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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Mb. Disraeli said he had been young and foolish, but had never been
actuated by the sordid motives imputed to the youth of England.
Mr. Punch could not help speculating upon the possible result had the
Reverend Mr. Disraeli been one of the clergy, and whether he
would have been Bishop of Jerusalem. Sir George Bowter said that
the Church of Rome was the only safe place, and that she turned
out everybody who differed from her, but Mr. Disraeli had prepared
the House for this, and mentioned that Rome had an artful habit of
suppressing some of her dissenters, wheedling others, and letting the
incorrigible think for themselves as members of monastic orders. The
“previous question” evaded a decision—Government moving the
evasion.
Wednesday. The Durham Day. Everybody went to the Horticultural
Gardens, Brompton, to see the inauguration, by the Prince of Wales,
of the Memorial which Mr. Durham has erected to the Consort and
the 1851 Exhibition, and which the Queen had visited the day before,
to her entire satisfaction. So the proceedings in the House were not
interesting, but the Innkeepers’ Liability Bill went through Committee,
with modifications of a reasonable character, which Mr. Punch will
explain when he codifies the Act for the information of the travelling
public.
Thursday. Lord Shaftesbury, to his credit, gave notice that he
should demand of the Government whether it was their intention to
take any further steps in the case of Sergeant-Major Lillet, whom
the public regard as a martyr to the brutal tyranny of his superior
officer.
The Foreign Minister, in answer to Lord Carnarvon, spoke with a
[June 20, 1863.
certain contempt of the conduct of Prussia in the Polish matter, bat
thought she had just kept outside breach of neutrality.
Mr. Coningham put an artfully devised question to Lord Palmer-
ston upon Slave Trade in “the rebellious Confederate States,” but it
may be superfluous to remark that our friend Pam (who looked very
well on the Wednesday with his Star and Garter, long may he wear
both) was not exactly dom\ The Confederate States, he said, had passed
a law making the Slave Trade highly penal, but there could be no diplo-
matic communication with them, unless they should establish and
maintain their independence.
Education and the Volunteers kept the House sitting till nearly three
o’clock, but the quality of the talk bore no proportion to its quantity,
and the only thing to be noticed is, that the Dismissal of Volunteers
clause in the new Bill was again contested by Mr. Cox, but carried
by 100 to 29.
Friday. Lord Westbury, following, he said, in the steps of Lord
Bacon, introduced a Bill for Consolidating the Statute Law. The
announcement is such a staggerer that Mr. Punch must take some time
to recover from the shock. He will then report progress.
Irish distress was pleaded by Colonel Dunne, and other Irish
Members, but Mr. Gladstone could not see that there was any case
justifying a pull at Britannia’s money-bags.
Colonel Crawley is to be brought to a court-martial for his con-
duct towards the late Sergeant-Major Lilley. The country will
approve this decision, but will watch the court-martial narrowly.
Mr. Bernal Osborne took an opportunity of advising Mr. Conolly
to “ drink deep.” It is very good advice, this warm weather.
JUNE, JULY, JANUARY!
/ring the last few
days, some extracts
from Lamartine’s
account of the events
which preceded the
revolution of 1830,
were published by
the Reform of Berlin.
They have procured
for that journal the
honour of a second
warning, on the
ground of being “in-
tended to excite
hatred against the
ordinance of June 1,
which intention is
particularly mani-
fested by the last
sentence: ”—
“ On the 25th July,
1830, the three ordi-
nances of July were
signed by the Ministers
in Council at St. Cloud,
and on the 26th they
appeared in the Moni-
tezir. The second ordi-
nance annihilated the
freedom of the Press.”
If King William’s Ministers give a warning to a newspaper for
merely quoting the statement that an ordinance of Charles the
Tenth of France destroyed the freedom of the Press, what would they
have done to it had it mentioned the historical fact that Charles the
First of England lost his head by attempting to rule without a
Parliament P
How the Prussian Cat Jumps.
We beg to call attention to the following significant telegram^ trans-
mitted, the other day, from Berlin:—
•11 departure of the King of Prussia for Carlsbad next week, the Queen
win proceed to Windsor, at the invitation of her Majesty, Queen Victoria.”
To the loregoing announcement we may venture to add, that her
Prussian Majesty will, there is every reason to fear, be very shortly
rejoined by her Boyal husband, the ex-KiNG of Prussia.
a warm demonstration of friendship,
The friends of the Sculptor of the Memorial in the Horticultural
hardens assembled in such force on Wednesday the 10th, that Mr.
-dernal Osborne declared the crowd was a regular importation of
Durham mustard ! !
MIRTH FOR MERCENARIES.
The emigrants from old Ireland (and old England, too, for that
matter) who enlist in the American service to fight, of course for some
higher consideration than that of the dirty pay, are fine impulsive
fellows. We must make due allowance for their high animal spirits,
and their generous hilarity, which dispose them to look on the pleasant
side of warfare. These gallant lads behold battles, and battle-fields,
tinted with couleur de rose, and not with that deeper shade of red which
is peculiar to carnage. To them the game of war is as the game of
cricket, and in their noble thoughtlessness they overlook the little
difference which exists, in effect, between cricket-balls and rifle-bullets.
Shall such light-hearted boys trouble their heads about such conse-
quences of their playful pugnacity as lacerated stomachs, shattered
jaws, compound comminuted fractures of legs and arms, and amputa-
tions ? Bless them ; no: nor give themselves any concern about such
facts as those thus mentioned by the Times:—
“ The Work of War.—An American paper states that the Pension Office at
Washington has lately recorded the nineteen-thousandth application of Wives made
Widows by this War between the Northern and Southern States.”
The “rollicking” “harum-scarum” blades, who consider fracturing
a man’s skull as cracking a joke, can hardly be expected to take any
serious view of the broken heart of a woman. They will probably dis-
regard, with a genial recklessness, the nineteen thousand destitute
“ widdies ” whom they have contributed to bereave, and slight their
sorrows and sufferings with that good-humoured indifference aptly
described as devil-may-care.
SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATION FROM GOVERNOR WALL.
My name is Joseph Wall. I was Lieutenant Governor of Goree,
acting as Chief in July, 1782. I caused a man to be flogged without a
trial. I ordered Sergeant Armstrong to receive 800 lashes. He died
in five days afterwards. The Board of Admiralty offered a reward
for my apprehension. I absconded, and went to live on the Continent;
mostly in France and Italy. In 1797 I returned to England. I was
taken up in 1802; twenty years after I had flogged Armstrong to
death. I was tried, convicted, and hanged. Colonel Crawley is
accused of haying hastened the death of Sergeant-Major Lilley,
if not of having killed him, by illegally confining him in a Black
Hole. I won’t say that Colonel Crawley murdered Sergeant-
Major Lilley. I don’t know that he did. Spirits never do know
anything of the kind. We cannot tell who did the Road murder.
We only know what the papers tell you. They say that Crawley
committed a crime that amounts to murder. What they say is cor-
roborated by the Duke of Cambridge. If it is true. Colonel
Crawley ought to be tried for it. Should it be proved against him, he
would deserve hanging more than I did. The man I caused to be
flogged was a mutineer among mutineers. He was not a respectable
non-commissioned officer. Mrs. Brownrigg tells me to give you her
compliments. Good night-
Ornamental Turning.—A Gentleman who devotes many hours of
recreation to his lathe, lately succeeded in turning a conversation.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Mb. Disraeli said he had been young and foolish, but had never been
actuated by the sordid motives imputed to the youth of England.
Mr. Punch could not help speculating upon the possible result had the
Reverend Mr. Disraeli been one of the clergy, and whether he
would have been Bishop of Jerusalem. Sir George Bowter said that
the Church of Rome was the only safe place, and that she turned
out everybody who differed from her, but Mr. Disraeli had prepared
the House for this, and mentioned that Rome had an artful habit of
suppressing some of her dissenters, wheedling others, and letting the
incorrigible think for themselves as members of monastic orders. The
“previous question” evaded a decision—Government moving the
evasion.
Wednesday. The Durham Day. Everybody went to the Horticultural
Gardens, Brompton, to see the inauguration, by the Prince of Wales,
of the Memorial which Mr. Durham has erected to the Consort and
the 1851 Exhibition, and which the Queen had visited the day before,
to her entire satisfaction. So the proceedings in the House were not
interesting, but the Innkeepers’ Liability Bill went through Committee,
with modifications of a reasonable character, which Mr. Punch will
explain when he codifies the Act for the information of the travelling
public.
Thursday. Lord Shaftesbury, to his credit, gave notice that he
should demand of the Government whether it was their intention to
take any further steps in the case of Sergeant-Major Lillet, whom
the public regard as a martyr to the brutal tyranny of his superior
officer.
The Foreign Minister, in answer to Lord Carnarvon, spoke with a
[June 20, 1863.
certain contempt of the conduct of Prussia in the Polish matter, bat
thought she had just kept outside breach of neutrality.
Mr. Coningham put an artfully devised question to Lord Palmer-
ston upon Slave Trade in “the rebellious Confederate States,” but it
may be superfluous to remark that our friend Pam (who looked very
well on the Wednesday with his Star and Garter, long may he wear
both) was not exactly dom\ The Confederate States, he said, had passed
a law making the Slave Trade highly penal, but there could be no diplo-
matic communication with them, unless they should establish and
maintain their independence.
Education and the Volunteers kept the House sitting till nearly three
o’clock, but the quality of the talk bore no proportion to its quantity,
and the only thing to be noticed is, that the Dismissal of Volunteers
clause in the new Bill was again contested by Mr. Cox, but carried
by 100 to 29.
Friday. Lord Westbury, following, he said, in the steps of Lord
Bacon, introduced a Bill for Consolidating the Statute Law. The
announcement is such a staggerer that Mr. Punch must take some time
to recover from the shock. He will then report progress.
Irish distress was pleaded by Colonel Dunne, and other Irish
Members, but Mr. Gladstone could not see that there was any case
justifying a pull at Britannia’s money-bags.
Colonel Crawley is to be brought to a court-martial for his con-
duct towards the late Sergeant-Major Lilley. The country will
approve this decision, but will watch the court-martial narrowly.
Mr. Bernal Osborne took an opportunity of advising Mr. Conolly
to “ drink deep.” It is very good advice, this warm weather.
JUNE, JULY, JANUARY!
/ring the last few
days, some extracts
from Lamartine’s
account of the events
which preceded the
revolution of 1830,
were published by
the Reform of Berlin.
They have procured
for that journal the
honour of a second
warning, on the
ground of being “in-
tended to excite
hatred against the
ordinance of June 1,
which intention is
particularly mani-
fested by the last
sentence: ”—
“ On the 25th July,
1830, the three ordi-
nances of July were
signed by the Ministers
in Council at St. Cloud,
and on the 26th they
appeared in the Moni-
tezir. The second ordi-
nance annihilated the
freedom of the Press.”
If King William’s Ministers give a warning to a newspaper for
merely quoting the statement that an ordinance of Charles the
Tenth of France destroyed the freedom of the Press, what would they
have done to it had it mentioned the historical fact that Charles the
First of England lost his head by attempting to rule without a
Parliament P
How the Prussian Cat Jumps.
We beg to call attention to the following significant telegram^ trans-
mitted, the other day, from Berlin:—
•11 departure of the King of Prussia for Carlsbad next week, the Queen
win proceed to Windsor, at the invitation of her Majesty, Queen Victoria.”
To the loregoing announcement we may venture to add, that her
Prussian Majesty will, there is every reason to fear, be very shortly
rejoined by her Boyal husband, the ex-KiNG of Prussia.
a warm demonstration of friendship,
The friends of the Sculptor of the Memorial in the Horticultural
hardens assembled in such force on Wednesday the 10th, that Mr.
-dernal Osborne declared the crowd was a regular importation of
Durham mustard ! !
MIRTH FOR MERCENARIES.
The emigrants from old Ireland (and old England, too, for that
matter) who enlist in the American service to fight, of course for some
higher consideration than that of the dirty pay, are fine impulsive
fellows. We must make due allowance for their high animal spirits,
and their generous hilarity, which dispose them to look on the pleasant
side of warfare. These gallant lads behold battles, and battle-fields,
tinted with couleur de rose, and not with that deeper shade of red which
is peculiar to carnage. To them the game of war is as the game of
cricket, and in their noble thoughtlessness they overlook the little
difference which exists, in effect, between cricket-balls and rifle-bullets.
Shall such light-hearted boys trouble their heads about such conse-
quences of their playful pugnacity as lacerated stomachs, shattered
jaws, compound comminuted fractures of legs and arms, and amputa-
tions ? Bless them ; no: nor give themselves any concern about such
facts as those thus mentioned by the Times:—
“ The Work of War.—An American paper states that the Pension Office at
Washington has lately recorded the nineteen-thousandth application of Wives made
Widows by this War between the Northern and Southern States.”
The “rollicking” “harum-scarum” blades, who consider fracturing
a man’s skull as cracking a joke, can hardly be expected to take any
serious view of the broken heart of a woman. They will probably dis-
regard, with a genial recklessness, the nineteen thousand destitute
“ widdies ” whom they have contributed to bereave, and slight their
sorrows and sufferings with that good-humoured indifference aptly
described as devil-may-care.
SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATION FROM GOVERNOR WALL.
My name is Joseph Wall. I was Lieutenant Governor of Goree,
acting as Chief in July, 1782. I caused a man to be flogged without a
trial. I ordered Sergeant Armstrong to receive 800 lashes. He died
in five days afterwards. The Board of Admiralty offered a reward
for my apprehension. I absconded, and went to live on the Continent;
mostly in France and Italy. In 1797 I returned to England. I was
taken up in 1802; twenty years after I had flogged Armstrong to
death. I was tried, convicted, and hanged. Colonel Crawley is
accused of haying hastened the death of Sergeant-Major Lilley,
if not of having killed him, by illegally confining him in a Black
Hole. I won’t say that Colonel Crawley murdered Sergeant-
Major Lilley. I don’t know that he did. Spirits never do know
anything of the kind. We cannot tell who did the Road murder.
We only know what the papers tell you. They say that Crawley
committed a crime that amounts to murder. What they say is cor-
roborated by the Duke of Cambridge. If it is true. Colonel
Crawley ought to be tried for it. Should it be proved against him, he
would deserve hanging more than I did. The man I caused to be
flogged was a mutineer among mutineers. He was not a respectable
non-commissioned officer. Mrs. Brownrigg tells me to give you her
compliments. Good night-
Ornamental Turning.—A Gentleman who devotes many hours of
recreation to his lathe, lately succeeded in turning a conversation.