A NUISANCE.
"Mr. Punch,—I should be very much obliged if you would put a stop to a species of annoyance which I am continually subject to. I allude to a system of 'Notes and Queries,' which is becoming daily more and more impertinently annoying. These questions are put to me every morning through the medium of the newspapers, which I am obliged to read, 'just to be in the world.' I am a poor student, Sir, and have enough to do to answer questions of a very different description to the following, viz., 'Do you want luxuriant whiskers?' 'Have you been to —— emporium?' 'Do you bruise your oats?' &c. &c. And then if I take a walk, there is scarcely a street in which I am not assailed by a pictorial Barmaid ejaculating 'Sherry, Sir?' Do, Mr. Punch, allow me, through your columns, to answer these impertinent questions once for all. I have not been and never will go to —— emporium. My Amelia doesn't care about whiskers, and therefore I don't; and as for bruising oats, and drinking sherry, 'this my answer:'—I don't keep horses, and when I want (and can pay for) wine I'll ask for it.
"I am, Mr. Punch, yours &c., Fiz."
"Non Tali Auxilio."
The head of the Chinese rebellion is extremely indignant with the conduct of the Comet who has lately been rushing about his dominions. He has dispatched a near relation of the Moon's to arrest him in his flight, and, wherever he may find him, instantly to cut off his tail.