Punchinello: “Good evening, Mr. DELMONICO; have you any room for us?”

Delmonico: “You are very welcome, Mr. PUNCHINELLO, and your rooms are quite ready; for we have been expecting you ever so long.  Of course, your staff of artists can be accommodated in our Drawing-room, if you will permit me to throw off so insignificant a joke.”

Punchinello: “Tut, CHARLES!—­’tis a joke of the first water, (first brandy-and-water, CHARLES.) Cap your joke with another as good, and then consider yourself on our staff.  Lead us to our apartments, CHARLES.”

And so, looking from his pleasant Fifth Avenue windows, PUNCHINELLO waves a salutation to his audience with a “May you be happy, each and all of you, and live all your days in clover,” (admission ten cents.)

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PUNCHINELLO’S NEW CHARTER.

THE GREAT PLATFORM OF THE RINGS.

    The Lions and the Lambs lie down together,
    While the “Sun” stands still.

The People of the State of New-York, represented by PUNCHINELLO and his troop of admirers, hereby enact: 

Sec. 1.  All the offices now provided by law with within the City and County of New-York, shall be put in a grand grab-bag;

Sec. 2.  It shall be the duty of the Commissioners of the Central Park to devote said Park, on the Fourth day of July next, to the erection of poles (or polls) for the purpose of enabling voters to grab from the grab-bag.

Sec. 3.  HORACE GREELEY, PETER COOPER, the Rev. Dr. THOMPSON, DANIEL DREW, and REDDY THE BLACKSMITH, are hereby constituted Inspectors and Canvassers for the grabbers.

Sec. 4.  It shall be the duty of the said inspectors to prepare a registry-list of all the persons intending to grab, who are required to serve a notice of intention through the post-office upon REDDY THE BLACKSMITH, the Chairman.  DANIEL DREW is to provide funds wherewith to pay the postage.

Sec. 5.  The registry-list shall be alphabetically prepared, and the number of chances shall be determined by dividing the number of grabbers by the number of offices.

Sec. 6.  The grabbers shall be selected by lot.

Sec. 7.  The lots shall be drawn by REDDY THE BLACKSMITH from his own hat, his eyes wide open, while every other inspector, and the voters, shall be blindfolded with newspapers from the files of the Christian Union; whereupon, as the names of the fortunate grabbers are called, each one shall proceed to the grab-bag and grab his office.

Sec. 8.  There shall be no repeaters of the process.

Sec. 9.  The persons thus grabbing offices shall be then and there, by the
Inspectors, declared duly elected to the offices grabbed, for life.

Sec. 10.  Any vacancy occurring by assassination shall be immediately filled by the Inspectors appointing the assassin.