The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-28 00:00:00

A ver7 entertaining companion to the above is the
" Pictorial Half-Hours"—• profanely illustrated week,
in which the literatese is survisnt to the picture,

PenteA'sAlmenachfor 1851,—Paaelvoen.

The
Bogue.
Come Zadkial for 1661 Edited by 8. EDWLIDII.
Our clever annual friend, "The C 3160 Almanaok,"
makes his appearance this time rather scantily sup-
plied with matter, bat certainly entertaining enough.
The female emigration article is very lively, and ob-
viously written by a gentleman noway. squeamish
about the materials of his jocosity. The bast thing
in the number, however, is the following comic poem,
wherein the verse Sows along gleaming with jokes
like a stream with bubbles :

OVER-POPULATION;
A YALTEMILLII LAIMITATION.
Oh ! what a sight for these who cook
Affairs of state in clover,
To see, whishaver way they look,
Our ocuatry boiling over I
So many hoods, and bends, sod hearts.
(Unless the bluebook Mil coast)
Of nature's very flout parts,
At such a dreadful dialogist!
Though Malthus cries," Centric',"
liacculloch, " Emigration,'
Folks stay at home sad wed, we see,
Then swell the population!

The army numbers hens at home "
01 thousands double twenty ;
But many not " at home " are found,
When creditors ars plenty;
And more than shoes—by thousands dm—
" On shore " there are of seamen
But some of them are " all abroad,"
And shock tee-total tea-men !
Ws need a million Malthnses,
'Tie plain to save the nation ;
And myriads of Macullochs scarce
Can cheek the population !
We've full a million servants, and,
To make their fortune harder,
They've fifteen thousand " p'lioemen" brave
To famish from the larder •
Yet should this number as too great
By statists be rejected,
We've fourteen thousand lawyers, so
Our purse must be pros, oted !
Maeulloch well may advocate
His schemes of " emigration :"
Fourteen thousand lawyers ware
11 tut hum our population !
Of authors we have thirty score,
Besides the present writer ;
And forty thousand butchers, to
Employ when things I.rok brighter;
Wee's Ilium hundred actors, who
Our patience try most sadly ;
Besides the nation's minister,,
And they act just as badly !
In such a cue, Mslthusisn plane,
Must meet with approbation;
Ot actors we have certainly
An over-population.
Four thousand artists, meet of whom
When sees in fullest feather,
Wear beards, or whiskers, or moustache,
Or else all three together;
But let the bearded youths beware,
Nor too ult. trusting, slumber—
Their native foes, the barber', like
Themselves, lour thousand number!
Unless in wearing beards we soon
Observe an alteration,
The barbers they must clearly be
An over-population !
Distillers—we have hundreds seven,
To make our men unsteady,
And fell three thousand auctioneers
To knock them down all ready ;
We've ninety thousand blacksmith', and
Of one the work's • wonder,
He forges chains at Orem' Green,
Which none can break asunder !
• The last, indeed, may well excite
Malliusian consternation—
This blacksmith's work by no mesas cheeks
The over-population.
We've houses where for half-a-crown
One gear a shilling dinner ;
We've silty thousand publicans,
And not a single sinner !
At least we can't believe there is,
Until we see some now bsok,
For certainly Merv', no return
Contained within the blue-book.
But the' the book of sinners makes
As yet no revelation,
'Tie said by some, of thew there is
An overpopulation !
Bat while these publicans abound
(Young gentlemen take warning),
But twelve men sods-water mike
To sober you next morning !
And as for sinners—bills are " done "
In public by twice twmty—
The number's small—but if cornet,
Hen then we've more than plenty!
Se Malthus snd llsculloch, both
Pray rise and save the nation !
0111111 discounters sure we have
An over-population !
Of tailors we in thousands count
Sis score and something over—
Of these some drive a roaring trade,
And live, 'Lis said, in clover ;
But some, I fear, we victimised,
And paid upon a plea, sir,
As if nine tailors really were
But equal to • man, sir !
'Ds hoped, indeed, their present state
Is but one of probation,
For, surely, of the underpaid—
There's over-population .
But naming every class that throng
Our country and our cities,
Would occupy, I fear, too long,
And need a doaen ditties.
So many bootmaken—and yet
So many people bootless!
Bo many clergymen—and yet
So many sermons fruitless I
I fear, indeed, howe'er we land
The grandeur of the nation,
Of poverty and crime we have
An over-population!

The " Independent" are returned,
But nothing mid of toadies—
And there appears an item which
♦ very heavy load is ;
We've twenty thousand, (rather more)
Of doctors, all in action—
And surely we should view this as
A common benefaction;
For more than eighteen millions now
Sarvive within the nation
And without doctors think how grass
Would be the population.

"Punch's Almanac!" enstaine its reputation. There
are many admirable illustrations by Leech, and it is
spangled all over with pleasant jests. Leech in hie
1 hest days has seemly ever done anything better
than the " London Dining-room in 18.51." TM
motley assemblage of suspended hats of every clip:e—
-1 the devouring Gauls, the Indian summoning the
waiter with raised tomahawk, are broad warm pieces
of comic+ life ; but the gem of the affair is the Credo
asesaltiog the carte, while the waiter Mee, " Very
Mee birds'-nest soup, sir !—Yes, sir I—Rat pie, sir,
Jut up.—Yes, sir!—And a nice little dog to Mier—
yes, sw !" There is a ludicrous gravity about the fat
satire of the Flowery Land which is highly h
with it air of discrimination that seem ti 3212
him reflectively between the respective media of
"Skye terrier " and "shepherd's dog." We select a
specimen or two of the literary matter :
Lanai, MinOWn:RIU.—It is cot perhaps generally
hewn that If one man steals another's donkey, the remedy
of the aggrieved party menses in an action of saossmpeit.
PROPILITT 07 IJMOVAOI.--11. vulgar little boy obbarv-
lag that William Ruin got his "gruel" in the New Norest,
is reminded by his companion that he ought to have said
ernecrem.
Fasanam.—The latitude of Louden may be aseicialasd
at the Casinos, where the greatest latitude is allowed.
NOT, On CERIITIIka o•llll.—Many a young lady who
**cm to being kissed under the mistletoe, her no objection
es be kissed under the row.
Tire HTIORT or Paiebta.—Tie famous Driven of Want-
ley is related to have been so famished with hanger, that he
rose usually ate a raw &Mahican ! ._ .
AmEcnom or Val AILUITOCILACT.—A greengrocer hav-
ing, unexpectedly, come lute property, sends to, a toiler to
lose sad mason Ida br a sat-Menen
The " Comic Zadkiel: ocedeeted by Mr. fintimk-
land Edwards, it a battens* m the prophetic alma-
packs. 'This is not the first time that amid literature
has been indebted to the abenrditias of the periodicalaslog writers. Few things are more amusing
than the history of Swift's persecution of poor
Permtelge, of that kidney. lie preMetek(ender his
essonied name of Isaao Ili that Partridge
himself would die cm a certain day. In doe time he
announced the poor man's death, and amidst the
laughter ofiS allied persisted in maintaining it Jot
i spite of the protestations of the all-alive and
within .1.. Mr. EdwardMi &Leanest is,
fall of gay fun, and it is with the remembrance of
i the above-mentioned jests. d'ete:it,o Swift's in oar
bowl *it we my so. , ~. . . ~..., .