34 PUNCH, Oil THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

First Languid Parti/. "Don't you find Sea Am very strengthening, Jack?"
Second Ditto Ditto. " Oh, yewy ! I could throw Stones in the Water all Day ! "

THREATEN THE THREATENED.

People who travel by railroad cannot have failed to observe, at
various stations, formidable notices of this kind:—

" CAUTION.

"John Stubbs was, on the 11th May last, fined Forty Shillings, forwriting with his
ring on a window of a railway carriage, that the train was ' disgusting slow.' "

" CAUTION.

"Henry Wabstraw and Michael Squott were, on the 9th June, committed to
Lampton goal for a fortnight, for riding in second-class Carriages with third class
tickets, and offering to fight the station master for the difference."

" CAUTION.

" Habakkuk Bowling was, on the 13th of Feburary, sentenced to imprisonment for
having insisted upon smoking in one of this company's carriages."

Now we have nothing to say against this mode of gibbeting offenders.
Mr. Stubbs and the other frightful criminals were, of course, punished
for the sake of example, and the more publicity that can be given to an
example, the more efficacious it is likely to be. So we are content
that they be thus hung in railway chains. But there is such a thing as
fair play. There is a saying in the Latin Delectus, " The traveller is not
always killed by the thief, but sometimes the thief by the traveller."
We might adapt this, and remark that the traveller does not always
injure the railway-man, but sometimes the railway-man injures the
traveller. We may venture to say this, because juries and judges have
said so before us. And therefore we should deem it quite fair, not only
in Messrs. Stubbs, Wabstraw, Squott, or Bowling, but in any other
railway traveller, to hold out, in his turn, warning and caution to the
railway Company and officials. How station masters or Directors who
might happen to be on the line, would stare to see affixed to all the
hats of the passengers inscriptions to this effect :—

" CAUTION.

" This Railway Company was sentenced by the Court of Queen's Bench on the 3rd
June last, to pay Phineas Anderson the sum of one hundred pounds, for damages to
his person, caused by the Company's stinginess in not keeping a sufficient number of
officials to provide against accidents."

"CAUTION.

"On the 5th January, 1854, a Director of the Indirect South Northern and West
Easterly Junction Railway Company was sent to gnol for three months for man-
slaughter, occasioned by an engine breaking down from neglect."

" CAUTION.

" At this moment the Railway Company on whose line we are travelling is, by
compulsion of law, paying an annuity of £50, to the family of Samuel Stitch, tailor,
who was destroyed by an accident caused by the avarice of the. shareholders, the
negligence of the Directors, and the wanton carelessness of the officials."

We recommend the Office that Assures Travellers against Accidents
to insist upon every assurer wearing upon his hat one of these notices
during a journey. It might tend to dimmish the chance of his having
a claim against that office.

CHASTISEMENT IN THE ARMY.

Although we should like to see the Cat disused, we do not desire
that flogging should be altogether abolished in the army. In some
regiments it appears that the junior officers are in the habit of bullying
their comrades after the manner practised by blackguard boys at a
public school. Conducting themselves like juvenile blackguards we
would have them punished as such blackguards are wont to be. Let
them be chastised, morepuerorum. Do away with the Cat, indeed, in
the Army, but institute the Bod, and keep it in pickle for young lieu-
tenants who are in the habit of beating, and 'pinching, and " pulling
about" their brother officers.

The Czar's Rubbish.

Prom J assy a Correspondent of the Morning Post thus writes :—

" The number of the wounded (Russians) on the day of the 7th only, may be imagined
from the fact, that 450 carts laden with them have arrived here."

Pleasant news for Nicholas this, one might think. But what are
four hundred and fifty cart-loads of his wounded soldiers to the Czar ?
Of course he looks upon his whole army as composed of rubbish that
may be carted anywhere—and shot.