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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[August 3, 1861.
upset everything. This wild Dean may be a clerical Gorilla, but Mr.
Punch, with all respect for the Bishop, cannot understand why all facili-
ties should not be given to voters, even if they are unhappy enougli to
live by the Cumberland lakes instead of by the Serpentine, Isis, or Cam.
The Bill prevailed, and was passed later in the week, and as there is no
doubt that the measure is an innovation, the next University Election
will be in the nature of an experiment. We dare say that the act will
be very acceptable to many a Mrs. Parson, whose husband will be able
to hand her the £10 his journey would have cost, and thereby ameliorate
the nether garments of Tommy, Harry, Sammy, Ignatius, and little
Polycarp.
There was a Military debate, and then an Indian debate down-stairs,
and then in Supply, Mr. Osborne fired away at the frescoes in the
New Houses, and declared that they were very ugly, and also were
coming to pieces. Mr. Cowper denied both propositions. Sir George
Bowyer was very funny. He was angry at the pictorial preserva-
tion of the fact that Charles the First’s coffin had been insulted
by a Roundhead, because he, Sir G. was a Cavalier and a Loyalist, and
he was also angry that there is a picture of the slaughter of David
Rizzio, because he did not think that operation was creditable to any-
body concerned. But if our national records are to contain nothing
but illustrations of virtue, history had better be re-written. Except
the Establishment of Punch, where has there been a grand and unsullied
historical action ? There was a much less respectable cavil raised upon
the item.for paying the cost of Lord Brougham’s peerage patent out
of public money. This objection was not creditable to the clique
that urged it, and was signally defeated, the House feeling that the
tribute to the Old Schoolmaster was a well deserved one. The House
was Counted Out, about three in the morning, and about time too.
Friday. Mr. Punch thought there would be a row. It was stated
that Admiral Berkeley was to be made Lord Berkeley. The
eternal Grantley lost no time in petitioning against such title being-
granted to his brother. Granville answered Grantley that there
should be no such Grant. It is said that Sir Maurice is to be called
Eitzhardinge, which is well, because the name will be very pleasant
to G. B. and because it is right to preserve a title that has been borne
by virtue and so forth.
Lord Derby evidently does not like being kept in Town, though
what he stops for, nobody knows. He said that there were 92 Bills to
pass before Prorogation. But as he has not got to pass them, why
does he not finish packing, and go ? Granville thought that the Lords
might stop in Town ana attend to legislation; and this Hardwicke
thought very hard, as other folks were going away.. Lord Portman,
for once, came out with a sensible remark, and said that it was the
excess of talking in the other House that caused delays, and that the
Lords1 should teach the Commons how to get through work without
chatter.
Then did Lord Westbury make fight for his child, the Bankruptcy
Bill, and try to get the Lords to accept the Commons’ judgment on the
amendments. His Lordship certainly used apostolical plainness of
speech, and gave his audience to understand that he did not think they
comprehended much about the question. He wished he could have had
half an hour’s quiet talk with Lord Derby, and would have “ laid his
life ” he would have converted that Earl. A more earnest effort for a
scheme could not have been made, but it was not fated to be successful.
Cranworth, and Chelmsford, and Wensleydale (“I could not
hear a word of what he said,” remarked the Chancellor) all set them
against the Commons, and in the end the principal amendment, that
which floors the Judge, was adhered to by 80 to 46. On other points
the Lords gave way.
Sir Robert Peel goes to Ireland as Secretary—sequitur que patrem
hand pussibus cequis—the last word meaning “steady,” pro hdcvice,
Wiscount; the last quotation meaning on this occasion only, and by
particidar desire of a person of distinction, the last phrase meaning Mr.
Punch.
A good deal of money was voted, Lord Palmerston declared that
Erance was building a great many iron ships, and that other nations
were imitating her, ana after some smart debating, Mr. Disraeli
urged that we ought not to say that we were building ships in defiance,
or out of suspicion of Erance, but that inasmuch as a new era in ship-
building had come, it was necessary for all nations to bring their navies
up to the new mark. We should not be insulting. This elegant sug-
gestion made White bawl out that the Tories clearly expected to come
into office soon, and were trying to make tilings pleasant. To this
there was no reply made. Ministers are shifting a little uneasily, but
the Constable will keep all steady for the present.
A Flat Contradiction.
The Era, which is largely benefitted by the advertisements of poor
actors and actresses seeking situations, tries to be “ severe ” upon the
Fete for the benefit of the Dramatic College, and professes to be most
anxious for “the respectability and advancement of the Drama and its
exponents.” How can that be when the Era considers itsele “the best
theatrical organ ! ”—Emmy, is it not ?
A POET CLOSE TO THE PREMIER.
Great Palmerston, I’m glad to see that, though
To clamour you gave up the first Horse-Ride
In Kensington Gardens, now you have the foe
By making another in a different part of them, defied.
Such noble daring shows a firm determination
Not to be put down by Rabble agitation.
A set of base and brutal Sinisters
To place their unwashed selves in fragrant opposition
To a great public improvement of the Minister’s!
They may go and be devoted to perdition!
No, no, stand firm and offer an invincible resistance
To the efforts of these uncircumspect Philistines.
Methinks a Deputation I now see,
A Posse of those blackguards waiting on you.
Illustrious Palmerston, beseeching thee
Away with the Horse Ride to do.
Where the Nobility and gentry roam at quiet paces,
Displaying a galaxy of lovely faces.
Rapt in the vision of an inspired Bard,
I see you send them to the right about.
Giving the hindmost rascal a kick so hard
That you prostrate them altogether in a rout.
By which means taken unawares,
They all tumble down-stairs !
Oh, noble Palmerston, you have now restored
That ride, that is another for the same.
So has. a host of envious malicious miscreants poured
Their venom on an eminent Poet’s fame
Which now I hope, defying that rebel crew,
Aou’ll give your humble servant back his pension too.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON ART.
Notwithstanding the proverb Be Gustibus, the House of Commons
has of late very frequently engaged itself in debates on the subject of
Art.. As the Houses of Parliament are to be adorned with statues if
possible, and disfigured with statues if not, and whereas it is inexpe-
dient that these Houses should be disfigured by the statues wherewith
they are at any rate to be furnished, ana further whereas the disfigure-
ment of the said Houses is extremely likely to be caused by any statue
which they may order to be made, therefore perhaps Mr. Cowper, in
his capacity of Eirst Commissioner of Works, will cause every such
statue to be brought before the House of Commons, and will move that
the House do go into Committee thereon with a view to pass the
statue, as it were, into a statute, before allowing it to stand on a
parliamentary basis, or pedestal.
If this plan were adopted, any Honourable Member could, in case he
thought proper, move an amendment on the statue’s nose, or any other
feature, or part, of its face or body, which he might deem objectionable
or capable of being improved. The amendment if carried, might be
executed, either by the artist who produced the statue, or by some
other employed as executioner by the House. The various amendments
proposed by the Members of the House on the members and lineaments
of the statue, having been adopted, or having fallen to the ground, the
question might then be put “ That this statue do now pass,” and then
should it, after having undergone the corrections and alterations of
divers Honourable Gentlemen, present, as it might, an unsatisfactory
appearance, the statue might, after all, be rejected. As the sculptor
hired to make it would have to be paid for his work, the rejection of
statues would be throwing a little money away, but nobody could
object to that, except Mr. Williams.
A statue with the merits of which the House felt itself unable to
deal, or could not agree about them, might always be referred to a
Select Committee, like the business of the. nation. In the mean time,
all manner of idle and impertinent questions might be asked of the
Government on the subject of statues and works of art in general, by
Irish Members of the Brazen Band, and other bores individually per-
verse or crazy, or desirous of obstructing wise legislation. One could
rise to move for the production of any correspondence which may have
passed between Her Majesty’s Ministers and the French and Italian
Governments touching the Laocoon. Another might beg leave,. in
the absence of the noble Lord, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
now in another place, to ask the noble Viscount the First Lord of
the Treasury, whether the Cabinet, in its communications with any
Foreign Power, had deemed it necessary to advert to the attitude of
the Dying. Gladiator. Honourable Gentlemen would thus highly increase
the merriment, and add somewhat to the utility, of. those discussions
which, on Friday night, are their delight, in the Session of the year.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[August 3, 1861.
upset everything. This wild Dean may be a clerical Gorilla, but Mr.
Punch, with all respect for the Bishop, cannot understand why all facili-
ties should not be given to voters, even if they are unhappy enougli to
live by the Cumberland lakes instead of by the Serpentine, Isis, or Cam.
The Bill prevailed, and was passed later in the week, and as there is no
doubt that the measure is an innovation, the next University Election
will be in the nature of an experiment. We dare say that the act will
be very acceptable to many a Mrs. Parson, whose husband will be able
to hand her the £10 his journey would have cost, and thereby ameliorate
the nether garments of Tommy, Harry, Sammy, Ignatius, and little
Polycarp.
There was a Military debate, and then an Indian debate down-stairs,
and then in Supply, Mr. Osborne fired away at the frescoes in the
New Houses, and declared that they were very ugly, and also were
coming to pieces. Mr. Cowper denied both propositions. Sir George
Bowyer was very funny. He was angry at the pictorial preserva-
tion of the fact that Charles the First’s coffin had been insulted
by a Roundhead, because he, Sir G. was a Cavalier and a Loyalist, and
he was also angry that there is a picture of the slaughter of David
Rizzio, because he did not think that operation was creditable to any-
body concerned. But if our national records are to contain nothing
but illustrations of virtue, history had better be re-written. Except
the Establishment of Punch, where has there been a grand and unsullied
historical action ? There was a much less respectable cavil raised upon
the item.for paying the cost of Lord Brougham’s peerage patent out
of public money. This objection was not creditable to the clique
that urged it, and was signally defeated, the House feeling that the
tribute to the Old Schoolmaster was a well deserved one. The House
was Counted Out, about three in the morning, and about time too.
Friday. Mr. Punch thought there would be a row. It was stated
that Admiral Berkeley was to be made Lord Berkeley. The
eternal Grantley lost no time in petitioning against such title being-
granted to his brother. Granville answered Grantley that there
should be no such Grant. It is said that Sir Maurice is to be called
Eitzhardinge, which is well, because the name will be very pleasant
to G. B. and because it is right to preserve a title that has been borne
by virtue and so forth.
Lord Derby evidently does not like being kept in Town, though
what he stops for, nobody knows. He said that there were 92 Bills to
pass before Prorogation. But as he has not got to pass them, why
does he not finish packing, and go ? Granville thought that the Lords
might stop in Town ana attend to legislation; and this Hardwicke
thought very hard, as other folks were going away.. Lord Portman,
for once, came out with a sensible remark, and said that it was the
excess of talking in the other House that caused delays, and that the
Lords1 should teach the Commons how to get through work without
chatter.
Then did Lord Westbury make fight for his child, the Bankruptcy
Bill, and try to get the Lords to accept the Commons’ judgment on the
amendments. His Lordship certainly used apostolical plainness of
speech, and gave his audience to understand that he did not think they
comprehended much about the question. He wished he could have had
half an hour’s quiet talk with Lord Derby, and would have “ laid his
life ” he would have converted that Earl. A more earnest effort for a
scheme could not have been made, but it was not fated to be successful.
Cranworth, and Chelmsford, and Wensleydale (“I could not
hear a word of what he said,” remarked the Chancellor) all set them
against the Commons, and in the end the principal amendment, that
which floors the Judge, was adhered to by 80 to 46. On other points
the Lords gave way.
Sir Robert Peel goes to Ireland as Secretary—sequitur que patrem
hand pussibus cequis—the last word meaning “steady,” pro hdcvice,
Wiscount; the last quotation meaning on this occasion only, and by
particidar desire of a person of distinction, the last phrase meaning Mr.
Punch.
A good deal of money was voted, Lord Palmerston declared that
Erance was building a great many iron ships, and that other nations
were imitating her, ana after some smart debating, Mr. Disraeli
urged that we ought not to say that we were building ships in defiance,
or out of suspicion of Erance, but that inasmuch as a new era in ship-
building had come, it was necessary for all nations to bring their navies
up to the new mark. We should not be insulting. This elegant sug-
gestion made White bawl out that the Tories clearly expected to come
into office soon, and were trying to make tilings pleasant. To this
there was no reply made. Ministers are shifting a little uneasily, but
the Constable will keep all steady for the present.
A Flat Contradiction.
The Era, which is largely benefitted by the advertisements of poor
actors and actresses seeking situations, tries to be “ severe ” upon the
Fete for the benefit of the Dramatic College, and professes to be most
anxious for “the respectability and advancement of the Drama and its
exponents.” How can that be when the Era considers itsele “the best
theatrical organ ! ”—Emmy, is it not ?
A POET CLOSE TO THE PREMIER.
Great Palmerston, I’m glad to see that, though
To clamour you gave up the first Horse-Ride
In Kensington Gardens, now you have the foe
By making another in a different part of them, defied.
Such noble daring shows a firm determination
Not to be put down by Rabble agitation.
A set of base and brutal Sinisters
To place their unwashed selves in fragrant opposition
To a great public improvement of the Minister’s!
They may go and be devoted to perdition!
No, no, stand firm and offer an invincible resistance
To the efforts of these uncircumspect Philistines.
Methinks a Deputation I now see,
A Posse of those blackguards waiting on you.
Illustrious Palmerston, beseeching thee
Away with the Horse Ride to do.
Where the Nobility and gentry roam at quiet paces,
Displaying a galaxy of lovely faces.
Rapt in the vision of an inspired Bard,
I see you send them to the right about.
Giving the hindmost rascal a kick so hard
That you prostrate them altogether in a rout.
By which means taken unawares,
They all tumble down-stairs !
Oh, noble Palmerston, you have now restored
That ride, that is another for the same.
So has. a host of envious malicious miscreants poured
Their venom on an eminent Poet’s fame
Which now I hope, defying that rebel crew,
Aou’ll give your humble servant back his pension too.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON ART.
Notwithstanding the proverb Be Gustibus, the House of Commons
has of late very frequently engaged itself in debates on the subject of
Art.. As the Houses of Parliament are to be adorned with statues if
possible, and disfigured with statues if not, and whereas it is inexpe-
dient that these Houses should be disfigured by the statues wherewith
they are at any rate to be furnished, ana further whereas the disfigure-
ment of the said Houses is extremely likely to be caused by any statue
which they may order to be made, therefore perhaps Mr. Cowper, in
his capacity of Eirst Commissioner of Works, will cause every such
statue to be brought before the House of Commons, and will move that
the House do go into Committee thereon with a view to pass the
statue, as it were, into a statute, before allowing it to stand on a
parliamentary basis, or pedestal.
If this plan were adopted, any Honourable Member could, in case he
thought proper, move an amendment on the statue’s nose, or any other
feature, or part, of its face or body, which he might deem objectionable
or capable of being improved. The amendment if carried, might be
executed, either by the artist who produced the statue, or by some
other employed as executioner by the House. The various amendments
proposed by the Members of the House on the members and lineaments
of the statue, having been adopted, or having fallen to the ground, the
question might then be put “ That this statue do now pass,” and then
should it, after having undergone the corrections and alterations of
divers Honourable Gentlemen, present, as it might, an unsatisfactory
appearance, the statue might, after all, be rejected. As the sculptor
hired to make it would have to be paid for his work, the rejection of
statues would be throwing a little money away, but nobody could
object to that, except Mr. Williams.
A statue with the merits of which the House felt itself unable to
deal, or could not agree about them, might always be referred to a
Select Committee, like the business of the. nation. In the mean time,
all manner of idle and impertinent questions might be asked of the
Government on the subject of statues and works of art in general, by
Irish Members of the Brazen Band, and other bores individually per-
verse or crazy, or desirous of obstructing wise legislation. One could
rise to move for the production of any correspondence which may have
passed between Her Majesty’s Ministers and the French and Italian
Governments touching the Laocoon. Another might beg leave,. in
the absence of the noble Lord, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
now in another place, to ask the noble Viscount the First Lord of
the Treasury, whether the Cabinet, in its communications with any
Foreign Power, had deemed it necessary to advert to the attitude of
the Dying. Gladiator. Honourable Gentlemen would thus highly increase
the merriment, and add somewhat to the utility, of. those discussions
which, on Friday night, are their delight, in the Session of the year.