DOI issue:
July to December, 1851
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16608#0084
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW.
The Board of Health has been aspersed and vilified for
having done little or nothing towards the prevention of
intramural interments. The Earl of Shaftesbury, on
his legs the other night, satisfactorily vindicated the Board
from the charge, by a statement of facts, which he con-
cluded by saying, " That was the sum of their proceedings."
By the noble Earl's account it seems that the sum of their
proceedings amounts to £0, 0s. 0d., which in order to
carry out the requisite proceedings under the Metropolitan
Interments Act of last session—is all they can get from
Government.
A String of Poetic Pearls, Apropos of the
Great Diamond.
The Koh-i-noor to the wall has gone,
Neglected now you'll find it,
With scarcely any one looking on,
But the Constable set to mind it.
How oft some silly wight,
When prejudice has bound him,
Gapes o'er the Mount of Light,
With pickpockets around him !
All eyes and ears, the gem he nears;
Away the crowd has started;
While he look'd on, his purse is gone,
And all but he departed.
The Rival Fathers.
Page. "Fancy Ball, Sir? No, Sir! Missus's Fancy Ball, Sir, were
last toosday, SlR."
A little Boy having asked his intelligent Papa what
was the difference between the Papal Hierarchy and the
Episcopal Bench, the parent replied, " Now that the Eccle-
siastical Titles Bill has passed, my little dear, our Bishops
are the right reverend, and the Pope's are the wrong
reverend fathers."_
Should the Constituencies go on returning Jews to the
House of Commons, and should the Lords persevere in re-
fusing to admit the elected to Parliament, a row of stalls
should be partitioned off in the Lower House, for what
might properly be called the "reserved" seats.
8
SAVE MR. PAXTON AND THE CRYSTAL PALACE PROM
ITS FRIENDS.
Punch regrets to see a spirit of destructiveness among the Peerage*
some of whom are for pulling down the Crystal Palace—an act that
would have the effect of bringing a large quantity of iron, and a still
larger quantity of well-merited irony, about our ears. We have great
respect for Lord Campbell, as a very good judge, but he has shown
himself a very bad judge in this one particular ; and though he acknow-
ledges himself proud of the friendship of Mr. Paxton, we are afraid
we shall be obliged to save the latter from his noble friends, if they
«vince their friendship by endeavouring to destroy what ought to be a
perpetual monument to his merits. Lord Campbell ought to have a
ittle fellow-feeling for a brother architect, who has triumphed over
difficulties—for his Lordship, as ihe truly illustrious architect of his
own fortune, should sympathise with Mr. Paxton as a labourer in the
same laudable school of architecture—and protect his work against the
ignorance and prejudice of those who think an aristocratic neighbourhood
could be injured by bringing to it a place of popular recreation or
resort.
The million—for we may here use the word in its literal sense—who
have frequented the Crystal Palace, have shown, by their conduct, that
there is no reason in either repelling or running away from them, inas-
much as Royalty itself has suffered no inconvenience from the closest
contact. We know Lord Campbell, in his energetic discharge of his
judicial duties, has the strongest objection to anything in the shape of
a remanet, but the Crystal Palace should at least be an exception to his
scruples—against allowing any thing to remain. We cannot, for a
moment, imagine that the fact of his Lordship living immediately
opposite, is the cause of his opposition to the building being preserved.
What's to be done with the Crystal Palace?—"Let Smith-
field Market be held there ! Ha! ha! ha! "—Common Councilman gone
mad since the Queen's Ball„
LULLABY ON THE RAIL.
The Globe contains the particulars of an accident which happened,
the other night, on the South-Western Railway, near Bishopstoke, in
consequence of the engine-driver and fireman both falling asleep on
their posts. We never heard of a more remarkable case of somnolence
than that of an engine-driver sleeping under such circumstances, and
his fireman helping him in so doing. Morpheus might assume these
slumberers as supporters to his arms : for which they would be more
suitable than lions dormant, or dormice proper. The Seven Sleepers
were less extraordinary fellows than these two : however, we hope to
hear of no more such sleepers on a railway. They certainly deserve a
testimonial, which, it may be surmised, should be the sack ; but, as our
contemporary states, that
" Both men were perfectly sober when they started with the train hut were greatlj
fatigued, having been up, they stated, for two days and nights,"
it may be a question whether the compliment should not be paid in the
shape of a new velvet-nap apiece : and, as the legs of one of them were
severely injured, if not broken, whether his employers ought not to put
some additional remuneration into his hat.
Strange Difference of Antipathies.
Rachel was compelled to discontinue her performance the other
evening in consequence of the opposition of a Dog, which had been
accidentally introduced into the theatre. With French performers it
is the bark of a Dog, apparently,_ that puts a stop to the performance;
now, with English performers it is, generally, the Catcall!
Gazette Extraordinary.
Her Majesty has been pleased to allow the Rev. Mr. Wheal (of
flogging notoriety) henceforth to use the name of Wheal-and-woe.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW.
The Board of Health has been aspersed and vilified for
having done little or nothing towards the prevention of
intramural interments. The Earl of Shaftesbury, on
his legs the other night, satisfactorily vindicated the Board
from the charge, by a statement of facts, which he con-
cluded by saying, " That was the sum of their proceedings."
By the noble Earl's account it seems that the sum of their
proceedings amounts to £0, 0s. 0d., which in order to
carry out the requisite proceedings under the Metropolitan
Interments Act of last session—is all they can get from
Government.
A String of Poetic Pearls, Apropos of the
Great Diamond.
The Koh-i-noor to the wall has gone,
Neglected now you'll find it,
With scarcely any one looking on,
But the Constable set to mind it.
How oft some silly wight,
When prejudice has bound him,
Gapes o'er the Mount of Light,
With pickpockets around him !
All eyes and ears, the gem he nears;
Away the crowd has started;
While he look'd on, his purse is gone,
And all but he departed.
The Rival Fathers.
Page. "Fancy Ball, Sir? No, Sir! Missus's Fancy Ball, Sir, were
last toosday, SlR."
A little Boy having asked his intelligent Papa what
was the difference between the Papal Hierarchy and the
Episcopal Bench, the parent replied, " Now that the Eccle-
siastical Titles Bill has passed, my little dear, our Bishops
are the right reverend, and the Pope's are the wrong
reverend fathers."_
Should the Constituencies go on returning Jews to the
House of Commons, and should the Lords persevere in re-
fusing to admit the elected to Parliament, a row of stalls
should be partitioned off in the Lower House, for what
might properly be called the "reserved" seats.
8
SAVE MR. PAXTON AND THE CRYSTAL PALACE PROM
ITS FRIENDS.
Punch regrets to see a spirit of destructiveness among the Peerage*
some of whom are for pulling down the Crystal Palace—an act that
would have the effect of bringing a large quantity of iron, and a still
larger quantity of well-merited irony, about our ears. We have great
respect for Lord Campbell, as a very good judge, but he has shown
himself a very bad judge in this one particular ; and though he acknow-
ledges himself proud of the friendship of Mr. Paxton, we are afraid
we shall be obliged to save the latter from his noble friends, if they
«vince their friendship by endeavouring to destroy what ought to be a
perpetual monument to his merits. Lord Campbell ought to have a
ittle fellow-feeling for a brother architect, who has triumphed over
difficulties—for his Lordship, as ihe truly illustrious architect of his
own fortune, should sympathise with Mr. Paxton as a labourer in the
same laudable school of architecture—and protect his work against the
ignorance and prejudice of those who think an aristocratic neighbourhood
could be injured by bringing to it a place of popular recreation or
resort.
The million—for we may here use the word in its literal sense—who
have frequented the Crystal Palace, have shown, by their conduct, that
there is no reason in either repelling or running away from them, inas-
much as Royalty itself has suffered no inconvenience from the closest
contact. We know Lord Campbell, in his energetic discharge of his
judicial duties, has the strongest objection to anything in the shape of
a remanet, but the Crystal Palace should at least be an exception to his
scruples—against allowing any thing to remain. We cannot, for a
moment, imagine that the fact of his Lordship living immediately
opposite, is the cause of his opposition to the building being preserved.
What's to be done with the Crystal Palace?—"Let Smith-
field Market be held there ! Ha! ha! ha! "—Common Councilman gone
mad since the Queen's Ball„
LULLABY ON THE RAIL.
The Globe contains the particulars of an accident which happened,
the other night, on the South-Western Railway, near Bishopstoke, in
consequence of the engine-driver and fireman both falling asleep on
their posts. We never heard of a more remarkable case of somnolence
than that of an engine-driver sleeping under such circumstances, and
his fireman helping him in so doing. Morpheus might assume these
slumberers as supporters to his arms : for which they would be more
suitable than lions dormant, or dormice proper. The Seven Sleepers
were less extraordinary fellows than these two : however, we hope to
hear of no more such sleepers on a railway. They certainly deserve a
testimonial, which, it may be surmised, should be the sack ; but, as our
contemporary states, that
" Both men were perfectly sober when they started with the train hut were greatlj
fatigued, having been up, they stated, for two days and nights,"
it may be a question whether the compliment should not be paid in the
shape of a new velvet-nap apiece : and, as the legs of one of them were
severely injured, if not broken, whether his employers ought not to put
some additional remuneration into his hat.
Strange Difference of Antipathies.
Rachel was compelled to discontinue her performance the other
evening in consequence of the opposition of a Dog, which had been
accidentally introduced into the theatre. With French performers it
is the bark of a Dog, apparently,_ that puts a stop to the performance;
now, with English performers it is, generally, the Catcall!
Gazette Extraordinary.
Her Majesty has been pleased to allow the Rev. Mr. Wheal (of
flogging notoriety) henceforth to use the name of Wheal-and-woe.