DOI issue:
June 25, 1864
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16873#0270
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHAPTVAPT.
[June 25, 1864.
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Fare (who lias driven rather a hard bargain and is settling). “But why, my good man, do you put that Cloth over the Horse’s head ?”
Cab-Driver. “ Shure, yer Honour, thin—I shouldn't like him to see how little ye pay for such a hard day’s worrk ! ”
CONTINENTAL TOURISTS’ COMPANY (LIMITED).
Abbreviated Prospectus.
This Company has been formed in order to supply a long-felt want.
This want is, solely.and only, of money in the pockets of the Promoters
and Directors.
It must be evident to every one who has been in any way interested
in the statistics of our vast and increasing population, that there are
thousands among us, who, either from want of means, time, or oppor-
tunity, are totally unable to quit their own native country and inspect
for themselves the beauties of Foreign Lands. In the first of these
just mentioned positions have been placed for many years the present
Promoters and . Directors of this Company. They now propose to
remove these existing disabilities, and to afford themselves ample means
for visiting the most distant parts of the habitable Globe.
Arrangements have already been made by which the best rooms in
the first-class Continental Hotels can be secured for the Travelling
Directors, who will spare no expense in the interests of the Share-
holders.
The practical control of affairs will be placed in the hands of a
Manager, who is a gentleman of sound experience, and who has passed,
during the greater part of his life, from city to town, from town to
village, from village to mere encampments, adopting the most econo-
mical principles.
With a view to purchasing a Special Private Hotel, there will be an
additional Deposit made upon the Shares, and the Directors will take
a Site.
Further particulars, with a Form of Application for Shares, &c., &c.,
will be shortly issued.
At the Opera.
” Qh, that dear duck, Mario, how like a nightingale he sings!”
exclaimed a gushing girl the other night to Lord Dund/reary, “ W-well,
no, I c-can’t see that p-p-precisely,” said his Lordship, “ if any fella’s
like a n-n-mgktmgale, it must be Jug-jug-lini ! ”
THE FRITH OF FROME.
There is a place called Erome, which elects Lord Edward Tiiynne,
as it has a perfect right to do, and which has just had a Conservative
banquet, to which, if the Mechanics, in whose Hall it took place, have
no objection, we have none. The two Lords Tiiynne were the aris-
tocracy at this feast, and it might seem that the Committee were hard
up for speakers, as a martial parson had to propose the health of the
Army, Navy, Yeomanry, and volunteers. Another parson made a little j
speech, which has caught the Rev. Mr. Punch’s eye:—
“ The Rev. E. C. Frith in the course of his remarks, said that though he could j
not quite agree with what was said in the House of Commons the other day, that i
every Churchman must necessarily be a Conservative, still he thought the propo-
sition might be inverted, and that it might be said, every good Churchman should j
be a Conservative.”
Mr. Eritii is no doubt a good man, hut if his sermons are framed on
the model of the above sentence, we should prefer attending his
church when he didn’t preach. It really is not “ inverting ” Bobby |
Cecil’s nonsense to prefix “good” to Churchman, and to substitute
for the verb of necessity the preterite of shall, as an auxiliary verb
denoting obligation. Is this Conservative grammar? If so, no wonder i
that- the party forgets its antecedents and quarrels with its relatives.
Pleasant American News.
(For Once.)
In the interest of all the playgoers, Mr. Punch contradicts, (on au-
thority) the statement that Miss Bateman “is about to leave the
Stage, and marry a gallant officer in Her Majesty’s Service.” Miss
Bateman is not going to leave the Stage, nor to. marry any officer,
gallant or otherwise. It is true, however, that she is engaged, and it
is to Mr. Webster, and will fulfil her vow by appearing at his theatre
early in the new year. Public writers have no business to rend our
bosoms with false tidings, and those who spread perturbing reports
ought to be made to pay for the cab we took to ascertain the fact, and
the champagne we had to drink before we could allay our agitation.
[June 25, 1864.
26 2
Fare (who lias driven rather a hard bargain and is settling). “But why, my good man, do you put that Cloth over the Horse’s head ?”
Cab-Driver. “ Shure, yer Honour, thin—I shouldn't like him to see how little ye pay for such a hard day’s worrk ! ”
CONTINENTAL TOURISTS’ COMPANY (LIMITED).
Abbreviated Prospectus.
This Company has been formed in order to supply a long-felt want.
This want is, solely.and only, of money in the pockets of the Promoters
and Directors.
It must be evident to every one who has been in any way interested
in the statistics of our vast and increasing population, that there are
thousands among us, who, either from want of means, time, or oppor-
tunity, are totally unable to quit their own native country and inspect
for themselves the beauties of Foreign Lands. In the first of these
just mentioned positions have been placed for many years the present
Promoters and . Directors of this Company. They now propose to
remove these existing disabilities, and to afford themselves ample means
for visiting the most distant parts of the habitable Globe.
Arrangements have already been made by which the best rooms in
the first-class Continental Hotels can be secured for the Travelling
Directors, who will spare no expense in the interests of the Share-
holders.
The practical control of affairs will be placed in the hands of a
Manager, who is a gentleman of sound experience, and who has passed,
during the greater part of his life, from city to town, from town to
village, from village to mere encampments, adopting the most econo-
mical principles.
With a view to purchasing a Special Private Hotel, there will be an
additional Deposit made upon the Shares, and the Directors will take
a Site.
Further particulars, with a Form of Application for Shares, &c., &c.,
will be shortly issued.
At the Opera.
” Qh, that dear duck, Mario, how like a nightingale he sings!”
exclaimed a gushing girl the other night to Lord Dund/reary, “ W-well,
no, I c-can’t see that p-p-precisely,” said his Lordship, “ if any fella’s
like a n-n-mgktmgale, it must be Jug-jug-lini ! ”
THE FRITH OF FROME.
There is a place called Erome, which elects Lord Edward Tiiynne,
as it has a perfect right to do, and which has just had a Conservative
banquet, to which, if the Mechanics, in whose Hall it took place, have
no objection, we have none. The two Lords Tiiynne were the aris-
tocracy at this feast, and it might seem that the Committee were hard
up for speakers, as a martial parson had to propose the health of the
Army, Navy, Yeomanry, and volunteers. Another parson made a little j
speech, which has caught the Rev. Mr. Punch’s eye:—
“ The Rev. E. C. Frith in the course of his remarks, said that though he could j
not quite agree with what was said in the House of Commons the other day, that i
every Churchman must necessarily be a Conservative, still he thought the propo-
sition might be inverted, and that it might be said, every good Churchman should j
be a Conservative.”
Mr. Eritii is no doubt a good man, hut if his sermons are framed on
the model of the above sentence, we should prefer attending his
church when he didn’t preach. It really is not “ inverting ” Bobby |
Cecil’s nonsense to prefix “good” to Churchman, and to substitute
for the verb of necessity the preterite of shall, as an auxiliary verb
denoting obligation. Is this Conservative grammar? If so, no wonder i
that- the party forgets its antecedents and quarrels with its relatives.
Pleasant American News.
(For Once.)
In the interest of all the playgoers, Mr. Punch contradicts, (on au-
thority) the statement that Miss Bateman “is about to leave the
Stage, and marry a gallant officer in Her Majesty’s Service.” Miss
Bateman is not going to leave the Stage, nor to. marry any officer,
gallant or otherwise. It is true, however, that she is engaged, and it
is to Mr. Webster, and will fulfil her vow by appearing at his theatre
early in the new year. Public writers have no business to rend our
bosoms with false tidings, and those who spread perturbing reports
ought to be made to pay for the cab we took to ascertain the fact, and
the champagne we had to drink before we could allay our agitation.