DOI issue:
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
illiam evinced all the carving qualities of a Vauxhall waiter; for>
as that expert prac'itioner has been known to cut, up a single ham into
fourteen hundred shilling platefuls, with a surplusage of several six-
penny sandwiches, so VVjlliam the Conqueror is said to have divided
Lngland into sixteen thousand two hundred and fifteen military fiefs.
To pursue the figure of the ham - it will he remembered, by the way,
that Willtam landed at Sandwich—those soldiers, who knew on which
side their bread was buttered, accepted with eagerness the slice that
was proffered to them, with all the conditions annexed. The recipients
of these fiefs were to take up arms when called upon, and it, was death
to write upon their doors " Not, at home,—return in an hour," when this
call was made.
The Forest Laws were also enacted, which limited to William the
exclusive privilrge of killing game,
•' a privilege he guarded even to the
' *tV^ turn of a hare : he imposed taxes
^^>^ZZ-v> '.- ad libitum, and decided upon their
,VV justice in his Aula Regis, a snug
. TYT little Temple of Themis, which he
LYCTKfEDto had started for the express purpose
a, (^AM.t; of keeping the administration of
the law entirely in his own hands.
He was his own judge, his own jury, his own counsel, occasionally
his own witness; and, in fact, the whole affair was a sort of At-Home,
after the manner of the late Mr Matthews or Mr. Yatks, the whole
of the charae'ers b-ing sustained by our old friend the Conqueror.
The reader may, by this time, have hegun to wonder what the pranks
of William can have to do with the birth of Liberty; but as our
predecessor, ])e Loi.me, has it, "The seed, though it seemed to be
smothered, was imbibing nourishment, for future sap" amid the sappies
of the period. The truth is, that the Barons l,a(] no'hing else to talk
about but their wrongs, until at last one noble Spooney, who m as rather
more shrewd than the rest, suggested the possibility of one man being
A STATESMAN'S LAST " RESOURCE."
Either Prince Joinville, pen in hand, has drawn at once a very
sharp and very delicate likeness of his father, or the name of the Prince
has been subscribed to the pen-and-ink sketch of another artist. Cer-
tainly the production reaches the French newspapers a little circuitously,
being first despatched from the Tuilleries (where the letter "was found
on February 24'h"; to Algiers, to be printed in the Alchar. True or
spurious, the letter is very good ; indeed, as an evidence oc its astounding
ability, the Post assures the world that the missive might have been
written for its own columns !
There is, however, one little sentence that makes us suspect the
imputed authorship of the letter. The writer touches upon the self-
destruction of Bhessdn :—
" People will not fall to repeat, and will enlarge upon what T consider as dangerous
—viz., die notion which he He fire) exercises over everything. This intiexihle
action, when a stat. snian compromised with us cannot vanquish it, leaves ?io othei
resource than su'eide!
So when a statesman is snubbed by a King, he has " no other resource "
than rope, poison, steel, or lead. A Monarch is pig-headed, and in the
self-devotion of bis sorrow, his Minister must cease to be! Let this
be received as a political axiom, and an appointment to plac^ may
be thus gazetted :—t: To-day, Monsifur - received the portfolio
for Foreign Affairs and—Prussic Acid ; " in order that when His Gracious
Majesty is "inflexible" in his "action," the victim Minister may at any
moment, have his " resource" at hand.
THE VERNON GALLERY.
ll the world knows the pa-
triotic generosity of Mr.
resisted by a thousand, instead of the thousand being domineered W'^l]^i t^*^ Verkon. He has bestowed
over by one— a state of things which they had all been consenting to. his magnificent collection of
The Barons, however, from whom it is thought in these davs so great . VL , •' Jtwil- Vl pictures upon the nation. He
a glorv to be descended, were still as funky as a boy when he first JJ^/ T ww (rK\]J/ X Wl1' VSfflm ,0f Posterity as
"knuckles down" at marbles, and the whole number of aristocratic ^MU *kwX'^^7V posterity s benefactor. I uture
souls, still shaking in twice the number of shoes, were glad to get the flj1 l\\J^s\aX^\K /^-^ generations will 1^ kindled
people to join in a confederacy for setting bounds to the royal aulhority, "jf te^Ja Mz- V^. into gratitude and admiration
or in other words preventing the Norman Will from too arbitrary' jk f^\v\,'\ • %fS'J*—< as they contemplate the be-
cxercise. The people, on their side, believed that what would be saue'e I Ml VfiSWL • Xb. quest of varied power and
for the baronial goose must be also'sauce for the plebeian gander; and W\ M ^-^T b(fut.v' made g lh.em by one
; hence," says Spelmak, " we come to the true source ot our consti- ' ffl I ^fjf, . i^kv w wfs an Lnflsh tJa£l^?_
tdtional freedom." The Commons stipulated for a little liberty on their %/ JW man; by 0ne who made his
own account, as the price of their assistance to the Lords ; " for why -=Jlf/fj V/fe^vS^T^ ) i ♦ , IT^I? t a * lntel"
should we bear all the kicks and cuffs," exclaimed the Citfey of his S^rjWflmL'MWL( W^tiM ~ {^ dell°hts, ot Art J
dav, " if we are not to be allowed a share of the halfpence ? " We shah - J fe/l»fe >s '^V- - ■! /0me Hme ?a hat!
trace, in future chapters, the operation of this sage ren.ark upon the tJBKW^i •?? ^n0*kdgnient
charae'er and condition of our countrymen, and we shall see how the 'l^Z-r^^j^ZT/^^^^ n g T I-V \i°'i
incident of the halfpenny-which occurred as a mere toss-up at a1 ™ ^^IS£mM^Si GoveramenS * everthetess,
n.pp.tinP- nf tl,» r*rinri-nnened t.r.« ,vp, of tl,p TT-no-lUt, ,,Ponlp. to the ' ' we were not impatient. Cer-
meetmg of the period-opened the eves of the English people to the 1 ^ktf ' \'7^~ " fe 7ere {"'paueni uer-
fact that "heads you lose, tails we win" was the game that the Barons1 • , v , he a
would have been happy to play with them.
elay, we thought, it is only the delay of a d-licate anxiety. The
Government is only taking due time to vouchsafe a due reward. It
is, it must be, in such a case, difficult to square the honour to the
merits of the deserving. Well, we have not been disappointed. The
a m;™ rni„,,iat;™ i " Special Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to consider
JNlce ^aiculdUon- of t)ie best niode 0f providing addi'ional room for works of Art given
The Health of Towns Magazine says :— to the public,"—the Committee have made their report, and, making
(<t,, : ,. , . . , ,. , • 1 it, have nobly satisfied Mr. Verkon :—
* The amount or hard cisn paid f^r intoxicating drinks lii the Metr-ijMlis alone i* ' * . .
three millions sterling ]>er annum. This sum, if spent in tewert, would afford up- 1 " Your Committee are unwilling to pass from this topic without lecordlng tDeU
wards of Revrnteen hundred miles at 6a. 8d. per foot run, and of ample capacity for sense of the public spirit and considerate liberality which have prompted thi- living
the largest thoroughfare, if the supply of water were good." I bequest on the part of Mr. Vernon, and they entertain no doubt that thejmblic grati-
rl J ! tude furni-h the most powerful incentive for elicit n • further instances of
Now, take U that everv Alderman of the CifV of London consumes, munificence similar in kind, as well as the most honourable reward to him who has
at the Mansion House and Guildhall, say £10 in wine per annum ;—this afl,mled tbis nobl° examP!e-"
sum, devoted to drainage, would, at the ab we computation, give to The Committee " enter'ain no doubt" of public gratitude ; no doubt
every said Alderman the delightful satisfac ion of having every year J of Mr. Vernon's "most honourable reward!" This is satisfactory,
thirty feet in the sewers. Thirty feet! This is tremendous; when, at ^ Ma> we, however, ask of the Ministry' to'fo* the public gratitude, as
the best, in any sewer, a rat has only four. vouchsafed to Mr. Vernon, will be made visible to the naked eye?
—when the " reward" will be manifested? We have good reasons for
our anxiety. Eor at this moment we know of twenty galleries about to
be given to the nation; the gifr only delayed until the donors may feel
certain thaf they shall not be seized and knighted. It, is rumoured that
Mr. Vernont himself has had a very narrow escape.
Chamberlain's Office, Sep. 27th.
PAVILION, BRIGHTON.—If one Gforge thk Fourth, who some years
ago left several ARTICLES of f ur »iturb at the Brighton Pavilion does not
cause them to be removed without delay, they will be sold to help to pay the expenses.
It is the more necessary that the said effects bi removed with all despatch, as within
the last ten years they have cost for warehouse-room (iaid out upon repairs or the
said Pavilion) e:ghteen thousand, seven hundred and nineteen pounds, of the coin
(of the pockets of the people) of this realm.
Bbeadalbane, Chamberlain.
The Queen and Prince at Stowe.
We fake the following from the Builder:—
" A statue, of Venus Rising from the Sea was hotly bid for by two rival agents,
until it was knocked down at a considerably higher price than its value. The report
is that the agents represented the Qceen and Prince Albert, who each wanted to
present it to'the other. Prince Albert was the purcbaser.".
We congratulate his Royal Highness. It is not always that the
husband has the last word.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
illiam evinced all the carving qualities of a Vauxhall waiter; for>
as that expert prac'itioner has been known to cut, up a single ham into
fourteen hundred shilling platefuls, with a surplusage of several six-
penny sandwiches, so VVjlliam the Conqueror is said to have divided
Lngland into sixteen thousand two hundred and fifteen military fiefs.
To pursue the figure of the ham - it will he remembered, by the way,
that Willtam landed at Sandwich—those soldiers, who knew on which
side their bread was buttered, accepted with eagerness the slice that
was proffered to them, with all the conditions annexed. The recipients
of these fiefs were to take up arms when called upon, and it, was death
to write upon their doors " Not, at home,—return in an hour," when this
call was made.
The Forest Laws were also enacted, which limited to William the
exclusive privilrge of killing game,
•' a privilege he guarded even to the
' *tV^ turn of a hare : he imposed taxes
^^>^ZZ-v> '.- ad libitum, and decided upon their
,VV justice in his Aula Regis, a snug
. TYT little Temple of Themis, which he
LYCTKfEDto had started for the express purpose
a, (^AM.t; of keeping the administration of
the law entirely in his own hands.
He was his own judge, his own jury, his own counsel, occasionally
his own witness; and, in fact, the whole affair was a sort of At-Home,
after the manner of the late Mr Matthews or Mr. Yatks, the whole
of the charae'ers b-ing sustained by our old friend the Conqueror.
The reader may, by this time, have hegun to wonder what the pranks
of William can have to do with the birth of Liberty; but as our
predecessor, ])e Loi.me, has it, "The seed, though it seemed to be
smothered, was imbibing nourishment, for future sap" amid the sappies
of the period. The truth is, that the Barons l,a(] no'hing else to talk
about but their wrongs, until at last one noble Spooney, who m as rather
more shrewd than the rest, suggested the possibility of one man being
A STATESMAN'S LAST " RESOURCE."
Either Prince Joinville, pen in hand, has drawn at once a very
sharp and very delicate likeness of his father, or the name of the Prince
has been subscribed to the pen-and-ink sketch of another artist. Cer-
tainly the production reaches the French newspapers a little circuitously,
being first despatched from the Tuilleries (where the letter "was found
on February 24'h"; to Algiers, to be printed in the Alchar. True or
spurious, the letter is very good ; indeed, as an evidence oc its astounding
ability, the Post assures the world that the missive might have been
written for its own columns !
There is, however, one little sentence that makes us suspect the
imputed authorship of the letter. The writer touches upon the self-
destruction of Bhessdn :—
" People will not fall to repeat, and will enlarge upon what T consider as dangerous
—viz., die notion which he He fire) exercises over everything. This intiexihle
action, when a stat. snian compromised with us cannot vanquish it, leaves ?io othei
resource than su'eide!
So when a statesman is snubbed by a King, he has " no other resource "
than rope, poison, steel, or lead. A Monarch is pig-headed, and in the
self-devotion of bis sorrow, his Minister must cease to be! Let this
be received as a political axiom, and an appointment to plac^ may
be thus gazetted :—t: To-day, Monsifur - received the portfolio
for Foreign Affairs and—Prussic Acid ; " in order that when His Gracious
Majesty is "inflexible" in his "action," the victim Minister may at any
moment, have his " resource" at hand.
THE VERNON GALLERY.
ll the world knows the pa-
triotic generosity of Mr.
resisted by a thousand, instead of the thousand being domineered W'^l]^i t^*^ Verkon. He has bestowed
over by one— a state of things which they had all been consenting to. his magnificent collection of
The Barons, however, from whom it is thought in these davs so great . VL , •' Jtwil- Vl pictures upon the nation. He
a glorv to be descended, were still as funky as a boy when he first JJ^/ T ww (rK\]J/ X Wl1' VSfflm ,0f Posterity as
"knuckles down" at marbles, and the whole number of aristocratic ^MU *kwX'^^7V posterity s benefactor. I uture
souls, still shaking in twice the number of shoes, were glad to get the flj1 l\\J^s\aX^\K /^-^ generations will 1^ kindled
people to join in a confederacy for setting bounds to the royal aulhority, "jf te^Ja Mz- V^. into gratitude and admiration
or in other words preventing the Norman Will from too arbitrary' jk f^\v\,'\ • %fS'J*—< as they contemplate the be-
cxercise. The people, on their side, believed that what would be saue'e I Ml VfiSWL • Xb. quest of varied power and
for the baronial goose must be also'sauce for the plebeian gander; and W\ M ^-^T b(fut.v' made g lh.em by one
; hence," says Spelmak, " we come to the true source ot our consti- ' ffl I ^fjf, . i^kv w wfs an Lnflsh tJa£l^?_
tdtional freedom." The Commons stipulated for a little liberty on their %/ JW man; by 0ne who made his
own account, as the price of their assistance to the Lords ; " for why -=Jlf/fj V/fe^vS^T^ ) i ♦ , IT^I? t a * lntel"
should we bear all the kicks and cuffs," exclaimed the Citfey of his S^rjWflmL'MWL( W^tiM ~ {^ dell°hts, ot Art J
dav, " if we are not to be allowed a share of the halfpence ? " We shah - J fe/l»fe >s '^V- - ■! /0me Hme ?a hat!
trace, in future chapters, the operation of this sage ren.ark upon the tJBKW^i •?? ^n0*kdgnient
charae'er and condition of our countrymen, and we shall see how the 'l^Z-r^^j^ZT/^^^^ n g T I-V \i°'i
incident of the halfpenny-which occurred as a mere toss-up at a1 ™ ^^IS£mM^Si GoveramenS * everthetess,
n.pp.tinP- nf tl,» r*rinri-nnened t.r.« ,vp, of tl,p TT-no-lUt, ,,Ponlp. to the ' ' we were not impatient. Cer-
meetmg of the period-opened the eves of the English people to the 1 ^ktf ' \'7^~ " fe 7ere {"'paueni uer-
fact that "heads you lose, tails we win" was the game that the Barons1 • , v , he a
would have been happy to play with them.
elay, we thought, it is only the delay of a d-licate anxiety. The
Government is only taking due time to vouchsafe a due reward. It
is, it must be, in such a case, difficult to square the honour to the
merits of the deserving. Well, we have not been disappointed. The
a m;™ rni„,,iat;™ i " Special Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to consider
JNlce ^aiculdUon- of t)ie best niode 0f providing addi'ional room for works of Art given
The Health of Towns Magazine says :— to the public,"—the Committee have made their report, and, making
(<t,, : ,. , . . , ,. , • 1 it, have nobly satisfied Mr. Verkon :—
* The amount or hard cisn paid f^r intoxicating drinks lii the Metr-ijMlis alone i* ' * . .
three millions sterling ]>er annum. This sum, if spent in tewert, would afford up- 1 " Your Committee are unwilling to pass from this topic without lecordlng tDeU
wards of Revrnteen hundred miles at 6a. 8d. per foot run, and of ample capacity for sense of the public spirit and considerate liberality which have prompted thi- living
the largest thoroughfare, if the supply of water were good." I bequest on the part of Mr. Vernon, and they entertain no doubt that thejmblic grati-
rl J ! tude furni-h the most powerful incentive for elicit n • further instances of
Now, take U that everv Alderman of the CifV of London consumes, munificence similar in kind, as well as the most honourable reward to him who has
at the Mansion House and Guildhall, say £10 in wine per annum ;—this afl,mled tbis nobl° examP!e-"
sum, devoted to drainage, would, at the ab we computation, give to The Committee " enter'ain no doubt" of public gratitude ; no doubt
every said Alderman the delightful satisfac ion of having every year J of Mr. Vernon's "most honourable reward!" This is satisfactory,
thirty feet in the sewers. Thirty feet! This is tremendous; when, at ^ Ma> we, however, ask of the Ministry' to'fo* the public gratitude, as
the best, in any sewer, a rat has only four. vouchsafed to Mr. Vernon, will be made visible to the naked eye?
—when the " reward" will be manifested? We have good reasons for
our anxiety. Eor at this moment we know of twenty galleries about to
be given to the nation; the gifr only delayed until the donors may feel
certain thaf they shall not be seized and knighted. It, is rumoured that
Mr. Vernont himself has had a very narrow escape.
Chamberlain's Office, Sep. 27th.
PAVILION, BRIGHTON.—If one Gforge thk Fourth, who some years
ago left several ARTICLES of f ur »iturb at the Brighton Pavilion does not
cause them to be removed without delay, they will be sold to help to pay the expenses.
It is the more necessary that the said effects bi removed with all despatch, as within
the last ten years they have cost for warehouse-room (iaid out upon repairs or the
said Pavilion) e:ghteen thousand, seven hundred and nineteen pounds, of the coin
(of the pockets of the people) of this realm.
Bbeadalbane, Chamberlain.
The Queen and Prince at Stowe.
We fake the following from the Builder:—
" A statue, of Venus Rising from the Sea was hotly bid for by two rival agents,
until it was knocked down at a considerably higher price than its value. The report
is that the agents represented the Qceen and Prince Albert, who each wanted to
present it to'the other. Prince Albert was the purcbaser.".
We congratulate his Royal Highness. It is not always that the
husband has the last word.