Punch (54.1868)

February 29, 18GS.]

PUNCH, OP THE LONDON CT-TARTVA.RI.

89

JENKINS’S NIGHTMARE

FINALLY RESOLVES ITSELF INTO A BEATIFIC VISION OF TRIUMPH AND REVENGE.

CONVOCATION.

The Upper House (when the Reporters were out.)

The Bishop of London said it didn’t; seem to be any good their
talking about Ritualism, as no one attended to them.

The Bishop of Oxfokd thought that the present time was one when
more than ever great caution and Christian forbearance was necessary.
(Hear, hear !)

The Bishop of Salisbury observed that he’d like to speak out
boldly, and say what were and what were not the doctrines he held.
But perhaps it was better at present to agree with his Right Rev.
Brother, the Bishop of Oxford.

The Bishop of Lichfield regretted that some parties went too far,
and others not far enough. For his own part, he was willing to con-
cede a great deal to either party. It, was to be wished that a definite
conclusion could be arrived at on some point, either as to Dr. Colenso
or Ritualism. In the meantime, he would urge the necessity of a
careful policy.

The Bishop of Ely was sorry to hear what his Right Rev. Brother
of London had let fall. There must always be differences of opinion,
and great latitude must be allowed to Members of the English
Church. (Hear!) As the Bishops did not agree on essential points, and
Heaven forbid they should, why compel the inferior clergy to assent
to an uncertainty ? He was perhaps a little confused, but on the whole
he had always found it the safest course to agree with his Right Bev. j
Brother the Bishop of Oxford, whose health he begged-no he begged
pardon. (Hear, hear!)

The Archbishop of Canterbury rose to say he was astonished to
hear any Member of that House express an opinion that every Rubric
was not clear, simple, and straightforward. The Church and State
went together, and the action of Parliament would not be called in as
long as Convocation continued its present safe course.

After some desultory conversation on the principles of the Reforma-
, lion, in which the Bishops of Salisbury, Oxford, Llandaff, and
! others took part,

The original resolution was put and carried.

On a Prelate (who came too late) asking the Bishop of London
what the original motion was, Dr. Tait was understood to say, quietly,
that it was of no consequence, as, in his experience, the result was the
same any wav.

In the Lower House, a vote of thanks was proposed t,o the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury for having written to the Greek Church.

Dean Stanley said that an Epistle to the Greeks of course found
its precedent in the Epistle to the Romans, to whom, however, he was
sorry the Archbishop had not written. He thought letter-writing
mischievous as a rule ; but, at all events, the present amiable corre-
spondence would amuse the Easterns, and wouldn’t hurt us, and so he
should concur in thanking the Archbishop for nothing. By the
way, of course, the House knew that the English Church was anathe-
matised implicitly, if not explicitly, by the Greeks.

Archdeacon Denison said that it didn’t matter. It was a great
thing to have written a letter at all. It showed life. There was too
little doing, and too much talking.

A vote of thanks was then passed, and Archdeacon Wordsworth
was complimented on his still retaining a knowledge of the Greek
Grammar.

The proceedings terminated with grace after dinner.

Cui Bono ?

At a Trades’ Union meeting, a Mr. Gilmore said that Mr. Glad-
stone had described one of the Union rules as “worthy of savages,”
and that he. Gilmore, would have told Gladstone that there were
West End Clubs of which the same might be “predicated.” Long
words tickle long ears. But why should he desire to tell Mr. Glad-
stone a lie—and such a silly lie? Had Gilmore taken a gill more
than was good for him ?

ON THE TERMINATION OF THE BALLET AT THE LYCEUM.

The Can-can expires, its last kick we see,

And Madame Fixe tee is Madame Fixie.