The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-04-08
What Punch Makes out of the Revolution.

Punch is in clover about these days. The nun.
bers by the last steamer are uncommonly rich and
racy. The principal cut in the last number over
the title g Put Out represents volunteer of the
barrirades holding great extngulsher over bed
candle. The capacious dish is ready to catch the
| melting tallow, and the mctuous luminary is no
other than Louis Philippe himself, his wig repre-
sentng the flame, which is ready to be extinguished
by the new cap of Liberty. We give some samples
of sympathy with French Liberty:
A Cat MAJ Lack at a King.-This is a very an
Gent MAXIM but, if Kings do not take care, it will
become Obsolete for though it may be always true
that a cat may look at a King, the time may come
when must look very sharp indeed to find ONE.
We hope, nevertheless, that a cat may long enjoy
the privilege of looking at Queen, and that the
feline animal may throughout the whole of its nine
lives, have our own Victoria TO look upon.
THE Bo-PEEP OF THE BoURBoNs.
Louis Philippe
Has lost his sheep,
And never again will find EN-:
The people OF France
Have made an advance
And left their King behind EN-.
Citizen Louis Philippe IN Paris..Such is the con-
fdence of the French republicans in the durability
of their form of government that, 1t IS said, ina
very little time they will allow all the Orleans fami-
ly to return to Paris to enjoy the comforts private
citizenship. Louis Philippe, we understand, pro-
poses to set up in business as money changer.
The Patentees of Gouernnent.--We are so pro-
foundy convinced that no Ministry survive for
a week unless it is compounded of the nobility that
we have the most serious alarms for the duration of
the Provisional Government at Paris. Why, there
is not single Lord amongst them. 1t is true that
the members are all men of genius, every one of
whom has distinguished himself more or less, by
his talenls-but what has that to do with Govern
ment9 No! Give us the Red Book before all other
books be they histories, the best works polit-
cal economy, the cleverest book you like. What
is man like Lamartine to a Marquis. How can
person like Louis Blanc, much less the editor of
newspaper, know much about craftsmanship
an Earl or Viscount, or even Right Honorable 2
No: the probability is absurd The race of states
men are all born with coronets 1t is breed of
itself. The branches of Government, to flourish,
must be covered with strawberry leaves. For
country be happy to be free from debt, to be pros
perous the Ministers that guide it must be selected
on the golden rule of g Nobility before Ability"
The preference reads rather absurd, but the thing
has been proved often in gland, that the JUS
tice of it must be true and are we not particularly
happy Look to the income-tax. Are we not free
from debt Only refer to the National debt. And
are we not prosperous But it is useless solving
these questions when we have wing Ministry.
The Genius of Craftsmanship abdes only in Her
ald'sCollege.
st. Helena The Second-The Napoleon of Peace
has worked out his resemblance to his namesake.
He now only wants st. Helena, which we hope
he will find at Claremont, where upon his two mill
lions in the British funds, he will be enabled to
rough it quietly for the remainder of his days.
THE LOST GAME.
At cards sly and an old man played
With nation across the sea,
And oaths were taken and bets made
As to whose the game should be-
They played so long, and they played SO WE'LL
If the sly old man should the people sell,'
Or the people the sly old man.
The people were flush " of clubs " and spades"
And played as if in despair
And diamonds " he had in all their grades,
But +" heart - was there.
The last heat ;" came of the game sing.
And the people pla yed pellnel
But the old man lost, tho he played the king"
For he played the knave" well.