DOI Heft:
July 19, 1856
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July 19, 1856.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
21
Tuesday. In the Lords tie principal topic was me
Scutari monument, which Lord Harrington does not
like, and Lord Panmure does, neither circumstance being
of the slightest consequence, as Baron Marochetti has
got the commission to execute, and the enormous price for
the job has been voted.
In the Commons the Public Health Bill was rejected
by 73 to 61, and a good deal of abuse was lavished upon I
the Board oi Health. Its chief, M r. Cowpkb, plaintively )
said that "its only desire was to do some work {laughter)
for the benefit of the public." He has had to ask that its
life may be continued for a year. The Queen has issued a
commission for inquiry into the question, what she shall
be selected for the new National Gallery. Two questions,
one regarding the alleged ill-treatment of certain naval
officers, and the other that of certain military officers,
w»-re then brought on, with different fates, jet with equal
inutility ; for the first was n-jected by 38 to 31, and the
House was counted out upon the second, Rosati appear-
ing at Her Majesty's Theatre in a splendid new ballet.
Wednesday. The subject of examination ror the Civil
Service whs brought up, and Lord Goderich stated that
at pretent the examinations caused the rejection of one
Candidate in three, and therefore, be thought the system
could not b^ pushed farther. He said, fairly enough, that
for tide-waiters and letter-carriers, no high literary standard
ought to be proposed, but we think that from Under-
Secretaries of Sta*e a little more should be expected. For
instance, Lord Shelburne (who has just been raised to
office, and to the peerage, because he is the son of the
excellent Mabqtjis of Lansdowne), should not write to
his constituents that be is " unable to resist the oppor-
tunity of endeavouring," &c. We resist importunities, we
forego opportunities. Lord Shelbdrne. The examination
question, therefore, is to remain where it was. The Irish
Tenant Bight Bill was thrown over, having quite answered
its purpose, namely, that of providing i's promoters with
some clap-trap for 1 heir constituents.
Thursday. Lord Campbell elicited a sort of promise
from the Government that during the recess a bill should
be prepared for including strychnine and some other poisons
in the law that very sensibly prevents arsenic from being
carelessly sold. As such a bill could be drawn iu ten
minutes, and passed through both Houses be/ore the pro-
rogation, we should like to know why the people are to be
left for six months at the mercy of the boys behind the
druggists' counters. The bill for improving the Dwellings
of the Irish peasantry passed, and a bill was introduced ;or
enabling the Bishops op London and Durham to resign,
and—for resignation is a Christian virtue which ought to be
rewarded—for having provision made for them Mr. Punch
coccurs in this arrangement, for it is impossible that either
prelate can have r-aved money. The annual income of
Dr. Blomfield is £10,000, and be has enjoyed it for
twenty-eight years, having previously had four years of
Chester wi;h "£1,000 a-year, total receipt, 2284,000; and
the annual income of Dr. Maltby is £24,000, and he has
, enjoyed it for twenty years, having previously had five ye<rs
win not getVbob." I of Ch'chester with £4,000 a-year, total receipt, £500,000,
I according to the mere regulaied diocesau emolument,
A pleasing quarrel has broken out between the Attorney-General for Ireland and which the wicked supp; se to be marvellously below the real
the Irish Master of the Bolls. Between them, James Sadlub, brother of the late ! receipts. It is a marvel that the two poor old gentlemen
John Sadleir, and implicated, it seems, in his frauds, has had warning, and has J are not obliged to go, like noble Colonel Newcome, upon
escaped ftom justice. The Attorney says in the House, that the " irregular j POme foundation, wear gowns, and say Adswm. At any rate,
remarks" of the Master gave Sadleir the hint, and the Master retorts from the if they bave colds in their episcopal heads when they get
B?nch, that the Government never intended to catch the man, who had given them their provision, they will sav adsum is as adsum does,
political support. A penny-a-liner would here infallibly earn three halfpence by In tbe Commons various Innocents were Murdered,
remarking that as our friend Sir Lucius O Trigger says, in Sheridan s Rivals, the The yaccination Bill, the bill for giving the Burial Act
quanel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands. The Lpperary people are furious, j administration to the Board of Health, the bill for reform-
for Sadleir has run away without vacating his seat, and the House seems m • Doctors» Commons, and, as aforesaid, the Lords' Appeal
no hurry to excel him ihe absurd Medical Brofession Bill was thrown over, ; Ril] ftU d • the death< No partjcu!ar epitaph is needed
q patron declaring that lo get it discussed now was a Task beyond Cowpbb. j for 'them< peraap3 Mr. Punch may say that the people
The rest of the evening was occupied with the bill, from the Lords, for constituting j ho CT3posed tbe doctors' Commons reform are bold. The
the new tribunal of Appellate Jurisdiction Poor Baron Wensletdale came \ ,ems Vf compensation proposed to them were abominably
down, and got a petition presented, asking the Commons to alter the bill, so as to lavish and if lsuch an accident as a Reform Ministry should
leave his rights untouched. Eight lawyers, and Sir James Graham and Lord : occur before the harsain is renewed, the whole nuisance
John Russell did ;he talking, the former layman pitching severely into the Loias . be 8 - t away with ar)0ut as much compensation as is
for their ridiculous way of hearing appeals and also into the bill, which he thought1 awarded to a mass 0f black beetles, when shaken out of the
would debauch the bench and the bar, and Lord John denouncu g the measure ^ -n^0 water
as unconstitutional. The second reading was carried, but not by much of a - ,
majority—191 to 142, and on its next stage, on the Thursday, after rather an Friday. More complaints against the East India Com-
aoiusing debate (in which Mr. Raik.es Cuprie made desperate efforts to emulate pany occupied the Lords, after which Lord Lyndhurst
the peculiar oratory of Mr. Henry Dkummond), the Government was signallv made a spirited appeal on behalf of Poland. Lord Cla-
defeated, and the bill shelved by 155 to 153. The Appeal to the Lords, therefore, rendon said that the Emperor of Russia was such a
survives in all its costly absurdity. kind and generous man that the Poles had better trust to
PUNCH'S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
R. Punch, wifh the
frankness which is
but one of the
thousand virtues
combining to form
that perfection
which he beholds
nowhere but in his
looking-glass,stated,
last week, that the
preceding Friday
evening had been
far too fine for him
to waste in London,
and that he had
gone down to Green-
wich. Ev<n there,
however, his engage-
ments had not been
entirely irrespective
of the interests of
his readers, for he
ascertained, by per-
gonal inquiry, that
Ministers had fixed
Saturday, the 19th,
for the whitebait
dinner which pre-
cedes prorogation. In his delLht, at this news he forgot how time passed, oi
indeed how anything passed except certain decanters; but he has some recol-
lection, late in the evening, of being stumbled against, by some Members of
Parliament, in white waistcoats, of whom he instantly demanded what had been
done in the Houses. Their replies seemed to him to be rather foolish. One said,
"Lords pass Divotshbill," arother observed "Commons cheat Bishopnewzeal'd
cut of salary," and a third endeavoured to explain to him what had bee.! done
with the Partneiship Amendment Bill, but got so inextricably involved in the
tangles of a word like " Limdlibility " that Mr. Punch was obliged to wait until
the morning, when he found that the Capitalists, who persevered in their hostility
to helping men of small means to unite them (though Tom Baring wa<* very angrv
with Palmtrston for saying so) had succeeded in damaging the bill. They carried,
by a majority of 3, a clause providing that loans made on the principle of the
measure, namely, the sbarieg profits instead of taking fixed interest, should not
be recoverable till all other creditors were paid. This is a very crippling insertion,
and Mr. Muntz, who hates the Bill, exultingly declared that it was now worth
not one farthing. On the whole, Mr. Punch is gl-.d that he went to Greenwich,
where good manners prevailed, and no greedy Barings and Muntzes tried to keep
all the loaves and all the fishes.
July 7tfi, Monday. TheLords, without going to division, coolly threw out the poor
Nabob op Surat's Bill. Mr. Punch would observe that his chief reason for
thinking that the Bill was just and righteous was that old Hogg, Chairman of
the East India Company, flew into such a fury against it, evidence which would
generally be sufficient to determine anybody which way to vote. But Lord
Ellenborough, who certainly is no friend to the Company, has examined into tbe
subject, and thinks that the matter was not a case for Parliament:
" And so the Nabob
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
21
Tuesday. In the Lords tie principal topic was me
Scutari monument, which Lord Harrington does not
like, and Lord Panmure does, neither circumstance being
of the slightest consequence, as Baron Marochetti has
got the commission to execute, and the enormous price for
the job has been voted.
In the Commons the Public Health Bill was rejected
by 73 to 61, and a good deal of abuse was lavished upon I
the Board oi Health. Its chief, M r. Cowpkb, plaintively )
said that "its only desire was to do some work {laughter)
for the benefit of the public." He has had to ask that its
life may be continued for a year. The Queen has issued a
commission for inquiry into the question, what she shall
be selected for the new National Gallery. Two questions,
one regarding the alleged ill-treatment of certain naval
officers, and the other that of certain military officers,
w»-re then brought on, with different fates, jet with equal
inutility ; for the first was n-jected by 38 to 31, and the
House was counted out upon the second, Rosati appear-
ing at Her Majesty's Theatre in a splendid new ballet.
Wednesday. The subject of examination ror the Civil
Service whs brought up, and Lord Goderich stated that
at pretent the examinations caused the rejection of one
Candidate in three, and therefore, be thought the system
could not b^ pushed farther. He said, fairly enough, that
for tide-waiters and letter-carriers, no high literary standard
ought to be proposed, but we think that from Under-
Secretaries of Sta*e a little more should be expected. For
instance, Lord Shelburne (who has just been raised to
office, and to the peerage, because he is the son of the
excellent Mabqtjis of Lansdowne), should not write to
his constituents that be is " unable to resist the oppor-
tunity of endeavouring," &c. We resist importunities, we
forego opportunities. Lord Shelbdrne. The examination
question, therefore, is to remain where it was. The Irish
Tenant Bight Bill was thrown over, having quite answered
its purpose, namely, that of providing i's promoters with
some clap-trap for 1 heir constituents.
Thursday. Lord Campbell elicited a sort of promise
from the Government that during the recess a bill should
be prepared for including strychnine and some other poisons
in the law that very sensibly prevents arsenic from being
carelessly sold. As such a bill could be drawn iu ten
minutes, and passed through both Houses be/ore the pro-
rogation, we should like to know why the people are to be
left for six months at the mercy of the boys behind the
druggists' counters. The bill for improving the Dwellings
of the Irish peasantry passed, and a bill was introduced ;or
enabling the Bishops op London and Durham to resign,
and—for resignation is a Christian virtue which ought to be
rewarded—for having provision made for them Mr. Punch
coccurs in this arrangement, for it is impossible that either
prelate can have r-aved money. The annual income of
Dr. Blomfield is £10,000, and be has enjoyed it for
twenty-eight years, having previously had four years of
Chester wi;h "£1,000 a-year, total receipt, 2284,000; and
the annual income of Dr. Maltby is £24,000, and he has
, enjoyed it for twenty years, having previously had five ye<rs
win not getVbob." I of Ch'chester with £4,000 a-year, total receipt, £500,000,
I according to the mere regulaied diocesau emolument,
A pleasing quarrel has broken out between the Attorney-General for Ireland and which the wicked supp; se to be marvellously below the real
the Irish Master of the Bolls. Between them, James Sadlub, brother of the late ! receipts. It is a marvel that the two poor old gentlemen
John Sadleir, and implicated, it seems, in his frauds, has had warning, and has J are not obliged to go, like noble Colonel Newcome, upon
escaped ftom justice. The Attorney says in the House, that the " irregular j POme foundation, wear gowns, and say Adswm. At any rate,
remarks" of the Master gave Sadleir the hint, and the Master retorts from the if they bave colds in their episcopal heads when they get
B?nch, that the Government never intended to catch the man, who had given them their provision, they will sav adsum is as adsum does,
political support. A penny-a-liner would here infallibly earn three halfpence by In tbe Commons various Innocents were Murdered,
remarking that as our friend Sir Lucius O Trigger says, in Sheridan s Rivals, the The yaccination Bill, the bill for giving the Burial Act
quanel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands. The Lpperary people are furious, j administration to the Board of Health, the bill for reform-
for Sadleir has run away without vacating his seat, and the House seems m • Doctors» Commons, and, as aforesaid, the Lords' Appeal
no hurry to excel him ihe absurd Medical Brofession Bill was thrown over, ; Ril] ftU d • the death< No partjcu!ar epitaph is needed
q patron declaring that lo get it discussed now was a Task beyond Cowpbb. j for 'them< peraap3 Mr. Punch may say that the people
The rest of the evening was occupied with the bill, from the Lords, for constituting j ho CT3posed tbe doctors' Commons reform are bold. The
the new tribunal of Appellate Jurisdiction Poor Baron Wensletdale came \ ,ems Vf compensation proposed to them were abominably
down, and got a petition presented, asking the Commons to alter the bill, so as to lavish and if lsuch an accident as a Reform Ministry should
leave his rights untouched. Eight lawyers, and Sir James Graham and Lord : occur before the harsain is renewed, the whole nuisance
John Russell did ;he talking, the former layman pitching severely into the Loias . be 8 - t away with ar)0ut as much compensation as is
for their ridiculous way of hearing appeals and also into the bill, which he thought1 awarded to a mass 0f black beetles, when shaken out of the
would debauch the bench and the bar, and Lord John denouncu g the measure ^ -n^0 water
as unconstitutional. The second reading was carried, but not by much of a - ,
majority—191 to 142, and on its next stage, on the Thursday, after rather an Friday. More complaints against the East India Com-
aoiusing debate (in which Mr. Raik.es Cuprie made desperate efforts to emulate pany occupied the Lords, after which Lord Lyndhurst
the peculiar oratory of Mr. Henry Dkummond), the Government was signallv made a spirited appeal on behalf of Poland. Lord Cla-
defeated, and the bill shelved by 155 to 153. The Appeal to the Lords, therefore, rendon said that the Emperor of Russia was such a
survives in all its costly absurdity. kind and generous man that the Poles had better trust to
PUNCH'S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
R. Punch, wifh the
frankness which is
but one of the
thousand virtues
combining to form
that perfection
which he beholds
nowhere but in his
looking-glass,stated,
last week, that the
preceding Friday
evening had been
far too fine for him
to waste in London,
and that he had
gone down to Green-
wich. Ev<n there,
however, his engage-
ments had not been
entirely irrespective
of the interests of
his readers, for he
ascertained, by per-
gonal inquiry, that
Ministers had fixed
Saturday, the 19th,
for the whitebait
dinner which pre-
cedes prorogation. In his delLht, at this news he forgot how time passed, oi
indeed how anything passed except certain decanters; but he has some recol-
lection, late in the evening, of being stumbled against, by some Members of
Parliament, in white waistcoats, of whom he instantly demanded what had been
done in the Houses. Their replies seemed to him to be rather foolish. One said,
"Lords pass Divotshbill," arother observed "Commons cheat Bishopnewzeal'd
cut of salary," and a third endeavoured to explain to him what had bee.! done
with the Partneiship Amendment Bill, but got so inextricably involved in the
tangles of a word like " Limdlibility " that Mr. Punch was obliged to wait until
the morning, when he found that the Capitalists, who persevered in their hostility
to helping men of small means to unite them (though Tom Baring wa<* very angrv
with Palmtrston for saying so) had succeeded in damaging the bill. They carried,
by a majority of 3, a clause providing that loans made on the principle of the
measure, namely, the sbarieg profits instead of taking fixed interest, should not
be recoverable till all other creditors were paid. This is a very crippling insertion,
and Mr. Muntz, who hates the Bill, exultingly declared that it was now worth
not one farthing. On the whole, Mr. Punch is gl-.d that he went to Greenwich,
where good manners prevailed, and no greedy Barings and Muntzes tried to keep
all the loaves and all the fishes.
July 7tfi, Monday. TheLords, without going to division, coolly threw out the poor
Nabob op Surat's Bill. Mr. Punch would observe that his chief reason for
thinking that the Bill was just and righteous was that old Hogg, Chairman of
the East India Company, flew into such a fury against it, evidence which would
generally be sufficient to determine anybody which way to vote. But Lord
Ellenborough, who certainly is no friend to the Company, has examined into tbe
subject, and thinks that the matter was not a case for Parliament:
" And so the Nabob