Punch / Almanack (1844)

KKTINCJ AT EXETER HALL OF THE ANIMALS' FRIEND SOCIETY,

The month of June, 14815, was "full of incident," like a Victoria melo-
drama. Gloucester persuaded his friend Ratcliffe to cut off several superflu-
ous heads, aiul with Buckingham as his prompter, ^ot up a little farce in
Guildhall, in which several low comic citizens shouted, " Long live Kin*

HINTS TO COUNTRY COUSINS.

Should you wish to go to the piny, and fear the heat of the
iook out for the bill of a theatre which boasts of " Crowded 'cc^'
Make up your mind t.o go there; for rest assured that you w'*.
tain to find it, from the scantiness of the audience, cool and coin*0

Zoological. jgjrjJS

The Gnats and Fleas now give constant work to the ento»rt° yC*'
who is always itching for knowledse. The lugubrious Lobster
pands his claws, and the dead Prawn gives lite to the tea-table*

Great Encroachments made in Windsor Forest, 1800. Her Majesty's Commissioners
of Woods and Forests being particularly anxious to amputate their timber.

{Etimtg Sbtmtiatj

Dr. .Tenner discovers Vaccination for the Ai.i.eviation ok tue Small-Pox,
ISO?. Parliament grants him 10.0UU/., taking it very kindly of him.

Gkeat Bed of Ware pulled down, 1764,—being all the worse
for Ware.

Giiwat Annual Meeting or Tbktotali.eus at tiik Vale or IIealtk, IIa.mi'-

8 tb ao, 1843.

"There is not in all Ilampstead a valley so sweet,

As that vale in whose bosom the hot waters meet."

The King of Prussia presents Four Vases to a Confectioner for a Model
in Sugar of tue Cathedral of Cologne, 1843. Not the first time the Church
Militant has appeared in campane.

The Public sustain a loss of 150,000/. by the Proclamation against Light
Sovereigns, 1842. John Bull again paying a heavy Tax upon the light.

Mr. Cottingiiam, the Union IIall Magistrate, declares he will not punish
any Man, except for Felony, who fought at Waterloo, 1843. Blind Justice
throws away her Balance, and sticks to the Sword.

1 Sbuntiat) after *£rmttj).

Webster offers a Premium of 500Z. for the best Comedy for the Haymarket,
1843. The spirited Lessee having previously paid Mr. C. Kean double that sum for
the worst Tragedy.

Tiie First Cargo of Ice arrives from America, 1843, for the relief
of those who had burnt their fingers with Pennsylvania!! bonds.

1831. Jenkins attends as a waiter at a private meeting of The National Convention, drains
the bottoms of the glasses, until, sinking the hireling in the patriot, he proposes a
motion for universal Dukes, asking if a waiter is not a mail and a brother ? (Cheers.)

Loud Brougham invites the King of IIanover to Tea and Supper—1843; when
the Duke, "illustrious by courtesy," conies in for a Toast and Butter.

3000Z. a Year granted to the Princess Augusta, 1812. The Duke of Cambridge
having assisted at so many Charity Dinners, sends the plate round Parliament for his
daughter. The Duke, as usual, offering no cheque to the general benevolence.

Several Tribes in Algiers submit to the Troops of General Bugeaud, 1842..
The Algsrines i like Mr. Grant after Six Lessons) finding it impossible to Master the
I'seucH.

4 Sbunfrar? after t!Trimip