DOI issue:
April 25, 1874
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16938#0176
April 25, 1874.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
17]
THE BANK HOLIDAY.
Papa. “ Now, how shall we spend Monday most advantageously ? You might take the Girls, my Love, to the German
Bazaar; and I propose that as Charley intends to come out ‘a Grecian,’ he and 1 should have an instructive Day at
the Museum of Economic Geology ! ”
co-operation of Board of Trade, Admiralty, and Education Depart-
ment.
Mr. Norwood, Mr. Bentinck, and Mr. Gourley raised a chorus
over the deterioration of Poor Jack. Sir C. Adderley, for the
Board of Trade, ventured to contest this conclusion. There may be
natural affinity between couleur de rose and Red Tape on this point.
If JACK be as good as ever, then all ship-owners, ship-masters, and
ship-men, generally of Punch's acquaintance, are in a conspiracy to
run him down. All report Poor Jack’s deterioration—not more,
however, than might be expected from bad lodging, bad food, bad
wages, bad discipline, and bad usage—in short, from bad conditions
in all points of life before the mast, all bred of loosened ties be-
tween owner and man, eagerness to save, and haste to get rich.
If the discussion led to nothing very practical, it stirred the straw
of a very serious subject, and may, and ought to, bear fruit.
Will Mr. Brassey be good enough to keep “pegging away” at
the matter, and see that the Admiralty new brooms are set to work,
and kept to work, at it F
After Jack was got rid of, and a big batch of some twenty Esti-
mates voted—including the expenses of most of the leading Depart-
ments,—Mr. Butt was beaten by 125 to 88 on the Second Reading of
his Bill for lowering the Irish Municipal Franchise. Mr. Butt calls
this assimilating the Irish Franchise to the English, but Sir M. H.
Beach pointed out that circumstances alter cases, and that the
change would mean something like 16 per cent, of the rateable value
in boroughs over-riding 82 per cent.
Mr. Holker is appointed Solicitor-General, and the new writ is
moved for Preston, which may be more than ever, “ proud ” Preston
at this unexpected promotion of its young Q..C.
With a safe constituency for his spring-board, he has jumped
clear over the heads of his professional betters, the Members for
Norwich and Marylebone. Ah, if their seats had only been safe!
Fashionable Arrivals (April 13, 1874).—The Swallows.
A CHARGE TO A WATCH.
Here is wisdom. It is printed in the Pall Mall Gazette:—
“In delivering his visitation charge at Taunton yesterday, Archdeacon
Denison lamented the break-up of the old religious position on the Continent,
as being satisfactory neither in fact nor in prospect. He condemned as worse
even than persecution that hostility to all dogma which had set its marie on
the century both in England and on the Continent, and which was the natural
offspring of unfettered licence of private judgment, and synonymous with
disbelief in and rejection of revealed religion.”
Always duly pondering what he intends saying to the Clergy, whom
he instructs whenever he performs archidiaeonal functions, the
thoughtful Archdeacon cannot have failed to give all due con-
sideration to the fact that, in the ‘ ‘ old religious position on the
Continent,” an Anglican Archdeacon would have been treated as a
heretic; at one time possibly by ante mortem cremation. Of
course; and, therefore, he very consistently pronounces hostility to
all dogma worse even than persecution. It would be better that
a Clergyman of the Church of England, for example—mind, for
example—should be occasionally roasted alive, say in Spain, than that
the old religious position in Spain should have become what it is now.
Here is more wisdom, reported to have proceeded from the lips of the
closely reasoning Divine who shines as the Light of Somersetshire
“ Speaking of the position of religious education at home, the Archdeacon
said the Education Act had destroyed, with the consent, and not without the
applause of the bishops, clergy, and people, the parish schools of England.
He believed that absolutely secular schools were less dangerous than those
schools which had been created under the Act.”
From time to time, Archdeacon Denison is accustomed to deliver
himself of utterances which, like those above - instanced, are
evidently the result of profound and logical thought applied
seriously to serious subjects. It is desirable that a collection
should be made, if possible, of the Venerable Archdeacon’s sensible
sayings.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
17]
THE BANK HOLIDAY.
Papa. “ Now, how shall we spend Monday most advantageously ? You might take the Girls, my Love, to the German
Bazaar; and I propose that as Charley intends to come out ‘a Grecian,’ he and 1 should have an instructive Day at
the Museum of Economic Geology ! ”
co-operation of Board of Trade, Admiralty, and Education Depart-
ment.
Mr. Norwood, Mr. Bentinck, and Mr. Gourley raised a chorus
over the deterioration of Poor Jack. Sir C. Adderley, for the
Board of Trade, ventured to contest this conclusion. There may be
natural affinity between couleur de rose and Red Tape on this point.
If JACK be as good as ever, then all ship-owners, ship-masters, and
ship-men, generally of Punch's acquaintance, are in a conspiracy to
run him down. All report Poor Jack’s deterioration—not more,
however, than might be expected from bad lodging, bad food, bad
wages, bad discipline, and bad usage—in short, from bad conditions
in all points of life before the mast, all bred of loosened ties be-
tween owner and man, eagerness to save, and haste to get rich.
If the discussion led to nothing very practical, it stirred the straw
of a very serious subject, and may, and ought to, bear fruit.
Will Mr. Brassey be good enough to keep “pegging away” at
the matter, and see that the Admiralty new brooms are set to work,
and kept to work, at it F
After Jack was got rid of, and a big batch of some twenty Esti-
mates voted—including the expenses of most of the leading Depart-
ments,—Mr. Butt was beaten by 125 to 88 on the Second Reading of
his Bill for lowering the Irish Municipal Franchise. Mr. Butt calls
this assimilating the Irish Franchise to the English, but Sir M. H.
Beach pointed out that circumstances alter cases, and that the
change would mean something like 16 per cent, of the rateable value
in boroughs over-riding 82 per cent.
Mr. Holker is appointed Solicitor-General, and the new writ is
moved for Preston, which may be more than ever, “ proud ” Preston
at this unexpected promotion of its young Q..C.
With a safe constituency for his spring-board, he has jumped
clear over the heads of his professional betters, the Members for
Norwich and Marylebone. Ah, if their seats had only been safe!
Fashionable Arrivals (April 13, 1874).—The Swallows.
A CHARGE TO A WATCH.
Here is wisdom. It is printed in the Pall Mall Gazette:—
“In delivering his visitation charge at Taunton yesterday, Archdeacon
Denison lamented the break-up of the old religious position on the Continent,
as being satisfactory neither in fact nor in prospect. He condemned as worse
even than persecution that hostility to all dogma which had set its marie on
the century both in England and on the Continent, and which was the natural
offspring of unfettered licence of private judgment, and synonymous with
disbelief in and rejection of revealed religion.”
Always duly pondering what he intends saying to the Clergy, whom
he instructs whenever he performs archidiaeonal functions, the
thoughtful Archdeacon cannot have failed to give all due con-
sideration to the fact that, in the ‘ ‘ old religious position on the
Continent,” an Anglican Archdeacon would have been treated as a
heretic; at one time possibly by ante mortem cremation. Of
course; and, therefore, he very consistently pronounces hostility to
all dogma worse even than persecution. It would be better that
a Clergyman of the Church of England, for example—mind, for
example—should be occasionally roasted alive, say in Spain, than that
the old religious position in Spain should have become what it is now.
Here is more wisdom, reported to have proceeded from the lips of the
closely reasoning Divine who shines as the Light of Somersetshire
“ Speaking of the position of religious education at home, the Archdeacon
said the Education Act had destroyed, with the consent, and not without the
applause of the bishops, clergy, and people, the parish schools of England.
He believed that absolutely secular schools were less dangerous than those
schools which had been created under the Act.”
From time to time, Archdeacon Denison is accustomed to deliver
himself of utterances which, like those above - instanced, are
evidently the result of profound and logical thought applied
seriously to serious subjects. It is desirable that a collection
should be made, if possible, of the Venerable Archdeacon’s sensible
sayings.