, and there
can be no doubt that the condition in which they are living is highly
injurious to the health--moral as well as physical--and likely to
exercise a most contaminating influence on the surrounding atmosphere.

In pursuance of this report _Mr. Punch_ feels it his duty to order the
removal of the nuisance within a reasonable time, for the parties have
been so frequently warned that there is little hope they will of
themselves proceed to abate the evils that have so long been matter of
public notoriety. _Mr. Punch_ intends proceeding to inspect other
departments of the great City of London Corporation Nuisance, and to
persevere until a clean bill of health can be presented.

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ARISTOCRACY AND ITS ANTIPODES.

If the Legislative Council of New South Wales are enabled to effect
their proposal for the creation of an hereditary Peerage in that colony,
it will be necessary to assign armorial bearings to the new noblemen.
This will be no very difficult matter; respect being had to the origin
of the chief families that will be comprised in that aristocracy. For
example, here is the blazon of a coat that might be borne by the name of
SIKES, elevated to the Dukedom of Norfolk Island.

_Gules_, on a cross _ermine_, between four hand-cuffs, _or_, a jemmy of
the field. Crest, out of a window shutter _vert_ a hand, _sable_,
grasping a centre-bit _proper_.

The above coat will readily be seen to indicate that the founder of the
bearer's family had been transported for burglary accompanied by
violence. The latter feature of his achievements is denoted by the
sanguinary colour of the field, and of the implement depicted on the
centre of the scutcheon. By the number of the handcuffs are signified
two convictions. The cross alludes to crossing the herring-pond, and the
ermine indicates the judicial sentence by which the voyage was
prescribed. The crest speaks for itself; the use of the term sable is an
allowable liberty, as being necessary to represent the probable state of
the member to which it is applied, considered in relation to soap and
water. The family motto might be, _Mortuus vivo_, which would be a neat
paraphrase of "Death Recorded."

The horse, the sheep, the pig, and other cattle--for stealing which the
forefathers of the ennobled parties were relegated--would furnish
abundance of animal forms for the purposes of heraldic symbolism. To
these might be added the magpie, the