DOI issue:
January to June, 1851
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16607#0252
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PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
THE PROPER MODE OF RIDING IN ROTTEN ROW. •
Gallop as hard as you can amongst the Ladies. It creates a sensation !!
A HINT FOR THE AMERICAN NON-EXHIBITORS.
America continues to represent itself at the Crystal Palace as a large
place, that is—to adopt an American word—very sparsely occupied.
The country and its products of art are appropriately typified—there
being plenty of room, which is illustrative of the one, and there being a
poor supply of the other. America, in the Great Exhibition, wants an
addition to its inhabitants; and we have a plan for putting an end to
the aspect of desolation and barrenness for which the United States—
as shown in Hyde Park—are conspicuous. As visitors are now flocking
in from abroad, and from the country, we propose that America should
be allowed to utilise its empty space by letting it out in lodgings. Why
should half-a-dozen families be crowded into one house, several persons
into a room, and three or four into a bed, when there is a quantity of
waste ground in the Crystal Palace itself which might be profitably occu-
pied ? By packing up the American articles a little closer, by displaying
Colt's revolvers over the soap, and piling up the Cincinnati pickles on the
top of the Virginian honey, we shall concentrate all the treasures of
American art and manufacture into a very few square feet, and beds may
be made up to accommodate several hundreds in the space claimed for,
but not one quarter filled by, the products of United States industry.
We would propose, therefore, that the Yankee Commissioners be
empowered to advertise America as affording accommodation to those
who wish to spend a week in visiting the Great Exhibition; and they
might_ describe it as "Eligibly situated within a few minutes' walk of
Austria, Russia, France, and Switzerland, commanding an excellent
view of the ' Greek Slave,' and immediately opposite the largest looking-
glass in the world, by which the process of shaving may be greatly
faeuitated." By an arrangement with the Commissioners, whose duties
must be rather light, breakfast could no doubt be provided for the
lodgers before starting on their rounds • and the sign of the Spread
Eagle would be an appropriate one to adopt, for the hotel department
or the speculation.
Consideration on Cab Reform.
With such determination have Cabmen persisted in the endeavour to
extort more than their legal fare from the public, that it has been found
necessary to reduce their demands by Mayne force.
BEECH LEAF TEA.
The papers state that—
" Mr. Stevens, a tradesman, has been fined £250 by the Liverpool Magistrate for
manufacturing an article called tea from the leaves of beech and plane trees."
And if Mr. Stevens has manufactured English congou from English
beeches for any length of time, Mb. Stevens can very well afford to
pay the penalty out of the profits of the deceit. But if Mr. Stevens
were at this time fulfilling some three months' retirement from the
world in Lancaster gaol, dressed in prison grey, and picking prison
oakum, Mr. Stevens would not, on his return to society, look so
comely, as no doubt he does, in the eyes of his neighbours; neither
would his name bear so respectable an odour. All cases of proved
adulteration should be punished by imprisonment and hard labour, not
by a fine. When mere money—money only—is made the fuller's earth,
it is wonderful what dirty work men will do, confident that the said
yellow earth can make them clean and respectable as ever.
In Turkey they nail the ear of an unjust baker to his shop-post.
This, no doubt, is barbarous and cruel: equally barbarous and shocking
would it be to clap a beech-leaf tea-merchant in an iron cage, and for
awhile suspend him from a branch of one of his own tea-trees.
CRIMINAL CHRISTIANS.
We are by no means displeased to learn that, in accordance with a
rescript of the Pope, of the 7th ult., in Florence, Count Ghic-
ciardini, and six other gentlemen, were seized by the police, and have
been condemned to various terms of exile. Their crime was this :—
The Count had read and expounded to his friends a chapter ot the
Gospel of St. John, in Diodati's Italian translation. And the
Pope, wisely fearing the spread of Christianity in Italy, as destructive
of his power, punishes the religionists. The old Pagan cry was,
"The Christians to the wild beasts!" The paternal mandate of
the holy Fisherman is—"The Christians to the sharks;" i.e., the
gensdarmes.
Punch earnestly hopes that Mazzini will keep his portmanteau in
readiness for travel. At every minute the great triumvir may be
called for.
PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
THE PROPER MODE OF RIDING IN ROTTEN ROW. •
Gallop as hard as you can amongst the Ladies. It creates a sensation !!
A HINT FOR THE AMERICAN NON-EXHIBITORS.
America continues to represent itself at the Crystal Palace as a large
place, that is—to adopt an American word—very sparsely occupied.
The country and its products of art are appropriately typified—there
being plenty of room, which is illustrative of the one, and there being a
poor supply of the other. America, in the Great Exhibition, wants an
addition to its inhabitants; and we have a plan for putting an end to
the aspect of desolation and barrenness for which the United States—
as shown in Hyde Park—are conspicuous. As visitors are now flocking
in from abroad, and from the country, we propose that America should
be allowed to utilise its empty space by letting it out in lodgings. Why
should half-a-dozen families be crowded into one house, several persons
into a room, and three or four into a bed, when there is a quantity of
waste ground in the Crystal Palace itself which might be profitably occu-
pied ? By packing up the American articles a little closer, by displaying
Colt's revolvers over the soap, and piling up the Cincinnati pickles on the
top of the Virginian honey, we shall concentrate all the treasures of
American art and manufacture into a very few square feet, and beds may
be made up to accommodate several hundreds in the space claimed for,
but not one quarter filled by, the products of United States industry.
We would propose, therefore, that the Yankee Commissioners be
empowered to advertise America as affording accommodation to those
who wish to spend a week in visiting the Great Exhibition; and they
might_ describe it as "Eligibly situated within a few minutes' walk of
Austria, Russia, France, and Switzerland, commanding an excellent
view of the ' Greek Slave,' and immediately opposite the largest looking-
glass in the world, by which the process of shaving may be greatly
faeuitated." By an arrangement with the Commissioners, whose duties
must be rather light, breakfast could no doubt be provided for the
lodgers before starting on their rounds • and the sign of the Spread
Eagle would be an appropriate one to adopt, for the hotel department
or the speculation.
Consideration on Cab Reform.
With such determination have Cabmen persisted in the endeavour to
extort more than their legal fare from the public, that it has been found
necessary to reduce their demands by Mayne force.
BEECH LEAF TEA.
The papers state that—
" Mr. Stevens, a tradesman, has been fined £250 by the Liverpool Magistrate for
manufacturing an article called tea from the leaves of beech and plane trees."
And if Mr. Stevens has manufactured English congou from English
beeches for any length of time, Mb. Stevens can very well afford to
pay the penalty out of the profits of the deceit. But if Mr. Stevens
were at this time fulfilling some three months' retirement from the
world in Lancaster gaol, dressed in prison grey, and picking prison
oakum, Mr. Stevens would not, on his return to society, look so
comely, as no doubt he does, in the eyes of his neighbours; neither
would his name bear so respectable an odour. All cases of proved
adulteration should be punished by imprisonment and hard labour, not
by a fine. When mere money—money only—is made the fuller's earth,
it is wonderful what dirty work men will do, confident that the said
yellow earth can make them clean and respectable as ever.
In Turkey they nail the ear of an unjust baker to his shop-post.
This, no doubt, is barbarous and cruel: equally barbarous and shocking
would it be to clap a beech-leaf tea-merchant in an iron cage, and for
awhile suspend him from a branch of one of his own tea-trees.
CRIMINAL CHRISTIANS.
We are by no means displeased to learn that, in accordance with a
rescript of the Pope, of the 7th ult., in Florence, Count Ghic-
ciardini, and six other gentlemen, were seized by the police, and have
been condemned to various terms of exile. Their crime was this :—
The Count had read and expounded to his friends a chapter ot the
Gospel of St. John, in Diodati's Italian translation. And the
Pope, wisely fearing the spread of Christianity in Italy, as destructive
of his power, punishes the religionists. The old Pagan cry was,
"The Christians to the wild beasts!" The paternal mandate of
the holy Fisherman is—"The Christians to the sharks;" i.e., the
gensdarmes.
Punch earnestly hopes that Mazzini will keep his portmanteau in
readiness for travel. At every minute the great triumvir may be
called for.