DOI Heft:
Punch's essence of parliament
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-'06 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
FRIGHTFUL.
Clara. “Well, Rose, dear, and how do you feel after the Party?”
Rose. “Oh, pretty well; only I have had sech a horrid dream! Do you know, I dreamt that that great stupid
Captain Dbawler upset a Dish of Trifle over my neap Lace Dress with the Blue Slip!”
AN OPENING POR THE ARISTOCRACY.
The demand for right men in the right places will have the effect of
turning some of the wrong men out of the wrong places into which
they have found their way7, and it is possible that a large supply of
aristocracy will be thrown adrift on society. In contemplation probably
of a good deal of this material being sent into the market, some
speculators are beginning to look for it, as it will in the first instance
be obtainable for a very low figure. The following advertisement con-
tains an offer which cannot be called liberal; but, as the advertiser
is one of the first in the field, he may succeed in getting what lie
requires.
PLANTED, to keep a set of books by double entry, and conduct the
• ' correspondence of a shipping house, where the duties are light, a GENTLEMAN
of good family, from 25 to 35 years of age, who would not he entirely dependent on the
salary he would receive.—Address, &c. &c., Manchester, with reference and stating
salary required.
We should like to see the applications from “ men of family,” in
reply to this advertisement, and we shall be curious to learn what
noriion of the aristocracy will become candidates for the occupation of
keeping a set of books, without being entirely “ dependent on the
salary.” It is certainly better that the allowances made to younger sons
should be eked out by a small salary for keeping a tradesman’s books,
t han by quartering the junior branches of the nobility on the public
departments. These scions of high families would be much more
appropriately occupied in conducting the correspondence of “ a shipping
house ” than m mismanaging the public business in the government
offices. We hail the advertisement before us as an eligible opening for
the younger sons of the aristocracy, whom we hope to find usefully
employed in keeping tradesmen’s books, and learning the art of making
oat, aud sending in, a bill, instead of knowing only how to receive—
though not always to pay—such a vulgar document.
Curls of Smoke.—False ringlets.
NO RESERVOIR OE TALENT.
The honoured name of the Marquis of Lansdowne appears in the
great Ellenborough debate. The Noble Earl told a story of the late
Duke of Wellington ; how that his Grace would not fire a great
gun against so small a bird as Palmerston. The benevolent
Marquis of Lansdowne, with great dignity, said—“He, too, could
tell an anecdote, but would not.” He would compress the jest within
Him ; Lord Ellenborough being, perhaps one ot those men who can
be trusted with untold jokes. Perhaps it was something about an
elephant, or a pig in a Somnauth gate; but whatever it was, history is
left not to truly tell, but at least to guess at. The Noble Marquis,
however, with reference to the popular cry for right men in right
places, said
“ It is a popular error to suppose that there exists in this country any great reservoir
ot' talent or experience, which may be dipped into at any time, and will alwa) s produce
exactly what is wanted.”
This may be. But if, in very fact, there be no great reservoir of
administrative talent, is that any reason—asks Mr. Punch—that we
should employ nothing but pumps ?
A Learned Master of the Rolls.
A poetical baker, whose imagination seems to have more flower
than he needs for his business, advertises “ A Loving Loaf,” the great
salient quality of "which seems to be that it consists of nothing but
“ Kissing-Crusts.” He recommends it as being “highly digestive,”
being made of none but the very best “crumbs of comfort,” and he
declares it to be “the fittest ornament for any Board,_ household or
otheiwise, that is in the habit of quarrelling.” The advertisement "winds,
up by saying “This loaf should be on every married man’s table.”
F THE CROSSING SWEEPER, who, on Thursday last, gave a lady
a penny for sweeping bis crossing with her dress, will call at No. 299 a, Belgrave
Square, he will be handsomely rewarded for his gratitude.
FRIGHTFUL.
Clara. “Well, Rose, dear, and how do you feel after the Party?”
Rose. “Oh, pretty well; only I have had sech a horrid dream! Do you know, I dreamt that that great stupid
Captain Dbawler upset a Dish of Trifle over my neap Lace Dress with the Blue Slip!”
AN OPENING POR THE ARISTOCRACY.
The demand for right men in the right places will have the effect of
turning some of the wrong men out of the wrong places into which
they have found their way7, and it is possible that a large supply of
aristocracy will be thrown adrift on society. In contemplation probably
of a good deal of this material being sent into the market, some
speculators are beginning to look for it, as it will in the first instance
be obtainable for a very low figure. The following advertisement con-
tains an offer which cannot be called liberal; but, as the advertiser
is one of the first in the field, he may succeed in getting what lie
requires.
PLANTED, to keep a set of books by double entry, and conduct the
• ' correspondence of a shipping house, where the duties are light, a GENTLEMAN
of good family, from 25 to 35 years of age, who would not he entirely dependent on the
salary he would receive.—Address, &c. &c., Manchester, with reference and stating
salary required.
We should like to see the applications from “ men of family,” in
reply to this advertisement, and we shall be curious to learn what
noriion of the aristocracy will become candidates for the occupation of
keeping a set of books, without being entirely “ dependent on the
salary.” It is certainly better that the allowances made to younger sons
should be eked out by a small salary for keeping a tradesman’s books,
t han by quartering the junior branches of the nobility on the public
departments. These scions of high families would be much more
appropriately occupied in conducting the correspondence of “ a shipping
house ” than m mismanaging the public business in the government
offices. We hail the advertisement before us as an eligible opening for
the younger sons of the aristocracy, whom we hope to find usefully
employed in keeping tradesmen’s books, and learning the art of making
oat, aud sending in, a bill, instead of knowing only how to receive—
though not always to pay—such a vulgar document.
Curls of Smoke.—False ringlets.
NO RESERVOIR OE TALENT.
The honoured name of the Marquis of Lansdowne appears in the
great Ellenborough debate. The Noble Earl told a story of the late
Duke of Wellington ; how that his Grace would not fire a great
gun against so small a bird as Palmerston. The benevolent
Marquis of Lansdowne, with great dignity, said—“He, too, could
tell an anecdote, but would not.” He would compress the jest within
Him ; Lord Ellenborough being, perhaps one ot those men who can
be trusted with untold jokes. Perhaps it was something about an
elephant, or a pig in a Somnauth gate; but whatever it was, history is
left not to truly tell, but at least to guess at. The Noble Marquis,
however, with reference to the popular cry for right men in right
places, said
“ It is a popular error to suppose that there exists in this country any great reservoir
ot' talent or experience, which may be dipped into at any time, and will alwa) s produce
exactly what is wanted.”
This may be. But if, in very fact, there be no great reservoir of
administrative talent, is that any reason—asks Mr. Punch—that we
should employ nothing but pumps ?
A Learned Master of the Rolls.
A poetical baker, whose imagination seems to have more flower
than he needs for his business, advertises “ A Loving Loaf,” the great
salient quality of "which seems to be that it consists of nothing but
“ Kissing-Crusts.” He recommends it as being “highly digestive,”
being made of none but the very best “crumbs of comfort,” and he
declares it to be “the fittest ornament for any Board,_ household or
otheiwise, that is in the habit of quarrelling.” The advertisement "winds,
up by saying “This loaf should be on every married man’s table.”
F THE CROSSING SWEEPER, who, on Thursday last, gave a lady
a penny for sweeping bis crossing with her dress, will call at No. 299 a, Belgrave
Square, he will be handsomely rewarded for his gratitude.