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December 29, 1855
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December 29, 1855.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
255
PUNCH'S ILLUSTRATIONS TO SKAKSPEARE.
" I speak of peace, while covert enmity,
NATIONAL ANTHEM FOR PRUSSIA
Long live our jovial Fritz,
On Prussia's throne who sits,
Under the Czajk,
Nightly uproarious,
JolJy and glorious,
It is notorious,
Near and afar.
Oh ! those abhorr'd Allies,
His master's enemies;
Seeking their fall.
He shapes his politics,
And plays his cunning tricks,
To put them in a fix,
Aud do them all.
If a blockade's in store
For Fatherland's poor shore;
If our Fritz bring
On us the Lion's claws,
We shall have precious cause,
To shout with all our jaws,
Bless our Vice-King i
Munificent Donations.
Messrs. Cobden and Bright sent to the Russian prisoners
at Lewes a tremendous hamper, containing among other deli-
cacies, 30 gallons of the best train-oil, 10 ditto of superior Colza,
1141b. of suet (purchased at the Baker Street Cattle Show),
and 5801b. (best long fours) of tallow-caudles. In the course
of Christmas-Day, each man had distributed to him a couple
of candles, and an illumination-glass of Colza oil. Before soing
to bed the poor fellows sang the Russian hymn (Cavijare dy
Czar "), and drank the health of their benefactors m a bumper
of the exciting liquid that had been so generously sent them.
Homage at any Price
The pertinacity with which our gallant countrymen remain
at their posts—even when all hope of success is over—has
I been strikingly exemplified in the case of the brave General
Under the smile of safety, wounds the world. , \Yilliams and his companions-in-arms; who, after staying in
Henry IV. Part 2, Induction. | Xars as long as they could, are now inKarscerated.
FIVK M[NOTES WITH THE ADVERTISERS.
hey must have big Churches in
Southampton! This remark is
forced from Mr. Punch by the
following advertisement, which
a person of the name of Brooks
has put into one of the South-
ampton papers:
{ N H- BUILDINGS, MR.
1 CHARLES BROOKS 1ms one of
the very best Houses FOR SALE, with
a large p«w in the centre aisle of All
Saints' Church containing twelve good
rooms, closet, and all suitable offices.
A good garden and roomy summer-
house, substantial, and in good order.
The price required will be very moderate.
The last intimation is a pleas-
ing proof that virtue aud moder-
ation still dwell in Southampton,
rough banished from most other places. For » pew with twelve rooms,
closet, and offices, many people would have asked a good deal of
money. We do not quite understand whether the garden is also
attached to the pew, but if so it must be the celebrated Roman
Catholic one, the Garden of the Soul. If all the pews are so extensive,
we should think that a speaking-trumpet must be carried up into the
sincerely congratulate her upon the good condition in which she find
herself.
T ADY'S HORSE WANTED.—Any one having a well-trained LADY'S
* J HOhSE or MARE, not less than six years old, and up to 12 stone weight, may
hear of a Customer by writing to-, Great Yarmouth.
Twelve stone, for a lady, is not bad, and imports that our fair friend
has lived upon something besides her native hertings.
Finally, comes an announcement in the Times, which for general
muddle beats anything we have seen—even a leader in the Advertiser.
\ GENTLEMAN wishes to RECOMMEND a highly respectable
-ii TRADESMAN'S WIFE to the care of one or two children, where great care will
be tiken of them and trust, in a healthy neighbourhood, and no connection with any
other children. No family of their own. Addiess, &c.
Who, what, when, where, which, why, whence, wherefore ? Why does
the gentleman interfere with the respectable tradesman's family ? Why
does he recommend the man's wife to the care of one or two children ?
Are children proper persons to take charge of her ? Then, on the other
hand, why is great care to be taken of them? "And trust." What
trust ? what's trust ? What does he mean ? "No connection with any
other children." What precocious children these one or two are!—
first, they take charge of a full-grown woman, and then they disavow
connection with any other children. Finally, there is "no family of
their own." Whose own ? The children's ? The intrusive gentle-
man's ? Certainly, this is a wonderful compo.-ition. It does r<-ad
like a scrap from one of the Advertisers inconceivable spasms of
patriotism, in which the writer is in such a fury with despots and the
fall, but smashes everybody with a truly awful recklessness of relatives
and antecedents. But it is not remarkable that one Advertiser should
resemble another.
pulpit, together with the sermon and white pocket-handkerchief. j like, that he cannot stop to^ee on whose heads his thundering adjectives
The next Advertiser, to whose announcement Mr. Punch's attention
ras been called, stat es in another local paper that she
Desires a Situation as Housemaid in a pious or private family. The latter will be
preferred. Address, M. J., &c."
Why our Housemaid prefers privacy to piety she will perhaps explain
to the mistress to whom she applies. She has evidently never read
Pietus Privata.
A third Advertise* is from the other side of the kingdom, and we
Living Contradictions.
Messrs. Cobden and Bright belong to the past rather than to the
present; for though they advocate peace, in public opinion they are
numbered, as Mr. Weight would say, amongst "the parties that war."
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
255
PUNCH'S ILLUSTRATIONS TO SKAKSPEARE.
" I speak of peace, while covert enmity,
NATIONAL ANTHEM FOR PRUSSIA
Long live our jovial Fritz,
On Prussia's throne who sits,
Under the Czajk,
Nightly uproarious,
JolJy and glorious,
It is notorious,
Near and afar.
Oh ! those abhorr'd Allies,
His master's enemies;
Seeking their fall.
He shapes his politics,
And plays his cunning tricks,
To put them in a fix,
Aud do them all.
If a blockade's in store
For Fatherland's poor shore;
If our Fritz bring
On us the Lion's claws,
We shall have precious cause,
To shout with all our jaws,
Bless our Vice-King i
Munificent Donations.
Messrs. Cobden and Bright sent to the Russian prisoners
at Lewes a tremendous hamper, containing among other deli-
cacies, 30 gallons of the best train-oil, 10 ditto of superior Colza,
1141b. of suet (purchased at the Baker Street Cattle Show),
and 5801b. (best long fours) of tallow-caudles. In the course
of Christmas-Day, each man had distributed to him a couple
of candles, and an illumination-glass of Colza oil. Before soing
to bed the poor fellows sang the Russian hymn (Cavijare dy
Czar "), and drank the health of their benefactors m a bumper
of the exciting liquid that had been so generously sent them.
Homage at any Price
The pertinacity with which our gallant countrymen remain
at their posts—even when all hope of success is over—has
I been strikingly exemplified in the case of the brave General
Under the smile of safety, wounds the world. , \Yilliams and his companions-in-arms; who, after staying in
Henry IV. Part 2, Induction. | Xars as long as they could, are now inKarscerated.
FIVK M[NOTES WITH THE ADVERTISERS.
hey must have big Churches in
Southampton! This remark is
forced from Mr. Punch by the
following advertisement, which
a person of the name of Brooks
has put into one of the South-
ampton papers:
{ N H- BUILDINGS, MR.
1 CHARLES BROOKS 1ms one of
the very best Houses FOR SALE, with
a large p«w in the centre aisle of All
Saints' Church containing twelve good
rooms, closet, and all suitable offices.
A good garden and roomy summer-
house, substantial, and in good order.
The price required will be very moderate.
The last intimation is a pleas-
ing proof that virtue aud moder-
ation still dwell in Southampton,
rough banished from most other places. For » pew with twelve rooms,
closet, and offices, many people would have asked a good deal of
money. We do not quite understand whether the garden is also
attached to the pew, but if so it must be the celebrated Roman
Catholic one, the Garden of the Soul. If all the pews are so extensive,
we should think that a speaking-trumpet must be carried up into the
sincerely congratulate her upon the good condition in which she find
herself.
T ADY'S HORSE WANTED.—Any one having a well-trained LADY'S
* J HOhSE or MARE, not less than six years old, and up to 12 stone weight, may
hear of a Customer by writing to-, Great Yarmouth.
Twelve stone, for a lady, is not bad, and imports that our fair friend
has lived upon something besides her native hertings.
Finally, comes an announcement in the Times, which for general
muddle beats anything we have seen—even a leader in the Advertiser.
\ GENTLEMAN wishes to RECOMMEND a highly respectable
-ii TRADESMAN'S WIFE to the care of one or two children, where great care will
be tiken of them and trust, in a healthy neighbourhood, and no connection with any
other children. No family of their own. Addiess, &c.
Who, what, when, where, which, why, whence, wherefore ? Why does
the gentleman interfere with the respectable tradesman's family ? Why
does he recommend the man's wife to the care of one or two children ?
Are children proper persons to take charge of her ? Then, on the other
hand, why is great care to be taken of them? "And trust." What
trust ? what's trust ? What does he mean ? "No connection with any
other children." What precocious children these one or two are!—
first, they take charge of a full-grown woman, and then they disavow
connection with any other children. Finally, there is "no family of
their own." Whose own ? The children's ? The intrusive gentle-
man's ? Certainly, this is a wonderful compo.-ition. It does r<-ad
like a scrap from one of the Advertisers inconceivable spasms of
patriotism, in which the writer is in such a fury with despots and the
fall, but smashes everybody with a truly awful recklessness of relatives
and antecedents. But it is not remarkable that one Advertiser should
resemble another.
pulpit, together with the sermon and white pocket-handkerchief. j like, that he cannot stop to^ee on whose heads his thundering adjectives
The next Advertiser, to whose announcement Mr. Punch's attention
ras been called, stat es in another local paper that she
Desires a Situation as Housemaid in a pious or private family. The latter will be
preferred. Address, M. J., &c."
Why our Housemaid prefers privacy to piety she will perhaps explain
to the mistress to whom she applies. She has evidently never read
Pietus Privata.
A third Advertise* is from the other side of the kingdom, and we
Living Contradictions.
Messrs. Cobden and Bright belong to the past rather than to the
present; for though they advocate peace, in public opinion they are
numbered, as Mr. Weight would say, amongst "the parties that war."