. Punch . ervous bout de abolition of niggahs. Now, bein de moder ob twelvefine darkies, I tink I is cidedly a Matron ob de Southâan I sure younedder I nor Aunt Juno, who am de moder ob fifteen, nor no matronon dis ere plantation, dont feel nohow nervous bout de Abolition ofNiggahs. Yourfeckshnate, Two Masr President, Washinton. Aunt Sally. , White House, Washington, On consideration, it might, I think, have been as well to saythe white Matrons. Yours, Mrs Sally, Old Swamp. James Buchanan. hi. Old Swamp. Golly, Masr Buchanan, I tink so President, Washinton. Aunt Sally. A Surpl
. Punch . ervous bout de abolition of niggahs. Now, bein de moder ob twelvefine darkies, I tink I is cidedly a Matron ob de Southâan I sure younedder I nor Aunt Juno, who am de moder ob fifteen, nor no matronon dis ere plantation, dont feel nohow nervous bout de Abolition ofNiggahs. Yourfeckshnate, Two Masr President, Washinton. Aunt Sally. , White House, Washington, On consideration, it might, I think, have been as well to saythe white Matrons. Yours, Mrs Sally, Old Swamp. James Buchanan. hi. Old Swamp. Golly, Masr Buchanan, I tink so President, Washinton. Aunt Sally. A Surplus for Poor Parsons. The Puseyite Clergy have, we understand, adopted a resolution onthe subject of Vestments, which will remove a cause of much heart-burning. They have agreed to sacrifice the surplices which they havebeen wont to wear in the pulpit, by sending them to the Poor ClergyRelief Society, to be cut up into shirts for necessitous clergymen. 20 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [January 12, Jocose Fiend. ll Ah, Sir, you was wery nearly down that time! FRANCE AND THE FASHIONS. We wonder whether, now that one can go to France without a pass-port, Edwin will more often be asked by Angelina to take her overto Paris to see what the new fashions are, whether bonnets are wornspoon-shaped or a Vecaille d huttre,v/hether Crinoline shows any symp-tom of decay, and whether flounces may be added to hide creases inthe skirts. The Queen of Fashion clearly holds her Court in Paris,and thither must her votaries month by month repair to learn whatit may please her to order them to wear. How omnipotent her swayis everybody knows, but we own we had not learnt until a recentwriter taught us that sentiment and fashion go sometimes hand inhand, and friendship is displayed with the show of a new toilet. Thisat least we take for granted from this interesting passage in the Illus-trated News, and we so much value the knowledge it imparts that wewill not censure the mild pun with which i
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