Punch: Punch (11.1846)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

NAUTICAL LECTURES.

will be made for the revival of this important
branch of our national commerce, in which our
slave-holding brethren on the other side of the
Atlantic will be politely requested to unite.

2. The continuance of fagging in public
schools ; for the training up of our youth in
habits of servitude.

3. The maintenance of impressment in the
navy, and of corporal punishment in the army,
and the opposition of the fatal and mischievous
scheme of educating the common soldier.

4. The unflinching championship of the game
laws, and the inculcation of the sacredness of the
head of game, and the inviolable privileges of
the lord of the manor.

5. The perpetuation of our glorious gallows,
the true tree of the British Constitution, round
which every member of the Pro-Slavery Society
is exhorted to rally, beseeching the woodman to
spare at least that tree.

Such will be the leading objects of this Society ;
and it will aim, generally, at the suppression
of enlightenment, and the universal establish-
ment of despotism.

$rtnctpU8 of tfje Neto i&imsug

A Leader for "The Observer."

Lord John Russell having been called upon
in the House of Commons to declare the prin-
ciples on which he will conduct his Government,
we, who are not called upon, and who object to
-=-~"N/wTJ^ v vun»' —ai i*.>.ta«ui ■' ■ tjje principle altogether of premature disclosure,

The union of amusement with instruction has become such a very popular notion that the : state our own views^ as^far as we can see,
Admiralty has, we understand, determined on adopting it. In order to introduce among the
junior members of the Naval service a knowledge of their profession, an arrangement has, we
believe, been entered into with Ma. T. P. Cooke, to give some of those faithful representations
of the character and habits of the British Seaman for which he has loDg been eminent.

It is in contemplation to obtain his attendance at the various sea-ports in succession, for
the purpose of going through a series of semi-dramatic lectures, in the presence of the
officers and crews of the ships at the different stations. The following is a slight sketch ot*
the programme of the first of these performances, which will take place at Portsmouth, as
soon as the necessary arrangements are completed :—

PART L

which in the present state of darkness is quite
impossible. In the first place ic is probable,
though we do not pledge ourselves, and if we
were pledged we might perhaps be taken in, still
we believe it possible, and indeed anything is
possible to a certain extent, that the Premier
will not attempt more than he thinks he can
accomplish, unless indeed he overrates his own
powers, when he may be led into such an error.

It is very true that Eabl Gbey's Adminis-
tration did much that Lord John Russell can-
not do, because it has been done already; but
we are not prepared to say that, if Loed John
Russell had been in Earl Geet's place, which

Introduction to Naval Lite—The deck of the Daisy—Anecdote of a Thames Stoker—Young
Ben, the pride of Putney—Song: "/'to Afloat"—Yeo heo-heo !—Abaft the binnacle once more

—Life in a paddle-box—Hip, hip, hip, hurrah !—" Jack's the boy"—Naval hornpipe, and Off; in fact he is now—but we of course mean then
she aoes. ! —he would have acted as that Nobleman did.

Between the Parts, a Naval Hornpipe. i Not as he would have done in 1846, but as he

did \\ hen lie did, which is, in fact, when he should
have done.

This brings us to the Government of Loed
Melbourne, but we do not kno w why, or if we
did know why, we should be at a loss to say
how, it would be required of Lord John Russell
to place himself in a similar position to that of

PART II.

" The Sea, the Sea "—Epsom salts and salt water—Neptune out of tune—Rigs in the rig-
ging—Anecdote of George Robins—A Sail! A Sail!—A Dance on deck—" To ilie Pumps,
to the Pumps"—A Quadrille in the Channel—Channel sole Shoes—Who's for the Shore—
" T/ie Shark and the Shrimp "—The Learned Pig and the Sow Wester—A Sea Fight-
Hornpipe in character-concluding with tha other at the very juncture. We mean eight

Rcle Britannia.

It is intended that the lectures shall be varied as the marine pupils advance, and the whole
science of navigation, illustrated by songs, anecdotes, and hornpipes, will be laid open to the
student. It is confidently anticipated that a perfect British Seaman may be turned out in half-
a-dozen lectures. The room will be fitted up with a mast and rope ladder, so that the illusion
will be as complete as possible.

THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN PRO-SLAVERY SOCIETY

years ago, when the political aspect was, taking
a similar view of it, altogether different. It is all
very well, by which, of course, we mean it is
highly blameable, for members of Parliament not
in office,—though we do not mean to say they
ou?ht not to be in office, though we defy any
but themselves and their friends to say they
should—to cavil at the new Minister for his
reserve.

Lf we were at the head of the Government—
though we only put the case for the sake of
Motto.—"Pro Catena, Furcd, et Flagellar argument, but we do not mean to hint that we

All those right-minded and respectable persons who wish for a revival of the " good > WOuld take anything from any administration,
old times ;" who like to see the common people kept in their proper place, and taught which we never did, though if we had, we are
nothing more than to do as they are bid ; who would have boys flogged, and men hanged, j not sure any one would have a right to complain
that deserve it; are invited to co-operate in the formation of an Association now about to be except ourselves, at least if we could be so absurd
instituted, to be called The British and Foreign Pro-Slavery Society. as t0 complain of anything for our own advan-

The foundation of this Society has become necessary in order to counteract the machina-1 tage—that is, supposing it to be advantageous—
tions of the Anti-Slavery Society for the diffusion, at home and abroad, of the dangerous , Wg should certainly, or rather vaguely, furnish a
principles of Liberty. j very imperfect outline of our own intentions.

The foil owing are the objects for which the Pro-Slavery Society will contend, in utter guctl we ta^e t0 be—as far a; we know, but we
defiance of what is styled public opinion :— again warn our readers to remember that we

1. Agitation for the repeal of the Negro Emancipation Act. Petitions will be circulated really know nothing—the object el the new
for the pardon of persons convicted of the so-called offence of slave-dealing, and every effort j Minister.