Punch (8.1845)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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THE POSITION OF

'jpHE position of Peel between the Maynooth and Anti-Maynooth parties—the former applauding him on the one hand, -while the latter
are condemning him on the other—may he compared to the situation of the heroes in the Greek tragedies, whose proceedings were
the subject of alternate abuse and praise from the chorus ; the right of a chorus to criticise is founded on the old constitutional
doctrine that the people may give their opinion, and there can be no doubt that this mode of giving votes in a song has some affinity
to the vote by ballot, or vote by ballad, as some have been in the habit of calling it. The Maynooth and Anti-Maynooth expressions of
opinion may be likened to the Strophe and Anti-Strophe of the chorus, of which we furnish a specimen.

MAYNOOTH STROPHE.
Go on, great Premier, in thy way,
No matter what the Tories say ;
It surely can be no disgrace
For you to try and keep your place.
They say that, by the Maynooth Grant,
To keep your place is all you want ;
It is a wise and cunning plan,—
The Premier is a wondrous man !

ANTI-MAYNOOTH ANTI-STROPHE.
How wonderful is Peel !

He changes with the time ;
Turning and twisting like the eel,

Ascending through the slime.
He gives whate'er they want

To those who ask with zeal,
He yields the Maynooth Grant

To the clamour for repeal.

MAYNOOTH STROPHE.
'Tis true he is a rat,
But what of that ?
Tory he used to be,
But now a Liberal he !

Shall we for soaring high

The altered Premier snub ?
Who in the butterfly

Would recollect the grub \
Cheer him as up he springs,
Borne on his new-found wings ;
He holds complete dominion,
Supported by o-pinion.
Then let us sing with zeal,
Success to Premier Peel.

anti-maynooth anti-strophe.

He has baffled our every hope :
He s surely in league with the Pope !
We thought him the friend of the Church,
He is leaving her now in the lurch.
I '11 bet that he shortly obtains
A cardinal's hat for his pains.
To punishment let us denounce him ;
Will nobody venture to trounce him ?

[The two parties approach each other, singing their respective
choruses, one against the other, and the curtain
falls.-]

jpasfjicmable JWobcments. TOO BAD.

Mr. John Green gave his annual Fancy Dress entertainment on the ! The following announcement has appeared in various papers : —
first of May under the patronage of the Ramoneur Association. Lord j „The Rev w Dealtry, d.d„ chancellor of the diocese. Canon of the Cathedral

And LADY bOOTY honoured the party by their presence. His Lordship j Church of Winchester. Prebendary of Southwell, and Rector of the parish of Clapham,

Surrev, has been appointed, by the'Lord Btshop of Winchester, t.othe Archdeaconry
of Surrey, void by the elevation of the Venerable Samuel Wilbeki'orce to the Deanery
of Westminster."

-wore an elegant threadbare coat, richly embroidered with gilt paper
and odds and ends. Her Ladyship was attired in a tight skirt of window
muslin, and trousers of the same fourpenny material. Her head-dress
■was composed of indiscriminate 6pergne flowers and a three-and-sixpenny
front of the richest auburn. A superb brass ladle, carried by her lady-
ship, attracted much attention, especially when presented to the numerous

Poor Dr. Dealtry ! We feel for him deeply. How will he ever get
through the work which he will now have to do ? He was already laden with
four several offices in the Church, and saddled with the obligation of being

visitors, accompanied by the well-known exclamation of " only vonce a in three different places at once. He had to pray, preach, exhort, console,

here," for which her Ladyship has been so long distinguished.

A gentleman, " costumed " h la Grimaldi, afforded much entertainment
by playing the fool. He favoured the company with a cavatina in praise of
-the first of May, accompanying himself on a single-action salt-box. The
band was excellent, with the exception of the professor of the drum and

convert, and go about visiting the sick and doing good at Winchester,
Southwell, and Clapham ; besides all which, he had his chancellor's
business to attend to. And now, in addition, an archdeaconry is clapped
upon his shoulders.

Really, this is working a willing horse to death. There is not, we are

mouth-organ, who had evidently qualified himself for the station-house and i persuaded, a negro in all Kentucky fagged to the extent that Dr. Dealtry
a fine of five shillings. j will be. What has the poor clergyman done to deserve such treatment ?

The supper was supplied by Mr. Cann, of Holborn, whose legs of beef How, we would wish to know, would the Bishop or Winchester like it

have secured him the gratitude of the present generation, and the admi-
ration of posterity. The company separated at a late hour, and reeled to

himself? It is much more like a Turk than a Bishop to make a fellow-
creature toil in this way. We say it is a great deal too bad of his Lord-

their respective domiciles, with the exception of the professor of the drum : ship, and recommend him to be more considerate in future. We shall be
and mouth-organ, who was conveyed to his hotel in Bow Street on a : told that Dr. Dealtry will be well paid for his labour. Yes : but what
stretcher, attended by the usual number of policemen with bull's-eye ; has that to do with the matter \ What pay can compensate a man for
lanterns. : ex.ertion« which must, necessarilv kill him \