DOI issue:
January to June, 1850
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16605#0118
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
CAKLYLE MADE EASY.
PROSPECTS OF THE TUNNEL.
Ma. Punch differs very much on many points with Mr. Thomas Things m the Tunnel continue to look black, and at the meeting of
Carlyle; nevertheless he recommends everybody to read Mr. Car- proprietors a few days ago, a comparison [between the receipts and ex-
lyle's Latter-Dav Pamphlets, because there certainly is much fun in penditure presented ground for hope, inasmuch as there is always play
them; for they afford all the amusement that can be derived from the *°r ™? imagination when nothing has been realised. It appears that
best enigmas. It has, however, struck Mr. Punch that for the benefit the Directors do all they can to brighten the prospects of the concern,
of the slow of comprehension, a Carlyle made easy, a sort of Delphin *or between £700 and £800 have gone in the year for gas, which makes
Carlyle, ought to be published, something after the subjoined pattern, i ^he I unriel light though it, makes the expenditure heavy. There has
Mr. Punch is not quite confident that he has rendered Mr. Carlyle in j been a falling off m the tolls for the past year, but this deficiency is of
every respect correctly ; if he has not, perhaps Mr. Carlyle will point j course attributed to the cholera. If the epidemic has been otherwise
out the mistake—provided that he is perfectly sure that he understands
his own meaning. The Author, in Pamphlet No. 1, "The Present,
Time," is describing the "New Era," which he supposes to have just
commenced:—
unprofitable, it has, at all events, acted as a sort of general accountant
employed m balancing all matters of profit and loss, which could not
be very well explained in any other manner.
One of the items of receipt is as usual the rent of stalls, for that
continual fancy fair which is perpetually going on underground, in
the text. the sense. obedience to that wonderful law of our nature which teaches us some-
" A terrible new country this : " This is a novel, alarming, state j ^Tuv^ deW ^ the s,tarlli?S contrasts and has led to the
no neighbours in it yet that I can of things. There are no agents but I establishment of a bazaar m the tunnel. We should be most happy to
see, but irrational flabby monsters ourselves at work in it that I can o^r anything like consolation or encouragement to the proprietors;
(philanthropic and other) of the perceive, except irrational, unsound I „S CQmPels /JS t? say that we utterly despair of ever wewg 1 he
giant species; hyamas, laughing preachers of chimeras (philanthropic [ COnCern succeed m keeping itself above water.
hyaenas, predatory wolves; probably and other deceivers) of great! _
devils, blue (or perhaps blue and*note; abusive and satirical jour-
vellow)devils,as St. Gtjthlacfound nalists, literary wolves that prey — • _ P1<r- •.
in Croyland long ago. Ahugeun- on the public morals; probably ine Kums ot Nineveh.
trodden, haggard country, the "cha- certain magazines of evil tendency, It appears that a Prench antiquarian threatens to get the best of our
otic battlefield of Frost and Fire ;" blue, or perhaps blue and yellow i own Layard at Nineveh. He will—
a country of savage glaciers, granite magazines _ [coloured like the] « With Ms much larger fund (£30,000 it is stated), materially encroach on the harvest
mountains, of foul j angles, unhe wed devils [which] ST. gtjthlac found j of antiquities which would fall to the lot of the English nation were Captain Layard's
forests, quaking bogs ; which we in Croyland long ago. An indefinite 1 exertions hacked by more ample means."
shall have our own ados to make unexplored dreary state of things,' This is an idle, an ignorant complaint. When John Bull is made to
arable and habitable, I think ! " the arena of diametrically opposed lose so much with "ducks and drakes," how can he, with the French,
principles ; an age of frozen cha-1 afford to play at "marbles ? "
rities, stubborn prejudices, filthy j __,_
mazes of immorality, unreclaimed i
populations, and social bases threat-j Q . k Returns and no Profits
emng to give way ; a state ot things < x
which I think we shall have suf-1 Mr. Hudson has re-appeared " in his place " (where we should have
ficient work of our own to render i thought he would have been somewhat " out of his place ") in the House
capable of improvement, and orderly j af Commons. We are not aware whether the ex-Railway-King is sup-
enough for us to exist under it." j plied with a motto for his armorial bearings, whatever they may be, but
| if not, we would suggest to him as appropriate to his re-appearance in
~ I Parliament, the well known phrase of " Cut and come again."
A Pact for the Agriculturists.
We understand that one of the farmers' friends in the House of! rjQ CORRESPONDENTS.
Commons will shortly propose a return to Protection, in consequence j
of the ruinous effect produced by Free Trade upon our home agriculture, I
which has already caused the introduction in the year 1849 of £4000
worth of French lawns into this country. It will be urged with the
usual soundness of logic and accuracy of fact, for which the Protec-
tionists are remarkable, that if foreign lawns are already coming in so
fast, foreign fields may soon be expected to follow. It will doubtless be
asked how it, is possible for the land to stand against such competition,
when, not simply the produce from abroad is imported, but when French
lawns, and why not French pastures, on a still more extensive scale,
are admitted bodily into unhappy England.
down in front.
We learn from the papers that there is a movement, getting up in the
city, with the view of doing away with the iron railing round St, Paul's
Cathedral. This may be all very well, but we give due notice to the
parties interested, that, though the iron railing may be abolished, until
the twopenny-sbow principle of charging for admission has been got
rid of, our irony and our rading will never be removed from St. Paul's.
ploughing by steam.
We perceive that steam has been applied to the process of ploughing.
If the farmers are really, .as they allege, in terrible hot water, we think
they cannot do_ better than turn the hot water to account, by using the
steam for farming purposes.
reason for wearing a beard.
There is a Member of the Peace Society who has not shaved now for
years, and the reason he gives for his beard, which is a very handsome
one, is this : " He is not going to touch a razor, lest by any accident he
should be lending his hand to the unnecessary effusion of blood."
_ We wish that Mr. Cobden, in his next annual motion for the reduc-
tion of useless expenditure, would oblige us by introducing a few words
relative to the useless expenditure—of time—which we have so
frequently incurred in telling Correspondents that they must take
copies of their communications before they consign them to Punch's
letter-box. Members of the House of Commons may move for what
returns they please, but amongst such returns, no return of any article
sent to us can be included. Copying machines may be had from two
guineas upwards, and surely such a trifling investment as this can be
of no moment at such a momentous crisis, as the sitting down to write
to Punch a communication of any kind whatever.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
CAKLYLE MADE EASY.
PROSPECTS OF THE TUNNEL.
Ma. Punch differs very much on many points with Mr. Thomas Things m the Tunnel continue to look black, and at the meeting of
Carlyle; nevertheless he recommends everybody to read Mr. Car- proprietors a few days ago, a comparison [between the receipts and ex-
lyle's Latter-Dav Pamphlets, because there certainly is much fun in penditure presented ground for hope, inasmuch as there is always play
them; for they afford all the amusement that can be derived from the *°r ™? imagination when nothing has been realised. It appears that
best enigmas. It has, however, struck Mr. Punch that for the benefit the Directors do all they can to brighten the prospects of the concern,
of the slow of comprehension, a Carlyle made easy, a sort of Delphin *or between £700 and £800 have gone in the year for gas, which makes
Carlyle, ought to be published, something after the subjoined pattern, i ^he I unriel light though it, makes the expenditure heavy. There has
Mr. Punch is not quite confident that he has rendered Mr. Carlyle in j been a falling off m the tolls for the past year, but this deficiency is of
every respect correctly ; if he has not, perhaps Mr. Carlyle will point j course attributed to the cholera. If the epidemic has been otherwise
out the mistake—provided that he is perfectly sure that he understands
his own meaning. The Author, in Pamphlet No. 1, "The Present,
Time," is describing the "New Era," which he supposes to have just
commenced:—
unprofitable, it has, at all events, acted as a sort of general accountant
employed m balancing all matters of profit and loss, which could not
be very well explained in any other manner.
One of the items of receipt is as usual the rent of stalls, for that
continual fancy fair which is perpetually going on underground, in
the text. the sense. obedience to that wonderful law of our nature which teaches us some-
" A terrible new country this : " This is a novel, alarming, state j ^Tuv^ deW ^ the s,tarlli?S contrasts and has led to the
no neighbours in it yet that I can of things. There are no agents but I establishment of a bazaar m the tunnel. We should be most happy to
see, but irrational flabby monsters ourselves at work in it that I can o^r anything like consolation or encouragement to the proprietors;
(philanthropic and other) of the perceive, except irrational, unsound I „S CQmPels /JS t? say that we utterly despair of ever wewg 1 he
giant species; hyamas, laughing preachers of chimeras (philanthropic [ COnCern succeed m keeping itself above water.
hyaenas, predatory wolves; probably and other deceivers) of great! _
devils, blue (or perhaps blue and*note; abusive and satirical jour-
vellow)devils,as St. Gtjthlacfound nalists, literary wolves that prey — • _ P1<r- •.
in Croyland long ago. Ahugeun- on the public morals; probably ine Kums ot Nineveh.
trodden, haggard country, the "cha- certain magazines of evil tendency, It appears that a Prench antiquarian threatens to get the best of our
otic battlefield of Frost and Fire ;" blue, or perhaps blue and yellow i own Layard at Nineveh. He will—
a country of savage glaciers, granite magazines _ [coloured like the] « With Ms much larger fund (£30,000 it is stated), materially encroach on the harvest
mountains, of foul j angles, unhe wed devils [which] ST. gtjthlac found j of antiquities which would fall to the lot of the English nation were Captain Layard's
forests, quaking bogs ; which we in Croyland long ago. An indefinite 1 exertions hacked by more ample means."
shall have our own ados to make unexplored dreary state of things,' This is an idle, an ignorant complaint. When John Bull is made to
arable and habitable, I think ! " the arena of diametrically opposed lose so much with "ducks and drakes," how can he, with the French,
principles ; an age of frozen cha-1 afford to play at "marbles ? "
rities, stubborn prejudices, filthy j __,_
mazes of immorality, unreclaimed i
populations, and social bases threat-j Q . k Returns and no Profits
emng to give way ; a state ot things < x
which I think we shall have suf-1 Mr. Hudson has re-appeared " in his place " (where we should have
ficient work of our own to render i thought he would have been somewhat " out of his place ") in the House
capable of improvement, and orderly j af Commons. We are not aware whether the ex-Railway-King is sup-
enough for us to exist under it." j plied with a motto for his armorial bearings, whatever they may be, but
| if not, we would suggest to him as appropriate to his re-appearance in
~ I Parliament, the well known phrase of " Cut and come again."
A Pact for the Agriculturists.
We understand that one of the farmers' friends in the House of! rjQ CORRESPONDENTS.
Commons will shortly propose a return to Protection, in consequence j
of the ruinous effect produced by Free Trade upon our home agriculture, I
which has already caused the introduction in the year 1849 of £4000
worth of French lawns into this country. It will be urged with the
usual soundness of logic and accuracy of fact, for which the Protec-
tionists are remarkable, that if foreign lawns are already coming in so
fast, foreign fields may soon be expected to follow. It will doubtless be
asked how it, is possible for the land to stand against such competition,
when, not simply the produce from abroad is imported, but when French
lawns, and why not French pastures, on a still more extensive scale,
are admitted bodily into unhappy England.
down in front.
We learn from the papers that there is a movement, getting up in the
city, with the view of doing away with the iron railing round St, Paul's
Cathedral. This may be all very well, but we give due notice to the
parties interested, that, though the iron railing may be abolished, until
the twopenny-sbow principle of charging for admission has been got
rid of, our irony and our rading will never be removed from St. Paul's.
ploughing by steam.
We perceive that steam has been applied to the process of ploughing.
If the farmers are really, .as they allege, in terrible hot water, we think
they cannot do_ better than turn the hot water to account, by using the
steam for farming purposes.
reason for wearing a beard.
There is a Member of the Peace Society who has not shaved now for
years, and the reason he gives for his beard, which is a very handsome
one, is this : " He is not going to touch a razor, lest by any accident he
should be lending his hand to the unnecessary effusion of blood."
_ We wish that Mr. Cobden, in his next annual motion for the reduc-
tion of useless expenditure, would oblige us by introducing a few words
relative to the useless expenditure—of time—which we have so
frequently incurred in telling Correspondents that they must take
copies of their communications before they consign them to Punch's
letter-box. Members of the House of Commons may move for what
returns they please, but amongst such returns, no return of any article
sent to us can be included. Copying machines may be had from two
guineas upwards, and surely such a trifling investment as this can be
of no moment at such a momentous crisis, as the sitting down to write
to Punch a communication of any kind whatever.