ALLOCUTION ON THE UNIVERS.

Puis Punch, P. P.

The suppression of the Univers caused our paternal heart severe affliction, but we derived an equal amount of consolidation from the subjoined telegram:-

“Brussels, Jan. 27.

“The Univers, which has just been suppressed by the French Government, will be continued here.”

We are wonderfully reassured in mind by this comfortable intelligence. When first we heard of the tyrannical decree which imposed silence on the organ of our beloved priesthood, we almost began to despair of the continued edification which, in common with all our faithful subscribers, we have so often derived from accounts of apparitions such as that of La Salette, and miracles of the nature of the winking image of Rimini. We feared that we should never more be agreeably astonished by those wonderful shots with the long bow, or amused with those subtle and profound inventions, with which we had been accustomed to be entertained by our excellent Veuillot. We were very much afraid that we should cease to be charmed with that eloquent vituperation of which he is endowed with so singular a talent. But now we are enabled to indulge the pleasing hope that, with a change only of place, his pious zeal will continue to supply us with the customary recreation which has so often occasioned our bosom to expand, and our sides to be convulsed with merriment.

Back to THE NEXT INVASION. <<< — >>> Next to DOING A BIT OF STIFF.