Punch (61.1871)

AWKWARD SCENE AT A DINNER-PARTY.

Unconventional Host (who has completely forgotten his Wife's instructions as to who was to pair off with whom). " 0—a—Dinner's Ready,

Gentlemen. No Ceremony, I beg. Take down whom you Please ! "

JOHN BULL TO HIS FOREIGN TEACHERS ? B^She^SL&p^^t set blaaiug;

{Apropos of the International Association and Us Add) ess.) That owns to common sense its dull propensity, _ ■

And likes to move on—not stand—the old ways m ;

To make low high, high low, rough places even,

With fist and fire to enforce love on humanity,
The Commune may be led by light from Heaven—

But on the whole 1 prefer Christianity.

When men live by its spirit not its letter,

Cease fighting o'er its forms its rules to follow,
Yet find themselves and others none the better,- CLERICAL FREEDOM AT ROME.

Then I '11 believe that Christian faith is hollow.

On your petroleum, passions, perorations,

Alike, flings the wet blanket of " cui bono t"
Tests national teachings by the fate of nations,

And, by that test, says to French doctrine—No, no !

A letter of an instructive Contemporary's Roman Correspondent
concludes with the following narrative :—

"I have mentioned in some preceding letters the pretended miracle of the
winking Madonna on the Piazza di San Crisogono. Recently, wanting from
St. Peter's out of the Porta Cavallegeri, I was surprised to see a crowd col-
lected before the shrine of a Madonna adjoining the gate._ A new miracle had
been just witnessed, and several foreign priests, with their opera-glasses fixed
on the image, were eagerly waiting for a renewal of the prodigy."
By hounding it to deadly war with capital- ' gh ]d b M to hear that they saw what they looked

I '11 own your acts are wise, your words enlighten. ^ , ^ that a m00nealff under the influence

If the fact that all Priests aren't apostolical, ; of " electro-biology," will see anything that is suggested to him.

All Sovereigns Solomons, the inference carries, If the Lion on Northumberland House were a sacred image its

That all Faith's folly, Kings' rule diabolical- ; worshippers would often gaze upon it till they saw it wag its tail.

Your logic won't pass here, as 'twill in Paris. Suppose Madonnas do still really wink at Rome, what then ? Mirar

ores are not forbidden to be done m that place by the King. Ine
If because Property oft shirks its duties, 1 Police winks at them, and the Italian Government practises unre-

'Tis wise to meet its rights with fierce denial, ! served toleration.

If thorns grow grapes, if wrong of justice root is— -~~

Petroleum-fires as new lights may claim trial. A Classical Fact.

When you can show a wav of reconciling {Perfectly at the Service of Dk. Smith.)

Liberty with Fraternity, and Equality, It was Julius Caesar, who, in the first Great Exhibition _ (held

That Trinity I '11 trust, nor, English style in, years and years ago) carried off, in the class for the competition of:

Translate it, License, Hatred, and Rivality. noses, " le premier grand prix de Rome."

When, since some lots are hard, some treatments scurvy,

You prove to me the sole rectification
Is to turn all, good or bad, topsy-turvy—

Then I '11 join Mars and his Association.

When, because Industry without a rap at all.

Here and there starves, its prospects you can brighten,