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August 11, 1860
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August 11, i860.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI,
51
BLANK CARTRIDGE.
Musketry Instructor (at the conclusion of the Drill) “ Hullo/—but / say, Mr. Poltelank, pray what has become of your Ramrod
[Polyblank tries to look as if he had not fired it off }'
Talking about the Fortifications, the Monster missed the opportunity ;
of making a good and vulgar joke. Sir Charles Napier objected to
the proposed defences at a certain place called Browndown, and the
Monster Hereert replied, admitting the difficulty of getting there.
If he had chosen to be at once low and irrelevant, he might have said,
that the interruptions to the vote for the Fortifications money made
the real difficulty in getting a Brown down ; but we are very glad that
he was not so coarse and objectionable. The Indian Army Fusion Bill j
Debate was resumed, and new objections were raised to the scheme,
and a division took place, which Mr. Punch records, in order to show
how many Members thought it worth while to stay and discuss the 1
gravest business now before Parliament. Sir J. Fergusson’s motion, :
in opposition to a plan which Lord Palmerston declared to be so j
important that he would sit till Christmas to carry it, was rejected by
88 to £-0. Had there been a personal squabble, or some trumpery
matter into which personality could be imported, the division would
have been a couple of hundred on each side. The struggle on the Bill
was protracted; but Palmerston saying that as long as health and
strength permitted, he would resist a factious opposition, the House
went into Committee, and the Bill passed through it. Sir Charles
Wood promised that all pledges given to any of the Indian soldiers,
or in connection with the local army, should be faithfully redeemed.
Tuesday. Lord Lyttleton opposed the New Zealand Bill; but the
Government think it rather important that the Land question should
be set at rest, as a system of conveyancing which is illustrated by the
occasional killing the tenant for life, and eating the cross remainders
over, is rather in arrear of the age. So the Bill was passed.
Lord John Russell was asked, whether the Emperor oe tee
French had not sent an uncommonly affectionate letter to this
country, as stated by the Morning Post. Lord John said that suen
was the fact, but that, as the letter was strictly private, he could not
produce it. The following day, of course, the letter was in all the
newspapers. Mr. Punch avows himself greatly touched by his Imperial
Brother’s missive, especially by the piquant bit: “ Eh bien. Lord
Palmerston knows me; and when I say a thing, he will believe it.”
Mr. Punch is rejoiced that the Emperor means nothing but peace*
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
July 30. Monday. Lord Clyde, introduced by Lord Punch,
took the oaths and his seat in the House of Lords, so that the saviour
of India, though far inferior in rank to Cardigan, or Lucan, or
Normanby, or Westminster, is now as good a man as most of the
bishops, as Jones Loyd, or as Vernon Smith. But Lord Punch
begs to say that he has no notion of leaving things where they are, and
that he recommends those who have the means of setting the Fountain
of Honour in play, to send a very handsome shower-bath of honour in
the direction of Lord Clyde, or Lord Punch may turn the stream of
his own indignation in the direction of !the negligent parties. Fancy a
Lucan having precedence over a Colin Campbell!
_ Lord John Russell has sent out Lord Dufferin as our Commis-
sioner for settling the affairs of Syria. This nobleman is a very good
yachtsman, and a man who is good at yachting is generally good at
most other things. He is not—
“ A slave,
Whose very soul would sicken at the wave,”
but usually a manly, wide-awake, intelligent, self-reliant fellow. One
of this class of Englishmen saved Tyre the other day, by putting his
vessel and his guns in such a position that the savage Druses were
afraid to attack. We make no doubt that Dufferin will manage very
well. After this appointment had been announced, there was a row
originating with Mr. Horsman, who has got the combative element
strong upon him, and who insisted on speaking, and blew up the
Speaker himself for trying to put him down. Mr. Punch is far from
regarding Mr. Horsman with any red-tapey dislike, and on the con-
trary, holds that it. is very desirable that upon occasion Members
should speak out their minds, and not let any bureaucratic swagger
and self-conceit be too strong for them. But there is reason in roasting
°f eggs, and also in roasting of Ministers, and Mr. Horsman should
be temperate. At. present the Wild Horsman is about as terrible an
apparition to an English Minister as the Wild Huntsman to a German
peasant; but the chief end and object of a British Senator is not the
“carinz one of the Queen’s servants into a fit.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI,
51
BLANK CARTRIDGE.
Musketry Instructor (at the conclusion of the Drill) “ Hullo/—but / say, Mr. Poltelank, pray what has become of your Ramrod
[Polyblank tries to look as if he had not fired it off }'
Talking about the Fortifications, the Monster missed the opportunity ;
of making a good and vulgar joke. Sir Charles Napier objected to
the proposed defences at a certain place called Browndown, and the
Monster Hereert replied, admitting the difficulty of getting there.
If he had chosen to be at once low and irrelevant, he might have said,
that the interruptions to the vote for the Fortifications money made
the real difficulty in getting a Brown down ; but we are very glad that
he was not so coarse and objectionable. The Indian Army Fusion Bill j
Debate was resumed, and new objections were raised to the scheme,
and a division took place, which Mr. Punch records, in order to show
how many Members thought it worth while to stay and discuss the 1
gravest business now before Parliament. Sir J. Fergusson’s motion, :
in opposition to a plan which Lord Palmerston declared to be so j
important that he would sit till Christmas to carry it, was rejected by
88 to £-0. Had there been a personal squabble, or some trumpery
matter into which personality could be imported, the division would
have been a couple of hundred on each side. The struggle on the Bill
was protracted; but Palmerston saying that as long as health and
strength permitted, he would resist a factious opposition, the House
went into Committee, and the Bill passed through it. Sir Charles
Wood promised that all pledges given to any of the Indian soldiers,
or in connection with the local army, should be faithfully redeemed.
Tuesday. Lord Lyttleton opposed the New Zealand Bill; but the
Government think it rather important that the Land question should
be set at rest, as a system of conveyancing which is illustrated by the
occasional killing the tenant for life, and eating the cross remainders
over, is rather in arrear of the age. So the Bill was passed.
Lord John Russell was asked, whether the Emperor oe tee
French had not sent an uncommonly affectionate letter to this
country, as stated by the Morning Post. Lord John said that suen
was the fact, but that, as the letter was strictly private, he could not
produce it. The following day, of course, the letter was in all the
newspapers. Mr. Punch avows himself greatly touched by his Imperial
Brother’s missive, especially by the piquant bit: “ Eh bien. Lord
Palmerston knows me; and when I say a thing, he will believe it.”
Mr. Punch is rejoiced that the Emperor means nothing but peace*
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
July 30. Monday. Lord Clyde, introduced by Lord Punch,
took the oaths and his seat in the House of Lords, so that the saviour
of India, though far inferior in rank to Cardigan, or Lucan, or
Normanby, or Westminster, is now as good a man as most of the
bishops, as Jones Loyd, or as Vernon Smith. But Lord Punch
begs to say that he has no notion of leaving things where they are, and
that he recommends those who have the means of setting the Fountain
of Honour in play, to send a very handsome shower-bath of honour in
the direction of Lord Clyde, or Lord Punch may turn the stream of
his own indignation in the direction of !the negligent parties. Fancy a
Lucan having precedence over a Colin Campbell!
_ Lord John Russell has sent out Lord Dufferin as our Commis-
sioner for settling the affairs of Syria. This nobleman is a very good
yachtsman, and a man who is good at yachting is generally good at
most other things. He is not—
“ A slave,
Whose very soul would sicken at the wave,”
but usually a manly, wide-awake, intelligent, self-reliant fellow. One
of this class of Englishmen saved Tyre the other day, by putting his
vessel and his guns in such a position that the savage Druses were
afraid to attack. We make no doubt that Dufferin will manage very
well. After this appointment had been announced, there was a row
originating with Mr. Horsman, who has got the combative element
strong upon him, and who insisted on speaking, and blew up the
Speaker himself for trying to put him down. Mr. Punch is far from
regarding Mr. Horsman with any red-tapey dislike, and on the con-
trary, holds that it. is very desirable that upon occasion Members
should speak out their minds, and not let any bureaucratic swagger
and self-conceit be too strong for them. But there is reason in roasting
°f eggs, and also in roasting of Ministers, and Mr. Horsman should
be temperate. At. present the Wild Horsman is about as terrible an
apparition to an English Minister as the Wild Huntsman to a German
peasant; but the chief end and object of a British Senator is not the
“carinz one of the Queen’s servants into a fit.