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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
“ No, give him up! ” cried the crowd, which
was headed by Gyles Scroogynnes, the Coast-
guardsman and the avenging hound.
“ He is not here,” answered the Baronet. “We
will pursue him together.”
So saying, he sprang from the window into the
farmer’s arms, and the two strong men, having
embraced one another, turned head over heels
upon the gravel path.
[March 7, 1863.
Once more upon the track of the fugitive.
Onward, onward!
(To be continued.)
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
February 23. Monday— The Earl or Derby made a strong
protest against the Hadway Invasion with which London is threatened.
| There are about forty schemes for cutting the Metropolis to pieces, and
considering what trade and general comfort have suffered, and are suf-
fering, from the works at present in hand, it is tor London to consider
whether she is prepared to have thirty-nine additional disruptions ol her
thoroughfares, to say nothing of the demolition of many of her best
buildings, and the result to be a series of hideous viaducts and frightful
termini, and a constant roar, scream, and evil smell, like those which
afflict the Marylebone Road. Of course, we must have something in
the way of new transit accommodation; but if London be wise, she will
insist upon a stern supervision of every scheme of the kind. Lord
Derby spoke sound sense, and will, Mr. Punch hopes, smash the Bill
against which his Lordship specially fulminated, that for destroying
Finsbury Circus, in order to spare the pockets of the Late Eastern
Counties Bailway Company.
There have been personal squabbles in the Commons. Lord Robert
Montagu accused Lord Clarence Paget of dining out^with sinister
inteuUous, and Mr. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy, enraged
with Sir F. Smith for accusing him of incapability, wrote the said
Smitii a severe letter, which was held to be breach of privilege. Mon-
tagu explained and Reed apologised.
The Prince and Princess’s Provision Bill has passed the Commons.
Mr. Whalley professed agony, because it did not bind the young
couple to bring up their children in the Protestant religion, and Lord
Palmerston said, that it was, on the whole, rather likely that they would,
both being Protestants themselves, which assurance seems to have com-
forted W. The Premier hoped that the happy pair would have many
children. The Sandringham house and estate, which will be the
Summer Palace of the Heir Apparent, will cost some £300,000, but it
all comes out of the Prince’s own Duchy money.
Lord Palmerston spoke very strongly of the abduction, by the
Emperor oe the French, of the 450 Nubians who are en route for
Mexico, compared the operation to the Russian conscription in Poland,
and hoped that the French would see the matter in that light.
Then came a long debate on the Navy Estimates, touching which all
Mr. Punch means to say is, that Government have effected a reduction
of One Million, and declare the Navy in the highest state of efficiency.
The Irish forced an adjournment about two, on the ground that Ireland
was not represented in the Committee on Public Accounts, rather an
edifying complaint, Irishmen being celebrated for their accurate and
practical acquaintance with arithmetic.
Tuesday. Sir J. Hay entered into a long detail of the wrongs and
grievances of the Naval Service. It seems that in the opinion of our
gallant sea-officers, they are neither paid nor promoted properly, nor do
they retire at fitting time. Lord Palmerston scolded the Service
for grumbling in an organised fashion, for “ arguing in platoons ” as
the man says in the play, and talked about the foundations of discipline
being shaken by such demonstrations. He moved counter-resolutions,
but gave the officers a Select Committee, which Sir J. Elphinstone
hoped would be a tolerably fair one.
Mr. Adderley brought in, with Sir G. Grey’s permission, a Bill
for Whipping Ruffians.
Wednesday. Parliament did not sit. The Prince op .Wales held
his Levee, and the sufferers in the fray were conveyed to the nearest
hospitals.
Thursday. Lord Normanby let fly a new canard about Mr. Odo
Russell. Who is it that is cruel enough to hoax and cram the unfor-
tunate Marquis ? The Society for the Suppression, &c., should tell one
of their officers to protect him.
Captain Sturt, though he had served through the Crimea and had
been wounded at Inkermann, was not ashamed to complain of having
been obliged to join the forlorn hope at the Levee. When a brave man
describes such a scene as terrible, we may suppose that it is so. Sir
George Grey said, next night, more suo, that such things could not be
helped, and that the fight was the result of gentlemen’s impatience.
Mr. Baillie got up an Indian debate, and the House of course
walked off, leaving about forty Members to listen to the sorrows of the
Native Princes, and to suffer worse affliction themselves in the form of
an explanatory speech by Sir Charles Wood.
Navy Estimates again. Moreover the Government, awed by Mr.
Punch's menace in the event of one complete commercial holiday not
being granted, actually, and in the teeth of all their declarations_ that
such a thing was unheard-of, would be most detrimental, and so forth,
have passed an Act allowing people who happen to have the money ready.
to pay their bills and notes on Friday next instead of Saturday. This
is Mr. Punch's doing, but if anybody offers him a Testimonial, he will
call in the police.
Friday. The Prussian Foreign Minister denies that the language used
by Lord Russell, as to the conduct of Prussia in the Polish matter, is
applicable; Count Bismarck wishes it thought that Prussia has not
behaved quite so badly as one supposed. We would make a bridge of
gold for allying enemy, and if, as Earl Russell and Lord Palmer-
ston seem to imply, the Iking has not finally completed the wicked
compact against the Poles, and is inclined to back out of the business
in obedience to the indignant shout of Europe, by all means let him do
so. This we take to be plain English for the language of the diplo-
matic Swells.
Sir George Grey gave some highly complicated and totally unsatis-
factory non-explanations of a muddle he has got into about the recep-
tion of Princess Alexandra
“ Quam Jocus (Punch) circumvolat, et Cupido (Pam).’’
Then occurred one of those scenes which do honour to England. A
long debate, if that can properly be called so where the speakers are all
bent on the same object, took place upon the affairs of Poland, and the
British House of Commons expressed in unmistakeable language its
indignation at the conduct of Russia. There were no vulgar clamours
for menace, or for war, but there was an unanimous declaration that a
crime was being committed, against which it was the duty of the
Executive to protest. All parties concurred, and the opinion of the
House having been given, it was wisely left to the Government5 to
signify that opinion in its own way.
Serious business having been well done, some Roebuckiana were
tolerated for the relaxation of the House. John Arthur made an
opportunity of explaining what a very great person he was, and how
intimate with the Austrian Government. Being in Vienna, and wishing
to see a certain despatch, he went to the Government and demanded
to behold it. It was read to him, and he was good enough to say that
it was “ exceedingly well written.” This put the House in a pleasant
humour, and Mr. Roebuck then had a quarrel with Mr. Gladstone
for" pointing at him with his finger, and terrifying him,” and this
being arranged, Mr. Roebuck made a declaration which must interest
the whole world, and ruin all the cigar-shops. “Nobody detests
Tobacco more than I do.” Possibly Mr. Roebuck looks on it as a
sort of rival, for no doubt it is exceedingly inflammable, and emits
useless and acrid smoke.
LATEST EROM AMERICA.
PER THE “SCOTIA.”
.
Liverpool, Tuesday, 11 p.m.
The Scotia, intercepted off Cape Race, brings the most important
news in the history of the War.
General T. Thumb has been appointed to the Command of the
Potomac Army.
Mrs. Thumb remains a guest of President Lincoln, who offers
her his arm to all public places.
Mr. Sewakd states, that even if the South had not been already con-
quered, its subjugation would now be certain.
Gold has dropped to par.
Hatch it’s Hotel.
The above might serve as a new title, when the office of the Field
newspaper wishes to change its name. The Salmon’s Eggs and Trout’s
Eggs (how nice they’d be boiled for breakfast! ) are, we were inlormed
by one of the gratis-sight-loving crowd, being hatched in the window of
tffe establishment. In order to prevent an unnecessary blocking up of
the pathway, we warn ail persons desirous of enjoying the spectacle,
that they will be disappointed, a notice having been put up in the win-
dow, announcing the show to be “ Ova!' As the incubation of these
Fishlings must necessarily be attended with many and great difficulties,
we would suggest, as an appropriate motto for the window, the following
line:—
“ Per varios casus per tot discrimina rear'em.”
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
“ No, give him up! ” cried the crowd, which
was headed by Gyles Scroogynnes, the Coast-
guardsman and the avenging hound.
“ He is not here,” answered the Baronet. “We
will pursue him together.”
So saying, he sprang from the window into the
farmer’s arms, and the two strong men, having
embraced one another, turned head over heels
upon the gravel path.
[March 7, 1863.
Once more upon the track of the fugitive.
Onward, onward!
(To be continued.)
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
February 23. Monday— The Earl or Derby made a strong
protest against the Hadway Invasion with which London is threatened.
| There are about forty schemes for cutting the Metropolis to pieces, and
considering what trade and general comfort have suffered, and are suf-
fering, from the works at present in hand, it is tor London to consider
whether she is prepared to have thirty-nine additional disruptions ol her
thoroughfares, to say nothing of the demolition of many of her best
buildings, and the result to be a series of hideous viaducts and frightful
termini, and a constant roar, scream, and evil smell, like those which
afflict the Marylebone Road. Of course, we must have something in
the way of new transit accommodation; but if London be wise, she will
insist upon a stern supervision of every scheme of the kind. Lord
Derby spoke sound sense, and will, Mr. Punch hopes, smash the Bill
against which his Lordship specially fulminated, that for destroying
Finsbury Circus, in order to spare the pockets of the Late Eastern
Counties Bailway Company.
There have been personal squabbles in the Commons. Lord Robert
Montagu accused Lord Clarence Paget of dining out^with sinister
inteuUous, and Mr. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy, enraged
with Sir F. Smith for accusing him of incapability, wrote the said
Smitii a severe letter, which was held to be breach of privilege. Mon-
tagu explained and Reed apologised.
The Prince and Princess’s Provision Bill has passed the Commons.
Mr. Whalley professed agony, because it did not bind the young
couple to bring up their children in the Protestant religion, and Lord
Palmerston said, that it was, on the whole, rather likely that they would,
both being Protestants themselves, which assurance seems to have com-
forted W. The Premier hoped that the happy pair would have many
children. The Sandringham house and estate, which will be the
Summer Palace of the Heir Apparent, will cost some £300,000, but it
all comes out of the Prince’s own Duchy money.
Lord Palmerston spoke very strongly of the abduction, by the
Emperor oe the French, of the 450 Nubians who are en route for
Mexico, compared the operation to the Russian conscription in Poland,
and hoped that the French would see the matter in that light.
Then came a long debate on the Navy Estimates, touching which all
Mr. Punch means to say is, that Government have effected a reduction
of One Million, and declare the Navy in the highest state of efficiency.
The Irish forced an adjournment about two, on the ground that Ireland
was not represented in the Committee on Public Accounts, rather an
edifying complaint, Irishmen being celebrated for their accurate and
practical acquaintance with arithmetic.
Tuesday. Sir J. Hay entered into a long detail of the wrongs and
grievances of the Naval Service. It seems that in the opinion of our
gallant sea-officers, they are neither paid nor promoted properly, nor do
they retire at fitting time. Lord Palmerston scolded the Service
for grumbling in an organised fashion, for “ arguing in platoons ” as
the man says in the play, and talked about the foundations of discipline
being shaken by such demonstrations. He moved counter-resolutions,
but gave the officers a Select Committee, which Sir J. Elphinstone
hoped would be a tolerably fair one.
Mr. Adderley brought in, with Sir G. Grey’s permission, a Bill
for Whipping Ruffians.
Wednesday. Parliament did not sit. The Prince op .Wales held
his Levee, and the sufferers in the fray were conveyed to the nearest
hospitals.
Thursday. Lord Normanby let fly a new canard about Mr. Odo
Russell. Who is it that is cruel enough to hoax and cram the unfor-
tunate Marquis ? The Society for the Suppression, &c., should tell one
of their officers to protect him.
Captain Sturt, though he had served through the Crimea and had
been wounded at Inkermann, was not ashamed to complain of having
been obliged to join the forlorn hope at the Levee. When a brave man
describes such a scene as terrible, we may suppose that it is so. Sir
George Grey said, next night, more suo, that such things could not be
helped, and that the fight was the result of gentlemen’s impatience.
Mr. Baillie got up an Indian debate, and the House of course
walked off, leaving about forty Members to listen to the sorrows of the
Native Princes, and to suffer worse affliction themselves in the form of
an explanatory speech by Sir Charles Wood.
Navy Estimates again. Moreover the Government, awed by Mr.
Punch's menace in the event of one complete commercial holiday not
being granted, actually, and in the teeth of all their declarations_ that
such a thing was unheard-of, would be most detrimental, and so forth,
have passed an Act allowing people who happen to have the money ready.
to pay their bills and notes on Friday next instead of Saturday. This
is Mr. Punch's doing, but if anybody offers him a Testimonial, he will
call in the police.
Friday. The Prussian Foreign Minister denies that the language used
by Lord Russell, as to the conduct of Prussia in the Polish matter, is
applicable; Count Bismarck wishes it thought that Prussia has not
behaved quite so badly as one supposed. We would make a bridge of
gold for allying enemy, and if, as Earl Russell and Lord Palmer-
ston seem to imply, the Iking has not finally completed the wicked
compact against the Poles, and is inclined to back out of the business
in obedience to the indignant shout of Europe, by all means let him do
so. This we take to be plain English for the language of the diplo-
matic Swells.
Sir George Grey gave some highly complicated and totally unsatis-
factory non-explanations of a muddle he has got into about the recep-
tion of Princess Alexandra
“ Quam Jocus (Punch) circumvolat, et Cupido (Pam).’’
Then occurred one of those scenes which do honour to England. A
long debate, if that can properly be called so where the speakers are all
bent on the same object, took place upon the affairs of Poland, and the
British House of Commons expressed in unmistakeable language its
indignation at the conduct of Russia. There were no vulgar clamours
for menace, or for war, but there was an unanimous declaration that a
crime was being committed, against which it was the duty of the
Executive to protest. All parties concurred, and the opinion of the
House having been given, it was wisely left to the Government5 to
signify that opinion in its own way.
Serious business having been well done, some Roebuckiana were
tolerated for the relaxation of the House. John Arthur made an
opportunity of explaining what a very great person he was, and how
intimate with the Austrian Government. Being in Vienna, and wishing
to see a certain despatch, he went to the Government and demanded
to behold it. It was read to him, and he was good enough to say that
it was “ exceedingly well written.” This put the House in a pleasant
humour, and Mr. Roebuck then had a quarrel with Mr. Gladstone
for" pointing at him with his finger, and terrifying him,” and this
being arranged, Mr. Roebuck made a declaration which must interest
the whole world, and ruin all the cigar-shops. “Nobody detests
Tobacco more than I do.” Possibly Mr. Roebuck looks on it as a
sort of rival, for no doubt it is exceedingly inflammable, and emits
useless and acrid smoke.
LATEST EROM AMERICA.
PER THE “SCOTIA.”
.
Liverpool, Tuesday, 11 p.m.
The Scotia, intercepted off Cape Race, brings the most important
news in the history of the War.
General T. Thumb has been appointed to the Command of the
Potomac Army.
Mrs. Thumb remains a guest of President Lincoln, who offers
her his arm to all public places.
Mr. Sewakd states, that even if the South had not been already con-
quered, its subjugation would now be certain.
Gold has dropped to par.
Hatch it’s Hotel.
The above might serve as a new title, when the office of the Field
newspaper wishes to change its name. The Salmon’s Eggs and Trout’s
Eggs (how nice they’d be boiled for breakfast! ) are, we were inlormed
by one of the gratis-sight-loving crowd, being hatched in the window of
tffe establishment. In order to prevent an unnecessary blocking up of
the pathway, we warn ail persons desirous of enjoying the spectacle,
that they will be disappointed, a notice having been put up in the win-
dow, announcing the show to be “ Ova!' As the incubation of these
Fishlings must necessarily be attended with many and great difficulties,
we would suggest, as an appropriate motto for the window, the following
line:—
“ Per varios casus per tot discrimina rear'em.”