We know not how far the readers of PUNCH may be inclined to approve so
prosy an article as this in their pet periodical; but we have ventured to
appeal to them (as the most sensible people in the country) against a
class of shallow empirics, who have managed to glide unchidden into our
homes and our families, to chill the one and to estrange the other.
Surely, surely, we were unworthy of our descent, could we see unmoved our
lovely English girls, whose modesty was wont to be equalled only by their
beauty, concentrating all their desires and their energies on a good
match; or our reverend English matrons, the pride and honour of the land,
employing themselves in the manufacture of fish-bone blanc-mange and
mucilaginous tipsy-cakes; or our young Englishmen, our hope and our
resource, spending themselves in the debasing contamination of cigars and
alcohol.

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CONDENSED PARLIAMENTARY REPORT ON THE MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATES.

Vide _Examiner_.

MR. WILLIAMS--objected--
SIR T. WILDE--vindicated--
SIR R. PEEL--doubted--
MR. PLUMPTRE--opposed--
MR. VILLIERS--requested--
MR. EWART--moved--
MR. EASTCOURT--thought--
MR. FERRAND--complained--
LORD JOHN RUSSELL--wished--