DOI issue:
January to June, 1848
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16546#0116
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
FRANTIC DELIGHT OF MESSRS. SMITH, BROWN, AND ROBINSON AT
THE ARRIVAL OF LOUIS-PHILIPPE.
THE POLITICAL BROTHERS.
The Siamese Twins are about to send in their
adhesion, also, to the French Government. Their
motto, henceforth, is to be " Union. Force, Fra-
ternity." Their Union promises, at all events, to
be binding; and no one can dispute that their
Fraternite is upon an equal footing, which is
more than can be said for that which has been
lately displayed at Rouen, and other places
where the English workmen have been expelled.
Let us hope, if Fraternite is to bind England
and France together, that it will resemble that
of the Siamese Twins, and be equally strong on
both sides, and that they will march together,
leaning one upon the other, keeping the same
step and movement, and having but one impulse,
one soul between them, and then they may safely
defy the efforts of all the world to make them
fall out, or to separate them by any division,
wilhout doing equal injury to both. This would
be something like a Fraternite!
L. P. ''An ! my dear Mr. Smith ! I pf.iiffctly recollect that name whvn I wis
bbfokk. I'm glad that I'm on English ground again, Mr. Smith!"
Wanted a President.
The Marquis of Northampton retires from
the Presidency of the Royal Society—we bet a
thousand to one that another Lord is elected in
his place ! "Who '11 take it ? The wager is per-
fectly safe ; for it is a well-known and painful
truth, that there is not a single scientific man in
England—not one literary person in the whole
kingdom—who is worthy to represent a scientific
and literary body. The Peerage alone can supply
the deficiency. Five le Flunkeyisme !
THE ART OF MAKING YOURSELF UNPOPULAR, Tremendous Feat.
TiiEiiE are a thousand different ways which a man, who has a genius The Morning Chronicle, in its account of the Munich disturbances,
that way, may practise with Miccess one after another ; but at present,i says—" Public curiosity was on tiptoe, in which position it remained
we will only 'take the political way. This is easy enough, and may, if all day." We imagine that Public Curiosity must have been fairly
persevered in, win you the hurrahs of two or three unwashed adherents, ' tired out before the evening came. Affairs on the Continent must be
and the condemnation of every sensible person. | on a curious footing when Public Curiosity remains for twelve hours at
First of all, make yourself a busybody in your parish. Attend every : a time on tiptoe. We always thought Madame Fuoco was the most
meeting. If there is no meeting going on, start one. If the meeting celebrated for standing the longest on her toes, but she has not a leg
is prohibited, keep away: never mind about the consequences. Of" course to stand upon by the side of her rival at Munich,
you are very sorry; but it was no fault of yours ; you were not there.
Don't be put dowrn, however: start another meeting to-morrow. You
are bound to make yourself unpopular, and \ou cannot do better than
by constantly getting up meetings wherever they are likely to lead to
disturbances, and interrupt business.
If windows are broken, all the better for you. People talk about
yon, and blame you for it, and this materially heightens your unpopu-
larity. If you have no meeting of your own, interrupt somebody else's ;
you are an Englishman, and have a right to be heard. Get on the
platform and propose counter-resolutions—or a vote of censure on the
Chairman is not bad. It creates a low, and stupid editors rave
about it, the next morning. Persons exclaim, " There's that fellow
again;" and if you are very lucky, a song about you will be sung in
the streets. Threaten ail sorts of prosecutions, and never lose a chance
of writing a letter to the newspapers ; it all tends to keep your name
alive, aed that is your great object. If you have nothing to do, go to the
Workhouse. Taste the soup. Give the crossing-sweepers a lift; and
mind >ou abuse everybody, but particularly the rich. Attend the
Vestry regularly. Doubt everything ; deny everything ; oppose every-
thing. You are sure to be right sometimes ; and your conduct proves
annoying in any case. You don't attend to please people. Get half-a-
dozen men to follow you about, and cheer you. A shilling a-piece—six
shillings a day—will do it handsomely. They must make a deal of
noise tor the money, however, and you must stop every now and then,
and address them about the Income-Tax. Write your Memoirs, and
introduce everybody,—ladies, servants, char-women, and every one you
know. Do all this boldly, unblushingly, and perseveringly, and you
will not only succeed in achieving a moderate degree of unpopularity,
but the chances pre, that you will become, in time, The Most Unpo-
pular Man of the Day.
Singular Unity in Two Kings.
Charles the Tenth, when he entered France, is said to have
exclaimed, " // riy a qu'vm Francais de plus ! "
Louis-Philippe might exclaim, with almost as much truth, " There
is nothing changed in France—there is only a Frenchman the less ! "
iESOP IN LONDON.
A royal dog of poodle breed,
A very hungry dog indeed,
Bore in his mouth a regal crown,
Snapp'd up when it had tumbled down ;
Dispute the ownership one might,
Who took too strict a view of right;
But all agreed to shut their eyes
Upon the title to the prize,
While the old dog, all tricks above,
A trusty guardian should prove.
One day, while ran Time's rapid stream,
He in it saw a bauble gleam—
The vague reflection of a crown,
The shadowy likeness of his own.
"I have a son who'd gladly wear
The treasure that lies glittering there;
When its effulgence I behold,
It looks to me like Spanish gold.
Temptation I'll no more resist! "
He made a snap, the prize he miss'd.
The shadow now was lost to view,
But he had dropp'd the substance too,
And in a current fierce and strong
The crown he had was borne along;
Upon the angry bdlows toss'd,
In Revolution's storm 'twas lost.
" Unhappy dog," the poodle cried,
As he survey'd the foaming tide,
"In grasping at the shade below,
Alas ! I've let the substance go."
Q. E. D.—The nutmeg is certainly the strongest proof of the
mathematical axiom, that " the less is always contained in the grater"
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
FRANTIC DELIGHT OF MESSRS. SMITH, BROWN, AND ROBINSON AT
THE ARRIVAL OF LOUIS-PHILIPPE.
THE POLITICAL BROTHERS.
The Siamese Twins are about to send in their
adhesion, also, to the French Government. Their
motto, henceforth, is to be " Union. Force, Fra-
ternity." Their Union promises, at all events, to
be binding; and no one can dispute that their
Fraternite is upon an equal footing, which is
more than can be said for that which has been
lately displayed at Rouen, and other places
where the English workmen have been expelled.
Let us hope, if Fraternite is to bind England
and France together, that it will resemble that
of the Siamese Twins, and be equally strong on
both sides, and that they will march together,
leaning one upon the other, keeping the same
step and movement, and having but one impulse,
one soul between them, and then they may safely
defy the efforts of all the world to make them
fall out, or to separate them by any division,
wilhout doing equal injury to both. This would
be something like a Fraternite!
L. P. ''An ! my dear Mr. Smith ! I pf.iiffctly recollect that name whvn I wis
bbfokk. I'm glad that I'm on English ground again, Mr. Smith!"
Wanted a President.
The Marquis of Northampton retires from
the Presidency of the Royal Society—we bet a
thousand to one that another Lord is elected in
his place ! "Who '11 take it ? The wager is per-
fectly safe ; for it is a well-known and painful
truth, that there is not a single scientific man in
England—not one literary person in the whole
kingdom—who is worthy to represent a scientific
and literary body. The Peerage alone can supply
the deficiency. Five le Flunkeyisme !
THE ART OF MAKING YOURSELF UNPOPULAR, Tremendous Feat.
TiiEiiE are a thousand different ways which a man, who has a genius The Morning Chronicle, in its account of the Munich disturbances,
that way, may practise with Miccess one after another ; but at present,i says—" Public curiosity was on tiptoe, in which position it remained
we will only 'take the political way. This is easy enough, and may, if all day." We imagine that Public Curiosity must have been fairly
persevered in, win you the hurrahs of two or three unwashed adherents, ' tired out before the evening came. Affairs on the Continent must be
and the condemnation of every sensible person. | on a curious footing when Public Curiosity remains for twelve hours at
First of all, make yourself a busybody in your parish. Attend every : a time on tiptoe. We always thought Madame Fuoco was the most
meeting. If there is no meeting going on, start one. If the meeting celebrated for standing the longest on her toes, but she has not a leg
is prohibited, keep away: never mind about the consequences. Of" course to stand upon by the side of her rival at Munich,
you are very sorry; but it was no fault of yours ; you were not there.
Don't be put dowrn, however: start another meeting to-morrow. You
are bound to make yourself unpopular, and \ou cannot do better than
by constantly getting up meetings wherever they are likely to lead to
disturbances, and interrupt business.
If windows are broken, all the better for you. People talk about
yon, and blame you for it, and this materially heightens your unpopu-
larity. If you have no meeting of your own, interrupt somebody else's ;
you are an Englishman, and have a right to be heard. Get on the
platform and propose counter-resolutions—or a vote of censure on the
Chairman is not bad. It creates a low, and stupid editors rave
about it, the next morning. Persons exclaim, " There's that fellow
again;" and if you are very lucky, a song about you will be sung in
the streets. Threaten ail sorts of prosecutions, and never lose a chance
of writing a letter to the newspapers ; it all tends to keep your name
alive, aed that is your great object. If you have nothing to do, go to the
Workhouse. Taste the soup. Give the crossing-sweepers a lift; and
mind >ou abuse everybody, but particularly the rich. Attend the
Vestry regularly. Doubt everything ; deny everything ; oppose every-
thing. You are sure to be right sometimes ; and your conduct proves
annoying in any case. You don't attend to please people. Get half-a-
dozen men to follow you about, and cheer you. A shilling a-piece—six
shillings a day—will do it handsomely. They must make a deal of
noise tor the money, however, and you must stop every now and then,
and address them about the Income-Tax. Write your Memoirs, and
introduce everybody,—ladies, servants, char-women, and every one you
know. Do all this boldly, unblushingly, and perseveringly, and you
will not only succeed in achieving a moderate degree of unpopularity,
but the chances pre, that you will become, in time, The Most Unpo-
pular Man of the Day.
Singular Unity in Two Kings.
Charles the Tenth, when he entered France, is said to have
exclaimed, " // riy a qu'vm Francais de plus ! "
Louis-Philippe might exclaim, with almost as much truth, " There
is nothing changed in France—there is only a Frenchman the less ! "
iESOP IN LONDON.
A royal dog of poodle breed,
A very hungry dog indeed,
Bore in his mouth a regal crown,
Snapp'd up when it had tumbled down ;
Dispute the ownership one might,
Who took too strict a view of right;
But all agreed to shut their eyes
Upon the title to the prize,
While the old dog, all tricks above,
A trusty guardian should prove.
One day, while ran Time's rapid stream,
He in it saw a bauble gleam—
The vague reflection of a crown,
The shadowy likeness of his own.
"I have a son who'd gladly wear
The treasure that lies glittering there;
When its effulgence I behold,
It looks to me like Spanish gold.
Temptation I'll no more resist! "
He made a snap, the prize he miss'd.
The shadow now was lost to view,
But he had dropp'd the substance too,
And in a current fierce and strong
The crown he had was borne along;
Upon the angry bdlows toss'd,
In Revolution's storm 'twas lost.
" Unhappy dog," the poodle cried,
As he survey'd the foaming tide,
"In grasping at the shade below,
Alas ! I've let the substance go."
Q. E. D.—The nutmeg is certainly the strongest proof of the
mathematical axiom, that " the less is always contained in the grater"