. Punch . was sought to put off the bantling upon various members of the family of that Ben DIsraeli publicly declared that it was no child of his ; Mr. Smythe loftilypooh-poohd it; Lord Manners blandly told the impostor to go to the thus, disowned by all, Young England puled and squealed on for a few weeks, andis at length no more ! Some declare that the proximate cause of its death was inani-tion ; and some gin-and-water on the brain. On this we venture no opinion : butsimply inform the world that Young England, a weakly newspaper, has gone to the tombof all the Hum

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. Punch . was sought to put off the bantling upon various members of the family of that Ben DIsraeli publicly declared that it was no child of his ; Mr. Smythe loftilypooh-poohd it; Lord Manners blandly told the impostor to go to the thus, disowned by all, Young England puled and squealed on for a few weeks, andis at length no more ! Some declare that the proximate cause of its death was inani-tion ; and some gin-and-water on the brain. On this we venture no opinion : butsimply inform the world that Young England, a weakly newspaper, has gone to the tombof all the Humbugs ! We understand that Mr. Benteey, touched with peculiar sympathy for the loss,intends to erect a monument to the memory of the thing in the new literary cemetery,which—as we stated in a former number—is about to be established. Mr. Bentleyhas, with excellent taste, selected the following epitaph for the blighted flower :— 3Ef «?cr Zaan fijat 2 foag irone far,I tnonarr tohat £ toss fjejjtm LOED BROUGHAMS RAILWAY NIGHTMARE. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 209

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