MrPunch's history of modern England . noting the fact that he (Punch) has generally, in regard topublic affairs, taken his cue from The Times? That was substantially trueof The Times under the old rigime when Delane was editor. Mr. Herbert Paul,himself a strong Liberal, writes in his History of Modern England that Delanes chief quality was his independence. Mr. Dasent, in his biography,gives good grounds for his assertion that Delane was at no time what couldbe called a party man, though his instincts were essentially Liberal, and notesthat if charged with inconsistency, Delane would merely re
MrPunch's history of modern England . noting the fact that he (Punch) has generally, in regard topublic affairs, taken his cue from The Times? That was substantially trueof The Times under the old rigime when Delane was editor. Mr. Herbert Paul,himself a strong Liberal, writes in his History of Modern England that Delanes chief quality was his independence. Mr. Dasent, in his biography,gives good grounds for his assertion that Delane was at no time what couldbe called a party man, though his instincts were essentially Liberal, and notesthat if charged with inconsistency, Delane would merely remind his criticsthat The Times was the organ of no party, and that every issue was completein itself. Mr. PiincJis History of Modern England Crimea, had no more enthusiastic trumpeter than Punch. Butthe great gulf in prestige and power between The Times underDelane and the rest of the London Press is indirectly but un-mistakably shown in Punchs habitual disrespect for most ofhis other contemporaries. In another context, I have quoted. JENKINS AT HOME examples of his flagellation of the Morning Post—the onlypaper, by the way, which supported the Coup dEtat; but twomasterpieces of malice may be added. In 1843, a proposof Jenkinss incurably unctuous worship of rank, Punchobserves : If the reader be not weeping at this, it is not in thepower of onions to move him. And again, a little later on inthe same year, Punch compares the beastliness of Jenkins,the life-long toad-eater, with the beastly fellow denouncedin the Morning Post for swallowing twelve frogs for a wager !Punch was not content with identifying the Morning Post with 236 Victorian and Georgian Jouriialisni the imaginary personality of Jenkins, the super-flunkey, but wasalso responsible for re-christening the Morning Herald and theStandard—Conservative morning and evening papers which,until 1857, belonged to the same proprietor—Mrs. Gamp andMrs. Harris. The Standard retaliated by calling Punch themost abject of all
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