DOI issue:
August 20, 1859
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16864#0093
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [August 20, 1859
SEA-SIDE CONFERENCE. SCENE-A WELL-KNOWN WATERING-PLACE,
Landlady. “ The price of these Rooms, Mum, is three pun ten a wed', not one penny less. Rut stop, Mum, do I understand you to say that you,
wiU dine at home l”
Lady. “ Yes, certainly ; I shall dine at home, with the Children, every day.”
Landlady. “ Oh, in that case, Mum, I can let you have the Rooms for two pun fifteen a week, and charge you nuffen for kitchen firing, Mum.”
THE COMMANDER OE THE EAITIIEUL.
What a set of fools the Pope must think the sovereigns and
ministers of Europe, at whom he has launched a circular, signed by his
Secretary of State, Cardinal Antonelli, informing Them, with
reference to the interferences of the Sardinian Government with the
Pontifical tyranny, that—
“ All the measures taken with the view of preventing or extenuating this series
1 of evils having been in vain, the Holy Father, not forgetful of the duties incumbent
upon him for the protection of the States and for the preservation in its integrity
of the temporal domain of the Holy See, which is essentially connected with the
free and independent exercise of the Sovereign Pontificate, pretests against the
violations and usurpations committed in spite of the acceptance of neutrality, and
i desires that his protest may be communicated to the European Powers.”
Ideally, one might almost imagine that his Holiness and his
Eminence regarded the European Princes and Cabinets in exactly
I such a light as that in which a titular Irish bishop views the most
ignorant bog-trotter in his diocese, and moreover imagined themselves
| able to palm off upon them just such absurd and monstrous humbug as
j the mitred impostors of Erin are accustomed to address to the natives
of the Emerald Isle. It is difficult to conceive how they can have the
j coolness, not only to assert that the temporal domain of the Holy See
] is essentially connected with the free and independent exercise of the
Sovereign Pontificate, hut even to make this assertion by way of
| reminder, as if it were acknowledged by all the world. The peasants
who believe that St. Patrick destroyed the reptiles of their island by
I preaching, might, with equal gullibility, receive and swallow the
assurance that the patrimony of St. Peter is a certain extent of
territory which was really and truly held by St. Peter ; as, of course,
it was, if St. Peter was the first Pope, and if, as Pio Nouo and
Antonelli aver, the temporal domain of the Holy See is essentially
connected with the free and independent exercise of the Pope’s
spiritual office. No human beings less ignorant and less credulous
than those wretched clowns could even listen for a moment to any
such fudge. Surely, therefore, the Pope and the Cardinal must
consider the potentates and statesmen, for whose edification they
composed their circular, as blockheads and boobies of the grossest
ignorance and density. Of course, they cannot for a moment believe
their own statement of the essential connection of the temporal
possessions and spiritual rule of the Holy See. If anybody else wrnre
to make such a declaration, and maintain it seriously, would they not,
indeed, anathematise him for heresy ?
The condemnation of their own proposition in that case would be
consistent inconsistency. It would be quite in keeping with that
Orientalism which mingles in the quality of the Western Church, so
calling itself—with the spice of Sultan which characterises the Pope—
if the imbecile bombast which the Holy Father raves in were not more
like the Emperor oe China’s nonsense. In point of reason, justice,
and dignity, his Holiness exhibits a curious analogy to the Grand
Signior of other days. Or wre may liken the modern Pontiff to the
ancient Caliphs, and” look upon Antonelli as Pio Nono’s Yizier.
The Past, Present, and Future.
We sacrifice the Present in regretting the Past that has already
gone, and in tormenting ourselves about the Future that has not yet
come. It is pretty much the same with a Widow. Between the
husband she has lost and the husband she is expecting, her days are
spent in alternately sighing over what she cannot change and what
she cannot command.-—A Philosopher, who is an Admirer of the Pair
Sex.
Moral Advice to those who wish to Live Well.—A Good
dinner, gentlemen, is a pleasure you may enjoy but once, whereas a
good action is a pleasure, mind you, that you enjoy all your life.
SEA-SIDE CONFERENCE. SCENE-A WELL-KNOWN WATERING-PLACE,
Landlady. “ The price of these Rooms, Mum, is three pun ten a wed', not one penny less. Rut stop, Mum, do I understand you to say that you,
wiU dine at home l”
Lady. “ Yes, certainly ; I shall dine at home, with the Children, every day.”
Landlady. “ Oh, in that case, Mum, I can let you have the Rooms for two pun fifteen a week, and charge you nuffen for kitchen firing, Mum.”
THE COMMANDER OE THE EAITIIEUL.
What a set of fools the Pope must think the sovereigns and
ministers of Europe, at whom he has launched a circular, signed by his
Secretary of State, Cardinal Antonelli, informing Them, with
reference to the interferences of the Sardinian Government with the
Pontifical tyranny, that—
“ All the measures taken with the view of preventing or extenuating this series
1 of evils having been in vain, the Holy Father, not forgetful of the duties incumbent
upon him for the protection of the States and for the preservation in its integrity
of the temporal domain of the Holy See, which is essentially connected with the
free and independent exercise of the Sovereign Pontificate, pretests against the
violations and usurpations committed in spite of the acceptance of neutrality, and
i desires that his protest may be communicated to the European Powers.”
Ideally, one might almost imagine that his Holiness and his
Eminence regarded the European Princes and Cabinets in exactly
I such a light as that in which a titular Irish bishop views the most
ignorant bog-trotter in his diocese, and moreover imagined themselves
| able to palm off upon them just such absurd and monstrous humbug as
j the mitred impostors of Erin are accustomed to address to the natives
of the Emerald Isle. It is difficult to conceive how they can have the
j coolness, not only to assert that the temporal domain of the Holy See
] is essentially connected with the free and independent exercise of the
Sovereign Pontificate, hut even to make this assertion by way of
| reminder, as if it were acknowledged by all the world. The peasants
who believe that St. Patrick destroyed the reptiles of their island by
I preaching, might, with equal gullibility, receive and swallow the
assurance that the patrimony of St. Peter is a certain extent of
territory which was really and truly held by St. Peter ; as, of course,
it was, if St. Peter was the first Pope, and if, as Pio Nouo and
Antonelli aver, the temporal domain of the Holy See is essentially
connected with the free and independent exercise of the Pope’s
spiritual office. No human beings less ignorant and less credulous
than those wretched clowns could even listen for a moment to any
such fudge. Surely, therefore, the Pope and the Cardinal must
consider the potentates and statesmen, for whose edification they
composed their circular, as blockheads and boobies of the grossest
ignorance and density. Of course, they cannot for a moment believe
their own statement of the essential connection of the temporal
possessions and spiritual rule of the Holy See. If anybody else wrnre
to make such a declaration, and maintain it seriously, would they not,
indeed, anathematise him for heresy ?
The condemnation of their own proposition in that case would be
consistent inconsistency. It would be quite in keeping with that
Orientalism which mingles in the quality of the Western Church, so
calling itself—with the spice of Sultan which characterises the Pope—
if the imbecile bombast which the Holy Father raves in were not more
like the Emperor oe China’s nonsense. In point of reason, justice,
and dignity, his Holiness exhibits a curious analogy to the Grand
Signior of other days. Or wre may liken the modern Pontiff to the
ancient Caliphs, and” look upon Antonelli as Pio Nono’s Yizier.
The Past, Present, and Future.
We sacrifice the Present in regretting the Past that has already
gone, and in tormenting ourselves about the Future that has not yet
come. It is pretty much the same with a Widow. Between the
husband she has lost and the husband she is expecting, her days are
spent in alternately sighing over what she cannot change and what
she cannot command.-—A Philosopher, who is an Admirer of the Pair
Sex.
Moral Advice to those who wish to Live Well.—A Good
dinner, gentlemen, is a pleasure you may enjoy but once, whereas a
good action is a pleasure, mind you, that you enjoy all your life.