DOI issue:
August 23, 1862
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16870#0090
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI
[August 23, 1862.
A SEA-SIDE SUBJECT-JOLLY FOR THE PARTY IN SEARCH OF REPOSE.
A’.if. The Old Lady teith the Parrot encourages Organ-Grinders, and, when the Moon shines bright and clear, doesn't the Black Dog came out l
A SHAKER OE THE INFALLIBLE CHURCH.
Before the popular mind had abandoned itself to negro melodies,
there was a comic song of the “Billy Barlow” or “Raggedy oh!”
species which stood in high favour under the title of ‘‘ Shivery Shaleery.”
A letter lately in the Bristol Times contained a statement suggestive of
the idea that a modification of the canticle of that name might be sung
with the most happy effect by an eminent divine, a convert to popery,
who has recently declared that “ Protestantism is the dreariest of all
religions; the thought of the Anglican service makes him shiver, and
t he thought of the Thirty-Nine Articles makes him shudder.” Our
Bristol contemporary’s correspondent thus writes
“ It may be profitable to review tlie history of the person who has given vent to
his animosity against our Church, in terms not unworthy of the most furious of the
Liberation spouters. Newman, it is well known, was originally a Dissenter. Not
being satisfied with his position as a Nonconformist, he became ambitious to occupy
higher ground. Having taken his degree at Oxford, he was ordained ; and he began
his career as 'an evangelical.’ The principles of the opposite party, in all proba-
bility, made him ‘shiver and shudder.’ In a few years, however, we find him
hoisting his high-church flag as a Tractarian. While thus engaged, he was seized
with a fit of trepidation at .the doctrines of ‘ the evangelicals ; ’ for he abused them
in good set terms. He professed also to hold in abhorrence the errors of Romanism,
and compared the Pope’s church to a demoniac, possessed and governed by the
Prince of Darkness. Shivering and shuddering, he warned us to avoid her as a pes-
tilential synagogue, which had established a lie in the place of God's truth. He
pronounced her to be crafty, obstinate, wilful, malicious, cruel, and unnatural, as
madmen are. He declared that in the corrupt Papal system we have the very
cruelty, the craft, and the ambition of the old Republic. One might suppose that
as a matter of course he would have shuddered at its crimes.”
The autobiography of the reverend D. D., sung in his ecclesiastical
costume, with the burden, introduced at due intervals, of “Shivery
Shuddery,” would be highly amusing, and could possibly do no harm
by perverting any simpleton, however weak, who is acquainted with
the subjoined statement of the writer above quoted respecting that
shaky captive of the papal Fisherman, and theologically loose fish :—
“ Archbishop Whatelt, who was his contemporary at Oxford, assures us that
‘ by the confession of hie friends in The Bnglish Churchman (Oct. 16, 1845), Mr.
Newman had been for four years at least, a member of the Roman communion,
before he openly avowed his conversion : during which four years he suffered him-
self to be looked up and appealed to, as the head of a party who styled themselves
the only true sons of the Church of England ! ’ His various pranks at Oxford are
recorded at full length by the Archbishop in his Cautions for the Times, xiii. Did
the Reverend Doctor ever shiver or shudder at his own duplicity and hypocris}^
during the period here referred to, and while he was comfortably pocketing the
revenues of the English Church ? If he did not, then I shall be loath to believe that
the Thirty-nine Articles can possibly give a man of his brazen constitution a fit of
the ague. Of one thing we may be quite sure; his capacity for straining at a gnat,
and swallowing whole camels, is unrivalled.”
A polemic who is known to shiver and shudder so violently without
cause, and not to tremble at all when he should, is unlikely to shake the
faith of the most foolish fellow who is not also crazy. The most absurd
of Ranters or Jumping Methodists may henceforth expect to catch as
many flats as are likely to be hooked by our great Romanist Shaker.
SPIRIT OF BLACK DIAMONDS.
A Bottle of brandy and a bottle of smoke are generally considered
to be very different things; yet it appears that they contain certain
elements in common. A young French chemist, named Cotelle, of St.
Quentin, has discovered a method of extracting alcohol from coal gas ;
which, an Irish contemporary will perhaps observe, is an odd way of
getting spirits of wine. Cotelle says that he can sell the spirit thus
produced thrice as cheap as the cheapest at present made, at which rate
gin, that vulgar liquor, will become still more low. The extreme
cheapness of coal-spirit will render it a profitable export for consump-
tion oy the Red Indians, who will, with especial propriety, denominate
the intoxicating fluid derived from coals fire-water.
Bringing ’em Up with a Bound Turn.
A Deputation from Plymouth recently waited upon Lord Palmer-
ston to represent to him that navigators to and from that port required
an increase of basin accommodation. Pam replied that he held many
offices, but that he was not yet a steward of a steampacket. The
deputation retired, and are at present engaged, with their coats off that
they may think the harder, trying to find out what His Jauntiness
meant.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI
[August 23, 1862.
A SEA-SIDE SUBJECT-JOLLY FOR THE PARTY IN SEARCH OF REPOSE.
A’.if. The Old Lady teith the Parrot encourages Organ-Grinders, and, when the Moon shines bright and clear, doesn't the Black Dog came out l
A SHAKER OE THE INFALLIBLE CHURCH.
Before the popular mind had abandoned itself to negro melodies,
there was a comic song of the “Billy Barlow” or “Raggedy oh!”
species which stood in high favour under the title of ‘‘ Shivery Shaleery.”
A letter lately in the Bristol Times contained a statement suggestive of
the idea that a modification of the canticle of that name might be sung
with the most happy effect by an eminent divine, a convert to popery,
who has recently declared that “ Protestantism is the dreariest of all
religions; the thought of the Anglican service makes him shiver, and
t he thought of the Thirty-Nine Articles makes him shudder.” Our
Bristol contemporary’s correspondent thus writes
“ It may be profitable to review tlie history of the person who has given vent to
his animosity against our Church, in terms not unworthy of the most furious of the
Liberation spouters. Newman, it is well known, was originally a Dissenter. Not
being satisfied with his position as a Nonconformist, he became ambitious to occupy
higher ground. Having taken his degree at Oxford, he was ordained ; and he began
his career as 'an evangelical.’ The principles of the opposite party, in all proba-
bility, made him ‘shiver and shudder.’ In a few years, however, we find him
hoisting his high-church flag as a Tractarian. While thus engaged, he was seized
with a fit of trepidation at .the doctrines of ‘ the evangelicals ; ’ for he abused them
in good set terms. He professed also to hold in abhorrence the errors of Romanism,
and compared the Pope’s church to a demoniac, possessed and governed by the
Prince of Darkness. Shivering and shuddering, he warned us to avoid her as a pes-
tilential synagogue, which had established a lie in the place of God's truth. He
pronounced her to be crafty, obstinate, wilful, malicious, cruel, and unnatural, as
madmen are. He declared that in the corrupt Papal system we have the very
cruelty, the craft, and the ambition of the old Republic. One might suppose that
as a matter of course he would have shuddered at its crimes.”
The autobiography of the reverend D. D., sung in his ecclesiastical
costume, with the burden, introduced at due intervals, of “Shivery
Shuddery,” would be highly amusing, and could possibly do no harm
by perverting any simpleton, however weak, who is acquainted with
the subjoined statement of the writer above quoted respecting that
shaky captive of the papal Fisherman, and theologically loose fish :—
“ Archbishop Whatelt, who was his contemporary at Oxford, assures us that
‘ by the confession of hie friends in The Bnglish Churchman (Oct. 16, 1845), Mr.
Newman had been for four years at least, a member of the Roman communion,
before he openly avowed his conversion : during which four years he suffered him-
self to be looked up and appealed to, as the head of a party who styled themselves
the only true sons of the Church of England ! ’ His various pranks at Oxford are
recorded at full length by the Archbishop in his Cautions for the Times, xiii. Did
the Reverend Doctor ever shiver or shudder at his own duplicity and hypocris}^
during the period here referred to, and while he was comfortably pocketing the
revenues of the English Church ? If he did not, then I shall be loath to believe that
the Thirty-nine Articles can possibly give a man of his brazen constitution a fit of
the ague. Of one thing we may be quite sure; his capacity for straining at a gnat,
and swallowing whole camels, is unrivalled.”
A polemic who is known to shiver and shudder so violently without
cause, and not to tremble at all when he should, is unlikely to shake the
faith of the most foolish fellow who is not also crazy. The most absurd
of Ranters or Jumping Methodists may henceforth expect to catch as
many flats as are likely to be hooked by our great Romanist Shaker.
SPIRIT OF BLACK DIAMONDS.
A Bottle of brandy and a bottle of smoke are generally considered
to be very different things; yet it appears that they contain certain
elements in common. A young French chemist, named Cotelle, of St.
Quentin, has discovered a method of extracting alcohol from coal gas ;
which, an Irish contemporary will perhaps observe, is an odd way of
getting spirits of wine. Cotelle says that he can sell the spirit thus
produced thrice as cheap as the cheapest at present made, at which rate
gin, that vulgar liquor, will become still more low. The extreme
cheapness of coal-spirit will render it a profitable export for consump-
tion oy the Red Indians, who will, with especial propriety, denominate
the intoxicating fluid derived from coals fire-water.
Bringing ’em Up with a Bound Turn.
A Deputation from Plymouth recently waited upon Lord Palmer-
ston to represent to him that navigators to and from that port required
an increase of basin accommodation. Pam replied that he held many
offices, but that he was not yet a steward of a steampacket. The
deputation retired, and are at present engaged, with their coats off that
they may think the harder, trying to find out what His Jauntiness
meant.