The Press.
London, England, 1853-12-31 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

No. VI.

A Russian fleet appears at Portsmouth. Mr. Cobden, who is
Minister for Foreign AtliUrs, causes all the English guns to be thrown
into the sea, and hastens to receive the Russian Admiral. The
Russians disembark, the British flag is taken down, and the double
eagle hoisted, the Foreign Minister remarking that it is ehildish to
think one hit of calico better than another. The Russians plunder
Portsmouth, and, on a gentle reinonstranee from Mr. Cobden, bang
him, and proceed on their first stage to London.

SATURDAY,

Fifth Pot —l'm for giving to the masses
Tinny:ands more o►f seeret voles.
Sixth 1.14.-1 believe them stupid asses,
And would stop their bawling throats.
Seventh 1101.-I'm for letting loose the Red Man,
Flooring all the ancient powers ;
Eiyhih 1101.-1 believe, and oft have said, man,
Smash their thrones, you peril ours.

natl.—Yet we all unite like brothers ;
What im bolder than. our face?
Every man him hobby mothers
In that gilded blanket—Place.

[ A gigantic image of Humbug is drawn into the midst of the fair, and a prom.
sion is formed, which petioles round and round it. Fr.un time to time an it
dig
steps out to lay all offering ut the feet otf the idol. The Earl of A-
met-Weer: his consistency; the I Mkt: of A—, his independence; Mr. t
his theological views ; Sir W. M—, his Radicalism ; Lord the ii.•
wrests of England ; Mr. It. several bad jokes; Mr. K—, a cocked
hat and blither ; Mr. M—, a dagger ; Mr. C—, a mob reputation ; Lord
.1. IZ—, a Jew's-hiuT, &c. Le.]

Clionrs RENEwED.

How good, and how wise, and how happy are we ;
How enlightened, how noble, how proud, and how free!
Hurrah ! fur Great Iltnbug, whose rule wo obey 1
And we'll be his servants for ever and aye.
[Thunder, and the Idol Humbug suddenly totters; and, swayed to and fro for a
moment, UN with a ten•ifie crash.]

THE TERRESTRIAL GENIUS APPEARS OVERHEAD.
Avaunt, imposture and Imposters all!
•
Read your own future in your idol's WI.
At length a Power this nuisance to abate
1 thus commission as I now create :
Give Truth her due—mark Folly as it raves—
And lash alike its Bullies and its Slaves.
Smite the false chains by which Convention binds
The feeble herd of undiseerning minds.
Speak plain—strike hard—straight downright English knocks
In the old fashion—frank and orthodox.
Abjure sly Bitterness in tortuous phrase,
Muted Malice or half-hearted Praise.
Uneloak Hypocrisy, strip off Veneer,
Make Falsehood shrink as from Ithuriel's spear.
When Pigmies chuckle and Prigs coalesce,
And English Scorn requires 1111 English dress,
Remember to what end I dedicate

(qt Vrtss.

but they support Sir Michael Beach's political views.
The election i., expected to take place about the Itith
of January.
linEcoN.—Mr. Morgan, M.P., is dangerously ill in
the south of France. Sir Charles Morgan left Eng-
land last week to attend the sick-bed of his son.
Swill STAFFORDSHIRE.— Lord l'aget has been
visiting some of the districts under the nursing care
of Mr. Robert Scott, Mr. Mathews, and several other
would-lie important nobodies. In the event of the
noble lord being successful in violating the arran
ment under which Mr. Littleton was chosen, the
earldom of Dudley is expected to be restored to the
English peerage !! Nous verrons. The friends of
Lord Ingestre are prosecuting a very successful can-
vass, and his cause is espoused by the working-men,
among whom the noble lord is justly popular and
mach beloved.

THE TAFF VALE RAILWAY has a branch from Mer-
thyr to Dowlais. More than a mile of this is an in-
clined plane, using 400 feet in that distance, on which
the trains are worked by a stationary engine. The
officials on Wednesday neglected to attach the rope
to the midday passenger train before starting, and it
consequently dashed down the incline with prodi-
gionsly-increasing velocity as it neared the bottom.
The guard leaped off the break soon after the car-
riages commenced their descent, and was uninjured.
None of the passengers were, however, enabled thus
to escape, as they were all locked in the compart-
ments, and their shrieks while passing along the
bridges over the roads near the town were most ap-
palling. The branch joins on to the main line at the
bottom of the incline by a sharp curve. The train
abandoned the rails at this spot, leaped clean into the
air a great height, the carriages separating into shred,,,
the passengers being thrown out, and, with the dibris
of the train, fallinl like a shower into the Taff river
and on the adjoining cinder-tips. Notwithstanding
this extraordinary violence, some of the passengers
were enabled to walk away comparatively unhurt;
others were much injured, two women mortally so—
one having her back broken, and the other a fracture
of the skull. Had the train been worked with a
proper break it could have been brought to a stand,
or, at all events, its speed down the incline would have
been so reduced as to avoid the fearful results of the
catastrophe.