DOI Heft:
March 13, 1880
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17763#0125
March 13, 1880.]
PUNCH,
LONDON CHARIVARI
PROPOSED EPITAPH EOR THE
PRESENT PARLIAMENT
BY SIR W'. LAWSON.
(,Apropos of Mr. Cross’s Water Bill.)
Here Reposes
a
Parliament
Of Conservative Tastes,
which,
BRED upon BEER,
Endeavoured to support its
Constitution
hy an appeal to
British Spirit
and
Ihperiae Measures,
and
in its Seventh Year
took to
WATER,
and
Died !
“Caput Apri defero,
Reddens Laudes Domino ! ”
The St. Gothard Tunnel is com-
pleted ! Let the bore of Mont Cenis
hide its diminished hole ! The bore
of St. Gothard is admitted to he the
biggest bore in the world, and it
unites several great countries ! The
Alps could not resist it. Only let
your bore be big enough, and what
can stand against its penetrative
power? Yes, the St. Gothard Tun-
nel is the Apex Aprorum—the Bore’s
Head par excellence—the crown and
climax of that most widely extended
and most formidable of zoological
genera, the genus Aper !
IE YOU WOULD BE SO OBLIGING.
“Weather Authorities prophesy that
the coming Spring will be mild, and not
characterised by the periodic gales we are
at present experiencing.”
American papers, please copy.
NO ACCOUNTING FOR TASTES.
’Bus Driver (to Regular- Rider). “You ’ear them ’ebe Forriners on the Knifeboard, Sir?
Ain’t it wonderful as they don’t get Tired o’ Jabbering away like that the ’ole Journey
—AND NOT AM INTELLIGIBLE WORD FROM FUST TO LAST! ”
THE ALPS IN AN UPROAR.
The great European chain of mountains, of whose links one of the
largest is Mount St. Gothard, becomes, during a thunderstorm,
according to Lord Byron, endowed with the power of speech.
Teste poeta:—
“ Far along,
From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,
Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud.
But every mountain now hath found a tongue,
And Jura answers, through her misty shroud,
Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! ”
What the Alps on this occasion told Jura, and what was the
reply made by Jura to the Alps, the witness to this conversation
between them has left unrecorded. However, if, as he tells us, the
Alps can talk, we may he quite sure that some of them must have
had. something to say on the opening last week of the St. Gothard
Tunnel ; that being the second eye which engineering skill has
drilled through an Alpine aiguille. This second triufnph of human
ingenuity and enterprise over the natural forces of refractory rocks
was more than enough to make the Alps cry out. Of course, with
one accord, they exclaimed, “ Bored again ! But what of that,
when the thoroughfare, so enormous a bore to us, is an advantage
of proportional magnitude to Europe and the world ? Huzza for
the tunnel of Mont St. Gothard! Huzza for the tunnel of Mont
Cenis! ”
The giant mountains then gave three cheers for Mont St. Gothard
and. three for Mont Cenis, with one cheer more; in which Mont Cenis
and Mont St. Gothard heartily joined.
Sors for the Czar.— litere Loris.
PUTTING IT THE OTHER WAY.
Touching the extradition of a certain fugitive, demanded hy the
Russian Government on the charge of having fired the mine intended
to blow up the Czar on the Moscow Railway, that great modern
“ Master of the Sentences,” Victor Hugo, has published an appeal
to the Government of France in the following compendium of concise
propositions:—
“ You are an honest Government. You cannot give up this man. You
cannot; the law is between you and him. And above the law there is right.
Despotism and Nihilism are two monstrous aspects of the same fact, which is
a political fact. Extradition laws stand still before political facts. Those
laws all nations observe ; France will observe them. You will not give up
this man.”
To this obtestation the authorities invoked might with more force
reply—“Yes, we are an honest Government. We cannot refuse
to give up this man. The law is behind us, not before him.
Above the law there is justice. Murder and treason may be two
distinct aspects, political and social, of the same crime. The political
crime does not cancel the social. Extradition laws take cognizance
of social crimes. Those laws all nations ought to respect. France
Avill respect them. We certainly shall_ surrender this runaway, on
sufficient prirna facie evidence of his criminality.”
“Sic Itur ad Astra.”
The two following paragraphs may be read in the same number
of the Guardian :—
“ St. Petersburg. — Clergymen of
foreign faiths have received threaten-
ing notices, warning them that their
churches will be blown up.”
“ Wanted, an
for St. Petersburg
Assistant-Chaplain
Apply to, &c.”
PUNCH,
LONDON CHARIVARI
PROPOSED EPITAPH EOR THE
PRESENT PARLIAMENT
BY SIR W'. LAWSON.
(,Apropos of Mr. Cross’s Water Bill.)
Here Reposes
a
Parliament
Of Conservative Tastes,
which,
BRED upon BEER,
Endeavoured to support its
Constitution
hy an appeal to
British Spirit
and
Ihperiae Measures,
and
in its Seventh Year
took to
WATER,
and
Died !
“Caput Apri defero,
Reddens Laudes Domino ! ”
The St. Gothard Tunnel is com-
pleted ! Let the bore of Mont Cenis
hide its diminished hole ! The bore
of St. Gothard is admitted to he the
biggest bore in the world, and it
unites several great countries ! The
Alps could not resist it. Only let
your bore be big enough, and what
can stand against its penetrative
power? Yes, the St. Gothard Tun-
nel is the Apex Aprorum—the Bore’s
Head par excellence—the crown and
climax of that most widely extended
and most formidable of zoological
genera, the genus Aper !
IE YOU WOULD BE SO OBLIGING.
“Weather Authorities prophesy that
the coming Spring will be mild, and not
characterised by the periodic gales we are
at present experiencing.”
American papers, please copy.
NO ACCOUNTING FOR TASTES.
’Bus Driver (to Regular- Rider). “You ’ear them ’ebe Forriners on the Knifeboard, Sir?
Ain’t it wonderful as they don’t get Tired o’ Jabbering away like that the ’ole Journey
—AND NOT AM INTELLIGIBLE WORD FROM FUST TO LAST! ”
THE ALPS IN AN UPROAR.
The great European chain of mountains, of whose links one of the
largest is Mount St. Gothard, becomes, during a thunderstorm,
according to Lord Byron, endowed with the power of speech.
Teste poeta:—
“ Far along,
From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,
Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud.
But every mountain now hath found a tongue,
And Jura answers, through her misty shroud,
Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! ”
What the Alps on this occasion told Jura, and what was the
reply made by Jura to the Alps, the witness to this conversation
between them has left unrecorded. However, if, as he tells us, the
Alps can talk, we may he quite sure that some of them must have
had. something to say on the opening last week of the St. Gothard
Tunnel ; that being the second eye which engineering skill has
drilled through an Alpine aiguille. This second triufnph of human
ingenuity and enterprise over the natural forces of refractory rocks
was more than enough to make the Alps cry out. Of course, with
one accord, they exclaimed, “ Bored again ! But what of that,
when the thoroughfare, so enormous a bore to us, is an advantage
of proportional magnitude to Europe and the world ? Huzza for
the tunnel of Mont St. Gothard! Huzza for the tunnel of Mont
Cenis! ”
The giant mountains then gave three cheers for Mont St. Gothard
and. three for Mont Cenis, with one cheer more; in which Mont Cenis
and Mont St. Gothard heartily joined.
Sors for the Czar.— litere Loris.
PUTTING IT THE OTHER WAY.
Touching the extradition of a certain fugitive, demanded hy the
Russian Government on the charge of having fired the mine intended
to blow up the Czar on the Moscow Railway, that great modern
“ Master of the Sentences,” Victor Hugo, has published an appeal
to the Government of France in the following compendium of concise
propositions:—
“ You are an honest Government. You cannot give up this man. You
cannot; the law is between you and him. And above the law there is right.
Despotism and Nihilism are two monstrous aspects of the same fact, which is
a political fact. Extradition laws stand still before political facts. Those
laws all nations observe ; France will observe them. You will not give up
this man.”
To this obtestation the authorities invoked might with more force
reply—“Yes, we are an honest Government. We cannot refuse
to give up this man. The law is behind us, not before him.
Above the law there is justice. Murder and treason may be two
distinct aspects, political and social, of the same crime. The political
crime does not cancel the social. Extradition laws take cognizance
of social crimes. Those laws all nations ought to respect. France
Avill respect them. We certainly shall_ surrender this runaway, on
sufficient prirna facie evidence of his criminality.”
“Sic Itur ad Astra.”
The two following paragraphs may be read in the same number
of the Guardian :—
“ St. Petersburg. — Clergymen of
foreign faiths have received threaten-
ing notices, warning them that their
churches will be blown up.”
“ Wanted, an
for St. Petersburg
Assistant-Chaplain
Apply to, &c.”