MrPunch's history of modern England . doesnt care For this stupid swans air,Any more than the croak of a raven. The Court was certainly not addicted to extravagance, butthe Queens bal poudre in June is heavily ridiculed, largely,no doubt, because of Punchs frequently expressed convictionthat the British never shone as masqueraders. Cobdens speechin 1848, attacking highly-paid sinecures in the Royal House-hold, is approved, but Punch was no advocate of new front of Buckingham Palace is severely criticized inMarch, 1849 : its only beauty is that of hiding the remainderof the buildi
MrPunch's history of modern England . doesnt care For this stupid swans air,Any more than the croak of a raven. The Court was certainly not addicted to extravagance, butthe Queens bal poudre in June is heavily ridiculed, largely,no doubt, because of Punchs frequently expressed convictionthat the British never shone as masqueraders. Cobdens speechin 1848, attacking highly-paid sinecures in the Royal House-hold, is approved, but Punch was no advocate of new front of Buckingham Palace is severely criticized inMarch, 1849 : its only beauty is that of hiding the remainderof the building like a clean front put on to make the best ofan indifferent shirt. The mountainous flunkeydom at Royal I go Royal Visits and Visitors levees is a frequent incentive to ridicule with pen and pencil;Punch is happy in pillorying the Morning Post for the use ofthe phrase, the dense mass of the nobility and gentry atone of Lady Derbys receptions; while he applauds the Queenfor setting a good example by giving early juvenile parties in. CALYPSO MOURNING THE DEPARTURE OF ULYSSES Calypso, Q n V a ; Ulysses, K—g of the F h. the season of 1850. Her visits and visitors were carefullyscrutinized and freely criticized, beginning with the Royaltour tn Belgium and France in the autumn of 1843, whenQueen Victoria is represented as mesmerizing Louis Philippewith a Commercial Treaty. Punch was in frequent hotwater with Louis Philippe—whom, by the way, he once re-presented as Fagin—and the impending visit of the French 191 Mr. Punch s History of Modern England Sovereign, at the close of 1844, led to some plain talk on hisfolly in proscribing and impounding Punch, followed up by aburlesque account of his arrival at Portsmouth, with an ironicalreference to the omission of all literary men, painters, musicians,sculptors, etc., from the invitations to meet him at Court. Whenthe French King left. Punch burlesqued the situation by re-presenting the Queen as Calypso. Punch, like the SkihhereenE
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