DOI issue:
February 13, 1875
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16940#0081
FEBRUARY 13, 1875.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
73
A PROMISING PUPIL.
“ How DOES YOUR BROTHER GET ON IN NEW YORK, PARKER?”
“Very well, indeed, Ma’am, thank you. He’s only been there three Months,
AND HE’s ALREADY BEGINNING TO SPEAK THE LANGUAGE BEAUTIFUL !! ”
A TURN TOR TIBER.
What may not Garibaldi do,
Warrior of famous fibre ?
Having made Italy anew,
He ’d fain re-make the Tiber.
What things that stream of yellow mud
Has seen and done—good gracious!
Since o’er its swiftly flowing flood
Swam the renowned Horatius.
The stream was rushing thick and fast,
The wind was blowing rawly,
When o’er the stream Horatius passed,
Just to oblige Macaulay.
Bravely the hero hastened home,
After his feat audacious ;
Later came Lays of Ancient Rome,
Just to oblige Horatius.
How Rome receives with open arms
Italia’s latest hero,
Who brought down tyranny’s alarms—
Kaiser’s and Pope’s—to zero.
When Garibaldi’s stroke of flame
Bombino’s sceptre crumbled,
To Victor’s broad, tanned forehead came
The crown from fool’s head tumbled.
Now Italy is calm and cool,
And laughs at imbecility,
And leaves the Pope, a Jesuit tool,
To vouch Infallibility.
And he, grey chief, whose lightest word
Made Kings and Cabinets shiver,
As Revolution’s grown absurd,
Takes to embank a river.
combustible materials.
The other day there was a debate in
the French Assembly on dynamite. Stormy
as the proceedings often are in the Chamber,
on this occasion, strange to say, there was
no explosion.
The proper Publishers of Works on
Cremation.—Messrs. Ashers.
CHEERFULNESS UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
A large Meeting composed exclusively of Members of what we
may just now call the Mark Tapley Party, took place at the Reform
Club last week, for the purpose of electing a Leader.
Mr. Cowper-Temple, who was received with loud cheers, moved
that Mr. Bright should take the chair. The proposal was welcomed
with loud cheers.
Mr. Dillwyn, who was also received with loud cheers, seconded
the motion, which was carried amid renewed cheering.
Mr. Bright then took the chair amid loud and prolonged cheer-
ing. He said the party was thoroughly united. (Cheer si) He had
perfect confidence in the future of the party. (Loud cheers.) But
they wanted a Leader (great cheering), and he, therefore, called upon
certain gentlemen to move certain Resolutions. (Prolonged and
enthusiastic cheers)
Mr. Whitbread, who was received with much cheering, moved
that the Meeting should express its profound sense of the loss the
country and party had sustained by the retirement of Mr. Glad-
stone. (Loud and long-continued cheering, again and again
renewed) Their loss, he observed, was a loss, like many other
losses in this life, of which it might be said that we did not become
aware of their magnitude till we discovered how much we had
lost.*
Mr. Fawcett, who seconded the Resolution, was received with
loud cheers. _ He said that it was a great comfort to him and his
friends to think that though they often opposed Mr. Gladstone
when supported by a majority of 125, after he was defeated they
had given him their cordial support. Then the Motion was carried
amid enthusiastic cheering.
* As these remarkable utterances of Mr. Whitbread and Mr. Fawcett
are given in almost identical words in all the reports of the Meeting we
presume they were really the eloquent outbursts of the moment-
Mr. Charles Villiers, on presenting himself to the Meeting,
was received with loud cheers, and on his proposing the Marquis
op Hartington as the future Leader of the Party, the cheering
knew no bounds.
Mr. S. Morley’s cheers appear to have been mislaid for the
moment, on his rising to second the proposal; hut, at the conclusion
of his speech, he was loudly cheered.
The Resolution was carried amid great cheering, and
Lord Frederick Cavendish, on getting on his legs, to return
thanks for his brother the Marquis op Hartington, was greeted
with prolonged cheering.
Dr. Lyon Playpair and Mr. Holms, in moving and seconding a
vote of thanks to Mr. Bright, hardly—according to the reports—
seem to have met with fair play in the way of cheering; but, on
Mr. Bright rising to express his acknowledgments, cheering set
in again with as much vigour as if it was just beginning.
The meeting having shaken hands with itself, then dispersed,
amid loud cheers—the whole proceedings, including the cheering,
not having lasted more than forty minutes.
For a Party that is out of Office, this is about the most cheerful
meeting that was ever reported.
For Coley of Cowley, near Oxford.
(After Johnson.)
Dr. Johnson wrote, in his Vanity of Human Wishes,—
“ See nations slowly wise, and meanly just,
O’er buried merit raise the tardy bust.”
Had he lived last week, he might have written,—
See Coley, scarcely wise, and hardly just,
Over unburied Merritt raise a dust.
Vol. 68.
3—2
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
73
A PROMISING PUPIL.
“ How DOES YOUR BROTHER GET ON IN NEW YORK, PARKER?”
“Very well, indeed, Ma’am, thank you. He’s only been there three Months,
AND HE’s ALREADY BEGINNING TO SPEAK THE LANGUAGE BEAUTIFUL !! ”
A TURN TOR TIBER.
What may not Garibaldi do,
Warrior of famous fibre ?
Having made Italy anew,
He ’d fain re-make the Tiber.
What things that stream of yellow mud
Has seen and done—good gracious!
Since o’er its swiftly flowing flood
Swam the renowned Horatius.
The stream was rushing thick and fast,
The wind was blowing rawly,
When o’er the stream Horatius passed,
Just to oblige Macaulay.
Bravely the hero hastened home,
After his feat audacious ;
Later came Lays of Ancient Rome,
Just to oblige Horatius.
How Rome receives with open arms
Italia’s latest hero,
Who brought down tyranny’s alarms—
Kaiser’s and Pope’s—to zero.
When Garibaldi’s stroke of flame
Bombino’s sceptre crumbled,
To Victor’s broad, tanned forehead came
The crown from fool’s head tumbled.
Now Italy is calm and cool,
And laughs at imbecility,
And leaves the Pope, a Jesuit tool,
To vouch Infallibility.
And he, grey chief, whose lightest word
Made Kings and Cabinets shiver,
As Revolution’s grown absurd,
Takes to embank a river.
combustible materials.
The other day there was a debate in
the French Assembly on dynamite. Stormy
as the proceedings often are in the Chamber,
on this occasion, strange to say, there was
no explosion.
The proper Publishers of Works on
Cremation.—Messrs. Ashers.
CHEERFULNESS UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
A large Meeting composed exclusively of Members of what we
may just now call the Mark Tapley Party, took place at the Reform
Club last week, for the purpose of electing a Leader.
Mr. Cowper-Temple, who was received with loud cheers, moved
that Mr. Bright should take the chair. The proposal was welcomed
with loud cheers.
Mr. Dillwyn, who was also received with loud cheers, seconded
the motion, which was carried amid renewed cheering.
Mr. Bright then took the chair amid loud and prolonged cheer-
ing. He said the party was thoroughly united. (Cheer si) He had
perfect confidence in the future of the party. (Loud cheers.) But
they wanted a Leader (great cheering), and he, therefore, called upon
certain gentlemen to move certain Resolutions. (Prolonged and
enthusiastic cheers)
Mr. Whitbread, who was received with much cheering, moved
that the Meeting should express its profound sense of the loss the
country and party had sustained by the retirement of Mr. Glad-
stone. (Loud and long-continued cheering, again and again
renewed) Their loss, he observed, was a loss, like many other
losses in this life, of which it might be said that we did not become
aware of their magnitude till we discovered how much we had
lost.*
Mr. Fawcett, who seconded the Resolution, was received with
loud cheers. _ He said that it was a great comfort to him and his
friends to think that though they often opposed Mr. Gladstone
when supported by a majority of 125, after he was defeated they
had given him their cordial support. Then the Motion was carried
amid enthusiastic cheering.
* As these remarkable utterances of Mr. Whitbread and Mr. Fawcett
are given in almost identical words in all the reports of the Meeting we
presume they were really the eloquent outbursts of the moment-
Mr. Charles Villiers, on presenting himself to the Meeting,
was received with loud cheers, and on his proposing the Marquis
op Hartington as the future Leader of the Party, the cheering
knew no bounds.
Mr. S. Morley’s cheers appear to have been mislaid for the
moment, on his rising to second the proposal; hut, at the conclusion
of his speech, he was loudly cheered.
The Resolution was carried amid great cheering, and
Lord Frederick Cavendish, on getting on his legs, to return
thanks for his brother the Marquis op Hartington, was greeted
with prolonged cheering.
Dr. Lyon Playpair and Mr. Holms, in moving and seconding a
vote of thanks to Mr. Bright, hardly—according to the reports—
seem to have met with fair play in the way of cheering; but, on
Mr. Bright rising to express his acknowledgments, cheering set
in again with as much vigour as if it was just beginning.
The meeting having shaken hands with itself, then dispersed,
amid loud cheers—the whole proceedings, including the cheering,
not having lasted more than forty minutes.
For a Party that is out of Office, this is about the most cheerful
meeting that was ever reported.
For Coley of Cowley, near Oxford.
(After Johnson.)
Dr. Johnson wrote, in his Vanity of Human Wishes,—
“ See nations slowly wise, and meanly just,
O’er buried merit raise the tardy bust.”
Had he lived last week, he might have written,—
See Coley, scarcely wise, and hardly just,
Over unburied Merritt raise a dust.
Vol. 68.
3—2