DOI issue:
November 9, 1861
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [November 9, 1861.
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT.
Our Volunteers in Devon are not likely to continue carpet-knights,
“ Every Volunteer must provide for his own personal comfort, subject to the
conditions already specified as to baggage, and to such other Regulations as may be
laid down for the good order of the camp. But the attention of Volunteers is
directed to the following points :—a. A complete change of woollen clothing, in-
cluding two flannel shirts, woollen drawers, and socks, and a woollen cap. b. Two
blankets, no sheets, c. A camp bedstead, or a bedtick, sacking, canvass bag, or
wrapper to be stuffed with straw. The straw will be supplied gratis at the camp.
d. Towel and soap. e. Needles and thread, strong pins, a piece of cord or a strap,
f. A plate, mug, knife, fork, and sx>oon.
as the annexed extract from their published regulations will show.
“ In addition to the above articles for each individual, there should be for each
tent or mess :—y. A tarpauling, winnowing sheet, or other waterproof cloth to
spread under the bedding, h. A pail or bucket to hold a supply of water; if the
top will serve as a basin, all the better, i. One or two saucepans, with the long
iron handle taken off, and a semicircular wire handle substituted, j. A baking tin
or fryingpan (handle removable), k. A net to hold rations of meat or vegetables.
1. A hatchet or bill-hook. m. A spade, n. A lanthorn.
“N.B. The articles marked h, i, j, should, if possible, be packed one inside
another.”
SAMUEL THE SAINT-SEER.
We rejoice to see the Bishop of Oxford on his legs again, for he
has been laid up, and he is a famous orator. In a speech highly calcu-
lated to sustain his reputation for eloquence, made at York, on behalf
of the county blind-school, occurs the very remarkable passage sub-
joined. “Let every man,” said the Bishop, “think how to himself
through the eye had come the sense of beauty”— and so forth:—
“ Let him think what it was never once to have looked upon the innocent bright-
ness of an infant’s countenance ; what it was never once to have seen the radiance
and glory which mantled around the features of the Holy Saints.”
The foregoing passage is very tine, but rather obscure. What it is
“ to have looked upon the innocent brightness of an infant’s counten-
ance,” most people know. Brightness is a quality commonly ascribed
to smiles. We all of us, who enjoy the use of our eyes, have seen many
a baby with a clean shiny face, just washed, smiling with an expression
of the purest innocence, the process of ablution being over; although, a
few moments before, during that process, it had been crying frightfully,
and making the most vicious faces. But how many of us have seen
“ the radiance and glory which mantle around the faces of the Holy
Saints ? ” Pictures of the luminous appearance, -winch the Bishop thus
alludes to are familiar enough to the generality of people; but the
phenomenon itself isone that we never, heretofore,knew anybody who had
witnessed, or thought that he had, or even said that he had. Bishop
Wilberforce, however, who mentions it as a matter of ordinary observa-
tion to all but the blind, is of course constantly in the habit ol seeing it
under favourable conditions himself, and thinks that it is seen as well I
by mankind at large. But he is evidently, by special faculty, a seer of I
saints; and he seems to see so many as to make it appear that they are
more numerous now-a-days than they are generally supposed. The
phosphorescence with which the old painters usually represent the
heads of holy prelates as surrounded, may be an emanation of what
Baron Reichenbach calls the Odic or Odylic light, perceptible only
to certain persons, whom he terms “ sensitives.” Perhaps the Bishop
op Oxpord is a sensitive, and thus accustomed to behold the radiance
and glory mantling around the features of the Holy Saints; that is to
say, when he sees them in the dark, for then only are the odylic rays
visible. When, therefore, the Bishop, going to bed at night, puts his
candle out, and is consequently, according to the solution of the popular
riddle, where Moses (the tailor) was, under the same circumstances? let
us cherish the supposition that he beholds the reflection of a brilliant
halo whensoever he casts his eyes on the looking-glass.
Theatrical Intelligence.
Our Irish Correspondent writes to say that Patti has been per-
forming Martha in Dublin. The opera, he informs us, has been a great
success. The singer identified herself from beginning to end most
closely with the character,—so much so, that her warm-hearted admirers
declare that the name of the opera should for the future be altered from
Martha to Patty.
RICK HIM HARD, HE SHOULD HAVE NO FRIENDS.
A Correspondent wants to know whether it be because the winter
is approaching that Blondin for the time has given up his Summer-sets P
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT.
Our Volunteers in Devon are not likely to continue carpet-knights,
“ Every Volunteer must provide for his own personal comfort, subject to the
conditions already specified as to baggage, and to such other Regulations as may be
laid down for the good order of the camp. But the attention of Volunteers is
directed to the following points :—a. A complete change of woollen clothing, in-
cluding two flannel shirts, woollen drawers, and socks, and a woollen cap. b. Two
blankets, no sheets, c. A camp bedstead, or a bedtick, sacking, canvass bag, or
wrapper to be stuffed with straw. The straw will be supplied gratis at the camp.
d. Towel and soap. e. Needles and thread, strong pins, a piece of cord or a strap,
f. A plate, mug, knife, fork, and sx>oon.
as the annexed extract from their published regulations will show.
“ In addition to the above articles for each individual, there should be for each
tent or mess :—y. A tarpauling, winnowing sheet, or other waterproof cloth to
spread under the bedding, h. A pail or bucket to hold a supply of water; if the
top will serve as a basin, all the better, i. One or two saucepans, with the long
iron handle taken off, and a semicircular wire handle substituted, j. A baking tin
or fryingpan (handle removable), k. A net to hold rations of meat or vegetables.
1. A hatchet or bill-hook. m. A spade, n. A lanthorn.
“N.B. The articles marked h, i, j, should, if possible, be packed one inside
another.”
SAMUEL THE SAINT-SEER.
We rejoice to see the Bishop of Oxford on his legs again, for he
has been laid up, and he is a famous orator. In a speech highly calcu-
lated to sustain his reputation for eloquence, made at York, on behalf
of the county blind-school, occurs the very remarkable passage sub-
joined. “Let every man,” said the Bishop, “think how to himself
through the eye had come the sense of beauty”— and so forth:—
“ Let him think what it was never once to have looked upon the innocent bright-
ness of an infant’s countenance ; what it was never once to have seen the radiance
and glory which mantled around the features of the Holy Saints.”
The foregoing passage is very tine, but rather obscure. What it is
“ to have looked upon the innocent brightness of an infant’s counten-
ance,” most people know. Brightness is a quality commonly ascribed
to smiles. We all of us, who enjoy the use of our eyes, have seen many
a baby with a clean shiny face, just washed, smiling with an expression
of the purest innocence, the process of ablution being over; although, a
few moments before, during that process, it had been crying frightfully,
and making the most vicious faces. But how many of us have seen
“ the radiance and glory which mantle around the faces of the Holy
Saints ? ” Pictures of the luminous appearance, -winch the Bishop thus
alludes to are familiar enough to the generality of people; but the
phenomenon itself isone that we never, heretofore,knew anybody who had
witnessed, or thought that he had, or even said that he had. Bishop
Wilberforce, however, who mentions it as a matter of ordinary observa-
tion to all but the blind, is of course constantly in the habit ol seeing it
under favourable conditions himself, and thinks that it is seen as well I
by mankind at large. But he is evidently, by special faculty, a seer of I
saints; and he seems to see so many as to make it appear that they are
more numerous now-a-days than they are generally supposed. The
phosphorescence with which the old painters usually represent the
heads of holy prelates as surrounded, may be an emanation of what
Baron Reichenbach calls the Odic or Odylic light, perceptible only
to certain persons, whom he terms “ sensitives.” Perhaps the Bishop
op Oxpord is a sensitive, and thus accustomed to behold the radiance
and glory mantling around the features of the Holy Saints; that is to
say, when he sees them in the dark, for then only are the odylic rays
visible. When, therefore, the Bishop, going to bed at night, puts his
candle out, and is consequently, according to the solution of the popular
riddle, where Moses (the tailor) was, under the same circumstances? let
us cherish the supposition that he beholds the reflection of a brilliant
halo whensoever he casts his eyes on the looking-glass.
Theatrical Intelligence.
Our Irish Correspondent writes to say that Patti has been per-
forming Martha in Dublin. The opera, he informs us, has been a great
success. The singer identified herself from beginning to end most
closely with the character,—so much so, that her warm-hearted admirers
declare that the name of the opera should for the future be altered from
Martha to Patty.
RICK HIM HARD, HE SHOULD HAVE NO FRIENDS.
A Correspondent wants to know whether it be because the winter
is approaching that Blondin for the time has given up his Summer-sets P