Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Ernest Schaal, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 62. JANUARY 27, 1872. [Illustration: THE LIQUOR CONTROVERSY. '_Spectable Citizen_. "ISH MY OPI'ION THISH P'MISSIVE BILL 'SH VEXASH'IOUS MEASURE. (_Hic!_) WHY SHOULD I BE D'PRIVED OF NESH-SH-ARY R'FRESHMENT, 'CAUSE ANOTHER PARTY HASN'T--CAN'T--DOESN'T--KNOW WHEN HE'SH HAD ENOUGH? SHTAN' UP, OL' MAN!!!"] * * * * * A JINGLE FOR ST. JAMES'S. (_By a Musical Enthusiast._) THE Monday Pops! The Monday Pops! Whoe'er admires what some call "Ops;" Should go, and lick his mental chops, While feasting at the Monday Pops. The Monday Pops! The Monday Pops! To me their music far o'er-tops, The jingling polkas and galóps, On cracked pianos played at hops. Nor almond rock, nor lemon-drops, Nor sugar-plums, nor lollipops, With which small children cram their crops, Are sweeter than the Monday Pops. The Monday Pops! The Monday Pops! Delight of fogies and of fops! The music that all other wops, Is given at the Monday Pops. Their fame all rivals far o'er-tops: You see their programmes at the shops; And here the bard exhausted stops, His rhymings on the Monday Pops. * * * * * TRUE BILL? MUCH ingenuity has been expended in trying to prove that SHAKSPEARE was a lawyer, and, amongst other passages in his writings, the two first lines of the Sonnet which commences-- "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past," may be thought to indicate that he possessed legal acquirements. Has it, however, occurred to the editors and commentators, that these lines are capable of another interpretation, and may be considered to add a new item to our scanty knowledge of SHAKSPEARE'S personal history, if we take the more probable view, that when he penned them he had in his mind's eye those familiar Tribunals--the Quarter Sessions--to which, it may be whilst residing in the Metropolis, but most undoubtedly after his retirement to Stratford, he would be summoned in the capacity of Grand Juryman? * * * * * SOUP AND SERMON. THE _Morning Post_ records an interesting case of-- "SUPPER TO CONVICTED FELONS.--On Tuesday evening a supper was given to one hundred and fifty convicted felons by NED WRIGHT, the well-known converted burglar, at the Mission Hall, Hales Street, High Street, Deptford. The candidates for tickets of admission were compelled to attend the night before the supper and give an account of themselves to prove that they really were convicted felons, and by the sharp and close questioning of MR. WRIGHT, about fifty were refused tickets as impostors."