. Punch . erncivilisation would furnish a fine subject for an allegorical picture to beexecuted for the adornment of a vacant space on the walls of theinterior of the Vatican, by a suitable artist, whom Pius could affordto remunerate handsomely out of the Peters pence, which are tossedinto the triple hat now going round. Or the Pope might be depictedby the same artist cursing modern civilisation and blessing mediaevalcivilisation; modern civilisation opening public offices to persons ofall religious opinions; mediaeval civilisation burning heretics alive. A Foolish Semark. The fight was a Do,
. Punch . erncivilisation would furnish a fine subject for an allegorical picture to beexecuted for the adornment of a vacant space on the walls of theinterior of the Vatican, by a suitable artist, whom Pius could affordto remunerate handsomely out of the Peters pence, which are tossedinto the triple hat now going round. Or the Pope might be depictedby the same artist cursing modern civilisation and blessing mediaevalcivilisation; modern civilisation opening public offices to persons ofall religious opinions; mediaeval civilisation burning heretics alive. A Foolish Semark. The fight was a Do, and all Brightons in frowns,Said Lord Jybb to his friend Captain Grinnum, When the battle commenced, folks were all on the Downs And when it was over, all in em. A pair Mitxdle-aged young lady is so angry with the Government forasking her how old she is, that she declares she thinks the Censuswould have been more rightly known as the Incense-us. 158 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [April 13, The Six-footers. Brighton. THE PRICE OF A PARTRIDGE. We doubt whether the nation is sufficiently^ aware what its precious Game-Laws cost it-Perhaps it may be helped in making a rough guess by basing calculation on the followingaccount, which we copy from the Times of Wednesday in last week:— The Poacher and the Partridge.—A singular case, taken under a new Act of Parliament, was heardbefore the South Shropshire magistrates, at Bridgenorth, on Saturday. Frederick Perrt, a notoriouspoacher and a returned convict (who is at present undergoing a sentence of six months imprisonment inShrewsbury gaol for a murderous assault on a gamekeeper at Kinlet Hall), was summoned for having on the15th of January, at Claverly, killed a partridge, without having taken out a licence. The name of the defend-ant having been called three times at the court-house door, and he not answering, Mr. Batte, who appearedtp prosecute on behalf of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, said the case was t
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