Punch: Punch (11.1846)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

THE "ART-UNION " ON ARTIST CHARACTER. SPLENDID RUSSIAN VICTORY I

HE Art-Union has long been acknow-

led"-ed the rightful dealer out of j ™he Emperor Nicholas has gained another of those tremendous
professional life and death. Very conquests that now and then cause Fame to blow her trump and
proper, this. Who but'a fool " cracl£ her cheeks ;" and make every laurel-bush throughout Christen-
would' dispute with Jupiter, 1 ^om shoot up six inches, the sap fed and fructified by human blood,
knowing the god was born heir Scarcely, too, has the aforesaid Fame, like a tired trumpeter, wiped her
to the thunderbolts ? The Art- hps, and taken breath, tired with glorifying the victory of Nicholas—
Union however is a voucher for a victory, achieved over we know not how many indomitable nuns,
private character. It has set up headed by a veteran abbess—than we are again called upon to marvel
a sort of agency office where de- at *he restlessness of human genius, vowed to conquest, and therefore
cayed artists may obtain recom- i heedless of all impediments, overthrowing and despoiling at least eighty
mendations to the benevolence of unarmed Jews. The magnificent achievement is duly set forth in the
a public mightily in need of some j Warsaw Gazette of Nov. 6. We subjoin extracts :—

such director in its disbursement j Whbbeas> our Father the Emperor having in the depths of his paternal beneficence
of alms. A delicious vocation, resoive(j that all his Hebrew children should shave, and lay aside their old clothes, taking
this ! But, alas ! from the very 1 unto themselves the national costume ; and whereas many of the stiff-necked generation
depths of its tenderness, from its having openly revolted against the tenderness of their Father; the Emperor—whom
OVer-SUSCeptibility, SO likely to be . Heaven preserve—gave orders for an attack upon the rebels when and wheresoever they
abused ! Here is a recent, heart- |shouin present themselves.

rending instance. A short time j " On the 3rd instant a party of the enemy made a demonstration at the gates of our
since it recommended the case of j c%- They were led by their Rabbi, and being clothed in silk pelisses, trimmed with sable,
"Mr. H. B. ChALON" to public sympathy; and now, with weeping ! Presented a very formidable appearance. They were, moreover, armed to the teeth ; in-
•eyesand bleeding heart, the poor thins? eats up its syllables. " Mr. : a3muoh as the>' wore very lonS beards> weaP°ns strictly forbidden by the Emperor (whom
Chalon," says the Art-Union, with the tears running down its " innocent F

nose >'_ " The enemy moved in a compact mass to the gates, through which they entered ; evi-

' dently believing that they were masters of the city.

"Suffered us to state that 'he had ever been without reproach,' that 'hehaddis- ! „„ , _, . ... , , , . _ , , _ ,.

charged all the duties of life with credit and respectability,' and that ' his misfortunes . But what can withstand the troops of the Emperor (whom Heaven preserve) ? At a
had resulted from no indiscretion or evil habits :' he suffered us to state this knowing it S^yen signal General Ltckspitlewitz, with his division of the police, set upon the
to be untrue, and knowing also that we firmlv believed it to be truth—and he has there- enemy with knives and scissars.

fore forced upon us the grievous and sadly irksome duty of now saying the contrary is the « The rebela screamed and prayed . but what can witnsland the greatness of the

! Emperor (whom Heaven preserve) ? In less than half-an-hour - s\»ch was the determined
Is it not Shocking to be thus tricked, deceived into compassion ; to C0Urag",°f °Ur tr°°PS-^very beard was cut from every chin of the enemy ! Every ringlet
be beguiled of nositivelv lnlf-i-do7pn drons of ink exnended on a was SaUantl>' carried at the scissars edge! Every pelisse was sut up behind, and m a

■;f° ? 01 POS„U1\C0 nau-a-aozen arops oi m&, expenaea on a wordj the rout and discomfiture of the whole body were most complete,
written character ? And when, too, it is so patent to the world that , .

we, who deal out the reputation, are, by our intense purity and spot- I m . ^'T^' h°TI \13 ^e df >ns^'inS weakness of our imperial Father, the van-
, ' . r 77 . ' , r ^.~J . „ ,T7T^ quished were permitted to retire to their homes, and were further allowed to carry with

essneSS, the paramount authority to grant Such a certificate ? WE them .fte dippings of their beards,' to burv them • in their cemetery !' One beard only-
have ever been Without reproach—WE have always discharged the that of the Rabbi-was retained by our troops, to be deposited among the flags and
duties, &c. &C,—WE have had no misfortunes, the result of indiscretion, ' other military trophies destined to cast such an immortal lustre on the reign of the Czar,
or evil habits ! Oh, no—no—no ! Therefore, are WE shocked, annilii- ; our Father.

lated by the thought that WE—who are the speaking-trumpet of all
moral virtue—should have been " suffered " to say a good word for the
naughty man ; and with all speed take a most Christianlike revenge for
the injury committed upon us. Yes, WE feel it: it is only due to ourselves.
The man is poor ; and—as he has not been always without reproach—
WE magnanimously spurn him ; he is in desolate old age, and—as he
has had indiscretion, evil habits—WE smite our afflicted heart, and
with tears in our eyes, spit upon his grev head.

Ho w can WE do otherwise ? WE are such a spotless, pure, inge-
nuous WE !

Heaven preserve the Emperor !

A GREAT MAN.

At the opening of the branch line from Ramsgate to Margate on
the South-Eastern Railway, which shortens the distance from London
by making one hundred and five miles out of seventy-two, the health
of Mr. Cobb, the brewer, was proposed, as that of a gentleman who
" was born great, had achieved greatness, and had had greatness thrust
upon him." It is evident that the brewer is not thought small beer
NEW FOREST, BERKSHIRE. I of in his own neighbourhood. We wonder that Margate is capable

Certain newspapers have given currency to a rumour so monstrous ' of holding so great a man with his triple amount of magnitude. To
that Mr. Punch, for one, cannot believe it. The report is, that the road he born great is enough for some people, and to achieve greatness is
through Frogmore is to be stopped up, in order to be thrown, with the ^hat few attempt to go beyond ; but a gentleman who has beyond
-surrounding property, into Windsor Home Park; and that the public aU thls> *ome more greatness thrust upon him, must really have
are to be similarly deprived of all roads and paths in Windsor parish ™re to bear than he can know well what to do with. Poor Mr.
leading to Datchet Bridge, inclusive of the communication through Cobb must be as much embarrassed as the prize-bullocks, who always
the Park, between Datchet and Windsor. Of course, therefore, the i have "greatness thrust upon them at this festive period.*

Home Park will be closed against the public altogether, no longer ! _

affording it even the accommodation of the ditch which has been of

late years substituted for the pathway. Parliament, it is said, is to be r

applied to by the Woods and Forests for authority to make these THE WTELLINGTOlN HORSE,

alterations. Now, although Punch disbelieves this rumour yet _ should j The Editor Qf thg Literary Gasette has dected himself as Groom to the
it possibly prove a true one, he would suggest a caution to Parliament H and m his new {xmction shows himself hoth critical and attentive,
lhe silence, perhaps, of the Windsor people will be construed IIe thinks it a Uttle iate in the day " to pay the slightest regard to silly or
$.nnsf' X thes.e encroachments. For silent no doubt, the clamour » Xo be sure Envy has an omnivorous stomach, but

good Windsor folks will be. Yes, and so would Mr. Pumh, were he a even E w& tMnk mugt bv the bronze morsel> having notbin£, to
= JSCSh°/if of"' °rtl a^er'i°r1m {^\^ny:thmM e f than Avliat he is do ^ ^ „ The noi cum of ribald jests," says the Groom, gnashing
fSm^Si +w ^eath.the shadow of Windsor Castle. Let Parliament ^ h Punch ! B t the in,incible argum6nt for the fixity of the
remember that, before it sanctions the exclusion—not only of the mha- qtnt__:» ;t_ q;7P , Tt
bitants of Windsor, but of the people at larire— from the classic ground oiaiue llb SLae ■

which surrounds Heeke's Oik thn timp"hn mP hv for tiirninc " Could have happened in no country but England, that the production of the greatest
^^C^r,+7T^f ^ ^ tne time nas gone d> lor turmna work fa bronze ^ carg nQl ahetherlauded orfound fault icith as a icork of art; th&t
..OUOUC X->ropcrty mio isew forests. ; vvas ever castj should not have called forth one encomium, were it only for the vastness

I of the enterprise and the beauty with which it had been extricated from the mould. 'Why,
— | the wide universe can show nothing to compare with it; and magnilude alone has ever

been acknowledged to be an element of the sublime."

Brougham s Intentions.

We understand that among other matters Lord Brocgham intends
to accomplish during the ensuing Session of Parliament, is the process

This crushing argument scarcely allows us a leg to stand upon. We
own it—the Groom has cast down, defeated Punch I A little mistake is
a vile tiling ; but a large blunder is a sublimity ! In the like way that

of what he emphatically calls " knocking the bottom out of O'Connell's a man of average dullness is to be avoided as a bore, whilst a most
begging box." | egregious fool is to be folded to our bosom, a friend for life.