Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, CompleteVarious
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete
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English wit and humor -- Periodicals
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. There is a report of the stoppage of one of the
most respectable hard-bake houses in the metropolis. The firm had been
speculating considerably in Prince Alberts Rock, and this is said to
have been the rock they have ultimately split upon. The boys will be the
greatest sufferers. One of them had stripped hia jacket of all its
buttons as a deposit on some tom-trot, which the house had promised to
supply on the following day; and we regret to say, there are whispers of
other transactions of a similar character.
Money has been abundant all day, and we saw a half-crown piece and some
halfpence lying absolutely idle in the hands of an individual, who, if
he had only chosen to walk with it into the market, might have produced
a very alarming effect on some minor description of securities. Cherries
were taken very freely at twopence a pound, and Spanish (liquorice) at a
shade lower than yesterday. There has been a most disgusting glut of
tallow all the week, which has had an alarming effect on dips, and
thrown a still further gloom upon rushlights.
The late discussions on the timber duties have brought the match market
into a very unsettled state, and Congreve lights seem destined to
undergo a still further depression. This state of things was rendered
worse towards the close of the day, by a large holder of the last-named
article unexpectedly throwing an immense quantity into the market, which
went off rapidly.
SOMETHING WARLIKE. Many of our readers must be aware, that in pantomimic
pieces, the usual mode of making the audience acquainted with anything
that cannot be clearly explained by dumb-show, is to exhibit a linen
scroll, on which is painted, in large letters, the sentence necessary to
be known. It so happened that a number of these scrolls had Been thrown
aside after one of the grand spectacles at Astleys Amphitheatre, and
remained amongst other lumber in the property-room, until the late
destructive fire which occurred there. On that night, the wife of one of
the stage-assistantsa woman of portly dimensionswas aroused from her
bed by the alarm of fire, and in her confusion, being unable to find her
proper habiliments, laid hold of one of these scrolls, and wrapping it
around her, hastily rushed into the street, and presented to the
astonished spectators an extensive back view, with the words, BOMBARD
THE CITADEL, inscribed in legible characters upon her singular drapery.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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