,
but it would be obviously imprudent to say more on this point in a public
advertisement.
The Directors hope that enougn money for their purpose will be obtained at
once, and they anticipate no further calls, but the Subscribers will have the
right of making as many calls as they please—for the recovery of their money—
at the office of the Company, should the undertaking be un-remunerative to the
Shareholders.
Applications for Shares, in the usual form, may be made forthwith to the
Secretary pro tern., who will be happy to throw samples of the Dust immediately
into the eye of any applicant.
Dearest Sisters, we implore you
To receive oar fond caress,
Whilst we meekly lay before you
An affectionate address:
Do not tliink we mean to blame you
By a single thing we say,
Or desire at all to shame you
In the slightest kind of way.
But by such a sense of duty
To this course we are impelled,
From publicity though Beauty—
We 're aware—should keep withheld,
That we must call your attention
To a tender point, we know,
You will guess it when we mention
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Sisters, daughters, wives, and mothers,
Ah ! our feelings how it racks.
That your sons, sires, husbands, brothers,
Should so badly use their blacks !
Oh ! we speak with hearts sincerest,
All with love and pity rent;
But why don't you. Sisters dearest,
Make your relatives repent ?
ENDEARING RECRIMINATION
by the ladies jonathan.
Sisters, darlings, sweetest creatures,
Of a common faith and stock,
Not a word to cloud your features,
Or your gentle bosoms shock,
For a moment would we utter,
For all Californy's gold,
But now we've churned all that butter,
You must let the truth be told.
Yon have slaves far worse than niggers,
That in ignorance are sunk,
Who no letters know, nor figures,
Vicious, destitute, and drunk :
Have them taught to read their Bibles,
And repeat their ABC,
Better this than writing libels
On the Nation of the Free.
Go, exhort each male relation,
We would earnestly implore,
To relieve the dire starvation
Which is lying at your door;
'Tis with deepest pain, that others
Of their faults we 're forced to tell,
Whilst forbearance gently smothers
Hearts each gushing like a well!
Precious Poultry.—Hens rear ducklings ; but the price of Cochin China fowls
is so enormous, that their chickens can only be reared by geese. already got
SEASONABLE INTERFERENCE
by an impartial aebitratob,
Ladies, ladies, soft and fairly
Interchange your loving raps,
Or you '11 'scape a quarrel barely,
If not come to pulling caps. _
Both have grounds for accusation,
But on one side there's a flaw :
Slaves for want of Legislation
Are not quite like slaves by Law.
A Dead Certainty.
Mr. Nasmyth has been promising to endow England
with a new " Destructive Engine." We doubt if it can
be half so destructive as the Railway engines England has
67
THE POULTRY EXHIBITION.
SISTERS AND SLAVERY.
Baker Street has
been sufficient to
remind one of the
crowd in the Poul-
try. The anxiety
to see these animals
and their various
plumage shows how
the public taste can
be tickled by a
feather, and, indeed,
during every day of
the exhibition, the
place appropriated
to the fowl has re-
sembled a fair.
The display has
somewhat shaken
our faith in the old
•saying that " birds of a feather flock together," for we have never seen so many
birds of different feathers as we have recently found flocking together in Baker
Street. The prices fetched at the sale have been almost fabulous, and among
others a certain duck—which must have been a regular " duck of ducks "—was
valued at one hundred pounds sterling. Two of the pens of Polish fowls are
estimated at one thousand pounds—a circumstance which ought to make the literary
market look up, for if so much can be obtained by a pen, the author's fortune may
be one on which he has a right to plume himself. We are not in the habit of
taking our own pen into the market, but we should like to ask, if a pen at Baker
Street—Polish though it be—is worth one thousand pounds, what is the value of
the pen of Punch, which is all polish, and point of the most brilliant order ?
S>HE exhibition of
fowls has been draw-
ing such numbers, i AFFECTIONATE REPROOF
that the throng in
"by the ladies bull.
PROSPECTUS
OF
THE GRAND UNITED GOLD AND DIAMOND DUST COMPANY.
An Act is already in existence—the Insolvent Act—to limit the liability of the
Shareholders.
CAPITAL, £100,000 in Shares of £1.
To show the confidence felt in the undertaking on the spot, it is respectfully
annoimced, that 50,000 Shares are reserved for the locality where the dust exists,
or, in other words, for the dusthole.
The names of the Directors, if announced, would be recognised in the market
as guarantees for very large amounts, and every one of them is extensively
associated with the stamp or stamps of credit.
This Company is formed for the purpose of working the rich deposits supposed to
•be embedded in the various Banks of an extensive district. The Directors are in
treaty for the lease of an extensive river in the Brazils, the tide of which is supposed
to lead on to fortune.
They hope, by getting into the right current, to be able to stir up the sources
of wealth already alluded to, when they may anticipate that the numerous flats
on all sides will yield an abundance of the precious ore they are in search of.
Should these means of profit become exhausted, the Directors have the satisfaction
of feeling that the adjacent plantations will enable them to take advantage of the
numerous plants, and the gold being used up, they can cut their sticks immediately.
The Directors propose to take further powers for pocket-smeltmg, and otherwise
reducing the quantities of auriferous matter that remain unappropriated, on account
of the imperfect manner in which the process of extracting gold from any place in
which it exists, has been hitherto carried on in this country.
Notwithstanding the numerous arts that have been employed, the Directors
flatter themselves they are in possession of a machinery by which gold can be
squeezed out from quarters where it has, until now, remained so tightly held as
to have been regarded as utterly unattainable. The process is one of refinement,
but it would be obviously imprudent to say more on this point in a public
advertisement.
The Directors hope that enougn money for their purpose will be obtained at
once, and they anticipate no further calls, but the Subscribers will have the
right of making as many calls as they please—for the recovery of their money—
at the office of the Company, should the undertaking be un-remunerative to the
Shareholders.
Applications for Shares, in the usual form, may be made forthwith to the
Secretary pro tern., who will be happy to throw samples of the Dust immediately
into the eye of any applicant.
Dearest Sisters, we implore you
To receive oar fond caress,
Whilst we meekly lay before you
An affectionate address:
Do not tliink we mean to blame you
By a single thing we say,
Or desire at all to shame you
In the slightest kind of way.
But by such a sense of duty
To this course we are impelled,
From publicity though Beauty—
We 're aware—should keep withheld,
That we must call your attention
To a tender point, we know,
You will guess it when we mention
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Sisters, daughters, wives, and mothers,
Ah ! our feelings how it racks.
That your sons, sires, husbands, brothers,
Should so badly use their blacks !
Oh ! we speak with hearts sincerest,
All with love and pity rent;
But why don't you. Sisters dearest,
Make your relatives repent ?
ENDEARING RECRIMINATION
by the ladies jonathan.
Sisters, darlings, sweetest creatures,
Of a common faith and stock,
Not a word to cloud your features,
Or your gentle bosoms shock,
For a moment would we utter,
For all Californy's gold,
But now we've churned all that butter,
You must let the truth be told.
Yon have slaves far worse than niggers,
That in ignorance are sunk,
Who no letters know, nor figures,
Vicious, destitute, and drunk :
Have them taught to read their Bibles,
And repeat their ABC,
Better this than writing libels
On the Nation of the Free.
Go, exhort each male relation,
We would earnestly implore,
To relieve the dire starvation
Which is lying at your door;
'Tis with deepest pain, that others
Of their faults we 're forced to tell,
Whilst forbearance gently smothers
Hearts each gushing like a well!
Precious Poultry.—Hens rear ducklings ; but the price of Cochin China fowls
is so enormous, that their chickens can only be reared by geese. already got
SEASONABLE INTERFERENCE
by an impartial aebitratob,
Ladies, ladies, soft and fairly
Interchange your loving raps,
Or you '11 'scape a quarrel barely,
If not come to pulling caps. _
Both have grounds for accusation,
But on one side there's a flaw :
Slaves for want of Legislation
Are not quite like slaves by Law.
A Dead Certainty.
Mr. Nasmyth has been promising to endow England
with a new " Destructive Engine." We doubt if it can
be half so destructive as the Railway engines England has