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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[June 21, 1856.
PUNCH'S ILLUSTRATIONS TO SHAKS PEASE
" Touchstone. Wast ever in court, shepherd ?
Covin. No, truly.
Touchstone. Then thou art danin'd.
* * ■ * * * *
Covin. For not being at court 'I Your reason 1
Touchstone. Why if thou never wast at court, thou never Eaw'st good manners;
if thou never saw'st good manners, then thy manners must be wicked : and wicked-
ness is sin, and sin is damnation. Thou art in a parlous state, shepherd."
As You Like It, Act hi., Scene 2.
A ROYAL ROUNDABOUT.
There are some people who can do nothing in a straight*
forward manner, and who can ask you to dinner one day,
put you off the; next, give you a half invitation a month
afterwards, and then drop the affair altogether, as if they
never intended to give you any dinner at all. This is
generally considered shabby enough in private life, or
rather unceremonious treatment, to say the least of it, but
we hardly expect to find such a practice adopted on the
part of one sovereign towards another.
That such has been the case, however, appears by an
extraci from a recent letter of the Times' correspondent at
Berlin, who writes as follows :—
" It is whispered that the King has sent to the Emperor of Austria,
through Prince Windischoraiz, an invitation, or something amounting
to one, to come to the autumn manoeuvres here."
If we were the Emperor op Austria we would see the
King of Prussia and his " manoeuvres " further, or rather
we would not see him a1 all, if he could not tell us in an
open, honest manner that he would be glad to see us,
instead of dropping a hint of an ''invitation," or "some-
thing amounting to one," which would have left us in a
state of ambiguity as to whether we bad been asked or
not asked to give the honour of our company. We almost
wonder that Windischgratz, who ought in future to be
called Side Windischgratz, did not get a flea in his ear
when he had the temerity to attempt the dirty work of
hiuting a half-invitation to an Emperor. Austria might
well say, "If your master really wauts me, why don't be
say so, instead of dropping his vague hints, which will
enable him to get out of it if he should change his mind,
and wish fo put me off again."
It seems, however, that the Royal family of Prussia,
cannot for the life of them, avoid an undeihand mode of
going to work; for the following extract ftom the corre-
spondence we have already quoted, gives another instance
of ambiguity :—
" The Prince and Princess of Psdssia will quietly meet together at
Ostend in the first week of July, as if tor the purpose of sea-bathing, and
when there will unobservedly cross the Straits and pay our gracious
Queen a visit."
Why should they meet "as if" for one purpose, when
they contemplate another ; and why attempt to "cross the
straits unobservedly," when everything ought to be done—
on the sea, at any rate—in a fair and above-board manner.
Reflection for Mr. Pierce.—The man who cguld
pick a quarrel would also pick a pocket.—Johkson the
Little.
THE LITERATURE OF FLUNK EYISM.
My dear Carlyle,
You don't quite agree with even body on all subjects—but do
you not coincide with me in considering the piece of liue writing
hereinunder quoted an example of something more than Able-Editor-
ship?
"When it is remembered that 32 ladies of surpassing loveliness costumed in the
exquisite manner we have dei-cribed, and 32 gentlemen of distinguished appearance,
many of [them] wearing the very handsomesi fancy costumes, were now standing in
presence of Royalty, backed by about seven hundred others, all in gay costumes, it
can readily be imagined that any hastily written description must tall far short of
the reality. Suffice it to say, that the scene was one of iranscendant interest and
animation."
Is not this a powerful paragraph—powerful as the strongest
Rondeletia or Macassar-oil ? Peradventure you will not need to be
told what Newspaper it comes from. D d you ever meet with a much
more splendid instance of word-painting and figute-painting ? Far.ey
82 ladies of surpassing loveliness costumed in an exquisite manner.
Imagine 32 gentlemen to match, of distinguished appearance—
distinguished, many of them, by wearing the very handsomest of
fancy costumes: these 64 variegated persons of quality—backed by
about seven hundred others, all in costumes which were at least gay
—standing in the presence of Royalty; not only standing, however,
but dancing. With your imaginative powers, doubtless, you will be
able readily to imagine that any description written hastily—written
without sufficient thought and deliberation—must necessarily fall
short of; the reality, namely, of a quadrille at the Royal Academy
of Music's Ball; and you are well enough versed in transcendentalism
to be aware that the fcene must, indeed, have been one of interest and
animation, both sublimely transcendental. Mere Able-Editorship can
► how nothing to match the aoove quotation, which, as a specimen of
Fashion-able Editorship, is commended to your critical consideration
by your friend, \Bm$<tl%.
THE GREAT AMERICAN QUESTION.
The following address to the American People has been issued from
85, Fleet Street :—
American Brethren : In the present momentous condition of our
mutual relations, when it seems awfully probable that our respective
Misgovernments will, unless we object to the collision, knock our heads
together, as if our brain-pans were pans without brains, the result of
which will necessarily be, on both sides, what you expressively
deiiomin^e au immortal smash—aliow me earnestly to entreat you
most sincerely to reflect on the following important question :
Why are the Britishers arid the Yankees like the "Derby" at
Epsom and the " Cap " at Ascot ?
I will not call this a conundrum, brethren. The answer is too
"bvious.
Surely I shall not have to pause a moment for a reply. Your imme-
diate and unanimous response will be,
Because they are the two great Anglo-Saxon Races.
If, then, we suffer our heads to be knocked together by our Mis
governments, shall we not be everlasting blockheads P
Manchester to the Rescue.—Where are the men of peace ? Are
the ears of Manchester so stuffed with cotton, that nothing can Pierce
them ?
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[June 21, 1856.
PUNCH'S ILLUSTRATIONS TO SHAKS PEASE
" Touchstone. Wast ever in court, shepherd ?
Covin. No, truly.
Touchstone. Then thou art danin'd.
* * ■ * * * *
Covin. For not being at court 'I Your reason 1
Touchstone. Why if thou never wast at court, thou never Eaw'st good manners;
if thou never saw'st good manners, then thy manners must be wicked : and wicked-
ness is sin, and sin is damnation. Thou art in a parlous state, shepherd."
As You Like It, Act hi., Scene 2.
A ROYAL ROUNDABOUT.
There are some people who can do nothing in a straight*
forward manner, and who can ask you to dinner one day,
put you off the; next, give you a half invitation a month
afterwards, and then drop the affair altogether, as if they
never intended to give you any dinner at all. This is
generally considered shabby enough in private life, or
rather unceremonious treatment, to say the least of it, but
we hardly expect to find such a practice adopted on the
part of one sovereign towards another.
That such has been the case, however, appears by an
extraci from a recent letter of the Times' correspondent at
Berlin, who writes as follows :—
" It is whispered that the King has sent to the Emperor of Austria,
through Prince Windischoraiz, an invitation, or something amounting
to one, to come to the autumn manoeuvres here."
If we were the Emperor op Austria we would see the
King of Prussia and his " manoeuvres " further, or rather
we would not see him a1 all, if he could not tell us in an
open, honest manner that he would be glad to see us,
instead of dropping a hint of an ''invitation," or "some-
thing amounting to one," which would have left us in a
state of ambiguity as to whether we bad been asked or
not asked to give the honour of our company. We almost
wonder that Windischgratz, who ought in future to be
called Side Windischgratz, did not get a flea in his ear
when he had the temerity to attempt the dirty work of
hiuting a half-invitation to an Emperor. Austria might
well say, "If your master really wauts me, why don't be
say so, instead of dropping his vague hints, which will
enable him to get out of it if he should change his mind,
and wish fo put me off again."
It seems, however, that the Royal family of Prussia,
cannot for the life of them, avoid an undeihand mode of
going to work; for the following extract ftom the corre-
spondence we have already quoted, gives another instance
of ambiguity :—
" The Prince and Princess of Psdssia will quietly meet together at
Ostend in the first week of July, as if tor the purpose of sea-bathing, and
when there will unobservedly cross the Straits and pay our gracious
Queen a visit."
Why should they meet "as if" for one purpose, when
they contemplate another ; and why attempt to "cross the
straits unobservedly," when everything ought to be done—
on the sea, at any rate—in a fair and above-board manner.
Reflection for Mr. Pierce.—The man who cguld
pick a quarrel would also pick a pocket.—Johkson the
Little.
THE LITERATURE OF FLUNK EYISM.
My dear Carlyle,
You don't quite agree with even body on all subjects—but do
you not coincide with me in considering the piece of liue writing
hereinunder quoted an example of something more than Able-Editor-
ship?
"When it is remembered that 32 ladies of surpassing loveliness costumed in the
exquisite manner we have dei-cribed, and 32 gentlemen of distinguished appearance,
many of [them] wearing the very handsomesi fancy costumes, were now standing in
presence of Royalty, backed by about seven hundred others, all in gay costumes, it
can readily be imagined that any hastily written description must tall far short of
the reality. Suffice it to say, that the scene was one of iranscendant interest and
animation."
Is not this a powerful paragraph—powerful as the strongest
Rondeletia or Macassar-oil ? Peradventure you will not need to be
told what Newspaper it comes from. D d you ever meet with a much
more splendid instance of word-painting and figute-painting ? Far.ey
82 ladies of surpassing loveliness costumed in an exquisite manner.
Imagine 32 gentlemen to match, of distinguished appearance—
distinguished, many of them, by wearing the very handsomest of
fancy costumes: these 64 variegated persons of quality—backed by
about seven hundred others, all in costumes which were at least gay
—standing in the presence of Royalty; not only standing, however,
but dancing. With your imaginative powers, doubtless, you will be
able readily to imagine that any description written hastily—written
without sufficient thought and deliberation—must necessarily fall
short of; the reality, namely, of a quadrille at the Royal Academy
of Music's Ball; and you are well enough versed in transcendentalism
to be aware that the fcene must, indeed, have been one of interest and
animation, both sublimely transcendental. Mere Able-Editorship can
► how nothing to match the aoove quotation, which, as a specimen of
Fashion-able Editorship, is commended to your critical consideration
by your friend, \Bm$<tl%.
THE GREAT AMERICAN QUESTION.
The following address to the American People has been issued from
85, Fleet Street :—
American Brethren : In the present momentous condition of our
mutual relations, when it seems awfully probable that our respective
Misgovernments will, unless we object to the collision, knock our heads
together, as if our brain-pans were pans without brains, the result of
which will necessarily be, on both sides, what you expressively
deiiomin^e au immortal smash—aliow me earnestly to entreat you
most sincerely to reflect on the following important question :
Why are the Britishers arid the Yankees like the "Derby" at
Epsom and the " Cap " at Ascot ?
I will not call this a conundrum, brethren. The answer is too
"bvious.
Surely I shall not have to pause a moment for a reply. Your imme-
diate and unanimous response will be,
Because they are the two great Anglo-Saxon Races.
If, then, we suffer our heads to be knocked together by our Mis
governments, shall we not be everlasting blockheads P
Manchester to the Rescue.—Where are the men of peace ? Are
the ears of Manchester so stuffed with cotton, that nothing can Pierce
them ?