Punch (44.1863)

aprxl 25, 1863.1

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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hard labour in high life.

How doth the ever busy Pam
Employ each leisure hour
lu journeying from town to town,

Like bee from flower to flower !

How cleverly his tale he ’ll tell
Where’er a speech he makes,
Showing how England must excel
While his advice she takes!

While others waste their leisure hours,
Or idly mischief brew,

Pam actively the country scours,

In quest of hearers new.

Thus in hard work his holiday
Is virtuously passed ;

But let us hope a Peerage may
Be his reward at last.

HOMAGE TO BUTLER!

Intelligence from New York, dated April 3rd, has
delighted the partisans of the North with the statement
that—

“ A large ovation was given last night by the Loyal League and
the citizens to General Botler, at the Academy of Music.”

General Butler might have had an appropriate recep-
tion at the New York Academy of Music, but it is to
be feared that he did not. We believe we may safely say
that his entrance on the sceue of harmony was unaccom-
panied by the Rogues’ March. Neither can we entertain
the pleasing idea that he received an ovation in any proper
sense of the word. There is no reason to suppose that his
admirers gave him an egging.

Speaking by the Letter.

LATEST FROM AMERICA.

Bailer breads). “ Latest from Ameriky ! ‘ It is rumoured that Mr. Lincoln
is about to re-employ the Brutal Butler to be the Terror of the Ladies
of New Horleans.

2nd Housemaid. “ Lor, Mr. Bins ! If Mr. Lincoln’s Butler is the Terror
of the Ladies—He must be very hunlike You ! "

It is admitted that the City Police is deficient in numbers.
As an “ H ” is proverbially difficult to meet with near the
Mansion House, and in fact can but seldom be found in
its proper place, would it not be better, instead of creating
a new division, to arrange so that we may hear more of
jthat letter. If, is to be regretted, that for want of a good
understanding, the H’s are as frequently off duty iu the
City as the R’s are at the West End.

PUNCH'S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

April 13, Monday. Parliament re-assembled, and the proceedings
deserved and shall obtain no attention.

Tuesday. The House of Commons rose, on the motion of Mr.
Walpole, seconded by Lord Palmerston, and supported by
Mr. Disraeli, as a tribute of respect, to the memory of Sir
George Cornewall Lewis, Secretary at War, whose sudden
decease had occurred on the preceding day.

Wednesday. Sir Morton Peto brought on the Burials Bill for
Second Reading. Its object was to allow Dissenting ministers of all
denominations to bury persons in the churchyards of the Established
Church, with whatever ceremonial the relatives might desire. Lord
Robert Cecil resisted the Bill. Mr. Gladstone saw objections to
it, but supported it. Mr. Hardy expressed a strange terror lest Dis-
senters should come into churcbyaids and sing “most objectionable
kvmns.” Considering that nearly ail the good hymns to be found in
Church of England ‘‘Collections” are from the pens of Doddridge,
Watts, Wesley, Montgomery, and other celebrated Divines ol the
Cburcbof England, the objection—as Sir Ro undell Palmer must feel—
has a peculiar value. Sir John Trelawny opposed the Bill, because if
Dissenters were admitted to the churchyards, he would have a weaker
case against church-rates, which is also a peculiar argument. Mr.
Disraeli stood up lor the Church, which he said had fallen on stormy
times, but still was a Piiaros, an illustration which may be thought to
make light, of the subject. The House rejected the Bill by a very large
majority, 221 to 96.

Thursday. The Lords bad a Greek debate. Lord Malmesbury
politely said, that Prince Alfred bad been put forward as a Dummy,
and bis Lordship imputed to the Government the having proposed

Prince William without the consent of the Court of Denmark. He
also strongly objected to the surrender of the Ionian Isles. Lord
Russell defended himself satisfactorily, but Lord Derby did not
think so, and accused him of rashness. Finally, Lord Granville,
closely cross-questioned, gave a reply which Lord Chelmsford, with
a judicial instinct, declared to be “ a direct answer,” as to the consent
of the King of Denmark, and Greece was dropped.

Another spoke was put in the wheels of the railway carriages that,
are to run over London. A Committee ol Lords is to consider which
of the Bills can be proceeded with this Session without interfering with
a future plan of comprehensive character. By the way, t.he astronomers
at Greenwich announce that their telescopes will be shaken by the pro-
posed cutting through the Park, so we presume that the deer will not
be scared by the whistle. We feel inclined to treat ourselves to a
whitebait diuner iu honour of Professor Airey, and perhaps he might
like to pay Mr. Quartermajne’s bill for the same.

This was Budget Night iu the Commons. Some apprehension had
been felt, or at least expressed, that Mr. Gladstone’s recent accident
might induce him to postpone the financial statement, for the right
honourable gentleman’s face was said to be “ slightly discoloured,”
and it would have been unpleasant to let this Budget be banded down
to posterity as the Black-Eye Budget. But we rejoice to say that our
friend was all right, and came out with a Diree-hours speech, of pleasing
elaboration and unbroken eloquence. He let three cats and several
kittens out of the bag.

He has got a surplus of £3,741,000.

1. Tobacco lias been attended to.

2. He equalises the duty on coffee and chicory.

3. Clubs are to take out liquor licences.

4. Certain beer licences to be charged like spirit licences.

5. Anybody shall sell any quantity of beer.

6. Omnibus aud stage-coach duty to be re-arranged.

7. Railway-Excursion exemptiou from duty to be abolished.