DOI Heft:
September 20, 1856
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Seftember 20, 1856.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
ill
; the Queen's, would have used you more like a gentleman. He would
have paid you the attention of plunging you into a dungeou, and
chaining you to another patriot day and night—he would have acknow-
ledged the hard hits received from you by answering them with the
bastinado. Whereas, there is not a rampant, roaring, cursing, bellowing,
bullying blackguard in the vilest slums of London who does not obtain
for himself as much notice from Her Majesty's Government as you
are able to attract. You might go and be hanged, if you would hang
yourself, for it is only in some of your "surrounding Catholic countries "
that such as you are hanged now, and nobody would heed tha loss which
Society would sustain in you, if a last dying speech and an affecting' copy
of verses were not written about you by your old friend,
It's very annoying, but Mr. Knabbles loses his lest Fish of the season,
consequence of having forgotten his landing-net—at least so he says.
CONDOLENCE WITH DR. CAHiLL.
(To the Rev. Dr. Cahill.)
EtV. AND DEAR SlB,
Accept my sincere condolence on the shameful manner in which
you have been treated by Lord Palmebston's Government for the
publication of a truthful and tempera1 e pamphlet On England and
Naples, printed and sold by J. P. Nugent, styling himself Catholic
printer. Catholic, by the way, in what sense? in the theological? or
in that of universality in business ; in the sense of being ready to print
anything, sane or frantic, that he hopes to get paid for?
When you told Lobd Pamerston that the Queen of Spain had
insulted his Cabinet, and that they, of course including himself, had
" stomached this insult," you might reasonably have expect ed him to
take some notice of your taunt. He has not taken the least, although
you have further informed him that " King Bomba shakes his clenched
fist in the teeth of Palmerston, and for the second time within the
last month we behold the Cabinet of our most gracious Sovereign
gibed, insulted, and b:ow-beaten." Are you not sorry, by the bye, for
your most gracious Sovereign, Queen, Defender of the (British
Protestant) Faith ?
Not the slightest attention hive you attracted from the Government
by the use of the following bold and truthful language :—
" This is glorious news for Ireland, and this new order of things, in reference to
England, may in the ways of Divide Providence, he the preliminary movement in
Heaven for the final debasement of a cruel Legislature, which for ages has robbed and
belied Ireland, blasphemed her ancient creed, killed or banished her children, and at
this moment has in her pay hired bands of the lowest miscreants of human society, to
torture her faithful poor and to rob them of their only remaining inheritance—the faith
of their martyred fathers."
You here slate a fact, for which of course you vouch on the credit of
a priest, and the honour of a gentleman. You declare that the British
Legislature—Queen, Lirds and Commons—are at this present time
employing hired miscreants to inflict torture on the Irish poor. Every-
body knows that as well as you do : and yet Government takes no more
pains to refute your accusation, than it would if that accusation were
the most notorious falsehood.
Now this is what you may call persecution. It is not putting you
to physical death for the expression of jour opinions—if you opine
what you express—but it is killing you, in as far as you can be killed,
with contempt. Your friend Bomba, if instead of being his friend you
had been his enemy, and had spoken of hu Government as you have of
EARLY CLOSING BLUE BOTTLES.
The ehemists and druggists' assistants are trying to procure an
extension to themselves of the benefit of early closing, and, a3 far as is
practicable, of a Sunday holiday. That he who grinds pills should
himself be ground must be admitted to be a groundless affirmation, and
though an industrious assistant chemist may be expected to stick to his
mortar like bricks, it is not fair that he should be subjected to perpe-
tual pestle-and-mortardom.
Surrounded with all the appliances of health, to sicken for want r>f
air arid exercise h like perishing in the midst of plenty.; but this is the
case of. the assistant of the chemist and dtuggist, encompassed with
drawers and jars full of materia medica, having the counter ever under
his nose, and no other prospect before his face than coloured glass
globes adorned with astrological symbols.
That by way of change from an atmosphere of assafcetida. ammonite,
camphor, nitrous acid, and chloiine, the young chemist may be enabled
to inhale a tolerable sufficiency of oxygen in its natural state of admix-
ture with nitrogen, it is proposed that druggists should close their
shops daily at eight and during the whole of Sunday?, care being taken
that somebody shall be on the premises to supply medicines to any
person really requiring them. Of course this provision would be
necessary: for it would be hard that relief from a stomach-ache should
not be purchaseable because the hour was past eight p.m., or because
the complaint occurred on a Sunday. The unrelieved derangement
of the interior on Sunday might be the Monday's cholera. But if
those who wanted aromatic mixture, or tincture of rhubarb, could get
it by ringing for it, that would suffice. The one person left to mind
the shop in his turn, might enjoy rest at any rate, asd the recreation
of reading his Punch, or something better, without much interruption t
for few customers would knock and ling for a bottle of Preston-salts,
a tooth-brush, eau-de-Cologne, acidulated drops, violet-powder, delec-
table lozenges, fly-papers, marking-ink, court-plaister, gum-arabic,
stick-liquorice, or Windsor soap.
If the plan proposed were universally adopted, by druggists, none
would be losers. It has been tried by one individual, Mr. Jone3 of
Norton J?ol gate, and, as he believes, without loss. Thus, from a Single
instance, there appears to be not even penny wisdom on the part of
chemists and druggists in late hours and no holy-days, and such being
the case, to keep the pestle always at work is clearly pound foolish.
WEEDS IN IRELAND.
The chiltlrenof the National Schools in Ireland are, under authority,
to be instrue'ed by their respective teachers " as to the necessity of
destroying all weeds found on the farms of their parents, or on the
highways adjacent thereto." We hope that this new insult offered to
his enslaved country will not be lost upon Mr. Meagher, now of New
York; for this patriot must consider the behest from the Office of
National Education to pluck up, burn, and destroy the baleful weeds
of Ireland, as no other than a gross, dastardly, cowardly3 pusillanimous
insult offered by the sanguinary Saxon to himself?
Fashionable Extremes.
During the first Erench Empire, the dresses of the ladies were re-
markable for the liberality with which they admitted of the display of
natural advantages. The fashions contemporaneous with the present
Napoleonic reign are different: but the ladies nevertheless allow them-
selves a great latitude.____
EXCHANGE NO ROBBERY.
Query, Doe3 this ancient adage include Bills of Exchange ?
Household Motto for Blackbubn Housewives— Any'Ling for
Peace and " Quietness."
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
ill
; the Queen's, would have used you more like a gentleman. He would
have paid you the attention of plunging you into a dungeou, and
chaining you to another patriot day and night—he would have acknow-
ledged the hard hits received from you by answering them with the
bastinado. Whereas, there is not a rampant, roaring, cursing, bellowing,
bullying blackguard in the vilest slums of London who does not obtain
for himself as much notice from Her Majesty's Government as you
are able to attract. You might go and be hanged, if you would hang
yourself, for it is only in some of your "surrounding Catholic countries "
that such as you are hanged now, and nobody would heed tha loss which
Society would sustain in you, if a last dying speech and an affecting' copy
of verses were not written about you by your old friend,
It's very annoying, but Mr. Knabbles loses his lest Fish of the season,
consequence of having forgotten his landing-net—at least so he says.
CONDOLENCE WITH DR. CAHiLL.
(To the Rev. Dr. Cahill.)
EtV. AND DEAR SlB,
Accept my sincere condolence on the shameful manner in which
you have been treated by Lord Palmebston's Government for the
publication of a truthful and tempera1 e pamphlet On England and
Naples, printed and sold by J. P. Nugent, styling himself Catholic
printer. Catholic, by the way, in what sense? in the theological? or
in that of universality in business ; in the sense of being ready to print
anything, sane or frantic, that he hopes to get paid for?
When you told Lobd Pamerston that the Queen of Spain had
insulted his Cabinet, and that they, of course including himself, had
" stomached this insult," you might reasonably have expect ed him to
take some notice of your taunt. He has not taken the least, although
you have further informed him that " King Bomba shakes his clenched
fist in the teeth of Palmerston, and for the second time within the
last month we behold the Cabinet of our most gracious Sovereign
gibed, insulted, and b:ow-beaten." Are you not sorry, by the bye, for
your most gracious Sovereign, Queen, Defender of the (British
Protestant) Faith ?
Not the slightest attention hive you attracted from the Government
by the use of the following bold and truthful language :—
" This is glorious news for Ireland, and this new order of things, in reference to
England, may in the ways of Divide Providence, he the preliminary movement in
Heaven for the final debasement of a cruel Legislature, which for ages has robbed and
belied Ireland, blasphemed her ancient creed, killed or banished her children, and at
this moment has in her pay hired bands of the lowest miscreants of human society, to
torture her faithful poor and to rob them of their only remaining inheritance—the faith
of their martyred fathers."
You here slate a fact, for which of course you vouch on the credit of
a priest, and the honour of a gentleman. You declare that the British
Legislature—Queen, Lirds and Commons—are at this present time
employing hired miscreants to inflict torture on the Irish poor. Every-
body knows that as well as you do : and yet Government takes no more
pains to refute your accusation, than it would if that accusation were
the most notorious falsehood.
Now this is what you may call persecution. It is not putting you
to physical death for the expression of jour opinions—if you opine
what you express—but it is killing you, in as far as you can be killed,
with contempt. Your friend Bomba, if instead of being his friend you
had been his enemy, and had spoken of hu Government as you have of
EARLY CLOSING BLUE BOTTLES.
The ehemists and druggists' assistants are trying to procure an
extension to themselves of the benefit of early closing, and, a3 far as is
practicable, of a Sunday holiday. That he who grinds pills should
himself be ground must be admitted to be a groundless affirmation, and
though an industrious assistant chemist may be expected to stick to his
mortar like bricks, it is not fair that he should be subjected to perpe-
tual pestle-and-mortardom.
Surrounded with all the appliances of health, to sicken for want r>f
air arid exercise h like perishing in the midst of plenty.; but this is the
case of. the assistant of the chemist and dtuggist, encompassed with
drawers and jars full of materia medica, having the counter ever under
his nose, and no other prospect before his face than coloured glass
globes adorned with astrological symbols.
That by way of change from an atmosphere of assafcetida. ammonite,
camphor, nitrous acid, and chloiine, the young chemist may be enabled
to inhale a tolerable sufficiency of oxygen in its natural state of admix-
ture with nitrogen, it is proposed that druggists should close their
shops daily at eight and during the whole of Sunday?, care being taken
that somebody shall be on the premises to supply medicines to any
person really requiring them. Of course this provision would be
necessary: for it would be hard that relief from a stomach-ache should
not be purchaseable because the hour was past eight p.m., or because
the complaint occurred on a Sunday. The unrelieved derangement
of the interior on Sunday might be the Monday's cholera. But if
those who wanted aromatic mixture, or tincture of rhubarb, could get
it by ringing for it, that would suffice. The one person left to mind
the shop in his turn, might enjoy rest at any rate, asd the recreation
of reading his Punch, or something better, without much interruption t
for few customers would knock and ling for a bottle of Preston-salts,
a tooth-brush, eau-de-Cologne, acidulated drops, violet-powder, delec-
table lozenges, fly-papers, marking-ink, court-plaister, gum-arabic,
stick-liquorice, or Windsor soap.
If the plan proposed were universally adopted, by druggists, none
would be losers. It has been tried by one individual, Mr. Jone3 of
Norton J?ol gate, and, as he believes, without loss. Thus, from a Single
instance, there appears to be not even penny wisdom on the part of
chemists and druggists in late hours and no holy-days, and such being
the case, to keep the pestle always at work is clearly pound foolish.
WEEDS IN IRELAND.
The chiltlrenof the National Schools in Ireland are, under authority,
to be instrue'ed by their respective teachers " as to the necessity of
destroying all weeds found on the farms of their parents, or on the
highways adjacent thereto." We hope that this new insult offered to
his enslaved country will not be lost upon Mr. Meagher, now of New
York; for this patriot must consider the behest from the Office of
National Education to pluck up, burn, and destroy the baleful weeds
of Ireland, as no other than a gross, dastardly, cowardly3 pusillanimous
insult offered by the sanguinary Saxon to himself?
Fashionable Extremes.
During the first Erench Empire, the dresses of the ladies were re-
markable for the liberality with which they admitted of the display of
natural advantages. The fashions contemporaneous with the present
Napoleonic reign are different: but the ladies nevertheless allow them-
selves a great latitude.____
EXCHANGE NO ROBBERY.
Query, Doe3 this ancient adage include Bills of Exchange ?
Household Motto for Blackbubn Housewives— Any'Ling for
Peace and " Quietness."