Punch (12.1847)

60 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

WONDERFUL EFFECTS OF ETHER IN A CASE OF
SCOLDING WIFE.

A FACT FOR EXETER HALL.

We beg to call the attention of certain persons to the following
stroke of Popish craft, recorded by the Leeds Mercury ;—

" The Koman Catholic priests of Cracow have given up their revenues for six month*,
in order that they may be applied to the relief of the distress which prevails among the

people."

Another instance of the insidious policy of the Papists. Another
proof of the unscrupulous means by wfiich they seek to propagate
their doctrines. Let it not be mistaken for a deed of charity ; for
is it possible that Romanists can be capable of any goodness ?
No ; they who read their McNelle, and attend their platform,
know better. They see that it is only a scheme, a trick, to throw
discredit on sincere professors. It is notorious that the slaves of
Rome, at any time, are ready to go through fire and water for that
purpose. Accordingly, they do not hesitate to commit an act of self-
robbery, aware that our esteemed Bishops and Clergy know too well
what is due to themselves to go and do likewise. The priests of
Cracow expect, no doubt, that their conduct will be quoted as an
example to English Churchmen ; between whom and themselves their
so:e object is, of course, to procure an invidious comparison.

We feel that an apology for the above remarks is due to some of our
readers ; but we have to cater for a variety of tastes, and the foregoing
observations are addressed exclusively to our friends of Exeter HalL

Patient.—" This is really quite delightful—a most beautiful dream.''

LORD BROUGHAM'S GRIEVANCES.

THE WIZARD FOB LINCOLN.

A few days ago, and we began to think the Church was once again
in danger. Colonel Sibthorpe, it was said, would be ousted from
Lincoln ; and, recollecting the intimate connection between the militia
officer and the Church militant, we could not but feel that what would
shake the seat of the one, must affect the foundation of the other.
Happily, our fears are lulled to rest. The good people of Lincoln,
rejecting any new candidate, have resolved to keep the ColoneL
Strange are the effects of use ! We remember the story of an officer
who retired from the field of glory with a bullet in his body > for a
long time the bit of glorious lead teased and fretted the veteran con-
sumedly. Time rolled on, and then he became patient under the bullet -t
still time rolled, and he declared that he felt quite an affection for the

Our friend Lord Brougham is reported, by a morning contSfepo^ bullet- At length, the bullet presented itself under the most favourable
rary, to have favoured the Peers, in Parliament assembled, with the I circumstances for extraction. One touch of the knife, and the bullet
following important piece of information :- woujd be brought away Tbe veteran pondered a moment-shook his

head—" No, said he, " I ve been so long used to the lead that nothing

"Lord Brougham said, that, at present, as their Lordships were aware, letters to this n0W shall part US." Now, COLONEL SlBTHORPE is the bullet of Lincoln,
country, from France, Holland and Belgium, and vice versa, were prepaid or not, at the
option of the sender. Since this arrangement took effect he received every morning large
packets of letters,of which he had to pay the postage (alaugh), and which he felt to be a
very great hardship, for he could not tell what they contained until he opened them.
Four or five of the packets he had thus received were directed most perfidiously in the
handwriting of a lady or gentleman, as the case mig'it be, of his acquaintance, as he
thought, and, on opening them, he found them to be quack circulars. (A laugh.) Of
course, he could do nothing but send these communications back under cover, and the
parties would take them in or not, as they chose."

How defective are the Parliamentary reports of the newspapers !
Our contemporary omits to mention that his Lordship proceeded to
complain that—

He (Lord Brougham) had a smoky chimney which, notwithstand-
ing he had had recourse to the best advice, he had not yet been able to
get cured. Amongst the quack circulars which he had just alluded to,
were those of several smoke-doctors ; and he had not only to regret
having taken them in, but also having been taken in by them. His
butcher, he was sorry to say, had lately supplied him with very bad
meat ; and, to make matters worse, the last joint was underdone,
which was peculiarly annoying, as it happened to be a hand of pork.
Nor was the peas-pudding that accompanied it at all to bis satisfac-
tion, and he gave their Lordships notice that he should discharge his
cook. Somebody, he did not know who it was, or. he would have
brought the guilty person before the House, had broken his area bell-
wire, and had likewise evidently attempted to pull off his knocker ;
and the pot-boys did sums in arithmetic on his doorposts, or even
defaced them with caricatures, which he had reason to believe were
intended for himself. He would ask their Lordships, did any of them
keep cats ? (Several noble Lords answered in the affirmative.) Well,
then, he would inquire whether the cats of noble Lords were in the
habit of running away with mince-pies ? His own cat was ; nay,
even with rounds of beef and shoulders of mutton. There were
draughts in nearly all his rooms ; his house was infested with black
beetles ; his boots pinched him ; and the last pair of tiowsers he had
had made, didn't fit.

The Lord Chancellor would ask the noble and learned Lord if he
had another complaint to make ?

Lord Brougham had to complain of everything and everybody.
The Lord Chancellor suggested the propriety of proceeding with
the business of the House.

I" OST, STOLEN, or STRAYED.—The celebrated British Lion. It was last
-L' heard roaring in the neighbourhood of New Bond Street. Had on, when last
seen, a very shaggy and dishevelled inane, a tail quite down, a seedy coat, and appeared
very much out of spirits. Whoever will bring the Lion, dead or alive, to the Agri-
cultural Protection Society, shall be handsomely rewarded, as the Bkin may be made
available for some of the Members.

A Domestic Tax.

Some ladies, of charitable dispositions, have sent a petition to us, in
which they pray that, in the event of a new tax being imposed, -which
they state is not at all unlikely, it may be levied upon all members ot
clubs. They contend that a more just impost could not be devised,
and as absentees from Ireland are to be heavily taxed, they do not see
why absentees from home, who spend all their money and time abroad
should be spared. Husbands of England, beware 1