Punch: Punch (11.1846)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 71

Hast admired his gallant mien

ILintS On ttjt HaS$. At review or on parade.

JmjB^ Hast thou ever seen him stripp'd ?

to the queen. ^mRr?™^ Hast thou heard him shriek and groan

Mgy™SS|^- Whilst his quivering flesh was whipp'd—

Queen of Christian England, hearken ; H^K^ Whipp'd by piecemeal from the bone ?

Enow, the nation that thou swayest, fSBSssKvl

That a guilty shade doth darken : fdffiroS&iL Hast thou traced him to the bed.

Wilt thou chase it? for thou may,,:. a§^svt^\ Where, in torments worse than death,

Thy wish only need be spoken SsSKf N^- He at len^rth hath bow'd the head.

In the Senate of the land. JO^C And hath yielded up the breath ?

And the cursed Lash is broken ; M AS8^$wSmL Gracious Lady, credit us,

For thy wish is a command. J^^WtxWaK^^^^^ 'Z is trm* that sudl t,lings be>

Royal woman ! hast thou thought J^4T^lliK^H^^ '' Hl^d ?e sold,T, perisb: tb*s- s

That the men who guard thy cro,, . WlWi^WK^^^^wf

And to shield thee think it nought A ff VT«w^^^^2lWBg\ _ , ,

To lay life and member down. AM\ \1 \iSfei^M^^ Weedy V01C! be heard—

For a trifling word of scorn. flfSil it\EE|^^H^» - ^ ho sha11 ,da^ t0 ^sobey ?-

For a hasty threat or blow. Mi WWs£MBmt$m 11 butJcolsts1 th>' Ko>'al word>

Have their flesh to pieces torn ^^WlMP ^HRl ,nd1t e asb 18 CaSt away'

Whilst the living blood doth flow Y l?f WMM H^BH^if ) y u rcs^s to scour

A* 11 fMHfl ^SlMr^JlJiCWta'A iroin uur arms the loathsome stain ;

Thy defender thou hast seen |I fiflVfl^lf WmL^ Then °f merc>' show thv Pow",

In his red and gold array'd, fyfjf H^W Ju£l llM And immortaI bt tb>' r"!?11 !

The Young Ladies' Idol.

WHAT RAGGED SCHOOLS MAY COME TO.

It is with peculiar satisfaction that we view the establishment of
Ragged Schools in various parts of the Metropolis. We speak advis-
edly when we describe our satisfaction as peculiar. For it is not
merely that we are rejoiced at the idea of a number of youthful mendi-
cants being prevented from becoming thieves and pickpockets, taught
to earn an honest livelihood, and rescued from vice and misery, through
the instrumentality of these seminaries. No ; our views are much
higher than such plebeian considerations as these ; and they also
extend far beyond the present time. We have an eye to the benefit of
our posterity, and to that of the superior classes generally.

When we consider that Eton was established for the reception of
poor and indigent scholars, and that Winchester and most of our other
public schools were, at their first foundation, charities, we may not
unreasonably indulge the hope that the Ragged Schools, originally,
like them, destined for the instruction of the tag-rag-and-bobtaiL may
ultimately become gratuitous institutions for the education of the
children of the aristocracy.

THS "MORNING FOST" ON CHIVALRY.

The Post—like Stebne's cook-maid on another domestic event—
never chronicles a marriage in high life that it is not an inch the taller
for it. A recent wedding very much delights our flunkey contempo-
rary, who says :—

" Among the on dits current in fashionable circles relative to the above marriage, is
one which, if true, affords a gratifying proof that even in these days of matter-of-fact and
cold calculation the spirit of gallantry and chivalry, for which their forefathers were
erewhile so celebrated, is not yet extinct among the youthful scions of our nobility."

And then the Post narrates how that Lord Maidstone, just before
the Derby, offered to Ladi Constance Paget his celebrated horse,
Tom Tuxloch : and the lady accepting it, his lordship then offered
himself; and he was accepted too. Proving that, according to the
Post, in the days of chivalry, the heart of a woman was always tested
by horseflesh. Very great, indeed, is the Post on Tom Tulloch ; had
Tom not been a horse, but another animal, ranked equine by naturalists,
the Post could not have shown more sympathetic interest towards the
quadruped.