Punch: Punch (54.1868)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[January 4, 1868.


ART AND SCIENCE IN THE WILDERNESS.

THE PRIDE OE THE JUSTICES.

Certain functionaries have gone up in the world’s market. Mr.
Thomas Carlyle has been made a Justice of the Peace for Dum-
friesshire, the county that has the honour of claiming him as its son.
Justices of the Peace not being invariably selected from the Articu-
late Classes, an inaugural address on appointment is, mercifully for
many, not customary. But we hope that the philosopher of Chelsea
will, if he condescends to take his place, favour his colleagues with a
few ideas. One thing is certain, he will not

“ Shake the country bench with clumsy wit,

When he the dullest of dull things has said.

And then ask pardon for the joke he made.”

We should like to hear him imparling to a culprit the fact, that as the
latter managed his Can do in a way his fellows can’t stand, he must
withdraw from the activities, and it may be not without hide-cutting,
study to be quiet. Many a happy new year to True Thomas.

VERY IRISH RENDERING OF AN OLD SONG.

“ ’Tis my Delight on a shiny night! ”

CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.

Our friend and neighbour, the Morning Star, in giving its Christmas
greetings, used language so exactly expressive of Mr. Punch's own
sentiments in regard to his own young men and his own public, that he
cannot forbear from reproducing his contemporary’s words :—

“ The readers of this journal have, indeed, a closer communion with those who
fill its columns than is frequently the case with the contributors and constituency of
a daily newspaper. Those who favour us with their confidence are the best and most
thoughtful of the active politicians throughout the empire."

Just so, and therefore, arm in arm, together let us range the fields,
dear friend and neighbour, and laugh to scorn any inferior creatures
who may hint that nobody need favour the Star or Mr. Punch with
confidence, seeing that it may be thought they have nearly enough of
their own.

“ AS JEREMY TAYLOR MIGHT HAVE SAID.”

There was a report that the Fenians meant to seize the rifles of the
Devil’s Own. We hope we may say, without irreverence, that if those
rascals “ ask for arms at the beautiful gate of the Temple,” the re-
verse of a healing process will follow.