Punch (36.1859)

April 30, 1853.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI m

A LITTLE BIT OF PARK!

First Man (Home for the Holidays). "Awful bit of Geranium that, Charley !"
Second Ditto. " Ya-as, I was always vert fond of Flowers—aw—they look
so jolly innocent ! "

THE REWARD OF JUVENILE MERIT.

Three little ooys, says the Post, found, while picking
up loose stones on a part of the Prince Consort's Farm,
abutting on the Long Walk at Windsor which had been
turned up by drainage operations, a lead case containing 501
silver coins, chiefly half-crowns, of Elizabeth, Charles
the First, and James the First ; and—

" The boys divided the coins among themselves, but on the discovery
becoming known to Mr. Tait, the steward of his Royal Highness,
the coins were collected and forwarded to Her Majesty, and tb»
boys suitably rewarded."

How ? We should like to know in what manner these
boys were suitably rewarded for being found out with the
coins. The reward may have been considered suitable by
the giver, but the receivers may have found it unpleasant."

The Impunity of Crowned Criminals.

We hear a great deal about the Law of Nations. There
is no such thing. What is a law without a judge, or even
with a judge, without a Jack Ketch ? Which of the
Monarchs who threaten to disturb the peace of Europe
need hesitate to execute his murderous design for fear of
being hanged in the event of being defeated ?

turkish finance.

It seems that there is lots of finance in Turkey but no
money. The poor Sultan must say to himself:—"My
VoiiTE-momiaie is in a desperate bad case ! "

Fountains of Political Purity.

The example of the philanthropists who have been erect-
ing drinking fountains in our chief towns, will probably
be improved upon during the coming election. In those
boroughs which are contested, the candidate who goes
in to win will perhaps set up a number of beer-engines.

the hotel-keeper s advice to his son.

"If there's been a grand dinner, always get the party
to settle before leaving. The dinner-bill, my Son, is never
so severely scrutinised overnight as when a gentleman
looks over it the next morning! "

PUNCH'S ESSENCE OE PARLIAMENT.

came the question of Disarmament. Austria was very haughty, but
affected willingness to be pacific if other people behaved properly.

Monday, April I8tk. Lord Palmerston's Parliament met for its I Prance was not going to disarm, because she had never armed.

last debate.

Lord Malmesbury rose to explain how he had tried to keep the
peace of Europe. His Lordship had nothing to tell which everybody
did not already know, but then the great secret of interesting people
in these days is telling them what they already know. It is an insult
to anybody to try to instruct him, whereas to set before him in an
agreeable manner that of which he is well aware, and to enable him to
nod complacently, and to remark " To be sure," and " How graphic,"

Sardinia's cue was to bonder, because not admitted to the Congress
And so the matter stood at the rising of Parliament; but, as every-
body knows, events have since thrown a new and lurid light on the
"situation." Lord Malmesbury, as may be supposed, said nothing
a thousandth part so plain as Mr. Punch's summary, but he gave
a decorous version of the state of affairs, and, of course, Hoped.
Lord Clarendon also Hoped, and incidentally expressed hi
satisfaction that "the detestable system of Mazzini and his accom

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is to compliment him by asking his opinion, and consecmently to please \ plices " was at an end. Lord Derby also Hoped, but intimated
him. This art, dear to a good many authors and painters and orators, ! to Europe that though England would preserve Neutrality it should
and other prosperous humbugs, was rather neatlv practised to-night I be an Armed one ; and if her honour were ever assailed, she would
by Lord Malmesbury, who went very mildly and'inoffensively through i be down in thunder on the foe. There was no further discussion,
the whole history of negotiations, documents, interviews, and all the ! everybody agreeing that the crisis was a most important one, and that
rest of what has been served up by the newspapers hot and hot, and of I it was desirable that Europe should understand that though England
which his Lordship's rechavffee was not particularly necessary. The j was about to plunge into a domestic battle of her own, her acts were
English of the whole case is, that Austria is tremendously strong in ■ uo business of anybody else's, and nobody abroad was to augur any
Italy, and means to hold her own if she can. Her fortresses are j change in English policy from the fact that Parliament dissolved,
terribly armed, and she has to a large extent the "arms of precision," j The same subject was brought before the Commons, by Mr. Dis-
that is the rifled weapons about which so much has been heard, j raeli, with much more oratorical skill, but of course he could only
France is by no means so strong, and though her crack soldiers, her say what the Foreign Minister had said. Lord Palmerston thought

Zouaves, her Chasseurs de Yincennes, and portions of the regiments of

that Sardinia ought to be admitted to the Congress, or else not be

the line have the rifle, the mass of the French army has not yet got it, asked to disarm. Tom Duncombe did a little bit of Italian clap-trap
ami has something very like Old Brown Bess. Argal, it was the game j for the Finsbury bastings, which Mr. Gladstone regretted, but
of France to delay, while she was daily and nightly improving her arma- ■ thought that Mr. Disraeli had spoken too favourably of the conduct
ment, and while moreover she was impoverishing Austria, who has not | of Austria, and too unfavourably of that of Sardinia. Mr. Coning uaM
mere money than she wants, and is spending £50,000 a day on her j wished Italy evacuated, and its riders left to settle accounts with their
gigantic army. As for Sardinia, she is the "advanced guard" of \ own people. Lord John Russell concurred with Loro Palmekston,
Louis Napoleon, Commander-in-Chief. Lord Malmesbury wanted ; and hoped that Government would enter into no new engagements
Lord Cowley to have arranged what there was no intention of ! unless with the sanction of Parliament. Mr. Monckton Milnes was
arranging, and Russia, in private concert with France, proposed a for extreme and guarded neutrality by England. General Thompson
Congress. And as a Congress can't sit with cannon looking at it, then ' gave another proof of the extreme desirability of his retiring on his