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tebbuary -27, 1864.j PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 81
Volunteer (to Nervous Old Gentleman who is smoking). “Pray be Careful with your
Cigar, Sir! I’ve just drawn my gratis Ammunition here, enough to blow us all
into-” [Old Gentleman flings away his weed and himself off the Bus immediately.
A BADGE OE BRAVERY.
An Order by General Wrangel, premising
that, as fifty years ago Austria and Prussia, when
engaged in the same struggle, wore the same
badge, so now “ when fortune, which cannot be
sufficiently praised, leads them again shoulder to
shoulder into battle, they are to adopt the same
symbol as of old.” This symbol, we are told
by the telegram which transmitted the foregoing
flourish, “ consists of a white band round the left
arm.” General Wrangel may consider this
symbol to denote his allied troops to be a band
of brothers; but in the sight of English eyes it
represents a brotherhood of bandits. The Aus-
trians and Prussians may recognise no other
common symbol than the white band round, the
left arm of one another, but to our imagination
they all appear conspicuously marked between
the shoulders with a broad R. The drums and
fifes should play such marauders into dishonest
action with the Rogues’ March.
Willlam Corbett, illustrating the baseness of
certain bullies, applies to them the following
popular couplet:—
“ Father and Mother and I, with a chosen hand,
Beat a poor little boy till he couldn’t go nor stand.”
The Germans, small and great, in attacking
Denmark, are attempting an exploit just like that
described in the above lines; and the chosen
I band therein mentioned exactly corresponds to
the Austrian and Prussian heroes who, with wlnte
j bands round then- left aims, are marching
shoulder to shoulder against that little kingdom.
| They might as well also wear white feathers in
then- caps. It is to be wished that to the white
bands round their left arms might speedily be
added handcuffs at the wrists.
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
February 15, Monday. Earl Russell was anxious to explain that
he had not been frightened, by Mr. Seward’s menaces, into stopping
the Rams, also that Mr. Seward had sent no menaces at all. The fact
is that the American Minister over there knows the delight his country-
men take in tall talk, so he manufactures thundering despatches which
get into the Yankee press, and which he also transmits to the American
Minister over here. Mr. Adamses a gentleman, who dines with Lord
Russell, and, after dinner, says, in an off-hand way, “I’ve got another
of Willy Seward’s concoctions, my dear Lord; but of course I shan’t
give it you—thanks, no, the claret.” If this sort of thing pleases the
great, enlightened, and dignified people of America, it would be very
churlish hi us to find fault with it.
. Lord Campbell, not considering the Schleswig-Holstein complica-
tion sufficiently labyrinthine, has gone back into history, and insists
that we are bound, by a guarantee given in 1720. The appeal went to
the heart of the historical Eoreign Secretary, who thirsted to enter
into the story of the Quadruple Alliance, the South Sea Bubble, the
exile of Atterbury, and other interesting events hi the reign of Geor-
gius Primus, but restrained himself, and begged leave to be mysterious
as to what we should do if Schleswig were handed to the Duke oe
Augustenburg. His Lordship hinted, however, that it would be
something truly awful.
Mr. Layard said that the English proposals for an armistice between
Denmark and the Germans had received an unsatisfactory answer.
Another rebuff'. Really the mess that Master Johnny Russell makes
with the pens and inkstand is quite trying, and Mrs. Britannia will
be taking them away from him in a passion one of these days.
Tuesday. The Chancellor has sold the Little Livings to the number
or seventy, and at the handsome figure of £65,300. The principle being
thus established, there is nothing to prevent a bishopric or two from
bemg disposed of at any moment that the Church runs short of money,
or wants to re-arrange her affairs. Why not settle the church-rate
uestion by selling Sodor and Man, say, to the Independent Anabaptist
chabodies ? Earl Russell, attacked by Lord Carnarvon, about
the American cruisers, made a spirited little answer, said that we had
never consented to be responsible for the piracies of the Alabama, but
that it was a scandal and a reproach to our law that she had been able
to go from an English port. We have seized the Confederate vessel
luscaloosa and meant to keep her till reclaimed by the Federal owner.
It the Richmond paper does not flame out at this, it will be because
Mitchell has no vitriol left.
A Bill for a new Brighton railway was smashed. A Bill described
by Mr. Buchanan as intended to throw all the traffic between the east
and west of Scotland into the hands of one Company, was smashed.
This may have been right, but we beg to remark that the stations on the
Edinburgh and Glasgow line are execrable. Some other provincial Rail-
way Bills made progress, and then the whole night was devoted to a
discussion on the Private Bill System, which is admitted to be incon-
venient, unfair, and expensive. But the House is so averse to giving
up a morsel of its authority, that it will not consent to establish a
rational tribunal for examining Private Bills in a rational manner. Mr.
Milner Gibson proposed some palliative resolutions, but they remind
one of the suggestion to bolt a door with a boiled carrot.
Wednesday. This, which used to be the Parliamentary Sunday, or at
least the day on winch theological matters were discussed, is to be secu-
larised this Session, as the Dissenters announce an armistice. They state
that their exertions are, for the present, to undergo Depoliticalisation.
That is a stunning good word, and. as the sailor, handing the bass viol
over the side, and fancying that the instrument was performed upon kit
fashion, expressed a lively curiosity to see “ the big beggar as played on
this here,” we should like to see the Nonconformist gentleman who,
single-handed, launched that word into circulation. To-day the question
of county rating came up, and Mr. Yilliers promised that Govern-
ment should attend to it. John Hug-gins, of the Epping Hunt, ought
to be examined as a witness, having given attention to the subject, for
when run away with he stated that
‘ ‘ He never saw a County go
At such a County rate.”
Thursday. Earl Granville said that the Government was considering
how to improve the Patent Museum and Library. One good way would
be to prevent its further increase by abolishing the Patent System
altogether, a recommendation in which Mr. Punch heartily agrees with
Mr. Bright.
We do not know what the Clerks of the Peace have been doing, but
the Lords seem anxious to devise a means for the more easy removal of
those officials. In the event of strife, could they not all be turned over
to Earl de Grey', and made Clerks of the War ?
Brighton is notoriously a Liberal borough, and could easily have
returned a Liberal Member, and a very good one indeed, Mr. Henry
Eawcett, but for the ilhberality of his rivals, of similar politics. Two
would go to the poll, one of them, Mr. Julian Goldsmid, polling to
the end, and as the Conservatives committed no such folly, Mr. Moor,
with 1663 votes, defeated the 2489 Liberals who scattered their support.
Volunteer (to Nervous Old Gentleman who is smoking). “Pray be Careful with your
Cigar, Sir! I’ve just drawn my gratis Ammunition here, enough to blow us all
into-” [Old Gentleman flings away his weed and himself off the Bus immediately.
A BADGE OE BRAVERY.
An Order by General Wrangel, premising
that, as fifty years ago Austria and Prussia, when
engaged in the same struggle, wore the same
badge, so now “ when fortune, which cannot be
sufficiently praised, leads them again shoulder to
shoulder into battle, they are to adopt the same
symbol as of old.” This symbol, we are told
by the telegram which transmitted the foregoing
flourish, “ consists of a white band round the left
arm.” General Wrangel may consider this
symbol to denote his allied troops to be a band
of brothers; but in the sight of English eyes it
represents a brotherhood of bandits. The Aus-
trians and Prussians may recognise no other
common symbol than the white band round, the
left arm of one another, but to our imagination
they all appear conspicuously marked between
the shoulders with a broad R. The drums and
fifes should play such marauders into dishonest
action with the Rogues’ March.
Willlam Corbett, illustrating the baseness of
certain bullies, applies to them the following
popular couplet:—
“ Father and Mother and I, with a chosen hand,
Beat a poor little boy till he couldn’t go nor stand.”
The Germans, small and great, in attacking
Denmark, are attempting an exploit just like that
described in the above lines; and the chosen
I band therein mentioned exactly corresponds to
the Austrian and Prussian heroes who, with wlnte
j bands round then- left aims, are marching
shoulder to shoulder against that little kingdom.
| They might as well also wear white feathers in
then- caps. It is to be wished that to the white
bands round their left arms might speedily be
added handcuffs at the wrists.
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
February 15, Monday. Earl Russell was anxious to explain that
he had not been frightened, by Mr. Seward’s menaces, into stopping
the Rams, also that Mr. Seward had sent no menaces at all. The fact
is that the American Minister over there knows the delight his country-
men take in tall talk, so he manufactures thundering despatches which
get into the Yankee press, and which he also transmits to the American
Minister over here. Mr. Adamses a gentleman, who dines with Lord
Russell, and, after dinner, says, in an off-hand way, “I’ve got another
of Willy Seward’s concoctions, my dear Lord; but of course I shan’t
give it you—thanks, no, the claret.” If this sort of thing pleases the
great, enlightened, and dignified people of America, it would be very
churlish hi us to find fault with it.
. Lord Campbell, not considering the Schleswig-Holstein complica-
tion sufficiently labyrinthine, has gone back into history, and insists
that we are bound, by a guarantee given in 1720. The appeal went to
the heart of the historical Eoreign Secretary, who thirsted to enter
into the story of the Quadruple Alliance, the South Sea Bubble, the
exile of Atterbury, and other interesting events hi the reign of Geor-
gius Primus, but restrained himself, and begged leave to be mysterious
as to what we should do if Schleswig were handed to the Duke oe
Augustenburg. His Lordship hinted, however, that it would be
something truly awful.
Mr. Layard said that the English proposals for an armistice between
Denmark and the Germans had received an unsatisfactory answer.
Another rebuff'. Really the mess that Master Johnny Russell makes
with the pens and inkstand is quite trying, and Mrs. Britannia will
be taking them away from him in a passion one of these days.
Tuesday. The Chancellor has sold the Little Livings to the number
or seventy, and at the handsome figure of £65,300. The principle being
thus established, there is nothing to prevent a bishopric or two from
bemg disposed of at any moment that the Church runs short of money,
or wants to re-arrange her affairs. Why not settle the church-rate
uestion by selling Sodor and Man, say, to the Independent Anabaptist
chabodies ? Earl Russell, attacked by Lord Carnarvon, about
the American cruisers, made a spirited little answer, said that we had
never consented to be responsible for the piracies of the Alabama, but
that it was a scandal and a reproach to our law that she had been able
to go from an English port. We have seized the Confederate vessel
luscaloosa and meant to keep her till reclaimed by the Federal owner.
It the Richmond paper does not flame out at this, it will be because
Mitchell has no vitriol left.
A Bill for a new Brighton railway was smashed. A Bill described
by Mr. Buchanan as intended to throw all the traffic between the east
and west of Scotland into the hands of one Company, was smashed.
This may have been right, but we beg to remark that the stations on the
Edinburgh and Glasgow line are execrable. Some other provincial Rail-
way Bills made progress, and then the whole night was devoted to a
discussion on the Private Bill System, which is admitted to be incon-
venient, unfair, and expensive. But the House is so averse to giving
up a morsel of its authority, that it will not consent to establish a
rational tribunal for examining Private Bills in a rational manner. Mr.
Milner Gibson proposed some palliative resolutions, but they remind
one of the suggestion to bolt a door with a boiled carrot.
Wednesday. This, which used to be the Parliamentary Sunday, or at
least the day on winch theological matters were discussed, is to be secu-
larised this Session, as the Dissenters announce an armistice. They state
that their exertions are, for the present, to undergo Depoliticalisation.
That is a stunning good word, and. as the sailor, handing the bass viol
over the side, and fancying that the instrument was performed upon kit
fashion, expressed a lively curiosity to see “ the big beggar as played on
this here,” we should like to see the Nonconformist gentleman who,
single-handed, launched that word into circulation. To-day the question
of county rating came up, and Mr. Yilliers promised that Govern-
ment should attend to it. John Hug-gins, of the Epping Hunt, ought
to be examined as a witness, having given attention to the subject, for
when run away with he stated that
‘ ‘ He never saw a County go
At such a County rate.”
Thursday. Earl Granville said that the Government was considering
how to improve the Patent Museum and Library. One good way would
be to prevent its further increase by abolishing the Patent System
altogether, a recommendation in which Mr. Punch heartily agrees with
Mr. Bright.
We do not know what the Clerks of the Peace have been doing, but
the Lords seem anxious to devise a means for the more easy removal of
those officials. In the event of strife, could they not all be turned over
to Earl de Grey', and made Clerks of the War ?
Brighton is notoriously a Liberal borough, and could easily have
returned a Liberal Member, and a very good one indeed, Mr. Henry
Eawcett, but for the ilhberality of his rivals, of similar politics. Two
would go to the poll, one of them, Mr. Julian Goldsmid, polling to
the end, and as the Conservatives committed no such folly, Mr. Moor,
with 1663 votes, defeated the 2489 Liberals who scattered their support.