Punch: Punch (54.1868)

March 14, 1868.]

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHART VATU.

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DEAR, DEAR BOY!

George. “Oh! Shouldn’t I just like to see Somebody in that Den, Aunt!”
Serious Aunt. “ Ye-es. Daniel, I suppose, dear?”

George. “ Oh no, Aunt ; I mean ‘ Old Twigsby,’ our Head-Master ! !”

THE ART OE ADVERTISING.

Where will the mania for advertising carry people ? Not merely
hoardings but bouses are now covered with advertisements. Puffs are
pasted on dead walls and painted upon pavements. Poster-bearers
everywhere perambulate the streets, and omnibuses are made hideous
by the placards which disfigure them. Railways are among the worst
offenders in this way. Their stations are let out to advertising agents,
and well nigh every carriage is a vehicle for puffery. Puffs are printed
in their time-books, and even on their tickets. “The backs of these
tickets to be let,” was the inscription we saw yesterday upon a railway-
ticket. Perhaps we next may see the backs of railway-guards and
porters covered with advertisements. Why should not other people
also adopt this useful notion? Such a notice, for example, as “My
back to be Let ” would speedily, we fancy, attract a crowd of followers :
and such a space would surely be a first-rate medium. Many a puffing
tailor would be glad to make a man a gift of a new coat, on condition
that it bore the maker’s name in big red letters on the back : and what
hatter would refuse to give away a hat, with an advertisement
inscribed conspicuously outside it ?

Cutting' Their Own Throats.

(A very Irish Division.)

We are told that the Government are prepared to consent to Mr.
M'Evoy’s Bill, for repealing the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, on the
understanding that amendments are to be introduced in Committee to
put Roman Catholic Prelates in the United Kingdom on the same
footing as the Catholic hierarchy in Canada and other Colonies. This
compromise, we are told, will be violently opposed by the Ulster
Members, who will take the sense of the House on the Second Reading.
Will they? It is a pity they should court such an overwhelming
majority against themselves.

ALL UP WITH EXETER HALL.

Walls are said to have ears. If so, those of Exeter Hall the other
evening must have experienced a sensation. They heard Archbishoi1
Manning hold forth in the capacity of Chairman to the Catholic Tem-
perance Association. Shade of Spooner ! Whalley, man alive !

Extremes meet. Rationalism and Popery are extremes; positive
and negative. Well, certainly there is something rational in what the
members of the Catholic Temperance Association call their “ war-cry
namely, “We have one enemy—not drink, but drunkenness, and we
will not rest till we conquer.” Let the United Kingdom Alliance note
the distinction between drunkenness and drink. They have Arch-
bishop Manning, however, personally on their side. He advocated
“ the necessity of a wise alteration of the existing law, so as to shut up
the public-house and the beer-shop.” This intolerance is quite con-
sistent with Popish claims to dictation; but the votaries of Bacchus
would have as much right, if they could, to close the Roman Catholic
chapels.

But a Romanist meeting in Exeter Hall, what a sign of the times !
Popery is indeed spreading with a vengeance. It was little that High
Church Parsons, running wild on theology, went over to Rome.
Eervid dowagers and enthusiastic noblemen turning Papists did not
signify; still less did the sequacious valetaille who followed them
because they thought it genteel. But, Popery in Exeter Hall! Roman
Pontifex, thou hast conquered. Government proposes to repeal the
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill conditionally. Pooh! Unconditionally;
repeal it altogether. Let the House of Lords change bishops. Pro-
fessing Protestants are now on one platform with Papists—they had
better profess Protestantism no longer. There is an end of everything.
Oh, Dr. Cumming ! Let us talk no longer of Exeter Hall. Had we
not better call it 666, Strand.

What Vote the Manager of a Theatre always has.—The
“ Casting” Vote.