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December 22, 1860
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December 22, I860.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
241
Conductor (loq.). “ Going to get in, Mum l ”
Lady (hesitating). “ Why! There isn't room."
Conductor (derisively). “ It 'll be a long time, Mum, afore you gets a hempty
&us. Go on, Bill."
A MORAL BACCHANALIAN SONG.
Scene—A College Room.
Oh ! haste to the wine-cup, my boys,
And drown all your sorrows in noise.
There ’s nothing like drinking
To cure one of thinking—
Mortals should laugli at care ! Hurrah !
(Reho in opposite room2)
Alas! what a sorrowful noise,
To me is the mirth of those boys.
There’s nothing like thinking,
To cure one of drinking,
Mortals who laugh ! Beware !
Fill again, for there’s bliss in the cup,
As you’ll fma when you’ve drunk it up,
Oh ! talk not of reason.
He’s quite out of season,
But we ’ll give him a parting shout. Hurrah!
(Echo in opposite room.)
Ah ! you’ll find, when you’ve drunk it up,
There’s bitterness in the cup,
Till late in life’s season
You’ll call upon reason,
Regretting you drove him out.
Bright visions are closing our revels,
We’ll dream not of duns, or blue devils,
Or if they attack us,
We ’ll call upon Bacchus,
For he’s the best friend of Man.
(Echo in opposite room.)
Long visits from duns and blue devils
Will close the bright scene of your revels.
Till you say to old Bacchus,
’Tis you that thus rack us—
Most treacherous Foe of Man.
A Pasha in Pawn.
Since the Viceroy of Egypt, Said Paciia, was hooked
into the acknowledgment of liabilities to the tune of three
millions, on account of M. de Lessep’s Suez Canal Bubble,
he ought to change his name from “ Said” to “Done.”
OUR WONDERFUL CABINETS.
Every one has heard—for has not Punch announced the fact ? of a
i Wonderful Cabinet that is being here exhibited, and which is really
: quite a marvel of constructive ingenuity. The maker is a foreigner,
£ one M. Nadolski, and as foreign art is always patronised in England,
, his exhibition doubtless will achieve a great success. While, however,
we award him all the praise he merits, which really is not small, for the
ii credit of our country we ought not to forget that several Wonderful
'Cabinets have been constructed of late years, by makers who are purely
British born and bred, and lay no claim to foreign parentage or genius.
Borne of these Cabinets, such as those, for instance, which were con-
structed not long since by Lords Aberdeen and Derby, have been
wonderful not merely for the oddities that they contained, but for the
s rapidity wherewith they came to pieces. Others have been wondrous
for a quality just opposite, for they have held together somehow in
■spite of flaws and splits, and all attempts to disunite them; of this sort
is the Cabinet constructed by Lord Palmerston, who perhaps is the
most, skilful master of the cabinet-making art. Among his other
strokes of cleverness, his Lordship shows great skill in hitting the right
nail upon the head when it is needful, aud this assists him much in
keeping his Cabinet toget her. Not long ago it was reported that there
had been a split, and that the Foreign Office hinge was not working
• very well, and was getting rather rusty ; but Lord Palmerston in
-quick time set all this to rights, and now his Cabinet seems stronger
■and more durable than ever.
Perhaps, however, the most wonderful of ail the wonders of our
■Cabinets is their exceeding elasticity and power of prehension. Any
| one who has had experience in packing politicians knows how difficult,
; it is to make them go together, and fit their angular opinions with
those of their next neighbours. Our Cabinets, however, are so caout-
•clioucic in construction that the most wonderful of combinations are
sometimes found to be contained in them. Tories, Whigs, and Peelites,
Conservatives and Radicals, are somehow crammed together in our
Wonderful Cabinets, aud everybody marvels how they could have been
j!
got into them. Being so got in, another wonder is that they should
keep together: but their adhesion is accounted for when one thinks
what glue it is that binds them with such marvellous tenacity to office.
Even politicians will stick like wax together, when they find that by so
doing something is left sticking to the lining of their pockets, which is
quite enough to make them disinclined to split.
CREDO, QUIA IMPOSSIBILE EST.
Mr. Punch observes the following advertisement in the Times:—
OHOULD this CATCH the ATTENTION of a CAPITALIST whoso
O faith, in three per cents, subserves the better creed, a Catholic gentleman, a
convert, would be glad to confer with him. Address Credo, &c.
“There is much matter in these convertites,” says Jaques, and we
should like him to have “conferred” with this amusing party. The
“ better creed” is most likely a misprint for the “ better’s creed,” and
the advertiser is, in all probability, a starved-out racing prophet, who
always sent the right horses for every race, only somehow they never
came in first. He wants to try a new field of spooneyism. “Credo,
&c” must mean, “ I believe you, my boy.” We wish the converted
buffer all the luck he deserves.
How many Different Varieties of Riots are there ?
We read in the police reports of a “serious riot” that took place
last Monday at Knightsbridge Barracks. It is the word “ serious ”
that tickles us. We confess we never heard of a “comical riot/'
unless indeed it is an Irish Pat-riot, such as that great burlesque actor,
The O’Donogiiue, has been giving us an amusing specimen of in Dublin.
We hope he will soon repeat the performance of his comical Pat-riotism.
Favourite French Musical Instrument.—The Loot-
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
241
Conductor (loq.). “ Going to get in, Mum l ”
Lady (hesitating). “ Why! There isn't room."
Conductor (derisively). “ It 'll be a long time, Mum, afore you gets a hempty
&us. Go on, Bill."
A MORAL BACCHANALIAN SONG.
Scene—A College Room.
Oh ! haste to the wine-cup, my boys,
And drown all your sorrows in noise.
There ’s nothing like drinking
To cure one of thinking—
Mortals should laugli at care ! Hurrah !
(Reho in opposite room2)
Alas! what a sorrowful noise,
To me is the mirth of those boys.
There’s nothing like thinking,
To cure one of drinking,
Mortals who laugh ! Beware !
Fill again, for there’s bliss in the cup,
As you’ll fma when you’ve drunk it up,
Oh ! talk not of reason.
He’s quite out of season,
But we ’ll give him a parting shout. Hurrah!
(Echo in opposite room.)
Ah ! you’ll find, when you’ve drunk it up,
There’s bitterness in the cup,
Till late in life’s season
You’ll call upon reason,
Regretting you drove him out.
Bright visions are closing our revels,
We’ll dream not of duns, or blue devils,
Or if they attack us,
We ’ll call upon Bacchus,
For he’s the best friend of Man.
(Echo in opposite room.)
Long visits from duns and blue devils
Will close the bright scene of your revels.
Till you say to old Bacchus,
’Tis you that thus rack us—
Most treacherous Foe of Man.
A Pasha in Pawn.
Since the Viceroy of Egypt, Said Paciia, was hooked
into the acknowledgment of liabilities to the tune of three
millions, on account of M. de Lessep’s Suez Canal Bubble,
he ought to change his name from “ Said” to “Done.”
OUR WONDERFUL CABINETS.
Every one has heard—for has not Punch announced the fact ? of a
i Wonderful Cabinet that is being here exhibited, and which is really
: quite a marvel of constructive ingenuity. The maker is a foreigner,
£ one M. Nadolski, and as foreign art is always patronised in England,
, his exhibition doubtless will achieve a great success. While, however,
we award him all the praise he merits, which really is not small, for the
ii credit of our country we ought not to forget that several Wonderful
'Cabinets have been constructed of late years, by makers who are purely
British born and bred, and lay no claim to foreign parentage or genius.
Borne of these Cabinets, such as those, for instance, which were con-
structed not long since by Lords Aberdeen and Derby, have been
wonderful not merely for the oddities that they contained, but for the
s rapidity wherewith they came to pieces. Others have been wondrous
for a quality just opposite, for they have held together somehow in
■spite of flaws and splits, and all attempts to disunite them; of this sort
is the Cabinet constructed by Lord Palmerston, who perhaps is the
most, skilful master of the cabinet-making art. Among his other
strokes of cleverness, his Lordship shows great skill in hitting the right
nail upon the head when it is needful, aud this assists him much in
keeping his Cabinet toget her. Not long ago it was reported that there
had been a split, and that the Foreign Office hinge was not working
• very well, and was getting rather rusty ; but Lord Palmerston in
-quick time set all this to rights, and now his Cabinet seems stronger
■and more durable than ever.
Perhaps, however, the most wonderful of ail the wonders of our
■Cabinets is their exceeding elasticity and power of prehension. Any
| one who has had experience in packing politicians knows how difficult,
; it is to make them go together, and fit their angular opinions with
those of their next neighbours. Our Cabinets, however, are so caout-
•clioucic in construction that the most wonderful of combinations are
sometimes found to be contained in them. Tories, Whigs, and Peelites,
Conservatives and Radicals, are somehow crammed together in our
Wonderful Cabinets, aud everybody marvels how they could have been
j!
got into them. Being so got in, another wonder is that they should
keep together: but their adhesion is accounted for when one thinks
what glue it is that binds them with such marvellous tenacity to office.
Even politicians will stick like wax together, when they find that by so
doing something is left sticking to the lining of their pockets, which is
quite enough to make them disinclined to split.
CREDO, QUIA IMPOSSIBILE EST.
Mr. Punch observes the following advertisement in the Times:—
OHOULD this CATCH the ATTENTION of a CAPITALIST whoso
O faith, in three per cents, subserves the better creed, a Catholic gentleman, a
convert, would be glad to confer with him. Address Credo, &c.
“There is much matter in these convertites,” says Jaques, and we
should like him to have “conferred” with this amusing party. The
“ better creed” is most likely a misprint for the “ better’s creed,” and
the advertiser is, in all probability, a starved-out racing prophet, who
always sent the right horses for every race, only somehow they never
came in first. He wants to try a new field of spooneyism. “Credo,
&c” must mean, “ I believe you, my boy.” We wish the converted
buffer all the luck he deserves.
How many Different Varieties of Riots are there ?
We read in the police reports of a “serious riot” that took place
last Monday at Knightsbridge Barracks. It is the word “ serious ”
that tickles us. We confess we never heard of a “comical riot/'
unless indeed it is an Irish Pat-riot, such as that great burlesque actor,
The O’Donogiiue, has been giving us an amusing specimen of in Dublin.
We hope he will soon repeat the performance of his comical Pat-riotism.
Favourite French Musical Instrument.—The Loot-