Punch (61.1871)

July 15, 1871.]

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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HER MAJESTY'S OPERA.

(relieving guard.)
Qamin. "I say, Lobster, rux in, and have a Look at the Play. I'll

BROWN AND FAIR.

The British Medical Journal makes the gratifying
announcement that the Brown Institute, in the Uni-
versity of London, for the Treatment and Study of the
Diseases of Domestic Animals, is now an accomplished
fact, and that Dr. Burton Sanderson, F.R.S., has been

\ appointed by the Senate the first Brown Professor. Dr.

I Burton is probably the only Brown Professor in the
United Kingdom. But in the United States, whose
population includes a considerable number of coloured
gentlemen, and whose free institutions permit all Ameri-
can citizens to fill all employments of which they are
capable, irrespectively of colour, there are doubtless
many Brown Professors.

To the foregoing remark it may be added that, when
the rights of women shall have been recognised in this
country to the full extent demanded by the principles of
political and social equality, we shall see our Univer-
sities adorned with Professors of the fair sex, and among
these, since not a few of the fair sex have dark com-
plexions, there will be Brunettes.

TO THE GLORIOUS 7th OF JULY, 1871.

You 're the First day of Summer

When the Sun's rays have shone ;
You 're a rather late comer,

For the Swallows are gone.
Can you, Summer day, restore me

Currants, peas, and apples too,
All the fruit that trees once bore me ?

No P—then what's the use of you ?

The Active Board.

A deputation of the Tea-dealers and Grocers' Asso-
ciation, the other day, waited on the Right Hon. Chi-
chester Fortescue, at the Board of Trade Office, to
complain of the continued importation of spurious tea,
and ask the Government to do something to prevent it
from coming into consumption. Of course the answer
they got from the Right Hon. Gentleman on behalf of
himself and colleagues was, delivered with courteous

hold yer Gun for yer ! " I circumlocution, in effect non possumus.

CLASSICALITY TOR THE HUMBLER CLASSES.

Considering that a smattering of the Three R's is all the know-
ledge that the majority of ordinarily educated persons are able to
retain, you can hardly dissent from the adverse opinion expressed
the other day at a meeting of the London School Board, by Mr.
M'C. Torrens, the excellent and independent M.P. for Fins-
bury, on the question of teaching Latin at the expense of the
ratepayers. Mr. Torrens was probably misreported in being made
to say that "He, for one, denied that English etymology was
dependent upon any dead language." Such a statement could
hardly have escaped the lips of a Torrens, even in his most
rapid torrent of eloquence. His reason for objecting to Latin
schooling under the School Board can only be supposed to have been

" Evening Paper, Echo!" . .j Echnmf

" Box o' Matches ? Boe Lowe's \PixidiculamFacularum Robertuli

prime ones ! " . . . j Lowe prcestantium.'
" Bill o' the Play ! " . . . Tabellam Spectaculi!

" ^St''™' 8tXa7ber" } Fraga, eximia Fraga !

" °StovlsQ't" y°Ur Y^'\l>ecoraminaFocorumvobiS!

" Knives and Scissors to Grind ? " Cultros et Forfices ad acuendos t
" Mackerel, fresh Mackerel! " . Scombros, Scombros recentes J
"Milk below!" .... Lac infra!

It will be time, however, to Latinise the London Cries, when compe-
tent authorities shall have settled the right pronunciation of Latin,
and we know whether Cicero spoke his name with a c soft, or called

economical and utilitarian. It must, however, be owned that this ; himself KlKER0_ In the meantime everybody will cordially concur
objection might also be urged against teaching Latin in certain i ith Mr_ MIC> (not Maecus Curtius) Torrens in the proposition
superior schools Moreover theres is some reason to regre;a deci- ! ^ « ^ fe. of lar education was to make children good
«on on the part of the> London School Board not to give instruction men and WQ^ ^ ^Qt what if he remembered rightly, Lord
which, if.given, might result m the gratification of the public ear. | Brougham used' to call cUmbing boys." To this end, however,
Suppose the London Cries at present a mere variety of yells, got, < instniction in Latin may contribute, if the poet quoted in the syntax
through the Latin education of street-boys, to be harmoniously f the Eton Grammar of that language is right in saying that a
uttered m a classic tongue. As for instance, with allowance asked educatioDL softens the manner3 (of persons who without it

tor probable Latmity:- > be what we call Roughs) and does not suffer them to be brutal.

" Black yer Boots ?" . . . Num Calceos fucem f -

'' Flowers all a Growin' and a) Flores omninb vigentesque dehis-

Blowin'! . . . . .) centesque!

' Sparrer Grass! " . . . Gramen passerinum!

(It would not probablv be known by the scientific name of Aspa-
ragus officinalis The London School Board could hardly teach ^^f^^^^^^^A^l^^'
Botany as well as Latin.) f m? -±aiths/nd ^l^s-mark my fw .

Seal of my sins and sorrows—take my Ihiers.

Hinc Illse Lachrymse !

{France loquitur.)
Test of my saws and sayings—note my doin's:

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'Old yer Hoss ? " . . . Teneamne Fquum ?
Want a Four-Wheeler ? " . VitC Quadrirotem f

Answer to Correspondents.—No. Ouite wrong. The initials
Remember the Poor Sweeper! " Ltecordare pauperis Scopam ! of Mr. Ayrton's Christian names are only A. S.