Punch (33.1857)

October JO, 1857.j

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

147

THE NORTHERN BEE.

How doth the busy Russian Bee

Improve the darkened hour,
And kindly hope it will not see

The fall of England's power.

How skilfully it frames the " sell,"

.Forgives Crimean whacks,
And owns John Bull does pretty v eil

Whate'er he undertakes.

So now, let Bussia, with a will,

The works of peace pursue ;
For Satan finds some mischief still

For soldier-States to do.

In laying down the lion Way,

Be her next century passed,
And then, who knows, the world may sa;

" She's civilised at last."

Hindoo Smythology.

We read, in one of the innumerable books
recently published upon India, that the—

" Hindoo mythology contains no less than 330,000,000
deities."

We should say that, by this time, the nomber
was increased to 330,000,001; for you may be
sure that Vernon Smith, in return for the great
services rendered by him to the Hindoo cause,
has already been raised to the rank of a Deity.

FLUNKEIANA.

John Thomas. " Yes, I must leave. You see, Mary, my dear—there's too much bed

in the livery, and that don't suit my complexion—never did ! "

Proverb for ael Ages.—Sorrows grow less
and less every time they are told, just like the
age of a Woman!

THE HUMILIATION INDEMNITY EUND.

We have much pleasure in being enabled to state that a numerously

do something that would be very similar to devouring the houses of
widows ; and the pretence of making long prayers would only complete
the resemblance. He hoped he need not follow out the comparison
suggested.

attended meeting of serious persons of the superior classes was held on ! The Bight Beverend Prelate was followed by

Tuesday last at Exeter Hall, with the truly laudable and pious object
of collecting funds for affording compensation to workpeople, and other
industrious persons, dependent upon wages, and compelled to lose one
whole day's pay, through the appointment of Wednesday as a day of
Fast and Humiliation. The Chair was taken by the Earl of Blooms-

Sir John Bullion, Bart., who said that a poor man could not
afford to fast. Instead of taking away his wages, those who desired
him to fast, ought to supply him with the means of purchasing salt
fish and egg-sauce for that purpose. They might humiliate themselves
by being guilty of shamefully mean conduct : but he did not see any

bury, and on the platform were observed the Bishop of Belgravia, religi0n in that. The humiliation of the rich by the impoverishment
^ Lord Tyburn, with others of the nobility gentry, and clergy. ; 0f the poor might be summarily described. Humiliation was too long

The Chairman, after having briefly stated the purpose of the
meeting, said that the Humiliation which would deprive the lower
classes of a day's wages, would be humiliating indeed to the better

a word for it - to express it properly, subtract all the letters of that
word but the three first. If they could not humiliate themselves
without punishing the poor, they had better let humiliation alone : for

orders at whose desire, Humiliation Days were appointed Whilst it! sucn humiliation,0as they might expect to find, was worse than no
placed them m a most humiliating position, it took from their humni- humiliation at all

ation every particle of merit or rather rendered what should be Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated,
devout humiliation, hypocritical baseness. after £i()>000 had been subscribed on the spot.

Lord I^burn rose to propose a resolution calculated to carry out
the end in view. A national fast was a good thing for those who were ===^===-
in a condition to fast—namely in good condition— having plenty to eat
and drink. To call upon the hungry to fast was ridiculous—it was
converting a fast into a farce. Those who demanded a fast day ought
to pay for it, and demonstrate their penitence and contrition at their
own expense, and not at that of their indigent neighbours. The noble

CIVIL AND MILITARY GBATULTFES.

To the Editor of Punch.

"Sir,

lord moved, that a Committee be appointed to receive subscriptions for"1 see that General Havelock has received a Good

the purpose of indemnifying industrious individuals necessarily Service Pension of £100 a-year. Of course this will come out of the

deprived of a day's wages through the suspension of business occa- public money, and will tend to lessen the fund which is available fot

sioned by the General Humiliation and East of Wednesday the granting proper allowances to those to whom they are justly due.

7th inst. j Officers enter the Army under certain conditions; they receive so

The Bishop of Belgravia had much pleasure in seconding the much for their duties, and the understanding is, that for the consider-

motion. Humiliation and Fasting involved sacrifice; but what sort of ation stated, they are to do their duties as well as possible. Eor ful-

a sacrifice was that when the sacrificers were those who rejoiced in filling their agreement I see no reason why they should receive more

wealth and affluence, and the thing sacrificed was the hire of the needy than they bargained for. Let them have as much honour as you like,

labourer? Did they who were blest with independent property, and for that costs the public nothing. Honour is the proper recompense

many of whom were rolling in superfluous riches, imagine that they for hardships endured, wounds received, and limbs lost; pecuniary

should make an acceptable offering out of poor workmen's wages? compensation should be reserved for those to whom honour is no object,

And what would all their enemies say—especially those who hated but who appreciate money, and are capable of enjoying it in peace and

them to the death for their opposition to the pernicious errors of comfort. General Havelock's pension is not a very large one in

Borne? Let them only consider what painful remarks the Univers itself; but it would have formed a pleasant little addition to the com-

and the Tablet would be sure to make on the subject. If the working pensation allotted to, Sir, your hardly-treated and poorly-requited

classes were not compensated for the wages which they would lose by public servant,

the Humiliation Day, those who inflicted that loss upon them would " Doctors' Commons, Oct., 1857." " Proctor,"