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- ji HETHER it came vid Horn or vid Ivory, never mind. The Dream came, and it is something to get dreams or sleep either, with the winds in the state of ululant distraction which they manifest in this present drear- nighted December. What made the divine Puncu dream of Mryerva he does not know, unless it was that he had been enjoying a particularly good dinner at the Athenwum, and that he dropped into slumber, fancying that he was an Owl of the most elegant character, and feeling rather inclined to hiss at most people, and bite the others. Anyhow, there he was, up on Olympus with his old friend Jurrrer, whom he was cheering with assurances of support, in the event of the Brsnorp or Nara trying to write him down. Mrverva, who had put on her very best spoon helmet to fascinate Puncn (the Goddesses are as artful as the Women), was praying and beseeching him to accept the Crown of Greece. The goddess was talking her choicest Greek to him, and the polysyllables melted from her lips like bonbons with liqueur in them. He seemed to understand her as perfectly as Dx. Parr could have done, and his conversation, though Socratic in its wisdom, had that slight Alcibiadie flavour which is not unacceptable even to goddesses of middle age. Jupiter kept laughing, and though Mr. Bensamen D’Ixton-ry-Heaven, M.P., says that nectar is out of fashion up there, the great Pelasgic Dodonean was certainly drinking it as if he liked it. Mr. Puncaw has seen, on this earth, very great Swells, whose dining-out talk is of Tokay, glue their lips to the modest pewter when at home, and Jove was at home. Perhaps he had taken an economical turn, in order to annoy his venerable ox-eyed wife—let us be charitable at Christmas. But his accomplished daughter Buve-Eyes kept on pleading and pestering, with all the audacity of a young English lady at a fancy-fair. “ Do take the Crown, my dear Mr. Puncu,” she said. “I will have the Parthenon put in thorough repair

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iv PREFACE. [Decempgr 27, 1862. for you, and furnished with all the improvements—hot and cold water on the premises, and a Lift to carry you up to bed, when you have had——” “ Madam?” said Me. Puncu, as sternly as he can speak to a temale. “ Had too hard a day’s work for the good of mankind,” said Mrverva, mending her bid with a blush worthy of her relative Avrora. “ Do—o—o,” pleaded the goddess, pursing her handsome lips into a wheedling entreaty. “ Hoo—hoo—hoo,” said the Owl, to the best of his power imitating his mistress. “J can't, my dear, and there’s an end of it,” said Mr. Puncu, smiling, and giving the Owl a kindly little kick. “ Your father knows I’ve got enough to attend to without going in for King.” It is the neatest thing out in kingdoms,” urged Miss Musenva, who has been growing rather fast since the Universities took to examining out-siders. “ Who could desire a nicer little domain ?” ‘“‘ Hoo—hoo—hoo ?” asked the Owl. “ You might oblige the girl,” said Jurrrmn. : said Mr. Puncn. “I have many reasons against it. I'll tell you one- ’ You might mind your own business,” Consider Jupy. The wife of a Chief Magistrate ought to be something to look at, or she hinders him. Isee WILLIAM Russev.’s delightful American Diary on that cloud,—well, you know what he says about the advantage which VARINA Davis has over Mas, Liscouy, and the consequent gain to the Southern President. Now, Jupy, though the best of : — ” ives, 18 Teaily = ‘TI am sure you ought to be ashamed of yourself, talking so,” said Miss Muygrva. “She is a very striking oking person, and wears a great deal better than you do.” “Tl tell her what you say,’ said Mr. Puncnu, “ but I won’t be King of Greece,” Mrverva burst into tears, and wiped her blue eyes with her alabaster hand. “ Hoo—hoo—hoo,” went the Owl, and wiped his brown eyes with his ridiculous claw. “ Phlegethonically selfish and unkind of you,” growled JUPITER. “If you use that kind of language, I shall not stay in Olympus,” said Mr. Puycn, “1 am not used to it, [ can tell you. Mrygrva-Patias-Arnena-Cecroria my dear, don’t cry, but listen.” Mryerva wiped her eyes again, and the Owl drew his wing over his beak. “T can’t be King over your Greeks, but I can and will be their guide, philosopher, and friend. Take this volume”’ (and a green and golden tome suddenly appeared—as such things will in dreams—in Mr. Puncn’s hand). Let the Grecians,” he said, “ study that, and they will have slight need of Kings or any such luxuries.” The goddess smiled radiantly. . “ Hoo !—hoo !—hoo!” exclaimed the smiling Owl. The next moment Mr. Puncn awoke in the bosom of his four-post bedstead. ‘ Well,” he said, sitting up defiantly, “and who could do better for her than give her my ~ —~ * Forty-Chiry Volume.” ust - ‘ Hoo, indeed?” said the | \ >| 1H] / A\\C

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PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. MONDAY, June %rd. The Lonp Cuanxce.ior, mirabile dictu, missed | went and talked to him, while Lonp Patwerstoy, more delicately, —- point. He had an opportunity of reading the Lords a lecture | remained in his place (long may he remain there), and paid high com- | illustrated pictorially. He had to introduce a Bill for doing away with | pliments to France, and quoted Latin, for the greater delectation of the the Queen’s Prison. Just over his head was Core’s fresco of Paryce| owner of the Pompeian villa. Mn. Disnavit was not going to be Henry misconducting himself before Junce Gascoicye, who committed | trumped, so he came back and made a speech reminding the Committee | his Royal Highness to the prison now to be abolished. Loxp West-| that Lonp Patmenstow had said two years ago that we ouglit to arm | puRY might have done a good bit of demonstrative oratory, and been | against France. Doubtless the Prince was edified, and the end was | the first to appeal to the decorations on their Lordship’s walls, in the | that in spite of Mn. Osnonwe, who let off a long and clever attack way that in the old days Senators used to make appeals to the ex-| upon the Fortification scheme, and defined “ Efficiency” as “ increased tremely insecty tapestry which was luckily burnt up, insects and all, some | expenditure,” the Government carried the resolution, giving the money. years back. Now somebody else will get the first innings at that kind of thing. Perhaps when Sm Morton Peto is made a lord, he will — to the Christening of the adult Sr. Erneisert with pardonable aptist admiration, or Lorp CuEtmsrorp, pleading for the unlucky Bankruptcy Clerks, will respectfully call the Lords’ attention to Mac- Lise’s Spirit of Justice. However, the Bill was introduced, the few prisoners in the Q. P. will be taken to White Cross Street, and it is | hoped that the ground, which is worth £200,000 and more, will be taken as the site of St. Thomas’s Hospital. This will be a good compromise between the views of those who think it should be in Seven Dials or some such den, and those who want to set it down in Salisbury Plain, so that a patient with a broken limb may have a pleasant railway ride into fresh air on his way to the operating table. Mr. Scuuty began the week characteristically. Mz. Pace’s beautiful new Westminster bridge is scarcely open, when ScuLLy wants palisades stuck Gone it, to prevent people from voluntarily jumping into the river, e really demur to spoiling the bridge in order to give suc people the trouble of going round the corner, but we cannot i of Mr. Scuuty for standing up to represent the lunatic interest. The House then went at the important question of the week, and Sr Grorce Lewis demanded leave to raise One Million Two Hundred Thousand Pounds by annuities, for Fortifications of Arsenals. There was, of course, a long debate, and the questions, whether we want such things, and whether they are of any use, and whether forts can demolish | on ¢ ce are satisfactory, and all the rest of the arguments with | which we have been deluged since the Merrimac ran at the Monitor, | were ventilated, as the slang goes, for several hours. Pxrwxce| NAPOLEON came into the House during the debate, and Mz. Disnszui | ships as easily as ships can demolish forts, and whether our experiments | farmhouses, and Tuesday. The Scotch Public-houses Bill went through another stage in the Lords, and Lory Muyro wished it recommitied. He protested against the repressive system, and contended that the Fonrngs Macxenziz Act had not done the good with which it was credited. He said— “ An improvement had no doubt been effected fn the drinking habits of the higher and middle orders of Scotland ; but these classes were those who were least influenced by any legislation of this sort, and if any intemperance stil] lingered | among them, it could not be dealt with by any measures like the present There was, however, on the other hand, a consi ble degree of drunkenness among the poorer classes.” On the first allegation Mr. Punch entirely agrees with his Lordship, for on each successive visit paid by Mr. Punch to the aristocracy and gentry of Seotland, he has found the claret better and better, and has been invited and assisted to partake of larger — of it. The Dux or ARrGyu defended the Bill, and so did the Doxe or Buccievcu, who may reasonably be expected to admire a Kepressive System, whether saplied to public houses or public carriages. ‘The Lords —eeess e measure by 68 to 22. singh j he Ears or Dersy complained that the country police did not aid in the suppression of Night Poaching. He did not want the co to be gamekeepers, but urged that where gangs of twenty men (not out of employment, but colliers and others, veccining. gas wages) went about at night armed, stole game, beat and stabbed keepers “ committed other excesses, the police ov ht to be ordered to deal with them. Esnt Benwens introduced a Bill with a view to meeting such cases. Dx, Witsexronce brought in a Bill for facilitating the making more bishops “in heathen parts.” We shall have the hen ing reprisals if the hierarchs do not take care, VOL, XLmm, B tet cee S us) wae, si cate eee ee ToS LUO SS abies ee er ee

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2 PUNCH, OR 'THE LONDON CHARIVARL ec {Jory 5, 1862. Scotland had a second innings in the Commons. The Scotch Police | this particular case the interests of private property were involved, a Imperial Togualat Bill, which must be a kind of Code Caledonian, for it contains about | 500 clauses, went through Committee. Such legislation is very sensibly discussed at private meetings with Seotch Members, where men do not go for the purpose of making but of doing business. What the Code ( Wledonian may a roy mg those who are interested know foot,” we scarcely see how, in that painful attitude the Scotch will be able to extend to their Southron friends the usual hospitalities of the autumn. But we have all heard of a chieftain to the Highlands bound. | with his comforts, we will hope that our other Scotch friends may be | | equally fortunate. FF: Mr. Soruerow Estcourt then tried to settle the Church Rate ques- tion—and didn’t. ee ' Ste Joun Taetawwy moved for leave to bring in a Bill to allow certain persons to make Affirmations instead of Oaths. Sim Geones | Bowysx thought such a measure would remove a very powerful means | of getting at the truth, Mr. Roxusuck thought that a person’s declaring his disbelief in a future state was a better guarantee for his numerous persons who suffer much injustice, and of whose evidence satisfied that there are future rewards and punishments. But there are thousands who will, and daily do, tell the most uncompromising lies, but who are afraid to lie, much, when the oath has been adminis- tered. Still, and although excepti legislation is impolitic, means might be devised for relieving the really conscientious, without destroy- best, but if Sux Micuag, Srewame’s allegation be correct, that “it wicks, the Duxe or Somerset, Loxp CaeLusrorp, | will tie the proprietors of land and the occupiers of houses hand and/Lomp Dexsy, uahesitating!y declared the claim to be a fair one, the oO “ honesty than the readiness of a hypocrite to take any oath proposed to | him. There are two sides to the question, of course. There are | topie of the day, and at’ others are unjustly deprived, because the former are known to be un- |p bankment all along Ghomesth Gib of 4 ing the hold which the present system gives upon a great mass of dis- | which of course makes a difference. chance, but a railway cutting is a serious matter. Another proof of Administrative honesty was afforded The brave fellows who took Kertch have hitherto been kept out of their prize money, and although all the leading Lords, including Lonps Harp- np Grey, and ion may take its gave a sort wish you may get it” answer, and it was more than hunted, that Government resisted this just demand, inas- much as ‘the-ery for economy was now rather strong. The scandal is so and as his being so fastened is not recorded to have much interfered ‘flagrant that we should not wonder at its enduring. It is sometimes a misfortune to have too good a case. The Lown Caayce.ior announced that Mz. Epwix James’s patent, as one of the Queen’s Counsel, was to be So the last link is broken that binds that patriot to an aristecracy-ridden and tyrannical old rotten country, and he is free to soar upon the wings of the American Eagle, if that downy bird is inclined to take him up. The New York ju will, however, take notice of the act of the may have their own ideas as to i to take a course so rarely adopted. This Thames Saieieet qaation > Reent important “ey | Punch begs to case an L he river, from the City to the | Clock ‘Tower at Westminster. We shall have it, but not umless Par- liament and the nation speak out. For a wealthy Seottish Duke has just built himself a fine house near Westminster Bridge, and he natu- rally dislikes the having a road brought between his ga and the jriver. He and some rich friends have Bribed (with a big B, and you | honest but impressionable persons. Leavewas granted, by 85 to 59, to = Maer a) peat pe, a Pt or “The Dak Bee hie foal | bring in the Bill. | Her Masesry wishes to sell her Bake House im Peascod Street, | Windsor. Is this the house where the bakers’ wives lived to whom Falstaff sold the shirts which Mrs. Quickly had bought him? And did the street take its name from the husband of Mistress Squash, to whom Mr. Bottom sent his compliments by little Peasblossom? Lf so, Mr. Coxurer had better look after the purchase. Ma. Cowrzs will give him every information. Wednesday. A day of disagreeable business, the record of which Mr. Punch intends to tie up exceedingly tight, Sm Georce Bowrer | moved the Second Reading of a Bill for altering the Government of the | Inns of Court. Our Government saw no case for the Bill, and opposed | it. Nowit is notorious that the Middle Temple Benchers have had to investigate certain charges made against Mn. Diegsr Seymour, the ultra-liberal Member for Southampton, and that the judgment was un- favourable to that patriot. To- he deemed it fit to bring his case before the House, to defend himself, and to assail the tribunal of the Temple. Ma. Bovint, as a Bencher, replied, defended the Benchers, and assailed the Member for Southampton. Sim Georoe Grey ex- pressed what will probably be the opinion of most persons, that as there is an appeal to a higher Court than that of the Temple, it is desirable that the judgment of such Court should be obtained by Ma. Dicsy | Szxmoun. Sin Grorce Bowyer withdrew his Bill. Thursday, Mazzi has not thrown himself into Vesuvius in conse- quence of Loxp Brovestam’s expression of non-esteem for him, and to-night his Lordship said that he had been informed that Mazzrxi did incar danger when conspirmg. But Lorn Brovenam thought him wrong in troubling Europe and provoking Austria, without securing the co-operation of France. So that the real complaint is, not that Mazzi conspires, but that he does not do so on a sufficiently large | scale. Well, let us hope that if he has any present designs on Rome, he will secure the co-operation of NaroLgon THE Taran, Emperor the French, and elected of the Millions. A Fortifications debate in the Lords brought out some good speakers, and among other orators our friend Georee delivered himself very sensibly in favour of defences, and afterwards wrote a very proper letter He proposes to mass men at Reigate in case of an imvasion, and in addition to the excellent strategical reasons for this, we approve of the course on account of the extremely good beer which may te obtained in that oy ene town. The Commons worked away at the Conve img Reform Bill, and also at the Petroleum Bill, which proposes to deal with a somewhat similar nuisance, for while the attorney eats up your house, the petroleum burns it down. Friday. A fuss was made in the Lords about the getting some female | or other to sign a petition which she did not understand, and supposed to ask the reverse of its real prayer. More inquiry was ordered, but if this sort of puritanism is to be carried out, petitioning may as well be put down by law. How many people who sign petitions could, five ininutes afterwards, write down in a sensible fhe the substance of their appeal to the Parliament to make or alter laws? However, in to the Zimes correcting a couple of errors in the report of his address. mittee that had to report upon the subject. e and his friends | offer £90,000 in aid of making the road, it is not taken | between the gardens and the river, and the ! has been weak |enough to be bribed, on behalf of the British tax- , with this offer. | Not all the Committee, by the way. Sr Joseru Paxren, Siz N | Peto, Cotoxet Browytow Kwox, Mr. Pottarn Unquuant, | have resisted, but there were seven on the other side. Now, the Duke ar Buccieves, for he is the chief o ive, is a worthy man, and all | that, . ut we cannot sacrifice the Thames Embankment to his desire to | have . private garden. There will be a good fight over the business, for he is very rich, and has immense influence, and therefore it behoves | Parliament to be wide-awake and resolute. e subservient Committee are so ashamed of what they have done that they begin to defend them- selves before they are hit, and Lorp Rosert Montacu thought he had done a very clever thing in i Cowres for having | some communication on the subject with a gentleman who writes in the Times, but the device was too transparent, and all that came of it was that the House perceived that the Committee and those who the Embankment are dreadfully afraid of the P. and that a Me. Hicers, who by mistake received a letter intended for the Mn. Hic- Gims, was described by Mu. Oowrar asa the latter did not desire to improve. But ; the Mark is the Duxe or Buccievcn until he is kind enough (and he is avery kind Duke) to get out of the way. Mr. Lawson wants to legislate upon li in the spirit of the emg ty 0 ~% L i perfectly clear, as eee y Cane told | him, that the peo is country are not or suc’ lation. But something ought to be done, im presence of the toot that | great part of the crime of the country is attributable to drink. At | present “IT was drank,” is held te be an extenuation. Make it an | Sagrecetion~ nish first for the drunkenness, and then for the crime, jand see whether the lesson can be learned. The Magistrates can do | this without any new law, if they be minded to “= experiment. _ Sm F. Goipsmip made a pathetic appeal to Dp PALMERSTON in favour of certain Russian Jews who were accused in 1553 of a course | of murdets, and who seem to have had their full run of appeals to ail k~ a pega — R_,. final — of the highest | Court 1s, that they were a ey are senten to tr: n. Lorp Patmenstoy did not exactly see how to interfere in favour of a persons, but expressed a and agreeable that the arrangements of Russia would be improved, and added that the present Excrzron was a very humane maa, which we rather think we have heard before. When we mention that there was an Indian debate, about soldiers, and that Srr Cuantes Woop came out with mad ge we | are sure that we shall be excused from aiding re persou further to bewuder himself and the publie. We Live to be Deceived. Ir seems that there is no chance of ing a cab unless you happen to be a party of three or four. This is the t time we ever knew @ cabman to evince the slightest reluctance in taking one in. ON PUTED a ee CT eT a. it - © 2 eresoroan Begecgoocras

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Jory 5, 1862.] PUNCH, OR _THE | LONDON CHARIVARI. °

| wen an th ao een ASTOUNDING ADVERTISEMENTS. by et pape lg went Pas, ______ nvenan _ advertisements for| AP Co. should prefer the second to the first, y write to say that they are much ob- ™ J!» Mink left-off clothes have appeared |liged? As to visiting per return, how can they re \ in the Daily Telegraph. Among) do that? A number of old clothesmen cannot go them there is one from some | through the Post in an envelope. persons named HaRgis—not It is not easy to conceive how left-off apparel of Shee Lane. Another is | can be sold for benevolent purposes. Benevo- , | from a Mz. Lewis Moses, | lent people generally give their old clothes away, | ACS » = tbs knowl 0 We see that Mz. Jomw Savwpens has been publishing a new book between a “Joey” and a “ Bob,” nor would he be likely to diseover in under the title of Abel Drake's Wife. Abel s to be envied, for it bis phrase-book what was actually required of him, when requested in requires no great seasoning of the truth either, to tell us slang phrase to “ jist fork out another tanner.” that a Drake's Wife must bs a perfect pt With such a wife, what lt would have been an act of courtesy to our Continental guests if husband would ever be late for dinner some few score of foreign eabmen had been hired for the season, who, | when they saw = , 2 Mynherr or could have addressed him m a jangu he comprehend. as this has-not been | THE MAPPY MEDIUM. done, perhaps t “ a best step to take would be toteach our cabs and| Ovur Conservative economists have been raising a great ery for what cabbies a phrase or two of French, which they might use on being hired | they call “the golden, mean” in expenditure. hat we want is the | by “one o’ them there furring covies.” At this short notice —e of | silver mean between “the penny wise” and “ the pound foolish.” course would scarce be able to acquire the true Parisian accent : ee ee a very little practice they might at | ULTRAMONTANE IMPOLICY.

rate obtam of French as 0 ay eae. fmtead of “Hit look sharp!” and. to reply wish ‘gone, politeness, | Hamsrma the Alps, was (saith the nistorian) much “ Isey toosate, Mossoo !” Sead re * Here you are, Sir ‘’ — os be, Sepia. — Caantes Keay thinks that they must have

New Awentcay Name vor Lercestexr Sqvans.—Mossoori. & “ & Tarex Watst.”—Lighting the candle at both ends, ’ |

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[Jury 5, 1862, Ml! hes / } y Mh + A PRETTY EXHIBITION NEAR BROMPTON. Tuls 1g THE WAY THOSE Poon Youna Swetis, Hirrs anp Fires, ARE OBLIGED TO Go OUT TO DunweR, IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE Scarciry oF THe Cabs, WHAT’S IN A NAME! OR BUG vc, HOWARD. of Josuvua Buo, late of Epsom, in the county of Surrey, now of Wakefield, in County of York, and landlord of the Swan Tavern in the same county, do hereby | © notice, that on the 20th day of this present month of June, for and on behalf of myself and heirs, lawfully begotten, | did wholly ABANDON the use of the SUR- NAME of BUG, and ASSUMED, took, and used, and am determined at all times hereafter, in all writings, actions, dealings, matters, and things, and upon all other ccasions whatsoever, to be distinguished, to aiybaeribe, to be called and known by the name of NORFOLK HOWARD only.—Times, Thursday, June 26 *Tis over! On Chancery’s rolls set at last, Is that awful deed-poll signed and sealed, tight and fast, That wipes the foul Bue from my sign-board and head, And plants there the proud Norrotk Howanp instead ! All the blood of the Howaxgps may chafe as it will, At a Bue’s bold iatrusion— Pure ichor be still! The law it allows me to do what I’ve done, If a Bue was my father, a Howarp’s my son ; You may, boil, you may bluster, nay burst every vein, jut Bue’s Noxrota iowann: and such he ’ll remam, Unless it should please him, rank’s pride to rebuke, To rise into Seymour, and bully the Duke. At distinction of blood, though my shoulders I shrug, Who knows t/aé¢ may flow in the veins of a Bue ? The Howarps we sucked ere they ’d breeches to wear, And Seymours, while still im their woad, blue and bare, More deep than your sire’s lies our family stem ; They were glad to catch us, and we fed upon them ! Tis, perhaps, sense of justice that makes me thus fain To restore to your order the blood mine has ta’en, So open your arms—gu/es and azure and or, And find ’mong your quarterings room for one more— + heneategte - the coat of 4 a pom x be, n a chief, a Buc rampant, roper,” for me, Or a Bue crawling up ae fanally on re | NORFOLK HOWARD, heretofore called and known by the name | ’ What, dare you still murmur? Pale Lordlings, be dumb! In my train I see myriads locust-like come. Were I sole assailant yourselves you might hug, For all England o’er only boasts of one Buc. But what will you feel, when from KE.ty the row Of Brown, Jonzs and Rosrysons, flood-like shall flow, Not to speak of the Tayzons, who shake off their kiths, And homonymous thousands of joyous Jouw Smitus, Flinging off the vile dittos they took at the font, And donning instead the proud names that you vaunt ? To ephemeral titles we scorn to lay claims, We'll leave you the handles, so we have the names ! How? Still discontented? Then thus I propose : “ Exchange is no robbery,” all the world knows. If that Bues should turn Howaxps you think such a shame, Let Howaxps turn Bues—they ’ve my leave to the name. I don’t see why a Howaro, if met in the street, By the name of a Bue, should not smell just as sweet : Or if such exchange your nobility fires, Suppose you go back to the ways of your sires ; Anil, as they first won titles by service’s claims, So let your class win honour, once more, for new names, Instead of, as now bat too often you do, Allowing old names to bring honour to you, | Flattering Recognition. | Mapame Racwet, in consequence of her profession of enamelling | ladies, and the exorbitant prices she charges, (and she certainly knows how to lay it on uncommonly thick!) has been elected an honorary | member of the Skinners’ Company. | A Recutarn Mupitarxk.—The Duxe or Buccievca’s opposition to the Thames Embankment!

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ooo — ————— OUR (ANYTHING I BUT) CRITIC AT THE HANDEL FESTIVAL. “My 5 ny } ee the, early banded thousand visitors who have neon stteniiinal Pp festival are tired = et of talking of that I am not a the pleasure enjred i seje to of the andy. 1 had a more der’s Feast of splendid music, while ry taste of the tit bite | is still fresh upon + tongue, I like to chew the cud and ruminate and think how much relished them. The proverb says, you cannot eat your cake and have it; but to my hope, Sir, the flavour of the feast 'we have been having leave for — a pleasant recollection on one’s ve =| Hasees 8 ‘roast beef of music;’ and I find his oratorios nutritious mental food, that leaves — the mind a lasting flavour of! sweet sounds, one of which is worth a myriad of Sicyor VexRptI's lollipops. “ T trust you did not think when you sent me to the Festival that I was competent to write you a critical account of it. Had I been asked to criticise, I might not so much have enjoyed myself, for my ears would have been pricked up to listen chiefly for defects. As the critics | have however eat written nought but , 1 am in no fear of losi echoing it. Minds unlearn in music often differ much wah Lecrmed ones; but there is that in Haxpet which affords delight to both. While ears are employed in following his fugues, mine ignorantly revel in his majestic harmonies, which entrance me while I hear them and t me to the bone. If you are musical, you doubtless must have felt this thrilling, which seems to quicken every pulse and turn your coy the school-boys christen ‘ goose- skin.’ I am older — — a remarkable fact that), and truth obliges me to own that I ea ont ied most ‘sensations,’ but I never can ear HaxpEL without a touch of ‘ goose-skin.’ “ You may call this affectation, and doubtless there are many of your readers will agree —= you. thn friend Biossercy for instance who has no more ear for music an oyster, opens eyes so wide when I talk to him in this way that 1 sometimes feel a doubt if he will ever get them shut again. ¥ has told me he was present at the 5 a felt none of the ——— and goose-skin I expe- rienced ; eyes ing stronger than sur- prise Eh. I atonpied to convey to ine a notion of my feelings. “Even BLosppeRty, poweres, if his ears were not delighted, confesses that his eyes were ; and indeed I hardly know which sense found more to charm it. Fond as HaxpeEt was of roducing great effects, I wish he could have lived to see that acre of an orchestra, crammed with hundreds zealous to do justice to his works. And a still more pleasant sight to him it = have been to see that square half mile or so of hearers, so many of them — his music in their hands, (very handy littie books are those of yo Novg110,) and reverently following each note as it burst fort Tt was a constant pain to Hanper that his works were not appreciated. He might have grieved less had he known how in a century they would be. There is no denying now that England does him justice. The late festival and that of ’fifty-nine have proved the fact. And I trust that now we have these festivals to ss to, we shall hear no more stuff talked about the — ym people ving no great reverence for music, and that it is absurd in them to set up their pretensions .> be in any way regarded as at all a musical nation. I hope too we shall mow leer no more nonsense talked about the Crystal Palace being quite poh om for such festivals. The place may have defects—what concert-room has not ?—but take it for all in all, pray where a are we to look upon its like? There are some sour-minded people who —~<t in finding fault, and who declare they their guineas * or the solos, and complain of being swindled ause they heard them aay Well, I grant, a single voice (that of a TiTIENS ap oe ne can not ae tees at Sydenham so well as in a con- cert-room, alt certainly the new roof very greatly helps the music * spread its ough around.’ But, compared to the advantages, what is that defect? You may hear a solo anywhere ; but where, except at a, can you hear such choruses? Any one singer you any day may listen to ; but it is not any day that, you can listen to three thou- sand. oe to hear three’thousand voices sing like one is even a reat for ears to listen to. Yet this was what the sharpest meh te fh ya hh te with one as was y. fact that their joined words were articulate. sa a will hardly _<— our yy 1 <P festival, if we Ne teg on pains taken for securing result. t consi ri the labour which he must have endured, Cominandlen fo Chk 7 Gee ought to be in _— thanked ; and gallant Caprain fl (one of t Guoves, Purcet.?) to be at least with a um-bonum pen-holder, in remembrance of the presented wih ol maga community. And I think it would ve been no whit more honour than he merited, if Sicwon Costa had * Query, crowns —Punch.

boon chuiend as well oo ehesred when oll wen over, and if the puettiont etree ey ser cause may be shown Ae cain oe a et for them; and i oftener we have wi hearing them the I heard the T widhed thet it wens ae | it might bere eS ot the means saan of oo 2 zy the thou a8 g sood in I t Merde thought. in my mind, again I cry encore to “T remain, Mr, Punch, one whom you mayedll, but in no whit will offend by calling “in Beruvsust.”

on Monday evening at 6 in Rotten afflicting | Only f

conceive her pangs at losing her little pet’s pink nose, not to name its silver collar, red riband gold bell: It’s enough to make one faint to think of such affliction, and I only hope she will be able to survive it. And besides the cruel torture of the loss, there is the dreadful thought of what 4+y- has erg. ke to her de , and the peony vel which it ma with a mt nose, silver collar and gold ball eg be tenderly and carefully bro oumana dogs migh migh eta in the ta sumed pelea course the ™ mean the thax has met net with every indulgence, and if oe He ao and lumps of sugar, it is to consider y be. There is a f .~ sli , Or is acta "hens a ele or sry Gog waders ” wi find her way to it. A dog with a red fal cer sl, gl 1 seem, in Rotten Row, bell, and accustomed to take exercise, as it w of course has never heard of such a place as or, if she have, can h poor , to get to it. It is very well for common, vulgar, to have « Home in Islington which ¢ may : but for oy like ‘ Bella’ with red ribands, pi sa. and gold oe db expecte to find their way about sxfashionable “Trusting that your love for 7oby will mduce you to assist in founding such a shelter, I remain, dear Mr. Punch, “ Yours Sincerely, “ Joua Jones.” * We are ever anxious to do anything to please a lady, but Toby tel Ewin and has no fear of being lost, an: cog must use some other argument to show us that a Refuge for Los t Dogs at the West End is mach wented. ——— The Trials of Beauty. Tae wife of a Captain has been called upon to pay near upon ~~

for having been enamelled by Mapame ies take warni Be natural rather than artificial. Never appear in society with a on, no matter how beautiful the mask may be. From pe eee ree should learn m time how much it may cost you for being dowblefaced.

Toe Mrppcesex Suentry’s Haranoue to is GaLtant Orricens —* You must take a man as you find him.”

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CHARIVARI. {Juty 5, 1862, 8 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON Tloreey Hu] j { AL eae yt ai Hit M\\1) FAREWELL TO GOOSEBERRY PIE. SS Artist! (Photographic), “ You've rather a Florid Complexion, Sir, but a Flour Dredger to the Old Gentleman's horror) if you'll take a seat, we'll obviate that | unr ediately.” (4 Song of the Season.) BY SMELFUNGUS. As in life we advance, I have heard people say, With what truth I don’t know, that our feelings decay, Be that as it may, sure of one thing am I, I have not lost my relish for Gooseberry Pie, Gooseberry Pie, Gocseberry Pie, I have not lost my relish for Gooseberry Pie. I mayn’t care so much as I did about flowers, And daisies, and roses, and posies, and bowers, In the days of my youth, but, though they have gone by, | I know I still care about Gooseberry Pie, Gooseberry Pie, &c. Bright eyes of young ladies, though charming to see, Mayn’t have the effect they once had upon me, [’ve not got to thinking those eyes all my eye, Although I think more about Gooseberry Pie, Gooseberry Pie, &c. Maybe that the thought of reforming mankind, Has rather less hold than it had on my mind: At times I’m afraid it ’s of no use to try, But I’ve not lost my faith yet in Gooseberry Pie, Gooseberry Pie, &c. I like it with sugar, I like it with cream, Ob, do not believe me the glutton I seem ! | I seek not, I care not, for French stew or fry. | But I’m fond of a true English Gooseberry Pie. Gooseberry Pie, &c. . Now ripe are the Goosegogs, I speak as a boy, ~~ And I’ve still a fresh feeling that Time can’t destroy, ; | One youthful affection, when, heaving a s'gh, I breathe a long farewell roy Stee: Pie! Gooseberry Pie, Gooseberry Pie, P I retain my affection for Gooseberry Pie. (producing | , Tue Buretar’s Asprration.—A skeleton-key in every cupboard. SEVERAL NEW THEATRES. Owtye to the influx of Provincials and Parisians, the theatres of London are very full just now, and if you go to the box-office and pro- pose to book stalls you are requested to come again in about five weeks. Mr. Punch is therefore doing good service to persons in search of amusement by apprising them that if they will go down to the Houses of Parliament, they will witness, not in the Chambers of Debate but in the Committee Rooms, a series of performances in which there is more fun than can be found in most of the dramatic writing of the day. | pieces or tga have not much action, but the dialogue is first rate, 0 and is both directly and suggestively satirical in the highest degree. The skeleton of a plot that holds them together is usually a Scheme for making a Railway from some obscure place to another, and the fable is composed of the efforts of one side to carry this, and of the other to defeat it, but the main interest is in the questions put to witnesses, who are of all kinds, from the haughty Lord Lieutenant of a county down to the pig-jobber who. wants easier transit for his grunting stock in trade. Counsel are lowed unlimited licence of inquiry into motives, family and neighbourly quarrels, personal history, and in fact The | may be as impertinent as they like, while the witnesses are never | checked for irrelevance or levity, and make the most frank and feiminine revelations of local scandal. en the Committee have had enough of it, they turn everybody out of the room, unless interrupted by a request to come and join in the devotions of the Speaker. These Committees are real fun, and Mr. Punch strongly recommends those who cannot get stalls at the theatres to go down to Westminster. Here are a few specimens, “culled at random, from the report of Whitchurch Railway. Afr. Puach knows, of course, nothing of the merits, he has seen those names somewhere on the map, and believes that the locality is somewhere in the direction of Shrewsbury. Elles- mere is, he has heard, a town near a Mere, or lake, and the witnesses declare that Ellesmere has been sinking for years, it may be submerged by this time for _~ he knows. But a heap of witnesses have been examined, and the key-note may seem to have been given in this wise— ‘Mr. Ropweiy objected to this being put in as evidence WHALLEY, you ought to know that such answers ought not to be given : } | took one side of the case were coerced by some magnate :— an inquiry into some question about an Ellesmere, Oswestry, and | Asa lawyer, Ma. | “Mr. Dentsow the rebuke As a lawyer, Ma. Ropwett, you have no business to administer (Laughter.y” Then a Mr. Wrwwe, who declares himself to be a Large Proprietor was examined, The Large Proprietor appears to be now opposed to Mr. Wua..ey’s views, but not always to have been so :— “Mr. Somerser. You were the man that went about Ellesmere in 1857, shouting Waa .tey and Independence ! (Laughter. ) “ Wrrwess. No, I didn’t. Mr. Waatiey was not there. The meeting was got up by such as myself. “Mr. Somerser. And is not Me. WaaLtey a man like yourself, who does all he can for the district. (Laughter. } ** Wrrwess. I wish I was as good a man as Mr. Watery. (Laughter.)” It is always well to wish to be good—how good Mr. WHAtLEY may be Mr. Punch has no idea, and therefore cannot say whether the Large Proprietor’s standard is a high one, or whether he is a humble-minded Large Proprietor. Then Str Batpwry Lerenton, a Salopian baronet, is examined, and he has a chance of being facetious, and improves his chance :— “ Mr. Jones. Is there any trade of any sort with Shrewsbury? “ Wrress. I know of one gentleman who buys a few cigars there. (Lavghter.)” The fewer the better, if he can only get such cigars as were sold to Mr. Punch the last time he thought he would have a weed as he walked in the Quarry. He hurled the whole lot imto the Severn, and takes this opportunity of hoping that Sabrina fair was not made unwell by his thoughtless act. But graver mattercame up. With the freedom of speech allowed by this tribunal, it was urged that certain people who “ Serseant WrawonaM. You are one of the coerced tenants of Lory Brows1ow, I believe? (Laughter) “ Wrreess. I am a tenant, but I am ‘independent’ (Laughter.) I know Mr. Corrs ; he is a shareholder in our line “ Mr. Srernensow. Has he been coerced? “ Wirwess. He isatenant of Lorp Browstow. You may form your own con- clusion a3 to my opinion. (Laughter.) I know Mr. Copweit, a butcher, he has signed. The Brown Low trustees have great interest in our neighbourhood, the people do not like to go against them. ‘Mr. Srernenson. Are all the 260 coerced ? “ Wrrwess. I won't say coerced, but there has been undue influence. * Ma. Sreruewson. How about the Rev. Me. Day? Me “Wr “ The \= | questio “ qT Chairt | and ce | speec | legal « We his or honot j to rej

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Jury 5, 1862.) PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 9 | was swarm supporter of ors | ae the examining lowyees oll Spioted Ma, Vay, and conducted a ee i ; | their examinations in spirit of gentlemen, Mr. Punch would have no | Wrrwess. Really, I wosld much rather not give an opinion ome , | ome @ » Yo tage into answering these sort of | personalities to set down, and he is therefore to find that Mr. | aa You camnet force this witness int ring t | Roumnasr, in reply to another observation to effect that he was not would have been better English, Mr. justilied in asking certain questions replied— “This” sort of | Chairman, but mever mind that. Them came the great Mx. WHawey, | and certainly he has no reason to complain that the utmost frankness of | | speech was not used in his case. Previously came a little exchange of | | legal amenities :-— | “Ma. Dewsson. Letme bave all these papers to cross-examine upon! | “Mr. Somzneer. Anything I cam de to assist you I am willing to do. (Laughter.) “Mr. Dexmow. Thank you. OGees of civility are so rare that | esteem them | accordingly. (Lavghter.) | “Me. Sommnser. I copy freas my neighbours.” Well, they got at Ma. Waarier. Some allusion had been made to | his oratorical powers, of which it may not be disrespectful to say that the |“* others. Nor cam I see honourable gentleman is t t to be somewhat proud. He proceeded | "in, Noo gos | to reply as to @ meeting that been held :— “Me. Somumaer. Did Mr. Prency recoramend you as an ‘ orator’ there? _ “* Wrremas. f you oF any ome ¢lse ¢o find a word inany , of prove | “Me. Dewusomw. I object to that style of question, it is put in an unnecessarily | it elsewhere, that I have evem said one word that could be wm attack | | offensive way, and the answer, whatever it is, is not eviden: — Ag | “Me. . I don't shrink from the question " Soumasrr. Can you say so, Siz, with that gentleman to Carrarm | i in the room, whem you have week after week gone making Wrewres. I think such unbecomi the position of a man Cust) j Wrrwess. I have never said one disrespectful word about him. | like Mm. “Me. Somerser. Mn. Waattey, you flatter me! “ The Cuarrman. Really all this is not evidence | ‘ Wrrvess. There is not one tittle of foundation for all these charges, nor have I “ I don’t care, I shall ask them.” _ And to do him justice he went on im the same amiable tone. For | | instance, he said te Ma. Wnatszy— “ Ma. Sommeneer. Dogep oan & ay Gat yn cre ppues to gay the 264,000 | had you been called upem “ Wrreess. What do you mean? Of course | was.” | Mr. Waatuey’s indignation broke forth into farther semark -— “Tam at a loss to know why I am taunted, because [Gi meteubearibe so much | what all this has to do with the question at inene. Lf the a statement of all I have ever roms-examination would be much more dis you my ¢ | agreeable. My. Waatiey is free in his remarks other , and | hve a right t say what I do. —— pone eo All this sort of thing must be so highly conducive to a desirable i as to what done saything to deserve such questions. as | result, and Wwatieyr may said of Cust ~~ — . The term ‘ orator’ is not mine, it was Ma. Werapr's. sonst so materially assist @ Commiites in oa: e railway Now it so happens that Mr. Wexspy is not only a distinguished | ought to go from Ellesmere to Oswestry, tig oe gee candle lawyer, but a courteous and aecomplished gentleman, and he imme-| Mr. Punch rejoices to discover that there are where the diately laid a heavy hand upon this Ma. Somexset and squashed him— | pedantic and fastidious rules of ordinary Courts areset at nought for thus— the advantage of the public. He repeats his to persons in “Ma Werspy. As my name is drawn into the discussion, allow me to say that of amusement, that they should go down to these search there was nothing in my remark to justify Mr. Somerset in asking so disreputable Rooms, and he intends to keep his own great eye upon them a little for a question.” the future.

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FOOL ON FORTIFICATIONS. -. Lit sensible persons will share the astonishment thus re- ported to have been ex- pressed in the House of Lords by the Duce or CAMBRIDGE :-— “ The argument which has been used in another % that it was derc to the English soldier to t be- hind walls (laughter), is the most extraordinary which I G i ean conceive.” aly pan Why yes, if it is dero- - gatory to the English - soldier to fight behind walls, it is also de tory to the English sailor to fight behind iroa plates, and even behind wooden planks, in case t —_. planks are strong enough to afford him any protec- tion from shot shell. It would be to the English to fight behind walls, if there were no art > and if he were outnum-

i«<«< bered in no groster | ea .— es | . ~: one, use | those cireumstances it is to be supposed that he would be able to beat any possible adver- ree So it would be derogatory to the English sailor to fight behiad either ks or plates | he had the option of to hand by boarding the enemy’s vessel. The at | Sed by the Duxe or Camprtper as having been used in another place was in the ouse of Commons, but the only place in which it is conceivable that such an argument can | have been used with any seriousness military one, and a place ought to be secured for him in the insane ward, if there is one, of Hospital at Netley. in the meanwhile he should be placed under proper restraint. is @ lunatic asylum. The logician who used it is a | He that, as Da. Jouwson w: have observed, maintains it to be de j | He that, P » derogatory to the English soldier to fight behind walls, might as well contend that it is derogatory to the English soldier | to fight behind buttons. nee { “Tue Heap ayy Faont” or Woman's “ Orrenpine.”—Curl-papers.

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NANA BUTLER. GeyeRaL Burier made a law, Anda On his head which fails to draw Y execration ; uf Few. Orleans a ‘o his troops uncivi That should = the saucy fair Yankee doodle doodle doo, Yankee doodle dandy, Burtuer is a rare Yahoo, As brave as Sepoy Pandy. Harwav’s lash tore woman’s back, When she riz his dander. Buruss, by his edict black, Stumps famed commander, Wreaking, upon maid aud dame, _ Sav subtler : None but Nawa Sauip name Gewerat Burien. ankee doodle, &c. OPENING THE DOOR FOR HIM. s. is pany that all pasaerts Sex persons ving or England are for t nture to be abolished. of this, as it will throw ev way of the Porn’s Prvs can now leave

anyone. It is very kind of Victon- Emmawve. to the door in this way for the The world is before Shall we lodgings for him at St. Barnabas’? Good | Eine: him wherever he goes, as we are sure he has had very little of it lately where he now is.

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*sant to see Beauty occasionally | sitting hard Miiteemeneggy! Vy pnd pumnnvinn _ PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. Officiousness of a horrid little Crossing-sweeper, soiling the Carpet with his nasty filthy Broom, and completely wpsetting the Dignity of the whole Dring. PUNCH GOING TO THE DOGS. Wisntne to give Toby a treat, Mr. Punch took him the other day to the Dog Show at Islington, On arriving near the building (which is a gut improvement on the stifling shed in Baker Street, though we ear our farming friends in petticoats and pinafores will scarcely like to be so far removed from their loved Wax Works), Mr. Punch thought that the cabman had mistaken his direction, and had driven him to Barking. Such a chorus of canine sounds fell upon his ear, that all the dogs exhibited seemed members of the Bark Society. Every kind of voice was heard, from the baying of the blood hound to the yap of the toy-terrier: and Mr. Punch could not help thinking in what terror all the cats within earshot must have been, and how their tails must | have expanded with horror as they listened. Upon entering the building, Mr. Punch made his bow ; and Toby his bow-wow ; and then Mr. Punch ed leisurely to take note of the celebrities, both human and . Among the former, Mr. Punch was pleased to see a fair proportion of the fairer sex, who flocked as eagerly to the show, as they would do to a Flower ditto. It was plea- ‘patting some pet hound that she had reco; , or else curiously peering at some wrinkled-nosed and bandy- legged and blear-eyed looking bull-dog, and wondering for what prize, excepting one for ugliness, it could possibly compete. Toby was much envied in his s through the show, not merely on account of his position in the world, but because of the mere fact that he happened to be loose. Afr. Punch indeed observed that, envy is & passion to which dogs are sadly prone: for directly any dog was let loose by its keeper, and taken a short walk, the dogs it passed all snapped and snarled and growled most savagely, as though they could not bear to see it petting = year which they a not share. Mr. Punch wight have lect m a little on this failing, but one can’t well blame a dog for doing what one (oes oneself; and well nigh faultless as he is, Mr. Punch has very often felt a pang of envy whe work for the improvement: of mankind, hie has surveye the outer d from the window of his study, and has seen men with po —, a ir fishirg-rods, while he was fast chained e “ Derence or Crrworme.—Man should receive it joyfully and grate- fall iki that. icall ible f Wenn 2 suing, peeot t. it is physically impossible for Lovely PFYSICIANS IN STAYS. Tue question as to the competency of the softer tine doctor, of medicine has been decided the right. College of Physicians, in a majority of eighteen to — — he | ladies. We are glad the minority was se large, for we think it was in There is no reason why a lady : be refused a doctor’s degree. Nobody would be ob! tome * medical woman in preference to a medical man. It is very true it is necessary that a practitioner of medicine should be endowed with reflective faculties; but perhaps reason is not quite i the prerogative of man. One or two womien could be whose works exhibit undeniable evidences of some logical and judgment of causation. A female Harvey, or SypewHam, or Hunter, or Aner peanty soem possibly turn up, if the portals of medicine were not shut in her face. On the principles of Free Trade, the Edinburgh of Physicians should reconsider their tingallant, if not unphilosophical decision. We will not suppose that they are afraid of competition with old and copebend that any diminution of their professional a" result from the concession of the liberty of taking fees to “SENSATION” ADVERTISING, So, it appears from the report of the proceedings in Webster v. Bouci- cault, that all those sdventing puffs in the ‘Adelphi advertisements were inserted by Bovcrcavtt himself! = ; Only think of Friar Bacos’s Brazen Head writing thus of itself — “« Another immense success achieved by the Author of the Colleen Bawn.” “ On every oceasion experienced a rapturous reception,” &e. “ It is on the character of Grimaxpt, and woo elaboration Mir. Bove: CAULt, that the attraction of the pioce dopemd, and talent he Aiaptys in an entirely new line is likely to cause a sensation. At times the applause was quite uproarious, and the house rang with acclamation.” We should advise Mr. D. B. to apply for the next presentation to the office of City Trumpeter with the privilege of blowing his own trumpet. wn Ososrsvs Cowpuctor’s Cry.—“ All’s fare during the Exhi- ition.” ; ; ' Se Ry te eee ene eat es ee : ad tanta oman weeny SATURDAY.