EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 32, 14 March 1844, Page 4

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH.

I ÜBI '•' An Act foi till! I'llMl-.' l)l'j;l»>'lllCllt <>l lulividiiuis call««l ♦« (it-r.ts," abiding in l.u'ulrm ami other place*. Whereas, it baling been represented that there are at pit m nt existing in the inotropolt well ;is tbe provincial district . inclivi.-ii ,i\-> -.iiown and spoken of as " CJeuts," whose hearing and manners are il\ .•.; v.: lance with tbe chat which, from a monomania, tbey appeal di Birous ol as iimin \ : 4nfl whereas , in |iu:iice of cheap cloths, imitative dispositions, ami intellectual poverty, thi» claws is g;realiy on I that tin- act shotil framed, to control their vicious habits: may it tlicreloie pi v that ■id be it enacted henceiui tli •rearsaiue tvi.lt nily an attempt of the sixth In.ils to ape the matin, clafss circles. And that no " (ienl" who i a horsp and is not in tli. i strut up and down the I'urliugton Arcade with a whip and i. tos, such imposition being exceedingly offensive, and am . swindling o 4 tht pectators. -Ami be it enacted, that all such things as light blue stocks, large figured sli p hoots—in fact, all those articles ticketed in sh»p windows as " (Penis' last style," l)e considered the distinctive marks of the class, ami condemned accordingly. Uut on the other hand, it ia comiiiamh (1 thai people of common int. henceforth t* ase to designate any o''tin ir male frienda as •• (Stents," the word being one* of exceeding bad style, and equally objeotionable with " genteel," which is possibly derived from it. And thai if, after this, any one speaks of a " Gent"or *' Party" he knows, it is ordered that such speaker be immediately set do ofthe unfortunate class in question.— Pifnch. Salisbury Plain.—-Since the new Stdne-Henge Town has been erected, nothing vt hatevcr has more surprised the inhabitants than tin among the abodes of men of that scarce and solitary bird, the Jiustard, a specimen of which, on Friday last, stalked leisurely through the new town, admiring the bonnets and Other millinery in the shops. It took u peck of oats at the Griffin public house (the Anti-Corn-Law Hotel) ; purchased a pair of Solomon's spoctacles at the jßazaar; and, lighting a cigar, wended its way back to the uncivilised and remote CONkers Pi Salisbury Plain.— lbid. Ostend Rabbits.—Since the importation to this country of a vast number of Ostend rabbits, without their furs, there is scarcely a eat to be met with in the Netherlands. A correspondent has suggested that they should in future be called Ostensible iabbits.— lb. Celery stewed in plain water till tender, and sent up to table with toast and melted butter, exactly like sea kale, is an admirable auxiliary to a mutton, chop, &c. and for those vrho°annot masti'ate celery jn a raw state.