DOI issue:
April 21, 1860
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16865#0168
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PUNCH,
THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[April 21, 1860.
facetiousness, taking his text from Bel and the Dragon, the latter of
whom he described as a “ regular Buster.”
In the Commons, the Bill for providing that wages should be paid
whether there was anything for the workmen to do or not, was read a
second time, as was the Bill providing that, any bad coin, taken bond fide,
should be exchanged for good at the Mint, at the expense of the
public.
Friday. In the Lords, Bason Tailleur (late Moses & Son) took
the oaths, and measure of several Peers. His Lordship made a short
speech on the occasion, and quoted his own beautiful lines:—
“ No party dressed by me can fail to vin
Some shplendid gal pothething lots of tin ;
My vestmenths excommunicate an air
As cannot but be pleasing to the Fair.”
In the Commons, in reply to Mr. Paul Bedford, Sir John Bright
stated that the Government would be very happy to take tickets on
occasion of the Honourable Member’s next benefit, and would endeavour
to adjourn the House in time to see a part, at least, of the performances.
In answer to Sir Thomas Sayers, Mr. Caunt said that there would
would be no objection to the use of the South Kensington Museum for
the approaching fight between the Brompton Brick and the Primrose
| Hill Pet, but the arrangements must be left in the hands of the
Government and the Police. In reply to Mr. Gough, Mr. Hanbury
said that the Ministry would certainly oppose any measure for com-
pelling the Speaker to give water only at his Parliamentary dinners.
On the motion of Hr. Kahn, a Committee was appointed to inquire
into the present system of Spirit-Rapping, with a view to its being
rendered available for Diplomatic purposes; and another Committee
| was, on the motion of Mr. Martin Tupper, appointed, to consider
the petitions praying that Women may be declared capable of sitting
in Parliament, and to examine witnesses on the subject. The week
closed with a debate on the second reading of the Family Friend Bill,
which makes provision for payment, out of the money of the State, of
a £500 premium with any youth who desired to be bound apprentice to
any trade, and of a portion of £1,000 for any girl desiring to be
married.
BEADLEDOM IN BRUMMAGEM.
ccording to the Birmingham
Journal, a ridiculous dispute
between the Mayor and the
Magistrates of Birmingham,
concerning the precedence of
the former at meetings of the
Justices, has just been de-
cided by the law-officers of
the Crown. The opinion of
those high authorities de-
clares “that the mayor of
an incorporated borough
takes the chair as a matter
of right at all sessions, spe-
cial or petty, and that the
precedence is magisterial and
official, and not social.” The
immensity of the fuss which
has been made about this
contemptible question, will
be hardly conceivable by
those readers who are un-
aware of the infinite little-
ness, and the boundless
vanity, which, in combina-
tion, characterise the greater
part of local corporations
and borough benches. Our
Birmingham contemporary says that “Mr. Lloyd went to the Home
Secretary, laid the whole subject before him, and showed how the ill-
feeling, local jealousies, and contention which had arisen in Birming-
ham would be likely to spread to other boroughs if the question of
precedence were allowed to remain in doubt.” Yes, and the diminu-
tive point in question would be regarded by the parties to it as a
matter of vastly greater consequence than the annexation of Savoy and
Nice, or even than the attempted seizure of Belgium and the Rhine
provinces. Well aware of the truth of Mr. Lloyd’s anticipation of
the hubbub which the disputed precedence of Mayors would be sure to
excite in every little insignificant borough throughout the Kingdom,
“Sir George Lewis,” we are further told, “at once took the
opinion of the law-officers of the Crown on the meaning and intention
of the clause in the Municipal Corporations Act, in which the prece-
dence of the Mayor is declared.”
This great Const.itutionalquestion having been settled, the Corporation
of Birmingham perhaps ordered the church-bells to be rung, and flags
to be hoisted on the steeples, on the Town Hall, the Gaol, the Work-
house, and the other principal buildings. If they did set this example
of absurd pomp, no doubt it will be followed by all the rest of the
boroughs; and, moreover, perhaps some corporations will go in
solemn procession to church, preceded by the mace to hear an occa-
sional service, and a sermon on the obligation of rendering honour to
those to whom honour is due. The wise decision by the legal sages of
the foolish controversy now under derision, will doubtless be accept-
able to either side of the claimants of consequence and importance:
for whilst the Mayors on the one hand will rejoice in their official
superiority, their other worships, if richer, or in larger business, or
actually retired from the counter, will more than solace their petty
pride with the self-complacent idea of their own loftier social dignity.
The corporate noddies and the incorporate noodles will alike severally
exult on their own part; and the cackle of geese will respond to the
gobbling of turkey-cocks.
CATCHES EOR COMMONERS.
APROPOS OF THE REFORM BILL AND THE “EDUCATED LODGER” QUESTION
1. Bducated Lodger singeth:—
Fie, nay prithee, John !
Be more liberal, man!
Sure, you fairly can
Give me a vote.
I’m no rogue: from bribes I’m free :
My judgment’s good, yet over me
A lower class of men you place.
Whose brains I doubt.
Never will I use foul word,
Nor “ Charter! ” cry: the thought’s absurd:
Then say you will amend your Bill,
Or else I hope the House of Lords
Will throw it out!
2. Mr. Bunch singeth
Jones said to John, when he stopped him t’ other day,
“ Fray, John, let me vote: you know what rent I pay :
Pray let me vote! depend on me you may.
“ You ’ve given Smith a vote, for he Six pounds a year can pay,
For my rent I pay Sixty pounds, yet my claim you gainsay :
And should your bill be law, Smith will over me hold sway.”
Now will Lord John leave Jones in the lurch, who will say ?
To give him what he asks were, sure, the wiser wav:
’Tis so at least says Bunch, and lords must Butich obey !
LIBERTY IN A TRIPLE CAP AND CIVILISATION IN
SCARLET.
Rather numerous cries of “ Oh, oh! ” and ironical cheers, would
salute Mr. Bowyer, if the Cardinal’s Cross Bearer were to make the j
following assertions in the House of Commons:—
“ Catholic Christianity is the soul of civilisation. Europe is threatened by revo-
lution as it formerly was by Islamism. The cause of the Pope is that of civilisation
and liberty.”
The author of these propositions, however, is not a performer in
that metallic orchestra which, on behalf of his Holiness, alleviates with
harmony the labours of the House of Commons. The brass band in
which he plays is a foreign and a regular military one. The above
passages, so to speak, on the key-bugle or the cornet-a-pistons, are
extracted from an order of the day just issued by General Lamori-
ciere, who has put himself at the service of the Pope in the capacity
of Generalissimo of the Pontifical Army of bravos and bullies to be
organised for the suppression, if possible, of Italian liberty. A par-
ticularly pretty tune in praise of the Sovereign Pontiff is that which
this French officer dares to trumpet immediately after the pitiful
exhibition of that sneaking bull “in the corner of the Field of Flora.”
“ Tell me, faithful, have you seen
My Flora pass this way ?”
are the first verses of a fiymn wfiicfi might now be sung in honour of
the Pope, Lamoriciere accompanying the voices on an ophecleide.
They who have seen many portraits of French Generals may have
remarked that those elder sons of Mars are mostly distinguished by
very extensive joles. This feature may be emblematic; size and intre-
pidity of face may go together; but if that is the ease, the cheek of
General Lamoriciere must be prodigious. He is, no doubt, suffi-
ciently cool in the moment of danger, but Ids coolness under fire is
greatly exceeded by the coolness with which he proclaims the cause
of the Pope to be the cause of civilisation and liberty.
PUNCH,
THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[April 21, 1860.
facetiousness, taking his text from Bel and the Dragon, the latter of
whom he described as a “ regular Buster.”
In the Commons, the Bill for providing that wages should be paid
whether there was anything for the workmen to do or not, was read a
second time, as was the Bill providing that, any bad coin, taken bond fide,
should be exchanged for good at the Mint, at the expense of the
public.
Friday. In the Lords, Bason Tailleur (late Moses & Son) took
the oaths, and measure of several Peers. His Lordship made a short
speech on the occasion, and quoted his own beautiful lines:—
“ No party dressed by me can fail to vin
Some shplendid gal pothething lots of tin ;
My vestmenths excommunicate an air
As cannot but be pleasing to the Fair.”
In the Commons, in reply to Mr. Paul Bedford, Sir John Bright
stated that the Government would be very happy to take tickets on
occasion of the Honourable Member’s next benefit, and would endeavour
to adjourn the House in time to see a part, at least, of the performances.
In answer to Sir Thomas Sayers, Mr. Caunt said that there would
would be no objection to the use of the South Kensington Museum for
the approaching fight between the Brompton Brick and the Primrose
| Hill Pet, but the arrangements must be left in the hands of the
Government and the Police. In reply to Mr. Gough, Mr. Hanbury
said that the Ministry would certainly oppose any measure for com-
pelling the Speaker to give water only at his Parliamentary dinners.
On the motion of Hr. Kahn, a Committee was appointed to inquire
into the present system of Spirit-Rapping, with a view to its being
rendered available for Diplomatic purposes; and another Committee
| was, on the motion of Mr. Martin Tupper, appointed, to consider
the petitions praying that Women may be declared capable of sitting
in Parliament, and to examine witnesses on the subject. The week
closed with a debate on the second reading of the Family Friend Bill,
which makes provision for payment, out of the money of the State, of
a £500 premium with any youth who desired to be bound apprentice to
any trade, and of a portion of £1,000 for any girl desiring to be
married.
BEADLEDOM IN BRUMMAGEM.
ccording to the Birmingham
Journal, a ridiculous dispute
between the Mayor and the
Magistrates of Birmingham,
concerning the precedence of
the former at meetings of the
Justices, has just been de-
cided by the law-officers of
the Crown. The opinion of
those high authorities de-
clares “that the mayor of
an incorporated borough
takes the chair as a matter
of right at all sessions, spe-
cial or petty, and that the
precedence is magisterial and
official, and not social.” The
immensity of the fuss which
has been made about this
contemptible question, will
be hardly conceivable by
those readers who are un-
aware of the infinite little-
ness, and the boundless
vanity, which, in combina-
tion, characterise the greater
part of local corporations
and borough benches. Our
Birmingham contemporary says that “Mr. Lloyd went to the Home
Secretary, laid the whole subject before him, and showed how the ill-
feeling, local jealousies, and contention which had arisen in Birming-
ham would be likely to spread to other boroughs if the question of
precedence were allowed to remain in doubt.” Yes, and the diminu-
tive point in question would be regarded by the parties to it as a
matter of vastly greater consequence than the annexation of Savoy and
Nice, or even than the attempted seizure of Belgium and the Rhine
provinces. Well aware of the truth of Mr. Lloyd’s anticipation of
the hubbub which the disputed precedence of Mayors would be sure to
excite in every little insignificant borough throughout the Kingdom,
“Sir George Lewis,” we are further told, “at once took the
opinion of the law-officers of the Crown on the meaning and intention
of the clause in the Municipal Corporations Act, in which the prece-
dence of the Mayor is declared.”
This great Const.itutionalquestion having been settled, the Corporation
of Birmingham perhaps ordered the church-bells to be rung, and flags
to be hoisted on the steeples, on the Town Hall, the Gaol, the Work-
house, and the other principal buildings. If they did set this example
of absurd pomp, no doubt it will be followed by all the rest of the
boroughs; and, moreover, perhaps some corporations will go in
solemn procession to church, preceded by the mace to hear an occa-
sional service, and a sermon on the obligation of rendering honour to
those to whom honour is due. The wise decision by the legal sages of
the foolish controversy now under derision, will doubtless be accept-
able to either side of the claimants of consequence and importance:
for whilst the Mayors on the one hand will rejoice in their official
superiority, their other worships, if richer, or in larger business, or
actually retired from the counter, will more than solace their petty
pride with the self-complacent idea of their own loftier social dignity.
The corporate noddies and the incorporate noodles will alike severally
exult on their own part; and the cackle of geese will respond to the
gobbling of turkey-cocks.
CATCHES EOR COMMONERS.
APROPOS OF THE REFORM BILL AND THE “EDUCATED LODGER” QUESTION
1. Bducated Lodger singeth:—
Fie, nay prithee, John !
Be more liberal, man!
Sure, you fairly can
Give me a vote.
I’m no rogue: from bribes I’m free :
My judgment’s good, yet over me
A lower class of men you place.
Whose brains I doubt.
Never will I use foul word,
Nor “ Charter! ” cry: the thought’s absurd:
Then say you will amend your Bill,
Or else I hope the House of Lords
Will throw it out!
2. Mr. Bunch singeth
Jones said to John, when he stopped him t’ other day,
“ Fray, John, let me vote: you know what rent I pay :
Pray let me vote! depend on me you may.
“ You ’ve given Smith a vote, for he Six pounds a year can pay,
For my rent I pay Sixty pounds, yet my claim you gainsay :
And should your bill be law, Smith will over me hold sway.”
Now will Lord John leave Jones in the lurch, who will say ?
To give him what he asks were, sure, the wiser wav:
’Tis so at least says Bunch, and lords must Butich obey !
LIBERTY IN A TRIPLE CAP AND CIVILISATION IN
SCARLET.
Rather numerous cries of “ Oh, oh! ” and ironical cheers, would
salute Mr. Bowyer, if the Cardinal’s Cross Bearer were to make the j
following assertions in the House of Commons:—
“ Catholic Christianity is the soul of civilisation. Europe is threatened by revo-
lution as it formerly was by Islamism. The cause of the Pope is that of civilisation
and liberty.”
The author of these propositions, however, is not a performer in
that metallic orchestra which, on behalf of his Holiness, alleviates with
harmony the labours of the House of Commons. The brass band in
which he plays is a foreign and a regular military one. The above
passages, so to speak, on the key-bugle or the cornet-a-pistons, are
extracted from an order of the day just issued by General Lamori-
ciere, who has put himself at the service of the Pope in the capacity
of Generalissimo of the Pontifical Army of bravos and bullies to be
organised for the suppression, if possible, of Italian liberty. A par-
ticularly pretty tune in praise of the Sovereign Pontiff is that which
this French officer dares to trumpet immediately after the pitiful
exhibition of that sneaking bull “in the corner of the Field of Flora.”
“ Tell me, faithful, have you seen
My Flora pass this way ?”
are the first verses of a fiymn wfiicfi might now be sung in honour of
the Pope, Lamoriciere accompanying the voices on an ophecleide.
They who have seen many portraits of French Generals may have
remarked that those elder sons of Mars are mostly distinguished by
very extensive joles. This feature may be emblematic; size and intre-
pidity of face may go together; but if that is the ease, the cheek of
General Lamoriciere must be prodigious. He is, no doubt, suffi-
ciently cool in the moment of danger, but Ids coolness under fire is
greatly exceeded by the coolness with which he proclaims the cause
of the Pope to be the cause of civilisation and liberty.