SUGAR CANDY, MATCHES, OR CHEAP BREAD, would find this a desirable investment, more particularly should he wish to form either
A PAROCHIAL OR MATRIMONIAL UNION, as there are plans for the one, and hints for the other, which will be thrown into the bargain, being of no further use to the present noble incumbent.
LOT 3. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT, at present the property of Lord Normanby. Is admirably calculated for any one of a literary turn of mind, offering resources peculiarly adapted for a proper cultivation of the Jack Sheppard and James Hatfield men-of- elegant-crimes school of novel-writingthe archives of Newgate and Horsemonger-lane being open at all times to the inspection of the favoured purchaser.
YES OR NO will determine the sale of this desirable lot in a few days.
LOT 4. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, now in the occupancy of Lord Palmerston. Possesses advantages rarely to be met with. From its connexion with the continental powers, Eau de Cologne, bears grease, and cosmetics of unrivalled excellence, can be procured at all times, thus insuring the favour of the divine sex,
And large black eyes that flash on you a volley
Of rays, that say a thousand things at once,
To the high damas brow more melancholy.
The only requisite (besides money) for this desirable lot is, that the purchaser must write a bold round hand for
PROTOCOLS, understand French and Chinese, and be an
EXPERT TURNER. LOT 5. SEVERAL UNDER SECRETARYSHIPS, admirably adapted for younger sons and poor relatives.
The whole of the proceeds (by the advice of her Majestys Cabinet Council) will be devoted to the erection of a
UNION FOR DECAYED MINISTERS. Cards to view may be had at the Treasury any day after the meeting of Parliament.
Very like a whale! as the schoolmaster said when he examined the boys back after severely flogging him.
[pg 26] THE DIARY OF A LORD MAYOR. All the world is familiar with the Diary of a Physician, the Diary of an Ennuyée, the Diary of a Lady of Rank, and Heaven knows how many other diaries besides! but who has ever heard of, or saw, the Diary of a Lord Mayor,that day-book, or blotter, as it may be commercially termed, of a gigantic mind? Who has ever perused the autobiography of the Lama of Guildhall, Cham of Cripplegate, Admiral of Fleet Ditch, Great Turtle-hunter and Herod of Michaelmas geese? We will take upon ourselves to answernot one! It was reserved for PUNCH to give to his dear friends, the public, the first and only extract which has ever been made from the genuine diary of a late Lord Mayor of London, or, as that august individual was wont, when in Paris, to designate himself on his visiting tickets