Punch (29.1855)

September 29, 1855.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 123

PUNCH'S ILLUSTRATIONS TO SHAKSPEARE.

"The Emperor of Russia was my father :
Oh ! that he were alive, and here beholding—"

LORD BROUGHAM MADE A VALUABLE
CONSIDERATION.

An advertisement in Galignani announces for sale a
chateau in the South of France, which, among its other
attractions, is said to be " adorned with the Cactus." to
be " within forty-four to fifty hours of London," and " only
five minutes' walk from the residence of Lord Brougham."
To the amateurs of the Cactus the inducement above held
forth is legitimate enough, and it is reasonable to intimate
that the chateau is within forty-four or fifty hours of
London; but the propinquity to Lord Brougham is a
matter which no speculator has any right to take advantage
of. We do not imagine that it is with Lord Brougham's
consent that he is thus introduced into an advertisement
as a means of enhancing the attractions of a chateau for
sale in his neighbourhood. It is of course a merely
nominal advantage to be within five minutes' walk of Lord
Brougham, unless the privilege of dropping in upon that
accomplished nobleman is to be included in the purchase.
Unless Lokd Brougham becomes a party to the con-
veyance, and agrees to a clause, in which he undertakes to
be at home when the purchaser drops in, we do not see how
the fact of vicinage will add to the value of the premises.
We think it would be only fair that Lord Brougham
should have a port ion of the purchase-money in consideration
of its amount being increased by the announcement that
his Lordship is within five minutes' walk of the property.
If the advertisement had appeared during the session, we
should have expected a motion to have been made in the
House of Lords on the subject.

Punch to the Smoking World.

[After Readymadeasy.)

Lt?arn to smoke slow. The other grace is,
To keep your smoke from people's faces.

Pop goes the PontirT.

The Pope has lately been engaged spiritually in the sort
of work that other Europeau powers are doing in a
material sense. He has been letting off his artillery, par-
ticularly at Spain, and our Allies, the Sardinians. The
ordnance of his Holiness is, however, of a small descrip-
tion, and makes but little noise; in fact, it is an almost

Winter's Tale, Act iii., Scene 2. , childish species of artillery, consisting of mere PoPE-guns.

CAPTIVITY AMONG THE NATIVES OP RUSSIA.

What can you expect from a bear but brutality ?—but contrary to
expectation, it seemed that the Russians had treated some officers of
ours, who had fallen into their hands, humanely. A different story, bow-
ever, is told by the Paris correspondent of the Horning Post, who says—

" I have spoken to a gPTttleman who has just arrived in Paris from Constantinople.
A number of English exchanged prisoners had just reached the latter citv, half dead'
They had been subjected to the most, insolent and humiliating treatment by the Russians
whilst marching. One officer told my friend that he had been marched more than
1000 miles on foot, with nothing to eat but black bread and dirty water. When the
partv arrived at certain villages on their wav, he was made to walk two or three times
through the place, to be shown to the people, and was insulted and spat upon. Ttie
guard gave him dirty water to drink when clean was at hand, and, throughout the>
march, Bought to annoy him in every way. I hope this gentleman, who is now ill at
Constantinople, will make his case kno»n, for I am assured it is no exceptional one.
The Russians are taught particularly to insult the English, it appears."

The writer then makes the very natural remark, that the Muscovite
prisoners in Prance and England are treated too well. But Prance and
England cannot stoop to retaliation. They do not scalp captive
warriors because those warriors have scalped Erench and English
captives. The worst we could possibly allow ourselves to do to the
Russian prisoners would be to send them back to Russia. But then
we must keep them, in order to exchange them for the men whom we
have had taken. The lonjer they remain among us the more thoroughly
they become imbued with liberal ideas, and the greater service they do
us as live bombs when they come to be thrown back upon the Czar.

An Act of Dotage.

THE TEETOTALLERS WANTED.

The attention of the Universal Sackcloth and Cinder Sunday Society
is respectfully called to a flagitious ceremony too frequently acted in
Her Majesty's Dockyards. A few days since, Miss Gordon stood
godmother to a new ship, naming it the Pearl. We are told that—

" Having taken a very brief survey of the Ship, Commodore Shepherd placed the
garlanded bottle of wine in Miss Gordon's hands, which she immediately dashed against
the cutwater, exclaiming, ' Success to the Pearl.' "

What can be expected of a Pearl so christened, but that, as in the
case with pearls in general, it should at some time be found at the
bottom of the sea? Why cannot Her Majesty's ships be baptised
with the pure lymph ; or, for at least a season, is it allowed that the
Lords of the Admiralty have cast sufficient cold water on the true in-
terests of the navy ? What amoral is conveyed in the garlanded bottle !
Innocent roses, with the wine "biting like a serpent" under them!
We recommend this thought to Ma. Gotjgh, to be duly made up with
his other flowers of rhetoric. We have, moreover, to call the attention
of the above Sackcloth Sunday Society to the fact that, under the
auspices of Prince Albert, whiskey was drunk about the bonfire
lighted at Balmoral, in commemoration of the tumble down of Sebas-
toool. Of what use, it may be asked, is the moral influence of Forres
Mackenzie in Scotland, if the good man is thus to be outraged by the
sad example and mischievous patronage of a Prince Consort ?

' Cooking " a Barometer.

Greek merchants of Liverpool in the interest of Russia, have beer.

m m- j i i. i i 3 -i i -,i accused of an attempt to depress the corn-market, by tampering with

The Timetrone day lastweek presented its readers with an uncom- ,he quicks,jver of the Exchange barometer. They have protested

monly absurd case of conscience-money : - againlt the imputation, signing three names ; they are Gladstoniadi ■

" The Chancellor of thb Exchequer acknowledges the receipt of the first half of G.KAHAMILIZZI; and RuSSELLAYANNI. A brass bar now protects t'<C

a Rank of England £100 note, from 'F.G.Y.,' on account of undemanded tooome Tax.' t)arometer from all meddlers : the quality of the met al Suggested by the

Of course, P—G—Y can only stand for Pogy. impudence of the offenders.