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April 30, 1870
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April. 30, 1570. J
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
175
by Mr. Gladstone, in the Land Bill, the Irishman, so far from finding j whip, or to the sweet iiifiaences of a card for his wife and daughter
any wildness there, would have quoted Cowper, if he had ever heard
of that bard, and said
" Their tameness is shocking to me."
when a political great lady gives a party.
The Wellington Monument in St. Paul's is to be finished—some da^.
Punch has promised his daughter, now twelve, that if she marries to
his satisfaction, and has a son, grandpapa will take the dear boy to see
In a splendid speech of three hours, the Prlmier, on the 15th of, the inauguration.
February, introduced his Land Bill. What it was when laid upon | Keni£ told that Mr. Bright had promised the Spaniards that he
that table, Mr. Punch, aided by the luminous address of Mr. Glad- I would Slve up Gibraltar to them, and then being asked whether this
stone, could have told pretty clearly. What it is now, after two i were so> Mr. Gladstone said that he had not had an opportunity of
months of debate, Mr. Punch declines to say. It was the first of the i communicating with Mr. Bright, but believed that he might say no
omnibuses which Mr. Bright (unfortunately still too ill to attend the ' *UCu promise had been given. And he replied as gravely as if he had
House) had said could not be driven through Temple Bar six abreast. At i been repeating the Ninth Commandment, which folks who write
present it sticks in Committee of the Commons. Generally, its object i uu^utl'\-al Paragraphs should get by heart.
is to prevent a landlord from turning out a tenant without giving him ! Mr- Newdegate carried a Committee for inquiry into the manage-
compensation for eviction. It clearly creates a new kind of property, ™ent 01 Convents and Monasteries m England. His success has given
and it is held that the exceptional condition of Ireland demands a , ™e utmost offence to the English Catholics, men have protested on the
departure from the ordinary rules of Political Economy. Mr. Lowe, P!a"orm, and ladies in the papers. The earnestness of both has been
one of the most politically economical of men, admits this, and has more respectable than their logic. Mr. Punch hopes, however, that
been scoffed at for inconsistency by dull folk who cannot even compre- i some pacific arrangement will be made, and the bigots on both sides
hend that an exception proves a rule, far less that a person may be
educated by events out of one opinion into another. Law tribunals
are to see that no injustice is done either to landlord or tenant. As
for details, they can be interesting only to the parties concerned, and
they don't, read Punch. The Second Reading of the Bill was carried by
453 to 11, and that is the best answer to anybody who wishes to know
whether some such measure is wanted or is not. Since that time the
be left out in the cold. He would be happy to be the sole Inspector of
Convents, and to make his own report, and he is certain of being
welcomed, no one extant having done so much for Catholic liberties—
as distinct from licence—as Father Punch.
Lastly, the Budget. That is a thing of the other day, and you all
know all about it. Mr. Lowe takes off the Abyssinian Penny from
the unjust Income Tax, and half the Sugar Duties. Newspapers, from
Bill has been in Committee, and there has been vast talk on details, j October next, are to be carried at the rate of a Half-penny for Six
Little progress has been made, but the Premier has announced that
he means to carry the measure unmutilated, as regards principle—or
not at all. He has a majority of 120, or so.
About a month later, a strong Coercion Bill, for Ireland, was intro-
duced. It has been so lucidly explained and so magnificently illustrated
by Mr. Punch, in Cartoons, that he need say nothing here, except that
if the powers of the Act (it speedily became Law) are vigorously used,
Irish Fenians and Agrarian Murderers will be in the pleasant condition
of the English Habitual Criminal. Lord Salisbury thought that it
would not be efficacious unless we did away with the necessity for
unanimity in juries; but that suggestion stands over for future con-
sideration, if necessary. Of course, there is no magic in the number
twelve, or in any numbers, except Mr. Punch's. This Coercion Bill,
strong as it was, obtained a vote of 425 to 13 in the Commons.
Of course, the most important measure of the Session is the Educa-
Ounces. Air-guns and other Firearms are to pay £1 a-year. A heap
of small impositions go. Do you like big figures. He takes off nearly
Four Millions of Taxes, and has about Three Hundred Thousand
Pounds in hand. He will not reduce the National Debt, as Posterity
has not as yet done a great deal for us.
Mr. Punch thinks that he has " Eaten his Supper " like a gentleman,
and drinks all your good healths and your families, and may they live
long and prosper.
A LIVE SEA-SERPENT.
What is there better than an enormous gooseberry when in season,
that is, during a political lull, when Parliament is up, and people are
out of Town? Here is something, we thought, when first we read it,
published by a contemporary on Easter Monday, which, in point of
tion Bill. It was introduced by Mr. Forster, in a most admirable ' strangeness, and in the verisimilitude of its details, much excels the
speech. Against this measure Bigotry of various kinds has fulmi-; enormous gooseberry :—
nated • but rational men, who have long called for a law that shall j „ ^ alligator cauoht „ the Thames.-W. Pocklxxg, a waterman
compel Education to be administered to those who are growing up of Bermondsev, came before Mr. Partridge, at the Thames Police Court, on
untaught, can see no valid objection to the scheme. It violates no Saturday, and said he had caught an alligator that morning in the Thames
rights of Conscience, but it asserts the rights of Society. We will not \ while rowing up the river. It was alive, but much exhausted. It is about
have a multitude of children brought up in ignorance. We are wronging four feet in length. He took the creature into his boat, and conveyed it on
them—wronging ourselves. Against this, sectarianism of all sorts, shore. Two young men carried the alligator to Mr. Jamrach, a dealer in
clerical and dissenting, brings no argument, but is not ashamed to ! wild bea=ts and natural curiosities, in Ratcliff Highway, who refused to part
confess a cowardly terror lest its own position should be damaged. The , with it. Mr. Partridge said that Mr. jamrach had no right whatever to
Premier has not spoken very hopefully of the chances of passing the i detain the ^S^- t He would send a police constable to speak to Mr. Jam-
Bill, but Mr. Punch trusts that the majority of 120 will be freely used ■ ?ACH on the 8U^ect> and lf lt WdS uot stored to the wateman he would
in the interest of the children of the humbler classes. ilssue a ''u^11110113,
The remainder of the topics which have occupied Parliament is | Easter Monday, we said, was the 18th of April. Had it fallen on the
"nought but leather and prunella;" and as nobody understands those j First, comment upon the foregoing statement would be superfluous,
words, Mr. Punch quotes them in sheer gaiety and wantonness of, Considering the length to which Reviews, and other extraordinary
heart, lf, as somebody has suggested, " leather " means aristocracy, notices in newspapers have usually to be extended on that holiday, we
and "prunella" plebeianism, each being an accident, and native Worth can be at no loss to account for the publication of the surprising
(not the English Parisian miiliuer) being independent of either, that paragraph we have just read.
meaning (Pope never thought of it) will do as well as any other. For Perhaps, therefore, we continued, it is idle to inquire how the alli-
a bit of aiistocracy, here is the fact that the Conservatives in the Lords ; gator found in the Thames crossed the Atlantic, or to speculate on
could not find a Leader. The new Earl oe Derby is too calm to be the probability that it escaped from some vessel importing it for Mr.
a dashing champion. Lord Salisbury is also too large-minded for Jamrach, or for the Zoological Society. We may, however, exercise
the place; and then he is not a devoted admirer of the author of! our rational faculties perhaps to advantage, by considering whether,
Lothair. Lord Malmesbury prefers fighting in the ranks, and others if we should be surprised at the appearance of an alligator in the
also prefer that place for him. Lord Cairns's health is not strong . Thames, there may not have been equal reason for surprise to those
enough for troublesome work. So the sensible and business-like , who saw the first crocodile that appeared in the Nile? Suppose an
Duke of Richmond is now the Conservative Leader in the Lords; alligator to be merely a development of a water-eft. If Mr. Darwin's
and if he fights no brilliant battles, he will make no absurd mis-. theory is right, the wonder is that we do not rather frequently find
takes. ' such a small novelty turn up as that of an alligator in the Thames.
We have had the Estimates, and to the honour of the Ministers in | The Thames alligator, we concluded, seems rather to have been
charge thereof (and of their subordinates, of whom nobody hears) vast developed from the inner-consciousness of an unusually imaginative
savings have again been made in national expenditure. Needless to j penny-a-liner. Otherwise, perhaps, if an actually living creature, it
say that the details of many of the savings have been cavilled at j will turn out to be a porpoise, or perhaps an otter,
savagely. But so it would be in any household in which economy was We were wrong. It turned out, to be a Lacerta, not also an alligator,
adopted for the first time : Mr. Grundy would abuse the salt-butter,
and Mrs. Grundy would make faces at the cheap claret.
Mr. Peter Taylor urged that Members of Parliament ought to
receive wages. Mr. Gladstone demolished him in first-rate style.
But if a constituency wants a man, and he is too poor to sit, unpaid,
there is no law against a sub.-cription to support him. Only his income
which had escaped from Mr. Jamrach's collection.
Much Wanted.
......... . , .., ... ...... In North Germany they have an Assembly which they call " The
ought not to be below £5U00 a-year. Any man with a shilling less Customs' Parliament." A Parliament of that sort in this coiLu.ry
than that, the millionnaires think would be open to a £10 note from a | would find a good many bad customs to investigate and correct.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
175
by Mr. Gladstone, in the Land Bill, the Irishman, so far from finding j whip, or to the sweet iiifiaences of a card for his wife and daughter
any wildness there, would have quoted Cowper, if he had ever heard
of that bard, and said
" Their tameness is shocking to me."
when a political great lady gives a party.
The Wellington Monument in St. Paul's is to be finished—some da^.
Punch has promised his daughter, now twelve, that if she marries to
his satisfaction, and has a son, grandpapa will take the dear boy to see
In a splendid speech of three hours, the Prlmier, on the 15th of, the inauguration.
February, introduced his Land Bill. What it was when laid upon | Keni£ told that Mr. Bright had promised the Spaniards that he
that table, Mr. Punch, aided by the luminous address of Mr. Glad- I would Slve up Gibraltar to them, and then being asked whether this
stone, could have told pretty clearly. What it is now, after two i were so> Mr. Gladstone said that he had not had an opportunity of
months of debate, Mr. Punch declines to say. It was the first of the i communicating with Mr. Bright, but believed that he might say no
omnibuses which Mr. Bright (unfortunately still too ill to attend the ' *UCu promise had been given. And he replied as gravely as if he had
House) had said could not be driven through Temple Bar six abreast. At i been repeating the Ninth Commandment, which folks who write
present it sticks in Committee of the Commons. Generally, its object i uu^utl'\-al Paragraphs should get by heart.
is to prevent a landlord from turning out a tenant without giving him ! Mr- Newdegate carried a Committee for inquiry into the manage-
compensation for eviction. It clearly creates a new kind of property, ™ent 01 Convents and Monasteries m England. His success has given
and it is held that the exceptional condition of Ireland demands a , ™e utmost offence to the English Catholics, men have protested on the
departure from the ordinary rules of Political Economy. Mr. Lowe, P!a"orm, and ladies in the papers. The earnestness of both has been
one of the most politically economical of men, admits this, and has more respectable than their logic. Mr. Punch hopes, however, that
been scoffed at for inconsistency by dull folk who cannot even compre- i some pacific arrangement will be made, and the bigots on both sides
hend that an exception proves a rule, far less that a person may be
educated by events out of one opinion into another. Law tribunals
are to see that no injustice is done either to landlord or tenant. As
for details, they can be interesting only to the parties concerned, and
they don't, read Punch. The Second Reading of the Bill was carried by
453 to 11, and that is the best answer to anybody who wishes to know
whether some such measure is wanted or is not. Since that time the
be left out in the cold. He would be happy to be the sole Inspector of
Convents, and to make his own report, and he is certain of being
welcomed, no one extant having done so much for Catholic liberties—
as distinct from licence—as Father Punch.
Lastly, the Budget. That is a thing of the other day, and you all
know all about it. Mr. Lowe takes off the Abyssinian Penny from
the unjust Income Tax, and half the Sugar Duties. Newspapers, from
Bill has been in Committee, and there has been vast talk on details, j October next, are to be carried at the rate of a Half-penny for Six
Little progress has been made, but the Premier has announced that
he means to carry the measure unmutilated, as regards principle—or
not at all. He has a majority of 120, or so.
About a month later, a strong Coercion Bill, for Ireland, was intro-
duced. It has been so lucidly explained and so magnificently illustrated
by Mr. Punch, in Cartoons, that he need say nothing here, except that
if the powers of the Act (it speedily became Law) are vigorously used,
Irish Fenians and Agrarian Murderers will be in the pleasant condition
of the English Habitual Criminal. Lord Salisbury thought that it
would not be efficacious unless we did away with the necessity for
unanimity in juries; but that suggestion stands over for future con-
sideration, if necessary. Of course, there is no magic in the number
twelve, or in any numbers, except Mr. Punch's. This Coercion Bill,
strong as it was, obtained a vote of 425 to 13 in the Commons.
Of course, the most important measure of the Session is the Educa-
Ounces. Air-guns and other Firearms are to pay £1 a-year. A heap
of small impositions go. Do you like big figures. He takes off nearly
Four Millions of Taxes, and has about Three Hundred Thousand
Pounds in hand. He will not reduce the National Debt, as Posterity
has not as yet done a great deal for us.
Mr. Punch thinks that he has " Eaten his Supper " like a gentleman,
and drinks all your good healths and your families, and may they live
long and prosper.
A LIVE SEA-SERPENT.
What is there better than an enormous gooseberry when in season,
that is, during a political lull, when Parliament is up, and people are
out of Town? Here is something, we thought, when first we read it,
published by a contemporary on Easter Monday, which, in point of
tion Bill. It was introduced by Mr. Forster, in a most admirable ' strangeness, and in the verisimilitude of its details, much excels the
speech. Against this measure Bigotry of various kinds has fulmi-; enormous gooseberry :—
nated • but rational men, who have long called for a law that shall j „ ^ alligator cauoht „ the Thames.-W. Pocklxxg, a waterman
compel Education to be administered to those who are growing up of Bermondsev, came before Mr. Partridge, at the Thames Police Court, on
untaught, can see no valid objection to the scheme. It violates no Saturday, and said he had caught an alligator that morning in the Thames
rights of Conscience, but it asserts the rights of Society. We will not \ while rowing up the river. It was alive, but much exhausted. It is about
have a multitude of children brought up in ignorance. We are wronging four feet in length. He took the creature into his boat, and conveyed it on
them—wronging ourselves. Against this, sectarianism of all sorts, shore. Two young men carried the alligator to Mr. Jamrach, a dealer in
clerical and dissenting, brings no argument, but is not ashamed to ! wild bea=ts and natural curiosities, in Ratcliff Highway, who refused to part
confess a cowardly terror lest its own position should be damaged. The , with it. Mr. Partridge said that Mr. jamrach had no right whatever to
Premier has not spoken very hopefully of the chances of passing the i detain the ^S^- t He would send a police constable to speak to Mr. Jam-
Bill, but Mr. Punch trusts that the majority of 120 will be freely used ■ ?ACH on the 8U^ect> and lf lt WdS uot stored to the wateman he would
in the interest of the children of the humbler classes. ilssue a ''u^11110113,
The remainder of the topics which have occupied Parliament is | Easter Monday, we said, was the 18th of April. Had it fallen on the
"nought but leather and prunella;" and as nobody understands those j First, comment upon the foregoing statement would be superfluous,
words, Mr. Punch quotes them in sheer gaiety and wantonness of, Considering the length to which Reviews, and other extraordinary
heart, lf, as somebody has suggested, " leather " means aristocracy, notices in newspapers have usually to be extended on that holiday, we
and "prunella" plebeianism, each being an accident, and native Worth can be at no loss to account for the publication of the surprising
(not the English Parisian miiliuer) being independent of either, that paragraph we have just read.
meaning (Pope never thought of it) will do as well as any other. For Perhaps, therefore, we continued, it is idle to inquire how the alli-
a bit of aiistocracy, here is the fact that the Conservatives in the Lords ; gator found in the Thames crossed the Atlantic, or to speculate on
could not find a Leader. The new Earl oe Derby is too calm to be the probability that it escaped from some vessel importing it for Mr.
a dashing champion. Lord Salisbury is also too large-minded for Jamrach, or for the Zoological Society. We may, however, exercise
the place; and then he is not a devoted admirer of the author of! our rational faculties perhaps to advantage, by considering whether,
Lothair. Lord Malmesbury prefers fighting in the ranks, and others if we should be surprised at the appearance of an alligator in the
also prefer that place for him. Lord Cairns's health is not strong . Thames, there may not have been equal reason for surprise to those
enough for troublesome work. So the sensible and business-like , who saw the first crocodile that appeared in the Nile? Suppose an
Duke of Richmond is now the Conservative Leader in the Lords; alligator to be merely a development of a water-eft. If Mr. Darwin's
and if he fights no brilliant battles, he will make no absurd mis-. theory is right, the wonder is that we do not rather frequently find
takes. ' such a small novelty turn up as that of an alligator in the Thames.
We have had the Estimates, and to the honour of the Ministers in | The Thames alligator, we concluded, seems rather to have been
charge thereof (and of their subordinates, of whom nobody hears) vast developed from the inner-consciousness of an unusually imaginative
savings have again been made in national expenditure. Needless to j penny-a-liner. Otherwise, perhaps, if an actually living creature, it
say that the details of many of the savings have been cavilled at j will turn out to be a porpoise, or perhaps an otter,
savagely. But so it would be in any household in which economy was We were wrong. It turned out, to be a Lacerta, not also an alligator,
adopted for the first time : Mr. Grundy would abuse the salt-butter,
and Mrs. Grundy would make faces at the cheap claret.
Mr. Peter Taylor urged that Members of Parliament ought to
receive wages. Mr. Gladstone demolished him in first-rate style.
But if a constituency wants a man, and he is too poor to sit, unpaid,
there is no law against a sub.-cription to support him. Only his income
which had escaped from Mr. Jamrach's collection.
Much Wanted.
......... . , .., ... ...... In North Germany they have an Assembly which they call " The
ought not to be below £5U00 a-year. Any man with a shilling less Customs' Parliament." A Parliament of that sort in this coiLu.ry
than that, the millionnaires think would be open to a £10 note from a | would find a good many bad customs to investigate and correct.