DOI issue:
July 26, 1873
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[July 26, 1873.
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
ojle where on the West
Coast of Africa, Ma-
dam, your Sovereign
has a long sea-board.
Portions of this her
predecessors acquired
by various means—
powder and hall in-
cluded—and some of
it was handed over to
Herself, a short time
ago, by the Dutch.
On the edge of the Ashantee coun-
try is Cape Coast Castle, on which
the British flag flies. Seven miles
off is, or rather was, Elmina, a
town of some importance. Now
the Ashantees of the interior hate
us, because we have stopped the
Slave Trade, in which they are expert practitioners, and they are always showing hostility.
This year they have showed it in a very marked manner, by invading your Queen’s domin-
ions. But our officers have been equal to the occasion. Elmina was "full of sympathisers
with, the Ashantees. Like Troy, Elmina fuit. (We could not help introducing this effective
classicism; in point of fact, only a part of the town was destroyed, but what is exactitude
compared to a quotation F) Land and sea force co-operated, and pitched in shells, and if the
gunpowder did not run out at the heels of the Elminians’ shoes, it exploded in so many houses
that it was made clear that they were stores for the benefit of the Ashantees. These
savages came down three thousand strong, upon our men, but though they were few, they had
the Snider, and knew how to use it; and the Ashantees, fighting well, had to retreat with
great slaughter. This narrative of English pluck was told to the Lords to-night, Monday,
July 14, by Loud Kiaiberley.
Lord Oranmore and Browne demanded a Committee to consider what could be done to
prevent Ritualists and other foolish persons from imperilling the Church. The Archbishop
of Canterbury did not think that the Motion ought to be agreed to. But he did not deny
that there was just cause for alarm, yet he considered that those who had signed the petition
for Confession were fools. A similar petition from Oxford he thought more seriously of, and
wondered what sort of people the University Professors of Theology were who had joined in
this. Also, what sort of people had appointed such Professors. The Marquis oe Salisbury
thought that the matter might be left to the good sense of the people of England. Well, as
Lord Salisbury, a magistrate and a legislator, says that if Paterfamilias, finding a canting
Tartuffe trying to wheedle the ladies of a family to confess to him, may
“ Take him by his right leg,
Take him by his left leg,
Take him by his two legs,
And throw him down stairs,”
(a course Mr. Punch would applaud and defend), not much more need be said. The Motion
was negatived.
Lord Granville explained in reference to the Persian concession to Baron Reuter, that
the Government had not guaranteed that the capitalists should do their work in the best
manner, or that the Shah should be bound to the terms of the concession. And really,
Madam, we do not see how the nation could
properly interfere in a business transaction
with wliich we have no direct concern.
Mr. Peter Taylor had a grievance about a
Oock-fight at Weatherham. That a gentle-
man bearing his Christian name should take
an interest in the animal in question, may
be natural. But there was nothing in the
grievance, the report on which Mr. Tay-
lor’s question was founded being, of course,
“incorrect in all essential particulars.”
Mr. Whalley could not, at all eveats did
not, speak on the subject, though it would
have been out of order for him to do so.
But we dare say he hates all Cocks, be-
cause of
“ The Cock that crowed in the morn
And waked the Priest all shaven and shorn.”
A bird that w'ould act as servant; to a
miserable shaveling of Rome must be
enough to make the whole Gallus race in-
tolerable to the Member for Peterborough.
The artist of the Wellington Monument
in St. Paul’s is again at work, and the
monument may be completed in 1874.
A propos of nothing, the Duke (who was
born on the 29th of April, 1769, at 24,
Upper Merrion Street, Dublin) died on the
14th September, 1852, at Walmer Castle.
If we get the monument as promised, there-
fore, it will have been twenty-two years
in hand.
Mr. C. Read had a telegraph question,
which as a legal friend had drawn it up for
him, he said that he could not understand,
so he would put it in his own way. Postal
telegrams are delivered free within a radius
of a mile. But beyond that the Post Office
charges sixpence a mile, measuring not
from the end of the free delivery, but from
Itself. The Post Master admitted that he
did not think this was right, and that is
something for a Minister to say.
Then we had Judicature. We explained,
last week, Madam, how that Lord Cairns
had raised the banner of Privilege. To-
night Mr. Gladstone promised to state,
; next day, how he intended to deal with the
matter.
Mr. Disraeli made one of his smartest
speeches thereon, and certainly pointed out
1 some inaccuracies in the historical state-
ment, by which Mr. Gladstone, the week
before, justified the course he had taken.
He objected to Mr. Gladstone’s impolite-
ness in telling him that he had not “ a rag
of an argument.” He was deeply interested
in the privileges of the Commons, but he
would never denounce an assertion of privi-
lege by the Lords, and then yield to it.
Tuesday.—The Bishop op Winchester,
referring to a personal matter, did thus
give it to Lord Oranmore and Browne.
“ I hate and ahhor the attempt to Romanise
the Church of England ; and I will never hear
myself charged with it, without telling him who
makes such a charge to his face that he is guilty
of a gross misrepresentation, especially when that
charge comes from one who has been endeavour-
ing to his utmost to get the Prayer Book altered
to make it suit his views on Ireland.”
The declaration was manly and well-
timed, but, dear Madam, are you not
ashamed of yourself ? Don’t deny it, now
—we see the words on the tip of your
tongue—-“brown”—“blue.” Shutup, dear
Madam.
Mr. Gladstone announced, in regard to
the Judicature Bill, that he would not re-
commit it. He adopted the language of a
leading article in the Times of that morn-
ing, and said that ‘ ‘ it was better to have a
greater certainty of having an imperfect
Bill than to run risks for the sake of a more
[July 26, 1873.
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
ojle where on the West
Coast of Africa, Ma-
dam, your Sovereign
has a long sea-board.
Portions of this her
predecessors acquired
by various means—
powder and hall in-
cluded—and some of
it was handed over to
Herself, a short time
ago, by the Dutch.
On the edge of the Ashantee coun-
try is Cape Coast Castle, on which
the British flag flies. Seven miles
off is, or rather was, Elmina, a
town of some importance. Now
the Ashantees of the interior hate
us, because we have stopped the
Slave Trade, in which they are expert practitioners, and they are always showing hostility.
This year they have showed it in a very marked manner, by invading your Queen’s domin-
ions. But our officers have been equal to the occasion. Elmina was "full of sympathisers
with, the Ashantees. Like Troy, Elmina fuit. (We could not help introducing this effective
classicism; in point of fact, only a part of the town was destroyed, but what is exactitude
compared to a quotation F) Land and sea force co-operated, and pitched in shells, and if the
gunpowder did not run out at the heels of the Elminians’ shoes, it exploded in so many houses
that it was made clear that they were stores for the benefit of the Ashantees. These
savages came down three thousand strong, upon our men, but though they were few, they had
the Snider, and knew how to use it; and the Ashantees, fighting well, had to retreat with
great slaughter. This narrative of English pluck was told to the Lords to-night, Monday,
July 14, by Loud Kiaiberley.
Lord Oranmore and Browne demanded a Committee to consider what could be done to
prevent Ritualists and other foolish persons from imperilling the Church. The Archbishop
of Canterbury did not think that the Motion ought to be agreed to. But he did not deny
that there was just cause for alarm, yet he considered that those who had signed the petition
for Confession were fools. A similar petition from Oxford he thought more seriously of, and
wondered what sort of people the University Professors of Theology were who had joined in
this. Also, what sort of people had appointed such Professors. The Marquis oe Salisbury
thought that the matter might be left to the good sense of the people of England. Well, as
Lord Salisbury, a magistrate and a legislator, says that if Paterfamilias, finding a canting
Tartuffe trying to wheedle the ladies of a family to confess to him, may
“ Take him by his right leg,
Take him by his left leg,
Take him by his two legs,
And throw him down stairs,”
(a course Mr. Punch would applaud and defend), not much more need be said. The Motion
was negatived.
Lord Granville explained in reference to the Persian concession to Baron Reuter, that
the Government had not guaranteed that the capitalists should do their work in the best
manner, or that the Shah should be bound to the terms of the concession. And really,
Madam, we do not see how the nation could
properly interfere in a business transaction
with wliich we have no direct concern.
Mr. Peter Taylor had a grievance about a
Oock-fight at Weatherham. That a gentle-
man bearing his Christian name should take
an interest in the animal in question, may
be natural. But there was nothing in the
grievance, the report on which Mr. Tay-
lor’s question was founded being, of course,
“incorrect in all essential particulars.”
Mr. Whalley could not, at all eveats did
not, speak on the subject, though it would
have been out of order for him to do so.
But we dare say he hates all Cocks, be-
cause of
“ The Cock that crowed in the morn
And waked the Priest all shaven and shorn.”
A bird that w'ould act as servant; to a
miserable shaveling of Rome must be
enough to make the whole Gallus race in-
tolerable to the Member for Peterborough.
The artist of the Wellington Monument
in St. Paul’s is again at work, and the
monument may be completed in 1874.
A propos of nothing, the Duke (who was
born on the 29th of April, 1769, at 24,
Upper Merrion Street, Dublin) died on the
14th September, 1852, at Walmer Castle.
If we get the monument as promised, there-
fore, it will have been twenty-two years
in hand.
Mr. C. Read had a telegraph question,
which as a legal friend had drawn it up for
him, he said that he could not understand,
so he would put it in his own way. Postal
telegrams are delivered free within a radius
of a mile. But beyond that the Post Office
charges sixpence a mile, measuring not
from the end of the free delivery, but from
Itself. The Post Master admitted that he
did not think this was right, and that is
something for a Minister to say.
Then we had Judicature. We explained,
last week, Madam, how that Lord Cairns
had raised the banner of Privilege. To-
night Mr. Gladstone promised to state,
; next day, how he intended to deal with the
matter.
Mr. Disraeli made one of his smartest
speeches thereon, and certainly pointed out
1 some inaccuracies in the historical state-
ment, by which Mr. Gladstone, the week
before, justified the course he had taken.
He objected to Mr. Gladstone’s impolite-
ness in telling him that he had not “ a rag
of an argument.” He was deeply interested
in the privileges of the Commons, but he
would never denounce an assertion of privi-
lege by the Lords, and then yield to it.
Tuesday.—The Bishop op Winchester,
referring to a personal matter, did thus
give it to Lord Oranmore and Browne.
“ I hate and ahhor the attempt to Romanise
the Church of England ; and I will never hear
myself charged with it, without telling him who
makes such a charge to his face that he is guilty
of a gross misrepresentation, especially when that
charge comes from one who has been endeavour-
ing to his utmost to get the Prayer Book altered
to make it suit his views on Ireland.”
The declaration was manly and well-
timed, but, dear Madam, are you not
ashamed of yourself ? Don’t deny it, now
—we see the words on the tip of your
tongue—-“brown”—“blue.” Shutup, dear
Madam.
Mr. Gladstone announced, in regard to
the Judicature Bill, that he would not re-
commit it. He adopted the language of a
leading article in the Times of that morn-
ing, and said that ‘ ‘ it was better to have a
greater certainty of having an imperfect
Bill than to run risks for the sake of a more