DOI issue:
July 20, 1867
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16880#0040
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[July 20, 1867.
respectfully assures the Hackney editor that he knows nothing at all
about it, and had better shut up. Punch dixit.
But, as even the Dogmas of Infallibility are challenged in these days,
Mr. Punch will refer his friend to the Handbook of London, written by
Mr. Peter Cunningham, and published by Mr. John Murray.
Page 219
“ Hackney. A suburban manor and parish (etymology unknown) bounded, by
Low Layton and Walthamstow on the N., by St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, on the S., by
Bethnal Green, on the E., and Tottenham, Stoke Newington, and Islington, on the W.”
There! If a place “ bounded by ” other places, is not “ between ”
them, Mr. Punch is an ignoramus, and Serjeant Gaselee understands
Geography.
Mr. Punch is happy to hear from the H. G. that Hackney “ supplies
more readers, and appreciative readers, too, for his generally most
excellent periodical than any one district around London.”
“ Than any one of the districts ” would be better English; but when
affection guides the pen, a brute alone would quarrel with the style.
HINT FOR LUNCH IN A TENT.—DON’T PUT “SPOONS” AT THE END OF A TABLE!
(Hisses and groans?} The law did, he was sorry to say, already provide
the degrading punishment that the Grand Jury wanted to inflict on
them as they insultingly called the criminal classes. You couldn’t
fetch a bloke a crack over the nob and fake a cly without being let in
for a dozen and a half lashes with the cussed cat, and penial servitude
besides. That is if you got lagged: but he could congratulate his
beloved hearers on the blessed insufficiency of the police. {Hear, hear!)
You got flogged if you used force. That was bad enough, but what the
jury wanted was, no doubt, coves to-be whipped for mere prigging.
Only for snatchin a ticker in the street they’d like to subject their
fellow-countrymen to the lash. (Hisses, and cries of “Yah!”) And
this was the language they dared to use in speaking of what members
of the sovereign people thought fit to do in the assertion of their rights
as Englishmen:—
“ The offences are of the most cowardly character, and. there is nothing from
which the ruffian and coward shrinks so much as from physical suffering, of which,
though wholly insensible to it when inflicted upon others, he is keenly sensitive in
his own person. On behalf of the grand jury. William Smalley, Foreman.”
Three groans for William Smalley ! (Groans accordingly.) Three
more for the Grand Jury ! (Redoubled groaning.) He burled back
INDIGNATION MEETING OF ROUGHS.
A numerously attended meeting of London Roughs took place
yesterday in Trafalgar Square, to denounce the presentment lately
made by the Grand Jury at the Central Criminal Court Sessions with
regard to the violent assaults and robberies which have recently been
committed in the streets. The stump was occupied by Mr. Choker,
who said he objected to the use of such words as assaults and robberies,
which were disrespectful to the order to which he belonged. The acts
so called had better be named exertions of physical force, and annexa-
tions. The whole presentment was a disgrace to them as made it, par-
ticularly the passage which he would now read, as follows :—
“ These violent assaults appear to be on the increase, and indicate a growing
disposition on the part of the criminal portion of the population to become year by
year more savage and outrageous in their actions. The grand jury would respect-
fully suggest that a liberal application of the lash in all such cases is the fittest
punishment for these atrocious offences, and the most probable means that could be
adopted for deterring others from committing them. If the law does not already
provide for the application of this punishment, the grand jury would ask that their
■suggestion be forwarded to the proper quarter, or at any rate be placed on record as
the expression of their opinion based on the evidence before them.”
A HOWL FROM HACKNEY.
Mr. Punch is ever attentive to humble appeals from those whom
in the discharge of his tremendous functions, he may seem to have
wronged. It will usually be found, however, that any complaint
against his justice is utterly ill-founded.
“ C/Ksar doth never wrong, but with just cause.”
A complaint has been lodged in Mr. Punch's court, by the Hackney
Gazette. That organ alleges that Mr. Punch, in his “ Essence of Parlia-
ment,” has inaccurately described the position of the new borough, which
is of course proud of being called into notice by Parliament, and natu-
rally wishes people to know all about itself. Mr. Punch stated that
Hackney was “ between Islington, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, or some
of those barbarous regions.” The H. G. says that it is “ as far from
being between those regions as Mr. Punch is wrong.”
Now this is rather too cool. The idea of a Hackney person pretend-
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[July 20, 1867.
respectfully assures the Hackney editor that he knows nothing at all
about it, and had better shut up. Punch dixit.
But, as even the Dogmas of Infallibility are challenged in these days,
Mr. Punch will refer his friend to the Handbook of London, written by
Mr. Peter Cunningham, and published by Mr. John Murray.
Page 219
“ Hackney. A suburban manor and parish (etymology unknown) bounded, by
Low Layton and Walthamstow on the N., by St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, on the S., by
Bethnal Green, on the E., and Tottenham, Stoke Newington, and Islington, on the W.”
There! If a place “ bounded by ” other places, is not “ between ”
them, Mr. Punch is an ignoramus, and Serjeant Gaselee understands
Geography.
Mr. Punch is happy to hear from the H. G. that Hackney “ supplies
more readers, and appreciative readers, too, for his generally most
excellent periodical than any one district around London.”
“ Than any one of the districts ” would be better English; but when
affection guides the pen, a brute alone would quarrel with the style.
HINT FOR LUNCH IN A TENT.—DON’T PUT “SPOONS” AT THE END OF A TABLE!
(Hisses and groans?} The law did, he was sorry to say, already provide
the degrading punishment that the Grand Jury wanted to inflict on
them as they insultingly called the criminal classes. You couldn’t
fetch a bloke a crack over the nob and fake a cly without being let in
for a dozen and a half lashes with the cussed cat, and penial servitude
besides. That is if you got lagged: but he could congratulate his
beloved hearers on the blessed insufficiency of the police. {Hear, hear!)
You got flogged if you used force. That was bad enough, but what the
jury wanted was, no doubt, coves to-be whipped for mere prigging.
Only for snatchin a ticker in the street they’d like to subject their
fellow-countrymen to the lash. (Hisses, and cries of “Yah!”) And
this was the language they dared to use in speaking of what members
of the sovereign people thought fit to do in the assertion of their rights
as Englishmen:—
“ The offences are of the most cowardly character, and. there is nothing from
which the ruffian and coward shrinks so much as from physical suffering, of which,
though wholly insensible to it when inflicted upon others, he is keenly sensitive in
his own person. On behalf of the grand jury. William Smalley, Foreman.”
Three groans for William Smalley ! (Groans accordingly.) Three
more for the Grand Jury ! (Redoubled groaning.) He burled back
INDIGNATION MEETING OF ROUGHS.
A numerously attended meeting of London Roughs took place
yesterday in Trafalgar Square, to denounce the presentment lately
made by the Grand Jury at the Central Criminal Court Sessions with
regard to the violent assaults and robberies which have recently been
committed in the streets. The stump was occupied by Mr. Choker,
who said he objected to the use of such words as assaults and robberies,
which were disrespectful to the order to which he belonged. The acts
so called had better be named exertions of physical force, and annexa-
tions. The whole presentment was a disgrace to them as made it, par-
ticularly the passage which he would now read, as follows :—
“ These violent assaults appear to be on the increase, and indicate a growing
disposition on the part of the criminal portion of the population to become year by
year more savage and outrageous in their actions. The grand jury would respect-
fully suggest that a liberal application of the lash in all such cases is the fittest
punishment for these atrocious offences, and the most probable means that could be
adopted for deterring others from committing them. If the law does not already
provide for the application of this punishment, the grand jury would ask that their
■suggestion be forwarded to the proper quarter, or at any rate be placed on record as
the expression of their opinion based on the evidence before them.”
A HOWL FROM HACKNEY.
Mr. Punch is ever attentive to humble appeals from those whom
in the discharge of his tremendous functions, he may seem to have
wronged. It will usually be found, however, that any complaint
against his justice is utterly ill-founded.
“ C/Ksar doth never wrong, but with just cause.”
A complaint has been lodged in Mr. Punch's court, by the Hackney
Gazette. That organ alleges that Mr. Punch, in his “ Essence of Parlia-
ment,” has inaccurately described the position of the new borough, which
is of course proud of being called into notice by Parliament, and natu-
rally wishes people to know all about itself. Mr. Punch stated that
Hackney was “ between Islington, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, or some
of those barbarous regions.” The H. G. says that it is “ as far from
being between those regions as Mr. Punch is wrong.”
Now this is rather too cool. The idea of a Hackney person pretend-