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May 9, 1868
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May 9, 1868.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI
201
I
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
Monday, April 27. An Irishman and a Fenian, calling himself
O’Farrel (the, name has served as well as any other in his execution-
warrant,) came behind Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, at a ban-
quet held at Port Jackson, on the 12t,h of March, in aid of a charitable
institution, and fired a pistol at the young Prince. The bullet lodged
in his back, but did no great harm, and has been extracted. The
Prince was to be sent to his home, and the ruffian to his gallows.
Even the favourers of Fenianism have not ventured to say anything in
behalf of a miscreant who could try to murder a boy in order to wound
the heart of his mother, the Queen of Ireland. Addresses of sympathy
were voted by both Houses of Parliament.
Lord Derby gave notice to Earl Pojssell to put his hands up,
and be ready to do all he knew.
The Education Bill of the Government was rather severely handled
by two or three opposition Lords, but was read a Second Time. Lord
Granville, who was suffering from gout, a gentlemanly disorder—
Horace Walpole says no disorder, but a remedy—but uncommonly
disagreeable, had the pluck to stand up and make an Education speech.
Perhaps the debate, which partook of the character of morphia, had
assuaged his trouble; if not, he deserves the laudation due to a man of
brave endurance.
Sir Robert Napier has stormed Magdala, the captives are free,
and King Theodore is dead. Naturally, therefore, the House cheered
the Indian Minister when he came in to-day. The Premier, in answer
to Mr. Layard, confirmed the good news, and likened our progress to
that of Cortez in Mexico—with the difference that Cortez went to
plunder and massacre, Napier to execute justice.
“ So, sink Pizabro’s daring name,
And, Cortez, thine, in Napier’s fame.”
Who wrote those lines ? For Napier read Bertram, and consult
Rokeby. They are not particularly good, but are quoted to show Mr.
Punch’s readiness in the citation line.
The Speaker left the chair, Mb. Dodson took his, and invited Mr.
Gladstone to move the First of his Three Resolutions, namely,—
That the Established Church of Ireland should cease to exist as an
establishment.
Mr. Gladstone moved this in a neat nod, and there was )
Debate all night on the Irish Church.
Tuesday. Lord Derby squared up at Earl Rdssell, and let fly
right and left, chaffing very well, and charging the smaller Earl with
inconsistency. He supposed Lord Russell might be still of the same
mind about the Irish Church as he was when he spoke at St. James’s j
Hall, on a platform with Beales, Potter, and Mason Jones, though
this was a fortnight ago, and therefore Lord Derby demanded what
the Opposition was going to do. The third of Mr. Gladstone’s reso-
lutions was a defiance of law, and would bring the Houses into col-
lision. He advised Government, whatever might be the Provocation,
not to resign until the enlarged constituency should have elected a
new Parliament.
Lord Russell quoted Burke. “ I vary my means to secure the
consistency of my ends.” He had modified his views as to the best way
of securing religious equality in Ireland. Lord Derby had no busi-
ness to ask him questions, but the promoters of the Resolutions meant
to found a Bill on them, and, when it had passed through Parliament,
to submit it to the Queen, and if the Ministers chose to give advice
that might bring on a collision, they would come to grief.
Lord Granville remarked upon the novelty introduced by Lord
Derby. He was out of office, Lord Russell was out of office, and
he questioned Lord Russell as to what men in office were going
to do.
Lord Chancellor Cairns was down upon that third Resolution.
It asks the Queen to place her Irish patronage at the disposal of Par-
liament,, aud the cue has been given to the Conservatives to pretend to
believe that by Parliament Mr. Gladstone meant the House of
Commons.
Lord Malmesbury was very angry because noble Lords went away
without listening to him. Mr. Punch, with regret, must follow their
example.
In the Commons there was
Debate all night on the Irish Church.
Wednesday. Sir William Hutt has a Bill designed to promote
something like honesty on the part of Railway and Joint Stock Com-
panies. He wants to compel them to make out truthful accounts, in a
prescribed form, half-yearly. This cruel and persecuting measure was
sent to a Committee which has a ministerial Bill, of similar character,
before it. Where is this tyranny to cease ? We shall have a Bill next
for compelling railway clerks to give the right change in good money,
and to answer civilly.
A. Bill for making County Financial Boards was thrown out.
Whether they were to be made by sawing, or by what other means,
Punch did not care to comprehend. The Bill was probably a good
one, as the Ministry of the squirearchy opposed it.
Sir Colman O’Loghlen had a Bill for preventing the Crown
from making any more Irish Peers, but as the Speaker seemed rather
to think that if Sir Colman went on, it would be the unpleasant duty
of the Serjeant-at-Arms to take him out into Palace Yard and cut off
his head, he withdrew the Bill.
Mr. Torrens has a Bill for helping artisans to better dwelling-
houses, and at a late period the Government has found divers objec-
tions to it. There are objections to everything, and we should never
get anything done if we waited until perfection could be obtained.
Mr. Labouchere mentioned that some discounting fellow is secretly
buying up miserable dwellings in the hope of getting large compen-
sation when this Bill shall be passed. If Mr. Labouchere will send
us the name, we will do our best to defeat the amiable purpose.
Thursday. The Church Rates Abolition Bill was sent to a Select
Committee of Lords, on the understanding that the principle is agreed
to, and that the amendments are to be improvements only. Lord
Malmesbury, having recovered his valuable temper, was “ much
obliged” to Lord Russell for letting the Bill go up-stairs.
Then, passing with smiles from the Church and Lord Russell,
My Lords they attended to Oyster and Mussel.
In the Commons,
Mr. Miles, who had just come in for Bristol, after a tremendous
struggle with Mr. Morley, another ultra-radical demigod of the
Morton Peto type, took his seat in time to be of no use in the
struggle that was coming next.
One scoundrel, Michael Barrett, has been convicted for a share
in the Clerkenwell atrocity, and has been sentenced to be hanged on
the 12th. Mr. Joseph Reardon, an Irish Member, asked the Home
Secretary whether he would not reprieve the wretch, seeing that he
had managed to get some witnesses to swear to an alibi. Mr. Hardy
was sorry that a Member of Parliament could feel it a duty to ask
such a question. The cheers of the House marked its sense of this
exhibition of interest in a Fenian ruffian. We suppose it is perfunc-
tory, for Mr. Joseph Reardon appears from his speech about the Irish
Clergy to be a very kind-hearted gentleman, and we must really say
that any exertion for the doomed beast Barrett is Not for Joseph.
On the eve of the Private View day, Mr. Layard appropriately
asked whether the Royal Academy’s new buildings at the back of
Burlington House were so nearly ready that the next Exhibition
might be held there, but for the Royal Society’s Library stopping the
way. Lord John Manners said that the work was going on as fast as
possible, but that moving 100,000 books twice was a serious business.
These swells, accustomed to the imbecility of their lazy menials, think
everything serious. We would back a couple of the spirited officials
at the Museum to bring a staff that should move, dust, and catalogue
every book in a fortnight.
Then came a row because Mr. Surtees, a valiant Protestant, wanted
an old Catholic oath read. Mr. Gladstone opposed the reading as
intended to annoy, and so did Mr. Disraeli.
Debate all night on the Irish Church.
Ha! But not of the flat and meagre kind which had marked the
preceding nights. The debate was closed by a brilliant speech from
Mr. Gladstone, the best he has made on the subject. He not only an-
swered, very effectively, all his antagonists in that House, but, adverting
to what Lord Derby had said on the Tuesday night, declared that as
a representative of the people he would not receive the word of com-
mand from the House of Lords.
The Premier replied, as he said, in a condensed way, and spoke
rather as one who must speak than because he had either convinced
himself or thought of convincing others. Indeed, he made some fun
at the expense of the Irish Church, for he said that it ought no more
to be disendowed because it did not fulfil the intention of its founder,
than certain Companies should be for the same reason. The Fish-
mongers no longer supplied good fish, and he had dined at the Merchant
Taylors, but never, he believed, had met his own tailor. When a gen-
tleman drops into pleasant banter over the Crisis of England, and the
Destruction of our Holy Religion, we may be assured that he sees no
more use in the nonsense he talked for the sake of the Stupid. And
then, though the Conservatives have won some elections, the numbers,
when division was taken, were—
For Mr. Gladstone.330
For Government.265
t _
Provocation to resign .... Sixty-Five.
Last time, remember the majorities were 56, and 60.
Mr. Disraeli. “The relations between the House and the Ministers
are altered. It, is necessary for us to consider our position. I propose
to adjourn until Monday.”
“ What man.
What Roman, would be dragged in triumph thus,
Not Punch ; not he who bears one name with them
Whose freedom cost the Egyptian host and king.”
Luckedus—(varied).
f
i
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI
201
I
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
Monday, April 27. An Irishman and a Fenian, calling himself
O’Farrel (the, name has served as well as any other in his execution-
warrant,) came behind Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, at a ban-
quet held at Port Jackson, on the 12t,h of March, in aid of a charitable
institution, and fired a pistol at the young Prince. The bullet lodged
in his back, but did no great harm, and has been extracted. The
Prince was to be sent to his home, and the ruffian to his gallows.
Even the favourers of Fenianism have not ventured to say anything in
behalf of a miscreant who could try to murder a boy in order to wound
the heart of his mother, the Queen of Ireland. Addresses of sympathy
were voted by both Houses of Parliament.
Lord Derby gave notice to Earl Pojssell to put his hands up,
and be ready to do all he knew.
The Education Bill of the Government was rather severely handled
by two or three opposition Lords, but was read a Second Time. Lord
Granville, who was suffering from gout, a gentlemanly disorder—
Horace Walpole says no disorder, but a remedy—but uncommonly
disagreeable, had the pluck to stand up and make an Education speech.
Perhaps the debate, which partook of the character of morphia, had
assuaged his trouble; if not, he deserves the laudation due to a man of
brave endurance.
Sir Robert Napier has stormed Magdala, the captives are free,
and King Theodore is dead. Naturally, therefore, the House cheered
the Indian Minister when he came in to-day. The Premier, in answer
to Mr. Layard, confirmed the good news, and likened our progress to
that of Cortez in Mexico—with the difference that Cortez went to
plunder and massacre, Napier to execute justice.
“ So, sink Pizabro’s daring name,
And, Cortez, thine, in Napier’s fame.”
Who wrote those lines ? For Napier read Bertram, and consult
Rokeby. They are not particularly good, but are quoted to show Mr.
Punch’s readiness in the citation line.
The Speaker left the chair, Mb. Dodson took his, and invited Mr.
Gladstone to move the First of his Three Resolutions, namely,—
That the Established Church of Ireland should cease to exist as an
establishment.
Mr. Gladstone moved this in a neat nod, and there was )
Debate all night on the Irish Church.
Tuesday. Lord Derby squared up at Earl Rdssell, and let fly
right and left, chaffing very well, and charging the smaller Earl with
inconsistency. He supposed Lord Russell might be still of the same
mind about the Irish Church as he was when he spoke at St. James’s j
Hall, on a platform with Beales, Potter, and Mason Jones, though
this was a fortnight ago, and therefore Lord Derby demanded what
the Opposition was going to do. The third of Mr. Gladstone’s reso-
lutions was a defiance of law, and would bring the Houses into col-
lision. He advised Government, whatever might be the Provocation,
not to resign until the enlarged constituency should have elected a
new Parliament.
Lord Russell quoted Burke. “ I vary my means to secure the
consistency of my ends.” He had modified his views as to the best way
of securing religious equality in Ireland. Lord Derby had no busi-
ness to ask him questions, but the promoters of the Resolutions meant
to found a Bill on them, and, when it had passed through Parliament,
to submit it to the Queen, and if the Ministers chose to give advice
that might bring on a collision, they would come to grief.
Lord Granville remarked upon the novelty introduced by Lord
Derby. He was out of office, Lord Russell was out of office, and
he questioned Lord Russell as to what men in office were going
to do.
Lord Chancellor Cairns was down upon that third Resolution.
It asks the Queen to place her Irish patronage at the disposal of Par-
liament,, aud the cue has been given to the Conservatives to pretend to
believe that by Parliament Mr. Gladstone meant the House of
Commons.
Lord Malmesbury was very angry because noble Lords went away
without listening to him. Mr. Punch, with regret, must follow their
example.
In the Commons there was
Debate all night on the Irish Church.
Wednesday. Sir William Hutt has a Bill designed to promote
something like honesty on the part of Railway and Joint Stock Com-
panies. He wants to compel them to make out truthful accounts, in a
prescribed form, half-yearly. This cruel and persecuting measure was
sent to a Committee which has a ministerial Bill, of similar character,
before it. Where is this tyranny to cease ? We shall have a Bill next
for compelling railway clerks to give the right change in good money,
and to answer civilly.
A. Bill for making County Financial Boards was thrown out.
Whether they were to be made by sawing, or by what other means,
Punch did not care to comprehend. The Bill was probably a good
one, as the Ministry of the squirearchy opposed it.
Sir Colman O’Loghlen had a Bill for preventing the Crown
from making any more Irish Peers, but as the Speaker seemed rather
to think that if Sir Colman went on, it would be the unpleasant duty
of the Serjeant-at-Arms to take him out into Palace Yard and cut off
his head, he withdrew the Bill.
Mr. Torrens has a Bill for helping artisans to better dwelling-
houses, and at a late period the Government has found divers objec-
tions to it. There are objections to everything, and we should never
get anything done if we waited until perfection could be obtained.
Mr. Labouchere mentioned that some discounting fellow is secretly
buying up miserable dwellings in the hope of getting large compen-
sation when this Bill shall be passed. If Mr. Labouchere will send
us the name, we will do our best to defeat the amiable purpose.
Thursday. The Church Rates Abolition Bill was sent to a Select
Committee of Lords, on the understanding that the principle is agreed
to, and that the amendments are to be improvements only. Lord
Malmesbury, having recovered his valuable temper, was “ much
obliged” to Lord Russell for letting the Bill go up-stairs.
Then, passing with smiles from the Church and Lord Russell,
My Lords they attended to Oyster and Mussel.
In the Commons,
Mr. Miles, who had just come in for Bristol, after a tremendous
struggle with Mr. Morley, another ultra-radical demigod of the
Morton Peto type, took his seat in time to be of no use in the
struggle that was coming next.
One scoundrel, Michael Barrett, has been convicted for a share
in the Clerkenwell atrocity, and has been sentenced to be hanged on
the 12th. Mr. Joseph Reardon, an Irish Member, asked the Home
Secretary whether he would not reprieve the wretch, seeing that he
had managed to get some witnesses to swear to an alibi. Mr. Hardy
was sorry that a Member of Parliament could feel it a duty to ask
such a question. The cheers of the House marked its sense of this
exhibition of interest in a Fenian ruffian. We suppose it is perfunc-
tory, for Mr. Joseph Reardon appears from his speech about the Irish
Clergy to be a very kind-hearted gentleman, and we must really say
that any exertion for the doomed beast Barrett is Not for Joseph.
On the eve of the Private View day, Mr. Layard appropriately
asked whether the Royal Academy’s new buildings at the back of
Burlington House were so nearly ready that the next Exhibition
might be held there, but for the Royal Society’s Library stopping the
way. Lord John Manners said that the work was going on as fast as
possible, but that moving 100,000 books twice was a serious business.
These swells, accustomed to the imbecility of their lazy menials, think
everything serious. We would back a couple of the spirited officials
at the Museum to bring a staff that should move, dust, and catalogue
every book in a fortnight.
Then came a row because Mr. Surtees, a valiant Protestant, wanted
an old Catholic oath read. Mr. Gladstone opposed the reading as
intended to annoy, and so did Mr. Disraeli.
Debate all night on the Irish Church.
Ha! But not of the flat and meagre kind which had marked the
preceding nights. The debate was closed by a brilliant speech from
Mr. Gladstone, the best he has made on the subject. He not only an-
swered, very effectively, all his antagonists in that House, but, adverting
to what Lord Derby had said on the Tuesday night, declared that as
a representative of the people he would not receive the word of com-
mand from the House of Lords.
The Premier replied, as he said, in a condensed way, and spoke
rather as one who must speak than because he had either convinced
himself or thought of convincing others. Indeed, he made some fun
at the expense of the Irish Church, for he said that it ought no more
to be disendowed because it did not fulfil the intention of its founder,
than certain Companies should be for the same reason. The Fish-
mongers no longer supplied good fish, and he had dined at the Merchant
Taylors, but never, he believed, had met his own tailor. When a gen-
tleman drops into pleasant banter over the Crisis of England, and the
Destruction of our Holy Religion, we may be assured that he sees no
more use in the nonsense he talked for the sake of the Stupid. And
then, though the Conservatives have won some elections, the numbers,
when division was taken, were—
For Mr. Gladstone.330
For Government.265
t _
Provocation to resign .... Sixty-Five.
Last time, remember the majorities were 56, and 60.
Mr. Disraeli. “The relations between the House and the Ministers
are altered. It, is necessary for us to consider our position. I propose
to adjourn until Monday.”
“ What man.
What Roman, would be dragged in triumph thus,
Not Punch ; not he who bears one name with them
Whose freedom cost the Egyptian host and king.”
Luckedus—(varied).
f
i