Punch (72.1877)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[June 16, 1877.

PUNCH'S ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

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Lordships met {Monday,
June 4) after their
"Whitsuntide holidays,
and adjourned at five
minutes to six, after a
pleasant little chat
ahout the discomfort and danger of Railway Stations used by more
than one Company.

(Commons.)—Loed G. Hamilton, with characteristic briskness,
promises the Indian Budget in the course of the next fortnight. It
will be followed by a request for leave to borrow at home what can't
be got in India of the Five Millions the Madras and Bombay famine
have cost us.

Sib Stafford Northcote having asked for Tuesday Morning
Sittings, does not, for the present, mean to ask for more.

Sie George Bowtee asked, but was refused, leave to "heckle "
Mb. Gladstone on his share in the formation of the Birmingham I

beat rejoicing I Their | bound, con. Me. Banbury, though he thought Clerical Fellowships

not only useless -but injurious to the Church, would leave the
Colleges with their clerical heads on.

Me. Gladstone liked to see a large clerical element in the teach-
ing body, though he did not think Clerical Fellowships the right
thing. His speech hazy, and scarce consistent with his vote.

Me. Haedy opposed the clause ; Loed Habtington supported it.
Finally it was rejected by the narrow majority of 147 to 138.

In the present House such a division sounds the doom of Clerical
Fellows. " No admission by orders " will soon be the rule in the
Universities, as in the theatres when the house can be filled without
being " papered."

After dinner, Sie C. Dilke revived the discussion of the same
point on another Motion, when it was defeated by 173 to 151.

"No Clerical turnpike-tolls," will be the rule of the road that
leads to snug College berths, for our grandsons, if not our sons.

"Another Church-bulwark sapped," exclaim those who look
backward to the past. "Another source of Church weakness dried

National Confederation—in which Sie George seems to smell a up>" cry the Liberals who look forward. But it " has to be," as our

Brummagem House of Commons

The Clerical Fellow was, with difficulty, threshed through the
Universities Bill Committee, but not out of the Universities, as at
one moment seemed likely.

Me. Goschen moved that the Commissioners should disconnect
Headships and Fellowships from Holy Orders.

Sie C. Dilke, Me. Osborne Moegan, Mr. Teevelyan, pro'; Me.
Mowbeay, and Ms. Bereseoed Hope, as in representative duty

American cousins say. Why should Dissenting wranglers and First-
Class-men be so heavily handicapped in the Oxford and Cambridge
three-year-old races ?

Tuesday.—Their Lordships knocked off a few Bills at the usual
pace, and were up, with clear consciences, let us hope, and appe-
tites for more, by twenty minutes past five. They don't insist upon
talking, a tort et a travers—and there are no Loeds Biggae and
Paenell. Loed Redesdale is their worst obstructive.