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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[August 2, 1856.
■who married the late Dice Sombre, caused certain Chancery pro-
ceedings to be read at considerable length for the sake of assailing
Lobd Ccmbermere, who has been opposed to him throughout the
litigation in the Sombre case. When Mr. Punch has said that the
fir3t-named nobleman is ninety yeafs old, the only reason for not
speaking of this demonstration, atid of tke whole miserable history,
with the strongest expression of disgusr, and contempt, has been
assigned. The Lords struck out of the Leases Bill the anti-ToMMY
Wilson clause inserted by the Commons.
A very young officer, aged 24, and named Boyle, whom the Earl
op Cork and Orrery (another Boyle) returns for Frorne, took his
seat. And official notice was given of the fact that Mb. Edwabd
Strtjtt, a very worthy man, who, as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster a short time ago, displayed the faculty of going to sleep in the
House upon all occasions, and at the shortest; notice, is transferred to
finish his nap in the Lords, as Baron Beeper. Having been a
cotton manufacturer, he will know where to buy his night-caps. Mb.
Layabd, home from the East, expressed his, Mr. Punch's, and the
country's supreme contempt for the Chelsea Hospital salve for curing
the reputations of Lucan, Cardigan, and Company. And then came
an exhibition from which some entertainment had been expected. Mr.
Benjamin Diskaeli, in imitation of an old custom of his friend Lord
Ltndhuest, had undertaken to review the Session, and as there has
seldom been such an opportunity for that kind of sarcasm in which
Ben used to excel, a tolerable, but not a large audience assembled in
the hopes of a piquant speech. Even Lord Lyxdhtjrst himself came
down, to see the parody on himself, as Bistobi did to see Robson.
But Ben was an utter failure. Nobody expected large views, or good
taste, or common justice, and so far nobody was d'sappointed. But
everybody expected a rallying, slashing, stinging Philippic, with a
sprinkling of anecdote, epigram, and nickname, and instead of this,
Benjamin gave the Hou?e two hours of a prosaic recapitulation of the
disaster of "the Session—a far better summary has been given in every
London journal. Of course, Lord Palmerston had it all his own
way in reply, and, to do our Bottleholder justice, his style of treat-
ment is always lively and effective. He could not disprove the
assertion that Government had utterly failed in its duty to the
legislature, but he attributed the absence of legislation to the melan-
choly _ fact that he could not make laws, despotically, as the con-
stitution permits Parliament io consider, delay, and reject them. This
is a deplorable truth, aod perhaps Lord Palmerston is meditating a
coup d'etat next week, in imitation of certain French and Spanish friends
of his. As, in such a case, Mr!Punch will be his first victim, that
gentleman seizes this opportunity of declaring that the conduct of
Lord Palmerston throughout the Scsion has been eminently uncon-
stitutional. Measures of importance, brought in by Government, are
measures by which a Government should stand—or fall, and a Minister
who sacrifices nearly all his hills, involving principles, yet retains office,
commits a political fraud. There! and now up with your guns, my
Lord, aod batter 85, Fleet Street, as soon as you like.
_ Saturday. Both Houses met, in order to get routine work done in
time for the Prorogation.
DESPAIR OF HUMAN NATURE. I fHE SEE!
~ That every human being i The ,See> 1.he See> tbe yealthy See !
is a rational and ac-! \^ \f }%a 11 8ra'lsufree,>. . ,
countable creature, en- i ^P1? £he mark-within fair bounds-
dowed with an immor- I j,.th^k ,l sa? \,x ^sand pound—
tal sou! is a truism < ls "'tie enough—but one s heart s in tee
which, however, some mL sk'es ,,, ,,.
men and some things Therefore one can t be worldly wise.
in this world almost T, . ,, „ T, ... 0
tempt one to doubt. | } m 1Q *he Sree> 1 m 1,1 £be 0s?>
Among those men are ! | am where I may ever be.
advertising haberdash- i Suppose I do not choose io go,
ers, and among those i ^hat do you say then ; yes or no?
things advertisements, j 0f 5h? WHe u ^e inC?n'C I b1?Dd P°\se?s4
such as this one •— ' ! ^ caa ^ De turned out ot my Mottier s
nest,
"Cojiin-g Events.—The i For a Mother the Church has been to me,
practical correctness of the ; And 1 was born for her fattest See.
public pres.s was'never, per- |
haps, more remai kable thau T , 0 mo
in their prophetic decia- j I love my See, my wealthy See,
ration that the graceful | 1 !<corn the idea o? Simony ;
Bournous would entirely \ gat J mu^ ra]j-e care wpat, £'m about,
supersede, among the haute j c<- .i J „ ___„„J T'll ^,.t-
voiee, every other descrip- ■ Sjx thousand a-year and I ll turn out.
tion of cloak for evening i My offer you had better take,
dress, the promenade, or And vou will, if you are Wldt: a>vake,
the opera This beautiful I y Death, whenever he comes to me,
article of attire is now iden- „ J-'^1* > >
tified with its originators, Can alone compel me to quit my See.
the proprietors of the
'Sponsalia' . . . (oppo-
site * * * Chapel), and
is appropriately designated,
as a speciality, the ' Bour-
nous a la Bedouin.' Every
lady should possess one of
these charming appendages,
for, like the composition of certain poets, the Bournous is a fashion in itself—a " thing for all time.' "
Mr. Pope alludes to a certain insect in human form, as " that thing of silk." Such a
thing, we suppose, is the Bournous a la Bedouin ; and if so, such things are its " originarors "
also, by their own account; for they state that "this beautiful article of attire is now
identified with" themselves—"the proprietors of the Sponsalia." Their own idea of their
personal identity appears to be a happy one, and we are tempted to regard them as an
assortment of silks in a Co's shape. What other living entities imaginable could desc-ibe j for Gooseberries. The greenness of the one
the " Sponsalia" shop as "opposite to * * * Chapel," with such profound insensibility ofJ pursuit interferes with the greenness of the
the oppositeness of tne sacred edifice to the shop—alive only to the congruity between the i other. But now, the field of vegetable discovery
" Sponsalia" and the fashionable chapel ? j is fairly open to him. xAs Parliament closes, his
On the face of,the above advertisement it appears that the Bournous is a sort of cloak; j hunting-season begins. What Grouse is to the
but it would also seem that it is a cloak of a curious kind. The garment is termed an : Member, the Gooseberry is to the Penny-a-liner,
appendage. To a gentleman, a coat-tail is the only appendage, properly so called, in the way %
of dress that we can think of. Flow are ladies to wear tire appendage called Bournous
a la Bedouin ?
The Bournous is to be "a fashion in itself—a thing for ali time;" the rage for ever; like
the composition of certain poets—-Shak.speare and some others ! It is dreadful to read such
stuff as this; for, mind, it is not nonsense meant as such. It is serious puffery, addressed,
not to the illiterate multitude, but to the "haute voles" and to think that amongst the
superior classes there is any considerable number of persons upon whom it can produce
EXTREME SCARCITY.
Within all our experience we do not recol-
lect such an extreme scarcity of Extraordinary
Gooseberries as in this present year. However,
as Parliament has just, put up its shutters, there
is still hope before Christmas of a few ripening
to their usual full-blown Falstafkan dimensions.
The fact is, Ike Penny-a-liner kas had his eye so
fixed on M.P.'s, that he has had no time to hunt
A New novel has been published under the
title of an eld saying—Nener too Late to Mend.
This time-honoured maxim is to be received with
. a qualification. It may hold good of our spiritual
any other effect than that of nausea, is a reflection calculated to create a deplorable m sgiving being, bur, unfortunately, it does not apply to tke
as to the essential nature and destiny of our common kind. I sole of our boot.
Froverbial Philosophy.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[August 2, 1856.
■who married the late Dice Sombre, caused certain Chancery pro-
ceedings to be read at considerable length for the sake of assailing
Lobd Ccmbermere, who has been opposed to him throughout the
litigation in the Sombre case. When Mr. Punch has said that the
fir3t-named nobleman is ninety yeafs old, the only reason for not
speaking of this demonstration, atid of tke whole miserable history,
with the strongest expression of disgusr, and contempt, has been
assigned. The Lords struck out of the Leases Bill the anti-ToMMY
Wilson clause inserted by the Commons.
A very young officer, aged 24, and named Boyle, whom the Earl
op Cork and Orrery (another Boyle) returns for Frorne, took his
seat. And official notice was given of the fact that Mb. Edwabd
Strtjtt, a very worthy man, who, as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster a short time ago, displayed the faculty of going to sleep in the
House upon all occasions, and at the shortest; notice, is transferred to
finish his nap in the Lords, as Baron Beeper. Having been a
cotton manufacturer, he will know where to buy his night-caps. Mb.
Layabd, home from the East, expressed his, Mr. Punch's, and the
country's supreme contempt for the Chelsea Hospital salve for curing
the reputations of Lucan, Cardigan, and Company. And then came
an exhibition from which some entertainment had been expected. Mr.
Benjamin Diskaeli, in imitation of an old custom of his friend Lord
Ltndhuest, had undertaken to review the Session, and as there has
seldom been such an opportunity for that kind of sarcasm in which
Ben used to excel, a tolerable, but not a large audience assembled in
the hopes of a piquant speech. Even Lord Lyxdhtjrst himself came
down, to see the parody on himself, as Bistobi did to see Robson.
But Ben was an utter failure. Nobody expected large views, or good
taste, or common justice, and so far nobody was d'sappointed. But
everybody expected a rallying, slashing, stinging Philippic, with a
sprinkling of anecdote, epigram, and nickname, and instead of this,
Benjamin gave the Hou?e two hours of a prosaic recapitulation of the
disaster of "the Session—a far better summary has been given in every
London journal. Of course, Lord Palmerston had it all his own
way in reply, and, to do our Bottleholder justice, his style of treat-
ment is always lively and effective. He could not disprove the
assertion that Government had utterly failed in its duty to the
legislature, but he attributed the absence of legislation to the melan-
choly _ fact that he could not make laws, despotically, as the con-
stitution permits Parliament io consider, delay, and reject them. This
is a deplorable truth, aod perhaps Lord Palmerston is meditating a
coup d'etat next week, in imitation of certain French and Spanish friends
of his. As, in such a case, Mr!Punch will be his first victim, that
gentleman seizes this opportunity of declaring that the conduct of
Lord Palmerston throughout the Scsion has been eminently uncon-
stitutional. Measures of importance, brought in by Government, are
measures by which a Government should stand—or fall, and a Minister
who sacrifices nearly all his hills, involving principles, yet retains office,
commits a political fraud. There! and now up with your guns, my
Lord, aod batter 85, Fleet Street, as soon as you like.
_ Saturday. Both Houses met, in order to get routine work done in
time for the Prorogation.
DESPAIR OF HUMAN NATURE. I fHE SEE!
~ That every human being i The ,See> 1.he See> tbe yealthy See !
is a rational and ac-! \^ \f }%a 11 8ra'lsufree,>. . ,
countable creature, en- i ^P1? £he mark-within fair bounds-
dowed with an immor- I j,.th^k ,l sa? \,x ^sand pound—
tal sou! is a truism < ls "'tie enough—but one s heart s in tee
which, however, some mL sk'es ,,, ,,.
men and some things Therefore one can t be worldly wise.
in this world almost T, . ,, „ T, ... 0
tempt one to doubt. | } m 1Q *he Sree> 1 m 1,1 £be 0s?>
Among those men are ! | am where I may ever be.
advertising haberdash- i Suppose I do not choose io go,
ers, and among those i ^hat do you say then ; yes or no?
things advertisements, j 0f 5h? WHe u ^e inC?n'C I b1?Dd P°\se?s4
such as this one •— ' ! ^ caa ^ De turned out ot my Mottier s
nest,
"Cojiin-g Events.—The i For a Mother the Church has been to me,
practical correctness of the ; And 1 was born for her fattest See.
public pres.s was'never, per- |
haps, more remai kable thau T , 0 mo
in their prophetic decia- j I love my See, my wealthy See,
ration that the graceful | 1 !<corn the idea o? Simony ;
Bournous would entirely \ gat J mu^ ra]j-e care wpat, £'m about,
supersede, among the haute j c<- .i J „ ___„„J T'll ^,.t-
voiee, every other descrip- ■ Sjx thousand a-year and I ll turn out.
tion of cloak for evening i My offer you had better take,
dress, the promenade, or And vou will, if you are Wldt: a>vake,
the opera This beautiful I y Death, whenever he comes to me,
article of attire is now iden- „ J-'^1* > >
tified with its originators, Can alone compel me to quit my See.
the proprietors of the
'Sponsalia' . . . (oppo-
site * * * Chapel), and
is appropriately designated,
as a speciality, the ' Bour-
nous a la Bedouin.' Every
lady should possess one of
these charming appendages,
for, like the composition of certain poets, the Bournous is a fashion in itself—a " thing for all time.' "
Mr. Pope alludes to a certain insect in human form, as " that thing of silk." Such a
thing, we suppose, is the Bournous a la Bedouin ; and if so, such things are its " originarors "
also, by their own account; for they state that "this beautiful article of attire is now
identified with" themselves—"the proprietors of the Sponsalia." Their own idea of their
personal identity appears to be a happy one, and we are tempted to regard them as an
assortment of silks in a Co's shape. What other living entities imaginable could desc-ibe j for Gooseberries. The greenness of the one
the " Sponsalia" shop as "opposite to * * * Chapel," with such profound insensibility ofJ pursuit interferes with the greenness of the
the oppositeness of tne sacred edifice to the shop—alive only to the congruity between the i other. But now, the field of vegetable discovery
" Sponsalia" and the fashionable chapel ? j is fairly open to him. xAs Parliament closes, his
On the face of,the above advertisement it appears that the Bournous is a sort of cloak; j hunting-season begins. What Grouse is to the
but it would also seem that it is a cloak of a curious kind. The garment is termed an : Member, the Gooseberry is to the Penny-a-liner,
appendage. To a gentleman, a coat-tail is the only appendage, properly so called, in the way %
of dress that we can think of. Flow are ladies to wear tire appendage called Bournous
a la Bedouin ?
The Bournous is to be "a fashion in itself—a thing for ali time;" the rage for ever; like
the composition of certain poets—-Shak.speare and some others ! It is dreadful to read such
stuff as this; for, mind, it is not nonsense meant as such. It is serious puffery, addressed,
not to the illiterate multitude, but to the "haute voles" and to think that amongst the
superior classes there is any considerable number of persons upon whom it can produce
EXTREME SCARCITY.
Within all our experience we do not recol-
lect such an extreme scarcity of Extraordinary
Gooseberries as in this present year. However,
as Parliament has just, put up its shutters, there
is still hope before Christmas of a few ripening
to their usual full-blown Falstafkan dimensions.
The fact is, Ike Penny-a-liner kas had his eye so
fixed on M.P.'s, that he has had no time to hunt
A New novel has been published under the
title of an eld saying—Nener too Late to Mend.
This time-honoured maxim is to be received with
. a qualification. It may hold good of our spiritual
any other effect than that of nausea, is a reflection calculated to create a deplorable m sgiving being, bur, unfortunately, it does not apply to tke
as to the essential nature and destiny of our common kind. I sole of our boot.
Froverbial Philosophy.