DOI Heft:
July 3, 1875
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16940#0287
July 3, 1875.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
281
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
thank Mr.
lutter and flabber-
gastation of the
Lords (Monday,
June 21) at Moody
and San key’s au-
dacious invasion of
their own peculiar
educational preserve
—Eton. What had
the “Governing
Body ” been about ?
The Governing
Body, said Lord
Lyttelton, like
many other govern-
ing bodies, had been
quite in the dark.
The Moody and
Sankev service was
fixed for three to-
day ; and the Go-
verning Body met at
twelve. How could
a Governing Body—
and such a Govern-
ing Body, too—be
expected to “move”
between twelve and
three? Lord
Shaftesbury com-
plained that no
notice had been
given of the discus-
sion. Lord Lyttel-
ton retorted that no
notice of their pro-
jected invasion had
been given by Moody
B iIllie Cochrane for
and Sankey
the word.)
Lord Henniker denounced the Laws of Settlement and Removal of the Poor
—that last rag of serfage and its ascriptio glebce.
Lord Rosebery, as Chairman of the Committee on the Representative
Peerage (Scotch and Irish), threw up the sponge. The Committee could not
agree on a Report, “if ever there was a bad job,” groaned Lords Grey and
Carlingford, “ it was the Irish Peerage.”
Lord Stanhope means to move that the power of creating Irish Peers be
renounced by the Crown—the creation, on the whole, having turned out such an
unsatisfactory one. (Come, Mr. Butt, that’s what they call “Justice to Ireland! ”)
[Commons.) “Moody and Sankey going to preach and sing at Eton! ” was the one
buzz of the lobbies, quite distracting the minds of Honourable Members from Committee
on Merchant Shipping Bill, which, thanks to such distraction, perhaps, made some way in
Committee.
Mr. Disraeli gave notice the Government would want Tuesdays for the rest of the
Session. General grumbling ! “Do they make such a good use of the nights they have,
that we should give them another ? ”
1uesday {Lords).— Second and Third Readings of a batch of “ unconsidered trifles,” knocked off between opening the doors and
twenty-five minutes past five,
{Commons.) Mr. Hardy, in Mr. Disraeli’s absence, moved the modest demand for Government precedence on Tuesdays,
? Suppressed grumbling found many voices—Lord Hartington’s, Mr. Forsyth’s, Mr. Fawcett’s, Mr. Dillwyn’s, Lord Esling-
ton s. “Honourable Members could not be in two places at once, like Sir Boyle Roche’s famous Irish birds.” How was he, and
many another “ infelix Theseus ” like him, to attend at once to his Committee work and his Morning Sittings ?
Mr. Newdegate declared the “ Order ’’-book—ironically so called—“ could only be compared to a waste-paper basket turned upside
rn’—(Mr. Newdegate deserves a Cartoon for his suggestion, and Punch gives him one). “Government had got into a mess, and
now coolly claimed all the time of the House to get out of it.”
Poor Mr. Hardy, bowing his head to the pelting of this pitiless storm from all sides, recommended adjournment till Thursday,
when Mr. Disraeli would be present to fight for himself.
If the Morning Sitting was stormy, at the Evening Sitting it literally “blew great guns.” Mr. Hanbury Tracy (a gallant naval
officer) moved the reappointment of the Ordnance Select Committee to act' as a buffer between the Departments and the public. No
doubt we had. the best great guns going; but still it would be very comfortable if there was a break of big names naval and military,
engineers (the eiviller the better) and artillerists, to say, and, if need be, swear as much, and to prevent collisions between the
Departments and those most troublesome of bores, the Inventors. Captain Price (a brother tar, but not tarred with the same brush),
moved, as an amendment, the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the best way of furnishing the Navy with guns more
trustworthy and efficient, our present armament being neither one nor the other. The gallant Captain (a gunnery officer, be it
remembered) has since followed up his speech by a letter to the Times, in which he offers to bet any odds that the Monarch cannot fire two
kUTvi r”un“s *rom her guns under fighting conditions without disabling one half of them.
Mr. Hanbury Tracy writes next day, to prove that Captain Price has put his foot in it awfully by this letter. (It is quite
wonderful how these artillery doctors differ.)
Mr. E. J. Reed backed up Captain Price. We were on a wrong road in our gunnery, and the sooner our artillery-heads were set in
the right direction the better.
(At the same time it may be as well to remember that Mr. Reed was once Sir B. Whitworth’s partner; and that the Battle of the
Guns has come to be something very like a duel between those gallant knights, Whitworth and Armstrong.
down ’
Vol. 68.
10
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
281
PUNCH’S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
thank Mr.
lutter and flabber-
gastation of the
Lords (Monday,
June 21) at Moody
and San key’s au-
dacious invasion of
their own peculiar
educational preserve
—Eton. What had
the “Governing
Body ” been about ?
The Governing
Body, said Lord
Lyttelton, like
many other govern-
ing bodies, had been
quite in the dark.
The Moody and
Sankev service was
fixed for three to-
day ; and the Go-
verning Body met at
twelve. How could
a Governing Body—
and such a Govern-
ing Body, too—be
expected to “move”
between twelve and
three? Lord
Shaftesbury com-
plained that no
notice had been
given of the discus-
sion. Lord Lyttel-
ton retorted that no
notice of their pro-
jected invasion had
been given by Moody
B iIllie Cochrane for
and Sankey
the word.)
Lord Henniker denounced the Laws of Settlement and Removal of the Poor
—that last rag of serfage and its ascriptio glebce.
Lord Rosebery, as Chairman of the Committee on the Representative
Peerage (Scotch and Irish), threw up the sponge. The Committee could not
agree on a Report, “if ever there was a bad job,” groaned Lords Grey and
Carlingford, “ it was the Irish Peerage.”
Lord Stanhope means to move that the power of creating Irish Peers be
renounced by the Crown—the creation, on the whole, having turned out such an
unsatisfactory one. (Come, Mr. Butt, that’s what they call “Justice to Ireland! ”)
[Commons.) “Moody and Sankey going to preach and sing at Eton! ” was the one
buzz of the lobbies, quite distracting the minds of Honourable Members from Committee
on Merchant Shipping Bill, which, thanks to such distraction, perhaps, made some way in
Committee.
Mr. Disraeli gave notice the Government would want Tuesdays for the rest of the
Session. General grumbling ! “Do they make such a good use of the nights they have,
that we should give them another ? ”
1uesday {Lords).— Second and Third Readings of a batch of “ unconsidered trifles,” knocked off between opening the doors and
twenty-five minutes past five,
{Commons.) Mr. Hardy, in Mr. Disraeli’s absence, moved the modest demand for Government precedence on Tuesdays,
? Suppressed grumbling found many voices—Lord Hartington’s, Mr. Forsyth’s, Mr. Fawcett’s, Mr. Dillwyn’s, Lord Esling-
ton s. “Honourable Members could not be in two places at once, like Sir Boyle Roche’s famous Irish birds.” How was he, and
many another “ infelix Theseus ” like him, to attend at once to his Committee work and his Morning Sittings ?
Mr. Newdegate declared the “ Order ’’-book—ironically so called—“ could only be compared to a waste-paper basket turned upside
rn’—(Mr. Newdegate deserves a Cartoon for his suggestion, and Punch gives him one). “Government had got into a mess, and
now coolly claimed all the time of the House to get out of it.”
Poor Mr. Hardy, bowing his head to the pelting of this pitiless storm from all sides, recommended adjournment till Thursday,
when Mr. Disraeli would be present to fight for himself.
If the Morning Sitting was stormy, at the Evening Sitting it literally “blew great guns.” Mr. Hanbury Tracy (a gallant naval
officer) moved the reappointment of the Ordnance Select Committee to act' as a buffer between the Departments and the public. No
doubt we had. the best great guns going; but still it would be very comfortable if there was a break of big names naval and military,
engineers (the eiviller the better) and artillerists, to say, and, if need be, swear as much, and to prevent collisions between the
Departments and those most troublesome of bores, the Inventors. Captain Price (a brother tar, but not tarred with the same brush),
moved, as an amendment, the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the best way of furnishing the Navy with guns more
trustworthy and efficient, our present armament being neither one nor the other. The gallant Captain (a gunnery officer, be it
remembered) has since followed up his speech by a letter to the Times, in which he offers to bet any odds that the Monarch cannot fire two
kUTvi r”un“s *rom her guns under fighting conditions without disabling one half of them.
Mr. Hanbury Tracy writes next day, to prove that Captain Price has put his foot in it awfully by this letter. (It is quite
wonderful how these artillery doctors differ.)
Mr. E. J. Reed backed up Captain Price. We were on a wrong road in our gunnery, and the sooner our artillery-heads were set in
the right direction the better.
(At the same time it may be as well to remember that Mr. Reed was once Sir B. Whitworth’s partner; and that the Battle of the
Guns has come to be something very like a duel between those gallant knights, Whitworth and Armstrong.
down ’
Vol. 68.
10