DOI issue:
July 23, 1870
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16886#0044
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PUNCa, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
with which results may be brought about at this moment which are not ex-
pected or contemplated. Sir, these are events of a bygone age. In the last
century such melodramatic catastrophes were frequent, and they were effec-
tive. But we live in an age animated by a very different spirit. The fate
of a great country like France, or a great country like Prussia, cannot be
ultimately affected by such results; and the Sovereign who trusts in them
will find at the moment of action, wherever he may be placed, that he
has to encounter a greater and a more powerful force than any military
arrny, and that is the outraged opinion of an enlightened world."
(Cheers.)
The House might well cheer words so worthy of an English states-
man. We complete the story of the week with a part of the Prime
Minister's reply. Mr Gladstone said that under the Protocol of the
Paris Congress of 1856, England had a right to be heard by any Powers
before they resorted to the last terrible extremity of arms. He would
not then enter into the alleged causes of the war. Communications
xnd transactions bad not been favourable.
bers of the Board of Works looking, according to the reports, uncom-
monly shabby. The Comuions, after seeing the sight, took one (excuse
the hideous vulgarity) at Sir Wilfrid Lawson, and threw out his
Bill for Permissive Prohibition of Liquor, except to those who have
cellars. But Mr. Bruce again promised a Bill for reducing the number
of Public-Houses.
Oa Thursday the Marquis of Salisbury caused the University
Tests Bill to be sent, to a Select Committee, which of course means its
f*te. Said not Mr. Punch so by means of that fatal-Dash, last
week ? Some Bishops spoke wisely aud liberally.
Friday night's chief business has been told. The Lords discussed
the Commons' amendments on the Peers' amendments, assented to
the most important, but held to some others, and the Commons
Supplied in the morning, and at night, were Counted Out, for their
minds, like those of all the rest of us, were full of the news from Paris,
and of the Crime which the two great Continental nations were on the
eve of perpetrating. That night we had a fierce thunderstorm.
Well wrote Byron—
Heaven's flashes
" Any functions we can discharge, or offices we can render, are necessarily
limited ; but I have hope that when the time comes—and it will soon arrive—
%t which it will be our duty to explain in detail that which it is now not less
our duty to withhold, the House may be of opinion that Her Majesty's 1 spare! or 8mite rarely. "Man's maKe millions ashes
Government have not fallen short of the duties incumbent on them as repre-
sentatives of England, and that likewise they have not gone beyond tnose
duties." (Cheers.)
THE DECLINE OF HATJT TON.
(Idyll Composed in Attendance at a " Garden Party.")
by john thomas, senior.
There is the Story of the Week, as it was illustrated in the English
Parliament, but we may make if complete by inserting a few passages
from the speech made by the Erencli Minister, on Friday. After de-
scribing previous steps taken in consequence of the acceptance by the
Prince, M. Ollivier said :—
Alab.se, in fashionable talk
" We received an intimation from the Spanish Ambassador that the Prince \ mawn a pitiful decline
of Hohenzollekn had renounced the crown. We asked the King to associate
himself with this renunciation, and to engage that should the Crown be again
offered to the Prince of Hohenzollekn. he would refuse his authorisation.
This engagement demanded the King refused to give Later our surprise was
great when we learned that the King had refused to receive M. Benedetti.
We learned that Baron Wehthf.r had received orders to take his leave, and
that Prussia was arming. Under these circumstances we should have forgotten
our dignity and also our prudence had we not made preparations. We have
prepared to maintain the war which is offered to us, leaving to each that
portion of the responsibility which devolves upon him. (Enthusiastic and
prolonged applause.) Since yesterday we have called out the reserve, and we
shall take the necessary measures to guard the interest, and the security, and
the honour of France."
'Tis now no longer, I remawk,
Penned, as 'twas, in hauld iang syne,
In Sawvants' 'All when we peruse
The 'igher hordas' goings on,
We see those hordas, in the news,
No longer called the elite of ton.
Thus is set before Europe what England and France have heard from
their rulers on the preparations for A Duel to the Death. We
have yet to hear Prussia. And so
" A Monarch's Voice
Cries ' Havoc,' and ' bids ' slip the Dog3 of War."
Alliance matrimonial they
Enounce no more on the tapis .-
The breakfast now as recherche
Described you scarcely ever see.
Plain breakfast the repawst is named ;
Their elegance they so -forget,
They don't, to speak it I'm ashamed,
Say dejeuner a, la fourchette.
Among the haute volee ; that phrase
Has also quite gone out of date,
The cawse repawter in these days
Ne'er chronicles a fete champetre.
Fortunately the other proceedings in our own Parliament do not The world is getting so ill-bred
make much demand upon the valuable intellect of Mr. Punch. One That " garden party " 'tis the go
night the Commons took it into their heads to sit until about five in Of that tawm to employ instead,
the morning, putting out the gas, and again letting sunlight in upon Low tawn, low language, very low !
themselves. This sounds patriotic, but the fact is that the nights were \
so awfully hot, that a cool public building (with the opportunity of a I fear, befaw my soul, released,
water-side lounge and smoke, and iced drinks) was pleasanter than Have left below these calves of clay,
bed. Mr. Punch regrets to have to state this stern truth, but it is his j An evening party will have ceased
duty. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe moved an address about the j To bear the name of a soiree.
Greek Brigandage, but Government declared that they were doing all: Do the superior classes blush
they could do, so the motion was withdrawn. The Education Bill has I To talk what I distingue call ?
been the areat piece of resistance in the Commons, but you do not : Farewell, soon, epaulettes and plush,
want details. Mr. Treyelyan explained that he had left the Ministry, Cockades aud buckles, pumps, and all
at the risk of being thought squeamish and Quixotic, because he could j _
not approve its course in regard to Denominational schools. The j
water m the Regent's Park is offensive, aud is to be deepened—of
course a mistake, it ought to be made to flow more rapidly. If Mr.
Ayrton will send a commission to examine the ducks, they will tell
AN AMERICAN EXAMPLE.
An American Correspondent of the Times says that "the Income-tax
him all about it, and he may have more confidence in them than in is doomed," the Senate having " stricken by a decided vote all the
any cognate biros who advise the absurd cour»e suggested. sections providing for its collection out of the Tax Bill." The provisions
([ The "Lectionary "—we beg Lord Shaftesbury's pardon—the for the collection of the Income-tax in the United States must have
" Table of Lessons " Bill offended some by recognising Convocation, j been very cleverly contrived if they m any measure answered their
but Lobd Shaftesbury ridiculed " hobgoblin arguments," and by GO purpose. Fancy a Yankee confessing the amount of his income in order
u> 24 the recognition was maintained. The valuable Benefices Bill to have it taxed. The machinery required to mike him do that must,
(affecting narsons who don't pay their debts) was passed by the Lords one would think, be of a material nature. How much conscience
^ to 18. money, on an average, is the American finance Minister accustomed to
Iruck system, supposed to be put down, was shown by Mr. Mun- receive in the course of a year?
jella to be iu full force and virtue—we mean vice. Why do not the
irtisaus take this up, hy means of their Unions? There is to be a
Jommission. Lord Hartington apologised for telegraphic short-
comings, and made a good case. There is no doubt that the Post-
Office telegram has become an Institution.
On Wednesday the Queen was to have opened the Thames Em-
bankment, but Her Majesty's health forbad this, so the Heir-Apparent
and the charming Princess Louise performed the ceremony, the Mem-
Not More Tree than Welcome.
" A free breakfast table ! " sighed Mr. Punch, as he laid down his
newspaper and chipped his second egg, " Ah, that will be when one is
free to eat one's breakfast without having to wade through a'Parlia-
mentary debate ! "
PUNCa, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
with which results may be brought about at this moment which are not ex-
pected or contemplated. Sir, these are events of a bygone age. In the last
century such melodramatic catastrophes were frequent, and they were effec-
tive. But we live in an age animated by a very different spirit. The fate
of a great country like France, or a great country like Prussia, cannot be
ultimately affected by such results; and the Sovereign who trusts in them
will find at the moment of action, wherever he may be placed, that he
has to encounter a greater and a more powerful force than any military
arrny, and that is the outraged opinion of an enlightened world."
(Cheers.)
The House might well cheer words so worthy of an English states-
man. We complete the story of the week with a part of the Prime
Minister's reply. Mr Gladstone said that under the Protocol of the
Paris Congress of 1856, England had a right to be heard by any Powers
before they resorted to the last terrible extremity of arms. He would
not then enter into the alleged causes of the war. Communications
xnd transactions bad not been favourable.
bers of the Board of Works looking, according to the reports, uncom-
monly shabby. The Comuions, after seeing the sight, took one (excuse
the hideous vulgarity) at Sir Wilfrid Lawson, and threw out his
Bill for Permissive Prohibition of Liquor, except to those who have
cellars. But Mr. Bruce again promised a Bill for reducing the number
of Public-Houses.
Oa Thursday the Marquis of Salisbury caused the University
Tests Bill to be sent, to a Select Committee, which of course means its
f*te. Said not Mr. Punch so by means of that fatal-Dash, last
week ? Some Bishops spoke wisely aud liberally.
Friday night's chief business has been told. The Lords discussed
the Commons' amendments on the Peers' amendments, assented to
the most important, but held to some others, and the Commons
Supplied in the morning, and at night, were Counted Out, for their
minds, like those of all the rest of us, were full of the news from Paris,
and of the Crime which the two great Continental nations were on the
eve of perpetrating. That night we had a fierce thunderstorm.
Well wrote Byron—
Heaven's flashes
" Any functions we can discharge, or offices we can render, are necessarily
limited ; but I have hope that when the time comes—and it will soon arrive—
%t which it will be our duty to explain in detail that which it is now not less
our duty to withhold, the House may be of opinion that Her Majesty's 1 spare! or 8mite rarely. "Man's maKe millions ashes
Government have not fallen short of the duties incumbent on them as repre-
sentatives of England, and that likewise they have not gone beyond tnose
duties." (Cheers.)
THE DECLINE OF HATJT TON.
(Idyll Composed in Attendance at a " Garden Party.")
by john thomas, senior.
There is the Story of the Week, as it was illustrated in the English
Parliament, but we may make if complete by inserting a few passages
from the speech made by the Erencli Minister, on Friday. After de-
scribing previous steps taken in consequence of the acceptance by the
Prince, M. Ollivier said :—
Alab.se, in fashionable talk
" We received an intimation from the Spanish Ambassador that the Prince \ mawn a pitiful decline
of Hohenzollekn had renounced the crown. We asked the King to associate
himself with this renunciation, and to engage that should the Crown be again
offered to the Prince of Hohenzollekn. he would refuse his authorisation.
This engagement demanded the King refused to give Later our surprise was
great when we learned that the King had refused to receive M. Benedetti.
We learned that Baron Wehthf.r had received orders to take his leave, and
that Prussia was arming. Under these circumstances we should have forgotten
our dignity and also our prudence had we not made preparations. We have
prepared to maintain the war which is offered to us, leaving to each that
portion of the responsibility which devolves upon him. (Enthusiastic and
prolonged applause.) Since yesterday we have called out the reserve, and we
shall take the necessary measures to guard the interest, and the security, and
the honour of France."
'Tis now no longer, I remawk,
Penned, as 'twas, in hauld iang syne,
In Sawvants' 'All when we peruse
The 'igher hordas' goings on,
We see those hordas, in the news,
No longer called the elite of ton.
Thus is set before Europe what England and France have heard from
their rulers on the preparations for A Duel to the Death. We
have yet to hear Prussia. And so
" A Monarch's Voice
Cries ' Havoc,' and ' bids ' slip the Dog3 of War."
Alliance matrimonial they
Enounce no more on the tapis .-
The breakfast now as recherche
Described you scarcely ever see.
Plain breakfast the repawst is named ;
Their elegance they so -forget,
They don't, to speak it I'm ashamed,
Say dejeuner a, la fourchette.
Among the haute volee ; that phrase
Has also quite gone out of date,
The cawse repawter in these days
Ne'er chronicles a fete champetre.
Fortunately the other proceedings in our own Parliament do not The world is getting so ill-bred
make much demand upon the valuable intellect of Mr. Punch. One That " garden party " 'tis the go
night the Commons took it into their heads to sit until about five in Of that tawm to employ instead,
the morning, putting out the gas, and again letting sunlight in upon Low tawn, low language, very low !
themselves. This sounds patriotic, but the fact is that the nights were \
so awfully hot, that a cool public building (with the opportunity of a I fear, befaw my soul, released,
water-side lounge and smoke, and iced drinks) was pleasanter than Have left below these calves of clay,
bed. Mr. Punch regrets to have to state this stern truth, but it is his j An evening party will have ceased
duty. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe moved an address about the j To bear the name of a soiree.
Greek Brigandage, but Government declared that they were doing all: Do the superior classes blush
they could do, so the motion was withdrawn. The Education Bill has I To talk what I distingue call ?
been the areat piece of resistance in the Commons, but you do not : Farewell, soon, epaulettes and plush,
want details. Mr. Treyelyan explained that he had left the Ministry, Cockades aud buckles, pumps, and all
at the risk of being thought squeamish and Quixotic, because he could j _
not approve its course in regard to Denominational schools. The j
water m the Regent's Park is offensive, aud is to be deepened—of
course a mistake, it ought to be made to flow more rapidly. If Mr.
Ayrton will send a commission to examine the ducks, they will tell
AN AMERICAN EXAMPLE.
An American Correspondent of the Times says that "the Income-tax
him all about it, and he may have more confidence in them than in is doomed," the Senate having " stricken by a decided vote all the
any cognate biros who advise the absurd cour»e suggested. sections providing for its collection out of the Tax Bill." The provisions
([ The "Lectionary "—we beg Lord Shaftesbury's pardon—the for the collection of the Income-tax in the United States must have
" Table of Lessons " Bill offended some by recognising Convocation, j been very cleverly contrived if they m any measure answered their
but Lobd Shaftesbury ridiculed " hobgoblin arguments," and by GO purpose. Fancy a Yankee confessing the amount of his income in order
u> 24 the recognition was maintained. The valuable Benefices Bill to have it taxed. The machinery required to mike him do that must,
(affecting narsons who don't pay their debts) was passed by the Lords one would think, be of a material nature. How much conscience
^ to 18. money, on an average, is the American finance Minister accustomed to
Iruck system, supposed to be put down, was shown by Mr. Mun- receive in the course of a year?
jella to be iu full force and virtue—we mean vice. Why do not the
irtisaus take this up, hy means of their Unions? There is to be a
Jommission. Lord Hartington apologised for telegraphic short-
comings, and made a good case. There is no doubt that the Post-
Office telegram has become an Institution.
On Wednesday the Queen was to have opened the Thames Em-
bankment, but Her Majesty's health forbad this, so the Heir-Apparent
and the charming Princess Louise performed the ceremony, the Mem-
Not More Tree than Welcome.
" A free breakfast table ! " sighed Mr. Punch, as he laid down his
newspaper and chipped his second egg, " Ah, that will be when one is
free to eat one's breakfast without having to wade through a'Parlia-
mentary debate ! "