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August 25, i860.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI:

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Irascible Old Gentleman. “ Don't answer me, Sir l 1 repeat the Omnibus is in a
disgustingly filthy stalesir—the cushions are damp—abominably damp—Ishall [shall—

■makeitmybusiness to complain to the Company—I'll I'll—write to the Ti-”

Driver (impatiently). ‘ ‘ Now, Bill, what's the matter, voho 'a you got there ? ”
•Conductor. “ Oh, only the Hcmperor o' Roosher!—All right!"

THE SONG OF SUPPLY.

(by a st. Stephen’s overlooker )

Dash through the paper, boys ; knock off Supply-
August is waning, September is nigh!

Six months of Session you wasted in talk,

You’d a Budget to bp.it, a Reform Bill to baulk—

But now the arrears of the work must be done,

By cribbing from slumber and cribbing from sun ;

So all hands to the crank, boys,

And turn it in rank, boys,

All bauds to the crank, boys, and round by the run!

Some sages maintain work and play both go quicker
Bor mixing, as topers mix lymph and strong liquor ;

But you, gallant spirits, have voted it shorter,

First to drink all the spirits, and then all the water.

Let us see, now talk’s alcohol’s spent, you won’t, shirk
—Howe’er nauseous such tipple—the water of work—
Then all hands to the crank, boys,

And turn it in rank, boys.

And cough down all who prate, though’twere Chatham
or Burke.

What, if they are millions with which you ’ve to deal:
’Tis you make the national shoe—sole and heel.

What odds if you stretch or screw in, ell or inch F
’Tis John Bull has to wear it, and he ’ll feel the pinch.
He in law' and finance trusts Ids cobbling to you.

So stick to your last, till Supply’s rattled through—
Then all hands to the crank, boys,

And turn it in rank, boys,

Supplies we must have if we sit till all’s blue !

This is no time for haggling, and shaping, and squaring ;
A lig for each saved candle-end and cheeseparing!

Into items we’d rather you didn’t look close.

Just give us the sums that we want, in the gross.

With your priv’lege of voting the cash be content.

And don’t bother your heads about how it is spent—•

So all hands to the crank, boys.

And turn it in rank, boys.

We must have Supplies, if we keep you till Lent.

New Edition oe “Evelyn’s Sylver.”—A fine of £500
in gold. Publisher, Cockburn (not Bentley).

A PRINCE IN A YANKEE PRINT.

An American journal has cut out our Court Circular. The special
1 reporter of the New York Herald, appointed to watch and record the
t progress of the Prince or Wales, relates, with wonderful minuteness
the performance, by his Royal Highness, of actions of which the
importance is immense. Eor instance:—

-| “ At the Newfoundland ball he danced eleven of the thirteen dances ; but last

aaight he was the hero of seven quadrilles, four waltzes, four gallops, aud three
| ipolkas.”

Pur, that grand fact down, Clio. Note this also. Muse of History

“ This morning he was out in plain dress, walking with his suite.”

: Book also the following memorable relations :—

“ At eleven he appeared in uniform, and held a levee at the Government House,
whieh was attended by SCO persons. At half-past twelve he stood, hat in hand,
with his suite, and was photographed in the private grounds of Government House.
At half-past two the Prince drove in an open carriage with Lord and Lady Mul-
©rave, the Duke of Newcastle, and Lord St Germans, to the dockyard, and
embarked amid the thunders of a Royal salute from the batteries and ships, and the
cheers of a vast multitude, for the Nile, to lunch with the admiral, and witness the
regatta.”

Of all t.he details in the foregoing narrative the most striking, per-
haps, is the specification of the solemn circumstance, that the Prince
of Wales stood, hat, in hand, with his suite, and was photographed
I in the private grounds of Government House at half-past twelve.
It is much to be regretted that the republican chronicler of the
prineely movements was not, also, photographed at the same time.
^ Standing, watch in hand for his part, to time every change and transi-
tion of occupation or attitude on the part of his Royal Highness, he
t must, himself have presented a picture of considerable grandeur and
dignity. All! if all historians had only paid equal regard to exactness
] in taking notes of the acts aud deeds of illustrious personages, there
j would be much less controversy than there unhappily is about many

vital points in history, sacred and profane. But now for an ascent to
particulars, even exceeding in consequence the most tremendous things
contained in the preceding narrative

“ He afterwards went on board the Hero, and substituted for bis uniform a pair
of drab trousers, a dark-blue buttoned walking coat, with an outside breast pocket
for the handkerchief, an ordinary black hat, and walking-stick.”

Here is a specimen of glorious word-paint,ing indeed! Eor to what
nobler purpose could words be applied than that of expressing the
colours of the clothes of a Prince, and informing a breathlessly atten-
tive world that Ids trousers were drab, that his walking-coat was blue,
and his hat black? The further information that our Prince’s walking
coat was buttoned, and that it had on the outside of it a breast-pocket
for the handkerchief, will be perused with eager interest wherever the
English language is spoken, and will excite the enthusiasm of gene-
rations yet unborn, especially when it is recollected that this attire
was substitilted for a uniform on board theiAro; because if that is not,
an heroic act, what is? We can only lament that the foregoing im-
pressive inventory of his Royal Highness’s costume contains no
account of his cravat, and not, any mention of his boots ; so that we do
not, know whether the former was white, black, or coloured, and as to
the latter, although we may safely conjecture that they were of patent,
leather, we are not enabled even to guess whether they were Welling-
tons or anklejacks with elastic side-springs. The reporter of the Rew
York Herald forgets also to tell us what gloves were; worn by the
Prince of Wales, and if he wore two or only one; a question
naturally suggested by the consideration that, he carried a walking-
stick, in which case he may have worn his leit glove only, and held the
right in bis left hand, or *xe versa, or have had both hands gloved and
his stick in either one of them.

Those who are not magnanimous enough to care about the boots or
clothes in which the Prince or YVales is astonishing the American
mind, may yet rejoice to know that the wearer of those habiliments, is
comporting himself in such a manner as to increase the great popularity
which he necessarily inherits.