DOI issue:
January 28, 1865
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16875#0050
PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [January 28, 1865.
HUMAN NATURE.
Ferocious Mistress. “ Cook, this is tbe Third Time you have sent up the Joint Raw this week, and your Master is much
DISPLEASED! I MUST REALLY ENTREAT OF YOU, IN FUTURE, TO—TO-” (Awful paUSC.)
Cook. “ Ah, I see! You’ve been Wexed in the Parlour, and so you comes and wents it on me in the Kitchen.”
HARMONY IN THE KIRK.
These are two points on which the generality of Scotchmen are as
daft as they are canny in all other respects. They labour under a delu-
sion with regard to Sunday, which they call the Sabbath, and entertain
an insane objection to instrumental church music, whence they name an
organ “ a kist fu’ o’ whistles.” Aweel, but Sunday trains, in modera-
tion, run through the Land o’ Cakes; and the subjoined extract, from
the Scotsman, is evidence of a Scottish organ movement, which is also
extending therein, and must be acknowledged to be a movement in the
right direction:—-
“ With, regard to the fitting up of an organ in the new church at Ayr, a meeting
was held on Thursday evening, when it appeared that 261 members of the church
were in favour of the introduction of an organ, 73 were against, and about 100 were
neutral. Alter some discussion, the Committee, with the view of obtaining complete
harmony, resolved to delay further action in the matter until after the next meeting
of the General Assembly.”
This is good, as far as it goes, but what follows is better
“ Anderston new church, Glasgow, was opened on Sunday for public worship-
.... An excellent organ has been fitted up in the building, and was used during
service on Sunday, Mr. Lambeth acting as organist. A choir, under the superin-
tendence of Mr. Stembridge Kay, has also been formed in connection with the
congregation.”
Hi Anderston new church, Glasgow, tbe establishment of an organ
has not only been proposed, but actually effected. Now, so it should
l m u 6 new church at Ayr, and so it must be if the Committee of that
church are to accomplish the end which they proposed in delaying
iurther action in that matter. Scotchmen understand the force of
words, and will understand us when we tell them, that the immediate
fitting up ot an organ is the best method of obtaining complete
harmony.
The Jubilee.—Henceforth the only Jew permitted by the Pope to
reside within the Roman precincts will be the Jew-Billy.
CHRONOLOGY AND CHARITY.
The very best of Almanacks of course is Punch's Almanack, which,
as everybody knows, is indispensable to everybody, and which nobody
who is anybody can fail, therefore, to possess. Next to this may be
commended the Dramatic Almanack, which, with other highly inter-
esting intelligence, contains a fair amount of theatrical astrology, and
tells the rising and the setting of several stage-stars. It gives a date also
to numerous theatrical events which are worthy to be borne in mind,
such as tbe original invention of the butter-slide in pantomimes, ana
the first introduction of the hot poker by tbe Clown. All lovers of the
theatre should buy this little Almanack, not merely because it is worth
the sixpence that it costs, but because the profits of its sale are added
to the funds of the Royal Dramatic College, a charity which well
deserves whatever is subscribed to it. Any dweller in Stoke-Pogis or
Stickton-in-the-Mud, who may find the local bookseller without a copy
of the work, had better write to Mr. Anson, of the Adelphi Theatre,
and enclose a five-pound note for the benefit of the College, with a
request that Mr. Anson, who is the author of the Almanack, should
just enclose a copy of it when, as treasurer of the College, he forwards
a receipt. _
Answers to Correspondents.
The Pope's N. Sickly Gal— You make a mistake concerning the
origin of Peter’s Pence, as there is no such Saint in the Roman
Calendar as Sir Charles Borrowmoneyo.
An Avenger.—“What is Ultima Thule?" asks our Correspondent.
She was a Princess of some extraction, born, when a child, of poor but
honest parents, and spent the best part of her life in a vain endeavour
to conciliate the adverse factions.—Mallbran was sixteen.—Consult a
solicitor.
A Limb of the Law.—Donato’s leg.
HUMAN NATURE.
Ferocious Mistress. “ Cook, this is tbe Third Time you have sent up the Joint Raw this week, and your Master is much
DISPLEASED! I MUST REALLY ENTREAT OF YOU, IN FUTURE, TO—TO-” (Awful paUSC.)
Cook. “ Ah, I see! You’ve been Wexed in the Parlour, and so you comes and wents it on me in the Kitchen.”
HARMONY IN THE KIRK.
These are two points on which the generality of Scotchmen are as
daft as they are canny in all other respects. They labour under a delu-
sion with regard to Sunday, which they call the Sabbath, and entertain
an insane objection to instrumental church music, whence they name an
organ “ a kist fu’ o’ whistles.” Aweel, but Sunday trains, in modera-
tion, run through the Land o’ Cakes; and the subjoined extract, from
the Scotsman, is evidence of a Scottish organ movement, which is also
extending therein, and must be acknowledged to be a movement in the
right direction:—-
“ With, regard to the fitting up of an organ in the new church at Ayr, a meeting
was held on Thursday evening, when it appeared that 261 members of the church
were in favour of the introduction of an organ, 73 were against, and about 100 were
neutral. Alter some discussion, the Committee, with the view of obtaining complete
harmony, resolved to delay further action in the matter until after the next meeting
of the General Assembly.”
This is good, as far as it goes, but what follows is better
“ Anderston new church, Glasgow, was opened on Sunday for public worship-
.... An excellent organ has been fitted up in the building, and was used during
service on Sunday, Mr. Lambeth acting as organist. A choir, under the superin-
tendence of Mr. Stembridge Kay, has also been formed in connection with the
congregation.”
Hi Anderston new church, Glasgow, tbe establishment of an organ
has not only been proposed, but actually effected. Now, so it should
l m u 6 new church at Ayr, and so it must be if the Committee of that
church are to accomplish the end which they proposed in delaying
iurther action in that matter. Scotchmen understand the force of
words, and will understand us when we tell them, that the immediate
fitting up ot an organ is the best method of obtaining complete
harmony.
The Jubilee.—Henceforth the only Jew permitted by the Pope to
reside within the Roman precincts will be the Jew-Billy.
CHRONOLOGY AND CHARITY.
The very best of Almanacks of course is Punch's Almanack, which,
as everybody knows, is indispensable to everybody, and which nobody
who is anybody can fail, therefore, to possess. Next to this may be
commended the Dramatic Almanack, which, with other highly inter-
esting intelligence, contains a fair amount of theatrical astrology, and
tells the rising and the setting of several stage-stars. It gives a date also
to numerous theatrical events which are worthy to be borne in mind,
such as tbe original invention of the butter-slide in pantomimes, ana
the first introduction of the hot poker by tbe Clown. All lovers of the
theatre should buy this little Almanack, not merely because it is worth
the sixpence that it costs, but because the profits of its sale are added
to the funds of the Royal Dramatic College, a charity which well
deserves whatever is subscribed to it. Any dweller in Stoke-Pogis or
Stickton-in-the-Mud, who may find the local bookseller without a copy
of the work, had better write to Mr. Anson, of the Adelphi Theatre,
and enclose a five-pound note for the benefit of the College, with a
request that Mr. Anson, who is the author of the Almanack, should
just enclose a copy of it when, as treasurer of the College, he forwards
a receipt. _
Answers to Correspondents.
The Pope's N. Sickly Gal— You make a mistake concerning the
origin of Peter’s Pence, as there is no such Saint in the Roman
Calendar as Sir Charles Borrowmoneyo.
An Avenger.—“What is Ultima Thule?" asks our Correspondent.
She was a Princess of some extraction, born, when a child, of poor but
honest parents, and spent the best part of her life in a vain endeavour
to conciliate the adverse factions.—Mallbran was sixteen.—Consult a
solicitor.
A Limb of the Law.—Donato’s leg.