New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-07-03
Daily Bread-and Dnily vermin.

precisely the same weight of biscuit allowed per
diem, on all occasions, 70 every rank OF sailors.
Thus at the present moment her Msjestys foot
men are positively put upon as short commons as
her admras OF the feet Whether pastry is for
hidden at the suppers following the state balls, we
are vet ia ignorance--the historian Of the Court
Circular hitherto maintaining stubborn silence on
the matter. Be this as 1t may the increased de-
mand for seconds flour is convincing evidence of
the 10y atty of thousands OF the superior classes
whose superiority often consists in the bare fact
that they not only eat the very best bread but at
the same time eat it with both sides very thickly
buttered. However, great is the humility Of High
Life when influenced by royal example, For
without a complaint it renounces the fineness and
whiteness of its daily manchet and heroically
sinks to vulgar seconds At this very time, what
lessons of patriotism-Of self-denial-are swallow
ed and digested by the noble of the land, in their
daily bread and butter The selfcompacency Of
John Homer, when picking out the legendary
plums from the Christmas pie, may be paralleed
by the conscious heroism OF English peers and
peeresses mastcating secondsl'
Do we irreverently smile and mock at this royal
example, knocking as it does at the cupboard OF
the and-and calling, with wailing voice, upon
English bakers to bake nought but secondsl Do
we make light of the daily sacrifices offered in the
| paacel We hope not. On the contrary; we
have endeavored to imagine Prince Albert at break
/ st-luncheon-dinner and supper at each and
/ all Of these necessary meals resgnedly chewing
nOugbt but seconds; and If we can interpret our
own feelings, we think we have been very much
sO.tened by the ideal exhibition. Indeed we think
the circumstance affords an admirable subject Tor
/ the historical painter. We all remember the pic
/ ture of Alfred and the Cakes. Why should it not
be Ompanioned by Albert and the Seconds Both
subjects convey n patriotic lesson. Let Herr
Winterhater and Alderman Moon think of it.
The subject grows upon us. Alfred buried IN
thought, is needless of the burning dough; he
dreams of nought but clearing the land from
the rObber that despoils il his heart beats thick
with the hope that wreaks determination on the
multitudinOus Danes and frees his beloved Eng
land from a tyrannous maedlcti0n.
And Albert-all unconsciously chewing slice
of seconds bread, with no eye to discover its
brOwner hue, palate TO detect its harsher, husk
Ter flavour-sits bordering on his myriads OF hares
at Windsor, at ClaremOnt, and AT OsbOrne,-the
vermin hordes that eat the poor mans corn, and
so strangely turns the wheell-help TO bring even
princes down 10 seconds. And it is plain,
we hope that Herr WHITEWATER will duly paint
in the interesting anatomical iact-plaln, that the
royal heart, labOrlng with great emotion. expands
the royal waistcoat. Ia that swelling of the royal
heart died ten thousand hares Yes; his Royal
Hghness touched with the thought of failing daily
bread for men, ScW extermnate the daily yermln
that help 10 lessen it, AS ancient heroes dedl-
Gated their arms to a Pagan dety-so will Albert
the Great offer up his owling piece TO the Christian
bowels of his adopting country
has of course, been followed by the nobility in
general. Several peers have, by advertisement.
assured the country that they and their families
are soemnly banded together to let no other bread
enter their lips, save seconds Among these
sefsacrificers, there are, of course, many who
have INTERCHANGEABLE offenders rigidly pre-
served game Well they have seen the error OF
their ways and we will not reproach them with
past iniquties. Their signatures attest their pen
tence. True it is, they do not in so many words
declare that hencelorth they renounce the preserva
tion of vermn that consumes the bread OF man
but, it cannot be conceived, that any body OF hu
man beings could possess either so much c0ur
ageous eirontery, or so much debeslng hypocrisy
rs 70 publish pentental diet for certain PERIOD
with fixed resolution TO return to their old iniquity
To return 10 1T Nay, at the same moment, to con-
tinue in I'll
For instance. Here is the Duke Of DOublegun
marvellous keen sportsman his Grace. Last Sep
TENDER the local papers published his victories IN
the field, as punctually counting every slaughtered
head of game-punctualiy as men count golden
pieces. He the very Samson of vermln, kill
ing his hundreds Exhilarating, very ennobllng
too, such victories No man-excepting, perhaps,
a poulterer in large way-In the like time shed
more blood Poor mani Who, now, would wear
his nightcap even though his coronet was offered
with i'll We can imagine the nights this wretched
nobleman must pass he knows that eight mares
will consume as much as will subslst single sheep
this knowledge pricks his conscience in its ten
derest part for the first time And then he reflects
- andwrithes under the refectOn-On the many
thousand loaves consumed last year in corn, by the
game of England-loaves, that at this moment,
thousands of human beings hunger for. The cause,
as it has turned out was Nermin rs. Man,-and the
vermin preserved and protected by the arstocracy)
carried II. Miserable Duke! The hend sets his
worried brain to work the most perplexng sums
making hm-despite o! himseli-caculate 10
fraction the excess of money at the present hour
ID floh fba los mod
For this fact his Grace shudders at and breaks into
a cold sweat ms he acknowledges, that of every
loaf sold by the baker vermin may be said to have
had mouthfull. And these thoughts do still pos
sess his graceess Grace. And then, it may be,
worn out he goes 10 sleep. Still the vermin follow
and torment him. For nlghtmare-in the shape OF
puss-squats upon him, and like the showman's
horse that was wont to Loyalty beat upon the tam
BORNE for King George,-so does the Dukes hare
beat a rub a-dub upon the ducal abdomen, playing
thereupon as in the worst of mockery,-A hHHttHg
zee cRl 60 And then. it may be, the Duke wakes
and wonders whether his keepers-good men all,
and certain shots-are patrolling the preserves,
hugging. as a mother hugs her pet the gun loaded
for the bowels OF the poacher who will not read
meum et taum in the furry skins OF hares, although
Proyidence--Rs his Grace and his order think
have written the words there with so plain finger.
And then. his Grace may sink again TO sleep-ian-
ewing that he hears the short, cropping snatches
of his hundreds of vermin. biting al the green corn
of this blessed May, and lessening the harvest for
hungry man.
And the morning comes and his Grace rises.
And he is little worn by the thoughts and visions
OF last night; but he has seen the evil OF his ways
and repented. Ii may be he shsves himself; and.
with his eve in the mirror no blisterlnS blusha as
he thinks of his public manifesto and the game laws
And the Duke addresses himself TO breakfast
eating his seconds bread, believed it may be with
one grateful tear-oh, that it might be crystaized
to gem for his coronet that he is hencelorth re-
lieved OF a social sin. For he has printed his de-
clarstion 10 the whole world that-in Christian
sympathy for his fellow creatures suffering com |
mon calamity-he will for a certain time eat
seconds bread. that bread may be economised. He /
could not do this and at the same time consent that
his vermin should lessen the future harvest pray
ed and yesrned for as 1t is, even as Gods mama
No; he blesses himself that not for one moment
could he stand before the world, so imPudent
hypocrte; so bronzed by his own seltshness to /
the contempt Of man. He is an English nobleman,
and not a shameless pountebank.
Aud therefore DO we heartily rejoice at the de-
termination of members of the arstocracy 10 follow !
the example, so royalty set of cons aming only 4
seconds bread In deta a the