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January to June, 1846
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
HOLY (FRENCH) BAYONETS.
]yj MrcHELET has written an admirable book
against the Jesuits. His Priests, Women,
and Families, is truly an excellent work,
stampt with the highest social value. It
would seem that M. Michelet regretted
the authorship of so much excellence,
and straightway resolved to balance the
good book—to overbalance it we should
say—with a very stupid, and a very
wicked one. He therefore wrote his last
work, Tlie People. In this book, or blas-
phemy, Michelet, places the hopes of
human nature in a powder-magazine.
His remedies for all social ills are in bul-
lets ; his light that is to lead the nations
on to regeneration, the flashing rays of
swords and bayonets. A jubilee is to be
preached to the whole earth,—but it is to
be preached by roaring cannon. The
whole world is to be blest with fertility,
as in the Golden Age ; but then it must
first be watered with torrents of blood,
PUNCH'S POLITICAL DICTIONARY.
Gleaning. The practice of picking up what is left behind by the
reapers. Gleaning may, according to circumstances, be respectable or
otherwise. If I leave my pocket-bandkerchief hanging out behind,
the person who acts as a gleaner, and carries it away, is no better than
a pickpocket. So, if I get into a cab and leave behind me a pocket-
book, the driver is not authorised in turning gleaner, and clearing off
my property, because I accidentally leave it behind me. There are
also gleaners of another class, who enter the field of literature, and,
with a view of making their bread, pick up all the stray ideas left
behind by the original reapers, who may perhaps have had the trouble
of cultivating the crop, for the refuse of which the literary gleaner
crawls about with humble industry. By seme rules made at a meeting
of farmers, in August, 1845, it was agreed that the privilege of
gleaning should not be allowed to any able-bodied labourer. The same
rule is, we presume, applicable to literary gleaners, as no able labourer
in the field of letters would stoop to such a practice. ^
Government. A word used in several senses, which accounts for
the ambiguity that often belongs to ministers. It means the business
of Government, or thing done, or the persons who do, though the
thing done is not usually the Government, but the nation. There are
several forms of Government, of which Monarchy, Aristocracy, and
Democracy are the principal. To use a musical illustration, Monarchy
and fertilised with thousands of carcases. The next generation, after j may be compared to a solo, wnere one man executes all sorts of airs,
breathing an atmosphere of smoke and brimstone, will see the bright j Aristocracy is a concerted piece ; while Democracy is generally
blue of a better day. And, be it understood, France is to do all this, j nothing better than a discord. Our English Government is a combi-
Franee is the arsenal where the weapons that are to convert the j nation of all three, producing generally a very delightful harmony,
human race—weapons of divine temper—are piled. It is French i When some low notes get out of tune in the bass, or when too much
lead, French gunpowder, and French steel, that are to bring about the j falsetto is introduced in the higher parts, the effect is often dis-
millennium. It is thus the philosopher brays to Young France : it is 1 agreeable,
thus he would teach the tiger-cubs to lap blood :—
" Ah ! my only hope is in the flag !—that it may save France, and the France of the
array. May our glorious army, upon which the eyes of the world are fixed, keep itself THE LAND OF BULLS
pure! May it be a sword against the enemy, proof against corruption !"
vr„ t__. ___r. i * , „^m„„ -u^^q ;„ +v,Q ^Vofnmioir-i/v " At an Inquest held at Clonmel, on Fridav last, on the bodv of a man found dead ia
No hope m the peaceful heart of man—no hope m the fraternising the street> the^jury returned a verdict of . Death fr^m starvatlon.' -
spirit of science and commerce : no, Michelet's only hope " is in the ,<At the DubUn Cattle Show> the prize ^ were declared to be fatter than had eve,
flag;" the flag that has in its day been to a nation, what a death s- been seen before. Prince Albert's heifer is expected to win the first prize."
head and cross-bones have been to some twenty miscreants who have | Tq find Qut the cauge of « 0uW j^^y distress,
pillaged and murdered every luckless victim m their power. Never- The nobs of the natiou are pllzziing tneir wigs .
theless, the philosopher prays that the glorious army " may keep | But the Cattle-show leads us to hazard this guess,
itself pure !" Well, recollecting the caves of Dahra, if the army be
pure now, it is safe for all time ; for we cannot well understand what
atrocity—what blackness is to defile it.
" Maya spirit of police never enter there ! What a deposit in the hands of these I Poor people, of course, must expect to get thin,
young soldiers ! W hat responsibility fur the future ! On the day of the last grand battle j When the farmer's obliged to make cattle SO fat.
between civilisation and barbarism (who knows but it may be to-morrow » i the judge 1 _ _
must find them irreproachable, their swords pure, and their bayonets gleaming without j This explains the strange Stories recorded With Stress,
spot' Every time I see them pass, my heart bounds within me. Here, and here only, jn tbe Times, and indeed all the papers VOU touch ;
strength and mind, valour and right, things separated throughout the earth, go hand in 1
hand. If the world is saved by war, you will save it. Holy bayonets of France!
watch that nothing may darken that glory now hovering above you, and which no eye can
sustain."
" Between civilisation and barbarism ! " Between civilised France
and barbarian England—eh, M. Michelet ? Is John Bull to be
taught the humanities by the " bayonets without spot ? " Are his
preceptors to be those nice, irreproachable youths, tipped and mous-
tachioed—Young France ? As it is only in their ranks that " valour
and right" go hand in hand, how will the nations of the earth
rejoice, brought under the saving mercy of Jeune France ! With what
-The peasants are starving to fatten the pigs.
While a landlord has prizes at Dublin to win,
What matter potatoes and rubbish like that ?
While men die of hunger induced by distress,
The pigs and the calves die of eating too much .'
SIBTHORPE ON ELECTIONS.
The gallant Militia Colonel has made one of his great speeches
(most imperfectlv reported) in the Commons, on the Duration of
Elections BilL He said, " I have a vote for five counties, and as I am
not a bird—(cries of' yes, you are ')—I shall not condescend to answer
rejoice, orougnt unaer tne saving mercy oi ueune rrance ; vvi.u ™ ^ for f * '£ell know the sort of bird that hon. members
a glory does Michelet invest the troops ! No ; they are not scrubby, ■ mean Ag J ^ not & tQ be in five placeg ftt onc6; how can j eafc
ignorant, vapouring bipeds of a few sous a-day, drawn by lot or pur- I thg fiye to be given on the triumph of Conservative principles ?
chased to slay and destroy,—they are an army of chosen spirits, j jf anything more than another can show the revolution to which we
presences almost celestial, appointed by Fate to carry to the bosoms of j are fast arriving, it is the shabbiness that has crept into election
all men moral dignity and perfect civilisation,—only there is this slight | expenses. I like to see money fly like winking. {Great laughter.) Hon.
inconvenience, the blessings are to be received by means of bullet and
Babre.
And then the " Holy Bayonets ! " That's a sublime touch ! Quite
equal to the Irishman's " Holy Poker ! "
members may laugh ; but they know very well what I mean by
winking. All the true manly spirit—the pride of our ancestors—as
shown at elections, is vanished—effervesced—obliterated. There was
a time when the independent English yeoman expressed his political
opinions by means of dead cats, cabbage-stumps, and bad eggs, but the
Whigs, with their confounded Reform, have broken the heart,—yes, the
lion-heart—of Britannia, and—and"--[Here the lion, and
SHAKSPEARE'S BIRTH-DAY. (militia) gallant member sat down in a state of great excitement,
On the 23rd inst—the Anniversary of Shakspeare's birth—Mr. I promising that His speech should be continued at their "next.' ]
Harlet, as stage-manager of Drury Lane Theatre, went for the daj '
into decent mourning.
A RATTING MATCH.
A grand match is expected to come off iu the House of Colli-
sions, on the division on the third reading of tke Anti-Corn-Law Bill.
AX ANNUAL VISITOR.
We are beginning to look out for the Report of Her Majestt's visit
to Ireland, as it is generally about this time of the year that it appears
in the newspapers.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
HOLY (FRENCH) BAYONETS.
]yj MrcHELET has written an admirable book
against the Jesuits. His Priests, Women,
and Families, is truly an excellent work,
stampt with the highest social value. It
would seem that M. Michelet regretted
the authorship of so much excellence,
and straightway resolved to balance the
good book—to overbalance it we should
say—with a very stupid, and a very
wicked one. He therefore wrote his last
work, Tlie People. In this book, or blas-
phemy, Michelet, places the hopes of
human nature in a powder-magazine.
His remedies for all social ills are in bul-
lets ; his light that is to lead the nations
on to regeneration, the flashing rays of
swords and bayonets. A jubilee is to be
preached to the whole earth,—but it is to
be preached by roaring cannon. The
whole world is to be blest with fertility,
as in the Golden Age ; but then it must
first be watered with torrents of blood,
PUNCH'S POLITICAL DICTIONARY.
Gleaning. The practice of picking up what is left behind by the
reapers. Gleaning may, according to circumstances, be respectable or
otherwise. If I leave my pocket-bandkerchief hanging out behind,
the person who acts as a gleaner, and carries it away, is no better than
a pickpocket. So, if I get into a cab and leave behind me a pocket-
book, the driver is not authorised in turning gleaner, and clearing off
my property, because I accidentally leave it behind me. There are
also gleaners of another class, who enter the field of literature, and,
with a view of making their bread, pick up all the stray ideas left
behind by the original reapers, who may perhaps have had the trouble
of cultivating the crop, for the refuse of which the literary gleaner
crawls about with humble industry. By seme rules made at a meeting
of farmers, in August, 1845, it was agreed that the privilege of
gleaning should not be allowed to any able-bodied labourer. The same
rule is, we presume, applicable to literary gleaners, as no able labourer
in the field of letters would stoop to such a practice. ^
Government. A word used in several senses, which accounts for
the ambiguity that often belongs to ministers. It means the business
of Government, or thing done, or the persons who do, though the
thing done is not usually the Government, but the nation. There are
several forms of Government, of which Monarchy, Aristocracy, and
Democracy are the principal. To use a musical illustration, Monarchy
and fertilised with thousands of carcases. The next generation, after j may be compared to a solo, wnere one man executes all sorts of airs,
breathing an atmosphere of smoke and brimstone, will see the bright j Aristocracy is a concerted piece ; while Democracy is generally
blue of a better day. And, be it understood, France is to do all this, j nothing better than a discord. Our English Government is a combi-
Franee is the arsenal where the weapons that are to convert the j nation of all three, producing generally a very delightful harmony,
human race—weapons of divine temper—are piled. It is French i When some low notes get out of tune in the bass, or when too much
lead, French gunpowder, and French steel, that are to bring about the j falsetto is introduced in the higher parts, the effect is often dis-
millennium. It is thus the philosopher brays to Young France : it is 1 agreeable,
thus he would teach the tiger-cubs to lap blood :—
" Ah ! my only hope is in the flag !—that it may save France, and the France of the
array. May our glorious army, upon which the eyes of the world are fixed, keep itself THE LAND OF BULLS
pure! May it be a sword against the enemy, proof against corruption !"
vr„ t__. ___r. i * , „^m„„ -u^^q ;„ +v,Q ^Vofnmioir-i/v " At an Inquest held at Clonmel, on Fridav last, on the bodv of a man found dead ia
No hope m the peaceful heart of man—no hope m the fraternising the street> the^jury returned a verdict of . Death fr^m starvatlon.' -
spirit of science and commerce : no, Michelet's only hope " is in the ,<At the DubUn Cattle Show> the prize ^ were declared to be fatter than had eve,
flag;" the flag that has in its day been to a nation, what a death s- been seen before. Prince Albert's heifer is expected to win the first prize."
head and cross-bones have been to some twenty miscreants who have | Tq find Qut the cauge of « 0uW j^^y distress,
pillaged and murdered every luckless victim m their power. Never- The nobs of the natiou are pllzziing tneir wigs .
theless, the philosopher prays that the glorious army " may keep | But the Cattle-show leads us to hazard this guess,
itself pure !" Well, recollecting the caves of Dahra, if the army be
pure now, it is safe for all time ; for we cannot well understand what
atrocity—what blackness is to defile it.
" Maya spirit of police never enter there ! What a deposit in the hands of these I Poor people, of course, must expect to get thin,
young soldiers ! W hat responsibility fur the future ! On the day of the last grand battle j When the farmer's obliged to make cattle SO fat.
between civilisation and barbarism (who knows but it may be to-morrow » i the judge 1 _ _
must find them irreproachable, their swords pure, and their bayonets gleaming without j This explains the strange Stories recorded With Stress,
spot' Every time I see them pass, my heart bounds within me. Here, and here only, jn tbe Times, and indeed all the papers VOU touch ;
strength and mind, valour and right, things separated throughout the earth, go hand in 1
hand. If the world is saved by war, you will save it. Holy bayonets of France!
watch that nothing may darken that glory now hovering above you, and which no eye can
sustain."
" Between civilisation and barbarism ! " Between civilised France
and barbarian England—eh, M. Michelet ? Is John Bull to be
taught the humanities by the " bayonets without spot ? " Are his
preceptors to be those nice, irreproachable youths, tipped and mous-
tachioed—Young France ? As it is only in their ranks that " valour
and right" go hand in hand, how will the nations of the earth
rejoice, brought under the saving mercy of Jeune France ! With what
-The peasants are starving to fatten the pigs.
While a landlord has prizes at Dublin to win,
What matter potatoes and rubbish like that ?
While men die of hunger induced by distress,
The pigs and the calves die of eating too much .'
SIBTHORPE ON ELECTIONS.
The gallant Militia Colonel has made one of his great speeches
(most imperfectlv reported) in the Commons, on the Duration of
Elections BilL He said, " I have a vote for five counties, and as I am
not a bird—(cries of' yes, you are ')—I shall not condescend to answer
rejoice, orougnt unaer tne saving mercy oi ueune rrance ; vvi.u ™ ^ for f * '£ell know the sort of bird that hon. members
a glory does Michelet invest the troops ! No ; they are not scrubby, ■ mean Ag J ^ not & tQ be in five placeg ftt onc6; how can j eafc
ignorant, vapouring bipeds of a few sous a-day, drawn by lot or pur- I thg fiye to be given on the triumph of Conservative principles ?
chased to slay and destroy,—they are an army of chosen spirits, j jf anything more than another can show the revolution to which we
presences almost celestial, appointed by Fate to carry to the bosoms of j are fast arriving, it is the shabbiness that has crept into election
all men moral dignity and perfect civilisation,—only there is this slight | expenses. I like to see money fly like winking. {Great laughter.) Hon.
inconvenience, the blessings are to be received by means of bullet and
Babre.
And then the " Holy Bayonets ! " That's a sublime touch ! Quite
equal to the Irishman's " Holy Poker ! "
members may laugh ; but they know very well what I mean by
winking. All the true manly spirit—the pride of our ancestors—as
shown at elections, is vanished—effervesced—obliterated. There was
a time when the independent English yeoman expressed his political
opinions by means of dead cats, cabbage-stumps, and bad eggs, but the
Whigs, with their confounded Reform, have broken the heart,—yes, the
lion-heart—of Britannia, and—and"--[Here the lion, and
SHAKSPEARE'S BIRTH-DAY. (militia) gallant member sat down in a state of great excitement,
On the 23rd inst—the Anniversary of Shakspeare's birth—Mr. I promising that His speech should be continued at their "next.' ]
Harlet, as stage-manager of Drury Lane Theatre, went for the daj '
into decent mourning.
A RATTING MATCH.
A grand match is expected to come off iu the House of Colli-
sions, on the division on the third reading of tke Anti-Corn-Law Bill.
AX ANNUAL VISITOR.
We are beginning to look out for the Report of Her Majestt's visit
to Ireland, as it is generally about this time of the year that it appears
in the newspapers.