DOI issue:
July to December, 1844
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16520#0213
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.
" Hark, hark ! the dogs do bark,
The beggars are coming to Town."
Old Song.
_tn f\ /JS\^£- ^---uckingiiam (the redoubt-
llL* X^i)r£2z&&r—^-^^^^^^^i^^ able James Silk)
St, it^j^^^p^^^^S^—^^jgg^^^X lias arrived in Lon-
g|)J I^VT*^ don, after having
1 indulged in a series
IS of lectures on the
j advantages,&c. &c,
'( of the British and
I Foreign Institute,
jj He has now issued
J a manifesto, in
/ j. which he states
I that " the Club
j/ Rooms have been
recently re-opened
under the manage-
ment of Mr. Neal,
an extensive wine-
merchant of long
\ standing at Tun-
V bridge Wells," but
II how long he will be
\ able to stand the
\ British and Foreign
Institute, can at
I i present be only a
;j/ matter of specula-
fjl tion. We are told
(jp that " in fixing the
r tariff his great aim
i has been to unite
-JjpIZ^^siS^feai^^fe&iS— economy with suffi-
^j^tjiif^^^^^^^^^m^M^^^^^^^ ciency of quantity ;"
which reminds us
of the enormous plain pies stuck in a window in St. Giles's, with the
words " Larger than ever ! only twopence ! ! " suspended on a label
over them. The immense importance of this arrangement to the mem-
bers of the British and Foreign Institute cannot be denied, but " two
things " we are told " are required to obtain for it that degree of success
by which alone it can be upheld." One is "more members ;" the other
is, that " all the members, the old as well as the new, should give it
at least their occasional visits and assistance," or in ether words the
members must patronise the cuisine as well as the conversazione. We
should recommend the introduction of the fourpenny arrangement of the
sandwich and glass of ale ; and a baked potato-stand on the drawing-
room landing-place would afford a luxurious luncheon to the economical
savant; or a glass of hot elder, including rusk, for 2d. would perhaps
furnish a light and wholesome petit souper to the junior branches, who
are taken in as well as their parents at the British and Foreign Institute.
There is some vagueness about the announcement that " the drawing-
rooms are open from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. to all the members, and especially
to ladies." We are told the literary department has been improved ; but
if this is the sort of grammar we get after the improvement, what must
have been Lindley Murray's treatment previous to the amelioration !
The drawing-rooms " open to all," and " especially to ladies," reminds
is of " Ccesar and Pompey very much alike, especially Pompey." Are
the gentlemen obliged to squeeze in through a small aperture, while the
ladies are allowed to enter by a widely extended portal ? What can
James Silk mean by this curious paragraph ?
" The soirees," we are told, " will be dress parties, and to these no
members can be admitted in undress." There is, however, a relaxation
uf the rule in favour of the Lectures, Conversations, and Discussions ; but
as the presence of ladies is earnestly desired at each, some attention to
costume, as respectful to them, will be reasonably expected." This is so
tndefinite, that Jigurines, as the milliners term them, should be issued to
show the sort of costume that would be respectful or disrespectful to the
tadies. Highlows, we suppose, would be a decided outrage on female
sensibility ; and the man who would force his society on lovely woman in
splashed Tweeds would be unworthy, &c. &e.j of the name of—et cetera.
Buckingham himself always wears pumps, out of compliment to his
customers.
A postscript gives the dismal intelligence, that the Institute will be
what has been tersely termed " No go," unless there is an " augmenta-
tion of members ;" and each member is entreated to " enrol a lady " as
speedily as possible. Husbands are called upon to 'bring wives, brothers
sisters, fathers daughters ; and those who are neither husbands, brothers,
nor fathers, are urged to bring any " other relative." But no ; we trust
there is enough of British manhood still left to prevent this sacrifice of -L slia.ll be raiule comfortable for him, and all his past errors forgotten, by liisdiseon-
the weaker sex. Let us go through the labour of listening to Bucking- j solate Governor, Marshal Bugeavd.
ham's lectures ourselves, but do not let us call upon our wives, our
sisters, and our daughters, to endure the hardship.
We perceive it is proposed to add a Journal to the scheme, " that
there may be a permanent record " of the proceedings of the Institute.
This seems the nearest approach to a self-sacrifice that we have yet ob-
served on the part of Buckingham. But if he really wants a permanent
record, has he ungratefully forgotten what Punch has done towards telling
the world what has been going on at the Institute ?
PUNCH'S GUIDE TO PARTIES.
To those who are just emerging from the verdancy of youth, and to
those " young men in the city " who wish to " wriggle" themselves into good
society, Punch affectionately addresses the following advice,—commise-
rating the pitiable mortifications inflicted on young gentlemen whom he
has seen defiling drawing-rooms (consecrated to evening parties and full-
dress) with railway-pattern trousers and Blucher boots.—Keenly pitying
the situation of others who have found themselves in the very midst of the
uncivilised orgies of a bachelor's feed, adorned with satin waistcoats and
full-dress stocks,—he benevolently publishes an infallible scale of evening
dress, marked and arranged from the various terms in which invitations
are usually conveyed, that the inexperienced aspirant to elegant society
may no longer be at a loss.
When the invitation is iu the following form :—
"Come up old fellow to my rooms, r You may \ Anything you please, from a Velve-
and take a chop." \ wear 1 teen shooting-jacket upwards.
A note asking you to join "A few ,, A black coat; but you need not change
friends to dinner next Thursday." your Tweed nethers for black ones,
if you have not time.
An MS. request for " Your company ,, Dress-coat and trousers, fancy waist-
to dinner on Thursday week." coat, and Wellington boots.
An engraved ditto for a "dinner- ,, Dress ditto ditto, white waistcoat, long
party on Thursday fortnight." satin stock, brilliant breast-pin, and
dress boots.
" A few friends to tea." ,, You need not be particular. Surtouts
and coloured continuations wou't
be objected to.
" An evening party—cards." ,, Same as a week's notice " to dinner "
with the addition of a pound's
worth of silver in a card-purse.
An engraved invitation on enamelled „ Blue coat with gilt buttons, black
paper in a fancy envelope, soliciting trousers, patent leather dancing
" the pleasure of your company to boots, satin waistcoat with gold
an evening party at half-past nine sprigs, white neckerchief, frilled
o'clock on that day five weeks "— shirt, and two pairs of light kid
with the addendum in one corner glovesfor fear one should get soiled,
of " quadrilles."
As the greatest Reformer of the age, Punch desires that every member
of "Young England "—from the clerk to the Count—from the Smiths of
the East, to the Smythes of the West End—will get the above directions
printed in large letters, framed, glazed and hung up over their washing
stands.
JUSTICE FOR WESTMINSTER.
'A correspondent of the Times complained, the other day, that
whereas the Lord Mayor had recommended the citizens to close their
shops on the occasion of her Majesty's progress to open the Royal
Exchange, the West End tradesmen, having no authority to guide them,
were in doubt as to how they should act. The children of the West can
know no better than those of the East what to do, unless they are told.
Human nature is the same on either side of Temple Bar, and is as
much in need of government on this as on that. Under these circum-
stances, Westminster naturally looks to her High-Bailiff ; but what bailiff,
however high, can be considered her competent adviser \ It is high time
to speak out. Westminster wants a Mayor, and must have one. A uew
employment will thus be created, which will be just the very thing to
suit Lord Brougham ; or, should his Lordship decline its responsibilities,
perhaps Colonel Sibthorf would undertake them.
Trafalgar Square.
Considerable excitement was caused at the latter end of last week by
the appearance of some real water in the basins at Trafalgar Square, and
it was rumoured that the Commissioners of Woods and Forests had so far
recovered from their long attack of hydrophobia as to have consented to
the playing of the fountains. On further inquiry, it appeared that the
water in the basins was occasioned by the heavy rains, and that the -nl
ply of the fonntains was still among the remote contingencies which the
completion of Trafalgar Square appears to depend upon.
JF ABD-EL-KADER will return to his home at Algiers, everything
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.
" Hark, hark ! the dogs do bark,
The beggars are coming to Town."
Old Song.
_tn f\ /JS\^£- ^---uckingiiam (the redoubt-
llL* X^i)r£2z&&r—^-^^^^^^^i^^ able James Silk)
St, it^j^^^p^^^^S^—^^jgg^^^X lias arrived in Lon-
g|)J I^VT*^ don, after having
1 indulged in a series
IS of lectures on the
j advantages,&c. &c,
'( of the British and
I Foreign Institute,
jj He has now issued
J a manifesto, in
/ j. which he states
I that " the Club
j/ Rooms have been
recently re-opened
under the manage-
ment of Mr. Neal,
an extensive wine-
merchant of long
\ standing at Tun-
V bridge Wells," but
II how long he will be
\ able to stand the
\ British and Foreign
Institute, can at
I i present be only a
;j/ matter of specula-
fjl tion. We are told
(jp that " in fixing the
r tariff his great aim
i has been to unite
-JjpIZ^^siS^feai^^fe&iS— economy with suffi-
^j^tjiif^^^^^^^^^m^M^^^^^^^ ciency of quantity ;"
which reminds us
of the enormous plain pies stuck in a window in St. Giles's, with the
words " Larger than ever ! only twopence ! ! " suspended on a label
over them. The immense importance of this arrangement to the mem-
bers of the British and Foreign Institute cannot be denied, but " two
things " we are told " are required to obtain for it that degree of success
by which alone it can be upheld." One is "more members ;" the other
is, that " all the members, the old as well as the new, should give it
at least their occasional visits and assistance," or in ether words the
members must patronise the cuisine as well as the conversazione. We
should recommend the introduction of the fourpenny arrangement of the
sandwich and glass of ale ; and a baked potato-stand on the drawing-
room landing-place would afford a luxurious luncheon to the economical
savant; or a glass of hot elder, including rusk, for 2d. would perhaps
furnish a light and wholesome petit souper to the junior branches, who
are taken in as well as their parents at the British and Foreign Institute.
There is some vagueness about the announcement that " the drawing-
rooms are open from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. to all the members, and especially
to ladies." We are told the literary department has been improved ; but
if this is the sort of grammar we get after the improvement, what must
have been Lindley Murray's treatment previous to the amelioration !
The drawing-rooms " open to all," and " especially to ladies," reminds
is of " Ccesar and Pompey very much alike, especially Pompey." Are
the gentlemen obliged to squeeze in through a small aperture, while the
ladies are allowed to enter by a widely extended portal ? What can
James Silk mean by this curious paragraph ?
" The soirees," we are told, " will be dress parties, and to these no
members can be admitted in undress." There is, however, a relaxation
uf the rule in favour of the Lectures, Conversations, and Discussions ; but
as the presence of ladies is earnestly desired at each, some attention to
costume, as respectful to them, will be reasonably expected." This is so
tndefinite, that Jigurines, as the milliners term them, should be issued to
show the sort of costume that would be respectful or disrespectful to the
tadies. Highlows, we suppose, would be a decided outrage on female
sensibility ; and the man who would force his society on lovely woman in
splashed Tweeds would be unworthy, &c. &e.j of the name of—et cetera.
Buckingham himself always wears pumps, out of compliment to his
customers.
A postscript gives the dismal intelligence, that the Institute will be
what has been tersely termed " No go," unless there is an " augmenta-
tion of members ;" and each member is entreated to " enrol a lady " as
speedily as possible. Husbands are called upon to 'bring wives, brothers
sisters, fathers daughters ; and those who are neither husbands, brothers,
nor fathers, are urged to bring any " other relative." But no ; we trust
there is enough of British manhood still left to prevent this sacrifice of -L slia.ll be raiule comfortable for him, and all his past errors forgotten, by liisdiseon-
the weaker sex. Let us go through the labour of listening to Bucking- j solate Governor, Marshal Bugeavd.
ham's lectures ourselves, but do not let us call upon our wives, our
sisters, and our daughters, to endure the hardship.
We perceive it is proposed to add a Journal to the scheme, " that
there may be a permanent record " of the proceedings of the Institute.
This seems the nearest approach to a self-sacrifice that we have yet ob-
served on the part of Buckingham. But if he really wants a permanent
record, has he ungratefully forgotten what Punch has done towards telling
the world what has been going on at the Institute ?
PUNCH'S GUIDE TO PARTIES.
To those who are just emerging from the verdancy of youth, and to
those " young men in the city " who wish to " wriggle" themselves into good
society, Punch affectionately addresses the following advice,—commise-
rating the pitiable mortifications inflicted on young gentlemen whom he
has seen defiling drawing-rooms (consecrated to evening parties and full-
dress) with railway-pattern trousers and Blucher boots.—Keenly pitying
the situation of others who have found themselves in the very midst of the
uncivilised orgies of a bachelor's feed, adorned with satin waistcoats and
full-dress stocks,—he benevolently publishes an infallible scale of evening
dress, marked and arranged from the various terms in which invitations
are usually conveyed, that the inexperienced aspirant to elegant society
may no longer be at a loss.
When the invitation is iu the following form :—
"Come up old fellow to my rooms, r You may \ Anything you please, from a Velve-
and take a chop." \ wear 1 teen shooting-jacket upwards.
A note asking you to join "A few ,, A black coat; but you need not change
friends to dinner next Thursday." your Tweed nethers for black ones,
if you have not time.
An MS. request for " Your company ,, Dress-coat and trousers, fancy waist-
to dinner on Thursday week." coat, and Wellington boots.
An engraved ditto for a "dinner- ,, Dress ditto ditto, white waistcoat, long
party on Thursday fortnight." satin stock, brilliant breast-pin, and
dress boots.
" A few friends to tea." ,, You need not be particular. Surtouts
and coloured continuations wou't
be objected to.
" An evening party—cards." ,, Same as a week's notice " to dinner "
with the addition of a pound's
worth of silver in a card-purse.
An engraved invitation on enamelled „ Blue coat with gilt buttons, black
paper in a fancy envelope, soliciting trousers, patent leather dancing
" the pleasure of your company to boots, satin waistcoat with gold
an evening party at half-past nine sprigs, white neckerchief, frilled
o'clock on that day five weeks "— shirt, and two pairs of light kid
with the addendum in one corner glovesfor fear one should get soiled,
of " quadrilles."
As the greatest Reformer of the age, Punch desires that every member
of "Young England "—from the clerk to the Count—from the Smiths of
the East, to the Smythes of the West End—will get the above directions
printed in large letters, framed, glazed and hung up over their washing
stands.
JUSTICE FOR WESTMINSTER.
'A correspondent of the Times complained, the other day, that
whereas the Lord Mayor had recommended the citizens to close their
shops on the occasion of her Majesty's progress to open the Royal
Exchange, the West End tradesmen, having no authority to guide them,
were in doubt as to how they should act. The children of the West can
know no better than those of the East what to do, unless they are told.
Human nature is the same on either side of Temple Bar, and is as
much in need of government on this as on that. Under these circum-
stances, Westminster naturally looks to her High-Bailiff ; but what bailiff,
however high, can be considered her competent adviser \ It is high time
to speak out. Westminster wants a Mayor, and must have one. A uew
employment will thus be created, which will be just the very thing to
suit Lord Brougham ; or, should his Lordship decline its responsibilities,
perhaps Colonel Sibthorf would undertake them.
Trafalgar Square.
Considerable excitement was caused at the latter end of last week by
the appearance of some real water in the basins at Trafalgar Square, and
it was rumoured that the Commissioners of Woods and Forests had so far
recovered from their long attack of hydrophobia as to have consented to
the playing of the fountains. On further inquiry, it appeared that the
water in the basins was occasioned by the heavy rains, and that the -nl
ply of the fonntains was still among the remote contingencies which the
completion of Trafalgar Square appears to depend upon.
JF ABD-EL-KADER will return to his home at Algiers, everything