DOI issue:
April 1, 1865
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16875#0138
130 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [Apbil l, 1865.
A VERBAL DIFFICULTY.
Irritable Captain. “Your Barrel’s disgracefully dirty, Sir, and it’s not the first time; I’ve a good mind to -
Private Flannigan. “Shure, Sor, I never-
Captain {Irish too). “Silence, Sir, when you spake to an Officer!”
THE COLENSO JUDGMENT.
20th MARCH, 1S65.
Pleased Bethell showed the treble flaw.
“ Bishops are Creatures of the Law.
Though the Great Seal in ’53
Was freely used by Cranworth, C.
I think my friend could hardly mean
To give what was not in the Queen.
I don’t exactly know, or care,
What entities called Bishops are,
Though doubtless they may pray and preach,
Or (like S. Oxon) make a speech,
But Jurisdiction can be lent
Only by Crown and Parliament,
Which joined in ’47 to shape
A Constitution for the Cape.
Therefore the acts of Dr. Gray
Are nothing more than priestly play.
He says Natal has sworn an oath:
What childish nonsense in them both!
Colenso had no right to swear
Obedience to an empty chair,
And Gray no title to exact
A compact that was bosh, in fact.
There’s not a shade of doubt, we feel,
About Colenso’s just appeal,
And we shall certify the Crown
That he’s all right, and Gray’s done brown.”
Interesting to the Tuileries.—M. Victor Hugo is engaged in
composing the Life of the Emperor Tiberius, the third of the—
Caesars. I1 rom M. Hugo’s incisive way of treating Imperial biography,
a piquant treat may be expected.
IN THE (P. M.) GAZETTE.
Our smart young friend, the Pall Mall Gazette, who apes, with
considerable success—allowing for the inevitable second-hand smack
that all imitations must have—the superfine airs of our sour old friend,
The Saturday, in a notice of Mr. Artemus Ward, His Book, has the
following
“ Except in the poorer numbers of Punch, and similar periodicals, it would not
be easy,” &c. &c.
Now, we wish to.remind our young friend that there is no “similar
periodical” to Punch, and that though one number of the Pall Mall
Gazette may very properly be described as poorer than another, the
proper form even for depreciative comparison for Punch, is not “poor,
poorer, poorest,” but “ rich, less rich, least rich.” _ _ |
While we have our young friend in hand, as he is evidently proud of
his Latin, his University training, his typography and getting up, and
all that concerns himself generally, we may as well remind him that
“ Virus defuncto narrat Caesare de Caesar ” (see p. 9 of his Number for
March 22, four lines from the bottom), won’t scan. If we adopted his
own style, we should say :—
“ It is rather cool of the Pall Mall Gazette to call this halting hobble an amended
version of even M. Ponsard’s lame epigram, “ Mortuus est vivus, narratur Cassare
C^sar.”
Of course, the Pall Mall Gazette is suffering under a printer’s error* 1
and the line should run—
“ Vivus defuncto narrat de CSesare (Lesar.
Having corrected the press for our young friend, how would he like
it if we were to ask, in his own style, “ How is this ? Cannot the
Pall Mall Gazette afford a ‘ Leader P ’ Or is it possible that the Reader
of a periodical apparently intended for tolerably educated people can
uot scan a hexameter ?”
A Purse without money is like the comb without the honey.
A VERBAL DIFFICULTY.
Irritable Captain. “Your Barrel’s disgracefully dirty, Sir, and it’s not the first time; I’ve a good mind to -
Private Flannigan. “Shure, Sor, I never-
Captain {Irish too). “Silence, Sir, when you spake to an Officer!”
THE COLENSO JUDGMENT.
20th MARCH, 1S65.
Pleased Bethell showed the treble flaw.
“ Bishops are Creatures of the Law.
Though the Great Seal in ’53
Was freely used by Cranworth, C.
I think my friend could hardly mean
To give what was not in the Queen.
I don’t exactly know, or care,
What entities called Bishops are,
Though doubtless they may pray and preach,
Or (like S. Oxon) make a speech,
But Jurisdiction can be lent
Only by Crown and Parliament,
Which joined in ’47 to shape
A Constitution for the Cape.
Therefore the acts of Dr. Gray
Are nothing more than priestly play.
He says Natal has sworn an oath:
What childish nonsense in them both!
Colenso had no right to swear
Obedience to an empty chair,
And Gray no title to exact
A compact that was bosh, in fact.
There’s not a shade of doubt, we feel,
About Colenso’s just appeal,
And we shall certify the Crown
That he’s all right, and Gray’s done brown.”
Interesting to the Tuileries.—M. Victor Hugo is engaged in
composing the Life of the Emperor Tiberius, the third of the—
Caesars. I1 rom M. Hugo’s incisive way of treating Imperial biography,
a piquant treat may be expected.
IN THE (P. M.) GAZETTE.
Our smart young friend, the Pall Mall Gazette, who apes, with
considerable success—allowing for the inevitable second-hand smack
that all imitations must have—the superfine airs of our sour old friend,
The Saturday, in a notice of Mr. Artemus Ward, His Book, has the
following
“ Except in the poorer numbers of Punch, and similar periodicals, it would not
be easy,” &c. &c.
Now, we wish to.remind our young friend that there is no “similar
periodical” to Punch, and that though one number of the Pall Mall
Gazette may very properly be described as poorer than another, the
proper form even for depreciative comparison for Punch, is not “poor,
poorer, poorest,” but “ rich, less rich, least rich.” _ _ |
While we have our young friend in hand, as he is evidently proud of
his Latin, his University training, his typography and getting up, and
all that concerns himself generally, we may as well remind him that
“ Virus defuncto narrat Caesare de Caesar ” (see p. 9 of his Number for
March 22, four lines from the bottom), won’t scan. If we adopted his
own style, we should say :—
“ It is rather cool of the Pall Mall Gazette to call this halting hobble an amended
version of even M. Ponsard’s lame epigram, “ Mortuus est vivus, narratur Cassare
C^sar.”
Of course, the Pall Mall Gazette is suffering under a printer’s error* 1
and the line should run—
“ Vivus defuncto narrat de CSesare (Lesar.
Having corrected the press for our young friend, how would he like
it if we were to ask, in his own style, “ How is this ? Cannot the
Pall Mall Gazette afford a ‘ Leader P ’ Or is it possible that the Reader
of a periodical apparently intended for tolerably educated people can
uot scan a hexameter ?”
A Purse without money is like the comb without the honey.