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March 6, 1875
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March 6, 1875.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
99
bringing back bonuses, oyer-regulation prices, and the other incidents of the
abolished system. We are not satisfied that there is any real danger of this,
and we are satisfied, on the evidence before us, that a return to the old practice
as to exchanges would be very acceptable to the Army. There are many good
officers of slender means who would be willing to serve in India or elsewhere
for a consideration, and there are many good officers, more blessed with the
world’s goods, who for family or other reasons, or under medical advice,
would be willing to give such a consideration. The exchange is an unmixed
benefit to both, and would probably be a benefit, and certainly would not be
detrimental, to the Service. It ought only to be effected with the sanction
and under the control of the authorities, and on such conditions as to insure
that nobody else is superseded or affected.”
So guarded, there seems more doctrinarianism than statesmanship
in setting one’s teeth against the Bill, though Punch, owns it with
reluctance. His heart is, with Trevelyan- and Lowe, all for keep-
ing money-bags out of barracks, even when it is for the poor man’s
behoof that they are untied. The House carried the Second Reading
■—282 to 185— after the best debate of the Session. Perhaps our
cynics may add, “ and had is the best.”
Tuesday.—~Lom> Lyttelton’s Bill for more Bishops—hut to he
supported, like the Hospitals, by voluntary contributions, and only
to take their turns in the House of Lords, there being no room, we
infer, on the. Episcopal Bench, or the temporal Peers not admitting
of more spiritual infusion, without being “the worse for it.”
There was a very touching chorus from the poor fagged-out soul-
gardeners, to the tune of “We’ve too much work to do.” Cer-
tainly the. Church wants more governing in its present turbulence of
high spirits; and there seem good reasons for giving it more
governors, if only they are chosen of the right sort—more Frasers, in
fact, which in Episcopal classification stands for active doers as
contra-distinguished from tall talkers. All the more, as the new
Bishop’s bread is not to be sliced off the clerical loaf—none too
large. Punch remembers Walter Savage Landor’s short scheme
of Church Reform, once propounded in the Combination Room of
Trinity, to the consternation of some grave and reverend Seniors,
and the delight of others,—-
“ Give every Bishop £500 a-year, and make it death for him to leave his
Diocese.”
We haven’t quite got to that yet, in spite of the Liberation
Society.
In the Commons, a light and lazy afternoon. Hr. Serjeant
Simon wants a Select Committee on the working of the Election
Petitions’ Act of 1868. At present the upshot of our legislation
seems to he that the honestest of candidates may he swamped in a
pint of beer; and that you have only to secure a thirsty voter, and
somebody to stand a pot for him, to vitiate a return.
The Government will grant Serjeant Simon his Committee. So
it will grant Sir Henry James his, on some late operations in the
foreign loan-market. Sir Henry’s recent oil-well experience seems
to have led him into rich City diggings. He has certainly “ struck
oil” in the Costa Rica and Honduras loans. They may well call
it Costa Rica—after the British millions it has absorbed. What
a man Senor Gutierrez must be for financing ! Perhaps he is a
sleeping partner in the Lombard Street house of-. But we
must respect the incognito. Only, who can help taking off his hat
to a genius who has bled John Bull to the tune of five millions, and
was within an ace of drawing £12,000,000 more, for Honduras,
with a revenue of £100,000 pour tout potage, and who financed the
Costa Rica loan of two millions, on security even more shadowy
than that of Honduras. But while regretting the loss of Senor
Gutierrez to our own financing world, it is not to be denied that he
has done a very pretty stroke of business as it is.
Lord Derby sees no objection to giving Sir Henry his Committee.
We should not have thought the solubility of the bond between
fools and their money needed further illustration; or that any
revelation is likely to make it less soluble. But Select Committees
seem the order of the day. Why does not Sir John Lubbock ask
for one to inquire into the circumstances under which wasps flock to
peaches, and flesh-flies to carrion ?
Wednesday. — I>ank Holidays are to he extended to the Custom
House. We presume the Customs do not feel themselves “more
honoured in the breach than the observance” of that wholesome
statute. The more holiday-makers the merrier, says Punch.
Thursday.—The Bishop oe Peterborough moved the Second
Reading of his Church Patronage Bill—
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
99
bringing back bonuses, oyer-regulation prices, and the other incidents of the
abolished system. We are not satisfied that there is any real danger of this,
and we are satisfied, on the evidence before us, that a return to the old practice
as to exchanges would be very acceptable to the Army. There are many good
officers of slender means who would be willing to serve in India or elsewhere
for a consideration, and there are many good officers, more blessed with the
world’s goods, who for family or other reasons, or under medical advice,
would be willing to give such a consideration. The exchange is an unmixed
benefit to both, and would probably be a benefit, and certainly would not be
detrimental, to the Service. It ought only to be effected with the sanction
and under the control of the authorities, and on such conditions as to insure
that nobody else is superseded or affected.”
So guarded, there seems more doctrinarianism than statesmanship
in setting one’s teeth against the Bill, though Punch, owns it with
reluctance. His heart is, with Trevelyan- and Lowe, all for keep-
ing money-bags out of barracks, even when it is for the poor man’s
behoof that they are untied. The House carried the Second Reading
■—282 to 185— after the best debate of the Session. Perhaps our
cynics may add, “ and had is the best.”
Tuesday.—~Lom> Lyttelton’s Bill for more Bishops—hut to he
supported, like the Hospitals, by voluntary contributions, and only
to take their turns in the House of Lords, there being no room, we
infer, on the. Episcopal Bench, or the temporal Peers not admitting
of more spiritual infusion, without being “the worse for it.”
There was a very touching chorus from the poor fagged-out soul-
gardeners, to the tune of “We’ve too much work to do.” Cer-
tainly the. Church wants more governing in its present turbulence of
high spirits; and there seem good reasons for giving it more
governors, if only they are chosen of the right sort—more Frasers, in
fact, which in Episcopal classification stands for active doers as
contra-distinguished from tall talkers. All the more, as the new
Bishop’s bread is not to be sliced off the clerical loaf—none too
large. Punch remembers Walter Savage Landor’s short scheme
of Church Reform, once propounded in the Combination Room of
Trinity, to the consternation of some grave and reverend Seniors,
and the delight of others,—-
“ Give every Bishop £500 a-year, and make it death for him to leave his
Diocese.”
We haven’t quite got to that yet, in spite of the Liberation
Society.
In the Commons, a light and lazy afternoon. Hr. Serjeant
Simon wants a Select Committee on the working of the Election
Petitions’ Act of 1868. At present the upshot of our legislation
seems to he that the honestest of candidates may he swamped in a
pint of beer; and that you have only to secure a thirsty voter, and
somebody to stand a pot for him, to vitiate a return.
The Government will grant Serjeant Simon his Committee. So
it will grant Sir Henry James his, on some late operations in the
foreign loan-market. Sir Henry’s recent oil-well experience seems
to have led him into rich City diggings. He has certainly “ struck
oil” in the Costa Rica and Honduras loans. They may well call
it Costa Rica—after the British millions it has absorbed. What
a man Senor Gutierrez must be for financing ! Perhaps he is a
sleeping partner in the Lombard Street house of-. But we
must respect the incognito. Only, who can help taking off his hat
to a genius who has bled John Bull to the tune of five millions, and
was within an ace of drawing £12,000,000 more, for Honduras,
with a revenue of £100,000 pour tout potage, and who financed the
Costa Rica loan of two millions, on security even more shadowy
than that of Honduras. But while regretting the loss of Senor
Gutierrez to our own financing world, it is not to be denied that he
has done a very pretty stroke of business as it is.
Lord Derby sees no objection to giving Sir Henry his Committee.
We should not have thought the solubility of the bond between
fools and their money needed further illustration; or that any
revelation is likely to make it less soluble. But Select Committees
seem the order of the day. Why does not Sir John Lubbock ask
for one to inquire into the circumstances under which wasps flock to
peaches, and flesh-flies to carrion ?
Wednesday. — I>ank Holidays are to he extended to the Custom
House. We presume the Customs do not feel themselves “more
honoured in the breach than the observance” of that wholesome
statute. The more holiday-makers the merrier, says Punch.
Thursday.—The Bishop oe Peterborough moved the Second
Reading of his Church Patronage Bill—