DOI issue:
November 15, 1873
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16937#0212
PERSECUTION IN PRUSSIA.
The persecution now raging in Prussia presents a modified
resemblance to that which the early Christians from time to time
suffered under the heathen Emperors. By accounts from Germany
it appears that the Prussian Government has been persecuting Arch-
bishop Ledochovski with peculiar barbarity. No less than forty-
three lawsuits have been instituted by that heretical Administration
against that faithful Prelate.
“ The total amount in which the Archbishop has been hitherto fined is
1,300 thalers. The first 200 thalers are covered by the sale of his carriage
and horses. For 900 thalers the Archbishop is offered the alternative of six
months’ imprisonment. The remaining 200 thalers have been imposed in
punishment for Monsignor Ledochovski’s refusal to appoint a legally
qualified priest at Filehne in lieu of the unqualified one for whose institution
he has been fined the first 200 thalers. It is said that a second carriage and
pair will be seized in satisfaction of this debt.”
None of the primitive Confessors and Martyrs ever underwent
anything exactly like this: neither Ignatius, nor Polycarp, nor
Cyprian, nor any of the rest of them, are related to have suffered
the seizure of a carriage and pair. Some were mutilated very bar-
barously indeed ; but whether under Nero, or Trajan, or Decius,
or Diocletian, or any other of the persecuting Emperors, at any
rate Bishops used not to be deprived of their carriages and horses.
Perhaps, to be sure, though they kept their consciences, they did
not keep their carriages, as Archbishop Ledochovski does, or did,
before he had all of the latter taken away from him by the tyranny
of a Kaiser Wilhelm, whom ecclesiastical historians will perhaps
denounce as a persecutor exceeding in atrocity the worst of all the
Roman Caesars. In the meanwhile, let us hope that Ledochovski
will find some modus vivendi under his country’s laws which will
enable him to keep his conscience and his carriages too.
QUAKER TO COSTER.
Friend, crying “ Warnuts ten-a-penny ! ” cease.
Walnuts, not “ Warnuts,” offer men of peace.
AN ARMY OF FOURTEEN THOUSAND.
An announcement of the very gravest importance has been made
public within the last few days. It is one which affects the comfort,
the peace, the pecuniary interests of—it is no exaggeration to say—
a large proportion of the inhabitants of these isles. From John-o’-
Groat’s House to the Land’s-End there is hardly a town, a city, a
village, an extra-parochial place where it will not be received with
mingled and varied feelings. The peer and the peasant, the rich
and the poor, the old and the young, the married and the single, are
all alike concerned by it. There is not a rank or class in society
which it does not involve; there is not an hour in the day, there is
not a day in the year, when its influence will not be sensibly felt.
To come at once to the point—we felt that without some prefatory
words of preparation and warning, it would be unadvisable to give
still further publicity to a statement so momentous both to present
and future generations, heirs in tail male, and children yet unborn,
at a time, too, when there is already sufficient depression from the
weather — the announcement we refer to is that ‘ ‘ as many as
14,053 Attorneys, and Solicitors, Writers to the Signet, Proctors, and
Notaries, took out the annual certificate authorising them to prac-
tise, in the financial year 1872—3.”
This is not all, there is something more to come—“ The number is
229 more than in the preceding year.”
Have we exaggerated ? Who can wonder at the Bank Rate ?
A Congenial Taste.
It is a remarkable fact, which has hitherto escaped notice, but
will now meet with universal recognition, that Dairymen, when they
take to reading, are generally found to prefer rather a milk-and-
water sort of book.
TO A CORRESPONDENT.
A “Husband with an Incompatible Wife” has evidently been
misled by a misprint. We have heard of “Elastic WebhingBands,”
but never of Elastic “ Wedding ” Bands.
200
PUNCH, OP THE LONDON CHAPIVAPI.
[November 15, 1873.
GRANDILOQUENCE.
Captain of Schooner. “What ’a’ you got there, Pat?”
Pat (who hasheen laying in some Firewood and Potatoes). “ Timber and Fruit, yer Honour ! ! ”
The persecution now raging in Prussia presents a modified
resemblance to that which the early Christians from time to time
suffered under the heathen Emperors. By accounts from Germany
it appears that the Prussian Government has been persecuting Arch-
bishop Ledochovski with peculiar barbarity. No less than forty-
three lawsuits have been instituted by that heretical Administration
against that faithful Prelate.
“ The total amount in which the Archbishop has been hitherto fined is
1,300 thalers. The first 200 thalers are covered by the sale of his carriage
and horses. For 900 thalers the Archbishop is offered the alternative of six
months’ imprisonment. The remaining 200 thalers have been imposed in
punishment for Monsignor Ledochovski’s refusal to appoint a legally
qualified priest at Filehne in lieu of the unqualified one for whose institution
he has been fined the first 200 thalers. It is said that a second carriage and
pair will be seized in satisfaction of this debt.”
None of the primitive Confessors and Martyrs ever underwent
anything exactly like this: neither Ignatius, nor Polycarp, nor
Cyprian, nor any of the rest of them, are related to have suffered
the seizure of a carriage and pair. Some were mutilated very bar-
barously indeed ; but whether under Nero, or Trajan, or Decius,
or Diocletian, or any other of the persecuting Emperors, at any
rate Bishops used not to be deprived of their carriages and horses.
Perhaps, to be sure, though they kept their consciences, they did
not keep their carriages, as Archbishop Ledochovski does, or did,
before he had all of the latter taken away from him by the tyranny
of a Kaiser Wilhelm, whom ecclesiastical historians will perhaps
denounce as a persecutor exceeding in atrocity the worst of all the
Roman Caesars. In the meanwhile, let us hope that Ledochovski
will find some modus vivendi under his country’s laws which will
enable him to keep his conscience and his carriages too.
QUAKER TO COSTER.
Friend, crying “ Warnuts ten-a-penny ! ” cease.
Walnuts, not “ Warnuts,” offer men of peace.
AN ARMY OF FOURTEEN THOUSAND.
An announcement of the very gravest importance has been made
public within the last few days. It is one which affects the comfort,
the peace, the pecuniary interests of—it is no exaggeration to say—
a large proportion of the inhabitants of these isles. From John-o’-
Groat’s House to the Land’s-End there is hardly a town, a city, a
village, an extra-parochial place where it will not be received with
mingled and varied feelings. The peer and the peasant, the rich
and the poor, the old and the young, the married and the single, are
all alike concerned by it. There is not a rank or class in society
which it does not involve; there is not an hour in the day, there is
not a day in the year, when its influence will not be sensibly felt.
To come at once to the point—we felt that without some prefatory
words of preparation and warning, it would be unadvisable to give
still further publicity to a statement so momentous both to present
and future generations, heirs in tail male, and children yet unborn,
at a time, too, when there is already sufficient depression from the
weather — the announcement we refer to is that ‘ ‘ as many as
14,053 Attorneys, and Solicitors, Writers to the Signet, Proctors, and
Notaries, took out the annual certificate authorising them to prac-
tise, in the financial year 1872—3.”
This is not all, there is something more to come—“ The number is
229 more than in the preceding year.”
Have we exaggerated ? Who can wonder at the Bank Rate ?
A Congenial Taste.
It is a remarkable fact, which has hitherto escaped notice, but
will now meet with universal recognition, that Dairymen, when they
take to reading, are generally found to prefer rather a milk-and-
water sort of book.
TO A CORRESPONDENT.
A “Husband with an Incompatible Wife” has evidently been
misled by a misprint. We have heard of “Elastic WebhingBands,”
but never of Elastic “ Wedding ” Bands.
200
PUNCH, OP THE LONDON CHAPIVAPI.
[November 15, 1873.
GRANDILOQUENCE.
Captain of Schooner. “What ’a’ you got there, Pat?”
Pat (who hasheen laying in some Firewood and Potatoes). “ Timber and Fruit, yer Honour ! ! ”