The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-03-19
Extracts from Punch.

Distribution of Naral Medals-We are happy to
announce that the Lords of the Admiralty have
issued order for the distribution of medals to
the officers and seamen who served in the naval
actions hereunder specified. We understand the
medals are of gold, set round with diamonds of
the most costly description Great caution will be
used in the distribution, to prevent fraud in person.
ating deceased officers, ETC.:
A d. s76. King Afeds engagement with, and destruction
1850. Great fight between the English and the COM
| 1888. Destruction of the Spanish Arm ada. =
He2 admiral Benbow engagement with the French
n B.-No officer or seaman will be entitled to
medal in respect to the last.mentoned SIEGE unless
he can satisfy their lordships that he was there
| all the While.'
The point of the following is apparent, with
very slight knowledge of British politics.:
Nep Titles for Regiments.-It is proposed by Mr.
Punch to confer new titles upon certain regiments
| to be borne by them until due economy shall have
been effected in our military estimates. For in
stance it is suggested that the horse guards shall
| till then, be called heavy expensves; the LIST dra-
goons the costlles and the grenadiers, the extrav
agans while the household troops generally shall
| be styled the ruination brigade. Our ornaments
having been placed satisfactory footing a far
ther change may be made In our regImental NOM
enclature, and instead of light divisions, we may
have large subsracons and great reductions among
the various corps. The 10th reasonabes the I1th
moIerates, the clipped greys, the locked buffs the
thrifty hussars the cheap rifles, the frugal fusilers,
and the retrenched lancers, would be names no
less euphonous than peasingly significant The
crack regiments, by way of Well-merted COM
| pment, may be denominated Golden s unadorned
and Joseph Humes own otherwise, the horse and
foot indispensables.
| Another DraugM from "Euiot's Entire The
secretaryshp to the board of control was recently
vacant, and of course there no one so well
qualified to fill it as Elliot. Lord John Russell
was well aware of this Indispensable qualification,
and gives it accordingly to his uncle-in-law the
| Hon. John Elliot This governing family seems
intermnable. The public will only eventually
| know the possible extent Of it by every govern
| ment situation being filled by an Elliot Ii the
Buoy at the More was to die, an Elliot would be
found somewhere to fill his berth. Say what you
will of Lord John Russell, no fault can be found in
his appointments, relatively speaking and we are
only too glad that this ''omnivorous race" Of
Elliots las the Morning Chronicle calls them is put
under some sort of Control at last.
"Spadss called Spades, "a passage from the fauo.
rite farce Of the queens speech y Lord
John writing at table. Chancellor Of the Ex-
chequer. Mr.. John Bull.
John Bull-buttoning his pockets with energy
50 Not shilling more-like it or lump it-you must
make that do, or do without
CHANCELLOR ofthe Exchequer-" But the state of
Europe
John Bull" Stuff.''
Chancellor ofthe Exchequer.-"T The efficiency of
the public service
John Bull" Fiddlesticks.' ~
Chancellor of the Exchequer--" Then you really
John Buil.-"I WON'T" (Ie has by this time
buttoned all his pockets.)
Lord John aside to the Chancellor of the E1-
chequer y" Well z"
Chancellor of the Exchequer-(aside to Lord
John.)-" He WON'T
ord John with sich-uritas y Tho nreran+
aspect of affairs enables me to make large reduc-
tions on the estimates of last year,
Punch expresses the following opinion of phono-
graphy. Cannot he be pressed into the service of
the anti-Websterians, as an authority
We cannot imagine greater riddle than man
sitting down to read the debates. If he understands
a speech every now and then he must be clever,
and decidedly very lucky man but what must it
be- them when he attempts to read the debates in the
Fonetic Nue. We call that the hardest riddle that
has ever appeared in print We should like TO see
Lord Brougham with copy in his hand He
would never guess that he was the original of
Brua. How disguised he would be, too, to find
himself so little What notion of greatness could
you connect with name like Brum +"
Brum does not look as well as Brougham and on |
the same principle, perhaps, plow may not look as
we'll as plough And yet pIow may be correct. In
fact, it is correct, and the supposed ms-speling of
DR.. Webster, in this instance, turns out to be the
old, original method. So says the Boston Post.
Among the miscellaneous hits and oddities are |
the following
Unnatural Littgation.-A case occurred the |
other day in the court of common pleas reported as |
'The Dean and Chapter of Ely uersus Cash.
We never heard of a Dean and Chapter having |
any objection to Cash before. This lawsuit can |
only be lovers quarrel.
The Source Of Perpetual Motion.-This great |
principle has at length been discovered. A refer
ence to the present and past debates in the houses
of Parliament will prove it to be neither more nor
less than-Ireland.
Royal 0sdspedking-We have heard great deal |
of grumbling about the ambiguity of the Queens
speech from the throne. Now, the Times says that
her Majesty labored, with complete success, to be
heard in an apartment ninety feet long by forty-fve
in height Others may think and say what they
please, but if this is not speaking out, we do not
know what is.
A Tremendous Hardship" As you make your
bed you must lie it." But this is rather hard
upon the ships in Her Maesty's dockyard, for not
one of them makes its own bed, and yet for months
and m onths that they are laid up, they are COM
PEELED to lie in it, What is the consequence
Many of them never got up again, and the few that
do rise never go on swimmingy.
Latest Fashions in Smoke.-A smoke nuisance
committee has lately been sitting on the chimneys
at Birmingham. We should think the committee
must De like irish snu1f, completely hlgn-drled Dy
this time. We do not exactly know what they in
tend doing with the smoke, to prevent its being a
nuisance, but we have heard of hair-dresser in
the town having undertaken to keep the smoke
" gracefully curled," according to the sample in
the song of the Woodpecker This will improve
the appearance of the smoke at all events and as
the look of the thing goes some way in matters of
nuisance, the arrangement may be satisfactory.
GRIM. CoN.-The London gossips are engaged