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May 3, 1856
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172 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [May 3, 1856.
occupation precludes study by day. After this an attack was made on
the Board of Health by the Bo'dmin Solomon, Dr. Michell, but
defeated by a large majority, and the House refusid to let the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer hurry on his Bill for taxing foreign Fire
Assurance. The Commons then adjourned, as the Lords had done,
until Thursday, that they might have ample time for enjoying the
charming holiday they anticipated.
that the world is at an end, if we only knew it. Let us pass on.
Lord Clarendon has returned from Paris, and gave some expla-
nation of Austria's interference with Parma, which his Lordship
considered to be entirely warranted.
Lord Palmerston "elsewhere" produced the Correspondence with
America; after which Lord Goderich moved an address in favour of
cpen competition for Appointments to the Civil Service. The Govern-
ment, of course, opposed it; and the House, being in a preternatural
ill-temper, defeated the Government by 108 to 87, and carried the
Address. A demand of Jus'ice to Ireland was made in regard to fire-
works, and Dublin is to have them.
Friday. Lord St. Germans brought in his Bill for legalising Mar-
riage with one's Wife's Sister, and was defeated, chiefly by four priests ;
Thursday. Mr. Punch cannot trust himself to deal with a suhj-ct so i Oxfokd, Cashel, St. David's and Ex&ter. The majority against
painful as that which is set forth in the above cuneiform hieroglyphics.
He must borrow two sentences from the Times:—
In the Lords—
" Lord Ravensworth called the attention of the Government to the total
failure of the arrangements made by the Admiralty for the accommodation of the
Peers at the Naval Review."
In the Commons —
"At the first opportunity permitted by the rules of the House, a torrent of com-
jxaints respecting the arrangements and derangements, so far as affected the Members
of the two Houses of Parliament, at the Naval Review, on the preceding day, burst
forth from all tarts of the House."
May Mr. Punch be permitted, for the moment, to drop a veil over
scenes which are almost too harrowing for description t Each legis-
lative chamber has been a Chamber of Horrors on each nighr, since the mimsbed vehemence, and the members for the South Western Railway
Spithead catastrophes, but let him be spared the recital. Three events condescended to express some regret at what had occurred on the line,
of that awful Wednesday will enable uosterity to judge of its other but took great credit to the Company for not having killed anybody,
'errors. A Bishop wa3 shoved into a third-class carriage ; two Judges i The Police Bill was then debated in committee, and some progress was
had to work at a capstan; and the Premier of England was dragged made. Government has been beaten but twice this week, but then
away in the custody of a policeman. There can be no doubt whatever Parliament has sat but three limes.
him was 19. He was supported by Lord Ellesmkre, Lord Ravens-
worth, and Lord Albemarle; and the latter made an observation,
tor which the Clergy will be very graceful to him. "The opinions
generally expressed by ladies upon this subject were attributable to the
Ignorance ot their Spiritual Advisers, and to their undue reverence for
the Common Prayer-Book." This speech, ladies, comes from no low,
radical, ill-dressed, atheistic, vulgar, plebeian Snob; but from one of
the most accomplished of English noolemen, descended from the Lords
de Clifford, and, moreover, himself one of the Heroes of Waterloo,
and w ho has been Groom-in- Waiting to the Queen ; not that these
facts would influence your habitually unbiassed reasoning,—they are
merely given as matter of information.
In the Commons, the "torrent of complaints" rushed with undi-
SHORTLY WILL WOT BE PUBLISHED.
THE CATALOGUE OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. This celebrated
production 1ms only been some fifteen ortwen'y years in preparation, so therefore
it cannot be reasonably expectt-d that a work that has taken so long to prepare can
possibly be completed in a day or two.
THE "MEMOIRES DE BARRY." These must not be confounded
* with the " Mdmoires" of the notorious Madame du Barei, since they refer particu-
larly to the Memoires that Sir Charles Barry will have to send in in the shape of his
'' little Bill," when he completes the New Houses of Parliament.
'['HE CROSS AND THE CRESCENT. Being the Narrative of an
Elderly Gentleman who had to go from CharingCross to Pelham Crescent, ami got
there much quicker bv walking than by taking the Omnibus—which pleased him
mightily, as the Turbot was just ready for dinner.
0
N BREAKING THE HORSE. The joint work of Lord Lucan anc
the Earl of Cardigan, fiom experience learnt in the Crimea.
pHE INCOMPLETE LETTER-WRITER. By one of the Napibes.
MEN AFTER THEIR TIME. Containing free and extremely familiar
sketches of the Members of Parliament, who were too late on board the Perse-
verance to see the Naval Review.
Lady. " If you think you're a-going out with me that fiygur,
you 're very much mistook. Where's your Gloves ? "
M.P.'s Moved with Ease and Despatch.
THE USE AND ABUSE OF WORDS—High as well as Low. By
J- Sis James Graham, assisted by Sir Charles NAfiEK, with a few hints from
a classic Bishop, who, in the choice of expletives, has acquired the reputation of almost
'banging Bangor"
THE POLITICAL LIFE OF FREDERICK PEEL, as far as it goes.
•L By a Singular Admirer, who has appointed himself his Literary Executor: In one
small volume, Attended as a companion (by way of contrast) to the " Life of SiK
kobert Pej^.
'THE INITIALS. By W.B. Being the Revelations of a certain
I Election under the Derb^ Administration.
'' These revelations are full of the most valuable matter. Every page is worth,
at least, a Bank Note."—Morning Herald.
THE RAILWAY COOKERY BOOK. Teaching the Young Director
-L how to l: Cook Railway Accounts " so as to " make things pleasant " to the taste ot
the most fastidious shareholder. With cuts and directions for carping a Dividend.
By the Aide-de-Camp to the late Railway King.
Not one of the above works may be had at the Punch Office, 85,
Fleet Street, nor anywhere else.
On the event of another Naval Review taking place that shall require
the presence of the House of Commons, it will be proposed that all the
Members, to insure punctuality, will be carried to their destination by A Legal Synonym.—Chief-Justice Lord Campbell, we under-
the Parcels Delivery Company. A great improvement this upon the I stand, always refers to the Lords' Visit to the Naval Review, as " The
Admiralty. leading case of stoppage in Transit-u.'r
occupation precludes study by day. After this an attack was made on
the Board of Health by the Bo'dmin Solomon, Dr. Michell, but
defeated by a large majority, and the House refusid to let the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer hurry on his Bill for taxing foreign Fire
Assurance. The Commons then adjourned, as the Lords had done,
until Thursday, that they might have ample time for enjoying the
charming holiday they anticipated.
that the world is at an end, if we only knew it. Let us pass on.
Lord Clarendon has returned from Paris, and gave some expla-
nation of Austria's interference with Parma, which his Lordship
considered to be entirely warranted.
Lord Palmerston "elsewhere" produced the Correspondence with
America; after which Lord Goderich moved an address in favour of
cpen competition for Appointments to the Civil Service. The Govern-
ment, of course, opposed it; and the House, being in a preternatural
ill-temper, defeated the Government by 108 to 87, and carried the
Address. A demand of Jus'ice to Ireland was made in regard to fire-
works, and Dublin is to have them.
Friday. Lord St. Germans brought in his Bill for legalising Mar-
riage with one's Wife's Sister, and was defeated, chiefly by four priests ;
Thursday. Mr. Punch cannot trust himself to deal with a suhj-ct so i Oxfokd, Cashel, St. David's and Ex&ter. The majority against
painful as that which is set forth in the above cuneiform hieroglyphics.
He must borrow two sentences from the Times:—
In the Lords—
" Lord Ravensworth called the attention of the Government to the total
failure of the arrangements made by the Admiralty for the accommodation of the
Peers at the Naval Review."
In the Commons —
"At the first opportunity permitted by the rules of the House, a torrent of com-
jxaints respecting the arrangements and derangements, so far as affected the Members
of the two Houses of Parliament, at the Naval Review, on the preceding day, burst
forth from all tarts of the House."
May Mr. Punch be permitted, for the moment, to drop a veil over
scenes which are almost too harrowing for description t Each legis-
lative chamber has been a Chamber of Horrors on each nighr, since the mimsbed vehemence, and the members for the South Western Railway
Spithead catastrophes, but let him be spared the recital. Three events condescended to express some regret at what had occurred on the line,
of that awful Wednesday will enable uosterity to judge of its other but took great credit to the Company for not having killed anybody,
'errors. A Bishop wa3 shoved into a third-class carriage ; two Judges i The Police Bill was then debated in committee, and some progress was
had to work at a capstan; and the Premier of England was dragged made. Government has been beaten but twice this week, but then
away in the custody of a policeman. There can be no doubt whatever Parliament has sat but three limes.
him was 19. He was supported by Lord Ellesmkre, Lord Ravens-
worth, and Lord Albemarle; and the latter made an observation,
tor which the Clergy will be very graceful to him. "The opinions
generally expressed by ladies upon this subject were attributable to the
Ignorance ot their Spiritual Advisers, and to their undue reverence for
the Common Prayer-Book." This speech, ladies, comes from no low,
radical, ill-dressed, atheistic, vulgar, plebeian Snob; but from one of
the most accomplished of English noolemen, descended from the Lords
de Clifford, and, moreover, himself one of the Heroes of Waterloo,
and w ho has been Groom-in- Waiting to the Queen ; not that these
facts would influence your habitually unbiassed reasoning,—they are
merely given as matter of information.
In the Commons, the "torrent of complaints" rushed with undi-
SHORTLY WILL WOT BE PUBLISHED.
THE CATALOGUE OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. This celebrated
production 1ms only been some fifteen ortwen'y years in preparation, so therefore
it cannot be reasonably expectt-d that a work that has taken so long to prepare can
possibly be completed in a day or two.
THE "MEMOIRES DE BARRY." These must not be confounded
* with the " Mdmoires" of the notorious Madame du Barei, since they refer particu-
larly to the Memoires that Sir Charles Barry will have to send in in the shape of his
'' little Bill," when he completes the New Houses of Parliament.
'['HE CROSS AND THE CRESCENT. Being the Narrative of an
Elderly Gentleman who had to go from CharingCross to Pelham Crescent, ami got
there much quicker bv walking than by taking the Omnibus—which pleased him
mightily, as the Turbot was just ready for dinner.
0
N BREAKING THE HORSE. The joint work of Lord Lucan anc
the Earl of Cardigan, fiom experience learnt in the Crimea.
pHE INCOMPLETE LETTER-WRITER. By one of the Napibes.
MEN AFTER THEIR TIME. Containing free and extremely familiar
sketches of the Members of Parliament, who were too late on board the Perse-
verance to see the Naval Review.
Lady. " If you think you're a-going out with me that fiygur,
you 're very much mistook. Where's your Gloves ? "
M.P.'s Moved with Ease and Despatch.
THE USE AND ABUSE OF WORDS—High as well as Low. By
J- Sis James Graham, assisted by Sir Charles NAfiEK, with a few hints from
a classic Bishop, who, in the choice of expletives, has acquired the reputation of almost
'banging Bangor"
THE POLITICAL LIFE OF FREDERICK PEEL, as far as it goes.
•L By a Singular Admirer, who has appointed himself his Literary Executor: In one
small volume, Attended as a companion (by way of contrast) to the " Life of SiK
kobert Pej^.
'THE INITIALS. By W.B. Being the Revelations of a certain
I Election under the Derb^ Administration.
'' These revelations are full of the most valuable matter. Every page is worth,
at least, a Bank Note."—Morning Herald.
THE RAILWAY COOKERY BOOK. Teaching the Young Director
-L how to l: Cook Railway Accounts " so as to " make things pleasant " to the taste ot
the most fastidious shareholder. With cuts and directions for carping a Dividend.
By the Aide-de-Camp to the late Railway King.
Not one of the above works may be had at the Punch Office, 85,
Fleet Street, nor anywhere else.
On the event of another Naval Review taking place that shall require
the presence of the House of Commons, it will be proposed that all the
Members, to insure punctuality, will be carried to their destination by A Legal Synonym.—Chief-Justice Lord Campbell, we under-
the Parcels Delivery Company. A great improvement this upon the I stand, always refers to the Lords' Visit to the Naval Review, as " The
Admiralty. leading case of stoppage in Transit-u.'r