Punch: Punch (36.1859)

fcO PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [February 19, i859.

Fascinatiny Gent, (to precocious little Girl). "You are a vert nice little Girl;
you shall be my Wlfey when you grow up!"-

Little Girl. "No, thank you; I don't want to have a Husband; but Aunt
Bessy does; I heard her say so!" [Sensation on the part o/AuNT Bessy.

A NICE LOT OF INCUMBRANCES.

lr an Encumbered Estates' Bill for England is passed this Session, we fancy that
the following eligible property will be able to send in a very good claim for rehef.
The statement, which briefly represents its melancholy position, is taken from the
report sent in by Mr. Nelson to the Committee of the Westminster Bondholders :—

" Those circumstances are as follows, viz. :—That the land is encumbered with ten mortgages,
twenty judgments, and sixteen chancery suits, making a total of forty-six incumbrances, to which
there are no less (exclusive of the Commissioners) than upwards of eighty parties."

New brooms enjoy the reputation of sweeping clean; so there could not be a
better bit of encumbered ground for the New Act to be tried upon than the above
overladen instance. How sixteen Chancery Suits are to be carted away we cannot
imagine ! It isn't every one who would like to have a Chancery Suit shot on to
his premises. Supposing they were to be pitched into the sea, they never would
settle,—for a settlement with a Chancery Suit is a fundamental impossibility. It
will require a very sweeping measure indeed to get a property bke the above clean
of all difficulties, and the difficulty is certainly increased, when you have to satisfy
twenty judgments, independently of what satisfaction you may be called upon to
give in order to conciliate the judgments of the sixty other creditors. It would
not be a bad title to call this highly-mortgaged Victoria Street, Westminster, Bond
Street, for every other house in the place seems to be, more or less, in that legal
predicament. The Bondholders may console themselves with the happy delusion
that they have been only locking up property for a time in a "bonded" ware-
nouse. And it is effectually locked up, for most of the wards of the lock are in
Chancery

Maxims by Modern Advertisers.

There is no cement for broken vows. Poo-Loo.—The spirit that is bruised is
ifle most sensitive of chaff. Mary Wedlake.—Advertising is the poetry of trade.
Moses and Son—Every cloud i? electrotvped inside with silver. Mkington and Co.—
Ad cats are the same in the dark, unless you burn a Night Light. Price—The
Harr and the Tortoise is a musty old fable, but if the Kalydor had been in existence
then, the Hair would have won' by several lengths. Rowland.—He who causes two
tlades of .steel to be manufactured where there was only one before, is a benefactor
to the human species. Mechi.—l wish you a Good Day. Martin.

FILIBUSTERO.
a Nrfo Sang to an ©IS ®une.

Am—" LillibvXero."

On—Gin'ral Walker, d'ye hear what's to be ?

Filibustero—buster—a—la;
That with Cuba the States are agwine to make free—
Filibustero, buster—a—la.
Chorus {Bis.) Tero, tero, Fdibustero,

Filibustero, buster—a—la.

With powder and shot you've attempted the same,

Filibustero, buster—a —la;
Till in Central America up was your game,

Fibbustero, buster—a—la.

Chorus (Pis.) Tero, tero, &c.

Nicaragua don't walley your notions—I fear,

Filibustero, buster—a—la;
And says " Gin'ral Walker, you musn't lodge here,"

Fibbustero, buster—a—la

Chorus (Bis.) Tero, uero, &c.

The United States Senate taught wisdom by you,

Filibustero, buster—a—la ;
Abhors sympathisers, and "Lone-Star" men too,

Filibustero, buster—a—la.

Chorus (Bis.) Tero, tero, &c.

We've concluded that Cuba from Spain must be got,

Filibustero, buster—a—la;
But we don't think the island worth powder and shot,

Filibustero, buster—a—la.

Chorus (Bis.) Tero, tero, &c.

We guess the raal weapon of conquest is gold,

Filibustero, buster—a—la;
No sensible isle can object to be sold,

Fibbustero, buster—a—la.

Chorus (Bis.) Tero, tero, &c.

So we comes forward handsum, and calls a spade, " spade,"

Filibustero, buster—a—la ;
And offers the Spaniard his island to trade,

Filibustero, buster—a—la.

Chorus (Bis.) Tero, tero, &c.

There aren't nothin' so scaarse as the Spanish, in Spain.

Filibustero, buster—a—la;
And so lib'ral a bid you may ne'er have again—

Filibustero, buster—a—la

Chorus (Bis.) Tero, tero, &c.

The Spanish Ambassador he may look big,

Fibbustero, buster—a—la;
But I guess he 'U come round, if the dollars he twig—

Fdibustero, buster—a—la.

• Chorus (Bis.) Tero, tero, &c.

And if e'en at our dollars he turn up his nose,

Fibbustero, buster—a—la;
We have still the "Lone-Star " to fall back on, he knows,

Filibustero, buster—a—la.

Chorus (Bis.) Tero, tero, &c.

So if to our coin Spain conclude to say " No,"

Fdibustero, buster—a—la;
We have but to let Walker and Henningsen go,

Fibbustero, buster—a—la.

Chorus (Bis.) Tero, tero, &c.

And then 'twill be Spain, and not Cuba that's sold;

Eilibustero, buster—a—la,
And she'U wish she had swallered her pride, and our gold,
Fdibustero, buster—a—la.
Chorus (Bis.) Tero, tero, Fibbustero,

Filibustero, buster—a—la.

A Brace of Advantages.

One Advantage of Living at _Eastbourne.—-That
you get the morning papers earlier than you do in
London. „

One Advantage of Living in London.—lhat you
get much better fish than you do at Eastbourne,