Punch (74.1878)

Mabch 9, 1878.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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STABLE MANAGEMENT.

(A discussion on Litter.)

Nimrod One. " But Horses look so wretched on Sawdust, particularly in Winter,"

Nimrod Two. " Well, I keep this Horse on it all the Year round, and he does as well again."

Nimrod Three. " Sawdust! Didn't know they'd Eat it! It must comb oheap!"

that the representative of the British Lion will be Lord Lyons—
most appropriate of mouthpieces for the Leonine family; and
Punch takes the liberty of adding, that he will appear in his teeth
and claws.

Lord G. Hamilton announced the agreeable intelligence from
India, that our expeditionary force has whacked the Jowakis, aLd
that Lord Lttton, as the representative of John Bull in India,
may henceforth take unto himself the title of " the Jowhacker,"
like the Ram, Jam, Ram-jam, &c, &c, &c, of Indian rule.

The Eddyston Lighthouse is undermined. Ominous of the fall
of British Empire, according to our pessimist prophets of evil, now
so loud and numerous. The Trinity House, wise in time, are laying
the foundations of another lighthouse on a rock forty yards off the
site of the old one. Where is the rock for our new foundation-stone ?

House in Committee on Factories and Workshops Bill. It seems
that in factories where women and young children are employed,
the women are forbidden to eat their meals in the factory. Thus,
when too far off to get home in the dinner-hour, they are driven
to> the street, the open yard, or the public-house. Mr. Fawcett
tried to remove the prohibition, which seems hard. Mr. Cross
said there were reasons of inspection against altering the law.
The question of inspecting Convents being raised on the clause
exempting them from the visitation of inspectors under the Act,
Mr. Newdegate made a gallant attempt to ride his hobby through
the clause, but in vain.

Tuesday {Lords).—Earl Delaware tried to pump Lord Debby
about the Terms of Peace. Lord Derby not knowing could not say
more than that it was clear many of the alleged conditions were
canards of the most colossal description, set flying to irritate and
mislead English and European opinion against the Russians.

{Commons.)—Sir Stafford Northcote thought it probable that
peace might be signed that day, but nothing was yet known on the
subject.

Mr. Hardy told Sir H. Havelock that the First Army Corps

was equipped with means of transport, ambulance, and ammunition
trains, and he hoped soon to be able to say as much of the Second.

Think of England able to move two Army Corps at once ! Why
Germany cannot move more than twenty, in not more than half the
t;me it will take us to move two! Punch feels inclined to shout
with Dominie Sampson, Pro-di-gious 1

Mr. Hubbard moved a Resolution that Governmentjwould make
the Income Tax Act easier by distributing its burden more fairly.
Government declined the attempt, though quite concurring in the
expediency of making the tax sit as equally as possible. After a
talk, showing that on the question there are almost as many minds
as men in the House, old Mother Hubbard had to retire from her
cupboard, discomfited in the attempt to get her bull-dog that bone
of contention—an equitable Income Tax.

Mr. Goldney was Counted Oat in an attempt to take the House
with him into the Heralds' College. Alas ! the days are gone when
Garter and Norroy, Rouge Dragon and Rouge Croix, Norfolk and
Portcullis, and their sayings and doings, chargings and blazonings,
searches and visitations, could interest any human beings beyond
the narrow circle of genealogical antiquaries and county historians.

Wednesday {Commons). — Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen moved
Second Reading of his Bill miscalled a Bill for Legalising Certain
Colonial Marriages, but really for allowing the children of colonial
marriages with deceased wives' sisters—when such marriages have
been legalised by colonial laws, approved by the Queen in Council—
to inherit landed estates in Great Britain as legitimate children,
which by English law they are not.

Of course this was, and was admitted to be, a first step in the
direction of introducing the Deceased Wife's Sister within the pale of
English matrimonial law. It was, therefore, fiercely denounced, but
carried nevertheless by 182 to 161. As this is not one-half the
last Commons' majority for the Bill, its rejection in the Lords is
certain.

The real dragon in the path of the Deceased Wife's Sister, who