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Punch: Punch — 22.1852

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January to June, 1852
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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16609#0142
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

DONNYBROOK FAIR UNDER THE NEW LORD LIEUTENANT.

A. LAZARUS FOR ALL WEATHERS.

A cheap luxury for the benevolent man is set forth by way of
advertisement in the Times. Here it is :—

FOR SALE, that most beautiful piece of Work of Art, the FIGURE of
lazarus and PEDESTAL, fit for a gentleman's hall or lawn ; made of patent
Portland Cement. Warranted to stand all vieathers. To be sold a great bargain. For
particulars and to view apply to -.

What a mouthful is here—sweet and melting as ripest peach—for a
sort of philanthropy to be found in all times ! A Lazarus that—the
first expense of purchase past; the cost of making Lazarus our own—
shall mulct us of no further penny ; shall remain in imperishable cement,
a touching lesson in our hall, or upon our green-sward ; shall never
blister in the dog-days, or shiver in December; but stand all weathers;
an uncomplaining model Lazarus—and, moreover, a Lazarus a great
bargain ! A rare penn'orth this, in which economy may be spiced with
a sort of human tenderness.

Lazarus in the hall, calm in his patent cement, has his fixed look of
meek misery, and does not sniff with in-drawn vitals as roast and boiled
pass into the dining-room: his eye does not wander, whetting itself
upon decanters glowing with ruby and topaz. Portland Lazarus
cannot by the least twitch of feature betray a homespun impatience of
things, the fattest and the strongest, passing before him ; thereby,
whether he will or no—as will happen with a Lazarus in the flesh—
saucily arraigning the wise behests of all-balancing Fortune. No:
Portland Lazarus and his owner are well acquainted; they know,
with, equal knowledge, one another. Cement and flesh are old friends.
The master knows Lazarus as compassionately, as plaster Lazarus
can, with grateful tenderness, acknowledge his benefactor. For
Lazarus has been bought a bargain; and the purchaser shows his
sympathy with suffering, by giving it a place under his roof, or in the
very eye of his casement.

And how many of us own a Lazarus of this dumb, uncomplaining
species—an ornamental Lazarus that no respectable Christian can be
without ? How many of us confess to the appealing sorrow of Lazarus,
as wrought by The Master ; how many who are touched, melted, by the
divine beauty of the work, prizing it as finest art—a thing of abstract
loveliness, with no hard existence; sublime art, without the coarse
reality of pulses ?

And after this fashion folks—who even dream not of such a possession
—sacrifice to the human necessities of their Lazarus. They know the

! marvellous workmanship of Lazarus. And with such acknowledgment,
Lazarus may adorn their hall, or upon their well-swept lawn defy the
seasons, being a Lazarus wanting nothing; indeed, a Lazarus
warranted to stand all weathers.

UPON THEM CHARGE! BUT DON'T OVERCHARGE.

We are not remarkable for modesty, or for a want of appreciation of
our own value ; but there are some people who will insist on putting
a higher price upon us than we put upon ourselves; and who charge
fourpence for us while we are satisfied to make the moderate demand
of threepence on the public pocket. Walpole—not the present Home
Secretary, but a far less honest man than he appears to be—has said
that every man has, and of course, therefore, knows, his price; but it
seems we do not know our own, for at the Great Western Railway
Station they will insist upon putting twenty-five per cent, upon the
estimate we have formed of ourselves. Now we should have no objec-
tion, perhaps, to this arrangement, if the tax on the public were paid over
to us; but unfortunately it is added to the very liberal profit we already
allow to the Booksellers out of the threepence at which the whole world
delights to purchase us. The extra twenty-five per cent., without
affording the smallest advantage to ourselves, is a clear loss to the
travellers by the Great Western, who are frequently much irritated by
the vexatious impost, which thus becomes the madness of many for the
gain of—one.

Dilapidation Extraordinary.

A Newspaper, in stating that the present pavement of Holborn,
from Little Turnstile eastwards towards Chancery Lane, is to be
exchanged for granite, thus remarks—

" The thoroughfare has long been in a dangerous state, owing to the dilapidated
condition of the wood pavement."

Etymology suggests that a wood pavement, to be in a dilapidated
condition, must first have become petrified: or have been constructed
of Irish timber.
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Donnybrook fair under the new Lord Lieutenant
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