DOI issue:
August 18, 1866
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16878#0085
August 18, 1866.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI
77
GRIMALKIN FOR GAROTTERS.
No less than six roughs, two of them garotters, convicted at Man-
chester Assizes, of robbery with violence, were sentenced the other
day by Mb,. Justice Lush, to be, in addition to penal servitude, flogged
with the cat-o’-nine-tails. Their united terms of slavery amount to
thirty-two years, and the sum total of the number of lashes which
they were to receive is one hundred and twenty. Before passing sen-
tence on these rascals the learned Judge dehvered a few admirable
observations, the point of which consisted in the announcement that
he should, at the present assizes, as he had done at the last, avail
himself or the new powers given him by the statute, of inflicting
punishment by the lash in addition to the ordinary terms of imprison-
ment and penal servitude. He further expressed the opinion, which
cannot be too enthusiastically cheered, that it would be the duty of
the rest of Her Majesty’s Judges to pursue the course he was himself
adopting. His Lordship then proceeded to dispose of the gentlemen
in the dock, with a discretion whereby, according to the subjoined
extract from a police report, which will be regarded by every truly
benevolent mind as most agreeable reading—
“ Michael Carroll and Aaron Alcock (who had just been convicted of a street rob-
bery) were sentenced to five years’ penal servitude each, and two dozen lashes each
with the cat-o’-nine-tails.
“ Mark Fagan, (convicted of having, with two others not in custody, committed a
garotte robbery, leaving the victim insensible)—five years’ penal servitude and
eighteen lashes.
“ Michael John Flaherty, (who had pleaded guilty on two indictments, of having
committed two garotte robberies on successive days, 12th and 13th February)—
seven years’ penal servitude and eighteen lashes.
“ Peter Kelly and William Wright, (robbery with violence)—five years’ penal servi- i
tude and eighteen lashes.”
LA MER DE GLACE.
“-Vitreo daturas
Nomina ponto.”—Horace.
“Canning to Glass.”—Time*.
When Daedalus to Icarus gave
(Dreaming the sea should be no more
A barrier Between shore and shore)
Wings for. his flight across the wave,
Fair Science, weak in infancy,
Gave the Adventurer only fame ;
He sank, and dying left the name
Icarian to the glassy wave.
The centuries unrolled, until
The full-armed Goddess now appears,
Grown wise beneath the weight of years,
And strong with a diviner will.
Another Daedalus comes, to join
Two worlds in one with magic chain ;
The golden age is come again;
Peace moves along the mystic line.
Peace comes, that shall no longer pass ;
And all the world, with loud acclaim,
Old ocean hails with happier name,
The sea of peace, the Sea of Glass.
Among the judicious remarks with which Mb. Justice Lush pre-
faced his dictation of these excellent arrangements for the defence of
the community, was the proposition that—“ The object of punishment
was not so much to inflict pain on the criminal as to deter others
from committing offences of a like character ” Just so. Not so much.
Still the object of such punishment as that of flogging, administered
to a garotter, is very much indeed to inflict pain on the criminal. The
garotter is, in general, unfortunately devoid of “ the heart that can feel
for another.” He possesses, however, a skin that can feel for himself.
Therein, to restrain him from the repetition of cruelty, it is necessary to
make him feel very acutely. If there is in his nature any degree of latent
sympathy, inactive from want of imagination, it can be stimulated to
due activity only by a whipping which will give him considerable pain.
All that pain is economy of pain; of so much pain as it saves respect-
able people from suffering by brutal violence.
The ruffians sentenced to the lash by Judge Lush have received
their discipline in the presence of several of the prison officials and
visiting Justices. In one or two cases the effect was excellent. But
it would have been more excellent had there been also present several
foot-pads. The flagellation of a garotter should always be witnessed
by as many convicts as the place of punishment will hold, together with
all the roughs that can be got, by a distribution of tickets, to come and
see their fellow-man undergo the degrading punishment of the scourge,
unfortunately necessary with a view to their own instruction, and, if
possible, to render him gentle and good.
Some out of the six scoundrels wnipped at Manchester, being pachy-
dermatous, made a show of bravado. To preclude this in future, let all
such offenders be sentenced to be flogged two or three times.
CELEBRITY EOR SAMUEL, BROTHERS.
The subjoined announcement has gone the round of the papers:—
“ New Medical Club.—A new Club is to be established for the medical profes
sion. It is to be called ‘ The Sydenham,’ in honour of the celebrated Physician of
the time of Charles the First.”
The intended Medical Club had much better be called “ The Harvey.”
The discoverer of the circulation of the blood is the most celebrated
physician of the time of Chables the Eibst, or of any subsequent
reign. Habvey is a greater name than Sydenham, and though it is
associated with a popular sauce as well as with a grand physiological
discovery, it is not prejudiced by a disadvantage so ludicrous as that of
association with a puff and a pair of trousers. As sure as fate, if the
new Medical Club is named “ The Sydenham,” it will be nicknamed
“ The Seventeen-six.”
Private Telegram.
(Came to hand at 85, Fleet Street.)
I ’ve got all my guns ready, and am quite prepared for the shooting
as0T1- Paris: L. N
" THE ENGLISH NE’ER SHALL REIGN IN FRANCE.”
(Communicated.)
Unhappy France! Unhappy Emperor !
The words, or some like them, have been read before, but it is the
destiny of history to repeat itself, with variations.
We also repeat Unhappy France, Unhappy Emperor !
Both he prostrate. Who shall lift them up ? Not all the Emperor’s
horses and all the Emperor’s men. -
The Courier du Dimanche has been suppressed.
It was—alas that we write in the past tense—an admirable journal.
It was read chiefly by the educated classes in this our beloved France.
Among its_ writers have been—we accept the enumeration of the British
radical print, UBtendard—the leading men of the French press—•
Jules Simon, Pbince de Bboglie, J. de Lasteybie, Duvebgieb
de Haubanne, Yictob Cousin, Count d’Haussonville, John
Lemoinne, Eugene Pelletan, St. Maec Gieabdin, J. J. Weiss,
Edouabd Hebve, Alfeed Assolant, Alphonse Kaee, and many
others whose names are not known in England, though enjoying 3
high reputation here.
It is suppressed. M. de Lavalette reports to the Emperor, ana
Napoleon, by the Grace of God and the National Will Emperor of
the French, considers, and crushes.
Even to down-trodden France some pretence of a national reason
must be given by the Emperor of the National Will. We are told of
an article by Peevost Pabadol, insulting France by representing her
as spoliated, beaten, stupified, and degraded by recent events of war.
Peevost Pabadol is a profound thinker, a brilliant wit, and a true
Frenchman. Such men do not slander their country. The pretext is
infamously transparent.
Here is the paragraph in the article of M. Pabadol, which has
brought suppression to the Courier, and the true humiliation to France,
her Sovereign, and her Press:—
“ Our birds of prey are already croaking with delight at the news of the distur-
bances in London—a riotous multitude, a few policemen beaten, gates pulled down,
a Fool trying in vain to restrain the mob he has himself excited, and reduced to
say, according to custom—‘ I must follow them, as I am their chief ! ’ What a
delightful spectacle for those whom the too uniform spectacle of the freedom and
prosperity of England annoys as a reproach, or haunts as remorse. ”
Whom does M. Pabadol mean by his Fool ?
It is not for us to say.
But the Courier of the 29th July had scarcely been received in the
Refrom Clubb, in Picadilli, when a telegram flashed to the Tuileries—
One Beales, colleague of Bright, denounces the Vile Caitiff of the Courier
and demands vengeance.
Messages are carefully delivered to the Tuileries. De Lavalette.
the Emperor by the national will, the suppression, are but the logical
consequences of that flash.
One Beales reigns in Erance as in England.
Unhappy Erance! Unhappy Emperor! Edmond Aboo.
Narbcw Escape.—A Eire Escape.
The Fastest Thing Going.—A Hunting Watch.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI
77
GRIMALKIN FOR GAROTTERS.
No less than six roughs, two of them garotters, convicted at Man-
chester Assizes, of robbery with violence, were sentenced the other
day by Mb,. Justice Lush, to be, in addition to penal servitude, flogged
with the cat-o’-nine-tails. Their united terms of slavery amount to
thirty-two years, and the sum total of the number of lashes which
they were to receive is one hundred and twenty. Before passing sen-
tence on these rascals the learned Judge dehvered a few admirable
observations, the point of which consisted in the announcement that
he should, at the present assizes, as he had done at the last, avail
himself or the new powers given him by the statute, of inflicting
punishment by the lash in addition to the ordinary terms of imprison-
ment and penal servitude. He further expressed the opinion, which
cannot be too enthusiastically cheered, that it would be the duty of
the rest of Her Majesty’s Judges to pursue the course he was himself
adopting. His Lordship then proceeded to dispose of the gentlemen
in the dock, with a discretion whereby, according to the subjoined
extract from a police report, which will be regarded by every truly
benevolent mind as most agreeable reading—
“ Michael Carroll and Aaron Alcock (who had just been convicted of a street rob-
bery) were sentenced to five years’ penal servitude each, and two dozen lashes each
with the cat-o’-nine-tails.
“ Mark Fagan, (convicted of having, with two others not in custody, committed a
garotte robbery, leaving the victim insensible)—five years’ penal servitude and
eighteen lashes.
“ Michael John Flaherty, (who had pleaded guilty on two indictments, of having
committed two garotte robberies on successive days, 12th and 13th February)—
seven years’ penal servitude and eighteen lashes.
“ Peter Kelly and William Wright, (robbery with violence)—five years’ penal servi- i
tude and eighteen lashes.”
LA MER DE GLACE.
“-Vitreo daturas
Nomina ponto.”—Horace.
“Canning to Glass.”—Time*.
When Daedalus to Icarus gave
(Dreaming the sea should be no more
A barrier Between shore and shore)
Wings for. his flight across the wave,
Fair Science, weak in infancy,
Gave the Adventurer only fame ;
He sank, and dying left the name
Icarian to the glassy wave.
The centuries unrolled, until
The full-armed Goddess now appears,
Grown wise beneath the weight of years,
And strong with a diviner will.
Another Daedalus comes, to join
Two worlds in one with magic chain ;
The golden age is come again;
Peace moves along the mystic line.
Peace comes, that shall no longer pass ;
And all the world, with loud acclaim,
Old ocean hails with happier name,
The sea of peace, the Sea of Glass.
Among the judicious remarks with which Mb. Justice Lush pre-
faced his dictation of these excellent arrangements for the defence of
the community, was the proposition that—“ The object of punishment
was not so much to inflict pain on the criminal as to deter others
from committing offences of a like character ” Just so. Not so much.
Still the object of such punishment as that of flogging, administered
to a garotter, is very much indeed to inflict pain on the criminal. The
garotter is, in general, unfortunately devoid of “ the heart that can feel
for another.” He possesses, however, a skin that can feel for himself.
Therein, to restrain him from the repetition of cruelty, it is necessary to
make him feel very acutely. If there is in his nature any degree of latent
sympathy, inactive from want of imagination, it can be stimulated to
due activity only by a whipping which will give him considerable pain.
All that pain is economy of pain; of so much pain as it saves respect-
able people from suffering by brutal violence.
The ruffians sentenced to the lash by Judge Lush have received
their discipline in the presence of several of the prison officials and
visiting Justices. In one or two cases the effect was excellent. But
it would have been more excellent had there been also present several
foot-pads. The flagellation of a garotter should always be witnessed
by as many convicts as the place of punishment will hold, together with
all the roughs that can be got, by a distribution of tickets, to come and
see their fellow-man undergo the degrading punishment of the scourge,
unfortunately necessary with a view to their own instruction, and, if
possible, to render him gentle and good.
Some out of the six scoundrels wnipped at Manchester, being pachy-
dermatous, made a show of bravado. To preclude this in future, let all
such offenders be sentenced to be flogged two or three times.
CELEBRITY EOR SAMUEL, BROTHERS.
The subjoined announcement has gone the round of the papers:—
“ New Medical Club.—A new Club is to be established for the medical profes
sion. It is to be called ‘ The Sydenham,’ in honour of the celebrated Physician of
the time of Charles the First.”
The intended Medical Club had much better be called “ The Harvey.”
The discoverer of the circulation of the blood is the most celebrated
physician of the time of Chables the Eibst, or of any subsequent
reign. Habvey is a greater name than Sydenham, and though it is
associated with a popular sauce as well as with a grand physiological
discovery, it is not prejudiced by a disadvantage so ludicrous as that of
association with a puff and a pair of trousers. As sure as fate, if the
new Medical Club is named “ The Sydenham,” it will be nicknamed
“ The Seventeen-six.”
Private Telegram.
(Came to hand at 85, Fleet Street.)
I ’ve got all my guns ready, and am quite prepared for the shooting
as0T1- Paris: L. N
" THE ENGLISH NE’ER SHALL REIGN IN FRANCE.”
(Communicated.)
Unhappy France! Unhappy Emperor !
The words, or some like them, have been read before, but it is the
destiny of history to repeat itself, with variations.
We also repeat Unhappy France, Unhappy Emperor !
Both he prostrate. Who shall lift them up ? Not all the Emperor’s
horses and all the Emperor’s men. -
The Courier du Dimanche has been suppressed.
It was—alas that we write in the past tense—an admirable journal.
It was read chiefly by the educated classes in this our beloved France.
Among its_ writers have been—we accept the enumeration of the British
radical print, UBtendard—the leading men of the French press—•
Jules Simon, Pbince de Bboglie, J. de Lasteybie, Duvebgieb
de Haubanne, Yictob Cousin, Count d’Haussonville, John
Lemoinne, Eugene Pelletan, St. Maec Gieabdin, J. J. Weiss,
Edouabd Hebve, Alfeed Assolant, Alphonse Kaee, and many
others whose names are not known in England, though enjoying 3
high reputation here.
It is suppressed. M. de Lavalette reports to the Emperor, ana
Napoleon, by the Grace of God and the National Will Emperor of
the French, considers, and crushes.
Even to down-trodden France some pretence of a national reason
must be given by the Emperor of the National Will. We are told of
an article by Peevost Pabadol, insulting France by representing her
as spoliated, beaten, stupified, and degraded by recent events of war.
Peevost Pabadol is a profound thinker, a brilliant wit, and a true
Frenchman. Such men do not slander their country. The pretext is
infamously transparent.
Here is the paragraph in the article of M. Pabadol, which has
brought suppression to the Courier, and the true humiliation to France,
her Sovereign, and her Press:—
“ Our birds of prey are already croaking with delight at the news of the distur-
bances in London—a riotous multitude, a few policemen beaten, gates pulled down,
a Fool trying in vain to restrain the mob he has himself excited, and reduced to
say, according to custom—‘ I must follow them, as I am their chief ! ’ What a
delightful spectacle for those whom the too uniform spectacle of the freedom and
prosperity of England annoys as a reproach, or haunts as remorse. ”
Whom does M. Pabadol mean by his Fool ?
It is not for us to say.
But the Courier of the 29th July had scarcely been received in the
Refrom Clubb, in Picadilli, when a telegram flashed to the Tuileries—
One Beales, colleague of Bright, denounces the Vile Caitiff of the Courier
and demands vengeance.
Messages are carefully delivered to the Tuileries. De Lavalette.
the Emperor by the national will, the suppression, are but the logical
consequences of that flash.
One Beales reigns in Erance as in England.
Unhappy Erance! Unhappy Emperor! Edmond Aboo.
Narbcw Escape.—A Eire Escape.
The Fastest Thing Going.—A Hunting Watch.