Volume 25 — MISSISSIPPI BREAKING HER BONDS.
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Bind the woolly-haired slave, tarred with Nature's own brush, With base manacles load him; with vile shackles crush, He has no right to kick off his fetters, not he, But Bonds didn't ought to encumber the Free! Let Europe's old monarchies labour and groan Beneath the hard burden and weight of a Loan! To be sure, though, Spain has had the courage to get The directest way out of the irons of debt. Cut 'em through—that's the plan—as you'd sever a stick— It don't take but one stroke, and 'tis done smooth and slick; Hurl the bits off to fly on the wild winds afar! Unless you keep one just to light a cigar. For they are but paper—is paper to bind The young Eagle to Earth, when to soar he's a mind? He will snap the weak chain the first instant he springs With the sun in his eye and the steam in his wings. Loss of credit! what's that to the souls who rely On themselves, and the hiss of the world can defy? What is debt? Don't the talented Emerson say We have got other debts, besides money, to pay? We reckon those other debts due first to fall, The cash debt's the one which we'll pay last of all; That's the genuine rule by which true Genius goes In settling the endless account which it owes. From the glorious fact, that our bonds we have bust, Let mankind learn the lesson of thorough self-trust, Though our sister States credit may cease to obtain, And no mortal will trust Mississippi again!
A Thought picked out of the Coal-scuttle.—Vices are like coals—the more they are screened, the more the larger ones show.
THE MINISTERIAL SPLIT.
Palmerston. "I'LL JUST FRIGHTEN THEM A LITTLE."
Abode of Bliss (An),113
Affair with the (Knightsbridge) Caffres (An),154
Age of Compliments (The),138
Agricultural Bruisers,245
Agricultural Inquisition,207
Alarming Accident,137
Alarming Discovery (An),218
Alarming Railway Accident,95
Albert Statue Movement (The),212
Alderman's Hope (The),263
All my Eye and Beate Martin,131
American Joke Explained (An),262
Another and Another Still Succeeds,148
Another Ghost,145
Another Insult to Ireland,37
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Another Insult from the Saxon,124
Another Irish Grievance,12
Another Money Question,153
Another Rupture with France,12
Albany for the Million (An),223
Aristocracy and its Antipodes,198
Arms of England (The),178
Australian Clipper (An),113
Autocrat's Anthem (An),233
Bad Beer with a Good Name,54
Bar and the Liberty of Conscience (The),224
Barristers of England (The),215
Battle of Spithead (The),73
Best Christian (The),108
Betting House Deputation (The),62
Big Brother of Mercy (A),30
Bishop in Distress (A),107
Bishop on "Things Solid" (A),206
Bones of Paganini (The),143
Bore at the British Museum,19
Bounce of a Pistol (The),83
Breaking-up Day,89
Bricks,43
Bright City (A),227
Britannia's Safety Belt,176
British Consulate at Boulogne (The),101
British Obsequies in Spain,93
British Reasons for Boulogne Address,136
Bully Bottom,165
Burglary and Bronchitis Prevented,192
Cabman, and his Good and Evil Report,54
Cabman and his Pint of Stout (A Fable),60
Cabman's Best Friend (The),40
Cabman's Protest against the Hinjustice of the Hact (A),70
Cab Question in a New Light (The),265
Calico Calembourg (A),221
Canvas Towns,3
Carol on Caroline Chisholm (A),71
Carving his Way to Iniquity,42
Case of Clean Hands (A),151
Catching People's Eyes, 267
Chagrin for Old Commodores,29
Character in a Blue-bag,4
Charity for Churchmen,262
Chaunt (A),113
Chaunt for the Choused (A),183
Cheap Lightning Postage,207
Chelsea Ghost (The),115
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China and Back in no Time,108
Choking in the Army,13
Christmas Waits Extraordinary,268
City coaxing the Crown (The),197
City Inquisition (The),216
City without Smoke (A),124
Civic Simplicity,147
Civil Cabman's Sauce (A),81
Civil (very civil) War at Chobham,3
Claims of Scotland (The),186
Classicalities of the Coinage,125
Clergymen in the Farce of "Turning the Tables”,256
Clerical Table-Turners and Spirit-Rappers,258
Clever Clown Nuisance (The),222
Close Contrivance at Winchester (A),197
Cloth and the Plush (The),123
Clowns of the New School,213
Coagulated Horde (A),53
Cobden on Evil Spirits,214
Coming Struggle (The),174
Confounded Bully (A),251
Consultation "in articulo”,"115
Cool Dog (A),53
Corporation Table Talk,246
Cotton Afloat,18
Courtesy and Controversy,215
Crown of Hungary (The),142
Crown of St. Stephen (The),147
Cruel King Coal,202
Cruel treatment of the Poor and Lowly,195
Crystal Nunneries,3
Cure for a Cut,77
Cure for Smoky Children,217
Cure for the Conscience-Money Mania,50
Curiosities of the Cattle Show,247
Curious association of Ideas,214
Danubian Homicide,221
Daughter of the Camp (A),27
Dear Entertainment for Dear Creatures,133
Debate on the Hudson Question,254
Decimal Coinage,101
Demon of the Cupboard (The),206
Determined Duellist (A),32
Did you Ever?71
Diddlesex Sessions (The),222
Dignity of Trade (The),223
Disappointed Director, a Fable (The),121
Discounter's Dirge (The),40
Disraeli's Coat and Badge,125
Dolours of St. Dunstan's,187
Domestic Results of the Camp,20
Done Brown Again,215
Donkey and a Mayor (A),232
Doom of Westminster Bridge (The),79
Dr. Cantwell's Income-Tax made Easy,188
Drat the Eastern Question,177
Dream of a Bagpipe (The),158
Dye of Guilt (The),188
Eagles at a Discount,173
Earl King (The),31
Ecclesiastical Auction Mart (The),29
Editorial Candour,136
Elections with Accompaniments,21
Emperor at Boulogne (The),151
Enemy (The),91
English Hippopotamus to the French Ditto (The),116
Enterprising Undertakers,17
El Verdadero Descubrimiento D'Iximaya,81
Etruscan Pattern (The),162
Every Convict his own Chesterfield,194
Evil Eyesight,114
Exchange Chimes (The),236
Exit Brooke—Enter Barry,176
Expense of Making a Baron (The),241
Facts for Cockney Naturalists,246
Fallacy of Externals (The),178
Farewell to the Camp,92
Fashion and Influenza,238
Fashionable Epidemic (The),79
Fashionable Zoological Star (The),255
"Fast" Literature,144
Fast Men of Edinburgh (The),192
Fat of the Land and Lambeth,136
Festivities in Southwark,162
Fighting Frewen and Sober Shelley,90
Fine Old English Innkeeper (The),177
Flourishing Business (A),20
Flowers of the Towzery Plant,104
Flushing a Sewer (A Citizen's Dream),208
Fortune Tellers for Nations,187
Freebooter of the Castle (The),151
French Feast of the Poets (A),201
French "Fusion" (The),233
French Ties and Dynas-ties,136
Friends of Cabmanity,59
Fumigation of the Thames,91
Further particulars,157
Fusion of the Beerbung Cousins (The),237
Game in the East (The),50
Gare la Garotte,253
Gardens without a Waterpot,9
God Hymen to the Demi-God Punch (The),193
God of Russia (The),211
God of the Russians (The),176
Gold Found in England,33
Good Hater of Blue Stockings (A),253
Goose Club (The),186
Grand Dramatic Après Déjeûner,157
Grand Scena from Oberon,154
Great and Little Sportsmen,108
Great Anchovy Case (A),221
Great Cab Reform (The),17
Great Catches,101
Great Chobham Campaign,47
Great Cure and Small Pay,114
"Great Globe Itself" (The),124
Great Indian Fact (The),7
Great Jew Meeting,48
Growl from the Scottish Lion (A),63
Guillotine in China (The),114
Hanover in Bronze,195
Hanwell Cookery Book (The),265
Hard Dealing with a Hawker,254
Hardest of all Swearing (The),4
Ha'porths of Philosophy,151
Hat-Moving Trick (The),34
Help to Jewish Emancipation (A),22
Heroes of a Hundred Showers,47
High Mettled Razor (The),203
Hint from the Gallery (A),10
Hint to Belgravia, Tyburnia, &c., (A)92
Hint to Railway Rogues,117
Hints for a New Edition of the Dramatists,43
Hit at Two Houses (A),82
Homœopathy Superseded,83
Hotel and Travelling Expenses,171
House of Fame (The),106
How Are we off for Soap?,164
How Britannia Salutes her Babies,174
How Ephraim Smug spoke against Police at the Vestry, and didn't persuade People,166
How Europe may be Saved,201
How to Pay your Taxes, 147
How to See the Teeth of a Beautiful Young Lady,261
How to Write the Biography of a Woman,118
Howl from the Hippopotamus (A),168
Imaginary Conversation,214
Imaginary Playbill,84
Impertinence of Science (The),155
Important Meeting of Smoke-Makers,80
Important Note and Query (An),235
Improvements of London v. the Improvements of Paris,166
In East and North,196
Infallible Bubbles,138
Infection Glebe,176
Infinitesimal Logic,22
Injudicious Patriot (An),243
Inn-Fluenza (The),161
Innkeeper Rhymer (The),211
Inquisition at Malta (The),92
Inspection of Cavalry by General Punch,18
Institution of Our Spectre of Chelsea (The),131
Iron Bars of Music,126
James's Powder and his Squib,183
Joke at the Public Expense (A),37
Joke of the Session (The),23
Joke that must be Felt (A),136
Jolly Old Waterman (The),49
Judges' Chambers (The),201
Justice for London,207
Justice to Scotland,205
Kenilworth Church and Kenilworth Castle,67
Kensington Bus-men (The),52
Key to a Difficulty (A),38
Key to the Russian Question (The),17
King Cholera's Procession,133
King Leopold Reports Progress,211
King of the City (The),205
Lament of the Portsmouth Slopseller (The),51
Landlords' Meeting (The),144
Larvæ of the City of London,167
Last Proclamation (The),207
Last of the Paupers (The),47
Lares and Penates for the Pothouse,172
Law on its Last Legs,23
Lawyers Abroad (The),123
Le Grand Opera Enrhumé,143
Leading Articles for Old Ladies,102
Left-off Clothes for the Colonies,227
Legal Curiosity,247
Letter and an Answer (A),197
Letters from the Bosphorus,187
Libel on the Prince of Wales,172
Life and Death Assurance,264
Likely Joke (A),33
Lines on the Burial of a Protestant in Spain,123
Lion Rampant Mad,106
List of Indexes (A),8
Literature at Low Water Mark,185
Literary Millionaire (A),168
Little Money Question (A),142
Lord Mayor's Show for 1853 (The),157
Lord Sidnee's Show,204
Louis Napoleon at Boulogne,115
Lover's Farewell to Pale Ale (The),185
Love's Labour Lost at Limerick,63
Lundy Foot Linguist (A),164
Mad Cabman's Fare of Sixpence (The),47
Mahogany Possessed,152
Manchester School of Poetry (The),241
Market and Trade Report,42
Marriage in "Mediocre" Life,181
Martin in Jack's Gown,49
Meat for Mawworms,8
Meeting of the Rabbits,164
Middlesex Ballad (A),228
Milestone Treadmill (The),72
Military Intelligence,39
Milky Way in Lancashire (The),194
Mississippi breaking her Bonds,268
Model Railway Meeting,226
Modern Mythology,155
Money-Market for Infant Minds (The),104
Mornington's Challenge,39
Moustache and Beard Movement (The),226
Mr. Peterloo Brown's Examination of the Oxford Statutes,68
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Mr. Punch in China,117
Mr. Punch in Dublin,1
Mrs. Jane Gimlet to Mrs. Judith Punch,202
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Mrs. Magnall's Historical Questions,10
Music, Malt, and Hops,187
Music-Seller's Opinion of France (A),171
Musical Pump (A),123
Muff Dropped (A),244
Naval Intelligence,182
Neglected Scotland,253
Nesselrode Pudding,215
Neutrality in Plush,133
New American Movement,107
New Cab Act (The),28
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New Chapter in the Romance of King Arthur (A),58
New Department of Flunkeyism (A),138
New Lactometer (A),90
New Turn in the Temperance Movement (A),2
New Zodiacal Light (A),122
News from the Theatre of War,228
Nicholas's Dream,247
Noble Conduct of Cobden and Bright,195
Nuisance (A),121
Nuts for Notes and Queries,38
Obituary a Little in Advance,232
Obstructing the Pavement,143
Ocean Melodies,121
Old Flag (The),164
Old Lamp and a New One (An),251
Oldest Chancery Suit in the World (The),33
Omnibusian Song (An),118
Opinions of our Contemporaries,134
Originality,264
Organ Boy's Appeal (The),141
Our Ancient Nicholas,38
Our Beautiful Fashions of the Present Day,145
Our Bottle Holder,261
Our City Article,155
Our Honeymoon,8
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Our Meteorological Report,29
Our Muddy Metropolis,53
Our Quarter's Account,21
Our Rupture with Russia,14
Our Shabby Contemporaries,147
Our Tourist in Paris,94
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Our Young Lady at Spithead,79
Palmerston's Notices to Correspondents,203
Palmerston Perplexed,247
Papa to his Heir,23
Parliamentary Bulletin,74
Parochial Mudlarks,153
Parsons and Doctors,173
Parson's Parliament (The),154
Passports improved,73
Pat's Welcome to the Reaping-Machine,127
Paying Culprits through the Nose,194
Paying Shot before Battle,205
Pax Vobiscum,43
Peace Spectacle in Scotland (The),163
Peaceful Solicitor (A),187
Pebbles picked up at the Sea-side,132
Pedestrianism at St. Stephen's,42
Pedestrianism very Extraordinary,93
Penal Dancing for the Protection of Women,236
Perspicuity of Red Tape (The),223
Perversion of a Clergyman,121
Petition from the Medical Profession,60
Philosophy Teaching by Conumdrums,43
Photographic Glimpses of the Moon,173
Phrenological Organ Music,253
Pius Pinguis,181
Plague within our Gates (The),146
Plain Fare at the Palace,218
Plan of Simplification (A),245
Plato, Gog and Magog,183
Plato's Republic Perfect,201
Playhouse Pegs,193
Ploughboy's Doom,102
Poetry for the Peace Conference,173
Poisonous Puffs,39
Potman and the Prætor (The),37
Poor Shakspere,112
Pope's Post Obit (The),137
Popular Laurie Ballad (The),67
Post Office London Directory (The),213
Postal Economy at Glasgow,217
Price of a Lord Mayor's Gown,222
Pride of England (The),191
Prince, Pigs, and Parasites,248
Prince Punch to Prince Albert,216
Prison Disciplinarians,141
Prophets in the Parlour,252
Proposals for a New Art of Puffing,251
"Provided Always",2
Public's Address to his Cabman (The),44
Punch at a Royal Christening, 13
Punch and his Pippins,253
Punch the only recognised Promoter of Literature,197
Punch's Potato Prophecy,125
Queen Christina in England,118
Questionable Advertisements,158
Railway Dog (A),173
Random Records of a Run through certain Continental Countries,161
Reading the (Dramatic) Stars,231
Real Reason (The),262
Real Scottish Grievance (A),225
Real Smoke Nuisance (The),62
Re-christening of the Bosphorus (The),27
Recovery from the Cabman's Strike,59
Regular Nuisance (A),198
Remarkable Self-Sacrifice,113
Remarkable Tribute of Siderial Approbation,221
Resource for Young Ladies,81
Return to Duty (The),64
"Revenons à nos Moutons",205
Review of the Medical Line,112
Roses of Sharon for Australia,53
Royal Exchange Clock (The),228
Royal Lunch Prevented (A),174
Rural Self-Denial Clubs,184
Russian Impudence,84
Russian "Mouches" in Parliament,163
Russian Reasons,19
Russian Revolutionists,231
Sabbatarian Meeting at Glasgow,82
Saint Cabbie!,112
"Salad for the Solitary",223
Sapphics of the Cabstand,42
Scenes at the Judges' Chambers,235
Scotch Peerage in Peril (The),237
Scotland Humiliated,244
Seamstress that won't Starve (A),14
Serjeant Adams on a Knotty Point,266
Shall Ladies have Votes?,224
Shameful Intimidation of an Old Gentleman,144
Shaving by Machinery,185
She will be a Martyr,183
Sheriff's Dinners at Newgate (The),201
Shocking Language,67
Shocking Low Church,234
Shoe Lane Raleigh (A),112
Short and Saponaceous,134
Shortcoming in the City,242
Soldier's Dream (The),11
Signs made Symbols,148
Signs of the Times,153
Sing a Song of Sixpence,84
Singing-Boys minus Sevenpence at St. Paul's,184
Something in a Sign,165
Something outrageous,227
Song of the City Remembrancer (The),227
Song of the Transplanted Shamrock,131
Song—Ripeforajail,69
Songs of the Geological Society,214
Songs of the Mendicants,48
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St. Cecilia and St. Helen,238
St. Cross Stingo,224
St. Luke's and St. Stephen's,61
Special Review of the Fleet,74
Spirited conduct of Mr. Charles Kean,44
Spiritual Manifestations,13
Sporting at Windsor,196
Sporting Regiment (A),181
Stanzas to Erin,18
Statue to Albert (A),245
Strike of the Wives of England,60
Striking Circumstances,67
Summer Promotions,116
"Sure Derbyites",21
Sure Symptoms of Christmas,261
Table-Turning and True Piety,243
Tailor Assassin (The),64
Taken for Granted,227
Talleyrandism (A),235
Tap on a Tub (A),241
Tasking a Bishop's Face,248
Tavern Experience,131
Tea-Table Talk,10
Tea-total Movement (The),62
That Very Small (Political) Party,143
Theatrical Novelties,224
Thoughts on the Savage Lions of London,38
Tight Blockade (The),181
To Correspondents,111
To Fight or not to Fight,171
To Professor Faraday,22
To the Noble Airl,162
Trap to catch a Mooncalf (A),132
Tremendous Effects of a Kiss,153
Tricks, but not Honours,231
Trouser Mind (The),251
Trumpet of Battle (The),158
Trumpet with a Cold (A),266
Turtle Benevolent Association (The),242
Two Portraits of the Czar,206
Unprotected Female in Want of a Cab (The),57
Unevenhanded Justice,266
"Upholsterer to the Monument" (The),223
Vegetarians in the North,73
Very Good of the Pope,163
Vested Right,137
Visit of the Thames and Medway to the Royal Commissioners,235
"Vow of Poverty" (The),176
Waits to the Czar (The),264
Walker,113
Wanted, a Nobleman!,61
Warning to Vegetarians (A),113
Wash Wanted (A),263
Waste of Sympathy (A),49
"We never Sell Our Appointments",93
What can the Police be About?,50
What I Saw, Heard, and Thought, at Chobham,32
What is a Cabman's Mile,32
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What is Man?201
What is the House of Keys?34
What you may Hear in a Bell,91
Where are the Russians?218
Whiskey above proof,70
Whisper in the Ear of Nicholas (A),77
Who sends all the Conscience-Money?77
Whys for the Wise,203
Wild Flowers from Canada,33
Winchester Soup,184
Witness on an Election Committee (A),7
Woman's Elevation League (The),52
Women's Rights—Men's Noses,192
Wonders of the Deep,67
"Woodman! Spare that Joke",163
Words of Peace,168
Words! words! words!263
Yacht Signals,183
