Cornell University Library NCI 479 .D75 Manners and c!i>ft°<]i),1,,,i^,,Xlf,.|fii|inl|Xm 3 1924 030 683 670 Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924030683670 MANNERS AND CVSTOMS OF Y= ENGLYSHE. Y « ^^ \ . ,^-^'^>~j \^j^ f t-r w '— c V. anners and Cvstoms Drawn from /^ Ovtck &f KJ'CHARD DoYLE. To WhlCn, BE ADDED SOME EXTRACTS FROM Pips Kys Diary. r Co^frRyevrED by Percml Leigh Vublijhed by BRAD BURT fcf EVANS, ii, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street. , ^^,- '----^.'/^j /"^ Printed by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars. V TE CONtRIBUrOR HTS PREFACE. SUPPOSE the great-grandfather of anybody could ftep down from his pi(5ture-frame and ftalk abroad, his defcendant would be eager to hear his opinion of the world we live in Mofl; of us would like to know what the men of the Paft would fay of the Prefent. If fome old philofopher, for inftance Socrates, exchanging robes for modern clothes, left he ftiould be followed by the boys and taken up by the police, could revifit this earth, walk our ftreets fee our fights, behold the fcenes of our political and focial life, and, contemplating this buftling age through the medium of his own quiet mind, fet down his obfervations refpecfting us and our ufages, he would write a work, no doubt, very interefting to her Majesty's fubjects. It would anfwer the purpofe of a fkilful literary enchanter to " unfphere the fpirit of Plato," or that of Pythagoras, Aristotle, or any other diftinguifhed fage of antiquity, and fend it out on its rambles with a commiflion to take, and report, its views of things in general. But fuch necromancy would have tafked even the Warlock of the North, would puzzle the TE CONTRIBUTOR HTS PREFACE. wizard of any point of the compafs, and, it is probable, could be cleverly achieved by no adept inferior to the ingenious Mr. Shakspeare. However, there flourifhed in a fomewhat later day a philofopher, for fuch he was after his fafliion, a virtuofo, antiquary, and F.R.S., whofe ghoft an inconfiderable perfon may perhaps attempt to raife without being accufed of pretending to be too much of a conjuror. He appears to have been a Peripatetic, at leafl: until he could keep a coach, but on the fubjefts of drefs, dining, and fome others, his opinions favour ftrongly of Epicurifm. A little more than a hundred and eighty years ago he employed his leifure in going about everywhere, peeping into everything, feeing all that he could, and chronicling his experiences daily. In his Diary, which happily has come down to our times, the hiftorical fadts are highly valuable, the comments moftly fenfible, the ftyle is very odd, and the autobiography extremely ludicrous. I have adventured reverently to evoke this worfliipful gentleman, that, refuming his old vocation as a journalift, he might comment on the "Manners and Cvftoms of ye Englyflie in 1849," in the name of Mr. Pips. I hope his fhadow, if not his fpirit, may be recognifed in the following pages. PERCIVAL LEIGH. Hammersmith, December 12, 1849. ^ANHElk-S. AHD.CvsTo/vj^.oF>)[:hiGLYSHE. !tJ ,|84-Q N° I ^h"I\T l-ioMB\ vt JOLKA MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. — %s^- An "At Home." Ye Polka. \WedneJday , March lift, 1849.] TO-NIGHT to an Evening Party with my Wife, to Sir Hilary Jinks's, whereunto we had been bidden to come at 10 of the Clock; for Sir Hilary and her Ladyftiip have taken to keeping rare Hours. Thereat was a goodly Company of about an hundred, and the Women all very fine, my Wife being in her lafl: Year's Gown, which I am tired of, and do hate to fee. We did fall to dancing Quadrilles, wherein I made one, and had for my Partner a pretty little black Damfel, whom after the Dance was ended, did hand to a Sofa, and thereon fit me by her Side ; but feeing my Wife looking hard at us, did prefently make my Bow, and fo away. Then to look on while fome did dance the Polka, which did pleafe me not much, for had beheld it better danced at the Cafino, and do think it more fuitable to fuch a Place than to a Drawing Room. The Young Fellows did take their Partners by the Waift, and thefe did lean upon the others' Shoulders, and with one Arm fl:retched out, and holding Hand in Hand, they did Ipin round the Room together. But, Lacl^ ! to fee the kicking up of Heels and fl:amping of them on the Ground, which did mightily remind me of Jim Crow. In truth, I am told that the Polka is but a Peafant's Hop, from Hungary, and now to think of Perfons of Quality cutting fuch Capers ! Sir Hilary to his Tafte ; but a Minuet for me at Home, with Gentlewomen, and a Polka with Milkmaids at a MR. PIPS HIS DIJRT. Maying or in a Booth. Meanwhile the Servants did hand round Glafles of Negus, which was poor Stuff; and thofe who lifted to Supper when they chofe, in a fide Room, off wretched Sandwiches of the Size of the Triangles in Euclid his Geometry, which did think ftiabby. Home in a Cab, at Two in the Morning, much wearied and little pleafed ; and on our Way Home, fpying a Tavern open, did go and get me a Pint of Beer, and the fame to my Wife ; for we were both athirft, and fhe in an ill Humour about the Beauty I had danced with, and I becaufe of the bad Supper ; and fo very ill-contented to Bed, M^NNERS'AhJD- CVSTOmS-OF: 7<^N€UYSr^E; IN- 184-9 N° 2 SHoWe HOOME ■>^^/A pR.0SPECTOF-A--FASHY0NABLE.HA&EmSHER hvs-SHOPE MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. A Prospect of a Fashyonable Haberdasher hys Shope.. \TueJday, Augujt 7, 1849.] FINDING Fault with my Wife, for that fhe do not ufe enough Exercife; whence her continual Headach, and Faddell, the 'Potticary his Bill of £5. She replying that I would never take her out, I faid I would, whenever fhe liked ; whereupon, we agreed to go a Walk forthwith, and my Wife did propofe Regent Street. So we thither, pleafing ourfelves with obferving the PafTers-by and the Carriages, and the Streets blazing with fine Ladies and -flaming Liveries. Going by Lindsey and Woolsey's, my Wife's Eye taken with a Scarf in the Window, and would flop to look at it with a Crowd of other Women gazing at the Finery, which Mr. Skitt do call Baits, and a Draper's Shop a Lady-Trap. Prefently Ihe recollected that fhe -wanted a Collar ; fo we into the Shop, where fome fixty or eighty Ladies fitting before the Counters, examining the Wares, bufy as Blue-Bottle Flies at a Sugar-Caflc. Behind the Counters the Shopmen arid Afliftants, fliowing off the Goods, and themfeives alfo, with mighty dainty Airs, every one of them, almofl:. Narcissus his Image. But I fear me they owe their pale delicate Looks and languid Ways in Part to the Want of fufficient Air and Exercife ; which is a fad Confideration. One of thefe dapper young Sirs did help my Wife to her Collar, coft- 2s. 6d. ; when fhe thought fhe had better get another while about it, coft jj. 6d. more. Then, MR. PIPS HIS DURT. fays he, in his foft condoling Voice, " What is the next Article ? " as though taking for granted that another was wanted — which was too true. For hereupon, my Wife bethought her of lacking fome Lace Cuffs, four Pair: coft 12s. "And now, Mem," (meaning Madam) fays the young Fellow with a Simper, " allow me to fliow you a Love of a Robe, a Barege, Double Glac6, brocaded in the Flouncings, and reduced to Twenty-One-and-Six from Forty-Five." But fhe profefled that fhe needed it not : whereat I was glad ; when he did tell her he would do it at One-and-Four lefs : and fhe then faying that it was indeed a Bargain, which I find is a Woman's Word for anything cheap whether wanted or no, I let her have it : cofl £ i os. 2d. But, to be fure, the Pattern was pretty, and my Wife being well-drefTed do pleafe my Tafte, and alfo increafe my Confequence and Dignity. The Robe bought, it comes into her Head that ftie could not do without a new Shawl to match it, blue and fcarlet, cofl £2 2J., but will look mighty fine, and, I hope, lafl. Here I thought to hale her at once by Force away ; but feeing a flout middle-aged Gentleman doing the very Thing, and how mean it looked, did forbear ; and in the Meanwhile the Shopman did beg, as he faid, to tempt her with a fuperior AfTortment of Ribbons. She rummaging over this Frippery, I to gaze about the Shop, and with Fellow-Feeling did mark an unhappy fmall Boy, while his Mother was comparing fome three-fcore different Pieces of Satin, perched on a Stool, out of Patience. My Wife would have 5^. worth of Ribbons, and here I hoped would make an end; but the Shopman did exhibit to her fome Silk Stockings; and I telling her they were unneceffary, fhe declared that then fhe muft wear Boots, which fhe knows I utterly hate ; and concluded with buying half a Dozen Pair, cofl 24J. : with this my Martyrdom finifhed ; and we away, bowed out of the Shop with Congees by the smirking Shopwalker, rubbing his Hands and grinning, as obfequious as could be ; and fo Home ; I mighty ferious, having laid .out £5 lOJ. 2d. ; and the next time I take out my Wife for a Walk, it fhall be in the Fields and not in Regent Street. jV^AfOHER^-AtJ:5CV'STOhs-of>'^-E:NG-LVSViE. IN. 184-9 • Nl^ 3 -::r^-^y4V>;v-\,.-^-: c^,^^-r^< :^ />"^frS'^ y s^J I- --^iMv^"^- Y^ FASHONA£)Le .worldltakwgei-its glxe-kcyse in HVde-Pakke- MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. Ye Fashonable Worlde takynge its Exercise in Hyde Parke. [Xuefday, March i-jth, 1849. J THIS Day to the Ring in Hyde Park for a Walk to get me an Appetite, and look at the fine Folks and People of Fafliion riding in their Carriages, which it do much delight me to behold. But, good Lack ! what a ftrange Notion of the Pleafure of a Drive ; with the Carriages in a clofe Line jammed all together, and fometimes coming to a dead Stop like the Omnibufes in Fleet Street of an Afternoon, and feldom moving on fafter than Mourning Coaches at a Funeral. Did fee many mighty pretty young Ladies ; and one fitting in a Landau with a Coronet on the Panel, upon whom I did fmile, but perceiving that fhe did turn up her Nose at me, I did look glum ; howbeit, another comely Damfel that I fmiled at did blufh and fimper, which gave me Joy. It was as good as a Play to watch the young Guardfmen, with their Tufts and Muftaches, riding ftraight-legged, and them and the other Bucks taking oiF their Hats and kifling their Hands to the charming Belles as they pafled them by. But it was rarer ftill to behold a Snob that ftrove to do the fame Sort of Thing, and did get laughed at for his Pains. Then what Sport to obferve the fat Coachmen, in their Wigs, fomething like Bifhops', sitting on their Boxes, and the Footmen behind with their parti-coloured Liveries of drab and green, and red and yellow Plufh, and gold-laced Hats, Shoulderknots and Cockades, bearing their Canes, MR. PIPS HIS DIART. and their Nofes to the Sky, holding their Heads as high as Peacocks for Pride in their Frippery and plump Calves ! Thefe Fellows are as fine as Court Cards, and full as Ridiculous, and they do divert me in the Extreme : only their bepowdered Pates do offend me, for I think the Fafhion an uncleanly one ; and after all, I wonder how their Mafters and MiftrefTes can delight in drefling them out fo much like Mountebanks. Did note divers Noble Lords and Gentlemen of the Houfe of Commons whom I did know either by Sight or from the Caricatures in the Shop- Windows. From four to five o'Clock around the Ring and up and down by the Serpentine to make my Obfervations. Methought how jolly these fine People muft be, and how happy they looked compared to a Beggar Boy whom I did fpy fquatting on the Grafs : yet no Doubt many of them have Troubles enough, and fome may be even Ihort of Cafli to pay for their Vanities. After that, to the Corner, by the Powder Magazine, nigh to Kenfington Gardens, to fee the Company alight from their Carriages, and take an Inventory of the Ladies' Drefles, whereof to furnifh an Account to my Wife. Then away Home at half-paft Five, and fo to Dinner off a Shoulder of Mutton and Onion-Sauce, which my Wife doth make exceeding Well, and my Dinner did content me much ; and thereupon I did promife my Wife a new Bonnet, the Like whereof I had feen on a Countefs in the Park, and fo both in great Good Humour, and very loving all the Evening. ^ANMEKS-AND-CVSTom-OP/e EAfGLYSH^: IN • (849 H"" . 4 -\A i)lO\wYN&E R^M .^AV- SAVNTEjAME:S-iiys-STR.EErE. MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. -««»- A Drawynge Room Day. Saynte Iames hys Streets. {Thursday, March i<^th, 1849.J TO fee the Nobility and Gentry, and other great Company, go to the Queen's Drawing- Room, with a Friend to St. James's Street, where did ftand in front of Boodle's Club- Houfe in the Rain, which was heavy, and fpoiled my Paris Hat, coft me twelve Shillings. But the Sight of the Show was almoft worth the Damage ; for the Red and Blue Uniforms of the Army and Navy Officers, with their Orders on their Breafts, and their Cocked Hats and Plumes in their Laps, and the Ladies of Quality in their Silks and Satins, of all Manner of Colours, and their Hair crowned with Oftrich Feathers, and Iparkling with Pearls and Diamonds, did much delight me to behold. I do not remember that, when I was a Boy, I was ever more taken with a Pageant at Bartholomew Fair. Though I wifh I could have had as good a View of the Gentlefolks within the Carriages as I had of the Lackeys outfi.de, who, with their fupercilious Airs, and their Jackanapes Garb, did divert me more than ever. I do continually marvel at the enormous Calves of thofe Varlets, for which one might almoft think they were reared, like a fort of Cattle. Indeed, I fhould have believed that their Stockings were fluffed, if I had not feen one of them wince when a Horfe chanced to lay hold of his leg. It did more and more amaze me to obferve how high they carried their Nofes, efpecially as moft of them had Pofies in their Bofoms ; whereas they looked as though, inftead, there were fome unfavoury Odour beneath their Noftrils. But much as the Servants refembled Zanies and Harlequins, yet MR. PIPS HIS DIJRT. did fomc of their Mafters look not much better ; being drefTed in a Court Suit, which methinks do make a Gentleman feem a fort of embroidered Quaker. I do greatly wonder why the uglieft Apparel of any Date in Englifh Hiftory fhould be pitched upon for the Court Drefs. But the fplendid Carriages painted with Coats of Arms, and the ftately caparifoned Horfes, did make a rare Show , and among them mighty droll to mark the Hack Cabs that were not fuiFered to enter at the Palace Gate ; fo the Fares had to alight and walk on Foot the Reft of the Way to the Drawing-Room : and fo into the Prefence of Her Majesty in dirty Boots : which, now I bethink me, was not feemly ; the rather as many of them are Half Pay Officers, and other poor but loyal Subjects, who could afford no better than a Cab. But good Lack ! it did moft tickle me to view the Sheriff's Coach, which for Magnificence did exceed the Fairy's Chariot in the Opera-Play of Cinderella ; and great Sport it was to hear and fee the little rafcal Boys fhout and clap their Hands as it went by. Alfo it did give me extreme Amufement to notice the gimcrack Equipages and bearded Vifages, and Playhoufe Attire of the different Foreign AmbafTadors ; of whom I think the Turkifh was the moft grand. It did make me laugh not a 'little to fee the Police with their Truncheons, keeping order among the Vagabonds, till one did tell me to move on, which did vex me. Then there were the Guards, in full Uniform on Horfeback, with their Helmets on their Heads and their Swords drawn, about one under each Lamp Poft, mounting Guard, very warlike to look upon, and I believe this is the heavieft Part of their Duty. What with the blazing Uniforms and glittering Jewels, and illuminated Coaches, and the Laughter I was moved to by the motley Footmen and Foreigners, my Eyes were dazzled and my Head did fomewhat ache ; moreover, fome pretty faces I did gaze upon did put my Heart in a Flutter, which did not think fit to mention to my Wife. Methinks how fine it would be to ride in State to Court, if it were not fo chargeable, and I ftiould much delight in the Honour and Glory of the Thing, but fhould not at all like the Expenfe. A Drawing-Room doth altogether eclipfe the Lord Mayor's Show ; although it do feem but a Toy and gilt Gingerbread Affair, and an empty, childifli Difplay, like the Babies' Game of King and Queen ; but then it hath certainly this Advantage, that it do much good to Trade. MAMWER.5 AND-C\/ST0M3.orvE .EnG-LYSHE .iN.\8A-9. NO 5 SMrrHFiELD guttle: ^4M?J .EN&LVSHE IN.f849- N° 6- ^A 'Pew -Friends -to-te^'And -a lyttle- fvjy^YCK . MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. -««*- A Few Friends to Tea, and a Lyttle Mvsyck. \_TueJday, April 17, 1849.] TO Mr. Jiggins's, where my Wife and I were invited to Tea and a little Mufique, but we had much Mufique and little Tea, though the Mufique was like the Tea in Quality, and I do prefer a ftronger Kind of Mufique as well as Liquor. Yet it was pleafing enough to the Ear to hear the Fafliionable Ballads, and the Airs from all the New Italian Operas fung by the young Ladies ; which, though they exprefl*ed Nothing but common-place Love and Sentiment, yet were a pretty Sing-Song. But to fee the young Fellows whilft a Beauty was finging crowd round her, and bend over her Shoulders, and almoft scramble to turn over the Leaves of her Mufique Book ! Befides the Singing, there was Playing of the Piano Forte, with the Accompaniment of a Fiddle and Bafs Violl, the Piano being played by a fliout fat Lady with a Dumpling Face ; but for all her being fo fat it did amaze me to fee how nimbly she did fillip the Keys. They did call this Piece a Concerto, and I was told it was mighty brilliant ; but when I aflced what Fancy, Paflion, or Defcription there was in it, no one could tell ; and I verily thought the Brilliancy like that of a Pafl:e Buckle. It had not even an Air to carry away and whiflile, and would have pleafed me jufl: as well if I had fl:opped my Ears, for I could discern Nothing in it but Mufical Sleight of Hand. But good Lack ! to think how, in thefe Days, MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. Execution is Everything in Mufique, and Compofition little or Nothing : for almoft no Account is made of the Mafter, and a prepofterous Value put upon the Player, or Artifte, as the Frenchified Phrafe now is ! After the Concerto, fome Polkas and Waltzes, which did better pleafe me ; for they were a lively Jingle certainly, and not quite unmeaning. Strange, to find how rare a Thing good Mufique is in Company ; and by good Mufique I mean fuch as do fl:ir up the Soul, like the Flowers and Sunfhine in Spring, or Storms and Tempefts, or ghoftly Imaginations, or the Thought of great Deeds, or tender or terrible Paflages in Poetry. My Wife do play fome brave Pieces in this Kind, by Mynheer Van Beethovenj and I would rather hear her perform one of them, than all I did hear to-Night put together ; and fo I did tell her when we got Home, which did content her well. But every one to his Tafte ; and they who delight in the trivial Style of Mufique to theirs, as I to mine, not doubting that the Englifli, that have but juft begun to be fenfible to Mufique at all, will be awake to the nobler Sort of it by and by. And, at any Rate, an Evening of infipid Mufique and weak Tea is better than fitting toping and guzzling after Dinner. |V[anmers-and.Cvstom's. OF y^ Englyshe-in i849- N°- 7- ^' NATfONAL SpoRJe I'-' or ^TEEPLE - CHASY/MCt-e . MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. Ye National Sporte ! ! ! of Steeple Chasynge. \Monday, April 23^ 1849.] DOWN the Road to a Steeple Chafe, which I had never feen before, and did much long to behold: for of all Things I do love Diverfion and Merriment; and. both Mr. Strappes and Sir William Spurkins did tell me there would be rare Sport. Got a Place in the Grand Stand, coft me half-a-Guinea, which was loth to part with, but thought I ftiould have brave Entertainment for fo much Money. Did find myfelf here in fine Company, Dukes, and Earls, and Lords and Ladies too, which did pleafe me ; but among them fome Snobs, in Stable-cut Clothes, with fpotted Neckcloths and Fox-headed Breaft-pins ; though fome of thefe were Lords too, who feemed to have been at Pains to look like Oftlers. To fee the Crowd on Horfeback and in Carriages, and thbfe on Foot pufhing and fcrambling, and trampling each other to get a Sight of the Courfe, as if there had been going to be a Coronation, or a Man hanged! The Courfe, marked out with Flags, and having Hurdles, Pofts, Fences, Rails, Hedges, Drains, Ditches, and Brooks in the Way ; and this Sportfmen do call the Country, and fay fuch a Country is a Teafer, and fo I ihould think. By-and-by the Jockies in their Saddles, but their word is Pig-fkins, looking, in their gay Colours, like Tulips on Horfeback, which was a pretty Sight. Then a Bell rung to clear the Courfe, and the Horfes with their Riders drawn MR. PIPS HIS BIARY. up ready to ftart, and prefently a Flag flouriftied for a Signal : and fo they off. Good Lack, to fee them galloping helter-fkelter, like mad, through Rivers, and over Hedges and Ditches, and the whole Thing done in ten Minutes ! Some did jump the Fences and Hedges, which they about me did term Rafpers, clean over ; but others not fo lucky, and ftuck in Brambles or on Stakes, or between double Rows of Pofts, with a Quickfet in the Middle, whereof the cant name is Bullfinchers. Others upfet in Ditches ; and one or two of them not able to get up again, and carried away upon fome of the Hurdles ; and when the Race was over, three Horfes found lying with their Backs broken, and fo fhot. Sir William did inform me that it was a tidy Field, which I could not agree, with the Rafpers and Palifades upon it, and the Horfes fpiked, or fprawling with their Riders on the Ground with broken Backs and Limbs. Nor did I underftand the Fun of this Part of the Thing ; wherefore I fuppofe I muft be dull ; for it do feem to be the chief Delight that People take in it. For, as if the Gates and Rails belonging to the Ground were not dangerous enough, they do fet up others called made Fences, being ftubborn Pofts and Stakes tw^ifted with Briars and Brambles, which do feem to be meant for Nothing but to be tumbled over, and in that Cafe to do as much Mifchief, as may be, to Man and Beaft. The Horfes moftly ridden by Jockeys for Hire ; but fome by their Owners, who, methinks, do fet a fufficient Value upon their own Exiftence when they venture their Necks in riding a Steeple Chafe ; but I do blame them for Hiking the Life of a ufeful Horfe. y\^i^^E.Pl Am cvsTons OF /' EMGLYs/^E IN . 1 8 4-9 • No . 8 .VAm , r r J ^^•COMMONS •KHSsoLVED -(nTo. A'CoMMyrrEG'OF-y^-WHoLE . ffOVSE . / MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. -s««- Ye Commons Ressolved into a Commyttee of Ye Whole Hovse. \Friday, April 27, 1849. J TO the Houfe of Commons, where an Irifli Debate on the Rate-in- Aid Bill, which did make me drowfy. The Houfe in Committee ; the Irifh Members moving all Sorts of frivolous Amendments, abufing the Government, and quarrelling among themfelves. Sir H, Barron did accufe Mr. Reynolds of being ready to Vote away other People's Money becaufe he had none of his own, and Mr. Reynolds did fay that he never faw fuch Mifery as on Sir H. Barron's Eftate; whereupon Sir H. Barron up in a Rage, and did deny the Fadt with vehement Geftures, flourifhing his Fifts gallantly. Then Mr. Reynolds did fall foul of Mr. Bateson, one that had been a Captain, for queftioning the Chancellor of the Exchequer concerning young Reynolds's Place; and did make a Joke upon Mr. Bateson's Muftachios : whereat much Laughter. But a fmall Joke do go a great Way in the Houfe of Commons. Before the Debate, Lord John Russell marching up one of the fide Galleries, and taking the Meafure of the Houfe through his Eye-Glafs : a fharp delicate little Man, with a mild Voice, but do carry himfelf ftately. Methought his Obfervations amufed him, for he fmirked a little, and looked as if he knew the Cuftomers he had to deal with. But to fee him and the Home Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer trying to perfuade the MR, PIPS HIS DIART. Irifh Members not to prefs their ridiculous Motions to a Divifion, wheedling and coaxing them, as fmiling and civil as Haberdafhers ! The Bill to be reported to-morrow ; and then the Houfe to a little ordinary Bufinefs ; and Mr. Horsman's Bill poftponed, through the Irifli cavilling and squabbling. Then a Debate on naming the Committee on Savings Banks ; and made an Irifli Queftion too ; the Difpute how many Irifli Members were to ferve on the Committee : and the End, the Naming of the Committee delayed. This Way of doing Bufinefs in the Houfe of Commons makes it no Wonder how little is done ; and the chief Caufe is the Irifli Members haranguing upon Nothing and quarrelling about Straws, which do feem to me a childifli and fpiteful Attempt to give Trouble to Government. I did hope to hear a Speech from Sir Robert Peel, but was difappointed, which did vex me ; but heard a few Words from Colonel SiBTHORP, which made mighty Laughter, and were as fenfible as any Thing I heard all the Evening : and the Colonel in a brave Waifl:coat, with his droll figure, did divert me much. Lafb of all, a Settlement of the Smithfield Committee : and I do wonder this became not an Irifli Matter too. The Houfe adjourning at half-paft One in the Morning ; and to fee the Number of Members lying afleep on the Gallery Benches ! All this While Nothing whatever done of more Importance than Parifli Bufinefs at a Vefl;ry. I ofi^ to Supper in the Haymarket on pickled Salmon and Stout, cofl: me \s. 6d., and then Home and to Bed, pafl: 2 o'Clock, and my Wife do fay that the Houfe of Commons keep worfe Hours than any Tavern in Town. IMANNEPvS'AND- CVSToMS- OF/e: EN(rLY5HE-iN-|B49- N^ - 9 . HER. MAJESTfc THEATliP . TD NISHT, JEMMY J!W1) ^'PvfiLlCk:-iTs-ExcYreME:iv!TE- 0^f y^ APf>EAKA>^cE: of -Miss LlND MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. Ye Pvblick its Excytemente on ye Appearance of Miss Lind. [Saturday, May 5, 1849.J TO the Queen's Houfe in the Haymarket to hear Jenny Lind, whom Everybody do call the Swedifh Nightingale. Did go with a Pit Ticket, coft me Sj. dd., which is a mighty Sum of Money to pay for only the Chance of a Seat. Went at 6, p. m., expecting a Crowd, and there a Mob of People already at the Doors, and fome did fay they had come as early as Five. Got as clofe as I could to the Pit Entrance, and the Throng increafing ; and by-and-by Ladies in their Opera Drefles Handing without their Bonnets in the Street. Many of them between the Carriage Wheels and under the Horfes' Heads : and methinks I did never fee more Carriages together in my Life. At laft the Doors open ; which did begin to fear they never would, and I in with the Prefs, a moft terrible Crufh, and the Ladies fcreaming and their Drefles torn in the Scramble, wherefore I thought it a good Job that my Wife was not with me. With much ado into the Pit, the Way being flopped by a Snob in a green Jockey Coat and Bird's Eye Neckcloth, that the Checktakers would not fufFer to pafs. The Pit full in a Twinkling, and I fain to fland where I befl: might, nigh to Fop's Alley : but prefently a Lady fainting with the Heat and carried out, which was glad of; I mean that I got her Place. I did never behold fo much Company in the Houfe before ; and every Box full of Beauties, and hung MR. PIPS HIS DURT. with yellow Satin Curtains, did fhow like a brave Picture in a Gold Frame ; which was very handfome to look round upon while the Muficians were tuning. The Fiddles tuned, and the Overture played, the Curtain up for the Opera ; which was the Sonnambula ; the Part of Amina adled by Jenny. The moment fhe came on the Stage, the Audience, Lords, Ladies, and all, upon their Legs, fhouting, cheering, waving Hats and Handkerchiefs, and clapping of Hands in white Kid Gloves. But at laft they filent, and let the Nightingale fing ; and for certain fhe is a wonderful Singer. It did amaze me to hear how eafy and fweetly fhe do trill and warble the mofl difficult PafTages : and I perceive fhe hath a rare Ability of Voice. But what did no lefs aflonifh me was her Ading, it being as good as her Singing ; for fhe did feem to forget herfelf in her Part, inflead of her Part in herfelf; which is the Miflake of mofl Opera Singers. To think that fhe fhould draw the whole Town in Crowds together to hear her fing a few pretty Sugar-plum Melodies and portray the Grief of a poor Peafant Wench caft off by her Lover ! But fhe do put a Grace and Beauty of her own into the Charadter and Mufique : which I take to be the Mark of a true Genius. She made to fing divers Songs twice over, and called upon the Stage at the End of the Aft, and again when the Opera was finifhed ; when, good Lack, to fee the Nofegays and Pofies flung in Heaps upon the Stage ! She mufl needs get a Mint of Money by her Singing ; but fhe has fpent a Deal of it in building Hofpitals, and I do wifh (Heaven forgive me !) I had all fhe has given away in Charity. .^MKNNeR.S-AND-CV5T0MS- OF/°CNG-LYSH£-iin- 1B49 N^' 10 /\'lpROSPECT-0F.EXETEf^-HALL- SHOWYNGE'A CHfllSTIAN-G-eNTLCMAH'DENOVNCYI^ff£:->'^ POPE' MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. se*-^ A Prospect of Exeter Hall. Showynge a Christian Gentleman Denovncynge ye Pope. [Wedne/day, May 9, 1849. J WENT this Morning to Exeter Hall, where one of the May Meetings that do regularly take Place at this Time of the Seafon, and ferve in lieu of Concerts and Shows to a Sort of People that call themfelves ferious. This, one of the Meetings of a Proteftant Aflbciation, which I had heard much of and did long to go to, expeding to hear fome good Argument againft the Roman Catholiques. But inftead of Argument, I did hear Nothing but Abufe, which do always go in at one Ear and out at the other. No new Point brought forward to confute Popery ; but only an Iteration of the Old Charges of Superftition and fo forth, urged with no greater Power than mere Strength of Lungs. The Commotions on the Continent laft Year laid much Strefs on, and the Turmoils in Catholique and Quiet in Proteftant States contrafted, as though there had been no Difturbance or Trouble in Pruffia or Denmark, or any Tumult or Revolution in Belgium or Portugal. I did note two chief Speakers, whom, on their rifing, the Aflembly did applaud as if they had been Aftors, and to be fure, they ranted more frantically than I did ever fee Hicks. Yet at times they ftooped to Drollery in the Height of their Paflion, and one of them did make (uch Sport of the Roman Catholique Religion as would not have been fufFered in the Adelphi Theatre. But I do find that fome who would not be feen in MR. PIPS HIS DIART. a Play-Houfe can enjoy their Laugh at Exeter Hall. This Orator was a Clergyman of fome Kind, for he was called Reverend in the Hand-bill, and dreffed in a clerical Habit, but his Eyes and Face blazing with Wrath, did ftorm like a Madman againft the Maynooth Grant and the Pope of Rome ; and howled as fierce as a Hyaena. The other a Clergyman too, and looked as much like one, with his fneering angry Vifage, and did vehemently harangue, crying bitterly out on fome of my Lords and the Members of the Commons Houfe that had voted for Popifli Endowment. His Oration a Medley of Sarcafm, Invedlive, and Buffoonery, and wound up with a Flourish of Patriotifm and Loyalty. The Speeches received with Applaufe and Laughter, but alfo with Interruptions and crying to turn Somebody out. The Speakers on a Platform, whereon they bounced backwards and forwards, having Rails in Front as if to hinder them from breaking loofe on the Audience. Behind them a Crowd of dainty fnlooth Gentlemen in Black, with white Neckerchiefs, and to fee how demure they looked, as if Butter would not melt in their Mouths ! In the Body of the Hall a goodly Number of Heads, but by far the Mofl of them in Bonnets. The two chief Speeches lafled an Hour and a Half each, and the Chairman leaving his Seat, I away, my Head aching through the Raving. Such Violence, methinks, do only prove that there are other Bigots befides Papifls ; and is the worfl: Means of enforcing any Truth ; for they that fpeak in Anger and Paffion are commonly concluded by indifferent People to be in the Wrong. The Society complaining of want of Funds, which I do not wonder at, for I fear me the Subfcribers have but few Catholiques converted for their Money. MAMNER.S AND CVSTOMS OF X^ ETNGLYSHE- IN - 1849 . N? 1 1 y^ EXHYBITYON AT > f\.OYAL >AC ADETMYe. MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. Ye Exhybityon at ye Royal Academye. \_Monday, May 21, 1849.] THIS Morning with my Wife to the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, where 6 1 1 Paintings, befides Miniatures and other Drawings, and Pieces of Sculpture, making altogether 1341 Works of Art, and methought it would be ftrange if there were not fome Mafterpiece among fo many. The whole to be feen for the fmall Sum of u., and the Catalogue coft me u. more, but Ihould have known all the old Hands as well without it. To fee how eafy it is to diftinguifh them by their Styles after two or three Years' Experience : as one by his Dogs, that might be expedled to bark, or to talk rather, with their Looks and Ways like human Creatures. Then another by his Colouring that do refemble a Mafh of fweet Omelet with all the Colours of the Rainbow and many more ; which methinks is a ftrange Fancy ; but now he hath a Pidlure out of his trite Faftiion ; done after the Manner of the antique Matters, and a good Imitation. A third alfo by his unadorned Beauties with their glowing Eyes and Cheeks and plump fwarthy Flefh, and a fourth by his never ending Perspedives, and Gulfs of Darknefs, and Mountains of Blue. But this Year I do mark fewer of thefe old Acquaintances, and more of the Works of younger Men, wherein there is lefs of Knack and more of Frefhnefs, which I do efteem a hopeful Sign. The Exhibition at large I judge to be a very excellent MR. PIPS HIS BIARY. middling one, many Pidbures good in their Kind, but that Kind in a very few Cafes high. The Silks and Satins moftly painted to Admiration, and the Figures copied carefully from the Model; but this do appear too plainly ; and the Aftion generally too much like a Scene in a Play. In the hiftorical Pidures the Charadters drefled ftrictly in the Fafliion of their Time, but in the beft of them a Lack of Fancy and Imagination, though feeming original through a certain Quaintness that do fmack of Church- Window Saints and illuminated Miflals. The Landfcapes better, and a moft brave Morning on the Lake of Zurich by one that hath the right Stuff in him, and fome iweet melancholy Shades and folemn Groves, and a Solitary Pool, that did pleafe me mightily, and my Wife do fay that the Artift ftiould be Commiffioner of Woods and Forefts. Some Pidures of common Life pretty enough, and a little Crowd before a pleafant fentimental one called the Duet. One or two droll ones, as the Slide, and Drawing for the Militia, did make me laugh : but to think how many Woodcuts as good as the beft you can get in a little Mifcellany publifhed weekly, coft you 3^ ENGLYSKE- in . 1849 • NM 1 i-jst-fe-G^ MZL , ^ II -W^ . ViLW. OF. E^SQH-J:)0WWh5 oN > i)EKBYE DAYEl - ^ JD MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. -«««- A View of Epsom Downes on ye Derbye Daye. \_Wednefday , May 23, 1849. — Derby Day.] TO Epfom Downs to the Great Derby Race. In a Barouche, with a Party, over Vauxhall Bridge, and by Clapham, and very merry we were, carrying Hampers with Store of every Thing needful for a brave Lunch. The Windows and Houfe Fronts crowded, and School- Boys mounted on Walls and Gates, and ithey and the Urchins in the Street fhouting, as though we were going to the Races for their Amufement. But Lack ! to fee the pretty fmart Damfels come out to gaze at us, or peeping behind Blinds and Curtains, all in high Glee, as if glad that we were taking our Pleafure, and good Humour do wonderfully heighten Beauty, as I do tell my Wife. The Road through Trees and Orchards, and the Sun fhining through the young Leaves and on the Horfe-Cheftnut Bloflbms, and the Flowers looking bright like the Lafles. So we on, with Mirth and Pleafant Difcourfe, till into the Ruck, which is the Jam of Carriages caufed by the Stoppage at the Turnpike : and did banter each other and them about us. Acrofs the Courfe to the Hill, the Admiffion coft us £1. Good Lack! what a Crowd of People coUefted to fee which out of fix-and-twenty Horfes ftiould run the fafteft^ and what a Medley of Vans, Omnibufles, and Taxed Carts on either Side of the Courfe with the People in Front of them, and the Grand Stand crowded with Heads, plenty as Blackberries, and feeming like a MR. PIPS HIS DIART. huge Mafs of them. A Throng of Carriages about us, whereon young handfome rakifh-looking Gallants with Muftaches and Cigars. Here and there, in open Coaches, Ladies in lilac and blue Drefles, and pink Bonnets, and gay Ribbons, all Manner of Colours, looking, with the parti- coloured Flags over the Booths, mighty lively. Prefently a Bell rung and the Courfe cleared, but then to fee an unlucky Dog running to get out, and the Mob yelling at him, and the poor Dog in his Fright rufliing ftraight on like mad ! Then the Horfes with the motley Jockies on them prancing up and down before the Grand Stand, to fhow their Paces to the Folks in the Betting Ring. At laft, they taken to the Poll, and fo ftarted with much Cheering, and came eafy round Tattenham Corner ; but prefently away in good earneft, like Shot ! The chief Struggle between the Flying Dutchman and Hot/pur, but Yellow-Cap did win by half a Length. The Winner declared by his Number, hung out In Front of the Grand Stand, and to fee the Flock of Carrier Pigeons fent up to bear away the News ; but Mr, Wagstaffe do fay they were Nothing to the Pigeons left behind. The Race run In three Minutes, but to think of the Money loft and won in that little Time ! My Lord Eglinton and the Public, as I hear, do gain much, and the Ring and Rogues do lofe, which I am glad of. After the Race, to a brave Lunch ; but the Gipfy Children and Women did come and beg Morfels out of our Plates, as well as Money, and got Plenty of both, but in the Midft of all the Luxury It was a forry Sight. Then about the Courfe to fee the Company and the Flinging at SnufF-Boxes, and the Thlmble- Rlg, but of the laft I faw none, only fome playing at Roulette and Hazard, but the Police did feize and break feveral of the Tables, and take away the Stakes. Great Sport returning Home, with the flioutlng for the Winner, and Trumpetting on Horns, and toffing of SnufF-Boxes and Toys to the pretty Lafles at the Windows, and bandying Jokes, but all in mighty good Humour. Seeing all Sorts and Conditions of Perfons, great and fmall, joining in Sport and Frolic, made me compare our own Country with foreign Nations that do prate of their Fraternity, but can none of them ftiow fuch a Sample of It as the Derby. I^AWAJEii^^.AND CVST0MS.0F.7£ -bNG-LYSH E - /N - 1849- N° 13. /^Prospect. OF Green wicf^ Faifl.. MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. -K-3!3 A Prospect of Greenwich Fair. [ftuejday. May 29, 1849. — Whit-Tuesday. j DOWN the River with Browne to Greenwich to view the Fair. To the Park, where young Fellows and Hoydens at Archery, Donkey Riding, playing at Kifs-in-the-Ring, and running down the Hill, romping, tripping, and tumbling over Head and Heels, with Shouting, Screaming, and Laughter. Then down to the Fair, made in a narrow Space in the Town by a Couple of Rows of Booths and Sweet-Meat and Toy-Stalls, with Raree Shows at the farther End, and Swings and Roundabouts on the Outfide. The Paflage moft infufFerably crammed ; and we having to force our Way between Walls hung with Dolls and Gilt Ginger- Bread. The Stalls and Booths crowded alfo, and the Tobacco Smoke rifing from the Drinking Places like a Fog. Young Prentice-Blades and Shop-Boys pufhing about with large Mafquerade Nofes, and did entertain themfelves more than me. But the chief Amufement of thefe Royfterers and the frolicfome Wenches do feem to be fcratching one another, and the Company, behind, with a Scraper, which is a notched Diik of Wood, that turns on an Axle in a Mortife, with a Handle fome fix Inches long, and being dragged down a Man's Back, do make him believe that his Coat is torn, as I thought mine was, when firft ferved fo, which did trouble me. With this Noife of continual Tearing, and the Squeaking of Tin Trumpets, and Blowing of Whittles, and MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. half-a-dozen different Bands playing as many Tunes, is altogether made a moft difcordant Mufique ; and the Showmen bellowing to the Sped:ators to walk up, do increafe the Babel, Strange to fee the Lads and LafTes, heaved up and down, over and under, in the Swings, and to think what Pleafure they can take in fuch a Motion, which methinks a Phyfician might prefcribe in Lieu of a Sea Voyage. With much ado, to Richardson's Show, where a Tragedy, a Comic Song and a Pantomime all in Half an Hour, and the Tragedy accompanied on Whittles and Penny Trumpets by the Audience. But the beft of the Fun outfide, between the Performances, with the Beef-Eaters' Band playing, and the Show-Girls in their Spangles and Paint, dancing, and the Clowns grimacing and flinging Summerfets, and the Robber Chief ftanding in a brave Poilure in the Corner. Store of Fat Ladies, Wonderful Pigs, Giants and Dwarfs to fee, and Conjurors in Plenty, fpecially in the Crowd, conjuring Handkerchiefs out of Pockets. In the Evening to the great Dancing-Booth, which lighted up and hung with variegated Lamps, was, to be fure, a pretty fine Sight. But the Company uproarious through Drink ; and yet the Dancing without Livelinefs, being moftly that roguifh Chin-and-Shoulder French Dance, gone heavily through, and little Happinefs, I fufpeft, in the Hearts of the Dancers. Here again almoft the only Merriment was that perpetual Scraping, and they who fold the Scrapers, did cry, " All the Fun of the Fair for id. : " and^ methinks, faid the Truth. Home by the Railway Train, wherein the Paffengers bawling and finging the whole of the Way — the moft tipfy. They do fay that thefe Fairs are falling off, which I am not forry for ; for they do caufe a Concourfe of Rogues and bad Charaders ; and methinks, that the more good cheap Concerts abound, and Mufeums and Exhibitions are opened to the Public, the lefs will the People frequent fuch Places as Greenwich Fair. 'rt! JVjANNEHS AND- CUSTOM'S oF> UNGLYSRe:' iN- )84-9 > K°. |4. JT)'^ KENSYNGToN.GAf BAMDE PLAYINGe THERJ MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. -fiiS*-^ Kensyngton Gardens with ye Bande Playinge there. \_Friday, June i, 1849.] IN the Afternoon to Kenfington Gardens, where a Band of the Guards do play on this Day, and alfo on Monday throughout the Seafon, and draw together a great Crowd of Fafhionable Folks. The Tunes played moftly Polkas and Waltzes, though now and then a Piece of Mufique of a better Sort ; but the Mufique little more than an Excufe for a Number of People aflembling to fee and be feen. There all the World and his Wife ; and fhe in all her Finery, and very well fhe looked. I did fee gay DrefTes and pretty Faces in greater Number than methinks I ever faw before at one Time. The Day very fair, and the Sun fhining glorioufly, and the bright coloured Silks and Muflins at a Diftance between the Trees, did make a mighty pleafant Pidure. But I not at all content with looking on at a Diftance, but did get as near as 1 could to gaze upon the Beauties, and am afraid that I did look too hard at fome ; but they moftly fmiled, and I believe not any were offended ; for methinks they do not trick themfelves out fo bravely to difcourage Obfervation. To fee them pacing to and fro in fuch fmart Attire, with their fhowy pink, and green, and Forget-me-not Blue Parafols, I could fancy they were the London Fafhions for June come out a walking. But many on Seats with tall well-looking Gallants pofted befide them, or bending down to converfe with them with vaft Attention and Politenefs, whereat MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. they feeming mightily pleafed. Others ftanding in Groups here and there under the Shade, and a great Throng of them round about the Muficians ; but all walking to and fro between the Tunes to fhow themfelves. Many of the Army among the Crowd, and ftrange, to compare them and others of our Gentry, in Air and Manner, with one or two dingy Foreigners with their great Beards and ill-favoured Looks. The little fafhionable Children by the fide of their Mammas elegant enough to fee ; but over-drefled in their Velvet and Plaid Tunics and Plumes of Feathers, and their Ways too mincing and dainty, and looking as though they had ftepped from out a Band-Box. Methinks they do feem brought up to think too much of their Outfides, and to look on Difplay and Show as the Bufmefs of their Lives, which is a filly Schooling. I did mark fome of their Mothers, old enough to know better, bedizened like the young Beauties, but looking four and glum, and plainly ill at eafe in their Pride and Vanity. But it divert me much to compare the delicate Children with fome Charity-School Urchins on the other Side of the Wall that did anger the Park Keeper by mocking him. I doubt me that the young Leatherbreeches be not the happier as long as they can get a Bellyful! of Victuals. The Company doubtlefs enjoying themfelves after their Fafhion, but in general looking marvellous grave ; and ftrange to fhut my Eyes between the Tunes and to hear Nothing but the Ruffling of Dreffes and a Murmur of Voices as they did walk up and down. It is wonderful how we Englilh do go through our Amufements after the Manner of a folemn Ceremony. Yet do the people of Fafhion in Ken- fington Gardens make an exceeding rare Show ; and I do only wifli that there were no Reverfe of the Pifture to be feen among us. But their Finery do afford Employment to Work-People, and I do thank them for parading themfelves for my Amufement, and the Officers of the Guards for treating the Town to Mufique, and fo giving Occafion to fuch a fine Speftacle. MANNER.5.and-CVST0M'S.0F> ENGLYSME.IN \84-9 . N°. |5. Hyghest- CovrJ'OF-uwv. in y^ kyngdom . y« Lopj)S'Hearyng. appeaLs- MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. -»«- Hyghest Covrt of Law in ye Kyngdom. Ye Lords Hearyng Appeals \_Thurfday, June -jth^ 1849. J UP, and to the Houfe of Lords, where a Committee of Privileges touching a difputed Peerage, wherein I had no Concern, but did only go for a Sight of the Infide of the Houfe, and well worth feeing indeed it was ; and the Carving, and Gilding, and Blazoning, a rich Feaft to fhe Eye. There prefent none but my Lord Brougham and my Lord Campbell, and three or four other Lords, which methought a poor Mufter, but a fmaller do often ferve for a Court of Appeal ; for their Lordfhips do truft all their Law Bufinefs to the Law-Lords' Hands, Counfel fpeaking at the Bar of the Houfe, and the Clerks of the Houfe before them at the Table, all in their Wigs very (lately, but my Lords lolling on the Benches, free and eafy, they only having the Right to make themfelves at Home, yet droll to fee the Officers of the Houfe forced to ftand, but fome of them leaning againft the Stems of the gilt Candlefticks, fail afleep on their Legs. Did think I fhould go to fleep too, if I flayed much longer, and about to depart ; but glad I did not; for prefently the Counfel made an End, and then my Lord Brougham exami- ning a Witnefs was almoft the beft Sport that I ever had in my Life. The Witnefs, one of the Attornies for the Claimant of the Title, and Lord Brougham fufpefting fome Trickery in the Cafe, and good Lack ! how he did bait and ferret him to draw it out, alking the moft peremptorv MR. PIPS HIS DIJRT. Queftions, and fometlmes a fecond before the firfl: could be anlwered, firking with Impatience like one fmarting with Stinging Nettles : which was great Mirth, at leaft to all but the Witnefs. It did well-nigh caufe me to laugh outright, and commit a Breach of Privilege, to hear him in a Fume, echo the WitnelT's Anfwers, and cry Eh ? What ! How ! Why ? and Wherefore ? and demand how he could do this, or came not to do the other, and how was that, and fo forth, and then fet his Memory right, next make a ftiort Speech, then give a little Evidence of his own, and again go back to the Examination. It feemed that the Pretender to the Peerage had been helped with Money to maintain his Suit by certain Perfons, and my Lord did ftrive to worm out of the Lawyer their End therein : but to no Purpofe ; for he had met with his Match ; fo forced to content himfelf with a Quip on the Chances of the WitnefT's Client. Then another Witnefs examined ; a Chirurgeon, whom Lord Brougham did make merry with for his jolly good- natured Looks, and did jeft upon concerning his Vocation : and the other did bandy Jokes with my Lord, and gave him as good as he brought. Methinks fuch Bantering is ftrange of a Peer, and one that hath been Lord Chancellor and ufed to fit on the Woolfack, or anywhere elfe but the Box of an Omnibus. But ftrange, how fober a Speech in fumming up the Evidence my Lord did make after all ; and no Doubt he can be reafonable and quiet when he pleafes. Save a few Words from Lord Campbell, not a Syllable fpoke by any Peer but my Lord Brougham ; wherefore methinks he muft have been thoroughly happy, having had nigh all the Talk to himfelf. But the higheft Court of Law in the Realm numbering fo few, put me in mind of the Army in Bombaftes Furiojo, and the Vagaries of Lord Brougham did not the lefs Incline me to fancy it fomewhat of a Burlefque. ManMek^S. and CVST0M3 OF 1' ENGLYSHE-IN- 1849- N° 16- "SoCYETYE'.ENJOY/NGE.fTSELFF.AT.A SOYR-EE - MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. ■«?»- "Socyetye" Enioyinge Itselfe at a Soyree. \Friday, June 15, 1849. J AFTER a Dinner off Bubble and Squeak, my Wife and I to my Lord Wilkinson's At Home, by Invitation ; though Heaven knows if ever I fet Eyes on his Lordfhip in my Life, or he on me ; but do afcribe this Honour to having my Name put down in the Court Guide, and am glad to find the Confequence and Importance I have got thereby. I in my new Suit- of Black and Silk Neckerchief, with a Fringe at the Ends, and my Wife did wear her Lace Drefs over her pink Satin Slip, which was very handfome. Gave our Card to a Lackey in yellow and crimfon Livery, with a huge Shoulderknot, who did fhout out our Name, which, pafling along a Row of his Fellows lining the Stairs, was by the Time it reached the Drawing- Room changed to Pippins — but no matter ; for before I could fet it right, we were prefented to my Lord and my Lady, who profeffed themfelves delighted to fee us. So on with the Stream in the Crowd ; for my Lord's Drawing-Room as thronged as the Opera Pit Entrance on a Thurfday Night. Methought furely there was Something worth feeing and hearing; but faw Nothing extraordinary beyond the Multitude of Company, and divers Writers, Painters, and other Perfons of Note, elbowing their Way through the Prefs ; nor heard anything but Puffing and Gafping, and complaining of the terrible Heat. Several Ladies fainting ; and my Wife declaring (he MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. feared fhe iTiould faint too, which made me mad; for it is always the Way with Women at Spedlacles and AfTemblies, and yet they needs muft and will go to them. At fome Diftance before us, a Buftle and Stir, and in the midft of it a Lackey with a Tray, whereon were Ices — the People ftruggling for them ; and I alfo ftrove to get one for my Wife, and myfelf as well ; but the Attempt vain, and we borne clear away by the Current to the other fide of the Room ; and in the mean Time all the Ice muft have melted ; for fo were we very nearly. Some young Beauties there, whom to have looked upon at my Eafe, and they at theirs, would have been a great delight ; but they in fuch Difcomfort, that it quite fpoilt their Prettinefs, which was pitiful. We met Dr. Dabbes the great Chemift, with whom fome pretty Difcourfe concerning the Air of crowded Rooms, which he faid do contain a Gas called Carbonic Acid, and is poifonous, and we were now breathing fo much per Cent, of it, which did trouble me. To think what Delight fafhionable Folks can take in crowding together, to the Danger of Health, a Set of People, for the moft Part, Strangers both to them and to one another ! Away early ; for we could endure the Stifling no longer : and good Lack, what a Relief to get into the open Air ! My white Kid Gloves foiled, coft me y. 6d. ; but am thankful I carried with me my Spring Hat, which do fliut up ; and could not help chuckling a little, to fee how many others got their Hats crufhed. Home in a Cab, and on the Way bought a Lobfter, whereunto my Wife would have me add a Bottle of Stout, which did think a good Notion ; coft me together jj. 6d., and the Cab is. 6d. more, and then to Supper ; mighty proud that I had been invited by my Lord, though utterly tired with his Party, and fo with great Satisfaftion, but much Wearinefs, to Bed. Mannehs and Cvstoms . of >^ ENG-lyshe in 1849 No 17 >A.VrE:woR M^LoRPE hyc, CpyKET GR.0VN4:)E. MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. g«?^ A View of Mr. Lorde hys Cryket Grovnde. \M.onday, June i8, 1849,] THIS Day a great Cricket Match, Surrey againft England, at Lord's, and I thither, all the Way to St. John's Wood, to fee the Place, having often heard Talk of it, and the Playing, which Mr. Longstoppe did tell me was a pretty Sight. Paid Sd. to be let in, and ^d. for a Card of the Innings, and bought a little Book of the Laws of the Game, coft me I J. dd. more, though when I had got it, could hardly underftand a Word of it; but to think how much Money I fpend out of Curiofity, and how inquifitive I am, fo as to be vexed to the Heart if I cannot thoroughly make out every Thing I fee ! The Cricketing I believe very fine ; but could not judge of it ; for I think I did never before fee any Cricket fince I was a little Varlet Boy at School. But what a Difference between the Manner of Bowling in thofe Days, and that Players now ufe ! for then they did moderately trundle the Ball under-hand ; but now they fling it over-handed from the Elbow, as though vicioufly, and it flies like a Shot, being at leafl; Five Ounces and a Half in Weight, and hard as a Block. I faw it fl:rike one of the Bat-men on the Knuckles, who Danced and fliook his Fifl:, as methought well he might. But to fee how handy fome did catch it, though knocked off the Bat by a ftrong Man with all his Force ; albeit now and then they mifling it, and ftruck by it on the Head, or in the Mouth, and how any one can MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. learn to play Cricket without lofing his front Teeth is a Wonder. The Spediators fitting on Benches in a Circle, at a Diftance, and out of the Way of the Ball, which was wife ; but fome on a raifed Stand, and others afide at Tables, under a Row of Trees near a Tavern within the Grounds, with Pipes and Beer ; and many in the Circle alfo Smoking and Drinking, and the Drawers continually going the Round of them to ferve them Liquor and Tobacco. But all as quiet as a Quaker's Meeting, except when a good Hit made, or a Player bowled out, and ftrange to fee how grave and folemn they looked, as if the Sight of Men in white Clothes, knocking a Ball about, were Something ferious to think on. Did hear that many had Wagers on the Game, but doubt it, for methinks there had been more Livelinefs if much Betting, and Chance of winning or lofing Money. The Company very numerous, and among them fome in Carriages, and was glad to fee fo many People diverted, although at what I could not tell. But they enjoyed them- felves in their Way, whatever that was, and I in mine, thinking how droll they looked, fo earneftly attending to a mere Show of Dexterity. I, for my Part, foon out of Patience with the Length of the Innings, and the Stopping and Interruption after each Run, and fo away, more tired, I am fure, than any of the Cricketers. Yet I do take Pride, as an Englifliman, in our Country Sport of Cricket, albeit I do not care to watch it playing ; and certainly it is a manly Game, throwing open the Cheft, and ftrengthening the Limbs, and the Player fo often in Danger of being hit by the Ball. jVlANNETflS AND CVSTOMS OF ^^ E^^^^SHe: ,n 18^9 • N°. 18 The Flower. ShowE: at CtiYSVK .GaP.d ens. MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. The Flower Showe at Chysyk Gardens. \Saturday, June 9, 1849.] MY Wife holding me to my Promife to take her to the Chifwick Flower Show, and I could not break it: for certainly the poor Wretch do drudge in the Houfe like a Slave ; and fo often as I go out for Pleafure myfelf, methinks it were well to give her a Treat now and then, to eafe my Confcience, and keep her quiet alfo. So took her, though our two Tickets together Came to loj., and we thither in an Omnibus, and the Fare doubled on the Occafion, inftead of \s. coft me is. more, which made me mad. A rare Sight, nigh the Gardens, to look out on the Line of Carriages behind us, and methought how mean and paltry it feemed to be riding in an Omnibus ; and was in fome Trouble left any of our acquaintance fliould be in the Carriages, and fee us 'light. At the Paflage to the Gardens befet by Fellows with Shoe-Bruihes and Clothes-Brufhes, importunate to brufti my Coat and Boots, that were clean enough, but only to earn 4J. or Sd. Our Tickets delivered, and we into the Grounds with a Stream of Company, and followed them and our Ears to a Band of Mufique, the Horfe Guards playing hard by a Grove of Rhododendrons in full Bloom, and a Mob of Beauties round about them more blooming ftill. Heard a Medley-Piece of Scraps of moft of the Operas that I knew ; which was better Mufique than I expected. Then to the Tents, where the Prize- MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. Flowers are fhown, on high Stands as long as a moderate-sized Barn : and there a pretty Difplay of Orchids, Azaleas, Cactufes, Pelargoniums, and Heaths, very rare and curious, and a few choice Rofes ; but I expected to fee Rofes as big as Cabbages. Many of the Flowers finely variegated, and giving forth a Perfume fweeter than Atkinson his (hop. Strange how to fome of the Pelargoniums were given the names of Grisi, Alboni, Mario, and other Opera Singers : and Mr. Wagstaffe do fay it is Mufique in a Flower-Pot. After feeing the Flowers, to ftroll about the Walks and among the Trees, and view the Flowers without Stalks, which I do admire mofl: of all, and a brave Show they were, dreft out in their gayeft, and fmiling as if refolved to look as pretty as they could ; and looking all the brighter for the Sun fhining without a Cloud to be feen : whereby out of Pain for my Wife's pink Bonnet, which, if fpoiled by the Rain ufual at this Show, had been £2 is. gone. The Bands from Time to Time beat a March about the Garden ; when to fee the fine Ladies and Gentlemen follow at the Soldiers' Heels, natural as ragged Street-Children ! At laft all played together, and ended with God Save the Qjueen ; when the Flowers wheeled away. But the Company remaining, fome fitting on Benches to make a Lane, and the Reft of the Multitude walking up and down to be feen, and the Beauties fhowing oiF their Graces, which I did infpect from Head to Foot. My Wife beginning to admire a certain Satin ; fo knowing what this fignified, away, and home to a Leg of Mutton ; thinking of the State of the Nation, which fliould not be fo mighty gloomy to judge of it by Chifwick Flower Show, and wondering how much all the Finery there coft, and where all the Money could have come from. Man)nep.s-and.Cvstoms>.of.>'^ ENGLYSHe^'IN-1849- ' H^ Ad. -A- RaVLWAVE- MeETYN&E. EH(5rV0N' or ^ J^hK^nOl'DZKES AT ?« /\NNOVMCEME:NTE OPA-DtVIDENDE of. 2"^ 'A MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. — - — ■^^ A Raylwaye Meetynge. Emotyon of ye Shareholderes at ye Annovncemente of A Dividende of 'id.^h. \_Monday, July 2, 1849.] GOMES Mr. Stagge to take me to the great Railway Meeting at the London Tavern ; and we up the Back Stairs to the Platform among the Diredlors, and glad of fo good a Place ; but fearing to be taken for one of my Company, did get behind a fat Man to hide myfelf. The Shareholders below met to hear their AiFairs debated, and what a CoUedion of wry and doleful faces ! Methought the poor anxious Parfons and eager Half-pay Officers among them was a pitiful Sight. Looked hard about for the Railway King, but Mr. Stagge did fay in my Ear he was not likely to fhow his Face. The Secretary reading Bills to be brought into the Parliament to join other Railways with this, and all the while interrupted by the Share- holders with Noife and Outcries ; but at laft got through. Then the Chairman did propofe that the Bills be approved of; but an Amendment moved with much Clapping of Hands that the Meeting do adjourn for one Month to examine the Company's Accounts; which they do fay have been cooked. Upon this a long Speech from a Direftor, denying that it was fo, and One made anlwer to him in a bouncing, ranting Harangue ; but to hear how the Shareholders did fhout and cheer whenever he accufed the Board of a Piece of Roguery ! He complained that Proxy Papers had been fent out by fome for Votes, whereby to gain their own Ends at £900 MR. PIPS HIS DURT. Expeiife to the Company ; whereat more Uproar, in the midft whereof he moved another Amend- ment; when the Noife greater than ever, with Groans and calling for Dividends; and feveral in the Meeting ftrove to fpeak, but could only wag their Jaws and fhake their Fifts at the Chairman, and he imploring Quiet in Dumb Show. Howbeit, one old Gentleman got Attention for a Moment, and in great Wrath and Choler did declare that the Diredbors' Statement was all Humbug. Then Another with much ado to get a Hearing, did move a third Amendment : and after that, more Wrangling and Jangling, until the only Man of any Brains I had yet heard, up and ftiowed the folly of moving Amendment on Amendment. So the firft and laft Amendment withdrawn, and the fecond put to the Vote, and loft, and then the Chairman's Refolution put and loft alfo, and the Shareholders hooting and hifling, and.ftiouting " Shame!" and crying that they could not underftand the Queftion. So the Amendment and former Refolution both put over again, and both again loft; whereupon the Shareholders ftark mad, and rufhed in a Mob on the Platform, raving at the Chairman, who jumped up in his Chair, throwing his Arms abroad, and ftirieking for Silence ; till at laft a Poll deterrhined on to decide whether for Adjournment or not ; and fo the Meeting brought to an End in as great a Hurly- Burly as I ever heard, and a pretty Chairman methinks they have to keep Order, and brave Direftors to cook their Accounts, and their Meetings do feem as confufed as their Affairs ; and thank my Stars, I have not funk my Money in a Railway. MEjCS.AMD-CV^TQMS OF •> JENGUTSHE-IN • 184-9- N^ 20. :^^mspEcr. opy' -TRpiivies-iTs^E&ATTA MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. A Prospect of ye Thames its Regatta. IXuesdayy July lo, 1849.J SENT my Veft to the Tailor's to be let out in the Back, and my Wife and every Body fay I grow too flout, which do put me in mighty Pain left I fhould lofe my Shape ; wherefore I have refolved to take a long Walk daily, for Exercife, to bring down my Fat. So began this Day, and fet out to walk to Barn-Elms, by the way of Hammerfmith, on a brave melting Afternoon. I did mufe at the Carriages and Omnibufes that pafled me, crowded both infide and on the Roof, and the People upon them whooping and blowing Horns, as the Britiih Public always do when they ride to fee any Sport. At Hammerfmith found what all this meant, everyone there haftening to the River, this being the firft Day of the Thames Regatta, and the Sufpenfion-Bridge thronged, and Feftoons of Spectators on the Chains. Did go upon the Bridge, coft me \d. Toll, but would not have miffed the Sight for 6d. or is.; for the Thames with Boats fcattered all over it, their Flags fluttering, and their Crews fhouting and laughing full of Fun and Glee, made a lively Pidure ; and alfo I was juft in the Nick of Time to fee a Race ; four Boats of as many Oars darting under the Bridge at full Speed, while the Beholders cheered and halloed with all their Might, and a Bell rung, and a Band of Mufique upon the Bridge Pier did play " Love Not." Good Lack ! how wrapped up the People did feem to be in the Race ; MR. PIPS HIS DURT. and did now cry for Blue to go it ; and then Red, and then Pink, and at laft that Red had it, meaning the Colours of the Rowers, which indeed looked very fmart and fpruce. Over the Bridge, and, inftead of to Barnes, down the River, along the Towing Path, which was alfo thronged with Folks running to and fro, all Eagernefs and Buftle. So to Putney, and there the Multitude greateft both on the Bridge and the Shore, and Finch his Ground to the Water-Side quite a Fair, with Fat Ladies and Learned Pigs and Gilt Gingerbread ; and his Tavern befet by Cuftomers for Ale, and mighty good Ale it is. Here more Boat-Racing, with Firing of Cannon, Jollity, Shouting, Jangling of Street Pianos, and everywhere Tobacco-Smoke and the Popping of Ginger-Beer. Some fouling of Barges, but no worfe Mifhap, though I expedted every Moment that Somebody would be ducked. Methought how neat and dainty the light Wherries and Wager- Boats did look among the other Craft ; but loth I fliould be to truft my Carcafe in a Cockle-Shell, that fitting an Inch too much on one Side would overthrow. Mighty pleafant alfo to behold on the Water the little Parties of Beauties, rowed by their Sweethearts, under Awnings to fliade them from the Sun, and the Ripple on the Water, and the Smiles on their Faces, and to hear their Giggling, which was a pretty Noife. Afloat everywhere in their Boating-Trim I did note fundry of thofe young Sparks that do and think and talk of Nothing but pulling up the River, and live upon it almofl, like Swans or Geefe ; and Mr. Wagstaffe, whom I met, do fay they have no Brains in their Skulls. But, however, that Boat-Racing is a true Britifh Paftime, and fo long as we pull together he will back us againft all the World. " And talking of that," fays he, " the Sport being ended, fuppofe we take a Pull at fome of Finch his Ale ;" which we did with great Content and fo Home. anners and Cvstoms o^ T ^MGLiV^ n^ Drawn from /e Ovick m KVCHARD DoYLE. lb whictiBE ADDED Some extracts from Pips hys Diary. Co^r^?yev^a) f^ PeRCFAL LEIGH V6lvme^ Second Publijhedby BRADBURY ^ EVANS, ii, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street. Printed by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars. Manners- AND- CvsToMS- OF /^ ENCLVSHe. (h- m9- N° 2.1 A- Kaylvvay Statvon . Show yng-e: y^ Traveller's . Refreshynge • ti/em S e lv ts, MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. — s oa A Raylway Statyon. Showynge ye Travellers Refreshynge Themselves. \Tuefday, July 31, 1849. J PREVAILED upon by my Wife to carry her to Bath, as fhe faid, to go fee her Aunt Dorothy, but I know flie looked more to the Pleafure of her Trip than any Thing elfe ; neverthelefs I do think it neceflary Policy to keep in with her Aunt, who is an old Maid and hath a pretty Fortune ; and to fee what Court and Attention I pay her though I do not care id. about her ! But am mightily troubled to know whether fhe hath funk her Money in an Annuity, which makes me fomewhat uneafy at the Charge of our Journey, for what with Fare, Cab-Hire, and Vails to Dorothy's Servants for their good Word, it did coft me altogether £6 IS. 6d. To the Great Weftern Station in a Cab, by Reafon of our Luggage ; for my Wife muft needs take fo many Trunks and Bandboxes, as is always the Way with Women : or elfe we might have gone there for is. 6d. left in an Omnibus. Did take our Places in the Firft Clafs notwithftanding the Expenfe, preferring both the Seats and the Company ; and alfo becaufe if any Necks or Limbs are broken I note it is generally in the Second and Third Clafles. So we fettled, and the Carriage-Doors flammed to, and the Bell rung, the Train with a Whittle oiF like a Shot, and in the Carriage with me and my Wife a mighty pretty Lady, a Frenchwoman, and I did begin to talk French with her, which my Wife do not well underftand, and by and by did MR. PIPS HIS BURY. find the Air too much for her where fhe was fitting, and would come and take her Seat between us ; I know, on Purpofe, So fell a reading the Times, till One got in at Hanwell, who feemed to be a Phyfician, and mighty pretty Difcourfe with him touching the Manner of treating Madmen and Lunatics, which is now by gentle Management, and is a great Improvement on the old Plan of Chains and the Whip. Alfo of the Foulnefs of London for Want of fit Drainage, and how it do breed Cholera and Typhus, as fure as rotten Cheefe do Mites, and of the horrid Folly of making a great Gutter of the River. So to Swindon Station, where the Train do flop ten Minutes for Refrefhment, and there my Wife hungry, and I too with a good Appetite, notwith- ftanding the Difcourfe about London Filth. So we out, and to the Refrefliment-Room with a Crowd of Paflengers, all pufhing, and joftling, and trampling on each others' Toes, ftriving which ftiould get ferved firfl:. With much Ado got a Bafin of Soup for my Wife, and for myfelf a Veal and Ham Pie, and to fee me looking at my Watch and taking a Mouthful by Turns ; and how I did gulp a Glafs of Guinness his Stout ! Before we had half finiflied, the Guard rang the BelJ, and my Wife with a Start, did fpill her Soup over her Drefs, and was obliged to leave Half of it ; and to think how ridiculous I looked, tampering back to the Train with my Meat-Pie in my Mouth ! To run hurry-fkurry at the Sound of a Bell, do feem only fit for a Gang of Workmen ; and the Buftle of Railways do deftroy all the Dignity of Travelling; but the World altogether is lefs grand, and do go fafter than formerly. OflF again, and to the End of our Journey, troubled at the Soup on my Wife's Drefs, but thankful I had got my Change, and not left it behind me at the Swindon Station. Manners, -AND- CVST0MS'0r-7^lNGUYSHE:IN.|849 N° 22- ■FT n ' u<4 'BRVTysH-6RO*ADIERS-A-M0VNTyNGE-SVAR.D AT S"MAME3.fivs PalaCE YARur MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. — *8i8- Ye Brytysh Granadiers a Movntynge Gavrd at St. Iames Hys Palace Yarde. \_Wednefday , Auguji i, 1849. J UP mighty betimes, and after a four Miles' Walk, lofing Weight like a Jockey, to the Palace Yard of St. James's Palace, to fee the Soldiers mount Guard to guard the Queen, which they do every Morning whether fhe is there or no, and is a pretty pompous Ceremony. Found myfelf among as dirty fhabby a Set of Fellows hanging about as I think I ever faw, with whom two or three with the Look of Gentlemen, and a pretty Sprinkling of Milliner-Girls and Nurfe-Maids, but they prefently away from the Ragamuffins to the Eaft Side of the Yard, and fo did I. Strange how all Women almoft do run after Soldiers ; which Mr. Pumpkyns do fay is becaufe Weaknefs do, by Inftinct, feek the Protection of Courage; but I think is owing to Nothing at all but the Bravery of a Red Coat. In a few Minutes more RifF-RaiF pouring in ; then a Noife without of drumming : and then juft at ^ to 11, a Party of the Grenadier Guards marching in under the Clock-Tower, the Drums and Fifes in Front of them, and, at the Head of all, the Drum Major, twirling his Staff, ftruttedlike a Pouter-Pigeon, as ilately, almoft, as ever I saw J. Bland. The Men at the Word of Command ground Arms with a Clang, and flood at Eafe in Lines, and together with the Spectators made a Square, with the Drums and Fifes at one End, and the Band at the other by the Clock-Tower, and a Poft in the Middle, and around the Poft, with the Colours, the Officers in full Figg, mighty trim ; MR. PIPS HIS DIJRT. and Mr. Wagstaffe do tell me that the Guards have brave clothing Colonels. The Band did play while the Men that fhould relieve Guard were marching oS ; and I do mufe why Soldiers are provided with fo much Mufique, and conclude it is to hinder them from thinking, and alfo in Battle to inflame their Minds without making them drunk, which Nothing that I know can do equal to Musique except Love. At five Minutes to the Hour comes the relieved Guard, and draws up ready to be marched away, and to fee them, backing for Room on the Crowd's Toes ! Droll, alfo, to watch the Marfhalman, in his grand Uniform and with his Staff of Office, going about to make Space and keep Order among the ragged Boys ; and I remember how, in my Youth, I thought he was a General Officer. More Musique, in the Meanwhile, by the Band ; the Band-Mafler, a rare plump Fellow, in goodly Condition, conducting, with a Clarionet for his Batoon. Suddenly the Mufique cut ftiort by the Drums and Fifes, the Word given, and the Men did fall in, and away to Barracks, a Grand March playing, and all the Tag-Rag at their Heels. But to fee the Lieutenant, the Officer of the Day, fet up the Colours on the Poft, and touch his Cap and kifs his Sword to them, faluting them, which do feem a fenfelefs Pantomime, and look more like a Chinefe with his Jofs, than a Chriftian. Befides, the Flag, a moft old and forry one, blown into Tatters, which, in our long Peace, mufl: have been done by the Breeze and not the Battle ; but fo left, with a Grenadier to guard it, fticking in the Pofl. Then the Officer did difmifs the Off Guard, and away to his Quarters for the Day ; but am told he may go to and fro the Guards' Club Houfe, which being moved from the Top of St, James's Street to nigh Marlborough Houfe, he is fpared now the Fatigue of marching up Hill. Methinks that mounting Guard at the Palace is a Service of little Danger or Hardfhip ; and yet it do appear to be a good Training for fighting Men ; and, good Lack ! to think what Fire-eaters in Battle are the young Dandy Officers of the Guards, and how their Men will follow them through thick and thin, and what Work those Fellows can do when called on, that play Soldiers about St. James's ! Manners./iNd.Cvsttoms. oF.H.ET/^GLYSHE.m .1^49. N°23. A.CYD£:r;::CclLAR5.X)vRYNG A -COMYcK SONG-E. MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. &8*- A Cydere Cellare Dvryng a Comyck Songe. {Saturday^ March lo, 1849.] TO Drury Lane this Evening, to fee the Horfemanfhip, which did divert me mightily ; but had rather it had been at Aftley's. After that, to Supper at the Cider Cellars in Maiden Lane, wherein was much Company, great and fmall, and did call for Kidneys and Stout, then a fmall Glafs of Aqua-Vita and Water, and thereto a Cigar. While we fupped, the Singers did entertain us with Glees and comical Ditties ; but Lack, to hear with how little Wit the young Sparks about Town are tickled ! But the Thing that did moft take me was to fee and hear one Ross fing the Song of Sam Hall the Chimney-Sweep, going to be hanged : for he had begrimed his Muzzle to look unfliaven, and in rufty black Clothes, with a battered old Hat on his Crown and a fliort Pipe in his Mouth, did fit upon the Platform, leaning over the Back of a Chair : fo making believe that he was on his Way to Tyburn. And then he did fing to a difmal Pfalm-Tune, how that his Name was Sam Hall, and that he had been a great Thief, and was now about to pay for all with his Life ; and thereupon he {wore an Oath, which did make me fome- what fliiver, though divers laughed at it. Then, in fo many Verfes, how his Mafter had badly taught him and now he muft hang for it ; how he should ride up Holborn Hill in a Cart, and the Sheriffs would come and preach to him, and after them would come the Hangman ; and at MR. PIPS HIS BIARY. the End of each Verfe he did repeat his Oath. Laft of all, how that he fhould go up to the Gallows ; and defired the Prayers of his Audience, and ended by curfing them all round. Methinks it had been a Sermon to a Rogue to hear him, and I wifh it may have done good to fome of the Company. Yet was his curfing very horrible, albeit to not a few it feemed a high Joke ; but I do doubt that they underftood the Song. After Sam Hall, to pay for my Supper, which coft me is. id., befides 4^., to the Waiter ; and then Home in a Cab, it being late, and I fearing to anger my Wife, which coft me is. more ; but I grudged not the Money, having been much diverted, and fo to Bed. IVJANNER^S AND CVSTOMS Of V^ ENfGLYSHE fN 1849 « [\f° 2^ Regent e-St^ete' >^t povkof^ clocks, p.m MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. Regente Strete at Fovr of ye Clocke, p. M. [Thur/day, Auguft i6, 1849.] THIS Afternoon, about four of the Clock, did walk in Regent Street, with much Delight. In the Evening to the Queen's Houfe in the Haymarket, to hear Mozart his famous Opera " Le Nozze di Figaro," and Sontag in Sufanna,vrh\ch. fhe do act mighty Ikittifti, and with the prettieft fidelong Looks, but the moft graceful and like a Lady, and do trip the Stage the daintieft, and make the niceft Curtfies, and fing the fweeteft that methinks I ever did hear or fee : and to think that Mr. Vieuxboys fhould tell me flie do it as well now as he did fee her twenty Years ago ! Pretty, to hear her fing " Venite, inginocchiatevi," where fhe do make Gherubino kneel down on the Cufhion before the Countejs, and put him on a Girl's Cap, and pat his Chin and Face. Alfo her finging of " SuW Aria" with Parodi, the Countejs, dictating the Letter to her ; and Parodi did fing well too, and the mingling of their Voices very muficall. Likewife that jolly blooming fhe-BACCHus Alboni, who was Cherubim, with her paffionate fine finging of " Non/o pH" and " Voi chejapte," and all her finging, did delight me much ; and flie did play a Stripling of a Page in Love to the very Life. Belletti did mightily take me with his Knaveries, in Figaro, and finging of " Non piU andrai," which is a moft lively and martial Song ; and the Grand March very brave as well, and did make my Heart leap, and me almoft VOL. II. MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. to jump out of my Seat. CollettIj too, the Count, did content me much, and to the utmoft with " Crudell perch^ finora." But then to hear Lablache, what a great Thing he do make out of fo fmall a Part as Bartolo, with his Voice in the Concert-Pieces heard above all the Reft, and thundering out " La Vendetta" like a muficall Stentor ; and his undertaking of little Charafters to make an Opera perfedt is very magnanimous; and Mr. Wagstaffe do well fay that he " Ingentes Animos ingenti in PeSlore verfat" and have as much Brains as Body. Mighty droll to hear the Quartett, with each Singer in Turn holding the Voice on the word " lo" called for three Times, and the Singers each Time fpinning " lo" out longer, whereat great Laughter ; and the Performers laughing as much as the Audience. Wonderfull how ftill all the Houfe was while SoNTAG was a finging of " Deh ! vieni non tardar" and the Bravas and Clapping of Hands when fhe had ended ; and what did as much as any Thing pleafe me in her Singing was to hear how ftie did ftick to the Text, and not, like a vulgar filly Prima Donna, disfigure noble Mufique by ridiculous Flourifhes. The Houfe extraordinary full, though the Seafon over ; and to compare the fine Foreheads and Faces of an Audience come to hear good Mufique with the infignificant Looks of mere common Opera-Goers ! Methinks I could never hear Figaro often enough ; the Overture being fuch pretty Fiddling, and all the Mufique fo beautiful, and heavenly almoft, with feveral of the Airs as innocent and angelicall as Hymns ; but to think that all thefe Pearls are ftrung on fo vile a Thread ; the Intrigues and Trickery between a Count and Countefs, with a Waiting-Woman, a Page, and a Lackey : a Story that do feem to have been hatched in a Servants' Hall ! The Ballet after the Opera pretty, and a Scene of Skating on the Ice, very natural, did end with the Skaters pelting each other with Snowballs, and look pleafant and cool this hot Weather. Home to Supper, it being late, though, walking up the Haymarket, did forely long for ftcwed Oyfters. Telling my Wife of the Opera, did fpeak of Sufanna boxing Figaro his Ears, and let out that I could have been glad to have her box mine too, which my Wife did fay fhe could do as well if I pleafed ; but I faid I had rather not, and fo, whittling " Non piU andrai" rather fmall, to Bed. jVjANHE^S-AND-CVSTOhS-OF-y^'ENGLrSHE IN 1849 1\1° 25. V^' SPoK^of-PVNTe- FYSHYNGe . OFF Kych MONDC, MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. Ye Sport of Pvnte Fyshynge off Rychmonde. \_1Vednefday, Augujt 22, 1849.] THIS Day to Richmond, to go a Fifhing on the River, which Larkyns do tell me is rare Sport, and with me Mr. Itchenbrooke, out of Hampfhire, a cunning Angler, who did mightily defire to fee what this Sport Ihould be. So firfl: we out in a Boat below Richmond Bridge, where a Dozen or more of Punts full of People a Fifhing, and rowed among them to obferve the Manner of doing it, which is finking with a Gentle, fitting upon Chairs, and fmoking Cigars and Pipes of Tobacco, and drinking cold Brandy and Water, and did move Mr. Itchenbrooke to Laughter. We did note one young Spark lying at full Length, in a Punt's End, afleep, and did conclude he had had enough of the Fifhing, or elfe of the Brandy and Water. Some very filent, and bent on their Sport, but others bandying Fun and Jokes, and fhouting for Joy and Merriment whenever they caught a Fifh, which Mr. Itchenbrooke do fay is not the Wont of a Sportfman. Among the Fifhers I did note with Wonder one or two Damfels ; but Mr. Wagstaffe do fay it is a common Thing for Ladies to fifh for Gudgeons. Several of them alfo quite old Men ; but feeming as much taken up with their Fifhing as Schoolboys, though catching Nothing but little Fifh not a Span long. So, fatisfied with looking at the Sportfmen, we to try the Quality of the Sport ourfelves, and did MR. PIPS HIS BURT. hire a Punt, and Fifhing Tackle, and a Man to guide the Punt, and bait our Hooks, and did take on board a Stone-Bottle of Half-and-Half Beer, to follow the Fafhion. Pretty, to fee our Man found the Depth of the River with a Plumb, to refolve whereabouts on our Lines to place the Float, and glad to have him to put the Bait on, being Gentles, which I was loath to touch. Our Hooks no fooner dropped into the Water than Mr. Itchenbrooke did pull up a Fifh about the Bignefs of a Sprat, though, but for the Punt-Man, he would have thrown it in again, faying that he never heard of keeping any Fifh under. Half-a-Pound, and that while fuch fmall Fry were killed there would be no good Fifh in the River. But Lack ! to fee how my Float did bob up and down, and I jerk at my Line, but generally bring up a Weed. Did marvel at the Punt- Man flinging Lumps of Earth and Meal into the Water to entice the Fifh, which methought would either have driven them away or surfeited them, but did not, and the Trick did much divert Mr. Itchenbrooke. We did catch Roach and Dace to the Number of fifteen, which my Companion did call feven Brace-and-a-Half ; and I caught the Half: I mean the Half-Brace. Our Fifhing did lafl two Hours, cofl jj., and 6d. befides for the Beer, but we had much Mirth for our Time and Money, though little Fifh, and yet more Fifh than fome our Man did fhow us, faying they had been at it all the Day. So to Dinner at the Star and Garter, where a mofl brave Dinner and excellent Wine, and pretty Difcourfe with Mr. Itchenbrooke of true Sport in Fifhing and the Art of Whipping for Trout with an Imitation Fly, made out of coloured Silk Thread and Birds' Feathers, which I do mightily admire, and intend to practife if ever I have Nothing elfe to do. But methinks I could catch more Fifh in a Thames Punt, having only to drop in my Hook and pull it out again. Our Dinner ended, coft me j^i ^s. od., went and bought 6d. worth of Maids of Honour at the Paflrycook's, and did take them Home to my Wife. Mann]ei\S. AKfD- CVSTOMS- oF>/^. EZNGLYS+IE- IN- 1849- N°- 2(T. BLACKWALL SHOWYNGE /^ PVBUCl<•A'DINYNCE:■o,^^ Wf^YTE-BAIT- MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. Blackwall. Showynge yf. Pvblick a Dinynge on Whytebait. [Saturday, Juguft i8, 1849. J GOMES Mr, Gollope, this being his Birth-Day, to bid me to go dine with him and a Company of fome Half-dozen of our Acquaintance, off Whitebait at Blackwall, So we firft to London Bridge, on Foot, walking for an Appetite, and there took Water, and down the River in a Steam-Boat, with great Pleafure, enjoying the Breeze, and the View of the Shipping, and alfo the Profped of a good Dinner. Landed at the Pier, and as faft as we could to Lovegrove's, where our Table engaged in the large Room, But good Lack ! to fee the Fulnefs of the Place, every Table almoft crowded with eager Eaters, and Heaps of Whitebait among them, and they with open Mouths and Eyes ftiovelling Spoonful after Spoonful into their Plates and thence thrufting them five or fix at a Time into their Chaps, Then, here and there, a fat Fellow, flopping, out of Breath, to put down his Knife and Fork, and gulp a Goblet of iced Punch, was mighty droll : alfo to hear others fpeaking with their Mouths full. But Dinner coming, I cared not to look about me, there being on Table fome dozen different Difhes of Fifti, whereof the Sight did at firft bewilder me, like the Donkey between the Hayftacks, not knowing which to choofe ; and Mr, Gobblestone do lament that at a Feaft with Plenty of good Things he never was able to eat his Fill of every one. A Difii of Salmon with India- MR. PIPS HIS DIART. Pickle did pleafe me mightily, alfo fome Eels, fpitchcocked, and a ftewed Carp, and ate heartily of them with much Relifh ; but did only nibble at the Reft by way of a Tafte, for I felt exceeding full, and methought I fhould have no Stomach for the Whitebait. But Lack ! to fee when it came, how my Appetite returned, and I did fall to upon it, and drink iced Punch, and then at the Whitebait again. Pretty, the little Slices of brown Bread and Butter, they did bring us to eat it withal, and truly, with a Squeeze of Lemon and Cayenne Pepper, it is delicate Eating. After the Whitebait plain. Whitebait devilled made us to eat the more, and drink too, which we did in Champagne and Hock, pledging each other with great Mirth. After the Fifti comes a Courfe of Ducks, and a Haunch of Mutton, and divers njade Difhes ; and then Tarts and Cuftards and Groufe ; and laftly, a Deflert, and I did partake of all, as much as I had a Mind to, and after Dinner drank Port and Claret, when much Joking and rare Stories, and very merry we were. Pretty to look out of Window as we fat, at the Craft and the White Sails in the Sunfet on the River. Back in a Railway Carriage, fliouting and iinging, and in a Cab Home, where Dr. Sharpe called to fee my Wife for her Vapours. Pretty Difcourfe with him touching the Epidemic, he telling me that of all Things to bring it on the likelieft was Excefs in Food and Drink, which did trouble me, and fo with a Draught of Soda and a Dofe of Pills to Bed. Manmek§- ahd- Cvstoms- of> EnGlyshE-'In 184-9- N°' 2-7. MaDAMe-X^SSAVD- [2EP,-W/^WEflKES • y^ C^AMBE-K: of- HoK!\OK.5 . !! MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. 1 B i »J ' ' . Madame Tvssavd her Wax Werkes. Ye Chamber of Horrors ! ! [JVednefday , September 5, 1849.J TO pleafe my Wife, did take her this Evening to Madame Tussaud her Wax Works ; a grand large Room, exceeding fine with Gilding, lighted up very fplendid, and full of People, and a Band of Mufique playing as they walked about : coft 2J., and a Catalogue 6d. The Wax Figures a pretty Show : but with their painted Cheeks and glafly Eyes — elpecially fuch as nod and move — do look like Life in Death. The Drefles very handfome, and I think, corredt ; and the Sight of fo many People of Note in the Array of their Time, did much delight me. Among the Company Numbers of Country Folk, and to fee how they did flare at the Effigies of the Queen, and the Prince, and the Duke of Wellington, and the King of the Belgians, and the Princess Charlotte that was, and George the Fourth in his Coronation Robes, magnificent as a Peacock ! The Catalogue do fay that his Chair is the very one wherein he fat in the Abbey ; but how like a Play-Houfe Property it do look, and little thought the King it would come down to figure in a Raree Show ! A Crowd of Dames and Matrons gazing at the Group of the Royal Family, calling the Children " Dears" and " Ducks," and would, I verily believe, have kifled their Wax Chaps, if they had been fufFered. My Wife feafting her Eyes on the little Princes and Princefles, I did fix mine upon a MR. PIPS HIS DIART. pretty, modeft, black Maid befide me, and fhe hers on me, till my Wife fpying us, did pinch me with her Nails in the Arm. Pretty, to fee the Sovereign Allies in the laft War, and bluff old Blucher, and Bonaparte and his Officers, in brave Poftures, but ftiff. Alfo the two King Charleses, and Oliver, together ; Charles the First protefting againft his Death- Warrant, and his Son backing him ; and Cardinal Wolsey looking on. Lord Byron in the Drefs of a Greek Pirate, looking Daggers and Piftols, clofe to John Wesley preaching a Sermon, was likewife mighty droll ; and methought, if all Madame Tussaud's Figures were their Originals inftead, what Ado there would be ! Many of the Faces that I knew by RecoUeftion, or Pidures, very like; and my Lord Brougham I did know direftly, and Liston in Paul Pry. But ftrange, among the Kings to fee him that was the Railway King ; and methinks that it were as well now if he were melted up. Thence to the Napoleon Rooms, where Bonaparte's Coach, and one of his Teeth, and other Reliques and Gimcracks of his, well enough to fee for fuch as care about him a Button. Then to the Chamber of Horrors, which my Wife did long to fee moft of all ; coft, with the Napoleon Rooms, u. more ; a Room like a Dungeon, where the Head of Robespierre, and other Scoundrels of the great French Revolution, in Wax, as though ' juft cut off, horrid ghaftly, and Plafter Cafts of Fellows that have been hanged : but the chief Attradion a Sort of Dock, wherein all the notorious Murderers of late Years ; the foremoft of all. Rush, according to the Bill, taken from Life at Norwich, which, feeing he was hanged there, is an odd Phrafe. There was likewife a Model of Stanfield Hall, and Rush his Farm, as though the Place were as famous as Waterloo. Methinks it is of ill Confequence that there fhould be a Murderers' Corner, wherein a Villain may look to have his Figure put more certainly than a Poet can to a Statue in the Abbey. So away again to the large Room, to look at Jenny LiND inftead of Greenacre, and at lo of the Clock Home, and fo to Bed, my Wife declaring fhe fhould dream of the Chamber of Horrors. Kanneks- and-CvstomS • op-;'^ En61-Yshe-ins-i849 ^EE:Ks5taUKYNGe: ■ IN-Z^-ISyGf^bA-NDES MR. PIPS HIS DIARY, Deere Stalkynge in ve Hyghlandes. \_Monday, September 17, 1849. J GOMES Mr. Gollope, and Mr. Goblestone, and Jenkyns, to dine with me ofF a Haunch of Venifon, and Mr. Mc. Nab calling, I did make him ftay Dinner too, and the Venifon very fat and good ; and Mr. Gollope did commend my Carving, whereof I was proud. Between them a Debate over our Dinner, as to whether the Red Deer or the Fallow Deer were the better Venifon, and both Mr. Gollope and Mr. Goblestone do fay the Fallow, but Mr. Mc. Nab will have it that the Red is by far the better, and do tell them they know nothing about the Matter, and never tafted Red Deer but fuch as had been mewed up in Richmond Park, which are mighty different from them that do browfe in the Highlands on the Heather. He do fay that Highland Deer-Stalking do excel every other Sport, from Tiger- Hunting to Fox-Hunting, which I mean to repeat to Mr. Corduroys to make him mad. Then he to defcribe the Manner of Stalking the Deer, and his Account thereof mighty taking, but, with his broad Scottifh Accent and Phrafes, droll ; and good Lack,* to hear him talk of Braes, and Burns, and Cairns, and Corries, rattling the R in every Word ! He fays that the Deer are the cunningeft and the watchfulleft, and can fee, and hear, and fmell at the greateft Diftance of any Creature almoft living, and do keep Spies to look out, and their Ears and Eyes MR. PIPS HIS BURY. always open and their Nofes to the Wind, and do think and reafon in their Minds like human Beings ; which, methinks, is peculiar to the Scotch Deer. He fays that the Sport is to fetch a Compafs on them by Stratagem, fo as to approach or drive them nigh enough to fhoot them with a Rifle, and it do often take fome Hours and feveral Miles, moftly crawling on the Hands and Knees, to get one Shot. He fays that the Stalker and Hill-Keepers that wait on him muft, to gain their Chance, dodge, {looping behind Crags, wriggle and creep over Flats and up Brooks like Snakes or Eels, clamber up and run down Precipices, and {Iride over Bogs, wherein they do fometimes fink plump up to the Middle ; which fhould be rather Sport to the Stag than the Huntfman. But after all, the Deer fhot dead, or wounded, and at Bay with the Hounds at his Throat, but defpatched at lafl;, and paunched, which he do call " gralloched," is fuch a Triumph that it do repay the Sportfman for all his Pains. He do fay that what with the Grandeur of the Mountains, and the Frefhnefs of the Air, the Spirits are raifed beyond what we could imagine, and the Appetite alfo increafed wonderfully ; whereat Mr. Gollope did prick up his Ears. To conclude, he did declare that no one could know what Deer-Stalking was that had not tried it ; but methinks I can, remembering how I ufed in my Youth to creep in Ditches and behind Hedges to fhoot Larks. JMa>A' Parjie:- or- Sports MEK' ovrA-Sk'vrvMOE- MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. A Partie of Sportsmen ovt a Shvtynge. {Monday, October i, 1849. J UP mighty betimes, and to Brufhwood for a Day's Shooting, by Invitation from Mr. Tibbitts, whofe Father, the rich Furrier, did die the other Day, and leave him a Fortune, and now he hath rented Brufhwood Manor to fhoot over for the Seafon. But Lack, what a fet of young Rogues I found there of Tibbitts his Acquaintance, a-fmoking of Cigars and fhort Pipes, and a-drinking of Ale and bottled Stout at 10 o'clock of the Morning ! Mighty afliamed of, though diverted with, my Company, to hear their loofe and idle Conver- fation, and how none of them could pronounce the letter H, and to think what an unlettered vulgar Fellow Tibbitts is, and that I fhould demean myfelf to aflbciate with fuch a Companion only becaufe of his Riches, and Wine, and Dinners. One of the Party, Wiogyns, did tell me we fliould have a prime Lark, which, this being the firft Day of Pheafant-Shooting, I did think droll ; but divers Larks, indeed, were fhot before the Day was over. So we into the Fields, and a Keeper following us with the Dogs, and, whenever I did look over my Shoulder, did catch him grinning and making Faces behind our Backs. But ftrange, to fee how much better the Rogues did flioot than I expeded, though firing at Tom-Tits, or anything almoft, and do underftand they got this Skill at the Red Houfe, Batterfea, through popping at Pigeons and MR. PIPS HIS DURT. Sparrows let loofe from a Trap ; which do feem but a cruel and barbarous kind of Sport. But little Birds were not all they fhot, for one Higges aiming at a Hare did mifs, and inftead of the Hare hit one of the Dogges, and fent him yelping and limping Home. But good Lack, to fee how carelefs the Fellows were with their Fire- Arms, carrying their Guns, full-cocked, pointing right in one another's Faces, and one, dragging his Piece through a Hedge after him, it went off, but finding it had only carried oS the Skirt of his Shooting-Coat, we had a good Laugh of it. Another, with a double-barrelled Gun, having fhot ofF one Barrel at a Blackbird, I did fee reloading ; the other Barrel being ftill loaded and at full Cock. He, forcing down the Ramrod with all his Might, I did catch him by the Elbow, and point to the Cock of the Gun, and methinks I did never fee a Man on a Sudden tremble fo terribly, or grow fo pale. Getting beyond Brufhwood, into a Field hard by, Mr. Wiggyns did let fly at fome Ducks, for one of thofe Larks he had been talking of, which did bring down upon us the Farmer, with his Bull- Dog, and caufe us to make off with all the Speed we could. I in mighty Dread of being feized as an Accomplice in fliooting the Duck, fearing the Farmer, who is horridly enraged with the Game-Preferving at Brufliwood, for that the Game do eat up his Crops ; and, truly, the Game Laws are a great Nuifance. Home from our Shooting, with our Bag, carried by Tibbitts his Tiger-Boy, very full, with a Brace or two of Pheafants and Partridges, but many more Brace of Chaffinches, and Yellow- Hammers, and Robin-Redbreafts, and fo to Dinner, where all very merry, and fo to Bed. JMannePs^^^AND' avSToMS'0R-7^-Ef\IGMY3HE..iN-l849. N°-3|. A^PvOSPECT- OF'AW E"Le:ctioN- MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. — 8®8 — — A Prospect of an Election. \Xhurfday, September 27, 1849. J UP, and by Railway with Mr, Wagstaffe to Guzzleford to myCosiN Peg her Wedding, and did marvel to hear the Bells a ringing at 9 o'clock, the Marriage not to be till 1 1, but found they were rung for an Election; 'Squire Callow and Mr. Fairport ftanding for County Members in the Room of Mr. Brownjohn. So, the Wedding over, and the Bride and Bridegroom drunk, and Mr. Wagstaffe did fay, divers of the Company too, we about the Town to fee the Fun. A Fellow the worfe for Beer demanding, as well as he could fpeak, whofe Colours we wore, meaning our Wedding-Favours, Mr. Wagstaffe did pleafantly anlwer. Hymen's, whereupon the Fellow, crying " Callow for ever ! " did rufti full at us, but, we parting, flip between us and tumble headlong into the Mud. Good Lack ! to fee what Numbers of Ragamuffins everywhere with their Hats awry, Nofes bleeding, or Eyes blacked, fl:aggering under huge Placard Boards, whereon, in great Letters, "Callow and Agriculture," or, " Vote for Fairport and Commerce ! " The Windows and Balconies full of Ladies, dreft mighty fine, and fome pretty, to whom I did kifs my Hand, and am glad my Wife was. not nigh to fee me. But to think of the Ladies wearing the Colours of the Candidates, Blue and Yellow, not caring a Pin what Politics either Colour meant, but only for an Excufe to deck themfelves MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. out with Ribbons ! In the Streets^ Horfemen did keep galloping to and fro, to tell the State of the Polls, and the Mob cheering and bantering them, was mighty droll. 'Squire Callow did put up at the Barley-Mow, and Mr, Fairport at the Rifing Sun over the Way, and between the two Inns, with a few plump rofy Farmers in Top- Boots, was a noify Rabble, quarrelling and fighting, with Skins unwafhed, and unftiorn Muzzles, whom the Candidates' Committee-Men, fpeaking to them from the Windows, did call Free and Independent Electors. To fome that harangued them, the Mob did cry, " Go Home," and " Who cheated his WaJfherwoman ? " or, " How about the Workhoufe Beef? " yet liftened to a few that were familiar and cracked old Jokes with them. Prefently they addrefled by the Candidates in Turn ; and nafty to fee them pelt each Speaker with bad Eggs. But to hear, as well as might be for the Shouting and Hiffing, 'Squire Callow promifing the Farmers to reftore the Corn Laws, and laying the Potato Blight and late Sicknefs to Free Trade ; while Mr. Fairport did as loudly charge all the Woes and Grievances of the Country on the Landlords. By-and-by, Mr. Fairport, the Poll going fo much againft him, did give in, and then 'Squire Callow come forward, and make a brave Speech about our Glorious Inftitutions and the Britifh Lion, and fo away to have his Election declared, to the Town Hall, in a Carriage and Four, and the Rabblement after him. Then the Mob left behind did fet to on both Sides to fling Stones, and 'Squire Callow's Party did break the Windows of the Rifing Sun, and Mr. Fairport's the Windows of the Barley-Mow; which the Townfinen did fay would be good for the Glaziers, and Mr. Wagstaffe do obferve that the Confervative 'Squire Callow hath defl;ru(5tive Conftituents. What with Publicans, and Lawyers, and Damage, the Election will coft the Candidates £6000, or £7000 a-Piece, and to think what a good Motive one muft have to become a Parliament-Man, that will fpend fo much Money for the Chance of a Seat. •iAf^f^EKS AND CVSTOMS OF > ElM&LYSHE- (N-|849- Kf"^- 32. Y^VvVijE-AvLTs- AT ^^ Docks 5Howynge a P/\i\TYE Tastynge. MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. ■ — g«^}— Ye Wyne Vavlts at ye Docks. Showynge a Partye Tastynge. \Xhurfday, October ii, 1849.J TO the Docks, to meet Mr. Soker, and go over the Wine Vaults with a Tafting-Order, and tafte the Wine there before it hath undergone any Roguery for the Market. Found there Soker, and Mr. Wagstaffe, and, Swilby, and Swype, and 5 or 6 more, and with them Mr. Goodfellowe, who had gotten Soker the Order. Firft to the Quay, heaped with Barrels of Wine, ciofe as Pebbles on a Beach, and one huge Barrel, they did tell me, holding 625 Gallons, and I wondering how it could have been hoifted afhore, Mr. Wagstaffe did fay, by an Adjutant, or Gigantic Crane. Then, through all Manner of Cafks and Tubs, and Bales of Merchandife, to St. Katherine's Dock, and down to the Vault, where a Cooper forthwith did wait on us with a Couple of Glafles, and gave each Man a flat Stick with a Lamp at the farther End, to fee our Way, and we looked like Goblins with Torches in a Pantomime. The Vault almofb quite dark, only lighted by Sconces from the Roof, and the fartheft Sconce looking Half-a-Mile off, and all this Space full of Barrels of Wine ! The Roof fupported by Rows of Columns ; and the Vault altogether like the Crypt of a Cathedral, but 20 times as big, and more than 20 fweeter ; the Air fmelling of Wine very ftrong, which alone did make me feel giddy. Strange to fee the Mildew hanging in all Sorts of Forms from the Roof, which many MR. PIPS HIS DIJRT. do miftake for Cobwebs, but fome call Fungus, and Dr. Limbeck, the Chymift, do tell me is moftly Nitrate of Lime. The Cooper did lead us to the Wine we were to tafte, and pretty to fee him tap the Barrel by boring a Hole in it with a Gimlet. We did drink, all round, a good Ale-glafe each of excellent Sherry, all except Mr. Goodfellowe ; and I did wonder to fee him tafte the Wine, and call it rare good Stuff, and yet fpit it out, but found by and by that he was wife. Next, to the London Dock; and Mr. Goodfellowe did give us Bifcuit, and recommend us to eat, and I did take his advice, and glad I did. Here, more Curiofities in Mildew, hanging from the Roof; and one a Feftoon as big as the great Saufage in the Pork- Shop at the Corner of Bow Street. A good Story from the Cooper, of a Vifiter that would needs take a Specimen of the Mildew away, and put it in his Hat, and with the Moifture of his Head, it melted and blackened his Face, and ferved him right, that — like more than enough Sight-Seers — could not keep his Hands from Picking. To feveral Vaults, and tafted Wine in each ; all very vaft, but the Eaft Vault the biggeft, and do contain more thoufand Pipes, and cover more Acres than I doubt, by Reafon of the Wine I drunk, I can remember. After tafting fo much, our Party very jolly and noify, and did begin to dance and fing, and flourifh their Lamps like Playhoufe Devils; and methought I did fee the Meaning of the Notice outfide, that Ladies could not be admitted after i o'Clock. Coming into the open Air, our Company could fcarcely ftand ; and Mr. Goodfellowe did fee them into two Cabs, and I home on Foot — I fear not very ftraight — and my Wife wondering at the Rednefs of my Nofc. Good Lack, to fee the Quantity of Goods and Wine in the Docks ; and to think what a great and mighty Nation we are, and what Oceans of Liquor we do fwill and guzzle ! r^^^ANNhlR^.ANJD- CVSTOMS or>^ CNCLYSHE IN 1849 N' 33 -A WeDDYNGE 3RgAI^oOLO(^lCAL SociEryr-irs GAP^DCNS ^'VJsts.^'' MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. —ess — ■ A Prospecte of ye Zoological Societye its Gardens. Feedynge ye Beasts. {Monday, October i-j, 1849.] To the Zoological Gardens, in the Regent's Park, at 3 p. m., in Time to fee the Otter fed with live Fifties, which he do chafe round his Bafin in the Water, and dive after mighty- clever. Then to the Wild Beafts, waiting for their Food in a terrible Rage, as I have feen others than Wild Beafts at the Delay of Dinner. Some of the Dens with Trees lengthwife in them for the Beafts to climb in ; and there Lions, old and young, Lionefses, He and She Tigers, a Jaguar, an Ounce, a Cheetah, a Spotted and Black Leopard : and on the other fide Hya;nas, and Pumas, and more Leopards, and Bears, Their Yelling and Howling for Hunger a moft horrid Mufique, and terrible to fee the Tigers, rear on their hind Legs, and dafti at their Bars, and grin and glare at the Children outfide. The Ramping and Roaring doubled when the Keeper come with the Meat, and Lack ! how they did fly at it with Teeth and Claws, and howl and fnort over it, and munch and crunch the Bones ! But one Hyasna droll, the Keeper paftlng him by, and he, thinking he was to go without his Meal, throwing himfelf on his Back, and moaning, and almoft blubbering in Defpair. Pretty, to fee the Bears in their Enclofure climb up their Poft for Buns ; which the Vifiters did hold to them on the End of a long Stick, and thofe below fighting for the Morfels that fell ; and their Clumfinefs, and awkward Standing on MR. PIPS HIS BURT. their hind Legs, exceeding comical. The White Bear, alfo, fwimming in his Tank, pleafant, being on the outflde of his Cage. Did note a fine old Wolf and Cubs, but fnarling and fnapping over their Victuals, they feemed not a Happy Family. Saw the Manner of Preying of the Eagles and Vultures, treading on their Meat, and tearing it up with their Beaks ; the Eagles brave, but the Vultures bafe and ignoble. Yet fine the Sight of the Great Condor Vulture, when the Wind blew, ftretching forth his huge Wings upon it ; and glad, no doubt, would have been to fail away. The Parrots gay ; but do fo fhriek and fquall, that their Abode do feem the Madhoufe of the Place. Much taken with the Seal fwimming in the Water, and waddling on his Stomach, with his Tail and Flappers, like a Fellow with his Legs tied for a Wager. Diverted by the Gambols and Antics of the Monkeys and Apes : yet almoft fick to fee fuch vile Likenefses of ourfelves : and the Apes efpecially loathfome and ugly ; and to fee the Crowd of Women and Ladies gazing "at them ! With great Pleafure, yet Horror, did view the Snakes and Lizards in the Reptile Houfe, and glad they could not get at me ; but hoped to fee the Boa Conftridor fwallow a live Rabbit : but did not. Bought Gingerbread Nuts to feed the Elephant, coft me 2d. and he did pleafe me, but I wifhed he had been bigger; but the Rhinoceros did give me great Delight, and with Mirth heard a Countryman ftanding by, call him the Hog in Armour. Well contented alfo with the Bifon, that with his huge fliaggy Head and Mane, Horns, and fiery Eyes, do look the moft like a Demon I ever did fee. To the Camel-Leopards, graceful Creatures ; after the Bifon and Rhinoceros. Then about the Gardens to watch the People and the Children ftare at, and feed and poke the Animals, Did mark fome pretty Damfels, but gazing fo intent at the Beafts that I could hardly well gaze at them. So Home, and defcribed to my Wife what I had feen, except the Damfels, and did difcourfe with her of Natural Hiftory ; which the Zoological Gardens do breed a pretty Taftc for among the People. Manners ahd-CvstomS'Of;^^Englyshe-in.I849 N°' 36. WESTMlNSTEl^Alib ■ gl^OWVKGE:/^CEIlEMONYE.o?-OPEr^VN6E TER.ME, MR, PIPS HIS DIARY. WISH Westminster Hall, Showynge ye Ceremonye of Openynge Terme. \Friday, November 2, 1849. J UP, and by Appointment to Mr. Wagstaffe's, and fo with him to Weftminfter Hall, to fee my Lord Chancellor and the Judges, after Breakfaft with my Lord, this being the firfl; Day of Michaelmas Term, open the Law Courts in State, in their Robes and Wigs. We there at 1 2, the Hour fet for the Ceremony, but, we found, only for the Beginning of it by Breakfaft, which had we thought of, we had taken our Time, as knowing that my Lords would be fure to take theirs. Nobody in the Hall when we got there but a few Country Folk ftaring about them ; and clear that we muft have Patience, Mr. Wagstaffe did fay, like many befide us in Weftminfter Hall, and think ourfelves lucky to be in no worfe Cafe. So we went out to look at the New Houfes of Parliament, and to fee how the Mafons fpeed with the Building, which will be mighty fine when it is done, and Mr. Transom do commend the Style, and I admire it too, both for the Proportions and alfo for the Heraldry and Lions. Then back again to the Hall, where now a few more People; and prefently comes marching in a Party of Policemen, large enough to have taken up all prefent, and yet hardly have had one Prifoner a-piece ; but the Numbers did by Degrees increafe, and were, I did note, moftly of the better Sort; which the Police do explain. Among them divers Barrifters-at-Law, fome with MR. PIPS HIS DIJRT. their Sifters, fome with their Wives, and others with fuch as did feem like to be their Wives, many of whom mighty comely Damfels, that pleafed me, and were a Sight I never expected, not thinking they could care for Law Matters, or to fee the Judges, 2d. ; but ftrange how Women do flock to every Concourfe whether it be to fee or only to be feen. There for the firft Time I did behold Mr. Tomkyns, the young Barrifter, in his Wig, wherein he do look mighty fedate, and I telling him I hoped he would come to open Term himfelf, made Anlwer as it might be fome while firft, he wiftied I might live to fee it. The People now crowding about the Doors of the Courts, the Police did make a Lane between them for my Lord Chancellor and the Judges to walk down, and Mr. Wagstaffe did call it Chancery Lane. My Lords ftill not coming, he did obferve that now we had a Sample of the Law's Delay, and did pleafantly lay the Latenefs of the Breakfaft to the Account of the Master of the Rolls. But they at laft come, and we oppofite the Court of Common Pleas got a good View of them to my Heart's Content. Firft comes the Mace, and a Gentleman in his Court Suit, wearing a Sword and Bag, and with them the Great Seal ; then my Lord Chancellor, and did walk down to his Court at the End of the Hall, looking the better of his Sicknefs, which I was glad. After him the other Judges, of whom moft did enter the Door whereby we were, and mighty reverend they looked, but merry and in good Humour, and beamy and ruddy after their Breakfaft. But to fee Mr. Justice Talfourd come laft of all, fhaking Hands with his Friends on both Sides, he newly made a Judge, being a Poet, did moft content me ; and Mr. Wagstaffe did fay he looked in good Cafe, and by no means pui/ne. The Judges all entered, the Rabblement let into the Hall, and we away, fearing for our Pockets ; which in Weftminfter Hall are like to be very foon emptied. M.ANNEIKS- AUD-CvsTOMS-or-/.EN6LYSHE-|N-|849- N''- 3/. ^I^^sfecte-op y^ 5''oFkloVEMBE:l\ Soowmty 'GVYS^' MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. — «8« — ■ A Prospecte of ye 5TH of November, Showynge ye " Gvys." {Monday, November 5, 1849. — ^^y F^'^kes' Day.] AT Breakfaft this Morning ofF a new-laid Egg, coft me 2d., but cheap for the Time of Year, did hear a fhrill Hallooing in the Street, which my Wife, looking out of Window, told me was made by the Boys, going by with their Guy Fawkes. I did then call to Mind that this was Guy Fawkes his Day ; and did in Hafte fwallow my Breakfaft, and put on my Boots and Over-Coat, and fo out and about the Streets and Squares to fee the Sport, the Bells ringing for Church, and a Scarecrow of a Guy, borne by Urchins on a Handbarrow, with Rough Mufique at almoft every Turn and Corner, Mighty Droll, Guy Fawkes his Effigies, with his Fingers flicking out like Spikes, and his Feet all awry, his Body and Limbs fluffed with Straw, a Mafk for his Face, with a Pipe in the Mouth, and a Lantern and Tinder-Box dangling from his Wrift, and or^ his Head a Paper Cap, like an old Grenadier's, but a Crofs on it, and meant for the Pope his Crown. I did remember the Mirth it ufed to be to behold Guy with his Company, borne by the Police in State to the Station Houfe, but they this Year moflly let alone, and more Guys, and ragged Regiments of Boys fliouting after them, than ever I think I did before fee. The Varlets, as they went, repeating Doggrel Verfes, bidding to remember the Day, and alking whomfoever they met for Money for a Bonfire to MR. PIPS HIS BURT. burn their Guy, and did beg of me ; but I gave them none, not willing to fling my Money into the Fire. But Lack to think of the Delight I do take in Guy Fawkes, and only becaufe of his ridiculous Figure, and recoUedting how I loved to play with Fireworks on this Day when a Boy ; when I know what a Libel is the Holyday on the Roman Catholiques, and the good Reafon there is, though the Doggrel fay to the contrary, why Gunpowder Treafon ihould be forgot. But fome I did note, who Ihould have known better, did give the Rogues Halfpence and encourage them in a Show of Bigotry ; albeit the young Ragamuffins know not what it do mean, and care only for the Fireworks and Frolick. From Weftminfter, by the Back Ways and Streets to Fleet Street, Squibs and Crackers in the Courts and Alleys fizzing and bouncing all the Way, and did in Fleet Street dine at a Chop-houfe, coft me, with Beer and Punch, is. ; and fo to Tower Hill, where the Banging and Blazing of the Fireworks the greateft of all ; and the Roman Candles and Pin-wheels mighty pretty ; but fome letting oflr Guns and Piftols put me a little in Fear. Here prefently I did hear a Popping and Cracking behind me ; which was a Cracker pinned by fome Scapegrace to my Coat-Tail, and did make me to jump, and the Standers-by to laugh : which did vex me to the Heart ; and Mr. Gregory do fay, ferved me right for countenancing fuch Doings. But to fee the Mob flinging Serpents at each other, and burning and fingeing one another like Devils, did much divert me, till a Squib whizzing paft me did fcorch me in the Face. Truly Guy Fawkes his Day this Time was mighty well kept, and Mr. Howlett do rejoice in its better Obfervance, which he do tell me is a revival of Protefl:ant Spirit ; but I do agree with Mr. Wagstaffe that Protefl:ancy is not a Docftrine of Fireworks, and mufl: own it were better to bury Guy Fawkes, and not burn him any more. •^ANNER^A«D. CVSTOMS- 0F> EnGLYSHE' 1N.|849- N° 32) A B^ovcr 5w)tfv«E;'B\^ER.sfMm' "-^B'S^^fr!", ^^^.^'^'-''''^^ MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. — ^ A Banqvet Showynge ye Farmers Friend Impressynge on ye Agricvltvral Interest that it is Rvined. \Monday, November 19, 1849.] BY Rail to Clod's Norton, to my old Country Friend Mr. Giles the Farmer, and with him to the Meeting and yearly Dinner of the North Gruntham Agricultural Society at Grumbleton, at the Plantagenet Arms. A mighty fine and great Dinner ; and the Appetite of the Company did do my Heart good to fee, and droll to hear Mr, Giles declare that all the Farmers were ftarving. I did mightily admire the Breadth and Bignefs of the Countrymen, and their round Faces like the Sign of the Rifing Sun, but not fo bright, for though ruddy, looking grave and glum. My Lord Mountbushel in the Chair, very grand and high and mighty, yet gently demeaning himfelf, and did pledge them about him in Wine with an Obeifance the moft ftately I think that I did ever fee a Man, and wifh I could do like him, and with Praftice hope to be able. The Dinner over, and the Queen drunk, and the Royal Family, and alfo the Church and Army and Navy all drunk, the Chairman did propofe the Toaft of the Evening, which was, Prolperity to the North Gruntham Agricultural Society, and made a Speech, and did tell his Hearers that they and the whole Farming Body were going to the Dogs as faft as they could go ; whereat, ftrange to hear them applaud mightily. He ended his Speech by faying he hoped Gentlemen would that Evening, according to Cuftom, keep clear of Politics, which MR. PIPS HIS DIART. Rule Squire Hawebucke next' rifing to fpeak, did promife he would obferve, and forthwith made a violent Harangue againft Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Cobden. After him got up Mr. Flummerie, and with great Action, and thumping the Table, fpolce for Half-an-Hour, with moft brave Flourifhes both of his Fifts and of Language. He did tell his Audience that they muft be up and ftirring, and quit them like good Men and true, and did exhort them to rally round the Altar and Throne, and nail their Colours to the Maft, and range themfelves under the Banner of Protection ; which he did fay was a Flag that had braved 1,000 Years the Battle and the Breeze, and if fo, fhould, methinks, be by this time in Tatters. He did fay that the Britifh Lion had been long afleep, but was now at laft aroufed, which do feem a fimple Saying, the Britifh Lion being only a fabulous Beaft, like the Unicorn, and nowhere to be found but in the Royal Arms. But to hear how the Company did cheer at all this Mouthing, and I do verily think they had far rather liften to it, than Mr. Coningsby his clever Schemes and Projects, albeit it was the verieft Cant and Stuff; for, good Lack ! to think of the Monarchy and Church, and all Morals, Religion, and Government, depending on the Price of Wheat ! After more Speeches in the fame Strain, the Britifh Labourer his Health drunk, and then the Prizes given out ; and an old Man of 80, for bringing up a Family without cofting the Parifh id. in 50 Years, did receive £1, and others for honefl Service nigh as long, a Jacket, a Smock Frock, or a Pair of Hob-Nail Boots, in Reward of Merit. The Toafls and Speech-making lafled till late, and then we broke up, the Farmers mighty merry, though grumbling, but not more than their Wont, at the Laws and the Weather, but their befl Friends say, will have little to complain of either, if they will but mind their Bufinefs, and turn ferioufly to improving their Hufbandry. MANNt.l\|_-\WD CvST0M5-0F^''EnGLYSHE-)N- 1849- N° 39- ^\ppf-arance- or 7^ CRYmynyaL CovRte - DvkynG • AM ■ "' ^^^ ^^ styng^" • TRyA L . MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. B « > a Appearance of ye Crymynyal Covrte dvryng an " Interestyng " Tryal for MVRDER. \Friday, November 30, 18 49. J UP, and did take my Wife, with a Party of Friends, to the. Old Bailey, my Wife having a great Longing to fee a Prifoner tried, efpecially for Murder, and little Pleafure as fhe do take, poor Wretch, I could not find in my Heart to deny her this. Got our Places in the Gallery, coft me loj., which did begrudge, and do think it a Scandal to the City to have Money taken at the Old Bailey Doors, as at a Play, yet it do ferve to keep the Company choice. And, good Lack ! to fee the AfTemblage of great Folks about us, we fitting clofe by Sir Jessamie Spinkes, and my Lord Pouncett, and two or three other Lords on the Bench by my Lords the Judges, and the Aldermen, did make the Place look as fine almoft as the Opera. But in Truth it was as good as a Play, if not better, to hear the Barrifters fpeak to the Jury, efpecially the Counfel for the Prifoners, making believe to be mightily concerned for their Clients, though moft obfervable Rogues, and arguing in their Behalf through Thick and Thin, and ftriving as hard as they could to prove the Black, that did come out in Evidence againft them. White ; and pleading their Caufe as though they were injured Innocents, with fmiting of the Breaft, and turning up of the Eyes, more natural than I remember I did ever fee any Adtor. But methinks they did go a little too far when, crofs-examining the Witnefles, they ftrove to MR. PIPS HIS DIART. entangle them in their Talk, and confound them, trying to make them blunder, fo as to miflead the Jury, which do feem to me only telling a Lie by the Witnefs his Mouth. And then to hear them labour to deftroy the WitnefTes' Credit, and make their Oath fufpedted ; and them, however honeft, feem Perjurers ; and to think that they do practife all this Wickednefs only for the Lucre of their Fees ! Among the Prifoners fome of the moft horrid Ruffians that methinks I ever did fee, and fome, when found guilty and fentenced even to Tranfportation, fkipping out of the Dock, and fnapping their Fingers, which did remind me of the Saying, " Merry as Thieves." But others looking mighty difmal, and when the Evidence did tell againft them, turning pale and fliivering, and we had Eye-Glafles we took with us on Purpofe, and through our Eye-Glafles did watch the Quivering of their Features, which. Heaven forgive us ! we did take Delight in. Ufing Eye-Glafles did the more make it feem as if I were at a Play, and what did jump with the Notion was the Bunches of Rue on the Dock in Front of the Prifoners, feeming almoft like Nofegays, which glad I am that my Wife and our other Ladies had not with them, for fo taken were they with the ranting Barrifters and hang-Gallows Ruffians, that I do verily believe they would have flung their Pofies to them if they had. Strange that we do make fuch Account of Criminals, and will fit for Hours to fee how it goes with a Villain, when we would not fpare five Minutes to the Caufe of many an honefl: Man; and I do intend and refolve to fearch in Dr. Browne his Metaphyjtques to know wherefore. But for one good Reafon I did take Pleafure in the Old Bailey, which was the Fairnefs of the Trials, and the Patience of the Judge, and Juftnefs of his fumming up, which do caufe me mightily to reverence our Law, and to hear and fee was pretty. I^AKJNEP^-AND^CvsroMs OF /' Ln^I-YSHe: in 184-9 N° 40 A pROMElNADE' ConCELKJE: MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. m » A Promenade Concerte. \Thurfday, December 6, 1849.J DID fet my Wife, poor Wretch ! this Evening to mending my Socks, which is a pretty Employment for her Leifure; and myfelf to Drury Lane, to Monsieur Jullien his Concert. The firft Part of the Concert all Dr. Mendelssohn his Mufique, which I did long mightily to hear, and, fo to do in comfort, buy a Ticket for the Drefs Circle, coft me IS. Sd.y but found the Seats all full, and obliged to ftand the whole While, which made me mad, but a pretty full-eyed young Lady being forced to ftand too, and clofe by me, though with her Brother, did comfort me a little, not that fhe could not fit, but that ihe was by me. Heard a Symphony that did well pleafe me, feeming to lift me into the Clouds, and was mighty myftical and pretty ; and the Mufique in the Midjummer Night's Dream did give me much Delight, the Twittering throughout the Overture putting me in Mind of Singing-Birds and Fairies and I know not what, and the fleepy Paflages very fweet and lulling. Mightily taken with the Prelude to the Mock-Tragedy, Bottom his March, as droll Mufique as I ever heard ; but what did moft of all delight me was the Wedding March, a noble Piece, and I did rejoice therein, and do think to hire a Band to play it under our Window on my Wedding Day. Monsieur Jullien in his white Waiftcoat and with his Mouftachios mighty fpruce and as grand as ever. MR. PIPS HIS DURT. and did condud the Mufique, but fo quietly in the firft Part that I could fcarce have believed it, and methought fhowed Reverence for the Compofer ; which was handfome. But good Lack ! to fee him prefently, when he come to direft " God Save the Giueen" flourifh his Batoon, and adb the mad Mufician ! All the Company rifing and taking off their Hats was a noble Sight, and grand, the While, to hear that majeftical Anthem, till prefently fome moft ridiculous and impertinent Variations fet all the Houfe a laughing and fome hiffing, and I do fufpedt Monsieur Jullien had a fpecial Audience this Night, that would not away with fuch Tricks. Between the Parts of the Concert, I into the Pit to walk about among the Sparks, and there a great Prefs, and the Houfe crammed to the Ceiling. Did vifit the Refrefliment and Reading Rooms, where young Blades and Laffes drinking of Coffee and eating of Ices, and fome Reading of the News, and with Shrubs and Statues round about, and the Houfe all White and Gold, and brightly lighted, mighty gay ; and the Sparks jaunty, but not, I think, wearing fuch flaming Neckcloths and Breaft Pins as they were wont. Did flay out the fecond Part only becaufe curious to hear the Row-Polka, and heard fome Mufique of the Prophete, full of Snorting of Brafs Infl:ruments and Tinkling of Triangles, and a long Waltz that did give me the Fidgets, and nething wherein I could take any Delight at all, fave in Jetty Treffz her finging of " Trab. trab." which was pretty. At laft, the Row-Polka played, and well-named it feemed to be, and very droll and abfurd, with Chiming-in of Voices and other monflrous Accompaniments, making a good ridiculous rough Mufique. But many of the Hearers did hifs, methought with Unreafon, the Polka being no worfe than any other Polka, but better, as lefs empty, having fome Joke in it. Home, the Wedding March running in my Head, and glad to find good Mufique drawing fo great a Houfe, which I do hope will be a Hint to Monsieur Jullien.