DOI issue:
July 9, 1864
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16874#0022
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[July 9, 1864.
THE EAST CHALKSHIRE ARTILLERY VOLUNTEERS AT GUN PRACTICE.
No. 3 (Menacingly to his Officer, who is finding fault with the aim). “ Ye munna tooch t’ Gun, Mon ; A’ve got a Bet on’t ! !
WHO ARE THE SNEAKS?
Mr. Punch,
Who, after all, are they who have deserted and betrayed
Denmark, invaded and ravaged by Teutonis scoundreldom under the
“hegemony” of Prussia? “Her Majesty’s Government,” shouts
Her Majesty’s Opposition. “ Perfidious Albion! ” howl malignant
foreigners. “ We certainly have lowered ourselves in the eyes of
Europe,” cackle and hiss, with gregarious imbecility, English geese. I
beg the goose’s pardon; ’tis a silly bird, but defiles not its own nest.
Certainly, Sir, it is undeniable that Her Majesty’s Government,
having in vain attempted to restore peace by moral suasion, declines to
attempt that object by physical force, which England would have to
put forth by herself, pitching into Teutonic scoundreldom unaided by
any other of the neutral powers, pitching, alone amongst them all, into
a scoundreldom of seventy millions. Prance will not help. Russia will
not help. Not to fight for Denmark against overwhelming odds may
be very pusillanimous ; but is the pusillanimity of the British Cabinet
greater than that of the French and Russian Imperial Governments,
and is Albion more perfidious than Russia and Prance? England has
offered to fight if they would. They won’t. If Lord Palmerston is
a sneak and a humbug, is not Louis Napoleon something worse than
another ?
“ Oh ! but Lord Palmerston some time ago gave breath to the
menace that if Prussia and Austria did to Denmark that which they
have done, ‘Denmark would not stand alone.’ ” Well, what then? I
suppose he said what he thought and expected. He gave Erance and
Russia credit for the same honest intention to enforce right as that of
England. France and Russia have failed him. Really, Mr. Punch, if
there is any perfidy or poltroonery in this matter, I can see none that
is chargeabJe on Albion especially, or that lies in particular at the door
of Cambridge House. Greenness, not perfidy, seems to me to have
been the fault of Ministers. They were so verdant as to believe that
Erance and Russia would unite with England in going to war for an
idea simply moral.
The patriot Disraeli a,sks the. House of Commons to declare that
the course pursued by Her Majesty’s Government in regard to the
Danish Question, “has lowered the just influence of this country in the
councils of Europe.” Why didn’t he likewise invite it to afErm that
the line taken in the same business by the councils of Europe has
lowered the just influence which they ought to have in each other ?
How many words have been wasted on Dizzy’s motion, when it would
have received an amply sufficient answer in one of two. syllables,
“ Humbug! ” This would have been the sole reply vouchsafed to it by
an assembly less studious of eloquence than brevity, consulting which,
I rest, calling myself your
Nibs.
SOFT WORDS AND POLITICAL PARSNIPS.
“ The Neighbour softens, but the Satirist is resolved.”—The Critic.
Punch is placable, even to extremes. And if anything could melt
him into forgetfulness of his duty to society, it would be the appear-
ance of this paragraph in the Standard:—
“ Our facetious contemporary and neighbour in Fleet Street has his occasional
poke at us, and we endeavour to return it, though at the odds at which a grave
journal encounters an accomplished wit. But we believe eur old friend Punch's
heart to be in the right place, and, Conservatives as we are, we heartily applaud the
true English feeling winch he manifests on all occasions when the nation's heart is
stirred. Nothing can be fairer than the way in which the Liberal satirist has
treated the Danish question or the conduct of the Opposition, and his mordant
cartoons express, if not very gently, certainly with complete truth, the feelings
of the country- He shall now see that the Conservatives are, as he says, going to
do ‘ summut,’ and, to borrow his own style, we may add that he will soon see
Conservative statesmen at the ‘ summit ’ of popularity.”
We are not in the habit of making quite such startling epigrams as
that with which the above paragraph concludes, but we may say that we
naturally and cordially agree in the sentiment which it contains. Never-
theless, Punch must be permitted to believe that Lord Derby' will not
be Prime Minister next week, and “ we may add ” that we shall feel it
our duty to keep him out of office for the present, the Standard's
blandishments notwithstanding.
Study for Clergymen during June and July.-
Summa Theologia.
-St. Thomas’t
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[July 9, 1864.
THE EAST CHALKSHIRE ARTILLERY VOLUNTEERS AT GUN PRACTICE.
No. 3 (Menacingly to his Officer, who is finding fault with the aim). “ Ye munna tooch t’ Gun, Mon ; A’ve got a Bet on’t ! !
WHO ARE THE SNEAKS?
Mr. Punch,
Who, after all, are they who have deserted and betrayed
Denmark, invaded and ravaged by Teutonis scoundreldom under the
“hegemony” of Prussia? “Her Majesty’s Government,” shouts
Her Majesty’s Opposition. “ Perfidious Albion! ” howl malignant
foreigners. “ We certainly have lowered ourselves in the eyes of
Europe,” cackle and hiss, with gregarious imbecility, English geese. I
beg the goose’s pardon; ’tis a silly bird, but defiles not its own nest.
Certainly, Sir, it is undeniable that Her Majesty’s Government,
having in vain attempted to restore peace by moral suasion, declines to
attempt that object by physical force, which England would have to
put forth by herself, pitching into Teutonic scoundreldom unaided by
any other of the neutral powers, pitching, alone amongst them all, into
a scoundreldom of seventy millions. Prance will not help. Russia will
not help. Not to fight for Denmark against overwhelming odds may
be very pusillanimous ; but is the pusillanimity of the British Cabinet
greater than that of the French and Russian Imperial Governments,
and is Albion more perfidious than Russia and Prance? England has
offered to fight if they would. They won’t. If Lord Palmerston is
a sneak and a humbug, is not Louis Napoleon something worse than
another ?
“ Oh ! but Lord Palmerston some time ago gave breath to the
menace that if Prussia and Austria did to Denmark that which they
have done, ‘Denmark would not stand alone.’ ” Well, what then? I
suppose he said what he thought and expected. He gave Erance and
Russia credit for the same honest intention to enforce right as that of
England. France and Russia have failed him. Really, Mr. Punch, if
there is any perfidy or poltroonery in this matter, I can see none that
is chargeabJe on Albion especially, or that lies in particular at the door
of Cambridge House. Greenness, not perfidy, seems to me to have
been the fault of Ministers. They were so verdant as to believe that
Erance and Russia would unite with England in going to war for an
idea simply moral.
The patriot Disraeli a,sks the. House of Commons to declare that
the course pursued by Her Majesty’s Government in regard to the
Danish Question, “has lowered the just influence of this country in the
councils of Europe.” Why didn’t he likewise invite it to afErm that
the line taken in the same business by the councils of Europe has
lowered the just influence which they ought to have in each other ?
How many words have been wasted on Dizzy’s motion, when it would
have received an amply sufficient answer in one of two. syllables,
“ Humbug! ” This would have been the sole reply vouchsafed to it by
an assembly less studious of eloquence than brevity, consulting which,
I rest, calling myself your
Nibs.
SOFT WORDS AND POLITICAL PARSNIPS.
“ The Neighbour softens, but the Satirist is resolved.”—The Critic.
Punch is placable, even to extremes. And if anything could melt
him into forgetfulness of his duty to society, it would be the appear-
ance of this paragraph in the Standard:—
“ Our facetious contemporary and neighbour in Fleet Street has his occasional
poke at us, and we endeavour to return it, though at the odds at which a grave
journal encounters an accomplished wit. But we believe eur old friend Punch's
heart to be in the right place, and, Conservatives as we are, we heartily applaud the
true English feeling winch he manifests on all occasions when the nation's heart is
stirred. Nothing can be fairer than the way in which the Liberal satirist has
treated the Danish question or the conduct of the Opposition, and his mordant
cartoons express, if not very gently, certainly with complete truth, the feelings
of the country- He shall now see that the Conservatives are, as he says, going to
do ‘ summut,’ and, to borrow his own style, we may add that he will soon see
Conservative statesmen at the ‘ summit ’ of popularity.”
We are not in the habit of making quite such startling epigrams as
that with which the above paragraph concludes, but we may say that we
naturally and cordially agree in the sentiment which it contains. Never-
theless, Punch must be permitted to believe that Lord Derby' will not
be Prime Minister next week, and “ we may add ” that we shall feel it
our duty to keep him out of office for the present, the Standard's
blandishments notwithstanding.
Study for Clergymen during June and July.-
Summa Theologia.
-St. Thomas’t