Gossip in the first decade of Victoria's reign . disposed for a lark, The tallers a well-whiskerd, fierce-looking Arab, arrayed with a coal-heavers hat,With a friend from the desert is holding a chat; The pictures completed by well-tailed Chinese A-purchasing opium, and selling of ministers navy is seen in the rear—They long turned their backs on the service—tis clear That they now would declare, in their typical way. That Britannia it is who has done it, not reindeer and Laplander cutting through snow,The rate of their progress (down hill) seems to show. To the right,
Gossip in the first decade of Victoria's reign . disposed for a lark, The tallers a well-whiskerd, fierce-looking Arab, arrayed with a coal-heavers hat,With a friend from the desert is holding a chat; The pictures completed by well-tailed Chinese A-purchasing opium, and selling of ministers navy is seen in the rear—They long turned their backs on the service—tis clear That they now would declare, in their typical way. That Britannia it is who has done it, not reindeer and Laplander cutting through snow,The rate of their progress (down hill) seems to show. To the right, is the King of the Cannibal Islands, In the same pantaloons that they wear in the HighlandsSome squaws by his side, with their infantile a friend, in the front, whos forgotten his garments. Frost, Williams and Jones* have this moment been hook And are fixing the day they would choose to be cookd. * Three Chartist leaders, who were condemned to death on 16 Jan., 1840,but were never executed, and^subsequently pardoned. i840i 133. 134 GOSSIP. [1840 There a planter is giving and watching the tasksOf two worthy niggers, at worlv on two casks. Below, to the left, as designed by Mulready, Is sorrows effect on a very fat lady ;While joy at good news may be plainly descried,In the trio engaged on the opposite side. There were very many pictorial satires on this unfortunatewrapper, but none bore so near a resemblance to it as theaccompanying illustration by John Doyle ( Sketches, 26May, 1840, No. 639). Lord Palmerston, as Britannia, is dis-patching Mercuries with fire and sword, to the east, typicalof the wars in Egypt and China. On the other hand, hesends a flight of Cupids to Father Mathew, the apostle ofTemperance, who was then doing such good work in Ireland,whilst a man is knocking the bung out of a whisky this group is OConnell, who is roaring out Hurrahfor Repeal! to the horror of the Duke of Wellington, whois behind him. On the left is Lord Mo
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