Punch (70.1876)

may 27, 1876.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 209

PUNCH'S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

ranvllle on Grave-yards [Monday, May 15). Scarcely the
J|L preacher one would look to for the handling of such a text.

O /^^^^ But he handled it well, in support of his Resolution, that it

r 4^18§§bi *s desirable ^° £iye facilities for interment in parish church-

yards, without the Church Service,—friends and relatives
fg3g§§EE3f! ^ being allowed to conduct the funeral with such Christian and

^, \ orderly religious observances as they shall think ht. The

' --^&S§=^ ^ T SSIk question at issue has been, indeed, so completely threshed

tpjf' '. as/A^^^^T--1'^'" t^M^^St ' ou^i ^ *s nee(lless to add any of Punch's chaff to the

II ^^^^^T^^^^^^^^^^T"-' - grains of sound sense and Christian charity which maybe

^Bfc '^SFWt^ty^T^' Vl ^*"^^^^p^^r^> winnowed out of the Lords';speeches. Most of these, indeed,

are contributed by Loeds Granville and Selborne, -who
put Mr. Morgan's strong case even more strongly. But
it is something to hear a brace of Archbishops admitting
that Dissenters have a grievance, and that opening the
Church-yard does not mean shutting-up the Church. The
Bishop of Exeter, too, not only spoke, but voted for the
Resolution. Of course Archbishops could not be expected
to rush in where Bishops feared to tread, so
we must not be surprised if, on the division,
^ Bishop Temple was left in a minority of
>\ _V one, by his chiefs and brethren of the
^J4V. ~~ Episcopal Bench. Still the speeches of my

H ^ Lords of Canterbury and York told rather

llllllfe: than against, the Resolution.

^^^fe^/L The Bishop oe Lincoln, that highest and
A\ / \ dryest of prelates, can almost boast that
BlillJlfei<\ he has found a higher and dryer than him-
self in Lord Salisbury, who drenched

fDissent with a douche of mingled wrath
and contempt that must have been as a
, " holy oil to Bishop Wordsworth. On the
^ whole, however, both the weight of argu-

^ \ 7Jv ment and the feeling of the House went with
v/^tV ^h e Resolution,
k /| \ m( It is plain enough now, if it was doubtful

^ \y\J\ u -y before Monday's discussion, that the open-
/\ , ing of Parish Church-yards to all decent and

M. 7 orderly religious services is one of those

foregone conclusions for which we may wait
with

Air—" Robin and Richard."
Eeilly and Bichard were long-winded men,
They talked the House empty till close upon ten,
When up jumps Baxter, " The sum's far too high
That to Army and Navy we vote in Supply:
Here's Hardy takes fifteen millions of swag,
And Ward Hunt comes after, not much lees to bag."

Air—" Mother Hubbard."

But kind Mr. Hubbard

Pulled out of his cupboard
A book of accounts of his own ;

Which proved, he would swear,

Fleet and Army went bare,
And that waste there was really none.

Air—" Taffy was a Welshman."

Sam was a financier, of calculators chief,

He pitched into Kylands, and chawed him up like beef.

Proved of all the nations, wheresoe'er you roam,

Least taxed and cheapest governed is John Bull at home.

Air—" Mistress Mary, quite contrary."
Mister Hardy played the card he

Well to play should know—
Of hitches and sells, and changes tells

That cost on War-Office throw.
And Fawcett whacks into Income-tax,

That to catch big fish spares little ;
To which Northcote tacks calculations lax,

That prove his own case to a tittle !

Tuesday (Lords)—In answer to Lord Cottesloe, Lord Carnarvon told the tale of the King of Dahomey's insolence to Commodore
Hewitt ; how that King had struck a British merchant, Mr. Turnbull ; and how the Commodore, in retaliation, had struck—oil—five
hundred puncheons, in the shape of a fine—which the King refused to pay, offering powder and bullets instead; and how it might
become really necessary, if the blockade of Whydah did not bring his sable Majesty to reason, to march on Abomey, his capital, the scene
of the most hideous abominations of the Abomey-nation, in the shape of bloody fetish rites, torture of slaves, and human sacrifices, put
them down, and rase it to the ground. The sooner the better.. Or, suppose Commodore Hewett were to take Whydah instead of blockading

" Faith in time,

jjjjfi /N v. /' yji| \_f ^-^ ' ^. *___■' ) And that which shapes it to a rational end."

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j£ ~z *$M|P|^HV.,U*''{'m™\^f\/w',»••'' ''Ijf Lord Granville's Resolution only awaits a

^ ~ " ^ leetle more spiritual and temporal resolution

in the Lords. Till then, let all who fail to see
that the burial of Dissenters in the Church-yard with their own services is the death-blow of the Church possess their souls in peace.

Lobd Carnarvon brought in a sensible Bill, putting such checks on Vivisection as reason and science may join in approving.

(Commons.)—Rylands up on his hobby, " Economy," got by Mr. Heme's Example out of Self-Conceit. If Rylands-Resolutions could
reduce Estimates, how cheaply we should be governed! But there is a kind of cheap Government not to be described except by the
addition of a dissyllabic epithet meaning the reverse of nice ; and some may think this is the kind of Government Statesmen of the
Rylands order would be most likely to land us in. Flying Childers made the running for Mr. Rylands' Hobby, and galloped through
the financial history of the last few years, having everything his own way; and showing to his own satisfaction that we were spending
five and a half millions more than when last blessed by a Liberal cheese-parmg Administration.

Mr. Ward Hunt defended the Admiralty administration from the charge of waste. This, says Mr. Hunt, is the way of it. The
Liberals come in, pledged to save; so, to show a reduction in totals, they sell stores, starve establishments, let down stocks, and
postpone orders till, when the Conservatives climb into office over their ruins, they have to spend heavily the first few years to repair
the waste of Liberal savings. In short, your " Economist," says Mr. Hunt, pares the cheese till the rind isn't thick enough to keep out
the rats and the blue-mould ; and so Penny-wisdom brings in his yoke-fellow, Pound-foolishness, and both together work their will on
John Bull's establishments—Civil, Naval, and Military.

Suppose Punch puts into nursery-rhymes an unpractical night's playing at figures, fitter for children than grown men ?—

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