DOI Heft:
December 20, 1884
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17757#0297
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[December 20, 1884.
HARDLY NECESSARY.
It flashed across Jones’s mind, as his Horse flew oyer the first Fence, that he
REALLY MUST TAKE A FEW LESSONS IN LEAPING !
NOT A LUMINOUS GLOBE.
The Holidays approach opportunely to afford leisure for an attempt to master the intri-
cacies of the following stupendous sentence, cut from the Globe of Tuesday, December 9th
“This morning Thomas Dudley, the captain, and Edwin Stephens, the mate of the yacht
Mignonette, were brought up in the custody of the governor of Holloway Prison to have sentence
pronounced on them by the Lord Chief Justice of England (Lord Coleridge), Mr. Justice Grove,
Mil Justice Denman, Baron Pollock, and Baron Huddleston, sitting as Judges possessing the
criminal jurisdiction of the Queen’s Bench Division, which was reserved to them under the Judicature
Acts, when they were formally declared to be guilty of the murder of Richard Parker, a lad between
seventeen and eighteen years of age, on the high seas, on July 25th in the present year, in order that
I the Court might give their reasons for the conclusions at which they had arrived on the question
i argued before their Lordships on Thursday last, whether the crime charged against the prisoners did or
did not amount to wilful murder.”
One thing at least is clear, that the Lord Chief Justice of England, Mr. Justice Grove, Mr.
: Justice Denman, Baron Pollock, and Baron Huddleston “ were formally declared to be
i guilty of the murder of Richard Parker on the high seas.” But it is not so clear why they
| should have committed this heinous crime “ in order that the Court might give their reasons
I for the conclusions at which they had arrived.”
PAPER-KNIFE POEMS.
By Our Special Book-Marker.
“FAST AND LOOSE.”
A stirring story—wondrous in variety—
Of high and low and middle-class society,
Of Scotland Yard, of Paris, and la rousse;
Of players, prisons, sentiment, and snobbery,
Finance, flirtation, forgery, and robbery—
Does Arthur Griffiths tell in Fast and
Loose.
“FROM POST TO FINISH.”
A dashing tale by Hawley Smart—
The plot we mean not to impart;
But you must heed it!
’Tis full of incident and sport,
Of love and marriage, and in short—
You ’re bound to read it!
As we read on, it is contest,
"We find the story’s interest
Does not diminish:
The writer ne’er forgets his art,
And all is clever, all is—Smart
From Post to Finish !
THREE CHRISTMAS NUMBERS.
If you live by Thames or Humber,
If you single he or mated,
You must have the Christmas Number,
Of the dear old Illustrated !
If your home’s near New or Clumber,
If you ’re surly or seraphic,
You must take the Christmas Number,
Of the many-pictured Graphic !
If at Stockton or Stogumber,
You feel dismal or ecstatic ;
You must get the Christmas Number,
Of the Sporting and Dramatic !
LADY BRASSEY’S NEW BOOK.
Send off at once, you won’t he wrong, Man,
And get without delay from Longman,
The latest work of Lady Brassey’s,
Which former effort quite surpasses !
What graphic pow’r and sparks of fun beam,
Throughout the Story of the Sunbeam !
And skilful Mr. R. T. Pritchett,
With clever drawings doth enrich it:
A lively book of the right sort is, f.
In Tropics, Trades, and Pouring Forties !
A REAL HOGG IN ARMOUR.
Sir Samuel M‘Garel-Hogg, Chairman of
the Metropolitan Board of Works, has intro-
duced a Bill for conferring further powers on
the Board as regards the supply of water.
One power proposed is that of prosecuting
or defending not only legal proceedings
instituted by or against the Board, but also
those instituted by or against any consumer
of water in the Metropolis, relating to the
supply or to the Companies. That sounds
hopeful, even heroic. Mr. Punch pictures—
(“in his mind’s-eye, Horatio ”)—the Board
of Works fighting the Water Companies
much as Elaxman pictured “ Achilles con-
tending with the Rivers ” in the Iliad.
Let us hope that when, and if, the fight
comes off, it may be as Homerically heroic
as it sounds, and its issue he in the interest
of the sorely handicapped Public, who, not
being able to calculate upon a succession
of Dauntless Dobbses, stand much in need
of other than volunteer champions.
Christianly Christmas _ Sentiment.—
Nevermind about “Justice in Turkey,” let
us do “ Justice to Turkey,” ay, and to Sau-
sages too. Why not ? Why should Sausages
be left out in the cold ? No ! Justice to
all alike. Yours truly,
Peter Puddinghead.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[December 20, 1884.
HARDLY NECESSARY.
It flashed across Jones’s mind, as his Horse flew oyer the first Fence, that he
REALLY MUST TAKE A FEW LESSONS IN LEAPING !
NOT A LUMINOUS GLOBE.
The Holidays approach opportunely to afford leisure for an attempt to master the intri-
cacies of the following stupendous sentence, cut from the Globe of Tuesday, December 9th
“This morning Thomas Dudley, the captain, and Edwin Stephens, the mate of the yacht
Mignonette, were brought up in the custody of the governor of Holloway Prison to have sentence
pronounced on them by the Lord Chief Justice of England (Lord Coleridge), Mr. Justice Grove,
Mil Justice Denman, Baron Pollock, and Baron Huddleston, sitting as Judges possessing the
criminal jurisdiction of the Queen’s Bench Division, which was reserved to them under the Judicature
Acts, when they were formally declared to be guilty of the murder of Richard Parker, a lad between
seventeen and eighteen years of age, on the high seas, on July 25th in the present year, in order that
I the Court might give their reasons for the conclusions at which they had arrived on the question
i argued before their Lordships on Thursday last, whether the crime charged against the prisoners did or
did not amount to wilful murder.”
One thing at least is clear, that the Lord Chief Justice of England, Mr. Justice Grove, Mr.
: Justice Denman, Baron Pollock, and Baron Huddleston “ were formally declared to be
i guilty of the murder of Richard Parker on the high seas.” But it is not so clear why they
| should have committed this heinous crime “ in order that the Court might give their reasons
I for the conclusions at which they had arrived.”
PAPER-KNIFE POEMS.
By Our Special Book-Marker.
“FAST AND LOOSE.”
A stirring story—wondrous in variety—
Of high and low and middle-class society,
Of Scotland Yard, of Paris, and la rousse;
Of players, prisons, sentiment, and snobbery,
Finance, flirtation, forgery, and robbery—
Does Arthur Griffiths tell in Fast and
Loose.
“FROM POST TO FINISH.”
A dashing tale by Hawley Smart—
The plot we mean not to impart;
But you must heed it!
’Tis full of incident and sport,
Of love and marriage, and in short—
You ’re bound to read it!
As we read on, it is contest,
"We find the story’s interest
Does not diminish:
The writer ne’er forgets his art,
And all is clever, all is—Smart
From Post to Finish !
THREE CHRISTMAS NUMBERS.
If you live by Thames or Humber,
If you single he or mated,
You must have the Christmas Number,
Of the dear old Illustrated !
If your home’s near New or Clumber,
If you ’re surly or seraphic,
You must take the Christmas Number,
Of the many-pictured Graphic !
If at Stockton or Stogumber,
You feel dismal or ecstatic ;
You must get the Christmas Number,
Of the Sporting and Dramatic !
LADY BRASSEY’S NEW BOOK.
Send off at once, you won’t he wrong, Man,
And get without delay from Longman,
The latest work of Lady Brassey’s,
Which former effort quite surpasses !
What graphic pow’r and sparks of fun beam,
Throughout the Story of the Sunbeam !
And skilful Mr. R. T. Pritchett,
With clever drawings doth enrich it:
A lively book of the right sort is, f.
In Tropics, Trades, and Pouring Forties !
A REAL HOGG IN ARMOUR.
Sir Samuel M‘Garel-Hogg, Chairman of
the Metropolitan Board of Works, has intro-
duced a Bill for conferring further powers on
the Board as regards the supply of water.
One power proposed is that of prosecuting
or defending not only legal proceedings
instituted by or against the Board, but also
those instituted by or against any consumer
of water in the Metropolis, relating to the
supply or to the Companies. That sounds
hopeful, even heroic. Mr. Punch pictures—
(“in his mind’s-eye, Horatio ”)—the Board
of Works fighting the Water Companies
much as Elaxman pictured “ Achilles con-
tending with the Rivers ” in the Iliad.
Let us hope that when, and if, the fight
comes off, it may be as Homerically heroic
as it sounds, and its issue he in the interest
of the sorely handicapped Public, who, not
being able to calculate upon a succession
of Dauntless Dobbses, stand much in need
of other than volunteer champions.
Christianly Christmas _ Sentiment.—
Nevermind about “Justice in Turkey,” let
us do “ Justice to Turkey,” ay, and to Sau-
sages too. Why not ? Why should Sausages
be left out in the cold ? No ! Justice to
all alike. Yours truly,
Peter Puddinghead.