Punch: Punch (56.1869)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI

[Mat 1, 1869.

OUR ADVENTUROUS ARTIST,

Sketching on the Cornish Coast, and who has taken Precautions against Slipping oyer the Rocks-, is seen, from below,

BY THE LEARNED GERMAN PROFESSOR LONGBAUER, AND MADE THE MOST OF IN HIS “ TRAVELS,” AS AN INSTANCE OF THE CRUEL

Treatment of their Political Prisoners by the English Government !

VOLUNTEERS! ATTENTION !

Gentlemen, you have got it at last. Do you see what Sir Hope
Grant, a veteran General, says about you :—

“ In my opinion this force cannot bf, really Serviceable if it be

NOT PLACED, WHILE UNDER ARMS, UNDER SOME MORE STRINGENT MILITARY

control. Such a large body of Armed Men not amenable to any
j Military Discipline might be the cause of very serious Embarrass-
j MENT.”

He tells you only, my brave boys, what you yourselves knew, but be
has now told, it to the pit-blip, which is very ignorant and very good-
natured, and admires your pluck, and your uniforms, and thinks that
! really yon do very well, considering. Come, this sort of thing must not
go on any longer. Meet, choose a small body of representatives, who shall
have power to bind you, and Jet them go down to the Horse Guards,
and demand proper officers. The details may easily be settled, if you
are in earnest. And if you are not in earnest, after Sir Hope Grant’s
declaration, you may play at soldiers until yon are tired. But you ’ll
do nothing of the kind, my Household Guard—you’ll choose your men,
and send them to my friend George at the Horse Guards. He has
promised to do what is right, and he means it. Come, elect.

] 85, Fleet Street. 13MNC1P.

A New Creature.

There is a book called the Adventures of a Bric-a-Brae Hunter.
Will some fellow of the Zoological Society have the kindness to inform
“ An Ignoramus ” what sort of an animal the “ bric-a-brac ” is, and in
what country the curiosity is found, and whether one can be seen in
the Society’s Gardens ?

SOMETHING WRONG.

The Seasons, we are often told, are changing and interfering with
each other, but now the months also are getting into confusion, “May
Meetings” being openly held in April.

A CREDIT TO- CAMBRIDGE,

Stupid indeed, one would think, must be that constituency which j
sent to the House of Commons a representative capable of uttering the
internecine arguments which follow :—

“ Much had been made of the expression in Leviticus that a man was not
allowed to marry the sister of his wife during the life of the latter, hut many |
eminent Hebrew scholars were of opinion that in this, and in a number of !
other instances, the Hebrew word ‘sister’ merely meant ‘woman.’ It must j
not, however, he forgotten that the Jewish system exhibited a rudimentary and .
imperfect code of morality compared with Christianity. A system which
tolerated polygamy could not be regarded in the same light with the religion
of the Gospel.”

How, if the Hebrew word “sister” in Leviticus merely meant
“woman” could the “Jewish system” tolerate polygamy any more
than pork ? The reasoning which provokes this obvious question
occurs in a speech reported in the Times as that of Mr. Bereseord !
Hope, who actually represents the University of Cambridge !

“ Hot-Water Apparatus for Heating Churches.”

We have received a long list of testimonials to the merits of Messrs. |
Blank & Co.’s contrivance for this purpose. But read the articles in
the Church-Union organs and the Record, and the speeches at the
Dublin Church Conference, and then say what can equal Ritualism
I and Dis-establishment, as a “ Hot-Water Apparatus for Heating
! Churches” ?

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| PSYCHOLOGICAL.

The state of mind that man is in who risks largely in a lottery, and j
i does not draw a prize, may be described as Blank Despair.

An Extra Opera Knight—Sir Michael Costa.