Punch (32.1857)

?56 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [June 27, 1857.

A QUEER PARTY.

he "Party" who
published the sub-
joined advertise-
ment has most
likely lost the
price of its inser-
tion, as well as
the garment for
the recovery of
which it was de-
signed :—

rVRA FALGAE
-1 TAVERN, Green-
wich. —The party wh o
took a MANTLE in
mistake for their own
la at Saturday, are re-
quested to communi-
cate with Mn.

as speedily as possible.

That one per-
son should take
another's mantle
ia mistake for his
or her own, is con-
ceivable enough;
but it is difficult
^j§jgSfiB» 10 imagine that a

whole party could

unite in mistaking a mantle belonging to some one else for their
collective property, and carrying it away under that erroneous
impression. When people take and carry away anything from any-
body between them, there can be no mistake in the matter: either it
is sold to them, or given to them, or they possess themselves of it by
a method which the wist; call " conveying." The party, described as
having taken the mantle in mistake for their own, must, of course, be
a plural party ; whereas none but a singular party can possibly make
a mistake of that nature.

PUNCH'S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

Jutie lbtk, Monday. Lord Campbell, in further defiance of the
Lord Chancellor, who had asserted that no such measure was
necessary, introduced a Bill for the putting an end to the sale of
immoral publications. The process is to be the summary one employed
in regard to Betting Houses, and it is to be hoped that the Magis-
trates, in enforcing it, will reverse the policv which they seem alwavs

to adopt with the betting-scoundrels, and, if there be a doubt, give ! authorities been mapping the kingdoms, first on the scale of an inch to

Tuesday. More about India, in the Lords, but not much to the
purpose. Lord Caernarvon's proposition for enabling Magistrates
to send offenders, up to the age of 20, to reformatories, was
negatived.

The virtuous Westmeath will not be permitted to reform those
whom Sydney Smith called "the debauched London bathers at
Brighton." ' The House of Lords does not consider the regulation of
bathing machines, and the question of bathing dresses, matters for
Imperial legislation. It is thought that if the Magistrates of the
boroughs washed by the sea are in earnest about decency they can
send a constable up to his knees in the water to drag out any person
misconducting himself, and to remove him to the lock-up. Why, how-
ever, gentlemen and ladies should not habitually follow^ French precedent,
in regard to aquatic costume, Mr. Punch is unaware. The lady's
bathing dress is both pretty and modest, and has only to be known to
be admired, and Mr. Punch hopes to admire it, and many a lovely^
radiant, and smibng face above it, during his autumnal pilgrimages.
Finally, the whole case is one of police, and if sea-side Magistrates were
less zealous in supporting their neighbours, the keepers of lodging-
houses, in all disputes touching the extortions of the latter, and were
more anxious to do their duty by the public, there would be no need
to bother Mr. Punch or the other noolemen of the nation about such
a matter.

The Commons decided that whatever case there might be for the
equalisation of poor rates, Mr. Ayrton, of the Tower Hamlets, had
not brains enough to state it, and by 183 to 81 they snuffed out the
said Ayrton of the Tower Hamlets.

Wednesday. They were laudably engaged in perfecting a measure
regarding industrial schools.

Thursday. Bather a remarkable day, for Lord Palmerston's
Ministry was all but defeated in the Lords, and quite defeated in the
Commons. In the former, after some Parsons had mercifully petitioned
against the permitting a wicked husband or wife to be separated from
the person suffering by the wickedness, Lord Derby assailed the
excellent Bill for getting rid of Ministers' Money in Ireland. He
was unkindly reminded that this was a small Church reform compared
to what he himself had effected, when, as Lord Stanley, he bowled
down Ten Bishops at a blow ; but this he justly regarded as no argu-
ment, seeing that in those days he was a Beformer, but has since come
over to Toryism. On division he would have triumphed, had the peers
present settled the business, he having 71 to 65, but the proxies altered
the case, and the second reading was carried by 101 to 96. Mr. Punch
has heard of a Tory Baron who went to dinner with two proxies in his
pocket, and of a Tory Duke who was unaware of the debate— a little
more whipping, and the Premier would have been floored. [Latest
betting against Rothschild, 6 to 2, n. t.]

In the Commons, after some spirited complaints of the confusion of
our Army Departments, to which the only answer seems to be, that
the Duke oe Cambridge and Lord Panmtjre are on excellent
terms, the eternal Map question came up. For seventy years have the

the public, and not the notorious offender, the benefit of such doubt, i a mile, then six inches, then twenty-six inches and three-quarters.

Lord Clanricarde brought a mass of complaint against the T1?s last was m Scotland where the landowners made a job of it
Indian Police, but as the Duke oe Argyll said that there was no \ getting perfect plans of their estates at the national expense So

case made out there is an end of the matter. \ m™\M l^ H J^f ^ -that £ T f L

m ' ,. •, jn x -r,-,, i „ , ^ t actually subscribed £1500 to get his part of the country mapped early.

Lhe Commons discussed the Jew BiU, more politely called the Oaths ; ^ell, a good map is a good thing, but the Scotch job was stopped to-

Bui, m committee, ihe Papist party, who assume to themselves the , m„\^ anc[ Government beaten by 10. In revenge, a Scotch Member

title of Liberal, began the battle by an attempt to get the Catholic

oath included in the measure, notwithstanding that they had been

warned by Lord Palmerston that they might injure the cause of the

Jews by a demand to which the feeling of the country is adverse. The

Commons made very short work with these persons, rejecting the pro-
position by 373 to 83. Sir Frederick Thesiger then charged, -with

all the forces of the Opposition, and was defeated, by 341 to 201, in

his endeavour to make a Jew declare himself a Christian. Mr. Punch

nas too often protested against the shallow nonsense talked on both

sides of the question to make it needful for him to say more than that,

while recording the vote, he greatly despises most of the arguments

used to promote and to hinder it, and especially the Jaunty Viscount's

mode of getting rid of principles by alleging that Parliament's business

is with politics, not religion. In life, a man who separates his religion

from his politics is excessively likely to separate the theory from

the practice of duty, even to the extent of separating his neighbour's

pocket-book and pocket. Sir John Pakington, hitherto an opponent

of the Jewish claims, made a manly speech, in which he avowed his

inability to persist in resisting them. Mr. Walpole pointed out that

if the Bill became law, a Jew could hold office (that of Chancellor for

instance) which a Catholic could not. Now, here is a real grievance,

worth Lord Cranworth's weight in lead, for the Popish party.

What ! Issachar Ben Moses may keep the Queen's conscience, and

be raised to the peerage as Baron Phylactery, and there is no

such chance for Patrick Mac Sullivan—no title of Bosary-cum-

l wiDDLE. Shades of the hundreds of Catholic patriots who have died in

their beds, look down upon then chddren, thus oppressed by the Saxon!

tried to stop the English survey, but this ebullition of spite found only
22 supporters against 290 opponents.

Friday. Nothing particular in the Lords, except that poor Cranny,
being asked about Bishops' resignations, flew to such recondite
authorities as Blackstone and Burn for his law.

In the Commons Sir B. Hall announced that on the 25th the
decision on the Public Offices Designs would be given, and scores of
architects immediately began stabbing their drawing boards with
dividers, flinging their set-squares about the office, and refreshing
themselves into Elevations of much originality, in their frightful excite-
ment. Some malpractices to get rid of a witness on the Bochdale
Election petition were exposed, as was the affair at Greytown, where
Government let the Americans burn our property and insult our flag,
but found out that the law of nations forbad even remonstrance.
Wiscount Williams made bitter complaint that all Hampton Court
Palace should be kept in simultaneous repair, and Sir John Shelley
(not usually witty) made some fun by picturing the Wiscount
with a hypothetically dirty face, the sides of which he washed on
alternate days.

Sweeping, Denunciation.

Mr. Ker Seymer is very indignant about the Cows in Hyde Park.
They spoil the ladies' dresses, he says. His indignation is certainly
excusable, for it is only natural that that which soils silks and satijis,
should give a turn, also, to Ker-Seymer(e).