DOI issue:
December 15, 1866
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16878#0256
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
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THE NEW RUNNING DRILL.
(A RESPECTFUL APPEAL TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.;
Captain Bluaed, as he appeared in Command of his Company.
SYMPATHY SUPERSEDED.
It is with heartfelt pain that, compelled by a sense of duty, we give
the advantage of universal publicity to the paragraph subjoined :—
“ Floggings for Highway Robberies.—At the Stafford Winter Assizes yester-
day, Thomas Harrison, Cheayeril Welch, and James Armstrong were convicted
of assaulting and robbing Thomas Broadbent on the 2nd of September at Wolver-
hampton. Mr. Justice Byles said that people must walk the streets in safety, and
he should pass a most severe sentence on the prisoners. Harrison, who had been
previously convicted, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment, and to receive
25 lashes with the oat-o’-nine tails. The other prisoners were sentenced to 12 months’
imprisonment and to receive 20 lashes each.”
Poor Thomas Harrison ! Poor Cheaveril Welch ! Poor James
Armstrong ! No wonder at the sequel of the foregoing extract:—
“ The sentences were received with, evident dismay by the prisoners.’*
The feeling mind must sympathise with the mental pain with which
the poor footpads above named anticipated the physical pangs which
they were doomed to experience. It would be well if garotters and
other thieves accustomed to combine robbery with violence were aware
that, when a criminal is flogged, the executioner who administers the
lash waits about half a minute between each application of it. This
gives the convict under its infliction full time to realise to the utmost
the sensation which it excites, and to reflect on the inexpediency of
committing the crime which earns such a recompense. Poor Harri-
son, poor Welch, and poor Armstrong probably didn’t know this
when they assaulted and robbed Thomas Broadbent. But they were
most likely informed of it by some kind fellow-prisoner in gaol. Some
companion in confinement, who had himself been whipped, also perhaps
explained to them thoroughly the physical effects ana the impression
on the sentient nerves produced by the cat-o’-nine-tails. Well, then,
may the poor fellows have regarded its prospective endurance with
dismay.
But pity for the destined sufferers of the scourge, however distressing,
ceases to grieve ns when we consider the likelihood that their suffering
will prevent some cruel outrage which, but for it, would be perpetrated
on somebody or other. This consideration would make us contemplate
the punishment they are to undergo as we should regard a surgical
operation, only we should not smile upon the latter as we should upon
the former, because pain is not the essential of the surgeon’s handi-
work, whereas it is that of the executioner’s. Therefore, we cannot
recommend that the patients whom Justice Byles has most judiciously
sentenced to flagellation, should he subjected to that process under the
influence of chloroform.
BENIANISM.
Sir,
I dread a rebellion. I dread it, Sir, on account of the fearful
destruction of property which must ensue. Directly I heard that there
was going to be an outbreak I exclaimed, “ Good Gracious ! ” I nearly
fainted. "Why Sir? Why, can yon ask me why? Because I have
property in Ireland, Sir, which a ferocious lawless mob may utterly
destroy. Yon will say, “I must suffer for my non-residency.” Per-
haps so. Where I dine, I sleep generally; because I generally sleep
directly after dinner. But, Sir, because I have property in Ireland,
must I reside there ? 1 quake lest the Benian rioters discover my
treasures. Yes, Sir, I tremble, because, after leaving Tre and, two
months ago, I discovered on arriving safely at my own London home,
that I had. unwittingly left my tooth-brush and a piece of scented soap
in the Hotel at Dublin. j remain, Sir, your distressed
Tommy.
A Rival to Wolverhampton.
Considering now necessary it is to keep a careful watch oyer one’s
nose in London, the Metropolitan District has a good claim to be
called the Black Country.
OMITTED FROM THE BLUE-BOOK.
When Sergeant Catchley is unable to enlist any more Country
Bumpkins, he retires into the “ Blue Boar,” and recruits himself.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
I Dfcwmrfr 15. 18(16.
■U•_ v-V
3^ j^r
THE NEW RUNNING DRILL.
(A RESPECTFUL APPEAL TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.;
Captain Bluaed, as he appeared in Command of his Company.
SYMPATHY SUPERSEDED.
It is with heartfelt pain that, compelled by a sense of duty, we give
the advantage of universal publicity to the paragraph subjoined :—
“ Floggings for Highway Robberies.—At the Stafford Winter Assizes yester-
day, Thomas Harrison, Cheayeril Welch, and James Armstrong were convicted
of assaulting and robbing Thomas Broadbent on the 2nd of September at Wolver-
hampton. Mr. Justice Byles said that people must walk the streets in safety, and
he should pass a most severe sentence on the prisoners. Harrison, who had been
previously convicted, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment, and to receive
25 lashes with the oat-o’-nine tails. The other prisoners were sentenced to 12 months’
imprisonment and to receive 20 lashes each.”
Poor Thomas Harrison ! Poor Cheaveril Welch ! Poor James
Armstrong ! No wonder at the sequel of the foregoing extract:—
“ The sentences were received with, evident dismay by the prisoners.’*
The feeling mind must sympathise with the mental pain with which
the poor footpads above named anticipated the physical pangs which
they were doomed to experience. It would be well if garotters and
other thieves accustomed to combine robbery with violence were aware
that, when a criminal is flogged, the executioner who administers the
lash waits about half a minute between each application of it. This
gives the convict under its infliction full time to realise to the utmost
the sensation which it excites, and to reflect on the inexpediency of
committing the crime which earns such a recompense. Poor Harri-
son, poor Welch, and poor Armstrong probably didn’t know this
when they assaulted and robbed Thomas Broadbent. But they were
most likely informed of it by some kind fellow-prisoner in gaol. Some
companion in confinement, who had himself been whipped, also perhaps
explained to them thoroughly the physical effects ana the impression
on the sentient nerves produced by the cat-o’-nine-tails. Well, then,
may the poor fellows have regarded its prospective endurance with
dismay.
But pity for the destined sufferers of the scourge, however distressing,
ceases to grieve ns when we consider the likelihood that their suffering
will prevent some cruel outrage which, but for it, would be perpetrated
on somebody or other. This consideration would make us contemplate
the punishment they are to undergo as we should regard a surgical
operation, only we should not smile upon the latter as we should upon
the former, because pain is not the essential of the surgeon’s handi-
work, whereas it is that of the executioner’s. Therefore, we cannot
recommend that the patients whom Justice Byles has most judiciously
sentenced to flagellation, should he subjected to that process under the
influence of chloroform.
BENIANISM.
Sir,
I dread a rebellion. I dread it, Sir, on account of the fearful
destruction of property which must ensue. Directly I heard that there
was going to be an outbreak I exclaimed, “ Good Gracious ! ” I nearly
fainted. "Why Sir? Why, can yon ask me why? Because I have
property in Ireland, Sir, which a ferocious lawless mob may utterly
destroy. Yon will say, “I must suffer for my non-residency.” Per-
haps so. Where I dine, I sleep generally; because I generally sleep
directly after dinner. But, Sir, because I have property in Ireland,
must I reside there ? 1 quake lest the Benian rioters discover my
treasures. Yes, Sir, I tremble, because, after leaving Tre and, two
months ago, I discovered on arriving safely at my own London home,
that I had. unwittingly left my tooth-brush and a piece of scented soap
in the Hotel at Dublin. j remain, Sir, your distressed
Tommy.
A Rival to Wolverhampton.
Considering now necessary it is to keep a careful watch oyer one’s
nose in London, the Metropolitan District has a good claim to be
called the Black Country.
OMITTED FROM THE BLUE-BOOK.
When Sergeant Catchley is unable to enlist any more Country
Bumpkins, he retires into the “ Blue Boar,” and recruits himself.