DOI issue:
June 20, 1874
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16938#0260
June 20, 1874.1
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
257
“ For hot was the night, and heavy the wight,
And 0 but his hobbye was slow ;
And the Speaker was crouse, and glad the House,
For the shooting of my bow ! -
And Members all did a blessing call
Upon the Bowyer gay,
Who Childe Newdegate’s hobbye did hamstring,
And sent the House to play ! ”
{Punch is afraid the House was very naughty, and as for that
bold bad boy Bowyer—that they treated him a la Billy Taylor, and
“ werry much applauded him for what he'd done.”)
Wednesday.—Richard, the Preacher of Peace, moved to sacrifice
“Clause Twenty-five” on its altar. Mr. Isaac objected to the
sacrifice, and said he had been sent there to save the Clause from
Mr. Richard’s paring.
After shots given and returned, Mr. Dixon (should he not be
henceforth Richard’s son ?) followed the Member for Merthyr in
his assault on the Clause of Contention.
Mr. Forster spoke plain truth and common sense as usual. The
Clause was not intended to benefit Denominational Schools, but to
get as many Children as possible to School, and to take away from
Parents’ all fair plea against Compulsion. Without Option, no
Compulsion. Without Clause Twenty-five, no Option. There is
the crux in a nutshell.
Mr. Lowe, looking on the Twenty-fifth Clause as a flag, was for
hauling it down. Take away the fees, and ten times as much would
be forthcoming in Voluntary Contributions. (But how does Mr. Lowe
meet Mr. Forster’s dilemma ?) The House divided. 373 to 128
against cutting off the Clause, and so—as Nonconformists say—
drawing the teeth of the Education Bill. Punch stands, as he has
always stood, by his friend Forster.
Thursday— Lord Redesdale put in another—and it is to he
hoped—final appeal for the House of Lords. The Bars of Scotland
and Ireland hack him through Lord Moncrieff and Lord O’Hagan.
There is no special provision, we are afraid, for a Scotch or Irish
Judge in the new Court of Final Appeal. Mine iUce lacrymce f
But the Lords—in spite of Lord Redesdale—performed the
“happy dispatch” by 52 to 23.
Lord Derby explained to Lord Stanley oe . Alderley that
the Russian Government has proposed an International Congress at
Brussels, to consider a Code settling laws and usages of war. . But
till we know who are going, how can we know if we are going ?
The Commons gave Mr. Disraeli its Tuesdays, with the under-
standing that the Member for Limerick, if he surrenders his
Tuesday, June 30, is to have another night on which Irish Bull
will meet English, full Butt; or, in other words, when England
shall hear the reasons why (to use Mr. Martin’s fervid phrase)
“ Ireland is not, never has been, and never will he, content without
a Parliament of her own ? ”
Then Mr. Cross moved the Second Reading of the Government
Factory Bill (vice Mr. Mtjndella’s Bill superseded).
Mr. Fawcett, all hut alone in his opposition,_ performed a clever
solo on the theme of the old Anti-Ten-Hours-BilL-Movement, with
variations. All the other speakers, masters’ organs or men’s, Grad-
grinds or Gushers, were unanimous in favour of the Bill, which Mr.
Mhndella, who accepts it instead of his own, went so far as to call
“ a noble measure.” (Mr. Cross seems to be more successful in the
Factory than the Public.) So the tide setting strong, for the time
against Fawcett and Political Economy, the House carried the
Second Reading by 295 to 79.
Friday.—Their Lordships talked about entries into the Navy,
the Transit of Yenus, and Representative Peers.. There will be a
Committee to consider the best mode of skimming the creme de la
creme of the Scotch and Irish Lords. There are complaints of the
present samples.
Mr. Newdegate moved for his Bill to put Monks and Nuns under
inspection. Sir J. Kennaway suggests Registration of the Religious,
and making the Nuns wards in Chancery—with the Lord Chan-
cellor, we presume, for ex-officio Father Confessor. Mr. Hardy
plainly said the Government didn’t like taking up a delicate and
difficult matter. At the same time he didn’t see why Nuns should
object to state their names and ages, as other ladies in private life
were sometimes obliged to do. 0, Mr. Hardy ! Go round with a
Census-taker, and see what the latter painful revelation costs the
ladies and imposes upon the unhappy officials who have to extort it.
No, if Nuns must confess their ages, let it be like the rest of their
Confessions, under the seal of secresy.
But the feature of the evening was Mr. O’Gorman. [Begorra, he
bates Dowse by lengths. Will Mr. O’G. call on Mr. P. ? He will
hear, of something to his advantage. But what did he mean by
making a nun of the eldest daughter of the Queen of Bohemia
(one of the staunchest Protestants, by the way, that ever lived) ?
Elizabeth was head of a Protestant Sisterhood at Hervorden. It
was Louise, a younger sister, who died Abbess at Maubuisson ; and
her, and her brother Edward’s, change of Church was declared
by their mother, the poor Queen of Hearts, the bitterest of her
many sorrows. And what did Mr. O’Gorman mean by quoting—
“ Dii, quibus imperium est animarum, umbrasque silentes,
Et Chaos et Phlegethon, loca nocte silentia late.”
.Are Dii, the Spiritual Directors, animee, the Nuns, umbree
silentes and loca nocte silentia late, the Convents ? It is a pity Mr.
O’G. didn’t give the quotation to Mr. Newdegate, or Mr. T.
Chambers for one of their speeches. But it is ungrateful to com-
plain, after the treat Mr. O’Gorman has given us.]
The House shunted the Bill by 237 to 94.
Then Mr. Cowper-Temple moved to fit the Scotch Hniversities
for Female Students.
Edinburgh did admit a batch of Ladies to the Medical Classes, and
then refused them its degrees. Think as we may about Women’s
education, that was bad logic.
One real difficulty—apart from the question of sex—is the want
of teaching-power for separate classes for Ladies. Mixed Medical
Classes are impossible. . This Dr. Playfair pointed out. But
Play-fair, of all men, is bound to remember that fair-play is a
jewel, and the Women have not had fair-play in this matter. It
should be looked to, and means taken to settle the matter one way
or the other. If Women are not to be admitted to Medical Classes
and Degrees say so—and keep them out. If they are, see how the
Classes can be organised for them, and let them in.
Mr.. Stansfield spoke effectively for, Mr. Hope against,
unsexing the Doctorate.
Dr. Playfair spoke as one in a perplexity between his con-
stituents and his convictions.
WHY I GO TO ASCOT.
erely because my
darling Princess is
certain to be there,
and probably my dear
Duchess too, and I
should like to look at
them.
Because everybody
who is anybody in-
variably goes, and I
have no wish to be
classed among the
nobodies.
Because I virtu-
ously abstained from
going to the Derby,
and I really think
such virtue ought to
he rewarded.
Because my wife
desires to go, and as
a tender husband I
am bound to take her.
Because really now
the weather is so charming, don’t you know, and all that sort of
thing you know, that.really one can’t miss it.
Because I’ve nothing in the world to do if I don’t go, and of
course it wouldn’t do to waste a day in doing nothing.
Because it’s not a bit. like going to the Derby, don’t you see, and
now-a-days, one can slip down there quite easily by train, without
a scrap of dust, you see. So that really, don’t you know, one has
no excuse for not going.
Because I happen to have drawn one of the favourites for the
Cup, and, as I never have won yet, of course I should just like for
once to see my horse come in a Winner.
Because they’ve asked me for my sins to a rather heavy dinner
the day before the race, and I know I shall be seedy if I don’t get
out next morning.
Because the country must be looking lovely this fine weather, and
it really seems a horrid shame not to go and look at it.
Because I fortunately won a five-pound note upon the Derby, and
can therefore well afford to give myself another outing.
Because it’s socially considered quite the thing to go to Ascot,
and it does a man no harm to he considered in the fashion.
Because. I fancy that I have an artist’s eye for costume, and
Ascot is of aH places the place for pretty dresses.
Because Maud told me she is going, and I possibly may have the
happiness to meet her.
And finally Because, for reasons of my own, I wish to go, and I
make it a rule always to gratify my wishes.
njPn A ^ A-im.os£ ev®.ry considerable town has a Market
have it^UNYAN016’ ^ 18 but ^ tliat Be(ifor(l Market-place should
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
257
“ For hot was the night, and heavy the wight,
And 0 but his hobbye was slow ;
And the Speaker was crouse, and glad the House,
For the shooting of my bow ! -
And Members all did a blessing call
Upon the Bowyer gay,
Who Childe Newdegate’s hobbye did hamstring,
And sent the House to play ! ”
{Punch is afraid the House was very naughty, and as for that
bold bad boy Bowyer—that they treated him a la Billy Taylor, and
“ werry much applauded him for what he'd done.”)
Wednesday.—Richard, the Preacher of Peace, moved to sacrifice
“Clause Twenty-five” on its altar. Mr. Isaac objected to the
sacrifice, and said he had been sent there to save the Clause from
Mr. Richard’s paring.
After shots given and returned, Mr. Dixon (should he not be
henceforth Richard’s son ?) followed the Member for Merthyr in
his assault on the Clause of Contention.
Mr. Forster spoke plain truth and common sense as usual. The
Clause was not intended to benefit Denominational Schools, but to
get as many Children as possible to School, and to take away from
Parents’ all fair plea against Compulsion. Without Option, no
Compulsion. Without Clause Twenty-five, no Option. There is
the crux in a nutshell.
Mr. Lowe, looking on the Twenty-fifth Clause as a flag, was for
hauling it down. Take away the fees, and ten times as much would
be forthcoming in Voluntary Contributions. (But how does Mr. Lowe
meet Mr. Forster’s dilemma ?) The House divided. 373 to 128
against cutting off the Clause, and so—as Nonconformists say—
drawing the teeth of the Education Bill. Punch stands, as he has
always stood, by his friend Forster.
Thursday— Lord Redesdale put in another—and it is to he
hoped—final appeal for the House of Lords. The Bars of Scotland
and Ireland hack him through Lord Moncrieff and Lord O’Hagan.
There is no special provision, we are afraid, for a Scotch or Irish
Judge in the new Court of Final Appeal. Mine iUce lacrymce f
But the Lords—in spite of Lord Redesdale—performed the
“happy dispatch” by 52 to 23.
Lord Derby explained to Lord Stanley oe . Alderley that
the Russian Government has proposed an International Congress at
Brussels, to consider a Code settling laws and usages of war. . But
till we know who are going, how can we know if we are going ?
The Commons gave Mr. Disraeli its Tuesdays, with the under-
standing that the Member for Limerick, if he surrenders his
Tuesday, June 30, is to have another night on which Irish Bull
will meet English, full Butt; or, in other words, when England
shall hear the reasons why (to use Mr. Martin’s fervid phrase)
“ Ireland is not, never has been, and never will he, content without
a Parliament of her own ? ”
Then Mr. Cross moved the Second Reading of the Government
Factory Bill (vice Mr. Mtjndella’s Bill superseded).
Mr. Fawcett, all hut alone in his opposition,_ performed a clever
solo on the theme of the old Anti-Ten-Hours-BilL-Movement, with
variations. All the other speakers, masters’ organs or men’s, Grad-
grinds or Gushers, were unanimous in favour of the Bill, which Mr.
Mhndella, who accepts it instead of his own, went so far as to call
“ a noble measure.” (Mr. Cross seems to be more successful in the
Factory than the Public.) So the tide setting strong, for the time
against Fawcett and Political Economy, the House carried the
Second Reading by 295 to 79.
Friday.—Their Lordships talked about entries into the Navy,
the Transit of Yenus, and Representative Peers.. There will be a
Committee to consider the best mode of skimming the creme de la
creme of the Scotch and Irish Lords. There are complaints of the
present samples.
Mr. Newdegate moved for his Bill to put Monks and Nuns under
inspection. Sir J. Kennaway suggests Registration of the Religious,
and making the Nuns wards in Chancery—with the Lord Chan-
cellor, we presume, for ex-officio Father Confessor. Mr. Hardy
plainly said the Government didn’t like taking up a delicate and
difficult matter. At the same time he didn’t see why Nuns should
object to state their names and ages, as other ladies in private life
were sometimes obliged to do. 0, Mr. Hardy ! Go round with a
Census-taker, and see what the latter painful revelation costs the
ladies and imposes upon the unhappy officials who have to extort it.
No, if Nuns must confess their ages, let it be like the rest of their
Confessions, under the seal of secresy.
But the feature of the evening was Mr. O’Gorman. [Begorra, he
bates Dowse by lengths. Will Mr. O’G. call on Mr. P. ? He will
hear, of something to his advantage. But what did he mean by
making a nun of the eldest daughter of the Queen of Bohemia
(one of the staunchest Protestants, by the way, that ever lived) ?
Elizabeth was head of a Protestant Sisterhood at Hervorden. It
was Louise, a younger sister, who died Abbess at Maubuisson ; and
her, and her brother Edward’s, change of Church was declared
by their mother, the poor Queen of Hearts, the bitterest of her
many sorrows. And what did Mr. O’Gorman mean by quoting—
“ Dii, quibus imperium est animarum, umbrasque silentes,
Et Chaos et Phlegethon, loca nocte silentia late.”
.Are Dii, the Spiritual Directors, animee, the Nuns, umbree
silentes and loca nocte silentia late, the Convents ? It is a pity Mr.
O’G. didn’t give the quotation to Mr. Newdegate, or Mr. T.
Chambers for one of their speeches. But it is ungrateful to com-
plain, after the treat Mr. O’Gorman has given us.]
The House shunted the Bill by 237 to 94.
Then Mr. Cowper-Temple moved to fit the Scotch Hniversities
for Female Students.
Edinburgh did admit a batch of Ladies to the Medical Classes, and
then refused them its degrees. Think as we may about Women’s
education, that was bad logic.
One real difficulty—apart from the question of sex—is the want
of teaching-power for separate classes for Ladies. Mixed Medical
Classes are impossible. . This Dr. Playfair pointed out. But
Play-fair, of all men, is bound to remember that fair-play is a
jewel, and the Women have not had fair-play in this matter. It
should be looked to, and means taken to settle the matter one way
or the other. If Women are not to be admitted to Medical Classes
and Degrees say so—and keep them out. If they are, see how the
Classes can be organised for them, and let them in.
Mr.. Stansfield spoke effectively for, Mr. Hope against,
unsexing the Doctorate.
Dr. Playfair spoke as one in a perplexity between his con-
stituents and his convictions.
WHY I GO TO ASCOT.
erely because my
darling Princess is
certain to be there,
and probably my dear
Duchess too, and I
should like to look at
them.
Because everybody
who is anybody in-
variably goes, and I
have no wish to be
classed among the
nobodies.
Because I virtu-
ously abstained from
going to the Derby,
and I really think
such virtue ought to
he rewarded.
Because my wife
desires to go, and as
a tender husband I
am bound to take her.
Because really now
the weather is so charming, don’t you know, and all that sort of
thing you know, that.really one can’t miss it.
Because I’ve nothing in the world to do if I don’t go, and of
course it wouldn’t do to waste a day in doing nothing.
Because it’s not a bit. like going to the Derby, don’t you see, and
now-a-days, one can slip down there quite easily by train, without
a scrap of dust, you see. So that really, don’t you know, one has
no excuse for not going.
Because I happen to have drawn one of the favourites for the
Cup, and, as I never have won yet, of course I should just like for
once to see my horse come in a Winner.
Because they’ve asked me for my sins to a rather heavy dinner
the day before the race, and I know I shall be seedy if I don’t get
out next morning.
Because the country must be looking lovely this fine weather, and
it really seems a horrid shame not to go and look at it.
Because I fortunately won a five-pound note upon the Derby, and
can therefore well afford to give myself another outing.
Because it’s socially considered quite the thing to go to Ascot,
and it does a man no harm to he considered in the fashion.
Because. I fancy that I have an artist’s eye for costume, and
Ascot is of aH places the place for pretty dresses.
Because Maud told me she is going, and I possibly may have the
happiness to meet her.
And finally Because, for reasons of my own, I wish to go, and I
make it a rule always to gratify my wishes.
njPn A ^ A-im.os£ ev®.ry considerable town has a Market
have it^UNYAN016’ ^ 18 but ^ tliat Be(ifor(l Market-place should