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March 13, 1858
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March 13. 1858.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
103
THE ANTI-STREET-NOISE LEAGUE.
Mr. Punch sees with satisfaction that an influential meeting has
taken place in Marylebone, with a view to the Suppression of Street
Noises. These abominable nuisances, which are daily growing more
and more atrocious, must be put down by a determined effort, to
which, in the interests of humanity (for no earthly sound can perturb
His constant mind) he will lend all the assistance in his power. What
are the parishes about ? Let them all meet, and put the screw upon
their representatives, and let a Bill be introduced declaring it a police-
offence to raise clamour of any kind, vocal or instrumental, in the
public streets.
He has recently appointed himself a Committee, and has been taking
some evidence in the Disturbed Districts. A small portion of this he
begs to submit, that the Legislature may know what the people suffer.
Mrs. Materfamilias. Resides in Pimlico. Has had dlness in
her family. When her youngest child was in a critical state, and quiet
was necessary, it was nearly killed by the organs, which constantly
roused it, from sleep. When she had nervous fever, the effect was the
same. The organists would never go away at her entreaty, but her
husband caught inflammation of t he chest by going after a policeman
one night, who refused to act, and the Italian not only persevered in
playing next door, but sent a bag-piper and a hurdygurdy. It would
be a real blessing to mothers and invalids if all the organs were driven
away.
Mr. Swanqtjill. Is an author. Was deluded into taking a house
in a quiet street in Brompton. Has never been able to write a page in
his house for the incessant and irritating uproar in the streets. In
one day there have bawled, shrieked, howled, or ground in his street,
sweeps, orangemen, dustmen, knife-grinders, potboys, rabbit-sellers,
Jeriwinkle-vendors, fishmongers, match girls, water-cress women,
ews, hareskin buyers, hearthstone boys, tinkers, cat's-meatmen, chair-
menders, and musicians, to the number of sixty-three. His house is
of no use to him, but he cannot get rid of it, and has to borrow a friend's
chambers.
Mr. Fixture. Is a House-Agent. The value of the houses in his
charge is daily diminishing by reason of the Street Cries, which render
the place uninhabitable. When he mentions any of the " quiet
streets " to persons in want of a house, they almost abuse him for trying
to entrap them.
Mr. Badger. Is an M.P., but not a rich man, and lives in a quiet
street. The House keeps late hours, and he is always roused from his
first sleep by a miscreant whining and screaming after hareskins.
Cannot see why he should be subjected to this nuisance—nobody but
servant girls have any interest in this trade, and does not think a
whole street should be disturbed at seven in the morning that a servant
may get fourpence. Will vote for any Bill for suppressing the system.
Samuel Shivers. Is a little boy, son of a costermonger. Never
goes to school, because his father makes him come out to scream
turnips. Has generally a very sore throat, and is very miserable, but
is always licked if he complains, and hopes the gentleman won't let his
father know he has said anything.
Mary Shivers. Is sister of the above. Would like to go to school,
but is always driven into the streets to sell onions, and is beaten if she
brings them home again.
Dr. Febrifuge. Is a medical man in a district infested by the
peripatetic traders. Has no hesitation in ascribing the protracted
sufferings of many of his patients to their inability to procure repose,
in consequence of the incessant howling and noise which is carried on
from an early hour of the morning to a late hour at night. He con-
siders the suppression of these noises a sanatory movement of much
importance.
Mr. Bull. Is an Englishman. Has heard that an Englishman's
house is his Castle, but this is all rubbish, if a gang of roaring ruffians
are to drive a man into his back rooms by their making it impossible
to inhabit his front ones for the abominable riot the scoundrels kick
up. Thinks it a clear case for legislation.
More Glory than Gain.
The storming of Delhi, oh what a cheap job !
They have given to each
Man who entered the breach
For his courage and trouble—just thirty-six bob.
not unlikely.
Lord Stanley in his address to the Electors of King's Lynn,
declares his intention of " carrying out all the principles he has ever
advocated." It is very probable he will carry them out— of office.
The Two Traps.—The Earl of Derby now holding the reins of
power, the question is, whether his turn-out wdl not be faster, if not
more splendid than Lord Palmerston's.
THE CRIME OF CARICATURING.
Is it possible that there can be any truth in the following paragraph,
which appeared, the other day, in the Stamford Mercury ?—
" Caution.—At Pletton, on Wednesday last, before the Marquis of Huntley
(Chairman), Lord Gkorge Gordon, J. M. Vipan, Esq., and P. C. Sherard, Esq.,
Henky Broughton, aged 14, of Orton Waterville, was committed to Huntingdon
gaol for six weeks' hard labour, for sketching animals and all sorts of absurd things
with a black lead pencil on the back of a pew in the Parish Church, belonging to
Henry Wright aud James Linn, the Churchwardens of Orton Waterville, on
Sunday last, in default of paying 2s. damage, and 12s. costs."
One really can hardly believe that three gentlemen, two of them
noble lords, could concur in sending a boy to gaol for a piece of mis-
chief which would have been severely enough punished by a box on
the ear. Yet there is no cruelty, no tyranny, that some of the unpaid
magistracy will not practise, if they legally can. We believe that
there are Country Magistrates who wo>dd hang poachers if they dared,
and others who would inflict the heaviest punishment they possibly
could on a journeyman tailor convicted of mending his own breeches
on a Sunday. Moreover, the offence for which the boy Broughton is
alleged to have been consigned, by the abovenamed justices, to the
punishment and the companionship of felons, is one that the cross and
pompous old fools who abound on provincial benches, especially
abominate. They hate and detest caricaturists. "Dangerous fellows,
Sir! Dangerous talent! " who has not heard some of them, in refe-
rence to those artists and their genius, exclaim, puffing and blowing ?
If those Squires and Lords did send Broughton to prison for
sketching animals and absurd thing3 on the back of a pew, perhaps
the animals included a jackass, with the name of a Magistrate written
underneath it.
Let us hope that they have not perpetrated the cruel, if legal, folly
of which they are accused; that Henry Broughton, aged 14, has not
been sent to gaol for scrawling over a pew; that he is not now in
course of being corrupted by association with thieves; and that he
will not, one of these days, come to be hanged, and, in his last dying
speech and confession, date the commencement of his evil courses from
his committal to Huntingdon gaol.
Brag is a Good French Dog.
The French are bragging now that they took Canton. There was
exactly the same esprit de brag in the Crimea. They took Sebastopol,
they took Kertch, they took everything, excepting flight, of course.
However, John Bull should not growl. He should know that, in
this, as in other victories, it is La Gloire that always points the French-
man the way to Cant-on._
the liberties of colchester.
Colchester is well-known for its Liberties, and one of these
liberties decidedly has been recently exemplified in the fact of Col-
chester taking the office of Postmaster-General, whilst Rowland
Hill is only Secretary.
103
THE ANTI-STREET-NOISE LEAGUE.
Mr. Punch sees with satisfaction that an influential meeting has
taken place in Marylebone, with a view to the Suppression of Street
Noises. These abominable nuisances, which are daily growing more
and more atrocious, must be put down by a determined effort, to
which, in the interests of humanity (for no earthly sound can perturb
His constant mind) he will lend all the assistance in his power. What
are the parishes about ? Let them all meet, and put the screw upon
their representatives, and let a Bill be introduced declaring it a police-
offence to raise clamour of any kind, vocal or instrumental, in the
public streets.
He has recently appointed himself a Committee, and has been taking
some evidence in the Disturbed Districts. A small portion of this he
begs to submit, that the Legislature may know what the people suffer.
Mrs. Materfamilias. Resides in Pimlico. Has had dlness in
her family. When her youngest child was in a critical state, and quiet
was necessary, it was nearly killed by the organs, which constantly
roused it, from sleep. When she had nervous fever, the effect was the
same. The organists would never go away at her entreaty, but her
husband caught inflammation of t he chest by going after a policeman
one night, who refused to act, and the Italian not only persevered in
playing next door, but sent a bag-piper and a hurdygurdy. It would
be a real blessing to mothers and invalids if all the organs were driven
away.
Mr. Swanqtjill. Is an author. Was deluded into taking a house
in a quiet street in Brompton. Has never been able to write a page in
his house for the incessant and irritating uproar in the streets. In
one day there have bawled, shrieked, howled, or ground in his street,
sweeps, orangemen, dustmen, knife-grinders, potboys, rabbit-sellers,
Jeriwinkle-vendors, fishmongers, match girls, water-cress women,
ews, hareskin buyers, hearthstone boys, tinkers, cat's-meatmen, chair-
menders, and musicians, to the number of sixty-three. His house is
of no use to him, but he cannot get rid of it, and has to borrow a friend's
chambers.
Mr. Fixture. Is a House-Agent. The value of the houses in his
charge is daily diminishing by reason of the Street Cries, which render
the place uninhabitable. When he mentions any of the " quiet
streets " to persons in want of a house, they almost abuse him for trying
to entrap them.
Mr. Badger. Is an M.P., but not a rich man, and lives in a quiet
street. The House keeps late hours, and he is always roused from his
first sleep by a miscreant whining and screaming after hareskins.
Cannot see why he should be subjected to this nuisance—nobody but
servant girls have any interest in this trade, and does not think a
whole street should be disturbed at seven in the morning that a servant
may get fourpence. Will vote for any Bill for suppressing the system.
Samuel Shivers. Is a little boy, son of a costermonger. Never
goes to school, because his father makes him come out to scream
turnips. Has generally a very sore throat, and is very miserable, but
is always licked if he complains, and hopes the gentleman won't let his
father know he has said anything.
Mary Shivers. Is sister of the above. Would like to go to school,
but is always driven into the streets to sell onions, and is beaten if she
brings them home again.
Dr. Febrifuge. Is a medical man in a district infested by the
peripatetic traders. Has no hesitation in ascribing the protracted
sufferings of many of his patients to their inability to procure repose,
in consequence of the incessant howling and noise which is carried on
from an early hour of the morning to a late hour at night. He con-
siders the suppression of these noises a sanatory movement of much
importance.
Mr. Bull. Is an Englishman. Has heard that an Englishman's
house is his Castle, but this is all rubbish, if a gang of roaring ruffians
are to drive a man into his back rooms by their making it impossible
to inhabit his front ones for the abominable riot the scoundrels kick
up. Thinks it a clear case for legislation.
More Glory than Gain.
The storming of Delhi, oh what a cheap job !
They have given to each
Man who entered the breach
For his courage and trouble—just thirty-six bob.
not unlikely.
Lord Stanley in his address to the Electors of King's Lynn,
declares his intention of " carrying out all the principles he has ever
advocated." It is very probable he will carry them out— of office.
The Two Traps.—The Earl of Derby now holding the reins of
power, the question is, whether his turn-out wdl not be faster, if not
more splendid than Lord Palmerston's.
THE CRIME OF CARICATURING.
Is it possible that there can be any truth in the following paragraph,
which appeared, the other day, in the Stamford Mercury ?—
" Caution.—At Pletton, on Wednesday last, before the Marquis of Huntley
(Chairman), Lord Gkorge Gordon, J. M. Vipan, Esq., and P. C. Sherard, Esq.,
Henky Broughton, aged 14, of Orton Waterville, was committed to Huntingdon
gaol for six weeks' hard labour, for sketching animals and all sorts of absurd things
with a black lead pencil on the back of a pew in the Parish Church, belonging to
Henry Wright aud James Linn, the Churchwardens of Orton Waterville, on
Sunday last, in default of paying 2s. damage, and 12s. costs."
One really can hardly believe that three gentlemen, two of them
noble lords, could concur in sending a boy to gaol for a piece of mis-
chief which would have been severely enough punished by a box on
the ear. Yet there is no cruelty, no tyranny, that some of the unpaid
magistracy will not practise, if they legally can. We believe that
there are Country Magistrates who wo>dd hang poachers if they dared,
and others who would inflict the heaviest punishment they possibly
could on a journeyman tailor convicted of mending his own breeches
on a Sunday. Moreover, the offence for which the boy Broughton is
alleged to have been consigned, by the abovenamed justices, to the
punishment and the companionship of felons, is one that the cross and
pompous old fools who abound on provincial benches, especially
abominate. They hate and detest caricaturists. "Dangerous fellows,
Sir! Dangerous talent! " who has not heard some of them, in refe-
rence to those artists and their genius, exclaim, puffing and blowing ?
If those Squires and Lords did send Broughton to prison for
sketching animals and absurd thing3 on the back of a pew, perhaps
the animals included a jackass, with the name of a Magistrate written
underneath it.
Let us hope that they have not perpetrated the cruel, if legal, folly
of which they are accused; that Henry Broughton, aged 14, has not
been sent to gaol for scrawling over a pew; that he is not now in
course of being corrupted by association with thieves; and that he
will not, one of these days, come to be hanged, and, in his last dying
speech and confession, date the commencement of his evil courses from
his committal to Huntingdon gaol.
Brag is a Good French Dog.
The French are bragging now that they took Canton. There was
exactly the same esprit de brag in the Crimea. They took Sebastopol,
they took Kertch, they took everything, excepting flight, of course.
However, John Bull should not growl. He should know that, in
this, as in other victories, it is La Gloire that always points the French-
man the way to Cant-on._
the liberties of colchester.
Colchester is well-known for its Liberties, and one of these
liberties decidedly has been recently exemplified in the fact of Col-
chester taking the office of Postmaster-General, whilst Rowland
Hill is only Secretary.