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February 19, 1859
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[February 19, 18-30.
demanding when the Estimates would be brought on. Mr,. Disraeli
did not know. But later in the week it was stated that the scheme
for Reconstructing the Navy would be announced on the 25th, which
is the anniversary of the death of Sir Christopher Wren, who
reconstructed St. Paul's, a coincidence of the closest and most
significant character.
Tuesday. To borrow a phrase suggested by locality, the painters
were cut loose from the stern of the Admiral. Mr. Disraeli stated
that the Royal Academicians were to be turned out of the National
Gallery, Trafalgar Square, and that they were to have a new place built
for them in the grounds of Burlington House. And as the Prince of
Wales, now walking about the Vatican arm-in-arm with the Pope,
(who has given him a mosaic table) will want Marlborough House in
the autumn, the Vernon pictures and the Turner pictures must in
their turn decamp. _ So they go to South Kensington for the present.
Lord Bury is quite determined that we shall be allowed to marry
our wives' sisters, and to-day introduced a new Bill permitting it. Of
the opposition to that Bill, Mr. Punch has said the most severely con-
temptuous thing, when he has mentioned that the leading opponents
were Mr. George Bowyer, Mr Beresford Hope, and Mr. Henry
Drummond—a queer trio, illustrating Paith, Hope, and Charity. A
majority of 155 to 85, in favour of the Bill, showed the numerical
opinion of the House, and an examination of the names will show that
Lord Bury had with him not only the noses but the brains.
Mr. Ewart tried in vain to get the House to pledge itself not to sit
after twelve on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This arrangement was
intended to enable Members' wives to command their husbands'
attendance at the Opera-house, with the umbrella and cab, and it was,
of course, needless to include Saturday, as though there is an opera,
there is no house on that night. But Lord Palmerston thought
gfe^^Bp^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ that the ladies might manage for themselves, and rudely called the
^^^^^js^a^^^^g^g^^^^^ proposal " a self-denying ordinance." It was rejected by 237 to 28.
~—-—~—?i"r==^^^^^^^^^^-^ Mr. Walpole brought in a Poisons Bill, which imposes various
restrictions on the sale of such articles; but its best point is that it
/ Jl \ V II \ \ r, r j i7 to, t n makes the vendor liable for the negligence and blunders of his shopmen
I \ / \el ' ±ebrHan{ {■. ,ine i + ^' i or servants. He will, therefore, be inclined to keep his poisons where
/ I \ / V\ cellor proceeded io tackle to his work th ^ be t'at t' b Mmsclr Qr ^ ! only such
J 1 \ / r\—. fnd Mli Flinch^ bou"d,to1 -sa-y ,'h<lt. dependents as can be depended upon. Very proper reference was
K I \# \ m "«ble,f™ntd a(^'lltfd jums.el.V^made to the melancholy Bradford poisonings, but no allusion was
^> ' ^ Af £. s satisfaction Mankind is divided ; risked touching the latest case of attempted poisoning at Bradford,
into two classes, Debtors and Oredi- wheQ Mr Bright endeavoured to poison the minds of one class there
tors though many debtors are also with prcjudices a?ainst another. AIk. Punch, however, has labelled
creditors and many creditors are also debtors, and the whole world is Mm ^ J wiU t his bei taken, bv mistake, for a
a debtor to its great, but affable and indulgent creditor, Mr. Punch. s+atesmail '
The law which deals with these parties, when they come to L '
extremes, is in a most heterogeneous condition. There is one! Wednesday. JSu.
rule for bankrupts and another for insolvents, and the general; Thursday. Wallachia, permitted to choose a Hospodar of a certain
effect of the muddle is, that honest people are defrauded, innocent age, has chosen the individual already selected by Moldavia, who is
people are oppressed, and rogues either profit or escape. Many : moreover under that age. This means that the provinces wish to be
attempts have been made to improve this state of things, and ! united, but the election will be declared informal, and there will pro-
the Government has now taken the matter in hand. The bank- bably be no end of a row. Lord Malmesbury declined to discuss
rapt and insolvent courts, hitherto in confusion, are now to be the subject at present. The Commons did nothing to justify a sacrifice
in fusion, and by this Synthesis it is hoped to produce the compound to them of Mr. Punch's invaluable space.
called Justice. Imprisonment for debt is pretty nearly tp be got Friday. Lord Leitrim was very desirous to have a published return
rid ot, and divers other absurdities and iniquities are to be swept 0f tbe number of assassinations that have recently taken place in
away. If the lawyers see that more tees will accrue by having the law Trelanct But Lord Derby pointed out to the other Earl that the
put straight than by leaving it crooked, they will permit the Bill to subject was bv no means a cheerful one, and that if he wished to
pass, and they are said to regard the evil ol Reform as inevitable, illdulge a morbid taste for disagreeable reading, he might do so by
inasmuch as under the present bad system business is frightened meaus 0f the Irish Newr/ate Calendar. Some not very profitable talk
&WN- „ „ . /. ,../■ w- • , about the Militia followed, but the subject was elsewhere being veu-
Mr. Iom Duncombe, whose spsciahte is putting questions m a form tilated in a much more entertaining wav in the presence of Lord
that makes evasive answers impossible, demanded ot the Government Campbell and in the case of Dickson v. Lord Wilton.
whether February would smile upon the Reform Bill. Mr. Disraeli ; "jn tjie Commons there was some discussion on the new Post Office
did not smile upon Mr. Duncombe^ m reply, but intimated that, 1 order that all unpaid letters should be returned to their writers. It
though he could not fix a day for bringing m the Bill, it was his hope : seems that out of 530 millions of letters annually sent, only about 2k
not merely to bring it in before Easter, but to have the second reading are unpaid, and 0f these 60 per cent, are sent for purposes of annoyance,
before that period. But Indian Imance and Navy Estimates must be '< many containing- soot and similar epigrams. Mr. Punch is inclined to
taken first, and the inexorable Showman will not permit John Bull to think that the returning the unstamped letters is a good plan, for the
peep through the telescope at the Reform Planet, until John has paid honest writer of a letter that has miscarried will wish to know that
his money. A Scotch paper makes a great parade oi certain points of such has Deen tjie case . but there arc some instances in which the
mlonnation which it alleges have oozed out touching the Derby alteration will work hardly on helpless people, for whose benefit
Reform Bill ■ but they are trumpery matters If Mr. Punch, who has arrangement should be made.
read the Bill through and through, and made some important marks LoRI) Palmerston abused the intended New Foreign Office, and
with his red-chalk pencil m the margin, chose to reveal secrets, the talked a sood deal of smart nonsense about architecture. We have
whole measure would now be before the public But he utterly refuses aiwavs said iie was a Brick, but a brick is not competent to judge of a
to tell more than that the paper is rather blue, that Lord Derby's house After this the Solicitor-General introduced an admirable
copy is tied up with green silk, and has a large blot on the seventh Bill for improving the system of establishing titles to landed property,
page, and. that Mr. Disraeli's, which is bound up m a black leathern an(1 s0 ended a not unpromising or unprofitable week,
cover, is much dog s-eared; and that there is a burn with a cigar on the
clause, by which it is enacted that London- No, vou don't. But '-■
boasterT ^ ^ * g°°d ^ ^ SCOt°h A Laugh in the Gazette.
Mr. Walpole states that it is absolutely necessary to reform the The Gazette talks gravely about "the United States of the Ionian
Corporation of London, but he thinks that the grand Reform Bill Islands." We do not know what they may have been previous to
must be first introduced. Lord John Russell made an attempt to \ Mr. Gladstone's visit, but we do not suppose that even an United
get an approximation to the date of the advent of that Reform Bill, by 1 Irishman would venture to pronounce them " United " now.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[February 19, 18-30.
demanding when the Estimates would be brought on. Mr,. Disraeli
did not know. But later in the week it was stated that the scheme
for Reconstructing the Navy would be announced on the 25th, which
is the anniversary of the death of Sir Christopher Wren, who
reconstructed St. Paul's, a coincidence of the closest and most
significant character.
Tuesday. To borrow a phrase suggested by locality, the painters
were cut loose from the stern of the Admiral. Mr. Disraeli stated
that the Royal Academicians were to be turned out of the National
Gallery, Trafalgar Square, and that they were to have a new place built
for them in the grounds of Burlington House. And as the Prince of
Wales, now walking about the Vatican arm-in-arm with the Pope,
(who has given him a mosaic table) will want Marlborough House in
the autumn, the Vernon pictures and the Turner pictures must in
their turn decamp. _ So they go to South Kensington for the present.
Lord Bury is quite determined that we shall be allowed to marry
our wives' sisters, and to-day introduced a new Bill permitting it. Of
the opposition to that Bill, Mr. Punch has said the most severely con-
temptuous thing, when he has mentioned that the leading opponents
were Mr. George Bowyer, Mr Beresford Hope, and Mr. Henry
Drummond—a queer trio, illustrating Paith, Hope, and Charity. A
majority of 155 to 85, in favour of the Bill, showed the numerical
opinion of the House, and an examination of the names will show that
Lord Bury had with him not only the noses but the brains.
Mr. Ewart tried in vain to get the House to pledge itself not to sit
after twelve on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This arrangement was
intended to enable Members' wives to command their husbands'
attendance at the Opera-house, with the umbrella and cab, and it was,
of course, needless to include Saturday, as though there is an opera,
there is no house on that night. But Lord Palmerston thought
gfe^^Bp^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ that the ladies might manage for themselves, and rudely called the
^^^^^js^a^^^^g^g^^^^^ proposal " a self-denying ordinance." It was rejected by 237 to 28.
~—-—~—?i"r==^^^^^^^^^^-^ Mr. Walpole brought in a Poisons Bill, which imposes various
restrictions on the sale of such articles; but its best point is that it
/ Jl \ V II \ \ r, r j i7 to, t n makes the vendor liable for the negligence and blunders of his shopmen
I \ / \el ' ±ebrHan{ {■. ,ine i + ^' i or servants. He will, therefore, be inclined to keep his poisons where
/ I \ / V\ cellor proceeded io tackle to his work th ^ be t'at t' b Mmsclr Qr ^ ! only such
J 1 \ / r\—. fnd Mli Flinch^ bou"d,to1 -sa-y ,'h<lt. dependents as can be depended upon. Very proper reference was
K I \# \ m "«ble,f™ntd a(^'lltfd jums.el.V^made to the melancholy Bradford poisonings, but no allusion was
^> ' ^ Af £. s satisfaction Mankind is divided ; risked touching the latest case of attempted poisoning at Bradford,
into two classes, Debtors and Oredi- wheQ Mr Bright endeavoured to poison the minds of one class there
tors though many debtors are also with prcjudices a?ainst another. AIk. Punch, however, has labelled
creditors and many creditors are also debtors, and the whole world is Mm ^ J wiU t his bei taken, bv mistake, for a
a debtor to its great, but affable and indulgent creditor, Mr. Punch. s+atesmail '
The law which deals with these parties, when they come to L '
extremes, is in a most heterogeneous condition. There is one! Wednesday. JSu.
rule for bankrupts and another for insolvents, and the general; Thursday. Wallachia, permitted to choose a Hospodar of a certain
effect of the muddle is, that honest people are defrauded, innocent age, has chosen the individual already selected by Moldavia, who is
people are oppressed, and rogues either profit or escape. Many : moreover under that age. This means that the provinces wish to be
attempts have been made to improve this state of things, and ! united, but the election will be declared informal, and there will pro-
the Government has now taken the matter in hand. The bank- bably be no end of a row. Lord Malmesbury declined to discuss
rapt and insolvent courts, hitherto in confusion, are now to be the subject at present. The Commons did nothing to justify a sacrifice
in fusion, and by this Synthesis it is hoped to produce the compound to them of Mr. Punch's invaluable space.
called Justice. Imprisonment for debt is pretty nearly tp be got Friday. Lord Leitrim was very desirous to have a published return
rid ot, and divers other absurdities and iniquities are to be swept 0f tbe number of assassinations that have recently taken place in
away. If the lawyers see that more tees will accrue by having the law Trelanct But Lord Derby pointed out to the other Earl that the
put straight than by leaving it crooked, they will permit the Bill to subject was bv no means a cheerful one, and that if he wished to
pass, and they are said to regard the evil ol Reform as inevitable, illdulge a morbid taste for disagreeable reading, he might do so by
inasmuch as under the present bad system business is frightened meaus 0f the Irish Newr/ate Calendar. Some not very profitable talk
&WN- „ „ . /. ,../■ w- • , about the Militia followed, but the subject was elsewhere being veu-
Mr. Iom Duncombe, whose spsciahte is putting questions m a form tilated in a much more entertaining wav in the presence of Lord
that makes evasive answers impossible, demanded ot the Government Campbell and in the case of Dickson v. Lord Wilton.
whether February would smile upon the Reform Bill. Mr. Disraeli ; "jn tjie Commons there was some discussion on the new Post Office
did not smile upon Mr. Duncombe^ m reply, but intimated that, 1 order that all unpaid letters should be returned to their writers. It
though he could not fix a day for bringing m the Bill, it was his hope : seems that out of 530 millions of letters annually sent, only about 2k
not merely to bring it in before Easter, but to have the second reading are unpaid, and 0f these 60 per cent, are sent for purposes of annoyance,
before that period. But Indian Imance and Navy Estimates must be '< many containing- soot and similar epigrams. Mr. Punch is inclined to
taken first, and the inexorable Showman will not permit John Bull to think that the returning the unstamped letters is a good plan, for the
peep through the telescope at the Reform Planet, until John has paid honest writer of a letter that has miscarried will wish to know that
his money. A Scotch paper makes a great parade oi certain points of such has Deen tjie case . but there arc some instances in which the
mlonnation which it alleges have oozed out touching the Derby alteration will work hardly on helpless people, for whose benefit
Reform Bill ■ but they are trumpery matters If Mr. Punch, who has arrangement should be made.
read the Bill through and through, and made some important marks LoRI) Palmerston abused the intended New Foreign Office, and
with his red-chalk pencil m the margin, chose to reveal secrets, the talked a sood deal of smart nonsense about architecture. We have
whole measure would now be before the public But he utterly refuses aiwavs said iie was a Brick, but a brick is not competent to judge of a
to tell more than that the paper is rather blue, that Lord Derby's house After this the Solicitor-General introduced an admirable
copy is tied up with green silk, and has a large blot on the seventh Bill for improving the system of establishing titles to landed property,
page, and. that Mr. Disraeli's, which is bound up m a black leathern an(1 s0 ended a not unpromising or unprofitable week,
cover, is much dog s-eared; and that there is a burn with a cigar on the
clause, by which it is enacted that London- No, vou don't. But '-■
boasterT ^ ^ * g°°d ^ ^ SCOt°h A Laugh in the Gazette.
Mr. Walpole states that it is absolutely necessary to reform the The Gazette talks gravely about "the United States of the Ionian
Corporation of London, but he thinks that the grand Reform Bill Islands." We do not know what they may have been previous to
must be first introduced. Lord John Russell made an attempt to \ Mr. Gladstone's visit, but we do not suppose that even an United
get an approximation to the date of the advent of that Reform Bill, by 1 Irishman would venture to pronounce them " United " now.