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no PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. IMaiujh 12, 1859.

THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON

Frame-Maker (who comes to measure Stodge's Academy pictures). " Now, I think it's a pity you don't let me have some o' these for my

Winder, since you have no idea of the amount of Rubbish I can get rid of at times."

POKING AT THE BRITISH LION.

(From Mr. Bbight's Organ.)

" Cannot the Ministers see that they and their outrageous, aristo-
cratic, revolutionary, and do-nothing Bill are alike doomed? The
country is up, and in a storm of indignation. Enormous and enthu-
siastic meetings are being everywhere held, and the voice of the nation
is speaking in no buttered thunder. Among the most important
demonstrations which we have to-day to chronicle are the following :—
A meeting of the noble tailors of Tad caster, where the measure was
denounced in language worthy of the Roman orator, Thucydides. A
glowing address delivered in the school-room of the Independent
Anabaptists at Scroffleton, and a petition signed by the pew-opener,
teachers, and children. An eloquent debate in the Commercial bloom
at the Boiled Goose, Waddlington, where a resolution, couched in

?uaint but significant language, and carried by 11 to 3, declared the
till to be a Bum Go. Petitions from the Islington Areopagites, in
which those intelligent young men and their sweethearts (for even
woman's gentleness is roused by tyranny) denounce the Bill hi lan-
guage that may be sneered at as extravagant, but which is based on
intense indignation. A grand meeting of the vestrymen at Blobberby,
at which the_ Mayor, (whom one day we hope to see in a reformed
Parliament, if his bone-boding pursuits will spare him to his country)
aptly compared Mr, Disraeli to Coriolanus in chains before C.esab,
envying the humble cottages of Britain. A torchlight meeting by the
linkmen of Leeds, at which it was more than hinted that the aristo-1 tell you what she is

cracy wanted a new light upon several subjects. A meeting of the
chemists and druggists of Little Holliwaggle, at which it was unani-
mously resolved, that if physical force should be needed, physical force
should not be wanting; but that for the moment they should bottle
their indignation, and watch the course of events. These are but
a few of the gatherings which we have daily to notice, and we may
a'dd, that if the tyrants and slaves who call themselves a Government
rely on their army and their police, they may find themselves mistaken.
We have heard/but shall of course not expose the poor fellows to
aristocratic vengeance by being more precise, that at the Albany
Barracks the Bill, the Ministers, and Parliament generally, were
denounced by a corporal in no measured terms of commination, and
we know that several policemen have borrowed the Morning Star
from the youths who tout for it at the omnibuses, and have been
seen reading its articles with a satisfaction suppressed by habits ot
discipline, but none the less true and real- In a word, the Derby
Cabinet has brought in a Bill which will lay that hollow mockery, the
Constitution, level with the ground or the intellects of the framers.

the derby reform bill briefly judged.

Your Bill is good, because it is so small:
(P'raps 'twould be better, were there none at all.)

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