DOI Heft:
January to June, 1851
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16607#0032
24
PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
First Amiable Lady {very loud). " What a remarkably odd set of People one meets at a Public Ball!"
Second Do. " Oh, very droll ! "
Poor Little Swell. " Yetii ; and tho thtwangely drethed ! "
BUTTEBMTLK EEOM LIMERICK.
(For Cardinal Wiseman.)
It is highly important to Cardinal Wiseman, just now, that his
supporters should distinguish themselves by their charity, humility,
moderation, and good sense. How very much obliged, then, he must
be to "The Congregated Trades of Limerick" for having voted him
an Address of sympathy so replete with those Christian graces, that
Mr. Punch is called upon to notice it. The document opens with the
following exemplification of
humility.
" Proud of the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England, and of your exalted
position as its most honoured head and illustrious ornament, we, the Congregated
Trades of the city of Limerick, approach your Eminence with sentiments of the
profoundest respect and admiration."
It may be necessary to remind the heretics and Englishmen who
read Punch, that the word " proud" in the above paragraph is used
both in an Irish and a Romish sense, and is therefore, of course, to be
understood to mean just the reverse. This is explained in the next
paragraph; which runs thus :—
" Limerick has always heeu foremost in defending the ancient faith—the religion for
which saints have suffered and martyrs bled; and now her humble, but faithful, artisans
are proud of the opportunity of testifying to the world their delight at the appointment
of your Eminence as Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster."
Pictures, it seems, instead of martyrs, are now bleeding for "the
ancient faith;" but let that pass. The succeeding clause of the
Address may be regarded as singularly characterised by
good sense, charity, and moderation.
" As Irish Roman Catholics, and inhabitants of a city which had suffered so much in
the cause of liberty and religion, and who nobly defied the blood-thirsty bigots of by-
gone days, we shall never look tamely on and behold in silence our church enslaved,
and the Roman Catholics of the world insulted, by base and bigoted Ministers, who,
true to the principles of their party, only await an opportunity of proving their
anaymg hatred to Catholicity, and add more to the many penal laws which accursed
wniggery has placed on eternal record in the black annals of English history."
Irish Roman Catholics are wonderful fellows, no doubt, in uniting
the particulars "Irish" and "Poman" withthe universal"Catholic;"
but still more wonderful are they in living in this Victorian age, and
nevertheless having " defied the blood-thirsty bigots of bygone days,"
as the parties to this Address declare themselves to have done in the
lucid and grammatical paragraph just quoted. It is sufficient barely to
direct attention to the mild, meek, gentle epithets, " base and bigoted,"
" black," and " accursed," as specimens of the cooing of these intensely
"Irish" and strongly "Roman" Catholic doves.
The Address then proceeds to favour the Cardinal with the following
rich piece of "assurance:"—
" Your Eminence may feel sincerely assured that we abhor and detest bigotry in
every creed and clime."
Except—the reader will perhaps be tempted to add—in Ireland and
in Popery. Cardinal Wiseman's sympathisers conclude with another
assurance, which may be rather less satisfactory to him. They tell him
that should his " holy and christian-like remonstrances not succeed in
allaying the purple embers of bigoted malignity which are smouldering
within the bosom of Protestant England "—strange-coloured embers
and an odd grate!—and " should the faithful shepherds of the gospel
be driven from their flocks,"—he, the ejected Cardinal, will find a
hospitable home " in Ireland, in the country of the persecuted."
Some other country than that, one would think, would afford a more
comfortable asylum to his Eminence. Truly, these Bulls from Limerick
beat all the Bulls from Pome. However, "the country of the per-
secuted "—being Ireland—is one, say his Limerick friends,
" Where, notwithstanding the dreadful havoc made in our population by famine and
emigration, enough still remains to protect our faithful and beloved pastors from
persecution or insult."
Be aisy, ye " Congregated Trades of Limerick !" Nobody wants to
drive Cardinal Wiseman, by persecution, to the country of the per-
secuted. No one wishes to add " confessor," in either sense of the
word, to his titles. There exists no intention whatever to grill him
over the purple embers of bigoted malignity. Protestant England
merely requires that he shall not use the name of Westminster, to
which he has no right, and which Wiseman—were he really wise—
would drop, gentlemen of Limerick, like a hot potato.
PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
First Amiable Lady {very loud). " What a remarkably odd set of People one meets at a Public Ball!"
Second Do. " Oh, very droll ! "
Poor Little Swell. " Yetii ; and tho thtwangely drethed ! "
BUTTEBMTLK EEOM LIMERICK.
(For Cardinal Wiseman.)
It is highly important to Cardinal Wiseman, just now, that his
supporters should distinguish themselves by their charity, humility,
moderation, and good sense. How very much obliged, then, he must
be to "The Congregated Trades of Limerick" for having voted him
an Address of sympathy so replete with those Christian graces, that
Mr. Punch is called upon to notice it. The document opens with the
following exemplification of
humility.
" Proud of the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England, and of your exalted
position as its most honoured head and illustrious ornament, we, the Congregated
Trades of the city of Limerick, approach your Eminence with sentiments of the
profoundest respect and admiration."
It may be necessary to remind the heretics and Englishmen who
read Punch, that the word " proud" in the above paragraph is used
both in an Irish and a Romish sense, and is therefore, of course, to be
understood to mean just the reverse. This is explained in the next
paragraph; which runs thus :—
" Limerick has always heeu foremost in defending the ancient faith—the religion for
which saints have suffered and martyrs bled; and now her humble, but faithful, artisans
are proud of the opportunity of testifying to the world their delight at the appointment
of your Eminence as Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster."
Pictures, it seems, instead of martyrs, are now bleeding for "the
ancient faith;" but let that pass. The succeeding clause of the
Address may be regarded as singularly characterised by
good sense, charity, and moderation.
" As Irish Roman Catholics, and inhabitants of a city which had suffered so much in
the cause of liberty and religion, and who nobly defied the blood-thirsty bigots of by-
gone days, we shall never look tamely on and behold in silence our church enslaved,
and the Roman Catholics of the world insulted, by base and bigoted Ministers, who,
true to the principles of their party, only await an opportunity of proving their
anaymg hatred to Catholicity, and add more to the many penal laws which accursed
wniggery has placed on eternal record in the black annals of English history."
Irish Roman Catholics are wonderful fellows, no doubt, in uniting
the particulars "Irish" and "Poman" withthe universal"Catholic;"
but still more wonderful are they in living in this Victorian age, and
nevertheless having " defied the blood-thirsty bigots of bygone days,"
as the parties to this Address declare themselves to have done in the
lucid and grammatical paragraph just quoted. It is sufficient barely to
direct attention to the mild, meek, gentle epithets, " base and bigoted,"
" black," and " accursed," as specimens of the cooing of these intensely
"Irish" and strongly "Roman" Catholic doves.
The Address then proceeds to favour the Cardinal with the following
rich piece of "assurance:"—
" Your Eminence may feel sincerely assured that we abhor and detest bigotry in
every creed and clime."
Except—the reader will perhaps be tempted to add—in Ireland and
in Popery. Cardinal Wiseman's sympathisers conclude with another
assurance, which may be rather less satisfactory to him. They tell him
that should his " holy and christian-like remonstrances not succeed in
allaying the purple embers of bigoted malignity which are smouldering
within the bosom of Protestant England "—strange-coloured embers
and an odd grate!—and " should the faithful shepherds of the gospel
be driven from their flocks,"—he, the ejected Cardinal, will find a
hospitable home " in Ireland, in the country of the persecuted."
Some other country than that, one would think, would afford a more
comfortable asylum to his Eminence. Truly, these Bulls from Limerick
beat all the Bulls from Pome. However, "the country of the per-
secuted "—being Ireland—is one, say his Limerick friends,
" Where, notwithstanding the dreadful havoc made in our population by famine and
emigration, enough still remains to protect our faithful and beloved pastors from
persecution or insult."
Be aisy, ye " Congregated Trades of Limerick !" Nobody wants to
drive Cardinal Wiseman, by persecution, to the country of the per-
secuted. No one wishes to add " confessor," in either sense of the
word, to his titles. There exists no intention whatever to grill him
over the purple embers of bigoted malignity. Protestant England
merely requires that he shall not use the name of Westminster, to
which he has no right, and which Wiseman—were he really wise—
would drop, gentlemen of Limerick, like a hot potato.