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INTRODUCTION
[July to December, 1863.
NOTES.
PAGE
13 The Tergiversations of Tearena.—Mr. Roebuck, M.P.,
and Mr. Lindsay, M.P., had had an interview with the
Emperor of the French on American affairs, and afterwards
made public what had taken place. They were ridiculed and
snubbed both in and out of Parliament for their meddling.
15 Tearem at the Tuileries.—See preceding note.
21 Post Prandial Duett.—The Lord Mayor, Mr. Rose, was
a Conservative, and had invited the heads of his party to a
banquet at the Mansion House.
23 First Metric Lesson refers to a proposal of Mr. Leoni
Levi to adopt a decimal coinage.
35 Humble Pie at the Foreign Office.—See Introduction
—Brazil.
42 Death on the Rope.—Blondin’s fool-hardy feats on the
high rope at the Crystal Palace having attracted a multitude
of other fools to look at them, induced the managers of a fete
in aid of the funds of the Order of Foresters, and held at
Aston Park, Birmingham, to engage a less practised per-
former, named Powell. The poor creature was in ill health,
and the rope breaking she fell to the ground, dying instan-
taneously, a victim to her temerity. The following letter
was written by command of the Queen to Mr. C. Sturge,
the Mayor of Birmingham :—
Sir,—The Queen has commanded me to express to you the pain with
which Her Majesty has read the account of a fatal accident which has
occurred during a fete at Aston Park, Birmingham.
“ Her Majesty cannot refrain from making known through you her
personal feelings of horror that one of her subjects—a female—should have
been sacrificed to the gratification of the demoralising taste, unfortunately
prevalent, for exhibitions attended with the greatest danger to the performers.
“Were any proof wanting that such exhibitions are demoralising, I am
commanded to remark that it would be at once found in the decision arrived
at to continue the festivities, the hilarity, and the sports of the occasion after
an event so melancholy.
“ The Queen trusts that you, in common with the rest of the townspeople
of Birmingham, will use your influence to prevent in future the degradation
to such exhibitions of the Park which was gladly opened by Her Majesty
and the beloved Prince Consort, in the hope that it would be made service-
able for the healthy exercise and rational recreation of the people.”
The Mayor wrote a letter of explanation, and gave a pro-
mise that Aston Park should be limited to healthy exercise
and rational recreation.
46 The Aristocratic Hotel Company, Limited, it is hardly
necessary to say, refers to the aristocratic Boards of Directors
of some of our Hotel Companies
PAGE
Last Few Days of St. Paul’s.—The Railway Bridge 62
crossing Ludgate Hill was originally proposed to be of the
represented design and proportions.
Brutus and Caesar.—It was thought, and thought cor- 69
rectly by Mr. Punch, that the Negro would prove the great
American Difficulty during and after the continuance of the
Civil War then raging in the States.
The Russian Innocent.—Gortschakoff was employed 72
in the suppression of the Polish Insurrection.
Johnny Russell’s Last Job.—The Hon. H. G. Elliot, 99
a family connection of Lord Russell’s, was appointed Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of
Italy, to the displacement of Mr. Hudson.
The Congress at Frankfort at the Present Time.— 127
See Introduction.
Scylla and Charybdis, or the Modern Ulysses.—The 149
neutrality of England pleased neither the North nor the South.
Extremes Meet.—The Federals had destroyed a flourish- 169
ing Southern city, by the use of “Greek fire,” and the
insurgent Poles were being subjected to great cruelties on the
part of Russia.
“ Holding a Candle to the * * * * (Much the same 189
thing.)—The Northern States of America were “ soft sawder-
ing” the Emperor of Russia, then engaged in putting down
the Poles, struggling for their nationality.
Neutrality.—The story of the Alabama is well known. 199 (
The Rams in construction at Birkenhead for the Confederates
were seized by order of the English Government. See also
ante note, p. 149.
The Congress Quadrille.—England had refused to join 219
a Congress proposed by the Emperor Napoleon.
Unavoidably Postponed.—See preceding note. 239
Europa Carried off by the (John) Bull.—See Note to 249
page 219.
Lord Chancellor Punch and the New Judge.—Mr. 259
Serjeant Shee had been rather unfairly overlooked by the
Government, and his friends were, therefore, more than ordi-
narily gratified at his appointment to the vacant Judgeship.
INTRODUCTION
[July to December, 1863.
NOTES.
PAGE
13 The Tergiversations of Tearena.—Mr. Roebuck, M.P.,
and Mr. Lindsay, M.P., had had an interview with the
Emperor of the French on American affairs, and afterwards
made public what had taken place. They were ridiculed and
snubbed both in and out of Parliament for their meddling.
15 Tearem at the Tuileries.—See preceding note.
21 Post Prandial Duett.—The Lord Mayor, Mr. Rose, was
a Conservative, and had invited the heads of his party to a
banquet at the Mansion House.
23 First Metric Lesson refers to a proposal of Mr. Leoni
Levi to adopt a decimal coinage.
35 Humble Pie at the Foreign Office.—See Introduction
—Brazil.
42 Death on the Rope.—Blondin’s fool-hardy feats on the
high rope at the Crystal Palace having attracted a multitude
of other fools to look at them, induced the managers of a fete
in aid of the funds of the Order of Foresters, and held at
Aston Park, Birmingham, to engage a less practised per-
former, named Powell. The poor creature was in ill health,
and the rope breaking she fell to the ground, dying instan-
taneously, a victim to her temerity. The following letter
was written by command of the Queen to Mr. C. Sturge,
the Mayor of Birmingham :—
Sir,—The Queen has commanded me to express to you the pain with
which Her Majesty has read the account of a fatal accident which has
occurred during a fete at Aston Park, Birmingham.
“ Her Majesty cannot refrain from making known through you her
personal feelings of horror that one of her subjects—a female—should have
been sacrificed to the gratification of the demoralising taste, unfortunately
prevalent, for exhibitions attended with the greatest danger to the performers.
“Were any proof wanting that such exhibitions are demoralising, I am
commanded to remark that it would be at once found in the decision arrived
at to continue the festivities, the hilarity, and the sports of the occasion after
an event so melancholy.
“ The Queen trusts that you, in common with the rest of the townspeople
of Birmingham, will use your influence to prevent in future the degradation
to such exhibitions of the Park which was gladly opened by Her Majesty
and the beloved Prince Consort, in the hope that it would be made service-
able for the healthy exercise and rational recreation of the people.”
The Mayor wrote a letter of explanation, and gave a pro-
mise that Aston Park should be limited to healthy exercise
and rational recreation.
46 The Aristocratic Hotel Company, Limited, it is hardly
necessary to say, refers to the aristocratic Boards of Directors
of some of our Hotel Companies
PAGE
Last Few Days of St. Paul’s.—The Railway Bridge 62
crossing Ludgate Hill was originally proposed to be of the
represented design and proportions.
Brutus and Caesar.—It was thought, and thought cor- 69
rectly by Mr. Punch, that the Negro would prove the great
American Difficulty during and after the continuance of the
Civil War then raging in the States.
The Russian Innocent.—Gortschakoff was employed 72
in the suppression of the Polish Insurrection.
Johnny Russell’s Last Job.—The Hon. H. G. Elliot, 99
a family connection of Lord Russell’s, was appointed Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of
Italy, to the displacement of Mr. Hudson.
The Congress at Frankfort at the Present Time.— 127
See Introduction.
Scylla and Charybdis, or the Modern Ulysses.—The 149
neutrality of England pleased neither the North nor the South.
Extremes Meet.—The Federals had destroyed a flourish- 169
ing Southern city, by the use of “Greek fire,” and the
insurgent Poles were being subjected to great cruelties on the
part of Russia.
“ Holding a Candle to the * * * * (Much the same 189
thing.)—The Northern States of America were “ soft sawder-
ing” the Emperor of Russia, then engaged in putting down
the Poles, struggling for their nationality.
Neutrality.—The story of the Alabama is well known. 199 (
The Rams in construction at Birkenhead for the Confederates
were seized by order of the English Government. See also
ante note, p. 149.
The Congress Quadrille.—England had refused to join 219
a Congress proposed by the Emperor Napoleon.
Unavoidably Postponed.—See preceding note. 239
Europa Carried off by the (John) Bull.—See Note to 249
page 219.
Lord Chancellor Punch and the New Judge.—Mr. 259
Serjeant Shee had been rather unfairly overlooked by the
Government, and his friends were, therefore, more than ordi-
narily gratified at his appointment to the vacant Judgeship.