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January 26, 1867
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[January 26, 1867.
knew it, intended to be one of a walking party that evening. John
Bright seriously assured the other that she could not come, for that
he had heard her arrange to attend an aged aunt, to whom she was
reading Barclay's Apology. Hearing this, the other young man
stayed away, but what were his feelings next day when he learned that
the young lady had been of the party, ana had been escorted
chiefly by one John Bright ? Yet we are asked to rely on the word
of such a man, when he promises not to subvert the Thn
rone and the
Altar!
His Ignorance.
Mr. Bright is exceedingly fond of citing passages from the older
English writers, and sometimes they sound well by _ contrast with the
intolerable and nauseating trash of his own composition. But we do
not believe that he has really studied those authors. The selections
are either made for him by his secretary, whom we dare say he ill-
treats, or by some friend to whom he is probably ungrateful. We have
reason to know that being asked to name the place where to find the
line
“ Men are but children of a larger growth,”
he said that it was in a play of Dryden’s. Every Eton schoolboy
knows that it is in no play at all, but in the prologue to a play of
Dryden’s. The character of the mind that assails our noble system
of classical education may be estimated, and we may truly say with
Oicero, Sic vos Non Nobis mellificatis oves.
THE ARISTOCRACY OF LABOUR.
ure enough, union in
general is strength;
but Trades-Unions in
particular are weak-
ness, at least on the
part of skilled work-
men who belong to
them, and submit to
be dragged down by
them to the level of
the unskilled, or idle.
Natual equality for
ever; artificial equa-
lity never! The
former is the conse-
quence of liberty;
the latter is the effect
of dictation. Didac-
tic as these maxims
must be confessed
to be, they appear
to express the senti-
ments of a large
number of working
men in the employ-
ment of the Staveley
Company who joined,
on Tuesday evening
last week, in a great
Non-Unionist demonstration in the schools at Barrow Hill. The
following remark of their Chairman, Mr. Charles Markham, will
find an echo in the brain of every intelligent working man who is
determined to think and act for himself, and not endure coercion by
a majority of his inferiors in intelligence
“ The superior and industrious workmen would rebel against being ruled and
governed by idle and thoughtless men, who were unable to raise themselves to the
same level as the superior working man.”
This is the sort of rebellion that any working man, inspired with a
hatred of arbitrary power, may be advised to engage in._ It is a rebel-
lion that will bring him into no trouble of the nature of imprisonment
or penal servitude; but on the contrary, will ensure the most respectful
attention to his demand for political power.
King Bladud’s Sleepy Pigs.
The “genteel” people of Bath are what are called “goodies.”
They love all sorts of meetings, and mild demonstrations, and some-
times they get almost up to excitement point over religious contro-
versies. But they seem a flabby lot. When we were all welcoming
the Princess Alexandra, Bath got up a testimonial to II.B.H.—that
is, it ordered one. Where is the article F We read that Bath raised
some subscriptions the other day, for an excellent purpose, by the
attraction of a big doll, dressed as a collier. Perhaps another doll,
elegantly attired as the Princess oe Wales, would attract the Bath
flabbies and tabbies, and get the testimonial out of pawn. They are
I welcome to the hint.
PICTURES EOR PRISON WALLS.
The State is a small employer of Art. It has invoked painting and
sculpture to decorate the Houses of Parliament. That is nearly all
it has done for the encouragement of plastic or pictorial genius. A
short-sighted utilitarianism incapacitates it from seeing the use of
paintings and statues. It cannot understand the good of High Art,
to which branch of Art its views are limited. But there is also such a
thing as Low Art whereunto the eyes of Statesmen may be directed.
Low Art might be employed with great and obvious advantages in the
decoration of certain public buildings.
The prisoners sentenced at Leeds, before Christmas, by Mr. Justice
Lush, to be flogged, in addition to penal servitude, for robbery accom-
panied with violence, were punctually flogged on Wednesday last week
at Armley Gaol. The Leeds Mercury contains an account of their
punishment, which would be highly instructive if the Leeds Mercury
were a less respectable paper than it is, and circulated amongst the
criminal classes. Its description of the special cat, issued for the
express purpose of flogging garotters, from the Home Office, and its
detailed account of the strapping up, the scourging, the yelling and
howling of the convicts, and the appearances exhibited by their backs,
were extremely vivid, and calculated to make a wholesome impression
on any ruffian who could read them.
But mere description, however forcible, is soon forgotten by low
minds. Pictures have been called the books of idiots; they are also
the best books for blackguards. Some four or five refractory prisoners
were compelled to witness the chastisement of their fellow-criminals.
Their “ anxious looks betokened the effect the proceedings had upon
them.” The actual spectacle of such “ proceedings ” is of course the
best thing for the admonition of ruffians. A flogged garotter’s howling
is inimitable; but the pencil of a truthful artist would suffice to convey
a very effective idea of his sensations. Let Government, therefore,
engage the cleverest Royal Academicians, and other artists whose
services they can command, to adorn the New Palace of Justice, and
the Assize Courts generally, with frescoes representing scenes of
punishment, and especially garotters undergoing the discipline of the
cat-o’-niue-tails. Let them also have the walls of prisons similarly
ornamented, and cause the cells of the prisoners to be embellished with
the like designs, the unpopular penalty thus depicted being that. to
which their inmates shall be rendered liable for the offence of defacing
them.
N. and Q,.
Don’t you think had Cowley lived in this age of “ Limited liability;
his lines—
“ If then, Young Year ! thou need’st must come,
Choose thy attendants well.
We fear not thee—but ’tis thy Company—”
would have had the last word in the plural ?—A Yictim.
TO A CORRESPONDENT.
Proeessor Blackie is favourably known in the literary world as
the author of most of the best Nigger melodies.
A Pusey-listic Encounter.—Between the Dr. and S. G. 0.
THE PERILS OE THE PARKS.
We read in that delightfully amusing old Gentleman's Magazine how
a hundred years ago, it was a common thing for persons to be stopped
and purses to be filched, a little after nightfall, upon Hounslow Heath.
How far we have advanced in safety since those good old times, may
be seen from this account of what took place the other morning in St.
James’s Park:—
“ Gangs of roughs and thieves assembled to the number of several hundreds at
each end of the bridge, and at a given signal, when the bridge was crowded with
respectably-dressed persons, they rushed on pell-mell, hustling and bonneting all
who came in their way, watches, purses, and pins changing owners with extra-
ordinary rapidity. This disgraceful scene was repeated about every half-hour until
it grew dark. The park-keepers did all they could to repress the disorderly scene,
but they were comparatively powerless. A dozen police-constables would have been
effective for the purpose, but they were not there, and so the roughs had possession
of the park until all respectable people had been chased away, there was no more
plunder to be obtained, or people to be hunted down.”
Bold. Turpin and Ms crew but seldom showed their blackened faces
in the daylight, but our modem highway robbers are far bolder than
they. In Hyde Park last summer there were several such scenes as-
tMs recorded in St. James’s, and probably this winter there will be
several more. How many more acts of brutaTviolence must take place
before an Act of Parliament be passed to hand our parks to the care of
the police ? It is too bad that one cannot take a walk in St. James’s-
without being maltreated by the roughdom of St. Giles’s.
~
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[January 26, 1867.
knew it, intended to be one of a walking party that evening. John
Bright seriously assured the other that she could not come, for that
he had heard her arrange to attend an aged aunt, to whom she was
reading Barclay's Apology. Hearing this, the other young man
stayed away, but what were his feelings next day when he learned that
the young lady had been of the party, ana had been escorted
chiefly by one John Bright ? Yet we are asked to rely on the word
of such a man, when he promises not to subvert the Thn
rone and the
Altar!
His Ignorance.
Mr. Bright is exceedingly fond of citing passages from the older
English writers, and sometimes they sound well by _ contrast with the
intolerable and nauseating trash of his own composition. But we do
not believe that he has really studied those authors. The selections
are either made for him by his secretary, whom we dare say he ill-
treats, or by some friend to whom he is probably ungrateful. We have
reason to know that being asked to name the place where to find the
line
“ Men are but children of a larger growth,”
he said that it was in a play of Dryden’s. Every Eton schoolboy
knows that it is in no play at all, but in the prologue to a play of
Dryden’s. The character of the mind that assails our noble system
of classical education may be estimated, and we may truly say with
Oicero, Sic vos Non Nobis mellificatis oves.
THE ARISTOCRACY OF LABOUR.
ure enough, union in
general is strength;
but Trades-Unions in
particular are weak-
ness, at least on the
part of skilled work-
men who belong to
them, and submit to
be dragged down by
them to the level of
the unskilled, or idle.
Natual equality for
ever; artificial equa-
lity never! The
former is the conse-
quence of liberty;
the latter is the effect
of dictation. Didac-
tic as these maxims
must be confessed
to be, they appear
to express the senti-
ments of a large
number of working
men in the employ-
ment of the Staveley
Company who joined,
on Tuesday evening
last week, in a great
Non-Unionist demonstration in the schools at Barrow Hill. The
following remark of their Chairman, Mr. Charles Markham, will
find an echo in the brain of every intelligent working man who is
determined to think and act for himself, and not endure coercion by
a majority of his inferiors in intelligence
“ The superior and industrious workmen would rebel against being ruled and
governed by idle and thoughtless men, who were unable to raise themselves to the
same level as the superior working man.”
This is the sort of rebellion that any working man, inspired with a
hatred of arbitrary power, may be advised to engage in._ It is a rebel-
lion that will bring him into no trouble of the nature of imprisonment
or penal servitude; but on the contrary, will ensure the most respectful
attention to his demand for political power.
King Bladud’s Sleepy Pigs.
The “genteel” people of Bath are what are called “goodies.”
They love all sorts of meetings, and mild demonstrations, and some-
times they get almost up to excitement point over religious contro-
versies. But they seem a flabby lot. When we were all welcoming
the Princess Alexandra, Bath got up a testimonial to II.B.H.—that
is, it ordered one. Where is the article F We read that Bath raised
some subscriptions the other day, for an excellent purpose, by the
attraction of a big doll, dressed as a collier. Perhaps another doll,
elegantly attired as the Princess oe Wales, would attract the Bath
flabbies and tabbies, and get the testimonial out of pawn. They are
I welcome to the hint.
PICTURES EOR PRISON WALLS.
The State is a small employer of Art. It has invoked painting and
sculpture to decorate the Houses of Parliament. That is nearly all
it has done for the encouragement of plastic or pictorial genius. A
short-sighted utilitarianism incapacitates it from seeing the use of
paintings and statues. It cannot understand the good of High Art,
to which branch of Art its views are limited. But there is also such a
thing as Low Art whereunto the eyes of Statesmen may be directed.
Low Art might be employed with great and obvious advantages in the
decoration of certain public buildings.
The prisoners sentenced at Leeds, before Christmas, by Mr. Justice
Lush, to be flogged, in addition to penal servitude, for robbery accom-
panied with violence, were punctually flogged on Wednesday last week
at Armley Gaol. The Leeds Mercury contains an account of their
punishment, which would be highly instructive if the Leeds Mercury
were a less respectable paper than it is, and circulated amongst the
criminal classes. Its description of the special cat, issued for the
express purpose of flogging garotters, from the Home Office, and its
detailed account of the strapping up, the scourging, the yelling and
howling of the convicts, and the appearances exhibited by their backs,
were extremely vivid, and calculated to make a wholesome impression
on any ruffian who could read them.
But mere description, however forcible, is soon forgotten by low
minds. Pictures have been called the books of idiots; they are also
the best books for blackguards. Some four or five refractory prisoners
were compelled to witness the chastisement of their fellow-criminals.
Their “ anxious looks betokened the effect the proceedings had upon
them.” The actual spectacle of such “ proceedings ” is of course the
best thing for the admonition of ruffians. A flogged garotter’s howling
is inimitable; but the pencil of a truthful artist would suffice to convey
a very effective idea of his sensations. Let Government, therefore,
engage the cleverest Royal Academicians, and other artists whose
services they can command, to adorn the New Palace of Justice, and
the Assize Courts generally, with frescoes representing scenes of
punishment, and especially garotters undergoing the discipline of the
cat-o’-niue-tails. Let them also have the walls of prisons similarly
ornamented, and cause the cells of the prisoners to be embellished with
the like designs, the unpopular penalty thus depicted being that. to
which their inmates shall be rendered liable for the offence of defacing
them.
N. and Q,.
Don’t you think had Cowley lived in this age of “ Limited liability;
his lines—
“ If then, Young Year ! thou need’st must come,
Choose thy attendants well.
We fear not thee—but ’tis thy Company—”
would have had the last word in the plural ?—A Yictim.
TO A CORRESPONDENT.
Proeessor Blackie is favourably known in the literary world as
the author of most of the best Nigger melodies.
A Pusey-listic Encounter.—Between the Dr. and S. G. 0.
THE PERILS OE THE PARKS.
We read in that delightfully amusing old Gentleman's Magazine how
a hundred years ago, it was a common thing for persons to be stopped
and purses to be filched, a little after nightfall, upon Hounslow Heath.
How far we have advanced in safety since those good old times, may
be seen from this account of what took place the other morning in St.
James’s Park:—
“ Gangs of roughs and thieves assembled to the number of several hundreds at
each end of the bridge, and at a given signal, when the bridge was crowded with
respectably-dressed persons, they rushed on pell-mell, hustling and bonneting all
who came in their way, watches, purses, and pins changing owners with extra-
ordinary rapidity. This disgraceful scene was repeated about every half-hour until
it grew dark. The park-keepers did all they could to repress the disorderly scene,
but they were comparatively powerless. A dozen police-constables would have been
effective for the purpose, but they were not there, and so the roughs had possession
of the park until all respectable people had been chased away, there was no more
plunder to be obtained, or people to be hunted down.”
Bold. Turpin and Ms crew but seldom showed their blackened faces
in the daylight, but our modem highway robbers are far bolder than
they. In Hyde Park last summer there were several such scenes as-
tMs recorded in St. James’s, and probably this winter there will be
several more. How many more acts of brutaTviolence must take place
before an Act of Parliament be passed to hand our parks to the care of
the police ? It is too bad that one cannot take a walk in St. James’s-
without being maltreated by the roughdom of St. Giles’s.
~