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PORTRAITS FROM THE LATE EXHIBITION.

As a popular contemporary has given a number of highly interesting portraits and biographies of gentlemen connected with the Exhibition, whose families and friends will naturally provide themselves with copies of their relatives’ lives and countenances, Mr. Punch, ever anxious to benefit self and public, has it in contemplation to ornament his journal with
LIVES AND PORTRAITS OF THE EXHIBITORS
Who have not gained Prizes at the Preposition of 1851.
And to this highly interesting class he strongly recommends his publication, of which if but six copies weekly be taken by every Exhibitor, a decent remuneration cannot fail to attend the labours of MR. P,
As specimens taken at hazard merely, Mr. Punch offers for the present week, pictures and biographies of—
SAMUEL PODGERS, Esq., EXHIBITOR IN THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT:
AN IMPROVED SPUD, NOT IN THE LEAST NOTICED BY THE COMMITTEE.
MR. PODGERS is the eldest son, though the third child, of MAJOR PODGER5, of the Horse Marines, which he commanded on the death of their Colonel, in the flotilla action in the Bay of Fundy. The Major married BELLA, seventh daughter of SIR MUFFTON WIL0GGLES of Wrogglesby, Northamptonshire, in which county the old Saxon family of WROGGLES, or WOROGLES, has been located since the days of ALFRED. The PonuERs family, though ancient is not of such antiquity. MR.
PODGERS received his elementary education nuder the care of the REVEREND DR. GRIG, at Northampton, whence he was removed to }Iarrow-on-the-Hill, where he would have been a contemporary of DR. PARR, SIR WILLIAM JONES, Loion BYRON, and SIR ROBERT PERL, had he been placed at this famous school while those eminent individuals

were studying there. It does not appear that MAsTER PODGEas took any prizes at Harrow, any more than at the Exhibition of 1851; his genius, though useful, not being brilliant, and his powers of application being only trifling.
MR. PODGRRs was removed from Harrow to Coppernoae College, Oxford, in the year 18—, and bere, though not thstmguished for classical attainments, he was very near gaining the prize of valour in
single combat withia gigantic bargeman at Iffie1Loek; but the mariner proved the better man, and an injury to MR. PODGER5’s nose was the only permanent consequence of the reneontre.
It was not tilt 1823 that he inherited, by the demise of the gaunt Major, his father, his estate of Hodgers-Podgers, Hants, where he now resides, occupying himself with agricultural pursuits, and with hunting although increasing years and weight have rather wearied him of that occupation. Mit. PonoERs is a magistrate and a married man; the father (by EMILY, daughter of the REVEREND FELix Rilinils)
thirteen children.
His spud was invented towards the close of the year 1850, and it
unnecessary to partieolariae this invention, which has not been found
answer better than, or indeed to differ greatly from, implements of
like simple nature.
MR. P0DGER5’s opinions as a politician are well known. Not noisy, he is consistent; and has often been heard to say, that if all England were like him, we should get Protection back again. England being
the contrary opinion, no such result is expected. He is three score years old, and weighs, we should think, a good fourteen stone ten.

Mrs. FREDERICA GLINDERS, AUTHOR OF A COUNTERPANE.
MRs. GLINDER5 retained, by marrying her cousin, her own maiden and respectable name. ME. GLINDRRS, her father, has long been known as a distinguished medical practitioner at Bath. MR. FIFZEOT GUNnERs, her husband, is a solicitor in that city.1
In Bath, or its charming neighbourhood, the chief part of the existence of MRs. GRINDERs has been passed. It was here that she contracted, in the year 1836, that matrimonial engagement with the REVEREND MR. FIDDLEBURY, which was so scandalously broken off by the Reverend Gentleman, [who married MIss BLUFF. The jury of an offended country awarded Miss GLINDER5 £500 for the damage thus done to her affections, which sum she brought as dowry to ber[cousin, the (then) young FITzROY GLINDaR5, who conducted her case. Their union has been blessed with a considerable family: and indeed MR. GLINDEn5’s quiver is so full of them, that he has been obliged to take another pew at church.
The waaherwoman of Bath has ever had a constant friend in Mss. GLINDER5. The thoughtless chimney-sweep, the ignorant dog’s-meat man of her own city have always been ‘plentifully supplied by her with means for bettering their spiritual condition. The Caffres and Man- dingoes have found her eager in their behalf.
The counterpane sent for previous exhibition to the national Exposition is intended finally as a present for the King of Quacco. It is woollen, striped blue and pink, with a rich fringe of yellow and pea-green. It occupied MRS. GRINDERs two hundred and seventy-four evenings, and the prima cost of the wool was £17 ide. 6d. For a web which was to pass under the eyes of her own Sovereign, over the feet of another, though a benighted, monarch MRs. GRINDERs thought justly that expense was not to be regarded. She had fits on not finding her name in the prize list, and bad even entertained an idea that MR. GLINDEB5 would receive a public honour. Bat time and her own strong spirit will console MRS. GUNnERS under these disappointments: and for the sake of her family and friends, it is to be hoped that she will be, in the words (slightly altered) of our immortal bard, “herself again.”

PROFESSOR SLAMCOE :—“ A KALONATURAE,” OR “SLAMCOE’S GENT’S
OWN HEAD OF HAIR.”

HORATIO NELSON SLAMCOE Was born in the New Cut, Lambeth, In the year When England lost her greatest naval hero. His mother having Witnessed the funeral procession of Trafalgar’s conqueror, determined to bestow on her child, if a son, the glorious names of the departed; hence, in due time, the two Christian names of the subject of this memoir. The parents of MR. SLAMCOE were in humble life; and for the eminence which he has subsequently acquired, he has to thank his genius rather than his education, which was neglected for the labours necessary to one whose own hands must work his own livelihood.
Well and skilfully, through five-and-thirty years, have the hands of HORATIO SLAMCOE toiled. Early taken under the roof of a tonsorial practitioner in the Waterloo Road, MR. SLAMCOE learned the rudiments of a trade which by him has been elevated to an art; for if to imitate beautiful Nature be Art, what man deserves the proudname of artistbetter than the elegant perruquier? At twenty-one years of age, MR. SLAMcOE had the honour of attending at L—mb—th Palace, with a wig made by his young hands, and offered to a late reverend Prelate of our Church. PaorEssoR S. augured ill for Episeopaey when those ornaments of our dignified divines fell into desuetude.
As NAF0LE0N crowned himself King and Emperor, so it was, we believe, that HORATIO SLAMcOE dubbed himself Professor. His inventions are known to the world and their beneficent influence is exemplified in his own person. Before he ever attempted continental travel, his “Balsam of Bohemia” was discovered; just as America was discovered by COLUMBUS before that philosophie Genoese put foot on shipboard. His Tuscan Dentifrice ; his Carthaginian Hair-dye; his Fountain of Hebe, are world-celebrated cosmetics, without which (he says) no toilet is complete. They are to be procured at his establishment, “The College of Beauty,” with the usual liberal allowance to the trade, who should beware of unprincipled imitators, only too eager to adopt the discoveries of the Professor.
That the Kalonaturm, or Gent’s own Head of Hair, should have been unrewarded by a Medal, is one of those instances which cries shame on the awards of the Committee. Let us hope it was not a conspiracy on the part of rival wig-makers enemies of MR. SLAMcOE through life), which defeated the object of his ambition. But if there he any individuals blighted like himself, whose hair turned white in a single night, as some men’s have through disappointment, the Professor reenmmends to such his Carthaginian dye, which will prevent the world, at least, from guessing what ravages grief has caused, and manly pride would hide; though it will scarcely be credited, the Professor’s own hair is indebted for its rich jelly Leolour solely to the Carthaginian discovery.