DOI issue:
January to June, 1852
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16609#0225
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PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI
HIGHLY INTERESTING.
" Seen that Party lately ? "
"What! the Party with the Wooden Leg, as come with—"
"No, no—not that Party. The Party, you know, as—"
" Oh ! Ah ! I know the Party you mean Now."
"Well! a Party told me as He can't Agree with that other Party, and
he says that if another Party can't be Found to make it all Square, he
shall look out for a Party as will." (And so on for half an how.)
HONOURABLE AMENDS TO SIR HARRY SMITH.
We have been requested to publish the subjoined apology, as a model of one which
is certainly due:—
SEEfjereas I, Henry G. Gkey, otherwise Earl Grey, lately of the Colonial
Office, Downing Street, did, out of a mean anxiety to avert from the Whig ad-
ministration odium which it had incurred in a great measure from the management
of that department of it over which I presided, write a most ungenerous and
unjustifiable letter to Sir, Harry Smith, late Governor of the Cape of Good Hope,
recalling him from his office, and accusing him of having failed in showing foresight,
energy, and judgment: I hereby offer the said Sir Harry Smith a Public and
Humble Apology for the same. I freely confess that I did not know what
I was writing about when I made those charges against Sir Harry Smith,
which, according to the Dure oe Wellington, were wholly unfounded, and am
very sorry 1 did not ask the opinion of that illustrious Commander before expressing
myself to the prejudice and dishonour of a gallant officer, on a subject whereon
I was not qualified to form an opinion. I beg Sir Harry Smith to forgive me
my unhandsome behaviour, to which I was dr ven by the fear of losing office alone,
and which I should never have been guilty of if I had not expected he would fail,
but which, now that he has succeeded, I sincerely repent. Having made this
public acknowledgment of my error, I entreat Sir Harry Smith will use his
influence to prevent my hearing anything more on the subject, whether in the
House-of Lords or in Punch.
Witnesses {^Jy11, (Signed) Grey.
Sic itur ad Astra.—The celebrated Arago has resigned his office as director
of the French Observatory, rather than take the oath of fidelity to the French
Dictator. This noble act is a proof that Louis Napoleon's lucky star is aot among
those that the honest astronomer can recognise.
LOUIS NAPOLEON SOLOMON !
The Abchbishop of Paris—and churchmen never flatter
—has placed the President in a parallel with Solomon.
It was given for Solomon to build and consolidate more
than David : it is reserved for Louis Napoleon to do more
than the mere Napoleon. Well, Solomon had his gifts of
peacocks ; Solomon Napoleon has his present of an eagle:
here it is ; an eagle offered him by the French Army, on his
visit to the banquet prepared for him—
"An enormous eagle, whose wings and tail were composed of sabres,
the talons of horse-pistols, the eyes of tri-coloured cockades, and the beak
of the hammers of percussion locks."
Not one of Solomon's peacocks was much like this bird—
a bird that, with its carnivorous propensities, would eat how
many bodies on a battle-field ? For this was the very eagle
that took its supper at Austerlitz—the very eagle that, once
upon a time, settled upon the cliff at Boulogne, gazed and
screamed across the ocean—screamed and gazed, and then,
turned its tail of sabres, expanded its sabre wings, and flew
another way. Pax tibi, says the Archbishop to the French
Army—and the French Army offer an eagle of sabres, and
pistols, and percussion-locks, as a responsive peace-offering!
Precious Metal and Precious Mess.
Owing to the attractions of the Australian diggings, the
shepherds of the whole country are deserting their flocks,
and it is to be feared that the consequence will be the
destruction of the sheep. Abundance of gold itself will thus
be the cause of distress; and unless something is done to
remedy this state of things, we shall soon experience a
peculiar and unpleasant illustration of the present " Great
cry and little wool."
A Bottle, blown at the Punch Office from Fragments
of the Glass of the Crystal Palace.
Jonathan and Japan.
It is said that the American Expedition to Japan will
teud to the civilisation of that country's inhabitants. But
will not conveying polish to Japan, be something like
carrying coals to Newcastle ? And should any resistance
be offered to Jonathan, is he Eot rather likely to take the
shine out of the Japanese r
PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI
HIGHLY INTERESTING.
" Seen that Party lately ? "
"What! the Party with the Wooden Leg, as come with—"
"No, no—not that Party. The Party, you know, as—"
" Oh ! Ah ! I know the Party you mean Now."
"Well! a Party told me as He can't Agree with that other Party, and
he says that if another Party can't be Found to make it all Square, he
shall look out for a Party as will." (And so on for half an how.)
HONOURABLE AMENDS TO SIR HARRY SMITH.
We have been requested to publish the subjoined apology, as a model of one which
is certainly due:—
SEEfjereas I, Henry G. Gkey, otherwise Earl Grey, lately of the Colonial
Office, Downing Street, did, out of a mean anxiety to avert from the Whig ad-
ministration odium which it had incurred in a great measure from the management
of that department of it over which I presided, write a most ungenerous and
unjustifiable letter to Sir, Harry Smith, late Governor of the Cape of Good Hope,
recalling him from his office, and accusing him of having failed in showing foresight,
energy, and judgment: I hereby offer the said Sir Harry Smith a Public and
Humble Apology for the same. I freely confess that I did not know what
I was writing about when I made those charges against Sir Harry Smith,
which, according to the Dure oe Wellington, were wholly unfounded, and am
very sorry 1 did not ask the opinion of that illustrious Commander before expressing
myself to the prejudice and dishonour of a gallant officer, on a subject whereon
I was not qualified to form an opinion. I beg Sir Harry Smith to forgive me
my unhandsome behaviour, to which I was dr ven by the fear of losing office alone,
and which I should never have been guilty of if I had not expected he would fail,
but which, now that he has succeeded, I sincerely repent. Having made this
public acknowledgment of my error, I entreat Sir Harry Smith will use his
influence to prevent my hearing anything more on the subject, whether in the
House-of Lords or in Punch.
Witnesses {^Jy11, (Signed) Grey.
Sic itur ad Astra.—The celebrated Arago has resigned his office as director
of the French Observatory, rather than take the oath of fidelity to the French
Dictator. This noble act is a proof that Louis Napoleon's lucky star is aot among
those that the honest astronomer can recognise.
LOUIS NAPOLEON SOLOMON !
The Abchbishop of Paris—and churchmen never flatter
—has placed the President in a parallel with Solomon.
It was given for Solomon to build and consolidate more
than David : it is reserved for Louis Napoleon to do more
than the mere Napoleon. Well, Solomon had his gifts of
peacocks ; Solomon Napoleon has his present of an eagle:
here it is ; an eagle offered him by the French Army, on his
visit to the banquet prepared for him—
"An enormous eagle, whose wings and tail were composed of sabres,
the talons of horse-pistols, the eyes of tri-coloured cockades, and the beak
of the hammers of percussion locks."
Not one of Solomon's peacocks was much like this bird—
a bird that, with its carnivorous propensities, would eat how
many bodies on a battle-field ? For this was the very eagle
that took its supper at Austerlitz—the very eagle that, once
upon a time, settled upon the cliff at Boulogne, gazed and
screamed across the ocean—screamed and gazed, and then,
turned its tail of sabres, expanded its sabre wings, and flew
another way. Pax tibi, says the Archbishop to the French
Army—and the French Army offer an eagle of sabres, and
pistols, and percussion-locks, as a responsive peace-offering!
Precious Metal and Precious Mess.
Owing to the attractions of the Australian diggings, the
shepherds of the whole country are deserting their flocks,
and it is to be feared that the consequence will be the
destruction of the sheep. Abundance of gold itself will thus
be the cause of distress; and unless something is done to
remedy this state of things, we shall soon experience a
peculiar and unpleasant illustration of the present " Great
cry and little wool."
A Bottle, blown at the Punch Office from Fragments
of the Glass of the Crystal Palace.
Jonathan and Japan.
It is said that the American Expedition to Japan will
teud to the civilisation of that country's inhabitants. But
will not conveying polish to Japan, be something like
carrying coals to Newcastle ? And should any resistance
be offered to Jonathan, is he Eot rather likely to take the
shine out of the Japanese r