DOI Heft:
August 10, 1867
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August 10, 1867.]
PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
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WELL MEANT.
Shoeblack (to daily customer). “Such a Treat we’ve got to-night, Sir!
Tea an’ Buns, an’ Speeches at Exeter ’All ! Wouldn’t you like to go,
Sir?”
City Magnate. “ Oh, they wouldn’t let me in, my Boy.”
Shoeblack. “Um! (Ponders.) Well—look ’ere. I think I could Smug
yer in as my Father !! ”
THE WHITEBAIT DINNER.
(A Cantata.)
Solo.
0 ye great and little fishes,
Handed round in silver dishes,
Everything that could be wished!
Like the Whigs you all are dished.
Chorus.
Oh, oh, oh !
Joe, Joe, Joe !
No, no, no,
Ben, Ben, Ben.
It may pass.
Eill the glass.
Happy colleagues, merry men !
Solo.
Do they say that we are hollow ?
Then we’ve room the more to swallow.
Appetite, how keen thine edge is !
Whitebait I prefer to pledges.
Unsubstantial are the latter,
They won’t make you any fatter,
So that, platter after platter,
You can take them.
If you break them,
Very well—it doesn’t matter.
Chorus.
O, what numbers we are eating,
Of these small fry at this meeting !
Solo.
Yes, but ’tis my own impression,
That we ate more words this Session.
Chorus.
Bravo, that’s a frank confession!
Dinner is the time for candour.
Here’s a health to our Commander !
Now, the shop and business sinking,
We ’ll set in for serious drinking.
In the Same Line.—“ Masks and Eaces. Close of the
Season.” Substitute “Session” for “Season,” and this
announcement will serve for another performance, not in
Piccadilly, but at Westminster.
TOLERATION TRIUMPHANT.
The Select Committee appointed to report on the Ecclesiastical
Titles’Act will, of course, recommend its repeal. To that step no
objection can possibly be made by a Legislature well aware that it can
in no way affect the material progress and prosperity of this great
country. Some Protestant bigot, perhaps, will propose a clause which,
whilst leaving the papal clergy free to call themselves what they please,
shall declare that the only bishops known to the law are those of the
Established Church. It is not difficult, to foresee that this proposal
will be rejected without regard to any insignificant complications
which may arise out of the recognition of Roman Catholic ecclesiastics
under the general denomination of bishops and clergy. Another
bigoted Protestant will very likely suggest the insidious precaution of
distinguishing the Pope’s prelates by describing them as the Roman
Catholic bishops of their several sees. Dr. Manning is not prepared
to accept that compromise; he cannot be expected to do any such
ihing. Are not he and his subordinates the only true bishops in
England—in. their own estimation. He will naturally suggest that the
Anglican bishops ought to be obliged to distinguish themselves by the
qualification of Protestant—or Heretical if they like that better, and
want to be precise.
As a measure of toleration the mere repeal of the Ecclesiastical
Titles’ Act will, however, be ridiculously incomplete. In the first place
equal justice will require that it should be accompanied by a proviso
for enabling Dr. Manning and his episcopal brethren-to sit in the
House of Lords. In the next place, unless persecuting statutes are to
be maintained, the Act, of Settlement will have to be repealed, so that
an Archbishop oe Westminster may be free to officiate hereafter at
Coronations. There can be little fear that a Conservative Government
will not very soon abolish all the exclusive privileges of the Church of
England.
THE INNS OF COURT POCKET BOROUGH.
Mr. Punch,—There is a proverb which says that you must some-
times hold a candle to me. Do so now, that the British Public may
read the expression of my thanks to Earl Grey for the following
amendment which he proposed Sto move in Committee on the Repre-
sentation of the People Bill in the House of Lords :—
“ The Inns of Court,, consisting of the Societies of Lincoln's Inn, the Inner
Temple, the Middle Temple, Gray’s Inn, and Serjeants’ Ion, shall together return
two Members to Parliament; every serjeant-at-law aud barrister-at-law belonging
to the said Societies respectively, aud duly entered upon the books thereof for the
time being, shall be entitled to vote for such Members.”
Earl Grey is a gentleman, and knows what is due from one gentle-
man to another. That I am a gentleman nobody who reads his
Shakspeare will deny. And I am an ancient gentleman—the popular
synonym of my plain name describes me as the old one. I am called
the ancient gentleman in particular, just as certain other gentlemen
are definitively styled The Chisholm, The O’Conor Don, The Knight of
Kerry, The O’Donoghue. My connection with the Inns of Court dates
from time immemorial. All the world knows that the famous Inns of
Court Volunteers, the crack volunteer corps, are my own regiment. It
has long been notorious that the Inns of Court constitute my peculiar
province, and I cannot but feel all the gratitude that my nature is
capable of to the statesman who has exerted his influence to convert
them into a Parliamentary constituency. Hitherto I have only been
indirectly represented in the House of Commons, although truth, if I
regarded that, would compel me to admit, in effect, and on the whole,
represented tolerably well. When the Inns of Court return two
Members to Parliament, the position of a Peer who owns a pocket
borough will be precisely that occupied by Modo and Mahu.
P.S. Your respect for an old foe will induce you to insert this com-
munication, for which I prefer your black-and-white to the table of a
spirit-rapping medium. You don’t make mistakes.
PUNCH. OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
53
" in^Ja
viL-
WELL MEANT.
Shoeblack (to daily customer). “Such a Treat we’ve got to-night, Sir!
Tea an’ Buns, an’ Speeches at Exeter ’All ! Wouldn’t you like to go,
Sir?”
City Magnate. “ Oh, they wouldn’t let me in, my Boy.”
Shoeblack. “Um! (Ponders.) Well—look ’ere. I think I could Smug
yer in as my Father !! ”
THE WHITEBAIT DINNER.
(A Cantata.)
Solo.
0 ye great and little fishes,
Handed round in silver dishes,
Everything that could be wished!
Like the Whigs you all are dished.
Chorus.
Oh, oh, oh !
Joe, Joe, Joe !
No, no, no,
Ben, Ben, Ben.
It may pass.
Eill the glass.
Happy colleagues, merry men !
Solo.
Do they say that we are hollow ?
Then we’ve room the more to swallow.
Appetite, how keen thine edge is !
Whitebait I prefer to pledges.
Unsubstantial are the latter,
They won’t make you any fatter,
So that, platter after platter,
You can take them.
If you break them,
Very well—it doesn’t matter.
Chorus.
O, what numbers we are eating,
Of these small fry at this meeting !
Solo.
Yes, but ’tis my own impression,
That we ate more words this Session.
Chorus.
Bravo, that’s a frank confession!
Dinner is the time for candour.
Here’s a health to our Commander !
Now, the shop and business sinking,
We ’ll set in for serious drinking.
In the Same Line.—“ Masks and Eaces. Close of the
Season.” Substitute “Session” for “Season,” and this
announcement will serve for another performance, not in
Piccadilly, but at Westminster.
TOLERATION TRIUMPHANT.
The Select Committee appointed to report on the Ecclesiastical
Titles’Act will, of course, recommend its repeal. To that step no
objection can possibly be made by a Legislature well aware that it can
in no way affect the material progress and prosperity of this great
country. Some Protestant bigot, perhaps, will propose a clause which,
whilst leaving the papal clergy free to call themselves what they please,
shall declare that the only bishops known to the law are those of the
Established Church. It is not difficult, to foresee that this proposal
will be rejected without regard to any insignificant complications
which may arise out of the recognition of Roman Catholic ecclesiastics
under the general denomination of bishops and clergy. Another
bigoted Protestant will very likely suggest the insidious precaution of
distinguishing the Pope’s prelates by describing them as the Roman
Catholic bishops of their several sees. Dr. Manning is not prepared
to accept that compromise; he cannot be expected to do any such
ihing. Are not he and his subordinates the only true bishops in
England—in. their own estimation. He will naturally suggest that the
Anglican bishops ought to be obliged to distinguish themselves by the
qualification of Protestant—or Heretical if they like that better, and
want to be precise.
As a measure of toleration the mere repeal of the Ecclesiastical
Titles’ Act will, however, be ridiculously incomplete. In the first place
equal justice will require that it should be accompanied by a proviso
for enabling Dr. Manning and his episcopal brethren-to sit in the
House of Lords. In the next place, unless persecuting statutes are to
be maintained, the Act, of Settlement will have to be repealed, so that
an Archbishop oe Westminster may be free to officiate hereafter at
Coronations. There can be little fear that a Conservative Government
will not very soon abolish all the exclusive privileges of the Church of
England.
THE INNS OF COURT POCKET BOROUGH.
Mr. Punch,—There is a proverb which says that you must some-
times hold a candle to me. Do so now, that the British Public may
read the expression of my thanks to Earl Grey for the following
amendment which he proposed Sto move in Committee on the Repre-
sentation of the People Bill in the House of Lords :—
“ The Inns of Court,, consisting of the Societies of Lincoln's Inn, the Inner
Temple, the Middle Temple, Gray’s Inn, and Serjeants’ Ion, shall together return
two Members to Parliament; every serjeant-at-law aud barrister-at-law belonging
to the said Societies respectively, aud duly entered upon the books thereof for the
time being, shall be entitled to vote for such Members.”
Earl Grey is a gentleman, and knows what is due from one gentle-
man to another. That I am a gentleman nobody who reads his
Shakspeare will deny. And I am an ancient gentleman—the popular
synonym of my plain name describes me as the old one. I am called
the ancient gentleman in particular, just as certain other gentlemen
are definitively styled The Chisholm, The O’Conor Don, The Knight of
Kerry, The O’Donoghue. My connection with the Inns of Court dates
from time immemorial. All the world knows that the famous Inns of
Court Volunteers, the crack volunteer corps, are my own regiment. It
has long been notorious that the Inns of Court constitute my peculiar
province, and I cannot but feel all the gratitude that my nature is
capable of to the statesman who has exerted his influence to convert
them into a Parliamentary constituency. Hitherto I have only been
indirectly represented in the House of Commons, although truth, if I
regarded that, would compel me to admit, in effect, and on the whole,
represented tolerably well. When the Inns of Court return two
Members to Parliament, the position of a Peer who owns a pocket
borough will be precisely that occupied by Modo and Mahu.
P.S. Your respect for an old foe will induce you to insert this com-
munication, for which I prefer your black-and-white to the table of a
spirit-rapping medium. You don’t make mistakes.