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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[August 1, 1857.
Commons, let him come to 85, Fleet Street, where he shall be safe
against all comers ■ and we would not give much for the seat of the
nether garment of the Serjeant-at-Arms after Toby shall have been
apprised of bis unconstitutional errand.
Loeb John Russell moved for leave to bring in his device for
seating M. de Rothschild. It was, of course, opposed vigorously by
the Conservatives, but on division, triumphed by 246 to 154, majority
92, at the announcement of which numbers the opposition began
shouting, because 92 is a smaller number than 140, the majority by
which the Oaths Bill was carried. Meantime the Baron takes the
Hundreds (it must seem a paltry operation to one who ordinarily takes
the thousands) in order to re-election by the City. The old attempt to
get at agricultural statistics is revived, but Mk. Caibd's Bill is not
compulsory. The B. F. is to give you information, if he likes.
Wednesday. The Lords have inserted a clause in the Great Northern
Railway Bill, making the "preference" Shareholders as liable as the
common ones to bear the losses occasioned by Redpath's swindling.
The Commons struck it out, on the principle, that the rights of the
preference people were sacred. Mooke, of Mayo, being ejected from
the House, his Sham, the Tenant Right Bill, followed him, to-day.
Thursday. Cranny, wishing to show that he could say some-
thing, came out with a bit of Latin. Interest reipublicce tct sit finis
Litiitm. This was the satisfactory answer to a poor man who was
utterly defrauded of justice by the last Chancellor's having delayed
judgment for fifteen months, and then giving it, in forgetfulness, in an
opposite direction, on an important point, to that in which he had
decided at the hearing. The unhappy petitioner will probably translate
Cranny's Latin, "It's for the Interest of the Bublic that judges
should Sit and Finish, even if they're obliged to order Lights."
Brougham brought in a Bill for improving the Bankruptcy Laws, the
chief use of which seems to be (like that of a gentleman's country
house) to " make improvements " therein.
The Superannuation Swindle came up at the morning sitting, and
Mr. Wilson laboured vehemently, and with a profuse expenditure of
figures, to show that the civil servants had no ground for complaint.
He, however, remarked that by new taxation, the salaries might be
increased, a piece of impertinence which is not likely to be forgotten
by Mr. Wilson's devoted admirers. The debate was adjourned.
The miserable-looking device which is given to English Military
Members of the Order of the Bath was unfavourably contrasted with
the Silver Star given to the French decores, and Lord Falmerston
thought there might be improvement. The evening was devoted to
discussion on Money Votes, and the Government fenced and shuffled
with questions as to the site for the National Gallery, Lewis saying
he had not seen the Commissioners' Report, and Geey that he had
not had time to read it. Mr. Coningham pledged himself to expel
the Royal Academy next year, unless Government saved him the
trouble.
Friday. Lord Ratensworth complained of the metropolitan toll-
gates. Most of them, he said, were in the hands of one Levy, a
Jew, who as his Lordship wittily remarked, Levied contributions on
travellers. He was about to make other epigrams, such as that this
check upon gadding about showed that the tribe of Levi hated the
tribe of Gad, and so on, but Lord Granville stopped him, promising
that the subject should receive an attention not merited by the jokes.
Lord Fortescue then demanded that Government should erect a
monument to Lord Raglan. Lord Banmure thought that precedent
was opposed to the erecting public monuments to any naval or military
man who was not slain in battle. It is difficult to read such tra^h
with patience. Lord Raglan was as much killed in the discharge of
his duty as any of the heroes who died in the BalaMava charge. We
can almost excuse Lord Derby for having lost his temper,"and, for
the sake of annoying Fanmure, having aggravated him into petulance,
and then scolded him for being petulant, as he did, after which the
Duke of Beaufort reminded the Lords that Lord Fanmure had
always behaved ill to Lord Raglan, and so the matter ended.
A thousand and eighteen electors of Oxford city voted for William
Thackeray, but as many, and sixty-seven more, having supported their
old Member, Mr. Cardwell, the latter took his scat this evening.
Mr. Disraeli refused to wait until the next Indian mail should arrive
before discussing the Indian question, being justifiably afraid that the
probable arrival of good news might give Government an advantage.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that Government was
not bound to carry out any one of the prize designs for Fublic Offices,
and would do nothing in the matter this Session. We hope, however,
that the prize-money will be at once handed over to the gallant
(drawing) Boarders. The Divorce Bdl was then moved, for second
reading, and Mr. Henley opposed its coming on this Session,
mentioning among other reasons that 6000 Clergymen had petitioned
against it. We attach their due weight to professional petitions
against alteration in established forms, and remember that thousands'
of Attorneys petitioned against County Courts. Sir G. Grey saw
no reason for delay, the Bill having been thoroughly discussed. Mr.
Gladstone felt, no difficulty as to the principle of the Bill, and there-
fore, with Gladstonian logic, deprecated its being proceeded with, as
did Mr. Bowyer, for the Catholics. Lord John Manners justly
remarked that marriage was an Awful thing. Lord Stanley" thought
that the objection of the Clergy was not so much to divorce as to their
having to marry divorced people, which was a generous but Quixotic
defence of those whom Lord Albemarle declared to be grossly
ignorant persons. The Crown lawyers and those who desire to be
such, had a set-to, the noticeable point whereof was Sir R. Bethell's-
calling the attention of the House to the fact, that Mr. Gladstone
perspired a good deal in speaking, and then Palmerston apprised the
House that the Bill should be proceeded with, late as was the period
of the Session, adding that he rernembered sitting until the middle of
j September. After these terrible words, it is not surprising that Mr.
Henley was defeated by 217 to 130, and that the Second Reading was-
ordered for the following Thursday.
A SMALL PACKET OF CHI2JESE TEA LEAVES. SOUND AND SENSE.
Kindly tent over by Sir John Bowrtno. Among other items of recent intelligence, we find it
stated, that the annual letting of the " celebrated Babraham
rams" took place the other day. This statement contains-
a pretty example of the poetical and rhetorical figure
onomatopoeia; and if the fashion of writing pastorals-
should be revived, we would strongly recommend the
selection of Babraham for the scene or venue of an eclogue
between shepherds and shepherdesses. How suggestive is
the sound of the word! how touchingly it recalls the lay
with which the infancy of everybody was familiar ; com-
mencing with the line—
" Baa, baa, black sbeep !"
j One magic word has awakened the echoes of that old,
old song, and recalled the scenes of other days. There is
i the old house at home, with the old faces; the nursery,
S the little toys, the sugar-plums, the brimstone and treacle,
the grey powder. Again we view the green meadows
wherein we used to play with the young lambs. _ Where
are they now ? They were eaten, long, long ago, with mint-
sauce. We called them baa-lambs then—as we remem-
bered with a sigh, whilst the bleating of rams rang on our
mental ear, and whilst, in gasping accents, we spasmodically
nn , . . , , ... . c , , , , . exclaimed, "Babraham!"
OO much zeal is a bad soldier, wno fires before the word of command.
Gambling is the idler's opium. » ;=^^^===^====-
Experience is the blind man's dog.
Memory is the tax-gatherer of the past. A Convenient Cloak.
Ignorance shuts its eyes, and believes it is night. | _ .
Conquerors are like fires—the greater their brilliancy, the larger tne ruin they leave behind : Mr. HuNCKS (familiarly known as Old HUNCKS) refuses
tbe™-. .., , to buy his wife a fashionable mantle, on the plea that it
Advice, like water, takes the form of the vessel it is poured into. 1 1Ymc:j- npppocorilv Vio a^nnmnarnVH hv so much trimmm" and
There is a policeman in every man's conscience—even though you may not always find the ] must necessarily DC accompanied Dy SO muen iriinminn anu
policeman on the beat. | Up-braidmg.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[August 1, 1857.
Commons, let him come to 85, Fleet Street, where he shall be safe
against all comers ■ and we would not give much for the seat of the
nether garment of the Serjeant-at-Arms after Toby shall have been
apprised of bis unconstitutional errand.
Loeb John Russell moved for leave to bring in his device for
seating M. de Rothschild. It was, of course, opposed vigorously by
the Conservatives, but on division, triumphed by 246 to 154, majority
92, at the announcement of which numbers the opposition began
shouting, because 92 is a smaller number than 140, the majority by
which the Oaths Bill was carried. Meantime the Baron takes the
Hundreds (it must seem a paltry operation to one who ordinarily takes
the thousands) in order to re-election by the City. The old attempt to
get at agricultural statistics is revived, but Mk. Caibd's Bill is not
compulsory. The B. F. is to give you information, if he likes.
Wednesday. The Lords have inserted a clause in the Great Northern
Railway Bill, making the "preference" Shareholders as liable as the
common ones to bear the losses occasioned by Redpath's swindling.
The Commons struck it out, on the principle, that the rights of the
preference people were sacred. Mooke, of Mayo, being ejected from
the House, his Sham, the Tenant Right Bill, followed him, to-day.
Thursday. Cranny, wishing to show that he could say some-
thing, came out with a bit of Latin. Interest reipublicce tct sit finis
Litiitm. This was the satisfactory answer to a poor man who was
utterly defrauded of justice by the last Chancellor's having delayed
judgment for fifteen months, and then giving it, in forgetfulness, in an
opposite direction, on an important point, to that in which he had
decided at the hearing. The unhappy petitioner will probably translate
Cranny's Latin, "It's for the Interest of the Bublic that judges
should Sit and Finish, even if they're obliged to order Lights."
Brougham brought in a Bill for improving the Bankruptcy Laws, the
chief use of which seems to be (like that of a gentleman's country
house) to " make improvements " therein.
The Superannuation Swindle came up at the morning sitting, and
Mr. Wilson laboured vehemently, and with a profuse expenditure of
figures, to show that the civil servants had no ground for complaint.
He, however, remarked that by new taxation, the salaries might be
increased, a piece of impertinence which is not likely to be forgotten
by Mr. Wilson's devoted admirers. The debate was adjourned.
The miserable-looking device which is given to English Military
Members of the Order of the Bath was unfavourably contrasted with
the Silver Star given to the French decores, and Lord Falmerston
thought there might be improvement. The evening was devoted to
discussion on Money Votes, and the Government fenced and shuffled
with questions as to the site for the National Gallery, Lewis saying
he had not seen the Commissioners' Report, and Geey that he had
not had time to read it. Mr. Coningham pledged himself to expel
the Royal Academy next year, unless Government saved him the
trouble.
Friday. Lord Ratensworth complained of the metropolitan toll-
gates. Most of them, he said, were in the hands of one Levy, a
Jew, who as his Lordship wittily remarked, Levied contributions on
travellers. He was about to make other epigrams, such as that this
check upon gadding about showed that the tribe of Levi hated the
tribe of Gad, and so on, but Lord Granville stopped him, promising
that the subject should receive an attention not merited by the jokes.
Lord Fortescue then demanded that Government should erect a
monument to Lord Raglan. Lord Banmure thought that precedent
was opposed to the erecting public monuments to any naval or military
man who was not slain in battle. It is difficult to read such tra^h
with patience. Lord Raglan was as much killed in the discharge of
his duty as any of the heroes who died in the BalaMava charge. We
can almost excuse Lord Derby for having lost his temper,"and, for
the sake of annoying Fanmure, having aggravated him into petulance,
and then scolded him for being petulant, as he did, after which the
Duke of Beaufort reminded the Lords that Lord Fanmure had
always behaved ill to Lord Raglan, and so the matter ended.
A thousand and eighteen electors of Oxford city voted for William
Thackeray, but as many, and sixty-seven more, having supported their
old Member, Mr. Cardwell, the latter took his scat this evening.
Mr. Disraeli refused to wait until the next Indian mail should arrive
before discussing the Indian question, being justifiably afraid that the
probable arrival of good news might give Government an advantage.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that Government was
not bound to carry out any one of the prize designs for Fublic Offices,
and would do nothing in the matter this Session. We hope, however,
that the prize-money will be at once handed over to the gallant
(drawing) Boarders. The Divorce Bdl was then moved, for second
reading, and Mr. Henley opposed its coming on this Session,
mentioning among other reasons that 6000 Clergymen had petitioned
against it. We attach their due weight to professional petitions
against alteration in established forms, and remember that thousands'
of Attorneys petitioned against County Courts. Sir G. Grey saw
no reason for delay, the Bill having been thoroughly discussed. Mr.
Gladstone felt, no difficulty as to the principle of the Bill, and there-
fore, with Gladstonian logic, deprecated its being proceeded with, as
did Mr. Bowyer, for the Catholics. Lord John Manners justly
remarked that marriage was an Awful thing. Lord Stanley" thought
that the objection of the Clergy was not so much to divorce as to their
having to marry divorced people, which was a generous but Quixotic
defence of those whom Lord Albemarle declared to be grossly
ignorant persons. The Crown lawyers and those who desire to be
such, had a set-to, the noticeable point whereof was Sir R. Bethell's-
calling the attention of the House to the fact, that Mr. Gladstone
perspired a good deal in speaking, and then Palmerston apprised the
House that the Bill should be proceeded with, late as was the period
of the Session, adding that he rernembered sitting until the middle of
j September. After these terrible words, it is not surprising that Mr.
Henley was defeated by 217 to 130, and that the Second Reading was-
ordered for the following Thursday.
A SMALL PACKET OF CHI2JESE TEA LEAVES. SOUND AND SENSE.
Kindly tent over by Sir John Bowrtno. Among other items of recent intelligence, we find it
stated, that the annual letting of the " celebrated Babraham
rams" took place the other day. This statement contains-
a pretty example of the poetical and rhetorical figure
onomatopoeia; and if the fashion of writing pastorals-
should be revived, we would strongly recommend the
selection of Babraham for the scene or venue of an eclogue
between shepherds and shepherdesses. How suggestive is
the sound of the word! how touchingly it recalls the lay
with which the infancy of everybody was familiar ; com-
mencing with the line—
" Baa, baa, black sbeep !"
j One magic word has awakened the echoes of that old,
old song, and recalled the scenes of other days. There is
i the old house at home, with the old faces; the nursery,
S the little toys, the sugar-plums, the brimstone and treacle,
the grey powder. Again we view the green meadows
wherein we used to play with the young lambs. _ Where
are they now ? They were eaten, long, long ago, with mint-
sauce. We called them baa-lambs then—as we remem-
bered with a sigh, whilst the bleating of rams rang on our
mental ear, and whilst, in gasping accents, we spasmodically
nn , . . , , ... . c , , , , . exclaimed, "Babraham!"
OO much zeal is a bad soldier, wno fires before the word of command.
Gambling is the idler's opium. » ;=^^^===^====-
Experience is the blind man's dog.
Memory is the tax-gatherer of the past. A Convenient Cloak.
Ignorance shuts its eyes, and believes it is night. | _ .
Conquerors are like fires—the greater their brilliancy, the larger tne ruin they leave behind : Mr. HuNCKS (familiarly known as Old HUNCKS) refuses
tbe™-. .., , to buy his wife a fashionable mantle, on the plea that it
Advice, like water, takes the form of the vessel it is poured into. 1 1Ymc:j- npppocorilv Vio a^nnmnarnVH hv so much trimmm" and
There is a policeman in every man's conscience—even though you may not always find the ] must necessarily DC accompanied Dy SO muen iriinminn anu
policeman on the beat. | Up-braidmg.