DOI issue:
October 15, 1864
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16874#0161
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
.October 15, 1864.
TOUCHING APPEAL
TO THE CHIVALROUS FEELINGS OF DE VAVASCEUR.
1 Ketch hold o’ the Dish for a minute, Sir, will you ? it's a Burning my
Fingers!”
DON’T SAY NON POSSUMUS!
(Victor-Emmanuel to the Pope.)
Oh, May it please your Holiness
Behold me at your knee !
Vouchsafe unto my lowliness
United Italy!
Oh, speak the word this happy day
That concord shall restore !
Oh, come to terms, say “ Yes,” and say,
“ Nonpossumus” no more !
Oh, if your gracious Holiness would only list to me,
And cease to say “ Non possumus,” how happy I should be !
St. Peter’s patrimony fair
Shall still be all your own;
And I’ll engage to keep you there,
And guard you on your throne.
Your States, that gave themselves to us,
Ourselves their debt shall pay :
So don’t reply “ Non possumus,”
But gently answer, “ Yea ! ”
Oh, if your gracious Holiness would only list to me,
And cease to say “ Non possumus” how happy I should be !
When is a Candle likely to be angry ?
When it’s put out, to be sure.
SPORT AND SPORT.
There is a sweet bird, much of which was eaten on the 29th of last
month, a bird which is usually accompanied at table by apple-sauce, in
addition to sage and onions. A maxim of ancient wisdom and pro-
verbial philosophy declares that the condiment which is proper for the
female bird of this description is also proper for the male. The moral
rule which corresponds to this canon of cookery is not always so
religiously observed as it might be by those administrators of the law
who are for the most part deservedly called Justices, but who, in some
instances, can be so termed only with ironical justice.
At the Marylebone Police Court, the other day, a boy named Henry
Radford was cited by one Rutherford, an Officer of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, before Mr. Mansfield, charged
with cruelty to a cat.
The boy, at play with a lot of other boys, had tossed the cat some
fifteen feet into the air, whence it fell and broke its back.
Rutherford said, “ that it was not usual for the Society to take up
cases against children under fourteen years of age, but they considered
this to be a case so peculiar that they felt bound to prosecute.” The
peculiarity of the case, according to the evidence adduced to prove it,
appears to be comprised in the foregoing statement. Sentencing the
puerile prisoner:—
“ Mr. Mansfield remarked that it was a pity boys could be found who were so
cruel. He would commit the prisoner to the House of Correction for one month,
with hard labour.”
It may be presumed that the cat was not thrown into the air by
Master Henry Radford simply to test the truth of the popular
saying, that a cat will always fall on her legs. The Magistrate was
sa^ls®e^ that the child meant to hurt the cat.
01 course it is necessary that boys under fourteen should be taught
that it is wrong to break a cat’s back. But any respectable, if ragged,
school is fitter to instruct them in humanity than that of the House of
Correction and hard labour.
NOVEL EFFECTS.
WHERE THERE’S SMOKE THERE ’S EIRE.
A Terrible gunpowder explosion (not to be spoken of
lightly) has occurred near Erith. Passing from painful
details, let us notice certain consequences. Divers As-
surance Offices refuse to compensate those whose property
has been injured. We consider this the height of
Assurance. If damage sustained by an explosion is not
damage by Erne, we should like to know what is. Men of
business, as every day’s City Article shows, are the most
unbusinesslike people going, but surely they will not be
done out of their assured rights. And many jurors have
made one believe that they had been empanelled. from
Earlswood, but we should like to see a Twelve idiotic
enough to declare that gunpowder can explode without a
fire. Anyhow, we advise a trial where the offices are worth
Powder—and shot.
No doubt there is a difference between shooting stags, or hares and
rabbits, so as to break their bones, and wantonly killing cats. But
there is also a similarity. The difference is that, whereas venison, hare,
and rabbit are good for food, cat is not, whatever foreigners may say to
the contrary. The similarity is that the stags, hares, and rabbits on
the one hand, and the cats on the other, are killed for sport. The
gentry of England have certainly an excuse for shooting game, which
street-boys have not for killing cats. When a nobleman kills several
hundred hares in a battue, to be sure he shatters the spine of many a
poor puss which is just as sensitive as one of the feline species. But
then poor puss, the rodent, is edible, whereas the carnivorous poor puss
is carrion. We know that my Lord bears that steadily in mind while
he is out shooting, and considers, with just complacency, that he is not
practising wanton cruelty on animals. Still he kills them for amuse-
ment ; so to speak, for fun. Therein lies the resemblance between the
noble sportsman and the street-boy. If the resemblance is close, is the
difference so wide as to make a grandee worthy of having his amateur-
butcher-work recorded in the journals to his glory and renown ; but an
urchin, for amusing himself in the same but a very much smaller way,
deserve the treadmill ?
At it Again!
Says the Roman Correspondent of the Star, “ The remains of the
Baths of Diocletian, and the best ruins left in Rome, are to be cleared
away.” Now, really this is too bad. The Baths of Diocletian can
not be in the way from London to Chatham or Dover, and the Company
must be exceeding its powers. We shall ask for an injunction.
In consequence of the popularity attained by the Sensation Stories,
many romantic young ladies have gone off with their grooms. We are, j
however, happy to learn, that, in every case, the happy objects of their
choice have been highly respectable Bride-Grooms.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
.October 15, 1864.
TOUCHING APPEAL
TO THE CHIVALROUS FEELINGS OF DE VAVASCEUR.
1 Ketch hold o’ the Dish for a minute, Sir, will you ? it's a Burning my
Fingers!”
DON’T SAY NON POSSUMUS!
(Victor-Emmanuel to the Pope.)
Oh, May it please your Holiness
Behold me at your knee !
Vouchsafe unto my lowliness
United Italy!
Oh, speak the word this happy day
That concord shall restore !
Oh, come to terms, say “ Yes,” and say,
“ Nonpossumus” no more !
Oh, if your gracious Holiness would only list to me,
And cease to say “ Non possumus,” how happy I should be !
St. Peter’s patrimony fair
Shall still be all your own;
And I’ll engage to keep you there,
And guard you on your throne.
Your States, that gave themselves to us,
Ourselves their debt shall pay :
So don’t reply “ Non possumus,”
But gently answer, “ Yea ! ”
Oh, if your gracious Holiness would only list to me,
And cease to say “ Non possumus” how happy I should be !
When is a Candle likely to be angry ?
When it’s put out, to be sure.
SPORT AND SPORT.
There is a sweet bird, much of which was eaten on the 29th of last
month, a bird which is usually accompanied at table by apple-sauce, in
addition to sage and onions. A maxim of ancient wisdom and pro-
verbial philosophy declares that the condiment which is proper for the
female bird of this description is also proper for the male. The moral
rule which corresponds to this canon of cookery is not always so
religiously observed as it might be by those administrators of the law
who are for the most part deservedly called Justices, but who, in some
instances, can be so termed only with ironical justice.
At the Marylebone Police Court, the other day, a boy named Henry
Radford was cited by one Rutherford, an Officer of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, before Mr. Mansfield, charged
with cruelty to a cat.
The boy, at play with a lot of other boys, had tossed the cat some
fifteen feet into the air, whence it fell and broke its back.
Rutherford said, “ that it was not usual for the Society to take up
cases against children under fourteen years of age, but they considered
this to be a case so peculiar that they felt bound to prosecute.” The
peculiarity of the case, according to the evidence adduced to prove it,
appears to be comprised in the foregoing statement. Sentencing the
puerile prisoner:—
“ Mr. Mansfield remarked that it was a pity boys could be found who were so
cruel. He would commit the prisoner to the House of Correction for one month,
with hard labour.”
It may be presumed that the cat was not thrown into the air by
Master Henry Radford simply to test the truth of the popular
saying, that a cat will always fall on her legs. The Magistrate was
sa^ls®e^ that the child meant to hurt the cat.
01 course it is necessary that boys under fourteen should be taught
that it is wrong to break a cat’s back. But any respectable, if ragged,
school is fitter to instruct them in humanity than that of the House of
Correction and hard labour.
NOVEL EFFECTS.
WHERE THERE’S SMOKE THERE ’S EIRE.
A Terrible gunpowder explosion (not to be spoken of
lightly) has occurred near Erith. Passing from painful
details, let us notice certain consequences. Divers As-
surance Offices refuse to compensate those whose property
has been injured. We consider this the height of
Assurance. If damage sustained by an explosion is not
damage by Erne, we should like to know what is. Men of
business, as every day’s City Article shows, are the most
unbusinesslike people going, but surely they will not be
done out of their assured rights. And many jurors have
made one believe that they had been empanelled. from
Earlswood, but we should like to see a Twelve idiotic
enough to declare that gunpowder can explode without a
fire. Anyhow, we advise a trial where the offices are worth
Powder—and shot.
No doubt there is a difference between shooting stags, or hares and
rabbits, so as to break their bones, and wantonly killing cats. But
there is also a similarity. The difference is that, whereas venison, hare,
and rabbit are good for food, cat is not, whatever foreigners may say to
the contrary. The similarity is that the stags, hares, and rabbits on
the one hand, and the cats on the other, are killed for sport. The
gentry of England have certainly an excuse for shooting game, which
street-boys have not for killing cats. When a nobleman kills several
hundred hares in a battue, to be sure he shatters the spine of many a
poor puss which is just as sensitive as one of the feline species. But
then poor puss, the rodent, is edible, whereas the carnivorous poor puss
is carrion. We know that my Lord bears that steadily in mind while
he is out shooting, and considers, with just complacency, that he is not
practising wanton cruelty on animals. Still he kills them for amuse-
ment ; so to speak, for fun. Therein lies the resemblance between the
noble sportsman and the street-boy. If the resemblance is close, is the
difference so wide as to make a grandee worthy of having his amateur-
butcher-work recorded in the journals to his glory and renown ; but an
urchin, for amusing himself in the same but a very much smaller way,
deserve the treadmill ?
At it Again!
Says the Roman Correspondent of the Star, “ The remains of the
Baths of Diocletian, and the best ruins left in Rome, are to be cleared
away.” Now, really this is too bad. The Baths of Diocletian can
not be in the way from London to Chatham or Dover, and the Company
must be exceeding its powers. We shall ask for an injunction.
In consequence of the popularity attained by the Sensation Stories,
many romantic young ladies have gone off with their grooms. We are, j
however, happy to learn, that, in every case, the happy objects of their
choice have been highly respectable Bride-Grooms.