DOI issue:
January to June, 1844
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16519#0054
M PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
vicars, by providing for their being better paid, and some of the smaller
tithes were settled on the vicar; who, on the principle of " little fishes
being sweet," no doubt eagerly clutched at them.
The duties incumbent on a parson, are first to act as the incumbent,
by living in the place where he lias his living. By a recent Act, a
parson absenting himself from his parsonage for upwards of three
months in a year, forfeits a third of the value of his benefice, and so in
proportion ; so that if he stays away a whole year, he will have more to
pay than to receive, and thus realise the homely picture of the man who
is said to have won a shilling and lost eighteen-pence.
There is only one way of becoming a parson or vicar, but five at least
of ceasing to continue so :—1st. By dying, or going quite out, like an
exhausted rushlight. 2nd. By taking another and a better benefice, or,
following the allegory of the light, being removed from a japan to a
plated candlestick. 3rd. By being made a bishop, or undergoing a sort
of conversion from simple tallow to superior sperm. 4th. By resignation,
TO THE ANTI-LEAGUE AND THE ANTI-CORN-LAW
LEAGUE.
unch, in his anxiety for the protection of British
Agriculture, will be happy to supply the Anti-
League and the Anti-Corn-Law League with
articles, of which the following is a specimen.
To save trouble and expense, it is proposed,
that instead of being stitched into the Maga-
zines, according to the general practice, the
articles'should be taken direct from the print-
ing office to the butter shops. There is no
reason why there should be any middle class
or,7till"pu'rsuinglhe simile" of the "light, suddenly goingoiit, nobodyTnows )M flUl between the authors and the waste paper dealers,
why. And 5th. By deprivation, that is to say, being deprived of one's
benefice altogether, and expelled from the clerical profession, which is
like a gas lamp completely cut off from the company's main.
A curate is the lowest grade in the church, for he is a sort of journey-
man parson, and several of them meet at a house of call in St. Paul's
Church Yard—ready to job a pulpit by the day—and being in fact
" clergymen taken in to bait" by the landlord of the house alluded to.
From the clergy, we come next to the churchwardens, who keep the
church, and represent the parish. They also keep the accounts ; and. in
some cases, like that of Alderman Gibbs, these accounts are so literally
kept, that, it is hard to get hold of them. The churchwarden may keep
order in the church ; and if a boy giggles, it is the duty of the church-
warden to frown, or even to kick the juvenile's shins, if he should be near
enough.
Parish clerks and sextons are also particularly regarded by the common
law—which must be very common to regard such exceedingly common
people. The parish clerk was formerly often in holy orders, but any one
may be a parish clerk, excepting, by-the-bye, Macbeth, who was utterly
disqualified for the post, inasmuch as he could not say ' Amen," according
to the authority of Shakspeare.
Jfasfjtonnblc Intelligence
(From our own Reporter, who actually witnessed it.)
for it is better that the writings should attain
their end with as little delay as possible. Punch
will supply the following by the ream, quire, or
sheet, to any amount that may be wished for.
PROTECTION TO INDUSTRY.
The British Lion is at length roused, and has shaken his mane,
while the British Bull-dog wags his home-grown tail with responsive
sympathy. The farmer who has long been trembling in his homely
but health-preserving high-lows, has at length buckled od his
armour for the fight ; and, with the plough in one hand p.nd the
English Constitution in the other, he may defy all the efforts of the
League to do him an injury. When we think of our hearths and
our homesteads, our blood rushes to our cheeks; and our first inquiry,
upon turning our situation over in our minds, is, how would our
apathy make our present circumstances appear to our forefathers I
Now is the time to make a bold effort in defence of our ploughs, our
rakes, our pitchforks, and every other effect that is dearest to our
hearts, and nearest to our bosoms.
But now, to take another view of the question, and to regard it
merely as a matter of political economy:—Let us ask, how the native
growers, with sixteen millions of quarters of wheat, can be in the
same situation as a mill-owner with forty thousand bales of cotton i
Supposing the markets to admit of it—which we altogether deny,
yet allowing it for the sake of argument—how could scarcity be
compatible with a currency fluctuating between two and two-and-a
half, with stocks down and prices up, markets full and pockets
empty, a large floating surplus depressing the money power, and a
sort of feverish rampancy quickening the pulsation of fiscal enter-
prise ? This we admit to be a frightful, but it is not an overdrawn
picture. Ricardo, who was the first to declare the startling fact, that
prices must fall directly value came to be lowered, has already pre-
pared the students in political economy for the consequences we have
hinted at. While the bank coffers are literally groaning with bullion,
and corn is almost sprouting in the warehouses, as if impatient of the
bond to which the short-sighted policy of Mark-lane has subjected
it,—while Consols are quoted at what they are, and the Bank par-
lour is obstinately bent on doing nothing, it is time for the farmers
to stir themselves.
We hail the present movement with the deepest satisfaction ;
and we again encourage the British Lion to shake his mane
' till each particular hair shall stand on end, like quills upon the
he neighbourhood of St. Martin's church
was the scene of much gaiety on Thursday
last, in consequence of the marriage of a
gentleman in a blue coat and a lady in a
white sarsnet bonnet. The names of the
parties were not known ; but public curio-
sity was excited by a cortege waiting at the
door, consisting of a post-chaise and two,
a fly and one, with a man on the box wear-
ing a livery hat but a private coat, and a
cab, the driver of which had endeavoured to
conceal his badge by tucking it up uuder
his waistcoat. A few idlers having been
attracted to the spot, waited outside the
railings of the church; but, as the cere-
mony was protracted far beyond the usual
time—perhaps there was some dispute about
the fees—the crowd kept increasing until i fretful porcupine." But let us not be misunderstood. We do not
there was a mob of several hundreds. mention the British Lion with the view of disparaging the British
The moment " the happy couple made j Bull-dog. Let him, too, wag that tail which, if well directed, never
wags in vain ; and let our standard be the harrow, our shield t/'.e
barn-door, our sword the scythe, and our text-book, Magna Charta.
%* The above article is very much at the service of the Morning
Pos'.—Puxch.
their appearance, they were received with
partial cheering and universal laughter, which they acknowledged by
jumping briskly into the post-chaise, and trying to pull up the blinds,
amid the increased merriment of the multitude. As the friends hurried
into the single horse fly and the street cab, the same compliments were
paid to them ; and the'last of the wedding guests, who, for want of room,
was compelled to mount the box with the cabman, was received with
ironical cheering, which lasted while the nosebag was being removed
from the head of the horse, an operation that occupied several minutes.
The nuptial party having been hooted down Parliament-street, ai length
succeeded in getting into full gallop, and thus eluded any further
compliment.
THE ENGLISH NAPOLEON.
We are glad to see that Mr. Gomersal is again performing his pet part
of Napoleon, at Astley's. He takes snuff as well as ever ; and the pro-
prietor of the Napoleon Museum has, out of compliment to his ability,
presented him with the loan of one of the Emperor's snuff-boxes. The
Treasury, we understand, provides him every night with an ounce of the
best rappee.
A HTNT TO THE MINT.
Sur mister Punch,
Tho not mutch ov a skoller i reads yoor book and az yoo noze whats-
what wil yoo tel me the inglish meenin ov the italien whats on the soverins-
and settera. jack walker who noze a powr ov nollige sez classicle skollers
onli could make out what it meens. duz the government delite in alwais
keepin the hignorant hignorant'? wood kno motoz like the followin if
put round the kine be better and instructiver to the lower classez ov
wich i am a huinbel membir :—
•' Take care ov yoor tin,"
" Honesty iz the best Policey,"
and other equalli amuzing prescriptions and advices and settera.
Yoors trooli
Sam Robinson.
vicars, by providing for their being better paid, and some of the smaller
tithes were settled on the vicar; who, on the principle of " little fishes
being sweet," no doubt eagerly clutched at them.
The duties incumbent on a parson, are first to act as the incumbent,
by living in the place where he lias his living. By a recent Act, a
parson absenting himself from his parsonage for upwards of three
months in a year, forfeits a third of the value of his benefice, and so in
proportion ; so that if he stays away a whole year, he will have more to
pay than to receive, and thus realise the homely picture of the man who
is said to have won a shilling and lost eighteen-pence.
There is only one way of becoming a parson or vicar, but five at least
of ceasing to continue so :—1st. By dying, or going quite out, like an
exhausted rushlight. 2nd. By taking another and a better benefice, or,
following the allegory of the light, being removed from a japan to a
plated candlestick. 3rd. By being made a bishop, or undergoing a sort
of conversion from simple tallow to superior sperm. 4th. By resignation,
TO THE ANTI-LEAGUE AND THE ANTI-CORN-LAW
LEAGUE.
unch, in his anxiety for the protection of British
Agriculture, will be happy to supply the Anti-
League and the Anti-Corn-Law League with
articles, of which the following is a specimen.
To save trouble and expense, it is proposed,
that instead of being stitched into the Maga-
zines, according to the general practice, the
articles'should be taken direct from the print-
ing office to the butter shops. There is no
reason why there should be any middle class
or,7till"pu'rsuinglhe simile" of the "light, suddenly goingoiit, nobodyTnows )M flUl between the authors and the waste paper dealers,
why. And 5th. By deprivation, that is to say, being deprived of one's
benefice altogether, and expelled from the clerical profession, which is
like a gas lamp completely cut off from the company's main.
A curate is the lowest grade in the church, for he is a sort of journey-
man parson, and several of them meet at a house of call in St. Paul's
Church Yard—ready to job a pulpit by the day—and being in fact
" clergymen taken in to bait" by the landlord of the house alluded to.
From the clergy, we come next to the churchwardens, who keep the
church, and represent the parish. They also keep the accounts ; and. in
some cases, like that of Alderman Gibbs, these accounts are so literally
kept, that, it is hard to get hold of them. The churchwarden may keep
order in the church ; and if a boy giggles, it is the duty of the church-
warden to frown, or even to kick the juvenile's shins, if he should be near
enough.
Parish clerks and sextons are also particularly regarded by the common
law—which must be very common to regard such exceedingly common
people. The parish clerk was formerly often in holy orders, but any one
may be a parish clerk, excepting, by-the-bye, Macbeth, who was utterly
disqualified for the post, inasmuch as he could not say ' Amen," according
to the authority of Shakspeare.
Jfasfjtonnblc Intelligence
(From our own Reporter, who actually witnessed it.)
for it is better that the writings should attain
their end with as little delay as possible. Punch
will supply the following by the ream, quire, or
sheet, to any amount that may be wished for.
PROTECTION TO INDUSTRY.
The British Lion is at length roused, and has shaken his mane,
while the British Bull-dog wags his home-grown tail with responsive
sympathy. The farmer who has long been trembling in his homely
but health-preserving high-lows, has at length buckled od his
armour for the fight ; and, with the plough in one hand p.nd the
English Constitution in the other, he may defy all the efforts of the
League to do him an injury. When we think of our hearths and
our homesteads, our blood rushes to our cheeks; and our first inquiry,
upon turning our situation over in our minds, is, how would our
apathy make our present circumstances appear to our forefathers I
Now is the time to make a bold effort in defence of our ploughs, our
rakes, our pitchforks, and every other effect that is dearest to our
hearts, and nearest to our bosoms.
But now, to take another view of the question, and to regard it
merely as a matter of political economy:—Let us ask, how the native
growers, with sixteen millions of quarters of wheat, can be in the
same situation as a mill-owner with forty thousand bales of cotton i
Supposing the markets to admit of it—which we altogether deny,
yet allowing it for the sake of argument—how could scarcity be
compatible with a currency fluctuating between two and two-and-a
half, with stocks down and prices up, markets full and pockets
empty, a large floating surplus depressing the money power, and a
sort of feverish rampancy quickening the pulsation of fiscal enter-
prise ? This we admit to be a frightful, but it is not an overdrawn
picture. Ricardo, who was the first to declare the startling fact, that
prices must fall directly value came to be lowered, has already pre-
pared the students in political economy for the consequences we have
hinted at. While the bank coffers are literally groaning with bullion,
and corn is almost sprouting in the warehouses, as if impatient of the
bond to which the short-sighted policy of Mark-lane has subjected
it,—while Consols are quoted at what they are, and the Bank par-
lour is obstinately bent on doing nothing, it is time for the farmers
to stir themselves.
We hail the present movement with the deepest satisfaction ;
and we again encourage the British Lion to shake his mane
' till each particular hair shall stand on end, like quills upon the
he neighbourhood of St. Martin's church
was the scene of much gaiety on Thursday
last, in consequence of the marriage of a
gentleman in a blue coat and a lady in a
white sarsnet bonnet. The names of the
parties were not known ; but public curio-
sity was excited by a cortege waiting at the
door, consisting of a post-chaise and two,
a fly and one, with a man on the box wear-
ing a livery hat but a private coat, and a
cab, the driver of which had endeavoured to
conceal his badge by tucking it up uuder
his waistcoat. A few idlers having been
attracted to the spot, waited outside the
railings of the church; but, as the cere-
mony was protracted far beyond the usual
time—perhaps there was some dispute about
the fees—the crowd kept increasing until i fretful porcupine." But let us not be misunderstood. We do not
there was a mob of several hundreds. mention the British Lion with the view of disparaging the British
The moment " the happy couple made j Bull-dog. Let him, too, wag that tail which, if well directed, never
wags in vain ; and let our standard be the harrow, our shield t/'.e
barn-door, our sword the scythe, and our text-book, Magna Charta.
%* The above article is very much at the service of the Morning
Pos'.—Puxch.
their appearance, they were received with
partial cheering and universal laughter, which they acknowledged by
jumping briskly into the post-chaise, and trying to pull up the blinds,
amid the increased merriment of the multitude. As the friends hurried
into the single horse fly and the street cab, the same compliments were
paid to them ; and the'last of the wedding guests, who, for want of room,
was compelled to mount the box with the cabman, was received with
ironical cheering, which lasted while the nosebag was being removed
from the head of the horse, an operation that occupied several minutes.
The nuptial party having been hooted down Parliament-street, ai length
succeeded in getting into full gallop, and thus eluded any further
compliment.
THE ENGLISH NAPOLEON.
We are glad to see that Mr. Gomersal is again performing his pet part
of Napoleon, at Astley's. He takes snuff as well as ever ; and the pro-
prietor of the Napoleon Museum has, out of compliment to his ability,
presented him with the loan of one of the Emperor's snuff-boxes. The
Treasury, we understand, provides him every night with an ounce of the
best rappee.
A HTNT TO THE MINT.
Sur mister Punch,
Tho not mutch ov a skoller i reads yoor book and az yoo noze whats-
what wil yoo tel me the inglish meenin ov the italien whats on the soverins-
and settera. jack walker who noze a powr ov nollige sez classicle skollers
onli could make out what it meens. duz the government delite in alwais
keepin the hignorant hignorant'? wood kno motoz like the followin if
put round the kine be better and instructiver to the lower classez ov
wich i am a huinbel membir :—
•' Take care ov yoor tin,"
" Honesty iz the best Policey,"
and other equalli amuzing prescriptions and advices and settera.
Yoors trooli
Sam Robinson.