Punch (31.1856)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[July 12, 1856.

THE LATEST IMPROVEMENT.

Jane. "Lawk, Jemima! Don't they look Bewtiple now they've got their Long- Coats r1"

CONDOLENCE WITH A PERSON AT COURT,

'Tis a nuisance, my Prince, f.jr you ; ye3 'tis a bore
That jou can't have the Pictures at, Kensington Gore.
Ah, the stubborn, perverse, disagreeable crew,
Tbat outvo ed the Court, and the Government too!

Hang the dogs!—I had rather not say who they are,
For fear that I might be had up bt their bar :
Let, them triumph ! we know that they're all in disgrace,
Excluded for ever from honour and place.

Never mind, noble Prince, we our crosses have all,
Your great matters if I may compare with our small ;
But when you complain of your bad luck, you should,
I would humbly suggest, also think of your good.

Ju4, consider how great is the length of the rope
Which your taste is allowed—how extensive a scope
Your invention enjoys, since you're left to assume
Unrestricted control of the Army costume.

Recollec-, with a fiat obeyed as divine,

The uniform, both of the Guards and the Line,

You dictate, unchecked by a mutiLOus vote

Prom improving the soldier's cap, trousers, or coat.

The Lords with the Commons in vain may conspire,
To abolish your power upon martial at tire ;
In spite of the Commons, in spite of the Peers,
Sure as Pate for our forces you '11 still hold the shears.

When you fashion the clothes of an a my so fioe,
At a small disappointment you should not repine ;
At not having jour way in a matter so light,
As the choice of a National Gallery's site.

Then but think, noble Princp, of the baton jou wield ;
A Pield Marshal's— Hyde Park, I believe, is the field ;
So that you'd give direction to Williams of Ears
In case jou were ever to go to the wars.

A Field Marshal, too, knows that though forced to retreat,

A General is not always finally beat;

Better fortune next Session may possibly bring,

And more vigorous pressure accomplish the thing.

Let the whip be with greater severity plied,
And a little more dexterous influence be tried,
A_nd the Public may yet have to travel footsore
Por a sight of its pictures, to Kensington Gore.

Palmerston and rhe Pope.

A Correspondent in a Dresden paper avers, that the Pope, in
defiance of the Cardinals, resolved on having Lord Palmerston gibbeted
in Boman type; to which end his Holiness determined on printing his
Lordship's avowal in the Hou e of Commons, that " the Bo man states
of the Church were never better ruled than by the government which
was formed after the flight of the Pope." There is a slight error here
which, on the suggestion of Mr. Punch, the Pope will no doubt see
corrected. Thus, for "never better ruled," read "never so mil
ruled?" Mr. Punch is only sorry that the Prench didn t leave
well alone.

A New Saint—We understand that, in recognition of the filial
duty of Mr. Bowyeb, as a son of the church, the Pope has promised
in due season to put him in the Calendar. Mr. Bowyer will be
canonised as St. Bosh.__

Heartrending Outburst op Griep during the Dog-days on

the part op A FaT APOPLECTIC PoOTMAN IN a TALL BeLGRAVIAN

Mansion.—" If Master and Missus had to run up-stairs every time,
I'm blow'd if they'd ring the Bell so precious offen ! "