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February 17, 1866
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February 17. 1866.]
’UNCFT, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
63
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
uch to the gratification of
Her subjects, Her Ma-
jesty, in person, opened
Parliament on Tuesday
the Sixth of February.
The Queen has not per-
formed this ceremony
during the last five years,
and the reason for the
Sovereign’s seclusion
would render it unbe-
coming for Mr. Punch to
say any word upon the
subject of Her re-appear-
ance, except that it greatly
rejoiced the nation and
himself.
Lord Chancellor
C Kan worth read the
Speech. As Mr. Punch
could not hear many words
of if, he occupied himself
with considering whether
it was likely to be true
that when a certain Chan-
cellor reassumed office, he
was congratulated by a
very great personage with
clever.” Mr. Punch decided
of it certainly will not be.
the remark, “ See how much better it, is t.o he .good than
in the negative just, as Lord Cranworth left off.
The Speech was of enormous length, which the summary
These were the points :—
1. Our Helena here has accepted Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein there.
2. Regret at the demise of King Leopold.
All right with foreign powers.
Meeting of French and English fleets promoted amity.
Happy that the American war is over.
Very happy that American Slavery is over.
We have nearly annihilated the West African slave trade.
You shall see the Alabama correspondence.
Portugal has made it up between us and Brazil.
10. France and we are trying to make it up between Spain and Chili.
11 Excellent treaty with the Mikado, and revision of tariff.
Commercial treaty with Austria.
Quashi-bungo, the Commission, and the new Jamaican Government,
hi early all our soldiers are to come back from New Zealand.
Union.of the British North American provinces.
The Rinderpest. A law to be made.
Estimates, Economy, Efficiency.
The condition of trade is satisfactory.
The Fenians have caught it.
A law about Capital Punishment.
A new Bankruptcy law.
Improvement of the Public Audit.
And of the law as to certain pensions.
21. A uniform Parliamentary Oath for all religionists.
25. Parliamentary Reform. Lord Russell is making inquiries, and when they are made,
and he knows his own intentions, the attention of Parliament shall be called to the
result, with a view to such improvements as may tend to strengthen our free insti-
tutions, and conduce to the public welfare.
26. The accustomed prayer.
The Queen kissed the Princess oe Wales, to Mr. Punch's great delight, and the inaugural
ceremonial ended.
Probably during the many centuries through which Mr. Punch intends to chronicle the pro-
ceedings of the Legislature, he will never have an opportunity of tying up the first night’s
Debates on the Addresses in so very small a parcel as in this year of grace, 1866.
In the House of Hereditary Wisdom, Lord Normanby and Lord Mokley moved and
seconded the Address. The second Lord is hereby consigned to a happy immortality by Mr.
Punch's record of the fact that his Lordship spoke so well as to receive a splendid compliment
from Lord Derby, who, as translator of the speeches of Ulysses, Nestor, and Thersites,
should be a good judge of oratorical eloquence.
Dukes Rutland and Richmond talked Rinderpest. So did Lords Feversham, Essex,
and Win chelsea. All united in abusing the Government for doing too much and too little.
Earl Granville defended his colleagues. They had given the subject every attention,
but Napoleonic action was impossible in England. The Lords had been told in the Speech
that a Bill was to be introduced.
Lord Carnarvon scoffed at the defence, and said that unless we put down the Rinder-
pest by Lady Day, landlords would be bankrupts and tenants would be ruined.
Lord Abercorn praised the Government for having at last dealt with the Fenians, but he
obligingly added that the repression had been postponed until after the elections, in order to
catch Fenian votes. The work should have been done long ago.
Earl Grey severely blamed Government both about the Rinderpest and about Reform.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
12.
13
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19
20.
21.
22.
23.
On the latter question, Earl Russell was obey-
ing Mr. Bright. A Bill for merely extending
the franchise would be a sham and a delusion.
Delay was of no consequence—let us have a
comprehensive and satisfactory measure. There
were much more pressing matters, such as Ire-
land, Canada, Emigration, Factory-Children,
Labour and Capital. The speech was a good
one, but it may without disrespect be said that
the politician who has ever devised anything
entirely satisfactory to Lord Grey has not the
honour of being among the acquaintances of
Mr. Punch.
The Duke oe Argyll having assured the
Lords that Government had done all that was
right in regard to the cattle,
Lord Derby went through the points in the
Speech, banteringly observing upon the extreme
pleasure with which he assented to its common-
places. On the Jamaican question he reserved
judgment, but thought the Government had
behaved exceedingly ill to Governor Eyre,
and in a way that Lord Palmerston would
never have behaved to a valuable public officer
in a difficult position. He cited Lord Palmer-
ston’s declaration that if you did not stand by
your. officers, you would not get high-minded
English gentlemen to serve you. A triumph had
been given to Quashi-bungo, and a roving
commission, which could not examine on oath,
had been sent out t.o pick up evidence against
Mr. Eyre. The Earl stated that his own
Government had convicted Fenians, who were
instantly released by his successors. He made
some hits at the course taken as to reform, on
which he believed that the Ministers had not
made up their minds. If the Bill should be a
good one, it should have the cordial support of
the Conservatives, and if not, they would do
their best to throw it out.
Earl Russell, who was pleased instantly to
drop into his best mumbletonian oratory, was
understood to say that such a number of blacks
had been executed that it was necessary to
inquire into the subject, and that the displacing
Mr. Eyre was necessary to a full investigation.
The Jamaicans were to be convoked to give the
Commission the power of imposing an oath.
[Suppose that they will not, having already
voted that Mr. Eyre had been a great public
benefactor?] He added a defence of his own
opposition to the Derby Reform Bill.
Earl Melville told the Government that
Mr. Cardwell had behaved most properly to
Mr. Eyre, but that Lord Russell had ill-treated
him to gain the political support of a fanatical
party.
After these pleasing exchanges, the Lords
unanimously voted the Address.
In the Commons the “ talk was of bullocks,”
and nothing else, until adjournment at midnight.
Wednesday. Swearing.
Thursday. Lord Carnarvon complained that
Sir George Grey (Bead, we presume, of the
Anglican branch of the Catholic Church) had
declined to order a day of fasting and humilia-
tion because of the Rinderpest. The Home-
Office Hierarch’s reason was, that such demon-
strations should be made only in cases of
national, not local, affliction. Earl Russell
reminded the pious Carnarvon that a prayer
had already been constructed to meet the ca.se.
If it continue to be ineffectual, involuntary fasting
will be the rule with large numbers of persons.
An Irish debate in the Commons elicited a
vote, by 25 Members against 346, that Fenianism
was the result of grievances which Government
ought to redress. A few English Members were
in the minority, and among them was Mr. Stuart
Mill, who gave his support to a proposition
which Mr. Gladstone, admitting the necessity
of progressive legislation for Ireland, eloquently
condemned. When such men differ, who shall
blame boobies for bewilderment ?
’UNCFT, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
63
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
uch to the gratification of
Her subjects, Her Ma-
jesty, in person, opened
Parliament on Tuesday
the Sixth of February.
The Queen has not per-
formed this ceremony
during the last five years,
and the reason for the
Sovereign’s seclusion
would render it unbe-
coming for Mr. Punch to
say any word upon the
subject of Her re-appear-
ance, except that it greatly
rejoiced the nation and
himself.
Lord Chancellor
C Kan worth read the
Speech. As Mr. Punch
could not hear many words
of if, he occupied himself
with considering whether
it was likely to be true
that when a certain Chan-
cellor reassumed office, he
was congratulated by a
very great personage with
clever.” Mr. Punch decided
of it certainly will not be.
the remark, “ See how much better it, is t.o he .good than
in the negative just, as Lord Cranworth left off.
The Speech was of enormous length, which the summary
These were the points :—
1. Our Helena here has accepted Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein there.
2. Regret at the demise of King Leopold.
All right with foreign powers.
Meeting of French and English fleets promoted amity.
Happy that the American war is over.
Very happy that American Slavery is over.
We have nearly annihilated the West African slave trade.
You shall see the Alabama correspondence.
Portugal has made it up between us and Brazil.
10. France and we are trying to make it up between Spain and Chili.
11 Excellent treaty with the Mikado, and revision of tariff.
Commercial treaty with Austria.
Quashi-bungo, the Commission, and the new Jamaican Government,
hi early all our soldiers are to come back from New Zealand.
Union.of the British North American provinces.
The Rinderpest. A law to be made.
Estimates, Economy, Efficiency.
The condition of trade is satisfactory.
The Fenians have caught it.
A law about Capital Punishment.
A new Bankruptcy law.
Improvement of the Public Audit.
And of the law as to certain pensions.
21. A uniform Parliamentary Oath for all religionists.
25. Parliamentary Reform. Lord Russell is making inquiries, and when they are made,
and he knows his own intentions, the attention of Parliament shall be called to the
result, with a view to such improvements as may tend to strengthen our free insti-
tutions, and conduce to the public welfare.
26. The accustomed prayer.
The Queen kissed the Princess oe Wales, to Mr. Punch's great delight, and the inaugural
ceremonial ended.
Probably during the many centuries through which Mr. Punch intends to chronicle the pro-
ceedings of the Legislature, he will never have an opportunity of tying up the first night’s
Debates on the Addresses in so very small a parcel as in this year of grace, 1866.
In the House of Hereditary Wisdom, Lord Normanby and Lord Mokley moved and
seconded the Address. The second Lord is hereby consigned to a happy immortality by Mr.
Punch's record of the fact that his Lordship spoke so well as to receive a splendid compliment
from Lord Derby, who, as translator of the speeches of Ulysses, Nestor, and Thersites,
should be a good judge of oratorical eloquence.
Dukes Rutland and Richmond talked Rinderpest. So did Lords Feversham, Essex,
and Win chelsea. All united in abusing the Government for doing too much and too little.
Earl Granville defended his colleagues. They had given the subject every attention,
but Napoleonic action was impossible in England. The Lords had been told in the Speech
that a Bill was to be introduced.
Lord Carnarvon scoffed at the defence, and said that unless we put down the Rinder-
pest by Lady Day, landlords would be bankrupts and tenants would be ruined.
Lord Abercorn praised the Government for having at last dealt with the Fenians, but he
obligingly added that the repression had been postponed until after the elections, in order to
catch Fenian votes. The work should have been done long ago.
Earl Grey severely blamed Government both about the Rinderpest and about Reform.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
12.
13
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19
20.
21.
22.
23.
On the latter question, Earl Russell was obey-
ing Mr. Bright. A Bill for merely extending
the franchise would be a sham and a delusion.
Delay was of no consequence—let us have a
comprehensive and satisfactory measure. There
were much more pressing matters, such as Ire-
land, Canada, Emigration, Factory-Children,
Labour and Capital. The speech was a good
one, but it may without disrespect be said that
the politician who has ever devised anything
entirely satisfactory to Lord Grey has not the
honour of being among the acquaintances of
Mr. Punch.
The Duke oe Argyll having assured the
Lords that Government had done all that was
right in regard to the cattle,
Lord Derby went through the points in the
Speech, banteringly observing upon the extreme
pleasure with which he assented to its common-
places. On the Jamaican question he reserved
judgment, but thought the Government had
behaved exceedingly ill to Governor Eyre,
and in a way that Lord Palmerston would
never have behaved to a valuable public officer
in a difficult position. He cited Lord Palmer-
ston’s declaration that if you did not stand by
your. officers, you would not get high-minded
English gentlemen to serve you. A triumph had
been given to Quashi-bungo, and a roving
commission, which could not examine on oath,
had been sent out t.o pick up evidence against
Mr. Eyre. The Earl stated that his own
Government had convicted Fenians, who were
instantly released by his successors. He made
some hits at the course taken as to reform, on
which he believed that the Ministers had not
made up their minds. If the Bill should be a
good one, it should have the cordial support of
the Conservatives, and if not, they would do
their best to throw it out.
Earl Russell, who was pleased instantly to
drop into his best mumbletonian oratory, was
understood to say that such a number of blacks
had been executed that it was necessary to
inquire into the subject, and that the displacing
Mr. Eyre was necessary to a full investigation.
The Jamaicans were to be convoked to give the
Commission the power of imposing an oath.
[Suppose that they will not, having already
voted that Mr. Eyre had been a great public
benefactor?] He added a defence of his own
opposition to the Derby Reform Bill.
Earl Melville told the Government that
Mr. Cardwell had behaved most properly to
Mr. Eyre, but that Lord Russell had ill-treated
him to gain the political support of a fanatical
party.
After these pleasing exchanges, the Lords
unanimously voted the Address.
In the Commons the “ talk was of bullocks,”
and nothing else, until adjournment at midnight.
Wednesday. Swearing.
Thursday. Lord Carnarvon complained that
Sir George Grey (Bead, we presume, of the
Anglican branch of the Catholic Church) had
declined to order a day of fasting and humilia-
tion because of the Rinderpest. The Home-
Office Hierarch’s reason was, that such demon-
strations should be made only in cases of
national, not local, affliction. Earl Russell
reminded the pious Carnarvon that a prayer
had already been constructed to meet the ca.se.
If it continue to be ineffectual, involuntary fasting
will be the rule with large numbers of persons.
An Irish debate in the Commons elicited a
vote, by 25 Members against 346, that Fenianism
was the result of grievances which Government
ought to redress. A few English Members were
in the minority, and among them was Mr. Stuart
Mill, who gave his support to a proposition
which Mr. Gladstone, admitting the necessity
of progressive legislation for Ireland, eloquently
condemned. When such men differ, who shall
blame boobies for bewilderment ?