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PUNCH, OB, THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[July 10, 1375.

A TREAT FOR THE SULTAN.

"We certainly have pretty nearly done our best, or worst, to tire
our guest, the Sultan. From sight to sight we've hurried him in
weather fine or wet; by rail \ and road we've scurried him with

FOOD AND FINANCE.

(A Blessing on Buckmaster.)

Success, that is to say, increasing success, to the Training School
of Cookery—whose distinguished supporters held their Annual

speed he won't for-____!____ General Meeting the

get. We have bored
him with big din-
ners and the bang-
ing of big gnns;
we have baited him
with deputations,
corporations, and
the like ; and we
have brought him
forth to balls, when
he had rather have
gone to bed.

But there is one
thing in the way of
wearying his High-
ness, which we have
somehow neglect-
fully omitted. We
have not given him
an hour's drive in
a licensed four-
wheeled cab. This
would have put a
climax on the la-
bours of his visit,
and impressed it
ineffaceably upon
hisrecollection. The
fatigue of being
jolted in a shabby
old four - wheeler,
over a short distance
of certain of our
streets, would have
made him think but
lightly of the other
ways of weariness
wherewith we have
afflicted him.

Seeing sights, and
being spouted at by
prosy deputations,
would seem but trifl-
ing torments com-
pared to beingboxtd
up in a stuffy old
four-wheeler, with
rattling doors and
windows, and at-
tenuated springs ;
and after undergo-
ing half-an-hour of
such torture, the
Sultan doubtless
would resolve to try
it on the slave-tra-
ders whom he is en-
deavouring to sup-
press in Zanzibar.
Moreover, it would
certainly enhance
his admiration of
this country, accept-
ing admiration as a
sy nony m for wonder,
which the Diction-
ary permits. Of all
the wonders we have
shown him, none
would surely seem
more marvellous
than that a people
esteemed civilised should content themselves with riding in such
barbarous contrivances as are sanctioned by our Legislature; and
that a nation who can build a world-defying iron-clad, should be
incapable of building a comfortable cab.

" NOW, OR NEVER I"

(An Allegorical Sketch at Maidenhead.)

Emily distinctly Refuses to Trust herself in the same Boat with Frank,
unless he consents to row bow to her stroke. what is to be done ? to yield,
might be a fatal precedent for the future ; to refuse, might be to jeopardise
that Future altogether !

other day at Stafford
House — and to
Buckmaster, its it-
inerant and excel-
lent Head. This
most useful Institu-
tion teaches the No-
ble Art of Cookery
in all. its branches
—the only form of
Cookery which it
does not teach being
that branch of Com-
pany-Cookery
known as Cookery
of Accounts. More
power to the great
Buckmaster, that
real benefactor of
his species. Till
now the only famous
man of the name
has been a tailor.
Henceforth the
name should be
honoured as one
who is not only a
lecturer on Cookery,
and a cook him-
self, but a cause of
Cookery in others.
If that man be a
blessing to his kind
who makes two
blades of grass grow
where one grew be-
fore, what honour
is due to him who
makes many cooks
spring up where
there were none be-
fore. Bless you,
Buckmaster ! May
you soon be Master
(in Cookery), not
only of Bucks, but
Beds, and Notts,
and Hunts, and
Middlesex, in short,
of all the counties
of England!

The Black Flag of
Freedom.

A numerously-
attended Meeting
of Master Sweeps,
held at the " Lord
Hill," Royal Oak
Station, Fadding-
ton, the other day,
resolved to oppose
the Chimney Sweep-
ers' Bill, now be-
fore Parliament, on
the ground of its
tyranny. They pro-
test against the
idea of every master
having to take out

A Lawn Party.—The Upper House of Convocation.

a licenoe to enable him to carry on his business. Such an infliction,
it was urged, would be tyrannical, as Master Sweeps would be
under the supervision of the police. For "tyrannical" substitute
"effectual," and the sequence implied by "as" will appear. The
Master Sweeps' objection to Lord Shaftesbury's Bill for the
regulation of their Order, only shows that their Sootinesses do not
at all like Sweeping Reform.