Punch (74.1878)

10 PUNCH, OE THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [January 12, 1878.

"NO ADMITTANCE EXCEPT IN LIVERY."

" Punch has again been stopped in Paris, on account of its Cartoon being
considered disrespectful to the Marshal."—Paris Correspondent's Letter.

Satire abandon, all who enter here,"

Is that the legend fitting France's portals ?
Is't for the country of Voltaire to fear
Free wit, that " chartered libertine," so dear
To her immortals ?

Bceotia might try stopping Satire's shaft,
Since for stupidity its rod it pickles.
But French esprit, on Attic nous a graft,
Should welcome all of Scarron's, Moliebe's craft,
Best used when most it tickles.

The jester's bauble with the Marshal's staff

Clashing, might kindle short but wholesome passion.

But Rabelais' countrymen must surely laugh,

To hear of Momus' medicinal chaff
Embargoed in this fashion!

Methinks the threshold of wit's chosen home

Has in the Censor Cerberus unfitting.
Punch loves fair France, as friend to her would come,
'Tis Dunoedom only need wish Satire dumb,
Or fear her sharp, straight hitting.

Kara Avis.

Here for once is a candid advertiser—and he is a Scotchman
—who proclaims himself with blast from the trumpet of the

Glasgow Herald:—

PARTNERSHIP.— A General Merchant in the Country, whose business
does not pay, wishes Partnership in a similar concern where his goods
and services would suit, and where there is room for extending. Knows all
the branches thoroughly. Is sober and in excellent credit. The above
presents a grand opportunity to a Merchant on the eve of his retiral, as
Advertiser could eventually effect a purchase. Apply, in confidence, &e.

Probably the "Merchant on the eve of his retiral" might Boon
learn that in effecting a purchase, the Advertiser had also effeoted
" a sell."

"Williams of England and Wales.

Is it indeed true that Wales has never produced a truly great
man? The great Merlin was at any rate an ancient Briton.
Wales undoubtedly produced the " great Glendower." The Very
Reverend Henry T. Edwards, the Dean of Bangor, has discovered
another Welshman who appears to have ranked among the great men
of his day:—

"Archbishop "Williams, a genuine "Welshman, was the leading statesman
of England at the early age of thirty-nine, and must have been well-known
throughout Europe."

Wales, then, has produced a Williams, who was a leading states-
man as well as an eminent divine. Welshmen, as well as English-
men, can boast of their " divine Williams."