DOI issue:
Volume XXVI
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16613#0111
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
OUR ARTIST THINKS OF PAINTING A PICTURE FROM
MACAULAY’S “IVRY,”
AND DECLAIMS THE POEM TO A PROSAIC PARTY.
Our Artist (ore rot.). “***•*
Charge by the golden lilies ! upon them with the lance !
A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest,
A thousand knights are pressing close behind-”
Prosaic Party (interrupting). Hullo !
Our Artist. Eh ?
Prosaic Party. Why, hang it, that’s only one spur a-piece
Mu. Palk as he appeared taking the oaths, adding a terrific
bang on the Speaker’s table as he defied the Pope and all his
works.
Ditto as he appeared taking his seat courteously, but man-
fully, and in a manner accordant with the true principles of
the Constitution.
Ditto, as he appeared crying “ Hear! ”
Ditto, as he appeared presenting a petition, and bounding
gracefully therewith to the clerk of the carpet-bag.
Ditto as he appeared trying to catch the Speaker’s eye.
Ditto trying another attitude.
Ditto trying a third attitude.
Ditto, suddenly dropping his hat, in the hope that this
would arrest Mr. Speaker’s attention.
Ditto, suddenly unbuttoning his coat and displaying a very
glittering waistcoat, with the same view.
Ditto shouting, yet insinuatingly, at the Speaker.
Ditto, beginning with a kind of spasmodic pop, eminently
calculated to attract notice.
Ditto, having tried all these devices of young and green
Members in vain, and being continually defeated by the rust
First Commoner, waiting quietly until Mr. Speaker sees fit to
see him.
Ditto (being called by name) as he appeared rising and
saving his country.
Ditto, as he appeared next morning when perusing the
papers, and finding that he is made to save his country in four
lines and a half.
Ditto, resigning his seat and resuming those bucolic engage-
ments which befit every true Englishman. _
Now, if this was anything like the series of performances
with which Mr. Palk regaled his constituents, we can only
say, in perfect ignorance of that gentleman’s other merits,
that it betokened an originality which bids well for his success
in the House of Commons, and on the bare hypothesis we
feel half inclined to look out for his speeches.
A Thought at an Election Committee.
It must be confessed that nowhere does England appear
to less advantage than at her Election Committees ! Such
a mass of meanness, trickery, bribery, corruption, perjury',
of everything that is base and blackguard, as to make an
Englishman ashamed of his own countrymen ! You would
not believe that Englishmen could have been guilty of such
practices. We hope that no foreigner ever looks into those
frightful blue-books, for if the national character were to be
drawn from the evidence that is contained in them, how hope-
lessly black we should appear in the eyes of the world !
A Gigantic Change.
The spirit of democracy has entered into that stronghold
of conservatism and corruption, the City Corporation. When
Gog and Magog are knocked off their pedestals, as soon they
must be, they will be thrown upon the wide world, and not
know what to do for a living. They may follow the example
of other Conservatives, who have jumped down from the great
height of their original position and mingled with the ranks
of the people, and we may yet witness the strange fact of
Gog and Magog turning demagogues.
NICHOLAS HIMSELF.
Nicholas, worshipped as the God of the Russians, has
been acting like the very Nicholas—the great Pretender.
He sent Orloff to tempt Austria and Prussia. Of a truth
Nicholas is Nicholas, and Orloff is his angei.
AN ACTING MEMBER.
We observe that a gentleman, named Palk, against whom we know nothing
worse than that he is a Member of Parliament, has just been solemnising his
election by giving some dramatic performances, in which he took a share,
and to which he admitted not only his aristocratic friends, but “the trades-
men of the vicinity.” We should like to see the playbill, as we confess that,
though unhappily familiar with the British Drama, we should find it difficult
to select a set of pieces appropriate to such an occasion. Memory, prodded
by ill-nature, of course suggests a few common-place sarcasms, and bints at
Quia pro Quo, the Apostate, Wanted a Place, and similar unjust impertinencies,
but these we should scorn to write down. But it occurs to us as possible
that Mr. Palk may have chosen to illustrate his intended Parliamentary
career to his constituents after the manner of the “ Grecian Statues,” once
so popular Perhaps be dressed himself in tight “fleshings,” and, getting
upon a fable, went into the following attitudes, to the sound of striking music.
Save us from our Friends.
In his reply to the Peace Deputation the Emperor of
Russia declared his sentiments to be in perfect conformity
with those of the Society of Eriends. We cannot doubt the
sincerity of this assertion, for when the Czar sees all Europe
in arms against him it is natural that he should become a
Quaker. __
AN UP AND DOWN TRAIN OF THOUGHT.
There is an up and down train of thought, which not un-
frequently ends in a railway collision, and that is when an
irascible gentleman in a carriage insists upon having the win-
dow “up,” and another irascible gentleman insists upon having
it “down.”
OUR ARTIST THINKS OF PAINTING A PICTURE FROM
MACAULAY’S “IVRY,”
AND DECLAIMS THE POEM TO A PROSAIC PARTY.
Our Artist (ore rot.). “***•*
Charge by the golden lilies ! upon them with the lance !
A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest,
A thousand knights are pressing close behind-”
Prosaic Party (interrupting). Hullo !
Our Artist. Eh ?
Prosaic Party. Why, hang it, that’s only one spur a-piece
Mu. Palk as he appeared taking the oaths, adding a terrific
bang on the Speaker’s table as he defied the Pope and all his
works.
Ditto as he appeared taking his seat courteously, but man-
fully, and in a manner accordant with the true principles of
the Constitution.
Ditto, as he appeared crying “ Hear! ”
Ditto, as he appeared presenting a petition, and bounding
gracefully therewith to the clerk of the carpet-bag.
Ditto as he appeared trying to catch the Speaker’s eye.
Ditto trying another attitude.
Ditto trying a third attitude.
Ditto, suddenly dropping his hat, in the hope that this
would arrest Mr. Speaker’s attention.
Ditto, suddenly unbuttoning his coat and displaying a very
glittering waistcoat, with the same view.
Ditto shouting, yet insinuatingly, at the Speaker.
Ditto, beginning with a kind of spasmodic pop, eminently
calculated to attract notice.
Ditto, having tried all these devices of young and green
Members in vain, and being continually defeated by the rust
First Commoner, waiting quietly until Mr. Speaker sees fit to
see him.
Ditto (being called by name) as he appeared rising and
saving his country.
Ditto, as he appeared next morning when perusing the
papers, and finding that he is made to save his country in four
lines and a half.
Ditto, resigning his seat and resuming those bucolic engage-
ments which befit every true Englishman. _
Now, if this was anything like the series of performances
with which Mr. Palk regaled his constituents, we can only
say, in perfect ignorance of that gentleman’s other merits,
that it betokened an originality which bids well for his success
in the House of Commons, and on the bare hypothesis we
feel half inclined to look out for his speeches.
A Thought at an Election Committee.
It must be confessed that nowhere does England appear
to less advantage than at her Election Committees ! Such
a mass of meanness, trickery, bribery, corruption, perjury',
of everything that is base and blackguard, as to make an
Englishman ashamed of his own countrymen ! You would
not believe that Englishmen could have been guilty of such
practices. We hope that no foreigner ever looks into those
frightful blue-books, for if the national character were to be
drawn from the evidence that is contained in them, how hope-
lessly black we should appear in the eyes of the world !
A Gigantic Change.
The spirit of democracy has entered into that stronghold
of conservatism and corruption, the City Corporation. When
Gog and Magog are knocked off their pedestals, as soon they
must be, they will be thrown upon the wide world, and not
know what to do for a living. They may follow the example
of other Conservatives, who have jumped down from the great
height of their original position and mingled with the ranks
of the people, and we may yet witness the strange fact of
Gog and Magog turning demagogues.
NICHOLAS HIMSELF.
Nicholas, worshipped as the God of the Russians, has
been acting like the very Nicholas—the great Pretender.
He sent Orloff to tempt Austria and Prussia. Of a truth
Nicholas is Nicholas, and Orloff is his angei.
AN ACTING MEMBER.
We observe that a gentleman, named Palk, against whom we know nothing
worse than that he is a Member of Parliament, has just been solemnising his
election by giving some dramatic performances, in which he took a share,
and to which he admitted not only his aristocratic friends, but “the trades-
men of the vicinity.” We should like to see the playbill, as we confess that,
though unhappily familiar with the British Drama, we should find it difficult
to select a set of pieces appropriate to such an occasion. Memory, prodded
by ill-nature, of course suggests a few common-place sarcasms, and bints at
Quia pro Quo, the Apostate, Wanted a Place, and similar unjust impertinencies,
but these we should scorn to write down. But it occurs to us as possible
that Mr. Palk may have chosen to illustrate his intended Parliamentary
career to his constituents after the manner of the “ Grecian Statues,” once
so popular Perhaps be dressed himself in tight “fleshings,” and, getting
upon a fable, went into the following attitudes, to the sound of striking music.
Save us from our Friends.
In his reply to the Peace Deputation the Emperor of
Russia declared his sentiments to be in perfect conformity
with those of the Society of Eriends. We cannot doubt the
sincerity of this assertion, for when the Czar sees all Europe
in arms against him it is natural that he should become a
Quaker. __
AN UP AND DOWN TRAIN OF THOUGHT.
There is an up and down train of thought, which not un-
frequently ends in a railway collision, and that is when an
irascible gentleman in a carriage insists upon having the win-
dow “up,” and another irascible gentleman insists upon having
it “down.”