DOI Heft:
July to December, 1853
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16612#0113
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^_ PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
SCENE—BUREAU OF THE CHIEFS OF THE D0UANE8.
French Official. “You have Passport?”
English Gent. “Nong, Mossoo.”
Official. “Your Name.”
Gent. “ Belleville.”
Official. “ Christian nom ? ”
Gant. “’Arry ! ”
Official. “Profession?”
Gent. “BANKER!”
THE PLOUGHBOY\S DOOM S
The stubble-headed Ploughbov
No more a-field shall stride,
Smock-froclced, with whip on shoulder,
The steer or steed to guide ;
At dawn, no more shall whistle
With early lark and thrush;
No longer stalk the fallows, *
The clods no longer crash.
In vacant rumination.
No more shall sit on gate ;
Ills shanks beneath him dangling
By hob-nailed highlows’ weight.
That form of grace no longer
The hedgerows shall adorn,
His dab of bacon slicing
Upon his palm of horn.
Tlid Boy—smock, boots, and bacon.
And whip,—must yield to Steam ;
His whistle must be silent,
Whilst engines hiss and scream ;
Tor Me chi has in action
A new machine e’en now,
And says his apparatus
Will supersede the Plough,
A Pear Speculation.
The Turkish question appears to have subsided into
an affair of grease. The subjoined advertisement shows
what our Imperial friend has come to -.—
BEAR FOR SALE.—A fine large RUSSIAN BEAR, very
tame. To be seen on board the Atalanta, Cattain Wesknbekg
lying in the West India Import Pock.
Nicholas lias come to the West India Dock. We
suppose we shall soon have him Promoting the Growth of
the Hair, in combination with essence of rose, violet, or
bergamot. _
The Height op Absurdity.—A Yesetarian aflending
a Cattle Show.
LEADING ARTICLE EOR OLD LADIES.
(On the proposed New Coinage.)
We are, and always were, averse to change. We do not mean to
say that we have, or ever had, any objection to those coppers which
long custom has hallowed, and which have been consecrated to charity.
But when innovation would tamper with the coiu of the realm, we, in
common with all Her Majesty’s loyal subjects, are necessitated to
rally round the Sovereign, not only as such, but as represented by
monetary subordinates. And when we observe that one of the prin-
cipal features in the contemplated revolution is the abolition of the Half-
Crown, we cannot but consider the Crown, and with the Crown the
Throne, and of course the Church to be placed in jeopardy. In
short, we must record our emphatic protest against the proposed
Decimal Currency. It was under the old arrangement of pounds,
shillings, pence, and farthings, that the country attained to its present
pitch of glory and prosperity. That the Decimal system has been
adopted by foreigners is the very reason why we should persist in our
own. What is it that makes them so eager to take our money, if not
its acknowledged superiority to theirs ?
The democratic, indeed the levelling character of the decimal agita-
tion is obvious from one remarkable fact, which, may, perhaps, how-
ever, be new to our readers. It is notorious that the lower classes are
addicted to the use of slang or flash language, especially in connection
with pugilism. Now we have already had introduced a coin of foreign
denomination, but domestic orthography. We allude to the piece of
money termed a florin, a word which, as spelt by the populace—as many
of them as can spell at ail—signifies the act of knocking or being
knocked down. It is proposed that one of the new-fangled coins shall
bear the yet more vulgar appellation of a mil; which in the same voca-
bulary signifies a fistic encounter.
From a Parliamentary Commission subservient to a Downing Street
gang, thus evidently deriving the nomenclature of their projected
coinage on the one hand from Continental Jews, Papists, and Infidels ;
and on the other from the Brummagem Chicken and the Tipton.
Slasher, what can we expect but the overthrow of all our ancient
institutions, unless the blow which they are about to aim at all that
we hold tender, be parried by a determined exertion of the art of
self-defence ? _
A Regular Pump.—An eminent teetotaller being requested by “ a
few of his admirers ” to sit for his portrait, consented, on condition
that it should be taken in water-colours.
A REMINISCENCE OF CHOBHAM—DELIGHTFUL EFFECTS
OF A CANNONADE.
^_ PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
SCENE—BUREAU OF THE CHIEFS OF THE D0UANE8.
French Official. “You have Passport?”
English Gent. “Nong, Mossoo.”
Official. “Your Name.”
Gent. “ Belleville.”
Official. “ Christian nom ? ”
Gant. “’Arry ! ”
Official. “Profession?”
Gent. “BANKER!”
THE PLOUGHBOY\S DOOM S
The stubble-headed Ploughbov
No more a-field shall stride,
Smock-froclced, with whip on shoulder,
The steer or steed to guide ;
At dawn, no more shall whistle
With early lark and thrush;
No longer stalk the fallows, *
The clods no longer crash.
In vacant rumination.
No more shall sit on gate ;
Ills shanks beneath him dangling
By hob-nailed highlows’ weight.
That form of grace no longer
The hedgerows shall adorn,
His dab of bacon slicing
Upon his palm of horn.
Tlid Boy—smock, boots, and bacon.
And whip,—must yield to Steam ;
His whistle must be silent,
Whilst engines hiss and scream ;
Tor Me chi has in action
A new machine e’en now,
And says his apparatus
Will supersede the Plough,
A Pear Speculation.
The Turkish question appears to have subsided into
an affair of grease. The subjoined advertisement shows
what our Imperial friend has come to -.—
BEAR FOR SALE.—A fine large RUSSIAN BEAR, very
tame. To be seen on board the Atalanta, Cattain Wesknbekg
lying in the West India Import Pock.
Nicholas lias come to the West India Dock. We
suppose we shall soon have him Promoting the Growth of
the Hair, in combination with essence of rose, violet, or
bergamot. _
The Height op Absurdity.—A Yesetarian aflending
a Cattle Show.
LEADING ARTICLE EOR OLD LADIES.
(On the proposed New Coinage.)
We are, and always were, averse to change. We do not mean to
say that we have, or ever had, any objection to those coppers which
long custom has hallowed, and which have been consecrated to charity.
But when innovation would tamper with the coiu of the realm, we, in
common with all Her Majesty’s loyal subjects, are necessitated to
rally round the Sovereign, not only as such, but as represented by
monetary subordinates. And when we observe that one of the prin-
cipal features in the contemplated revolution is the abolition of the Half-
Crown, we cannot but consider the Crown, and with the Crown the
Throne, and of course the Church to be placed in jeopardy. In
short, we must record our emphatic protest against the proposed
Decimal Currency. It was under the old arrangement of pounds,
shillings, pence, and farthings, that the country attained to its present
pitch of glory and prosperity. That the Decimal system has been
adopted by foreigners is the very reason why we should persist in our
own. What is it that makes them so eager to take our money, if not
its acknowledged superiority to theirs ?
The democratic, indeed the levelling character of the decimal agita-
tion is obvious from one remarkable fact, which, may, perhaps, how-
ever, be new to our readers. It is notorious that the lower classes are
addicted to the use of slang or flash language, especially in connection
with pugilism. Now we have already had introduced a coin of foreign
denomination, but domestic orthography. We allude to the piece of
money termed a florin, a word which, as spelt by the populace—as many
of them as can spell at ail—signifies the act of knocking or being
knocked down. It is proposed that one of the new-fangled coins shall
bear the yet more vulgar appellation of a mil; which in the same voca-
bulary signifies a fistic encounter.
From a Parliamentary Commission subservient to a Downing Street
gang, thus evidently deriving the nomenclature of their projected
coinage on the one hand from Continental Jews, Papists, and Infidels ;
and on the other from the Brummagem Chicken and the Tipton.
Slasher, what can we expect but the overthrow of all our ancient
institutions, unless the blow which they are about to aim at all that
we hold tender, be parried by a determined exertion of the art of
self-defence ? _
A Regular Pump.—An eminent teetotaller being requested by “ a
few of his admirers ” to sit for his portrait, consented, on condition
that it should be taken in water-colours.
A REMINISCENCE OF CHOBHAM—DELIGHTFUL EFFECTS
OF A CANNONADE.