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Volume XXVI
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.
Ensign Stubbs having been appointed to the 121st, goes to try on his
Uniform.
A7. A. The gcMant Ensign has hitherto been accustomed to dress in a loose, degage manner.
THE POOR BLIND BULLY.
Oh say what means the word caliea Rignt,
Which you so oft employ ?
What is it but superior might
To conquer, or destroy ?
And what is Truth, can you explain.
But a mysterious thing,
A holy pearl, to the profane
Which Czars should never fling ?
Strong jaws has Bruin to devour
His prey, sharp fangs to tear;
Are they not Right, as they are power
Unto my friend the Bear ?
You wish—as who indeed would not ?—
Heaven may the Right defend—
Your arms, your powder, and your shot
Must be what you intend.
“ Defend the Right! ” I likewise pray,
And bid, for its success,
My “Archi-archi-archi-vey,”
Our bayonets to bless.
THE DIVINITY OE FASHION.
Otjr fashionable contemporary, that published the other
day, according to custom, an account of the ladies’ dresses
worn at the Queen’s Drawing Room, may as well take a
proper opportunity to describe gowns of another sort:
gowns such as those alluded to in the subjoined portion
of an advertisement:—
QURPLICES FOR EASTER.—MESSRS. COX AND SON
O have prepared their usual lai^e supply of Surplices of the improved
make, which have been so much admired.”
On the occasion of the great festival above-mentioned,
the Morning Post will perhaps gratify ns with a list of the
clergymen’s dresses worn thereon: and perhaps, if there is
a Pallet Courrier des Eg Uses, devoted to Puseyism, it also
will come out with some pretty pictures of Tractarian
divines in their surplices “ which have been so much
admired,” entitled “ Clerical Fashions for Easter.”
THE VALUE OE CHARACTER.
Integrity and ability do not seem to be “ looking up ” in the
market, if we may judge by the following advertisement from the
Glasgow Herald.
I 1LERK WANTED.—An active, middle-aged, Married MAN to act as
AY Clerk and Collect Accounts. He will require to write a neat swift hand, and
must pe thoroughly acquainted with Book-keeping. None need apply whose character
and abilities will not stand the strictest investigation, and produce Security if
required, for his intromissions. Salary £40 per annum.—Apply by letter, addressed
M. B., Herald Office.
The unfortunate individual who is compelled by hard fate to seek
this situation, must combine the maturity of age with the energy of
youth; for he must be active and past the prime of life, while, as if
the advertiser was determined on cheapness for mere cheapness sake,
the clerk is required to be “married” as well as badly paid, so that
his salary and the claims upon it, may be in an inverse ratio. We
presume there are in the world some unhappy wretches who take the
kind of situations above advertised, or such advertisements would not
be constantly appearing; but we would seriously ask how it is possible
to get anyone to answer them, but men of desperate fortunes, or
persons who have a morbid appetite for a mixed state of overwork and
starvation.
vVe should imagine the individual who would accept the above
clerkship on the terms proposed, to be either a swindler or a hy-
pochondriac ; for the former might seek the engagement with a
determination to rob his employer at the first and every other opportu-
nity, while the latter might be one to whom “a living is not so much
an object as a miserable situation in which he may indulge his hypo-
chondriacism.” It is rather disheartening to find that character and
ability are so low in the niaket, as to be dull at forty pounds a year,
and indeed so fiat at the price, that they do not easily find purchasers
at even that beggarly quotation.
RUSSIAN AGENTS.
The Globe lately published the following paragraph
“ Seizure of Combustibles.-On Saturday the Officers of Customs seized a vessel
in the Thames laden with saltpetre and sulphur, consigned to a Russian port. It is
understood that the Government in end to enforce the penalties against the shippers.”
This information makes us regret that war was not declared a few
days earlier; in which case the penalties alluded to would, if \re
mistake not, have been those cf high treason.
The rascals thus ready to supply the enemy with combustibles,
would no doubt be equally willing, for a sufficient consideration, to act
as common incendiaries in the interest of Russia. By the way, as
Nicholas is evidently capable of anything except the acknowledge-
ment of his mistake, it would be well to keep a sharp look-out in our
dockyards and arsenals against Messrs. Swing, who are extremely
likely to hold a commission from the “ gentleman ” called Autocrat of
all the Russias.
The Unquestionables,
The opposition of the Papal party to inquiry into Convents is
perhaps not wonderful, considering the fact, that the priesthood, whose
instruments they are, has always entertained a strong objection io
inquiring minds. We know what happens at Naples and elsewhere to
those who attempt to search the Scriptures, and therefore we can
hardly be surprised at the outcry made here against the proposal for
examining Nunneries. Those who fear the discovery of the truth may
naturally be indignant at the idea of raising the veil.
SOME CREDIT TO THE CZAR.
The Czar may boast of the 3,000,000 soldiers at his command, but,
although surrounded with so many forces, nevertheless, considering
j the shifts by which he has been obliged to raise money, it must be
confessed that he is a loanly man.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.
Ensign Stubbs having been appointed to the 121st, goes to try on his
Uniform.
A7. A. The gcMant Ensign has hitherto been accustomed to dress in a loose, degage manner.
THE POOR BLIND BULLY.
Oh say what means the word caliea Rignt,
Which you so oft employ ?
What is it but superior might
To conquer, or destroy ?
And what is Truth, can you explain.
But a mysterious thing,
A holy pearl, to the profane
Which Czars should never fling ?
Strong jaws has Bruin to devour
His prey, sharp fangs to tear;
Are they not Right, as they are power
Unto my friend the Bear ?
You wish—as who indeed would not ?—
Heaven may the Right defend—
Your arms, your powder, and your shot
Must be what you intend.
“ Defend the Right! ” I likewise pray,
And bid, for its success,
My “Archi-archi-archi-vey,”
Our bayonets to bless.
THE DIVINITY OE FASHION.
Otjr fashionable contemporary, that published the other
day, according to custom, an account of the ladies’ dresses
worn at the Queen’s Drawing Room, may as well take a
proper opportunity to describe gowns of another sort:
gowns such as those alluded to in the subjoined portion
of an advertisement:—
QURPLICES FOR EASTER.—MESSRS. COX AND SON
O have prepared their usual lai^e supply of Surplices of the improved
make, which have been so much admired.”
On the occasion of the great festival above-mentioned,
the Morning Post will perhaps gratify ns with a list of the
clergymen’s dresses worn thereon: and perhaps, if there is
a Pallet Courrier des Eg Uses, devoted to Puseyism, it also
will come out with some pretty pictures of Tractarian
divines in their surplices “ which have been so much
admired,” entitled “ Clerical Fashions for Easter.”
THE VALUE OE CHARACTER.
Integrity and ability do not seem to be “ looking up ” in the
market, if we may judge by the following advertisement from the
Glasgow Herald.
I 1LERK WANTED.—An active, middle-aged, Married MAN to act as
AY Clerk and Collect Accounts. He will require to write a neat swift hand, and
must pe thoroughly acquainted with Book-keeping. None need apply whose character
and abilities will not stand the strictest investigation, and produce Security if
required, for his intromissions. Salary £40 per annum.—Apply by letter, addressed
M. B., Herald Office.
The unfortunate individual who is compelled by hard fate to seek
this situation, must combine the maturity of age with the energy of
youth; for he must be active and past the prime of life, while, as if
the advertiser was determined on cheapness for mere cheapness sake,
the clerk is required to be “married” as well as badly paid, so that
his salary and the claims upon it, may be in an inverse ratio. We
presume there are in the world some unhappy wretches who take the
kind of situations above advertised, or such advertisements would not
be constantly appearing; but we would seriously ask how it is possible
to get anyone to answer them, but men of desperate fortunes, or
persons who have a morbid appetite for a mixed state of overwork and
starvation.
vVe should imagine the individual who would accept the above
clerkship on the terms proposed, to be either a swindler or a hy-
pochondriac ; for the former might seek the engagement with a
determination to rob his employer at the first and every other opportu-
nity, while the latter might be one to whom “a living is not so much
an object as a miserable situation in which he may indulge his hypo-
chondriacism.” It is rather disheartening to find that character and
ability are so low in the niaket, as to be dull at forty pounds a year,
and indeed so fiat at the price, that they do not easily find purchasers
at even that beggarly quotation.
RUSSIAN AGENTS.
The Globe lately published the following paragraph
“ Seizure of Combustibles.-On Saturday the Officers of Customs seized a vessel
in the Thames laden with saltpetre and sulphur, consigned to a Russian port. It is
understood that the Government in end to enforce the penalties against the shippers.”
This information makes us regret that war was not declared a few
days earlier; in which case the penalties alluded to would, if \re
mistake not, have been those cf high treason.
The rascals thus ready to supply the enemy with combustibles,
would no doubt be equally willing, for a sufficient consideration, to act
as common incendiaries in the interest of Russia. By the way, as
Nicholas is evidently capable of anything except the acknowledge-
ment of his mistake, it would be well to keep a sharp look-out in our
dockyards and arsenals against Messrs. Swing, who are extremely
likely to hold a commission from the “ gentleman ” called Autocrat of
all the Russias.
The Unquestionables,
The opposition of the Papal party to inquiry into Convents is
perhaps not wonderful, considering the fact, that the priesthood, whose
instruments they are, has always entertained a strong objection io
inquiring minds. We know what happens at Naples and elsewhere to
those who attempt to search the Scriptures, and therefore we can
hardly be surprised at the outcry made here against the proposal for
examining Nunneries. Those who fear the discovery of the truth may
naturally be indignant at the idea of raising the veil.
SOME CREDIT TO THE CZAR.
The Czar may boast of the 3,000,000 soldiers at his command, but,
although surrounded with so many forces, nevertheless, considering
j the shifts by which he has been obliged to raise money, it must be
confessed that he is a loanly man.