The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-03-31

| HASTINGS OF PUNcH-Punch saws the Bshol
OF Hereford has just ordained his brother, mai
OF sixty years of age, and presented him with thu
living OF Coddington, on the ground that man il
never too old to get ttUing. Punch says that BY
the discovery of California gold, the American Re
public can supply the world with seuereigns
Punch contains very clever hit at the ultra pri
son dscplnarans The scene is within prison
One of the gentlemen convicts is smoking sega
IN warm bath while the warden brings his choco
ate-another is having his hair cut q la mode, ant
the following conversation goes on between turn
key and convict in dressing gown and slippers
Smoking meerchaum and drinking snow and
then" from mug placed upon fashionable tepog
at his side:
| The Governor wishes to know, sir what exer-
| else you will take to-day-whether you will pick a
little oakum or take turn on the mill for a short
| time gu
| ooh give my compliments to the Guvner, and
say shant come out day, Idon't feel very WELL .
| Lord John Russell as the ''artfuI dodger'' pick
| ing MIR. Cobden's pocket of his scheme of financial
reform is very amusing Punch says that any per-
sons attempting to make joke on the words infrc
Dag, as respects California, shall be prosecuted c
the utmost extent of the law. Punch remarks
7 "The Duke of Wellington says, and his saying
deserves to be written in the largest letters, over
| the Horse Guards, and round every lannon's
mouth 1t is time that ignorance should cease ir
| the British army And it is high time but we
hope none of our military readers will have theii
vanity wounded if We venture to put the following
question When the aforesaid ignorance ceases,
how long will the British army last Is it to be
expected that some 1000 men will walk quietly
into field to kill, or to be killed, when they are
in a state to reason, Depend upon it, they will
not do it to please anybody But still we cry, as
loudly as the Duke, educate the army"
. In reviewing a pamphlet by Marshal Bugeaud,
on the horrors of war, etc. etc., Punch says:
1t is fnery that makes half your soldiers, and
stupidity the other half The latter will always
exist as long as there is ppeclay; but the army
could easily be stripped of the former In the
meantime, small step towards removing the
temptation for young fools to enlist to be living
targets for bullets, we recommend that cheap
copies be printed of those passages of Marshal Blu
geaud's speeches, in which he depicts the horrors
of military and civil war. Englishmen do not
know so much of the latter accomplishment, but
the former they perfectly well acquainted with,
and to their cost, as is proved every year by the
army estimates"
Specializing for a Rise-Louis Napoleon has
been visiting the bourse; but there was nothing
done in French consus.
Something Binding on the Nobility.-None but
lords allowed receive the order of the garter.
we 90 not envy them, 1Or the garter is generally
considered fitting ornament for calves.
" Han,let's C0ming.'-The tragedy of Charles
Kean at Windsor Castle, as was to be expected
will have lasting influence on the minds of the
royal children. We have the best authority for
stating that when any of the ustrious infants are
at all refractory, Lady Lttleton has only to ex-
claim, sc Hamlet's comng!' and the pretty rebels
are as still as MICE
Extraordinary Berth-There are no less than
seven Greys who have berths in the present admin
istration What is more extraordinary, they have
had these same berths for years. Every one of
the little Greys is doing remarkably WELL and still
retain their faculties in addition to their salaries.
THE Greys are connexions of Lord John RUSSELL
A Queer Qualifcation-"W Wanted" says an ad-
vertisement, addressed to matters, in one of the
papers, " a respectable married man, to take the
management of retail shop. One who can finish
and tip off would be preferred None but those
with good reference as to honesty, ETC., need ap-
ply" The ability 'to tip off, being a recon-
mendation, the etc, presume, are not to in
clude sobrety.
Curious Erratum-The editor of a country pa
per, speaking of the people of France, says, i'm a
beautiful Illuminating leader: 'Wien the Pro-
visional Government promised the laboring classes
that they should never again want either work or
high wages, them asses actually believed it." We
thought this rather strong, and little ungrammat-
ical when the next weeks paper contained the
following:
ERRATUM.-FOr "them asses - in our last,
read " the masses"
However, there is deal of coarse truth wrapt
up in bit of bad grammar sometimes. For our
selves, we decidedly prefer " them asses"