DOI issue:
Volume XXVI
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16613#0099
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PUNCH, OK THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Indignant Master of Hounds. “Now, you Sib! mind the Hound! He’s worth eorty times as much as your House.”
REASONS EOR BEING PRESENTED AT COURT.
Mere loyalty may be a sufficient inducement with many persons to
be presented at Court, and indeed it requires a pretty good supply of
that amiable feeling to reconcile sensible-minded persons to a pair of
footman’s breeches, a coat and waistcoat familiarly known to play-goers
as the orthodox dress of Noodle in Tom Thumb—a bag wig which never
goes on the head, a cocked hat that never remains on the head if yon
try to put it there, a sword which is fatal to nothing but your own
dignity by always dangling between your legs, a pair of enormous shoe-
buckles, and a yard or two of lace borrowed from your wife’s habit
shirt. .A man must be very loyal indeed who submits to such mas-
querading to pay his respects to the Queen, or it may happen that he
does so for the less respectable motive of seeing his own name in the
Court Circular.
In looking through the recent list we find some of the ostensible
reasons given by the Court newsman for certain presentations at Court
to be rather unsatisfactory, and we instance the following in proof of
our statement.
Eirst we find—
“ Ma. Bebb, on being allowed by Royal License to take the name of Bebb instead of
Laurel.”
Now there isn’t at any time much in a name, but if we may be
allowed a preference, we should certainly prefer Laurel to Bebb, and
il we wished to be banded down to posterity in the Court Circular, we
had much rather that instead of being thrust into the public eye as
Bebb, our fame should be graced by union with Laurel.
The next presentation which strikes us as rather remarkable in the
reason assigned for it, is that of
“ The Earl op Perth and Melpord, on restoration.”
We should like to know in wnat way the Earl has been “restored,”
lor “restoration” is a term usually applied to deposed monarchs,
dilapidated pictures, buildings that have been burnt down, and property
that has been stolen. If the Earl has been restored to his title, he
might have reason to rejoice, or if he has been simply restored to
health, the subject might be one for congratulation. But when we are
simply informed that he has been presented “ on restoration,” we are
left in a perplexing ambiguity as to what may have been his past fate
as compared with his present condition.
One or two gentlemen have been presented “on their marriage,”
and it is probable that a man after he is married, may not only have his
shirt buttons more complete, but that he may be kept on the whole
more tidy, and consequently more presentable. Several have gone to
St. James’s on the ground of having “obtained a commission,” and it
is certainly a satisfactory achievement, notwithstanding the small
drawback of having been obliged to pay a pretty high price for it.
Nevertheless, we cannot regard the reasons assigned for the presenta-
tions at Court, as on the whole very satisfactory.
EXPORTS EOR THE ENEMY.
To say that a man ought to be hanged, is generally to use a figure
of speech; but if any one crime deserves the gallows it is that of selling
to the enemy the means of destroying our own soldiers. We are sorry
to say that a quantity of gunpowder intended for this murderous traffic
has been seized, but we are glad to add that the quantity so seized was very
large, and we sincerely hope the loss has ruined the owners. It would
be difficult to conceive any punishment too bad for scoundrels who
are capable of turning a penny out of a cartridge intended to kill their
countrymen, if the nineteenth century had not, in a great measure,
agreed to abandon the principle of avenging villainous deeds by physical
atrocities. We would not, therefore, wish that such fellows should
be eviscerated, or grilled, or denuded of their integuments in a state of
consciousness—or even subsequently to decease. But we would serve
them conversely as they serve the nation; and since they export
articles for their country’s harm, we would export themselves for their
country’s good—at any price that any customer would pay for such
contemptible slaves.
Consideration on the Oaths Bill.
The J ews may be a distinct nation; but they do nevertheless take a
great interest in the Commonwealth. If that interest were only the
interest of the Three-per-Cents, it would be something, but the interest
they take is generally very, very much higher than that.
PUNCH, OK THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Indignant Master of Hounds. “Now, you Sib! mind the Hound! He’s worth eorty times as much as your House.”
REASONS EOR BEING PRESENTED AT COURT.
Mere loyalty may be a sufficient inducement with many persons to
be presented at Court, and indeed it requires a pretty good supply of
that amiable feeling to reconcile sensible-minded persons to a pair of
footman’s breeches, a coat and waistcoat familiarly known to play-goers
as the orthodox dress of Noodle in Tom Thumb—a bag wig which never
goes on the head, a cocked hat that never remains on the head if yon
try to put it there, a sword which is fatal to nothing but your own
dignity by always dangling between your legs, a pair of enormous shoe-
buckles, and a yard or two of lace borrowed from your wife’s habit
shirt. .A man must be very loyal indeed who submits to such mas-
querading to pay his respects to the Queen, or it may happen that he
does so for the less respectable motive of seeing his own name in the
Court Circular.
In looking through the recent list we find some of the ostensible
reasons given by the Court newsman for certain presentations at Court
to be rather unsatisfactory, and we instance the following in proof of
our statement.
Eirst we find—
“ Ma. Bebb, on being allowed by Royal License to take the name of Bebb instead of
Laurel.”
Now there isn’t at any time much in a name, but if we may be
allowed a preference, we should certainly prefer Laurel to Bebb, and
il we wished to be banded down to posterity in the Court Circular, we
had much rather that instead of being thrust into the public eye as
Bebb, our fame should be graced by union with Laurel.
The next presentation which strikes us as rather remarkable in the
reason assigned for it, is that of
“ The Earl op Perth and Melpord, on restoration.”
We should like to know in wnat way the Earl has been “restored,”
lor “restoration” is a term usually applied to deposed monarchs,
dilapidated pictures, buildings that have been burnt down, and property
that has been stolen. If the Earl has been restored to his title, he
might have reason to rejoice, or if he has been simply restored to
health, the subject might be one for congratulation. But when we are
simply informed that he has been presented “ on restoration,” we are
left in a perplexing ambiguity as to what may have been his past fate
as compared with his present condition.
One or two gentlemen have been presented “on their marriage,”
and it is probable that a man after he is married, may not only have his
shirt buttons more complete, but that he may be kept on the whole
more tidy, and consequently more presentable. Several have gone to
St. James’s on the ground of having “obtained a commission,” and it
is certainly a satisfactory achievement, notwithstanding the small
drawback of having been obliged to pay a pretty high price for it.
Nevertheless, we cannot regard the reasons assigned for the presenta-
tions at Court, as on the whole very satisfactory.
EXPORTS EOR THE ENEMY.
To say that a man ought to be hanged, is generally to use a figure
of speech; but if any one crime deserves the gallows it is that of selling
to the enemy the means of destroying our own soldiers. We are sorry
to say that a quantity of gunpowder intended for this murderous traffic
has been seized, but we are glad to add that the quantity so seized was very
large, and we sincerely hope the loss has ruined the owners. It would
be difficult to conceive any punishment too bad for scoundrels who
are capable of turning a penny out of a cartridge intended to kill their
countrymen, if the nineteenth century had not, in a great measure,
agreed to abandon the principle of avenging villainous deeds by physical
atrocities. We would not, therefore, wish that such fellows should
be eviscerated, or grilled, or denuded of their integuments in a state of
consciousness—or even subsequently to decease. But we would serve
them conversely as they serve the nation; and since they export
articles for their country’s harm, we would export themselves for their
country’s good—at any price that any customer would pay for such
contemptible slaves.
Consideration on the Oaths Bill.
The J ews may be a distinct nation; but they do nevertheless take a
great interest in the Commonwealth. If that interest were only the
interest of the Three-per-Cents, it would be something, but the interest
they take is generally very, very much higher than that.