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February 21, 1863
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[February 21, 1863,
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
about half a foot square, suggested itself as his only
chance of effecting an entrance. In a second he
was within. Not a horse was to he seen; only one
small animal, the Fanner’s favourite, known to all
the peasants as the Moke Anna, or Mokeanna, as
she was commonly called, lay slumbering in the
stall. A sudden idea occurred to the Hunchback.
“ I will set fire to the place,” said he. After look-
ing about for some time, he selected two dry sticks.
He remembered having been told in his childish
days, how that a couple of pieces of wood if rubbed
together for a considerable time, would instan-
taneously ignite. The Hunchback, overcome with
emotion, let fall a tear.
“Bah!” he exclaimed, wiping the moisture
carefully off the twig.
An hour’s patient friction produced the desired
effect.
“ This is hungry work,” he said. While trying
to find some food, his eye fell upon a tempting bone
on which a few particles of meat still remained.
The Hunchback pocketed the dainty morsel, and,
kneeling down, was about to apply the burning
brand to the rafters, when a pair of burning eyes
glowered upon him out of the surrounding dark-
ness, and a sudden, sharp, agonising pain shot
through Ms frame.
A huge animal of the pure English bull-dog
type, whose long shaggy coat and bushy tail were
actually bristling with rage, had fastened his veno-
mous fangs in the Hunchback’s brawny chest. In
deadly conflict over and over they rolled. The
ruffian waited Ms opportunity and dragged the
dog within reach of Mokeanna’s heels. One blow
from the hoofs of the sagacious steed, and the
savage hound lay insensible.
The Hunchback vaulted on Mokeanna’s back.
“ Now for my Lady,” he cried. “Away!”
The Farm House was blazing, as, waving Ms
chapeau blanc, he urged Mokeanna o’er the Dismal
Wold.
(To be continued.)
PUNCHES ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
February 9, Monday. A blank night, except that Lord Palmer-
ston intimated that what (circumstances having altered) it will no
longer be Liberal and polite to call the Galway Job, is to go on, and
that the Packet Company is to have the money. Also that the Crown
of Greece had been on “the previous day,” which was Sunday, offered
to Lord Russell for Prince Alered, and that the Earl, very pro-
perly rebuking the Greeks for their anti-Sabbatarianism, had handed
them the Greek paragraphs in the Speech. Also, the Premier stated
that the Duke oe Saxe Cobourg would not take the vacant throne,
though Mr. Elliot has told the Greeks that he would. The Duke
imitates Leopold of old. C’est renouvele des Grecs. But they are not
politely treated, and if Mr. Punch had not the rest of the world to
mind, he would ascend their throne himself, and show them the true
“ beauty of regality.”
Tuesday. Nor was there much to-night, worthy of crystallisation.
Who can desire to know that Lord Nobmanby is preparing a fresh
attack in the interest of the Pope? No one. But some persons may
Jike to hear that Sir George Grey is going to ask for an alteration of
the law regulating the sale of spirits and beer, and that a recent edify-
ing scene in an Inn of Court has induced Sir George Bowyer to
bring in a Bill for amending the nature of the after-dinner tribunal of
justice at which barristers are tried by their peers—to establish, we
suppose, a court of appeal from Philip, winy, to Philip with a head-
ache and soda-water. Moreover, Lord Palmerston stated that there
was going to be no hurry about parting with the Ionian Isles. All
sorts of people had to be consulted, iucluding, oddly enough, the
lonians themselves.
Wednesday. Irish Fish. Really, we beg pardon for even alluding to
such a topic.
Thursday. The friends of persons who have the misfortune to be
found out in the commission of forgery and swindling, will be happy to
hear, from the Duke oe Newcastle, that Mr. Redpath, who some
time ago came under the unfavourable notice of a jury, and in conse-
quence had to leave the country he adorned, is now an ornament of
Western Australia, where he has a house, and an income of his own,
besides £200 a year sent him from England. The single drawback, if
it can be called one, is that having a ticket-of-leave, he is obliged to be
at home by ten o’clock at night, like all sensible and respectable people
in England, whether they hold tickets-of-leave or do not.
The Act for the Relief of Lancashire distress is to be continued, and
the point urged by all the speakers who adverted to the subject is, that
the liberality of the country must be sustained as long as possible, for
it is all needed, and will be needed for many a day.
Sir George Lewis did not know why the Delhi prize money was
not distributed—thought it nossible Sir C. Wood might know some-
thing about it. Mr. Punch supposes that Government was rather
sulky to-day. its man, Sir Frederick Grey (a Grey, too,) having been
beaten at Deyonport by Mr. Eerrand, whom the Dockyard had
beaten three times, but who now floors the Dockyard. This came
instantly after another Tory victory, Mr. Eawcett, the clever and
blind candidate for Cambridge having been defeated by Mr. Powell,
touching whom the trumpet of fame hath not hitherto been as blatant
as the rejoicings of his partisans.
_ Friday. Lord Ellenborough set forth to the House of Lords a
list of grievances supposed to be sustained by the officers of the Indian
army. The Duke or Argyll of course contended that they had
nothing to complain of, and the Duke or Cambridge, by a curious
coincidence, was of the same opinion, so that the officers had better
retire to their hookahs and pale ale, and be comforted by the thought
that their betters are quite satisfied with themselves.
Mr. Peacocke carried against the Goverument an address for pre-
venting the sale of Crown Lauds within fifteen miles of London. This
early division (the numbers 113 to 73), looks ominous. First knock-
down blow.
Mr. Gladstone then reduced the duty on manufactured tobacco.
Mr. Punch does not believe that he shall get a good cigar any cheaper
I hail at present, or that, generally speaking, he shall get a good cigar at
all, but as Mr. Gladstone may mean well, he may accept acknow-
ledgments.
The Houses have been exceedingly early since the opening, always
getting away in time for dinner. If they would keep to this, it would
be pleasant.
YAHOOS AT SAN FRANCISCO.
_ Various British birds are in course of being successfully acclima-
tised hi Australia. The subjoined announcement may be said to show
that in California, also, a certain class of emigrants have established
Rookeries:—
“FRIENDS OF IRELAND.
AN ADJOURNED MEETING of the Friends of Irish Independence
A. will "be held at Assembly Hall, Cor. Post and Kearny sts., on Sunday, De-
cember 14, 1862, at 2 o'clock, p.m.
“ At this meeting the report of the Committee appointed at the meeting of
Sunday last will be submitted, and a Board of Trustees elected for the ensuing year.
Also, other business will be transacted of the greatest importance to our native
land.
“ J5T Irishmen, come up now, as this is a movement intended to unite all our
countrymen all over the world in one grand and practicable effort to aid our country-
men at home to establish their Independence.
“ SS" Irishmen ! Assemble one and all, and chose the men who are to represent
you in this movement.
“Jeremiah Kavanah, President pro tern.”
“ J. O’Mahony, Secretary pro tern.”
The meeting advertised as above iti the San Francisco Herald duly
came off, and was subsequently thus reported in that journal
“ The Movement for Irish Liberty.—A second meeting of friends of the gene-
ral movement now being made to win back the freedom of Ireland, was held yester-
day afternoon in Assembly Flail, comer of Kearny and Post Streets. The attendance,
as on the previous occasion, was very large, and the proceedings enthusiastic. The
parties who have inaugurated this auxiliary movement, are acting in accordance
with the conviction that work, not words, is what is now wanted, and not the work
of prayers and petitions either. Not one of them belong to the Peace Society. After
the meeting had been organised yesterday, Mr. Thomas Moony was chosen Assist-
ant Secretary of the organisation, which it was voted to call the ‘ Irish National
Association.’ Then the meeting chose by ballot, seven persons to act as an execu-
tive committee or hoard of trustees for the State of California. The persons so
chosen are : ex-Governor John G. Downey, Capt. Michael Cody, R. J. Tobin, ESq.,
Francis Ready, Esq., Lieut.-Col. M. C. Smith, and Michael Guerin, Esq. A con-
tribution to the cause was then taken up which amounted to the sum of $316 50.”
The Rookeries, whose existence is evidenced by the demonstration
above recorded, are those of Kearny Street and Post Street. The
former of these names may render further comment superfluous ; yet a
punster might be expected to ask, whether the congregation in which
the denizens of the Post Street and Kearny Street Rookeries united to
kick up a row was not what in the United States is called a caucus ?
But the creatures in question are not rooks, and don’t caw; make quite
a different sort of hullaballoo, consisting of yells and howls, which
they utter whenever they hear the name of England mentioned, in
fact, they belong to the tribe of scarcely human beings, hardly to be
called Irishmen, known as Irish Yahoos. These congeners of the
Gorilla emigrate to the ends of the earth, carrying with them, wherever
they go, filth, squalor, ferocity, disorder, crime, and hatred of England.
No matter where they may be, they are ever ready, at any instigation,
to unite in an expression ot malevolence against this country. The
reader will have noticed that the Yahoo chosen Assistant Secretary of
the Irish National Association was a Mr. Moony. If Mr. Moony were
t ranslated to the moon, which would be a fit sphere for him, he would,
though separated by the distance of that planet from this earth, no
doubt attempt to get up a plot to excite rebellion in Ireland, if he
could only find any brutes preposterous enough to join with him among
the Mooncalves.
The Rapid Growth of Debt.
Judging from the Brobdingnagian proportions of the Yankees'
National Debt—and we know very little of the Debt in the Soutii—we
should say that the Civil War in America was producing what one
might call “ almost incalculable mischief.”
Sporting Definition op Convocation.—A “ Lawn meet.53
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
about half a foot square, suggested itself as his only
chance of effecting an entrance. In a second he
was within. Not a horse was to he seen; only one
small animal, the Fanner’s favourite, known to all
the peasants as the Moke Anna, or Mokeanna, as
she was commonly called, lay slumbering in the
stall. A sudden idea occurred to the Hunchback.
“ I will set fire to the place,” said he. After look-
ing about for some time, he selected two dry sticks.
He remembered having been told in his childish
days, how that a couple of pieces of wood if rubbed
together for a considerable time, would instan-
taneously ignite. The Hunchback, overcome with
emotion, let fall a tear.
“Bah!” he exclaimed, wiping the moisture
carefully off the twig.
An hour’s patient friction produced the desired
effect.
“ This is hungry work,” he said. While trying
to find some food, his eye fell upon a tempting bone
on which a few particles of meat still remained.
The Hunchback pocketed the dainty morsel, and,
kneeling down, was about to apply the burning
brand to the rafters, when a pair of burning eyes
glowered upon him out of the surrounding dark-
ness, and a sudden, sharp, agonising pain shot
through Ms frame.
A huge animal of the pure English bull-dog
type, whose long shaggy coat and bushy tail were
actually bristling with rage, had fastened his veno-
mous fangs in the Hunchback’s brawny chest. In
deadly conflict over and over they rolled. The
ruffian waited Ms opportunity and dragged the
dog within reach of Mokeanna’s heels. One blow
from the hoofs of the sagacious steed, and the
savage hound lay insensible.
The Hunchback vaulted on Mokeanna’s back.
“ Now for my Lady,” he cried. “Away!”
The Farm House was blazing, as, waving Ms
chapeau blanc, he urged Mokeanna o’er the Dismal
Wold.
(To be continued.)
PUNCHES ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
February 9, Monday. A blank night, except that Lord Palmer-
ston intimated that what (circumstances having altered) it will no
longer be Liberal and polite to call the Galway Job, is to go on, and
that the Packet Company is to have the money. Also that the Crown
of Greece had been on “the previous day,” which was Sunday, offered
to Lord Russell for Prince Alered, and that the Earl, very pro-
perly rebuking the Greeks for their anti-Sabbatarianism, had handed
them the Greek paragraphs in the Speech. Also, the Premier stated
that the Duke oe Saxe Cobourg would not take the vacant throne,
though Mr. Elliot has told the Greeks that he would. The Duke
imitates Leopold of old. C’est renouvele des Grecs. But they are not
politely treated, and if Mr. Punch had not the rest of the world to
mind, he would ascend their throne himself, and show them the true
“ beauty of regality.”
Tuesday. Nor was there much to-night, worthy of crystallisation.
Who can desire to know that Lord Nobmanby is preparing a fresh
attack in the interest of the Pope? No one. But some persons may
Jike to hear that Sir George Grey is going to ask for an alteration of
the law regulating the sale of spirits and beer, and that a recent edify-
ing scene in an Inn of Court has induced Sir George Bowyer to
bring in a Bill for amending the nature of the after-dinner tribunal of
justice at which barristers are tried by their peers—to establish, we
suppose, a court of appeal from Philip, winy, to Philip with a head-
ache and soda-water. Moreover, Lord Palmerston stated that there
was going to be no hurry about parting with the Ionian Isles. All
sorts of people had to be consulted, iucluding, oddly enough, the
lonians themselves.
Wednesday. Irish Fish. Really, we beg pardon for even alluding to
such a topic.
Thursday. The friends of persons who have the misfortune to be
found out in the commission of forgery and swindling, will be happy to
hear, from the Duke oe Newcastle, that Mr. Redpath, who some
time ago came under the unfavourable notice of a jury, and in conse-
quence had to leave the country he adorned, is now an ornament of
Western Australia, where he has a house, and an income of his own,
besides £200 a year sent him from England. The single drawback, if
it can be called one, is that having a ticket-of-leave, he is obliged to be
at home by ten o’clock at night, like all sensible and respectable people
in England, whether they hold tickets-of-leave or do not.
The Act for the Relief of Lancashire distress is to be continued, and
the point urged by all the speakers who adverted to the subject is, that
the liberality of the country must be sustained as long as possible, for
it is all needed, and will be needed for many a day.
Sir George Lewis did not know why the Delhi prize money was
not distributed—thought it nossible Sir C. Wood might know some-
thing about it. Mr. Punch supposes that Government was rather
sulky to-day. its man, Sir Frederick Grey (a Grey, too,) having been
beaten at Deyonport by Mr. Eerrand, whom the Dockyard had
beaten three times, but who now floors the Dockyard. This came
instantly after another Tory victory, Mr. Eawcett, the clever and
blind candidate for Cambridge having been defeated by Mr. Powell,
touching whom the trumpet of fame hath not hitherto been as blatant
as the rejoicings of his partisans.
_ Friday. Lord Ellenborough set forth to the House of Lords a
list of grievances supposed to be sustained by the officers of the Indian
army. The Duke or Argyll of course contended that they had
nothing to complain of, and the Duke or Cambridge, by a curious
coincidence, was of the same opinion, so that the officers had better
retire to their hookahs and pale ale, and be comforted by the thought
that their betters are quite satisfied with themselves.
Mr. Peacocke carried against the Goverument an address for pre-
venting the sale of Crown Lauds within fifteen miles of London. This
early division (the numbers 113 to 73), looks ominous. First knock-
down blow.
Mr. Gladstone then reduced the duty on manufactured tobacco.
Mr. Punch does not believe that he shall get a good cigar any cheaper
I hail at present, or that, generally speaking, he shall get a good cigar at
all, but as Mr. Gladstone may mean well, he may accept acknow-
ledgments.
The Houses have been exceedingly early since the opening, always
getting away in time for dinner. If they would keep to this, it would
be pleasant.
YAHOOS AT SAN FRANCISCO.
_ Various British birds are in course of being successfully acclima-
tised hi Australia. The subjoined announcement may be said to show
that in California, also, a certain class of emigrants have established
Rookeries:—
“FRIENDS OF IRELAND.
AN ADJOURNED MEETING of the Friends of Irish Independence
A. will "be held at Assembly Hall, Cor. Post and Kearny sts., on Sunday, De-
cember 14, 1862, at 2 o'clock, p.m.
“ At this meeting the report of the Committee appointed at the meeting of
Sunday last will be submitted, and a Board of Trustees elected for the ensuing year.
Also, other business will be transacted of the greatest importance to our native
land.
“ J5T Irishmen, come up now, as this is a movement intended to unite all our
countrymen all over the world in one grand and practicable effort to aid our country-
men at home to establish their Independence.
“ SS" Irishmen ! Assemble one and all, and chose the men who are to represent
you in this movement.
“Jeremiah Kavanah, President pro tern.”
“ J. O’Mahony, Secretary pro tern.”
The meeting advertised as above iti the San Francisco Herald duly
came off, and was subsequently thus reported in that journal
“ The Movement for Irish Liberty.—A second meeting of friends of the gene-
ral movement now being made to win back the freedom of Ireland, was held yester-
day afternoon in Assembly Flail, comer of Kearny and Post Streets. The attendance,
as on the previous occasion, was very large, and the proceedings enthusiastic. The
parties who have inaugurated this auxiliary movement, are acting in accordance
with the conviction that work, not words, is what is now wanted, and not the work
of prayers and petitions either. Not one of them belong to the Peace Society. After
the meeting had been organised yesterday, Mr. Thomas Moony was chosen Assist-
ant Secretary of the organisation, which it was voted to call the ‘ Irish National
Association.’ Then the meeting chose by ballot, seven persons to act as an execu-
tive committee or hoard of trustees for the State of California. The persons so
chosen are : ex-Governor John G. Downey, Capt. Michael Cody, R. J. Tobin, ESq.,
Francis Ready, Esq., Lieut.-Col. M. C. Smith, and Michael Guerin, Esq. A con-
tribution to the cause was then taken up which amounted to the sum of $316 50.”
The Rookeries, whose existence is evidenced by the demonstration
above recorded, are those of Kearny Street and Post Street. The
former of these names may render further comment superfluous ; yet a
punster might be expected to ask, whether the congregation in which
the denizens of the Post Street and Kearny Street Rookeries united to
kick up a row was not what in the United States is called a caucus ?
But the creatures in question are not rooks, and don’t caw; make quite
a different sort of hullaballoo, consisting of yells and howls, which
they utter whenever they hear the name of England mentioned, in
fact, they belong to the tribe of scarcely human beings, hardly to be
called Irishmen, known as Irish Yahoos. These congeners of the
Gorilla emigrate to the ends of the earth, carrying with them, wherever
they go, filth, squalor, ferocity, disorder, crime, and hatred of England.
No matter where they may be, they are ever ready, at any instigation,
to unite in an expression ot malevolence against this country. The
reader will have noticed that the Yahoo chosen Assistant Secretary of
the Irish National Association was a Mr. Moony. If Mr. Moony were
t ranslated to the moon, which would be a fit sphere for him, he would,
though separated by the distance of that planet from this earth, no
doubt attempt to get up a plot to excite rebellion in Ireland, if he
could only find any brutes preposterous enough to join with him among
the Mooncalves.
The Rapid Growth of Debt.
Judging from the Brobdingnagian proportions of the Yankees'
National Debt—and we know very little of the Debt in the Soutii—we
should say that the Civil War in America was producing what one
might call “ almost incalculable mischief.”
Sporting Definition op Convocation.—A “ Lawn meet.53