Punch (71.1876)

July 22, 1876.]

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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PUNCH'S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

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arliamentary Question as to Press-reported horrors'of Christians
massacred, imprisoned, and outraged in Bulgaria, met (Lords,
Monday, July 10) by Lord Deeby's cooling answer. Sie Henry
Elliot has been written to. Time has not yet elapsed for his
answer. Loed Derby has telegraphed to Sir Henry to communi-
cate what he knows on the subject with the least possible delay.
But other official information does not confirm to anything like the full
extent the appalling statements in the Daily News. That is a
comfort, as far as it goes. But if the Press statements on such
subjects must usually be taken " with a grain of salt," a grain of
pepper is too often wanted for the official statements and the un-
official statements that reach Officials.

{Commons.)—Mr. Disraeli (in answer to Mb. Betjce) is unable to
fix a day for the discussion of affairs in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
and when the day does come, thinks the Leader of Her Majesty's
Opposition the right person to raise the discussion.

The Papers on the Eastern Question may be looked for,' Punch is
glad to learn, at the beginning of next week.

Mr. Disraeli, like Lord Derby in another place, administered

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