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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[May 7, 1859.
A MYSTERY SOLVED !
We have no doubt that many of our readers, in common with ourselves, have been puzzled to divine
the object of the singular-looking circular structure at the south-east corner of St. Paul's Churchyard.
A close inspection of its arrangements, however, has enabled us to assign to it an employment, for
which its approximation to the plans on which zoological architecture is based most admirably adapts it,
EQUITY TAILORS.
Two ingenious tailors in Holborn,
near Chancery-lane, proclaim—
THE NEW CHANCERY SUIT,
1 60s. complete ; or the coat, 26s.;
waistcoat, 8s. ; trousers, 16s. This famous
suit, noted for durability, style, and
moderate price, is made to order.
This is a modest pair of tailors.
" Noted for durability " is a very
mild commendation of a Chancery
suit. "Warranted to last for ever"
will, by most people, be thought
not too much to say. But these
are,_ perhaps, truthful tailors, and,
having an eye to late reforms of
the law, think it as well to speak
within bounds, and describe the
New Chancery Suit, with a due
distinction from the Old, as merely
" noted for durability." In this
we recognise a conscientiousness
which encourages us to hope that
this costume really has, and de-
serves, a reputation for style also,
as well as for comparative cheap-
ness.
Dumb Bells.—The most per-
fect specimen of dumb-bells in the
world are those suspended in the
on the occasion of the next election for the governorship of a city gaol. Westminster Clock.
Parliamentary Minutes.
That idle Clock at Westminster,
which may well hold its hands be-
fore its face for very shame, has
cost the nation the pretty little
sum of £22,057. _ We never knew
a richer illustration of the homely
truth, which is always being dinned
in our ears, that Time is Money !
SIMPLE TALK FROM WASHINGTON.
Most readers of the newspapers are informed as to the details of a
case of recent occurrence in America, in which the name of Sickles is
most prominent. Into those details Mr. Punch has no intention of
going. But he desires to lay before his friends the following extracts
from the opening speech of the counsel for the prosecution. Imagine
Serjeant Ballantine or Serjeant Parry thus introducing a
culprit to a jury:—
" It was the Sabbath, a day which for more than 1S0O years has been set apart
in commemoration of the Divine mission which brought ' Peace on earth and good
will to man.' In the soft gush of that Sabbath sunlight, at an hour between the
morning and evening Christian sacrifice, at the time almost when the sound of the
church bells was lingering in the air, the deceased, all unconscious of the tremendous
woe which then stood suspended over his house, met the prisoner it the bar in a
public thoroughfare of this city."
In the course of the speech, Mr. District-Attorney Ould pro-
ceeded in the following practical language to explain to the jury the
character of the law against murder:—
" The great, grand, and old foundations of the common law with respect to this
offence, instead of being impaired, have been strengthened by time. Springing like
an arch over the vast chasm of the remote past and the present, they have become
stronger by the pressure of centuries. The maxims of the common law relating to
the crime of murder are based on common sense and common justice. However
technical that common law may be in other respects, here it deals alone with fact.
All its features are essentially humane. The features of these great old masters,
even our rough ancestors, as portrayed to us in the light of their own maxims, are
reflected to us as living actual men, like unto ourselves. These principles owe their
entire strength, and I may say also their veracity, to their humanity, not a maudlin,
sickly sentimentality humanity, but one that is God-fearing, and to men loving;
and while thus they allow a sufficient toleration of the weakness of our common
nature, they form, as it were, at the same time, the very pedestal upon which rests
the sublime figure of public justice."
Finally, he expounded to the jury its duty
" If, however, gentlemen, the defence be legal, and proved to your satisfaction, let
the prisoner go free—free as the winds of Heaven. If, however, on the other hand,
it be not legal—if it receives not the sanction of the law, or, being legal, it be not
pro ved, I charge you, gentlemen of the jury, by the duty you owe to yourselves, your
God and your country, to smite the red hand of violence everywhere by your verdict,
and proclaim to tfiefour quarters of the now listening world, there is yet virtue left to a
jury, no matter how high the position, or how lofty the pretensions of the offender."
Mr. Punch does not presume to offer any remark upon the stupendous
eloquence of Mr. District-Attorney Ould. But as soon as the
reader has recovered breath he is requested to peruse the following
criticism on the speech. It is from the pen of the Washington
Correspondent of the New York Tribune, and is written in all shrewd-
ness and gravity:—
" I do not think that Mr. District-Attobney Ould made a very favourable
impression upon any one by the speech with which he opened to the jury the most
important case which he will probably ever be required to try. Its chief merits
were brevity and freedom from rhetorical faults. It was direct, simple, and clear, and
may be well described in another's words as " a pretty little speech."
In the immortal name of Nat Lee and the Bedlam tragedy, what i*
the American standard of oratory ? We thought the above rather tall
talking, anyhow. But no, Sir.
A LIBEL ON THE SEX.
A New Statue of Venus has been discovered at Rome. Artists are
enthusiastic in their praises of its wonderful beauty. It is said that
the nose of the celebrated Venus de' Medicis has been completely put
out of joint ever since the discovery. We confess, we place but small
faith in its pretended perfection; and we are sure that ladies will
agree with us, when we tell them that there are no marks on the statue
to lead us to the belief that it had been in the habit of wearing stays,
nor was the smallest remnant of crinoline found near the spot where
this mock Venus had been for so many years hiding its charms. It is
a violence to all one's notions of ideal beauty to conceive female per-
fection in the absence of both stays and crinoline! We denounce this
vaunted Venus as an impudent impostor.
Latest Election Intelligence.
At the close of the Finsbury Poll,—Peto and Dttncombe being in
an enormous majority, and Mr. Cox, the resident and tried Candidate,
being nowhere,—Mr. Punch ascended the Islington hustings, and, with
tears in his eyes, spoke as follows :—
" Boo—hoo—hoo—hoo— " [Wt crying.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[May 7, 1859.
A MYSTERY SOLVED !
We have no doubt that many of our readers, in common with ourselves, have been puzzled to divine
the object of the singular-looking circular structure at the south-east corner of St. Paul's Churchyard.
A close inspection of its arrangements, however, has enabled us to assign to it an employment, for
which its approximation to the plans on which zoological architecture is based most admirably adapts it,
EQUITY TAILORS.
Two ingenious tailors in Holborn,
near Chancery-lane, proclaim—
THE NEW CHANCERY SUIT,
1 60s. complete ; or the coat, 26s.;
waistcoat, 8s. ; trousers, 16s. This famous
suit, noted for durability, style, and
moderate price, is made to order.
This is a modest pair of tailors.
" Noted for durability " is a very
mild commendation of a Chancery
suit. "Warranted to last for ever"
will, by most people, be thought
not too much to say. But these
are,_ perhaps, truthful tailors, and,
having an eye to late reforms of
the law, think it as well to speak
within bounds, and describe the
New Chancery Suit, with a due
distinction from the Old, as merely
" noted for durability." In this
we recognise a conscientiousness
which encourages us to hope that
this costume really has, and de-
serves, a reputation for style also,
as well as for comparative cheap-
ness.
Dumb Bells.—The most per-
fect specimen of dumb-bells in the
world are those suspended in the
on the occasion of the next election for the governorship of a city gaol. Westminster Clock.
Parliamentary Minutes.
That idle Clock at Westminster,
which may well hold its hands be-
fore its face for very shame, has
cost the nation the pretty little
sum of £22,057. _ We never knew
a richer illustration of the homely
truth, which is always being dinned
in our ears, that Time is Money !
SIMPLE TALK FROM WASHINGTON.
Most readers of the newspapers are informed as to the details of a
case of recent occurrence in America, in which the name of Sickles is
most prominent. Into those details Mr. Punch has no intention of
going. But he desires to lay before his friends the following extracts
from the opening speech of the counsel for the prosecution. Imagine
Serjeant Ballantine or Serjeant Parry thus introducing a
culprit to a jury:—
" It was the Sabbath, a day which for more than 1S0O years has been set apart
in commemoration of the Divine mission which brought ' Peace on earth and good
will to man.' In the soft gush of that Sabbath sunlight, at an hour between the
morning and evening Christian sacrifice, at the time almost when the sound of the
church bells was lingering in the air, the deceased, all unconscious of the tremendous
woe which then stood suspended over his house, met the prisoner it the bar in a
public thoroughfare of this city."
In the course of the speech, Mr. District-Attorney Ould pro-
ceeded in the following practical language to explain to the jury the
character of the law against murder:—
" The great, grand, and old foundations of the common law with respect to this
offence, instead of being impaired, have been strengthened by time. Springing like
an arch over the vast chasm of the remote past and the present, they have become
stronger by the pressure of centuries. The maxims of the common law relating to
the crime of murder are based on common sense and common justice. However
technical that common law may be in other respects, here it deals alone with fact.
All its features are essentially humane. The features of these great old masters,
even our rough ancestors, as portrayed to us in the light of their own maxims, are
reflected to us as living actual men, like unto ourselves. These principles owe their
entire strength, and I may say also their veracity, to their humanity, not a maudlin,
sickly sentimentality humanity, but one that is God-fearing, and to men loving;
and while thus they allow a sufficient toleration of the weakness of our common
nature, they form, as it were, at the same time, the very pedestal upon which rests
the sublime figure of public justice."
Finally, he expounded to the jury its duty
" If, however, gentlemen, the defence be legal, and proved to your satisfaction, let
the prisoner go free—free as the winds of Heaven. If, however, on the other hand,
it be not legal—if it receives not the sanction of the law, or, being legal, it be not
pro ved, I charge you, gentlemen of the jury, by the duty you owe to yourselves, your
God and your country, to smite the red hand of violence everywhere by your verdict,
and proclaim to tfiefour quarters of the now listening world, there is yet virtue left to a
jury, no matter how high the position, or how lofty the pretensions of the offender."
Mr. Punch does not presume to offer any remark upon the stupendous
eloquence of Mr. District-Attorney Ould. But as soon as the
reader has recovered breath he is requested to peruse the following
criticism on the speech. It is from the pen of the Washington
Correspondent of the New York Tribune, and is written in all shrewd-
ness and gravity:—
" I do not think that Mr. District-Attobney Ould made a very favourable
impression upon any one by the speech with which he opened to the jury the most
important case which he will probably ever be required to try. Its chief merits
were brevity and freedom from rhetorical faults. It was direct, simple, and clear, and
may be well described in another's words as " a pretty little speech."
In the immortal name of Nat Lee and the Bedlam tragedy, what i*
the American standard of oratory ? We thought the above rather tall
talking, anyhow. But no, Sir.
A LIBEL ON THE SEX.
A New Statue of Venus has been discovered at Rome. Artists are
enthusiastic in their praises of its wonderful beauty. It is said that
the nose of the celebrated Venus de' Medicis has been completely put
out of joint ever since the discovery. We confess, we place but small
faith in its pretended perfection; and we are sure that ladies will
agree with us, when we tell them that there are no marks on the statue
to lead us to the belief that it had been in the habit of wearing stays,
nor was the smallest remnant of crinoline found near the spot where
this mock Venus had been for so many years hiding its charms. It is
a violence to all one's notions of ideal beauty to conceive female per-
fection in the absence of both stays and crinoline! We denounce this
vaunted Venus as an impudent impostor.
Latest Election Intelligence.
At the close of the Finsbury Poll,—Peto and Dttncombe being in
an enormous majority, and Mr. Cox, the resident and tried Candidate,
being nowhere,—Mr. Punch ascended the Islington hustings, and, with
tears in his eyes, spoke as follows :—
" Boo—hoo—hoo—hoo— " [Wt crying.