The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-06 00:00:00

How to Make Punch.

When the history of the rise and progress of Punch
comes to be written, it will be found that the weekly
dinner has been one of the chief things which contributed
to its success. Almost from the foundation of that journal
it has been the habit of the contributors every Wednesday
to dine together. In the winter months, the dinner is
usually held in the front room of the first floor of No. 11,
Bouverie-street, Whitefriars—the business offices of the
proprietors, Messrs. Bradbury and Evans. Sometimes
these dinners are held at the Bedford Hotel, Covent-
garden. During the summer months, it is customary to
have ten or twelve dinners at places in the neighbourhood
of London, Greenwich, Richmond, Blackwall, &c. And
once a year they attend the annual dinner of the firm, at
which compositors, readers, printers, machinemen, clerks,
&c., dine. This dinner is called the " Way Goose," and is
often referred to in Punch.
At the weekly dinner, the contents of the forthcomingnumber of Punch are discussed. When the cloth is removed,
and dessert is laid on the table, the first question put by
the editor is, " What shall the Cartoon be ? "

During the lifetimes of Jerrold and Thackeray, the dis-
cussions after dinner ran very high, owing to the consti-
tutional antipathy existing between these two. Jerrold
being the oldest, as well as the noisest, generally came off
victorious. In these rows it required all the suavity of
Mark Lemon (and he has a great deal of that quality) to
calm the storm ; his award always being final.
The third edition of Wednesday's Sun is generally
brought in to give the latest intelligence, so as to bring
the Cartoon down to the latest date. On the Thurday
morning following, the editor calls at the houses of the
artists to see what is being done. On Friday night all copy
is delivered and put into type, and at two o'clock on
Saturday proofs are revised, the forms made up, and with
the last movement of the engine, the whole of the
type is placed under the press, which cannot be moved un-
til the Monday morning, when the steam is again up.
This precaution is taken to prevent waggish tricks on the
part of practical joking compositors.
At these dinners none but those connected with the staff
proper are permitted to attend ; the only occasional excep-
tions, we believe, have been Sir Joseph Paxton, Mr. Layard,

the present Foreign Under-Secretary, Charles Dickens, and
Charles Dickens, jun. As an illustration of the benefit
arising from these meetings, we may mention that Jerrold
always used to say, "It is no use any of us quarrelling'
because next Wednesday must come round with its dinner,
when we will all have to shako hands again." By means
of these meetings, the discussions arising on all questions
helped both caricaturist and wit to take a broad view of
things, as well as enabled the editor to get his team to draw
well together, and give a uniformity of tone to all the
contributions.—The New Number of the North British Review,
just published.

THE MAGNESIUM LIGHT. —This powerful light
has just received a new application in connexion
with the laryngoscope, a small apparatus consisting of two
mirrors by means of which the lower parts of the larynx
may be conveniently brought to view. M. Maisonneuve,
being desirous of showing his students the manner of using
this apparatus, requested Dr. Fournii, the inventor of the
improvement we 'are about to describe, to attend a late clini-
cal lecture of his. Dr. Foumid did so, bringing a patient with
him, who was suffering from a polypus situated deep in the
throat. This tumour, of the size of a filbert, not only impeded
the free articulation of sound, but might in the end, by

its growth, have rendered respiration impossible, and conse-
quently caused death by suffocation. In order to render
this pathological phenomenon visible to the students and
physicians who crowded the lecture-room, M. Fourni6
made use of the magnesium light, which owing to its dear-
ness (a shilling per minute), is as yet not generally known.
By means of M. Mathieu-Plessy's lamp, specially construc-
ted for the magnesium light, strong luminous rays were
projected on the mirror placed at the furthest end of the
fauces, and thence reflected into the larynx and the tra-
clues. These parts being powerfully illuminated, were
visibly depicted on the mirror ; but the image was neces-
sarily small, the mirror not being more than two centi-
metres square. But on a bi-convex lens being placed be-
fore the patient's mouth, the image became so enlarged,
that every one could distinguish it from a distance of a
few metres. These two applications of important scientific
discoveries and contrivances combined are highly interest-
ing ; in the first place by the aid of the magnesium light
the exact site of the slightest sore in the upper respiratory
organs may be discovered by physicians; and in the
second place the same may be rendered visible to a nume-
rous audience.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 4.
The Queen, accompanied by his Royal Highness
Prince Leopold, drove out this morning
and four. The Duchess of Roxburghe yeas Ia
attendance.
Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and
Princess Louise rode on horseback.
Her Royal Highness Princess-Beatrice went out
walking. in a carriage

March 5.
The Queen, their Royal Highnesses Princel
Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, an;
the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attenelea.
Divine Service this morning in the Private CliaPela
The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster presehe
the sermon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam.
Their
bridge and Princess Mary visited the Queen "'—'t
afternoon, attended by Lady Geraldine Somme°
and Colonel Home Purves.
Countess Blucher arrived at the Castle yesterd*
Lord Stanley of Alderley also arrived, and had thie
honour of dining with the Queen and the The
Family.
Mr. G. T. Doo had the honour of submitting Or
her Majesty's inspection at Windsor Castle, on S3'
turday, his engraving of The Raising of Lazar's:tn:
from the picture by Sebastian del Piombo,
National Gallery.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur,
attended hia
Major Elphinstone, arrived at Paris by railivaitt°
Friday afternoon, and proceeded at once ill the
carriage of his Excellency Earl Cowley to

British Embassy. Arai)
Later in the afternoon his Royal Highness
Dl'
to the Tuileries to pay a visit to the Prince

perial.
His Imperial Highness received Prince Arthlir 38
he entered the palace, and conducted him to tile Pre-
Bence of the Emperor and Empress..
At the close of-his visit his Royal Highwr_L'
turned to the Embassy and in the evening 574,7er
for Marseilles, where he will embark on board
Majesty's ship Enchantress.
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in visiting the different scenes of sacred and 67;
cal interest which can be reached from the shores a
the Mediterranean, his tour being undertake%ire.
great measure for educational objects, and
turn to England in the month of May.
The Rev. W. R. Jolley also accompanies Dee
Arthur on the tour.

The Prince and Princess of 'gala
nand'
The Prince of Wales, attended by Theute,est
Colonel Keppel, hunted with his harriers "

Windsor, on Saturday. the
The Prince and Princess of Wales welly "
Lyceum Theatre in the evening. lion.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the in
Mrs. Bruce and Lieutenant-Colonel ICePPe4oel
waiting, attended Divine service at the Chaff
Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning.