PUNCH’S PENCILLINGS.—No. XXI.
CUPID OUT OF PLACE.
From a Sketch made in “THE PALMERSTON GALLERY.”
THE FETES FOR THE POLISH—AND FATE OF THE BRITISH POOR.
“Charity begins at home,” says, or rather said, an admirable old proverb; but alack! the adage, or the times, or both, are out of joint—the wholesome maxim has lost its force—and homes for Charity must now be far as the Poles asunder, ere the benign influence of the weeping goddess can fall upon its wretched supplicants.