Punch (35.1858)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

THE FAIR TOXOPHILITES.

Constance. "Off, Mamma! I'm so delighted. I have just made the best Gold, and won the beautiful Bracelet
given by Captain Rifles."

Lucy {disappointed). " Well, Constance, I think you had better not say much about it. You knot/ it was a Fluke !

for you told me you always shot with your eyes shut, as you feel so very nervous ! "

LIVING PICTURES AT CBEMOBNE.

An entirely new series of aristocratic Poses Plastiques was given at
Cremorne, for the exclusive fete of Friday.

The following groups were particularly admired :—

" The Choice of Hercules," represented by Lord Shaftesbury, as the
cleanser of the Augean stable, between Pleasure (as a Folie pointing
to Cremorne), and Piety fas a Pew-opener, pointing to a Parish
Church), with the motto ' Proh Pudor ! " in variegated lamps.

" The Peasant's Heel Galling the Courtier's Kibe."—The Peasant, a la
Watteau, by a season-ticket holder. The Courtier by the Hon.
Poodle Byng.

" Hope in Search of (a) Charity."—Hope by the Countess of Shaftes-
bury, bearing the proceeds of the fete in her hand. We could not
learn who represented the Charity on the occasion.

" The Triumph of Ingestrie."—Displaying the youthful organiser of the
fete enthroned on a cylindrical pedestal of Aylesbury-ware pipe,
waving a flag over his head inscribed " Meliora!" which wish
was devoutly responded to by the company.

" Hope told a Flattering Tale, that Joy would soon Return."—One of
the most admired groups of the evening. Hope by the Honourable
Member for Maidstone, assuring a fervent acolyte of St. Barnabas
of the speedy restoration of Miss Joy to her visiting duties in
Belgravia.

" The Judgment of Paris " {draped after Flaxman).—¥dxi& by the Duke
of Malakhoff ; Venus, Minerva, and Juno, by three of the Lady
Patronesses of the evening. The strictest propriety could find
nothing to object to in this group, despite its mythological and, at
first blush, questionable character. The costumes, which were

not diaphanous, and the Crinolines, which were ample, had pre-
viously been submitted to, and pronounced irreproachable by, His
Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.

" The Veronesse" {after Teniers).—A delicious tableau, composed of
elegantly costumed female members of the Aristocracy playing at
" Skittles."

" The Seven Categories of Kant."—A metaphysical tableau, arranged by
the Right Rev. the Btshop of Oxford. Kant by the Duke op
Marlborough ; his Seven Categories by distinguished female
members of the serious circles of the Aristocracy.

GOVERNOR WALL AND GOVERNOR CHILD.

Governor Wall, for having flogged an innocent man to death,
was hanged like a dog amid the shouts of the multitude. Lord
Mansfield declared, " If you pardon Dodd, you have murdered
Perreau." What would that eminent Judge have said if he had read
Major Child's own statement of the cowardly and infamous cruelties,
which, whilst Commandant of Norfolk Island, he practised on the
helpless and innocent prisoner, Barber? Might not the noble and
learned oracle of judicial consistency have spoken somewhat of this
kind:—" As you cannot transport Major Child to a penal settlement,
you ought not to have hanged Governor Wall ? "

"Wanted the Spud."

After the discovery by the Royal Commission of the rascalities
that have centred round our system of military contracts, and the
cashierings that have followed their exposures, we can only say to
General Peel, emphatically, "Weed-on"