DOI issue:
July 20, 1867
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16880#0042
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[July 20, 1867.
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT.
Brown has heard “ on good Authority” that the British Yeomanry Cavalry will be Reviewed by the Sultan, and
RESOLVES IT SHAN’T BE HIS FAULT IF THEY DONT MAKE A SENSATION; SO HE “ TlPS ” AN INSTRUCTOR TO PRIVATELY PUT HIM
THROUGH THE MOUNTED EXERCISE !
YERY NECESSARY CHANGES IN THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS.
“ The Select Committee on the arrangement of the House of Commons met on
Tuesday, and examined Mr. Barry, architect of the New Palace of Westminster.
The Ovil says that suggestions for enlarging the interior of the chamber were offered
by Lord Elcho aDd Mr. Lanyon, and M r. Barry was instructed to consider how
far they could be made practicable, and to report to the Committee at its next
meetlDg, which will be in about ten days. It is proposed to mat e the House oral
instead of square ; to place the Treasury bench and the front Opposition bench in
the middle of the chamber ;.to set back the Speaker's chair ; and to throw into the
body of the chamber the seats now reserved lor peers and distinguished ‘ strangers. ’ ”
It is evident that these changes are intended to meet the altered
state of parties, quite as much as to suit the mere convenience of
Honourable Members.
_ A square House was all very well while there were such things as
sides ; but now that “ Whig” and “ Tory” have lost all meaning, when
we find Professor Fawcett and Mr. Mill cheek by jowl with Mr.
Newdegate and Lord Cranborne in one lobby, and Mr. Bright
rubbing shoulders with Mr. Disraeli in the other, it is time to get
rid of everything in the arrangement of the House that suggests “a
right” and “ a left,” or anything in the nature of opposite sides at all.
An oval House is evidently the proper thing to symbolise the present
derangement of parties, as everybody will then be able to slide into
any place and vote in any lobby, without attracting observation, or
provoking invidious remark.
Again, it is quite right, for the same reason, to place the Treasury
Bench and the front Opposition Bench in the middle of the Chamber,
so that the official Members may pass from one to the other with the
least possible trouble, while the central position will mark the juste
milieu between unofficial parties which henceforth (thanks to Mr.
Disraeli’s recent example) will, it is to be hoped, be the normal
position of officer-holders. Again, the setting back of the Speaker’s
chair is only an anticipation of that setting down of the Speaker,
which may be anticipated from a House of Commons largely returned
by “ the Residuum.”
A NOVEL IDEA.
“ A Sweepstakes for a Verdict.—A jury empanelled at the Bucks Quarter
Sessions, held at Aylesbury this week, signalised themselves by the novel but very
equivocal mode (after being locked up for four hours and a half), of arriving at a
verdict by lottery. Twelve slips of paper were placed in a hat, on one of which was
written the word ‘ Guilty,’ and another ‘ Not Guilty,’ the remainder being blanks.
The ‘ Guilty ’ being first drawn, the jury went into court and gave their verdict ta
that effect. The case was that of a man charged with stealing two surgical trusses.”
—Bucks Herald.
Who so bold as to tell us that Justice can die ?
Let the Bucks Quarter Sessions, last week, give the lie !
When a jury, a verdict unable to hatch,
Tried to stifle the goddess, by way of despatch :
And with hearts in which pity no motions could wake
Committed her, body and soul, to the stake.
When, lo ! Phoenix-like, as the matter was hot.
She bursts forth, strangely new, in the guise of a lot!
Better pleased with the help from kind Fortune she gains,
Than with all the soft beatings of Aylesbury brains.
Thrice happy, thus able, oath, duty, to shelve.
Ye consciences pliant of Aylesbury twelve !
Oh, may it be mine, ever light-fingered. Luck’s
Truest son, to “ do business ” in Fortune-ruled Bucks !
Content if my chances may rest (I assure ye)
When caught, on the “ sorte” they miscall their “jure.”
A Question for the Corporation.
The Sultan, like all its other distinguished visitors, is to have the
Freedom of the City given to him, inclosed in a magnificent gold box.
When will its undistinguished visitors, inclosed in anything but a
magnificent box (on four wheels), say on Ludgate Hill, have the
freedom of the City given to them P
Arcades Ambo.—Broadhead and Beesley.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[July 20, 1867.
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT.
Brown has heard “ on good Authority” that the British Yeomanry Cavalry will be Reviewed by the Sultan, and
RESOLVES IT SHAN’T BE HIS FAULT IF THEY DONT MAKE A SENSATION; SO HE “ TlPS ” AN INSTRUCTOR TO PRIVATELY PUT HIM
THROUGH THE MOUNTED EXERCISE !
YERY NECESSARY CHANGES IN THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS.
“ The Select Committee on the arrangement of the House of Commons met on
Tuesday, and examined Mr. Barry, architect of the New Palace of Westminster.
The Ovil says that suggestions for enlarging the interior of the chamber were offered
by Lord Elcho aDd Mr. Lanyon, and M r. Barry was instructed to consider how
far they could be made practicable, and to report to the Committee at its next
meetlDg, which will be in about ten days. It is proposed to mat e the House oral
instead of square ; to place the Treasury bench and the front Opposition bench in
the middle of the chamber ;.to set back the Speaker's chair ; and to throw into the
body of the chamber the seats now reserved lor peers and distinguished ‘ strangers. ’ ”
It is evident that these changes are intended to meet the altered
state of parties, quite as much as to suit the mere convenience of
Honourable Members.
_ A square House was all very well while there were such things as
sides ; but now that “ Whig” and “ Tory” have lost all meaning, when
we find Professor Fawcett and Mr. Mill cheek by jowl with Mr.
Newdegate and Lord Cranborne in one lobby, and Mr. Bright
rubbing shoulders with Mr. Disraeli in the other, it is time to get
rid of everything in the arrangement of the House that suggests “a
right” and “ a left,” or anything in the nature of opposite sides at all.
An oval House is evidently the proper thing to symbolise the present
derangement of parties, as everybody will then be able to slide into
any place and vote in any lobby, without attracting observation, or
provoking invidious remark.
Again, it is quite right, for the same reason, to place the Treasury
Bench and the front Opposition Bench in the middle of the Chamber,
so that the official Members may pass from one to the other with the
least possible trouble, while the central position will mark the juste
milieu between unofficial parties which henceforth (thanks to Mr.
Disraeli’s recent example) will, it is to be hoped, be the normal
position of officer-holders. Again, the setting back of the Speaker’s
chair is only an anticipation of that setting down of the Speaker,
which may be anticipated from a House of Commons largely returned
by “ the Residuum.”
A NOVEL IDEA.
“ A Sweepstakes for a Verdict.—A jury empanelled at the Bucks Quarter
Sessions, held at Aylesbury this week, signalised themselves by the novel but very
equivocal mode (after being locked up for four hours and a half), of arriving at a
verdict by lottery. Twelve slips of paper were placed in a hat, on one of which was
written the word ‘ Guilty,’ and another ‘ Not Guilty,’ the remainder being blanks.
The ‘ Guilty ’ being first drawn, the jury went into court and gave their verdict ta
that effect. The case was that of a man charged with stealing two surgical trusses.”
—Bucks Herald.
Who so bold as to tell us that Justice can die ?
Let the Bucks Quarter Sessions, last week, give the lie !
When a jury, a verdict unable to hatch,
Tried to stifle the goddess, by way of despatch :
And with hearts in which pity no motions could wake
Committed her, body and soul, to the stake.
When, lo ! Phoenix-like, as the matter was hot.
She bursts forth, strangely new, in the guise of a lot!
Better pleased with the help from kind Fortune she gains,
Than with all the soft beatings of Aylesbury brains.
Thrice happy, thus able, oath, duty, to shelve.
Ye consciences pliant of Aylesbury twelve !
Oh, may it be mine, ever light-fingered. Luck’s
Truest son, to “ do business ” in Fortune-ruled Bucks !
Content if my chances may rest (I assure ye)
When caught, on the “ sorte” they miscall their “jure.”
A Question for the Corporation.
The Sultan, like all its other distinguished visitors, is to have the
Freedom of the City given to him, inclosed in a magnificent gold box.
When will its undistinguished visitors, inclosed in anything but a
magnificent box (on four wheels), say on Ludgate Hill, have the
freedom of the City given to them P
Arcades Ambo.—Broadhead and Beesley.