Punch (79.1880)

Jclt 10, 1880.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

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Friday, June 25 {Lords). — Lord.
Houghton moved the Second Reading
of the Bill for Legalising Marriage with
a Deceased Wife’s Sister. Lord Beau-
champ moved its rejection. Thereon
ensued customary debate; the usual
arguments pro—the usual twaddle con.
Lost by 101 to 90 ; the Prince of Wales,
the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Duke
of. Connaught voting in the rational
minority ; Lord Granville also stand-
ing content on the side of reason and
natural right.

Commons [Morning).—Mr. Forster
—not Mr. Parnell—moved the reading
of the Compensation for Disturbance
(Ireland) Bill; designed, not as a mea-
sure for the indemnification of the
victims of Irish outrage, but for the
compensation of tenants disturbed in
their holdings by landlords taking law-
ful means to obtain rent. Rejection of
this proposal of Tenant (Irish) Right
moved by Mr. Chaplin. Debate ad-
journed.

[Evening.)—Mr. Stevenson moved a
Resolution in favour of the total—tee-

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total—closing of publichouses on Sun-
days—seconded by Mr. Burley. The