DOI issue:
May 5, 1860
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Mit 5, i860.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
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Vexdor of Delicacies. “ Made yer ill, have they ? Then it’s coss yer ain’t
accustomed to ’igh livin’.”
THE NEW ROGUE’S MARCH,
Air—“See the Conquering Hero Comes.”
Ope thy gate, 0 Newgate, let a new Rogue in,
Big as e’er went through gate—one of Redpath’s kin;
For the great offender gape, thou prison door,
Here, in pomp and splendour, comes one Scoundrel more.
Robbing his employers, is this Rascal’s crime—
Famous case for lawyers, villany sublime;
Theft, imagination, whose amount astounds,
Near, by computation, three hundred thousand pounds!
After gain he lusted, lured by gain alone,
He was greatly trusted—better far than known;
How those men were dozing passes all belief,
Confidence reposing in so grand a thief.
Hide, you knaves inferior, your diminished heads.
Bow to your superior—kiss the ground he treads.
What are you before him, frisking tills and dies P
Grovel ana adore him, prigs of smaller size.
Blush for your offences, burglars at the crank.
Thinking how immense his pillage of the Bank;
Shamed by his large plunder, convicts of the Road,
Trip the treadmill under guilt of lighter load.
Felons, hail your greater; trumpets sound, and drums
Beat before the traitor; lo, he comes, he comes!
Glorious music make him, Rogue’s March, noble air.
Take ye then, oh, take him, turnkeys to your care.
Lost Naval Mutton.
It may be difficult to conceive anything in common
between gunboats and sheep, for a gunboat is different
from even a steam-ram. Nevertheless, most of our gun-
boats and some of our sheep resemble each other in having
got the rot. _
What the “Morning Star” thinks op the
“Morning Advertiser.”—“ The blatant organ of evan-
gelicism and dram-drinking.”
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
April 24, Monday. Cowley, from Paris, entered the ring at five
o’clock, to the immense disgust of Normanby, who, however, was
obliged to fight, though there was so little confidence in him that he
could not even get a second. He advanced to Cowley, cackled foolishly,
and struck out feebly, never getting home once. Cowley let him go
on at this sort of thing for some time, and then went at him, drew
claret, followed him up, and, hitting out straight, completely floored
him, amid loud cheers. Granville interposed, chaffed poor Nor-
manby a little upon his imbecile love of provoking stronger men than
himself, and there was an end to the affair. Malmesbury declared
that Cowley had shown himself one of the right sort, but abused
John Russell, who could not be there. Normanby picked himself
up, grumbling, and the assembly dispersed. Cowley was so little hurt
that he went off by special train the same night to Dover, and next
morning crossed to Boulogne in the new mail packet John Penn, “ in a
fresh breeze and swell,” in 97 minutes. Normandy’s friends ought to
prevent him from making such exhibitions of himself.
In the Commons, Mr. Massey said that as Lord John Russell
took the intended motion for a Select Committee on the Reform Bill
so much to heart, it should not be pressed. The debate on the Second
Reading was resumed by Mr. Edwin James, who, being a supporter
of Government, pitched into the Bill in every way, and insisted upon
his grand point, namely, that thousands on thousands of votes, in
addition to those calculated on by Lord John Russell, would be
created. Mr. Hardy pointed out the double-faced nature of the Bill,
which was alternately declared to be much too large and much too
small. Then up got Sir George Lewis, Home Secretary, to do his
best for the Bill, and he successfully established the following pro-
positions.
First. That Lord John Russell, at all events, knows nothing
about the numerical question, and had made a blunder (in Sir George’s
judgment) to the extent of about 50,000 votes.
Secondly, that the Bill doubles the existing number of Voters, Sir
George himself stating the increase to be something under 400,000.
Thirdly, that Mr. Edwin James has enraged the Ministry in the
most awful manner, and much improved his chances of receiving the
Solicitor-Generalship at their hands.
Lord Robert Montagu drew an ugly picture of the sort of
American assembly he believed the House would become if the Bill
passed, which vaticination was simply nonsense. Lord Robert
Cecil urged the more sensible objection, that it was dangerous to
entrust the power of taxation to the uneducated, who would naturally
say, as women do: “ Stuff and nonsense about direct and indirect; the j
rich have plenty of money, and ought to pay for the poor who haven’t V
Of the two Bob, therefore, Mr. Punch nails the first to the counter,
and passes the second. Mr. Monckton Milnes admitted that there
was no noise about Reform, and that the beating of the people’s own
hearts was all the sound we heard, but he thought those hearts were set
on an extension of the franchise. He condemned the exclusion of the
educational qualification. Mr. Peacocke spread out a handsome
tale about eminent men who distinguished themselves as members for
small boroughs, but became mere delegates when returned for large .
places. Mr. Thomson had studied the Seasons for political change,
and thought this was one of them. Mr. Newdegate warned the
Lords against passing the Bill, unless more power were given to the
counties, which would be swamped by the boroughs.
There was an adjournment squabble, utterly beneath Mr. Punch’s
notice, but for his having received the following telegrams:—
Torydom is in Revolt against King Disraeli II.
Bentinck Pretends to the Throne.
The Quarterly Review has Pronounced against the King.
Fearful scenes are expected, and an indication of the rebellion (for t
a straw—one of those of which Bentinck is made—will, if thrown up,
show the way of the wind) might have been noted to-night, when Mr.
Disraeli said, that those with whom he acted would not divide against
the Bill, and Mr. Bentinck, supposed to be one of “those,” rose and
protested against any such compact, and said that he and his friends
were not going to be bound by any arrangement between the front
benches. The debate was adjourned. Mr. Punch recommends the
179
)
Vexdor of Delicacies. “ Made yer ill, have they ? Then it’s coss yer ain’t
accustomed to ’igh livin’.”
THE NEW ROGUE’S MARCH,
Air—“See the Conquering Hero Comes.”
Ope thy gate, 0 Newgate, let a new Rogue in,
Big as e’er went through gate—one of Redpath’s kin;
For the great offender gape, thou prison door,
Here, in pomp and splendour, comes one Scoundrel more.
Robbing his employers, is this Rascal’s crime—
Famous case for lawyers, villany sublime;
Theft, imagination, whose amount astounds,
Near, by computation, three hundred thousand pounds!
After gain he lusted, lured by gain alone,
He was greatly trusted—better far than known;
How those men were dozing passes all belief,
Confidence reposing in so grand a thief.
Hide, you knaves inferior, your diminished heads.
Bow to your superior—kiss the ground he treads.
What are you before him, frisking tills and dies P
Grovel ana adore him, prigs of smaller size.
Blush for your offences, burglars at the crank.
Thinking how immense his pillage of the Bank;
Shamed by his large plunder, convicts of the Road,
Trip the treadmill under guilt of lighter load.
Felons, hail your greater; trumpets sound, and drums
Beat before the traitor; lo, he comes, he comes!
Glorious music make him, Rogue’s March, noble air.
Take ye then, oh, take him, turnkeys to your care.
Lost Naval Mutton.
It may be difficult to conceive anything in common
between gunboats and sheep, for a gunboat is different
from even a steam-ram. Nevertheless, most of our gun-
boats and some of our sheep resemble each other in having
got the rot. _
What the “Morning Star” thinks op the
“Morning Advertiser.”—“ The blatant organ of evan-
gelicism and dram-drinking.”
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
April 24, Monday. Cowley, from Paris, entered the ring at five
o’clock, to the immense disgust of Normanby, who, however, was
obliged to fight, though there was so little confidence in him that he
could not even get a second. He advanced to Cowley, cackled foolishly,
and struck out feebly, never getting home once. Cowley let him go
on at this sort of thing for some time, and then went at him, drew
claret, followed him up, and, hitting out straight, completely floored
him, amid loud cheers. Granville interposed, chaffed poor Nor-
manby a little upon his imbecile love of provoking stronger men than
himself, and there was an end to the affair. Malmesbury declared
that Cowley had shown himself one of the right sort, but abused
John Russell, who could not be there. Normanby picked himself
up, grumbling, and the assembly dispersed. Cowley was so little hurt
that he went off by special train the same night to Dover, and next
morning crossed to Boulogne in the new mail packet John Penn, “ in a
fresh breeze and swell,” in 97 minutes. Normandy’s friends ought to
prevent him from making such exhibitions of himself.
In the Commons, Mr. Massey said that as Lord John Russell
took the intended motion for a Select Committee on the Reform Bill
so much to heart, it should not be pressed. The debate on the Second
Reading was resumed by Mr. Edwin James, who, being a supporter
of Government, pitched into the Bill in every way, and insisted upon
his grand point, namely, that thousands on thousands of votes, in
addition to those calculated on by Lord John Russell, would be
created. Mr. Hardy pointed out the double-faced nature of the Bill,
which was alternately declared to be much too large and much too
small. Then up got Sir George Lewis, Home Secretary, to do his
best for the Bill, and he successfully established the following pro-
positions.
First. That Lord John Russell, at all events, knows nothing
about the numerical question, and had made a blunder (in Sir George’s
judgment) to the extent of about 50,000 votes.
Secondly, that the Bill doubles the existing number of Voters, Sir
George himself stating the increase to be something under 400,000.
Thirdly, that Mr. Edwin James has enraged the Ministry in the
most awful manner, and much improved his chances of receiving the
Solicitor-Generalship at their hands.
Lord Robert Montagu drew an ugly picture of the sort of
American assembly he believed the House would become if the Bill
passed, which vaticination was simply nonsense. Lord Robert
Cecil urged the more sensible objection, that it was dangerous to
entrust the power of taxation to the uneducated, who would naturally
say, as women do: “ Stuff and nonsense about direct and indirect; the j
rich have plenty of money, and ought to pay for the poor who haven’t V
Of the two Bob, therefore, Mr. Punch nails the first to the counter,
and passes the second. Mr. Monckton Milnes admitted that there
was no noise about Reform, and that the beating of the people’s own
hearts was all the sound we heard, but he thought those hearts were set
on an extension of the franchise. He condemned the exclusion of the
educational qualification. Mr. Peacocke spread out a handsome
tale about eminent men who distinguished themselves as members for
small boroughs, but became mere delegates when returned for large .
places. Mr. Thomson had studied the Seasons for political change,
and thought this was one of them. Mr. Newdegate warned the
Lords against passing the Bill, unless more power were given to the
counties, which would be swamped by the boroughs.
There was an adjournment squabble, utterly beneath Mr. Punch’s
notice, but for his having received the following telegrams:—
Torydom is in Revolt against King Disraeli II.
Bentinck Pretends to the Throne.
The Quarterly Review has Pronounced against the King.
Fearful scenes are expected, and an indication of the rebellion (for t
a straw—one of those of which Bentinck is made—will, if thrown up,
show the way of the wind) might have been noted to-night, when Mr.
Disraeli said, that those with whom he acted would not divide against
the Bill, and Mr. Bentinck, supposed to be one of “those,” rose and
protested against any such compact, and said that he and his friends
were not going to be bound by any arrangement between the front
benches. The debate was adjourned. Mr. Punch recommends the