MrPunch's history of modern England . ^ nuisances, and all sinecurists and pensionists. In 1852Panizzi (for his long deferred catalogue of the British Museumof which he was Chief Librarian), Cardinal Wiseman, andLord Maidstone are added, together with Railway Directors,Homoeopathists and Protectionists. Among the various devices adopted to ventilate hispersonal animosity may be noted Punchs list of desirableemigrants, and the ingenious suggestion that PenalStatues should be erected to commemorate the misdeeds ofgreat offenders, obstructionists, bigots and anti-reformers. Ofsome of Punchs butts
MrPunch's history of modern England . ^ nuisances, and all sinecurists and pensionists. In 1852Panizzi (for his long deferred catalogue of the British Museumof which he was Chief Librarian), Cardinal Wiseman, andLord Maidstone are added, together with Railway Directors,Homoeopathists and Protectionists. Among the various devices adopted to ventilate hispersonal animosity may be noted Punchs list of desirableemigrants, and the ingenious suggestion that PenalStatues should be erected to commemorate the misdeeds ofgreat offenders, obstructionists, bigots and anti-reformers. Ofsome of Punchs butts it may be said that they were rescuedfrom oblivion by his satire and caricature—Sibthorp forexample, tliough he was by no means the merely reactionarybuffoon who appears in Punch. He w^as eccentric in dress andfigure, : -1 the great measures of Reform, and was theincarnation of i ii:^a-Tory tradition. But he was frequently 304. PEEL AS THE KNAVE OF SPADES U-l 305 Mr. Pimclis History of Modern England witty, and as truculently courageous as Punch himself. SirPeter Laurie, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, stood toPunch for all that was pompous, officious, meddlesome and evenodious in City administration. We rub our eyes on readingin the that Sir Peter throughout his public life devotedhimself largely to schemes of social advancement, was a goodmagistrate and a disciple of Joseph Hume. But the explana-tion of this and other divergent records is simple was often too angry or enthusiastic to be just or dis-criminating. He wrote on the spur of the moment, with theresult that he often had to revise his verdicts. We have seenthis change in regard to Prince Albert, the Duke of Wellington,and Palmerston, and already Punch had reluctantly begun toadmit that Disraeli was a force in politics and not a meremountebank. The bitter attacks on Bulwer Lytton as a pinch-beck writer and padded dandy, which
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