Punch (70.1876)

240 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [June 10, 1876.

UNANIMOUS ALL ROUND.

Kind-hearted Parson. " Dear me! Take care ! Suppose-1 hope he won't hit your Fingers!"

Gigantic Navvy. "So do he too, Sir! You may depend"—{with meaning)—"he'd better!!"

PRAISE FROM THE .POPE.

" The English is a highly religious nation, and, as far as the Reformation
permits, a religious nation . . . The Anabaptists were burnt alive by Queen
Elizabeth . . . The Arians were burnt under Edward the Sixth, and
the writ He Sccretico Comburendo lasted a long time . . . Keligious in-
difference was never tolerated."—See Z' Osservatore Romano.

In the City Eternal the Pope's own journal

Strange praise of England soundeth ;
That it once was a place of Christian grace,

Which, in some things, still aboundeth.
Once we prisoned and fined to enlighten the mind

Of Dissent, just as Orthodox men do :
And conformitie enforced with a De

Hceretico Comburendo !

Elizabeth, so history saith,

Was of heresy pupil aptest;
But even in her good deeds occur,

For she roasted the Anabaptist:
And though Edward the Sixth was graceless, he

Did what Rome would fain again do—
Made the Arians see the meaning of De

Hceretico Comburendo,

Let us swallow the praise ; for in these dull days

Though none are with thumb-screws tortured,
Or burnt at the stake for Piety's sake

With wood from the nearest orchard,
Church Suits there be—and when folk see

The strange things that saintly men do,
They feel there should be a new writ, De

Lunatico Inquirendo.

A Selling Po.ce {dedicated to the Supporters of Petrarch).—The
Derby!

FESTIVE ECONOMY.

The " Centenary of Adam Smith" was celebrated on Thursday
last week, being the Hundredth Anniversary of the publication of
Smith's Wealth of Nations, by a dinner at the Pall Mall Restaurant,
Waterloo Place, Mr. Gladstone in the Chair, presiding over a large
number of noblemen and gentlemen, politicians, statesmen, and
philosophers, additionally regaled after their banquet with a doubt-
less genial address by Mr. Lowe. This dinner was given by the
Political Economy Club. Some curiosity, therefore, may be felt as
to its menu. In connection with the wealth of nations illustrating
the wealth of individuals, that, of course, was not limited to work-
house fare, but might it not, on principle, have included Skilligolec
d la Melasse and Potage a la Gardien des Pauvres, otherwise
Soupe Maigre a la Maison cPIndustrie f These delicacies may
have been untasted, but there is no accounting for tastes ; and some
enthusiastic political economists may possibly, all the rather if per-
sonally economical as well, prefer the lighter soups abovementioned
to turtle, either thick or clear, and even for themselves.

A Contradiction in Terms.

In his Seraglio prison

Abdul-Aziz sighed, too late,
" The Softa is my downfall,

The harder is my fate."

cruelty to our kind.

In case the new Vivisection Bill becomes law, will it protect the
higher as well as the lower animals ? Does it contain any clause
forbidding people to cut their friends, or restraining literary gentle-
men from cutting up one another!

Motto for the Dethroned Sultan.—" Though lost to sight, to'
memory dear."

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