DOI issue:
October 18, 1873
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16937#0163
October 18, 1873.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
151
PRIESTCRAFT ON PRESTIGE.
In vain the Pastoral trumpet sounds.
Its holy blast no rescue brings.
The people are unfaithful hounds;
Helpless or heretics the kings.
Not one advances to replace
Our Pontiff on his earthly throne.
They find that, in their present case,
’Tis hard enough to hold their own.
And we are told to acquiesce
In that abasement, which a reign
O’er souls, extended, will redress,
And we should, therefore, count it gain.
Ah, thought they only what they say,
They who that fine advice afford,
More anxious none would be than they
To see His Holiness restored!
They know a Rule, which, so long tried,
By Europe stands condemned at last,
For few, as Heaven’s alone true guide,
Can long survive that sentence passed.
One thing, full well they know, had been
Renouncement, free, of worldly sway,
Another thing the world has seen:
A sceptre clutched, and wrung away.
Bide we our time till very sure
It never can return again ;
Embrace the lot we must endure;
Accept the situation then.
Meanwhile, a renovated France
The Pope-King may again restore.
Think they we ’ll throw away that chance
Of one great miracle the more P
A STAGGERER!
Custom-Rouse, Officer. “ Now, then, got anything Contraband about ye?”
Mate. “’Got ’bout Bot’l and half Brandy; but I’ll defy ye to take
it fro’ me ! ”
all abroad.
Mrs. Malaprop has a nephew who is a great traveller,
and is now at Rome. His aunt informs us that when
last she heard from him he was shooting in the Tontine
Marshes.
CLAIMS ON A CLAIMANT.
The “ White Terror ” may be something more than a Bogy. Yet
| the Count de Chahbord’s late manifesto, in the form of a private
letter, published in a newspaper, contains a passage of which some
critics have perhaps unduly questioned the sincerity. Among
“ things so little serious ” that “ they cannot be seriously answered,”
! which many people apprehended from a Legitimist restoration, he
I mentions “ a war madly undertaken under impossible conditions.”
These words have been suspected to imply that if conditions, impos-
sible at present, by-and-by became possible, and Henri the Fifth
were king, the war would be undertaken; France, that is, would go to
war with Italy for an Ultramontane idea. But, without giving the
Claimant of the Throne of France credit for honour superior to equi-
vocation, which he may be supposed to have practised under priestly
influence, it is quite possible to believe that he would think not only
twice and thrice, but a good many times, before adventuring to
plunge into a crusade for the restoration of the temporal Popedom.
Does French Legitimacy owe the Papacy so very much thanks as
that would signify ? Who crowned Napoleon the First but Pros
the Seventh? and who owned Napoleon the Third for Eldest
Son of the Church, but Pros the Ninth ? Not only extreme devo-
tion to the Holy See, but also a most forgiving disposition, would
surely be requisite to induce the descendant of St. Louis to go to the
length of embarking in a perilous warlike enterprise in order to
heap coals of fire on the head of the successor of St. Peter.
Besides, as to the release of the once Sovereign Pontiff from tem-
poral sovereignty, although a legitimate Eldest Son of the Church
might feel bound to say that the thing fieri non debuit, yet, never-
| theless, would he not have very sufficient reason to think that
\ factum valet ? The most dutiful Sons of the Church have had diffi-
culties with their Holy Father, even whilst Holy Father and
Mother Church could be discriminated ; but now that Governments
1 have Infallibility in person to deal with, may not the very Eldest
Son himself perliaps see ample reason to consider whether a Pope,
speaking ex cathedra, is not, politically regarded, a great deal less
likely to be troublesome to the State with a mere mitre on his head
than he would be with a crown ?
NEW COMPANIES.
We hear of more Co-operative Associations as being in the course
of formation. Amongst those which are most likely to attract
public attention are :—
The General Co-operative Hearth-stone, Bath-brick, and Black-
lead Association.
The Metropolitan and Provincial Co-operative Brawn, Pork-pie,
and Sausage Association.
The All England Pipe, Cigar, Fusee, and Tobacco Co-operative
Company.
The British and Foreign Co-operative Portmanteau, Trunk,
Travelling Bag, and Hat Box Corporation.
The Universal Co-operative Toys, Games, Sports, and Scientific
Illusions Association.
The Home and Colonial Co-operative Pickles and Preserves
Company. _
The Land we Live In.
Of old a punishment of crimes,
Next death the worst, was transportation ;
Esteemed, in these more prosperous times,
A boon, is aid to emigration.
coming home.
Little Spivitt, in reading the Correspondence relating to the
Eton Masters and their terms, was particularly struck with the ex-
ression “ The Governing Body.” He felt it was so applicable in
is own establishment to that majestic person, Mrs. S.
151
PRIESTCRAFT ON PRESTIGE.
In vain the Pastoral trumpet sounds.
Its holy blast no rescue brings.
The people are unfaithful hounds;
Helpless or heretics the kings.
Not one advances to replace
Our Pontiff on his earthly throne.
They find that, in their present case,
’Tis hard enough to hold their own.
And we are told to acquiesce
In that abasement, which a reign
O’er souls, extended, will redress,
And we should, therefore, count it gain.
Ah, thought they only what they say,
They who that fine advice afford,
More anxious none would be than they
To see His Holiness restored!
They know a Rule, which, so long tried,
By Europe stands condemned at last,
For few, as Heaven’s alone true guide,
Can long survive that sentence passed.
One thing, full well they know, had been
Renouncement, free, of worldly sway,
Another thing the world has seen:
A sceptre clutched, and wrung away.
Bide we our time till very sure
It never can return again ;
Embrace the lot we must endure;
Accept the situation then.
Meanwhile, a renovated France
The Pope-King may again restore.
Think they we ’ll throw away that chance
Of one great miracle the more P
A STAGGERER!
Custom-Rouse, Officer. “ Now, then, got anything Contraband about ye?”
Mate. “’Got ’bout Bot’l and half Brandy; but I’ll defy ye to take
it fro’ me ! ”
all abroad.
Mrs. Malaprop has a nephew who is a great traveller,
and is now at Rome. His aunt informs us that when
last she heard from him he was shooting in the Tontine
Marshes.
CLAIMS ON A CLAIMANT.
The “ White Terror ” may be something more than a Bogy. Yet
| the Count de Chahbord’s late manifesto, in the form of a private
letter, published in a newspaper, contains a passage of which some
critics have perhaps unduly questioned the sincerity. Among
“ things so little serious ” that “ they cannot be seriously answered,”
! which many people apprehended from a Legitimist restoration, he
I mentions “ a war madly undertaken under impossible conditions.”
These words have been suspected to imply that if conditions, impos-
sible at present, by-and-by became possible, and Henri the Fifth
were king, the war would be undertaken; France, that is, would go to
war with Italy for an Ultramontane idea. But, without giving the
Claimant of the Throne of France credit for honour superior to equi-
vocation, which he may be supposed to have practised under priestly
influence, it is quite possible to believe that he would think not only
twice and thrice, but a good many times, before adventuring to
plunge into a crusade for the restoration of the temporal Popedom.
Does French Legitimacy owe the Papacy so very much thanks as
that would signify ? Who crowned Napoleon the First but Pros
the Seventh? and who owned Napoleon the Third for Eldest
Son of the Church, but Pros the Ninth ? Not only extreme devo-
tion to the Holy See, but also a most forgiving disposition, would
surely be requisite to induce the descendant of St. Louis to go to the
length of embarking in a perilous warlike enterprise in order to
heap coals of fire on the head of the successor of St. Peter.
Besides, as to the release of the once Sovereign Pontiff from tem-
poral sovereignty, although a legitimate Eldest Son of the Church
might feel bound to say that the thing fieri non debuit, yet, never-
| theless, would he not have very sufficient reason to think that
\ factum valet ? The most dutiful Sons of the Church have had diffi-
culties with their Holy Father, even whilst Holy Father and
Mother Church could be discriminated ; but now that Governments
1 have Infallibility in person to deal with, may not the very Eldest
Son himself perliaps see ample reason to consider whether a Pope,
speaking ex cathedra, is not, politically regarded, a great deal less
likely to be troublesome to the State with a mere mitre on his head
than he would be with a crown ?
NEW COMPANIES.
We hear of more Co-operative Associations as being in the course
of formation. Amongst those which are most likely to attract
public attention are :—
The General Co-operative Hearth-stone, Bath-brick, and Black-
lead Association.
The Metropolitan and Provincial Co-operative Brawn, Pork-pie,
and Sausage Association.
The All England Pipe, Cigar, Fusee, and Tobacco Co-operative
Company.
The British and Foreign Co-operative Portmanteau, Trunk,
Travelling Bag, and Hat Box Corporation.
The Universal Co-operative Toys, Games, Sports, and Scientific
Illusions Association.
The Home and Colonial Co-operative Pickles and Preserves
Company. _
The Land we Live In.
Of old a punishment of crimes,
Next death the worst, was transportation ;
Esteemed, in these more prosperous times,
A boon, is aid to emigration.
coming home.
Little Spivitt, in reading the Correspondence relating to the
Eton Masters and their terms, was particularly struck with the ex-
ression “ The Governing Body.” He felt it was so applicable in
is own establishment to that majestic person, Mrs. S.