DOI Heft:
July to December, 1854
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16614#0011
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
3
A DAY OP ABSOLUTE REST.
Against Mr. Hume's mo-
tion for a resolution
that the mora) and in-
tellectual improvement
of the working classes
would he promoted by
the opening of collec-
tions of natural history
and objects of an, as
well as gin-shops, after
morning service on a
Sunday, there seems
only one thing to be
said, which is, that
Sunday ought to be
observed literally as a
day of rest; so that the
working classes during
the intervals between
the services ought to
go to sleep. As sleep
at will, however, is
not procurable without
the aid of some nar-
cotic drug, or influence,
Mr. Hume's opponents
should suggest some
scheme for supplying
the public with cheap opium, or for establishing district mesmerizers. lor all the
population cannot go to Church, and all would certainly not be sent to sleep
there, and though many might, yet very few sermons would have such an extremely
drowsy effect as to plunge the hearers in slumber for all the rest of the day.
" A MISSIONARY CHURCH."
Mr. Henley conscientiously objected to the clause that, in the Oxford
University Bill, allows academical honours to stiff-necked Dissenters. As they
would not swear and subscribe to articles, wherefore should they have glorifying
letters affixed to their names ? These literal honours ought to remain the exclu
LORD ABERDEEN'S EXPLANATION.
It's very hard, and so it is,
To be misrepresented
By a set of low press-writers,
Ill-informed and discontented.
So here I am upon my legs
To offer explanation,
(Though of what there is to be explained
I pause for information.)
They say I'm Russian-minded—
The charge is quite ridiculous ;
'Tis five and twenty years ago
Since I pitched into Nicholas ;
Took the liberty to Nesselrode
Those same harsh truths to state, my Lords,
"Which I checked Lord Lyndhurst, t'other night,
Tor advancing in debate, my Lords.
If I now say Russia strives not *
Tor extension of dominion,
You '11 find in my despatch, my Lords,
The opposite opinion.
In twenty-nine I was in fact
Courageously asserting out
The very things low writers now
Are ignorantly blurting out.
'Tis true I said, the other night,
I feared not Russ encroachment;
But you '11 find my word", in twenty-nine,
Another view to broach meant;
I doubt, if Lord Clanricarde,
In his present most rash line, my Lords,
E'er unmasked Russ double-dealing
More than I—in twenty-nine, my Lords.
You shall see the germ of treachery
Pointed out in that despatch, my Lords.
Which your Layards and your Lyndhuksts
Say the Czar now fries to hatch, my Lords.
And if my words in fifty-four,
reward of the members of the Established Church as a very trifling com-! . Io my words in twenty-nine my Lords,
sivc reward oi the members of the JiiStaolished Ohurch as a very
pensation for the unceasing care and interest bestowed by that Church upon all
human souls; the more especially on those errant, vagabond souls that were
wont to remain unclaimed, going here and there, and nowhere, altogether
heedless of the sheep-bell tinkling to the Church flock. Mr. Henley objected
to the clause, and the hon. (and revolutionary) gentleman who proposed it must
recollect that—
" [twas tlie duty of our Established Church to look after those who would not look after them-
selves. The Established Church was a Missionary Church to a large portion of the people. He
moved as an amendment, that the clause be read a second time that day six months."
But the clause — the door-opening clause — was, to the consternation of
Mr. Henley and his fellow-labourers in the cause of the Established Church,
passed, and the Missionary Church mightily wronged aud scandalised thereby.
The Established Church was a Missionary Church to a large portion of the
people. This affecting fact explains to us the constant practice of so many^ bishops
and archdeacons, and prebends and deans, whom we continually meet in alleys
and byways—and always where the poor and ignorant swarm the thickest—in a
sort of lowly pilgrim-guise, their footsteps tempted and drawn to the abodes of
squalor and of vice. Now we know why the Bis nop op London himself is so
frequently met with in Spitalfields, in Lambeth—on Mutton Hill—in infidel
St. Giles's. He is the model Missionary of a Missionary Church; and he con-
demns and eschews all the Church dramas as produced regardless of expense
at St. Barnabas and St. Paul's, Knightsbridge,—giving all his heart and all his
soul to look after those of the straying flock, who " will not look after themselves."
Belgravia is safe in the piety of her own estimation, but Tothill-fields is running
to weeds, choked by cockle and darnel. May Pair smells her Church flowers,
and sniffs the odour of piety from_Roman roses; but Hag Pair has not a single
leaf of the Herb of Grace wherewith to scent and sweeten the foul earthiness of
her fallen nature; and therefore it is to Rag Fair and not to May Pair—to the
Place of Tatters, and not to the Feast of Roses, that our Blomfield—sweetly-
smelling syllables!— takes his missionary way, and calls with silver voice to the
careless, scattered flock.
The Established Church is, then, the real Missionary Church. Here and there a
Dissenter or two may waylay and redeem a black or copper-skinned barbarian-
rejoicing in the treasure of Papuan and Patagonian proselyte—but it is the Bishop
op London, and such as he, who, wandering forth in the savage places of the British
metropolis, call in and secure the wandering sheep whose footsteps would otherwise
print their way to perdition !
Old Nick's Last.—Nicholas has been so misled by the reports of his generals on
the Danube, that he declares he has one Luders there, but a whole host of FJe-Luders.
Are found to be as black to white,
Why that's no fault of mine, my Lords.
To political necessities
Opinions must give o'er, my Lords ;
And the state of things in twenty-nine,
Was not that in fifty-four, my Lords.
Then I abused the Kussians,
But from fighting I forbore with them ;
Now I defend the Russians,
But then we are at war with them.
But you need not be alarmed, my Lords,
Lest this should check our action;
If I've deprecated war, my Lords,
(As I own with satisfaction,)
If my speeches in the house have worn
The tone of Russian pleadings,
In the Cabinet I've always urged
The most vigorous proceedings.
For my effort it has always been
To exert my ingenuity
In keeping up 'twixt words and acts
A wholesome incongruity.
Large words and great deeds too, is waste
At which my Scotch heart bleeds, my Lords,
So pray allow me to sing small,
While England does great deeds, my Lords.
The Bashful Muscovite.
There is a great deal of truth in what Lord Aberdeen
says. We ought not to be too hard upon the Emperor
Nicholas. People have hastily accused him of unscru-
pulous audacity ; whereas, by evacuating the Principalities,
he now exhibits himself as quite a retiring character.
Should Aberdeen have a Statue ? — Certainly he
should—the " statu quo ante."
3
A DAY OP ABSOLUTE REST.
Against Mr. Hume's mo-
tion for a resolution
that the mora) and in-
tellectual improvement
of the working classes
would he promoted by
the opening of collec-
tions of natural history
and objects of an, as
well as gin-shops, after
morning service on a
Sunday, there seems
only one thing to be
said, which is, that
Sunday ought to be
observed literally as a
day of rest; so that the
working classes during
the intervals between
the services ought to
go to sleep. As sleep
at will, however, is
not procurable without
the aid of some nar-
cotic drug, or influence,
Mr. Hume's opponents
should suggest some
scheme for supplying
the public with cheap opium, or for establishing district mesmerizers. lor all the
population cannot go to Church, and all would certainly not be sent to sleep
there, and though many might, yet very few sermons would have such an extremely
drowsy effect as to plunge the hearers in slumber for all the rest of the day.
" A MISSIONARY CHURCH."
Mr. Henley conscientiously objected to the clause that, in the Oxford
University Bill, allows academical honours to stiff-necked Dissenters. As they
would not swear and subscribe to articles, wherefore should they have glorifying
letters affixed to their names ? These literal honours ought to remain the exclu
LORD ABERDEEN'S EXPLANATION.
It's very hard, and so it is,
To be misrepresented
By a set of low press-writers,
Ill-informed and discontented.
So here I am upon my legs
To offer explanation,
(Though of what there is to be explained
I pause for information.)
They say I'm Russian-minded—
The charge is quite ridiculous ;
'Tis five and twenty years ago
Since I pitched into Nicholas ;
Took the liberty to Nesselrode
Those same harsh truths to state, my Lords,
"Which I checked Lord Lyndhurst, t'other night,
Tor advancing in debate, my Lords.
If I now say Russia strives not *
Tor extension of dominion,
You '11 find in my despatch, my Lords,
The opposite opinion.
In twenty-nine I was in fact
Courageously asserting out
The very things low writers now
Are ignorantly blurting out.
'Tis true I said, the other night,
I feared not Russ encroachment;
But you '11 find my word", in twenty-nine,
Another view to broach meant;
I doubt, if Lord Clanricarde,
In his present most rash line, my Lords,
E'er unmasked Russ double-dealing
More than I—in twenty-nine, my Lords.
You shall see the germ of treachery
Pointed out in that despatch, my Lords.
Which your Layards and your Lyndhuksts
Say the Czar now fries to hatch, my Lords.
And if my words in fifty-four,
reward of the members of the Established Church as a very trifling com-! . Io my words in twenty-nine my Lords,
sivc reward oi the members of the JiiStaolished Ohurch as a very
pensation for the unceasing care and interest bestowed by that Church upon all
human souls; the more especially on those errant, vagabond souls that were
wont to remain unclaimed, going here and there, and nowhere, altogether
heedless of the sheep-bell tinkling to the Church flock. Mr. Henley objected
to the clause, and the hon. (and revolutionary) gentleman who proposed it must
recollect that—
" [twas tlie duty of our Established Church to look after those who would not look after them-
selves. The Established Church was a Missionary Church to a large portion of the people. He
moved as an amendment, that the clause be read a second time that day six months."
But the clause — the door-opening clause — was, to the consternation of
Mr. Henley and his fellow-labourers in the cause of the Established Church,
passed, and the Missionary Church mightily wronged aud scandalised thereby.
The Established Church was a Missionary Church to a large portion of the
people. This affecting fact explains to us the constant practice of so many^ bishops
and archdeacons, and prebends and deans, whom we continually meet in alleys
and byways—and always where the poor and ignorant swarm the thickest—in a
sort of lowly pilgrim-guise, their footsteps tempted and drawn to the abodes of
squalor and of vice. Now we know why the Bis nop op London himself is so
frequently met with in Spitalfields, in Lambeth—on Mutton Hill—in infidel
St. Giles's. He is the model Missionary of a Missionary Church; and he con-
demns and eschews all the Church dramas as produced regardless of expense
at St. Barnabas and St. Paul's, Knightsbridge,—giving all his heart and all his
soul to look after those of the straying flock, who " will not look after themselves."
Belgravia is safe in the piety of her own estimation, but Tothill-fields is running
to weeds, choked by cockle and darnel. May Pair smells her Church flowers,
and sniffs the odour of piety from_Roman roses; but Hag Pair has not a single
leaf of the Herb of Grace wherewith to scent and sweeten the foul earthiness of
her fallen nature; and therefore it is to Rag Fair and not to May Pair—to the
Place of Tatters, and not to the Feast of Roses, that our Blomfield—sweetly-
smelling syllables!— takes his missionary way, and calls with silver voice to the
careless, scattered flock.
The Established Church is, then, the real Missionary Church. Here and there a
Dissenter or two may waylay and redeem a black or copper-skinned barbarian-
rejoicing in the treasure of Papuan and Patagonian proselyte—but it is the Bishop
op London, and such as he, who, wandering forth in the savage places of the British
metropolis, call in and secure the wandering sheep whose footsteps would otherwise
print their way to perdition !
Old Nick's Last.—Nicholas has been so misled by the reports of his generals on
the Danube, that he declares he has one Luders there, but a whole host of FJe-Luders.
Are found to be as black to white,
Why that's no fault of mine, my Lords.
To political necessities
Opinions must give o'er, my Lords ;
And the state of things in twenty-nine,
Was not that in fifty-four, my Lords.
Then I abused the Kussians,
But from fighting I forbore with them ;
Now I defend the Russians,
But then we are at war with them.
But you need not be alarmed, my Lords,
Lest this should check our action;
If I've deprecated war, my Lords,
(As I own with satisfaction,)
If my speeches in the house have worn
The tone of Russian pleadings,
In the Cabinet I've always urged
The most vigorous proceedings.
For my effort it has always been
To exert my ingenuity
In keeping up 'twixt words and acts
A wholesome incongruity.
Large words and great deeds too, is waste
At which my Scotch heart bleeds, my Lords,
So pray allow me to sing small,
While England does great deeds, my Lords.
The Bashful Muscovite.
There is a great deal of truth in what Lord Aberdeen
says. We ought not to be too hard upon the Emperor
Nicholas. People have hastily accused him of unscru-
pulous audacity ; whereas, by evacuating the Principalities,
he now exhibits himself as quite a retiring character.
Should Aberdeen have a Statue ? — Certainly he
should—the " statu quo ante."