DOI issue:
March 14, 1868
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16881#0119
March 14, 1868.]
Ill
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARI YARD
TECHN5CAL.
Favourite Niece. “I hear you’ve had a capital Run, Uncle! and what a Large Party you’ve got to-night!”
Fox-Hunting Squire. “Yes, my dear. And if Captain Chividale and his Sisters had not ‘thrown up’ at the last
MOMENT, THERE ’D BEEN EIGHTEEN COUPLE AND A HALF OF YOU ! ”
THE WAY NOT TO WIN WESLEYANS.
The enemies of the Church of England must be sorry that Convoca-
tion stands prorogued for two months. They may, however, console
themselves with the hope that it will be permitted to assemble after
Easter, and will then go on as it has hitherto been going, in a way cal-
culated, as though on purpose, to bring the whole institution of which
it comprises the principal officers, into contempt. Should it turn over
a new leaf, make a fresh start, and go on for the future in just an oppo-
site way, then, indeed, there may be some chance that brave Bishop
Selwyn (of Lichfield, and, pending a successor’s appointment, of New
Zealand) may, should he live a hundred years or so longer—as let us
hope he will—see, towards the end of his labours, fulfilled the hope j
which, at a missionary meeting in the Guildhall of Cambridge the other
day, he thus expressed :—
“ He hoped that the day would come, and that soon, when all those faithful
disciples of John Wesley, who are now doing a good missionary work abroad, would
unirc and he one with the Church in those efforts. The missionary of New Zealand
would lie greatly benefited if the missionary efforts of the Wesleyans could be
combined with those of the Cburcb of England. Christians should so unite to
evangelise the world.”
But if Bishop Selwyn’s colleagues in Convocation continue to dis-
tinguish themselves by such feats as proclaiming themselves unable to
deal with the Ritualists while the question of their legal ability or
inability is yet under trial; if one of them may still avow Ritualist
doctrines without getting himself disavowed as well as Colenso; and
if the whole lot will permit themselves to entertain such a question as
that of “ reserving ” the viaticum., the faithful disciples of John Wesley
will most assuredly intrench themselves more strongly than ever in the
Wesleyan Meeting-house, at the greatest moral and spiritual distance
possible from a Church by that measurement apparently next door
to the Roman Catholic Chapel. As long as this is the sort of business
transacted by Convocation, the Wesleyan Conference will mind its
own, and Bishop Selwyn may employ spare time in whistling for the
Methodists, uninvited with the song “ 0 whistle, and I’ll come to ye,
my lad,” by any one member of that Protestant body.
A NEW MUSICAL CONDUCTOR.
In Professor Tyndal’s interesting Lectures upon Sound, we find
the following put forth among his other sound opinions
“ It would be possible to lay on, by means of wooden conductors, tbe music of a
band to a distance in all directions, mucb as we lay on water.”
While clever Mr. Manns conducts the Crystal Palace orchestra,
nobody with any truth can venture to assert it has a “ wooden con-
ductor.” But how pleasant it would be to hear the charming con-
certs there, without the bore of going to them ! Fancy “laying on”
a symphony to one’s smoking-room or snuggery, and revelling in
Beethoven while relishing one’s tobacco ! Perhaps in a few seasons
subscribers to the Palace may enjoy this in addition to its manifold
attractions. Ears made of india-rubber have been in fashion lately,
and we often wish our ears were equally elastic. If they were so, we
might stretch them on a Saturday to Sydenham, aud hear Mozart and
Mendelssohn without a railway journey. However, if these wooden
conductors be adopted, our ears will need no straining to catch the
Crystal music. But surely great care must be taken in laying down
the sound-tubes, so that no unpleasant noises may chance to be con-
veyed by them. How horrid it would be if one’s conductor, while
conveying some sweet music to one’s ear, were suddenly to vibrate
with the whistle of a steam-engine ! And conceive the aural torture,
when one’s ears are full of Beethoven, of hearing a few squeals
somehow intruded by a barrel-organ!
More for Selwyn.
New Zealand and Lichfield,
And he prefers Which field ?
He’ll go to New Zealand, he’ll on his old sec land ;
Returned again, Lichfield will be his new Zeal land.
Waiting for an Answer.—What is tbe difference between eating
your words and eating your Terms ?
Ill
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARI YARD
TECHN5CAL.
Favourite Niece. “I hear you’ve had a capital Run, Uncle! and what a Large Party you’ve got to-night!”
Fox-Hunting Squire. “Yes, my dear. And if Captain Chividale and his Sisters had not ‘thrown up’ at the last
MOMENT, THERE ’D BEEN EIGHTEEN COUPLE AND A HALF OF YOU ! ”
THE WAY NOT TO WIN WESLEYANS.
The enemies of the Church of England must be sorry that Convoca-
tion stands prorogued for two months. They may, however, console
themselves with the hope that it will be permitted to assemble after
Easter, and will then go on as it has hitherto been going, in a way cal-
culated, as though on purpose, to bring the whole institution of which
it comprises the principal officers, into contempt. Should it turn over
a new leaf, make a fresh start, and go on for the future in just an oppo-
site way, then, indeed, there may be some chance that brave Bishop
Selwyn (of Lichfield, and, pending a successor’s appointment, of New
Zealand) may, should he live a hundred years or so longer—as let us
hope he will—see, towards the end of his labours, fulfilled the hope j
which, at a missionary meeting in the Guildhall of Cambridge the other
day, he thus expressed :—
“ He hoped that the day would come, and that soon, when all those faithful
disciples of John Wesley, who are now doing a good missionary work abroad, would
unirc and he one with the Church in those efforts. The missionary of New Zealand
would lie greatly benefited if the missionary efforts of the Wesleyans could be
combined with those of the Cburcb of England. Christians should so unite to
evangelise the world.”
But if Bishop Selwyn’s colleagues in Convocation continue to dis-
tinguish themselves by such feats as proclaiming themselves unable to
deal with the Ritualists while the question of their legal ability or
inability is yet under trial; if one of them may still avow Ritualist
doctrines without getting himself disavowed as well as Colenso; and
if the whole lot will permit themselves to entertain such a question as
that of “ reserving ” the viaticum., the faithful disciples of John Wesley
will most assuredly intrench themselves more strongly than ever in the
Wesleyan Meeting-house, at the greatest moral and spiritual distance
possible from a Church by that measurement apparently next door
to the Roman Catholic Chapel. As long as this is the sort of business
transacted by Convocation, the Wesleyan Conference will mind its
own, and Bishop Selwyn may employ spare time in whistling for the
Methodists, uninvited with the song “ 0 whistle, and I’ll come to ye,
my lad,” by any one member of that Protestant body.
A NEW MUSICAL CONDUCTOR.
In Professor Tyndal’s interesting Lectures upon Sound, we find
the following put forth among his other sound opinions
“ It would be possible to lay on, by means of wooden conductors, tbe music of a
band to a distance in all directions, mucb as we lay on water.”
While clever Mr. Manns conducts the Crystal Palace orchestra,
nobody with any truth can venture to assert it has a “ wooden con-
ductor.” But how pleasant it would be to hear the charming con-
certs there, without the bore of going to them ! Fancy “laying on”
a symphony to one’s smoking-room or snuggery, and revelling in
Beethoven while relishing one’s tobacco ! Perhaps in a few seasons
subscribers to the Palace may enjoy this in addition to its manifold
attractions. Ears made of india-rubber have been in fashion lately,
and we often wish our ears were equally elastic. If they were so, we
might stretch them on a Saturday to Sydenham, aud hear Mozart and
Mendelssohn without a railway journey. However, if these wooden
conductors be adopted, our ears will need no straining to catch the
Crystal music. But surely great care must be taken in laying down
the sound-tubes, so that no unpleasant noises may chance to be con-
veyed by them. How horrid it would be if one’s conductor, while
conveying some sweet music to one’s ear, were suddenly to vibrate
with the whistle of a steam-engine ! And conceive the aural torture,
when one’s ears are full of Beethoven, of hearing a few squeals
somehow intruded by a barrel-organ!
More for Selwyn.
New Zealand and Lichfield,
And he prefers Which field ?
He’ll go to New Zealand, he’ll on his old sec land ;
Returned again, Lichfield will be his new Zeal land.
Waiting for an Answer.—What is tbe difference between eating
your words and eating your Terms ?