Punch (37.1859)

02

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [August 27, 1859.

TRIPPING TIME.

NO SUCH LUCK!

Trip, tired Briton, gaily trip, man,
To the forests and the moors ;
Ship thyself on board a ship, man.
Take a trip to foreign shores.

If our own coast will not suit thee,
There to bask and have thy dip,
Let a foreign clime recruit thee;
To another land trip, trip.

Trip to Berlin and Vienna,

Trip to Lisbon and Madrid ;

Like a trip what rhubarb, senna,
Salts, the frame of ails will rid ?

If both trip and physic needing,

Trip to Homburg ; quaff its spring.
Where you may, if too unheeding,

Be cleaned out of everything.

Under the heading of “Bishops on
Strike,” the Dublin Evening Mail says :—

“ We have to announce a formidable strike—no
less than a strike of tlie Roman Catholic hierarchy
of Ireland. Yes—the Romish Bishops have struck
en masse for an increase of Popery in the national
schools. . . . The strike of the Romish Bishops

is still more formidable than the strike of the build-
ing trades, or even than that of the master-builders.”

Trip to Athens or to Rome, John,
Trip to Cairo or Hong Kong;
Trip—to get away from home—John,
Anywhere—trip up Mont Blanc.
Down Vesuvius his crater,

Lightly trip on tiptoe fleet.

And inside thereof a ’tatur
All hot bake with lava’s heat. '

Thereabouts, among the various
Things the natives have to show,
See the blood of Januarius,

Find out how they make it flow.
There’s another burning mountain,
Burning in the midst of ice,

Boil your egg in Hecla’s fountain;

I ou will find it—oh, so nice!

Trip, of course, you will to Paris,

On your way abroad or back,

Every British tourist tarries
There, iu tripping on his track;
Tarries on his track in tripping,

In his pockets puts his hands,

And amid a people skipping.

Hopping, dancing round him, stands.

Home at length, before November,

Trip again, my noble Peer,

And mine honourable Member,

Back to British beef and beer;

With your spirits somewhat lighter,
And your pockets lighter still;

Bit by many a foreign biter
With proboscis—and with bill.







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What does our Irish contemporary mean
by the strike in which, he says, the titular
Bishops of Ireland have combined? A
strike of the Roman Catholic hierarchy,
like a strike of the builders, or the tailors,
or any other class of artisans or workmen,
is a cessation of work. R is organised
under the direction of their central Chair-
man at Rome, who occupies what they call
the chair of St. Peter. This ecclesiastical
strike, indeed, whenever it has occurred
almost, has been prescribed and dictated
by that Chairman or President of the
Popish Union, at its Centre of Unity, so
called. In short, the Pope has generally
directed the strike; not, however, by that
name, but under the denomination of Inter-
dict. The observance, however, of the Papal
mandate has always consisted in a regular
strike on the part of the Popish church-
men. The Bishops and the rest of the
Clergy have ceased to perform their func-
tions—a sad thing for people who believed
the performance of those functions indis-
pensable for their preservation from the
jaws of Tartarus. It was a strike en masse
and en messe. Is this the sort of strike
meant by the Dublin Evening Mail? Have
the Irish titular Bishops, authorised by the
Pope, laid Ireland under an interdict be-
cause Popery is insufficiently inculcated
in the national schools ? If this be so,
they have acted, Pope and all, in an ex-
tremely Irish manner, by striking against
their own people because they are dis-
satisfied with the Government,—which they
could not possibly gratify by any proceed-
ing so much as by a strike—by a dis-
continuance of the work which a British
Administration would only be too happy
to find substitutes to supply.

Differential Duties.

“Hope,” says Coleridge, “is.a Duty.”
We mention this for the information of the
Chancellor oe the Exchequer, so that
he may be down upon Hope, and make it
pay the duty at once. We wonder if the
Hope Duty would yield as much as Hops ?

AMERICAN OUTRAGE ON THE EMPEROR.

It has been said that the Americans admire Louis Napoleon, and
in the event (omen dii avertant) of his supposed interests and those of
England being antagonistic, the former would be favoured by Brother
Jonathan. Mr.. Punch, however, can state upon the best authority,
American authority, that this is not the case. In a leading article in
the New York Herald, now lying before Mr. Punch, are these words :—

“ We ave seriously of opinion that if Louis Napoleon were not Emperor of the
French, he would have made a first-rate newspaper Editor. His style is like that
of the American papers.”

Perhaps bitter, savage scorn of a man could hardly be carried further,
and we would not reprint such an insult to the Emperor but for the
purpose of showing the extreme contempt in which respectable
Americans appear to hold him. Eor ourselves, despite many objections
we may have to his Majesty’s antecedents, and relatives (including
Plon-Plon) we by no means think so meanly of him as does the New
York Herald.

Exaction.—The Lawyer’s claim when the Action is over.

WONDERFUL MR. STACEY.

At last the Phoenix is found. Sir Boyle Roche. said that a man
could not be in two places at once unless he was a bird. Sir B. R.
was a Nass. The man who can is found.

We read in the Times of August 18th, that one Murray, a pick-
pocket, was charged with picking the pocket of—•

“ Mr. George Stacey, a gentleman living at Richmond while he was walking in the
Commercial Road.”

The feat is accomplished. Mr. Stacey is the eighth wonder of tne
world, whoever may be the ninth.

A TRIFLE FOR TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.

Why is the world like some Irish gentlemen ?
Because it has no “ ostensible means of support.”

The Coinage of Society.—Scandal is a bit of false money, and he
who passes it is frequently as bad as be who originally utters it.