DOI issue:
February 27, 1875
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16940#0104
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[February 27, 1876.
THE GAMUT.
Jack Bowbell (beginning his Song). “ 'Atpy Land, ’Arpy Land-”
Tom Belgrave. “ One Moment—excuse me, my dear Fellow—but don’t you think the Song would go better if you were
to Sound your ITs just a little ? ”
Jack Bowbell. “Eh? Sound my H's?” (Chuckles.) “’Shows how much you know about Music !—No such Note—only
goes up to G!” (Continues.) “’Appy Land, 'Appy Land-”
THE YOUNG CORPORAL.
“ Le petit Caporal ” is no longer the only one of that rank in the
Napoleon family. “Corporal His Highness the Prince Imperial”
has made such good use of his student life at Woolwich, as to come
out seventh in order of merit in the first-class of Cadets, thirty-three
in number, who have recently been undergoing the stiff examination
for Commissions at the lloval Military Academy. The Prince
gained this honourable position—one which would have entitled
him to the option of a Commission either in the Engineers, or
Artillery, had he chosen to enter the British Army—in the face of
considerable disadvantages, being nearly a year younger than the
average age of his comrades in the Commission Class, haying had
an insufficient preparation at starting, and possessing, it is almost
needless to add, hut an imperfect acquaintance with our language.
He appears to have been high up in mathematics, fortification,
and artillery ; to have ranked fifth in gymnastics, and—what
Englishmen will not regard as his least success—to have surpassed
all other competitors in horsemanship.
Many may think that we have reserved till the last Prince Louis
Napoleon’s best claim to the applause which greeted his name at
the Woolwich inspection, when they read the following quotation
from the report of the Governor of the Academy:—“The Prince
Imperial, by his invariable punctuality and exactitude in the per-
formance of his duties, by his perfect respect for authority, and
submission to discipline, has set an example which deserves honour-
able mention, even among his comrades of the Commission Class.”
The Empress Eugenie was present at Woolwich, and had the
gratification of seeing the Prince take the command of his fellow
Cadets and drill them to the expressed satisfaction of the Com-
mauder-in-Chief, and of listening, with a pride and a pleasure easy
to imagine, and not hard to understand, to all the commendation
bestowed on her son ; and he must be a very truculent anti-Bona-
partist who could grudge the mother the happiness all that she saw
and heard must have brought to her heart that day.
To speculate on the young Prince’s future career is altogether out
of our province ; but to wish that he may throughout his life uphold
the high character which he bears away with him from Woolwich,
and to hope that he may have abundant opportunities of displaying
his proficiency in gymnastics and skill in horsemanship—it in an
English hunting-field so much the better—but not his knowledge of
f ortification and artillery—seems to come as the agreeable and natural
close to this record in the pages of Punch of his success as a
Woolwich Cadet.
HARDLY CREDIBLE.
Punch is unwilling to believe, till the necessary question has
been asked and answered in the House of Commons, the accuracy of
the assertion in a letter published in Tuesday’s Times, that—
“ Lady Franklin, the aged widow of Sir John Franklin, having asked,
as the only favour she has ever sought from Government, that her husband’s !
nephew, and the last representative of his name, Mr. Willingham Franklin,
should be appointed one of the two sub-lieutenants on the Arctic Expedition,
has been refused ! ”
The writer adds, naturally :—
“Were there any grounds for this refusal, personal to Mr. Franklin, it
might be justified as a painful necessity in the interests of the service ; but
there are none. He is in excellent health, and stands as high as regards
energy and professional ability as any officer of his standing.”
Punch and the Public pause for the question, and the reply.
The Undertaker’s Text-Book.—Haden’s Dictionary.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[February 27, 1876.
THE GAMUT.
Jack Bowbell (beginning his Song). “ 'Atpy Land, ’Arpy Land-”
Tom Belgrave. “ One Moment—excuse me, my dear Fellow—but don’t you think the Song would go better if you were
to Sound your ITs just a little ? ”
Jack Bowbell. “Eh? Sound my H's?” (Chuckles.) “’Shows how much you know about Music !—No such Note—only
goes up to G!” (Continues.) “’Appy Land, 'Appy Land-”
THE YOUNG CORPORAL.
“ Le petit Caporal ” is no longer the only one of that rank in the
Napoleon family. “Corporal His Highness the Prince Imperial”
has made such good use of his student life at Woolwich, as to come
out seventh in order of merit in the first-class of Cadets, thirty-three
in number, who have recently been undergoing the stiff examination
for Commissions at the lloval Military Academy. The Prince
gained this honourable position—one which would have entitled
him to the option of a Commission either in the Engineers, or
Artillery, had he chosen to enter the British Army—in the face of
considerable disadvantages, being nearly a year younger than the
average age of his comrades in the Commission Class, haying had
an insufficient preparation at starting, and possessing, it is almost
needless to add, hut an imperfect acquaintance with our language.
He appears to have been high up in mathematics, fortification,
and artillery ; to have ranked fifth in gymnastics, and—what
Englishmen will not regard as his least success—to have surpassed
all other competitors in horsemanship.
Many may think that we have reserved till the last Prince Louis
Napoleon’s best claim to the applause which greeted his name at
the Woolwich inspection, when they read the following quotation
from the report of the Governor of the Academy:—“The Prince
Imperial, by his invariable punctuality and exactitude in the per-
formance of his duties, by his perfect respect for authority, and
submission to discipline, has set an example which deserves honour-
able mention, even among his comrades of the Commission Class.”
The Empress Eugenie was present at Woolwich, and had the
gratification of seeing the Prince take the command of his fellow
Cadets and drill them to the expressed satisfaction of the Com-
mauder-in-Chief, and of listening, with a pride and a pleasure easy
to imagine, and not hard to understand, to all the commendation
bestowed on her son ; and he must be a very truculent anti-Bona-
partist who could grudge the mother the happiness all that she saw
and heard must have brought to her heart that day.
To speculate on the young Prince’s future career is altogether out
of our province ; but to wish that he may throughout his life uphold
the high character which he bears away with him from Woolwich,
and to hope that he may have abundant opportunities of displaying
his proficiency in gymnastics and skill in horsemanship—it in an
English hunting-field so much the better—but not his knowledge of
f ortification and artillery—seems to come as the agreeable and natural
close to this record in the pages of Punch of his success as a
Woolwich Cadet.
HARDLY CREDIBLE.
Punch is unwilling to believe, till the necessary question has
been asked and answered in the House of Commons, the accuracy of
the assertion in a letter published in Tuesday’s Times, that—
“ Lady Franklin, the aged widow of Sir John Franklin, having asked,
as the only favour she has ever sought from Government, that her husband’s !
nephew, and the last representative of his name, Mr. Willingham Franklin,
should be appointed one of the two sub-lieutenants on the Arctic Expedition,
has been refused ! ”
The writer adds, naturally :—
“Were there any grounds for this refusal, personal to Mr. Franklin, it
might be justified as a painful necessity in the interests of the service ; but
there are none. He is in excellent health, and stands as high as regards
energy and professional ability as any officer of his standing.”
Punch and the Public pause for the question, and the reply.
The Undertaker’s Text-Book.—Haden’s Dictionary.