ll opposite the muzzle of
Royalty.' The poetical advertisement of one MOSES, a slop-shop
clothes-man, is pleasantly 'reviewed.' Of his 'Prince ALBERT coats,' PUNCH
says: 'Whatever may be the resemblance between the Prince and the coat,
the similarity certainly ends with the price; one costing thirty shillings
and the other thirty thousand pounds per annum.' Here is a touch at Moses'
sea-coats:

'These coats for nautical pursuits
Have qualities no one disputes;
The very texture of their cloth
Seems to defy the ocean's wrath:
And then their form and make as well
Are suited to the billows' swell.'

What can be happier than the allusion to the fact mentioned in the last
two lines; namely, that the coat is quite a match for the billows, being
as great a swell as any of them? The poet dashes off a few lines on
trowsers, finishing with the following couplet, which is not likely to
encourage purchasers. It is stated, and we dare say truly, that if any one
puts on a pair of MOSES' trowsers he becomes at once an object of general
observation:

'While oft such cries as these escape;
Look! there's a figure! there's a shape!'

It is a very natural consequence, no doubt, of disporting one's-self in
doe-skins made for seven-pence a pair; but the cries of 'There's a figure!
there's a shape!' must make the trowsers rather dear to any one who wishes
to walk about peaceably, unmolested by this species of street-criticism.'
Under the head of 'Bolsters for Behindhand Botanists,' we find these
original questions and answers: 'What are the most difficult roots to
extract from the ground?' The cube-root. 'What is the pistil of a flower?'
It is that instrument with which the flower shoots. 'What is meant by the
word stamina?' It means the pluck or courage which enables the flower to
shoot.' 'The reversionary interest of a life-crossing, with retail lucifer
business attached,' is offered by a street-sweeper near the Bank of
England, he having 'prigged vat vasn't his'n, and gone to pris'n.' 'He
effected an irregular transfer at the bank one day, which, whatever his
doubts upon the subject might previously have been, led to his ultimate
conviction.' The 'Comic BLACKSTONE' enlightens us upon one of the 'King's
prerogatives': 'The King is the fountain of justice, from which are
supplied all the leaden reservoirs in Westminster-Hall, and the pumps at
the inferior tribunals.' Among the public inquiries is the following: 'At
a cr