DOI Heft:
July to December, 1854
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16614#0175
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
157
EXPRESSIVE DOUBLEFACEDNESS.
E bear that the eagle
of Prussia, for the
future, is to be drawn
WHAT IS THE GERMAN'S
FATHERLAND ?
ment. Not only will
they be ornamental,
but also extremely
useful, for with two
heads Prussia will
be able to look two
ways at once with
the greatest ease.
We have been fa-
voured with a private
view of the intended alteration, and find that, to suit the present aspect of European affairs,
one head of the Prussian eagle is turned towards the East, leaning decidedly in favour of
Russia, whilst the other head is looking coldly to the West, but slightly, very slightly inclined
in the direction of England and Erance. The change has been submitted to the King, and he
has been pleased to highly approve of it, and indeed an emblem of Prussia with two heads could
not well be otherwise than agreeable to a monarch who, it is well known, is always having
two minds.
What is the German's Fatherland ?
The world would like to understand,
stead ol one. This j And whv the German holds it worth
change has been a-! More than another tract of earth ?
dopted, in order that
it may the more \ Ts it a land of bright sunshine?
closely resemble the j Is it a land of corn and wine ?
eagle of Russia in ad ; Abounding, all the world above ?
its attitudes. Be-; That Eatherland which Germans love,
sides this double front j
will fit most admir- Who, for itself alone, would prize
ably into its old di-1 The land of finest scenes and skies ?
plomatic habits of; Or care a fig about its fruits,
duplicity, and even J If they but served to fatten brutes ?
grace them like an I „„ 17 ,, , , e r, ,-,
atmrhhriati' nmfll 1 he 1 atherland ol Germans, then,
should, be a land ot noble men ;
A. laud of arts, and arms, and lore,
Their Eatherland should be, therefore.
"A BLIGHTED BEING."
Mr. Robson, at the Olympic, great as he is in his wretchedness, is not the only blighted
being. There is also a Blighted Being in the French, namely M. Babbes. He is
'released from gaol, and he is broken hearted! His prison doors, by imperial command,
-are thrown open, and what lies before him ? The sunny path of liberty ? Certainly not; but
"the wide, wide, cold, cold world: its road strewed with shards and skirted with briars. He
was happy, quiet, and content in his stone dungeon, as toad in the heart of a block of
marble : but the stone is broken, daylight is let in, and it is too much for the eyes and
brain of the liberated. He is from that moment a blighted being, scorched, withered,
paralysed by the quality of mercy, dew-like descending upon him. What right had
the imperial despot, Louis Napoleon, to degrade the patriot Barbes with the blighting
gift of freedom ? M. Barbes was patriotically at work cutting on blade-bones, a
beautiful relief, a whole series of scenes of the coup d'etat. Those bones—like the
•engraved tin-cups of Baron Trenck—would have perpetuated the memory of that gigantic
wickedness ; and now, with the twentieth blade-bone in his hand, he is turned forth into that
wilderness, the outside world! Who is to wonder that Barbes should kick, bite, spurn at
such tyranny? How writes he,—the noble, bursting heart?—"I shall pass two days at
Paris to allow time to replace me in prison, and that period once over, on Friday night I shall
go into exile." He has been as good and as bitter as his word; he is now in Brussels, we
hope on his way to London; when—such is sympathy—he must visit the Olympic Theatre.
'Great will be the attraction to behold at the same time Two Blighted Beings !—Robson
blighted on the boards, and Barbes blighted in a stage-box !
In learning, glorious art and song,
The German's Fatherland is strong :
Arms, too, the brave Teutonic breed
To wield, like men, are good at need.
But parcelled out that land we see
Which should be all entire and free;
Each weak state owns a despot's rule :
Oue strong one that of one weak fool.
With strings of apron basely tied,
By means of sister or of bride,
Are these mere satraps of the Czar
To their Imperial Master's car.
What, Germans ! honest men, and true,
And shall they also harness you ?
\ou to that chariot shall they bind
Whose wheels but move to crush mankind
If you will crouch, and kiss the ground,
Before those poor old women crowned,
The dirt, whereon you dare not stand,
That is the German's Fatherland.
THE GROWTH OF A NEW SUBURB.
First come the masons and bricklayers. As the bouses begin to rise from the ground,
a public-house shoots up suddenly at the corner. After the publican, come in due time the
baker, grocer, and butcher, who are quickly followed by the tobacconist, and the barber,
who sells peg-tops and newspapers on the Sunday. The doctor follows next, and after
him comes, as a matter of course, the undertaker • and lastly, when the new Suburb has fairly
settled down, and has got gas, water, new milk, and a policeman of its own, arrives the
Lawyer. The arrival of the Lawyer is always a sure sign that the new Suburb is getting on
well, and it is a singular fact, that though the Lawyer is generady the last to come, he is
invariably the last to go. The poor-house soon rears its chevaux-de-frised head as a natural
consequence, and as long as there is a pauper in it, or a man in the new Suburb to make a
pauper of, the Lawyer never leaves it. Once firmly located, nothing short of an earthquake,
A HANDSOME OFFER!
The following appears in an Irish paper:—
ADVERTISEMENT.
AN extensive Landed Proprietor on the Banks
of the Shannon, will make a Wager of £500 that he has
The Handsomest Wife,
The Handsomest nine Children,
and
The Handsoineat Estate in Ireland.
Application to be made to J.F. E. G., Eyres' Hotel, Glin,
Co. Eimerick.
In these days, when Prize Baby Shows are
coming into fashion, we may expect a pretty
strong competition for the £500, offered by the
"extensive" Landed Proprietor. If the term
"extensive" is to be applied to the "person-
alty" rather than the "realty"—to the man
rather than his property—we wonder he does
not throw himself into the scale, and make his
own weight the subject of a wager.
The Lord Mayor's Day.
It has been proposed to omit or very much to
. abridge the luxuries of the Lord Mayor's
or universal emigration, or perpetual cholera, will get him to move—but then we know it is j dinner, giving the money to the Soldiers. To do
not in the nature of a lawyer to be easily moved. this, to pay down ringing sovereigns so saved,
— --= would indeed be to make " the voice of the turth
A Proper Precaution. heard ia tbe laa(L"
The French band of the Emperor's " Guides," who are to visit us to play in aid of the
Soldiers' Fund, have, before venturing to London, had the Solicitor of the Dramatic
Authors' Society bound in a very heavy bend that, being the last French novelties, they
shall not be translated into English.
The Cloak of Religton. — It is to be
known sometimes by the fine nap it has (luring
sermon time.
157
EXPRESSIVE DOUBLEFACEDNESS.
E bear that the eagle
of Prussia, for the
future, is to be drawn
WHAT IS THE GERMAN'S
FATHERLAND ?
ment. Not only will
they be ornamental,
but also extremely
useful, for with two
heads Prussia will
be able to look two
ways at once with
the greatest ease.
We have been fa-
voured with a private
view of the intended alteration, and find that, to suit the present aspect of European affairs,
one head of the Prussian eagle is turned towards the East, leaning decidedly in favour of
Russia, whilst the other head is looking coldly to the West, but slightly, very slightly inclined
in the direction of England and Erance. The change has been submitted to the King, and he
has been pleased to highly approve of it, and indeed an emblem of Prussia with two heads could
not well be otherwise than agreeable to a monarch who, it is well known, is always having
two minds.
What is the German's Fatherland ?
The world would like to understand,
stead ol one. This j And whv the German holds it worth
change has been a-! More than another tract of earth ?
dopted, in order that
it may the more \ Ts it a land of bright sunshine?
closely resemble the j Is it a land of corn and wine ?
eagle of Russia in ad ; Abounding, all the world above ?
its attitudes. Be-; That Eatherland which Germans love,
sides this double front j
will fit most admir- Who, for itself alone, would prize
ably into its old di-1 The land of finest scenes and skies ?
plomatic habits of; Or care a fig about its fruits,
duplicity, and even J If they but served to fatten brutes ?
grace them like an I „„ 17 ,, , , e r, ,-,
atmrhhriati' nmfll 1 he 1 atherland ol Germans, then,
should, be a land ot noble men ;
A. laud of arts, and arms, and lore,
Their Eatherland should be, therefore.
"A BLIGHTED BEING."
Mr. Robson, at the Olympic, great as he is in his wretchedness, is not the only blighted
being. There is also a Blighted Being in the French, namely M. Babbes. He is
'released from gaol, and he is broken hearted! His prison doors, by imperial command,
-are thrown open, and what lies before him ? The sunny path of liberty ? Certainly not; but
"the wide, wide, cold, cold world: its road strewed with shards and skirted with briars. He
was happy, quiet, and content in his stone dungeon, as toad in the heart of a block of
marble : but the stone is broken, daylight is let in, and it is too much for the eyes and
brain of the liberated. He is from that moment a blighted being, scorched, withered,
paralysed by the quality of mercy, dew-like descending upon him. What right had
the imperial despot, Louis Napoleon, to degrade the patriot Barbes with the blighting
gift of freedom ? M. Barbes was patriotically at work cutting on blade-bones, a
beautiful relief, a whole series of scenes of the coup d'etat. Those bones—like the
•engraved tin-cups of Baron Trenck—would have perpetuated the memory of that gigantic
wickedness ; and now, with the twentieth blade-bone in his hand, he is turned forth into that
wilderness, the outside world! Who is to wonder that Barbes should kick, bite, spurn at
such tyranny? How writes he,—the noble, bursting heart?—"I shall pass two days at
Paris to allow time to replace me in prison, and that period once over, on Friday night I shall
go into exile." He has been as good and as bitter as his word; he is now in Brussels, we
hope on his way to London; when—such is sympathy—he must visit the Olympic Theatre.
'Great will be the attraction to behold at the same time Two Blighted Beings !—Robson
blighted on the boards, and Barbes blighted in a stage-box !
In learning, glorious art and song,
The German's Fatherland is strong :
Arms, too, the brave Teutonic breed
To wield, like men, are good at need.
But parcelled out that land we see
Which should be all entire and free;
Each weak state owns a despot's rule :
Oue strong one that of one weak fool.
With strings of apron basely tied,
By means of sister or of bride,
Are these mere satraps of the Czar
To their Imperial Master's car.
What, Germans ! honest men, and true,
And shall they also harness you ?
\ou to that chariot shall they bind
Whose wheels but move to crush mankind
If you will crouch, and kiss the ground,
Before those poor old women crowned,
The dirt, whereon you dare not stand,
That is the German's Fatherland.
THE GROWTH OF A NEW SUBURB.
First come the masons and bricklayers. As the bouses begin to rise from the ground,
a public-house shoots up suddenly at the corner. After the publican, come in due time the
baker, grocer, and butcher, who are quickly followed by the tobacconist, and the barber,
who sells peg-tops and newspapers on the Sunday. The doctor follows next, and after
him comes, as a matter of course, the undertaker • and lastly, when the new Suburb has fairly
settled down, and has got gas, water, new milk, and a policeman of its own, arrives the
Lawyer. The arrival of the Lawyer is always a sure sign that the new Suburb is getting on
well, and it is a singular fact, that though the Lawyer is generady the last to come, he is
invariably the last to go. The poor-house soon rears its chevaux-de-frised head as a natural
consequence, and as long as there is a pauper in it, or a man in the new Suburb to make a
pauper of, the Lawyer never leaves it. Once firmly located, nothing short of an earthquake,
A HANDSOME OFFER!
The following appears in an Irish paper:—
ADVERTISEMENT.
AN extensive Landed Proprietor on the Banks
of the Shannon, will make a Wager of £500 that he has
The Handsomest Wife,
The Handsomest nine Children,
and
The Handsoineat Estate in Ireland.
Application to be made to J.F. E. G., Eyres' Hotel, Glin,
Co. Eimerick.
In these days, when Prize Baby Shows are
coming into fashion, we may expect a pretty
strong competition for the £500, offered by the
"extensive" Landed Proprietor. If the term
"extensive" is to be applied to the "person-
alty" rather than the "realty"—to the man
rather than his property—we wonder he does
not throw himself into the scale, and make his
own weight the subject of a wager.
The Lord Mayor's Day.
It has been proposed to omit or very much to
. abridge the luxuries of the Lord Mayor's
or universal emigration, or perpetual cholera, will get him to move—but then we know it is j dinner, giving the money to the Soldiers. To do
not in the nature of a lawyer to be easily moved. this, to pay down ringing sovereigns so saved,
— --= would indeed be to make " the voice of the turth
A Proper Precaution. heard ia tbe laa(L"
The French band of the Emperor's " Guides," who are to visit us to play in aid of the
Soldiers' Fund, have, before venturing to London, had the Solicitor of the Dramatic
Authors' Society bound in a very heavy bend that, being the last French novelties, they
shall not be translated into English.
The Cloak of Religton. — It is to be
known sometimes by the fine nap it has (luring
sermon time.