DOI issue:
January to June, 1852
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16609#0018
iO PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Testy Old Uncle (unable to control his passion). " Really, Sir, this is quite intolerable !
You must intend to insult me. For the last Fourteen Days, wherever I have Dined, I
have had nothing but saddle of m.utton and boiled turkey—boiled turkey and saddle
of Mutton. I'll endure it no longer." [Exit Old Gent., who alters his Will.
Moral.—How ridiculous a man appears—particularly a man at a grave period of life—who is
over-anxious about his eating and drinking I
THE FEAST OF VEGETABLES AND
THE FLOW OF WATER.
New Year comes,—so let's be jolly;
On the board the Turnip smokes,
Whilst we sit beneath the holly,
Eating Greens and passing jokes.
How the Cauliflower is steaming,
Sweetest flower that ever blows !
See, good old Sir Kidney, beaming,
Shows bis jovial famed red nose.
Here behold the reign of Plenty,—
Help the Carrots, hand the Kail;
Roots how nice, and herbs how dainty,
Well washed down with Adam's Ale !
Feed your fill,—untasted only
Let the fragrant Onion go;
Or, amid the revels lonely,
Go not nigh the mistletoe !
Louis Napoleon and the French
Church.
The Bishop op Chalons writes a letter,
approving of the treason of the French
usurper, for he says, " God is with the Pre-
sident."
Louis Napoleon is a perjured homicide;
and, on the authority of the Bishop op
Chalons, favoured by intelligence, private
and exclusive, " God is with him."
Louis Napoleon has given the Pantheon
to the Jesuits. God is with the Jesuits.
Louis is with the Jesuits. Ergo,—God is
with Louis.
Departures.—A clever contemporary al-
ludes to the departure of Monsieur Thieks
from France, in the following laconic manner:
—" The Thiers Parti."
NEW YEAR'S GIFTS TO LOUIS NAPOLEON.
The following Etrennes were presented at the Elysee to Louis
Napoleon, on the Jour de I'An:—
The Elite of the Army presented him with an enormous Baton—en
Sucre de Pomme—as a complimentary hint of his rapid promotion
(service not being necessary in the nephew of an Emperor) to the
rank of Marechal de VEmpire.
The King op Naples sent him a monster cake, enveloped in a beau-
tiful sulphur bag, of the very finest Naples soap, in order that he might
wash his hands of the filthy Socialist blood, which must be (says the King,
in an autograph letter,) " une tdche lien difficile et bien desagreable."
The Emperor op Russia forwarded him, in frosted silver, the pret-
tiest Model of the Mines of Siberia, with a friendly intimation that the
originals were quite at his service for any political purposes.
The Emperor op Austria, animated by the same affectionate
motives, begged of his " cherfrere Louis " to accept of an Eilwagett-fu\l
of Austrian bank-notes, with an assurance that " if he wanted more, he
might have them." The bank-notes averaged from twopence down-
wards, and were pierced through and through, like larks on a spit, with
bayonets. The pointed meaning of this, as explained by a Police-
General, who had been on active duty lately on the Stock Exchange at
Vienna, was that " in the event of wry faces being made in swallowing
the bank-notes, the bayonets were to force them down the people's
throats."
The Pope sent him, curiously enough, a splendid leg of mutton, which
was flanked by a magnificent Sword, with the Agnus Dei in diamonds on
the hilt. Down the blade were engraved the following talismanic
words: " Let all thy cutting and carving be directed to one end—that
of winning the Pope's eye."
The King of the Cannibal Islands merely sent his Portrait.
The Emperor Souloupe the First, of Madagascar, directed to the
Elysee, for the acceptance of " his loving brother Napoleon," a large
Imperial Crown, most highly wrought in gingerbread. A manuscript
letter of the Emperor's accompanied it, tendering, in the handsomest
manner, " the use of his personal services, and that of his brave army."
And lastly, Les Dames de la Halle attended in a body of five
I hundred, and presented Louis Napoleon with a most tasty model, as
i large as life, of the Emperor, worked into a tremendous Brioche. The
President nearly shed tears at the neatness of the compliment, and
pressed the Cake, with every symptom of the warmest sympathy, to his
heart. After the Ooutte d'Honneur had been offered and accepted
several times, the five hundred ladies retired, shouting, in the most
cordial spirit, " Vive VEmpereur ! "
We had nearly forgotten to state that the National Guards, to the
number, we are told, of six thousand, attended at their respective
Mairies, and delivered up, "au nom du President," their swords and
muskets. This may be looked upon as the most extraordinary New
Year's Gift of the series, and was the one which, we are credibly
informed, gave the greatest surprise, as well as the greatest pleasure, to
Louis Napoleon,—if we except the very generous New Year's Gift
which the Government Officers of the Scrutin des Bulletins presented
him with (in the name of the nation),'in the shape of a majority of some
6,000,000 votes!—which New Year's Gift has certainly been unparalleled
in the annals of any country professing to have the slightest love for
Freedom!
A "Great Criminal."
In November, 1850, Louis Napoleon declared in his message to the
National Assembly of France, that—
" He considered as great criminals those -who, by personal ambition, compromised
the small amount of stability secured by the Constitution."
Those words we recommended Louis Napoleon, at the time (p. 222,
vol. xix.), to have engraved in large letters over the portico, and every
door of the Elysee; so that, being constantly before his recollection, he
might never be guilty of " personal ambition," and so never figure in
history as a " great criminal." We are afraid he has forgotten our
friendly advice; and what has been the consequence ? Why, he " has
compromised the small amount of stability secured by the Constitution,"
and, in his own words, is branded asTa " Great Criminal." As such we
recommend Madame Tussaud to include him, as one of its fittest
members, in her " Chamber of Horrors."
A French Coo.—A Cockney correspondent suggests, that as Louis
Napoleon has so well succeeded in his coup, he should discard the
Eagle as a cognisance, and assume the Dove.
Testy Old Uncle (unable to control his passion). " Really, Sir, this is quite intolerable !
You must intend to insult me. For the last Fourteen Days, wherever I have Dined, I
have had nothing but saddle of m.utton and boiled turkey—boiled turkey and saddle
of Mutton. I'll endure it no longer." [Exit Old Gent., who alters his Will.
Moral.—How ridiculous a man appears—particularly a man at a grave period of life—who is
over-anxious about his eating and drinking I
THE FEAST OF VEGETABLES AND
THE FLOW OF WATER.
New Year comes,—so let's be jolly;
On the board the Turnip smokes,
Whilst we sit beneath the holly,
Eating Greens and passing jokes.
How the Cauliflower is steaming,
Sweetest flower that ever blows !
See, good old Sir Kidney, beaming,
Shows bis jovial famed red nose.
Here behold the reign of Plenty,—
Help the Carrots, hand the Kail;
Roots how nice, and herbs how dainty,
Well washed down with Adam's Ale !
Feed your fill,—untasted only
Let the fragrant Onion go;
Or, amid the revels lonely,
Go not nigh the mistletoe !
Louis Napoleon and the French
Church.
The Bishop op Chalons writes a letter,
approving of the treason of the French
usurper, for he says, " God is with the Pre-
sident."
Louis Napoleon is a perjured homicide;
and, on the authority of the Bishop op
Chalons, favoured by intelligence, private
and exclusive, " God is with him."
Louis Napoleon has given the Pantheon
to the Jesuits. God is with the Jesuits.
Louis is with the Jesuits. Ergo,—God is
with Louis.
Departures.—A clever contemporary al-
ludes to the departure of Monsieur Thieks
from France, in the following laconic manner:
—" The Thiers Parti."
NEW YEAR'S GIFTS TO LOUIS NAPOLEON.
The following Etrennes were presented at the Elysee to Louis
Napoleon, on the Jour de I'An:—
The Elite of the Army presented him with an enormous Baton—en
Sucre de Pomme—as a complimentary hint of his rapid promotion
(service not being necessary in the nephew of an Emperor) to the
rank of Marechal de VEmpire.
The King op Naples sent him a monster cake, enveloped in a beau-
tiful sulphur bag, of the very finest Naples soap, in order that he might
wash his hands of the filthy Socialist blood, which must be (says the King,
in an autograph letter,) " une tdche lien difficile et bien desagreable."
The Emperor op Russia forwarded him, in frosted silver, the pret-
tiest Model of the Mines of Siberia, with a friendly intimation that the
originals were quite at his service for any political purposes.
The Emperor op Austria, animated by the same affectionate
motives, begged of his " cherfrere Louis " to accept of an Eilwagett-fu\l
of Austrian bank-notes, with an assurance that " if he wanted more, he
might have them." The bank-notes averaged from twopence down-
wards, and were pierced through and through, like larks on a spit, with
bayonets. The pointed meaning of this, as explained by a Police-
General, who had been on active duty lately on the Stock Exchange at
Vienna, was that " in the event of wry faces being made in swallowing
the bank-notes, the bayonets were to force them down the people's
throats."
The Pope sent him, curiously enough, a splendid leg of mutton, which
was flanked by a magnificent Sword, with the Agnus Dei in diamonds on
the hilt. Down the blade were engraved the following talismanic
words: " Let all thy cutting and carving be directed to one end—that
of winning the Pope's eye."
The King of the Cannibal Islands merely sent his Portrait.
The Emperor Souloupe the First, of Madagascar, directed to the
Elysee, for the acceptance of " his loving brother Napoleon," a large
Imperial Crown, most highly wrought in gingerbread. A manuscript
letter of the Emperor's accompanied it, tendering, in the handsomest
manner, " the use of his personal services, and that of his brave army."
And lastly, Les Dames de la Halle attended in a body of five
I hundred, and presented Louis Napoleon with a most tasty model, as
i large as life, of the Emperor, worked into a tremendous Brioche. The
President nearly shed tears at the neatness of the compliment, and
pressed the Cake, with every symptom of the warmest sympathy, to his
heart. After the Ooutte d'Honneur had been offered and accepted
several times, the five hundred ladies retired, shouting, in the most
cordial spirit, " Vive VEmpereur ! "
We had nearly forgotten to state that the National Guards, to the
number, we are told, of six thousand, attended at their respective
Mairies, and delivered up, "au nom du President," their swords and
muskets. This may be looked upon as the most extraordinary New
Year's Gift of the series, and was the one which, we are credibly
informed, gave the greatest surprise, as well as the greatest pleasure, to
Louis Napoleon,—if we except the very generous New Year's Gift
which the Government Officers of the Scrutin des Bulletins presented
him with (in the name of the nation),'in the shape of a majority of some
6,000,000 votes!—which New Year's Gift has certainly been unparalleled
in the annals of any country professing to have the slightest love for
Freedom!
A "Great Criminal."
In November, 1850, Louis Napoleon declared in his message to the
National Assembly of France, that—
" He considered as great criminals those -who, by personal ambition, compromised
the small amount of stability secured by the Constitution."
Those words we recommended Louis Napoleon, at the time (p. 222,
vol. xix.), to have engraved in large letters over the portico, and every
door of the Elysee; so that, being constantly before his recollection, he
might never be guilty of " personal ambition," and so never figure in
history as a " great criminal." We are afraid he has forgotten our
friendly advice; and what has been the consequence ? Why, he " has
compromised the small amount of stability secured by the Constitution,"
and, in his own words, is branded asTa " Great Criminal." As such we
recommend Madame Tussaud to include him, as one of its fittest
members, in her " Chamber of Horrors."
A French Coo.—A Cockney correspondent suggests, that as Louis
Napoleon has so well succeeded in his coup, he should discard the
Eagle as a cognisance, and assume the Dove.