Punch: Punch (89.1885)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[July 4, 1885.

DISTRIBUTION.

LIBERAL TIPS ON LEAVING.

Sir Henry Edwards, M.P.

Mr. Edwards, as we hear,
Did, at Weymouth, make a pier.
If he made a pier, then he
Oueht himself a Peer to be.
A Pier-maker should by right,
Be much greater than a Knight.

Tee Freedom of the City conferred on
Prince Albert Victor of Wales includes per-
mission to slap the Lord Mayor on the back,
and call him "old boy." The Prince will be
entrusted with a latch-key, and every office
is open to Mm. He may also order a basin of
turtle at any hour of the day without having
previously obtained permission from the Lord
Mayor and Aldermen. These are among the
chief privileges.

Two Old Friends on the New
Situation.

"Who's Under-Secretary o' State for
Hinjia?" asked Mrs. Gamp.

" Drat the woman!" muttered Betsy Prig,
in not the best of tempers. "jSidn't I till
you as it were Lord Harris."

" Lord Harms ! " sniffed Mrs. Gamp, with
an air of supreme incredulity. "Which I
don't believe there ain't no sich person ! "

New Reading-.

A .T em—unset— and yet of ray serene.
Intrigue's unfathomed " caves" leave
stranded, bare,

A Lowther is condemned to blush unseen,
Whilst the sweets of Office Cross and
Chaplin share.

Gladstone's Baronets.

He pays a compliment to Art,

Making John Everett Millais, Bart.;

Also to painters and to pots,

Flail to Sir Grosvenok Gallehy Watts !

Sir Frederick P. 11.A., Art's Knight,

Hails these two precedents with great delight.

tne Modern Urook-v.n Display.—Fire-
work night at the Crystal Palace.

A " New Portrait of Lord Randolph
Churchill " is opportunely announced. Will
it be " India Proof " ?

Sir Drtjmmond Wolff was ordered off to
Egypt, and he obeyed like a Lamb.