Punch (64.1873)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[Apbil 5, 1873.

AMBRIDGE is an ancient place,

Where young men are instructed.
Some, as is usually the case,

Are well— some ill—conducted.
Of Oxford I may well repeat

A similar description.
At both a visitor will meet

A very kind reception. (There'« a rhyme .')

To some the sport is very dear

Of rowing on their rivers,
And so they leave off smoke and beer,

And are most careful livers.
Now crews from both, on London's stream,

In annual contest meeting,
This year the Caen's superior team
Gave Isis' sons a beating.

A Pbize and PiiosE Poet.

PROHIBITION FOR OTHER PEOPLE.

Since the loss of the Deceased Wife's Sister's Bill, the other day,
in the House of Lords, a considerable number of our contemporaries
have rejoiced over its rejection, and eulogised its opponents. They
have, however, omitted to notice two chief points in which the claims
of those parties to commendation are remarkable. Not any Journalist
or Reviewer has pointed out, firstly, that the Bill for legalising
marriage with the sister of a deceased wife was permissive and not
compulsory ; so that it was not as though those who opposed it did
so because it threatened to make them and others of their way of
thinking liable to be obliged to marry their deceased wives' sisters
against their wills, and therefore that their opposition to it proceeded
from a purely disinterested and benevolent desire to regulate the
conduct of other people. Secondly, that the permission to contract
a marriage forbidden by the British Law, though not by that of
Nature, and not only legal in many foreign countries but customary

to be thought of by the majority, who are not aggrieved by it, so
long as it is implored only by a weak minority, and to be conceded
not until those who demand it are numerous and formidable ; but
then always, of course.

EAGLE AND GOOSE.

It seems to be a question whether the United States Government
will allow the " Three Rules " under which the Geneva Award was
given against us to the amount of between £3,000,000 and £4,000,000
to bind them, prospectively, in the same sense as that in which we
consented to let it retrospectively bind us, so letting ourselves in for
payment of all that money. But the money is not paid yet; or, at
least, if it is not, my Lords of the Treasury, had you not better wait
before you do pay it, until you know whether or not the Yankees

______ ________ . _______ mean to agree that what has been sauce for the British Goose shall,

without any the slightest detriment to Society, would have been the I in like circumstances, be held and taken to be condiment also for the

removal of an existing restriction on personal liberty ; a thing never American Eagle ?