DOI Heft:
February 27, 1892
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17693#0108
Feuruary 27, 1892.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
99
TIMES CHANGE.
["The 'Ranges Act' constitutes ... a standing
menace to rights of common wherever commons
and open spaces exist."—The 'Times.']
"The old order changes, yielding place to
new."
By Phoebus, you are right, mellifluous
Tennyson ! [view,
Could Norman William this conjuncture
He'd greet our Progress with—well, scarce
a benison;
He, though ranked high 'midst monarchs and
commanders,
Had the same weakness as our troops in
Flanders.
Robert the Devil's ruthless son would clear
A county to make coverts, deer-runs, chaces.
What had he thought of modern notions
queer
Concerning Common Rights and Open
Spaces? [them,
"The People—who are varlets !—still oppose
Whether the Powers that be make or enclose
them! "
" The People versus Powers that Be ! " Ah.
yes!
Imperious Norman, that's a modern trial
That's always being argued more or less ;
The Press keeps now such vigilant espial
On every grasping would-be public plunderer.
You, Sire, had not to reckon with " The
Thunderer ! "
Times change, stark soldier, and we have the
Times
Premier to check and snub Chief Secretaries.
Counting land-grabbing high among earth's
crimes [varies.
Would have amazed you! Public judgment
You and your wolf-hound, William, would
not now
Try a " clean sweep,"—without a general
row.
Ask Otto ! He is somewhat in your style,
But he could tell you what new risks environ
The ancient art of Ruling. You may smile
At Print and Paper versus Blood and Iron,
But Sovereign and Crown, though loved by
many,
Stand now no chance against the Popular
Penny.
Ask Mai wood's Squire again! He knows
right well
The New Democracy,—and the New Forest;
Our great Plantagenet, a true blue " Swell,"
Fights for the People when their need is
sorest.
In Norman Billy he'd own small belief ;
The People's William is his favourite chief.
Your ghostly presence in these verdant glades
Might startle Stanhope, musing on his
Ranges,
But not the angriest of Royal Shades
May now arrest the progress of Time's
changes.
True, much is yielded yet to Swelldom's
"Sport,"
but some aver that even its time is short.
No, Clearances and Rights of Common, now
Own not the sway of autocrats capricious.
Small use, great Shade, to knit that haughty
brow,
And swear t/our action would be expeditious.
The days of Curfew and of Forest Law
Are passed. We 're swayed by Justice—and
Free Jaw!
"For Value Received."—AldgateWard
changed Alderman Lusk for one Pound.
WHAT OUR ARTsST HAS TO PUT UP WiTH,
BEFORE HE TURNS LIKE A CRUSHED WORM,
Our Art Critio (patronisinghj). "Ha—hum! Well, your Colour is fairly decent,
and you have necish feeling for LlGHT and shade, and chiaroscuro. but where
you always fail to please, somehow, is in your execution!"
Our Artist. "My Execution? Ah! Just so. I've no doubt that yours, now
would be more generally popular ! "
From Parliamentary Examination
Paper.
India foe the Irish !—" An amended
estimate of the present Paddy Crop has been
Question.-Ex-pten the term "Standing P?.blisl\ed the Jf™}-Government." (
Orders " Times fox Feb. 15.) What more can the most
Answer l.-It means that when a visitor ! thorough Home-Rulers want if they would
to the House has an order for the Speaker's , ™lJh* c°nrtent ^ 5m^e their home m Burmah
Gallery, and can't find a seat, he then becomes mste£d <>f Irfland ?„ Local Government, can
one of the Standing Orders.-SiSTE Yiator. soon be developed for'tis but Home Rule m the
Answer 2. — When a friendly M.P. sees
three of us waiting for him, takes us to the
bar of the House, and orders drinKs all round,
which we take standing.—Bibendum Est.
bud, and the "Paddy Crop" is already there.
Motto for the New Recorder of the
City of London,—" Hall There ! "
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
99
TIMES CHANGE.
["The 'Ranges Act' constitutes ... a standing
menace to rights of common wherever commons
and open spaces exist."—The 'Times.']
"The old order changes, yielding place to
new."
By Phoebus, you are right, mellifluous
Tennyson ! [view,
Could Norman William this conjuncture
He'd greet our Progress with—well, scarce
a benison;
He, though ranked high 'midst monarchs and
commanders,
Had the same weakness as our troops in
Flanders.
Robert the Devil's ruthless son would clear
A county to make coverts, deer-runs, chaces.
What had he thought of modern notions
queer
Concerning Common Rights and Open
Spaces? [them,
"The People—who are varlets !—still oppose
Whether the Powers that be make or enclose
them! "
" The People versus Powers that Be ! " Ah.
yes!
Imperious Norman, that's a modern trial
That's always being argued more or less ;
The Press keeps now such vigilant espial
On every grasping would-be public plunderer.
You, Sire, had not to reckon with " The
Thunderer ! "
Times change, stark soldier, and we have the
Times
Premier to check and snub Chief Secretaries.
Counting land-grabbing high among earth's
crimes [varies.
Would have amazed you! Public judgment
You and your wolf-hound, William, would
not now
Try a " clean sweep,"—without a general
row.
Ask Otto ! He is somewhat in your style,
But he could tell you what new risks environ
The ancient art of Ruling. You may smile
At Print and Paper versus Blood and Iron,
But Sovereign and Crown, though loved by
many,
Stand now no chance against the Popular
Penny.
Ask Mai wood's Squire again! He knows
right well
The New Democracy,—and the New Forest;
Our great Plantagenet, a true blue " Swell,"
Fights for the People when their need is
sorest.
In Norman Billy he'd own small belief ;
The People's William is his favourite chief.
Your ghostly presence in these verdant glades
Might startle Stanhope, musing on his
Ranges,
But not the angriest of Royal Shades
May now arrest the progress of Time's
changes.
True, much is yielded yet to Swelldom's
"Sport,"
but some aver that even its time is short.
No, Clearances and Rights of Common, now
Own not the sway of autocrats capricious.
Small use, great Shade, to knit that haughty
brow,
And swear t/our action would be expeditious.
The days of Curfew and of Forest Law
Are passed. We 're swayed by Justice—and
Free Jaw!
"For Value Received."—AldgateWard
changed Alderman Lusk for one Pound.
WHAT OUR ARTsST HAS TO PUT UP WiTH,
BEFORE HE TURNS LIKE A CRUSHED WORM,
Our Art Critio (patronisinghj). "Ha—hum! Well, your Colour is fairly decent,
and you have necish feeling for LlGHT and shade, and chiaroscuro. but where
you always fail to please, somehow, is in your execution!"
Our Artist. "My Execution? Ah! Just so. I've no doubt that yours, now
would be more generally popular ! "
From Parliamentary Examination
Paper.
India foe the Irish !—" An amended
estimate of the present Paddy Crop has been
Question.-Ex-pten the term "Standing P?.blisl\ed the Jf™}-Government." (
Orders " Times fox Feb. 15.) What more can the most
Answer l.-It means that when a visitor ! thorough Home-Rulers want if they would
to the House has an order for the Speaker's , ™lJh* c°nrtent ^ 5m^e their home m Burmah
Gallery, and can't find a seat, he then becomes mste£d <>f Irfland ?„ Local Government, can
one of the Standing Orders.-SiSTE Yiator. soon be developed for'tis but Home Rule m the
Answer 2. — When a friendly M.P. sees
three of us waiting for him, takes us to the
bar of the House, and orders drinKs all round,
which we take standing.—Bibendum Est.
bud, and the "Paddy Crop" is already there.
Motto for the New Recorder of the
City of London,—" Hall There ! "