Punch (61.1871)

July 29, 1871.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 33

OUR RESERVES!

Aide-de-Camp (at the last Review). " What are you doing here, Sir ? Where's your Regiment ?'
Party on the Grass. " Shure I don' Know. Bu-r I don' Rec'nise your 'Thority, Gov'nour ! "
Aide-de-Camp (furious). "What the Deuce d' you Mean, Sir? You're a Volunteer, aren't you?"

Party on the Grass. "(Hie!) Norabirofit !—Was jus' now—bu-r I've Reshigned 'n cons' quence—Temp'ry 'Ndishposition !"

POST-CARD FOR PERU.

Not only does Mr. Punch survey mankind from China to Peru,
but mankind from those regions, both included, surveys him.
Especially Peru, whereof Dr. Watts wrote—■

" i would net change my native land
For rich Peru with all her gold,
a nobler prize lies in my hand

Than Hast or Western Indies hold."

The Italics are his own, but we have no idea what they imply.
The prize means that which is now being revised in the Jerusalem
Chamber. But never mind Dr. Watts. Mr. Punch has just received
a letter from Lima, requesting an answer in his "Notices to
Correspondents." He never notices Correspondents, as his Corre-
spondents might have noticed. But as he is applied to by beings in
another world, he will waive his rule, and state that '' the dis-
tinguished artist who designed the Punch frontispiece" is alive,
and Mr. Punch hopes that he will be able to make the same state-
ment many years hence. Now then, what is the best thing Lima
produces ? Let it be sent here, carriage paid, by the next ship from

THE RITUALIST PARSONS' PETITION.

Your petitioners humbly solicit the pity
Which the candid and just for their like ever feel;

0 deliver us from the Judicial Committee,
And permit us to have our own Court of Appeal.

We require not a Court to determine expressions
By the terms of an Article, Canon, or Act.

But we want a Tribunal, in trying transgressions^
To make law for the nonce whilst it judges the fact.

To be brief, we demand a Tribunal elastic,
Which shall deal, by an absolute unwritten rule,

With offenders in all cases ecclesiastic,

As a pedagogue governs the boys of a school.

An Adequate Sovereign.

The complaint that Royalty has failed to show distinguished
Callao. N.B. Neither pumas, jaguars, vipers, toads, nor armadilloes . %okM^ >0±J nf ;t ia indiscriminate. The City

need apply.

Progress in Parliament.

The House of Commons created by Mr. Disraeli's Reform Bill is
very Liberal, but also very Conservative. The Ministerial majority
in it is extremely large, and the Government can get it to pass ex-
tremely few measures. Maintaining things much as they were, it is

visitors the hospitality expected of it, is indiscriminate. The City
Monarch, anyhow, has fully shown himself equal to aU occasions in
that particular. No wonder at the high idea entertained by foreign-
ers of the dignity and greatness of the Lord Mayor.

no more bribery.

Mr. Tipping, who is a Conservative, has been speaking in the
thus considerably more Conservative than Progressive, and the j House in support of the Ballot. This is very disinterested conduct

Leader of Her Majesty's Opposition may chuckle over the thought on the part of the Member for Stockport, for some people assert their
that, in constituting it on the basis of household suffrage, he did the j belief that when the Ballot comes into operation, there will be ar
best he could for his party. end of—" Tipping." '

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