Punch (58.1870)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[May 21, 1870.

A TEMPORARY BEREAVEMENT PHILOSOPHICALLY BORNE.

" Good Night! Good Night! my dear, sweet, pretty Mamma ! I Like you to Go Out, because if you didn't, you'd never

Come Home again, you know ! "

PUNCH'S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

Mr. Punch supposes that everybody knows that the Census is to be
taken next year, but he just mentions the fact that ladies—no, that is

Monday, May 9. We do not often get a bit of history in Parliament. ' effete satire-that gentlemen who dye hair and moustaches may have
Some reader, may like to be " reminded "- , T^mef to ,UP the,lr minds as to the age they intend to be in 1871.

' j As for the ladies aforesaid, he trusts that they will adopt the form

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, prepared by himself Ages Ago.

And things unknown proposed as things forgot."

Come, fill up your Census, and fill as you can.
"What, ask us our ages, you impudent man ?
Look in our faces, and write what you see ;
For that's all the help you '11 get out of We."

(didn't we quote that some years back—nunquam mem)—that in 1S15,
the Waterloo year, France, of course under Restored Boyalty, bound
Herself to pay £140,000 to indemnify British subjects whose property
had suffered by the Revolution, and in 1818 she added another
£120,000 to the debt. The money has been all paid away long ago, There is stagnation in the Prayer-Bookand Church Service trade,
and the Marquis of Clanricarde behaved like the Baron Trop- owm? to anticipated alterations in the Lectionary Ine Premier
tahd in asking for some of it to-night for the Irish College in Paris, stated that certain changes had been approved by the clergy, and a
swept away in the Reign of Terror. It is possible, however, as the I Bl11 ^as about to be introduced confirmatory of the suggestions. We
Marquis hinted, that had the College been a Protestant institution, ! are *?lad of this, partly for the sake of those who are thrown out ot
English Ministers in other days might have looked after its interests ' employment, partly because a handsome Prayer-Book is a wedding
more vigorously. Considering that an Irishman, at Waterloo, com- Present worthy of all acceptation, and one does not like to give a
pleted Napoleon's education, it might have been gracious to have yojurne that will soon be out of date.

compensated the Irish College in Paris. Government has no intention of interfering to pat down the war, or

Lord Redesdale, who may never have saved the nation, en bloc, ' Yhatever it is, in Cuba. Mr. Punch is glad. But Ins joy will in no
but who is always saving its interests in detail, urged that the new I degree be lessened by any present he may receive ot the productions of
Tramways, now beginning to traverse London, should become the jtlrat charming island; if he mentions Havannah, it is only because a
property of the local authorities after fifty years. Lord Kimberlet ' reaUy well-meaning donor always likes to know what a donee most
seemed to think that this was right. By the way, we hear a good lilies- Apropos of nothing, a correspondent asks, "How can 1 destroy
account of these inventions, and there is some hope that they will weeds on a gravel-walk :j" Answer: " Smoke them as you walk up
convert a great lot of our ramshackle and dirty omnibuses into house- and l1?™ lt-'' „

nold fuel. Irish Land Bill in Committee, and very good progress.

The Naturalisation Bill was settled, but Lord Westbury did not A.t an early hour of the morning—in fact, we may as well go on to

iitOD\rerB!ii\ndTlte^?hlbedha? 'i P & Pf * <[t WaS T*esda?-> Tiie PoSTMASTER-GENERAL-he

fo lh^ does not miad e^ h°urs any more than Ms servants, who are

basis of' a t tv L It! ^' ^ ACt 18fW*1nted as he wandering about the suburbs at 3 a.m., collecting letters-remember
S i the neonle who dmw wU \? ' T pe?ectly+,accurf,tei! this at Christmas-introduced a Bill to amend the law relating to

to^SJESft they would wrUe.Tot» oW^toT hewal Pr°Cedure at EleCti°»S- Yo» ^ »ot ^ from tMs title ^
obliged to give in, and use the Grammar of Assent. A Cabinet Minister proposes Vote By Ballot.