Punch (33.1857)

August 15, 1857.]

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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A PEEP INTO WESTMINSTER HALL.—(Continued.)

The Duke op Wellington, mounted on his ! , T> Dm oi Wellington Bellerophon the Ch of the Guards t Waterloo wno
charger Copenhagen, whose bridle is held by I ^^^J^^ d tches of the raon- : are dresse°d in medi*val armour, to show that
Chivalry, Valour fastening the Hero's spur, ster ^Pi.lT, n rP , ^77 : their ^ was not for an ^ but for all time,

while Protestant Religion delivers to him the uPf «SI ¥f \ l y'! Meicy and tlie Gemus of Treaties fly a short
Sword of Loyalty. Under the horse's feet are and Emancipation, ^ Time breaks Ins distance behind him, and BeitanniI follows
Murder and Treason; and Foreign Invasion, V^SS JflU ^ destro? the as Una on the milk-white lamb, while the

mortally wounded, staggers backward against Sooa work- *loao : AU IS serene- British Lion frantically rends the Tricolor,

the Boulogne column. Motto : Arma virumque The Duke of Wellington in classical cos- and the Fiends of Revolution cling affrighted
cano. tume, to show the Simplicity of his Mind, leads to the rock of Liberty. Motto: Such is Life.

PROTECTION TO JURIES. FASHIONABLE SIMPLICITY.

The lawyers, it is clear, must mind what they're about. If Lord
Raynham's Cruelty-Prevention Act had passed, he would have been a
bold man who ventured to have anything to do with empanelling a jury.
Among the cruelties in common perpetration through the kingdom, his
Lordship very clearly had an eye to the barbarities which are being
constantly inflicted upon jurymen. By a clause especially devised for
their relief, the Bill included as an indictable offence—

" The packing in any basket or box, or in any other manner, or keeping so
packed, any fowl or other animal, so as by deficiency of space, air, or provision, to
cause distress or suffering thereto."

And that no doubt may exist as to jurors having claim to the pro-
tection of the Act, it was afterwards provided that—

" The word ' animal' shall include any animal, whether domesticated or not, and
whether a quadruped or not."

It is a fair argument, we think, although perhaps it may not be
accepted as a compliment, that the frequent proofs of asininity
in the verdicts of our juries should entitle them injustice to be treated
as humanely at the least as other members of the long-eared race.
And since the owner of the donkey " what wouldn't go " would clearly
be condemnable for keeping it tied up, and cutting off its corn or

Talk of the difficulty of an examination at the College of Surgeons !
Can the anatomy of the internal ear, can the sphenoid bone, can the
reflections of the peritonaeum, can the distribution of the fifth pair of
nerves, be compared to the anatomy of a complex fashionable costume,
when the following is the idea of a simple one, presented by Le Follet?

"It has often been said that simplicity is the best ornament for youth ; thus, in the
country or at the sea-side, we recommend, as morning toilette, small padded quilt-
ings or jaconets, plain tulle skirt, with casaque to match, flat embroidered collars
and mousquetaire sleeves. For evening dress, English barege, mousseline de soie,
foulard de Chine ; in a word, any light or simple material."

We should not like to get up the subject of fashionable dress with a
view to standing an examination in it. We would rather attempt the
Assyrian language or the Egyptian hieroglyphics. No amount of study
would ever enable us to master the mysteries of Le Follet; and if we
were to cram them ever so diligently, the result would be ignominious
rejection. We should share the fate of the rose of loveliness. We
should infallibly be pluciced. We should never so much as get over
even our little-go. There is something terrible in the technical nomen-
clature of that abstruse periodical, Le Follet. It suggests not only an
intricacy of construction in female apparel, which is fearful and won-
derful, but likewise a dire array of figures representing the cost to be

thistles, so should it be made an indictable offence to starve a con- looked out for by anybody on whom will fall the liability of milliners'
scientious jury who "won't go" to a decision. In fact, supposing j bills. It is therefore calculated to make the thinking but not opulent
that Lord Raynham's Act were passed, and we were so unlucky as to I lover to start and pause with a shudder at the threshold of the Temple
serve upon a jury, we should make a point of begging to be " written | of Hymen, if not to bolt in a fright from the sacred edifice,
down an ass," that there might be no mistake about our having claim
to the protection of the Act; which, as it provides most stringently
against deficient air and provender, and all " unnecessary restraint,"
would clearly be effective for the punishment of those who dared to

PLAYFULNESS IN HIGH LIFE.

jury-box us up in a hot stifling Court of Law, and to reduce us by ! ^ Lovely Creature had just been warbling, " Drink to me only with

starvation to delivering a verdict

A Change for the Worse.

Prince Albert's new title of " Prince Consort of England " was
conferred, it seems, that H.R.H. might take his place among " royal"
instead of "serene" highnesses, at the marriage of the Princess
Charlotte of Belgium with the Archduke Maximilian of Austria.
We should have supposed it better to be " Serene " in England, than
' Royal" on the Continent— as Continental Royalties go.

thine Eyes." There was a pause. Everybody stared unmeaningly at
each other. There was not a sound, save the splash of the gold fish
that, with unwearied fins, were carrying on their swimming-matches
round the large glass bowl, when Lord Edgar Swann (the lineal
descendant of the united houses of Swann and Edgar) leant forward,
and said lovingly to his partner, "I wonder, by the bye, what kind of
tipple it is that the Eye does drink?" "Why, Champagne d'd'i, to be
sure !" exclaimed the ever-ready Agnes, and, tapping his fingers
playfully with her fan, she spilt the coffee over his legs. Edgar had
new trowsers on that evening, but still he could not help laughing at
the readiness of her wit.