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October 18, 1856
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[October 18, 1856.
EQUINOCTIAL GALES.
Mr. Knobbles had given up Fly-fishing for the Season, but this slashing Breeze and
splendid Ripple induced, h im to 'make another day of it.
THE WATEE-CUJ4E OF CRIME.
You spouting Pumps, in solemn league combined
To throw cold water upon all mankind,
You, by the Yankee Maine Law who propose,
Each tap to shut aud every bar to close,
There is a point which I must have you clear.
E;e you'll persuade me to relinquish beer.
'Tis held by jou, who go the total swine,
A wickedness io taste a drop of wine ;
You say, of Crime's unfathomable sink,
The source and fountain is fermented drink,
And grapes ^r<d grain, engendering alcohol,
Are fruit whose poison works another Fall,
Cease, Pumps, awhile to snout, aiod look arcund,
Behold what rogues on every side abound!
Here, base Trustees infringe a sacfed bond;
There, scoundiel clerks embezz'e and abscond •
Clients to ruin Banking Finns betray,
And Shareholders become Directors' pre,;.
Declare, Hydraulic Engines, is it true
That liquor leads such knaves as these askew ?
Say, do the villains mostly first go wrong
Through predilection for potations strong?
And is the tribe of swindlers, as a class,
Cieated by a passion for the glass P
Was pious Paul seduced by cordial gin ?
Did Stkahan partake the spirit and the sin?
Was Bates by baleful brandy overcome?
Did Sadleik, fall by whiskey or by rum ?
And have the victims of the British Bank,
The bottle for their robbery to thank ?
O Pumpa ! if Truth sucked trorn your wells might be,
And Honesty imbibed in drinking tea,
Could Honour be in ginger-beer conveyed,
Integrity infused >n lemonade:
Let Parliament of swipes the sale restrain.
And Punch will bellow for the Law of Maine.
A Flirt changes all her opinions every day, excepting
the good opiuion she has of herself.
" STOP HER!"
TH.cJi.is is a grand olao-trap line in Pizarro, ■ which informs us that
" A wretched mother, witn a poor orphan in her arms, has Nature's
passport through the world." We should be sorry to contradict such
a devoted crpamre as Cora, but we really should not advise her to
present herself in that wretched state at the Austrian frontier. We
are afraid she would have her "Nature's passport" very rougMy
handled by those amiable gentlemen in cocked-bats i^nd swo< ds, and
would be very quickly sent back, or imprisoned, unless she bad ^ome
other passport to show them as well—more especially as " the Nature's
passport" would not", if it had the features of any ordiuaty passport,
be the prettiest object in the woild to show. An a>gry Custom-House
official would not, we think, be exactly moved at the sight of a child,
that was stamped, and maiktd, aud covered all over with vises, even
though they were all perfectly en regie. The uroducMon of a Foreign
Office Passport, for which Cora had paid 7s, §d., would command from
them fifty times more respect and attention. Besides, we strongly
doubt if »ueh a brilliant specimen of civilisation as a uassport was
ever known in a dark country like Peru ! The pruning-knife, if judi-
ciously used, would hove excised this and other anachronisms. The
play should have been sent, like a brief, to some intelligent dramatic
of the present day, with the instructions maiked outside, "Finally to
Perus and Settle."
The Long Vacation,
The British Bank has closed to enjoy the Long Vacation There
are several sums of money, amounting altogether to upwards of £150,000,
that have left the establishment for a similar purpose. Some of them
are pa sing the time gaily on the Continent with the oil Directors. Two
of them, representing a figure something like £75,000, have been on a
visit foe some time past with two Members of Parliament, of the names
of Humphrey Brown and John M'Gregor. It is not known when
they will return. In fact, the most sanguine Shareholder has abandoned
all hopes of tver witnessing their return.
COMPARATIVE SIZES OF BELL(TB}S.
czab kolokol, queen op belles, LITTLE tom.
King of Bells, Moscow. Brighton. (Now) Oxfokd.
Something like an Insult.
We are so.ry to find that Me. Milner Gibson an' John Bright
are no longer friends. Tnis painful fact is but too evident from the
circumstance, that at the late Manchester meeting Gibson called
Bhigkt "his talented colleague" What has Ma. Bright done to
Mr. Gibson that he should be pelted with such Engbsh ?
thk loves of the lollipops.
The Spanish Nation, speaks of a marriaae between the baby Princess
of the Asturias and the Prince Imperial of Frav.ce. A little early this
for a young lady to be casting bulU'-eyes at a young gentleman.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[October 18, 1856.
EQUINOCTIAL GALES.
Mr. Knobbles had given up Fly-fishing for the Season, but this slashing Breeze and
splendid Ripple induced, h im to 'make another day of it.
THE WATEE-CUJ4E OF CRIME.
You spouting Pumps, in solemn league combined
To throw cold water upon all mankind,
You, by the Yankee Maine Law who propose,
Each tap to shut aud every bar to close,
There is a point which I must have you clear.
E;e you'll persuade me to relinquish beer.
'Tis held by jou, who go the total swine,
A wickedness io taste a drop of wine ;
You say, of Crime's unfathomable sink,
The source and fountain is fermented drink,
And grapes ^r<d grain, engendering alcohol,
Are fruit whose poison works another Fall,
Cease, Pumps, awhile to snout, aiod look arcund,
Behold what rogues on every side abound!
Here, base Trustees infringe a sacfed bond;
There, scoundiel clerks embezz'e and abscond •
Clients to ruin Banking Finns betray,
And Shareholders become Directors' pre,;.
Declare, Hydraulic Engines, is it true
That liquor leads such knaves as these askew ?
Say, do the villains mostly first go wrong
Through predilection for potations strong?
And is the tribe of swindlers, as a class,
Cieated by a passion for the glass P
Was pious Paul seduced by cordial gin ?
Did Stkahan partake the spirit and the sin?
Was Bates by baleful brandy overcome?
Did Sadleik, fall by whiskey or by rum ?
And have the victims of the British Bank,
The bottle for their robbery to thank ?
O Pumpa ! if Truth sucked trorn your wells might be,
And Honesty imbibed in drinking tea,
Could Honour be in ginger-beer conveyed,
Integrity infused >n lemonade:
Let Parliament of swipes the sale restrain.
And Punch will bellow for the Law of Maine.
A Flirt changes all her opinions every day, excepting
the good opiuion she has of herself.
" STOP HER!"
TH.cJi.is is a grand olao-trap line in Pizarro, ■ which informs us that
" A wretched mother, witn a poor orphan in her arms, has Nature's
passport through the world." We should be sorry to contradict such
a devoted crpamre as Cora, but we really should not advise her to
present herself in that wretched state at the Austrian frontier. We
are afraid she would have her "Nature's passport" very rougMy
handled by those amiable gentlemen in cocked-bats i^nd swo< ds, and
would be very quickly sent back, or imprisoned, unless she bad ^ome
other passport to show them as well—more especially as " the Nature's
passport" would not", if it had the features of any ordiuaty passport,
be the prettiest object in the woild to show. An a>gry Custom-House
official would not, we think, be exactly moved at the sight of a child,
that was stamped, and maiktd, aud covered all over with vises, even
though they were all perfectly en regie. The uroducMon of a Foreign
Office Passport, for which Cora had paid 7s, §d., would command from
them fifty times more respect and attention. Besides, we strongly
doubt if »ueh a brilliant specimen of civilisation as a uassport was
ever known in a dark country like Peru ! The pruning-knife, if judi-
ciously used, would hove excised this and other anachronisms. The
play should have been sent, like a brief, to some intelligent dramatic
of the present day, with the instructions maiked outside, "Finally to
Perus and Settle."
The Long Vacation,
The British Bank has closed to enjoy the Long Vacation There
are several sums of money, amounting altogether to upwards of £150,000,
that have left the establishment for a similar purpose. Some of them
are pa sing the time gaily on the Continent with the oil Directors. Two
of them, representing a figure something like £75,000, have been on a
visit foe some time past with two Members of Parliament, of the names
of Humphrey Brown and John M'Gregor. It is not known when
they will return. In fact, the most sanguine Shareholder has abandoned
all hopes of tver witnessing their return.
COMPARATIVE SIZES OF BELL(TB}S.
czab kolokol, queen op belles, LITTLE tom.
King of Bells, Moscow. Brighton. (Now) Oxfokd.
Something like an Insult.
We are so.ry to find that Me. Milner Gibson an' John Bright
are no longer friends. Tnis painful fact is but too evident from the
circumstance, that at the late Manchester meeting Gibson called
Bhigkt "his talented colleague" What has Ma. Bright done to
Mr. Gibson that he should be pelted with such Engbsh ?
thk loves of the lollipops.
The Spanish Nation, speaks of a marriaae between the baby Princess
of the Asturias and the Prince Imperial of Frav.ce. A little early this
for a young lady to be casting bulU'-eyes at a young gentleman.