Punch (71.1876)

u PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [July is, 1876.

PUNCH'S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

hETHEE Russia have found a head, as well as sinews of war,
for the Servian army, is more than Loed Deeby knows, or, at
least, is disposed to tell Loed Campeedown {Lords, Monday,
July 3). Loed Stanley oe Aldeeley, who seems to keep his own
little bird in most of the public Offices, moved a vote of censure
on Loed Caenaevon for not bestowing more attention on the
affairs of the Malay Peninsula between January, 1874, and October, 1875. (Nothing like being exact in the dates of an indictment.)
Loed _ Caenaevon defended his policy in the Straits. The country was ten thousand miles in extent. Annexation was out of the
question, and the best course was to appoint Residents— {Punch does not envy them their "residential occupation" imder the circum-
stances)—to act in concert with the native chiefs. Discords will occur in the best-conducted concerts. He had rapped Sie W. Jebvois
over the knuckles as hard as was fair to an energetic Governor. It was a choice of difficulties in a case of Straits, and he had tried to
choose the least. Loed Kimbebley backed up his successor. Loed Lawrence pointed out that this was a case where the Government
had ventured_ upon a dangerous step, after getting rid of the native Indian force which would have enabled them to take it without
danger. A hint to the economists d outrance.

More Eastern questions from Eael Delawaeb and Loed Gbanville, who asked when the papers would be published that would
inform Parliament as to the Eastern policy of the Government. Loed Deeby promised the papers as soon as possible. "War having
broken out there was no objection now to show the steps that had led to it.

{Cotn?nons.)—After a variety of important Home questions, e.g.— how to get people who fall off the Embankment out of the water;
the trial and sentence of James Timony, an injured youth of seventeen, at Belfast; the limits of Lords-Lieutenant's right of inter-
ference at Elections ; Bathing in the Serpentine ; the Prosecution of the owner of a rotten ship at Liverpool; the closing of the National
Gallery in the height of the season; the Statistics of Traffic at Hyde Park corner; British Museum Salaries ; education of children in
canal-boats ; wound up by a personal explanation between Sie. E. "WATKrsr and Sie Robeet Peed—in which the latter made one state-
ment, with which Honourable Members heartily agreed—that he had been too long a member of that House—the Mabqttis of Haet-
ington took the liberty of asking the Sphinx at the head of Her Majesty's Government, when the papers that would throw light,on the
Government policy in the Eastern Question would be published. " As soon as possible," said the Sphinx.