Punch: Punch (38.1860)

March 31, I860.] PUNCH, Oil TIIE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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THE “ENTENTE CORDIALE. ’

We do not know whether this
celebrated Anglo-French “ Cor-
diale” is likely to be affected much
by the remission of the duties on
French wines and spirits. That
measure being so extremely liberal,
we should think that the con-
sumption was likely to become
considerably greater. From the
quotations we have seen in the
French and English papers, there
seems to be a great improvement,
also, in the strength and purity of
this “Cordiale.” Not only is it
stronger in spirit, but it is like-
wise freer from that slight tendency
to acidity, which, at the smallest
turn of politics, was apt to vitiate
all its good qualities, and to render
that which was intended to be sweet
and comforting to the taste of both
countries, extremely disagreeable,
and oftentimes offensive, to those,
no matter whether Englishmen or
Frenchmen, who happened to have
the “Cordiale” for the moment on
their lips. The exchange and inter-
change being now so much freer,
it is to be hoped that the “ Entente
Cordiale” will not linger only
on the lips, but will soon reach
the hearts of both England and
France.

A SHILLINGSWORTH OF CHARITY.

The loss of poor Mons. Jullien, the Moxs who had for many
years so often been in labour for us,*is a loss which we can none of us
expect to see replaced, and therefore none of us can be likely to forget.
M. Jullien was one of the few public entertainers of whom it could
be said that he was really entertaining. In whatever he attempted he
did his best to please, and in doing so, he was but seldom unsuccessful.
If we have ever laughed at him we ever have admired him, for the
reason that so many of his qualities were admirable. He was not
one of those who “keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to
the hope.” His promises were always fulfilled in his performances,
and in whatever he might pledge himself he never broke faith wit,h the
public. He never let his singers be “indisposed” to sing, nor did his
f instrumentalists ever fail in “keeping time”—in their appearance in
the orchestra.

As a composer, M. Jullien was well and widely known, and in his
peculiar walk not better known than trusted to. Dance music was his
forte, and there are few piano-players who have not his music literally
at their fingers’ ends. We should like to know the number of agree-
able flirtations to which his British Army Quadrilles have given birth ;
while the marriages effected through his lovely Olya Waltz must have
occasioned a considerable effect upon the Census.

As caterer of concerts M. Jullien was unsparing both of person
and of purse, being as lavish of exertion as he was also of expense.
Indeed we think it may be said without untruth, that he mainly lost
his life through his efforts as conductor, and his strong reluctance to
disappoint the public. Over-work and over-anxiousness to recover
his lost credit (a loss occasioned far more by misfortune than by fault)
brought on an affliction from which he never rallied : and his brain
first, then his body, gave way beneath the stroke.

By his death “ his widow and family are left totally unprovided for.”
This we state on the authority of men who know the met, and who,
knowing it, have given it the attestation of their signatures, each
appended to a document called legally a cheque. They moreover have
put forth in the Times and other Papers :—-

“ An Appeal to the generosity of the British rublic, to whose amusements
Monsieuk Jullien has diligently and faithfully administered for upwards of twenty
years.”

And that this Appeal may universally, be read, we call the world’s
attention to it in our world-pervading print. We moreover would
invite all those who can afford it to put their names down on the list
which is affixed to the Appeal, and hand their cheques and guineas to
the Treasurers of the fund.

But without stopping the charity of the guinea-paying public, may
we not appeal, too, to the shilling-paying public? M. Jullien has
done much for the shilling-paving public. M. Jullien has done more

to popularise good music than any other popular purveyor of sweet
sounds. Until M. Jullien came to them, the shilling-paying public
had never heard good music ; or at least, if they had heard it, they had
never rightly listened to it. A symphony was seldom played to them
“twenty years ago;” and, if played, was seldom heard without its
being hissed. But the public are not now such geese as they were
then. Thanks mainly to their Jullien, their hearing has improved,
and they can listen to good music without finding their ears bored by it.

We repeat, then, what we said. M. Jullien has done much for the
shilling-paying public. In return, will not that public do a little
for the family M. Jullien has left? A Shilling Subscription
List is opened, to swell in a small wray the Jullien Fund for
their relief. Those who can’t give more, need never be ashamed
of putting down their shilling; and the sum would in this instance
be most suitably appropriate. As pleaser of the public, it was to t he
Shiilingites that Jullien most appealed; and we may therefore for his
family appeal fitly to the Shiilingites. If every one in England to
whom “the Mons” has given a good shillingsworth of music were
now, in return to give a shilling to his memory, the Jullien Relief
Fund would be sensibly increased. And as the Shiilingites in general
like to get their moneysworth, let every one who does so bear this fact
in mind, that a shillingsworth of charity is in truth a “Splendid
Shilling ”s-worth.

An 111 Wind.

The breeze which has arisen in St. George’s in the East is one of
those ill winds which blow no one any good. It arose from certain
persons giving themselves airs, and, as might have been supposed,
these airs soon led to blows. People make complaints about a Nor’-
Nor’-Easter as being the most aggravating wind that ever blows; but
in future, when we wish to speak of an ill wind, we shall say^ that it’s
as bad as a St. George’s-in-the-Easter.

THE ART OE CONVERSATION.

A Remark, apparently neat, but upon examination exceedingly
hollow, was recently made by a misogynist. He said, Men talk, but
with women it is the converse.—The Hermit of the Haymarket.

a question for philologists.

Philosophers are raising the impertinent demand whether the
■utter-most parts of the Earth are inhabited solely by women ?

Wonderful Metamorphosis.—A teetotaller was seen, a day or
two ago, to turn into a public-house !