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December 3, 1859
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DECEMBER 3,
1859.
PUNCH, OR THE
LONDON CHARIVARI
223
HOW TO GET MONEY.
Seedy Party. “Eureka!—A great idea!—Advertise in the ‘ Times.’'—Next of Kin.
All persons of the name of Smith may hear of something greatly to their advantage by
addressing A. B. (enclosing Two Postage-Stamps for Reply), Post Office, Ac. Ac."
Seedier Party. “ Figgins! you are a Genius!”
GERMANY'S WELCOME TO PUNCH,
Punch has been readmitted to North Germany—after long banish-
ment. The Kladderadalsch, our younger Berlin brother, welcomes
us in accents, which we venture thus to render into our own English :
To my hear!, long-banished brother !
Sadly parted from each other
Have we been this many a day !
Hard they strove thy laugh to smother—
Master mine in wit and play !
With his whinger bared for slitting,
The grim constable was sitting,
Keen thy merry blood to draw;—
Beaks about the frontier flitting.
Quick to swoop with censor-claw.
Angry Prussia and Westphalia,
Clenched their thunders to assail you.
On the threshhold of our land ;
We as brother could but hail you,
Gazing tow’rds your favoured strand 1
Humour on thy curled lip sitting,
All unchecked we saw thee hitting
At the follies of the day—
In thy light bark fearless flitting,
O’er the shoals that barred our way.
There was freedom on thy borders;
While all cramped with laws and orders,
German wit must bear the yoke ;
Our great Lords—the people’s warders—
Then had little turn for joke!
But at last, new life revealing,
Head to heel, stir fire and feeling,
Where old Fritz held rule of yore :
And on brilliant pinions wheeling
Wit comes flying back, once more.
Thou, too, oh glad resurrection!—
Tak’st our open door’s direction.
Thou, my Punch, heart-welcome guest!
Censor, nor Police-inspection,
Troubling thee to thine unrest.
To my heart—unvexed of sentry—
Brother, make fraternal entry;
Laugh and sport and stay with me!
To the lists I vouch my century
Arm-in-arm, my Punch, with thee !
MONEY INTELLIGENCE.
The Austrian Government is actually in receipt of twenty million
florins, which it has just received in exchange for Lombardy ! This is
the first bit of ready money which the Yienna Bank has known for
many a bankrupt year. The fact might be recorded under the heading
of “ Strange Discovery of Coin.” We can imagine the astonish-
ment of the Governor of the Bank, upon looking into his coffers, to
find that there was anything in them; we wonder that the severity
of the shock did not turn Ins hair white in a minute. Poor fellow,
now that he has got the money, he won’t know what to do rltli
it- so little has he been accustomed to the use of it. As for the
Viennese Government resuming cash payments, that is all non-
sense ; we will wager our next week’s receipts, which is a liberal offer
as pitted against so small a sum as twenty millions of florins (a beggarly
£2,000,000!), that the government "would not know now to set about
it. No, they will keep the money, and hoard it, as boys do the first
sovereign that is given to them, not liking to spend it, and knowing too
well if they. once part with it there is no likelihood of their ever seeing
it back again. Occasionally grand entertainments will be given, and
nobles and crowned heads will be allowed, as a great treat, to feast
their eyes on the glittering hoard.
As for the mob, they may make their minds perfectly easy about the
nratter, for not a kreutzer of the twenty millions is clearly ever
intended for them. However, every precaution has been taken in the
metropolis to guard against any violent outbreak of curiosity on the
part of the multitude. A strong military force is quartered round
the Imperial treasury, and cannon have been planted in all the principal
thoroughfares. The Emperor need not alarm himself. We are con-
fident that if one ot his loving subjects was to see a florin, that he would
not know it. In fact a large sum of money might be made by showing
one at first and explaining what it was. The novelty of the exhibi-
tion would be sure to make it pay. An Austrian peasant for a few
pence would be able to purchase a new sensation, such as the Pioman
Emperor would willingly have given his entire fortune for.
The entire price to be given for Lombardy is a hundred millions of
florins. The Lombards were the creators, we believe, of the pawn-
broking system, and we certainly look upon this transaction, as the
largest bit of pawming on record. It does great credit, however, to
the Lombard creation. Lombardy has been pledged for £10,000,000,
and there is no chance of Austria being in a position to redeem it
again. Besides the redemption of Italy is not such an easy thing.
In the meantime, Austria has eighty millions more of florins to
receive. The. sudden possession of so much money is more than suffi-
cient to send it crazy. We are sure its head is not strong enough to
stand the blow of such a fortune. Lombardy should only have paid it
a few florins at a time.
Panic in the Nursery.
A Precocious child, who has a good juvenile idea of the supreme
power of Royalty, is in great tribulation at the fear of losing his long-
promised Pantomime and plum-pudding that fall due in another month,
because he has heard that the Queen intends to keep Christmas at
Windsor this year.
BARON BRAMWELL’s BEST.
When is a fraudulent debtor like a woodman?
When lie puts his hand to a bill, and cuts his stick.
A QUESTION FOR THE JESUITS" COLLEGE.
Does the “Holy Poker” form one of the Italian Irons, and is it
used principally in stirring up the fires of religious discord ?
1859.
PUNCH, OR THE
LONDON CHARIVARI
223
HOW TO GET MONEY.
Seedy Party. “Eureka!—A great idea!—Advertise in the ‘ Times.’'—Next of Kin.
All persons of the name of Smith may hear of something greatly to their advantage by
addressing A. B. (enclosing Two Postage-Stamps for Reply), Post Office, Ac. Ac."
Seedier Party. “ Figgins! you are a Genius!”
GERMANY'S WELCOME TO PUNCH,
Punch has been readmitted to North Germany—after long banish-
ment. The Kladderadalsch, our younger Berlin brother, welcomes
us in accents, which we venture thus to render into our own English :
To my hear!, long-banished brother !
Sadly parted from each other
Have we been this many a day !
Hard they strove thy laugh to smother—
Master mine in wit and play !
With his whinger bared for slitting,
The grim constable was sitting,
Keen thy merry blood to draw;—
Beaks about the frontier flitting.
Quick to swoop with censor-claw.
Angry Prussia and Westphalia,
Clenched their thunders to assail you.
On the threshhold of our land ;
We as brother could but hail you,
Gazing tow’rds your favoured strand 1
Humour on thy curled lip sitting,
All unchecked we saw thee hitting
At the follies of the day—
In thy light bark fearless flitting,
O’er the shoals that barred our way.
There was freedom on thy borders;
While all cramped with laws and orders,
German wit must bear the yoke ;
Our great Lords—the people’s warders—
Then had little turn for joke!
But at last, new life revealing,
Head to heel, stir fire and feeling,
Where old Fritz held rule of yore :
And on brilliant pinions wheeling
Wit comes flying back, once more.
Thou, too, oh glad resurrection!—
Tak’st our open door’s direction.
Thou, my Punch, heart-welcome guest!
Censor, nor Police-inspection,
Troubling thee to thine unrest.
To my heart—unvexed of sentry—
Brother, make fraternal entry;
Laugh and sport and stay with me!
To the lists I vouch my century
Arm-in-arm, my Punch, with thee !
MONEY INTELLIGENCE.
The Austrian Government is actually in receipt of twenty million
florins, which it has just received in exchange for Lombardy ! This is
the first bit of ready money which the Yienna Bank has known for
many a bankrupt year. The fact might be recorded under the heading
of “ Strange Discovery of Coin.” We can imagine the astonish-
ment of the Governor of the Bank, upon looking into his coffers, to
find that there was anything in them; we wonder that the severity
of the shock did not turn Ins hair white in a minute. Poor fellow,
now that he has got the money, he won’t know what to do rltli
it- so little has he been accustomed to the use of it. As for the
Viennese Government resuming cash payments, that is all non-
sense ; we will wager our next week’s receipts, which is a liberal offer
as pitted against so small a sum as twenty millions of florins (a beggarly
£2,000,000!), that the government "would not know now to set about
it. No, they will keep the money, and hoard it, as boys do the first
sovereign that is given to them, not liking to spend it, and knowing too
well if they. once part with it there is no likelihood of their ever seeing
it back again. Occasionally grand entertainments will be given, and
nobles and crowned heads will be allowed, as a great treat, to feast
their eyes on the glittering hoard.
As for the mob, they may make their minds perfectly easy about the
nratter, for not a kreutzer of the twenty millions is clearly ever
intended for them. However, every precaution has been taken in the
metropolis to guard against any violent outbreak of curiosity on the
part of the multitude. A strong military force is quartered round
the Imperial treasury, and cannon have been planted in all the principal
thoroughfares. The Emperor need not alarm himself. We are con-
fident that if one ot his loving subjects was to see a florin, that he would
not know it. In fact a large sum of money might be made by showing
one at first and explaining what it was. The novelty of the exhibi-
tion would be sure to make it pay. An Austrian peasant for a few
pence would be able to purchase a new sensation, such as the Pioman
Emperor would willingly have given his entire fortune for.
The entire price to be given for Lombardy is a hundred millions of
florins. The Lombards were the creators, we believe, of the pawn-
broking system, and we certainly look upon this transaction, as the
largest bit of pawming on record. It does great credit, however, to
the Lombard creation. Lombardy has been pledged for £10,000,000,
and there is no chance of Austria being in a position to redeem it
again. Besides the redemption of Italy is not such an easy thing.
In the meantime, Austria has eighty millions more of florins to
receive. The. sudden possession of so much money is more than suffi-
cient to send it crazy. We are sure its head is not strong enough to
stand the blow of such a fortune. Lombardy should only have paid it
a few florins at a time.
Panic in the Nursery.
A Precocious child, who has a good juvenile idea of the supreme
power of Royalty, is in great tribulation at the fear of losing his long-
promised Pantomime and plum-pudding that fall due in another month,
because he has heard that the Queen intends to keep Christmas at
Windsor this year.
BARON BRAMWELL’s BEST.
When is a fraudulent debtor like a woodman?
When lie puts his hand to a bill, and cuts his stick.
A QUESTION FOR THE JESUITS" COLLEGE.
Does the “Holy Poker” form one of the Italian Irons, and is it
used principally in stirring up the fires of religious discord ?