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April 27, 1867
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176 PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [April 27, 1867.
A PLUTOCRAT.
Swell. “ I) YOU OBLIGE ME—AH—BY SHUTTING YOUR WINDOW?—AH-”
Second Passenger {politely). “Really, Sir, if you will not Press it, as yours is Shut, the Air is so Warm. 1 would
RATHER KEEP THIS OPEN. YOU SEEM TO TAKE GREAT CARE OF YOURSELF, SlR-”
Swell. “Care of myself ! Should wather think so. So would you, my dear Fel-lah, if you’d Six Thousand a Ye-ar ! !
THE PITH OF A PETITION.
“ It was mentioned some weeks back that a memorial from Mr. Wilkinson, the
late manager of the Joint-Stock Discount Company, for a free pardon, on the ground
of wrongful conviction, had been sent to the Home Office. This having been unsuc-
cessful, a memorial on his behalf has now been prepared, which has received the
signatures of a large body of the leading merchants of London. The list includes
several of the principal bankers and the representatives of the most solid city firms
wholly unconnected with speculative operations, and who would be the last persons
in the world to feel any sympathy with persons rightly convicted of crime. . . .
From the first every one conversant with city business has felt that the character of
the prisoner during his whole previous life, in which he had always been accustomed
to large dealings in money, coupled with the fact that in the Joint-Stock Discount
Company he might have appropriated a hundred thousand pounds or more, had he
been so minded, and this in a way to render punishment impossible, throws com-
plete improbability on the idea that in a matter of £S60 he would have run the risk
of penal servitude, as well as of leaving his large family in utter destitution . . .
Certain it is, that such is the belief in his personal honesty, that if he were free
to-morrow he would find a large number of the best people in the city ready to
trust him as heretofore, so far as the absence of any fear of intentional misappro-
priation might be concerned.”—Times City Article, Tuesday.
Please, Secretary Walpole, letFuEELiNG Wilkinson out,
Of his respectability we can’t entertain a doubt.
The faith that his Directors placed in him knew no bounds,
And he might easily have taken a hundred thousand pounds.
Then how can we believe he took a paltry four thousand eight hundred ?
We submit it stands to reason he didn’t bone, only blundered.
And as blunders will happen, &c., (the proverb holds all the world o’er,)
Pronounce him not guilty, and we ’ve no doubt he won’t do it any more.
A Wedding Gift.
Are you about to have the marriage knot tied ? Are you on the eve
of forming new ties by marriage ? Are you going to be spliced ? You
will find all the information you can possibly require in “ The Book of
Knots, illustrated by 172 Examples, showing the manner of making
every knot, tie and splice ” Read it, and make an example of yourself.
STRIKE AWAY, TAILORS!
Strike away, tailors, you won’t hurt me,
Nothing care I how dear clothes may be;
Reing provided with store of slops.
Purchased in detail at divers shops.
Coat, fitting well enough, here I chose—
There got a waistcoat—compile my clothes:
Look to economy more than show—■
Trousers obtained at a third depot.
Strike away, tailors ; I know not when
1 shall have on a new suit again ;
Never, I think, till in one arrayed
Not by the hand of a tailor made.
Eagerly longing I here remain,
Longing for many good things in vain,
Good things for money that come at call,
Longing for proper dress least of all.
Therefore these garments will long endure—
Long as my life in this world, I’m sure.
Though ten years older I live to be.
Strike away, tailors, you won’t hurt me !
Legal Observance of Lent.
The Ritualists will be shocked to hear that on Monday last week
the Lord High Chancellor op England had the Lord Chief
Justice, the Judges, and the other legal officers, including the Queen’s
Counsel, to breakfast with him. Of course the Lord Chancellor’s
breakfast-party included the Master of the Rolls.
A PLUTOCRAT.
Swell. “ I) YOU OBLIGE ME—AH—BY SHUTTING YOUR WINDOW?—AH-”
Second Passenger {politely). “Really, Sir, if you will not Press it, as yours is Shut, the Air is so Warm. 1 would
RATHER KEEP THIS OPEN. YOU SEEM TO TAKE GREAT CARE OF YOURSELF, SlR-”
Swell. “Care of myself ! Should wather think so. So would you, my dear Fel-lah, if you’d Six Thousand a Ye-ar ! !
THE PITH OF A PETITION.
“ It was mentioned some weeks back that a memorial from Mr. Wilkinson, the
late manager of the Joint-Stock Discount Company, for a free pardon, on the ground
of wrongful conviction, had been sent to the Home Office. This having been unsuc-
cessful, a memorial on his behalf has now been prepared, which has received the
signatures of a large body of the leading merchants of London. The list includes
several of the principal bankers and the representatives of the most solid city firms
wholly unconnected with speculative operations, and who would be the last persons
in the world to feel any sympathy with persons rightly convicted of crime. . . .
From the first every one conversant with city business has felt that the character of
the prisoner during his whole previous life, in which he had always been accustomed
to large dealings in money, coupled with the fact that in the Joint-Stock Discount
Company he might have appropriated a hundred thousand pounds or more, had he
been so minded, and this in a way to render punishment impossible, throws com-
plete improbability on the idea that in a matter of £S60 he would have run the risk
of penal servitude, as well as of leaving his large family in utter destitution . . .
Certain it is, that such is the belief in his personal honesty, that if he were free
to-morrow he would find a large number of the best people in the city ready to
trust him as heretofore, so far as the absence of any fear of intentional misappro-
priation might be concerned.”—Times City Article, Tuesday.
Please, Secretary Walpole, letFuEELiNG Wilkinson out,
Of his respectability we can’t entertain a doubt.
The faith that his Directors placed in him knew no bounds,
And he might easily have taken a hundred thousand pounds.
Then how can we believe he took a paltry four thousand eight hundred ?
We submit it stands to reason he didn’t bone, only blundered.
And as blunders will happen, &c., (the proverb holds all the world o’er,)
Pronounce him not guilty, and we ’ve no doubt he won’t do it any more.
A Wedding Gift.
Are you about to have the marriage knot tied ? Are you on the eve
of forming new ties by marriage ? Are you going to be spliced ? You
will find all the information you can possibly require in “ The Book of
Knots, illustrated by 172 Examples, showing the manner of making
every knot, tie and splice ” Read it, and make an example of yourself.
STRIKE AWAY, TAILORS!
Strike away, tailors, you won’t hurt me,
Nothing care I how dear clothes may be;
Reing provided with store of slops.
Purchased in detail at divers shops.
Coat, fitting well enough, here I chose—
There got a waistcoat—compile my clothes:
Look to economy more than show—■
Trousers obtained at a third depot.
Strike away, tailors ; I know not when
1 shall have on a new suit again ;
Never, I think, till in one arrayed
Not by the hand of a tailor made.
Eagerly longing I here remain,
Longing for many good things in vain,
Good things for money that come at call,
Longing for proper dress least of all.
Therefore these garments will long endure—
Long as my life in this world, I’m sure.
Though ten years older I live to be.
Strike away, tailors, you won’t hurt me !
Legal Observance of Lent.
The Ritualists will be shocked to hear that on Monday last week
the Lord High Chancellor op England had the Lord Chief
Justice, the Judges, and the other legal officers, including the Queen’s
Counsel, to breakfast with him. Of course the Lord Chancellor’s
breakfast-party included the Master of the Rolls.