Punch (59.1870)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[November 26, 1870,

A LITTLE FAILING.

Nervous Old Lady. " Now, Cabman, you're Sure tour Horse is Quiet? What's he laying Back his Ears like that
for ? Look ! "

Cabby. "0 that's only her Femi-OTiYS Cur'osity, Mum. She likes to Hear where she's a Goin' to I'

TRF PDNTTmPAT TTNTfYNT 0 ifo/»tf/<?/*W as the Latin clergy sing. O happy Rome, and Italy

1 to boot, in being inhabited by people whom an ecclesiastical strike can
be expected to terrify. See what Great Britain has come to because
in this heretical and degraded country, those who would care so much.

as a straw for it are in a small minority. Consequently, an enlightened

1 he _roPE is carrying out his programme with, unwavering- rigour, .tor d <-a?u c »i v vm- i j _

the first time during his reign, he omitted, this morning, his annual visit to I Ponktlff has n0 fef s of Puttm? the screw on a faithful multitude With
the church of San Carlo al Corso, and did not solemnise the usual ceremony such aa amount of pressure as might ultimately^blige the rulers arid

A letter from Rome, in the Fall Mall Gazette represents an exalted
personage in a striking attitude :—

at the high altar of St. Peter's. Nor did he celebrate the festival of All
Saints, nor hold a cappella papule on the ' day of the dead,' a solemnity of
immemorial usage."

His Holiness, in fact, has begun to strike. If the Italian Govern-
ment do not succumb to him, be will probably soon have struck
altogether. Then what will the Roman tradesmen do for the cus-
tomers who were wont, to be attracted to the Eternal City by the
papal pageantries ? Perhaps he will go farther thau to the mere
extent of a personal strike. Not long ago he was reported to have
said La tradizione son to. If he says that he is la tradizione, he may
just as well call himself la chiesa. So, indeed, he is, in effect, now
that he has been constituted infallible. Now, if the Pope is the
Church in himself, he also, for striking purposes, constitutes an
ecclesiastical equivalent to a Trades' Union; and is able, not only
himself to strike, but can also compel the whole of his subordinate
ecclesiastics to strike too. At his command, then, the priests, not of
Rome only, but likewise of all Italy, may very soon be the whole of
them on strike. Should any still afford their ministrations to King
Victor-Emmanuel and his Ministers, the Holy Father, in his capacity

Government of the country to confer upon it the blessings of legisla-
tion based on the principles of the " Syllabus."

DIFFICULTIES OF RITUALISM.

A gentleman deeply interested in ecclesiastical affairs, writes to us
to complain of the uncertainty existing in the best iulormed circles as
to the right spelling and right pronunciation of the now famous Mr.
Mackonochie's name. Is it Machonockie, or McOnockie, or
Mackomockie, or Machonokie, or Mackonochle, or Mackoisokie ?
What does it rhyme with ? Can I say, asks our Correspondent, who
is composing a hymn-book, noted,

Fond of Monarch v
Mister Machonochie,

or,—

Your road is rocky
Mister Mackonockie.

Will Lord Chelmsford kindly, and infallibly, settle this important
of Priests Union, will have no need to employ unionists to bully, ; matter wilen he delivers his judgtueat. I hope so.
intimidate, or coerce them into ceasing to perform their functions., j f Q Vestment Question-a tract is soon to

He will be under no necessity of procuring them to be blown up ; be j
can fulminate against them with the "thunders of the Vatican."

by issued, entitled

The Cotta's Saturday Night, or Home from the Wash. By JoHNNr
Cope.

There will be no occasion for him to have them "rattened," and
deprived of their vestments, missals, and other sacerdotal implements
(not to say tools of their craft), seeing that he will have it in his power j
to excommunicate them, if they persist in officiating, or being " knob-: Why will the Parisians, when the siege is over, be the most mtel-
sticks." In all likelihood he will put all Italy, inclusive of Rome, ligent people in the world ?—Because ail the Asses in Paris will have
under an interdict, unless he is reinstated in his temporal power. . been eaten.