DOI Heft:
December 21, 1867
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16880#0269
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[December 21, 1867.
PATERFAMILIAS, ANTICIPATING A SEVERE WINTER,
Utilises the Discarded Crinolines oe his Daughters !
SMILES AND THIERS.
M. Thiers made a remarkable speech in the Trench Legislative
Body on behalf of the temporal Papacy, and against Italy. The eulogist
of the Monster Highwayman spoke as follows :—
“ Let us look at the position of Prance before the world. Prom Mexico (various
movements)— from Mexico we withdrew our troops to preserve peace with the
United States; last year we allowed to be consummated in Germany an immense
revolution against us ; and to-day we should abandon the Pontifical States to Italy !
What! Prance, so powerful, so proud, abandon thus positions which her honoA
commands her to retain ? (No, no !) ”
So then. Prance, according to M. Thiers, disobeyed the command
of honour, when she left Maximilian to be shot because she dared not
fight the strong United States. She disobeyed the command of honour
when she declined war with strong Prussia. She obeyed the command
of honour when she occupied the Pontifical States in defianoe of weak
Italy, and when her Chassepot rifles did wonders on Garibaldian volun-
teers. She has retrieved the honour that she lost in cowering to the
strong by menacing and subduing the weak. M. Thiers entertains
peculiar notions of honour. They are hardly so high as Falstaff’s,
though.
M. Thiers declares that the proper policy of Prance would have
been to prevent the formation of an united Germany and united Italy.
He holds that Prance should have hindered the creation on her frontiers
of a nationality of twenty-five millions. Why not an united Italy and
an united Germany as well as an united France ? What has France to
fear from either or both? Simply disobedience to French dictation.
Therefore, concludes the moral M. Thiers, France would have done
well to deprive her neighbours of their natural liberty to unite as
Frenchmen have united. The same morality as that of M. Thiers
would make an individual deprive his neighbour of Ms goods against
his will. It is fortunate for M. Thiers that he has lived in easy
circumstances.
Moreover, in the estimation of M. Thiers, Rome belongs to the
Pope and the Roman Catholics at large throughout the world. He
thus makes out that every Roman Catholic is not only spiritually but
civilly a Roman subject. No one can be a subject of two sovereigns,
or a subject of a sovereign and also a citizen of a republic at the same
time. All Roman Catholics, therefore, everywhere but in the Roman
States, are aliens. Perhaps M. Thiers does not see this consequence.
His logic is as peculiar as Ms notions of honour, and his ideas of right
and wrong.
If, as M. Thiers says, Rome belongs to the Roman Catholics, they
should all go there, live under the Pope’s government, which they love
so much, and put his unwilling subjects in a small mmority. There
woMd not be room for them ? That objection might surely be disposed
of by a miracle, which would convert mankmd. But M. Thiers appa-
rently does not believe in miracles. He believes m Napoleon the
First, and he tMnks that Ms own view of the Papacy would now be
taken by Voltaire. The Pope and the Papists are happy in their
patron, Thiers.
The Registration Conference.
The memorable cry of “ Register, Register, Register! ” has been
borrowed by the French Government. It will be addressed to all the
Powers who may think it worth wMle to attend the Conference, to be
held, after all,. notwithstanding Louis Napoleon’s foregone conclusion.
That conclusion is what they will be invited to “ Register, Register,
Register! ”
ecclesiastical.
The Anti-Ritualists object to the existence of the officer in Her
Majesty’s Household known as Groom of the Stole. Also naturally to
the Censer (of Plays).
NOT FOR JOSEPH—only, but for Albert, Charles, Augustus,
Arthur, Louis, Alexander, Herbert, Henry, Horace, Georoe, Matthew,
Ebenezer, Paul, Jack, Jim, Fred, Ned, Tim, Bob, Bill, Ben, Sam and Tom, as
well as for Victoria, Alberta, Alexandra, Mary, Caroline, Amelia, Emma,
Margaret, Jemima, Hannah, Emily, Augusta, Ann, Maud, Blanche, Bess, Bet,
Kate, Sal, Peg, Liz, Loo, Poll and Moll. Persons christened with these Christian
names, or with any others, should purchase Punch's Almanack, as being the ‘‘ best
substitute for Silver,” or for copper; or, if they prefer to buy a sovereign’s-worth,
for gold.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[December 21, 1867.
PATERFAMILIAS, ANTICIPATING A SEVERE WINTER,
Utilises the Discarded Crinolines oe his Daughters !
SMILES AND THIERS.
M. Thiers made a remarkable speech in the Trench Legislative
Body on behalf of the temporal Papacy, and against Italy. The eulogist
of the Monster Highwayman spoke as follows :—
“ Let us look at the position of Prance before the world. Prom Mexico (various
movements)— from Mexico we withdrew our troops to preserve peace with the
United States; last year we allowed to be consummated in Germany an immense
revolution against us ; and to-day we should abandon the Pontifical States to Italy !
What! Prance, so powerful, so proud, abandon thus positions which her honoA
commands her to retain ? (No, no !) ”
So then. Prance, according to M. Thiers, disobeyed the command
of honour, when she left Maximilian to be shot because she dared not
fight the strong United States. She disobeyed the command of honour
when she declined war with strong Prussia. She obeyed the command
of honour when she occupied the Pontifical States in defianoe of weak
Italy, and when her Chassepot rifles did wonders on Garibaldian volun-
teers. She has retrieved the honour that she lost in cowering to the
strong by menacing and subduing the weak. M. Thiers entertains
peculiar notions of honour. They are hardly so high as Falstaff’s,
though.
M. Thiers declares that the proper policy of Prance would have
been to prevent the formation of an united Germany and united Italy.
He holds that Prance should have hindered the creation on her frontiers
of a nationality of twenty-five millions. Why not an united Italy and
an united Germany as well as an united France ? What has France to
fear from either or both? Simply disobedience to French dictation.
Therefore, concludes the moral M. Thiers, France would have done
well to deprive her neighbours of their natural liberty to unite as
Frenchmen have united. The same morality as that of M. Thiers
would make an individual deprive his neighbour of Ms goods against
his will. It is fortunate for M. Thiers that he has lived in easy
circumstances.
Moreover, in the estimation of M. Thiers, Rome belongs to the
Pope and the Roman Catholics at large throughout the world. He
thus makes out that every Roman Catholic is not only spiritually but
civilly a Roman subject. No one can be a subject of two sovereigns,
or a subject of a sovereign and also a citizen of a republic at the same
time. All Roman Catholics, therefore, everywhere but in the Roman
States, are aliens. Perhaps M. Thiers does not see this consequence.
His logic is as peculiar as Ms notions of honour, and his ideas of right
and wrong.
If, as M. Thiers says, Rome belongs to the Roman Catholics, they
should all go there, live under the Pope’s government, which they love
so much, and put his unwilling subjects in a small mmority. There
woMd not be room for them ? That objection might surely be disposed
of by a miracle, which would convert mankmd. But M. Thiers appa-
rently does not believe in miracles. He believes m Napoleon the
First, and he tMnks that Ms own view of the Papacy would now be
taken by Voltaire. The Pope and the Papists are happy in their
patron, Thiers.
The Registration Conference.
The memorable cry of “ Register, Register, Register! ” has been
borrowed by the French Government. It will be addressed to all the
Powers who may think it worth wMle to attend the Conference, to be
held, after all,. notwithstanding Louis Napoleon’s foregone conclusion.
That conclusion is what they will be invited to “ Register, Register,
Register! ”
ecclesiastical.
The Anti-Ritualists object to the existence of the officer in Her
Majesty’s Household known as Groom of the Stole. Also naturally to
the Censer (of Plays).
NOT FOR JOSEPH—only, but for Albert, Charles, Augustus,
Arthur, Louis, Alexander, Herbert, Henry, Horace, Georoe, Matthew,
Ebenezer, Paul, Jack, Jim, Fred, Ned, Tim, Bob, Bill, Ben, Sam and Tom, as
well as for Victoria, Alberta, Alexandra, Mary, Caroline, Amelia, Emma,
Margaret, Jemima, Hannah, Emily, Augusta, Ann, Maud, Blanche, Bess, Bet,
Kate, Sal, Peg, Liz, Loo, Poll and Moll. Persons christened with these Christian
names, or with any others, should purchase Punch's Almanack, as being the ‘‘ best
substitute for Silver,” or for copper; or, if they prefer to buy a sovereign’s-worth,
for gold.