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September 4, 1858
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100 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [September 4. 1858.
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PUNCH TO THE MONKS OF MAIDENHEAD.
Air—" Ton Remember Ellen."
You'll remember Ellen, I mean his bride,
How neatly she called you a Popish lot,
When the Reverend Gresley his logic tried,
And quite as good as he gave he got.
A brace of parsons that dame assailed,
She fought them both with undaunted pluck,
And Protestantism that day prevailed
Over Puseyite twaddle and mass-book muck.
Says G. " the Prayer Book, we'll shelter there,
For there Confession's enjoined, you see ;"
But Mistress Ellen, with Luther's air,
Cried, "No, a, better Book speaks for me."
She scolded the Bachelor Curate well,
Eor his Romish trash by the pauper's bed -,
She set his master a lesson to spell,
And the Priests in shame from the Lady fled.
Augustus. " Gracious Heavens, Fred I What are you up to, nowt"
Fred. " Haw, flattaw m'self, bwilliant ideaiv. Preserves the Boots, Haw I"
A DOUBLE INFLICTION.
We have a right to conclude, when Parliament has put
the shutters up for the season, that Members will
close their mouths as well. Lately, however, the fashion
has sprung up of M.P.s visiting their constituents, and
inflicting on them long speeches. We object to this two-
fold tax. Let Members speak in Parliament as much
as they please, but we do not see what right they have to
speechify out of Parliament. The nuisance is quite bad
enough during the Parliamentary season, without being
extended through the whole year. The House of Com-
mons is the proper arena for dulness, and we cry out
against the insidious attempt that certain loquacious
legislators are making to extend it. We propose that every
Member caught delivering himself of a speech out of
Parliament be instantly taken up, and summarily con-
Ticted for contempt of the nation.
To Ascertain the Number of your Enemies.
Publish a book.
JESUITS' BARK AND HOWL.
Public attention is at present directed towards the subject of
insanity. We do not mean to plunge into that; but will only ask
whether there is not a certain sort of people now going about that
ought to be shut up ? When we say going about, we mean going
about the whole world, but especially about Eutope; and to what sort
of people we allude, the following extract from the New Prussian
Gazette will show :—
" Since the first of this month we have had three Jesuit missionaries in this place
Grandeny, in Western Prussia,] who every evening preach sermons and hold con-
ferences in the Catholic Church. In one of those sermons the preacher took for his
text an inscription engraved over the door of the Church :—' We all believe in one
God, and love will unite us all.' He explained the meaning of the inscription, and
declared it erroneous and damnable."
Violent and frantic language rather. Certainly Bedlam does seem a
fit and proper place for anybody raving at that horrible rate. Surely
no two British medical men would hesitate to sign a certificate for
placing such a person under restraint. But the utterer of the shocking
stuff above referred to, is no isolated maniac. Madness is catching; one
Lunatic, like one common fool, makes many, and we read in continua-
tion that—
" The cur£ of the Church then decided on having the inscription effaced, and by
His orders the words were all struck out in the course of the night."
The Jesuit bit the cure, and set the latter howling too. But the
whole katernity of the Jesuits howl to the same tune. There may be
method in their madness. The charitable words which the rampant
Jesuit execrated at Grandeny were addressed by Frederick William
the Third while passing through the town, to the preceding cure.
We know that the idea of mutual toleration, based on agreement in
essentials, is odious to the Jesuits. It makes them wild, it causes
them to rave. But as they are wild, as thev do rave, ought not, they
to be shut up—under the tutelage of St. Luke ? What a blessing it
wouW be for mankind if, like some other monks, they would save the
rest ot the community trouble by shutting themselves up, and shaving
tneir own heads!
PRIESTCRAFT AND POVERTY.
The Univers says that poverty was unknown in England before the
reign of Henry the Eighth. How very odd!—for, according to
Popery, poverty is meritorious, aud monkery comprehends mendicant
friars. If our Ultramontane adversary merely means to say that no
poverty existed in priest-ridden England but what was voluntary, how
does he account for the swarms of beggars that infest priest-ridden
places on the Continent ? Are all these noisy, nasty, dirty creatures
penitents? and are their rags, and their filth, and the insects that
revel in it, only unpleasantnesses imposed on themselves by them-
selves, for the purpose of mortifying the flesh ? We always thought
that the priests and monks strongly encouraged mendicancy, and
judged them to make a considerable mistake in so doing, inasmuch as
beggary enables impostors to thrive, whilst it occasions the really
destitute to perish in the streets; and, moreover, because fraudulent
and criminal beggars are apt to_ steal children, for the purpose of
carrying them about, and pinching them to make them cry, and
thereby excite the commiseration of the passengers. A case of child-
stealing by a beggar-woman occurred but the other day; arid two
Irish monks were recently had up before the magistrates at Liverpool
for asserting their nationality and their religion by begging in the
streets. They were not punished for that offence; but, if they had
been committed, what a howl the Irish organs of the same humbug as
that which is advocated by the Univers would have raised against the
justices, for persecution !
Clever Hedging.
Lord Derby has ordered his stud to be sold. He considers that
he shall have enough to_ do next Session in starting bills, training
subordinates, handicapping colleagues, and backing (out of) rash
pledges. But Lord Derby is not going to sell his brood mares, or
their progeny. He considers that there may come such a thing as a
division which will remit him to opposition and the turf, and it would
be a bore to have to re-stock his stables. Lord Derby is a very clever
man, and goes far to verify the elder Mr. Weller's theory, that them
as is a good judge of a borse are a good judge of anything.
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J
--tz-
y
■ — ■
PUNCH TO THE MONKS OF MAIDENHEAD.
Air—" Ton Remember Ellen."
You'll remember Ellen, I mean his bride,
How neatly she called you a Popish lot,
When the Reverend Gresley his logic tried,
And quite as good as he gave he got.
A brace of parsons that dame assailed,
She fought them both with undaunted pluck,
And Protestantism that day prevailed
Over Puseyite twaddle and mass-book muck.
Says G. " the Prayer Book, we'll shelter there,
For there Confession's enjoined, you see ;"
But Mistress Ellen, with Luther's air,
Cried, "No, a, better Book speaks for me."
She scolded the Bachelor Curate well,
Eor his Romish trash by the pauper's bed -,
She set his master a lesson to spell,
And the Priests in shame from the Lady fled.
Augustus. " Gracious Heavens, Fred I What are you up to, nowt"
Fred. " Haw, flattaw m'self, bwilliant ideaiv. Preserves the Boots, Haw I"
A DOUBLE INFLICTION.
We have a right to conclude, when Parliament has put
the shutters up for the season, that Members will
close their mouths as well. Lately, however, the fashion
has sprung up of M.P.s visiting their constituents, and
inflicting on them long speeches. We object to this two-
fold tax. Let Members speak in Parliament as much
as they please, but we do not see what right they have to
speechify out of Parliament. The nuisance is quite bad
enough during the Parliamentary season, without being
extended through the whole year. The House of Com-
mons is the proper arena for dulness, and we cry out
against the insidious attempt that certain loquacious
legislators are making to extend it. We propose that every
Member caught delivering himself of a speech out of
Parliament be instantly taken up, and summarily con-
Ticted for contempt of the nation.
To Ascertain the Number of your Enemies.
Publish a book.
JESUITS' BARK AND HOWL.
Public attention is at present directed towards the subject of
insanity. We do not mean to plunge into that; but will only ask
whether there is not a certain sort of people now going about that
ought to be shut up ? When we say going about, we mean going
about the whole world, but especially about Eutope; and to what sort
of people we allude, the following extract from the New Prussian
Gazette will show :—
" Since the first of this month we have had three Jesuit missionaries in this place
Grandeny, in Western Prussia,] who every evening preach sermons and hold con-
ferences in the Catholic Church. In one of those sermons the preacher took for his
text an inscription engraved over the door of the Church :—' We all believe in one
God, and love will unite us all.' He explained the meaning of the inscription, and
declared it erroneous and damnable."
Violent and frantic language rather. Certainly Bedlam does seem a
fit and proper place for anybody raving at that horrible rate. Surely
no two British medical men would hesitate to sign a certificate for
placing such a person under restraint. But the utterer of the shocking
stuff above referred to, is no isolated maniac. Madness is catching; one
Lunatic, like one common fool, makes many, and we read in continua-
tion that—
" The cur£ of the Church then decided on having the inscription effaced, and by
His orders the words were all struck out in the course of the night."
The Jesuit bit the cure, and set the latter howling too. But the
whole katernity of the Jesuits howl to the same tune. There may be
method in their madness. The charitable words which the rampant
Jesuit execrated at Grandeny were addressed by Frederick William
the Third while passing through the town, to the preceding cure.
We know that the idea of mutual toleration, based on agreement in
essentials, is odious to the Jesuits. It makes them wild, it causes
them to rave. But as they are wild, as thev do rave, ought not, they
to be shut up—under the tutelage of St. Luke ? What a blessing it
wouW be for mankind if, like some other monks, they would save the
rest ot the community trouble by shutting themselves up, and shaving
tneir own heads!
PRIESTCRAFT AND POVERTY.
The Univers says that poverty was unknown in England before the
reign of Henry the Eighth. How very odd!—for, according to
Popery, poverty is meritorious, aud monkery comprehends mendicant
friars. If our Ultramontane adversary merely means to say that no
poverty existed in priest-ridden England but what was voluntary, how
does he account for the swarms of beggars that infest priest-ridden
places on the Continent ? Are all these noisy, nasty, dirty creatures
penitents? and are their rags, and their filth, and the insects that
revel in it, only unpleasantnesses imposed on themselves by them-
selves, for the purpose of mortifying the flesh ? We always thought
that the priests and monks strongly encouraged mendicancy, and
judged them to make a considerable mistake in so doing, inasmuch as
beggary enables impostors to thrive, whilst it occasions the really
destitute to perish in the streets; and, moreover, because fraudulent
and criminal beggars are apt to_ steal children, for the purpose of
carrying them about, and pinching them to make them cry, and
thereby excite the commiseration of the passengers. A case of child-
stealing by a beggar-woman occurred but the other day; arid two
Irish monks were recently had up before the magistrates at Liverpool
for asserting their nationality and their religion by begging in the
streets. They were not punished for that offence; but, if they had
been committed, what a howl the Irish organs of the same humbug as
that which is advocated by the Univers would have raised against the
justices, for persecution !
Clever Hedging.
Lord Derby has ordered his stud to be sold. He considers that
he shall have enough to_ do next Session in starting bills, training
subordinates, handicapping colleagues, and backing (out of) rash
pledges. But Lord Derby is not going to sell his brood mares, or
their progeny. He considers that there may come such a thing as a
division which will remit him to opposition and the turf, and it would
be a bore to have to re-stock his stables. Lord Derby is a very clever
man, and goes far to verify the elder Mr. Weller's theory, that them
as is a good judge of a borse are a good judge of anything.