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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[May 30, 1863.
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
May 18, Monday
before the Derby.
Lord Clanri-
carde complained
of the conduct of
the American Prize
Courts towards
British subjects,
but Earl Russell
declared that such
complaint was un-
founded, and Lord
Derby said the
same, adding that
allowance ought to
be made for the
natural irritation of
the North at the
frequent attempts
of our merchants to
break the blockade,
and supply contra-
band of war to the
South. WhatCLAN-
RICARDE has to do
with such matters
does not appear at
first sight, and cer-
tainly Mr. Punch
is not going to
trouble himself to
think twice about
that remarkable
peer, especially as
he was snuffed
out so expeditiously by the Whig and Tory leaders.
Mr. Layard declined to say anything more about Brazil than that
correspondence was going on. Mr. Punch did not observe his Excel-
lency, the Commandeur Carvalho Moreira, at the Prince’s levee.
Ha! On the other hand a Peruvian lady wa^ presented at the Drawing
Room by Lady Palmerston, which Mr. Darby Griffith considers
to balance the account; because, as he justly remarks, though Brazil and
Peru are not exactly the same, they are both in South America. When
we add that both M. and Madame Moreira were at the Palace Party
on Derby Eve we leave the question in a still more delicately balanced
scale for Mr. Darby Griffith’s adjustment.
Sir George Grey is going to ask Parliament for money to build
Concentrated Courts of Law, but the Bill for building is not to be
introduced this Session, so we presume Government has not discovered
an eligible site. Why not take Primrose Hill, and erect what the
French call a Pyramid of Law—she will be her own Sphynx.
Einal fight was made on the Prison Ministers’ Bill, and Mr. Bright
read the House a lecture on the subject, saying that he could have
proposed a much better arrangement for the religious instruction of
prisoners. He explained that this plan was the employing any volunteer
teachers who might offer their services. Not a very practical sugges-
tion. The opponents of the Bill took a division on the last stage, but
were beaten by 196 to 167, and the Bill passed.
Then came one of those discussions which involve personalities and
scandals, and which, therefore, always keep a full house. It was the old
Churchward-Carnegie business. The public has no particular interest
in raking up the question whether a mail contractor tried to bribe a
Lord of Admiralty by offering election support in exchange for a
renewed contract, but the affair was made a party matter, and now that
Mr. Peel puts an end to the contract, and makes King Leopold our
sea-postman in the Channel, the Opposition proclaims that Mr.
Churchward is ill-treated. The fight on the item, in Supply, was
fierce, and Virtue, that is (in this instance) Peel and the Government,
triumphed by 8 only in a house of 344. We hope that the King will
be carelul and expeditious, and if so he may call for a Christmas Box.
People who do evil at Natal are sent to Cape Town for trial. It is
thought that they had better be tried where they do evil, and a Bill for
enacting that arrangement went through Committee to-night. Is this
a trap lor a certain arithmetical hierarch, or is it intended for the
punishment of that objectionable Zulu, who overthrew with a question
all that the Bishop had been believing for forty years ? Certainly that
proselytising native ought to be astonished in some way. Is he residing
at Pieter-Maritzburg, whence he clearly drove out the lawful tenant ?
W e wonder the dissenting Liberation League does not invite him
over, and show him about as the man who expelled a Bishop from his
diocese.
Mr. Maguire began to address the House on the desirability of
placing the Irish Admiralty Court in a more satisfactory position, but
a member who thought he should be in a more satisfactory position if
he went to bed, Counted the House out at twenty minutes past one.
Tuesday before the Derby. The Lords very properly desired to show
that though partaking of the public excitement in regard to the race
they could attend to other matters. Lord Ebury moved the Second
Reading of his Bill for rendering it unnecessary for clergymen to signify
their assent to everything in the Prayer Book. The debate that fol-
lowed was a good psychological study. The new Archbishop of Can-
terbury opposed the Bill. His Grace spoke like a genial, practical man
of the world. One could fancy one heard him advising a youthful can-
didate for orders, and talking in a good-natured, semi-remonstrative
fashion, and as if desirous to prevent a young friend from injuring his
prospects in life. “ Well, my dear Mr. Doubtful, I am sure that your
hesitation does you the—the utmost honour, and speaks well for your
conscientious discharge of the duties of the sphere of which I foresee
you will be an ornament. But I think your own good sense will show
you that the Church never meant her rules to annoy such men as your-
self. Certainly, as you say, the words seem to imply that you express
the most decided assent and consent to everything in the Prayer Book.
But you may take my word for it—if you think a Primate’s assurance
worth having—that this is a mere—what shall I say—a sort of police
notice, to keep off trespassers and the like—as far as you are concerned
it only means that you approve of our solemn and beautiful Liturgy.
Come, my dear young friend, while there’s so much work to do in the
Vineyard, don’t let us stand out because we don’t quite like the con-
struction of the gate—let us go in and do our duty, as I am sure you
will. And come and dine with us at the Palace at eight—perhaps,
some years hence, you will be asking valued young friends to dine there.
I’m sure I hope so. At eight.” And the kindly Primate shakes Mr.
Doubtful’s hand with really good feeling. But Archibald Cameron
Tait, Bishop of London, takes a less pleasant view of matters, and
cannot make them so easy. That Bishop thinks it very mischievous to
teach young priests to say one thing and mean another, and heartily
wishes to expunge words which were maliciously inserted in order to
catch consciences. So thinks the Bishop of St. David’s. On the
other hand, again, the Bishop op Oxford thought that the proposed
alteration would let in unconscientious men, and though he would
educate clergymen to the highest point, he would make no change
implying that external conformity was enough. The Bishop of
Llandaff was for a middle course, and a certain concession. The
public that interests itself in such matters will possibly observe the
singular disagreement among the heads of the Church about something
very like the meaning of an oath. Further it will notice that Lord
Ebury’s Bill was rejected by 90 to 50.
The Commons talked about everything. Mr. Gladstone has a
scheme in hand, whereof more after the holidays, for usiug the Inter-
national Exhibition building. Could not the Levees aud Drawing-
Rooms be held there? Mr. Hennessy, the hero of Poland, called
Lord Palmerston’s attention to the fact that the Prussians are giving
actual aid to the Russians, and relieving and arming the Cossacks whom
the Poles drive over the Prussian frontier. The Premier’s answer was,
virtually, that at present there was no case against Prussia that justified
our interference. Mr. Layard was severely baited for not making
speeches on foreign affairs in the previous Friday. Lord Elphinstone,
whose pilot ran the Vigilant aground, was represented by his friends as
having been very ill used by the Admiralty. Sir Robert Peel proved
that association with irishmen has infected him with bull-making—this
is not vaccination but taurocination. He had to repudiate a speech he
was reported to have made, and said :—
“ Though I sat two hours in the room I saw no person, unless he was under a table
or in a cupboard, who could be taking notes.”
Lord Vane Tempest gave an interesting illustration of his idea of
his own importance:—
“ Having a considerable interest in shipping himself, he thought that before the
House adjourned, our foreign trade should not be left in its present unsatisfactory
condition.”
The sentence is a lovely one, considered in all its parts, and also as a
whole, and is in the highest Londonderrified style.
Lastly, the Dish Church came on for examination. Mr. Dillwyn
wants a Committee to overhaul that Church with a view to its demo-
lition, Mr. H. Seymour wishes to remodel it without spoliation, and
Mr. Whiteside wishes to maintain it intact a* a Missionary Church,
and an institution of the nation, and a Lamp. Mr. Bernal Osborne
moved the adjournment of the debate, in order to have an opportunity
of showing, after the holidays, how he would smash the Lamp.
The House rose at one on the morning of
The Derby Day, 1863, when, as prophesied by Mr. Punch, the Blue
Ribbon was won by Macaroni.
A Hazy Joke.
Hopkins, at Epsom on the Derby Day, to Popkins, after the tenth
tumbler of Champagne. Why ’sh t’ day like sh’ two Chiefs osk’ great
Coshervative Party ? Gi’ tup ? Cosh it’s Derby an’ Drizzly ?
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[May 30, 1863.
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
May 18, Monday
before the Derby.
Lord Clanri-
carde complained
of the conduct of
the American Prize
Courts towards
British subjects,
but Earl Russell
declared that such
complaint was un-
founded, and Lord
Derby said the
same, adding that
allowance ought to
be made for the
natural irritation of
the North at the
frequent attempts
of our merchants to
break the blockade,
and supply contra-
band of war to the
South. WhatCLAN-
RICARDE has to do
with such matters
does not appear at
first sight, and cer-
tainly Mr. Punch
is not going to
trouble himself to
think twice about
that remarkable
peer, especially as
he was snuffed
out so expeditiously by the Whig and Tory leaders.
Mr. Layard declined to say anything more about Brazil than that
correspondence was going on. Mr. Punch did not observe his Excel-
lency, the Commandeur Carvalho Moreira, at the Prince’s levee.
Ha! On the other hand a Peruvian lady wa^ presented at the Drawing
Room by Lady Palmerston, which Mr. Darby Griffith considers
to balance the account; because, as he justly remarks, though Brazil and
Peru are not exactly the same, they are both in South America. When
we add that both M. and Madame Moreira were at the Palace Party
on Derby Eve we leave the question in a still more delicately balanced
scale for Mr. Darby Griffith’s adjustment.
Sir George Grey is going to ask Parliament for money to build
Concentrated Courts of Law, but the Bill for building is not to be
introduced this Session, so we presume Government has not discovered
an eligible site. Why not take Primrose Hill, and erect what the
French call a Pyramid of Law—she will be her own Sphynx.
Einal fight was made on the Prison Ministers’ Bill, and Mr. Bright
read the House a lecture on the subject, saying that he could have
proposed a much better arrangement for the religious instruction of
prisoners. He explained that this plan was the employing any volunteer
teachers who might offer their services. Not a very practical sugges-
tion. The opponents of the Bill took a division on the last stage, but
were beaten by 196 to 167, and the Bill passed.
Then came one of those discussions which involve personalities and
scandals, and which, therefore, always keep a full house. It was the old
Churchward-Carnegie business. The public has no particular interest
in raking up the question whether a mail contractor tried to bribe a
Lord of Admiralty by offering election support in exchange for a
renewed contract, but the affair was made a party matter, and now that
Mr. Peel puts an end to the contract, and makes King Leopold our
sea-postman in the Channel, the Opposition proclaims that Mr.
Churchward is ill-treated. The fight on the item, in Supply, was
fierce, and Virtue, that is (in this instance) Peel and the Government,
triumphed by 8 only in a house of 344. We hope that the King will
be carelul and expeditious, and if so he may call for a Christmas Box.
People who do evil at Natal are sent to Cape Town for trial. It is
thought that they had better be tried where they do evil, and a Bill for
enacting that arrangement went through Committee to-night. Is this
a trap lor a certain arithmetical hierarch, or is it intended for the
punishment of that objectionable Zulu, who overthrew with a question
all that the Bishop had been believing for forty years ? Certainly that
proselytising native ought to be astonished in some way. Is he residing
at Pieter-Maritzburg, whence he clearly drove out the lawful tenant ?
W e wonder the dissenting Liberation League does not invite him
over, and show him about as the man who expelled a Bishop from his
diocese.
Mr. Maguire began to address the House on the desirability of
placing the Irish Admiralty Court in a more satisfactory position, but
a member who thought he should be in a more satisfactory position if
he went to bed, Counted the House out at twenty minutes past one.
Tuesday before the Derby. The Lords very properly desired to show
that though partaking of the public excitement in regard to the race
they could attend to other matters. Lord Ebury moved the Second
Reading of his Bill for rendering it unnecessary for clergymen to signify
their assent to everything in the Prayer Book. The debate that fol-
lowed was a good psychological study. The new Archbishop of Can-
terbury opposed the Bill. His Grace spoke like a genial, practical man
of the world. One could fancy one heard him advising a youthful can-
didate for orders, and talking in a good-natured, semi-remonstrative
fashion, and as if desirous to prevent a young friend from injuring his
prospects in life. “ Well, my dear Mr. Doubtful, I am sure that your
hesitation does you the—the utmost honour, and speaks well for your
conscientious discharge of the duties of the sphere of which I foresee
you will be an ornament. But I think your own good sense will show
you that the Church never meant her rules to annoy such men as your-
self. Certainly, as you say, the words seem to imply that you express
the most decided assent and consent to everything in the Prayer Book.
But you may take my word for it—if you think a Primate’s assurance
worth having—that this is a mere—what shall I say—a sort of police
notice, to keep off trespassers and the like—as far as you are concerned
it only means that you approve of our solemn and beautiful Liturgy.
Come, my dear young friend, while there’s so much work to do in the
Vineyard, don’t let us stand out because we don’t quite like the con-
struction of the gate—let us go in and do our duty, as I am sure you
will. And come and dine with us at the Palace at eight—perhaps,
some years hence, you will be asking valued young friends to dine there.
I’m sure I hope so. At eight.” And the kindly Primate shakes Mr.
Doubtful’s hand with really good feeling. But Archibald Cameron
Tait, Bishop of London, takes a less pleasant view of matters, and
cannot make them so easy. That Bishop thinks it very mischievous to
teach young priests to say one thing and mean another, and heartily
wishes to expunge words which were maliciously inserted in order to
catch consciences. So thinks the Bishop of St. David’s. On the
other hand, again, the Bishop op Oxford thought that the proposed
alteration would let in unconscientious men, and though he would
educate clergymen to the highest point, he would make no change
implying that external conformity was enough. The Bishop of
Llandaff was for a middle course, and a certain concession. The
public that interests itself in such matters will possibly observe the
singular disagreement among the heads of the Church about something
very like the meaning of an oath. Further it will notice that Lord
Ebury’s Bill was rejected by 90 to 50.
The Commons talked about everything. Mr. Gladstone has a
scheme in hand, whereof more after the holidays, for usiug the Inter-
national Exhibition building. Could not the Levees aud Drawing-
Rooms be held there? Mr. Hennessy, the hero of Poland, called
Lord Palmerston’s attention to the fact that the Prussians are giving
actual aid to the Russians, and relieving and arming the Cossacks whom
the Poles drive over the Prussian frontier. The Premier’s answer was,
virtually, that at present there was no case against Prussia that justified
our interference. Mr. Layard was severely baited for not making
speeches on foreign affairs in the previous Friday. Lord Elphinstone,
whose pilot ran the Vigilant aground, was represented by his friends as
having been very ill used by the Admiralty. Sir Robert Peel proved
that association with irishmen has infected him with bull-making—this
is not vaccination but taurocination. He had to repudiate a speech he
was reported to have made, and said :—
“ Though I sat two hours in the room I saw no person, unless he was under a table
or in a cupboard, who could be taking notes.”
Lord Vane Tempest gave an interesting illustration of his idea of
his own importance:—
“ Having a considerable interest in shipping himself, he thought that before the
House adjourned, our foreign trade should not be left in its present unsatisfactory
condition.”
The sentence is a lovely one, considered in all its parts, and also as a
whole, and is in the highest Londonderrified style.
Lastly, the Dish Church came on for examination. Mr. Dillwyn
wants a Committee to overhaul that Church with a view to its demo-
lition, Mr. H. Seymour wishes to remodel it without spoliation, and
Mr. Whiteside wishes to maintain it intact a* a Missionary Church,
and an institution of the nation, and a Lamp. Mr. Bernal Osborne
moved the adjournment of the debate, in order to have an opportunity
of showing, after the holidays, how he would smash the Lamp.
The House rose at one on the morning of
The Derby Day, 1863, when, as prophesied by Mr. Punch, the Blue
Ribbon was won by Macaroni.
A Hazy Joke.
Hopkins, at Epsom on the Derby Day, to Popkins, after the tenth
tumbler of Champagne. Why ’sh t’ day like sh’ two Chiefs osk’ great
Coshervative Party ? Gi’ tup ? Cosh it’s Derby an’ Drizzly ?