DOI issue:
April 23, 1870
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16885#0169
160 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [April 23, 1870.
ART-CULTURE FOR CRIMINALS.
Scene—A Club Room. White and Brown.
THE CAB OF THE FUTURE.
Oh where, and oh where is the Cab of the future stowed ?
'Tis surely time that on the streets and stands the blessing showed ! m newspaper). Hooray ! Robbery with violence got
The duty has been lowered and the tariff let to go w d d .f lash^yesterday m Newgate.
But still, the Cab of the future, somehow, it doesn t show. A hundred and fifr^en ?
Mb. Bruce hoped for its coming ; and my hope at his was lit, WWe. Yes ; divided, however between five ruffians, meads.) "Buck,
^nd Colonel Henderson backed him up-but both, I fear, are bit; Hurley, and Bryan received twenty-five lashes each, and the other
two pnsoneis twenty lashes each.
Brown. Still the adequateness of a flogging- much depends upon
elbow-grease. If the stripes were laid on with a vigour and a will,
The artful cab proprietors, from tax and tariff free,
Take sights at Henderson and Bruce, and do the same at me !
And I don't feel I 'm the better, that I know of, for the flags
twenty or twenty-five a-piece were perhaps enough, to make those
That wave above the carriages' dirt, and o'er the drivers' rags : gentlemen sorry they were cruel, and will very likely have the effect
And I don't feel a sensible comfort from the knowledge that those that when they are let out of prison and penal servitude, of making them
craw] t remember not to be so again.
Are doomed] if pulled up before the beak, beneath a fine to fall. White. Yes. In the meantime the expediency of gentleness in
plunder will probably commend itself to their associates at lar^e.
But I sigh, and I sigh in vain, for the cab that I was told was to come, : Brown. Erom their example ? Perhaps. But their example is not
By the magic might of laisserfaire, the cab to drive grumblers dumb ; made so much of as it might be. Their associates out of gaol, cannot
The cab, that was to be like a brougham, and a flight above a fly, j hear them howl, or see them writhe. Imagination is a faculty not
The cab wherein the fare was to feel like carriage company ! active amongst the criminal classes, and they form a dim idea of the
. . „U1 . . --in punishment they don't see.
Their msides are just as filthy as they have been till now, , jfrute. It has been suggested that tickets of admission to see
The rattling doors and windows make just as great a row: _ ! garotters flogged should be issued to their friends.
The wind still blows in when it blows, the ram spurts when it rams, j Brown. Tew of their friends would trust themselves inside of a prison.
The handles are just as hard to turn, and as apt to stick, the panes. ; And private flogging may be thought a corollary of private hanging.
In short no sign of change do I see in four-wheeler or in sho'ful: I „ WJlite- 1 sa\ 1 '[\ ^ ?™ ^hat mi*ht <|one- ,You k,noW
The bodies are just as ramshackle, and the linings just as woful: i that C™V1C 8 ^.ave to be photographed. Photograph garotters
The drivers just, as ragged, and ready to cheat or abuse me, unde.r ,the las,h; Whenever a villain is flogged lor robbery attended
And their habit of taking short-cuts as certain to queer ana confuse me. ft violence, let a photographer be engaged to attend and take his
likeness.
Broicn. Seizing, of course, the most favourable moment, when the
expression of the sensations excited by the cat-o'-nine-tails has culmi-
nated in his face.
White. Exactly so. The cartes de visite or vignettes thus taken
could be multiplied for distribution to those whom they might affect.
Brown. Aids to imagination.
White. Some of them might be enlarged by the process which has
been applied to the pencillings of popular artists.
Brown. To a size big enough to fit them for being posted on the
walls.
White. So that every rascal who runs may read.—
Brown. The natural language written in the contorted features of the
A WOMAN'S BIGHTS AND WIIONGS.
Whatever we may think of the ladies' claims to Electoral privileges,
there can be no question as to their full right to the spoils of victory
when they face our selfish sex in fair fight, and beat us.'
This, Miss Mary Edith Peachey has done at Edinburgh, coming
out as one of the first four students of chemistry, and as such claiming
one of the Hope Scholarships.
This claim Dr. Crum Brown resists on the ground that the lady-
students at Edinburgh, being taught in separate courses and classes,
are not " students " in the sense that entitles them to the money-prizes ; criminai yellin0' at the whfpping-post.
of the University , , I White. There would be a useful'extension of the idea of Sun-
And yet Miss Peachey has been awarded one ol the five medals I pictures of scoundrels
given to the five highest students of the Session ! j Brown. Such portraits would be works of Art which, diffused amongst
The Emversity Senate has confirmed Dr. Crum Brown s decision. tue masses, would indeed tend to elevate the truly lower orders.
Iitus Salt, Jun., of Saltaire, very fairly, as it seems to Punch, pro-1 White. Send the idea to Mr. Punch.
tests against this m the Times, and asks those of his fellow-men who Brown. Ask him if he doesn't call it a happy thought, and will recorn-
feel that an injustice has been done to a woman by our sex, to help mtn^ it to t[ie attention of his friend Bruce ?
him to raise a fund to support Miss Peachey through her curriculum,
as the income of the Hope Scholarship would have done.
Bread and salt ought to go together ; but in this conflict of opinion
between Crum and Salt, Mr. Punch votes with Salt.
A" Sweet Miss Peachey"—it is a very pretty name for a girl-
graduate with golden hair, and calls up a vision of a cheek like a ripe,
melting peach "the side that's next the sun"—deserves this repa-
ration at the hands of our brutal sex; and we shall be glad to see
the appeal of Salt followed by a liberal contribution of what Norwich
electors call " Sugar."
{Scene closes.)
SPOTS ON THE SUN.
The Police Helmet.
"In answer to Mr. Morrison; Mr. Ekuce said that some slight change
was to be made in the policeman's helmet. It was proposed to get rid of the
projecting comb, and the new hat would not be much less serviceable and not
much more unsightly than the present hat."—Parliamentary Report.
Says Robin Bough—that covey gruff,
The beak's familiar butt—
" So cocky grow'd them bobbies, blowed
But their combs should be cut! "
suits them exactly.
A very near approach to perfection is made in Mr. Lowe's Budget;
but what will be the effect of the following Resolution ?—
" Eesolved,—That, towards raising the supply granted to Her Majesty,
there shall be granted and paid on and after the 6th April, 1870, upon a
licence to be taken out annually by every person who shall use or carry a fire-
arm of any description, or any air-gun, or any other kind of gun, from which
any shot, bullet, or other missile can be discharged, the sum of £1."
A pop-gun is an air-gun, or if it is not an air-gun, anyhow it is
another kind of gun. Though a shot or a bullet cannot be discharged
from a pop-gun, there is a species of missile that can. Therefore, as the
foregoing Resolution stands, every pop-gun is subject to a £1 duty.
A sixpenny cannon is unquestionably a kind of gun whence a small
shot can be discharged. Accordingly that same duty will also be
leviable on a sixpenny cannon. The effect of these arrangements must
be to disarm the infantry.
To Prevent Disappointment.
The Card-sellers, who, by the new Budget, will in future not be
required to take out and pay for a licence, are unanimous in pronouncing
Mr. Lowe to be a regular trump.
modes for the nursery.
The world is getting on. The very babes, in Erance, have their .
fashion-book. There is a monthly publication styled "La Toilette des \ attractive bills, and that "Open Free" has reference to it, and not to
The bills displayed at the various Underground Stations, bearing
upon them "Metropolitan Railway," "Open Free," and "Easter
Holidays," may have spread a belief that by an unexampled act of
liberality on the part of a Railway Company, passengers by the Metro-
politan fine will be conveyed for nothing during the whole of this week.
To dissipate such an extraordinary delusion, it is as well to observe
that the words " The South Kensington Museum" also occur on these
Enfans." | the very convenient and useful Metropolitan Railway.
ART-CULTURE FOR CRIMINALS.
Scene—A Club Room. White and Brown.
THE CAB OF THE FUTURE.
Oh where, and oh where is the Cab of the future stowed ?
'Tis surely time that on the streets and stands the blessing showed ! m newspaper). Hooray ! Robbery with violence got
The duty has been lowered and the tariff let to go w d d .f lash^yesterday m Newgate.
But still, the Cab of the future, somehow, it doesn t show. A hundred and fifr^en ?
Mb. Bruce hoped for its coming ; and my hope at his was lit, WWe. Yes ; divided, however between five ruffians, meads.) "Buck,
^nd Colonel Henderson backed him up-but both, I fear, are bit; Hurley, and Bryan received twenty-five lashes each, and the other
two pnsoneis twenty lashes each.
Brown. Still the adequateness of a flogging- much depends upon
elbow-grease. If the stripes were laid on with a vigour and a will,
The artful cab proprietors, from tax and tariff free,
Take sights at Henderson and Bruce, and do the same at me !
And I don't feel I 'm the better, that I know of, for the flags
twenty or twenty-five a-piece were perhaps enough, to make those
That wave above the carriages' dirt, and o'er the drivers' rags : gentlemen sorry they were cruel, and will very likely have the effect
And I don't feel a sensible comfort from the knowledge that those that when they are let out of prison and penal servitude, of making them
craw] t remember not to be so again.
Are doomed] if pulled up before the beak, beneath a fine to fall. White. Yes. In the meantime the expediency of gentleness in
plunder will probably commend itself to their associates at lar^e.
But I sigh, and I sigh in vain, for the cab that I was told was to come, : Brown. Erom their example ? Perhaps. But their example is not
By the magic might of laisserfaire, the cab to drive grumblers dumb ; made so much of as it might be. Their associates out of gaol, cannot
The cab, that was to be like a brougham, and a flight above a fly, j hear them howl, or see them writhe. Imagination is a faculty not
The cab wherein the fare was to feel like carriage company ! active amongst the criminal classes, and they form a dim idea of the
. . „U1 . . --in punishment they don't see.
Their msides are just as filthy as they have been till now, , jfrute. It has been suggested that tickets of admission to see
The rattling doors and windows make just as great a row: _ ! garotters flogged should be issued to their friends.
The wind still blows in when it blows, the ram spurts when it rams, j Brown. Tew of their friends would trust themselves inside of a prison.
The handles are just as hard to turn, and as apt to stick, the panes. ; And private flogging may be thought a corollary of private hanging.
In short no sign of change do I see in four-wheeler or in sho'ful: I „ WJlite- 1 sa\ 1 '[\ ^ ?™ ^hat mi*ht <|one- ,You k,noW
The bodies are just as ramshackle, and the linings just as woful: i that C™V1C 8 ^.ave to be photographed. Photograph garotters
The drivers just, as ragged, and ready to cheat or abuse me, unde.r ,the las,h; Whenever a villain is flogged lor robbery attended
And their habit of taking short-cuts as certain to queer ana confuse me. ft violence, let a photographer be engaged to attend and take his
likeness.
Broicn. Seizing, of course, the most favourable moment, when the
expression of the sensations excited by the cat-o'-nine-tails has culmi-
nated in his face.
White. Exactly so. The cartes de visite or vignettes thus taken
could be multiplied for distribution to those whom they might affect.
Brown. Aids to imagination.
White. Some of them might be enlarged by the process which has
been applied to the pencillings of popular artists.
Brown. To a size big enough to fit them for being posted on the
walls.
White. So that every rascal who runs may read.—
Brown. The natural language written in the contorted features of the
A WOMAN'S BIGHTS AND WIIONGS.
Whatever we may think of the ladies' claims to Electoral privileges,
there can be no question as to their full right to the spoils of victory
when they face our selfish sex in fair fight, and beat us.'
This, Miss Mary Edith Peachey has done at Edinburgh, coming
out as one of the first four students of chemistry, and as such claiming
one of the Hope Scholarships.
This claim Dr. Crum Brown resists on the ground that the lady-
students at Edinburgh, being taught in separate courses and classes,
are not " students " in the sense that entitles them to the money-prizes ; criminai yellin0' at the whfpping-post.
of the University , , I White. There would be a useful'extension of the idea of Sun-
And yet Miss Peachey has been awarded one ol the five medals I pictures of scoundrels
given to the five highest students of the Session ! j Brown. Such portraits would be works of Art which, diffused amongst
The Emversity Senate has confirmed Dr. Crum Brown s decision. tue masses, would indeed tend to elevate the truly lower orders.
Iitus Salt, Jun., of Saltaire, very fairly, as it seems to Punch, pro-1 White. Send the idea to Mr. Punch.
tests against this m the Times, and asks those of his fellow-men who Brown. Ask him if he doesn't call it a happy thought, and will recorn-
feel that an injustice has been done to a woman by our sex, to help mtn^ it to t[ie attention of his friend Bruce ?
him to raise a fund to support Miss Peachey through her curriculum,
as the income of the Hope Scholarship would have done.
Bread and salt ought to go together ; but in this conflict of opinion
between Crum and Salt, Mr. Punch votes with Salt.
A" Sweet Miss Peachey"—it is a very pretty name for a girl-
graduate with golden hair, and calls up a vision of a cheek like a ripe,
melting peach "the side that's next the sun"—deserves this repa-
ration at the hands of our brutal sex; and we shall be glad to see
the appeal of Salt followed by a liberal contribution of what Norwich
electors call " Sugar."
{Scene closes.)
SPOTS ON THE SUN.
The Police Helmet.
"In answer to Mr. Morrison; Mr. Ekuce said that some slight change
was to be made in the policeman's helmet. It was proposed to get rid of the
projecting comb, and the new hat would not be much less serviceable and not
much more unsightly than the present hat."—Parliamentary Report.
Says Robin Bough—that covey gruff,
The beak's familiar butt—
" So cocky grow'd them bobbies, blowed
But their combs should be cut! "
suits them exactly.
A very near approach to perfection is made in Mr. Lowe's Budget;
but what will be the effect of the following Resolution ?—
" Eesolved,—That, towards raising the supply granted to Her Majesty,
there shall be granted and paid on and after the 6th April, 1870, upon a
licence to be taken out annually by every person who shall use or carry a fire-
arm of any description, or any air-gun, or any other kind of gun, from which
any shot, bullet, or other missile can be discharged, the sum of £1."
A pop-gun is an air-gun, or if it is not an air-gun, anyhow it is
another kind of gun. Though a shot or a bullet cannot be discharged
from a pop-gun, there is a species of missile that can. Therefore, as the
foregoing Resolution stands, every pop-gun is subject to a £1 duty.
A sixpenny cannon is unquestionably a kind of gun whence a small
shot can be discharged. Accordingly that same duty will also be
leviable on a sixpenny cannon. The effect of these arrangements must
be to disarm the infantry.
To Prevent Disappointment.
The Card-sellers, who, by the new Budget, will in future not be
required to take out and pay for a licence, are unanimous in pronouncing
Mr. Lowe to be a regular trump.
modes for the nursery.
The world is getting on. The very babes, in Erance, have their .
fashion-book. There is a monthly publication styled "La Toilette des \ attractive bills, and that "Open Free" has reference to it, and not to
The bills displayed at the various Underground Stations, bearing
upon them "Metropolitan Railway," "Open Free," and "Easter
Holidays," may have spread a belief that by an unexampled act of
liberality on the part of a Railway Company, passengers by the Metro-
politan fine will be conveyed for nothing during the whole of this week.
To dissipate such an extraordinary delusion, it is as well to observe
that the words " The South Kensington Museum" also occur on these
Enfans." | the very convenient and useful Metropolitan Railway.