50 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI._[August 4, 1866..

THE LAST AT THE FANCY BALL.

STUPEFACTION OF THE EARLY MILKMAID, WHEN SHE SAW HUGH LATIMER AND SIR LANCELOT OF THJ3 LAKE GET INTO A CAB
WITH MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS AND MADAME DE POMPADOUR, AND DRIVE OFF TO REGENT’S PARK TOGETHER.

Hugh Latimer {to the Pompadour). “Now then, Ducky, look sharp, or you’ll get your Feet Wet.”

THE WRIGHT AND THE ROUGH.

I’m a British Working-Man,

^ I should say an artisan.

For there’s working-men that’s Lords and wears the Garter,
And there’s others in degree
Far inferior to me;

There’s the shepherd, and the ploughman, and the carter.

I desire to exercise
The electoral franchise.

As to loyalty there’s nobody more sounder.

And I fancy, with respect
To the claims of intellect,

I’m as good as a small tradesman and ten-pounder.

H ow erroneous you must be
To confound that Rough with me !

Tis a proof that you don’t practise observation.

For I’m not a bit like him
In the looks or in the trim,

Nor his manners, nor his words in conversation.

In our clubs and reading rooms
There is nobody presumes

To commit in his discourse such gross transgressions,

Or he soon gets put outside,

For it’s what we can’t abide
For to sit and hear the use of them expressions.

If Reform is what we need.

We’re accustomed to proceed
In the reglar way of speech and resolution ;

Not by breakin down Park rails
, Tor to get, through them there pales.

Let within the pale of England’s Constitution.

Stones and brickbats we don’t choose
For our instruments to use,

Nor break windows for to make a demonstration;

We don’t damage trees and flowers
To convince the ruling powers
That we ought to have a baud in legislation.

’Tain’t by hisses, groans, and yells.

At the mansions of the Swells
That the working-men expresses their opinions
They ’re entitled to a voice,

And to exercise a choice
’Mong the voters of Her Majesty’s dominions.

’Tis the Roughs, half-men, half-boys,

Flings the stones and makes the noise;
Idle vagabonds, ’tis they breaks down the fences.

And the flowers and shrubs destroy.

Which the people should enjoy;

And I hope two months will bring ’em to their senses.

The Pervert of Peterborough.

The suspicion that Mr. Whalley is a Jesuit in disguise is con-
firmed. Among the delegates from the Reform League that waited
the other day on the Home Secretary, a leading part was taken by
the Hon. Member for Peterborough. The object of the Reform
League is to obtain Manhood Suffrage; and Mr. Whalley, as one of I
its spokesmen, has at least avowed himself an advocate of the Mass.
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WHOLES AXE INFANTICIDE.

“ Those crying nuisances,” said a sanitary reformer, “ at a time
like this ought to be abated.” “ Then,” observed a horrid old single
| gentleman, “ we shall have to kill all the babies.”