DOI issue:
March 23, 1861
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[March 23, 1861.
another queer tenure called Borough-English, and its history, the
result, of which was, that in informing his friend Mr. White, of
Brighton, of his discoveries, the unfortunate nobleman stated that when
a man bequeathed lands in Kent his youngest son was divided into
equal parts, and buried in a gravel pit. So much for tasting only,
instead of drinking deep of the Pierian Spring.
Wednesday. The Opposition was quite victorious to-day.. Mr.
Locke King moved the Second Beading of his Bill for reducing the
County Pranchise to £10, and a long debate followed. Government
did not want the Bill to pass, but being, of course, Beformers by pro-
fession, were obliged to speak and vote for it, a state of things which
was pointed out rather clearly than civilly by Mr. Bernal Osborne.
Lord John Bussell indulged himself in an historical essay on all
Beforms that had ever been heard of, described the Chandos clause
(the £50 franchise) to have been “a subtle poison introduced into the
blood of the Constitution,” and pitched rather awkwardly into a detail
of Lord Derby’s Beform Bill. Mr. Disraeli was all alive, and of
course pounced upon the weak part of his antagonist’s speech, and
complimented him upon his “extremely delicate reticence” in having
never before revealed the secret of his objection to the Conservative
Beform Bill. The “previous question” was moved, and Mr. Locke
King and his reluctant allies, the Ministers, were defeated by 248 to
220. Checkmate to King.
The House then began a little fight upon a. Bill for allowing all
persons who object to Oaths to make affirmations instead, but six
o’clock stopped the strife.
Thursday. Lord Lyttelton has a Bill for makiug it easier to split
up dioceses, and set up new Bishops, and the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal had a couple of hours talk over it, and it was read a Second
Time by 27 to 23.
This was the Army night, as aforesaid. Eor particulars, see "above
A CASEOUS NOTION OF COMFORT.
NCOMMON is the
pleasure with
which we ex-
tract the sub-
joined announce-
ment from the
Express:—
“The Rev. Ed-
ward Cheese, son-
in-law of the Bishop
of Durham, was in-
ducted into the rec-
tory of Haughton-
le-Skerne on Friday
night. The Rev. J.
D. Bade, vicar of
Ayclifie, and about
twenty parishioners
were present. The
rector, after the
ceremony of induc-
tion, went round
and shook hands
with hi* new
friends, expressing
his conviction that
‘ he should find the
parish a very com-
fortable one.' ”
No doubt a
sufficiently rea-
sonable convic-
tion. Moderate
work and ample pay are material elements or comfort. A parish which
combines those advantages must be very unhealthy or barbarous to be
uncomfortable. A contented mind is a continual feast, and the income
of llaughton-le-Skerne ought at least to be capable of insuring that
blessing, unless ague or typhus or some other form of zymotic disease
is endemic there, or the inhabitants are savages who annoy t heir mis-
sionary. If the parish is salubrious, and the people are civilised, the
.Rector must be very unhappily constituted to be otherwise than com-
fortable. Mr. Cheese would be ill-tempered indeed to quarrel with
his bread and butter, the butter being spread so thick as it is at
Haughton-le-Skerne. Cheese and butter are natural allies; and Mr.
Cheese’s preferment may be considered as their re-union. Let us
hope that the spiritual richness of the Durham Cheese will warrant
the high price that has been put thereon, and justify a Bishop’s
patronage. Why should not this Cheese become a caseous monument
ofijpiety and preaching as well as of preferment F In that case we shall
rejoice to hear that the reverend incumbent of Haughton-le-Skerne has
discovered himself to have been a prophet in expressing the not un-
likely conviction that he should find that sphere of usefulness a very
balance sheet. No Errors Excepted, as Mr. Punch never makes
any.
Government introduced a Bill about the City Coal and Wine-Tax. It
is proposed that both taxes, altogether Thirteen Pence, shall be con-
tinued for ten years, but Ninepence of them to be paid into a fund for
metropolitan improvements, including Thames Embankment. The
tax at present extends twenty miles ; but it is in future to be confined
to the police district. The arrangement is better than the existing
swindle, but inasmuch as the improvement of London, and especially
of the river, is a boon to all England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and the
Isle of Man, Punch does not see why London is to bear all the ex-
pense. It is like painting, cleaning, glazing, and oilclothing the hall
of a lodging-house, and then charging the entire expense on the parlour-
floor lodgers, as if the drawing-rooms, and even the stingy gentleman
in the two-pair back did not gain respectability by the outlay.
Friday. Lord Wodehouse said that the account of the Polish dis-
turbances, as published, was tolerably correct. Mr. Punch is happy to
read that the Serf-Emancipating Emperor is too wise and too humane
to let loose his soldiers upon the Poles, and appears inclined to act
generously. Lord Cranworth has moved the Second Beading of thr
smallest Law Beform Bill ever heard of. It enacts that in certain cases,
an attorney’s clerk, or law stationer, need not take his scissors and
make the usual fancy scollop called “an indenture.” Lord Campbell
scoffed mightily at such bosh, but let it pass. The Lords rose very
early, probably to go away and read the last volume of Lord
Macaulay’s History, just issued. If so, they acted more wisely than
is their wont.
The Budget is fixed for the 11th of April. The Miscellany of
to-nightwas various, but not interesting. Mr. Gibson brought in a
Bill for improving Harbours, which Alderman Sidney said was much
wanted, for the last time he took tea in a harbour the spiders fell into
his cup uncommon.
comfortable one. We recommend Mr. Cheese to preserve all the
jokes that have been made, and severe things that have been said, at
his expense. When he shall have vindicated his lucrative position by
his successful ministry, he will then be enabled to look those attacks
over occasionally after dinner, whilst sipping his glass of sound old
port, and the recollection of them will enhance the comfort of the
parish which he so naturally expects to find very comfortable.
YOICKS, YOUR REVERENCE !
Just now that ecclesiastical hypocrisy is uncommonly rampant, it is
quite pleasing to be able to quote any evidence of straightforwardness
existing amongst the clerical body. There is, doubtless, among our
English divines a party, however small, to whom the subjoined hand-
bill will appeal as persons, or parsons, whom it may concern
To be Sold, with a prospect of Early Possession,
THE NEXT PRESENTATION TO A RECTORY,
In the most beautiful and picturesque part of North Devon, close to the Meets o
the Devon and Somerset Stag and Fox Hounds. Population 300.
A Newly-built Parsonage-House, and about 5S Acres of Good Glebe.
CLEAR YEARLY INCOME ABOUT £200.
For further Particulars, and to treat for the purchase, apply to
Messrs. -, &c. &c.
The above may be abused for a simoniacal advertisement. If it is
such, the simony is all above board. It is not a sneaking simony. It
does not cant about the cure of souls, and a sphere of usefulness; it
does not mention souls at all; says only “Population 300;” a popu-
lation whose souls are probably, as the soul of their Beetor is expected
to.be, in the bunting-field. It honestly offers a good thing to a man
in orders, who would like to be a gentleman farmer and fox-hunter.
But where spirituality is so little in question, simony is a bard word to
apply to the sale of a living. The rectory of £200 a year, situate in
the most beautiful and picturesque part of North Devon, may not
suit those of the Clergy who frequent May Meetings at Exeter Hall,
but it will fit others who will do just as much good by riding to the
Meets of the Devon and Somerset Fox-hounds, enjoying healthy
recreation instead of unhealthy excitement.
The “Prospect of early possession,” held out as a motive for the
purchase of this piece of preferment, must not be too hastily concluded
to mean that the present Incumbent is old, or paralytic, or consump-
tive, or affected with a disease of the heart, or predisposed to apoplexy.
Still less can it he supposed to intimate that he is dying of hard work
in preaching and ministering to his three hundred parishioners. It
may be merely intended to signify that he is a fox-hunting parson, and,
as such, liable, any day of the week, except Sunday, to break
bis neck.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[March 23, 1861.
another queer tenure called Borough-English, and its history, the
result, of which was, that in informing his friend Mr. White, of
Brighton, of his discoveries, the unfortunate nobleman stated that when
a man bequeathed lands in Kent his youngest son was divided into
equal parts, and buried in a gravel pit. So much for tasting only,
instead of drinking deep of the Pierian Spring.
Wednesday. The Opposition was quite victorious to-day.. Mr.
Locke King moved the Second Beading of his Bill for reducing the
County Pranchise to £10, and a long debate followed. Government
did not want the Bill to pass, but being, of course, Beformers by pro-
fession, were obliged to speak and vote for it, a state of things which
was pointed out rather clearly than civilly by Mr. Bernal Osborne.
Lord John Bussell indulged himself in an historical essay on all
Beforms that had ever been heard of, described the Chandos clause
(the £50 franchise) to have been “a subtle poison introduced into the
blood of the Constitution,” and pitched rather awkwardly into a detail
of Lord Derby’s Beform Bill. Mr. Disraeli was all alive, and of
course pounced upon the weak part of his antagonist’s speech, and
complimented him upon his “extremely delicate reticence” in having
never before revealed the secret of his objection to the Conservative
Beform Bill. The “previous question” was moved, and Mr. Locke
King and his reluctant allies, the Ministers, were defeated by 248 to
220. Checkmate to King.
The House then began a little fight upon a. Bill for allowing all
persons who object to Oaths to make affirmations instead, but six
o’clock stopped the strife.
Thursday. Lord Lyttelton has a Bill for makiug it easier to split
up dioceses, and set up new Bishops, and the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal had a couple of hours talk over it, and it was read a Second
Time by 27 to 23.
This was the Army night, as aforesaid. Eor particulars, see "above
A CASEOUS NOTION OF COMFORT.
NCOMMON is the
pleasure with
which we ex-
tract the sub-
joined announce-
ment from the
Express:—
“The Rev. Ed-
ward Cheese, son-
in-law of the Bishop
of Durham, was in-
ducted into the rec-
tory of Haughton-
le-Skerne on Friday
night. The Rev. J.
D. Bade, vicar of
Ayclifie, and about
twenty parishioners
were present. The
rector, after the
ceremony of induc-
tion, went round
and shook hands
with hi* new
friends, expressing
his conviction that
‘ he should find the
parish a very com-
fortable one.' ”
No doubt a
sufficiently rea-
sonable convic-
tion. Moderate
work and ample pay are material elements or comfort. A parish which
combines those advantages must be very unhealthy or barbarous to be
uncomfortable. A contented mind is a continual feast, and the income
of llaughton-le-Skerne ought at least to be capable of insuring that
blessing, unless ague or typhus or some other form of zymotic disease
is endemic there, or the inhabitants are savages who annoy t heir mis-
sionary. If the parish is salubrious, and the people are civilised, the
.Rector must be very unhappily constituted to be otherwise than com-
fortable. Mr. Cheese would be ill-tempered indeed to quarrel with
his bread and butter, the butter being spread so thick as it is at
Haughton-le-Skerne. Cheese and butter are natural allies; and Mr.
Cheese’s preferment may be considered as their re-union. Let us
hope that the spiritual richness of the Durham Cheese will warrant
the high price that has been put thereon, and justify a Bishop’s
patronage. Why should not this Cheese become a caseous monument
ofijpiety and preaching as well as of preferment F In that case we shall
rejoice to hear that the reverend incumbent of Haughton-le-Skerne has
discovered himself to have been a prophet in expressing the not un-
likely conviction that he should find that sphere of usefulness a very
balance sheet. No Errors Excepted, as Mr. Punch never makes
any.
Government introduced a Bill about the City Coal and Wine-Tax. It
is proposed that both taxes, altogether Thirteen Pence, shall be con-
tinued for ten years, but Ninepence of them to be paid into a fund for
metropolitan improvements, including Thames Embankment. The
tax at present extends twenty miles ; but it is in future to be confined
to the police district. The arrangement is better than the existing
swindle, but inasmuch as the improvement of London, and especially
of the river, is a boon to all England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and the
Isle of Man, Punch does not see why London is to bear all the ex-
pense. It is like painting, cleaning, glazing, and oilclothing the hall
of a lodging-house, and then charging the entire expense on the parlour-
floor lodgers, as if the drawing-rooms, and even the stingy gentleman
in the two-pair back did not gain respectability by the outlay.
Friday. Lord Wodehouse said that the account of the Polish dis-
turbances, as published, was tolerably correct. Mr. Punch is happy to
read that the Serf-Emancipating Emperor is too wise and too humane
to let loose his soldiers upon the Poles, and appears inclined to act
generously. Lord Cranworth has moved the Second Beading of thr
smallest Law Beform Bill ever heard of. It enacts that in certain cases,
an attorney’s clerk, or law stationer, need not take his scissors and
make the usual fancy scollop called “an indenture.” Lord Campbell
scoffed mightily at such bosh, but let it pass. The Lords rose very
early, probably to go away and read the last volume of Lord
Macaulay’s History, just issued. If so, they acted more wisely than
is their wont.
The Budget is fixed for the 11th of April. The Miscellany of
to-nightwas various, but not interesting. Mr. Gibson brought in a
Bill for improving Harbours, which Alderman Sidney said was much
wanted, for the last time he took tea in a harbour the spiders fell into
his cup uncommon.
comfortable one. We recommend Mr. Cheese to preserve all the
jokes that have been made, and severe things that have been said, at
his expense. When he shall have vindicated his lucrative position by
his successful ministry, he will then be enabled to look those attacks
over occasionally after dinner, whilst sipping his glass of sound old
port, and the recollection of them will enhance the comfort of the
parish which he so naturally expects to find very comfortable.
YOICKS, YOUR REVERENCE !
Just now that ecclesiastical hypocrisy is uncommonly rampant, it is
quite pleasing to be able to quote any evidence of straightforwardness
existing amongst the clerical body. There is, doubtless, among our
English divines a party, however small, to whom the subjoined hand-
bill will appeal as persons, or parsons, whom it may concern
To be Sold, with a prospect of Early Possession,
THE NEXT PRESENTATION TO A RECTORY,
In the most beautiful and picturesque part of North Devon, close to the Meets o
the Devon and Somerset Stag and Fox Hounds. Population 300.
A Newly-built Parsonage-House, and about 5S Acres of Good Glebe.
CLEAR YEARLY INCOME ABOUT £200.
For further Particulars, and to treat for the purchase, apply to
Messrs. -, &c. &c.
The above may be abused for a simoniacal advertisement. If it is
such, the simony is all above board. It is not a sneaking simony. It
does not cant about the cure of souls, and a sphere of usefulness; it
does not mention souls at all; says only “Population 300;” a popu-
lation whose souls are probably, as the soul of their Beetor is expected
to.be, in the bunting-field. It honestly offers a good thing to a man
in orders, who would like to be a gentleman farmer and fox-hunter.
But where spirituality is so little in question, simony is a bard word to
apply to the sale of a living. The rectory of £200 a year, situate in
the most beautiful and picturesque part of North Devon, may not
suit those of the Clergy who frequent May Meetings at Exeter Hall,
but it will fit others who will do just as much good by riding to the
Meets of the Devon and Somerset Fox-hounds, enjoying healthy
recreation instead of unhealthy excitement.
The “Prospect of early possession,” held out as a motive for the
purchase of this piece of preferment, must not be too hastily concluded
to mean that the present Incumbent is old, or paralytic, or consump-
tive, or affected with a disease of the heart, or predisposed to apoplexy.
Still less can it he supposed to intimate that he is dying of hard work
in preaching and ministering to his three hundred parishioners. It
may be merely intended to signify that he is a fox-hunting parson, and,
as such, liable, any day of the week, except Sunday, to break
bis neck.