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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Besides these, there are many other sorts and conditions of men
who are regularly rejected, including—paradoxical as it may appear—
those- who are eventually accepted ; for young ladies believe them-
selves bound to dissent from the first proposition, especially if made
prematurely. It is not till after much perseverance, and the third
time of asking, that the most sanguine man ought to begin to hope.
Such as we have more particularly described are doomed to die
THE HUNCHBACK OF NEWGATE.
The fiend, miscreant, monster, Bean, has sadly vulgarized treason.
His thimble-full of powder and broken ' bacco-pipe have killed aft
the importance of the petty traitor, who is henceforth not to bam
his neck for the rope, but his back for the whip. Henceforth,
■bachelors, for they are so closely wedded to their own personal the Royal Arms, will, to the eyes of all future Beans, appeav m
perfections that no maiden will marry them.
THE MINISTERS AND THE DEPUTATIONS.
subjoined:—
There was a meeting of delegates last week on the subject of the general
decay of trade, and they at once repaired to Downing-street, where they
were admitted to an interview with all the Ministers.
Mr. Jinkins, of the New Cut, opened the proceedings by stating the
lamentable falling oft' in the baked tatur business. Nearly all the cans in
his district were entirely stopped, and those that were at work could
hardly find a market for their produce.
Sir R. Peel asked what became of the raw material, of which so much
was consumed ?
Mr. Jinkins replied, that the material was sold in its raw state to a
"om this time the Arms of England admit of a new supporter ;
higher class of persons than those who formerly took off the baked article. 1 in addition to the Lion and Unicorn they take the Cat! lloni soit qui
Sir James Graham attributed the falling off to the introduction of mal mav henceforth be freely translated by the Beans and
steam. lie had himself passed down the JNew Cut, and counted twenty ij.,n„- „ f^^c ■
cans all going at once, and as each was surrounded by a crowd of bovs,
the glut was of course dreadful. " A rod is in pickle,
Mr. Jinkins said that must have been on Saturday night. But, how- I Your tob7 t0 tickle."
ever, he would go to another branch of trade—lie meant the cheap cherry- [ The traitor sinks from the hero of the scaffold to the vagabond of
business. It was true that the ha'porths fastened on pieces of stick were [ the cart's-tail. He is levelled down to an apple-stealer : and his hopes
generally taken off ; but when the profit of the grower and the market- : of « a provision forlife» terminates with the application of whip-cord,
"ardener, to sav nothing ot that ot the timber-merchant, was deducted nM ... . . . . . ., 1'f f
from the halfpenny, he would ask what was left for the retailer to support Jh f 13 * ,Wlse meas ,re > 14 ls smltmS the evll> that generates traitor-
himself. a wife, and eight or nine children. \foote, at theg-oper end 3. „
SirR. Peel:—I thought that the tariff, in lowering the timber-duties, ' vvhl'st bir Robert Peel had his hand m Treasonous Acts, we
would have given a buoyancy to the cheap cherry-trade. would he had struck out the mockery that condemns the traitor to
Mr. Jinkins :—Ay, but the growers get the benefit of all that. Then tile hurdle, with the supplementary punishment of having his head
there are the hemp-producers, who have to be paid for twine, and when cut off, and his carcase cut into quarters and distributed according
you take off one-ninety-ninth of one-half per cent, for this, you reduce still to the "pleasure of her Majesty." "When sentence of death was
lower the profit that the seller must get out of the halfpenny before he can passed upon Francis, the solemnity of the judgment was lessened by
-take anything home to his family. J what everybody felt to be a fiction. Allowing, for a moment, that
Francis had been hanged, does any man believe that in these times
j the traitor's quarters would have decorated Temple Bar, or York
' Gates ? Imagine our gentle Queen transmitting a quarter of Francis
j to a corporation, to be hung up as a terror to all nascent traitors !
j Consider, for an instant, the effect of the fool's-head grinning cn the
Tower wall. As we have clone with the reality of these horrors,
why keep up their fiction ? Why make Imagination see, about the
black cap of the Judge, the winking eye of the Zany ] When the
Judge pronounces "Death" upon the traitor, we are struck by the
awfulness of the doom ; but when he talks of " quartering," we
feel we listen to nothing more than the " tol de rol" of a worn-out
sons'.
ALL A-GI10W1NC.
Sir R. Tecl :—That is very true, but if the hemp now coming up in the
■southern parts of the country turns out well, which I am given to under-
stand is extremely probable, may we not look for increased buoyancy in
that department, which may be advantageous not only to the cheap cherry
interest, but to the small timber growers ?—Mr. Jinkins said it might be THE ANTIQUARIAN" SOCIETY,
so, but until the growers had got all they wanted, it was impossible for the ' -■
sellers to get anything. It having been rumoured that a stone had been dug up near Battle-
Mr. Pitts begged to say a few words on behalf of the marble trade, 1 Bridge, the Antiquarian Society sent for the precious fragment, and a
which he had carried on for several years in the Seven Dials. The new Committee was at once appointed to sit upon it.
tariff would let in real marble at such a low figure that he must at once go 1 After having sat for some time, the Committee reported that the sub-
to Pots if lie wished to continue his business.
Sir R. Peel asked how that can be \
Mr. Pitts :—Why Sir, if the importers can send an Alley into the market
lower than I can turn it out of my warehouse, the only chance I have is to
place all my hands upon common Pots—or turn off the two men that I have
hitherto been employing.
Sir R. Peel allowed there was some truth in this, but he must look for
better times, and trust to pot-luck.
Mr. Pitts said that was all very well, but if Sir R Peel could come in
and take pot-luck with some persons in his (Mr. Pitts's) trade, he, Sir R.
Peel, would not be so ready to make a joke about it.
Sir R. Peel did not mean to joke—indeed he was never more serious.
He had himself in earlier days taken much interest in the marble business,
and the name of Pitts was associated with some of the most pleasing spots
in his (Sir R. Peel's) memory. But he could not help saying, and indeed
he would say, that though marbles might be for a moment down it was
their natural tendency to rise up again. He thanked the gentlemen
present for the information they had given him, and politely bowed theui
■o\i% of the room,
stance was very hard, and having moved the standing order, asked leave
not to sit again, which was at once granted. The letters LEG were
found to be distinctly visible. This, it was observed, had been supposed
to allude to some legions who came in with Caasar, and who are supposed
to have made for Gray's Inn Laue with a precipitancy that the miseiable
nature of the neighbourhood renders rather unaccountable. The Chair-
man thought that LEG, instead of meaning legivns, might more naturally
be thought to stand for Leg, and thus we might come to the fact that
Gray's Inn Lane was the first place that Caesar put his foot or leg upon.
{Hear, hear.) That a battle had been fought there, no one could doubt;
for the quantity of old-iron shops in the neighbourhood bear testimony to
the large amount of javelins that must have been expended—sup-
posing the iron which is daily brought for sale to have formed part of
them.
After several hours' further discussion, it was resolved to place the
stone in the hands of a skilful macadaniiser, with the view of examining
it more in detail than it would be possible to do in its entire state ; and
this course having seemed the wisest that the Antiquarian Society oould
follow, the meeting was adjourned.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Besides these, there are many other sorts and conditions of men
who are regularly rejected, including—paradoxical as it may appear—
those- who are eventually accepted ; for young ladies believe them-
selves bound to dissent from the first proposition, especially if made
prematurely. It is not till after much perseverance, and the third
time of asking, that the most sanguine man ought to begin to hope.
Such as we have more particularly described are doomed to die
THE HUNCHBACK OF NEWGATE.
The fiend, miscreant, monster, Bean, has sadly vulgarized treason.
His thimble-full of powder and broken ' bacco-pipe have killed aft
the importance of the petty traitor, who is henceforth not to bam
his neck for the rope, but his back for the whip. Henceforth,
■bachelors, for they are so closely wedded to their own personal the Royal Arms, will, to the eyes of all future Beans, appeav m
perfections that no maiden will marry them.
THE MINISTERS AND THE DEPUTATIONS.
subjoined:—
There was a meeting of delegates last week on the subject of the general
decay of trade, and they at once repaired to Downing-street, where they
were admitted to an interview with all the Ministers.
Mr. Jinkins, of the New Cut, opened the proceedings by stating the
lamentable falling oft' in the baked tatur business. Nearly all the cans in
his district were entirely stopped, and those that were at work could
hardly find a market for their produce.
Sir R. Peel asked what became of the raw material, of which so much
was consumed ?
Mr. Jinkins replied, that the material was sold in its raw state to a
"om this time the Arms of England admit of a new supporter ;
higher class of persons than those who formerly took off the baked article. 1 in addition to the Lion and Unicorn they take the Cat! lloni soit qui
Sir James Graham attributed the falling off to the introduction of mal mav henceforth be freely translated by the Beans and
steam. lie had himself passed down the JNew Cut, and counted twenty ij.,n„- „ f^^c ■
cans all going at once, and as each was surrounded by a crowd of bovs,
the glut was of course dreadful. " A rod is in pickle,
Mr. Jinkins said that must have been on Saturday night. But, how- I Your tob7 t0 tickle."
ever, he would go to another branch of trade—lie meant the cheap cherry- [ The traitor sinks from the hero of the scaffold to the vagabond of
business. It was true that the ha'porths fastened on pieces of stick were [ the cart's-tail. He is levelled down to an apple-stealer : and his hopes
generally taken off ; but when the profit of the grower and the market- : of « a provision forlife» terminates with the application of whip-cord,
"ardener, to sav nothing ot that ot the timber-merchant, was deducted nM ... . . . . . ., 1'f f
from the halfpenny, he would ask what was left for the retailer to support Jh f 13 * ,Wlse meas ,re > 14 ls smltmS the evll> that generates traitor-
himself. a wife, and eight or nine children. \foote, at theg-oper end 3. „
SirR. Peel:—I thought that the tariff, in lowering the timber-duties, ' vvhl'st bir Robert Peel had his hand m Treasonous Acts, we
would have given a buoyancy to the cheap cherry-trade. would he had struck out the mockery that condemns the traitor to
Mr. Jinkins :—Ay, but the growers get the benefit of all that. Then tile hurdle, with the supplementary punishment of having his head
there are the hemp-producers, who have to be paid for twine, and when cut off, and his carcase cut into quarters and distributed according
you take off one-ninety-ninth of one-half per cent, for this, you reduce still to the "pleasure of her Majesty." "When sentence of death was
lower the profit that the seller must get out of the halfpenny before he can passed upon Francis, the solemnity of the judgment was lessened by
-take anything home to his family. J what everybody felt to be a fiction. Allowing, for a moment, that
Francis had been hanged, does any man believe that in these times
j the traitor's quarters would have decorated Temple Bar, or York
' Gates ? Imagine our gentle Queen transmitting a quarter of Francis
j to a corporation, to be hung up as a terror to all nascent traitors !
j Consider, for an instant, the effect of the fool's-head grinning cn the
Tower wall. As we have clone with the reality of these horrors,
why keep up their fiction ? Why make Imagination see, about the
black cap of the Judge, the winking eye of the Zany ] When the
Judge pronounces "Death" upon the traitor, we are struck by the
awfulness of the doom ; but when he talks of " quartering," we
feel we listen to nothing more than the " tol de rol" of a worn-out
sons'.
ALL A-GI10W1NC.
Sir R. Tecl :—That is very true, but if the hemp now coming up in the
■southern parts of the country turns out well, which I am given to under-
stand is extremely probable, may we not look for increased buoyancy in
that department, which may be advantageous not only to the cheap cherry
interest, but to the small timber growers ?—Mr. Jinkins said it might be THE ANTIQUARIAN" SOCIETY,
so, but until the growers had got all they wanted, it was impossible for the ' -■
sellers to get anything. It having been rumoured that a stone had been dug up near Battle-
Mr. Pitts begged to say a few words on behalf of the marble trade, 1 Bridge, the Antiquarian Society sent for the precious fragment, and a
which he had carried on for several years in the Seven Dials. The new Committee was at once appointed to sit upon it.
tariff would let in real marble at such a low figure that he must at once go 1 After having sat for some time, the Committee reported that the sub-
to Pots if lie wished to continue his business.
Sir R. Peel asked how that can be \
Mr. Pitts :—Why Sir, if the importers can send an Alley into the market
lower than I can turn it out of my warehouse, the only chance I have is to
place all my hands upon common Pots—or turn off the two men that I have
hitherto been employing.
Sir R. Peel allowed there was some truth in this, but he must look for
better times, and trust to pot-luck.
Mr. Pitts said that was all very well, but if Sir R Peel could come in
and take pot-luck with some persons in his (Mr. Pitts's) trade, he, Sir R.
Peel, would not be so ready to make a joke about it.
Sir R. Peel did not mean to joke—indeed he was never more serious.
He had himself in earlier days taken much interest in the marble business,
and the name of Pitts was associated with some of the most pleasing spots
in his (Sir R. Peel's) memory. But he could not help saying, and indeed
he would say, that though marbles might be for a moment down it was
their natural tendency to rise up again. He thanked the gentlemen
present for the information they had given him, and politely bowed theui
■o\i% of the room,
stance was very hard, and having moved the standing order, asked leave
not to sit again, which was at once granted. The letters LEG were
found to be distinctly visible. This, it was observed, had been supposed
to allude to some legions who came in with Caasar, and who are supposed
to have made for Gray's Inn Laue with a precipitancy that the miseiable
nature of the neighbourhood renders rather unaccountable. The Chair-
man thought that LEG, instead of meaning legivns, might more naturally
be thought to stand for Leg, and thus we might come to the fact that
Gray's Inn Lane was the first place that Caesar put his foot or leg upon.
{Hear, hear.) That a battle had been fought there, no one could doubt;
for the quantity of old-iron shops in the neighbourhood bear testimony to
the large amount of javelins that must have been expended—sup-
posing the iron which is daily brought for sale to have formed part of
them.
After several hours' further discussion, it was resolved to place the
stone in the hands of a skilful macadaniiser, with the view of examining
it more in detail than it would be possible to do in its entire state ; and
this course having seemed the wisest that the Antiquarian Society oould
follow, the meeting was adjourned.