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116 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
THE BROUGHAM PORTRAIT.
We stated in our last, that Lord Brougham intended to present his
portrait, in a plain frame, to every English attorney. We are now enabled
to give the picture, with a copy of the letter which accompanied it.
" Dear-, " Brougham, August 25, 1844.
" Herewith you have my portrait, in a plain frame. It has often
been a matter of surprise to me, that whereas almost every attorney's
office is decorated with either a portrait of Lord Ellenborough, Lord
Ei.don, or some such worthy,—that in no one instance did I ever see, or
was it ever made known to me, that the portrait of Lord Brougham was
ever similarly honoured. How is this ? After much pondering, I must
confess my inability to know, unravel, or discover, the cause of the omis-
sion. For have I not dedicated a life to a reform of the laws—have I not
for thirty years been cleansing the profession from the moral feculence
with which extortionate costs had defiled
it ? I have enemies—thank Heaven! I
have enemies—but when all their malig-
nity is vented, this they must allow,—that
Harry Brougham has done more to destroy
costs (those harpies that feed upon the
poor and the unfortunate) than any other
legislator from the time of Bacon. And,
therefore, is it most surprising that a por-
trait of Brolgham is never to be found in
an attorney's office !
" Naturally anxious to remedy this
omission, I forward you the accompanying
print (like my late friend, O'Connell's) in
& plain frame. It is reckoned very much
like me—though, between ourselves, I think
it wants elevation : it has not a sufficiently 1N T1,ls STVLE> ls-
encyclopaedic stare.
" You will hang it, sir, in your office—you will, I trust, place it in a
favourable position, that your clerks, while making out your bills of costs,
may now and then raise an eye to my vera effigies, and, by so doing, never
forget how much the profession owes to,
" Yours faithfully,
"P.S. I perceive that a few crass attornies have called a meeting ' l<>
counteract the operation' of my ' New Insolvent Act,' as being ' injurious '
to them. It is an odd coincidence, but at that very time the foxes in my
neighbourhood—as I understand—called a meeting ' to counteract the
operation' of the watch-dogs, that in the most injurious manner protected
the fowls and geese."
THE IMPUDENCE OF STEAM.
Over the billows and over the brine,
Over the water to Palestine !
Am I awake, or do I dream 1
Over the Ocean to Syria by steam !
My say is sooth, by this right hand ;
A steamer brave
Is on the wave,
Bound, positively, for the Holy Land !
Godfrey of Bulloigne, and thou,
Richard, lion-hearted King,
Candidly inform us, now.
Did you ever \
No you never
Could have fancied such a thing.
Never such vociferations
Enter'd your imaginations
As the ensuing—
" Ease her, stop her ! "
" Any gentleman for Joppa 2 "
" 'Mascus, 'Mascus I " " Ticket, please, sir."
" Tyre or Sidon ? " " Stop her, ease her !"
« Jerusalem, 'lem ! 'lem ! "—" Shur ! Shur ! "
" Do you go on to Egypt, Sir ? "
" Captain, is this the land of Pharaoh I "
" Now look alive there ! Who 's for Cairo ? "
" Back her ! " " Stand clear, I say, old file! "
" What gent or lady's for the Nile,
Or Pyramids I " " Thebes ! Thebes ! Sir i " "Steady J!
" Now, where 's that party for Engedi I "—
Pilgrims holy, Red Cross Knights,
Had ye e'er the least idea,
Even in your wildest flights,
Of a steam trip to Judea ?
What next marvel Time will show,
We are informed that the following petition lies at the office ot the jt jg (ijfftcuit j-0 say
Dramatic Authors' Society for signature. It has already received very " Buss," perchance, to Jericho ;
many influential names. It is a sort of private remonstrance to Lord " Only sixpence all the way "'
Aberdeen : nevertheless, we believe we are violating no confidence in Cabs in Solvma mav ply •_
laying it before the world, and soliciting — which we do most earnestly— _»rpjg a un[\\le\y tale—
the active sympathy and assistance of all whom it may concern :— And from'Dan the tourist hie
" My Lord,—Your petitioners have for some years exercised the pro- Unto Beersheba bv " rail "
fession, or handicraft, of dramatists. That is, they have continually and j
anxiously watched the movements of our natural enemies, the French ; -
with the patriotic determination of always making the most of them.
Hence, the French have never put forth anything that your petitioners , PRINCE ALBERT'S MILITARY STUDIES,
have not immediately done the best to take it. Lhat your petitioners
have very frequently succeeded, is triumphantly shown by the playbills of! ,fg£j!!B&\ RoM Windsor we learn His Royal Highness
HORRORS OF WAR.—THE DRAMATISTS' PETITION.
very dramatic in their character, and affording the finest opportunity for
entirely new scenery, dresses, and decorations.
" Your petitioners further state it as their belief, that several of their
distinguished body are at this moment in Paris, in the delightful and
praiseworthy pursuit of knowledge at the various metropolitan theatres ;
and your petitioners therefore trust—in case of the worst—that Lord
Cowley will be instructed to demand passports for their brethren ; or, if
that be impossible, to cause whatever ' effects' they may have obtained
on the French stage, to be immediately transmitted to this country, for
the benefit of the fraternity in general.
" And further—if a war be inevitable, your petitioners trust that all the
effects of Frenchmen residing in England will be immediately seized and
confiscated for the compensation of the dramatists undersigned.
" And your petitioners will ever pray [prey).'"
all the London theatres
" Many of your petitioners are yearly subscribers to the foreign library
of Mons. Delaporte ; and they submit that having, in the full reliance of
peace, only recently paid their annual subscription, any hostility between
the two countries would tend to the complete forfeiture of all such money j the head of his regiment to drive them all back
paid for the early transmission of French dramas—such dramas being, j / again. We understand that the telescope, which
like grouse, of a most perishable description.
" Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that you will on no account
undertake a war against France ; war always being, to most people,
attended with disastrous results; but, in the case of your petitioners, with
ruin most complete and final.
" Your petitioners earnestly entreat you to consider the forlornness of
their condition, in the event of war They are incapable of any other
labour save that of translation, which (for many years) has afforded them
a decent subsistence. Utterly unacquainted with the process by which a
plot is made—incapable of the least invention of character—aud wholly at
a loss to find a language of their own to express themselves, they put it
to your Lordship's generous consideration to imagine their destitution
in the event of such a catastrophe as a war with France. All other wars
are, perhaps, allowable ; especially Indian and Chinese wars, they being
Prince Albert is taking daily lessons in soldier-
ing ; so that, in the event of a war—should the
Prince de Joinville land a lot of troops on the
English coast—Prince Albert will be ready at
is usually carried in the hand of a Commander in
Chief during the action, has not evaded the keea
eye of Prince Albert, who has been practising
the telescope exercise four hours a day, with
the very natural idea that he will be able to
do more good by looking on at a distance, than
by exposing himself to immediate danger on the
actual field of battle. His Royal Highness has also been devoting much
time to acquiring the exact tone of voice in which the Duke of Wel-
lington uttered his celebrated exclamation " Up guards, and at'em !"
which is said to have been one of the causes of winning the battle of
Waterloo. If a victory can be gained by such means as these, we have
every hope that Prince Albert will twine the laurel of Fame round the
peaceful jupp of his every-day costume.
THE BROUGHAM PORTRAIT.
We stated in our last, that Lord Brougham intended to present his
portrait, in a plain frame, to every English attorney. We are now enabled
to give the picture, with a copy of the letter which accompanied it.
" Dear-, " Brougham, August 25, 1844.
" Herewith you have my portrait, in a plain frame. It has often
been a matter of surprise to me, that whereas almost every attorney's
office is decorated with either a portrait of Lord Ellenborough, Lord
Ei.don, or some such worthy,—that in no one instance did I ever see, or
was it ever made known to me, that the portrait of Lord Brougham was
ever similarly honoured. How is this ? After much pondering, I must
confess my inability to know, unravel, or discover, the cause of the omis-
sion. For have I not dedicated a life to a reform of the laws—have I not
for thirty years been cleansing the profession from the moral feculence
with which extortionate costs had defiled
it ? I have enemies—thank Heaven! I
have enemies—but when all their malig-
nity is vented, this they must allow,—that
Harry Brougham has done more to destroy
costs (those harpies that feed upon the
poor and the unfortunate) than any other
legislator from the time of Bacon. And,
therefore, is it most surprising that a por-
trait of Brolgham is never to be found in
an attorney's office !
" Naturally anxious to remedy this
omission, I forward you the accompanying
print (like my late friend, O'Connell's) in
& plain frame. It is reckoned very much
like me—though, between ourselves, I think
it wants elevation : it has not a sufficiently 1N T1,ls STVLE> ls-
encyclopaedic stare.
" You will hang it, sir, in your office—you will, I trust, place it in a
favourable position, that your clerks, while making out your bills of costs,
may now and then raise an eye to my vera effigies, and, by so doing, never
forget how much the profession owes to,
" Yours faithfully,
"P.S. I perceive that a few crass attornies have called a meeting ' l<>
counteract the operation' of my ' New Insolvent Act,' as being ' injurious '
to them. It is an odd coincidence, but at that very time the foxes in my
neighbourhood—as I understand—called a meeting ' to counteract the
operation' of the watch-dogs, that in the most injurious manner protected
the fowls and geese."
THE IMPUDENCE OF STEAM.
Over the billows and over the brine,
Over the water to Palestine !
Am I awake, or do I dream 1
Over the Ocean to Syria by steam !
My say is sooth, by this right hand ;
A steamer brave
Is on the wave,
Bound, positively, for the Holy Land !
Godfrey of Bulloigne, and thou,
Richard, lion-hearted King,
Candidly inform us, now.
Did you ever \
No you never
Could have fancied such a thing.
Never such vociferations
Enter'd your imaginations
As the ensuing—
" Ease her, stop her ! "
" Any gentleman for Joppa 2 "
" 'Mascus, 'Mascus I " " Ticket, please, sir."
" Tyre or Sidon ? " " Stop her, ease her !"
« Jerusalem, 'lem ! 'lem ! "—" Shur ! Shur ! "
" Do you go on to Egypt, Sir ? "
" Captain, is this the land of Pharaoh I "
" Now look alive there ! Who 's for Cairo ? "
" Back her ! " " Stand clear, I say, old file! "
" What gent or lady's for the Nile,
Or Pyramids I " " Thebes ! Thebes ! Sir i " "Steady J!
" Now, where 's that party for Engedi I "—
Pilgrims holy, Red Cross Knights,
Had ye e'er the least idea,
Even in your wildest flights,
Of a steam trip to Judea ?
What next marvel Time will show,
We are informed that the following petition lies at the office ot the jt jg (ijfftcuit j-0 say
Dramatic Authors' Society for signature. It has already received very " Buss," perchance, to Jericho ;
many influential names. It is a sort of private remonstrance to Lord " Only sixpence all the way "'
Aberdeen : nevertheless, we believe we are violating no confidence in Cabs in Solvma mav ply •_
laying it before the world, and soliciting — which we do most earnestly— _»rpjg a un[\\le\y tale—
the active sympathy and assistance of all whom it may concern :— And from'Dan the tourist hie
" My Lord,—Your petitioners have for some years exercised the pro- Unto Beersheba bv " rail "
fession, or handicraft, of dramatists. That is, they have continually and j
anxiously watched the movements of our natural enemies, the French ; -
with the patriotic determination of always making the most of them.
Hence, the French have never put forth anything that your petitioners , PRINCE ALBERT'S MILITARY STUDIES,
have not immediately done the best to take it. Lhat your petitioners
have very frequently succeeded, is triumphantly shown by the playbills of! ,fg£j!!B&\ RoM Windsor we learn His Royal Highness
HORRORS OF WAR.—THE DRAMATISTS' PETITION.
very dramatic in their character, and affording the finest opportunity for
entirely new scenery, dresses, and decorations.
" Your petitioners further state it as their belief, that several of their
distinguished body are at this moment in Paris, in the delightful and
praiseworthy pursuit of knowledge at the various metropolitan theatres ;
and your petitioners therefore trust—in case of the worst—that Lord
Cowley will be instructed to demand passports for their brethren ; or, if
that be impossible, to cause whatever ' effects' they may have obtained
on the French stage, to be immediately transmitted to this country, for
the benefit of the fraternity in general.
" And further—if a war be inevitable, your petitioners trust that all the
effects of Frenchmen residing in England will be immediately seized and
confiscated for the compensation of the dramatists undersigned.
" And your petitioners will ever pray [prey).'"
all the London theatres
" Many of your petitioners are yearly subscribers to the foreign library
of Mons. Delaporte ; and they submit that having, in the full reliance of
peace, only recently paid their annual subscription, any hostility between
the two countries would tend to the complete forfeiture of all such money j the head of his regiment to drive them all back
paid for the early transmission of French dramas—such dramas being, j / again. We understand that the telescope, which
like grouse, of a most perishable description.
" Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that you will on no account
undertake a war against France ; war always being, to most people,
attended with disastrous results; but, in the case of your petitioners, with
ruin most complete and final.
" Your petitioners earnestly entreat you to consider the forlornness of
their condition, in the event of war They are incapable of any other
labour save that of translation, which (for many years) has afforded them
a decent subsistence. Utterly unacquainted with the process by which a
plot is made—incapable of the least invention of character—aud wholly at
a loss to find a language of their own to express themselves, they put it
to your Lordship's generous consideration to imagine their destitution
in the event of such a catastrophe as a war with France. All other wars
are, perhaps, allowable ; especially Indian and Chinese wars, they being
Prince Albert is taking daily lessons in soldier-
ing ; so that, in the event of a war—should the
Prince de Joinville land a lot of troops on the
English coast—Prince Albert will be ready at
is usually carried in the hand of a Commander in
Chief during the action, has not evaded the keea
eye of Prince Albert, who has been practising
the telescope exercise four hours a day, with
the very natural idea that he will be able to
do more good by looking on at a distance, than
by exposing himself to immediate danger on the
actual field of battle. His Royal Highness has also been devoting much
time to acquiring the exact tone of voice in which the Duke of Wel-
lington uttered his celebrated exclamation " Up guards, and at'em !"
which is said to have been one of the causes of winning the battle of
Waterloo. If a victory can be gained by such means as these, we have
every hope that Prince Albert will twine the laurel of Fame round the
peaceful jupp of his every-day costume.