DOI issue:
December 15, 1855
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16616#0250
233 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [December 15, 1855.
THE ORIGINAL ROUND HAT.
Old Lady, [log.) " What can they see to Laugh at ; nasty rude people ? It's a very Sensible Hat—especially for
THOSE who don't LIKE a strong LlGHT."
THE DISSATISFIED INDEPENDENTS.
Poor Mr. Serjeant Shee, despondent at the humiliated condition
of the hungry Irish Brigade, has been writing a letter to one of the
Hibernian papers, setting out his conviction, that in the next session,
the only chance for the Band to make itself felt—that is, to get its
members into places under Government—is to adopt "a determined
course of dissatisfied independence; not only in regard to important
questions, but in every-day matters." By being generally disagreeable,
the Irish members, according to the great patriot Shee, may compel
Lord Palmerston to fling them sops to keep them quiet.
We understand that on the Serjeant's suggestion, the Dissatisfied
Independents are havirjg rehearsals, in order to be ready for the open-
ing of Parliament. A correspondent in Dublin informs us that they
go through the whole business of an evening's debate, and get up a
row upon each of the "Every-day matters " as it arises. He sends us
a list of some of the manifestations of " dissatisfaction."
When the Spaker takes the cheer, he is to be bully-ragged for
letting an English, Scotch, or Welsh mimber catch his eye before an
Irish one.
When he shouts out the name of an Irish mimber, he is to be abused
for not spaking in a more deferential tone.
When any mimber spakes of the "English" army in the Crimea,
or of "British" arrums, he is to be assaulted by six Irish spakers in
succession.
No bill is to be allowed to be inthrojuiced that does not in some way
refer to Oireland—or if it be permitted to be bi ought in, Irish clauses
are to be added. For instance, to an India bill, a provision is to be
appended, that the next Governor-General shall be an Irishman, and
to any measure of taxation, a proviso that it shall not apply to poor
Oireland.
The House and the Spaker are to be made to understand, that when
au Irish mimber wants to spake all others give way.
All Irish petitions are to have precedence of Engiish ones, and are to
be read at full length by the chap in the small wig.
If any mimber cries "question" while an Irish mimber is spaking,
the Brigade pledges itself to move his impachement.
One Government night in each week is to be given up to the exclusive
discussion of Irish questions, and if Ma. Hayter ever permits a
"no-house" upon such a night, he is to be exterminated.
In counting the House, the Spaker is to reckon every Irish mimber
as two; he being worth any two of his malignant oppressors.
In the case of a row between Irish mimbers, no English or Scotch
ones are to presume to interfere, but the spalpeens are to wait in
respectful silence until the gentlemen are plazed to be done.
It is for the Irish mimbers to settle what time the House shall rise,
and no one is to take the liberty of going away until the desire of the
Brigade has been signified.
It is to be made a standing order, that Mr. Henry Drummond is
not to make any profane fun of a Roman Catholic saint, praste, relic,
or miracle, and on the least allusion of that kind, he is to be committed
to the custody of the Serjeant at Arrums.
With the aid of these, and similar improvements upon the present
system, Mr. Serjeant Shee and his friends hope soon to diminish the
causes for their Dissatisfaction, by procuring a market for some of the
Independence, which, like tradesmen anxious to sell, they now puff so
lustily. The worst of it all is, that parties are so evenly balanced in
the House, that such a set of gentlemen, after such an avowal, may
command their price.
MORE LAURELS FOR PRUSSIA.
Lieutenant Geneste has published the official account of the
Han go massacre; it seems that the murders were committed in due
form, and by the most regular butchers. The men were not slaughtered
under the sanctity of a flag of truce by a raw, rash,_ undisciplined
troop of marauders; but killed in all due form, and in the coldest
blood by "one of the best Russian regiments, the Grenadiers of
Frederick. William op Prussia, as they are called, the King of
Prussia being their Colonel." It is expected that the flag of truce
will be sent as a trophy—atrophy of "a dignified neutrality "—to the
King-Colonel; and further, that the Grenadiers, which his Prussian
Majesty delights to command, will henceforth carry, emblazoned on
their regimental flag, the word—" Hango."
THE ORIGINAL ROUND HAT.
Old Lady, [log.) " What can they see to Laugh at ; nasty rude people ? It's a very Sensible Hat—especially for
THOSE who don't LIKE a strong LlGHT."
THE DISSATISFIED INDEPENDENTS.
Poor Mr. Serjeant Shee, despondent at the humiliated condition
of the hungry Irish Brigade, has been writing a letter to one of the
Hibernian papers, setting out his conviction, that in the next session,
the only chance for the Band to make itself felt—that is, to get its
members into places under Government—is to adopt "a determined
course of dissatisfied independence; not only in regard to important
questions, but in every-day matters." By being generally disagreeable,
the Irish members, according to the great patriot Shee, may compel
Lord Palmerston to fling them sops to keep them quiet.
We understand that on the Serjeant's suggestion, the Dissatisfied
Independents are havirjg rehearsals, in order to be ready for the open-
ing of Parliament. A correspondent in Dublin informs us that they
go through the whole business of an evening's debate, and get up a
row upon each of the "Every-day matters " as it arises. He sends us
a list of some of the manifestations of " dissatisfaction."
When the Spaker takes the cheer, he is to be bully-ragged for
letting an English, Scotch, or Welsh mimber catch his eye before an
Irish one.
When he shouts out the name of an Irish mimber, he is to be abused
for not spaking in a more deferential tone.
When any mimber spakes of the "English" army in the Crimea,
or of "British" arrums, he is to be assaulted by six Irish spakers in
succession.
No bill is to be allowed to be inthrojuiced that does not in some way
refer to Oireland—or if it be permitted to be bi ought in, Irish clauses
are to be added. For instance, to an India bill, a provision is to be
appended, that the next Governor-General shall be an Irishman, and
to any measure of taxation, a proviso that it shall not apply to poor
Oireland.
The House and the Spaker are to be made to understand, that when
au Irish mimber wants to spake all others give way.
All Irish petitions are to have precedence of Engiish ones, and are to
be read at full length by the chap in the small wig.
If any mimber cries "question" while an Irish mimber is spaking,
the Brigade pledges itself to move his impachement.
One Government night in each week is to be given up to the exclusive
discussion of Irish questions, and if Ma. Hayter ever permits a
"no-house" upon such a night, he is to be exterminated.
In counting the House, the Spaker is to reckon every Irish mimber
as two; he being worth any two of his malignant oppressors.
In the case of a row between Irish mimbers, no English or Scotch
ones are to presume to interfere, but the spalpeens are to wait in
respectful silence until the gentlemen are plazed to be done.
It is for the Irish mimbers to settle what time the House shall rise,
and no one is to take the liberty of going away until the desire of the
Brigade has been signified.
It is to be made a standing order, that Mr. Henry Drummond is
not to make any profane fun of a Roman Catholic saint, praste, relic,
or miracle, and on the least allusion of that kind, he is to be committed
to the custody of the Serjeant at Arrums.
With the aid of these, and similar improvements upon the present
system, Mr. Serjeant Shee and his friends hope soon to diminish the
causes for their Dissatisfaction, by procuring a market for some of the
Independence, which, like tradesmen anxious to sell, they now puff so
lustily. The worst of it all is, that parties are so evenly balanced in
the House, that such a set of gentlemen, after such an avowal, may
command their price.
MORE LAURELS FOR PRUSSIA.
Lieutenant Geneste has published the official account of the
Han go massacre; it seems that the murders were committed in due
form, and by the most regular butchers. The men were not slaughtered
under the sanctity of a flag of truce by a raw, rash,_ undisciplined
troop of marauders; but killed in all due form, and in the coldest
blood by "one of the best Russian regiments, the Grenadiers of
Frederick. William op Prussia, as they are called, the King of
Prussia being their Colonel." It is expected that the flag of truce
will be sent as a trophy—atrophy of "a dignified neutrality "—to the
King-Colonel; and further, that the Grenadiers, which his Prussian
Majesty delights to command, will henceforth carry, emblazoned on
their regimental flag, the word—" Hango."