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June 16, 1866
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June 16 1866.1
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
249
GREAT MEETING IN SUPPORT OF HER MAJESTY.
A Great Meeting, consisting of Mr. Punch and Toby, was held at
85, Fleet Street, on Friday last. It, had been convoked in cousequence
j of the great danger to which the Crown of England is at present ex-
posed, by reason of the chances of the succession being set aside in
favour of a new Queen, Lavinia. Mr. Punch and his friend felt that
this was the moment to show their devotion and loyalty to Her
Majesty.
Mr. Punch voted himself into his American rocking-chair. The area
of the hall was occupied by Toby.
Mr. Punch, lighting a cigar, observed that the meeting was aware that
a lady named Lavinia Ryves had taken measures for altering the
Succession to the Crown. She had been entrusted with a dreadful
secret; namely, the fact that before King George the Third married
the late virtuous, if snuff-taking, Queen Charlotte, he had been pri-
vately married by a Doctor Wilmot to a pretty Quakeress called
Hannah Lightfoot. But her issue failing, the heirs to the Crown
were the heirs of King George’s brother, Cumberland. This Duke
had married-
Mr. Toby observed that the Duke had married a young widow
named Horton, of whom Horace Walpole wrote that she was very
pretty, had amorous eyes, and eyelashes a yard long; though eyelashes
three-quarters of a yard shorter would have sufficed to turn such a head
as she had turned.
Mr. Punch said that the quotation did credit to the memory of the
meeting, but he would trouble it to hold its tongue while he was
speaking. Mrs. Ryves alleged that before the Horton marriage the
Duke had wedded an ancestor of Lavinia’s. Now, if Mrs. Ryves
made out her case, she would of course require the Queen to descend
from her throne, and make room for a Sovereign of the house of Ryves.
He asked the meeting whether it would consent to part with their
beloved Queen ?
The meeting expressed itself frantically in the extreme negative, and
the following Resolution was unanimously agreed to:—
“ That this Meeting protests against any change in the dynasty of
these kingdoms (which is a monarchical republic tempered by Mr.
Punch’s epigrams), and that it pledges itself to maintain the rights of
Queen Victoria and her family against the alleged claims of Queen
Lavinia. Blood to be shed if necessary, but much preferred to not.”
Mr. Punch undertook, at his own convenience, to lay this resolu-
tion at the foot of the present Throne. Thanks were then voted to him
for his oscillating conduct in the rocking-chair, and the Meeting went
to lunch.
“ANYTHING” OR “NOTHING.”
To the Members of Her Majesty's Opposition.
You asked “ for the Bill, the whole Bill,
And nothing but the Bill; ”
Swore you wouldn’t have two, but a sole Bill,
And now you have got your will.
But it seems from the way you receive it,
The right cry your mouths to fill,
Should have been, “ The Bill, the whole Bill,
And any thing but the Bill! ”
The Right Man in the Right Place.
The Prussian General, Fliess, is reported to have crossed the Eider
at the head of the troops destined for the occupation of Holstein.
Having regard to the intentions of the force, should not the name be
spelt, as it is pronounced, “ Fleece F ”
A SKETCH FROM GARRISON SOCIETY.
Mamma. “ Now, Miss, have you Written down the Distinctions of Bank on your Card, as I told you?”
Alice. “ Yes, Ma.”
Mamma. “ Very well, then, recollect you’ve no Excuse this time ; and if I Catch you Dancing with anyone below a
Captain, you don’t Go Out for a Month ! ”
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
249
GREAT MEETING IN SUPPORT OF HER MAJESTY.
A Great Meeting, consisting of Mr. Punch and Toby, was held at
85, Fleet Street, on Friday last. It, had been convoked in cousequence
j of the great danger to which the Crown of England is at present ex-
posed, by reason of the chances of the succession being set aside in
favour of a new Queen, Lavinia. Mr. Punch and his friend felt that
this was the moment to show their devotion and loyalty to Her
Majesty.
Mr. Punch voted himself into his American rocking-chair. The area
of the hall was occupied by Toby.
Mr. Punch, lighting a cigar, observed that the meeting was aware that
a lady named Lavinia Ryves had taken measures for altering the
Succession to the Crown. She had been entrusted with a dreadful
secret; namely, the fact that before King George the Third married
the late virtuous, if snuff-taking, Queen Charlotte, he had been pri-
vately married by a Doctor Wilmot to a pretty Quakeress called
Hannah Lightfoot. But her issue failing, the heirs to the Crown
were the heirs of King George’s brother, Cumberland. This Duke
had married-
Mr. Toby observed that the Duke had married a young widow
named Horton, of whom Horace Walpole wrote that she was very
pretty, had amorous eyes, and eyelashes a yard long; though eyelashes
three-quarters of a yard shorter would have sufficed to turn such a head
as she had turned.
Mr. Punch said that the quotation did credit to the memory of the
meeting, but he would trouble it to hold its tongue while he was
speaking. Mrs. Ryves alleged that before the Horton marriage the
Duke had wedded an ancestor of Lavinia’s. Now, if Mrs. Ryves
made out her case, she would of course require the Queen to descend
from her throne, and make room for a Sovereign of the house of Ryves.
He asked the meeting whether it would consent to part with their
beloved Queen ?
The meeting expressed itself frantically in the extreme negative, and
the following Resolution was unanimously agreed to:—
“ That this Meeting protests against any change in the dynasty of
these kingdoms (which is a monarchical republic tempered by Mr.
Punch’s epigrams), and that it pledges itself to maintain the rights of
Queen Victoria and her family against the alleged claims of Queen
Lavinia. Blood to be shed if necessary, but much preferred to not.”
Mr. Punch undertook, at his own convenience, to lay this resolu-
tion at the foot of the present Throne. Thanks were then voted to him
for his oscillating conduct in the rocking-chair, and the Meeting went
to lunch.
“ANYTHING” OR “NOTHING.”
To the Members of Her Majesty's Opposition.
You asked “ for the Bill, the whole Bill,
And nothing but the Bill; ”
Swore you wouldn’t have two, but a sole Bill,
And now you have got your will.
But it seems from the way you receive it,
The right cry your mouths to fill,
Should have been, “ The Bill, the whole Bill,
And any thing but the Bill! ”
The Right Man in the Right Place.
The Prussian General, Fliess, is reported to have crossed the Eider
at the head of the troops destined for the occupation of Holstein.
Having regard to the intentions of the force, should not the name be
spelt, as it is pronounced, “ Fleece F ”
A SKETCH FROM GARRISON SOCIETY.
Mamma. “ Now, Miss, have you Written down the Distinctions of Bank on your Card, as I told you?”
Alice. “ Yes, Ma.”
Mamma. “ Very well, then, recollect you’ve no Excuse this time ; and if I Catch you Dancing with anyone below a
Captain, you don’t Go Out for a Month ! ”