DOI issue:
April 24, 1875
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16940#0182
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[April 24, 1875.
TOO CONSERVATIVE COMMONS.
(A Cabinet Carol.)
Behold a Conservative House, of a kind
Which transcends a Conservative Government’s mind.
With Conservative views which to objects relate
Besides “things as they are,” and beyond “Church
and State.”
Conservatives see, and Protectionists too—
In their own kind of way being Liberals as true—
To protect Ancient Monuments voting, in spite
Of the lord of the soil, whose domain is their site.
What! Infringe “ Vested Rights,” whose defence is
a need
Above all in the pristine Conservative creed,
And for mere sentimental Conservative ends ?—
Save the good old Conservative cause from such
friends!
To a Railway, indeed, ’tis most fit that his field
Any Landlord should have on compulsion to yield,
And all schemers be chartered his ground to invade,
In the paramount interest of Commerce and Trade.
But what is the use of preserving old hones,
To moulder beneath cairns and cromlechs and stones,
Which for injury done to a man will atone
When by law you’ve compelled him to part with his
own ?
Conservatives, must not thus Landlords coerce,
Except with regard to a Corporate Purse ;
If proprietor’s option of sale you control,
Be it only for Property’s sake on the whole.
Such injustice to do private parties forbear,
That the Public may reap any profit whate’er,
Save material wealth, which makes biggest wrongs
small,
And let Great Breeches Pocket reign King over all.
THE ULSTER.
Schoolboy {to Brown, in his new great-coat). “ Yah ! Come out of it !
THINK I don’t SEE YER ! ! ”
D’ YOU
A Wholesome Reflection.—The man who knows
all about drains and such like sanitary contrivances,
may fairly be ranked as a Connoissewer.
by 199 to 155. There must be more in the matter than meets the
eye of the outsider—for to that organ it seems as if the House had
spent the evening in making an ass of itself. There, let them call
Mr. Punch to the Bar for that—if they like. “ Me, me adsum qui
feci, in me convertite ferrumP
Sir W. Frazer, much scandalised by the Greville Memoirs, wants
protection for the dead from posthumous libel. The Attorney-
General said the law gave damages for libel to the dead, if the
living chose to sue for them. Would the Attorney-General
advise Mr. Punch to take proceedings for scandal touching on his
deceased grandmother ? Sir W. Frazer took nothing by his Motion,
but an opportunity of speaking his mind very plainly of Mr.
Greville and his Memoirs.
Mr. B. Cochrane wants our Government to withdraw from the
Declaration of Paris, which abolished privateering and paper blockades,
and gave to goods, except contraband of war, the benefit of the flag
they are shipped under. Mr. Bourxe, for Government, declined
the suggestion ; whereupon Sir W. Harcourt applauded the De-
claration, and Government for sticking to it; and Mr. Cochrane,
against his will, had to take a defeat by 261 to 36.
Wednesday,—-Mr. Whalley was forced to put back into his hat
an.V' j a petition from Mr. Skipworth, one of the four sane
and educated (?) believers in Orton, praying that his fine of £500
for contempt of Court, which somebody else had paid, might be
refunded to such imbecile somebody. Refunded, indeed I—serves
him quite right.
On Sir J. Lubbock’s Ancient Monuments Bill, the House held high
tournament—Rights of Property v. Relics of the Prehistoric. The
odds are, we fear, decidedly on Rights against Relics, and this though
Sir John carried his Bill by 187 to 165. It is doomed to a Select Com-
mittee, and will certainly not come out of that limbo this Session—if
ever. Ihe matter ana machinery of the Bill both want some looking
1?f0’ though both its object and many of its provisions have
Mr. l unch s hearty support. He has a barrow of his own which he
means to offer Sir J. L. the picking of, one of these days.
Ihursday {Lords).—Such a competition among their Lordships in
me way of abuse, contempt, and depreciation of the Duke of Rich-
mond s Agricultural Holdings Bill, that Punch can’t help thinking
there must be more in the Bill than he had believed, for all its
seeming lack of back-bone.
(Commons.) The Budget—but first the briskest Debate of the
Session on—Heaven save the mark!—the Prittlewell Petition.
“ What great events from little causes spring ! ”
This is a petition of the Kenealy brand, imputing corruption to the
Judges in the Tichborne Trial, demanding inquiry thereinto, and
asking, by implication, impeachment of the Speaker, for declaring
that such petitions are illegal.
Mr. Disraeli moved that the Petition be not received, not
because it asked for inquiry into alleged misconduct of Judges,
but because it suggested impeachment of the Speaker.
Now, nobody in the House, or out, wants to limit the right of peti-
tion. But everybody in the House, or out, feels that Petitions of
this kind, and from this source, are a nuisance, to be, sooner or later,
got rid of for good and all, but, meanwhile, not to be trifled with how-
ever contemptible, or laughed at however ridiculous. So the House
would not take Sir Wilfrid’s advice to pooh-pooh the Petition as
“rubbish,” and pass on to the Budget. Mr. Macdonald hit the
right nail on the head—said nail being Dr. Kenealy. He was the
root of these attacks. He had given notice of his intention to move
a Resolution on the Tichborne Trial. He was here in the House
to move it. Let him move it, or for ever after hold his peace.
Dr. Kenealy, after some big talk, distinctly pledged,himself that
if he had sent to him any Petition praying inquiry into the
conduct of the Judges on the Tichborne Trial he would urge its
prayer for inquiry ; but without such Petition, not. Incidentally
he apologised for addressing Honourable Members as Gentlemen..
Mr. Bright lectured the Doctor, with all his old force and fire,
but might have kept his breath to cool his porridge. The Doctor
will only move with the support of Petitions. Those who believe in
him ought to be able to send him plenty. But now the Doctor has
taken his ground, let him, by all means, be kept to it. Punch
doubts if humbug be as immortal as Dean Milm;an thought, and
Sir Wilfrid believes. So doubting, he does not despair of the
collapse of Kenealy.
Colonel Loyd - Lindsay exhibited to the House some dew-
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[April 24, 1875.
TOO CONSERVATIVE COMMONS.
(A Cabinet Carol.)
Behold a Conservative House, of a kind
Which transcends a Conservative Government’s mind.
With Conservative views which to objects relate
Besides “things as they are,” and beyond “Church
and State.”
Conservatives see, and Protectionists too—
In their own kind of way being Liberals as true—
To protect Ancient Monuments voting, in spite
Of the lord of the soil, whose domain is their site.
What! Infringe “ Vested Rights,” whose defence is
a need
Above all in the pristine Conservative creed,
And for mere sentimental Conservative ends ?—
Save the good old Conservative cause from such
friends!
To a Railway, indeed, ’tis most fit that his field
Any Landlord should have on compulsion to yield,
And all schemers be chartered his ground to invade,
In the paramount interest of Commerce and Trade.
But what is the use of preserving old hones,
To moulder beneath cairns and cromlechs and stones,
Which for injury done to a man will atone
When by law you’ve compelled him to part with his
own ?
Conservatives, must not thus Landlords coerce,
Except with regard to a Corporate Purse ;
If proprietor’s option of sale you control,
Be it only for Property’s sake on the whole.
Such injustice to do private parties forbear,
That the Public may reap any profit whate’er,
Save material wealth, which makes biggest wrongs
small,
And let Great Breeches Pocket reign King over all.
THE ULSTER.
Schoolboy {to Brown, in his new great-coat). “ Yah ! Come out of it !
THINK I don’t SEE YER ! ! ”
D’ YOU
A Wholesome Reflection.—The man who knows
all about drains and such like sanitary contrivances,
may fairly be ranked as a Connoissewer.
by 199 to 155. There must be more in the matter than meets the
eye of the outsider—for to that organ it seems as if the House had
spent the evening in making an ass of itself. There, let them call
Mr. Punch to the Bar for that—if they like. “ Me, me adsum qui
feci, in me convertite ferrumP
Sir W. Frazer, much scandalised by the Greville Memoirs, wants
protection for the dead from posthumous libel. The Attorney-
General said the law gave damages for libel to the dead, if the
living chose to sue for them. Would the Attorney-General
advise Mr. Punch to take proceedings for scandal touching on his
deceased grandmother ? Sir W. Frazer took nothing by his Motion,
but an opportunity of speaking his mind very plainly of Mr.
Greville and his Memoirs.
Mr. B. Cochrane wants our Government to withdraw from the
Declaration of Paris, which abolished privateering and paper blockades,
and gave to goods, except contraband of war, the benefit of the flag
they are shipped under. Mr. Bourxe, for Government, declined
the suggestion ; whereupon Sir W. Harcourt applauded the De-
claration, and Government for sticking to it; and Mr. Cochrane,
against his will, had to take a defeat by 261 to 36.
Wednesday,—-Mr. Whalley was forced to put back into his hat
an.V' j a petition from Mr. Skipworth, one of the four sane
and educated (?) believers in Orton, praying that his fine of £500
for contempt of Court, which somebody else had paid, might be
refunded to such imbecile somebody. Refunded, indeed I—serves
him quite right.
On Sir J. Lubbock’s Ancient Monuments Bill, the House held high
tournament—Rights of Property v. Relics of the Prehistoric. The
odds are, we fear, decidedly on Rights against Relics, and this though
Sir John carried his Bill by 187 to 165. It is doomed to a Select Com-
mittee, and will certainly not come out of that limbo this Session—if
ever. Ihe matter ana machinery of the Bill both want some looking
1?f0’ though both its object and many of its provisions have
Mr. l unch s hearty support. He has a barrow of his own which he
means to offer Sir J. L. the picking of, one of these days.
Ihursday {Lords).—Such a competition among their Lordships in
me way of abuse, contempt, and depreciation of the Duke of Rich-
mond s Agricultural Holdings Bill, that Punch can’t help thinking
there must be more in the Bill than he had believed, for all its
seeming lack of back-bone.
(Commons.) The Budget—but first the briskest Debate of the
Session on—Heaven save the mark!—the Prittlewell Petition.
“ What great events from little causes spring ! ”
This is a petition of the Kenealy brand, imputing corruption to the
Judges in the Tichborne Trial, demanding inquiry thereinto, and
asking, by implication, impeachment of the Speaker, for declaring
that such petitions are illegal.
Mr. Disraeli moved that the Petition be not received, not
because it asked for inquiry into alleged misconduct of Judges,
but because it suggested impeachment of the Speaker.
Now, nobody in the House, or out, wants to limit the right of peti-
tion. But everybody in the House, or out, feels that Petitions of
this kind, and from this source, are a nuisance, to be, sooner or later,
got rid of for good and all, but, meanwhile, not to be trifled with how-
ever contemptible, or laughed at however ridiculous. So the House
would not take Sir Wilfrid’s advice to pooh-pooh the Petition as
“rubbish,” and pass on to the Budget. Mr. Macdonald hit the
right nail on the head—said nail being Dr. Kenealy. He was the
root of these attacks. He had given notice of his intention to move
a Resolution on the Tichborne Trial. He was here in the House
to move it. Let him move it, or for ever after hold his peace.
Dr. Kenealy, after some big talk, distinctly pledged,himself that
if he had sent to him any Petition praying inquiry into the
conduct of the Judges on the Tichborne Trial he would urge its
prayer for inquiry ; but without such Petition, not. Incidentally
he apologised for addressing Honourable Members as Gentlemen..
Mr. Bright lectured the Doctor, with all his old force and fire,
but might have kept his breath to cool his porridge. The Doctor
will only move with the support of Petitions. Those who believe in
him ought to be able to send him plenty. But now the Doctor has
taken his ground, let him, by all means, be kept to it. Punch
doubts if humbug be as immortal as Dean Milm;an thought, and
Sir Wilfrid believes. So doubting, he does not despair of the
collapse of Kenealy.
Colonel Loyd - Lindsay exhibited to the House some dew-