DOI issue:
January to June, 1846
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16542#0204
206
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
join in the grand march of intellect. Accomplishments might subse-
quently be edded to the more solid branches, and a polka step for
parade duty would be a relief to the jog-trot action which is at present
much used in military evolutions.
military pedagogue—a person half-soldier, half-schoolmaster—whc
might be able to preserve, by his rank in the army, a kind of authority
over the men, and yet be possessed of all the qualities necessary for a
teacher. Of such a character our artist has endeavoured to give a
We beg leave seriously to suggest a course of studies under a strict1 faint sketch in the drawing attached to this article.
AN AFFAIR OF REAL HONOUR.
.. he Field of the Cloth of Gold, we believe,
/ j) was no field of any such metal, but only of
' \ silver, because, like silver, it has been entirely
superseded. That field, whereon Henry VITI.
and Francis I. shook hands, must yield
henceforth in celebrity to the Field of the
Cloth of Table, over which M. Thiers and
Lord Palmerston have made it up. The
former, if fields were liable to eclipses, we
should say is now eclipsed ; but at any rate
fields are capable of sinking, and we pro-
nounce it to have sunk into comparative
insignificance. Indeed, we prefer the Field
of the Table Cloth to that of the Gold Cloth in
every way. First, of the two it was much the
least expensive ; although we do not know what it cost M. Thiers, and
are at the same time confident that he did the handsome thing. Secondly,
its arrangements were much the more agreeable, and far the better
calculated to promote the end in view ; breaking a lance being consi-
derably less conducive to harmony and good feeling than cracking a
bottle. A friendly sparring-match, knightly or fistic, may be a good-
humoured termination of a quarrel; but an amicable eating-match is
a much better one ; and the blows in which a difference ends most
satisfactorily are blows-out.
History, in the person of Dr. Goldsmith, informs us that Henry,
for the honour of his country, had, at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, a
tilting-bout with Messieurs Grandeyal and De Montmorency, the
former of whom he placed hors de combat. Whether Lord Paemerston,
from the same motive, engaged in a bout of another description, and
saw Messieurs Anybody under the table at the field of the cloth thereof,
we are Dot at present informed. We may, however, confidently state,
that it was M. Thiers who, at this sociable set-toT had the honour of
drawing the first claret; and we hope it proved good. We wish we
had been present at this tourney of the Table Cloth, to have displayed
our devotion to our iadye-love by an exploit the most congenial to
knights of our order.
In the mean time, we congratulate both France and England upon
the whole affair. The best way of putting an end' to animosity is-
treating it like the Duke of Clarence ; and we are glad that M. Thiers
and Lord Palmerston have drowned theirs in the bowl.
DRURY LANE THEATRICAL FUND.
This Society has its Dinner on Monday, when the pockets of the
people present will be eloquently appealed to by Mr. Barley, the
Master of the Fund. We are not at liberty to give the document; butT
following the custom of our contemporaries, as regards Queen's Parlia-
mentary speeches, we may venture to indicate the heads. Mr. Hareey
will begin by giving a short history of the Fund. Possibly he will
name the number of claimants, and state the amount of balance in
hand. Pie will then appeal to the company upon their old dramatic
recollections. He will show what peculiar claims the company of Drury
Lane, as at present established, have upon public charity. He will give
the number of tragedians and comedians engaged—will enumerate the
tragedies and comedies played during the past and present seasons, and
having shown that, from the condition of the theatre, there cannot be
many future claimants on the bounty of the public, he will, very
considerably affected, throw himself upon the sympathies of the meet-
ing, and—send round the plate. Certainly the only Drury Lane acting
at the present time is the Farce played by the Fund at the Freemason's-
Tavern.
Good News for Politicians.
At a recent convcrsozione of the Marquis of Northampton, there
were exhibited some examples of a process by which all organic sub-
stances can be brought to a consistency approaching petrifaction, so as
to be preserved to an indefinite period. In the present dearth of poli-
tical consistency, the discovery bids fair to become of very great value
to statesmen.
Printed by William Bradbury, of No. 6, York Place. Stoke Newinzton, and Frederick Mullett Evans,
of No. 7, Church Row, Stoke Newinsrton, both in the County of Midulesex, Printers, at their
Office in Lombard Street, in the Precinct of Whitefriars, in the City of London and pub-
lished by them, at No. 85, Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Bride's, in the City ot London.—
Saturdat, May 2, 1S46.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
join in the grand march of intellect. Accomplishments might subse-
quently be edded to the more solid branches, and a polka step for
parade duty would be a relief to the jog-trot action which is at present
much used in military evolutions.
military pedagogue—a person half-soldier, half-schoolmaster—whc
might be able to preserve, by his rank in the army, a kind of authority
over the men, and yet be possessed of all the qualities necessary for a
teacher. Of such a character our artist has endeavoured to give a
We beg leave seriously to suggest a course of studies under a strict1 faint sketch in the drawing attached to this article.
AN AFFAIR OF REAL HONOUR.
.. he Field of the Cloth of Gold, we believe,
/ j) was no field of any such metal, but only of
' \ silver, because, like silver, it has been entirely
superseded. That field, whereon Henry VITI.
and Francis I. shook hands, must yield
henceforth in celebrity to the Field of the
Cloth of Table, over which M. Thiers and
Lord Palmerston have made it up. The
former, if fields were liable to eclipses, we
should say is now eclipsed ; but at any rate
fields are capable of sinking, and we pro-
nounce it to have sunk into comparative
insignificance. Indeed, we prefer the Field
of the Table Cloth to that of the Gold Cloth in
every way. First, of the two it was much the
least expensive ; although we do not know what it cost M. Thiers, and
are at the same time confident that he did the handsome thing. Secondly,
its arrangements were much the more agreeable, and far the better
calculated to promote the end in view ; breaking a lance being consi-
derably less conducive to harmony and good feeling than cracking a
bottle. A friendly sparring-match, knightly or fistic, may be a good-
humoured termination of a quarrel; but an amicable eating-match is
a much better one ; and the blows in which a difference ends most
satisfactorily are blows-out.
History, in the person of Dr. Goldsmith, informs us that Henry,
for the honour of his country, had, at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, a
tilting-bout with Messieurs Grandeyal and De Montmorency, the
former of whom he placed hors de combat. Whether Lord Paemerston,
from the same motive, engaged in a bout of another description, and
saw Messieurs Anybody under the table at the field of the cloth thereof,
we are Dot at present informed. We may, however, confidently state,
that it was M. Thiers who, at this sociable set-toT had the honour of
drawing the first claret; and we hope it proved good. We wish we
had been present at this tourney of the Table Cloth, to have displayed
our devotion to our iadye-love by an exploit the most congenial to
knights of our order.
In the mean time, we congratulate both France and England upon
the whole affair. The best way of putting an end' to animosity is-
treating it like the Duke of Clarence ; and we are glad that M. Thiers
and Lord Palmerston have drowned theirs in the bowl.
DRURY LANE THEATRICAL FUND.
This Society has its Dinner on Monday, when the pockets of the
people present will be eloquently appealed to by Mr. Barley, the
Master of the Fund. We are not at liberty to give the document; butT
following the custom of our contemporaries, as regards Queen's Parlia-
mentary speeches, we may venture to indicate the heads. Mr. Hareey
will begin by giving a short history of the Fund. Possibly he will
name the number of claimants, and state the amount of balance in
hand. Pie will then appeal to the company upon their old dramatic
recollections. He will show what peculiar claims the company of Drury
Lane, as at present established, have upon public charity. He will give
the number of tragedians and comedians engaged—will enumerate the
tragedies and comedies played during the past and present seasons, and
having shown that, from the condition of the theatre, there cannot be
many future claimants on the bounty of the public, he will, very
considerably affected, throw himself upon the sympathies of the meet-
ing, and—send round the plate. Certainly the only Drury Lane acting
at the present time is the Farce played by the Fund at the Freemason's-
Tavern.
Good News for Politicians.
At a recent convcrsozione of the Marquis of Northampton, there
were exhibited some examples of a process by which all organic sub-
stances can be brought to a consistency approaching petrifaction, so as
to be preserved to an indefinite period. In the present dearth of poli-
tical consistency, the discovery bids fair to become of very great value
to statesmen.
Printed by William Bradbury, of No. 6, York Place. Stoke Newinzton, and Frederick Mullett Evans,
of No. 7, Church Row, Stoke Newinsrton, both in the County of Midulesex, Printers, at their
Office in Lombard Street, in the Precinct of Whitefriars, in the City of London and pub-
lished by them, at No. 85, Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Bride's, in the City ot London.—
Saturdat, May 2, 1S46.