Punch: Punch (19.1850)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

MALIGNANT ATTEMPT TO UPSET A TRAIN.

THE PAPAL USURPATION.

(a chant.)

A Beadle and a Parish-Clerk were heard to mtercnange remark, and
hold discourse and conversation upon the Papal usurpation in a style
and tone that savoured of delight and exultation.

Says the Clerk, " They've been and done it—well, for my part, I'm
glad on it; now their Puseyism is paid for ; all turns out just as I said
for: all so much the better, neighbour; Church and Queen I'm not
afraid for." _ •

Says the Beadle, "Them's my notions. I believe these here com-
motions and Papistical pretences will bring people to their senses, from
their unparochial courses, showing what their recompense is."

Says the Clerk, " Polks long neglected, now begins to be respected;
now some reverence and attention 's paid to parties I could mention,
who was snnbb'd by other parties 'fore this Papal hinterwention."

Says the Beadle, " That aggression—for to use a mild expression—
has created a compunction, and restored a proper junction of importance
with the notion of a high parochial function."

Says the Clerk, " They looks devout, now, when I the psalms give
out; they no longer titter when I pronounce the word ' Hay-men,'
and at last things has begun to be as they used to was again."

Says the Beadle, " At my staff, whereas the boys began to laugh, and
each ragged pauper-rarlet my uniform would sneer and snarl at; I
feels that now admirin' eyes regards my gold, and blue, and scarlet."

Says both together, " They reveres churchwardens, too, and over-
seers, likewise, as well as me and you—honour to whom the same is
due, and let each parishioner keep to his own pew; and these is the
sentiments, and highly proper, too ; wherewith, as Britons, the great
majority of the public view, mixed with a sense of indignation, the
Roman Pontiff's usurpation. Yes, the Pope's late usurpation ! "

more zeal without discretion.

We have lately heard of a Protestant with rather more sincerity
than judgment, who has just discharged an old and faithful servant
because the poor fellow happens to have a Roman nose!

HOW TO AVOID BECOMING A GREAT CRIMINAL.

We recommend Louis-Napoleon to write over every door, and on
the walls of every room of the Elysee, the following words :—

" i CONSIDER AS GREAT CRIMINALS THOSE WHO, BY PERSONAL AMBITION, WOULD
COMPROMISE THE SMALL AMOUNT OF STABILITY GUARANTEED US BY' THE CON-
STITUTION."

They may operate as a moral checkstring, in the event of his attempt-
ing to drive the " Char de I'Mai" too fast, and Louis-Napoleon
cannot possibly object to the term " Great Criminals," for they are
his own words, taken from his own Message delivered at the opening of
the Chamber, only last week.

Awful Reduction and Alarming Sacrifice.

The prospects of the Repeal Association are getting weaker and
weaker every week; and, indeed, the funds have reached such a low
pitch, that it is a toss-up of a halfpenny whether a penny will be
received. At one of the recent meetings, the subscription had become
so miserably minimised, that Mr. John O'Connell, when about to
announce the collection, found himself quite unable to collect even
himself, and finished by declaring that " on this melancholy occasion his
heart was—rent."

the papacy out oe its element.

Xerxes, it is recorded, pretended to put the sea in fetters, and
found out his mistake. Pius the Ninth, who has made a similar
attempt on the liberty of the English Sees, will probably be as com-
pletely undeceived. _

A Short Review of a New Publication.

The Defenceless State of England.—We have read this volume of
foolscap, and its positions are, no doubt, very strong, for there is great
difficulty in getting through them. We pronounce the book altogether
one of which neither head nor tale can be made.

Another Criticism.—The "Defenceless State of England" may be
compared to some very small beer with a Head to it; and we all know
that on such occasions the head is nothing but froth.