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February 8, 1862
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February 8, 1862.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
51
AWFUL WARNING.
Street Boy. “ There / if you go slickin’ o’ Bills about, they ’ll serve you like they ’ve
done ’im / ”
NON POSSUMUS!
“ Come, Holy Father,” cries a friend,
Who ’d save the Popedom if he might,
“ To meet the times a little bend,
Reserving your imagined right;
Take the best terms you ’ll ever gain.”
“We can’t,” replies the Pope’s disdain.
“ Non possumus ! Non possumus ! ”
“ Nay, Holiness, relent, and spare
Your children’s conscience, Europe’s peace.
Resettled in St. Peter’s chair,
You then will take another lease,
Which Italy would freely grant.”
His Holiness repeats, “ We can’t;
Non possumus ! Non possumus /”
“ The Romans leave their Prince to choose,
Their Pontiff whilst as yet they own.
Your spiritual seat you ’ll lose
Not, if you yield your temporal throne.”
“ Can’t do it,” says the poor old gent.;
“ No, not at this establishment:
Non possumus ! Non possumus !
“ We’ve bound ourselves, by solemn oath,
To yield no part of our domain.
Our earthly crown and heavenly, both,
We must, we will, we shall retain.
Propose replacement statu quo.
Nought less will we accept; no go!
Non possumus ! Non possumus ! ’ ’
“ Yet, Holy Father, look a-head,
What Pope, excuse my speaking plain,
Will have the right, when you are dead,
Against the people’s will to reign ?
Who will create that Pope a King?”
Still Pius harps on his old string,
“ Non possumus ! Non possumus ! ”
“Beware, your Holiness, beware!
Religion in antagonism
With freedom, if you don’t take care,
Will plunge all Italy in schism.
Be wise ! ” “We can’t,” insists the Pore,
“We wait events, and live in hope:
Non possumus! Non possumus ! ”
DAUNTLESS BRAVERY OF COUNSEL.
Among the natural qualifications necessary to success at the Bar, one
of the principal is that of courage. Mr. Chambers, Q.C., is endowed
with a large share of this forensic requisite, if, in the course of his
address to the jury on the Windham case the ensuing passage, re-
ported as part of that oration, really occurred :—
vided always that Mr. Chambers really did ask the jury to protect
Mr. Windham, by declaring him a lunatic, from persons who were
likely to victimise, injure, and destroy him. There ought to be a Cross
of an Order of Forensic Valour instituted to reward the daring of
learned gentlemen who venture to say such things It. is needless to
add that such a decoration should be made out of the brightest brass.
“ He was quite convinced that the jury, understanding-, as they now did, the
principles which were to govern them in their decision, must inevitably come to
the conclusion, that it was their duty to guard Mr. Windhajh by their verdict in his
present state of mind from being victimised, and injured, and destroyed, by persons
who were ever ready to prey upon weakness, especially when that weakness was !
accompanied by wealth or moderate means.”
The courage which General Windham has had the credit of having i
displayed at the Redan, nay, that which the boldest of British gre-
nadiers undoubtedly did display at Alma and Inkermann, is less remark-
able than that instanced by General Windham’s counsel in the above
remark7-if he made it. Nelson on the quarter-deck of the Victory
with his decorations on his breast, the Duke oe Wellington at
Waterloo, “ a walkin’ about amongst the red-hot cannon-balls,” regard-
less of circumstances, as the showman says, are nothing in comparison
to Mr. Chambers at the Sessions House, Westminster, before Master
Sam. Warren. When the fact is considered that, at the time when
the foregoing words were uttered the lawyers concerned in the Wind-
ham Lunacy Commission had already nearly eaten up Mr. Windham’s
estate, and devoured a vast deal more of his property than any of the
rogues, blackguards, and improper persons with whom he wasted it in
riotous living, the courage which could enable one of the chief of those
lawyers, ana of those particular lawyers, moreover, by whose agency
the proceedings were instituted, to allude to people by whom his client’s
nephew was in danger of being “ victimised, injured, and destroyed,”
appears immense. Talk no more of Alexander, or Pericles, or
Conon, or Lysander, or Alcibiades. Of all the gallant heroes,
whether of antiquity or modern times, there’s no one to compare with
Mr. Chambers, except the Gracchi complaining of sedition, pro-
HOPELESS JUSTICE.
Mr. Hibbard is the man for Chancellor oe the Exchequer,
if the plan of taxation which he proposes is as practicable as the prin-
ciple whereon he bases it is just. At Buckingham, the other day, he
told his audience that,—
“His scheme provided that men should be taxed according to their power of
spending. ”
In these few words lies the answer to the pedantic moral idiots who
keep insisting, in the face of common sense, that all incomes ought to
be taxed at equal rates. Ability to buy is ability to pay. It is folly to
live up to an uncertain income as nearly as prudence would allow u it
were a certain one. The folly of such expenditure is immense, and just
equal in magnitude to the injustice of corresponding taxation. The
measure of the fools on the one hand is that of the rogues on the other.
But these are truisms which Mr. Hubbard must not expect to per-
suade gentlemen of independent property to consider.
Specially Retained.
Dr. Gwyn, according to the reports in the Windham nuisance, seems
to have appeared in Court for the sole purpose of laughing at Mr.
Chambers. The Doctor was removed. This was unfair. In all
important cases somebody should attend to represent the feeling of the
public.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
51
AWFUL WARNING.
Street Boy. “ There / if you go slickin’ o’ Bills about, they ’ll serve you like they ’ve
done ’im / ”
NON POSSUMUS!
“ Come, Holy Father,” cries a friend,
Who ’d save the Popedom if he might,
“ To meet the times a little bend,
Reserving your imagined right;
Take the best terms you ’ll ever gain.”
“We can’t,” replies the Pope’s disdain.
“ Non possumus ! Non possumus ! ”
“ Nay, Holiness, relent, and spare
Your children’s conscience, Europe’s peace.
Resettled in St. Peter’s chair,
You then will take another lease,
Which Italy would freely grant.”
His Holiness repeats, “ We can’t;
Non possumus ! Non possumus /”
“ The Romans leave their Prince to choose,
Their Pontiff whilst as yet they own.
Your spiritual seat you ’ll lose
Not, if you yield your temporal throne.”
“ Can’t do it,” says the poor old gent.;
“ No, not at this establishment:
Non possumus ! Non possumus !
“ We’ve bound ourselves, by solemn oath,
To yield no part of our domain.
Our earthly crown and heavenly, both,
We must, we will, we shall retain.
Propose replacement statu quo.
Nought less will we accept; no go!
Non possumus ! Non possumus ! ’ ’
“ Yet, Holy Father, look a-head,
What Pope, excuse my speaking plain,
Will have the right, when you are dead,
Against the people’s will to reign ?
Who will create that Pope a King?”
Still Pius harps on his old string,
“ Non possumus ! Non possumus ! ”
“Beware, your Holiness, beware!
Religion in antagonism
With freedom, if you don’t take care,
Will plunge all Italy in schism.
Be wise ! ” “We can’t,” insists the Pore,
“We wait events, and live in hope:
Non possumus! Non possumus ! ”
DAUNTLESS BRAVERY OF COUNSEL.
Among the natural qualifications necessary to success at the Bar, one
of the principal is that of courage. Mr. Chambers, Q.C., is endowed
with a large share of this forensic requisite, if, in the course of his
address to the jury on the Windham case the ensuing passage, re-
ported as part of that oration, really occurred :—
vided always that Mr. Chambers really did ask the jury to protect
Mr. Windham, by declaring him a lunatic, from persons who were
likely to victimise, injure, and destroy him. There ought to be a Cross
of an Order of Forensic Valour instituted to reward the daring of
learned gentlemen who venture to say such things It. is needless to
add that such a decoration should be made out of the brightest brass.
“ He was quite convinced that the jury, understanding-, as they now did, the
principles which were to govern them in their decision, must inevitably come to
the conclusion, that it was their duty to guard Mr. Windhajh by their verdict in his
present state of mind from being victimised, and injured, and destroyed, by persons
who were ever ready to prey upon weakness, especially when that weakness was !
accompanied by wealth or moderate means.”
The courage which General Windham has had the credit of having i
displayed at the Redan, nay, that which the boldest of British gre-
nadiers undoubtedly did display at Alma and Inkermann, is less remark-
able than that instanced by General Windham’s counsel in the above
remark7-if he made it. Nelson on the quarter-deck of the Victory
with his decorations on his breast, the Duke oe Wellington at
Waterloo, “ a walkin’ about amongst the red-hot cannon-balls,” regard-
less of circumstances, as the showman says, are nothing in comparison
to Mr. Chambers at the Sessions House, Westminster, before Master
Sam. Warren. When the fact is considered that, at the time when
the foregoing words were uttered the lawyers concerned in the Wind-
ham Lunacy Commission had already nearly eaten up Mr. Windham’s
estate, and devoured a vast deal more of his property than any of the
rogues, blackguards, and improper persons with whom he wasted it in
riotous living, the courage which could enable one of the chief of those
lawyers, ana of those particular lawyers, moreover, by whose agency
the proceedings were instituted, to allude to people by whom his client’s
nephew was in danger of being “ victimised, injured, and destroyed,”
appears immense. Talk no more of Alexander, or Pericles, or
Conon, or Lysander, or Alcibiades. Of all the gallant heroes,
whether of antiquity or modern times, there’s no one to compare with
Mr. Chambers, except the Gracchi complaining of sedition, pro-
HOPELESS JUSTICE.
Mr. Hibbard is the man for Chancellor oe the Exchequer,
if the plan of taxation which he proposes is as practicable as the prin-
ciple whereon he bases it is just. At Buckingham, the other day, he
told his audience that,—
“His scheme provided that men should be taxed according to their power of
spending. ”
In these few words lies the answer to the pedantic moral idiots who
keep insisting, in the face of common sense, that all incomes ought to
be taxed at equal rates. Ability to buy is ability to pay. It is folly to
live up to an uncertain income as nearly as prudence would allow u it
were a certain one. The folly of such expenditure is immense, and just
equal in magnitude to the injustice of corresponding taxation. The
measure of the fools on the one hand is that of the rogues on the other.
But these are truisms which Mr. Hubbard must not expect to per-
suade gentlemen of independent property to consider.
Specially Retained.
Dr. Gwyn, according to the reports in the Windham nuisance, seems
to have appeared in Court for the sole purpose of laughing at Mr.
Chambers. The Doctor was removed. This was unfair. In all
important cases somebody should attend to represent the feeling of the
public.