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| The Camp at Chobham.—The July of 1853 was particularly
wet. | [5] |
| " " | [8] |
| The Camp.—A fact. | [16] |
| Fancy Portrait.—Need we say of Mr.
Charles Kean. | [13] |
| A Genteel Reproof was really required to check the
somewhat indelicate curiosity of lady-visitors to the camp. | [15] |
| Poisonous Puffs still disgrace many provincial papers
and a few metropolitan ones. Newspaper readers have the
remedy in themselves by adopting the advice given in this
article. | [29] |
| A Startling Novelty in Shirts was barely an
exaggerationin 1853. | [31] |
| A Determined Duellist.—See Note to p. 39. | [32] |
| The New Act.—The Cabman is the picture of a man then
about town, and a member of a very respectable family, to
annoy whom he drove a Hansom Cab. | [34] |
| A Good Joke.—See Introduction. | [35] |
| Another Potato Blight, &c.—Mr.
Serjeant Murphy,
of facetious memory. | [37] |
| Mornington's Challenge.—Lord
Mornington, formerly
Mr. Wellesley Tylney Long Pole, recently
challenged
Lord Shaftesbury, who declined the folly. Pop
Goes the
Weasel was the name of a popular tune. | [39] |
| East India House.—Mr. Hogg was
a distinguished
director of the East India Company and M.P. | [42] |
| The American Cupid.—Mr. Hobbs,
the celebrated lock-picker,
to whom reference has been frequently made in preceding Volumes. | [49] |
| Logic for Mr. Lucas.—See Notes to preceding Volumes. | [50] |
| Effect of the Cab Strike.—About this time the Cab
Proprietors of London struck against the new Cab Act, and
London for a day was left cabless. | [51] |
| Wanted, a Nobleman.—An Earl of
Aldborough was
advertised as a patron of Holloway's Pills,
for whose real
value, see Punch, No. 1126, February 7, 1863. | [61]
|
| The Member for Lincoln as he will Appear at the
Next General Election.—A Street Musician used to play
several instruments in the manner here indicated. | [61] |
| The Battle of Spithead.—The Queen
held a grand
Naval Review at Spithead. | [73] |
| The Doom of Westminster Bridge was fulfilled in
1862 by the opening of the beautiful structure built by
Mr. Page. | [79] |
| A Present for Aberdeen.—Lord Aberdeen
was suspected
of Russian tendencies. | [95] |
| " " | [238] |
| Flowers of the Towzerey Plant.—The Towzerey Gang
was a set of swindling warehousemen well exposed by the
Times. | [104] |
| A Consultation about the State of Turkey.—Turkey
was described at this time as "the sick man." | [119] |
| Tavern Experience.—See large cut below. | [128]
|
| The Institution of our Spectre of Chelsea.—An Apparition
called the Lady of Salette was said to have appeared
to a Shepherd boy, and was accredited by the Romish
Church. | [131] |
| Memorial to Bellot.—A Monument to the memory of
this gallant Frenchman, who perished during one of our Polar
Expeditions, is erected opposite to Greenwich Hospital. | [186]
|
| A Letter and an Answer.—The Cholera was rife at this
time. | [197] |
| A Nuisance in the City, &c.—The Corporation of London
strongly opposed the Health of Towns' Bill. | [199] |
| Lord Sid-nee Show.—Sidney was a
Tea-dealer. | [204] |
| A Bishop on Things Solid.—A most ridiculous movement
was made in the City to obtain subscriptions for a Statue
for Prince Albert. It was very properly
discountenanced
at Court. | [206] |
| " " | [208] |
| A Lonely Square.—This was the age of "stick-ups." | [222]
|
| The Remonstrance, and A New Chime for Bow
Bells.—The Lord Mayor and Corporation of
London had
fallen, sadly "fallen from their high estate" in public
estimation. | [228] |
| Expostulation with Palmerston.—Lord
Palmerston
had left the Ministry at this time. See Introduction. | [258]
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