Punch: Punch (19.1850)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

JOHN BULL ENJOYING THE PROSPECT IN HIS PARKS.

AUSTRIAN SOLDIERS RAMPANT.

Although the stripes of Haynau have been salved by the sympathy,
and washed with the tears, perhaps, of his Imperial Master and compa-
nions in arms—their smart does not appear to have derived mnch allevi-
ation from the unction of popular commiseration on the part of his
countrymen. Erom a Vienna letter in the Kblner Zeitung, as quoted
by the Times, we learn that,

" Owing to the state of siege the news of the outrage committed upon General
Haynau met with a favourable reception by part of the population. ' Three cheers
for Old England' was proposed in the coffee-houses."

But the decorated of Erancis Joseph will perhaps care little for
public opinion—not impressed as it was the other day on the drubbed of
Barclay and Perkins's Draymen. And what are the sentiments of
his vulgar countrymen to the horsewhipped hero against the condolence
of his brother braves ? one of whom, according to another account from
the above sources, thus characteristically expressed his indignation at
the flogging of the woman-flogger.

" In the Ca/S Daum, which is haunted by our officers, there was, amidst the portraits
•f other royal personages, a portrait of Queen ViCTOBrA. I say it was there, for it was
yesterday assaulted by a Croatian Officer, who, drawing his sabre with a volley of
imprecations, smashed it into atoms, while his comrades cheered him and cried ' Bravo.' "

Bravo !—bravissimo ! Gallant Officer—gallant gentleman! A sword
drawn, with a volley of imprecations, on a lady's picture, is an improve-
ment upon the peculiar gallantry of the Austrian army—a gallantry,
doubtless, equally peculiar in regard either to a woman or a foeman.
The valour of heroes of the Haynau breed really seems to consist in an
instinctive antipathy to the fair sex. Should there ever be a genuine
" Revolt of the Harem.," these would be the fellows to quell it! They
would prove a veritable scourge to the rebellious Odalisques. One more
specimen, in continuation of the foregoing, of the manhood of these
(unacknowledged) sons of Mars :—

" They rattled their swords in a most alarming manner, and they curse the islanders
' whoji they cannot get at,' and whom they long to ' shiver,' as the officer did the picture
of their Queen."

_ Should they ever have the misfortune to "get at" the denounced
islanders, the shivering, it may be pretty confidently expected, will be
principally on the side of these warriors who are such Tartars to the
Ladies.

THE MALEDICTION OE THURLES.

To Mr. Punch.

" Sir,—We understand that the Irish Roman Catholic Synod at
Thurles has condemned by a majority of one the ' Queen's Colleges/
instituted for imparting to all creeds indifferently what ail creeds in-
differently in Ireland want very much; that is, useful knowledge. As
the Colleges are intended to purvey mere intellectual provender, leaving
the supply of spiritual nutriment unobstructed to the legitimate vendors,
to anathematise them is, on the part of the priests, equivalent to cursing
butchers', bakers', or grocers' shops established by protestants, even
whilst then: reverences are at liberty to consecrate, or purify if need be,
the beef, loaves, tea, sugar, and butter. They_ might as well have ex-
communicated the Indian meal and other provisions which Government
sent to Ireland to relieve its physical destitution. As Pius the Ninth
—his Holiness apart even—is well understood to be no booby, we do
hope that he will withhold his sanction from the decision of the Thurles
Synod, and not confirm that monstrous Bull by one of his own. You
may be surprised, Sir, at our venturing to address you; but really the
absurdity of banning Latin and Greek, mathematics, history, the natural
sciences, geography, astronomy, and the use of the globes, is so gross
that we could not help crying out.

" We are, Sir, &c,

"The Stones in the Street."

The Lungs of London.

The inhabitants of London are naturally rendered very anxious and
uneasy by certain proceedings in the Parks, which seem to threaten a
stoppage in the lungs of the Metropolis. We are not among those who
seriously apprehend inflammation of the lungs by the excessive circu-
lation that will be next year tlvrown into Hyde Park; but we look with
somewhat more alarm to the congestion of which there are symptoms
in the St. James's lung, where a slight stoppage is already perceptible.
Unfortunately the attack on the lungs near Buckingham Palace is
attended with considerable expense, and consumption is a disease of
which poor John Bull's chest is painfully susceptible.